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Thanks for your concern, JFM. It was around 8-10 degrees F the past 2 nights (central Virginia); it was supposed to get above freezing today. We're surviving, and this weekend's supposed to be warm (60F or so).
They promised me global warming! WHERE'S MY GODDAM WARMING?!
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Gettin' balmy out there. It's supposed to go up to freezing here tomorrow.
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Sunny, 40F, Calm. Only needed 1 coat.
Not often people will sit back and go Damn, I wish I were in Western Kansas.
[Tolo News] Sixteen Death Eaters were killed and 15 were maimed during a series of coordinated operations over the past 24 hours carried out by the Afghan National Army (ANA), Afghan National Police (ANP) and National Directorate of Security (NDS), the Afghan Ministry of Interior said in a statement on Tuesday.
Thirteen other Death Eaters were jugged You have the right to remain silent... during the operations.
"In past 24 hours, Afghan National Police conducted several anti-terrorism joint operations with Afghan National Army and NDS to clean some of the areas from turbans and enemies of peace and stability of Afghanistan," the statement said.
The operations were conducted in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. , Pashtun-infested Logar, Ghazni, Paktiya, Heart and Nimroz provinces.
The ANP reportedly confiscated light and heavy rounds of ammunition and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) as well.
The statement did not report any casualties amongst the Afghan forces or local civilian populations.
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[Al Ahram] Police in Giza's Mohandiseen dispersed Tuesday a demonstration by supporters of deposed president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... after festivities erupted between the two sides.
Security forces fired tear gas at protesters after the latter reportedly set tyres on fire and hurled stones at them, according to Al-Ahram's Arabic news website.
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[An Nahar] The Nigerian police on Tuesday revised up from five to 17 the corpse count in a raid the previous day by gunnies on a village in central Plateau state.
Plateau State police chief Chris Olakpe told journalists that five of the victims were burnt beyond recognition while 20 houses were razed.
Witnesses and survivors had described how gunnies attacked Shonong village on Monday in the Riyom area of the state, which along with neighboring Kaduna has been plagued by communal strife.
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Those headlines always bother me. Why would you want to shoot a dead colonel? [Al Ahram] Gunmen rubbed out an army colonel and a boom-mobile injured a senior intelligence officer in Yemen's main port city of Aden on Tuesday, a security official said.
Yemen's armed forces are fighting against an Islamist insurgency across southern Yemen after bully boyz took advantage of political chaos during the "Arab Spring" in 2011 to seize control of several towns.
[Bangla New Age] Two people were killed as the second day of the countrywide shutdown enforced by the opposition alliance passed off with the capital remaining almost cut off from other parts of the country.
The opposition announced extension of the strike by another 12 hours that would now end at 6:00pm today, demanding cancellation of the 10th parliamentary election and in protest at the arrest and 'killing' of opposition activists.
BNP vice-chairman Selima Rahman announced the fresh programme at a presser at her house in Gulshan on Tuesday evening, protesting at the arrest of the party chairperson's adviser Khandaker Mahbub Hossain, its joint secretary general Fazlul Haque Milon and politician Nazimuddin Ahmed on the day.
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A science teacher has been arrested on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack in war-torn Syria.
Jamshed Javeed, 29, from Levenshulme, was arrested by counter-terrorism officers as part of an investigation into concerns surrounding travel to Syria. Javeed, a teacher at Sharples High School in Bolton, was arrested on December 22 and has since been released on bail until March 5, pending further enquiries.
A Greater Manchester Police spokesman said: "The investigation focuses on concerns over an individual travelling to Syria for purposes that are as yet unknown, but are believed to potentially involve terrorism.
"There is nothing to suggest that any of the wider community in Manchester has been under threat."
If he's not a threat why arrest him? If he's a threat why release him on bail?
[DAWN] At least three people were maimed Tuesday when an kaboom occurred in the Kurram ...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora... tribal region, DawnNews reported.
The kaboom took place in a vegetable market in lower Kurram's Sada bazaar area. Subsequently, three people sustained injuries. The nature of the kaboom has not yet been ascertained.
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[DAWN] Three persons including a policeman and a soldier of Frontier Constabulary were killed in two separate incidents here on Monday, sources said.
They said that the first incident took place at Regi Model Town where a police van was targeted by a roadside improvised bomb (IED).
Haroon, an FC personnel, was killed in the blast, they said. They added that two coppers identified as Manzoor and Azam and an FC constable sustained injuries in the incident.
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[DAWN] Another murderer of 10 climbers, who were bumped off in Gilgit-Baltistan on June 22, was incarcerated Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! from a seminary here on Monday, sources have told Dawn.
His arrest has brought the tally to five as four of the attackers were apprehended by the police by July 15.
The suspect, a native of Diamer, was taking shelter in the seminary on Murree Road near Convention Centre for the last couple of months, the sources said, adding that he was on the run since the killings.
A joint team of intelligence agencies, security forces and counterterrorism authority arrested him and handed him over to Gilgit-Baltsitan police for further investigations and legal process.
On June 22, 2013, 16 bully boyz in Gilgit Scouts uniform, stormed the base camp located at 4,200 meters above sea-level at Nanga Parbat, and killed the climbers and a local guide.
Three of them were from Ukraine, two from China, including one Chinese-American, two from Slovakia and one each from Lithuania and Nepal.
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[DAWN] At least nine people were killed in different incidents of violence in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... on Tuesday, DawnNews reported.
The bodies of six men were found near a shrine in Gulshan-e-Maymar area, police said.
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[India Express] A police officer was killed and three constables were maimed in North Kashmire's Sopore town during an operation launched by the police and the Army to nab top Lashkar commander Muzuffar Naikoo.
The operation at Chankhan locality was launched following reports of Naikoo's presence there. The bad boy, however, managed to get away.
According to officials, when troops of the Special Operation Group of the police along with the Army surrounded the bad boy, he opened fire.
Assistant sub inspector Kafeel Ahmad, who was taken to Army hospital, departed this vale of tears.
"We had specific information about the presence of snuffies in the area. As the troops were conducting the search operation, the bad boy opened fire resulting in the death of a police officer. Three constables also sustained injuries," Superintendent of Police, Sopore, said.
A search operation to track down the escaped bad boy was called off after three hours. Naikoo has been active in the town from the past six years and has escaped the police earlier as well. Police said he was also involved in the killing of two sisters, Akhtara and Arifa, on January 31, 2011 in Moslem Peer locality of the town.
This is the first attack in the Valley this year in which a police official lost his life.
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[An Nahar] A steady stream of families fleeing fighting in Ramadi and Fallujah is arriving at a checkpoint in Iraq's Karbala province, seeking shelter from the deadly violence.
As Death Eaters hold parts of Ramadi and all of Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids... in Anbar province, Sunni families are now seeking safety in the Shiite-majority Karbala province, in a country that has been plagued by sharp sectarian divisions.
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[An Nahar] Gunmen attacked a police checkpoint north of the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, killing seven including a captain, a police officer and a doctor said.
The attack took place on the highway north of the city of Samarra, the sources said.
Iraqi security forces are often targeted by bully boy groups opposed to the government.
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[Al Ahram] Iraqi missile strikes on the city of Ramadi killed 25 militants Tuesday, the defence ministry spokesman said. Iraqi forces targeted militants with "missile strikes, resulting in the killing of 25," Staff Lieutenant General Mohammed al-Askari told AFP.
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[Al Ahram] At least 34 jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and another group have been killed in clashes with other rebel movements in Syria's Idlib province, an NGO said Tuesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the casualties were discovered after the clashes in Jabal Zawiya, adding that all 34 were believed to be non-Syrian fighters.
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[An Nahar] Thousands of Syrians fleeing civil war or planning to stock up on supplies crossed into northern Iraq at the weekend after Iraqi Kurdish authorities reopened a long-closed border, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday.
On Sunday afternoon, authorities reopened the Peshkhabour border at the Tigris River, which had been closed since mid-September, allowing 2,519 Syrians to cross into the country by barge, UNHCR spokeswoman Melissa Fleming told news hounds in Geneva.
The border crossing is currently the only one open between Syria and Iraq, she said.
A bridge across the border was no longer in use, so people were forced to cram into small barges carrying between 10 and 30 people each to cross from Simelka on the Syrian side of the river, she explained.
No one had crossed on Monday, but Fleming said "several thousand" Syrians had gathered near the river bank in Simelka by Tuesday morning.
Iraqi authorities decided to close the border in September after facing an exodus of some 60,000 Syrians, UNHCR said.
Authorities in Iraq's Kurdistan region had told the U.N. agency they had now decided to allow Syrians claiming they did not want to stay in the country to visit for up to seven days, allowing them to stock up on supplies before returning.
Those wishing to stay meanwhile needed to register their request for refugee status with authorities.
Around 400 of the newcomers had gone to UNHCR to ask for assistance as refugees, and were taken to the Gawilan refugee camp, which counts some 3,000 residents and lies between Erbil and Dohuk.
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[An Nahar] The first ship carrying Syrian chemical materials left port of Latakia Tuesday under a deal to rid the country of its chemical arsenal, said the joint mission overseeing the disarmament.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian... the head of al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, the Al-Nusra Front, called for an end to four days of festivities between rebels and the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) that has killed at least 274 people.
"A first quantity of priority chemical materials was moved from two sites to the port of Latakia for verification and was then loaded onto a Danish commercial vessel today," the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... -Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (U.N.-OPCW) mission said.
The ship then sailed for international waters, eight days after a December 31 deadline for the operation to begin was missed.
Tuesday's shipment "initiates the process of transfer of chemical materials from the Syrian Arab Republic to locations outside its territory for destruction," the U.N.-OPCW statement said.
The ship, under escort by Chinese, Danish, Norwegian and Russian naval vessels, will stand offshore until more chemicals arrive at the port and then return to collect them.
Syria agreed last year to a U.S.-Russian deal to hand over its chemical weapons.
That came after U.S. President Barack Obama Republicans can come along for the ride, but they've got to sit in the back... threatened air strikes in response to an August chemical weapons attack outside Damascus that killed hundreds of people, which Washington blamed on the Syrian regime.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Tolo News] Sixteen 
[Al Ahram] Police in Giza's Mohandiseen dispersed Tuesday a demonstration by supporters of deposed president 
[An Nahar] The Nigerian police on Tuesday revised up from five to 17 the 
[Al Ahram] Gunmen 
Kurram 
[DAWN] Another murderer of 10 climbers, who were 
[DAWN] At least nine people were killed in different incidents of violence in 
[India Express] A police officer was killed and three constables 
[An Nahar] A steady stream of families fleeing fighting in Ramadi and Fallujah is arriving at a checkpoint in Iraq's Karbala province, seeking shelter from the deadly violence.
[Al Ahram] Iraqi missile strikes on the city of Ramadi killed 25 militants Tuesday, the defence ministry spokesman said. Iraqi forces targeted militants with "missile strikes, resulting in the killing of 25," Staff Lieutenant General Mohammed al-Askari told AFP.
[Al Ahram] At least 34 jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and another group have been killed in clashes with other rebel movements in Syria's Idlib province, an NGO said Tuesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the casualties were discovered after the clashes in Jabal Zawiya, adding that all 34 were believed to be non-Syrian fighters.
