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Fred almost skunked me with this jailbait.
Gloria had a distinguished movie career between 1946 and 1955. She did 6 uncredited performances between 1946 and 1953 including the part of a dancer in the 1953 Marilyn Monroe blockbuster, "Niagara".
She was the model for a plaster statue of Diana, used in the 1953 movie "The Robe".
She had credited bit parts in the movies "Beneath The Twelve Mile Reef" (1953) and "A Man Called Peter" (1955).
She graduated from High School in 1955 and quit the movies while she was ahead.
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More of Gloria's memorable screen moments from the movie "Niagara". In the scene from :40 to 1:15 you can see her screen right dancing in the same blue dress she wears in "Beneath the Twelve Mile Reef". Wardrobe pulled out all the stops for Gloria.
Nigara was filmed in 1952, Gloria's Sophomore year in High School. Remember 15 will get you 20 unless your a Democrat politician.
(Xinhua) -- The hardline Islamist Al-shabaab movement Monday has taken over the southern Somali town of Baidoa, the seat of the parliament, after brief clashes with government forces and local clan militias, hours after Ethiopian troops withdrew from the town, the Al-shabaab said. It was not clear if there were any casualties on the warring sides but four civilians have been killed and six others wounded in the chaos that preceded the takeover.
Ethiopian troops have fully withdrawn from Baidoa, 245 km southwest of the Somali capital Mogadishu, and the last base of the Ethiopian troops who crossed over to the war-wrecked horn of African country two years ago to prop up the transitional Somali government. The town has been the seat of the Somali interim parliament for the past three years. Nearly all the lawmakers have left Baidoa for Djibouti.
Spokesman for the Al-Shabaab movement, Sheik Muqtar Robow Abu Mansuur, who was leading the insurgent fighters, said that his forces have taken over much of the town of Baidoa including the interim parliament building in the south of the town. Earlier Abu Mansuur said following the withdrawal of the Ethiopian troops, that his fighters, who control now most of the villages and towns around Baidoa will "peacefully take over the town" which is guarded by small number of local militia and Somali government forces.
Mohamed Ibrahim Habsade, a senior Somali cabinet minister told Xinhua in Baidoa that government forces as well as local militias are fighting to defend the town from Al-Shabaab forces who he said now "took parts of the town". Habsade is one of a number of senior Somali government officials including several parliamentarians from the town trying to protect Baidoa.
Local residents remained indoors since the start of the fight for control of Baidoa as government forces and local militias took up positions around the north of the town where widespread looting of government properties including the presidential residence and parliament house took place prior to the insurgent's entry into it.
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SHEIK MUQTAR ROBOW ABU MANSUUR
Al-shabaab
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Everybody that's been cured, take one step forward.
Not so fast, Mahmoud...
Nine Saudi Islamic militants, including former Guantanamo inmates, have been rearrested in the Kingdom despite completing a controversial rehabilitation programme. Geez, one guy screws up and everybody pays. Oh, well. Insh Allah, boys...
The arrests follow the embarrassing revelation last week that another Saudi Guantanamo Bay detainee who was released to the authorities in 2007 has emerged as the deputy leader of al-Qaeda's Yemeni branch of the terrorist organisation. Awwww, geez. Looks like the "repentence" thing just ain't working out, huh, boys... ... depends on your point of view ...
Both incidents are a serious setback for the experimental regime in which Saudi terror suspects are "weaned off" Islamic militancy at the so-called "Betty Ford clinic" for jihadists. I can see! I CAN SEE!!
The rearrest of nine Saudi militants has also underlined the dilemma now facing governments with nationals still being detained in Guantanamo Bay, following President Obama's decision to close the camp. He has called on other countries to take detainees to help clear out the controversial prison. Maybe they ought to tell him to change his mind...
European foreign ministers are meeting in Brussels today to discuss ways of responding to the US President's request. Jean Asselborn, the Foreign Minister of Luzembourg, said: "The EU is not politically responsible for Guantanamo, it was an American decision and they have to take responsibility, but the EU must help people who were jailed, from a humanitarian point of view." Yep, the EU has it's priorities. How about we drop em all in Luxembourg? Maybe in Jean's neighborhood?
At the Saudi rehabilitation centre, inmates selected for reform have access to a swimming pool, table tennis and PlayStations. They even play football with their guards. Wow. Just like "The Longest Yard"...
During the programme, the militants have to attend lessons based on Islamic law which shuns the use of violence. A team of psychologists instruct them how to manage their emotions when seeing images on television of Muslims suffering in war situations. I wonder if they pin their eyes open and use the Wagner and the strobes?
My bet?..................Nah.
The Saudi authorities claimed that none of the militants who had been sent to the centre on the outskirts of Riyadh had returned to terrorism. Except for...that guy.
The Pentagon claims that dozens of released Guantanamo detainees have "returned to the fight". ...and those guys. Maybe.
Said Ali al-Shihri was suspected of being involved in the bombing of the US Embassy in Sana, Yemen's capital, in September last year. He had also been through the Saudi rehabilitation programme. He said he was cured. Did the fingerpaints and colored inside the lines and...everything. How were we to know?
He and another Saudi national with al-Qaeda links had travelled to Yemen after completing the programme. Both men have appeared on a jihadist website. On the video, al-Shihri is seen sitting with three other men before a flag for al-Qaeda in Iraq. "By Allah, imprisonment only increased our persistence in our principles for which we went out, did jihad for, and were imprisoned for," al-Shihri said. Hmmmmmmmmmm...don't think that's what our Saudi friends were going for.
Saudi Arabia has also built five jails, each housing 1,200 jihadist prisoners, who are given religious instruction. But the prisons hold senior al-Qaeda leaders and they have to endure maximum security conditions. What's that? No room service?
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If you are brought up to hate infidels from a young age its hard to make these guys see the West in another light hence the education system in Saudi needs looking at urgently because they teach an 'Us and them' mentality in that we are evil and must be destroyed and the Saudis are perfect/superior Allah's children!!!
Guantanamo is the perfect place for those boys, unless you count the bottom of the Atlantic. Bush's intent was to keep them there indefinitely on ice because it's legal and safe. But BO has to be more than legal and safe, he has to be "politically correct" and true to the loonies who put him in the White House. Now that he's signed the executive order to close Guantanamo he's given himself one year to find a "process" to replace it. Good luck with that. Just don't bring 'em to Pendleton or Miramar, if you please.
Gunmen in a car fired on a police checkpoint near the US Embassy in Yemen's capital on Monday, an Interior Ministry official said, hours after the embassy received threats of a possible attack.
Police returned fire at two gunmen in the car, which fled the scene, the official said. It was unclear if anyone was injured. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not allowed to speak to the press. He said three men in the area were detained.
An attack on the embassy in September involving gunmen and explosives-packed vehicles killed 17 people, including six militants. Al-Qaida later claimed responsibility for that attack.
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How many gun shots are fired near anybody's embassy in Washington?
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) -- With the inauguration of President Barack Obama in the past, U.S. officials are reporting information about possible threats on the day of the ceremony by a Minnesota Somali man.
U.S. intelligence was reportedly investigating a potential inauguration threat involving a Somali insurgent group. They believed one man to be connected with the missing Somali men from Minnesota.
48 hours before the inauguration, U.S. customs agents arrested the 32-year-old Bile Abdullahi, a resident alien from Minnesota, at the Canadian border near Detroit.
He's not a white supremacist?
According to federal charges, Abdullahi was trying to sneak into Canada using his brother's U.S. passport. Both Bile Abdullahi and his brother are from Minneapolis, and until recently lived in the Cedar Riverside apartment complex. Abdullahi told officials he was going to Canada for a vacation, but intelligence officials fear it could've been some kind of dress rehearsal for leaving the country in a hurry.
Fox News has learned Abdullahi's arrest was just part of the intelligence that led to a cryptic warning.
The FBI and Homeland Security were investigating information about a potential threat on inauguration day. The information was of limited specificity and uncertain credibility. The threat reportedly involved Al Shabaab, an Al-Qaeda connected radical Muslim group, operating terror training camps in Somalia.
Al Shabaab is the same group that's believed to have lured as many as a dozen missing Somali men from the Twin Cities to fight in the jihad back in their homeland. The remains of one of those men, Shirwa Ahmed, were returned to Minnesota, after he became a suicide bomber in Somalia last October.
U.S. intelligence officials are investigating whether financial support for Al Shabab is coming from Minnesota and other cities with a large Somali population. But, as we all know, those airline passengers were a bunch of racist islamophobes for being concerned about the Flying Imams.
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Fascinating. So the work continues regardless who sits in the White House. Another legacy from President Bush the younger. No doubt President Obama will best know how to understand such a threat not just to the country but to his own person.
Security forces continued their operation in Bajaur Agency on Monday, targeting several Taliban hideouts in various areas of the agency. However, no reports of casualties to the Taliban were received. Troops targeted Taliban positions in Charmang, Banda, Bhai Cheena and Kausar areas using artillery and mortars, with officials claiming to have destroyed several Taliban hideouts. Meanwhile, the Taliban abducted a person from agency headquarters Khar. Political administration has strengthened security measures in the agency by deploying additional law enforcement personnel in various areas of Bajaur. Residents complained they were facing problems in obtaining basic commodities because of the closure of business centres in the area for the last two months.
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(AKI) - By Syed Saleem Shahzad - Simmering sectarian violence once again erupted in Pakistan on Monday. Violent protests took place in Quetta, capital of gas-rich western Balochistan province after the slaying there of a Shia Muslim politician. And at least five people died in a bombing outside the town hall in Dera Ismail Khan, in restive, Pashtun dominated Northwest Frontier province.
The banned Sunni extremist group Lashkar-i-Jhangvi has claimed responsibility for the drive-by slaying in Quetta of Hussain Ali Yousufi. A prominent Shia figure and ethnic Hazara, he led the Hazara Democratic Party. Ethnic Hazaras form a sizeable population (around 90,000) in Balochistan province, which borders Afghanistan and Iran - the country from which they originally migrated to Pakistan.
Clashes between the Taliban and Hazara in Afghanistan have in recent years damaged previously peaceful relations between Sunni Pashtun and Baloch tribesmen.
Hazara Shias have been a frequent target of Sunni extremist groups in Pakistani Balochistan. The Hazara community originally comes from the Afghan province of Bamyan.
Angry Hazara youths ransacked the main commercial centre in Quetta after Yousufi's killing on Monday. They pelted passing vehicles with stones, set other vehicles alight and smashed the windows of a bank in the city's main boulevard. The Hazara Democratic Party meanwhile announced a strike in the city on Tuesday and a 40-day period of mourning for Yousufi.
HDP secretary general Abdul Khaliq Hazara strongly condemned the government and police for the inadequate protection given to ethnic Hazaras targeted by extremists. Protection given to anybody in Pakistain seems pretty inadequate. Except for Mullah Fazlullah and Mullah Omar and similar guys with big turbans surrounded by ruthless minions.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blast in Dera Ismail Khan, which reportedly occurred minutes before the parliamentary affairs minister, Khalifa Qayyum, had passed through the area. Prime minister Yousaf Raza Gillani condemned the bombing and vowed to bring to justice those responsible. They've got a long list of people they've vowed to bring to justice, not many of whom have gotten more than house arrest and a week without teevee.
Other politicians also condemned the attack as a barbaric act of terrorism.
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I once had a simmering secretary,...and I got out of the pot just in time!
Aswat al-Iraq: Police forces arrested 87 wanted and suspected gunmen, including 25 al-Qaeda elements, during operations waged in the past four days, the chief of Diala police said on Monday. "Policemen launched military operations in the past four days in separate areas of Diala, where they arrested 87 people, including 25 al-Qaeda wanted men," General Abdul Hussein al-Shimri told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. "Security authorities finalized all preparations for protecting the electoral centers," he added, noting that the forces also found a weapons depot during the operations.
The provincial council elections are due to be held on January 31 in 14 out of 18 Iraqi provinces.
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Wanted man in Diyala
Wanted man in old Wazoo
Wanted man in Gaza
for blowin' up a zoo...
Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi army forces completed their presence with the police at 52 voting stations in northern and eastern Mosul within preparations for Iraq's local elections scheduled to be held on January 31, according to a military source on Monday.
"Forces from the 1st Division's 3rd Brigade, stationed off the left coast of the city of Mosul, completed today (Jan. 26) their presence in association with the Ninewa police at ballot stations in northern and eastern Mosul," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
"The security forces have placed barricades in front of the stations, placed barbed wires and pitched special tents for inspection of women," noted the source.
The forthcoming local elections will be held all provinces of Iraq except those of the three autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region provinces of Arbil, Sulaimaniya and Duhuk.
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Aswat al-Iraq: A force from the Quick Response Department (QRD) on Monday arrested two wanted men in western Kut, a senior police officer said. "The Interior Ministry's QRD forces on Monday (Jan. 26) arrested two wanted men and found 27 rockets during a security raid of a house in Hour al-Dalmaj region in western Kut," Major Aziz Latief told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. "The operation was based on a tip-off," he also said. He did not add more details.
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Aswat al-Iraq: Police forces on Monday arrested three wanted men and seized weapons and ammunition during a security operation in the west of and central Basra, the media office of the Basra police said. "Police forces waged a crackdown operation in al-Zubair and al-Janiena regions in west and central Basra, where they arrested three men wanted for terrorist and criminal cases," the office told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. "The forces seized eight mortar shells, five hand grenades, two rocket propelled grenades, and four Kalashnikovs," it added.
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Palestinian terrorists are no match for the IDF. Watch as 2 Jihadis try and fail to take out some IDF soldiers. One Jihadi is even used as a shield against his own grenade by a quick-witted IDF officer.
The government authorized the IDF to send ground troops back into central Gaza Tuesday, following an early morning roadside bomb explosion and a rocket-propelled grenade attack that killed one soldier and wounded three others, one seriously. Hamas warned that it has not agreed to a "calm" and that its previous ceasefire announcement is dependent on Israel's re-opening Gaza crossings to all commercial traffic.
Troops reached Khan Yunis in central Gaza. Local residents reported tank fire and Israel Air Force jets over the area. Arab sources also reported that the Air Force struck a terrorist target, killing or wounding three people, but the IDF has not confirmed the counterterrorist action.
Hamas responded with mortar fire on the Eshkol region, causing no damages or injuries but returned the area to the status quo of the days before the Cast Lead operation against the terrorist infrastructure in Gaza.
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Aw man, I would have lost big time on the over-under for when festivities resumed. Anyone with a lick of sense ( I know! ) would have waited to resupply first. Guess the interception of that Iranian ship nixed that idea.
As for Hamas, you can trust them - to act like the murderous HamAsses they are. Not quite the same as being trustworthy.
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Problem is that Hamas is addicted to killing and murder like a crackwhore looking for their next hit. If not Jews - then Fatah - or just other muslims will do.
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So we learn more from the 1984 book of linquistics.
"Hamas warned that it has not agreed to a "calm" and that its previous ceasefire announcement is dependent on Israel's re-opening Gaza crossings to all commercial traffic."
There is a difference in between a "calm" and a "ceasfire" and Hamas' ceasefire is only in effect if the other side surrenders unconditionally.
Everyone clear on the concept now? Hillary? Egypt? EU? Got it now?
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I'll tell you what's significant about this: not that Hamas attacked and killed a soldier (my condolences), but that Israel reacted IMMEDIATELY and not after a long and interminable time of delaying, huffing, puffing, hemming, and hawing.
Hamas was surprised at the intensity of the attack. They are going to be doubly surprised because of the short fuse exhibited here.
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AlanC has a very good point. If Israel sets the framework of response, they get inside the OODA loops of Hamas, Syria, Iran, and the EUniks, all of whom are enemies of one degree or another. Then these guys are always reacting, and not Israel.
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And I will add to what Ptah wrote that Hamas will be triply surprised by the lack of condemnation of Israel by anyone for their swift, sure reaction to the Hamas attack. At last the rules have changed. And I hope the reaction is disproportionate.
Parliamentary elections on the 10th, .5MT, and Likud looks to have about ten more seats than Kadima plus the support of the smaller warmonger parties. Labour is fading fast, and the peaceniks have only a few hard-core dreamers. Any politician who doesn't understand the new determination of the voters will be looking for a real job in the near future. Sea change, indeed.
An Israeli soldier was reported killed close to the border with the Gaza Strip Tuesday in what Palestinians said appeared to have been an attack by militants in breach of ceasefire declarations made over a week ago. In the same area, a Palestinian was later killed by Israeli fire, local medics said. They said the man was a farmer.
The Israeli military, which maintains censorship on its casualties until next of kin are informed, said a bomb went off close to forces on the Israeli side of the border fence near the Kissufim crossing in the central Gaza Strip. It declined to comment on casualties but Al Arabiya television said one soldier was killed and three were wounded.
It would be the first Israeli death since Israel ended its 22-day offensive in the coastal enclave on January 18. It came on the eve of a first visit to the region by U.S. President Barack Obama's new Middle East envoy George Mitchell. Obama has said Mitchell will pursue peace "vigorously and consistently."
Palestinians living near Kissufim crossing told Reuters they had seen a small group of gunmen, numbering two or three, moving toward the border fence early in the morning mist. They later heard explosions and gunfire shortly after 8 a.m. (0600 GMT). They did not see gunmen return. A Palestinian official in Gaza said Israeli officials told him that shipments of supplies through crossing points from Israel would be closed for the day.
Residents later saw Israeli helicopter gunships in the air and Israeli infantry moving inside the Gaza Strip. About a kilometer (half a mile) to the south of Kissufim, Israeli fire killed the 27-year-old man, Palestinian medics said.
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After the IDF action in reprisal, it would be nice for Israel to announce it took the action based on intel from Hamas sources... and use the words Hamas sources a few more times.
Terrorists Suspected insurgents have shot dead three civilians in the Muslim-majority south of Thailand, where a five-year-long jihad separatist rebellion is raging, police said Tuesday.
A 41-year-old woman and her 40-year-old husband were killed in a drive-by shooting in Pattani province on Tuesday morning, police said. The previous night in neighbouring Narathiwat province, a 28-year-old man was shot dead in a similar attack, while his friend was critically wounded.
Sri Lankan troops fought heavy battles on Monday with the Tamil Tigers in the small patch of jungle that remains under rebel control, a day after government forces drove the insurgents from their last major stronghold, the military said.
With troops sweeping across the north and forcing the rebels into a broad retreat from the wide swath of land they once controlled, the military says it is close to crushing the group and ending the 25-year-old civil war in this Indian Ocean island nation.
But analysts warn that it is simply shifting from a conventional fight between two armies to a guerrilla war likely to be fought amid the hundreds of thousands of displaced civilians reportedly trapped in the jungles with the rebels.
"The military phase has come to an end, but the conflict will go on," said Jayadeva Uyangoda, the head of political science at the University of Colombo. "The Tigers may not be able to regain the political or military power that they had before, so they will return to guerrilla tactics."
The Tigers waged a textbook guerrilla war in the 1980s, emerging from jungle hideouts to launch small-scale hit-and-run ambushes, bombings and sabotage attacks that the government found impossible to prevent.
The defence correspondent for the Lankadeepa daily, Susantha Seneviratne, warned that the remaining Tiger fighters could blend in with the civilian population in Sri Lanka's north -- and make surprise attacks on strategic targets.
Government forces have squeezed the rebels into a 115-square-mile area in the jungle, the military said.
On Sunday, the army overran the coastal town of Mullaittivu -- the last major town under rebel control. Troops were consolidating their control of the town on Monday while other forces pushed into the jungles in the Vishwamadu area and fought pitched battles with the rebels there, military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara said.
"They are engaging with artillery. They are engaging with mortars. They are engaging with small arms," he said.
Rebel officials could not be reached for comment because communications to the northern war zone have been cut. It is impossible to verify the military's accounts because independent journalists are barred from the area.
In recent weeks, the Sri Lankan army has driven the rebels from their administrative capital of Kilinochchi and forced them into a broad retreat.
In announcing the fall of Mullaittivu on Sunday, army commander Lt Gen Sarath Fonseka said the war was "95 percent" over and he appealed for new recruits to join the army and help complete the job.
"There is still a lot of work to be done," Sri Lanka's former army commander Gen Jerry de Silva said. "It is likely they (the rebels) will resort to guerrilla tactics, both jungle and urban," he said, adding that the jungle canopy above much of the remaining rebel territory could make it difficult for troops to rely on air support.
Human rights groups and diplomats have expressed growing concerns about the safety of hundreds of thousands of war refugees reportedly trapped inside the rebel-controlled areas.
Rights groups have accused the Tamil Tigers of preventing civilians from fleeing the war zone, while the government has said the rebels hoped to use the civilians as human shields. Reports of civilian casualties in the area have grown in recent weeks.
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Security forces continued their operation in Bajaur Agency on Monday, targeting several Taliban hideouts in various areas of the agency. However, no reports of casualties to the Taliban were received. Troops targeted Taliban positions in Charmang, Banda, Bhai Cheena and Kausar areas using artillery and mortars, with officials claiming to have destroyed several Taliban hideouts. Meanwhile, the Taliban abducted a person from agency headquarters Khar. Political administration has strengthened security measures in the agency by deploying additional law enforcement personnel in various areas of Bajaur. Residents complained they were facing problems in obtaining basic commodities because of the closure of business centres in the area for the last two months. 
(AKI) - By Syed Saleem Shahzad - Simmering sectarian violence once again erupted in Pakistan on Monday. Violent protests took place in Quetta, capital of gas-rich western Balochistan province after the slaying there of a Shia Muslim politician. And at least five people died in a bombing outside the town hall in Dera Ismail Khan, in restive, Pashtun dominated Northwest Frontier province.
