[An Nahar] Four civilians, including a child, were killed in a two-day raid against Taliban beturbanned goons by Afghan and international forces in a restive province south of the capital Kabul, officials said Wednesday.
A front man for NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... 's International Security Assistance Force said it was "aware of the allegations of civilian casualties" but insisted that foreign troops were "not directly involved".
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civilian: one whose body is found after his armaments have removed by his compatriots before retreating.
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According to the article, they appear to be Egyptian.
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Guam-CNMI-WESTPAC???
* ION WAFF > [StrategyPage] CHINA VERSUS SCUBA COMMANDOS.
Or as I used to say + still do, "ITS CALLED THE OSCAR-CLASS"!
USN's all-female Submarine(s) versus China's Three Gorges Dam???
Given that China has repor deployed a large number of advanced SAM + BMD units all around the Three Gorges - DITTO FOR THEIR NEW POST-THREE GORGES DAM PROJECT THAT IS SSSOOOOOO MASSIVE IT WILL ALLEGEDLY "SLOW THE ROTATION OF THE EARTH"???
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I'm not clever enough to even speculate about that, Skidmark. In which direction does Pyongyang connect to the outside world? I would think the South Koreans had scuba divers as well as we have the SEALS, but my level of knowledge approaches zero from the negative side on this one.
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I'd have the ROK scuba divers tap that cable, not cut it. I'd get the most sophisticated listening and interpretation devices I could on that project and decrypt/learn everything possible.
Then I'd have some fun putting in some new messages and emails...
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[FOXNEWS] Islamic hard-liners stormed a mosque in suburban Cairo, turning it into torture chamber for Christians who had been demonstrating against the ruling Moslem Brüderbund in the latest case of violent persecution that experts fear will only get worse.
Such stories have become increasingly common as tensions between Egypt's Mohammedans and Copts mount, but in the latest case, mosque officials corroborated much of the account and even filed a police report. Demonstrators, some of whom were Mohammedan, say they were taken from the Moslem Brüderbund headquarters in suburban Cairo to a nearby mosque on Friday and tortured for hours by hard-line militia members.
"They accompanied me to one of the mosques in the area and I discovered the mosque was being used to imprison demonstrators and torture them," Amir Ayad, a Coptic who has been a vocal protester against the regime, told MidEast Christian News from a hospital bed.
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Lying low AND arming myself AND sending the family abroad: these are not mutually exclusive.
I sometimes wonder if the Copts should try and concentrate themselves into a relatively small geographical area, a little out of the way, where they would be the majority. Then they declare independence, arm themselves to the teeth, and make sure that anyone who messes with them comes in second.
There's a precedent for this in the region.
But perhaps I'm just dreaming...
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I guess you have to understand that under hardcore Islam - the torture, rapes, and murder of infidels is considered high-worship of their god.
The Mosque just regrets that a few Muslims got caught in with the Infidels...
[An Nahar] The Malian army said Wednesday 63 soldiers and some 600 Islamists had been killed since the launch of the French-led military action to regain the country's north from Islamist groups linked to al-Qaeda.
"Since the start of the military offensive launched January 11, 2013 against the Islamists, the corpse count is 63 Malian soldiers killed and our opponents have lost about 600 fighters," army front man Lieutenant Colonel Souleymane Maiga told Agence La Belle France Presse.
He said most Malian soldiers had been killed in the field, while the others had succumbed later to their injuries.
"The deaths among the Islamists is an estimate, because the Islamists generally take their dead away for burial," Maiga told AFP, adding that it was French and African forces who had killed "these terrorists".
He told AFP one Togolese and a Burkinabe soldier had also died. Five French soldiers have also been killed since the start of Operation Serval.
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[Al Ahram] Sectarian festivities in volatile central Nigeria have left 23 people dead in the last week, in a region where bitter ethnic disputes have killed thousands in recent years, the military told AFP Wednesday.
Details of the 20 and 21 March attacks were slow to emerge from Plateau state, which falls on the dividing line between Nigeria's mostly Christian south and predominately Mohammedan north.
Military front man Lieutenant Jude Akpa said that 11 members of the mainly Mohammedan Fulani ethnic group, known largely as nomadic herders, were killed on 20 March after crossing onto land belonging to members of a Christian tribe called the Ataka.
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It does seem as though most of the sectarian festivities these days involve one particular sect.
[Bangla Daily Star] Detectives yesterday pressed charges against 26 opposition men, including BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and party standing committee member Moudud Ahmed, in a case relating to violence.
Besides, 44 leaders and activists of the BNP-led 18-party alliance were charged in another case.
The former case was filed with Paltan Police Station under the speedy trial act, accusing the 26 of creating panic among people, torching vehicles and preventing police from discharging their duties during the opposition's March 2 rally in front of BNP's Naya Paltan office in the capital.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Stray incidents of violence, like arson, vandalism and kaboom of homemade bombs, marked the first day of BNP-led alliance's 36-hour countrywide shutdown yesterday.
During the hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... , a man was killed when a bus chased by hartal supporters ploughed through makeshift tea stalls at Khajura bus stand in Jessore.
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[Bangla Daily Star] The transport sector is down on its knees as the onslaught of hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... continues with vehicles being torched and vandalised during, before and, on occasions, after hartals. Even trains have not been spared.
Details are sketchy but the fire services say 356 private and public vehicles have been torched between November and March. A number of trains have also been set ablaze.
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[AAWSAT.NET] Chinese courts have sentenced 20 people to up to life in jail on charges of separatism and plotting to carry out jihad in the restive far western region of Xinjiang, the government said on Wednesday.
The courts in Kashgar and Bayingol said the 20--all ethnic Uighurs judging by their names--had had their "thoughts poisoned by religious extremism", and used cell phones and DVDs "to spread Mohammedan religious propaganda", the Xinjiang government said on its official news website (www.ts.cn).
Some of them bought weapons to kill coppers as part of their jihad and spread propaganda related to the banned East Turkestan Islamic Movement, the report said, a group which China says wages a violent campaign for a separate state.
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Meanwhile, down India ways ...
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > INDIA'S FANTASY OF DISLOYAL MUSLIMS MAY [yet = still] COME TRUE, as due to intensifying Hindu abuses, backlash + pervasive irrational fears in both Hindu + Muslim, etc. communities.
* WORLD NEWS > [SCMP] INDONESIAN JIHADI SAYS SABAH IS MALAYSIAN "SOFT SPOT".
Malaysia-Indonesia aka lots of Chinese expats + migrant laborers live.
* TOPIX > PHILIPPINE GUERILLAS ENTER SABAH.
PLAN task force is conducting amphib landing exercise close to Sabah + in waters claimed by both China + Malaysia.
As per MILBLOGS + NET NEWS, rest assured that China has noticed the on-going Sabah Crisis between the PHIL + Malaysia.
CHINA IN PHIL + SE ASIA = AKA "WHERE THE US = US NATO/ALLIES AREN'T" = LOTS OF JUNGLES, RIDGES, HIGH MOUNTAINS [Tribals?] TO GIVE THE USDOD SERIOUS TROUBLE.
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As per CHINA + separatism, since the majority of the mainland's population is Han Chinese, IMO unless the CPC in Beijing screws up royally the Chinese global economy + other Policies CHINA WILL HAVE TO ATTACKED BY OUTSIDE FORCES E.G. NUCLEAR RADICAL ISLAM.
Its no longer the US-vs-China in Asia-Pacific, but the US-vs-China-vs-Nuclear-Islam - its only a question of whether the OWG Caliphate-happy, Nuclear Jihadis/Hard Boyz attack China, etc. first before the US or vice versa.
SEOUL - Reclusive North Korea is to cut the last channel of communications with the South because war could break out at "any moment", it said on Wednesday, days of after warning the United States and South Korea of nuclear attack.
The move is the latest in a series of bellicose threats from North Korea in response to new U.N. sanctions imposed after its third nuclear test in February and to "hostile" military drills under way joining the United States and South Korea.
The North has already stopped responding to calls on the hotline to the U.S. military that supervises the heavily armed Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and the Red Cross line that has been used by the governments of both sides.
"Under the situation where a war may break out at any moment, there is no need to keep north-south military communications which were laid between the militaries of both sides," the North's KCNA news agency quoted a military spokesman as saying.
"There do not exist any dialogue channel and communications means between the DPRK and the U.S. and between the north and the south."
At last, some peace and quiet! No more KCNA guy!
The Pentagon condemned the latest escalation in North Korean rhetoric, with spokesman George Little calling Pyongyang's declaration "yet another provocative and unconstructive step."
The "dialogue channel" is used on a daily basis to process South Koreans who work in the Kaesong industrial project where 123 South Korean firms employ more than 50,000 North Koreans to make household goods. About 120 South Koreans are stationed at Kaesong at any one time on average. It is the last remaining joint project in operation between the two Koreas after South Korea cut off most aid and trade in response to Pyongyang's shooting of a South Korean tourist and the sinking of a South Korean naval vessel blamed on the North.
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As per FOX NEWS this AM, THANKS TO NORTH KOREA + KIM JONG-UN [SSSSHHHH China?] ALL OF THESE SOUTH KOREANS ARE NOW OUT OF A JOB!
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the fruits of projecting weakness in the face of evil.
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I read this morning on Drudge that the border factories are still operating.
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of course they are... need to keep your options for grabbing hostages open.
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I've been receiving Crap calls, but today I didn't, coincidence?
Maybe, but they're gone nonetheless.
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maybe the regime in Pyongyang is imploding. yeah maybe. somehow I suspect they've still got an iron grip on their own country.
BUT they are doing a phenomenal job of taking the world's attention off Iran and its nuclear program. I wouldn't be surprised if they got paid big bucks for this performance.
[An Nahar] Iraq executed 18 people this month, eight of them on the same day as an attack on the justice ministry, a top official said on Wednesday, despite global condemnation over its ongoing executions.
They were the first confirmed executions this year, after Justice Minister Hassan al-Shammari insisted last week that Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... would continue to implement the death penalty in the face of widespread calls for it to issue a moratorium.
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"On Thursday (March 14), we executed eight, and then on Sunday (March 17), we executed 10,"
Three rangers were killed and five others injured, two seriously, by a bomb blast in Narathiwat's Cho Airong district early on Thursday, as peace talks began between the Thai government and representatives of the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) and several other terrorist insurgent groups.
Lt-Gen Udomchai Thammasaroraj, the 4th Army commander, said he thought the attack was intended to disrupt the peace-making process. He said, "We suspect this was the work of local militants who want to discredit the peace talks under way in Kuala Lumpur."
The bomb explosion occurred about 7 a.m., before the talks got under way, on a road along a railway about 900 meters from the Cho Airong district police station. It devastated a joint team of 12 rangers which was patroling from their base at a temple in Cho Airong district town.
Two rangers died immediately and six others were injured. One of the wounded died on the way to hospital.
The attack took place near Ban Cho Kroh, the home village of Masae Useng, a wanted terrorist separatist leader with a bounty of 5 million baht on his head.
National Security Council secretary general Paradorn Pattannathabutr expressed confidence at the talks in Kuala Lumpur that the violence would eventually decline as the peace talk process went ahead. He said, I see the BRN as the largest and most influential group behind the unrest. So, after the talks, the BRN can spread the word to their fighters, and then we will see a concrete result. I am confident that they will communicate our message to their militants, but because BRN is a large organisation, we have to give them some time."
Mortar fire has hit the University of Damascus, killing 12 students, Syrian state TV says.
The channel blamed rebels for the attack, saying a number of people had also been injured.
It said the mortars had hit the university's faculty of architecture.
The Syrian capital is in the grip of heavy fighting between government and rebel forces, who have recently intensified the use of mortars in the city, correspondents say.
State-run al-Ikhbariya TV said the mortars had hit a canteen. The station showed footage of doctors trying to save victims amid a scene of upturned tables and chairs, shattered glass and blood on the floor.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based activist group, said several rounds had hit but did not give further details, AFP news agency reported.
[An Nahar] Syrian warplanes launched two strikes on Qaboon in northeastern Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... on Wednesday, as rebels fighters seized three army posts near the ceasefire line with Israel, a watchdog said.
"Two air strikes were carried out on rebel-held buildings in Qaboon," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, adding that violence in Damascus has risen after Death Eaters seized control of Jobar district in the city's east.
"There is now fighting in Tadamun, Assali, Yarmuk, Qadam and Qaboon districts," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told Agence La Belle France Presse of outlying neighborhoods of the capital that have previously seen intermittent violence.
Elsewhere, rebels seized three small army positions in Quneitra province in southern Syria near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, said the watchdog.
In Homs, in central Syria, the army pressed its campaign against rebel enclaves, pounding the district of Khaldiyeh in the heart of the city, the Observatory added.
The United Nations ...what started out as a a diplomatic initiative, now trying to edge its way into legislative, judicial, and executive areas... says more than 70,000 people have been killed in Syria's conflict, which erupted in 2011 after an anti-regime revolt turned into an insurgency when the army unleashed a brutal crackdown against dissent.
On Wednesday alone, at least 73 people were killed in violence across Syria, according to a preliminary toll released by the Observatory. Among the casualties were 20 civilians, 19 soldiers and 33 rebels.
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[An Nahar] Sheikh Salman al-Harfani on Wednesday evening was found dead in his textile shop in Hasbayya, the National News Agency reported.
"Medical investigation revealed that the holy man has received five gunshots from a 5 mm caliber pistol," it elaborated.
Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Naim Hassan condemned the incident, calling on concerned authorities to reveal the circumstances behind it and try the perpetrators.
Dar al-Fatwa holy men Sheikh Mazen Hariri and Sheikh Ahmed Fakhran were attacked in the predominantly Shiite area of Khandaq al-Ghamiq earlier in March while two other holy men, one of them identified as Omar al-Imami, were attacked in the southern Beirut suburb of Shiyyah.
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There is not such thing as a holy man in the muslim Umma, only pedophiles, rapists, thieves and genocidal assassins...
[An Nahar] The Syrian opposition opened in Qatar on Wednesday its first "embassy," a day after opponents of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... were given Damascus ...The capital of Iran's Syrian satrapy... 's seat at the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
Opposition chief Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib and Qatari State Minister for Foreign Affairs Khaled al-Attiya inaugurated the representative office dubbed the "Embassy of the Syrian National Coalition".
The original Syrian embassy itself remains closed.
Gulf states announced in March last year that they were closing their missions in Syria over Assad forces' crackdown on dissent that has transformed into a civil war that has killed more than 70,000 people.
The opening of the mission came a day after the vaporous Arab League welcomed the Coalition to take the seat of Syria an annual summit of the 22-member bloc in Doha.
In a speech addressing the leaders, Khatib said the opposition also wants to assume Syria's seat at the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
"This is the first embassy of the Syrian people," said Khatib in the ceremony that saw the rebel flag raised on a villa provided by the Qatari government.
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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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[FOXNEWS] Islamic hard-liners stormed a mosque in suburban Cairo, turning it into torture chamber for Christians who had been demonstrating against the ruling 
[An Nahar] The Malian army said Wednesday 63 soldiers and some 600 Islamists had been killed since the launch of the French-led military action to regain the country's north from Islamist groups linked to al-Qaeda.
[Al Ahram] Sectarian 
[An Nahar] Syrian warplanes launched two strikes on Qaboon in northeastern 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
