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I don't know, I think our Bikini Coffee Shop has 'em all beat. Girls in bikinis - in December. What could be more American?
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We got one of those up in Cold Hot Springs, Sasquatchewan; of course, unless one of these days the girls shave we'll just have to take their word for it there's a bikini somewhere under there...
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oh my.. that last one is rough GB... and no i don't recon they would freeze
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they built a Sonic Drive-In in my hamestand of Santee, CA and the crowds have just recently diminished (9+ months) to busy. With an In-N-Out a couple blocks down the street (yum!). The nostalgia urge is strong. Now if we also had an A&W for Papa burgers, I'd be happy
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or homestead. I guess when you combine lame and....
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I think the Sasquatchewan chick on the right is my ex-wife, Jabba the Slutt.
Some storage facilities won't be finished before withdrawal begins -- "Getting into Afghanistan, which we need to do as quickly as we can possibly do it, is very difficult because . . . next to Antarctica, Afghanistan is probably the most incommodious place, from a logistics point of view, to be trying to fight a war," Ashton Carter, the undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, said recently. "It's landlocked and rugged, and the road network is much, much thinner than in Iraq. Fewer airports, different geography."
Navy Vice Adm. Alan S. Thompson, who directs the Defense Logistics Agency, earlier this year called support for operations in landlocked Afghanistan "the most difficult logistics assignment we have faced since World War II."
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Would have been useful to set up biofuel cracking plant in country and pay for crops to feed the thing. Wonder if Afghan farmers would grow stuff to feed it. /rhet question.
Or would the cars Lazy around in first gear at idle and THINK they were Driving Indialapolis style?
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Hemp seeds from the copious Afghani marijuana fields would have worked exceedingly well for biodiesel fuel production and could spin off several other industries besides the obvious smokeable uses. The Gubmint forced farmers to grow it for us in America during WWII, why not force the Afghanis to give us their stash too! From what I've recently read that is the only way you can get the Afghani cops and soldiers to do anything is to give them weed/hash.
Like the VC were in our South East Asian hearts and minds adventure four score and a few years ago, the average Afghani and/or Talibani-Jihadi soldier is stoned to the bone 24/7. I smell a peace accord. Somebody call Ambassador cheech. Or Kumar,he works in the Bambi white house, he's the perfect Ambassador for Afghanistan, he's spent time in Gitmo, he's subcontinental and he chiefs right up there alongside any misguided/reformed/misguided Afghani youth. Problem solved. Hell, Bill Clinton can go into a warzone and inhale for America this time with madame ambassador and our newly elected Commander in "chief" too. What a war. Snark off.
[Quqnoos] At least 16 Afghan policemen have been killed in two attacks on checkpoints in Afghanistan's north and south.
The Afghan Interior ministry says an attack at a checkpoint in southern Helmand province Monday killed eight policemen.
The ministry says attackers killed another eight policemen during an assault on a major highway in northeastern Baghlan province on Sunday night.
Authorities said police killed at least two militants during the attack in Baghlan and blamed the assault on Hezb-i-Islami, a militant group that is allied to the Taliban.
Attacks on police in Baghlan are rare. The militant strike was one of the deadliest for the police force in Baghlan province for the past few years.
The attacks spark a rise in Taliban-led insurgency after US President Barack Obama authorised the deployment of extra 30,000 troops to turn around the war in Afghanistan.
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baghlan, like Kunduz, needs to be cleaned up to establish the north as a safe sector of the country
[Dawn] Two civilian members of the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur who were held hostage for more than 100 days have been released, the UN said Sunday.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's office released a statement saying he was 'deeply gratified' to learn of the development.
The two staffers, a man and a woman, were taken at gunpoint in West Darfur on August 29. The abductors have not been publicly identified.
The United Nations has been involved in delicate diplomacy to get cooperation on the issue from Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir. The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the Sudanese leader in March on charges of orchestrating war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. But a week ago, Ban called al-Bashir 'on humanitarian grounds' to seek help in freeing the two hostages, one of whom was said by the UN to be gravely ill.
UN spokesman Martin Nesirky had said it was the first call between the secretary-general and al-Bashir since the arrest warrant was issued. Al-Bashir has refused to recognise the tribunal's authority.
The two abductees were civilians assigned to the UN-AU peacekeeping force, known as UNAMID.
The United Nations gave no further detail on the circumstances of their release except to say they 'are now free and in the care of UNAMID.'
'The Secretary-General commends the efforts of UNAMID and the Government of Sudan in securing the freedom of the abductees,' said the UN statement.
'He wishes to underscore the importance of the peacekeeping and humanitarian work being undertaken by the United Nations in Darfur.'
'The Secretary-General also reiterates that the primary responsibility for the safety and security of all humanitarian and peacekeeping personnel lies with the Host Government,' referring to al-Bashir's government in Khartoum.
The war in Darfur began in 2003 when militant groups took up arms against the government, complaining of discrimination and neglect. UN officials say up to 300,000 people have died and 2.7 million have fled their homes.
Last weekend five UNAMID peacekeepers from Rwanda were killed in two separate incidents, bringing the total number of blue helmets who have lost their lives in Darfur since the force deployed at the start of 2008 to 22.
Almost two years after being set up, UNAMID has still only reached 69 per cent of its authorised troop strength of 19,555, and 4,449 police.
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US special forces have reportedly been sent to Yemen to train its army, as the Yemeni military backed by the Saudi Arabian army has been fighting local Houthi fighters in the north of the country.
The development comes amid fears that foreign military intervention in the country has put Yemeni civilians in dire condition.
American officials told The Daily Telegraph on Sunday that US forces have been sent to Yemen to prevent the country from turning into a "reserve base" for al-Qaeda.
The move to strengthen Yemen's army comes at a time that the country's army is not fighting with al-Qaeda militants, which are based in the southern parts of the country.
The conflict in northern Yemen began in 2004 between Sana'a and Houthi fighters. The conflict intensified in August 2009 when the Yemeni army launched Operation Scorched Earth in an attempt to crush the Shia fighters in the northern province of Sa'ada.
The government claims that the fighters, who are named after their leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi, seek to restore the Shia Zaidi imamate system, which was overthrown in a 1962 coup
The Houthis reject the claim and accuse the Yemeni government of violation of their civil rights, political, economic and religious marginalization as well as large-scale corruption.
Saudi intervention
The Saudi air force has further complicated the conflict by launching its own operations against Shia resistance fighters.
Saudi fighter jets are reportedly using phosphorus bombs against the Houthi fighters.
Houthi fighters on Sunday said that Saudi forces launched a major cross-border airstrike on Yemen, leaving at least 70 civilians dead and more than 100 others injured in the northern district of Razeh.
As Sana'a does not allow independent media into the conflict zone, there are no clear estimates available as to how many people have been killed in the Shia province of Sa'adah since the beginning of the conflict.
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Having Special Operations teams in Yemen and military advisors assisting the Saudi Air Force would actually fit the Washington goal of being all things to all Mooslims while at the same time, destroying our military.
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Having an advisor team there is good news if true. We must take the fight to our enemy, where ever he is. We know with some certainty that AQ has move operations there. If we leave it to the soddies or the Yemmenes then we will have made the same decision we made allowing AQ to grow in Afghanistan and the Sudan. All politics aside we must hunt and kill AQ no matter what country they find refuge in.
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Yemen's Houthi fighters say the US fighter jets have launched 28 attacks on the northwestern province of Sa'ada.
The US has used modern fighter jets and bombers in its offensive against the Yemen fighters, Houthis said in a statement.
We don't have any obsolete fighter jets ...
According to the statement, the US fighter jets have launched overnight attacks on the Yemeni fighters, Arabic Almenpar website reported.
The development comes as The Daily Telegraph on Sunday reported that the US has sent its special forces to Yemen to train its army.
The reports of the US military intervention in Yemen come as Saudi Arabia is also lending full support to the Yemeni government's crackdown on Yemen's Houthi minority. Saudi Arabia has launched cross-border ground attacks against Yemeni fighters and its fighter jets have reportedly dropped phosphorus bombs on Yemen's northern areas.
International aid agencies and some UN bodies including United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have voiced concern over the dire condition of the Yemeni civilians who have become the main victims of the conflict in the country.
The United Nations which according to its charter is set up "to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace" has failed to adopt any concrete measures to help end the bloody war.
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I got the impression the Sauds have a fair number of very modern AC on hand. Why would they need us for air support?
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This is Iran trying to raise support for the Houthis. See above article re: special forces. The only true element in this story is that Saudi has US made planes and US trained pilots.
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We have plenty of obsolete planes. How else do you think the Air Guard stays in the air? They're certainly not planning on giving them F-35s anytime soon.
But I was wondering how they'd be able to tell US F-15s from Saudi F-15s from the ground. Unless, you know, the occasional F-15 smacks into an inconvenient mountain-peak. Those were probably flown by Saudis.
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Might need to get the Morton girl out here with her umbrella.
But if it's true I have just one question: Why would we bomb Iranian puppets when we should be bombing Iranians?
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Why would we bomb Iranian puppets when we should be bombing Iranians?
Because bombing the Iranians would be an effective use of the military, improve morale, and be in the interest of the US. our current leader is against all of those things.
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In a victory for former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and 10 high-ranking military officers, the Supreme Court announced Monday it will not hear an appeal brought by four former Guantanamo Bay detainees who claim they were tortured and were trying to sue the people they blame for their alleged mistreatment.
The men were picked up in Afghanistan shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and transported to Guantanamo Bay. The men, all British citizens, were released without charge in 2004. They claim that while in American custody they were systematically tortured and subjected to beatings, forced nakedness, deprived of food and water and had their religious artifacts deliberately soiled.
They specifically blame Rumsfeld and the military officers for their treatment.
Lower courts have repeatedly ruled against the men's attempts to seek compensation from the officials. Earlier this year, the D.C. Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that Rumsfeld and the others have qualified immunity shielding them from this litigation.
In their brief to the high court, lawyers for the former detainees said "the torture and religious humiliation of Muslim detainees at Guantanamo stands as a uniquely shameful episode in our history." They went on to ask the justices to take their case in order to "remedy that stain on the moral authority of our nation and its laws."
This is the second time the case has come before the high court. Last year, the justices set aside a similar D.C. Circuit ruling and asked the lower court to reconsider the case. But in April, the D.C. Circuit reached the same decision emphasizing its analysis that the U.S. officials are immune from prosecution.
Solicitor General Elena Kagan refused to concede the torture allegations and defended the lower court's immunity analysis. Furthermore, Kagan says "it was not clearly established at the time (the plaintiffs) were detained at Guantanamo Bay that they had the constitutional rights they claim were violated."
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They have no Constitutional rights. None.
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I;m with you why did this even make it too the Supreme Court?
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Just wait until the 'detainees' move onto U.S. Soil. You haven't seen anything yet.
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..why did this even make it to the Supreme Court?
Bottom line. Congress' unwillingness to impeach judges who make up law and fill the appeal dockets with stuff like this. The royal judiciary's insatiable appetite for power to impose its view of civilization upon the rest of us knows no bounds.
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I've finally decided to come out for the immediate transfer of all Guantanamo detainees to the United States, specifically to Washington, DC. I also DEMAND that they be transported behind a Arleigh Burke-type Destroyer, on a long rope (no life preserver, boat, or other protective devices), along with a half-butchered steer, from Guantanamo to DC, at 20 knots. The survivors will be allowed a speedy trial with a jury of their "peers" - all retired IDF generals.
These people do not fall under the Geneva Conventions, nor are they citizens or resident aliens of the United States. They are TERRORISTS - the lowest form of life on Planet Earth. Staking them out naked in a Sahara dust storm or on top of the Greenland icecap is too good for them. If we've pumped them dry, cut their throats and feed them to the sharks.
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Old Patriot seems to be in benign Christmas mood already :-)
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A bit difficult EC, raise your hand and agree to go anyway, anytime, and do anything, eat chow in the rain, see your buddies never come home, work your way through the ranks to retirement... only to see some leftest bastid pi** it all away.
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I've just spoken to him.
If you followed the "Kunduz affair", not too amused as you can guess.
Troops think that Berlin should make up its mind whether Talibs can be fought with more than cotton pads.
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A suicide car bomb exploded in a market outside the home of the Punjab chief minister's senior adviser, Zulfiqar Khosa in Dera Ghazi Khan on Tuesday, killing 33 people and wounding 60 others. The attacker detonated his explosives outside Khosa's house, who was not at home at the time.
Witness: A witness, Naeem, said a white-coloured car reached the gate of Khosa's house and exploded, APP reported. Most of the dead and injured were people shopping or working at the market. It was unclear whether the bomber meant to target the politician's home or the market.
Damage: The attack badly damaged the house and several nearby shops and buildings, including a mosque and bank.
Government official Hasan Iqbal said the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber. "The whole market has collapsed," said Raza Khan, a local resident. "There is smoke and people running here and there."
The attacker had packed the car with about 900 pounds of explosives, senior police officer Muhammad Rizwan said.
Zulfiqar Khosa's son, Dost Muhammad Khosa, said two of his cousins were among the wounded. "It was a direct attack on us," Dost alleged, declining to speculate who was behind the blast.
Iqbal said he doubted the house was the target, speculating the attacker simply wanted to spread terror in the town.
President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani strongly condemned the blast and reiterated that such acts could not deter the government in its resolve to fight terrorism.
A spokesman for the US embassy also extended "sympathy to the families and friends and to all the people of Pakistan".
This article starring:
Zulfiqar Khosa
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[Dawn] Five suspected militants were killed while two soldiers were injured during the military operation, Rah-e-Nijat, in South Waziristan during the last 24 hours.
Inter-Services Public Relations said Shakai sector security forces killed four militants including Abdul Ghafoor, at Mola Khan Sarai. One soldier was also injured during the encounter.
Security forces carried out an operation in village Tanga Patai near China and destroyed nine IEDs and recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition. During the encounter one militant was killed while a soldier got injured.
A free medical camp was established at Lattaka near Makeen, which provided free medical treatment and medicines to the patients.
In the on going operation Rah-e-Rast in Swat, security forces conducted searches at Najigram and killed four militants.
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[Dawn] Pakistani police Monday seized luggage and a cell phone from a hotel where three of five Americans arrested on suspicion of militant links stayed, while a court ruled the men cannot be deported until judges review the case.
Police allege the young Americans intended to join militants in the northwest tribal areas and then travel to Afghanistan before their arrest last week. The case has fanned fears that Americans and other Westerners are heading to Pakistan to link up with al-Qaida and other militant groups.
Police searched the mid-range Saddam Hotel in the southern city of Karachi, the country's commercial hub, where some of the men stayed on Nov. 30 after their arrival in the country. They found five travel bags containing clothes, a cell phone and a book, police official Abdullah Sheikh said.
Hotel manager Mohammed Farooq Khan said the three left the hotel without informing management after staying one night.
The book was 'The Pact,' the best-selling true story of three young men from broken homes who pledged to support each other as they pursue academic dreams.
The detainees are accused of using Facebook and YouTube websites to try and connect with extremist groups in Pakistan and are said to have established contact with a Taliban recruiter. They have not been formally charged with any crime or produced in court.
The court order Monday was aimed at preventing any deportation of the Americans before the judiciary gets a chance to review the case, Lahore High Court registrar Tahir Pervez said. No deportation order is known to have been issued so far, but officials in both countries have said such a move is likely.
The court issued the order in response to a petition from Khalid Khawaja, a civil rights activist who has often filed court cases on behalf of alleged militants and people believed to have disappeared at the hands of Pakistan's security apparatus.
Pervez said the court ordered the government of Punjab province to file a report on the case in a hearing Thursday.
The men, who are from the Washington, DC area, were picked up by Pakistani authorities last week in the Punjab town of Sargodha after their worried families in the U.S. turned to the FBI to track them down.
They were shifted over the weekend to Lahore, the provincial capital, for further questioning.
FBI agents, who have been granted some access to the men, are trying to see if there is enough evidence to charge any of them with conspiracy to provide material support to a terrorist group, an American official and another person familiar with the case said Friday.
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The FBI should leave these dudes just where they are.
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Authorities "are trying to see if there is enough evidence" of conspiracy to support terror?
Gee, when was the last time you were struck by the urge to make pro-jihadist solicitations on a social networking website, leave your family, and visit what Adm. Mullen called the epicenter of jihad? Just spur of the moment war tourism in Pakistan, right?
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Just for the record. The slaughter of 13 American soldiers and the wounding of 30 more at Fort Hood FAILED to meet the Gov't and FBI terrorism criteria. Good luck with these vermin.
[Dawn] Taliban militants blew up a girls' school in the Khyber district on Monday, officials said
The pre-dawn school attack took place in Saddokhel town in northwest Khyber tribal district, where militants detonated explosives planted around the building, destroying all five school rooms but causing no injuries.
'They are Taliban. They are the same people who do not want children to get an education,' senior administration official Rahim Gul Khattak told AFP.
Militants opposed to co-education have destroyed hundreds of schools, mostly for girls, in the northwest of the country in recent years.
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OOOOHHHKKKKAAAYYY
Continuing proof that educating female sex slaves and Junior Jihad makers is Un-Islamic.
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NEWSMAX > WALIF PHARES - WHERE IS THE ISLAMIC CONFERENCE WHEN ITS OWN ARE MASSACRED? Muslims booming fellow Muslims.
[Dawn] Seven militants have been killed as gunship helicopters targeted militant hideouts in Masozai area of central Kurram Agency, on Monday.
According to official sources, over the last 24 hours, security forces have killed at least 22 militants.
Militants were given a one-hour deadline to vacate Jani Kot, Tar-ali and Sultani areas prompting residents to shift to safer areas.
Although security forces are facing severe resistance from militants in the area, they have managed to destroy some of their hideouts and have arrested dozens of them.
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The Indian cities of New Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata were placed on alert following intelligence reports that Taliban-trained suicide attackers had managed to sneak into the country, news reports said on Monday.
Home Ministry officials said security was tightened at key installations and defence establishments in after warnings that Islamist militants may carry out attacks, NDTV network reported.
The Bombay Stock Exchange, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Mumbai and the offices of Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh could be possible targets, officials said.
Additional security was also deployed around the US Consulate in Kolkata and seaports, rail stations and airports.
The NDTV report said the alert was based on "specific inputs which were cross-checked several times".
There has been no major terrorist attack in India since the Mumbai attacks in November last year.
Ten militants from the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba had entered Mumbai by boat and killed 166 people.
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See also TOPIX > AMID VIOLENCE, MAOISTS AT WAR FROM WITHIN; + MAOISTS DECLARE TWO MORE AUTONOMOUS STATES, + FORUM WARNS MAOISTS OF SHOWDOWN, + MAOISTS NOW EYE NORTH BENGAL.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Israeli soldiers detained two Palestinian youths in an industrial area located near the Erez Crossing, west of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, but later released one.
The soldiers illegally penetrated approximately 350 meters into northern Gaza while Palestinian workers were trying to remove the rubble of the industrial area that was shelled by the army during last winter's assault on Gaza.
They detained Mahmoud Jamil al-Yaziji, 16, and Mohammad Hatim al-Kafarna, 17.
Al-Kafarna was released several hours later, while al-Yaziji was moved to the al-Majdal prison and is currently under interrogation, a lawyer working with the Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights said on Monday.
The lawyer added that the Israeli District Court has extended al-Yaziji's remand until December 18.
The Al-Mezan Center also criticized Israel for continuing to commit human rights violations against the residents of the Gaza Strip and called on the Zionist regime to release all detained children.
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hey jews cocksuckers scum why all of you bastard move to iszrael
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sorry, just replying in kind with same vernacular as comment 1. thought i was being slightly snarky, but after a nights sleep, things look a little different.
i'll try to not make a habit of it(sinktrap).
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And so you did do, abu do you love. The thing is, both lotp and I dumped the troll, leaving your otherwise apposite words looking a bit off. Curiously, when I clicked on Comment, both your post and the troll's show up clear as when they were written. Fred may want to look into that when he has some of that free time that's rumoured to exist somewhere.
Suspected Islamic terrorists insurgents have killed six civilians in a spate of attacks across Thailand's troubled south in recent days, police said on Tuesday.
A 37-year-old Muslim woman, a volunteer member of a village self-defence team, was slashed to death at a rubber plantation where she worked on Monday morning in Pattani province, police said. Later in the same province, a 58-year-old Muslim man was shot dead at a local barber shop. A 26-year-old Muslim man who was wanted by police was shot and killed in an ambush at his home.
In nearby Narathiwat province, a 38-year-old Buddhist man was also shot dead late Monday, police said, while an unknown number of militants ambushed eight patrolling soldiers, but no-one was wounded. In separate incidents on Sunday, a 50-year-old Buddhist man and a 28-year-old Muslim man were shot dead in Pattani province, police added.
A local agricultural school security guard collecting forest products with a group of friends apparently stumbled upon a cell group of terrorists insurgents and gunned him down in the southern province of Narathtiwat. The victim was shot while he and nine others were collecting wild forest products on a mountain in Rangae district, according to local police.
Paiboon Trirat, a security guard at a Narathiwat institute of agriculture and technology, accidentally found five to seven suspected members of the Runda Kumpulan Kecil (RKK) terrorist insurgent group during their search for forest products. Local authorities believe the site was a hideout of the terrorist insurgent group.
An initial investigation found that the suspected terrorists insurgents sprayed bullets at Mr Paiboon's chest using M16 assault rifles. The guard was killed and his friends exchanged gunfire with the assailants. A combined unit of local police, military and forensic experts found 40 spent cartridges from M16 rifles at the scene. Local authorities are tracking the assailants who may had fled to deeper forest areas in Cho-airong district.
Malaysian police have detained three Thai men allegedly responsible for producing home-made bombs believed to be supplied to militant groups in southern Thailand, a news report said Tuesday. The men had been renting the home Kampung Repek in Pasir Mas in the northeastern Kelantan state for the past year, and worked as fishermen during the day, The Star daily said.
During Monday's raid, police reportedly discovered home-made bombs and chemical fertilizers in the home. The report quoted sources as saying authorities believe the trio were part of an underground group operating in the state, supplying bombs to terrorists insurgents from southern Thailand.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Iran has arrested several people over the tearing up of a picture of the Islamic Republic's late founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini during anti-government protests in Tehran last week, a senior official said on Monday.
"Those people who were at the site (of insulting Khomeini) have all been identified," Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadai told reporters, according to ISNA news agency.
He said arrests had been made, including one on the day of the Dec. 7 student rallies, without giving names or numbers.
"They are all in detention and one of them has confessed," Jafari Dolatabadi added.
The prosecutor also said there would be "no mercy towards those who insulted the founder of the revolution," the official IRNA news agency reported. Khomeini spearheaded the 1979 Islamic revolution and remains revered in Iran. He died in 1989.
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned opposition leaders on Sunday to distance themselves from protesters he accused of acting against the Islamic regime's late founder.
"Those who shout slogans in the name of these people (opposition leaders), hoist their pictures and speak of them with respect are in a point which is the exact opposite of the Imam (Khomeini), revolution and Islam," Khamenei said on state television.
"When you see this, step aside," he said to opposition leaders and defeated presidential candidates Mirhosein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, describing them as his "former brothers."
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The Genie is out of the bottle. A change of US strategy would facilitate the Regime's demise.
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which is exactly why 0bam will try another round of 'diplomacy' to give them legitimacy and strengthen them.
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Time for the Iranian joke. There was this drunk who couldn't keep off the booze. This led him to many drop those pants assume the position to be flogged. A local tattoo artist said he could fix the problem. On one butt cheek he did a portrait of Khomeni, on the other he did a portrait of Khamenei. Since defacing an official portrait is a capital crime he would be safe. While staggering home one night he was stopped by the police and told to drop them. The religious policeman exclaimed,"What is the meaning of this?" He proceed to flog the poor soul even harder.
The drunk cried out, "Isn't it a crime to deface an official portrait?"
The policeman replied,"Yes but this isn't an official portrait since it shows an enormous divide between out great leaders!"
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
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[Quqnoos] At least 16 Afghan policemen have been killed in two attacks on checkpoints in Afghanistan's north and south.
In a victory for former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and 10 high-ranking military officers, the Supreme Court announced Monday it will not hear an appeal brought by four former Guantanamo Bay detainees who claim they were tortured and were trying to sue the people they blame for their alleged mistreatment.
A suicide car bomb exploded in a market outside the home of the Punjab chief minister's senior adviser, 
