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(AP) KABUL, Afghanistan — Roadside bombs killed five NATO troops in Afghanistan, the international force said Saturday, adding to a violent summer as coalition forces step up patrols in the Taliban-dominated south.

AFGHANISTAN

Separately, NATO reported that Afghan and foreign troops found nearly 2 tons (1.8 metric tons) of processed heroin, 1,800 pounds (800 kilograms) of opium and 200 pounds (90 kilograms) of ammonium nitrate Friday that could have been used to make 25 roadside bombs in the southern province of Helmand.

The drugs had a street value in the United States of more than $38 million before taking into account the common practice of cutting them with other ingredients, which would exponentially increase the value, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.

Another joint force arrested a Taliban insurgent involved in bomb-making after intelligence indicated he was plotting an attack during the upcoming international conference Tuesday in Kabul, NATO said. Several other insurgents were arrested during the raid Friday night in Kabul.

An American service member was killed by a blast in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, the international alliance said. A British soldier died in a roadside bomb in a southern province the same day, Britain’s defense ministry said. A third international service member died Saturday in the south, but NATO would not give the nationality or any details of the attack.

Two members of the multinational force also died in a single explosion Friday in the south. NATO said one of the troops killed was American, and the U.K. defense ministry said the other was a British marine.

Britain also said Saturday that one of its airmen died in a traffic accident Friday.

Roadside bombs planted by insurgents are one of the leading killers of both international troops and civilians in Afghanistan.

More from AP here.

By the CNN Wire Staff-

(CNN) — A car bomb killed at least four people in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, authorities said.

It was the first time a car bomb has been used to attack federal police, said the city’s mayor, Jose Reyes Ferriz.

The incident happened about 8 p.m. Thursday in the city’s most violent zone.

Juarez municipal police spokesman Jacinto Seguro said Friday that federal police were responding to a call that a police officer had been killed.

“When they went to check the car, there was a dead body in there, dressed up like a police officer, but it wasn’t one of ours,” Seguro said. “They put him in a civilian car but dressed him up in a municipal police uniform. That’s when the bomb went off. It’s like an act of terrorism.”

Two police officers, a paramedic and a civilian were killed, federal police spokesman Ramon Salinas said.

More here.  Greta Van Susteren interview here and Napolitano thinks no violence on U.S. side of border.  Well… AWESOME!

All for the same purpose; cellular organization perpetrating disparate (not desperate) violent acts across the globe toward a single, amorphous goal: Global Jihad in pursuit of a global caliphate to prepare the earth for the final judgment of God over an Islamic-controlled house…

Not an isolated event.

Al-Shabaab commander Sheik Yusuf Sheik Issac expressing his joy over the bombings to the Associated Press saying,

“Uganda is one of our enemies. Whatever makes them cry, makes us happy. May Allah’s anger be upon those who are against us.”

al-Shabaab Bombs Soccer Fans in Kampala Restaurant... their victims and the compassionate utterings of al-Shabaab Sheikh, above.

Read here.

Uh, yyyyyeaaaah… HE’S A KOOK!  Now, we all know that Hugo Chavez is just plain nuts (I mean, does he have any friends that aren’t crazy?  If he does, one of them might want to tell him he needs help)… Anyway, we all know Chavez is a maniac, but now there is proof!  Is anyone paying attention?  Multiple press and media venues report that the remains of 18th and 19th Century Latin American Revolutionary, Simon Bolivar, have been exhumed at the order of Venezuelan dictator, Hugo Chavez.

The reason: he wants to prove that, rather than dying from tuberculosis (the universally accepted medical truth by physicians and aides at his side and every historian ever since), that Bolivar was actually assassinated by, THE COLOMBIANS!!! Now, we all know that Chavez, a kook, wants more than anything to invade Colombia (where his relatively decent military will summarily get its ass kicked), but this?  He has really gone WAAAAAYYYY off the deep end.

According to reports, Chavez wept upon seeing Bolivar’s bones and has tweeted, blubbered, and decreed the following:

“Bolivar is alive. Let us not see him as a dead man and let us not see him as a skeleton. He is like lightning, like a sacred fire”

“Our father who is in the earth, the water and the air . . . You awake every hundred years when the people awaken”

Uh, oooookay…  whatever, dude.

Unfortunately, our Despot with Daddy Issues, Hugo Chavez, has recreated Simon Bolivar in his own mind.  Simon Bolivar, a true liberal (little “l”) democratic (little “d”) revolutionary in the American sense.  Unlike Chavez, Bolivar was a true soldier and fighter and admired the American Revolution and our Founding Fathers.  He wanted to create a “United States-style” republic in Latin America, though he was doubtful it could fully succeed in Latin America.  He was a HUGE FAN of the United States of America and our form of government.  Chavez, in his deceptive, egocentric, and self-centered mind, has added the biography of Simon Bolivar to the long list of things in Venezuela that he must control.

ACTUAL combat revolutionary general and leader, Simon Bolivar

Actual Brave warfighting leader and democratic revolutionary, Simon Bolivar

Ridiculous and silly communist oppressor and dictator-who-thinks-he's-channeling-Simon Bolivar because he's a whack-job, Hugo Chavez.

Bottom line is this: Bolivar would not give Chavez the time of day and might even slap him up side the head with his riding gloves for being such a moron, historical idiot, and perverter of Bolivar’s true intentions.  Bolivar even sent his son to study in Virginia so that he could be influenced by Thomas Jefferson and other American Revolutionaries, who realized the dream of empowering individuals, not the state.  Chavez is clueless.

Some facts:

Bolívar described himself in his many letters as a “liberal” who believed in a “free market“. He was an admirer of both the American Revolution and the French Revolution. He consideredThomas Jefferson so important that he sent his nephew to the University of Virginia, which was founded and designed by Jefferson. Bolívar differed, however, in political philosophy from the leaders of the revolution in the United States on two important matters. First of all, he was staunchly anti-slavery, despite coming from an area of Spanish America that relied heavily on slave labour. Second and perhaps more notably, while he was an admirer of the United States, he did not believe that her governmental system could function in Latin America.Bolívar felt that, compared with his new nation, the United States was established in a land that was much better suited for democracy, a land and people who could survive in a much looser, more liberal government.  Wikipedia, sourced by:  Bushnell, David; Lester D. Langley (2008). Simón Bolívar: Essays on the Life and Legacy of the Liberator.. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 136. ISBN

Never Called Upon to Lead a Battle-in-his-Life, Despot-with-Daddy-Issues, Hugo Chavez

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Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/07/17/1734547/chavez-exhumes-bolivar-for-testing.html#ixzz0twfANb7I