Originally written and posted on 4/29/2013

Explosion occurred in Prague, Czechoslovakia

location of event: near the Vitava River, and National Theater; [in universal/practical terms, a part of downtown Prague where many tourists go]

what was effected: buildings damaged

time of event: Monday, about 10:00am 

who was effected: at least 3 dozen, meaning over 36, people are reported hurt thus far.  Some say there are some people still not found yet

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Dhaka, Bangladesh building collapse status in brief: rescuers were still looking for survivors within the past 20 hours.  A fire broke out at one part of the site, causing setbacks.  They do have an overseer of rescue operations.  The total death toll has as increased closer to 400 from the initial 200 reported last week.

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In computer business:

Google is rumored to be making some changes to one of their major advertising programs.

In Savar area, Dhaka, Bangladesh, a building collapse occurred yesterday morning, meaning Wednesday morning.  The building was a garment factory.  Apparently there are still survivors trapped in the building.  Time is starting to run out on them.  They need robots, heavy concrete moving equipment, search resources, and find-and-recover capabilities.  Hard to obtain/access equipment might be scarcer in parts of Bangladesh, than in heavily populated places in the U.S. and Europe.  Food, water being worked on.

There are stories of Brazil planning buying over 30 used Gepard 1A2 tanks from Germany, in preparation for upcoming sporting events, inclusive of the 2016 Olympics.

In the Xinjiang Province of China, which is near the very western-most part of China, not too far from the north-eastern part of Afghanistan, over 20 people have been reported killed stemming from an incident in the town of Kashgar in Uighur - to - Han related violence.  Elements of Al-Qaeda are also being pointed to as for some of the blame of the trends of the violence in the region.

UN 'moving into' the Congo:  The United Nations is heading toward the Democratic Republic of the Congo on a peace keeping mission.  20,000 troops is the count according to BBC news, to target rebels.  The rebels being targeted appear to be a group called March 23 Movement, or M23 for short.  It is unclear at this very second, whether ADF/AFD, which stands for Allied Democratic Force, is targeted as well, or whether there is some kind of merger between M23 and them.

An attempt to provide an overview of sorting out who is who in the region of CAR and DRC, including links and stories:

BBC has also reported South African troops clashing with Seleka rebels in the Central African Republic, parts of which are geographically in the area of the DR of Congo.  French troops are also in that region.

CAR rebels recruiting troops for new national army <http://www.africareview.com/News/-/979180/1740318/-/efuj1jz/-/index.html>

From the article: "Most recruits, Muslims and Christians alike and regardless of their ethnic stock, claim to be Seleka supporters keen to show their loyalty to the rebellion."

Quick recap from ETIS: CAR is an acronym for Central African Republic.  The CAR rebels are synonymous to Seleka rebels.  About 2 months ago, the rebels are credited for overthrowing what was the government of the CAR.  The government of the Central A.R. was led by François Bozizé.

It was SANDF, for acronym explanation, see below, that was in the CAR fighting the Seleka rebels. 

"...demanded that Bozize send home South African forces who were helping bolster the country's military. And they sought to integrate some 2 000 rebel fighters into Central African Republic's armed forces." source: http://mg.co.za/article/2013-03-24-sandf-confirm-sa-casualties-in-car

Internet webengines are wary to use the term CAR often, because when capitalization of the acronym does not show, it can be confused with car, meaning automobile.

South Africa in addition to the action in CAR is involved with the prospect of action in DRC.  

"South Africa plans to deploy troops to DR Congo, as part of a new UN attack force to end conflict in the east." source: BBC news 8th April 2013.

The group that is depicted as the rebel group in DRC is M23. 

An excerpt from an article in the London Evening Post online, "One of the major groups fighting in the DRC, the March 23 Movement has said it would defend itself if attacked by any group. In a recent interview with The London Evening Post, the M23 political leader M Bertrand Bisimwa repeatedly said the UN was reversing its normal tradition of searching for peace and replacing it with war overtures." source: http://www.thelondoneveningpost.com/south-africa-confirms-it-will-send-troops-to-fight-rebels-in-drc/

Clarifying, as stories about the conflict have been published near March 23, 2013, 'March 23 is a part of the name of the rebel group.

"The M23 rebel group in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo says it will fight back if attacked by a UN contingent being sent to the area.

The rebel group, whose full name is the March 23 Movement, is made up of deserters from the Congolese army" source: http://www.euronews.com/2013/04/12/m23-rebels-will-take-on-un-special-force-in-drc-if-attacked/

Based on photos of the conflict, not all SANDF, see acronym spell-out below, have resemblance to the South African soldiers from the time of apartheid, of almost pure Dutch descent.  Some of the SANDF soldiers look as if they are indigenous South African descent from long ago, before apartheid and European rule in the past century or so.

Further explaining who is who respective to UN peacekeeping mission to DRC, as the LEPost has it, "Malawi and Angola are other African countries expected to contribute towards the UN force. A UN Security Council diplomat last week told Reuters that the purpose of forming the intervention forces was to neutralize the M23 Movement. Based in Bunagana in eastern DRC, the M23 is one of scores of fighting groups in the country, all fighting for different reasons in a country the size of Western Europe. There has been fighting in the DRC as far back as the mid-1990s.

Uganda aspects and AFD/ADF:

"Lieutenant Ninsiima Rwemijuma, the spokesperson of the Ugandan army in the country's western region said the rebels were training 80 kilometers inside the DRC.

According to the authorities over 2000 rebels, calling themselves Allied Democratic Force (AFD), are recruiting youths within Uganda, Rwanda and DRC in preparation for an attack against Uganda.

ADF rebels in the late 1980's and early 1990's attacked several villages near the border with Congo and killed a number of villagers.

But after pursuing the rebels into Congo, Ugandan troops were accused of plundering minerals especially gold.

Question lies, what is the relationship, if any, between ADF/AFD and M23?

Other entities and acronyms involved with conflict: 

• FACA/faca; basically, the army of the CAR while François Bozizé was in power.  Central African Armed Forces, ostensibly taking the acronym from the French term, Forces armées centrafricaines.

• Sandu: South African National Defence Union

• SANDF: " " Force 

• Malawi

• Angola 

• United Nations

•  MONUSCO 

• Uganda 

• AFD/ADF: Allied Democratic Force

• FOMUC

All of this and many other occurrences forming a multi-dimensional construct in the region, also in the round-out of the conflict in region, is the involvement of France, whereon/whereat, concurrently the French President was on a recent trip to China, which has been receiving much limelight these days for wealth in some aspects of its economy, and he was discussing exports, evidently resulting in an agreement of China to purchase 60 airbuses, large airplanes, which at a level of basic understanding, airbuses are manufactured by Airbus the organization.

"His focus: energy and aerospace.", says EuroNews, at http://www.euronews.com/2013/04/25/france-china-president-hollande-visits-beijing/

Questions and answer session for framework, not frequently asked on popular broad-based everyday headlines, FAQ:

• What did Bozize do, to result in the rebut and rebellion from Seleka?
• This might be a part of the answer, which then leads to questions concerning the U.N. and South Africa military forces being on the same page, the consistency: "ADDIS ABABA, Dec 7, 2006 (AFP) - The strife-torn Central African Republic's regular army treats civilians brutally and violates human rights with impunity, according to a report for the African Union's security council." <http://reliefweb.int/report/central-african-republic/african-union-probes-anti-civilian-violence-car-army>  The article further states, and might have to do with answering some portions of the question concerning France, "President Francois Bozize's government has gained the upper hand over rebels in the past month, but only with military help from France and troops already deployed in the CAR by other central African nations."   

   The article also says, "the government soldiers also had support from FOMUC, a Gabonese-led force already deployed by the Central African Economic and Monetary Community to back Bozize's cash-strapped government after years of instability and army mutinies."

   The question was put before the answer was answered here; obviously Bozize is one person, not the entire government, that was, and everyone considered to be in it.

• What is it M23 rebels are rebelling in DRC?
• basic level answer, the DRC government 

• Is FACA still an army that is recognized post Bozize overthrow?
• Answer left open.  There has been a more complex set of turbulence regarding FACA than on a prima facie of one-side versus the other historically.

• MINURCA, has what to do with this currently?
• Not really, the acronym stands for Unite Nations Mission to the Central African Republic, and lasted from 1998 to 2000, according to the official presentation.

• What is the involvement in France in the region? 
• Part of the answer is having to do with the Cameroonians, see blog post http://headlineroundup.blogspot.com/2013/04/violence-on-2-continents-south-america.html

• Clarification on what FOMUC is? For example, is it a military force, or a financial entity?
• FOMUC evidently stands for Multinational Force in Central Africa, which is comprised of forces from CEMAC countries, CEMAC an acronym for the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa, locale forming the first two letters.

Related information:
Of interest to reader might be, in that it relates to both Brazil, The DRC, and the UN, is Brazilian General Santos Cruz is evidently involved in the peacekeeping mission leadership which is to take place in the DRC.

BBC says, troops from Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, and South Africa to comprise the gamut of one or some of the U.N. cluster of the MONUSCO mission.

Post originally written 4/19/2013

Authorities have pointed to 2 brothers as main suspects of the Boston Marathon bombs that went off earlier this week.  Some Internet sites are saying they the suspects are from Chechnya.  Ramifications of the geopolitical circumstance that interact with recent turbulence about Chechnya result in complexities which are more than a simple cut-and-dried two point scenario of good guys on one side and bad guys on the other.

Many questions are asked as soon as Chechnya is brought into the picture.

Some of the questions that might be on the list:

Training for bomb building-- have the 2 suspects even been to Chechnya, as in a direct trip for the purpose of directly receiving instruction on how to fight and build bombs, let alone long enough, or involved enough with fighting persons, to learn how to build bombs from them?  Probably not; a person can spend 19 years to learn how to build a bomb, which is about how old one of the suspects is.

[On an overall level, they might have been to Chechnya, and some Internet sources say they are from there, which it can be deduced they might have actually physically been there for some time windows].

If Chechnya is not recognized as an independent country according to some systems, then there are other countries or lands involved that might be recognized to the system that does not recognize Chechnya, by logic rule among other rules; therewith, who else might be involved?

Are there dimensions of superficiality involved?  Is this incident going to be used to springboard start-up to start downgrading and attacking Chechnya?

   Even though there is resentment existent in the U.S. toward the native places where many terrorist suspects are from, it is always more successful to maintain a truthful, sincere, way of going about achieving justice, that does not waiver from the accurate, real facts, involved, and does not rashly mix contexts.  Bluntly put, you don't want to mix contexts despite your anger to blow off steam.  What is being talked about here are the contexts of events involving violence that have been blamed on Chechen rebels over the past 15 years thereabout.  There is a horrendous history of Chechen people being the victims of unspeakable crimes against humanity.  Much of the real context that Chechen rebels were in, when they were initially fighting for freedom, was that the entity they were fighting against was communist.  And communism was something the U.S. was fighting.  It is only relatively recently, communism has been overturned in the region.  Some events involving Chechen rebels might indeed have taken place after the change, however, the momentum and struggle of the Chechens and Chechnya goes back much further.  So, listing a few events that Chechen rebels engaged in, and overlapping them with every international event involving anyone remotely of Chechen descent, if the presentment of the events is not done properly, and with the refined precision like all acts of violence should be dealt with, then a mess can be made that slows down the process of combating acts of terror.