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Arabia
France warns citizens of Kuwait threat
The French embassy in Kuwait has advised its citizens in the Gulf state to avoid shopping malls and to move around only when necessary after clashes between suspected insurgents and security forces, sources said. The embassy contacted its wardens asking them to convey the new warning to French nationals, the sources said, adding that the advice was precautionary and not based on any specific threat. Two Kuwaiti security officers were killed and four others wounded in two gun fights with suspected insurgents on 10 and 15 January. Two suspects, including a Saudi, were also killed in the clashes. Threat The French warning followed an advisory from the US embassy on Thursday warning of the danger of more unrest, saying residential complexes for Westerners could be targeted.
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2005 00:00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Kuwait Reels as Details of Grisly Murder Surface
Are they going to wake up and do something about the society that produces this sort of thing? Or are they just going to write it off as an aberration? My guess is the latter...
The grisly slaying this week of a 13-year-old Kuwaiti girl by her father as her siblings watched has sent shockwaves across the emirate. The father, a 38-year-old government employee identified as Adnan Al-Enezi, killed his daughter, Asma, because he thought she was not a virgin. Forensic examinations later proved his suspicions false. Al-Enezi has confessed to murdering his eldest daughter for "improper" behavior. The public prosecutor was investigating the mental health of Al-Enezi before filing charges.
He's a nut, but not that kind of a nut...
The man blindfolded and handcuffed the child before committing the crime late Tuesday as she begged for her life, Al-Rai Al-Aam reported. After slashing the girl's throat a first time, the father then used a sharper blade as his daughter screamed in pain, bleeding, as her two brothers and a sister were forced to watch, the daily added.
This was his child? I used to feel bad when I spanked my kids...
According to press reports, Al-Enezi was separated from his wife two months ago. During the investigation, Al-Enezi told police that he was jailed in Saudi Arabia for 18 months for his extremist activities before he returned to Kuwait a year ago.
That probably had more to do with it than being separated from his wife.
He also said that he had established relations with militants, such as Jaber Al-Jalahema and Fouad Al-Rifae, and expressed his support for jihad.
So it was really a very wahhabi thing to do...
"The murder report was the talk of the town in Kuwait especially after people learned that forensic tests proved the girl was still a virgin and that she had not suffered any sexual assault," Al-Arabiya channel reported.
What if she hadn't been a virgin? Would she have still deserved to be slaughtered like a sheep?
"I was shocked when I saw documents presented by the girl's uncle showing that she had won an award for the memorization of Qur'an and excellence in studies," said Osama Al-Manawer, an attorney who described the murder as appalling. The girl's mother had also won a best mother prize for bringing up her children, including the slain girl, in the right manner and in accordance with Islamic teachings. "What frightens me most is the mere knowledge that the killer of this good girl was her own father," the lawyer said.
Just think of him as maybe a little more devout than most...
Kuwait's Al-Qabas Arabic daily reported the man committed the crime while he was mentally sound. "He has been answering queries of investigators without expressing any regret. He was found eating food greedily during the investigation," the daily reported, quoting security sources. The man had taken leave from a government department to complete his higher studies in Jordan, one report said.
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2005 00:00:00 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But I want to win Best Mother prize, too.

On second thought, never mind. It looks like a lot of work, helping all the kidlings memorize the Qur'an and behave in the right manner and all.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/29/2005 0:35 Comments || Top||

#2 
The man had taken leave from a government department to complete his higher studies in Jordan
Now we know what he was studying....
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 01/29/2005 0:58 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm sure one of his holy man buddies is pouring through the Koran looking for the "do-over" even as we speak...
Posted by: tu3031 || 01/29/2005 1:33 Comments || Top||

#4  This cult is an illness.
What more proof is needed?
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 01/29/2005 5:11 Comments || Top||

#5  ..and the whiners in America and Euro are still whining...The world hates us and its George Bush's fault and those Christians extremists!!
Posted by: Guilty || 01/29/2005 16:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Did you realise that they ACTUALLY tested the girls virginity ?

How the eff is that relevent ?

Sick sick sick society and religion.
Posted by: sanwin || 01/29/2005 21:59 Comments || Top||

#7  Well in the Religion of Peace all would be forgiven if she had not had her virginity intract. Women are after all just breeding stock and property in the religion of allen.
Posted by: SPOD || 01/29/2005 22:39 Comments || Top||

#8  Please stop calling it the Religion of Peace.
"Islam" translates closest as "submission", not "peace".
Posted by: Tom || 01/29/2005 22:48 Comments || Top||

#9  I posted the first articles about this, hoping some CAIR/Arab League/Pseudo Islamic Org would jump to condemn this behavior - to date NONE HAVE. I'm so F*&king sick of this death cult demanding "understanding" that I might just make the next press relese - EXCEPT for the fact I have children to properly raise. I feel like doing a Dean yell! Aggghhhh
Posted by: Frank G || 01/29/2005 22:50 Comments || Top||


Down Under
Fighting at Iraqi poll booths
FIGHTING broke out yesterday at Sydney polling booths where expatriate Iraqis cast their votes for today's historic election in the strife-torn country. Police cordoned-off Queen St, Auburn, after a violent scuffle broke out between supporters of terrorist leader Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi and advocates of democracy. Minutes later, a rucksack found abandoned outside the polling station sparked a bomb scare.
Hopefully the coppers are busy rounding up the Zarqawi scum even as we speak blog...
Police evacuated the polling station, the Auburn Hotel next door and the Turkish Weekly News opposite, closing the street until they confirmed the bag was harmless. A polling centre security spokesman, who asked not to be named, said: "These protestors were supporters of Al-Zarqawi and Al-Qaeda and they did not support the American invasion of Iraq. They were trying to stop people from voting and they were pulling down posters and shouting slogans.
If you shout slogans you don't have to think up any statements that make sense...
"When the punches started flying I immediately called 000. Then we had the bomb scare. With the Iraqi ambassador here we couldn't take any chances." The spokesman said at least two people received minor injuries. Police made no arrests.
Offer them donuts. Sometimes that works.
In Fairfield, where another polling station was set up, voting went more smoothly. Unfazed by the choice of 7800 candidates from 111 parties and coalitions, most were just happy to vote. Iraq Out Of Country voting co-ordinator at Fairfield, Bronwyn Curran, said 3128 voters cast their ballots on Friday, with another 3000 cast yesterday. "People have been weeping, people have been kissing the polling booth staff - there has just been a general feeling of jubilation."
Until the hard boyz showed up...
Seguan Abubakir has lived in Fairfield for two years after moving here from northern Iraq with his parents and three siblings. "I feel hope now for all Iraqi people to live together as equals. The (former) Iraqi regime killed too many people," he said. There are 11,860 Australian Iraqis registered to vote in the election, voting finishes today.
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Commie and Wahabi Scum Attempt to Intimidate Iraqi Voters in Australia
Hat Tip: Tim Blair. Photographic evidence of Commies at the link.
A Sydney polling booth for Iraqis voting in their country's historic election was shut down for an hour today after a punch-up involving protesters and a subsequent bomb scare. Organiser of Australia's overseas voting program, Bernie Hogan, said the fight erupted when a group of around 20 protesters started yelling at voters leaving the Auburn centre. "They were on one side of the road protesting against the election while voters were coming out proudly with ink on their hands," Mr Hogan said. "The next thing I knew there's 50 people and a bit of push and shove and punching in the middle of road." The incident was cleared quickly but a bomb scare followed when a backpack was found abandoned nearby. The polling centre was closed and police cordoned off the area while the contents of the bag were examined. "It ended up being water and biscuits ... but we had to be cautious."

The protesters had been granted a permit to stage their anti-election action for two hours. Mr Hogan said they were holding the same black flag with white lettering that has appeared as a backdrop in videos released by Iraqi insurgents featuring foreign hostages begging for their lives. International Organisation for Migration Iraqi adviser Thair Wali said the protesters' flag and Arabic slogans identified them as Wahabis, or followers of an austere brand of Sunni Islam practised mostly in Saudi Arabia. Mr Wali said the fight was sparked by protesters taking photographs of voters leaving the station. "This is scary for the people, taking photos of the voting" he said. Many of Australia's estimated 80,000 Iraqis declined to register for the election, fearing that their votes would make relatives in Iraq terrorist targets. By late afternoon today, organisers said around 5000 of Australia's 12,000 registered Iraqis had turned up at the polls. The polling station would remain open for an extra hour to compensate for the closure.
Posted by: Bulldog || 01/29/2005 7:45:43 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: WoT
Abu Ghraib accused in plea bargain
A US army reservist accused of abusing Iraqi prisoners has agreed to plead guilty to reduced charges as part of a deal with military prosecutors, his attorney says. Sergeant Javal Davis, formerly of Roselle, New Jersey, had faced up to 8 1/2 years in prison and a dishonourable discharge on three charges connected with the maltreatment of detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. "There is a pretrial agreement," said attorney Paul Bergrin on Thursday. Under the deal, he will be charged with simple assault and rendering false official statements, Bergrin said. He declined to comment on what penalties Davis now faced. Davis, 26, was scheduled to face a court martial in Fort Hood, Texas, next Tuesday. He faced charges including maltreating detainees, dereliction of duty and assaulting prisoners by stomping on the toes and fingers of Iraqi inmates.
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2005 00:00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


CIA's 'Ghost Prisoners' Evoke Rights Concerns
Now, keep in mind who these "ghost" prisoners are...
The official wall of silence surrounding the Central Intelligence Agency's so-called "ghost prisoners" who are being held at secret locations has sparked legal concerns here among human rights groups that denounce the practice as abusive. It is not publicly known exactly how many ghost detainees the CIA is holding, who they are or where they are held, but senior Al-Qaeda figures are known to be among their ranks, including Ramzi Bin Al-Shibah and Ron Jeremy Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Bin Al-Shibah is one of the presumed coordinators behind the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, while Khalid Sheikh was Al-Qaeda's third highest ranking member prior to his arrest.
And the warm milk set is worried about their "human rights."
"Ghost prisoners have had their identities and locations withheld from relatives, the International Red Cross and even (the US) Congress," according to US human rights lawyers at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR). Although the US spy agency does not disclose where it is holding its ghost detainees, several locations have been leaked to the US media: Bagram air base in Afghanistan, the remote island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, and in a restricted zone at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Or the bottom of the Marianas Trench...
The ghost prisoners at Guantanamo are not kept in the same area as the hundreds of war on terror detainees held there by Washington whose detentions are a matter of public record. "The Bush administration has not wanted to prosecute them (the ghost detainees) because it wanted to interrogate them, and frankly to be able to torture them, or 'coercively interrogate them,' as they say," Kenneth Roth, a director of New York-based Human Rights Watch, said.
If they need some help, I'm available. But I imagine there's a lot more giggle juice involved than being stretched on the rack...
The anal sedatives will kick in real soon now.
"Unless we can get access to information about who these people are and where they are being held, they will remain completely vulnerable to abuse and even torture," said Rachel Meeropol, a CCR lawyer.
Sounds real good to me...
"Vulnerabilty" is not a trait I typically ascribe to al-Q bigs...
The CCR delivered an official request to the US government in December, based upon a US freedom of information law, seeking the identities of the CIA prisoners, which also sought where they were being held and under what conditions. "We have not received any document yet," Meeropol said of the request. However, she said the Justice Department had sent CCR a response indicating that its request would be evaluated on an urgent basis. Despite this, the rights' lawyer is not holding her breath.
That's too bad...
"I think this is a case that we will likely have to litigate... to really get access to these documents."
But naturally. Coincidentally, she'll get her name in the papers and feel a sense of self-worth for a brief period.
According to Meeropol, the cases of "ghost prisoners" are particularly hard to crack. "It is really hard. If you don't know who the people are that are being held, and you don't know how to get in touch with their family members, how to get authorization to represent them, that insulates the government actions from the (legal) review," Meeropol said. "That is part of the problem with the secrecy" cloaking the CIA detentions, she said. However, she said the CCR's information request was a first step, and that it may well be followed up by a lawsuit.
Which Constitutional rights does KSM have, exactly?
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2005 00:00:00 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Barkeep, a round of menstrual blood for all me terroris ghost buddies. Set 'em up, will ya.
Posted by: Duke Nukem || 01/29/2005 0:23 Comments || Top||

#2  I am quite certain I don't really want to know, but tell me anyway, please: what are these anal sedatives you keep mentioning?
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/29/2005 0:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Here's an idea. Kill them and turn them into for real "ghosts".
Posted by: tu3031 || 01/29/2005 0:46 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm witchoo, tu.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 01/29/2005 0:51 Comments || Top||

#5  Interrogation and a kick off at FL250.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 01/29/2005 0:52 Comments || Top||

#6  They should board a plane and be consequently released.

(What is the usual cruising altitude? 35,000ft?)
Posted by: Sobiesky || 01/29/2005 1:02 Comments || Top||

#7  TW -
Ask and ye shall recieve (not literally, of course):

http://rantburg.com/poparticle.asp?HC=Main&D=2004-12-30&ID=52513

BTW, whatever you do, DON'T Google the words "anal sedative".
At least not before breakfast.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 01/29/2005 10:38 Comments || Top||

#8  Emily: please? No more "Giggle juice" and "anal sedatives" in adjacent comments? Makes me queasy thinking about the girlish giggling "I can't feel my asshole, tee hee"
Posted by: Frank G || 01/29/2005 10:47 Comments || Top||

#9  Sobiesky---That is what I said, Flight Level 25000 feet. These guys are scum. We should never have let ANYONE near the Gitmo Guyz.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 01/29/2005 13:19 Comments || Top||

#10  KSM would make a nice mohair carpet.
Posted by: Duke Nukem || 01/29/2005 14:50 Comments || Top||

#11  I remember that thread now. Thanks, Mike K.! I thought that perhaps they were some kind of special sedative for the anus (ick). I've no trouble with this -- in Germany that's how they give Tylenol to small children. It doesn't irritate their little stomachs and make them vomit the meds back up, you see.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/29/2005 15:55 Comments || Top||

#12  If the CIA is holding top Al Qaeda guys responsible for 911, torturing them and not telling anyone where they are, that does raise a serious human rights concern, namely: when do us ordinary folks get our chance at the bastards? I'm sure the CIA guys are doing a very professional job of it, but I suspect the widows and widowers from 911 could come up with some small way of increasing KSM's discomfort, possibly involving a blowtorch.

So, we should all write our Congressional representatives and ask them to pass the "Equal Rights to Torture Islamist Scumbags Act of 2005." Maybe the ACLU would help.
Posted by: Matt || 01/29/2005 16:14 Comments || Top||

#13  The guy obviously needs an Extreme Makeover. Drop him on Hollywood.
Posted by: Tom || 01/29/2005 16:18 Comments || Top||

#14  I think it's time to open a new front in the war on terrorism. We need to declare war on all the bleeding heart liberals, moonbats, nutjobs, idiots and traitorous scum that feel that the enemies of the United States and of freedom deserve more rights than anyone else. I propose they be treated just as the islamonutcases treat their enemies - car bombs (remote-controlled instead of suicide), beheadings, knifings, and the really wonderful cutting off of the left hand (after seriously pounding the right hand into hamburger - without anesthetic) of anyone caught aiding and abeting the enemies of freedom and truth. We have a nation full of them, but they do tend to clump together into colonies, so that makes it easier. If nothing else, it's sure to start a real estate boom.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 01/29/2005 16:43 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Hizbullah Uses Western Nationals For Espionage
Israel has determined that Hizbullah has recruited Western nationals for espionage and insurgency operations against the Jewish state. Officials said Hizbullah has recruited nationals from several Western European countries. They cited Britain, Denmark and Germany. On Jan. 6, Israeli authorities arrested a Danish national charged with spying for Hizbullah. Authorities obtained a gag order that was lifted on Jan. 26. The Dane was identified as Iyad Khaled Mohammad Al Ashuah&ID=54975" target=_blank> Iyad Khaled Mohammad Al Ashuah, 38. A government statement said Al Ashuah arrived in Israel on Dec. 29, 2004 on what was termed a "significant" mission.
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2005 00:00:00 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Al Ashuah, a good Danish name.
Posted by: JAB || 01/29/2005 0:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Of course Hezbollah has western spies and agents. Some of the more prominent cells are called BBC, Reuters, the Independent, ISM, Human Rights Watch, etc.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 01/29/2005 0:58 Comments || Top||

#3  I note the increasingly common intentional obfuscation between ethnic "Dane" and national "Danish citizen" identity. "American" is one of the few singularly non-ethnic identifiers around, so you can have fun at the expense of those Americans who hyphenate, such as African-American (Were you born, or have you ever been to Africa?); and you can also have fun at the expense of those individuals who, for example, claim to be "Danes" (Oh, don't you mean "Somali-Danish"?)
Posted by: Anonymoose || 01/29/2005 10:12 Comments || Top||

#4  And the stupid Danes protect the terrorists. What will the Danes do when their Muslims threaten the Danish public, like the Dutch Muslims threaten the Dutch public? Will they join the Dutch, leave home and emigrate to germany?
Posted by: Glereper Craviter7929 || 01/29/2005 13:02 Comments || Top||


Iraq-Jordan
Jordan On High Alert: Royals Evacuates Amman
Jordan on high alert, king, royal family, court exit Amman, following word of planned major al Qaeda strike in kingdom on Iraq's election-day Sunday by group called "Returnees from Fallujah."
Royal vehicles disguised with ordinary number plates, extra security at government offices and hotels. Group led by al Zarqawi aide Mohammed Shalabi believed hiding out between S. Jordanian Karak and Saudi frontier. Northern Saudi Arabia on alert too after intelligence reports Fallujah terror group near military town of Tabuk.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 01/29/2005 10:14:03 PM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Chickens coming home to roost?

Ain't that just too bad.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 01/29/2005 23:01 Comments || Top||

#2  debka salting while prudent moving...
Posted by: Frank G || 01/29/2005 23:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Hummm -- wondering, knowing that they couldn't get pass Iraqi and American troops, as they taking their campaign of violence to other countries? That could really backfire!
Posted by: Sherry || 01/29/2005 23:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Returnees from Fallujah? So much for the Lions of Islam chasing the infidel Crusaders from Iraq with their tails between their legs.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/29/2005 23:19 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine
AP: Hamas Victory Rally Erupts into Shootout
A political rally by the militant Palestinian group Hamas turned violent Saturday, as supporters of the rival Fatah faction opened fire, sparking a melee that left more than 25 people wounded, a Palestinian official said.
Color me surprised.
The incident in the Maghazi refugee camp administered by the UN in central Gaza was the first instance of violence between rival Palestinian factions since the election of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in early January. The shooting occurred at an outdoor rally staged by Hamas to celebrate a wedding its victory in municipal elections in Gaza earlier in the week. Hamas' strong showing dealt a setback to Abbas' dominant Fatah faction. The Palestinian official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the Hamas supporters chanted victory slogans, angering Fatah supporters in the area.
Thin skinned. Wait till they find out democracy means having to listen to Barbara Boxer and Teddy Kennedy without taking a shot.
One of the Fatah supporters opened fire, seriously wounding one Hamas supporters and causing shrapnel wounds to four others, the official said. Some 25 other people were hurt by knives, clubs and beatings in the ensuing melee, the official said. No further details were immediately available.
He could say no more.
While rival Palestinian factions have sporadically fought one another, such instances of fighting are rare,
surely you jest!
with the various groups all saying they are committed to ending Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis || 01/29/2005 5:50:41 PM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ... and so it begins...
Posted by: Dishman || 01/29/2005 18:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Lord of the Flies ...in arabic
Posted by: Frank G || 01/29/2005 18:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Baal-Zebub--other names: Sin, Al Illah, Frank.
Posted by: Sobiesky || 01/29/2005 18:10 Comments || Top||

#4  ;-)~
Posted by: Frank G || 01/29/2005 18:18 Comments || Top||


Iraq-Jordan
Fake Car Bombing In Iraq?
From the weblog Obsidian Order, some interesting comments on a car bombing being reported from Iraq. I'm not going to try to repost the pictures here; the last time I tried to post images, it didn't work.

...Analysis:

What do you see? A car on fire, apparently not close to anything flammable. We are told this is in front of a school, but we do not see the school. The fire looks like petrol, probably in cans in the back of the vehicle, set off with an incendiary WP shell (White Phosphorus - the white smoke and sparks). There are people running, but they are not leaning at the angle of people who're running in a hurry. There are some people standing around in the background at what would be danger-close distance for shrapnel even from a single 152mm HE shell. You can see a second photographer in one of the pictures. The stories are inconsistent: one says "flames engulf a car following a nearby car bomb blast in another vehicle", another says "a car just as it explodes".

The key and blindingly obvious point: there are at least three photojournalists from different outfits there exactly at the time it goes off! This is not a lucky coincidence. The pictures are clearly taken less than a minute after the original explosion and less than a minute apart. Also: all of the photographers are stringers, not regular staff photographers.

Interpretation: One, this was staged, the particulars of the bomb ensure it will be ineffective and safe from the distance from which it was photographed, but visually spectacular. The people running are most likely also staged. Two, the reporters were invited to see it. Three, they knew it was staged.

My only question: who are these photographers - Ali Jasim, Ali Al-Saadi and Khalid Mohammed - really working for?
Posted by: Phil Fraering || 01/29/2005 5:36:47 PM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Anybody seen Dan Rather?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 01/29/2005 17:41 Comments || Top||

#2  he's staking out the Baghdad Kinkos
Posted by: Frank G || 01/29/2005 17:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Somebody's been watching Jerry Bruckheimer movies.
Posted by: ed || 01/29/2005 20:00 Comments || Top||


Breaking: 3 captured in US Embassy Rocket Attack
Breaking - the US tracked via helicopter/ground the 3 after the rocket was launched and arrested them in So. Baghdad...hopefully they fell down ... a lot
BAGHDAD, Iraq — At least two people were killed and four wounded in an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad Saturday evening. All casualties were Americans.

One civilian and one Navy sailor, both assigned to the embassy, were killed in the rocket attack, a military official said, on condition of anonymity.

Of the four injured Americans, two were military, one was a civilian and the fourth was as yet undetermined, the military official said.

A rocket landed outside the southern edge of the palace that houses embassy employees a little past 7 p.m. The embassy is approximately 350 yards from the nearest border of the heavily fortified Green Zone (search). The area is protected by concrete barriers and a 10-foot-high fence, which means the attack may have been the result of indirect fire.

Posted by: Frank G || 01/29/2005 2:21:42 PM || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What do they mean by inderect fire?
Posted by: TMH || 01/29/2005 14:27 Comments || Top||

#2  I think it may have been an erant or very lucky hit. Not aimed where it hit.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 01/29/2005 14:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Shooting up at a high angle and hoping the rocket comes down in a place that damages the enemy. Used when you can't get a good visual read on exactly where he is.
Posted by: Elmoluling Snesing5118 || 01/29/2005 14:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Thanks #2 and #3!
Posted by: TMH || 01/29/2005 14:33 Comments || Top||

#5  now it is 5 suspects according to Fox.
Posted by: legolas || 01/29/2005 15:14 Comments || Top||

#6  TMH

Indirect fire is the standard procedure for modern artillery. The gun is behind a hill or obstacle and its crew doesn't see the target. It is an observer linked to the battery by a radio or phone who directs the fire. "Two hundred yards short. One hundred yards long. On target. Fire for effect". At this point the entire battery opens fire with real ammo and obliterates the target.
Posted by: JFM || 01/29/2005 15:25 Comments || Top||

#7  Seven now...
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2005 15:58 Comments || Top||

#8  Are they the guys? If so, dispense justice as expeditiously as possible and string 'em up. Publicly.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama || 01/29/2005 16:08 Comments || Top||

#9  My dad was an artillery spotter during World War II - a dangerous and demanding job. As for the jihadis that did this, killing them is too good for them. They need to be stretched out over a slow fire of mesquite and hemlock, rotated 45 degrees every 20 minutes, and liberally sprayed with vinegar. Record every word they say, and play it back for their mothers. Also tell her that they will buried in a special coffin made of pigskin, and lined with rendered pig fat. Tell her that we'll do the same for any more of her children we catch, and the only way to not get caught is to not do anything we disagree with. Instead of giving their families the coffins, we should ship them directly to the House of Saud in Riyadh, along with a little note requesting measurements for each member of the family. Being subtle is wasted on these idiots.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 01/29/2005 16:51 Comments || Top||


From Bombingham to Baghdad
As Iraqis prepare to cast secret ballots in Sunday's free election, terrorists work day and night to obliterate the entire project. Their political violence recalls that of white supremacists who shielded Jim Crow in the battle for civil rights. Those who block the doorway to Iraqi self-determination are nothing more than Islamo-Klansmen.

Read the Rest.
Posted by: JackAssFestival || 01/29/2005 11:54:23 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He nails it.

I'm old enough to remember our Civil Rights struggles. It wasn't pretty, but good won out, as it will in Iraq.

I'd like to think the leftist "liberals" just don't understand, but I'm afraid they do understand - with crystal clarity.

And they just don't care.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 01/29/2005 13:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Makes ya wonder if Michael Moore would have labeled the KKK "Minutemen" and "Freedom Fighters" during that time.

Posted by: Justrand || 01/29/2005 13:45 Comments || Top||

#3  No, Justrand, I don't wonder at all.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 01/29/2005 14:03 Comments || Top||


US and allies 'kill most Iraqis'
I guess that's one exit strategy...
Title as at link. The BBC seems to be going into negative-spin overdrive re. Iraq for some reason...
Coalition and Iraqi troops may be responsible for killing 60% more non-combatants in Iraq than the insurgents, the BBC has learned. The civilian death toll for the last six months is contained in confidential records obtained by Panorama. More than 2,000 civilians were killed by the authorities, while insurgent attacks accounted for 1,200 deaths. The Iraqi Ministry of Health figures are usually available only to members of Iraq's cabinet. The data covers the period 1 July 2004 to 1 January 2005, and relates to all conflict-related civilian deaths and injuries recorded by Iraqi public hospitals. The figures exclude, where known, the deaths of insurgents.
That would be useful to know. How many lives are saved with the premature death of each would-be serial killer?
The figures reveal that 3,274 Iraqi civilians were killed and 12,657 wounded in conflict-related violence during the period. Of those deaths, 60% - 2,041 civilians - were killed by the coalition and Iraqi security forces. A further 8,542 were wounded by them. Insurgent attacks claimed 1,233 lives, and wounded 4,115 people, during the same period.
How do hospitals decide which perforated corpse is 'civilian' and which is 'insurgent'? Do they have magical insight? Or do they use guesswork and/or trust the word (Lancet-style) of whoever brings them in? Are medical staff intimidated to record dead insurgents as innocent civilians? Do most insurgent casualties fall in Sunni areas where medical staff may sympathise with their cause? How many insurgent dead never find their way to hospitals, to save their families and colleagues from Government and coalition identification?
Panorama interviewed US Ambassador John Negroponte shortly before it obtained the figures. He told reporter John "Liberator of Kabul" Simpson: "My impression is that the largest amount of civilian casualties definitely is a result of these indiscriminate car bombings. "You yourself are aware of those as they occur in the Baghdad area and more frequently than not the largest number of victims of these acts of terror are innocent civilian bystanders". The coalition has yet to respond to the figures.
Panorama's film Exit Strategy, reported by BBC world affairs editor John Simpson from Baghdad, will be shown at 2215 GMT, Sunday night on BBC One.
It's unfortunate that these figures have been revealed by the BBC so close to the polling that there won't be time to seriously question their reliability or veracity before the ballots have been cast. It's also unfortunate that there's no distinction between US and 'allies'' share of the figures. All very unfortunate. But I'm sure the BBC has no intention of furthering an anti-US / anti-coalition / anti-US-sympathetic-Iraqi-politicians agenda or of being a willing mouthpiece for an Iraqi source who regards the BBC as a suitable medium for channeling such a political agenda. They have obviously had the figures long enough to make a documentary about them, and have seen fit to publicise the programme's apparent message, in good time to influence Iraqi voters, yet they won't actually show the programme, with whatever clauses and counter-arguments it may contain, until voting's finished. Which is just coincidental, I'm sure.
Posted by: Bulldog || 01/29/2005 8:29:41 AM || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We can only wonder what the true totals would be if the number of 'civilian' deaths reported by Dr. Sami al-Jumaili of the Fallujah hospital were correctly reported. No doubt many of his reported 'civilian'deaths were actually insurgents terrorists.
Posted by: GK || 01/29/2005 11:07 Comments || Top||

#2  *Yawn*

Can't these clowns ever come up with something original?

I think they intend to get their way by boring the normal people to death.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 01/29/2005 11:08 Comments || Top||

#3  The source is not reliable.
I prefer my information without a anti-US and anti-Iraq freedom bias. The BBC doesn't qualify.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 01/29/2005 11:13 Comments || Top||

#4  If memory serves me, isn't it U.S. policy to pay money to the families of innocent people killed in error by U.S. forces? This would be a big incentive to claim your dead terrorist is an innocent bystander. Not only does the guy (and 70 relatives) get to go paradise, but his family gets money from the infidels.
Posted by: Big Al || 01/29/2005 15:17 Comments || Top||

#5  Sure are glad the Brits are an ally! Hate to see the slant if they were against us. No offense toward most Brits BD, just can't stand the BBC and their 'in-depth' reporting.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge || 01/29/2005 15:37 Comments || Top||

#6  If the BBC openly admitted they are against us, their attacks and sabotage would be less effective. It's one reason they publicly chant the "objectivity" mantra.
Posted by: Elmoluling Snesing5118 || 01/29/2005 15:44 Comments || Top||

#7  One of my daughter's former boyfriends is now in Iraq. He emails me about twice a month. He says their biggest headaches come from reporters. Most Army troops have been quietly warned that anything they tell the reporters will be twisted against them. Ernie Pyle was loved by the GIs. Now all the "war correspondents" want to do is to break the next My Lai. The average grunt distrusts them on sight.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 01/29/2005 16:58 Comments || Top||

#8  The average grunt distrusts them on sight.

I am not sure what I would do with them on sight, if I were there, but distrust would be the least of their concerns.
Posted by: Sobiesky || 01/29/2005 17:12 Comments || Top||

#9  Coalition and Iraqi troops may be responsible for killing 60% more non-combatants in Iraq than the insurgents, the BBC has learned.

Contrary to what the BBC says, I seriously doubt they have "learned" anything at all.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama || 01/29/2005 17:34 Comments || Top||

#10  The BBC is apologizing now...

They lied.
Posted by: DANEgerus || 01/29/2005 23:28 Comments || Top||

#11  To think that we spent hours glued to the radio in the 40s to secretly listen to the BBC German Service, when anyone who overheard the famous bumbumbumbum could betray you and send you to the camps.

What a fall.
Posted by: True German Ally || 01/29/2005 23:37 Comments || Top||

#12  That's occurred to me as well. I often wonder if the only reason Hollywood and the BBC supported the Allies was because we were fighting on the same side as their beloved Uncle Joe.
Posted by: Dave D. || 01/29/2005 23:41 Comments || Top||


Bomb Plotters Arrested in Basra
British troops have arrested several Iraqis suspected of plotting a bombing campaign ahead of Sunday's election. The operation on Friday involved Iraqi special forces and 200 Scots Guards in raids on four houses in Basra. The alleged large-scale bomb campaign was thought to have been aimed at polling stations and coalition troops based in the southern city. The UK troops came under fire as they raided one house, about 150 yards from a polling station. There were no casualties. The raids took place during the night curfew imposed by the interim Iraqi government in the run up to the elections. Two units from the new Iraqi army's elite tactical support unit led the raid, supported by two companies of the Scots Guards in Land Rovers.
Posted by: Bulldog || 01/29/2005 7:23:17 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oops. Should be a Page One-er
Posted by: Bulldog || 01/29/2005 7:31 Comments || Top||

#2  it's important to remember that this means people were not killed on their way to the polls! Good work!
Posted by: 2b || 01/29/2005 8:58 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan/South Asia
Suicide bomber Irfan's head given to father
"For me? Oh, you shouldn't have!"
"No, really. You shouldn't have."
Young suicide bomber Irfan's head has been handed over to his father for burial. Irfan had blown himself up by Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz's vehicle in Fateh Jang in October last year.
I can see why they gave it to him. It was really getting ripe after four months in the fridge...
Muhammad Mukhtar, Irfan's father, had made a request to an anti-terrorism court for possession of the head after identifying his son by his blown up head. Mukhtar was overcome with emotion when he received the head. It will be brought to Lahore under special security arrangements and will be buried in the Miyani graveyard.
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2005 00:00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ewwwww!*shudder*
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/29/2005 0:24 Comments || Top||

#2  The first word that pops into my mind here is "ventriloquism"...
Posted by: tu3031 || 01/29/2005 0:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Was it on a platter?
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 01/29/2005 0:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Mukhtar was overcome with emotion when he received the head.

Is that what they call it nowadays? I'm losing touch. Last time I was overcome with emotion was after eating a dodgy BK Whopper in Camden Town.
Posted by: Bulldog || 01/29/2005 5:59 Comments || Top||

#5  LOL Bd!
Posted by: Shipman || 01/29/2005 6:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Such mememtos shouldn't be refrigerated. They should be filled with bacon grease as a preservative.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 01/29/2005 10:03 Comments || Top||

#7  Was it next to Ted Williams' head in the freezer?
Posted by: Raj || 01/29/2005 12:34 Comments || Top||

#8  Did they gift-wrap it?
Posted by: Glereper Craviter7929 || 01/29/2005 12:57 Comments || Top||

#9  I would think a judicious application of lipstick would be sufficient.
Posted by: Pappy || 01/29/2005 13:11 Comments || Top||

#10  Gives a new meaning to getinng head.

Bill ]:0)
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 01/29/2005 13:31 Comments || Top||

#11  excuse me - getting
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 01/29/2005 13:32 Comments || Top||

#12  Hell.....a little head never hurt anyone.
Posted by: Dudley Doright || 01/29/2005 22:55 Comments || Top||

#13  is that ALL you think of? How inappropriate, considering...
Posted by: Little Nell || 01/29/2005 23:15 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine
Hamas wins Gaza elections
Hamas has won Gaza municipal elections as a Palestinian minister warns if Israeli occupation continues, then violence in the region will soon return. Speaking on Friday Ghassan al-Khatib, Palestinian Labour Minister, told Aljazeera: "We have to remember that violence is a result of the conflict, but not a reason for it. If the Israeli occupation continues, the violent conflict will then return."

Al-Khatib made his comments as Palestinian security forces widened their control in the Gaza Strip on Friday under orders from President Mahmud Abbas to prevent attacks on Israelis in another important move towards reviving peace talks. But in a sign of challenges ahead for Abbas, Hamas won seats in seven of the 10 councils in the first-ever municipal elections held in the Gaza Strip; including seats in the three largest councils: Bait Hanun, Dair al-Balah and Bani Sayla, Laila el-Haddad, Aljazeera's Gaza correspondent, reported. Hamas won 76 out of the 118 seats, a step that could be seen as a test of strength between the resistance group and the new leader.
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2005 00:00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Condom anyone?
Posted by: Duke Nukem || 01/29/2005 0:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Quelle surprise.

ROP, my ass.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 01/29/2005 0:53 Comments || Top||


Palestinians Develop Car Bombs
Wonder if this is what they want to do with their industrial park?
Palestinian insurgents have been developing components for the production of car bombs. Israeli military sources said the components were developed and produced by Palestinian insurgency groups in the northern West Bank. The sources said the components were meant to enhance car and other bombs for attacks in Israel. Fatah was said to have led the effort to develop car bombs in the West Bank. The sources said Hizbullah provided the funding and expertise for the production of the car bombs.
And who knows car bombs better than Hezbollah?
Hizbullah was said to have provided 80 percent of the funding for insurgency cells in the northern West Bank. A senior Fatah operative, identified as Majdi Mohammed Merai, was said to have been responsible for the production of car doors meant to explode when opened. The sources said Merai, killed in a November 2004 military operation in Nablus, manufactured the booby-trapped car doors in August 2004. They said the doors were meant to have been used in an attack in Tel Aviv.
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2005 00:00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm thinking "work accidents". Lots of them.
Posted by: tu3031 || 01/29/2005 0:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Let us hope Palestine becomes an country founded by Common Grounds Of Peaceful Diplomacy ! That is , instead of Car Bombs , they'll , make cars to export without resorting to violence ! We'll gladly drive an Fatah , Jihad , anytime ! Cars , That is , folks !!! C'mon , General Motors ! Help Them , TOO, Prosperity !
Posted by: Elmoting Granter5138 || 01/29/2005 5:19 Comments || Top||

#3  That is one industry in which no one can compete with muslims.
Posted by: Glereper Craviter7929 || 01/29/2005 13:03 Comments || Top||

#4  That is one industry in which no one can compete with muslims.
Posted by: Glereper Craviter7929 || 01/29/2005 13:03 Comments || Top||

#5  And Hezb'Allah is funded by Iran, IIRC.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 01/29/2005 13:24 Comments || Top||


Iraq-Jordan
Iraqi Exiles Go to the Polls
Thousands of exiles started voting yesterday in 14 countries across the globe in historic Iraqi elections. At home, insurgents kept up their campaign to intimidate people ahead of tomorrow's vote, killing eight Iraqis and five American soldiers in bomb and mortar attacks. The interim Iraqi government claimed capturing two more aides to Abu Mussab Al-Zarqawi. In countries ranging from Australia to the United States, via the Middle East and Europe, voters turned out to elect the 275-member Transitional National Assembly, two days ahead of the poll in Iraq. In Jordan, 60-year-old Lamia Jamal was the first Iraqi of the 20,000-plus registered there to make her choice on how to fill the vacuum left by Saddam Hussein, removed by US-led troops 22 months ago. "She was very proud, very happy and wanted to be the first so she could tell her grandchildren," said Astrid Meister, a spokeswoman for the International Organization of Migration (IOM), organizing the expatriate vote. "So far so good," was the verdict of Jean Philippe Chauzy, an IOM spokesman at its Geneva headquarters, who predicted a good turnout among the relatively small numbers who had signed up to vote.

"Of the 280,000 people who bothered to go in person to register to vote, we believe that the participation over the three days... will be high," he said. The figure of 280,000 is only around a quarter of those eligible to take part, and far below estimates made at the start of the nine-day registration process on Jan. 17. The first vote was cast by Shimon Haddad, manager of a polling center in the suburb of Fairfield, Sydney. "I'm proud to vote for the election. We have been looking forward to this time (for the) last 50 years," he said. The heaviest polling was in Iran, where more than 60,000 people from the large population exiled from its neighbor to the west were registered to vote.
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2005 00:00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I don't see the quagmire party listed? You know, the one with Imam Teddy Ali Z Kennedy.
Posted by: Duke Nukem || 01/29/2005 0:29 Comments || Top||

#2  There would've been more, but the ones living in Israel were not permitted to register at their polling site in Jordan.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/29/2005 0:45 Comments || Top||

#3  That's Incredible , folks ! They've got Polling Booths in Ameica , Europe , and anywhere else in the world helping Iraq ! That is , PROGRESS ! Why didn't America accord this to Americans voting in this fashion during the American Presidential Election ?! What was it America and The World ?! Was it an Money Crunch Factor For Us , America ?! Yoo-hoo, Where was Kofi Anon And The Gang , huh ??!
Posted by: Elmoting Granter5138 || 01/29/2005 6:15 Comments || Top||

#4  That's Incredible , folks ! They've got Polling Booths in America , Europe , and anywhere else in the world helping Iraq ! That is , PROGRESS ! Why didn't America accord this to Americans voting in this fashion during the American Presidential Election ?! What was it America and The World ?! Was it an Money Crunch Factor For Us , America ?! Yoo-hoo, Where was Kofi Anon And The Gang , huh ??!
Posted by: Elmoting Granter5138 || 01/29/2005 6:23 Comments || Top||

#5  Gee EG you must be a foreigner, cause us Americans know that voting is done by states, not the federal government. You know like in the United States of America. While the states may not abridge the right to vote based upon race or gender, the remaining mechanics of who is qualified and the method of voting is up to each individual state.
Posted by: Crereper Thomble7321 || 01/29/2005 9:51 Comments || Top||

#6  Great ballot, Fred! :-D
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 01/29/2005 11:10 Comments || Top||

#7  and American ex-pats are allowed to vote, EG. If you were American and awake, you'd know that
Posted by: Frank G || 01/29/2005 11:18 Comments || Top||

#8  "Democrats Abroad" did an incredible job of flushing out every ex-pat who might vote for Kerry this year...
Posted by: Seafarious || 01/29/2005 17:16 Comments || Top||

#9  heh. Any chance of getting a profile shot of Ted Kennedy in the picture of his brethren at the bottom right?
Posted by: BH || 01/29/2005 21:36 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan/South Asia
Fazl Khalil resigns
Chief of the banned militant organisation Jamiatul Ansar (former Herkat-ul-Mujahideen), Maulana Fazlur Rehman Khalil, resigned from the top slot of the organisation because of government pressure and health reasons. "Khalil submitted his resignation at a meeting of the executive committee of the organisation and asked the committee to elect a new chief," sources said, adding that Maulana Badar Munir from Karachi had been elected new chief of the organisation.
Even though they're "defunct."
"The pressure from the government on the militant organisation is one of the major reasons behind Khalil's resignation," sources said. They also said that this was the first phase of the government's new policy to exert pressure on militant organisations in order to dethrone their popular leaders. "Eight months in detention by security agencies took its toll on his health, leaving him unable to run the organisation capably," sources said.
My heart bleeds... No. Wait. That's the chili.
They said Khalil had been detained in a seven by seven foot cell along with another militant.
"He was a very large, very horny man with a turban, named Big Mahmoud. They let Khalil go after Big Mahmoud died of exhaustion."
During the eight months, he was detained in Islamabad, Lahore and Rawalpindi, they added. "Khalil is also suffering from peptic ulcers and some massive hemorrhoids, which exacerbated during his detention. The detention also affected his memory," sources said, adding that Khalil had also lost 50 percent of his bodyweight.
"Khalil, as a result of your experiences have you suffered any memory loss?"
"Why do you ask? Who're you? Have we been introduced?"
"It's me, your Mom."
"Oh. Yeah. Hi, Mom. Say, where's the Preparation H?"
"His sight has also weakened as he was kept under powerful lights all day long," the sources said.
"He also seems to have grown hair on his palms."
They observed that security agencies had arrested Khalil on May 20, 2004 from his residence but his detention was disclosed in August after the arrest of Qari Saifullah Akhtar from Dubai. "The security agencies of the country investigated Khalil over the last eight months on allegations that he was involved in sending militants to Afghanistan," sources maintained. "The second major allegation on Khalil was that some militants involved in the suicide attempt on President General Pervez Musharraf in Rawalpindi in December 2003 belonged to his organisation," sources said.
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2005 00:00:00 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Didn't the guy in the photo have a famous hit song: The Devil Went Down To Islamabad?
Posted by: Mister Ghost || 01/29/2005 12:30 Comments || Top||



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