Airline checkers simply oozing efficiency. And does anybody give a fart until the next plane goes down?... And the ugliest kind of old-fashioned corruption in DeKalb County. Two sides of the same coin.
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Authorities in Kabul said they had discovered a plot by al Qaeda and Taliban members to kill international peacekeepers with car bombs. Six cars in Kabul were rigged with booby-traps to be detonated near peacekeeper security patrols, said a spokesman for the international security force. The vehicles were placed under surveillance, Flight Lt. Tony Marshall, a spokesman for the security force, told reporters in Kabul on Monday. But no arrests have been made. It's like waiting for the other shoe to drop. They'll be getting desperate about now to "inform the world" they're still in business. They've probably been desperate for the past couple months.
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The Christian Science Monitor today reported that Afghan military officials working with U.S. forces in the border town of Khost claimed bin Laden and Ayman Al Zawahiri, had both been seen in the area over the past eight days. Either them or relatives of the tall fellow who was rocketed a month or so ago.
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"Our neighbors are also terrified of the United States, and they want to make trouble for America," warns "Hajji Mullah Sahib." "Now they are sending us money, guns and men." On this score, he's right. Iran has been sending supplies and munitions to disgruntled Afghan commanders who are not being paid by the new government. In Kandahar, the Taliban's spiritual center, a government commander says disaffected elements of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency have been covertly assisting al-Qaeda and Taliban fugitives with logistics, escape and safe havens.
The anti-American forces, by various accounts, are also finding support from a coalition of disparate groups within Afghanistan. These include the Iranian-backed Hezb-i-Islami movement, which before the Taliban came to power was one of the most dangerous factions among the Afghan mujahedin, and Ittehad-i-Islami, which has a few thousand underfunded troops in southern Afghanistan. These groups once opposed the Taliban, but Afghan intelligence sources confirm that the old disputes have been sidelined in the face of a common enemy: America and its Afghan allies. Astad Abdul Halim, Ittehad-i-Islami's Kandahar commander, blasts the province's U.S.-backed governor, Gul Agha Sherzai. "If Sherzai continues the bad acts he is doing now," he says, "there will be a time very soon when we will attack." Confirms a bunch we already knew. Gul Agha's in kind of a tough position, since nobody seems to like him, including us and probably including his Mom. Ittehad-e-Islami is the Saudi-funded Wahhabi party headed by the shifty Rasool Sayyaf. Hezb-i-Islami is Hekmatyar's party, which is out only for the interests of Hekmatyar. It's not like either of them turned against the USA any time recently.
A great map that explains this current no man's land of Pushtunistan is: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/afghan_paki_border_rel88.jpg.
Essentially, the US and Karzai can't win this civil war without Pakistan having sovereignity over its Pushtun areas. That simply isn't the case now. Posted by Tom Roberts 3/26/2002 6:49:07 PM
They can if they ignore the border the same way the Bad Guys are. (See my suggestion above) In fact, if they don't come around to ignoring the border, they'll still end up losing the war, because it's a war against Pakistan. We just didn't realize it when we started it. Posted by Fred 3/26/2002 11:25:06 PM
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U.S. troops have found traces of anthrax at suspected al-Qaida biological weapons sites, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said, although he added the samples are so small they don't prove the terrorist network could use the deadly germ as a weapon. Some of the samples also tested positive for ricin, a potent poison made from castor beans, Gen. Richard Myers said Monday at a Pentagon news briefing. From what I've heard, mostly from the terriblevision, the "samples" could be wild anthrax. The insidious deadly poison is more believable.
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Afghan Minister of Frontiers Amanullah Zadran and a senior intelligence official said the Afghan government has evidence that the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence agency and fundamentalist Pakistani clerics - both of whom have historical ties with the Taliban - have given haven to Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters who fled US military offensives in eastern Afghanistan. Not the first time these charges have been made. Anything new? Any details?
Pakistan has consistently denied funding the Taliban, both at the height of the fundamentalist regime, when the links between Pakistan's intelligence services and the Taliban were well documented and widely accepted, and in the aftermath of Sept. 11, when Pakistan President Musharraf swiftly sided with the United States against his former allies in Kabul. Well, the Afghans have got a really good point there. If they deny doing it when we know absolutely they were doing it, why should we believe them when they deny doing it now?
"The Pakistanis are not any longer sending their own troops [to help the Taliban], because they are under pressure from the US," Zadran said. Instead, he said, Pakistani intelligence agents who remain sympathetic to the Taliban are helping Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar "to destabilize Afghanistan. These people have offices in Pakistan." They've got a big support group going in the Pak-Afghan Defense Council. That's Maulana Samiul Haq's job. The money's funneled through Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal and raised through its compenent organizations of raving religious fanatics.
Zadran said the Afghan government is "100 percent sure" that Osama bin Laden, the suspected terrorist mastermind, fled the Tora Bora onslaught last December into the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan and Pak-occupied Kashmir, and that Pakistani officials have done little to try to track him down - allegations the Pakistanis deny. Mullah Omar is hiding in southwestern Afghanistan, according to Afghan intelligence reports, Zadran said. Can't recall any reports of house-to-house searches in NWFP by the Paks. The impression we've gotten has been that the Paks are afraid to go in there for fear of being beaten up by raving Pashtuns. Either that, or they have much more important things to do, like washing their turbans or talking seriously about getting ready to hold a meeting to come up with a commission to formulate a plan to catch the guys slaughtering Shiites and Christians and reporters.
The frontiers minister, who is responsible for maintaining security along the porous 1,500-mile border with Pakistan, insisted that there are no forces from Al Al-Qaeda left in the Shah-e-Kot valley after a US campaign to roust them from mountain caves, because "every one of these people - including Arabs from Dubai, Qatar, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi - have either been killed or withdrawn to Pakistan." Apparently taking their dead with them, like the Viet Cong used to do.
He said the Al-Qaeda forces are active in the semiautonomous and loosely policed tribal areas of northwest Pakistan, and warned that "after 30 days, some Al Al-Qaeda members may pop up somewhere else.... Al Al-Qaeda is not 100 percent eliminated and they could still destroy the democratic system in Afghanistan or the world." "Hey, I've got an idea. Let's pretend we're Cambodia and Afghanistan's Vietnam. We can cross the border and kick thehell out of somebody, then go back across and they won't be able to come after us."
Zadran said that because of the proximity to Pakistan of Khost, the lawless Afghan border city that was the site of the most recent attack on a US special forces base by suspected Al-Qaeda members last week, "those Al-Qaeda can spend two hours in Pakistan, one hour in Khost." Both foreigners and Afghans, he said, "are being paid to fight in Afghanistan, though they live in Pakistan." Commuting mercenaries, with the little woman packing a lunch for them as they leave to spend the day on jihad and then make it home in the evening for dinner.
Zadran said his border guards intercepted a convoy of six trucks several weeks ago that were carrying medicines and essential supplies to Al-Qaeda forces from Peshawar, Pakistan, to Sarana, in the bordering province of Paktia - proof, he asserted, that some elements in Pakistan are helping the enemy forces. Yep. That's pretty hard proof. Now do something with it. Lemme know if you need a plan.
Musharraf has taken public steps since Sept 11 to crack down on Islamic extremists and to shut down the cells of his intelligence agencies that previously aided the Taliban. But sources in the Pakistani armed forces acknowledge that some elements of the ISI remain sympathetic to the Taliban and believe that the government that replaced it is the least friendly to Islamabad in years - and they are quietly mobilizing to undermine it. Because of its volatile relationship with India to the east, Pakistan has long believed it needs an unquestioned ally to the west. Of course it's the least friendly government to Pakistan in years. Pakland and its proxies raped the country and turned it into an international pariah. The way to win its friendship is not to offer aid and shelter to its enemies, domestic and foreign. But Pakland doesn't seem to have any idea of how to be a friendly neighboring government.
The senior Afghan intelligence officer said his agency has evidence that "Taliban and Al Al-Qaeda have left Paktia and are preparing themselves in remote areas of Pakistan" for a comeback. Ten days ago, he said, 100 Al-Qaeda troops crossed from Pakistan into Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan, to accompany senior Taliban commander Jalahuddin Haqqani through mountain ranges about 500 kilometers northeast to Chamkani, a town in Paktia province hard on the border with Pakistan's Northwest Frontier province. Haqqani's the Big Cheese commander of the Bad Guys since Binny's either dead or admitted that he's better qualified to move money and make home videos. If Chamkani's going to be the new TaliCenter, we'll have to take it out. Too bad for the Chamkani civilians. Guess they'll have some real reason for being anti-American, those of them that aren't dead.
"All the funding came from Pakistani fundamentalists who are funneling money to Al Al-Qaeda since their bank accounts have not been frozen," unlike bin Laden's. "ISI provided security and intelligence for them so they could pass through the area safely," the senior official asserted. There's the crux of the whole matter, right there. Perv has backed off on his crackdown and is now trying to make nice with the Unholy Trio of Qazi, Sami and Fazl. Had he continued on the track he took when he was afraid India was going to nuke him, he'd on top now. Instead, possibly as a result of Haider's brother being assassinated, he backed off. Qazi thinks he has the whip hand, the terror orgs are kissing his ring, and Fazl and Sami are holding his train.
How to fight this? It won't be pretty. If they ignore the border, we have to ignore the border. If their proxies come into Afghanistan to kill people, our proxies - what the hell, they're all Pashtuns, like the Paks keep telling us - should be roaming around NWFP killing anyone who looks remotely anti-Karzai, if not everybody who's anti-American. When the Paks bitch, we scratch our collective head and look stupid - I'm a parent; I can help with that if need be. "Bands of vicious killers running around NWFP? Do tell? Don't know anything about it - not ours. If we hear anything, we'll let you know."
Iraq and Kuwait clashed at an Arab foreign ministers' meeting in Beirut on Monday, and accused each other of blocking any attempt to bridge differences between the two countries. The two sides have submitted opposing documents to this week's Arab summit, Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri told AFP on Monday. "Iraq had not planned to submit a document to the summit, which it wanted to concentrate on support for the Palestinian cause,â Sabri said. "But when Kuwait put in a document on the situation between Iraq and Kuwait, Iraq reacted by presenting its own document."
An Arab League official said the Kuwaiti paper had taken a fairly hard line, while the Iraqis had been fairly conciliatory. The official predicted that a compromise formula for the final declaration would be found which would satisfy both sides. But a Kuwaiti minister accused Baghdad of blocking conciliation attempts. "There is no serious change in the Iraqi policy towards Kuwait," Kuwait's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Al Salem Al Sabah told reporters after the meeting. âThe faces have changed, the messenger has changed, but the message remains the same,â he said in reference to Iraq's Sabri, who was appointed as foreign minister late last year.
Sheikh Mohammad said the meeting failed to agree on the wording of a statement on the Iraqi-Kuwaiti rift after the Iraqi delegation refused to pledge never to attack Kuwait again. The Kuwaiti minister said the âsituation between Iraq and Kuwaitâ was discussed in depth at the meeting, but he requested that the issue be kept off the agenda of the Arab summit because of Iraq's hard line. Guess the Kuwaitis haven't totally taken leave of their senses.
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The U.S. has not asked the Georgian leadership for permission to launch antiterrorist strikes against Iran or Iraq from Georgian territory, Shevardnadze told journalists in Tbilisi on 25 March, echoing statements earlier this month by Foreign Ministry spokesman Kakha Sikharulidze and Security Council Deputy Secretary Djemal Gakhokidze. Well, shucks. I'm disappointed.
He didn't say that Alabama asked Tblisi to reconquer its homonym in the US so that Alabama can acquire a monopoly on the Chattahochee River's water rights either! You'll be shocked when the Georgian Militia lands by Savannah and Shevardnadze is declared Governor-General in Atlanta. Posted by Tom Roberts 3/26/2002 7:04:05 PM
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Shevardnadze also told journalists on 25 March that there is currently no need to launch a full-scale operation against either Chechen fighters or putative Islamic militants in the Pankisi Gorge, Interfax reported. But "Time" in its 1 April European edition affirmed that "the U.S. government believes that on any given day between 10 and 80 international terrorists with links to Al-Qaeda are in the [Pankisi] Gorge. Most are from Saudi Arabia or Jordan, with possibly some Algerians. Washington will not say what Al-Qaeda is doing there, but stresses they are neither stragglers from Afghanistan, nor there by accident."
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Shevardnadze also again affirmed that claims that Tbilisi is preparing for a new war in Abkhazia "have no real foundation." But "Izvestiya" on 25 March quoted Abkhaz Security Council Secretary Astamur Tarba as saying, "We expect active hostilities to begin in early April." Tarba said a new infiltration of the Kodori Gorge by Georgian army units and possibly also Chechen militants could be accompanied by simultaneous strikes from the sea and over land from the west Georgian town of Zugdidi. Guess next month we'll see who's the damn' liar. My money's on Izvestiya - they've got the record for it.
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A federal judge eased restrictions on defense lawyersâ access to accused shoe bomber Richard C. Reid, but banned them from repeating the conversations, saying âwe are engaged in a war on terrorism.â The Justice Department had sought to curtail Reidâs contact with the outside for fear he would find a way to communicate with other terrorists. Chief U.S. District Judge William G. Young said that federal prosecutors did not have the authority to limit contact between Reid and his defense, but agreed with prosecutors that the sensitive nature of the case required careful handling of information. "You get access. You keep what you hear to yourself," Young told Reidâs attorneys. "We are engaged in a war on terrorism. (Prosecutors) try to restrict data that if it gets loose might affect national security." Well, we're just as convinced as hell that's gonna work, aren't we? The leaks'll start coming hot and heavy and Mr Lawyer will stand around looking innocent: "Who me? Never!"
Our Agent 86 missed eighty-sixing the plane by THAT MUCH. Posted by Mark Byron [markbyron.blogspot.com] 3/27/2002 9:19:33 AM
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A Pakistani man identified as a suspect in a plot to blow up power plants and other sites in south Florida was being held for deportation. Imran Mandhai, 19, of Hollywood, Florida, was arrested by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service about a month ago. Law enforcement officials said Mandhai conspired last March and April to acquire guns and explosives for a "jihad" (holy struggle) against the United States. "He is in our custody. He is in removal proceedings. Right now that's the only information I can confirm," Miami INS spokeswoman Patricia Mancha said.
A spokeswoman with the immigration court system, which operates separately from the INS, said the attempt to deport Mandhai was based on two allegations. One alleges is that he violated U.S. law by engaging in "espionage or sabotage" or attempts to export sensitive goods or information. The other alleges he engaged in "terrorist activity." DEPORTED? Why dump him back to Pakland to run around with a gun and bomb people in church? Stretch the bastard's neck.
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A 24-year-old man has been charged with lying to a U.S. grand jury investigating whether he and an acquaintance planned to take part in acts of terror or violence against Israel. An affidavit by an FBI agent described Mohammad Osman Idris, who lives in Annandale, Virginia, as having a strong hatred of Jews and as discussing suicide bombings against Jews as a justified alternative for Palestinians.
The grand jury also was investigating whether Idris or the acquaintance, Mohammed Hassan El-Yacoubi, were attempting to provide key support to Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Idris and El-Yacoubi, 23, who lives in Fairfax, Virginia, arrived at JFK International Airport in New York City on Dec. 13 for an El Al flight bound for Tel Aviv. When the plane arrived In Israel, they were denied entry into the country and returned to the United States. The FBI discovered that El-Yacoubi was carrying a four-page letter that appears to be a farewell letter from his younger brother, a University of Virginia student, for a suicide mission in the name of "jihad" or holy war. "The overall tone of the letter clearly implies the use of violence and/or loss of life," the agent said.
Idris was charged with lying when he testified before the grand jury in January and February. Idris denied knowing anyone who believes that suicide bombings can be justified. He also testified he had never heard any of his friends say the Sept. 11 attacks were the work of a Jewish or Zionist conspiracy. The agent said that if Idris had testified truthfully, the grand jury would have been more likely to determine that his travel to Israel was not merely as a tourist, but as someone intending to commit or provide key support for "acts of terrorism."
Idris, El-Yacoubi and the brother all received their elementary and high school education at the Islamic Saudi Academy in Alexandria, Virginia. Ken Layne gives his take on the story.
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At least 60 people were injured in Nabatieh over the weekend in running street battles between supporters of the rival Amal and Hizbullah movements. On Saturday, the eve of the Ashura holiday, army soldiers fired shots in the air to scatter members from both groups, who hurled rocks, bottles and chairs at one another. One army officer, three soldiers and two Red Cross members were injured in the clashes, which erupted after members of the two groups argued over the timing of their parades. Amal supporters claimed a slow Hizbullah parade delayed their procession for over an hour, triggering the clashes. Dozens of cars and several motorcycles were damaged in the skirmishes, which sprawled across the center of Nabatieh and raged for two hours before the army closed off the townâs main square and restored order. The windows of a number of offices and shops were broken, forcing hundreds of people to flee to nearby buildings as they sought to avoid being hit by stones. Demonstrators also prevented reporters from taking pictures and broke the camera of a Daily Star reporter. Hell, it was nothin'. Just a few stitches and some cars burned out. Wasn't even anybody killed.
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President Bush leaned on the Israelis again Monday to let Arafat attend the Beirut summit and return unhindered. The White House says the Palestinian leader must do more to stop terrorism, and the Israelis won't agree on a cease-fire unless he does. ABCNEWS talked with Arafat at his headquarters, where he insisted he has been doing all he can. Oooh. Petey Jennings! Bet that was a hard-ball interview..
"They are putting on my shoulders conditions," Arafat told ABCNEWS. "Do you accept it if you are in my place?" Sure. Guess one man's unacceptable conditions are another's reasonable requests.
"I am making a 100 percent effort," he continued. "But no one can get 100 percent results except God." Guess one man's 100% effort is another man's stubborn obstructionism.
Arafat also refused to accept the possibility that after leaving West Bank, he might not be able to return home. "Is there any law to prevent to me to come back to my homeland? This is my right," he said. Well, Jordan didn't let you come back in. Guess you could always go back to Tunisia. Or won't they let you back in, either?
With trust between the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli government at an all-time low, Arafat called for the deployment of international observers. He keeps coming back to that suggestion. But nobody wants to send troops to be Hamas targets or for Hezbollah to plant another 500-pounder to go off while they sleep.
"Tell your people the facts which is going on the ground," he told ABCNEWS. "How much our people are suffering. We are human beings. We are the only people now who are under occupation. Can you understand what's the meaning of that? Not to forget this is the real terrorism, this occupation." Nice interview, Petey. Yasser's people are suffering because the national sport is explosives. If they spent less time waving guns and screaming and exploding, the entire area might be able to do something drastic like get some (non-lethal) industries going, give the young goobers with the rags wrapped around their faces jobs, and establish a little peace and order. But Yasser hasn't a clue how that's done. Not a clue.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon raised the bar Tuesday for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafatâs proposed trip to the Arab League summit, demanding that the United States acknowledge Israelâs right to bar Arafatâs return if there are terrorist strikes during his absence. Sharonâs terms, which included a call for Arafat to personally issue a declaration calling for a halt to violence, appeared to rule out a trip to Beirut, Lebanon, by Arafat, who has been confined to the West Bank since December by Israeli troops. Seems doubtful Yasser will accept those kinda terms. Seems doubtful he'll go to the prom. Arab News yesterday said he wasn't...
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has decided not to attend a key Arab summit in Beirut after Israel set conditions for releasing him from confinement in the West Bank. If it's a choice between going to the prom and having people exploding all over the place, Yasser'll always go with the exploders. And besides, there are those new dead observers for him to crowwring his hands mourn over.
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Two Palestinians died in the outskirts of Jerusalem on Tuesday when their car exploded near a security roadblock during what police said was a thwarted bombing attack. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades said one of the men in the car was Khaled Mohammed, a member of the group, and the other was his driver, Shahdi Hamamreh. They did not discuss the circumstances of the blast. They were too embarrassed. Cheeze. I hate it when that happens to me.
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The U.S. government facilitated a ransom payment to Al Qaeda-linked terrorists in the Philippines last week for the release of an American couple but the two have not been freed, Fox News has learned. The ransom of up to $3 million was paid to Abu Sayyaf guerrillas who have been holding two American missionaries, Paul Burnham and his wife, Gracia, for the last 10 months. The ransom was paid with private, not government, money, sources said. Speaking to reporters Monday, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld would not comment on the revelation, nor would officials with the FBI or the U.S. State Department. What a dumb idea. Sometimes it may be expedient to pay a ransom, like when you expect to get the money back within an hour or two by picking it off the dead bodies of the kidnappers. But never, ever, should a government - especially our own, if only because we live here - admit to paying ransom or even greasing it. Our public stance should always be "millions for defense, not one cent for tribute." Our bargain should be "release the hostages alive and we won't kill you. Otherwise, worse for you than it was for them."
That means the US government didn't expedite the payment. No telling how many Philipine palms were greased getting the payola to the thugs. If so, this is merely business as usual. Posted by Tom Roberts 3/26/2002 7:31:24 PM
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Two observers from an international force in Hebron were shot and killed when Palestinians opened fire on their car in the West Bank, the Israeli military said. The two were the first members of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron to be killed in the West Bank. A Norwegian official in the West Bank said the men were Turkish and Swiss. A third observer was slightly wounded. The observers were driving on a bypass road used mostly by Jewish settlers when their car came under fire near Halhoul, a West Bank town north of Hebron. The observer force, made up of unarmed observers from Scandinavian and European countries, was set up under a 1997 agreement dividing Hebron into Palestinian- and Israeli-controlled zones. "With trust between the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli government at an all-time low, Arafat called for the deployment of international observers." The ones we sent you aren't all dead yet.
A police spokesman said "logistic commander" of Hizbul Mujahideen Latief Ahmad Reshi was bumped off by the Special Operations Group in Zakoora. However, a local news agency said Reshi was first arrested and later killed in a "fake encounter." Hey! "Shot while trying to escape"! What an original idea! Police claimed recovery of a pistol, a hand grenade, two rounds and a wireless set.
BSF and SOG iced another Hizbul hard boy in an encounter in Pulwama. The dear departed has been identified as Latif Ahmed of Hafshirmal Shopiran. He is survived by an AK rifle, two magazines and 12 rounds of ammunition. No viewing is scheduled.
Police recovered a bullet-riddled body of an unidentified person in Shopian area of Pulwama.
Unidentified snuffies killed SPO Khalida Parveen in Rajouri yesterday.
Unidentified gunnies bumped off Muhammad Ashraf in Doda.
Police said six suspected heroes belonging to Jaish-e-Muhammad were arrested during search operations in Varmul district. A remote control with four boosters, nine RPG boosters, three hand grenades, two remote control antenna, 710 AK rounds, a pistol with a magazine and 67 rounds, one AK magazine and some incriminating documents were recovered from the arrestees. No doubt they have a convincing explanation for the whole thing.
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The U.S. Air Force has begun preparations to move its Gulf headquarters from Saudi Arabia to Qatar to bypass Riyadh's objections to military action against Iraq, Britain's Guardian newspaper said on Wednesday. The newspaper said Qatar's al-Udeid air base had already become important to Washington for its Afghan campaign and that reports of U.S. trucks moving from Saudi Arabia to Qatar earlier in March may be related to the conflict there. But it quoted a senior executive of a Saudi contracting firm as saying that several companies had been invited to prepare bids to move computers and electronics from the Prince Sultan air base in Saudi Arabia over the border to Qatar. This would suggest a more permanent relocation, the newspaper quoted analysts as saying. From a business point of view, it makes more sense to walk away from your sunk costs once you're convinced there's no way to turn the thing around.
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Congressman Gary Condit has been subpoenaed by a D.C. grand jury investigating the disappearance of Chandra Levy. The Superior Court panel is looking into what happened to the missing 24-year-old intern, law enforcement authorities tell The Washington Post. Sources also say the grand jury also plans to call other witnesses, including Levy's friends and members of Condit's staff. Oh, fer Gawd's sake.
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Britney Spears said Monday that sheâs not âin an intense relationship with anyone,â fueling speculation that she and âN Syncâs Justin Timberlake have broken up. Earthshaking. Positively earthshaking. My heart can't take it. I shall retire to my bed. Ethel! Bring me my salts! Alberto! Bring me a compress!
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
