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Afghanistan
U.S. Soldier Wounded in Afghanistan
Shots were fired at a U.S. helicopter in Afghanistan, wounding a crewman in the foot, the military said Saturday. The helicopter returned fire, killing one enemy fighter and wounding another.
"Har har! We got one, Mahmoud!"
"Nice shootin', Ahmed!... Ow!"
"Ow!"

The wounded American was taken to the U.S. base in Kandahar and was in stable condition after Friday night's shooting, said Col. Roger King, a U.S. military spokesman in Afghanistan. He did not identify the crewman but said it was not the helicopter pilot or co-pilot. The special operations helicopter, a twin-rotor MH-47 Chinook, was hit by small-arms fire northwest of Kandahar, King said. The aircraft was damaged lightly but able to return to Kandahar. The helicopter crew saw the two suspected enemy fighters and fired back, but did not try to retrieve the dead man's body, King said. King would not detail the helicopter's mission.
It didn't involve stopping to pick up trash, though...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/05/2002 08:48 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Congratulations to Col. Roger King on his rapid promotion. I expect him to make Brigadier in your next positng.
Posted by: Richard A. Heddleson || 10/05/2002 15:42 Comments || Top||


U.S. sez Zawahiri's not that dead... Dammit.
U.S. military officials yesterday sought to discredit reports that Ayman al-Zawahiri, a top aide of bin Laden, had been killed. Russia's Itar-Tass news agency cited unnamed sources as saying that al-Zawahiri was killed in a special operation carried out by unidentified individuals in Afghanistan. It did not give any date. "As far as I know, this is a rumor and nothing more," U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Roger King told Agence France-Presse. In Washington, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said, "We have nothing to substantiate this information."
That's too bad. Maybe next month...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/05/2002 10:09 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Axis of Evil
U.S. gives NKor a good talking to...
A U.S. envoy expressed Washington's concern about North Korea's missile and weapons programs and human rights record during what he described Saturday as "frank" security talks in North Korea.
I speak enough Diplomatese to know that when you have "frank" talks, you start a lot of your sentences with "Godammit!" and sometimes say "You're full of it!"
Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly arrived back in South Korea after holding the United States' first high-level talks with North Korean officials in two years.
Before you hold high-level talks, you've gotta hold low-level talks. This involves sending several guys who make coffee in your office, or who deliver the hard copies of the morning briefing but aren't allowed to read them, over to talk to the guys who make tea and deliver the drafts of the day's speeches. If they don't gouge each other's eyes out, you can send a sergeant to talk to their sergeant, both of them bringing a lieutenant along so he can get some experience. If no shots are fired, you can find either a senior officer to send or a senior civil service guy. Finally they reach the stage where the Political Appointees can talk face to face and call each other names. This will either result in an agreement, maybe with book rights for the politicals, or it will destroy the house of cards the previous teams have constructed and everyone will have to start all over again from scratch.
Kelly went to Pyongyang on Thursday to determine whether North Korea was willing to address American concern over the communist state's weapons programs, conventional force deployment and human rights issues. "I expressed our serious concerns about these matters and raised the implications of North Korean conduct for regional and global peace and stability and for the North's relations with the United States and also its neighbors and for its own future," Kelly said in a statement.
Since the NKors' have a long border with Lalaland, and have been heavily influence culturally by the La-La people, their definitions of seemingly basic concepts tend to differ wildly from ours. This will be a long process, and they might very well collapse before there's any sort of agreement. If that happens, the politicals involved will have a higher position the next time his/her/its party is in power, whether they had anything to do with it or not.
The talks in Pyongyang "were frank as befits the seriousness of our differences and they were useful too," he said. But "there were no decisions on additional meetings at this time," Kelly added.
"You people are crazy! I'm going home!"
"Well, fine, then! Go and be damned!"
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/05/2002 08:48 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Qaeda planner was in Baghdad...
A "top 20" al Qaeda planner was in Baghdad several months ago, giving further credence to the Bush administration's assertion of linkage between Saddam Hussein's regime and Osama bin Laden's terrorist organization. U.S. intelligence agencies have verified reports that Abu Musab Zarqawi met with people in Baghdad in the summer after fleeing Afghanistan when the United States began strikes to dislodge the ruling Taliban and kill al Qaeda members. A U.S. official said intelligence agencies are trying to learn more about Zarqawi's visit to Iraq and with whom he met. He is believed to still be in the Middle East, possibly in Syria. "We know he was in Iraq for a period of time several months ago," the official said. "Zarqawi plans terrorist operations. He is in al Qaeda's top 20."
Zarqawi is the head of al-Tawhid, which appears to be al-Qaeda's tentacle in the Paleostinian camps in Lebanon. He used to run an al-Qaeda camp near Herat and he's linked to Abu Qatada...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/05/2002 10:06 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I wonder when Iraq started those 25,000$ suicide bomber payments?
Posted by: PJ || 10/05/2002 12:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe that Iraqi-Palestinian "link" to the Oklahoma City bombing might be proven. Read the story on David Shippers in October's Chicago Mag.
Posted by: Annie || 10/05/2002 20:40 Comments || Top||


Caucasus
Gelaev's banditti move close to Dagestan border...
Two groups of militants from Ruslan Gelayev's bandit formation have moved close to the Dagestani section of the Russian-Georgian border, the deputy chief of the Combined Federal Forces in the North Caucasus, Col. Boris Podoprigora, told Interfax on Saturday. The banditti militants are staying near the Kerigo-Ukerigo mountain crossing, Podoprigora noted. The groups comprise up to 100 fighters, he said.
Those bastards just keep swarming, don't they?
However, "units of the Combined Federal Forces and the Federal Border Guard Service have reliably blocked this direction," he said. In Chechnya, camps and caches of weapons that might have been prepared for Gelayev's militants were eliminated, he said.
Really? And how'd they do that?
A former member of Basayev's bandit formation revealed the location of a place of storage containing 30,000 cartridges and uniforms. The cache was situated near the village of Alleroy in the Nozhai-Yurt district.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/05/2002 05:53 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hey, Putin! If you have oil, then you have napalm. Bombs away.
Posted by: Allah the Dog Faced God || 10/05/2002 22:41 Comments || Top||


Europe
Terror suspects arrested near Rome
Italian police have arrested three Egyptians suspected of planning attacks on the US War Cemetery in Anzio, Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport and fast food outlets. Explosive material and maps highlighting the Nettuno American Cemetery and Memorial were found in the flat of one of the three detained, a police official told Italian radio. "We have seized some TNT and a gun, this is the only factual evidence," said Captain Florimondo Forleo.
The cemetary at Anzio? I've rethought my opposition to stoning...
The Egyptians, aged 30 to 45, were arrested on Friday but have not been formally charged. Police said they had been living in Italy and had legal working papers. One of the suspects was reportedly intercepted while on board a fishing boat. The others were arrested in a flat in Anzio, which is 52 kilometres (35 miles) down the coast from Rome. Italian media quoted the men as denying the allegations, one saying they had used the explosives for fishing.
And the gun was for hunting elk...
At least two of the suspects were fishermen. Mr Forleo did not rule out the possibility that the three suspects had intended to use the explosives to catch fish.
Except that they didn't catch 'em because of the dynamite, they found the dynamite after they caught 'em...
He also revealed that the arrests were made as part of a monitoring operation against foreigners.
Oh, horrors! Not... profiling? Say it ain't so!
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/05/2002 08:48 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Fifth Column
Anti-Navy Protest Earns Anger, Picketing
People living in Coronado [San Diego] held a loud demonstration in front of a woman's home Friday, protesting what they call a lack of respect for the U.S. Navy.
She'll be squalling about her freedom of speech. But...
Tamara Norman has defaced her own car with words critical of the Navy and parked the car where everyone entering the island can see it. Norman lives along the road that carries commuters from the Coronado Bridge to North Island, and for years she has been a vocal opponent of the noise from the cars going by.
San Diego... San Diego... Doesn't the Navy do something there?... Bet the cars were going by before she got there, unless she's six years older than God...
Norman has taken now taken her protest a step further, by spray-painting insults against the Navy and Adm. Jose Bettencourt on her Isuzu Trooper. "Not Navy port whore! Go rape your mother," a sign in the SUV's windshield declares.
It's sad when they get so old and decrepit they can't make a living as a hooker in a port town...
Her actions resulted in having eggs being thrown at the car.
Tossing eggs and rotten fruit used to be an integral part of political discourse in this country. 'Course, so did tar and feathers...
"If she wants to put up a sign that says 'I hate the Navy,' that's fine. If she wants to put up a sign that says, 'I hate the traffic,' that's OK. But when she calls the military, my friends, my family whores and rapers, I get mad," Gray said. Demonstrators said they plan to picket in front of the home every day, until the insults are removed.
"I'll defend to the death your right to say and damned stupid thing you want. I'll also defend to the death my right to call you a hemorrhoid and occasionally to apply topical fruit poutrices."
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/05/2002 08:48 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I've lived here in San diego all my life, and this is just about the DUMBEST thing I've seen. The afternoon talkradio shows are broadcasting her address, name, etc... do the words "fringe extremist" mean anything to her? "Not Navy port whore! Go rape your mother"??? What the f*&k is that supposed to mean? translation: I'm an Idiot?
Posted by: Frank G || 10/05/2002 9:41 Comments || Top||

#2  The only way I can translate that is that some jerks have maybe been yelling "suggestions" out their windows?
Posted by: Kathy K || 10/05/2002 10:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Call in an airstrike.
Posted by: Raj || 10/05/2002 18:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Just one air strike? I think we should be thorough and make a stopoff at Berkeley too...then again, I've always advocated an airstrike against Berkeley. Just to be thorough...
Posted by: Brian || 10/05/2002 20:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Next, she's going to Pendleton, to attack the Marines.
Posted by: Allah the Dog Faced God || 10/05/2002 22:43 Comments || Top||


Home Front
Confirmed: DC Shooting Linked to Several of Md. Incidents
Investigators say the bullets used in three of the five fatal shootings in Montgomery County and one in Washington DC were all fired from the same weapon. An agent from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and firearms says tests of the shell fragments yielded the match. Investigators are still analyzing fragments from two other fatal shootings in Montgomery County that police believe are linked to the others. They say the same weapon was used to shoot a cab driver at an Aspen Hill Mobil station, a woman at a Kensington Shell station, another woman in front of a post office in Silver Spring, and a 72-year-old man walking on Georgia Avenue, just inside the District line.
So it's the same cowardly bastard who did them all. We guessed that. A nut? Or a Paleostinian?
Police are still awaiting test results from a non-fatal shooting today in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
But that one sounds more like a Kopy Kat Killer Kiddy...

FOLLOWUP:

FoxNews reports a fisherman has found a body, killed by a single gunshot, in Howard County, just north of Monkey County... Related? Who knows?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/05/2002 08:58 pm || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Sami sez Talibs are gonna make a comeback...
Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) leaders Maulana Samiul Haq and Qazi Hussain Ahmad have claimed that the Taliban will re-emerge soon, saying that the fate of the United States in Afghanistan will not be different from that of the former Soviet Union.
And when the Talibs make their comeback, these are the guys they're gonna tell first...
The ongoing war against terror is actually a war against the Muslim world and the Muslims from Afghanistan to Iraq and Palestine have been targeted, the MMA leaders said in an interview with Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Societe Radio Canada correspondent Patrick Brown here. Mr Haq said everybody and even the Americans had recognized that the Taliban had restored tranquillity in war-ravaged Afghanistan and after their removal, chaos, lawlessness, looting and the rule of warlords had surfaced again.
Not quite true... Afghanistan was chock full of swaggering tough guys before the U.S. arrived. Arbitrary rule, public whippings, executions, mutilations, and the occasional massacre were the mark of Islam. Meanwhile, as the warlord population decreases, the ranks of the Talibs grow by fits and starts...
He predicted that the Afghans would gradually turn against the US and their allies, and when the people revolted, it would be a turning point that might pave the way for the re-emergence of the Taliban.
Or not. More likely, the Afghans will settle on something else, even if they want nothing to do with the Merkins. The Talibs turned out to be pretty hollow, except to Pashtuns...
Holding the US responsible for the destruction of Afghanistan, he lamented that marriage parties and civilians had been targeted and jailed, while bearded men had been labelled as terrorists.
"I mean, just fire in the Merkins' direction, and they get all bent out of shape...!"
The coalition against terrorism was a well-planned conspiracy of the US and its allies against the Muslims, the MMA leader said, adding that they wanted to attack Iraq. Later, they might turn their guns towards Iran and Saudi Arabia, he added.
Sounds like a pretty good idea...
Replying to a question, he said, "I do not know where Osama and Mullah Omar are staying, how they dodged the FBI and coalition forces and I am not in a position to say anything about their fate and whereabouts. Since long, we have not been in touch."
"They keep to themselves, out there in the guest house..."
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/05/2002 08:18 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Taleban has re-emerged. It is called the MMA.
Posted by: Anonymous || 10/05/2002 22:48 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
FPI Attacks Nightspots, Police Crash
About 500 members of the radical Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) attacked nightspots in Jakarta’s Chinatown in the early hours of Friday on the occasion of a public holiday commemorating the Prophet Muhammad’s ascension to heaven. Armed with sticks and stones, the militants attacked a pool hall in West Jakarta at 12.30am, detikcom online news agency reported. The mob smashed television sets, lights, air conditioners, pool tables and cues.
Put on their turbans and smashed everything in sight, eh? What piety...
The radicals then moved on to the Eksotik Discotheque Raya at 1.15am. One neighborhood official was reportedly injured while attempting to stop the white-robed thugs from vandalizing five cars parked outside the disco.
Yeah, people usually aren't armed when they go to a disco...
Unreliable (drunk) sources said the FPI had also approached Jakarta’s main backpacker street, Jalan Jaksa, during the night but decided against staging any raids there.
Guys hanging around there were too tough-looking, I guess...
Detikcom reported that 10 Mobile Brigade police were injured during the night in Chinatown when responding to a report on the FPI attacks. Their vehicle crashed into a car which had suddenly stopped. All 10 officers were hospitalized.
So it wasn't the tough Islamist guys who beat them up...
FPI has regularly attacked entertainment venues deemed un-Islamic, especially during Muslim holidays and the fasting month of Ramadhan, which this year commences on November 7. Analysts say the group’s actions are motivated more by the lure of protection money than any desire to uphold religious ideals.
How Islamic!
Police did not arrest any of the FPI members involved in Friday’s attacks.
That way they can have more next week...
Observers say authorities are afraid to take on the organization as it was allegedly formed and funded by wealthy generals close to ex-president Suharto.
And wotta surprise that is.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/05/2002 09:04 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oops! I seem to remember what happened to Indonesia's Chinese minority, circa 1965.
Posted by: Allah the Dog Faced God || 10/05/2002 22:45 Comments || Top||


Islamists want whorehouses to close during Ramadan...
The East Java chapters of Indonesia's two biggest Muslim organizations – Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and Muhammadiyah – have voiced support for calls to close “immoral” entertainment centers and brothels during the upcoming Islamic fasting month of Ramadhan.
"Yasss... We must have piety during the Holy Month, even among those who aren't Muslims. If not, we should kill them."
East Java’s capital city Surabaya is home to Indonesia’s biggest brothel complex, the infamous Dolly prostitution center. The city has many other red-light areas, where prostitutes charge anywhere from Rp40,000 to Rp300,000 ($4.40 to $33) for an hour.
Now you know where to go to get a hot time and a social disease cheap...
During Ramadhan, which this year runs from November 7 to December 7, devout Muslims are theoretically required to completely abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and having sex from dawn until sunset.
And if they have to, everybody else has to, too...
NU executive Abdus Salam Nawawi and Muhammadiyah executive Nadjib Hamid on Friday told state news agency Antara that all immoral entertainment venues should in principle be permanently closed, not only during Ramadhan. Nawawi said the whole community’s support is required if vice dens are to be shut down.
Why would guys who go to whorehouses support shutting down whorehouses? Doesn't seem to make any sense to me...
He expressed concern that some Muslims might get the wrong idea that sinful dens of iniquity are morally sound for 11 months of the year if they are only required to close during Ramadhan.
"Duh. I are a Muslim. Whorehouses must be morally acceptable if they're publicly open. If I have to hunt for one, then it's okay. I'd rather have to hunt for one..."
Hamid said sleazy entertainment venues are partly to blame for increasing moral decay in urban areas of East Java. He said moral decline cannot be resolved through temporary measures, but should instead be overcome through comprehensive conceptual actions.
He means like Islam, 24/7, for everybody, like it or not...
“That’s why these immoral entertainment centers should be closed for ever and ever," he asserted.
If you don't like 'em, why do you go? If somebody else likes 'em, what gives you the right to say he can't go? Who put you in charge?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/05/2002 09:18 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Indonesia: The Plots Sicken
There was at least one plot by Islamic extremists to assassinate President Megawati Sukarnoputri, according to Sri Lankan scholar Rohan Gunaratna who is regarded as one of the world’s most foremost experts on Al-Qaeda and terrorism. Singapore’s The Straits Times on Friday quoted Gunaratna as saying a Muslim radical from the island state helped finance a plot to kill Megawati in 1999 when she was running for the presidency. He said the Singapore financier, Al-Bukhari, was among three operatives who were to carry out the assassination.
Al-Bukhari sounds suspiciously like a nom de guerre...
Gunaratna’s information is apparently based on confessions made by Al-Qaeda operative Omar al-Faruq, who was arrested in West Java in June and is now being held by the US. He said Al-Bukhari, whose whereabouts are currently unknown, was to have financed the operation, while a Malaysian national Yasin was to obtain the arms, and al-Faruq, who developed the plan, was to be the “triggerman”. The plot failed because Yasin could not procure the right weapons, said Gunaratna.
Sometimes the only thing that saves us good guys is the ineptitude of the Bad Guys...
According to a report in Time magazine last month, al-Faruq said a second attempt to assassinate Megawati was made in 2000, when a Malaysian member of the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) network was to detonate a bomb at a public meeting of her Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P). This alleged assassination plan also failed because the bomb exploded prematurely at a Jakarta mall, blowing off the operative’s leg.
I shouldn't laugh, but I love it when that happens.
Gunaratna provided The Straits Times with new allegations against JI leaders Abu Bakar Bashir and Riduan Isamuddin, alias Hambali.
They keep coming back to these same guys, and the Indonesians keep digging in their heels deeper and deeper, determined not to do anything about them...
He said a Saudi sheikh named Abdullah al-Emarati once provided Bashir with about $70,000 to $75,000 to buy arms and explosives to support Muslims fighting Christians in Ambon, Maluku province.
Purely an act of piety, of course...
Bashir’s assistant Aris Munandar was then assigned to buy explosives from corrupt officials of the Indonesian Defense Forces (TNI), he said.
Is there any other kind?
The explosives were purchased and loaded onto ships bound for Ambon. Gunaratna said al-Faruq’s confessions reveal that Bashir kept in touch with senior Al-Qaeda leaders through his son, an Al-Qaeda fighter. “The information clearly shows that the JI is a transnational network and that Bashir is not only involved spiritually but also operationally,” he was quoted as saying.
Wonder how young Bashir, Jr. is doing? If he's still alive, he should probably be moved up the "wanted" list a few notches...
He said Hambali remains the key Al-Qaeda point man in Southeast Asia, as he was behind the Christmas Eve bombings that left 18 people dead in Indonesia in 2000, as well as a plan to bomb the American and Israeli embassies in Singapore in December 2001. “Hambali remains active and the threat from his network is still alive,” said Gunaratna.
Yet the Indons expend no effort to track him down and arrest him. I wonder what that is? May it's because...
The ongoing claims that Al-Qaeda was behind church bombings and other terrorist acts in Indonesia have been met with considerable skepticism.
"Nope. Nope. Couldn't be them. It was... ummm... somebody else."
Analysts say just about all radical Islamic groups in Indonesia can be linked to elements of the military, which have a greater interest than Al-Qaeda in provoking and sustaining conflict in various provinces.
Same applies to Pakistan's jihadi groups being tied to ISI. That still doesn't leave out al-Qaeda. Matter of fact, it made the al-Qaeda link tighter...
Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported that police in Central Sulawesi province arrested two men early Thursday for allegedly trying to smuggle thousands of rounds of ammunition, made by an Army company, to the strife-torn regency of Poso, where more than 1,000 people have been killed in religious violence since 1999. Central Sulawesi Police chief Brigadier General Zainal Abidin-Ishak said the two men were arrested upon arrival at Pantoloan Port in Palu from Jakarta. He said all of the ammunition was manufactured by the Army’s munitions production company PT Pindad. Abidin-Ishak said the suspects confessed to buying the ammunition in Jakarta's Chinatown and that it was destined for friends in the region.
"Yeah. We were gonna use it when we go hunting... uh... elk."
He said one of the men had earlier served a year in jail for involvement in an attack in the area.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/05/2002 09:51 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Originally read the "Al-Bukhari" as "Al-Bukake"...I realized my mistake shortly after scrubbing my brain out with steel wool.
Posted by: Tripartite || 10/05/2002 17:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Does the Kyodo news agency of Japan indicate that the attempt to smuggle ammunition to Poso was on behlf of the christian terrorist group, the Yon Gab, who are responsible for most of the deaths from terrorism in that part of Indonesia?
Posted by: Anonymous || 10/15/2002 17:05 Comments || Top||


The Alliance
Envoy: Canada Not for Iraq Change
Unlike the United States, Canada doesn't believe Saddam Hussein must be removed from power, Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham said Friday. "Canada's not in any way naive about Saddam Hussein," Graham told a news conference, but said changing the Iraqi regime is outside of the competence of the United Nations. But short of a world government, countries cannot accept "that if we don't like someone or we have problems with them, that it's legitimate to have a regime changed," he said.
Actually, that's why countries used to fight wars. The UN was established to give countries a different way of interacting than warfare. If changing regimes in an inimical state isn't something the UN can do, then there's no reason to have it. Along the same lines, allies are nations who make common cause to achieve an objective. If the cause is no longer common, then they're no longer allies, are they? So, piss off, eh?
The solution, Graham said, is for Saddam to give total access to inspectors who would destroy any weapons of mass destruction Iraq has.
Good idea. We suggested that, in 1992, I think it was? Matter of fact, his response was "Good idea. Stop hitting me, please?" Then he ignored the agreement. So what are you gonna do now, Mr Hotshot Foreign Affairs Minister?
Canada's defense ministry said Wednesday that no decision has been made on whether Canada would take part in any military action against Saddam but the armed forces would contribute if ordered to.
Come if you want to, stay home if you want to. It doesn't seem very important, so we'd probably just as soon you stayed home.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/05/2002 08:49 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:



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  Khost breathes a little easier with no Zadran...
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  Indonesia says US allows it to question al-Qaeda suspect
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  IDF pulls back from Yasser's house
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  Another attempt to assassinate Karzai foiled
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  Deif still kicking...
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  Commandos kill gunmen in Hindu temple after 30 die in raid
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  Blair Releases "Proof" For War On Iraq
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