Washington Post has an article on what's left of al-Qaeda's leadership. Most of the names were already in Thugburg.
U.S. and European intelligence sources identified six emerging leaders as key to running the terrorist network's global military and financial networks. Some members of this group have come to the fore in recent months; others were already known to intelligence organizations. Intelligence officials view these men's emerging roles within al Qaeda as proof that the group can adapt to rapidly changing circumstances and regenerate its leadership.
The new leaders "have been there from the beginning, but were in the shadows, not the most visible people," said a European intelligence analyst. "But they have their skills, and in war you need your best commanders."
I don't think this is the "leadership" that's behind the current "counterattack," with the exception of Hambali in Indonesia, though I could be wrong. I think this bit's at the instigation of the Learned Elders of Islam directly, in defense of Iraq. A serious American attack on Iraq threatens them directly. Because of their direct hand involvement, they're leaving a trail for the Americans and, more importantly at this instance, the Russians to follow. If they can follow these leads, they can have a nice little talk with them â or at least with all of them they can catch outside of Arabia and Iran. There's probably a lot of interest in the telephone calls to those overseas controllers from the Moscow hostage-takers.
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Woops, I just emailed you that link.
It looks like most of the calls were placed to the UAE. Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Pakland weren't kidding when they recognized the Taliban as a legit government. I guess old ties die hard.
Mark Steyn â he's almost a "usual suspect" by now, isn't he? â on the Beltway killers...
It doesn't really matter whether Muhammad al-Sniper was acting on orders or simply improvising. The jihad-inciters in the Middle East are happy with either. If anything, the freelance approach suits them better: you don't need complicated and traceable communications and wire transfers; the punks on the ground will act independently just to impress you.
Snakes keep wiggling long after you cut their heads off...
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I liked his comment about "angry white men in the newsrooms". The only time those guys are angry is when their makeup runs into their eyes or they forget their frequency.
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President Saddam Hussein has received a congratulatory cable from Sudanese President Omer Hasan al-Basheer on the occasion of President Husseinâs winning of Presidency post in referendum held last Tuesday. President al-Basheer wished President Hussein, in his telegram, progress in strife to defend Iraqâs dignity and stability particularly in current circumstances in which Iraq faces oppressive threats. "Goddamn, Sam! 100 percent! Boy, those guys really love you! I'm so jealous â I don't expect to get more than 98.5 percent!"
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People still send telegrams? Or, was it 1-800-FLOWERS?
Torture, rapes and âdisappearancesâ are common in Russiaâs legal âclimate of impunity,â international human rights group Amnesty International charged in a report published Tuesday, October 29. What timing!
Drafted last June, the reportâs publication coincides with a major campaign by Amnesty to highlight the discrepancy between the human rights protection enshrined under international and Russian law and the reality of widespread abuse. The 125-page report, entitled âRussian Federation: denial of justice,â focuses on âspecific and serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law by Russian law enforcement and security forces.â They're not being gentle enough fighting a war started by vicious Islamists and banditti and financed by an external enemy...
In Russia there is a âreality of widespread human rights abuses committed by agents of the state and private individuals or groups (non-state actors) in a climate of impunity,â the report said. In Chechnya, there's a reality of widespread mindless violence by Islamists, aided and abetted by Arab and other foreign mercenaries. Maybe Amnesty would like to address that, too?
Ethnic minorities, particularly Chechens, âhave been stereotyped by Russian law enforcement officials as terrorists, drug dealers or other types of criminal,â said the report, which contained a long section on human rights violations in Chechnya. Y'know, that's the thing about stereotypes: so often they're based on empirical data. An individual isn't necessarily a participant in the stereotype, but a significant percentage of the population often is. That's how the stereotype grows, whether it's a good stereotype or a bad one...
âAmnesty International has actively researched numerous, consistent and credible reports that Russian forces (in Chechnya) have been responsible for widespread human rights violations such as âdisappearancesâ, extrajudicial executions and torture, including rape,â the report said. There've also been a number of prosecutions by the Russians of members who've engaged in that sort of activity, showing that the stereotype held by Amnesty has some basis. Last week a group of 50 crazed killers, both men and women, claiming to belong to the Islamists' 29th Division, took close to 800 people hostage in Moscow, which shows that the Russers' stereotype of the Chechens has some solid basis. My own stereotypical Amnesty International member and/or researcher is an ass who sucks up to crazed killers, dictators, and various other scumbags, which also seems to have a solid basis. Guess we're three for three, aren't we?
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I read today that a volunteer for B'Tselem (Israel's version of Amnesty Int'l) was executed by the Paleostinian Authority for suspected collaboration.
In this vein, I suggest putting a group of Amnesty International glitterati in the exercise yard at Camp X-ray and seeing how long they last when they're up close and personal with those poor, oppressed followers of the "religeon of peace"...
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I just read on the BBC website that Denmark has detained the Deputy PM of Chechnya on request of the Russians. He is thought to have been involved in the theatre hostage taking. Remember the Danes were having a conference on Chechnya at the time. Well, guess what - the Danes have detained this guy but won't expedite him to Russia since they have the death penalty. But they will fork up their share of the EU recent bribe, uh, contribution to the PA who also have the death penalty. And the EU doesn't understand why the US is "unilateralist"? We have learned a long time ago to not trust hyprocites, wusses, the UN and Mary Robinson.
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Russia stepped up its war on Chechen fighters Tuesday after President Putin ordered the military to draw up new so-called âanti-terrorâ plans in the wake of last weekâs hostage drama. If I were a Chechen right now, I'd think seriously of becoming an Ingush...
Police arrested dozens of people suspected of involvement in the three-day stand-off. They're busy making them very unhappy, right this minute...
Officials said that 41 of the Chechen hostage-takers had been shot dead during the rescue operation. Many of them were unconscious at the time from the effects of the gas, according to members of the special forces who led the assault. A member of the special forces told Kommersant newspaper that the Russians had shot dead those Chechens who had explosives strapped to their bodies even though they were already knocked-out by the gas to avoid them triggering their human bombs. Sounds like a reasonable precaution to me...
âThey shot all those who had explosives because people could still come to or have convulsions. To avoid anyone setting off the explosives we took extra measures,â the unnamed elite commando said. That's okay. The Amnesty International set will still continue to bitch and moan about it. Five years from now they'll remember how the Russers shot all those people when they were helpless from that nasty chemical warfare stuff they pumped into the theater, and they'll ignore how the bastards got there.
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Chechen independence fighters downed Tuesday a Russian helicopter near Grozny, killing 4 people, an official with the Russian forces in Chechnya said. The MI-8 helicopter was shot down by an anti-aircraft missile near the Russian forces headquarters in Chechnya. The incident occurred three days after the dramatic end of a hostage-taking carried out by Chechen commandos in a Moscow theatre. My guess is that this won't make the Russers any easier to get along with...
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Most people are smart enough to take a break from teasing the Doberman when he starts frothing..apparently that lesson doesn't apply here? I wouldn't wanna be a chechen civilian
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Is it possible that the reason the Russians are being reticent in relation to our proposal on the table at the UN in regards to Iraq is they dont want to have a precendent?
Might the Euro-weenies have a "cow" when the Russians go into Grozny and do a little stalingrad tap dance. Do I care? No not really, but Im a unilateralist.
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The Russians are being reticent because they DO want a precedent; that of a major power ignoring a UN refusal to give permission to stomp on Islamists. They will then have a precedent to support sending Russian troops into the Near Abroad. To stomp out Islamists, of course. Like all the Chechens hiding in Georgia.
Edouard! Assume the position!
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Why those sneaky little foreigners, first - they go and get a different word for every little thing so you cant understand them, then they go and ruin the UN for everybody.
Oh, If only Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton were to become Secretary General of the UN, boy THAT would straighten them out, wouldnt it!
( So, after we go and do what we need to do, and the Russians go and do what they need to do, What will Kofi Annan go and do?) Remember all those "get US out of the UN" billboards? I think its might be happening......
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Russia will soon get its own National Guard. First deputy head of the Russian Interior Ministry's Legal department, Major-General Tatyana Moskalkova, told journalists on Tuesday that the National Guard would be set up in the course of the forthcoming police reform and become a legal successor of the Interior Ministry's troops. Moskalkova reported that in connection with the need to limit inquiries and preliminary investigations at the federal level, two parallel structures were being considered: the federal police, which would combat crime and maintain public order, and federal investigative bodies. Municipal police forces will maintain public order at the municipal level, Moskalkova said. The MVD troops used to be an unofficial arm of the Communist Party. They were prison camp guards, that sort of thing. "National Guard" is open to many different interpretations, from the American model of state-based reservists to that of various South American countries, where the "National Guard" is the army.
Moskalkova reported that in connection with the need to limit inquiries and preliminary investigations at the federal level, two parallel structures were being considered: the federal police, which would combat crime and maintain public order, and federal investigative bodies. Municipal police forces will maintain public order at the municipal level, Moskalkova said. Whatever the details of the reorganization are â and I'd like to know more about them â they're probably a good indication that Putin wants to streamline things. I'd guess he wants the "federal investigative bodies" to be something more along the lines of the FBI, for whom the Russers do have quite a bit of respect.
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MVD were and are the border guards. At one time as numerous as the Red Army, though not as heavy with armor. Not sure how much of the camps they guarded. KGB also had untis for this purpose. MVD used to provide the guards at the Kremlin.
BTW, did the non-communist Russians ever close the gulags? I don't recall hearing that they did.
Hundreds of rival militiamen armed with heavy weapons fought for control of a strategic border town in southwestern Somalia on Tuesday, leaving 25 dead and 37 wounded. More than 14 armored trucks mounted with heavy machine guns entered the town of Luq, near the border with Ethiopia. At least one woman and a boy were caught in the crossfire and killed. "Yarrr! A cease-fire, is it? Bring up the heavy weapons, lads!"
Ahmed Bulleh Mohamud, the Luq district commissioner, said that the fighting started with an attack by a rival militia from Bulo Hawo, 50 miles west of Luq. He said his militia fended off the attack, killing 23 attackers and wounding 30 more. Mohamud said seven of his men were wounded in the fighting. "Yarr! Keep shootin', boys! We're mowing' 'em down like flies!... Ow! Hey, watch it! That hurts!"
A spokesman for the rival militia, the Marehan faction of the Somalia Reconciliation and Rehabilitation Commission, said only three of his group's men were killed. Ali Mohamud Ganey also denied that there was a political motivation for the attack. "Yarrr! But each of the three was kill't eight times! That makes 23 deaders!"
"Ummm... 24."
"Yarrr?"
"Sorry. My mistake. 23."
"Yarrr. Reconciled 'em and Rehabilitated 'em, by Garrr!"
Mohamud is a member of the Juba Valley Alliance, which supports the Transitional National Government in Mogadishu. The Marehan faction is backed by Ethiopia and opposes the new government. Both sides said the fighting was linked to the slaying of one of Mohamud's men on Saturday, but neither side would give details. "We don't want to talk about it. The pain's too fresh. We haven't reached closure yet... Yarrr! More heavy weapons, over there!"
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Gee, and not a single angry white male in the lot. Go figure.
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I personaly back the traditional wing of the Juba Valley Alliance, niftier rags for uniforms. The reform wing just has no imagination.
Nigeria vowed Tuesday to block Islamic courts from carrying out any executions by stoning, promising to hold the line against sentences in northern states that have provoked international protests and boycott threats. The assurance by Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dubem Onyia represents the government's sharpest statement yet on Islamic court, or Shariah, rulings condemning at least four people to stoning for adultery or rape. "Nobody will ever be stoned as a result of Shariah law. Nobody," Onyia said. "This is West Africa, after all. We're more civilized than that in these parts..."
He spoke at a news conference on Nigeria's preparations for the Miss World pageant, which faces a boycott by a growing number of contestants over the stoning sentence handed a Nigerian woman in March. You stone people, no babes. That's the deal.
An Islamic court in northern Nigeria condemned Amina Lawal, a 31-year-old single mother, for having sex outside marriage. A high court rejected Lawal's appeal in August. She has gone into hiding while awaiting a second appeal by a higher Islamic court. They keep handing down these sentences. They're just itchin' to slaughter somebody...
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The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) will provide guarantee to the world community, especially the United States, that Pakistan will fully combat terrorism in the country. This was stated by MMA nominee for the office of prime minister, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, while talking to reporters here on Sunday evening. "We will like to make our stand clear that we will never allow Pakistani soil to be used against any country," the MMA leader said. "I mean again... never again..."
He said his party and the MMA had condemned terrorist attacks in Pakistan, including the killing of French engineers in Karachi early this year. Such incidents do not serve any purpose, he said. If they had, what the hell? They were just infidels...
Maulana Fazlur Rehman said for combating international network of terrorism, the MMA would coordinate with the world community. And for ridding the world of Catholicism, the Jesuits are gonna coordinate with the Pope...
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The MMA is a terrorist organization. They wouldn't want to combat themselves.
Pakistani security on Tuesday detained the son-in-law of an anti-U.S. Afghan warlord who is the object of a manhunt, officials and relatives said. Security agents took Ghairat Baheer from his home, relatives said, but gave no reason. It was not clear if the detention was linked to the search for Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Guess he could be a Bad Guy in his own right...
U.S. officials suspect him [Hekmatyar] of regrouping with the help of fugitive Taliban fighters to carry out attacks on American forces and Afghan government officials. Pretty good grounds for suspicion, since that's what he said he was doing. (Where do they get these people?)
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"Yes, we suspect the individual in question may actually be doing what he had earlier pledged to do."
DOH!
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A Palestinian activist of the Islamic resistance group Hamas was killed Tuesday in an Israeli army raid on his home in the West Bank town of Tubas near Jenin. Israeli forces stormed into the house of 28-year-old Hassem Sawafta, setting off explosives and opening fire with automatic weapons. The Israeli occupation army also blew up the house of another Hamas activist, Ahmed Mussa, arrested in April - in Jenin itself. Another Hamas man was arrested in the village of Akrabeh, close to Tubas. IDF is just taking Yasser up on his offer to be neighborly. They're helping clean up the trash...
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Palestinian President Yasser Arafat announced Tuesday, October 29, his new cabinet to parliament ahead of a key confidence vote, introducing four newcomers. Arafat named four new ministers, including Interior Minister Hani al-Hassan, from Fatah; Health Minister, Ahmed Shibi, also from Fatah; Justice Minister, Zoheir Sourani, an independent; and a Minister for Prisoners, Hisham Abdelrazaq. The new line-up also featured Palestinian Authority party hacks distinguished politicians, including Information Minister Yasser Abed-Rabbo, International Cooperation Minister Nabil Shaath and Minister for Local Authorities Saeb Erakat. "All the other nonentities get to be in the cabinet! Why don't I?"
The new cabinet has been described as falling short of the sweeping demands for a government of younger technocrats demanded by parliament when it forced a previously reshuffled line-up to step down in September. They're younger than Yasser, but those we've heard of have been around long enough not to age well...
Fatah officials said Arafat turned up the pressure on them to back his candidates in intensive talks in recent weeks, with the Palestinian President calling a defeat for his cabinet a victory for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. "If you don't shoot yourself in the foot, the Jews will have won!"
Arafat called for "reconciliation" with Israel and renewed his condemnation of attacks on civilians. "I extend my hand in reconciliation to the Israelis to resume the peace process launched in Madrid in 1991," said Arafat, who has frequently called for a resumption of talks. Ever since being declared "irrelevant"...
He likewise called for Israel and the Palestinians to be "good neighbors." "C'mon by for barbecue, neighbor! It don't get no better'n this!"
"We want to live as neighbors. Let us find a common ground for the security we desire, which you desire, for our common security," said Arafat. When did this start? Before last April, Yasser never showed a desire to borrow the Israeli national lawn mower...
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A high-profile conference in Cairo, sponsored by a leading Saudi think-tank, saw strong criticism of the failure of Arab regimes to democratize in the face of the shockwaves from the September 11 attacks in the United States. "We are still in an era of dictatorships," complained the speaker of the Jordan's dissolved parliament, Abdel Hadi al-Majali, to loud applause. "We have not managed to separate religion from politics, that's why we have failed." Bravo. That's a statement of the obvious to us, but it's unusual to hear an Arab so it...
"Arab parliaments are only there for show," he objected, adding that the "existence of consultative councils or elections does not mean there is democracy." Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was earlier this month credited with 100 percent of the vote in a referendum on a new seven-year term, in an extreme example of the sort of poll which has given other Arab leaders like Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali more than 90 percent of the vote. Democracy can be an artificial construct, or it can be a manifestation of individual liberty. If it's artificial, then the rubes will vote the way they're told to vote, or else. If it's a manifestation of individual liberty, then opinion becomes much more closely divided, even while covering a much wider spectrum. But a part of individual liberty is religious freedom, too. Men and women have to be free to make up their minds about most everything, to include what happens to their souls — or even whether to believe they have souls. Take away that liberty to make up one's own mind and you've taken away all liberty.
And in Saudi Arabia, like much of the rest of the conservative Gulf, there is only an appointed council to advise the king. He's talking about Taliban West...
Even in Bahrain, which this month held its first parliamentary elections in nearly 30 years, the new legislature will share its powers with a second chamber appointed by King Hamad. Kind of like the House of Lords was until very recently...
"The Arabs have been talking about democracy for 30 years," said Syrian academic Burhan Ghalioun, who teaches politics in Paris. "But we're still behind and stuck with totalitarian regimes which resort to arbitrary arrests when confronted with those who want to take advantage of their right to free speech." They're your governments, Jack. You have nobody to blame but yourselves. And if one of them's attacked — f'rinstance, Iraq — you all band together to protect him, even the people who bitch about the totalitarian nature of your regimes. I think this is called making your own Hell...
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Aw, c'mon Fred. I prefer to see the glass as 1/16th full.
P.S. Why no Comments link on the poparticle.asp ?
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Not a bad idea... It's on my list.
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Hey, it's not like they chose to have the army seize power in a coup, or have anachronistic royal families put into the seat of power.
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"Saudi think-tank"? Are you still dealing in oxymorons? Come to think of it they don't deserve the prefix - oxy!
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The departure of Yasser Arafat probably would increase violence in the Middle East since more extremist Palestinian elements would be expected to gain power in his absence, unclassified CIA and State Department intelligence documents say. "If the intifada is still raging when Arafat dies, we believe it very likely that violence will get worse as his successors are likely to support a certain level of violence as the best way to maintain credibility and to quash competitors," the State Department assessment said. Bet it took an entire committee of rocket scientists to figure that one out. Things are gonna get worse before they get better, but if we don't get started we'll never get to the end of the road. On the other hand, I think when the bubble bursts it'll be like the end of Naziism â one day it's indestructible, the next day nobody ever liked them anyway.
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Jordanian officials rounded up dozens of known Islamic extremists for questioning Tuesday in the assassination of American diplomat Laurence Foley as suspicion for the attack fell on al-Qaida or the terrorist movement's sympathizers. A Jordanian official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said most of those detained were Jordanians of Palestinian origin who belonged to militant Islamic cells. Some were released but others were held for further questioning; none had been charged. "LeGume! Round up the usual suspects!"
One militant, sought in an attack on a police station last year, was apprehended Tuesday after a shootout with police near the southern town of Maan. He later escaped from a hospital but was not a suspect in Foley's assassination. They might want to catch him, whether it was him or not...
Jordanian authorities discounted a claim of responsibility by Shurafaa' al-Urdun, or the Honorables of Jordan. In a statement to an Arabic newspaper in London, the group said it killed Foley to protest U.S. support for Israel and the "bloodshed in Iraq and Afghanistan." The group claimed responsibility for the killing last year of Israeli businessman Yitzhak Snir, who was slain near Foley's home. However, Jordanian police believe Snir was killed by common criminals and that Shurafaa' al-Urdun does not exist. If they don't exist, how'd they make a statement? Maybe they should arrest the guy making the statement and beat him...
Nevertheless, the fact that Jordanian authorities were questioning Islamic extremists suggested that they were the focus of the investigation. Jordan has consistently denied any al-Qaida cell exists in the kingdom. Yeah. I deny I'm getting fat and that my hair's almost gone, too...
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A Palestinian made his way into a Jewish settlement in the West Bank and opened fire, injuring five people before being shot and killed. Settler spokesman Yehoshua Mor-Yosef said the gunman was killed shortly after entering the heavily guarded northern West Bank settlement of Hermesh, near the Palestinian town of Jenin. A rescue service spokesman said the five wounded were in moderate to serious conditions. "Yarrr! Take that, Zionist oppressor scum!... Ow!... Ouch!... Hey! That's live ammo!... Stop it! You're hurting me!"
Dontcha hate it when the "victims" are better armed and more dangerous than you are?
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A Palestinian human rights worker faces death by firing squad after a Palestinian court convicted him of spying for Israel. Haidar Ghanem, 39, worked for the Israeli human rights group B'tselem. But he admitted to reporters that he was also an informer for Israeli intelligence. So was he really a freedom fighter? Or was his "admission" beaten out of him?
His trial on Monday took just nine hours. The judge, Gen. Abdel Aziz Wadi, said Ghanem was convicted of "collaborating with foreign security services." He is the third Palestinian to be sentenced to death in the last two weeks for working with Israeli intelligence. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat must approve the sentences before they are carried out. During two years of Palestinian-Israeli fighting, four suspected collaborators have been killed by firing squads; 52 others have been slain by Palestinian vigilantes. Onlyh 52? That sounds like an under-report. Maybe it just seems like more. Or doesn't that count the ones who were shot who were innocent?
B'tselem complained that Israeli security might have allowed Ghanem to become a field worker with the human rights group as a front for spying, adding that the Shin Bet security agency's actions "endanger the lives of B'tselem workers and human rights workers" in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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PA mentality: an insufficiently militant palestinian = Israeli spy.
Abu Bakar Bashir underwent health tests at a tightly guarded police hospital in East Jakarta on Tuesday, a day after he was forcibly transferred from a hospital in the Central Java city of Solo. Bashir was officially detained in Solo on October 20 after Indonesia came under strong international pressure to crack down on extremist Islamic groups in the wake of the October 12 Bali bombings that killed at least 191 people. Police plan to question the cleric over his alleged role in a spate of church bombings on Christmas Eve 2000, as well as an alleged plot to Megawati Sukarnoputri before she became president. I'm surprised it's gotten to this point, but I expect they'll not notice or explain away as much of the evidence as they can...
Bashir adamantly denies being the spiritual leader of the radical Jemaah Islamiyah group, which has been linked to Al-Qaeda. What's he gonna say? "Yeah, I'm in charge of a major terrorist organization"?
There are also suspicions that Jemaah Islamiyah might have been responsible for the Bali bombings, although Bashir has not been declared a suspect in the case. The witnesses are all dead, are they?
He is now confined to the Kramat Jati Police Hospitalâs VIP room, which is being guarded by eight uniformed civilian guards belonging to his Indonesian Mujahidin Council. That's kinda like Don Corleone being under arrest, closely guarded by Clemenza and Tessio...
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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.
