Turkish authorities seized 200 pounds of plastic explosives Friday hidden in a truck as it crossed into Turkey from Iraq, the Anatolia news agency reported. Acting on a tip, paramilitary police searched the truck at the Habur border gate with Iraq and found the C-4 explosives, 20 detonators and more than 10,000 bullets for automatic weapons hidden in a secret compartment, the agency reported.
Guess it wasn't that secret
Officials were not immediately available for comment. The truck driver was detained and authorities were investigating the incident, Anatolia said. The truck's destination was not immediately clear.
Turkish Truncheon Team has been alerted
C-4 is a common variety of military explosives. Radical Kurdish, Islamic, and leftist groups are active in Turkey and have carried out past attacks.
Could be anyone of them, since the truck was coming from Iraq, I'd say odds are it's either Kurdish or Islamic.
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Coincidentally, the USS Cole was taken out by about 200 pounds of C-4.
From The New York Times Abdurahman Alamoudi, a prominent American Muslim leader implicated in an alleged plot by the Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, to assassinate the leader of Saudi Arabia, has acknowledged his role in the plot and agreed to plead guilty to having illegal business dealings with Libya. Mr. Alamoudi, who is president of the American Muslim Foundation and has had access to senior officials in the Bush and Clinton administrations over the years, is expected to enter his guilty plea on Friday in federal court in Alexandria, Va., his lawyers said. He faces a maximum of 23 years in prison, but his sentence could be reduced significantly because he has cooperated extensively with the American authorities in some 100 hours of interviews about his Libyan dealings, officials said.
The plea agreement lays out extensive new details about the Libyan plot, including Mr. Alamoudi's recruitment by Libyan intelligence officials last year as an intermediary who funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars to anti-Saudi dissidents in London and elsewhere. A classified version also identifies Libyan officials thought to have acted at the behest of Colonel Qaddafi in seeking to assassinate Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, said officials familiar with the report. Some American officials remain skeptical about whether Libya ever pursued a serious plot to kill Prince Abdullah, regarding it more as a fanciful scheme. ... But the plea agreement reached with Mr. Alamoudi, of Falls Church, Va., makes it clear that American law enforcement officials regarded the plot as a serious one, officials said. ...
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The FBI has warned law enforcement officials in New Mexico that it has received information about possible terrorist activity in the state. California law enforcement agencies were also warned that that state may also be a target for terrorist activity. Officials say, though, that the warning isn't specific about particular targets or methods of attack. New Mexico Department of Public Safety spokesman Peter Olson says there have been reports of possible al-Qaida elements existing in both states. Olson says he has no specifics and no information on why the warning was issued.
But New Mexico's director of homeland security, Brigadier General Annette Sobel, is meeting with border agencies, and working with the department's federal counterparts. Sobel says there isn't any specific target or threat in New Mexico, but improving relations with border agencies, including law enforcement in Mexico, is crucial. But she says they are not increasing the number of law enforcement officers patrolling the New Mexico side of the border with Mexico. Police are again being reminded to report any suspicious activity. "We have to take every bit of information that we get seriously," said Olson, "especially considering what happened with the Pentagon and the World Trade towers. We have to take everything seriously."
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Lovely. I'm visiting my parents in three weeks. In Grant County, NM.
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The only terrorist activity you might be in close proximity to is an illegal crossing by non-Mexicans. :)
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This article seems to be space filler. We should assume all American states/cities are possible targets. Although these border states including Arizona should be getting an extra eye.
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Actually, with Tejas and "Arid Zona" finally taking the problem to heart, NM is becoming the default highway of choice for drugs and illegals, especially through Hidalgo County (alias "the bootheel"), some of the most barren terrain in North America.
"Hey, hombre, your belt, she's muy grande! Must be twenty, thirty kilos of blow in such a belt! But why those wires?"
"Blow. Yes, inshallah, a big, big blow. Texas is east, you say?"
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200th Air Defense Artillery Unit? I'm guessing those guys didn't sign up to walk around in the desert in summertime. Ah well, when has air defense artillery ever been important to the army?
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#5 Ah well, when has air defense artillery ever been important to the army?
"But Grimsley had no one readily at hand to execute the mission. He had troops spread from RAIDERS all the way back to An Nasiriyah. He assigned the mission to Capt. Charles Branson and his Alpha Battery 1-3 ADA, the brigade's air defense battery equipped with the LINEBACKER missile system. Grimsley augmented the battery with a combat observation lasing team (COLT) and a section from the brigade reconnaissance troop."
"An air defense battery commander leading a Bradley and tank company team in an attack is unprecedented. Just after midnight on March 25th, Capt. Branson's company team reached the service road leading to the [Al Kifl] bridge and immediately started receiving heavy RPG, small-arms, and mortar fire from enemy positions well established in prepared defensive positions on the near side of the bridge. Capt. Branson pulled his forces back...and called in artillery fire to suppress the enemy fire...For the next eight hours, Capt. Branson maintained the momentum of the attack, calling for artillery fires on three separate occasions...[until B/3-7 IN arrived].
Award Citation narrative for Capt. Charles Branson"
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The Gov. of NM is IIRC a partisan Dem who has announced his support for amnesty of aliens and his dislike of the Bush admin's border control policies.
Net result: NM becomes very attractive for Islamacist and other terror groups coming in from Mexico.
And don't forget that there are some valuable labs and Air Force bases in that state.
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Too true has it right. What better way for terrorists to get in, now that we're kissing Vincente's butt and backing off on illegal immigration? If I were a terrorist, I would view the southwest's border with Mexico as the ideal entranceway to the US.
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Perhaps they are on a mission from God to blow up Highway 666 going north out of Gallup towards the Super-Dooper Ultra-Mondo Great Satan state of Utah?
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Give me 30 armed "Predator" aircraft and the people to operate them, and I can close any border, permanently, totally. Of course, there are going to be some dead "coyotes" here and there, and possibly some other "sheep", but hey, making an omelette requires breaking eggs, right? Let's play the Israeli game of Hellfires (only use something with a basketfull of grapeshot), but fired from "Predator" platforms. You see what you're shooting at, you launch, you send someone out to clean up the mess. After the first half-dozen shots, the world starts screaming through the "World Court" (the next Predator target), but nobody - NOBODY - is willing to cross that border!
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Pointing to a rusty dog chain, a prosecutor asked American missionary Gracia Burnham if it was used to shackle her husband before he was killed in a bloody rescue attempt after a year of captivity in the jungle. "I recognize that chain," Burnham testified softly at the trial of eight al-Qaida-linked guerrillas. Burnham, 45, also recounted how her captors celebrated after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. "There was jubilation. They were patting each other's back," she was quoted by a prosecutor as saying. Police barred journalists, photographers and TV cameras from the trial, at a police camp guarded by special forces. Burnham was whisked into the courtroom wearing a baseball cap and a black jacket over a bulletproof vest, her head bowed to avoid cameras. Philippine authorities and FBI agents brought Burnham from a Manila safehouse to testify Thursday. She arrived in the country in secrecy late Monday. In a statement Friday, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo praised Burnham for her "courage and faith and her determination to bring terrorists to justice." "The trial of the Abu Sayyaf who abducted her and her husband is living proof of our determined fight against terror in partnership with all nations and peoples," she said. Burnham, of Rose Hill, Kan., was invited to testify under a mutual legal assistance treaty between Washington and Manila. The trial is part of the Philippines' quest to impose justice on suspected Muslim militants from the Abu Sayyaf group accused of mass kidnappings, deadly bombings and beheadings.
During 2 1/2 hours on the stand, Burnham identified six of the handcuffed suspects, separated from her by a wooden grill, prosecutor Aristotle Reyes said. "According to her, she cannot forget them because she ate and lived with them for almost a year," Reyes said. "So far, she is the witness who had the clearest recollection of what happened." He said Burnham was brought to tears twice, including when she described the death of her husband, Martin, 42, during a commando rescue mission. The Burnhams, longtime Christian missionaries for the Florida-based New Tribes Mission, were celebrating their 18th wedding anniversary when they were abducted at a resort on western Palawan island on May 27, 2001, and taken by speedboat to southern Basilan Island. Also seized were Guillermo Sobero of Corona, Calif., and 17 Filipino workers and tourists. Sobero was among several hostages beheaded. Prosecutor Leo Dacera said Gracia Burnham was critical to the case because she was held the longest. "She is important in the sense that she would have firsthand knowledge of the suspects who last held her ... to tie up the whole conspiracy from beginning to end," he said. But a lawyer for defendant Alhamzer Manatad Limbong said Burnham's testimony would not hurt his defense. "It's only good for drama, but for purposes of establishing guilt beyond reasonable doubt, the Burnham testimony is not enough. We have witnesses who say that he is innocent," defense lawyer Oliver Lozano said. For Burnham, the trial also could provide closure to the 377-day nightmare. An army raid on June 7, 2002, left her with a gunshot wound to her thigh and killed her husband and Filipino nurse Ediborah Yap in a jungle ravine near the southern coastal town of Sirawai. The raid ended a hostage crisis that prompted Washington to provide counterterrorism training for Philippine forces. Other hostages were ransomed off, freed or escaped.
In her book, "In the Presence of My Enemies," Burnham described brushes with death during several gunbattles, hunger, forced jungle marches and sleepless nights. The book stirred controversy because of her allegations that an unidentified Filipino general tried to keep half the money raised for a possible ransom and that soldiers delivered food and sold weapons to the guerrillas. It also linked her captors to Osama bin Laden. Burnham said that in May 2001 - four months before the Sept. 11 attacks - they told Martin Burnham to say in a ransom message that he was being held by "the Osama bin Laden group." U.S.-backed offensives dislodged the guerrillas from their jungle lairs on Basilan. Philippine officials now consider the group a spent force, down from about 1,000 guerrillas four years ago to about 300, although it has been linked to several recent terror attacks.
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...At the risk of seeming a bit unfeeling, did any other RBers see Mrs Burnham on National Geographic Channel about a month ago telling the story of her ordeal? I do not know any good way to put this, but there was something a bit...well, odd about her. She definitely had at least a mild case of Stockholm Syndrome, and as far as her late husband went...she frankly didn't seem as upset about as I would have thought.
Please - I know the above may sound a bit rough, and I wish I could find better words to describe it.
Mike
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She's had a while to work through it, and not everyone weeps like a Democrat with a tax cut.
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. . . there was something a bit...well, odd about her. . . . she frankly didn't seem as upset about as I would have thought.
SIDON: Islamist gunmen clashed with members of Palestinian factions in the Ain al-Hilweh camp, barely 24 after Fatah chieftains held a closed meeting which resulted in unanimous support for Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.
Two passersby and a Fatah member were injured in clashes between Jund-as-Sham, a radical Islamist group that recently emerged in the camp and the Center of Armed Struggle, which acts as camp police.
And a fun time was had by all, unless you're a passersby.
The Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) held the meeting to unify ranks and express support for a second term for Arafat . It was the first time in 10 years that Fatah in Lebanon issued a public statement supporting Arafat.
Up to 500 Palestinian official and regular members had gathered in a closed hall in order to discuss "in the open" the current events in Gaza and in the Fatah movement, the largest in the Palestinian Liberation Organization. They also discussed the likely impact of those developments on the Fatah movement in Lebanon.
A source in the movement told The Daily Star that the gathering was held at the request of Fatah's strong man in this country, colonel Sultan Abul Aynayn, who is wanted by the Lebanese authorities and is the object of an arrest warrant that was issued six years ago.
Guess they're in no hurry
Abul Aynayn had appointed Refaat Shanaa as his representative at this gathering, which was held in order to sound out the Palestinians in the Sidon area about the security situation in Gaza.
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Tastes great!Less filling!
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nothing sweeter than islamo-canibalism (cockroach killing cockroach)!
Baby-faced and slightly built, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani didn't present a physical threat, but his knowledge of explosives and commitment to radical Islam made the Zanzibari one of the most sought-after accused terrorists in the world. Arrested in Pakistan after a fierce gunfight, Ghailani had spent six years underground, evading an FBI-led manhunt and avoiding capture despite the bounty and a prominent listing among America's 22 most wanted terrorists.
Ghailani is believed to have been born in early 1974 on Zanzibar, a semiautonomous archipelago off the coast of Tanzania. Despite being located only 25 miles off the African coast, the islands were once the seat of the Sultanate of Oman and remain 95 percent Muslim and the people and cities look more Arab in appearance than African. But during his childhood, Tanzania -- and by extension Zanzibar -- was ruled by a secular, socialist government made up mostly of mainland Christians, and devout Muslims were correctly, as it turns out treated with suspicion.
Ghailani dedicated himself to Islam and became a tabligh, or missionary. While most tabligh practice moderate Islam, a growing minority travel the world, visiting mosques and preaching the hatred of Western culture that is the hallmark of radical Islam.
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"Honey"
"Yes dear"
"Where are you going, dinner is almost ready."
"I'm just going down, with the kids, to mingle a little with the jihadies, dear."
"Okay hun, I'll stay here and keep covered until you get back sweety!"
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How do you get "foopie" from Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani?
It's one of about 20 names he used. Ghailani, who also goes by the names "Foopie," "Fupi" and "Ahmed the Tanzanian," was also one of seven wanted al-Qaida suspects that the FBI and Justice Department asked for help in finding in May to help avert a possible terror attack over the summer in the United States.
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One of these days I'm actually going to be able to participate in Rantburg again. I just know it...
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Reports in Kuwait on Friday said a man assumed to be Al Qaeda leader in Iraq, Abu Musab Zarqawi has been captured near the Syrian border.
The report claimed that the man was captured during a joint operation by U.S. occupation forces and Iraqi police, Al Siyasah newspaper, quoting Iraqi sources, said Friday.
It also said that the suspect was caught in a white shirt and jeans, and he gave no resistance when he realized his hideout was besieged, according to Iraqi police.
The U.S. and Iraqi investigators are trying to identify the captive and has sent his DNA sample for testing, the unconfirmed report indicated.
Zarqawi is the most wanted suspect in Iraq and has a U.S. bounty of $25 million on his head.
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Latest conspiracy theory (but I forget where I read it and if it was serious or satirical):
Bush deliberately held back info on this so it would not disrupt Kerry's speech. He wanted people to be sure to get a good look at him and hear what he had to say LOL.
FIENDISH republicans, no?
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How many times have we "caught" him so far? Never mind the 48 hour rule. If it involves Zarqawi, I'm involving my "I'll believe it when it's officially confirmed by a named official source" rule.
Not, mind you, that I don't hope that it's true... this time.
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too true, I think the Professor said the same thing. Instapundit
Pakistan's prime minister-designate Shaukat Aziz survived an assassination attempt on Friday, according to a reporter traveling with him on an election campaign tour. Private Geo television said two people were killed, including Aziz's driver. "As he (Aziz) came out of a public meeting, there was a blast. Many people have been wounded. Some also died. But with the grace of God he is safe and sound," the journalist said. The attack took place close to the town of Attock in the northwest of the central Punjab province, where Aziz, currently finance minister, is campaigning for a by-election on August 18.
Boy, I'll bet Qazi's cheesed!
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An Iraqi tribal chief acting as go-between for the captors of seven foreign truck drivers issued an 11th-hour appeal to them to stay their threat to kill an Indian hostage. "In my name and in the name of humanity and religious leaders, I appeal to the Secret Army - Black Banners Battalion, to rethink the matter and not to execute the hostages, because, God willing, there is a chance to reach a positive outcome that would secure the release of all of them," Sheikh Hisham al-Dulaimi told AFP.
In a statement received by AFP on Thursday, the kidnappers threatened to kill an Indian hostage at 7:00 pm Friday. The hostage-takers had once before stayed a threat to start killing the hostages -- three Indians, three Kenyans and an Egyptian -- from 1600 GMT Monday. Dulaimi said that "Egyptian and Indian diplomats in Baghdad are responsive and cooperative and that talks are going smoothly to release the hostages," but was critical of the Kuwaiti company for which the drivers work and Kenyan officials for not contacting him yet. A few hours later Dulaimi said he had just received a call from a director of the Kuwait and Gulf Link Transport company telling him that one of their representatives was already in Baghdad and that he would be contacting him soon. "They just called me half-an-hour ago and told me that one of their representatives, a fellow by the name of Mahdi Saleh, was in Baghdad and that he would be getting in touch with me today," he said.
The sheikh said the company did not say whether it was ready to meet the demand of hostage-takers by ceasing its operations in Iraq. The company operates large-scale transport services to Iraq and has a number of contracts with US-led coalition forces here, according to company sources. A spokeswoman told AFP in Kuwait Friday that the firm had mandated a representative to speak on its behalf in Baghdad, although she gave a different name than that cited by Dulaimi. "The firm has named Mahmud al-Zubaidi to speak on its behalf in Baghdad," said Rana Abu Zaina. Company sources said the firm was focusing on obtaining an extension of Friday's deadline in order to continue contacts with "the countries concerned." The sources said consultations were continuing with the Egyptian and Indian ambassadors in Kuwait and two Kenyan diplomats dispatched to the emirate from their country's embassy in Riyadh.
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A top al Qaeda operative, one of the world's most wanted men with a multi-million-dollar price on his head, is resisting questioning by Pakistani interrogators seeking clues to the hiding place of Osama bin Laden, officials said on Friday. Investigators are scouring a computer and several disks seized when they captured Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani and 13 others after a 14-hour gunbattle with security forces at the weekend in the city of Gujarat, 110 miles southeast of Islamabad, intelligence sources told Reuters on Friday.
Goody, another hard drive to suck dry of info.
The suspects were being interrogated in the eastern city of Lahore. But Ghailani, born in Zanzibar in Tanzania and wanted by the United States for his role in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa that killed 224 people, had given little away, one intelligence source said. "He is still tight-lipped," the official said.
"Ahmed, the #4 truncheon, please."
"Here you are, sir! And might I suggest the red underwear with the black trim?"
Ghailani was captured along with his Uzbek wife and two South Africans after his driver led police to his hide-out, the intelligence source said. Among those found in the house were three women and five children.
More "South Africans", huh?
Any of them have an Afrikaaner accent?
Ghailani had brought two other foreign comrades to his safe house after the group became nervous that security forces were closing in on the hotel in Gujarat where they had been staying, the intelligence source said. Security forces were now searching for the Pakistani who rented the house for Ghailani.
Five bucks sez the landlord's a JI member...
"It is a big achievement for our security forces," Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat said. Ghailani and his companions had spent time in Afghanistan fighting with the Taliban and were preparing to flee Pakistan along with their families, using fake travel papers, when the authorities caught up with them, a ministry official said.
Is there any other kind in Pakistan?
"We're gettin' out o' Pakistan! It's too hot for us here!"
"Where will we go, Foopie?"
"Yemen, by Allan! There's a Shiite preacher there that'll take us in! Nobody would think of looking for us with him!"
Pakistan had not yet received a request from the United States for Ghailani's extradition, Hayat said. "He has been in Pakistan for some time. We have to establish the exact nature of his activities and scope of his network in Pakistan. Only after we have exhausted our inquiries shall we be able to hand him over ... to the U.S.," he said.
They have ways of making him talk
Additional: He said Ghailani has given authorities some useful information. Hayyat would not speculate on whether the suspect was planning any attacks in the United States or Pakistan. "It would be premature to say anything about this, but obviously we have certain information, some very valuable and useful leads have been acquired," he said. Ghailani was being interrogated by Pakistani intelligence at an undisclosed location, an intelligence official familiar with the questioning said. "These people are so well trained that they often give false information, and they keep changing their statement," he said on condition his name not be used. He said Ghailani had been silent at first, but that he had eventually yielded to incessant beating questioning. "He initially resisted, but our people were able to get a lot of information from him," said the official.
"No! Not the crotchless underwear! I'll talk! I'll talk!"
Excellent!
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Renewed clashes overnight in the flashpoint Iraqi city of Falluja have left at least nine Iraqis dead and several injured, local doctors say. US forces called in air support after insurgents attacked a joint patrol of US marines and Iraqi troops, an American military spokesman said. According to residents, a house in the Shuhada neighbourhood was destroyed. "I heard a very powerful explosion around 10:30 pm (1830 GMT) coming from the Shuhada neighbourhood," a resident told AFP news agency. "It was an air strike on a house," he said.
Additional:On Friday, Dr. Salim Ibrahim at Fallujah General Hospital said he believed some 13 Iraqis were killed and 14 others wounded during fierce overnight fighting between U.S. forces and insurgents in Fallujah, west of Baghdad. Ibrahim could not give an exact count of the dead, because many of their bodies had been torn up in bombings.
"Hey, where does this piece go!"
Witnesses reported hearing more than 60 mortar rounds fired toward the eastern edge of the city, where Americans are based, and planes flying overhead. U.S. Marines suffered no casualties.
Excellent
The military said the fighting began when insurgents attacked a joint patrol of Marines and Iraqi troops with gunfire, mortars and rocket propelled grenades. The troops responded with gunfire, tank fire and aircraft bombing raids, which hit a building the insurgents had fled to, the military reported.
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Fallujah, Iraq - Marines of the I Marine Expeditionary Force responded with tanks and artillery fire to repeated anti-Iraqi force attacks on a position the Marines held near Fallujah Thursday evening.
The I MEF personnel manning the position had no casualties from the mortars, RPGs, machine guns and small-arms fire used by AIF.
The Marines' return fire was directed at enemy mortarmen observed firing several hundred meters away from the I MEF position in the vicinity of the Fallujah cloverleaf. AIF mortarmen were observed fleeing the area after the counter fire.
The enemy activity temporarily ceased after being engaged with the tanks and artillery.
Iraqi National Guard and Police provided support to the operations.
Additional I MEF artillery fire and close-air support were brought to bear on AIF who fled to buildings near the eastern edge of the city.
Estimates of enemy casualties are unknown at this time. MNF-Iraq
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AIF mortarmen were observed fleeing the area after the counter fire.
Don't the Marines or the IF pursue and kill these guys? Seems to me that would be the logical thing to do, lest these guys end up launching other attacks at a later date.
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I notice the expression "in an industrial area" coming up again. We have been using the Fallujah terrain to best advantage, luring the bad boys to fight in underpopulated areas rather than residential areas.
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I still think the winning strategy for Fallujah is to pull all US forces and "friendly" Iraqis out of Fallujah and test a few dozen MOAB weapons on the city. Of course, there would be some "civilian" casualties. IF you don't want to die, get rid of the people that attract artillery, cannon, and tank fire, and large bombs. That's not so hard, is it? Of course, some people can't get a clue, even if you forced one on them in the most uncompromising, socially-unacceptable way. That's why they call stupidity a terminal illness.
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John is absolutely correct and it is becoming increasingly clear that it IS the strategy to concentrate the AIF in Fallujah. Let them think they have a sanctuary and destroy their primary weapon: mobility. Then you wipe them out.
The Belmont Club predicted this months ago and once again, he's right.
At least two explosions have been reported outside the US and Israeli embassies in Uzbek capital, Tashkent. Uzbek police and anti-terrorism officials said they had no information on casualties. The blasts came soon after the trials began for people accused of involvement in a series of bomb attacks and shootings in late March. There were also reports of a blast at the prosecutor's office, where several people are said to have been wounded.
Additional: TASHKENT, Uzbekistan (AP) - Suicide bombers hit the U.S. and Israeli embassies Friday, killing at least two Uzbeks, news reports and police said. A third blast hit the general prosecutor's office and caused "deaths," a Russian news agency reported. The Interfax news agency said a man with an explosive belt on his waist detonated bomb outside the American Embassy and Uzbek security forces surrounded the compound, stopping all traffic. Israel radio said the attack on the Israeli Embassy also was a suicide assault and that one of the dead there was an Uzbek security guard.
The radio said all the Israeli personnel were safe inside the embassy building, while Uzbek security forces conducted searches in the area. The explosion occurred on the pavement at the entrance to the embassy, the radio said. There is a significant Jewish population in Uzbekistan. Interfax reported there were deaths in the explosion at the general prosecutor's office, citing an unnamed source at the office. In Washington, a State Department official confirmed that the department had "received reports of a bombing outside the U.S. Embassy in Tashkent." The official had no information on casualties and said it was not clear if the embassy was the target.
Well, duh!
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at least at the embassies the attacks essentially failed. Await word on what happened at Prosecutors office.
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