F.A.R.C. Proposes A Security Zone For Seventy-Two Hours In Exchange For Ceasefire Negotiations
The (leftist) F.A.R.C. (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) guerrillas will ask the National Government for a security zone in the South of Colombia for a period of seventy-two hours so they can meet face to face with the High Commissioner for Peace, Luis Carlos Restrepo, in order to discuss the conditions of (the proposed) "humanitarian exchange" (an exchange of F.A.R.C. prisoners held in government prisons for hostages held by the F.A.R.C.) The proposal will be formally made this week.
According to the television news program "Noticias Uno" (News One) Restrepo (the government's negotiator) & the F.A.R.C. spokesmen Carlos Antonio Lozada, Felipe Rincón & Fabiän RamÃrez will attend the meeting. Of the three days proposed by the F.A.R.C. for the meeting the first day would be used for the F.A.R.C. spokesmen to safely get to the meeting place, the second for the actual negotiations related to the "humanitarian exchange" (prisoner swap) & the third would be used for the F.A.R.C. to leave the area.
During this time the (Colombian Government's) Armed Forces ought not leave the area, but rather should gather themselves together in their garrisons, as happened when the F.A.R.C. let a group of soldiers & policemen go during the presidency of Ernesto Samper (1994-1998.)
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Switzerland & France as well as the International Committee of the Red Cross (I.C.R.C.) & the Catholic Church.
'Nough said.
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Twenty-Six People Accused of Belonging to the "Teófilo Forero" Column of the F.A.R.C. Have Been Captured in Huila, Colombia. According to the D.A.S. (Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad-Administrative Department of Security [Colombia's version of the F.B.I.]) they have arrest warrants for crimes related to extortion, rebellion, terrorism, homicide & conspiracy to commit crime.
The detained men's identities will not be revealed until the Colombian Justice Department (La FiscalÃa) interrogates them, receives their sworn statements & resolves their legal status.
By Nidal al-Mughrabi Mon Sep 6, 2004 05:56 PM ET GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli tanks shelled a Hamas training camp in the central Gaza Strip early on Tuesday, killing at least 13 terrorists militants and wounding 30 accomplices people, witnesses and hospital sources said. Tanks stationed at a border crossing between Israel and Gaza fired into the outskirts of the town of Shijaia, a stronghold of Hamas, the terrorist militant group behind a double suicide bombing that murdered killed 16 people on buses in southern Israel last week. Witnesses said explosions tore through a Hamas training ground after an exchange of fire with Palestinian gunmen in the area.
Hospital sources said all of the dead were Hamas terrorists members but that the wounded included terrorism supporting civilians. The Israeli army had no immediate comment. Israeli leaders had vowed to strike back hard in retaliation for last Tuesday's twin bombings in Beersheba, the first suicide attacks in the Jewish state in nearly six months. In what appeared to be Israel's toughest response so far, a series of explosions could be heard just after midnight (1700 EDT) in nearby Gaza City as Israeli helicopter gunships roared overhead. Hamas, sworn to Israel's destruction, is the main terrorist militant group spearheading a campaign of suicide bombings against Israelis during a nearly four-year-old Palestinian uprising. Mister Cause, permit me to introduce you to Mister Effect.
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On the BBC they said that HAMAS was conducting 'night maneuvers' when they were attacked. Is that what they are calling terrorists activity now? If so I pity the Brits, I truly do.
Algeria's largest Islamic rebel group with ties to al Qaeda said it has appointed a new chief, known as an explosives expert, as it tries to regroup following the loss of key leaders in recent gun battles with authorities. "Thanks to God for the appointment of Abou Mossab Abdelouadoud as the emir of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) to replace martyr Nabil Sahraoui," the GSPC said in an undated statement obtained by Reuters on Monday.
Security sources said the information was credible. Security sources say Abdelouadoud, the group's explosives chief whose real name is Abdelmalek Droukdel, is among the few surviving senior members after Sahraoui and others were killed in a battle with Algerian armed forces in June. "He was there from the beginning although he didn't fight in Afghanistan," said a security analyst. "If anyone can unify the GSPC, it's him, but it's already very weakened and divided."
Droukdel, born in 1971, studied at university for two years before dropping out to join rebels in the mountains, experts said. He was recently made head of the GSPC's supreme council. The GSPC's No. 2, Amari Saifi, alias Abderrazak el Para and responsible for the kidnappings last year, is being held by Chadian rebels. The GSPC, currently numbering a few hundred, has in recent months stepped up its campaign of violence against the army and police in and east of the capital Algiers.
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In an another blow to Iraq's U.S.-backed government, officials retracted a claim to have captured the most wanted Saddam Hussein aide still on the run in Iraq. A day after several Iraqi officials reported the capture of Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, who was sixth on a U.S. list of the 55 most wanted members of Saddam's regime and had a $10 million price on his head, the government had to make an embarrassing climbdown and say he had not been caught after all. "The person that has been arrested, after appropriate medical tests, was not al-Douri but somebody related to him, who is also wanted by the state," the Interior Ministry said.
The confusion raised questions about the effectiveness and unity of Iraq's interim government as it prepares for national elections in January and tries to crush a stubborn insurgency and tackle a wave of kidnappings. Mustafa Alani, senior consultant at the Dubai-based Gulf Research Center, said the confusion stemmed from a lack of collective leadership in the government, which is made up of members of several ethnic, religious and political groups. "For Iraqis, it must have a psychologically negative effect on the credibility of the government," he said.
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can almost hear the Rooters "scribe" doing the Nelson Muntz Ha-Ha in the background. F&*kers
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Why is it a blow to the Iraqi government if some wanted guy wasn't caught after all? Big damn deal. Now if Saddam was somehow freed from captivity by some commando group, THAT would be a "blow".
Among the wilted flowers brought to celebrate the first day of classes in the now blackened wreckage of Beslan's School No. 1 are the abundant signs of a sophisticated terror operation. That evidence is sparking a re-examination of the long-standing Chechen links to Al Qaeda. "They were so well trained - the highest level," says Oleg Tedeyev, deputy chief of a local police unit, who was involved in the battle Friday that freed more than 700 people, and officially left 338 dead, half of them children.
In recent months, radical Islamist Chechen leaders such as Shamil Basayev, along with Osama bin Laden, have been "clear" about wanting to "set Russia on fire," says Michael Radu, a terrorism expert at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. "This is not an Al Qaeda operation: These are autonomous groups," he says. "It's not like bin Laden wrote the checks. But they are synchronized ideologically and strategically."
Survivors say the 30-odd attackers were mostly Russian-speaking Chechens. But as families in this small town near Chechnya bury their dead Monday, they described the end of the saga as one in which both the hostage-takers and Russian special forces were caught off guard by an accidental explosion in the gymnasium, which sparked a lethal firefight and hostage escape.
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Russian investigators said Arab operatives linked to Al Qaida played a major role in the takeover of a Russian school in which 400 people were killed. Russian officials said authorities have determined that 10 of the 32 suicide attackers who took over a high school in Beslan in North Ossetia last week were nationals from several Arab countries. Most of the attackers were Chechens and Ingush who had been trained at Al Qaida camps in Afghanistan.
The 10 Arab nationals came from Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Syria, officials said. They said security forces seized notebooks in Arabic in the school taken over by insurgents. Officials said survivors told authorities that some of the captors spoke Arabic during the three-day hostage ordeal. All of the captors were said to have been killed, but three accomplices were arrested, Middle East Newsline reported.
The Arab nationals were said to have been recruited in the Middle East and hosted by Shamil Basayev, head of the Chechen insurgency and aligned with Al Qaida. "We're hoping to release additional information over the next few days," an official said. "But precise details will require cooperation from our allies." The officials said the attackers were trained in Al Qaida camps in Afghanistan and financed by Abu Omar Al Seif, regarded as a leading Al Qaida operative and the organization's representative in Chechnya.
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Wonder if the Saudis plan to cooperate with the Russians? Or maybe, if the Saudis don't cooperate, we should sick URIIT on those bad boy Saudi princes.
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Terrorists who seized a school in North Ossetia's Beslan, September 1, were receiving orders from abroad throughout the three suspense-laden days, says Aslanbek Aslakhanov, President Vladimir Putin's adviser for North Caucasian affairs. "The men had their conversations not within Russia but with other countries. They were led on a leash. Our self-styled friends have been working for several decades, I deem, to dismember Russia. They are doing a huge, really titanic job. It's clear as daylight that those people are coming up as puppeteers and are financing terror," he said to the Rossia television company, national Channel Two, tonight.
Though the bandits named certain people they wanted to see as negotiators, and Mr. Aslakhanov was among them, he is sure the terrorist gang really did not mean whatever contacts. Aslanbek Aslakhanov, a Chechen, was on the site throughout the tragedy, and contacted the gang on the telephone. "The men were certainly not Chechens. When I spoke Chechen with them, they said they couldn't make out a word. 'Speak Russian,' they told me. Well, I did as they wished, though I speak Russian with a Caucasian accent," he said in his TV interview.
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Sorros? "Our self-styled friends have been working for several decades, I deem, to dismember Russia"
Does Sorros seek to destroy Russia and the US as well?
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At least 14 Palestinians were killed and 30 wounded when Israel Air Force helicopters hit a Hamas site in Gaza City around midnight Monday, witnesses said. Four of the casualties are critically wounded, and witnesses said all were either members of the Hamas military wing or supporters. "nice targetting, Avner!"
The strike targeted a Hamas community center complex, including a building and an outdoor lot, that the army says is used by the Hamas military wing for training. Hamas spokesman Mushir al-Masri denied that the targeted field was used for training, calling it a summer camp for Palestinian youth. Camp Death To the Infidels! Granada
However, dozens of members of the Hamas military wing, Iz a-Din al-Qassam, were meeting at the building during the time of the attack, Palestinian sources said. The building includes offices and a lot used by Hamas to carry out training and hold conferences. It is named after Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who was assassinated by Israel in April. LOL!
IAF helicopter gunships fired at least five missiles at the building, located in the Sajaiya neighborhood in the eastern part of Gaza City, a known Hamas stronghold, witnesses said. The helicopters hovered overhead after the explosions. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the security establishment decided in the wake of last week's double bus bombing in Be'er Sheva, for which Hamas claimed responsibility, to increase assassinations of Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. Sixteen Israelis were killed in last Tuesday's attack. Angry militants gathered at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, some with blood on their clothes from building rubble swarming helping victims, shouting, "Revenge, revenge." "Shoot us next" Continued on Page 49
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I know from good sources, unimpeachable sources, that the pilots of the heliocoptes, WHERE BLOODTHIRSTY JEW BOYS/GALS
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CNN slipped up and actually described the dead Hamas activists and fluffy bunnies as "terrorists" tonight. I'm sure some enlightened (by Saudi money) editor will correct this grievous error before Hell freezes completely.
Iraqi Turkmens yesterday denied that they were clashing with U.S. forces in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar, saying Turkmens were not involved in fights over the weekend that have reportedly killed more than 15 people. "We have no dispute with U.S. forces and no reason to fight against them," a senior Turkmen official in Ankara said.
"Are you nuts, we got enough problems with the Kurds"
News reports said over the weekend that U.S. forces besieged the town, almost exclusively populated by Turkmens, after clashes with anti-U.S. forces spilled over to the area, leaving 13 Turkmens dead on Saturday and three more on Sunday. The reports also said that some 20,000 Turkmens have fled the town of 460,000 to escape the violence. "The information we have is that certain groups who fought against the Americans in Najaf and Fallujah fled to Tal Afar and that the Americans chased them, therefore carrying the clashes into the town," Ahmet Muratli, head of the Ankara representation of the Iraqi Turkmen Front, the leading Iraqi Turkmen organization, told the Turkish Daily News.
The U.S. military said Saturday that a U.S. helicopter was hit in Tal Afar and was forced to make an emergency landing amid the fighting, leaving the aircraft's two crew members wounded. A U.S. Stryker Brigade vehicle securing the helicopter's site later came under attack by rocket-propelled grenades, the military said. Troops fought back, killing two attackers. Local sources said the people who had clashed with the Americans in Tal Afar were a group of Shiite Turkmens that had joined forces loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in fierce clashes last month in Najaf. After the U.S. forces stamped out Sadr resistance in Najaf, they fled to their hometown, Tal Afar, chased by U.S. forces. "The Americans wanted to finish off the job they had started in Najaf," the sources said.
US warplanes spearheaded a massive two-pronged assault to crush a Shiite Muslim uprising in Iraq's city of Najaf. Jets screeched overhead as massive explosions and tank and machine-gun fire boomed through the city and smoke engulfed its historic centre, home to the Imam Ali shrine, revered by Shiites all over the world. Thousands of US forces, backed by Iraqi police and national guard, mounted a pincer movement to trap Moqtada Sadr's fighters in the heart of the city, before going on to raid the militia leader's empty home. Iraqi and US troops sealed approaches to the mausoleum, as hundreds of terrified residents, urged on by attacking forces and the city's mosques, fled through the dusty streets. "Leave the city. Help coalition forces and do not fire at them," one announcement instructed in Arabic. "We are here to liberate the city..." This is the first notice of this I have seen. It is dateline Sept 6, and is an AFP report. Any confirmation?
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This will go on for a couple of days, then al-Sistani makes a statement. Then US forces will jump hoops for that pre-barbecued pig, and al-Sadr lives on to wage terror another day. This tactical BS will deter recruitment in the American military. What soldier with an ounce of self-respect would want to fight an unwinnable war?
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WTF? The events in this story took place on August 12 and 13th. Maybe the reporter wrote the story and put it in a bottle. It took 3 weeks to was ashore in Australia. Either that or the publisher needs to cut off the supply of Fosters in the press room.
Tipper what do you know about this delayed report? Showing up anywhere else down under?
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Note that this AFP story is heavily slanted against the coalition, exaggerating the scale of air attack and uncritically repeating highly suspect statements about civilian casualties.
I think its unexplained resurrection is a more sophisticated version of a familiar leftist propaganda tool known as the "typo lie," that is, an erroneous bit of propaganda, usually offhand, that can be dismissed as a technical error of some kind if caught.
Some of these may be simple errors, but some authors, notably Howard Zinn and the notorious Cold War Kremlin shill Tom Gervasi, seem to make errors at a rate that would shame a seventh grader, and every single one of these favors their various anti-Amrican contentions. Zinn, for example, once claimed that 12,900 people were killed during the US occupation of Vera Cruz in 1914. The actual number, agreed by all primary sources, was 129. Gervasi under or over-stated practically almost every numerical quantity in his anti-military polemic, Arsenal of Democracy, by a factor of at least 10 (claiming for example that a Cessna 172 cost $413,000 in the early 70s, exactly 10 times the real figure provided by his cited sources). Every single one of these "errors" (over 400) was favorable to his contention of massive waste, fraud, conspiracy, exploitation of third world countries, and aggression at the Pentagon.
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I don't think Sistani has any pull with the people in Najaf (wrong sect). It's an example of what life would be like if all the Waffen SS took refuge after WWII in a small city. This is the center of resistance. I think that we should just level the whole town and start over.
A COALITION of radical Pakistani Islamic groups plans to stage rallies on the third anniversary of the September 11 attacks in the United States to condemn Washington for "creating anarchy" in the world, an official said today. "We want to convince people that peace is becoming difficult in the world because of American policies after the September 11 attacks," said Shahid Shamsi, a spokesman for the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, or United Action Forum, opposition coalition. "The rallies will be staged with reference to the September 11 attacks because (the) American attitude is creating further anarchy in the world," Mr Shamsi said.
The anarchy in fleeing jihadis certainly has increased.
The MMA has an influential bloc of legislators in Pakistan's parliament. It opposed the war that ousted the Taliban regime in neighbouring Afghanistan and President General Pervez Musharraf's support of the US-led war on terrorism. It also has condemned the US invasion of Iraq. Mr Shamsi said plans for the rallies, to be held across the country, were still being worked out, and would not estimate how many people would take part. Previous MMA rallies have drawn thousands in cities around Pakistan, particularly Karachi.
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"We want to convince people that peace is becoming difficult in the world because of American policies after the September 11 attacks," said Shahid Shamsi, a spokesman for the Mutahida Majlis-e-Amal, or United Action Forum, opposition coalition.
Of course "peace" as he would define it is more impossible as we refuse to be suplicants bound to the laws of Sharia or get on our knees with our necks extended for these assholes to chop our heads off
A U.N. spokesman on Sunday said the world body keeps receiving reports of clashes continuing throughout Sudan's Darfur region, where up to 4,000 people are believed to have been forced from their villages in recent days.
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This pisses me off more that I can say. Note that AP ticks off their available agenda items: death of Marines, Al Douri story was a bust, the power of the blast, the ever-present moron at the Fallujah Hospital counting baby ducks, and the new total US death count.
To my angry ear it almost squeals with delight between the lines to bump the overall death toll to 985. Prolly creaming their collective jeans over the "approaching" 1,000 mark - and openly hoping it happens before the election, I'm sure. That the number 1,000 has no intrinsic meaning is brushed aside - image triumphs over substance - it's everything in this fucked-up world, so the symbolic aspect will be trumpeted, damn the reality.
My sympathies for the Marines, their buddies, their families. When will we get deadly fucking serious about leveling the Sunni Triangle so they stop bleeding us at their convenience?
As for AP, well, I think there should be one or two hung up on the bomb rack during a future mission...
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I notice that the story is all quagmire all the time, yet most of the pictures are of an Iraqi demonstration against the insurgency. I see no mention of that in the story. Not that I'm surprised.
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And ban him. He has done nothing except repeat old lies, and engage in simian crap flinging - nothing of substance contributed, and worse, he's BORING! A waste of bandwidth.
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Americans who think that they are fighting for their country when in fact they are fighting and dying for Israel
Where did you get this info that we're dying for Isreal? I don't recall that being announced anywhere except by Pro-jihadi websites and terrorists sympathisers. Have any credible sources Mike?
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Come now Rantburgers, your Zionist lies about WMD and propaganda are killing Americans, the Iraqis are defending against you and the naive Americans are innocent victims whose blood is on your hands.
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By deleting the truth Rantburg is inciting more hatred and violence against Americans who think that they are fighting for their country when in fact they are fighting and dying for Israel. Fred Pruitt, American blood is dripping from your hands.
From Jihad Unspun
JUS [Jihad Unspun] has learned from reliable sources that Chechen Mujahideen have claimed responsibility for both the Beslan School incident and the attacks on two Russian planes that crashed ten days ago. In a soon to be released statement, Chechen Mujahideen also indicate another attack is already in process. Our sources tell us that the statement will contain a much different version of the events at Beslan School than what is being reported. The total number of casualties the Mujahideen claim is approximately 700 however they state that the majority of casualties were adults. The school was filled with teachers, staff, parents and children at the time of the incident. They claim that the majority of children were released in the initial siege. Ten were killed in the cross fire and 30 were released shortly after the incident began, leaving only 25 inside.
The statement is also said to counter claims that the children did not receive food and water which apparently was available inside the school due to the commencement celebrations. Our sources also claim that, contrary to press reports that have so far shown only one capture attacker and none of those it says were killed, several Mujahideen escaped with approximately 200 hostages and that fighting is still going on. Russian authorities sealed off the town early in the siege, cutting telephone communications and imposing a media blackout.
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This means that al jazeeera, alarabia and the like should be considered WMD, and should be dealt with appropriately; as in commandeered or destroyed.
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JUS [Jihad Unspun] has learned from reliable sources that Chechen Mujahideen have claimed responsibility for both the Beslan School incident and the attacks on two Russian planes that crashed ten days ago. Two comments:
1. I didn't realize that JUS used reliable sources
2. I thought they said the JOOOOOOs did.
Any guesses when or if Gentle will return to the debate?
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Wonder if those broadcast stations can be taken and used. Is it feasable or should they just be destroyed and DirestTV as the only stuff available.
This stuff needs to happen. Loose the pen! The arabs will take the bait. They'll argue like deamons and devour themselves. We just need to start screwing up their myths and laying the powerful hand of reality, farce and fact.
From Pakistan Christian Post
The zarb-e-Momin, a Muslim extremist group operating in Pakistan is grave threat to Pakistan Christian Post volunteer staff. .... Mr. Prevaiz Iqbal, PCP correspondent from Quetta is new selected target of Muslim group Zarb-e Momin. .... Mr. Pervaiz Iqbal receives the threat e-mails now from this group. The e-mails have pressured him to stop working for Pakistan Christian Post unless into face dire consequences. ....
The Muslim extremist group Zarb-e- Momin has been sending threat and hates e-mails to Pakistan Christian Post bureau chief of Karachi Rev. Khalid Soomro and Rev. Stephen Nazir, correspondent from Faisalabad. The house of Rev. Khalid soomro was burnet down in July 2004 in an attempt to kill him but he survived with his family of this fatal attack. Rev. Khalid Soomro family is in hiding in Pakistan and shelter less. Rev. Stephen Nazir is also in hiding and run to save his life. In such circumstances the threat to Mr. Iqbal cannot be easily ignored.
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...Or else he calls in that Pervez dude with his impressive beard.
Mike
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#2He's about to get assasinated, by god!
No, I'd wager that he's about to get assassinated by some intolerant Islamist fanatics. Any putative deity isn't going to be the one who murders Reverend Soomro.
A statement purportedly from the captors of two French journalists has given France a deadline of 48 hours to accept three new conditions. The group, in the name of the Islamic Army in Iraq, demanded a ransom of £2.8m, called for a truce with al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, and a promise of no military and commercial dealings with Iraq. The statement, posted on a Islamist website, could not be immediately authenticated. A group with the same name previously sent videotaped messages to the al Jazeera TV channel showing the two hostages.
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"and a pony!"
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£2.8m ransom? And we Rantburgers were speculating on $10 million? With all intermediateries getting their cut, that does not leave much for the terrorists. Call a truce with Binny (wherever or whatever he is now). No military or commercial dealings is a non-issue. What about the head scarf issue? That one seems to have fallen off the radar screen, based upon this report.
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I wonder if that includes oil contracts? "Oh, yeah, and Chirac has to return all the bribe money that Saddam paid him!"
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Bogus set-up from the start. Pathetic ploy to gain sympathy for France from the Arab world that has them trembling under the bed. Both reporters will have new yachts for Christmas.
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I bet they'll claw back the ransom from the still secret EU Appeasement Fund (hidden for accounting secrecy within the French Cultural Exception Subsidy Plan; subsection Slush).
But seriously... Anonymous6326's on the ball: France is so desperate to get its reporters back it's already practically admitted it'll do anything. So what's a little lucrative lubrication to smooth things along? Part of me hopes they do pay. Hostage takers in the ME will be so busy chasing after Frenchies the Brits, Merkins etc. will be ignored. Why waste time on the worthless ones?
Don't be surprised if vichy French accept the offer.
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Bulldog: Let them chase the French then, and let Chirac keep paying. We'll track the accounts. Besides, if it helps the French people see the truth, then let Chirac cave in and become even more of a puppet. The French people will vote him out next election then, along with his party.
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odd that the terrorists wanted pounds sterling instead of Euros
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Article is from UK media, that is why in pounds. I doubt they asked for 2.8 instead of a round number. It's not like they have to justify their pricing to the FTC.
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You joke (and I laughed) Mrs. D., but I'm sure somewhere in Brussels a Eurocrat is working on plans for a standing commission to arbitrate terrorist demands and ransom terms.
This is from an earlier article than the one I just posted. For "Kulov" read "Kulyaev."
[FSB] is interrogating the terrorist who took part in the assault on the school in Beslan. According to information from Ingushetia.Ru, he is a native of Nozhai-Yurt region in Chechnya, family name Kulov. He recently took an apartment in the city of Karabulak in Ingushetia. Kulov has supplied the information that their group was commanded by a Chechen he knew as "the Colonel." Only the Colonel and [Anatoly Vladimirovich] Khodov knew where their group was headed... As Kulov tells it, after the capture of the school there arose an argument among the gunnies, because some few of them were displeased to have taken children hostage. The Colonel personally shot the leader of the group and as a terror measure exploded two of the women wearing suicide vests, using his personal radio transmitter.
Kulov also said that he does not know the nationalities and personal names of the other gunnies, as it is not accepted to ask for family names; they refer to each other by their "Arab names." Further, according to Kulov there was no black man in their group. [He says] that the authorities took as a black man one of the terrorists whose face was burned and who was black with soot during the [Russian] assault...
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I bet he's not having a good labor day weekend. The BBQ is ....him
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Details from the interrogation of the terrorist taken alive by SpetsNaz in the wake of the attack on the school in Beslan, from Monday's edition of Gazeta.Ru: At least four of the attackers are from Stari Engenoi in Nozhai Yurt region of Chechnya. Among them is the surviving member, 24-year-old Nur-Pasha Kulayev, who was previously misidentified as Kulov. The group also included Kulayev's elder brother, 31-year-old Khan-Pasha Kulayev, who was killed on September 3rd. The two other terrorists from the same town were Arsen Merzhoev and Mairbek Shibikhanov. The Kulyaev brother were reported to be bodyguards to Shamil Basayev. The Kulyaevs were also connected with Rustamom Ganiyev, who was captured last year, and was responsible for recruiting killers to take part in terror acts in Russia proper. Two of Ganiyev's sisters were killed in the Nord Ost Theater incident in Dubrovka.
Another of the liquidated terrorists was identified as Anatoly Khodov, alias Abdullah, from the Ruslan Gelyaev group. He was involved in the 3 February 2004 bombing in Vladikavkaz. He was also involved in the 15 May attack on the Moscow-Vladikavkaz train.
The chief of the bandits was reported to be Magomed Yevloyev. His body has not been found. According to Vremya Novostei, among the dead gunmen was Magomed Aushev and a certain Umarov. However, this is not believed to be the field commander, Doku Umarov, who was reported to have organized the operation in the Beslan school. The bodies of seven gunnies did not have identification. Among them is one woman, who killed herself with a suicide belt.
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Sunday, 5 September, 2004, 18:01 GMT 19:01 UK
Israel has started work on the southern section of the West Bank barrier. Bulldozers carried out preparatory clearing work on Sunday around the village of Beit Awwa near Hebron.
The activity comes just five days after suicide bombings in the southern city of Beersheva, but officials say it had been planned long before the attacks.
Work is more advanced on the northern part of the barrier, parts of which the International Court of Justice found to be illegal in a July ruling. ...more... mainly crap about where the fence is being / to be built.
More fence. Good. Don't forget to leave a big gate on the eastern side...
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Can't they go any faster? The longer it takes the more the loons will be whining.
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and Arafat's selling them the cement :-)
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Israel has the right idea concerning the next phase of the national security anti-terrorist barriers, since it is out of the norm of reason to contemplate any attempts at further 'peace talks' with the likes of despicable multi-gangs of unstable lunatics who only want to blow themselves on city buses for their free express trip downstairs with their 'Allah' & the invented awaiting 'virgins'........from Hell.
Iraq and Afghanistan should also consider insolating sections of cities known as centres of jihadists.
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I like the idea I heard from one Comedian(Can't think of the name, not exact quote).
" I think we should just wall them completely off and connect the West bank and Gaza with a Pexi-glass tube. That way the Isreali children can point and say 'Look, it's Paleostinians.'"
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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.
The activity comes just five days after suicide bombings in the southern city of Beersheva, but officials say it had been planned long before the attacks. 
