They rent cars and houses using stolen IDs. They disguise themselves as women or as hip young men.
Especially women. It's the underwear. They can't resist them...
The money they raise for Iraqi prisoners in U.S. jails funds terror operations. This, Saudi officials say, is the kind of information being gleaned from scores of Saudi militants arrested in an aggressive government campaign. Two suspects have appeared on television to talk about life underground, telling of injured comrades who die from lack of medical care, supposedly devout Muslims who don't bother praying the mandatory five prayers, and uneducated youths who consider Saudis in uniform to be infidels. Such information has enabled the kingdom to strike at the root of al-Qaida's Saudi infrastructure, kill or capture several of its leaders, and publicly portray it in a humiliating light.
But no one is willing to declare the network dead or paralyzed, and foreigners know the successes do not mean they should let their guard down. The U.S. Embassy continues to warn Americans that they face a "serious threat to their safety while in Saudi Arabia" and that credible information indicates terrorists "continue to target residential compounds" in the kingdom. The warnings came after a particularly violent period in which a compound and two oil companies were attacked in the Eastern Province, several Westerners were killed in Riyadh and an American hostage, Paul Johnson, was beheaded. "It's not in our security interest to assume they cannot carry out a large operation," said Brig. Gen. Mansour al-Turki, the Interior Ministry spokesman. "If we assume they can't, it would have an adverse effect on our alertness and level of preparedness to confront them."
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Russian forces fighting in the breakaway republic of Chechnya said yesterday they had killed a Canadian mercenary who was fighting alongside anti-Kremlin rebels. Rudwan Khalil, who according to his passport is a 26-year-old resident of Vancouver, was reportedly killed along with three other rebels on Thursday in a gun battle outside Niki-Khita, in the Caucasus mountains in southern Chechnya. A Russian army spokesman said Mr. Khalil, described in local news reports as being of "Afro-American origin," was an explosives expert sent from abroad to aid the cause of Chechen independence.
While foreign citizens have frequently been killed fighting alongside Chechen rebels in the past, this is the first time a Canadian is reported to have taken part in the conflict. Russian state television last night showed camouflage-clad Russian soldiers standing over the bodies of the four men, exhibiting a Canadian passport and a B.C. driver's licence issued in June, 2002. A man listed as M. Abubaker of Vancouver, who identified himself as Mr. Khalil's brother, told The Canadian Press yesterday that he was unaware that his brother had been reported killed. "The last thing I knew was that he went for a wedding. A buddy of his was getting married," Mr. Abubaker said. "He went to visit my dad and from my dad he went away a little bit looking for a job. Then he went for a wedding and is supposedly coming back. He's just a Vancouver kid. He grew up here."
Then how do you explain the corpse?
Reynald Doiron, a spokesman for Canada's Foreign Affairs Department, said from Ottawa that a passport with the same name and number as the one shown was issued in Vancouver. But he said Ottawa has not confirmed the Russian account of Mr. Khalil's activities. RCMP in Vancouver were trying yesterday to track down Mr. Khalil's sister, who was listed on the passport as next-of-kin. They said a family member asked them to withhold information on the case.
Major-General Ilya Shabalkin told Russian news agencies that when the fight broke out, the three Chechens accompanying Mr. Khalil were escorting him to a meeting with Akhmed Avdorkhanov, a top Chechen commander who reports directly to the republic's deposed president, Aslan Maskhadov. Maj-Gen. Shabalkin described Mr. Khalil as a "highly skilled demolition sapper" sent to replace an Algerian fighter taken prisoner last month by Russian soldiers. News of the apparent involvement of a Canadian mercenary may force the conflict higher onto the agenda when Prime Minister Paul Martin visits Moscow next week. Canada has in the past avoided public pronouncements on the war.
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The story out of Moscow said the Canadian's name was Rudvan Khalil. His brother's name is M. Abubaker. Isn't Khalil an Egyptian name? What is Abubaker? Why are their names different?
The story said Khalil is of Afro-American origins. Wouldn't he be of Afro-Canadian origins if he lived in Vancouver all his life?
How did he get to be an explosives expert? Where does someone with the name Khalil get such training in Vancouver?
The story said Khalil was going with three Chechens to meet Akhmed Avdorkhanov, a top Chechen commander who engineered the Beslam massacre.
Khalil's brother said he was going to the ubiquitous Muslim wedding (Where many terrorists get killed. Must be the AK-47s and RPGs).
When I was recently in Vancouver, I did not see many Afro-Canadians. Are there not many of them in Vancouver?
The story has a lot of inconsistencies unanswered questions.
Terrorists do have a way of ending up dead--can we speed it up?
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Terrorists do have a way of ending up dead--can we speed it up?
Amen John Q!
Kill 'em, Kill 'em all...as fast as we can... before they can kill one more innocent.
Just listened to another interview with Craig Winn. This man needs to be heard by as many individuals with limited understanding of Islam as possible. Try reading some of the material on his website of www.prophetofdoom.net to begin understanding this satan-inspired belief system.
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A. Bungfodder=JQC. Thanks Constitutional Individualist!
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#1 Kahlil is his middle name, and yes he is egyptian. He was born in sudan, but lived in egypt his entire life before coming to canada. His last name is infact Abubaker.
#2 He was not an explosive expert. Thats what the russians claim. He was infact a model/actor.
#3 He was taking a connecting flight from Chechnya to to go to a friends wedding.
#4 There are many Afro-Canadians in vancouver, you just don't know where to look.
#5 He wasn't a fucking terrorist, he was 26 year with a bright future ahead of him, and was planning to open a Hip-hop clothing shop in Bahrain. Radwan was a friend of mine, and he will be greatly missed by all who knew him.
if you still are confused email me, candy_man_2001@hotmail.com
Federal troops destroyed a large base of militants in Chechnya. The base was found four kilometers north of Dzhalgari in the Kurchaloi district with the help of local population, a source in the regional operational headquarters of the anti-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus told Itar-Tass on Saturday. The base consisted of beds for 30 people, several observation posts and trenches. Bedding, uniform and 150 kilograms of foodstuffs were found at the base.
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Good! Too bad the 30 people weren't there to be destroyed, too.
with the help of local population
Maybe the locals are seeing the handwriting on the wall....
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Police have arrested 17 non-Libyans suspected of being al-Qaida members who entered this North African country illegally, the interior minister said Sunday. Nasr al-Mabrouk said the men are from the Indian subcontinent and Central Asia and were arrested when they entered Libya. Al-Mabrouk did not specify the nationalities of the men, say when they were arrested or say whether they entered Libya individually or as a group. "Preliminary investigations proved that the group, numbering now 17, has a connection with Osama bin Laden, but the nature of this relation has not been established yet," al-Mabrouk told The Associated Press. Al-Mabrouk provided no details on the men's aims in Libya but said more information would be released in coming days. Libya has been known for a tolerant approach to immigration and foreign labor, but under European pressure it has toughened its stance and arrested hundreds of would-be immigrants.
My guess would be a herd of Paks and Uzbeks, come to push Hezb ut-Tahrir...
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An Israeli aircraft fired a missile at a home near a Hamas stronghold in the Jebaliya refugee camp on Sunday, killing one civilian and wounding eight other Palestinians, hospital officials said. It was not immediately clear why the army targeted the house, which was near the Kholfa Mosque, a power base for the militant group Hamas. The army did not immediately comment. The strike killed a 38-year-old Palestinian civilian and seriously wounded eight other Palestinians, including a girl, hospital officials said. It also caused extensive damage to homes and stores nearby, witnesses said.
The attack was the latest in a 10-day-old Israeli operation in Jebaliya. The army is hunting down Palestinian militants who fire rockets at Israeli towns. Tanks and infantry operating in Jebaliya's narrow alleys, and the army has increased missile strikes on militants and weapons' workshops. Also Sunday, a Palestinian gunman wounded earlier in the offensive in northern Gaza died in the hospital, officials said. The two deaths brought the number of Palestinians killed in the operation to 96. Almost half of those killed were civilians, 18 were age 16 and under.
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It was not immediately clear why the army targeted the house, which was near the Kholfa Mosque, a power base for the militant group Hamas
yep, just a randomly aimed missile, like Qassams
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who gives a damn if it killed a civilian? Thats all the pali's go after is women and kids
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From another article today:
http://rantburg.com/poparticle.asp?ID=45546&D=10/10/2004 Witnesses said the explosion hit the former home of Mahmoud Salem, one of the suicide attackers responsible for the double bombing at the Israeli port of Ashdod in March that killed 10.
Sounds like a righteous application of fire control.
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It's not WTOP. Here is the article's byline:
By IBRAHIM BARZAK
Associated Press Writer
We shouldn't have people who are our enemies reporting the news for us.
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WTOP biased? Ask Fred
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Frank - true, but WTOP always publishes and broadcasts the stories (off the wire) that shed the absolutely and positively most negative storyline that they can find.
The Taliban vowed to turn the Afghan election into a day of bloodshed, but the rebels mounted only a smattering of small-scale attacks on police and civilians and a larger clash that left many of their own dead. After months of what proved to be empty threats, military commanders and ordinary Afghans said Sunday the vote was a serious setback for the holdouts of the hard-line Islamic regime that was driven from power by U.S. bombs almost three years ago for harboring Osama bin Laden. "Yesterday was a big defeat for the Taliban and a huge defeat for al-Qaida," Lt. Gen. David Barno, the top American commander in Afghanistan, told The Associated Press. "It shows that the political process is overwhelming any influence they may have."
Voters also said the Taliban had been exposed as weak. Bismillah Jan, a driver for an aid group in this southern city, where the Taliban began, said his fear of attacks on Saturday quickly disappeared when he saw the heavy security on the way to the polling station where the atmosphere "was like a festival." "This government has the support of the world and the help of God," said the 20-year-old, who recently returned home after a spell as a refugee in Pakistan. "The Taliban are weak and they are fading day by day."
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...but the rebels mounted only a smattering of small-scale attacks on police and civilians and a larger clash that left many of their own dead.
Maybe the Afghanis ought to put a notice about a "do-over" vote at a few polling stations. Then lie in wait when the Talibs show up.
A Bedouin tribesman has confessed to selling explosives that might have been used in three car bombings targeting Israeli tourists and investigators were looking into Palestinian militant involvement, Egyptian security officials said Sunday. The tribesman said the buyers, whom he couldn't identify, had told him the explosives would be used in the Palestinian territories, an Egyptian investigator said. "The explosives were sold on the assumption that they were going to the Palestinians," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Relatives of the attacks' 34 victims, meanwhile, mourned their dead as rescuers finished their search for victims. Israelis, Egyptians, Italians and Russians were among the victims of Thursday night's blasts. Egyptian security officials said some of dozens of Bedouins detained for questioning after the car bombings in Taba and the resort area of Ras Shitan to the south have been cooperating with authorities and have provided valuable information about the explosives. Israeli officials have complained in the past of weapons and explosives being smuggled into the Gaza strip from Sinai. The Israelis maintain they come through tunnels dug beneath the Egypt-Gaza border.
Also, Palestinian and Egyptian officials told The Associated Press that Egyptian security and intelligence officers have been discussing the attacks with officials from the Palestinian factions Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The Egyptians were seeking information about members of the groups upset about Egypt's plan to help secure the Gaza Strip in the event of an Israeli withdrawal. Egypt has come under fire from some Arabs as aiding Israel; Egypt maintains it needs to ensure stability along its border in the event of a security vacuum left by Israel's departure. The officials said Egypt is not suggesting the two factions were behind the attacks, but rather are probing the possibility disgruntled defectors from the groups might have been involved. These discussions were taking place in Gaza and in some Middle East capitals, one official said without specifying which ones. On Saturday, Egyptian investigators said they suspected a group of eight to 10 terrorists carried out the attacks, possibly slipping in from Saudi Arabia or Jordan on speed boats.
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boy howdy! How uncomfortable that they killed all those Joooos in Egypt. If they'd managed to smuggle the 'splosives to Gaza to kill Joooos in Israel, that would've been nifty though....
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well, when the Palestinians refugees flood across their border they can take up residence in those blown up hotel buildings- and live like their grand leader, Arafat.
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That Bedouin sure had a lot of explosives to sell. Those were huge bombs.
IOW I'm skeptical/ Egypt is desperate to show they are halfway competent in order to make ALL TOURISTS feel safe. Tourism was terrible for years after the mass murder of Euro tourists at Luxor by Islamic Brotherhood types.
A U.S. system that integrates existing missile and radar assets has succeeded in intercepting a simulated cruise missile similar to ones obtained by Iran from China. The Complementary Low Altitude Weapon System, or CLAWS, was said to have successfully intercepted a BQM-74 surrogate cruise missile target through the integration of assets common to a range of U.S. allies in the Middle East. The cruise missile target, flying at low altitude, was intercepted during a test this week at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
In 2003, the U.S. PAC-2 and PAC-3 missile defense systems failed to intercept Iraqi cruise missiles fired toward Kuwait during the war against Saddam Hussein, Middle East Newsline reported. Officials said U.S. troops in Iraq could be vulnerable to cruise missiles fired by neighboring Iran, which has procured such weapons from China. Officials said all mission objectives were met in the interception of the BMQ-74 by a U.S.-origin air-to-air missile. The missile defense system has been integrated by Raytheon. "This test harnessed the elements of the CLAWS Family of Systems and demonstrated a capable, working architecture that will give us an advantage on the battlefield," Maj. Steve Grass, project lead of the U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command, said. "We are looking forward to taking the next step."
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I'm thinking we need to test that AEGIS anti-missile system on the next NK test launch. Gives em a lotto think about if we shoot that skeet from the sky right after launch
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"...shoot that skeet from the sky......"
LOL Frank!
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A bomb exploded Sunday at a Shiite mosque in the eastern city of Lahore, killing at least four people and injuring others, officials said. A witness said a man carrying a briefcase tried to enter the Husainia Hall mosque in the ancient walled part of the city during evening prayers but was blocked by security guards. He then detonated a bomb in the briefcase. "Our two security guards were martyred and the suicide bomber was killed," said witness Sajjad Bhutta.
The state news agency quoted Punjab province Home Secretary Hassan Waseem as saying that four people were killed and others injured. The bomb went off at the mosque at 5:40 p.m. after prayers, said Raja Basharat Illahi, the province's law minister. The attack was the third this month against a religious target in Punjab, stoking fears of spiraling sectarian violence. On Oct. 1, a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque killed 31 people in Sialkot city. Six days later, a car bombing at a gathering of Sunni Muslim radicals in Multan city killed 40 people. No group claimed responsibility for those attacks, which prompted authorities to ban religious gatherings across the country -- except for Friday prayers at mosques.
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Our two security guards were martyred
They misspelled "murdered"
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Barb, in this case the guards just might have the right to be classified as martyred. If not for them, many more casualties could have occured.
Not all innocent casualties, but some.
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It is incidents like this that remind me how very glad I am to be American. Our Hatfields and McCoys kept their feud within the family. Over there, it splits entire countries.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the fanatical leader of the terror gang that kidnapped Kenneth Bigley, is believed to have handed down a summary execution order and then watched as the Briton was beheaded. Zarqawi is believed to have been enraged after Mr Bigley made a bid to escape after three weeks in captivity. The order to kill him apparently came just hours after he was recaptured and returned to the hostage-takers.
Last night Ibrahim Janabi, chief of staff to the Iraqi prime minister, Ayad Allawi, said a military operation aimed at flushing out Zarqawi and his gang from Latifiya, where Mr Bigley was held, was imminent. The SAS is believed to be operating alongside crack US Delta Force troops. "The security forces are moving into position. There is a scheduled attack on Latifiya imminent. We want to eradicate Zarqawi," he said.
A man who identified himself as Abu Amir and said he was a spokesman for the terror group, told an Iraqi reporter working for The Sunday Telegraph that Zarqawi watched as gang members decapitated the 62-year-old civil engineer. "Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi decided yesterday that it was necessary," he said. "As soon as he gave the order we carried it out immediately. He stayed in the room to watch in person as we killed Kenneth. He praised us."
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He had a go, so those fuckers beheaded him whilst Zarqawi watched.
I just want to here the story come up that there's been a firefight, and that all those animals were killed, along with 20-30 tooled up 'bystanders' that got in the way. For no casualties on our side. And that we know have Zarqawi's balls in a vice and are interrogating him.
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Aplogies, my grammar was screwed up in the last post (here = hear, know = now).
I like the idea of a jar...
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As soon as he gave the order we carried it out immediately. He stayed in the room to watch in person as we killed Kenneth. He praised us."
Ha! Me thinks they doth protest too much. Zarqawi was there...he gave the order..he praised us... honest! If it's so important that we know that Zarqawi was present - why didn't he show his mug in the video tape?
Sounds to me like Zarqawi wasn't there, but they want very badly for us to think that he was.
A SUICIDE bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into an army convoy in Indian Kashmir last night, killing four soldiers and a civilian and wounding 30 more, police said. Jaish-e-Mohammad, a rebel group based in Pakistan, claimed responsibility for the attack on a highway near Pattan, south of Srinagar, summer capital of the region. The attack comes days after India and Pakistan proposed talks on various issues, including a bus service through divided Kashmir.
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Two Chinese engineers and their Pakistani security guard were kidnapped early today by unidentified men in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal area, bordering Afghanistan, where security forces have launched operations to flush out hiding Al-Qaeda militants. The duo- identified as Wang Peng and Wang Ende- were abducted by five persons when they were on their way to Tank, where they were working on Gomal Zam Dam, a Rs 12 billion hydro-power project, Chinese embassy officials said. One Pakistani guard, who was escorting the two engineers who worked for state-run Chinese company Sino Hydro Corp, was also kidnapped, the officials said, adding their vehicle was found abandoned by the road. Pakistan security forces have launched an operation to rescue them. The kidnapping is the latest in the series of attacks against Chinese workers in Pakistan. Late last month three Chinese personnel working on the same hydro-power project came under heavy firing by unidentified attackers.
A deadly car bomb attack on Chinese engineers helping Pakistan to build the multi-million dollar Gwadar seaport had killed three of them on May 3 this year. On June 10, unidentified assilants shot dead 11 Chinese road workers in Kunduz province in Northern Afghanistan, in the deadliest attack on foreign civilians since the fall of the Taliban.
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The group headed by suspected Al-Qaeda operative Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi has claimed responsibility for a car bombing in western Iraq on Wednesday that authorities said killed 10 police recruits and that the group said left 40 dead. A statement on an Islamist website late Saturday said "one of the lion's cubs of the 'Brigade of Candidates for Martyrdom," belonging to the group Tawhid wal Jihad (Unity and Holy War) managed to infiltrate members of the infidels' would-be civil defense ... killing 40 of them." The statement, at www.ansarnet.ws/vb/, could not be independently verified.
In a rare car bombing in Iraq's barren western plains, a suicide attacker on Wednesday rammed his vehicle into a group of people signing up with the national guard at a military base in Anah, some 260 kilometres (160 miles) west of Baghdad. Police said 10 young recruits were killed and 24 wounded in the latest attack on the fledgling force, which has been repeatedly targeted by the insurgents.
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At least 56 people were killed in Thursday's terror attacks in Egypt, but searches for missing people continued Saturday. In Taba, Israeli soldiers and Egyptian crews continued digging through the rubble beneath the Hilton Hotel's lobby and eastern wing hit when a car bomb carrying hundreds of pounds of explosives crashed into the hotel. The Israeli army reported 30 bodies were recovered at the hotel, but only 12 have been identified. Six were Egyptians and six Israelis. Eight more Israelis are missing, Israeli Maj. Gen. Ya'ir Naveh said. Channel 1 TV quoted Egyptian sources as saying that at the site of the second bombing, at Ras e-Satan, there were still 19 unidentified bodies. Seven bodies have been identified, three of them are Israeli.
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An Egyptian security official on Saturday denied reports that Egypt had arrested 30 suspects in connection with the blast that rocked Taba Hilton in South Sinai Thursday night, the official MENA news agency reported. "Investigations are still underway by a team of investigators, who arrived in Taba on Friday and began examining the scene of the blast," a security source was quoted as saying. The source added that all details of the blast are expected to be unveiled after the end of the investigations.
MENA reported earlier that an Egyptian presidential spokesman said Saturday that it is still too early to say who were behind the blasts. The Egyptian security agencies were exerting utmost efforts to unravel all aspects of the attacks, but it is still too early to talk about how the explosives reached the site of the blast, who were behind the attacks and why they did this, Maged Abdel Fattah was quoted as saying. A deadly blast Thursday night rocked Hilton Taba hotel in Egypt's Sinai Peninsular, which was popular with Israeli tourists. Shortly after that, two other blasts occurred at holiday camps in Ras al-Sultan and Nuwaiba, not far away from Taba. Casualties vary in media reports. But Egyptian Interior Ministry said Saturday afternoon that the bombings claimed the lives of 34 people, including 30 in Taba Hilton hotel and four in two other explosions.
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"No, no! Certainly not! It's just coincidence they let those guys out of jug a few months ago!"
The Sinai resort bombings were Egypt's first major terrorist attacks since the 1997 Luxor massacre by radical Islamists, but government officials and analysts said Saturday they probably don't signal a resumption of militant activity in Egypt, which has shown zero tolerance for Muslim extremists. Egyptian terrorism experts believe Thursday's car bomb attacks on the Taba Hilton and two beachside camps farther south were isolated events carried out by foreign terrorists, most likely linked to al-Qaida. They said Egyptian Islamists, thousands of whom were jailed, killed or forced underground in the secular government's crackdown on militant groups in the 1980s and 90s, have neither the means nor the inclination to launch a wave of attacks inside the country.
Leaders of the country's largest group, Al-Gamaa al-Islamiya, announced a unilateral cease-fire in 1997. The Egyptian Islamic Jihad, which counted al-Qaida deputy Ayman al-Zawahri as one of its leaders, has disbanded. Kamal Habib, a former member of Islamic Jihad who was jailed from 1981 to 1991, said it is highly unlikely that any Egyptian Islamic group was responsible for the bombings. He said Islamic militants no longer feel the deep animosity they had in past decades. Militants assassinated President Anwar Sadat in 1981 after he forged close ties to the United States and made Egypt the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel. "The Islamists don't consider the Egyptian regime as an enemy anymore," Habib told The Associated Press.
Three claims of responsibility for the Sinai attacks have surfaced from little-known groups, but there was no evidence any of them was authentic. Mohamed Salah, an expert on Egyptian militants and the Cairo chief of the pan-Arab newspaper Al-Hayat, believed the attack was an isolated strike by an organization like al-Qaida, not the start of a pattern by a local group. "It is very difficult for there to be more attacks in Egypt because there is no base for militant groups here anymore," Salah said.
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Israeli soldiers on Saturday shot and killed a Hamas militant whom the military said was responsible for a rocket attack that killed two Israeli preschoolers last week and triggered an army offensive in northern Gaza. Abed Nabhan, 25, was one of five Palestinians killed Saturday in the continuing Israeli operation in northern Gaza. Nabhan, a Hamas field commander, was killed when Israeli troops shot at Hamas militants preparing to fire an anti-tank missile from the Jebaliya refugee camp. After the deadly rocket attack on the Israeli border down of Sderot on Sept. 29, the Israeli army launched the largest incursion into northern Gaza since Israeli-Palestinian fighting broke out four years ago. About 2,000 troops and hundreds of army vehicles took control of a five-mile strip of northern Gaza in an effort to force militants out of rocket range of Israeli towns. The army said Nabhan was responsible for the Sderot attack as well as a Sept. 30 attack on an army post in northern Gaza that killed an Israeli soldier and wounded two others. Nabhan and three other Hamas gunmen were preparing to fire an anti- tank missile Saturday at Israeli troops in Jebaliya when the army shot first, setting off an explosion that killed Nabhan and wounded the other gunmen, the army said.
Late Saturday, two Israeli aircraft fired missiles toward Palestinians in separate incidents in Jebaliya. The first strike, near a market, wounded four Palestinians, including two militants who were standing near a land mine, hospital officials and witnesses said. The militants were in critical condition and two bystanders were moderately wounded, hospital officials said. The second strike seriously wounded two other militants, hospital officials said. Israeli military sources said soldiers identified a group of Palestinian gunmen, attacked them from the air and identified a hit on at least three of them. Earlier Saturday night, an explosion rocked a five-story house near Jebaliya, killing two people, hospital officials said. The army said the house was hit by an errant anti-tank missile fired by militants. Residents said the explosion was caused by two tank shells fired by the Israeli military. Tanks began moving near the area late Friday and militants were active in the neighborhood, residents said. Witnesses said the explosion hit the former home of Mahmoud Salem, one of the suicide attackers responsible for the double bombing at the Israeli port of Ashdod in March that killed 10. The Israeli military said it was coordinating with Palestinian rescue workers to put out the fire in the house.
Earlier Saturday, a lengthy gunbattle erupted between Palestinian militants and Israeli troops just outside the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, killing two Palestinians, according to medical officials. The deaths brought the number of Palestinians killed to 94 since Israel began its offensive in northern Gaza. Nearly half of those killed were civilians; 18 were age 16 and under. The gunfight in Beit Hanoun broke out when Israeli troops tried to move to the east side of the town and Palestinians tried to stop them, residents said. Meanwhile in southern Gaza, an Israeli aircraft fired a missile Saturday morning at a group of Palestinians in the town of Khan Younis, killing two Palestinian security officers who were armed and wearing civilian clothing, hospital and security officials said. The Israeli military said it had targeted two armed gunmen.
Later Saturday, five Israeli tanks, two bulldozers and two jeeps moved into the village of Orabia east of the southern Gaza city of Rafah and used loudspeakers to call on residents to leave their houses so they could be demolished, residents said. The military had no immediate comment.
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How come the pali peoples get all the vogueing stuff? The Joooooooos always look like your next door neighbor's son/daughter in the Army.
The killings of Mufti Jamil and Nazir Ahmed Taunsvi come amid fears of escalating sectarian violence in Pakistan following two bombings against religious targets this month that killed more than 70 people. Both Jamil and Taunsvi were close associates of another Sunni cleric, Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, whose shooting death in Karachi in May sparked riots by followers in the city.
"Alas, poor Shamzai!"
There was no immediate word on who was behind Saturday's assault, but suspicion would likely fall on minority Shiite militants. Pakistan has a history of sectarian violence.
Actually, you can probably pick violence of any type and Pakistan has a history of it...
While most majority Sunnis and Shiites live peacefully together, small extremist groups from both sects have staged attacks. President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz condemned the killings but reiterated their resolve "to root out the menace of terrorism from the country," the Associated Press of Pakistan news agency reported. A prominent Shiite leader, Allama Hasan Tarabi, condemned the killings of the Sunni scholars as "the murder of humanity." He appealed for clerics of all the sects to find out "who is trying to pit Shiites and Sunni Muslims against each other."
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fears of escalating sectarian violence in Pakistan
They misspelled "certainty."
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This sectarian violence in Pakistan has been going on for quite some time. I know several RBers follow the situation quite closely.
How close is Pakistan from a full-blown Shia versus Sunni civil war? How does the Sunni/Shia divide manifest itself in the various terrorist groups and radical political parties?
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He appealed for clerics of all the sects to find out "who is trying to pit Shiites and Sunni Muslims against each other."
Sectarian violence in Pakistan has always been blamed on external forces. If it is not ‘the American hand’ and ‘the Jewish lobby’ behind the massacres, it is ‘the Hindu element’, ‘the Afghan factor’, ‘the Iranian design’, ‘the Saudi finance’ — even ‘the Al Qaeda network’. One of the factors sustaining sectarian violence for decades is our failure to look within for the causes and culprits. Blaming outsiders is easy but hardly solves a problem. There is a pressing need for admitting that the ‘Muslims cannot kill Muslims’ notion is not helpful in combating sectarian crime. It is high time we realised that we have a ‘situation’. The only time we have had a degree of success in dealing with sectarianism has been when we have dealt with it in an objective manner. There are no two ways about it.
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Kirk;
I don't think there is much chance of a Sunni/Shia civil war, but if there was, the Shias would be exterminated since they are outnumbered and outgunned.
Essentially all the Pakistani Jihadis belong to either of two Sunni sects - the Deobandis and the Alhe-Hadith (Salafis). There are other sects in Pakistan, but essentially the sectarian conflict is a war between the Deobandis and the Shia.
The grand Deobandi alliance is probably the biggest force in Pakistan after the state’s armed forces. Based in Karachi, the Binori Complex houses leaders that sit in the shuras of the various Deobandi jehadi militias. Its religious scholars sit in the shura of Sipah-e-Sahaba as well as he shura of the two militias Harkatul Mujahideen and Jaish-e-Muhammad. Since they also have similar influence over the JUI, the Sipah-e-Sahaba of Maulana Azam Tariq and the JUI, both factions have a kind of secret liaison, so that the manifest anti-Shia orientation of the Sipah doesn’t encompass the JUI although the latter has the same unspoken view.
The Shias aren't allowed to run above ground militias like the Sunnis, because the ISI only use Sunni Jihadis in Kashmir and Afghanistan. The Shias do have underground terrorist outfits that often assasinate Deobandi leaders in response to massacres of Shia.
You can read more on Pak sectarianism here if you want.
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Thanks, Paul. Good info. One more naive question ...
"the ISI only use Sunni Jihadis in Kashmir and Afghanistan"
Is the ISI running rogue operations in Afghanistan, or is Musharraf hedging his bet, in the unlikely event the U.S. and its allies are ejected from Afghanistan?
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Just IMHO, I believe that Musharraf is allowing a certain level of calibrated support to the Taliban and Hekmatyar elements, while supporting Afghan political groupings, in order to keep Pakistan's options open. Similar to Iran supporting both Muqtada Al-Sadr in opposition to the occupation of Iraq, and SCIRI working within the system.
I believe part of the reason there haven't been many American casualties in Afghanistan, and why Kabul doesn't have bombs going off every day, is due to the Taliban being preassured by the ISI to keep their activities at a low level.
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Jihadist Islamic is the default religion for the world's psycho killers.
The Jihadist Islamics have taken Muhammad's "examples" to heart. His murderous "examples" as found in Koran and Hadith. As such they are ticking time bombs and need to die before they kill innocents. This particular psycho killer was offing his fellow Muslims.
Jihadist Islamic is the default religion for the world's psycho killers.
The Jihadist Islamics have taken Muhammad's "examples" to heart. His murderous "examples" as found in Koran and Hadith. As such they are ticking time bombs and need to die before they kill innocents. This particular psycho killer was offing his fellow Muslims.
Jihadist Islamic is the default religion for the world's psycho killers.
The Jihadist Islamics have taken Muhammad's "examples" to heart. His murderous "examples" as found in Koran and Hadith. As such they are ticking time bombs and need to die before they kill innocents. This particular psycho killer was offing his fellow Muslims.
Jihadist Islamic is the default religion for the world's psycho killers.
The Jihadist Islamics have taken Muhammad's "examples" to heart. His murderous "examples" as found in Koran and Hadith. As such they are ticking time bombs and need to die before they kill innocents. This particular psycho killer was offing his fellow Muslims.
Two Chinese engineers helping Pakistan build a dam in a tense tribal region were kidnapped early Saturday along with at least one Pakistani security guard and their driver, officials said. The engineers were on their way to Tank, in the remote South Waziristan region where al-Qaida-linked militants are active, when five gunmen ambushed their two vehicles, police and intelligence sources said. Pakistan's Interior Ministry said law enforcement agencies were chasing the kidnappers and had sealed the area. "Our security forces are trying to rescue them without getting them harmed," Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told The Associated Press.
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Looking for a fundo funding source are they? They won't get much geld from the Chicoms.
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A suicide car bomber rammed into an army convoy in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Saturday, triggering an explosion that left four people dead and 22 wounded, the army said. Two soldiers, a civilian and the bomber were killed in the attack on a highway connecting Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu-Kashmir state, with the frontier town of Uri, an army garrison, said Lt. Col. V. K. Batra. Twelve soldiers and 10 civilians were injured in the blast. Shortly after the attack, a local news agency in Srinagar said it received a telephone call from the Jaish-e-Mohammed militant group claiming responsibility for the attack. The Current News Service said the caller identified himself as Abu Jindal and claimed to be a spokesman for the Pakistan-based militant group.
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I'll believe it when they've all been turned in...
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Fred,
Is something weird happening to Rantburg's format
or is it just my browser going berzerk ???
If this goes on my wrist is going to snap and fall off.
HELP !!!
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Elder, this also happened recently. It's apparently a deliberate attack on the site by insecure little people (and I use the term in the loosest posible sense) who object to the opinions expressed here and post hate mail and attempt sabotage because they have neither the guts nor the sense of fair play nor the intellect to engage in genuine debate.
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That one is Boris. He put his comments in a table and set the width to 4000. He's been doing that for a few weeks now. He doesn't have anything to say, so he settles for trying to deface the site.
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They can hand over their arms, or get handed their heads.
Their choice.
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The word is - the al Sadr loyalists saw Samarra as a huge defeat and are ready to quit. The problem with the negotiations will be what to do with the foreign fighter "cancer" that has infected some of the cities. They are hell bent on dying for their own cause not for the Iraqis. The war will swing Allawi's way in the next two weeks as the Iraqis begin to clean their own house.
As I understand it, they're willing to give up their heavy & medium weapons. Sound like something's missing? Light weapons? So how much heavy weaponry do these throwbacks have - A few Medium MG's, medium mortars and of course RPGs are the only things I know of. Basically all they have is light , eg., personal, weapons. So in other words they give up squat. Whatever they do give up will be made good by their co-religionists in Tehran anyway.
Investigators lifted fingerprints, swabbed dust and collected tissue from the wreckage of three car bombings Saturday and detained dozens of Bedouin tribesmen, including quarry workers who could have provided the explosives that killed at least 33 people. Israel blamed al-Qaida for the Thursday night attacks in two Sinai resorts, and Egyptian investigators were leaning toward an al-Qaida connection as well. Egyptian investigators said they suspected eight to 10 terrorists targeting Israeli tourists carried out the attacks, possibly slipping in from Saudi Arabia or Jordan on speed boats. They also said there was a chance a local sleeper cell of Egyptians might have been activated to stage the attacks, Egypt's first terrorist strike in seven years. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the investigators said such a group would almost certainly be linked to Ayman al-Zawahri, who led the extremist Egyptian Islamic Jihad before merging the group with al-Qaida in 1998. The Egypt-born Zawahri is Osama bin Laden's top deputy.
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I want to share this story from my nephew in bagdad. I encourage all to share and spread.......
He is a GREAT AMERICAN with a GREAT story.
His E-Mail is at end of letter and do feel free to send him a letter of support
One Proud Uncle
Robert
Uncle Robert,
I have a friend in Hawaii who has asked me to write about some of my experiences over here. She is trying to push a few people off the fence for the upcoming elections and wanted my personal insights into what I have seen. Here is a story I wrote for her that I thought you might like to read.
Here's a story for you about a man named Abbas Al-Janabi. Just another hard to pronounce arabic name? There's a lot more to him than that. Abbas was a good father, a good business man and a friend. Abbas was your average everyday Iraqi citizen. He started working with the U.S. Army in 2003 by procuring and selling goods to different units. He could get you anything you needed or wanted; from print cartridges, office furniture and supplies, satellite TV, cell phones to labor. He charged fair prices and never asked to make a profit on the labor he provided. He asked that we pay the workers directly so they could make more money. I met Abbas a couple of days after I arrived in Iraq. He was introduced to me by my counterpart in the unit we replaced and given a very good reference.
Abbas recognized early on that things were changing drastically in his country and he didn't want to get left behind. He decided to become an entrepreneur. Most importantly, he also recognized the value of fair business practices. He was very personable and humble. After he learned that I was married, he asked me the name of my wife. He never forgot her name and would ask me if Amy was well every time I saw him. He had a family too. His wife's name is Imam and he had a son and two daughters. A few weeks ago, he told me about how he was fixing up his house. Most of the homes in Baghdad are surrounded by garbage, dust and rubble. He told me how he had cleaned it all up and had installed a swimming pool in his back yard. He was very proud of his swimming pool. One could say he was living the American Dream, only he was an Iraqi, living in Baghdad.
That dream came to end at 2:00 a.m. on August 1, 2004. Some people didn't like that Abbas was prosperous. Some people didn't like the fact that because he was working hard, he was able to provide for his family and even have a few luxuries. These people decided that Abbas and his family didn't deserve to live. They crashed into his home and shot and killed everyone in the house. Not only was Abbas murdered, but so was his 11 year-old son, his brother and his brother's two young children. Then they looted his home. Luckily, Imam and their two daughters were staying with family that night, or they would have been murdered too. I have asked Abbas if he ever recieved threats. His response was always to shrug his shoulders and say something to the affect that is part of the world he lives in and that threats like that are rarely carried out. He never went anywhere without his MP5 submachine gun. I wish he would have had the opportunity to use it.
What these people did was pure evil. It was completely inhuman. The worst part about it is they will never be held accountable for what they did. One of our workers was Abbas' next door neighbor. According to him, these people did not murder Abbas because he was doing business with Americans. They murdered him only because of what he had. We Americans certainly have our own version of class envy, but this is ridiculous!
Abbas is gone now and those of us who knew him, miss him. I lost a friend. All but one of his workers quit their high paying jobs that I gave them because they were afraid that they would be next. The high paying jobs that I gave them earned them $10 per day to fill sandbags, pick up garbage, move cement bags and do carpentry work. This is about twice as much as they can make working anywhere else. Many of them used to work for Saddam building his palaces. Saddam paid them $2 per day.
The one worker who stayed on, Fuad, has decided to take his life into his own hands. Fuad is an unassuming little fellow. He stands a slender 5'4" high or so, doesn't speak a lick of English and favors wearing chino pants, a golf shirt and a fishing hat. He has recruited a new work force and become the "boss". This earned him a raise to $20 per day (more than most doctors make). He has also decided to take over Abbas' role as a vendor. Fuad knows what he's getting into. He is no stranger to violence. He has a plastic leg because an insurgent mortar round took his real leg. He also has some grotesque scars on his arm, chest and abdomen from his encounter with that mortar round. Fuad has picked up the dream and is running with it. Fuad wants to move up to the middle class. I wish him the best and hope that he succeeds. When the violence in Iraq is finally stopped, it will be people like Abbas and Fuad who will take their country to success. American servicemembers may be the heros in most Americans minds, and they should be, but guys like Abbas and Fuad should be the heros of the Iraqi people. They have the same drive to build something that made America as great as it is. They can do it here, we just need to give them the chance.
A lot of people have asked, why we are here. The short answer is that we are here to protect American interests. What then, are the bases of American interests? To me the simple answer to this question is to replace tyrany with freedom and liberty. I watched a speech by President Bush yesterday as he addressed the Veterans of Foreign Wars. His position is that free societies are peaceful societies and I agree with him. He said that we are trying to help Iraq and Afghanistan develop into free societies and he hopes that it will spread to other parts of the region. I agree with and support his efforts 100%. It is a worthwhile effort.
People never hear about the individuals involved in this process. They hear from the "retired generals club" (arm-chair quarterbacks), the critics, nay-sayers and everything negative. We hear terms like "quagmire" and "shock and awe". We hear the statistics about how many servicemembers have been killed since it all started, but we never hear about what those people did. How many people's lives did they impact? How many times did they help out a family? How many times did they make a child smile? How many lives did they save, Americans or otherwise?
Where is the reporting on all the great things we have done over here? I see Iraqis denouncing the Americans on TV everyday just like you do. I have an advantage over you though. I have driven the streets of Baghdad and I've been out in the countryside. You know what I see? I see people waving and cheering us everywhere we go. I see children on the side of the road fascinated by all the big trucks they see rolling by. I see the smile on their faces when you throw an old man a cold bottle of water as you drive by. I see the delight in kids' eyes when you toss them candy, or sometimes more importantly, a meal. They don't hate us and they certainly aren't afraid of us. You have to almost beat the kids off with a stick whenever you stop on a street. When they do this, their parents aren't far away, watching to make sure junior doesn't get in trouble, but always with a wave and a smile for us "evil" Americans. Where is the reporting on that? What about all the people who now have water, sewer and electric service for the first time in more than 13 years? You'll never see a story on CNN about that. What about when we find families squatting in stables or garbage dumps, then help them to find a place to live? Ever see a story on CNN about that? You won't hear about it, but it happens. I know it happens because I have done it. Just last week I helped relocate six families who were squatting in some of Saddam's old horse stables into homes.
I've seen first hand that this place is in a shambles, but it's not from this war. Sure you see the odd bombed out building here and there that was most likely bombed by the Coalition, but the rest is a result of neglect on the part of an evil dictator who let his people slip into or close to poverty while he hoarded money and built palaces. I heard it said on a documentary that Iraq is a first world country that was put under the rule of a third world dictator for 30 years. It's true. This country has the resources to be one of the most prosperous in the world, yet it has all been wasted. We hope to change that.
I wanted to share Abbas' story because he was a part of all of this. He was a real person with a real life that was cut short by evil. It is the same brand of evil that killed so many Americans on September 11, 2001. There are literally thousands of stories in Iraq similar to those of Abbas Al-Janabi. These are stories of good people, who only want to live free and have the opportunity for success. They are not religious fanatics. They have their faith, the same as most Americans do, but they don't try to force it on anyone and only want to live in peace. Unfortunately, like Abbas' fate, many of these stories end in tragedy. Stuff like this happens over here every day. Do you ever see stories like this on the news? Is there ever an outrage or a call for justice? Abbas was not filthy rich, he was middle class. Imagine if this happened in America. The media coverage would be overwhelming. There would be countless hours of coverage on the manhunt for the killers and then the trial would be a complete circus dominating the news for months. The reality here is that there will be no manhunt for Abbas' killers. It's not important enough to waste resources on because of all of the other nut cases who are causing more trouble than simply murdering a few innocent people in their beds in the middle of the night.
Forget about whether or not there are weapons of mass destruction, it really doesn't matter anymore and I don't think it really ever mattered. I had to come here to come to that realization. Think instead about what these people deserve and how our country will be better off in the long run when we succeed in giving it to them. They deserve the right to choose their own destiny instead of being oppressed by a minority of whackos and thugs. These are the same whackos who, if given the opportunity, would just as readily murder you and your family as they did Abbas and his family. Think about this: If we don't stop them here, they might just get that opportunity some day.
Love, Rusty
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RE:"I know it happens....We hope to change that."
Here is the greatest loss for the Democratic Party in 2004. There are tens of thousands of new leaders being made in Iraq as our fathers and grandfathers who experienced WWII and came home and decided to make a difference in their community and country. They became the political leadership in our towns, our states, and in our nation. They dedicated themselves to making this a better new world after see the ruin of the old world. They took a nation on par with may others in the world and built an economy and society that now stands way above all others. Still a way from perfection, but damn closer than anyone else. Now these young men and women are participating in building a country and improving the lot of the common man. The pride they have in doing this work will live with them for the rest of their lives. It is a positive construction force that can be repeated once these young people return their nation. Do you really think in any rational manner that the party that sold its soul to the anti-American left and denounces the work of these heros has the slightest chance to add their names to their rolls in future elections? These will be the next generation of names you will start to see on our ballots, people who know what real poverty is, what real opportunity is, and how to make a difference. And they will not be part of the party that betrays them today.
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Great story - he's right, we don't hear anywhere near enough of this side of the conflict.
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These will be the next generation of names you will start to see on our ballots, people who know what real poverty is, what real opportunity is, and how to make a difference. And they will not be part of the party that betrays them today.
True men and women of the people. In just four years veterans of the Iraqi War will be a badge of honor, even more so when Kerry's shameing words against what ourand Iraq's people are doing are turned back on him. These people, the Iraqis and Americans are truley winning the peace.
And guess what? They are doing it without a plan other than to enable liberty for all Iraqis.
Funny how that works.
And that phrase is a perfect counter to Kerry's incessant change that the president went to war without a plan toi win the pleace. Simply say: We have a plan and we are implementing it. Liberty justice for all Iraqis. Give that to them and let them make their own way.
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Barbara: I don't know. I must have gotten things mixed up somewhere.
Don: while some 18 year old kids are joining the army and being exposed to foreign cultures while fighting a war that's virtually one part combat and two parts civil affairs, a lot of kids going to "top colleges" instead are going to be getting their educations in an environment more parochial than 1940's rural Mississippi.
I don't know if anyone's thought through the long-term effects of that, but I hope it manages to shake things up a bit.
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th9ose 18 year old kids in that environment are getting a better education about life though phil. Unlike those kids going too the good colleges those kids in afghanistan and I raq are helping other ppl and not throwing keggers on the weekend.
It's the "top colleges" I'm referring to as the parochial environment.
The kids in the army are going to have a "wider" education in many ways than the ones who are going to ivy league schools and getting lectured by postmodernist idiot-savants about how lousy western civilization is. That's what I was trying to say.
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Thanks Rusty for this story. I am truly sorry your friend and his family were murdered. 9/11 and beheading type evil. There is only one thing to do and that is to root out the evil wherever it is.
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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
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Russian forces fighting in the breakaway republic of Chechnya said yesterday they had killed a Canadian mercenary who was fighting alongside anti-Kremlin rebels. 
A Bedouin tribesman has confessed to selling explosives that might have been used in three car bombings targeting Israeli tourists and investigators were looking into Palestinian militant involvement, Egyptian security officials said Sunday. The tribesman said the buyers, whom he couldn't identify, had told him the explosives would be used in the Palestinian territories, an Egyptian investigator said. "The explosives were sold on the assumption that they were going to the Palestinians," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Israeli soldiers on Saturday shot and killed a Hamas militant whom the military said was responsible for a rocket attack that killed two Israeli preschoolers last week and triggered an army offensive in northern Gaza. 
Investigators lifted fingerprints, swabbed dust and collected tissue from the wreckage of three car bombings Saturday and detained dozens of Bedouin tribesmen, including quarry workers who could have provided the explosives that killed at least 33 people. Israel blamed al-Qaida for the Thursday night attacks in two Sinai resorts, and Egyptian investigators were leaning toward an al-Qaida connection as well. Egyptian investigators said they suspected eight to 10 terrorists targeting Israeli tourists carried out the attacks, possibly slipping in from Saudi Arabia or Jordan on speed boats. They also said there was a chance a local sleeper cell of Egyptians might have been activated to stage the attacks, Egypt's first terrorist strike in seven years. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the investigators said such a group would almost certainly be linked to 
