Yemen was expected to hand over a terror suspect to Saudi Arabia Thursday in a bid to boost security cooperation between the neighboring countries. A Yemeni security official said Thursday, "The dangerous wanted Saudi national will be delivered to the kingdom within the framework of the security cooperation treaty between Sanaa and Riyadh." A Saudi security team arrived Wednesday in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, to repatriate the suspect, who is wanted at home on "serious security charges," the official said.
Either straight to jail or his welcome home party.
Earlier this year Yemen and Saudi Arabia exchanged several suspects held in the two countries' prisons. Saudi Arabia said it handed over 13 Yemenis suspected of involvement in the bombing of the USS Cole and the French tanker Limburgh, in exchange for five wanted Saudis.
Are there any Yemenies who aren't involved in the Cole bombing?
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Four inmates suffered smoke inhalation after an overnight blaze at a top-security jail in Saudi Arabia, security officials said yesterday.
That's one way to deal with some unwanted pests.
The fire at the Al Hail facility, in which a number of Al Qaeda terrorists are incarcerated, is the third such incident in 18 months and was probably started by inmates, officials said. The blaze was brought under control by firefighters.
Wonder if anyone stopped them like at that girls' school a while back.
Security had been stepped up at the prison, located south of the Saudi capital Riyadh, to thwart "possible planned unrest". Three inmates were injured in a fire at the prison in April of this year, while 68 people were officially reported killed in a September 2003 inferno during which a significant number of prisoners are alleged to have escaped.
Nice to see that the prison security in the Magic Kingdom works as well as everything else there.
"Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Da witnesses is all dead!"
"Oh, yeah?"
"[Hack! Caff!]"
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Well, with stone buildings in a setting of sand and rocks, with precisely zero likelihood of lightening strikes, it's a fair assumption that humans caused it and it's an inside job, heh. Prolly only 6 or 7 combustible items in the whole place... Of course, with Nayef running things like this, it could've been a dry run, too.
Two Russian intelligence agents convicted of assassinating a Chechen rebel leader in Qatar will be sent back to their homeland to serve out their life sentences there, the state news agency reported Thursday. The move could ease a strain in relations the case caused between Russia and Qatar, an oil-rich Persian Gulf state closely allied to the United States. The official Qatari news agency quoted an unnamed foreign ministry official as saying the two would be transferred to Russian prisons at the request of the Russian government. In Qatar, time in jail is set at a maximum of 25 years for those sentenced to life.
In the front door of the Russian prison and out the back to the limo waiting to take them to the welcome home party.
The two agents were convicted of killing Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev and sentenced in June. The rebel leader and Chechnya's former separatist president was driving from a mosque in Doha on Feb. 13 when a bomb planted in his car exploded. The Qatari court said the killing was carried out with the backing of "Russian leadership" and coordinated between Moscow and the Russian Embassy in Qatar.
Who, it seems, still take care of their own.
The Russian agents, who have not been officially identified, pleaded not guilty. Russia denied involvement in Yandarbiyev's killing, saying the defendants were gathering intelligence about terrorism.
"That's our story and we're sticking to it."
Yandarbiyev had been linked to terrorism by Russia, the United States and the United Nations. Prosecutors had sought the death penalty in the case. Yandarbiyev, Chechnya's acting president in 1996-1997, had lived in Qatar since 2000. Moscow had sought his extradition on charges of terrorism and links to al-Qaida, the international terror network.
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I wonder if this release has anything to do with Russia's declared intention to bomb terrorists wherever they hide.
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Not sure what *other* pressure Russia may have also applied since, but its first move had been to grab and imprison two random Qatari athletes that had happened to be passing through Russia.
Chechen militants are trying to raise money by producing counterfeit videos about alleged terrorist attacks, says a report of the North Caucasus anti-terrorist HQ. According to the HQ, Maskhadov and Basayev who are fully controlled by emissaries of foreign terrorist centers, Muslim-Brothers [Muslim Brotherhood] and Al-Qaeda, are suffering regular strikes of the federal forces, sustaining losses and having an acute financial shortage. In an attempt to demonstrate their alleged military capacity, bandits send fake videos showing the so-called numerous terrorist attacks committed in Chechnya and Ingushetia in 2004 to the HQ of the abovementioned organizations. To this end, they use videos of terrorist attacks committed by bandits back in 2000-2002, and not in 2004. "Thereby, Arab mercenaries, and Maskhadov and Basayev, who are accountable to them, have opted for cheat after losing their people and failing to attain any serious military success," the report runs. Earlier, the HQ reported about the elimination of Basayev's emissary who had tried to deliver videos of terrorist attacks of 2001-2002 to Georgia to counterfeit them later and present them as recent assaults.
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One of the suspected organizers of a deadly attack on a military bus in North Ossetia in 2003 told a court on Wednesday that he sheltered Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev in a house for two weeks that year. Speaking in the North Ossetian Supreme Court, Arkady Arakhov, who is from Nalchik in Kabardino-Balkaria, accepted the charge that he and Issa Iliyev, another of four defendants in the bus attack case, bought two houses with Basayev's money in Baksan, Kabardino-Balkaria, for Chechen militants to rest and take medical treatment, a courst source told Interfax. Arakhov said he secretly put up Basayev, his wife and two bodyguards in one of the houses in August 2003. Basayev stayed in the house for two weeks.
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Basayev's "messenger" who was killed in Chechnya's capital was carrying video cassettes with records of terrorist acts and interviews of the leaders of the bandit formations, representative of the regional operations staff for controlling the counter terrorist operation in the North Caucasus Ilya Shabalkin said. "The killed bandit was carrying video cassettes with records of the terrorist acts perpetrated in the republic in 2001-2002, and interviews of Basayev and Maskhadov," the agency's interlocutor said.
According to him, by the operational information, the bandit was heading for the Georgian border in order to cross it and to enter Georgia's territory. "It was planned to mount the video cassettes there in such a way that the past terrorist acts would have been presented as recent ones," Mr. Shabalkin noted. As a source in the republic's law-enforcement bodies earlier told RIA Novosti, a "messenger" from Basayev's band had been killed in the Leninsky district of Grozny on the day before. By the information of the agency's interlocutor, an unknown man opened fire from a submachine gun at the special purpose police detachment officers (OMON) of the republic's Interior Ministry who were carrying out special operations. The bandit was killed.
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All 44 North Koreans who forced their way into Canada's embassy in China have left for an undisclosed third country, officials said after weeks of diplomacy between Ottawa and Beijing. The asylum seekers had been holed up inside the embassy since late September, as negotiations took place on their fate. China, which did not consider the North Koreans as refugees, at first demanded they be handed over to its authorities. Canada declined to do so. Sebastien Theberge, spokesman for Canadian Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew told AFP that the refugees had all now left for a third country, though he would not disclose where.
"Canada can say no more, eh?"
The resolution was the result of talks between Pettigrew and Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing, including on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Chile last month, he said. In a statement, Pettigrew paid tribute to "heroic efforts" by embassy staff in managing the crisis. "I would also like to thank the Chinese government for working with us to resolve this issue in a way that is consistent with our international obligations and in keeping with our humanitarian concerns," Pettigrew said.
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CL - they showed some GREAT backbone protecting some of our people the the islamonuts took over our embassy in Tehran (thanks again, dhimmi carter).
Canadians have it in them - it's the LLL whackos who have taken over their government who beat them down and make it illegal for them to show a spine.
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A 33-year-old Virginia man was in federal custody after airport screeners found a box-cutter blade glued into the sole of his shoe. Authorities said Randall Rustick of Fairfax, Va., was en route to Kauai with his wife and four children at about 10:45 a.m. at Honolulu Airport's Interisland Terminal Tuesday and had placed his black dress shoes in a plastic bin for screening. A screener spotted a small metal object in the left shoe and alerted a supervisor and law enforcement to take a closer look.
"What the f...., hey guys!"
"When they saw the image on the screen, they recognized that there was some sort of object concealed in his shoe," said Sidney Hayakawa, Transportation Security Administration chief in Honolulu. Rustick was then taken to the side of the passenger line and the shoe was broken open to reveal a blade about 4 inches long in the inner sole, Hayakawa said. Hayakawa said Wednesday that he could not divulge the reason Rustick gave for having the blade. "It's under investigation right now. So, we can't reveal what he said," Hayakawa said.
Bet it was something stupid
Rustick was taken into custody without resistance and was being held at the Federal Detention Center near the airport. He was to make an initial appearance in U.S. District Court Wednesday afternoon, court officials said.
Go directly to jail, do not get to lay on the beach, enjoy your Christmas in jail
Hayakawa said Rustick's wife said the family was on vacation and headed to visit family on Kauai."That's what we've been told but I don't know how true that is or how accurate," he said.
I'll wager she is pissed....
Honolulu Airport screeners have found blades before but this case is different because the blade was concealed, which Hayakawa said he thought "shows an intent." "We've detected box-cutters, razors, knives and stuff but not concealed like this. So this is a first time for us in terms of real concealment," Hayakawa said. But Nico Melendez, a Los Angeles-based spokesman for the TSA, said that deliberately concealed weapons aren't uncommon. Over the Thanksgiving holiday a 16-year-old boy in Phoenix was found to have hidden a knife in the sole of his shoe, he said. "How often does it happen? Frequently," Melendez said. Such cases demonstrate to the flying public why the TSA has regulations, such as the sometimes criticized policy requiring passengers to remove their shoes, Melendez said. "There are people out there that want to introduce prohibited and deadly items into the fuselage of an aircraft. And we are charged with finding them and we're doing that," Melendez said.
Please make an example of this guy.
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A couple of minor points: probably a quarter of the entire population have some degree of clinical paranoia. Second, that paranoia is generally under control until they are put under pressure *specific* to their personal security. A mildly paranoid person may be perfectly normal until stopped and searched by the police, but even after being let go with a "sorry about that, have a nice day", they will be unbalanced, maybe dangerously for a week or two. Had they not been searched, they would not have had a problem. And the anticipation of having their personal security invaded, gets them a week or two of getting their paranoia "warmed up". So what is the solution? Stress detection. The technology exists to determine if people are under so much stress that they shouldn't be permitted on the aircraft, for whatever reason. It doesn't matter if they are terrorists or mentally ill, they just shouldn't be allowed to fly. If they are neither, it doesn't matter if they carry a machete on board with them. And that's the rub--if they are so paranoid that they worry about having their stress detected, then they shouldn't fly. Searching their person, much more invasive, should only be used as a last resort.
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Anon - back when i was in the consulting biz, that would have made it virtually impossible for me to fly to a major presentation to a client! Stress?!?!?! Paranoia?!?!?!
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Had Randy successfully gotten the box cutter past screening and tried something on the flight, his personal health would have been in serious danger. Getting all worked up about stuff like this isn't worth the effort.
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There is no flight I'd feel safer on than one that has a significant number of Polynesians flying to see family. If Samoans are present--especially entire families, better yet. Sure, you give up a little elbow room (and then some) but you've got more security than an entire squad of air marshalls.
A California woman reveals to ABC News that she unknowingly married a Muslim extremist who helped set up what authorities say was one of the first al Qaeda sleeper cells out of their Orange County apartment complex. Saraah Olson says she watched as her then-husband, Hisham Diab, and his group transformed local teen Adam Gadahn into an America-hating fanatic who she says is the masked man who promised in an al Qaeda video message released in Pakistan late October that the "streets of America will run red with blood." "I was just a stepping stone to a green card," Olson said. "I married a terrorist. I married somebody who did not like America, who didn't like Americans."
Gadahn, who met Olson's former husband at a local mosque, was "fresh meat," she said. "Someone they could control. Not only that, he's very unassuming-looking, he can do a lot of their tasks." The voice, gestures and rhetoric of the video's "Azzam the American" were all familiar to Olson, especially the phrase "red with blood," which was one of the group's favorite sayings, she said. And over the course of three years, Olson said, some of Osama bin Laden's top deputies would stay with her and her husband, including blind Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, who would later go to prison for life for his role in organizing terrorist plots against the United States.
Olson said she repeatedly tried to notify the FBI of her husband's suspicious activities, but that she was never taken seriously. "I'm in hell," Olson remembers thinking after she recognized Abdel-Rahman in connection with the 1993 World Trade Center bombings. "I have entered the bowels of hell and I'm going to be here forever. And I've only been married seven months. I've got a terrorist in my house." The FBI said in a statement that counterterrorism is their top priority. "Whenever we receive credible information pertaining to terrorist threats against the United States, the FBI acts immediately to thoroughly pursue all such leads," the statement read. Federal authorities say the couple's neighbor Khalil Deek, considered a major al Qaeda figure, ran the Orange County sleeper cell operation. Diab, who obtained a U.S. passport after marrying Olson, left the country suddenly in 1998. He is now being sought by U.S. authorities and is believed by intelligence officials to be hiding in Pakistan with top al Qaeda leaders.
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hmmm.... Saraah?
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Sarah Olson was also the name that Kathleen Soliah took when she was on the run as a fugitive for her role in the 70's SLA group.
Parents, don't let your children grow up to be Sara(a)h Olson's...
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First, she said Diab insisted she wear the hijab, a head scarf worn by certain devout Muslim women, and conform to other strict Islamic customs. And the beatings came next, she said, provoked by what were deemed violations of her husbandâs strict rules, which including forbidding physical contact with any man.
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Olsonâs son Ryan, now a teenager, says he was beaten almost daily when he did poorly in the Arabic lessons he was forced to take.
Seems to me that any normal person would hear warning bells at this point, and would take action accordingly. Once hubby decides to start with the beatings, attempts to "save" the marriage aren't worth the effort involved.
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BAR - As soon as he started that hijab crap, I would have been outta there.
That ain't "love, honor, and cherish," so insisting on wearing that crap when I don't want to is breaking his vow. And hitting is breaking the LAW - call the cops and have his worthless ass tossed in jail. And change the locks while he's gone.
Or just be VERY leery of marrying an Arab immigrant/student in the first place.
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I was about to write "Naivity thy name is Saraah", but she married the turd before the first WTC bombing 1993. My advice: run like hell as soon as he says his name is Abdul, or the first time he puts his head down and ass in the air.
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I am in no mood post-9/11 to buy the "I'm-so-sorry-now-I-know-what-I-did-was-wrong" crap.
Aiding and abetting, jail her.
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ANOTHER plot to bomb the US Embassy on Roxas Boulevard in Manila was foiled after police intelligence agents arrested an Abu Sayyaf bomb expert reportedly trained by the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah. An intelligence report from the Philippine National Police (PNP) Intelligence Group shown to The Manila Times identified the Abu Sayyaf bomb expert as Ibrahim Mutuc Kessel, alias Abdul Mujahid. The report said Mutuc was arrested for multiple-murder charges on November 19 on Washington Street, Makati City, by operatives of the PNP-IG "Task Force" armed with an arrest warrant issued by the Makati Regional Trial Court.
The report said Mutuc was tasked by Abdul Manap Mentang to bomb the US Embassy. Authorities earlier arrested Mentang and two others, Monawara Usop and Mursid Mubpon, on October 6 and 7 in Santa Ana, Manila. The report also said Mutuc, who was involved in the bombing of the Awang airport in Cotabato City in April 2003, and the Superferry 14 bombing on February 27, 2003, was trained by JI bomb experts. However, the report did not say when and where he was trained by the JI nor did it say the specific time when the group was supposed to carry out its plan to bomb the US Embassy.
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More than 300 schools in a southern Thailand province hit by a Muslim insurgency closed their doors Thursday, with fearful teachers saying they won't return until the government can provide adequate protection, an education official said.
Islam : the religion of thuggery and ignorance.
Following the recent killings of three teachers, representatives agreed Wednesday that public schools in three southern provinces would go on strike. "All public schools, of which there are more than 300 in Pattani province, are closing because the teachers and students are too scared to go to school," said Chien Sriruang of the Teachers' Association of Pattani in a telephone interview. In the continuing violence, a village chief in Narathiwat province and his wife were fatally shot Thursday morning and a Buddhist teacher was seriously injured in another incident. Police said attackers stormed the village chief's house before gunning down the couple while the teacher was seriously injured when a suspected Muslim rebel opened fire from the back seat of a motorcycle. Details of the incidents were not immediately available.
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You wouldn't believe the, um, artwork I saw in Saudi depicting the interbreeding process. There were some rather talented people (expats, natch) who felt the "special realtionship" between Arab males and camels of whatever gender deserved some serious attention, lol!
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Of course,Fizzle,Muslems being Muslems has nothing to do with murdering teachers,shooting-up schools and attacking kids.Of course not they are Muslisms,so it can't be thier fault.
It now appears almost certain that someone, probably wearing a suicide bomb "vest," was able to get inside the vast mess facility at that base in Mosul.
Was this a "major breach" of security? In one sense, obviously, yes. But in another sense it is amazing it has not happened before. Our modern military, with its huge "baggage" of contracted services, carries with it a huge potential for vulnerability wherever it goes.
The movement of contractors and Iraqi civilian workers through these bases is a fact of life. The days when the military fed itself (you never hear the term KP, "kitchen patrol," anymore in this "person's" army) or even cleaned up after itself on base are long gone.
When soldiers return to their bases from the dangers of patrol and convoy, they come back to the relative safety of an area thick with civilian contractors and foreign workers whose backgrounds may or may not have been thoroughly checked.
It is one thing to live, as our soldiers in Iraq do, with the random danger of daily "indirect fire" attacks from mortars and rockets. It is another to be concerned about every non-military person you see on base (and there are a lot of them).
The U.S. military itself is supposed to do the screening of civilian employees. But how far do you go, or can you go, in checking the bona fides of, say, an Iraqi dishwasher? And in this particular case, where it is almost certain that a number of persons were complicit in the act, what about the van driver bringing supplies on base, or the guy cleaning barracks tents?
The Islamic terrorists have shown a capacity for patient duplicity to rival that of Soviet "sleeper" agents during the Cold War. Those who are inflamed enough to strap on a vest full of ball bearings and plastic explosives, are abetted by others who -- by force, fear, or sympathy -- are prepared to case the target for them, guide them away from potential discovery or even build up enough credibility to vouch for them.
The investigation of this terrible bombing will probably reveal either long, long planning or a heretofore unsuspected chink in the security "armor" that was quickly exploited by ever-probing terrorists. All things are possible. The bomber could have been a dedicated Islamomaniac, or he might have been a worker whose family was taken hostage and threatened with death unless he carried out the mission.
To say that all bases in Iraq are now under heightened alert would be to put it mildly. It cannot be discounted that the terrorists have planned a "Christmas crescendo" of similar actions.
But it is part of the insidious nature of this war and the structure of our "contracted" military that our soldiers must now face the reality of an uneasy, even poisonous atmosphere of fear and mistrust at their bases, their sanctuaries.
If they have learned nothing else from this horrible incident, our military must be prepared for more ugly surprises. Anywhere, at anytime.
Assorted tidbits from Bangladesh News: Terrorist slaughtered in Bogra
Dec 22: An alleged terrorist was slaughtered by his rivals on a market compound in the town on Tuesday night. The victim was identified as Faridul Islam Maroof, 20, an accused in the "terrorist" Titu murder case. Police said Maroof's classmate Saiful along with his accomplices dragged Maroof down from a rickshaw at about 11 pm, took him into BRTC Shopping Complex and slaughtered him there. On information, police recovered the body and sent it to Bogra Mohammad Ali Hospital morgue for autopsy. Later, police arrested three youths -- Motiar Rahman Motin, 27, Saiful Islam, 27, and Shahidul Islam, 23, -- in connection with the killing.
Three tribal terrors arrested in Khagrachhari
Army jawans yesterday arrested three tribal terrors from Ramgarh and Manikchhari areas in Khagrachhari district and recovered arms and ammunition from their possession in the small hours of yesterday. The arrested were identified as Jamini Tripura (40), a member of Shantibahini, Khokon Tripura (35) and Momentra Tripura (28). According to police and Army, acting on a secret information a team of Army arrested Jaminee Tripura from Jaminipara at Ramgarh and recovered a pistol and a sharp weapon from his possession.
In another incident, on receipt secret information, a squad of Armymen arrested Khokon Tripura and Momentra Tripura from Guzabari at Manikchhari on charge of collecting toll alleged for United People's Democratic Front (UPDF) and recovered two SBBL gun. The arrested terrors were handed over to the respective police stations.
Two outlaws, one criminal die in encounter with RAB, police
Two outlaws and a listed criminal were killed in encounters with police and the elite strike force, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), in Dhaka city, Khulna and Pabna yesterday. The listed criminal who was killed in the city's Mirpur area in an encounter with police in the small hours of yesterday was identified as Saidul (35), son of Abdul Malek Khalifa, a resident of Lalkuthi. He hailed from Munshiganj district. Police recovered a foreign made revolver, two pipe-guns, eight rounds of bullet and eighteen cartridges from the spot.
According to police, the shootout took place between Mirpur Thana police and the accomplices of Saidul at around 4.15 am near Mirpur Martyred Intellectuals Memorial as a group of Mirpur Thana police along with Saidul reached the area, following Saidul's confessional statement, to nab the accomplices and recover arms and ammunition from their possession. Saidul was hit by several bullets during the shootout as he was trying to flee from the scene. But the accomplices of Saidul managed to escape.
Seriously injured Saidul was rushed to the Emergency Department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) where the attending doctors declared him dead.
The deceased was accused in several cases including four murders under Mirpur Police Station, Mirpur police said.
BSS adds: A notorious regional leader of an extremist party, Alauddin alias Alai, 26, was killed in a crossfire between Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and the extremists on the night of Tuesday at Ganghati village under Ataikula upazila of Pabna district. RAB sources said a team of the RAB-5 arrested Alai from Bangram Bazar in the evening the same day. As per his confession, the team along with Alai went to the Ganghati village at midnight to recover illegal arms hidden in an abandoned house.
As soon as the team reached the spot, the accomplices of Alai opened fire on the RAB team. The RAB also returned fire resulting in a brief shootout. At one stage, Alai was killed in the crossfire while trying to escape. Later, the RAB recovered two shutter guns and huge bullets from the hidden place. Alai was accused of a dozen of cases including three murders, the sources said.
Terrorist held, firearm seized in Chittagong
Dec 22 : The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested one terrorist and recovered one firearm from his possession at Panwala para in the city yesterday morning.
The arrested person is identified as Mohammed Yakub (28), son of Kabir Ahamed of Daulotpur Potia in Chittagong. Sources said, the RAB was informed that Yakub was staying at the home of Mofzal Sawdagor at Panwala para in the city. Acting on that secret information a team of RAB raided the said spot and arrested Yakub from there. The RAB also recovered one foreign made sophisticated revolver from the possession of arrested Yakub.
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U.S. Marines battled insurgents in Fallujah on Thursday, with warplanes dropping bombs and tanks shelling suspected guerrilla positions in the heaviest fighting in weeks, erupting as the first residents returned to the devastated city. At least three Marines were killed in the area, the military said. Fallujans lined up in cars and on foot at checkpoints, brandishing documents to Iraqi police to show they had the right to re-enter the city. Once inside, they returned to the remains of bombed-out and looted homes, some with bodies still inside from weeks of fighting. The return of residents is a key part of U.S.-Iraqi efforts to rebuild Fallujah after the bloody, two-week U.S. military offensive in November that wrested the city from the control of insurgents. Most of Fallujah's approximately 250,000 people fled before the assault.
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The suicide bomber believed to have carried out this week's devastating attack on a U.S. military dining tent, killing more than 20 people, was probably wearing an Iraqi military uniform, a U.S. general said Thursday. The FBI has joined investigations into how the attack on the base near the northern city of Mosul was carried out. At the same time, the military is reassessing security at bases across Iraq in light of the bomber's success in apparently slipping into the camp, entering a tent crowded with soldiers eating lunch and detonating his explosives. "The question now turns to how did that happen, and I don't know the answer to that question Brig. Gen. Carter F. Ham — commander of Task Force Olympia, the main U.S. force in northern Iraq — said it appeared likely that "an individual in an Iraqi military uniform, possibly with a vest-worn explosive device, was inside the facility and detonated the facility, causing this tragedy.
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Likely, the device was smuggled in, in disassembled pieces over the months. A few ball bearings, pellets, BB's a day would not arouse suspicion unless taken through a metal detector. My guess; disguised in garbage can handles of containers brought back into the complex.
Any uniform other than an Iraqi soldier would have aroused suspicion also!
Communist rebels ambushed two separate army patrols in western Nepal, sparking gunbattles that killed at least 34 people, including five civilians, the army said Thursday. The guerrillas attacked a patrol near Madhuradanda village, about 190 miles west of the capital, Katmandu, killing two soldiers. Military helicopters from a nearby base were flown in to help the troops, the Royal Nepalese Army. The bodies of 22 guerrillas were recovered, and officials said there could be more rebel casualties because villagers saw the insurgents carry away wounded fighters.
Separately, five soldiers were killed overnight when rebels ambushed them as they stopped for dinner at a restaurant near Chisapani, about 375 miles west of Katmandu, the army said. At least five civilians, including a 13-year-old boy, were also killed in the cross fire.
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Tanzania's High Court on Wednesday freed a local man who was charged six years ago with helping to carry out the 1998 bombing of the American Embassy in Dar es Salaam. The man, Rashid Salehe Hemed, 34, was arrested a month after the Aug. 7, 1998, bombing, making him one of the first people accused in the case. His trial spanned four years, during which the prosecution called 18 witnesses. But the judge ruled Wednesday that there was not enough evidence to support a conviction. "There have been a lot of witnesses in the prosecution case but this court cannot convict the accused on such evidence, which has many doubts," said the judge, Emilian Mushi, according to news agency reports.
Mr. Hemed said on his way out of court that he had expected all along to be released, even though a bomb detonator was discovered in his house and he acknowledged knowing people tied to the bombing. "I am not surprised with the judgment because I knew I was not guilty right from the beginning," he told The Associated Press.
In issuing the ruling, Judge Mushi followed the recommendation of three court assessors, who ruled in February 2004 that the charges against Mr. Hemed were based on mere suspicion and that he ought to be found not guilty. During the trial, an explosives specialist with the Federal Bureau of Investigation testified that items taken from Mr. Hemed's residence contained traces of the chemicals believed to have been used in the bomb that destroyed the embassy. But Mr. Hemed's lawyers argued that their client's clothes were mixed with those belonging to other people, including Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian captured in Pakistan earlier this year who is believed by American investigators to have played a role in the bombing.
During the trial, Mr. Hemed appeared on the stand in his own defense, telling the court that he voluntarily turned himself in when he discovered he was being sought by the police, and that he knew nothing of the bombing until after it had occurred. Mr. Hemed acknowledged that he knew several suspects in the bombing, including Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, one of those convicted in New York for his role in the attack. But he said he knew them only from his job selling car parts. He denied knowing anything about the bomb detonator found in his house. Judge Mushi believed his account. "I am satisfied that the accused person was not aware of the bombing activities by the alleged conspirators," the judge said. "There is no evidence from which it can be properly inferred that he was part of the conspiracy to bomb the United States Embassy."
The State Department continues to warn Americans of terrorist threats in both Kenya and Tanzania. In June, an armed man accosted two British tourists in Dar es Salaam and demanded to know if they were American. He left the scene without harming the couple only after being convinced they were not American.
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I dunno if the revolving door graphic is appropriate: the judge might be right.
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A suicide bomber was the likely cause of the deadliest single attack on American troops in Iraq — an explosion at a U.S. base that killed 22 people, the Pentagon's top general, Richard Myers, said Wednesday. Myers said the attack was likely the work of a suicide bomber who somehow got into the mess tent with the explosives. Earlier, officials had described it as a rocket attack. Myers isn't saying whether authorities think the bomber worked at the base, or breached security. He describes the cause of the deadly blast as an "improvised explosive device worn by an attacker." CBS News Correspondent Kimberly Dozier reports FBI investigators believe they have found the remains of a suicide bomber's torso and a harness device within the mess tent wreckage. ...
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So, uh, Fidal Fadil Fuckwit, what do you think you know about me, lol? I'm the guy who wants to FRY 'EM UP, you clueless retard, lol! Sheesh, you're like a little dog, yip! yip! yip! who gets himself all excited and pisses on others' shoes and mistakes it for deep insight. You're not ready to sit at the big table, yet, sonny, and you sure as hell haven't been around here long enough to comment. Now toddle off and wank your wee willie somewhere else, lol! Buh bye!
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The biggest clue that youâre unstable is your resort to ad homin attacks. Try to listen to the challenges with a more open mind. A more subtle clue that youâre unstable is the effluence of your over-expansive sense that people know what youâre talking about and couldnât rationally deny your âinescapableâ logic. LOL.
inherent global-genocidal nature of Islam, and the irredeemable savagery of Muslims
Hmmmmm. I see at least two concepts paired here that shouldnât be. One, the ânature of [fanatical] Islam,â I could agree with (although even that concept seems to be expressed in a skewed fashion). Islam is not some monistic whole, barreling its way through history. Different strands relate in different ways with the cultures and political forces in which those strands are found.
Second, the âirredeemable savagery of Muslims,â is pure inflammatory balderdash! People are people regardless of the movements and cultures in which they are caught up. Should I hate my childhood friend because he used to boast about his uncle shooting down U.S. planes over the Alps, and his mom and dad had fond memories of Hitler? I didnât, we were good friends. I just reminded him of who won the war. People by and large arenât monstrous, even when their actions are. To commit monstrosities, virtually without fail people must first dehumanize their victims.
Heâs talking about chiliasm like itâs a bad thing. : ) LOL. Even the "chiliastic nation-building folly" phraseology is internally inconsistent. A little dog indeed.
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cin - You're so gentle, lol! Almost made me ashamed... but I got over it, heh. What I can't see is why I was singled out - I'm so mainstream and ordinary in Da Burg. Sheesh. They usually latch onto Fred or Dr Steve, lol! They're the Evil Twins of Doom, doncha know... ;-)
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Iâm thinkin,â like is this a Boris incarnation. But, I donât think so. The awkward use of words that donât quite match the concepts is suggestive of a poser -- Middle Eastern?
Then, is it one, two, or more? My guess is more than one, but in close proximity to each other -- like a squad.
Now, the purpose? My guess is to sow dissent amongst conservatives. Yeah, thatâll work. LOSERS.
Maybe Iâm drifting into the tin foil land, but it was fun . . . LOL.
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WA - Now I'm blushing. Such praise from a Super Hero, woohoo! Makes my head spin! A little secret, just between us K?, I posted just for you. I live for your approval. Thank you. Thank you so much. And, I have no doubt, all of Rantburg is honored by your presence and will be positively green with envy. W00t! I'm loving it... Thank you, again.
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... so do we have the first comment removed before it winds up on DailyKos or LGFWatch to smear Rantburgers, or does anyone else think (like me) that the "Fidal Fadil" and whoever ends up posting it there are one and the same ...
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12/23/2004 5:09 Comments ||
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You guys hammered that nail,then used a counter sink.
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Me too. Take off and nuke the thread from orbit, if ya ask me.
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Meanwhile, back at the ranch, we should be in a sense somewhat thankful the blast took place inside a tent instead of one of the more permanent concrete-and-block mess halls they're building at most bases. The tent allowed the blast effects to rip through the roof, whereas the bunker-like structures would have contained it, making many more casualties likely. Additionally, the hole blasted through the tent roof allowed ventilation and sunlight in to aid the rescue and recovery efforts. In a structure it would have stayed smoky and dark.
It's not so much to be thankful for, but I'm just trying to find the silver lining in all this. There may have been another dozen or more casualties otherwise.
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12/23/2004 9:50 Comments ||
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The disturbing aspect of the inside suicide bomber theory (other than the breach of security) is the coordination of the ensuing mortar rounds on the cleanup/triage team outside the hospital. I understand these are small team ops, these a**holes are still getting better as time goes on. Keep the pressure on!!!
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If it was a suicide attack, all the remaining Iraqi base employees should be screened thoroughly and advised that they have nothing to fear if they're on the up-and-up. However, in the event that they have any thoughs about trying their own little jihadi shenanigans, their next-of-kin will face the music. Something along the lines of home demolition possibly...
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I all fine with the retaliatory strikes using FA-18 Hornets, but the only thing these people understand is some down home D-9 razing of entire neighborhoods.
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Force Muslims to do our killing for us, and THEN we win the counter-terror war.
All trolling aside, the chap does have a point. Bush's religiosity cripples his ability to identify another fundamentalist and (in the case of Islam) theocratic religion as a prime mover in terrorism. This is not to say that Bush is covertly attempting to establish theocratic rule in America. That is pure nonsense. Very mistakenly, Bush's own fundamentalism prevents him from comprehending the dire necessity for absolute separation of church and state. Concommitantly, this deeply flawed amalgam of religious commandment and legal statute pollutes the moral authority projected by America in its fight against terrorism.
All of this needs to stop now.
As the only functional democratic superpower on earth, America is obligated to project its vision of governmental "uplift" (per David Brin) into every sphere of militaristic or economic influence. Especially against those cultures which are the most repressive. Fanatical Islam's nature demands an equally intolerant approach against it. Violent jihadists must be eradicated. There is no other functional "Final Solution" to Islamism.
If Islam wishes to be accepted by all other religions as some sort of cooperative culture, they must be supportive of other belief structures. Any intolerance regarding differing opinions (as in the death penalty for apostasy against Islam) constitutes an intentional demand of ideological support for highly polarized beliefs. This is what leads to terrorism and remains totally unaceptable.
President Bush needs to make Muslims responsible for all further Islamic terrorist acts. This administration does not have the moral courage to do so. It endangers all of us. I refuse to accept this. America must make all Islamic nations responsible for terrorism. If they do not quash all extremist activity within their borders, they must be brought to task.
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Gee... I got a great idea. Why don't we send IDF to fight the insurgents than Iraq. Aww... but hey... there are no women and children insurgents in Iraq are there?. What dya say guyz?
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Come on, Bushies. Admit that you now question his shielding of the Saudi entity, from justice, and chiliastic nation-building folly in the Iraq entity (AKA: dog's breakfast posing as a state). Force Muslims to do our killing for us, and THEN we win the counter-terror war. Do yourselves a favor, and cease the fanatic denial of the inherent global-genocidal nature of Islam, and the irredeemable savagery of Muslims. Bush-Cheney can take their deficits and Saudi doormatry, and go to hell. Islam is terror; Muslims are terrorists. .com is a self-important jackass, posing as a human being. Don't mistake him for we who support the occupiers.
Iraq has photographs of Syrian officials with guerrillas who have been fighting U.S.-led forces before planned national elections next month, a senior Iraqi diplomat said on Thursday. The Iraqi ambassador to Syria, Hassan Allawi, told Britain's Times newspaper in an interview his country had photographs that showed Syrian officials with guerrillas who were captured when U.S. and Iraqi forces stormed Falluja last month.
Digital cameras, like blogs, are everywhere.
"Prime Minister Iyad Allawi wrote a letter to the Syrians saying he had pictures but was not going to release them, despite being under pressure from the Americans to do so," the ambassador said. Hassan Allawi said the photographs were found on a leader of a group of former Baathist intelligence personnel who served under Saddam Hussein. He said one picture showed a guerrilla, named by the Times as Moayed Ahmed Yasseen, also known as Abu Ahmed, standing next to a senior Syrian official. The Times said Yasseen was arrested in Falluja in mid-November. Iraq has repeatedly accused Syria of helping Jordanian al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Saddam supporters to wage an insurgency before the Jan. 30 elections. Syria denies any links to guerrillas in Iraq and says it is doing its best to tighten security along its hundreds of miles (km) of desert border.
In that case they won't mind if we tighten the screws border security, will they.
U.S. President George W. Bush has warned Syria not to meddle in Iraq and has threatened to use economic and diplomatic measures against Damascus. Washington accused Syria of sending military equipment to Iraq during last year's U.S.-led war that toppled Saddam. Allawi told the Times there had been an "Iraqi Baathist invasion of Syria" since Saddam's fall that threatened the Damascus government. "It is overwhelming," he said. "They stole gold and robbed banks and came here. They have enough funds to keep fighting for 30 years."Â
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cxlose the border - declare Syrians PNG and kill any you find. Simple. Effective. Oddly satisfying
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12/23/2004 8:48 Comments ||
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I cant understand why the US allows the Syrians to continue with these actions?
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don't know....but somebody(s) has the foot on the brakes. if the isrealis know where the hizbo's and hamas's are staying in damn-ass-cuss we know also.
it's pretty obvious we are being restrained, or are restraining ourselves. I dunno.
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As I told my wife back in about 1995, we're going to have a time when we regret Bill Clinton's destruction of our military. The time is now. It's not hard to tear down a military unit, but it takes a LONG time to replace one. We had 18 Army divisions in 1992, now we have 9 1/2. It takes anywhere from two to three years to build a combat-ready division from scratch these days. Training is more intense, and the material we're starting with is less prepared. The only way to take on Syria or Iran right now is with nukes. It'll be at least another two years before we have enough combat troops to actually go in on the ground. Note that the number of troops in Iraq is going UP, not down.
My scenario would be to add five more Army divisions, another two or three Marine Expeditionary Units, and another four Air Force fighter-bomber wings. Once that's done, attack Syria with conventional arms, and nuke Riyadh. Iran will go ballistic, and we'll have the excuse to start lobbing in Tomahawk missiles. The destruction of Riyadh will cut off the oil money, send shock waves through the Arab world, and scare the bejesus out of Korea and China (one really dirty nuke on Aswan or the Three Gorges Dam, and how many people die?). It might even be a wake-up call for the tight-turbans in Sudan, but that's a stretch.
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I think OP has hit on it. We are kind of busy in Iraq and Afghanistan (plus Kosovo, Germany, South Korea,...). I don't know why the President hasn't asked Congress for an increase, nor why Congress hasn't done it by itself.
Personally, I'm hoping that once the elections are out of the way in Iraq, and they get some of their own troops going, we can scale back to 50K or so, then use the rest to clean up Syria (with Israel's help, perhaps?), then clear the decks for the heart of the problem: Iran.
OTOP, remember that this is the President who appointed Colin Powell, let the UN delay us and give Saddam those extra months, still talks about the roadkillmap, is going to give the Paleos a huge Zakat,...
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One of the suspected organizers of a deadly attack on a military bus in North Ossetia in 2003 told a court on Wednesday that he sheltered Chechen warlord 
Basayev's "messenger" who was killed in Chechnya's capital was carrying video cassettes with records of terrorist acts and interviews of the leaders of the bandit formations, representative of the regional operations staff for controlling the counter terrorist operation in the North Caucasus Ilya Shabalkin said. "The killed bandit was carrying video cassettes with records of the terrorist acts perpetrated in the republic in 2001-2002, and interviews of Basayev and Maskhadov," the agency's interlocutor said. 
All 44 North Koreans who forced their way into Canada's embassy in China have left for an undisclosed third country, officials said after weeks of diplomacy between Ottawa and Beijing. The asylum seekers had been holed up inside the embassy since late September, as negotiations took place on their fate. China, which did not consider the North Koreans as refugees, at first demanded they be handed over to its authorities. Canada declined to do so. Sebastien Theberge, spokesman for Canadian Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew told AFP that the refugees had all now left for a third country, though he would not disclose where.
ANOTHER plot to bomb the US Embassy on Roxas Boulevard in Manila was foiled after police intelligence agents arrested an 
Tanzania's High Court on Wednesday freed a local man who was charged six years ago with helping to carry out the 1998 bombing of the American Embassy in Dar es Salaam. The man, 
