I installed a new antivirus program and the integrated firewall firewalled us all out. After about a dozen restarts I got the problem isolated. We should be good to go for now.
I want to swap the server out next week to do some hardware maintenance on it, so we'll probably have another day like this morning. I'll try to give advance warning, though.
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Fred, you've done so much.. I doubt anyone here thinks you owe us an apology :-p If anything, we owe you more thanks!
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Shipman and BigEd---All those stars are my navigational friends in the past. When the Arabs had their act together, they would use them to navigate.
I do like the Alaska State Flag. Blue background, big dipper stars and the pole star polaris. Very simple and elegant.
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DOHA, Qatar -- Police found the house where a militant assembled the car bomb used in a suicide attack a week ago that killed a British resident and injured a dozen other people, an Interior Ministry official said Friday. Qatari authorities have said an Egyptian named Omar Ahmed Abdullah Ali carried out the bombing of the Doha Players Theater during a performance packed with Europeans on March 19, a rare attack in this sleepy Gulf nation.
"The security forces discovered the house where the Egyptian Omar Ahmed Abdullah Ali booby-trapped the car used in the criminal attack," the official said on condition of anonymity. The house, located in Al-Maamora area in Doha, had been rented by the suicide bomber. The official did not say what police found inside.
In their Friday sermons, the imams of mosques in the Qatari capital condemned the suicide attack, saying that Islam is innocent of such criminal acts.
A previously unknown Islamic militant group, the Jund al-Sham, posted a statement on an Islamic Web site claiming to have carried out the "historic" operation in Qatar. Qatari officials have not yet blamed any terrorist organization for the attack and are waiting until the end of the investigations in which French and British experts are taking part.
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Security forces evacuated a private school in Manama on Tuesday following a false bomb scare, an AFP correspondent said. The school principal alerted authorities when he received an e-mail about "a bomb ready to explode" inside the al-Bayan school, the governor of the central region in Bahrain, Salman Al-Zayani, told AFP. Security forces evacuated the school which the message said was teaching pupils "an American curriculum in an Arab-Islamic country." The forces searched the school for six hours but did not find a bomb. "It was a false alert," said Zayani, adding that the authorities were attempting to determine the authors of the e-mail.
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The detention renewal judge Wednesday renewed for 15 days the detention of 13 suspects, including Amer Khlaif Al-Enezi's wife - who have been arrested in connection with the terrorist acts in Maidan Hawalli and Umm Al-Haiman. The woman was arrested for distributing pamphlets calling to support Osama bin Laden and release all persons arrested in connection with the twin shoot-outs. All those detained have denied the charges against them.
Meanwhile, attorney Mubarak Al-Mutawa, defending Sheikh Hamid Al-Ali, former preacher of the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs and former Secretary-General of the Salafi Movement, Wednesday told the Arab Times the detention of Sheikh Hamid should be finalized by the end of next Wednesday before completion of 21 days - the official detention period. Al-Mutawa also said lawyers for Sheikh Hamid are neither allowed to meet their client nor attend the interrogations. He added the Public Prosecution is holding the interrogations in secret in the belief they could be jeopardized if they are made public. "At the moment we are trying to prove there is no link between what Sheikh Hamid has said or posted on his Internet website and what the terrorists have done in Kuwait," said Al-Mutawa. He added the two cases should be treated separately because there is no link between Sheikh Hamid and terrorists.
Al-Mutawa said Sheikh Hamid does not know the suspects of the Maidan Hawalli and Umm Al-Haiman shoot-outs and has no relation with them. He added the suspects in the two incidents are youths who have misunderstood and misinterpreted what Sheikh Hamid had said. He added Sheikh Hamid is not responsible for what other people think or do. Hamid was summoned and interrogated by the Public Prosecution for allegedly collaborating with the suspects of the Maidan Hawalli and Umm Al-Haiman shoot-outs.
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Militants have killed a mufti of the settlement of Proletarsky and his contemporary in Chechnya. A spokesman at the North Caucasus Operational Staff told Itar-Tass on Friday that the "militants dressed in wearing military uniforms and masks broke into the house and in cold blood made a carnage of the two old people", 69-year-old mufti Amin Gaziyev and Khamidula Umarov. A criminal case has been opened and the search for criminals begun.
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Alvi Tosuyev, Maskhadov's closest assistant, has been killed in Chechnya, the joint press center of the Russian Interior Ministry reports. "Tosuyev was killed in Berdikel (Komsomolskoye), outside Grozny," the press center reports. Tosuyev was Maskhadov's personal bodyguard, and previously was the closest associate of Arab mercenary Abu Al-Walid who was also killed in Chechnya. "Tosuyev known as Assad masterminded the terrorist attack against Kadyrov, the first vice premier of Chechnya," the press center said.
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Paris, France, Mar. 25 (UPI) -- A shadowy group has sent threatening missives to France's president and interior minister, one containing a detonator.
Known as AZF, the little-known organization sent the threats Thursday to French President Jacques Chirac and Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin, French television announced Friday, citing a statement from the Paris prosecutor's office. French officials have so far declined to detail the threats contained in the two missives, other than they sought to extort funds. The public prosecutor's office has launched an investigation into the matter.
Last year, AZF sent several threatening letters, warning that it would set off explosives on French rail lines if its demands for roughly $6.2 million from the government were not met. Several unexploded bombs were later discovered on the rail lines at different points of time. In an interview on LCI television Friday night, Louis Gallois, head of the SNCF rail system, said it was unclear whether the latest threat was credible or not.
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Heck if it's ransom they want, then kidnap a journalist.
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We are all frogs now.
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I think not, Mrs. D. We may have common terrorist enemies, but we are NOT "all frogs now".
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no, that's why there's an investigation
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Tom, you must be young. After the twin towers were hit, the forg headline was "We are all Americans Now". We know what fair weather allies they proved to be. My comment was meant to evoke that headline in the hope that we will be as faithful to our frog allies as they have been to us. I hope that helps.
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I would sooner crok than be a frog
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Dear Mrs. Davis:
That kind of double-reflexive satirical commentary can only be generated and/or apprehended by years of intensive cogitation on the extreme and the absurd. In your case (I kindly inquire), was it brought about by thinking of a gentled Mr. Davis in the anti-war position? ; )
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Well, actually Mrs D, the accompanying article was sort of "blame the victim" if I am correct, so you're "We're all frogs now" is more appropriate than some people here realize.
A court Friday ordered the imprisonment of a Frenchman who was released this month from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, his lawyer said. Ridouane Khalid, 36, had been free but under judicial watch in France after returning home from Guantanamo on March 7. The court also ruled that another former Guantanamo detainee, 33-year-old Khaled ben Mustafa, must remain behind bars.
In a hearing Tuesday, the prosecution argued that both men pose a threat to public order and should be jailed while their cases are investigated by French authorities. Khalid and ben Mustafa, among seven French nationals who were detained at Guantanamo, were captured in December 2001 as they tried to enter cross the Afghan-Pakistani border. Both are under investigation - one step short of being formally charged - for "criminal association with a terrorist enterprise." Four of the French detainees returned to France in July and remain in custody on similar charges. The United States handed over Khalid, ben Mustafa and a third man, Mustaq Ali Patel, this month.
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Mon Dieu, ze Bush was right! Aloirs! Zese men are bad
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Police arrested a three-member commando unit of the armed Basque separatist group ETA on Friday, raising to seven the number of arrests this week in Spain and France, the Interior Ministry said. A dozen police made the latest arrests at an apartment in the Basque city of San Sebastian, bursting in as the suspects slept. The police also seized three pistols, an automatic rifle, forged credit cards, other documents and fake license plates. The three men made up a commando unit that was "operational and active," Interior Minister Jose Antonio Alonso said. He declined to comment on what it might have been planning.
The raid followed the arrests Wednesday of two suspected ETA members, including a man described as a senior figure in the organization, in southwest France, and two more arrests at a highway checkpoint near the Basque town of Ermua. ETA has claimed or been blamed for more than 800 deaths since the late 1960s. More than 200 suspected ETA members have been arrested in the past two years, including its longtime leader Mikel Antza, and the group has not staged a fatal attack since it killed two policemen with a car bombing in the northern Spanish town of Sanguesa in May 2003. Many in Spain say last year's Madrid train bombings by Islamic militants left ETA in a quandary. That attack killed 191 people and caused such a revulsion over terrorism that ETA is seen as wary of causing major bloodshed for fear of a political backlash that could drain support for Basque nationalism.
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Demi Moore is of Basque ancestry. Demi Moore praised Michael Moore. Basques Arrested. Coincidince? I don't think so.
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Okay..... What kinda Mopar does Ms. Moores' body double drive?
"We dunnit, and we're glad!"
"No, we dunnit, and besides, we're gladder'n you!"
"Sez who?"
"Sez us!"
"Hey...where'd everybody's lips go?"
DUBAI: Two Islamist groups have said they caused Wednesday's explosion at a Texas oil refinery hat killed 15 people but the FBI said there was no evidence of "any criminal or terrorist activity". FBI spokesman Al Tribble in Houston, Texas, said on Thursday there was no evidence of foul play at the BP refinery, the third largest in the US.
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Only two? They'll be more by the weekend shouting "We dunnit!"
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I'll hold off judgement until they find an extra set of teeth on the scene that match any of the contractor employees! I keep thinking of that inside tent suicide detonation in Iraq a few weeks ago!
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I have been at this facility about a year ago. I had meetings with some of the BP guys. I pray they are alright. The security is very lax. Once you are in, you are free to roam around. That being said, I think this was an accident not a terrorist act. The two Islamofacist groups better watch it or they will create a different type fire, as in Bush-Fire, that will be beyond their control.
CAMP BUCCA, IRAQ -- U.S. military police Friday thwarted a massive escape attempt by suspected insurgents and terrorists from this southern Iraq Army base that houses more than 6,000 detainees when they uncovered a 600-foot tunnel the detainees had dug under their compound. "We were very close to a very bad thing," Major Gen. William Brandenburg said Friday after troops under his command discovered the tunnel that prisoners had painstakingly dug with the help of makeshift tools.
Within hours of the discovery on the first tunnel, a second tunnel of about 300 feet was detected under an adjoining compound in the camp, which holds 6,049 detainees. The elaborate escape is reminiscent of the 1994 movie, "The Shawshank Redemption," where a prisoner burrows his way out of prison.
Sounds more like "The Great Escape" to me. Somebody needs to spend time in the cooler.
The key difference, however, is that not one Iraq prisoner got out.
The discoveries came just hours before Brandenburg, who commands Multinational Force detainee operations in Iraq, toured the camp with Gen. George Casey Jr., the top Army general in Iraq, who was making his first visit to this remote desert camp in southwestern Iraq near the Kuwaiti border. Brandenburg said the prisoners, who include Iraqis and suspected terrorists from other Arab countries, probably were waiting for the dense fog that often rolls in at night from the nearby Persian Gulf before attempting their escape. "We get fog after midnight in which you can't see 100 feet," he said. "I think they were waiting on poor visibility and I think there was a good chance they would have gotten out of the camp."
Brandenburg, whose command also includes the better known but smaller Abu Ghraib camp near Baghdad, said soldiers in charge of Camp Bucca suspected that an escape attempt might be in the offing because they had found a small tunnel in another part of the camp about five days ago, and had been told by detainees that other tunnels were being dug.
Boy, nothing gets by these these guys, does it?
Brandenburg also said that in recent days there were "people outside the camp who we're not used to seeing," which was another indication that "something was going on."
Brandenburg, who was spending the night at the nearby Basrah airport while waiting for Gen. Casey to arrive from Baghdad Friday morning, said he was awoken at 1:30 a.m. by an officer from Camp Bucca who said, "Sir, you won't believe what we've found." When Branderburg and Casey arrived at Camp Bucca, they were shown the tunnel's exit point, which was outside the chain link fence and concertina wire that surrounds the camp's eight compounds, each of which contains more than 600 prisoners, and several smaller compounds.
The prisoners had used a cut-away five-gallon gas can attached to a 60-foot-long rope to haul the sandy soil out of the tunnel. They apparently used makeshift tools to dig and reinforce the tunnel, and covered the entry point inside the compound with a false floor made from wooden slats from their beds, which in turn they concealed under two feet of dirt. The detainees disposed of the dirt they had dug from the tunnel by flushing it down their latrines, which gave camp officials another clue that something was amiss when workers emptying the latrines complained that the filters on their trucks were getting jammed.
That's exactly how our POWs in German camps did it, they used the bed slats to shore up the tunnel.
Col. James Brown, the commander of the 18th Military Police Brigade that is in charge of Camp Bucca and Abu Ghraib, said two detainees tried to escape 10 days ago but were caught. He said the latest escape attempt was clearly planned to allow more than 100 prisoners to flee the camp. Brown said it is reasonable to assume that other tunnels will be discovered in other parts of the camp.
I think we need to send the guards copies of those great WWII escape novels "The Great Escape", "Escape from Colditz" and others. It's been so long since we've run a long term POW camp the skills have been lost.
During Casey's tour of the camp, thousands of the prisoners watched silently and sullenly as he and his entourage walked past them, and as he climbed a watchtower for a panoramic view. As Casey walked past the compound where the second tunnel was discovered, a soldier drove a large backhoe into the camp and began digging up the tunnel.
Camp officials also showed Casey a large collection of makeshift weapons taken from the detainees, including knives, slingshots, and even a fake flak jacket made from Muslim prayer shawls that resembled the real thing.
Our guys and the Brits made German uniforms and civilian clothes from blankets.
"I am never amazed at what I see," Brandenburg said of the ingenious technique used by the detainees in their escape attempt.
At the end of his tour, Casey presented a special medal to the young woman soldier, Specialist Lisa Wesson of Ashville, N.C., who discovered the larger tunnel during a routine investigation.
Another woman Soldier, kicking ass and taking names.
Camp Bucca is almost twice the size of Abu Ghraib, which was the scene of last year's prisoner abuse scandal that has prompted widespread changes in the handling of detainees. There are 3,243 detainees at Abu Ghraib, and another 114 after a camp near the Baghdad airport, which includes Saddam Hussein and other top officials of his deposed government.
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"... complained that the filters on their trucks were getting jammed."
I wonder what poor SOB got the detail to clean that out.
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They should have waited till somebody was in the tunnel digging and then filled it with sewage.
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hee hee! Allan didn't want you to escape, obviously, Jihadi-boys! Back to making big rocks into small ones to fill that tunnel up
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LotR. I like how you think. The fountain of sewage gushing from a barrack will ID the starting point of the tunnel.
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"Great Escape" and "Escape from Colditz" are not novels, they're the real deal.
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when they uncovered a 600-foot tunnel
be impressed Infidels! Where my glove?
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Great Escape" and "Escape from Colditz" are not novels, they're the real deal
I meant to say history books. There was another whose title escapes me about a group of British POWs who dug a tunnel from underneath a vaulting horse they carried out every day and set next to the wire. While some Brits exercised on it, another inside the horse dug the tunnel. They had to cover it and conceal the opening every evening before carrying the horse back to the barracks.
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What happens when Ranburgers are captured.... thisn a picture of the Bridge over the River Kry.
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Like the norks, they are not happy unless they are burrowing. Pumping sewage into the hole during the great escape and having it go artesian in the barracks is great diabolical thinking. I was thinking that gassing the tunnels during an escape would be diabolical. But then the prisoners would complain to the Red Thingy or ImNasty International and all the festivities would end. Artesian sewage. Now that's a good 'un.
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Insurgents assassinated a senior Iraqi army commander Friday and staged two suicide car bombings, killing 15 people, in violence that politicians fear may deepen if a new government is not formed soon.
Almost two months after an election, politicians from Iraq (news - web sites)'s main parties, the Shi'ite alliance and the Kurds, pursued talks to form a government but were struggling over top cabinet posts.
Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih, a main Kurdish negotiator, said all sides were concerned about the relentless violence and that only a unity government including all Iraq's ethnic and religious groups could tackle terrorism.
Gunmen shot dead Major-General Suleiman Mohammad, who commanded a National Guard division in southern Iraq, in the New Baghdad district of the capital, wounding two of his sons, police said. Some said he was attacked leaving a wake, but it was not clear why the Basra-based general was in Baghdad.
American and Iraqi officers said two suicide car bomb attacks killed at least 15 people and wounded 23.
In an attack in Iskandariya, in a lawless area just south of Baghdad, a bomber blew up his car beside an Iraqi army convoy, killing four soldiers and wounding nine troops and civilians, two seriously, local police said.
A suicide bomber blew up his car at a checkpoint in the western city of Ramadi Thursday, killing 11 Iraqi commandos and wounding nine police, two U.S. soldiers and three civilians, the U.S. military said.
And in another violent assault, five women, four of whom worked at a U.S. military base, were found dead in a car in Baghdad. Those working for U.S. forces, including cooks, laundry staff and translators, are frequently targeted by insurgents.
The Islamic Army in Iraq said it was behind the Ramadi suicide bomb attack, according to an Internet statement.
"A martyrdom-seeker of the Army broke through the first barrier set up by the American enemy and the pagan (National) Guard ... and the car exploded as it neared the second barrier," the insurgent group said in the statement.
Iraqi officials said talks on forming the new government, whose overwhelming priority will be tackling the country's relentless insurgency, were moving forward, albeit slowly.
Politicians were now focused on trying to resolve differences over who would take the main government portfolios.
"There is a justified point of view that says the political process is taking a long time but at the same time we don't want to be in a hurry at the expense of this country's future," Salih told Reuters.
"We have big security and economy problems and we are looking for total national unity.
"The main challenge for us is to build a country that can face terrorism and also the economic challenges," he said.
He said parliament, which many officials had hoped would meet Saturday, would not assemble before Monday when it would only be able to name the speaker and his deputies.
Earlier the talks faltered over Kurdish demands to expand their territory in northern Iraq and over their peshmerga militia, which other parties want to see folded into the Iraqi army. The Kurds want them to remain separate.
Officials say those issues are no longer problems but what exactly has been agreed is not yet clear.
Thursday, the peshmerga and local police engaged in a gunbattle in northern Iraq, highlighting the deep division and suspicion between the two sides.
At least five policemen and two security guards were killed in the fight near the town of Rabia after peshmerga fighters stormed a grain silo building believing the guards there were behind a roadside bomb attack that hit their convoy.
Lieutenant-Colonel Yahia Hamid said the peshmerga had shot guards at the silo and then detained all inside. He arrived with other police to end the incident, but the peshmerga had attacked the new arrivals.
"I identified myself but the peshmerga wouldn't listen and started screaming at us and then gunfire broke out," he said.
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Eleven Iraqi special police commandos have been killed in a suicide car bombing at a joint US-Iraqi checkpoint in Ramadi, west of Baghdad. At least 14 other people, including two US soldiers, were injured in the attack on Thursday evening on the eastern edge of the town. Ramadi, 110km (68 miles) from Baghdad, is a hotbed of the insurgency.
In a separate attack, five women were shot dead when their car came under fire in eastern Baghdad. US military officials said all five women - three of them sisters - worked at an American military base. Insurgents have frequently targeted Iraqis working for the US military.
Checkpoints were set up at entrances to Ramadi last month to stop insurgents entering and carrying out attacks. But the barriers have increasingly become a focus for suicide bombers as other targets become harder to reach.
The BBC's Andrew North in Baghdad says the latest attack comes after something of a lull in insurgent attacks, but amid uncertainty over Iraq's future political leadership. Negotiations between the political parties over the shape of the new Iraqi government have dragged on since the national election nearly two months ago.
Tuesday saw Iraqi special forces, backed by US troops, kill dozens of insurgents in a raid on a training camp near the city of Tikrit. A 240-strong Iraqi commando unit was engaged in heavy fighting before seizing the camp, 160km (100 miles) north-west of Baghdad.
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In the backdrop of the involvement of some members of the elite strike force, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), in illegal acts, the government has decided to set up a 'counter intelligence' team in the RAB to prevent such incident.
Highly placed sources in the Home Ministry said yesterday that the team would watch the activities of the RAB members and would also check the source of their assets and income.
Setting up a Internal Affairs division, some of the boys have been naughty
Some recent criminal incidents involving the RAB members pose a threat to the credibility of the RAB which had earned fame among the people for their efficiency as well as for honesty. The situation aggravated as some more allegations against the RAB members were submitted to the Ministry recently. "And such things are rising alarmingly," said a concerned official adding that the Home Ministry was adamant to stop all these immediately. It may be mentioned that recently in Dhaka, Chuadanga, Fatulla, and B'Baria RAB members were caught red handed while engaged in illegal activities.
In Chuadanga, the two members of RAB were caught red handed while attempting to take bribe amounting to Tk two lakh, in Fatulla RAB members were reportedly involved in helping land grabbers, and lastly in the capital on Wednesday, two RAB members were caught red handed while attempting to snatch Taka two lakh from a cattle trader. All these incidents were so embarrassing for the government that an immediate remedy to this was considered urgent and that is why the concerned authority decided to form the counter intelligence team, sources said. Launched on March 21 last year the RAB comprises the members of Army, Air Force, Navy, Police and Ansar. But already nearly 100 personnel of the battalion had been punished by the authority for their involvement in different illegal activities.
Agencies adds: Embarrassed after a RAB man was caught with looted money on Wednesday, the government yesterday decided to punish those responsible for tarnishing the image of the elite force, Minister of State for Home Lutfuzzaman Babar said. The incident created an embarrassing situation for the government and the elite force, he said adding that if necessary, summary court would be formed as in other regular forces to ensure punishment to the culprits showing "zero tolerance". The trial would be held to uphold the image of RAB which, otherwise, is adding feathers to its cap with its performance against the criminals since its formation last year, Babar told reporters emerging from an unscheduled two and a half hours of close-door meeting held at Kurmitola RAB Headquarters here yesterday afternoon.
Inspector General of Police Ashraful Huda and all commanding officers of the elite force battalion, including Director General of RAB Mohammad Anwarul Iqbal attended the meeting. The looting incident came to light after RAB members sergeant Atiqur Rahman and sergeant Waliullah of the Air Force, who were on leave when the incident happened, were caught red- handed by local people while they were fleeing after looting Taka 7.8 lakh from a house of a cattle trader in city's Mirpur on Wednesday morning. Soon after the incident, RAB conducted separate drives and recovered Taka 2.5 lakh, sources said. But Atiq, denied his involvement in the robbery saying that he was just passing by the place at the time of the incident and became a victim.
In reply to a question, the State Minister said the meeting decided to amend the existing rules of the elite force to ensure speedy punishment of the elite members who are breaking discipline. He said a total of 107 RAB personnel were awarded different punitive actions, including dismissal form service and rigorous imprisonment, for breaking discipline. Describing the existing rules of the force, Babar said if any RAB member was found guilty he would be given life imprisonment. Terming the creation of RAB a historic decision of the present government when the country's progress was being obstructed by a section of criminals, Babar said adding "the government would not tolerate such incidents". He said the core responsibility of RAB is to swing into action against planned and organized terrorism to ensure peace and security in society, and added that three new battalions would join the force soon.
RAB arrested 3,234 people, including four top terrors, and recovered 752 firearms along with thousands of bullets of different descriptions from across the country till March 22 this year. RAB comprises men from six forces—Army, Navy, BDR, Police, Ansar and Air Force. It came to exposure before the people with the participation in last year's Independence Day parade on March 26. RAB started its full-fledged operation on June 21 last year providing security to the Ramna Batamul on the first day of "Baishakh."
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) itself, and not the police - will investigate last Wednesday's robbery incident in which RAB members were involved.
Commander Saber Sharif, Commanding Officer (CO) of RAB-4 Thursday said the home ministry has directed RAB to take the charge of investigation itself instead of giving it to police.
From what I've read, the regular cops are worse than the RAB having been involved in criminal actions and terrorist activities themselves. That's one of the reasons the RAB came into being, kind of like Elliot Ness's "Untouchables" in Chicago.
Meanwhile, the services of Sergeant Atiqur Rahman and Sergeant Oli, who were deputed to the RAB-4 from Bangladesh Air Force (BAF), were terminated for their direct involvement in the robbery, said Major Ehteshamud Samad, Second-in-Command of RAB-4. Four RAB members, along with two other local criminals, stormed Baghbari at Gabtoli in Mirpur Wednesday and looted Tk 800,000 from a cattle trader. Just after the robbery, locals caught Sergeant Atiq red handed while his (Atiq) five accomplices managed to escape from the spot.
"Sergeant Atiq and Sergeant Oli of BAF, and ASI Rafiq and Constable Khorshed of police, and two local criminals - Masud and Babul - committed the robbery," Commander Saber Sharif said adding: We so far netted Sergeants Atiq and Oli, and constable, Khorshed and Babul." "Nine teams of RAB are conducting massive drives in and around the capital to net the remaining criminals," CO of RAB-4 said adding "A team of RAB raided ASI Rafiq's village home in Netrokona but did not find him."
Commander Saber also said that they filed a GD with local police station in Netrokona. Besides, the arrested people were taken on five-day remand yesterday for interrogation. RAB assured the victim of recovering his looted money. They so far recovered Tk 258,500 from the criminals.
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This is all lies to try to end the success of the "crosfire" and midnight interrogation from bridges and searches for underground weapons caches. A real set back for the war on terror.
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Will the Internal Affairs folks get caught in "crossfire?"
US-led troops killed three Taliban militants in a firefight in which two children and a woman also died in southeast Afghanistan, the US military said.
Another child died in a separate gunbattle east of the Afghan capital, Kabul.
Among the dead militants was a Taliban commander named Raz Mohammad, who was implicated in many of the attacks against coalition forces in southeastern Paktika province, according to a US military statement issued late on Wednesday.
The military said fighting broke out on Tuesday and US-led forces came under intense fire as they arrived in Mohammad's village in Paktika, which borders Pakistan.
The militants, children and woman died during the fighting. An Afghan soldier was also killed, the US military said.
Taliban spokesman Abdul Latif Hakimi confirmed Raz Mohammad's death but had a different version of the encounter. He said the Taliban killed eight US soldiers and that Mohammad and seven members of his family were killed in an attack from the air.
A US warplane killed five militants on Tuesday in the southeastern province of Khost, close to the Pakistan border.
To the northeast, in Kunar province, a village boy was killed on Wednesday in a shootout involving US troops and militants.
A US military statement said the troops had opened fire after flushing out a suspected bombmaker and two other armed men in a village close to Kunar's provincial capital, Asadabad.
The onset of spring was expected to herald an increase in Taliban activity, as the country prepares for parliamentary elections on Sept. 18.
NATO's top military commander, General James Jones of the US Marines, noting how the threat from Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters had faded in the past three years, said on Wednesday that security forces are not facing an organised insurgency.
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Another wedding reception gone terribly wrong. Why do the AK's hate us so much?
We marvelled at the original story. This will make your jaw drop!
... further illustrating the difference between soldiers and a bunch of guys with guns...
The Kentucky National Guardsmen were outnumbered and under heavy gunfire when they counterattacked Iraqi insurgents who ambushed a coalition convoy southeast of Baghdad. A 30-minute firefight ensued on a Sunday morning, pitting 10 guardsmen against dozens of insurgents. When the shooting ended, 26 guerrillas lay dead and another was mortally wounded, while six others were wounded and another was captured unharmed. The guardsmen didn't go unscathed. Three members of the military police unit were wounded and later transported for medical treatment in Germany, where they are recovering. "It was crazy," recalled Sgt. Leigh Ann Hester. "Adrenaline pumping, you didn't have time to think about everything that was going on. It was basically kill or be killed."
And remember, oh Lions of Islam™, you got sent to your reward by Leigh Ann.
In telephone interviews Thursday, several soldiers recalled the harrowing moments last Sunday when they faced off against insurgents armed with machine guns and rocket propelled grenades. The battle turned into one of the largest single insurgent death tolls since last fall's battle for Fallujah, the U.S. military has said. After the attack, U.S. soldiers also recovered a large weapons cache from the insurgents.
It wasn't the first time members of the Kentucky Guard's 617th Military Police unit had fought off insurgents. But two previous ambushes, in late January, paled in comparison. "We were actually pretty shocked by the amount of insurgents that were there," said Spec. Ashley Pullen, who helped care for her wounded comrades during the battle.
And remember, oh Lions of Islam™, you got sent to your reward by Ashley.
The guardsmen, in three Humvees, were at the back of the convoy of 30 tractor-trailers when the insurgents attacked. The Kentucky-based soldiers quickly moved forward and returned fire. The insurgents were positioned behind trees, in a trench and in a dry canal, Hester said. At first, she thought there were seven or eight insurgents. Later in the fight, she said, she realized the enemy force totaled as many as 40 or 50. "Our gunners did a great job of laying down fire and taking a lot of them out," said Hester, 23, a Bowling Green native who as a civilian works at a shoe store in Nashville, Tenn.
Staff Sgt. Timothy Nein, the squad leader, ordered his soldiers down a road to flank insurgents positioned in a field. One vehicle was struck by a rocket propelled grenade, briefly knocking the gunner unconscious, Nein said. Three of the soldiers together in another Humvee were wounded, a the medic, in the same vehicle, returned fire, he said. While under heavy fire, Nein and other guardsmen went on foot to confront bands of insurgents. At one point, Nein and Hester worked their way along a small canal and killed several insurgents with rifle fire and grenades. Nein said that gunfight lasted about 10 minutes. Both sergeants said they each killed at least three insurgents, possibly more. "It was a matter of self defense, so I don't feel bad about it, or anything like that," Hester said. "It was in the line of duty. I was protecting myself and my fellow soldiers." The guardsmen also took out an insurgent who sprayed machine gun fire from a berm above the Kentucky soldiers, and another guerrilla who fired from a house, Nein said. It was probably one or both of those insurgents who wounded the three guardsmen, he said. Two guardsmen who were unharmed had their vests grazed by bullets, Nein said.
Capt. Todd Lindner, commander of the 617th, which is based in Richmond with a detachment in Bowling Green, said his soldiers used superior tactics and discipline to gain the upper hand. "Once they had the advantage, they exploited it to the point where the enemy just had no chance whatsoever," he said. Lindner said he felt "like a proud dad when everybody does everything right." "The soldiers responded extremely well, just like they were trained to do and were absolute professionals and heroes," he said. Maj. Gen. Donald Storm, Kentucky's adjutant general, said the soldiers' performance under fire reflected the professionalism of the Kentucky Guard. "It was absolutely above and beyond the call of duty, but it does not surprise me one bit," he said. "These are class, professional soldiers."
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Sounds like some Silver Stars and maybe a DSC or two are in order here. This old gray-haired, creaky-kneed ex-sailor proudly sends a heartfelt BRAVO ZULU to the men & women of the 617th.
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I'd like the Iraqi media to interview these two and get detailed accounts of how and how many 'insurgents' they whacked. Its an awful week for their PR and women describing how they defeated the 'Lions of Islam' would be the cherry on the top.
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Well, I guess the old "immediate action drill" for responding to a near ambush works pretty well: attack into the ambushers, with every gun blazing. Like the lady said "kill or be killed".
Nice job, Kentuckians.
Now, if they just had a couple of Apaches, or an A-10, or maybe an AC-130 Spectre to chase the fleeing survivors back to their dens, the picture would be complete.
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Ok, let's note here that these were not Special Forces, but National Guard Military Police. At least three of the ten were women (Leigh Ann, Ashley and Hester)-- including Sergeant Hester, a shoe store (probably) manager in real life. Their casualty ratio was better than 3:1, but their worst were only wounded, while most of the Lions of Islam are now servicing male goats.
If I were an Iranian Mullah, I would be quite concerned about now. It is clear which side Allah has chosen.
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It is a Great day when America's secound string is better than the best the enemy has.Brings that old saying to mind"How would you like to go home tell your Mamma that you got beat-up by a girl,eeewww."
Gittrollop,what do think of you"Great Lions of the Desert"now?
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Funny, I was seriously intending to take a sightseeing and golf trip to Kentucky soon after I got back to DC (whenever that will be). Now there's another reason -- to tell the first Kentuckian I encounter how great their Guard is. Fine work, indeed. I hope this engagement is briefed and analyzed with all the MP units here and talked up with other units to provide a morale booster and an inspiration. This whole thing gives me a very warm feeling inside.
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Ranger, other stories add the detail that Apaches were there but were not needed.
Note that less than a dozen Americans handled this ambush. AND they dismounted and pursued the enemy, including one of the women. No sex barriers here. Our women are as deadly as our men.
The Iraqis just learned a lesson a lot of CA-NY "Coastal" types have over the years (if they can pull themsleves away from thier little cronies, epecially the press).
Don't mess with Southern Women.
They may be velvet on the outside, but they have steel on the inside when the chips are down. They have to, in order to keep us Southern men in line. Heh. Thats why I married one myself.
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Actually, there were only two women, since Hester is Leigh Ann's last name. Still, I had no idea the odds were so out of balance. I agree with Phil_b about Iraqui TV spots for these women, although I'd grill the lone survivor as well.
Totally 10,000% percent agree with you Old Spook on Southern Women: I married one too, although I was born and raised in Southern California. The label "Steel Magnolias" comes to mind.
And when it comes to beauty contests, the Yankee women moan and bitch when they find out one of their competitors is a Southerner. Out. Classed.
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Outstanding! I love reading about terrorists getting their butts kicked in any circumstance, but to read that the butt-kicking was partially administered by some female National Guard soldiers just makes it that much more tasty!
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Mooselimbs killed by women. I love it. I can see the headlines now.
"Jihadi mom commits suicide due to son being killed by infidel women"
Hey Sal,
Are you still believing that your pagan brothers got killed, because Allan is pissed off, due to Mooselimb countries accepting the Western way of life? Yes. In that case, keep on believing.
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And now in a very basic way, it becomes clear why a "flanking maneuver" is so very important. When these folks get home, a wise (Republican) Governor of Kentucky should have a rack of (ceremonial) Kentucky rifles, several cases of Kentucky Bourbon, and the biggest Bluegrass ensemble assembled for their welcome home BBQ.
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That's simply awesome. What it reminds me of is the Swedish politician Anna Lindh who was hacked to death by a lunatic in a department store while the other Swedish ladies apparently just looked on. Too bad for Ms. Lindh that she wasn't shopping in Kentucky or Tennessee. I suspect Leigh Ann would have shown the guy some tricks you can do with a knife.
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The General Patton museum is in Ft. Knox. Local place for some young fellows to get a little inspiration.
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JFM - read up - these women were in the KY Guard, but they were apparently from Tennesse (At least the SGT above works there in her "day job"). That aside, Bowling Green is much more southern than northern in terms of character. Thus, Southern Women.
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Is the captured video linked somewhere?? Iraq videos
>> Insurgents Attack Convoy
Poor quality. Wildly panning. At the end a Humvee drives into frame. Assume this is when he got whacked.
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ed, Thanks for the link. This guy will not be getting the job offeer from al-Jizz tomorrow. Interesting there are no voices until the Humvee comes into view. Then there's some hurried discussion that I translated as:
"Let's get out of here vefore we get our raisins."
"Don't worry, Mahmoud, it's only girls."
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Actually I translated the last last Arabic phrases as: "Oh shit" and "Fuck me"...but it was pretty garbled and could even have been "God Bless America".
I DO know that the last thoughts coursing through was passed for a brain in this moron was: "Damn, it wasn't like THIS in Jihadi Film School"
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Poor quality. Wildly panning. At the end a Humvee drives into frame. Assume this is when he got whacked.
My take, from a (very) limited time playing with video:
o Consumer-grade camera, probably zoomed in and hand-held. Whoever was holding the camera was probably expected to also be a shooter.
o Possibly an analog camera, based on a bit of sync oddity near the top of the screen.
o Iraq's electrical transmission towers are just like ours, and just as photogenic.
o I suspect the "Allahu Akbars" at the end were him getting excited that some of the Great Satan's troops had shown up. He didn't realize that our women have bigger, heavier, harder balls than any jihadi in the world.
And they're still sexy as hell.
I'm surprised Sgrena didn't take the time to give the jihadis a lesson in videography.
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And before you ask, she was U.S. Army until she got out to go on the "mommy track" and into "security management" as a civilian.
The Iraqis just learned a lesson a lot of CA-NY "Coastal" types have over the years (if they can pull themsleves away from thier little cronies, epecially the press).
Don't mess with Southern Women.
They may be velvet on the outside, but they have steel on the inside when the chips are down. They have to, in order to keep us Southern men in line. Heh. Thats why I married one myself.
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JFM - read up - these women were in the KY Guard, but they were apparently from Tennesse (At least the SGT above works there in her "day job"). That aside, Bowling Green is much more southern than northern in terms of character. Thus, Southern Women.
The Iraqis just learned a lesson a lot of CA-NY "Coastal" types have over the years (if they can pull themsleves away from thier little cronies, epecially the press).
Don't mess with Southern Women.
They may be velvet on the outside, but they have steel on the inside when the chips are down. They have to, in order to keep us Southern men in line. Heh. Thats why I married one myself.
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JFM - read up - these women were in the KY Guard, but they were apparently from Tennesse (At least the SGT above works there in her "day job"). That aside, Bowling Green is much more southern than northern in terms of character. Thus, Southern Women.
A Sudanese court has indicted 72 men, including members of the opposition Islamist Popular Congress (PCP) party, for involvement in an attempted coup, party officials and one of their lawyers said yesterday. The group's lead lawyer, Kamal Omar, told Reuters the correct court procedures were not followed and the proceedings were flawed. He called it a "political hearing".
It woulda been a political coup, right?
That's, umm...diferent. Nope, not the same thing at all!
The preliminary hearing for 78 men, including 6 in absentia, began in December and a Khartoum court decided last week there was enough evidence for 72 of the men to go to trial charged with attempting a coup in September last year, PCP officials said. "They have decided that there is a case against these 72 men who are accused of planning a coup d'etat," Hassan Abdallah Ahmed, the deputy leader of the PCP told Reuters. "They have been indicted," he added. If convicted, the men could face the death penalty, but they are more likely to be jailed and have their property confiscated, Ahmed said. Those not charged were released, but a few had since been detained again, he said. He said not all the accused were members of the PCP, led by Hassan Turabi. The party, suspended in April last year, denies the charges. "Not so many of them are members of the party - maybe 15-20 of them," Ahmed said. "The others are mostly boys from Darfur." A senior PCP member, Haj Adam, is being tried in absentia. Party officials said he fled the country to the Eritrean capital Asmara, where many Sudanese opposition politicians live.
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I had a dog named Putsch. When I called him, I said HERE PUTSCHY PUTSCHY.
Clashes erupted yesterday between Iraqi forces and insurgents in Fallujah while a friendly fire incident near the Syrian border between Iraqi police and army left five dead. "There are clashes between the army and police and insurgents, but we don't have a toll yet," the Defense Ministry official said. An AFP reporter said shots were heard from the city's northwestern Jolan district and Iraqi police sealed off the district around 1:30 p.m. At the Jolan district's medical center, hospital clerk Abbas Ahmed said four dead Iraqi soldiers were brought to the facility, but the Defense Ministry could not confirm the toll.
US forces assaulted the city in November, driving out insurgents who had turned it into their nerve centre for attacks across Iraq. In a tragic friendly fire incident, Iraqi police and army opened fire on one another in Rabia, 130 kilometers northwest of Mosul, leaving three soldiers and two police dead, Maj. Gen. Mohamed Al-Jaburi told AFP. The incident happened at 11 a.m. when the soldiers opened fire on police thinking they were rebels in the area rife with insurgent activity, Jaburi said.
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between Iraqi forces and insurgents in Fallujah
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Our friend just landed in Fallujah with his Marine unit about 10 days ago. Report from his dad: somebody must have taken a potshot at their plane because the pilot took evasive action; and a mortar attack happened during his sleeping hours (what do they call it in Marine lingo when it's not your shift? off duty?). He slept through the mortar attack. Must have been some jet lag!
Seventeen people have been arrested and security forces are patrolling the city streets after the murder of former Northern Areas inspector general of police (IG) Sakhiullah Jan Tareen, police officials said on Thursday. "The city is tense but we have taken adequate security measures to prevent any outbreak of violence," said Gilgit's current police chief Sarmad Khan. He added that paramilitary reinforcements had been called in to help with security arrangements.
Unidentified men shot the former IG near Jutal village on his way back to Gilgit from Hunza. Four bodyguards were also killed and four other were injured. Tareen's body was sent to Peshawar by a special helicopter and from there it will travel to Dera Ismail Khan, where his funeral will take place. The funeral prayers for the four policemen killed was offered in Gilgit on Wednesday night, with a guard of honour to show respect. Their bodies were sent to their villages for burial. The Tanzeem Ahal Sunnah Wal Jaamat Gilgit called for markets to be closed. They alleged that Shia terrorists had murdered Tareen and said that a complete strike should be observed to show solidarity with his family. All markets situated in Sunni-dominated areas were closed while a few markets in the Shia-dominated area remained open.
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Casablanca..the good old days, when there was at least one good frog, we could count on.
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Actually, only when he had no options left.
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Militants shot dead seven people in Indian held Kashmir including the elder brother of the Kashmir's home minister, officials claimed on Thursday. Muhammed Akram, the brother of minister Abdul Rehman Veeri, was gunned down by suspected militants on Thursday in Bijbehara, 40 kilometers south of Srinagar, police said. "A civilian passer-by was also injured in the shooting," a police spokesman said. Veeri is a leader of Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed's People's Democratic Party (PDP). None of the Kashmiri militant groups have claimed responsibility for the daylight slaying. The killings came as Veeri announced that municipal councillors would get more security and protected government accommodation.
In further violence, Indian troops shot dead a suspected militant in Poonch overnight, police said. Earlier in the day, three Muslims were killed in separate incidents in Baramulla, the spokesman said. He said three more Muslims were shot dead in Poonch, Anantnag and Pulwama overnight and on Thursday. Police said the murders were carried out by militants but none of the militant groups have owned up the killings. Militants have been targeting pro-India politicians and people they suspect of working for Indian troops.
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SRINAGAR - Newly-elected municipal councillors in Indian Kashmir, always under continuous threat from Islamic militants, will get more security and protected government accommodation, a state minister said on Thursday. "Every councillor of the state (perceived to be under threat) will be provided with more security and accommodation at safer places in the respective district headquarters," home minister Abdul Rehman Veeri said in a statement.
Of course, if you just whacked all the terrorists, you wouldn't have to hide your councillors ...
Municipal polls were held in Indian Kashmir earlier this year after a gap of 27 years that was due partly to the ongoing Islamic insurgency against Indian rule in Kashmir but also due to the previous ruling party's fears of creating a rival power base.
Guerrillas bombed rallies and killed candidates, party workers and elected officials to scuttle the elections. The government had already provided the 850 councillors elected in the ballot with a personal security guard each but the elected officials demanded even tighter security, with some staying at their party headquarters for fear of militant attacks. "I welcome the government decision. We need safe accommodation and more security to work without fear," a woman councillor from the Indian Kashmir summer capital Srinagar said, asking not to be named.
In further violence, Indian troops overnight shot dead a militant in southern Poonch district, while suspected rebels gunned down a Muslim civilian and injured his female relative, police said.
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Dera Bugti Nazim Kazim Raza has said the Frontier Corps (FC) personnel kidnapped him before attacking the town on March 17. Raza told a private television channel on Thursday that the FC personnel shot in the air in Dera Bugti at 9:30 am after abducting him. He alleged that more than 60 people were killed in the fresh FC action and property loss was worth millions of rupees. He said that although he was the nazim of the district, he was powerless because the district coordination officer (DCO) was not cooperating with him. "I feel I am not authorised to run the district on my own, unlike other nazims," Mr Raza added.
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A female author leading a campaign for more rights for Muslim women said she would lead Friday prayers in Boston amid growing opposition from Islamic leaders. Asra Nomani, author of an upcoming book on women in Islam, said she would preside over a small Muslim congregation of men and women, becoming the second woman in a week to lead a Friday prayer, a role historically held by men. Nomani, 39, led a small prayer near Boston on Wednesday, but leading a Friday prayer is far more controversial. Last Friday, Amina Wadud, an associate professor of Islamic studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, led about 100 men and women in prayers in New York City, in a controversial event Nomani helped organise.
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And what is it with the Left, and homosexual and incestous imagery. They all sound like they have serious sexual adjustment issues. Is this the real reason for the Left's common cause with Mooselimbs. BTW GIOTTO if you want to reference my mother she is a white anglosaxon protestant.
#17
GIOTTO I have so many frequent flier points after having traveled to at least 40 countries I could travel to your country for free.
I think we should rename countries that the USA has invaded as Rumistans. So Iraq is Rumistan1. I betting Syria will be Rumistan2. We may well get up to 5 or 6 Rumistans before the message gets through.
#18
Ah, the 'intelligent' discourse of anti-semites... and their 'opinions'. It would be hilarious if it weren't so sad... I don't even want to know what a CAT scan would reveal.
#24
GIOTTO, despite what you may think I am not an American. RantBurg welcomes opinions from across the world and that is one of the reasons I am here and I have been here for quite a while. What we don't like is incoherent trolls and unfortunately you are one. Go away, figure how to make sense, and come back.
#37
My goodness gracious, somebody is showing off its vocabulary. Unfortunate that it doesn't have the language skills to match.
Like so many Rantburgers, I have spent some time in Italy... nice old buildings and lovely food, the shopping is wonderful if one has money to burn, but it is hard on a country to be a battleground for the better part of 2000 years. It teaches the people to accept problems and wait for them to go away, the pleasures of factional in-fighting, and the necessity of criminal enterprise. Berlusconi is a historical anomaly; for the sake of his country's battleworn soul, long may he govern!
Back on topic, many have said that if Islam is to survive it must be taken back from the fanatics and crazies who've hijacked it, by ordinary people who really do want it to be a "religion of peace". Are developments like this the first stirrings of that takeback?
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I'm confused,would that be"MMmmm,trollops"or "EEEEwwwww,Trollops"?
#49
Silly me. I'm just an ignorant lapsed Protestant. I always understood men and women equal before god. A husband-wife preacher team conducted my father's memorial service. Silly me for not understanding the rucus...{Partial Sarcasm-Know Islam rules}
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Ya know this woman-prayer thing is just what the doctor ordered. Islam in America begets a whole new kind of Islam, then we get to export it back to whence it originated. They didn't think this experiment through, heh heh. Hey, one can hope.
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IP address resolves to h-67-100-252-52.lsanca54.covad.net
#55
Fred you are a real racist anti muslims with a prudent sense of bigotry ....who care If a female author,is leading a campaign for more rights for Muslim women This is in the USA, she should do that in all so call friends of Us Gulf states and in the LIBERATED Iraq. Are you here showing amuziment or are you again portraiting a culture that you or that West Virginian woman with an arab name dont understain becouse she and you are not well traveled Americans or never exposed to other cultures outside of your hi standars but low quality of life country.
Live the muslims alone Israeli jews,British zionist and cinese communist are the real problem and all the never ben there people like yourself ...sory for my english
#56
Sobiesky why dont go to fuck your russian jew mother
and suck my International cock can you please explain to me why jew fags allways call opinion partecipant in this shitty blog ...TROLLS...
if you do not want opinions go back to Iszrael you fucking scum
sorry for my French
#57
ey two o o five are you Sobiesky wife did you think becouse my artistic nome de guerre que me gusta esta un nombre italiasky you are so smarty that you think im italiano poor fuck your associations are pathetic
#58
this is for you miss phil_b please go back to the laundry room there is still cacca in your husband pants you cant afford to travel to country like ITALIA
#61
Phil I you have so many flier points please use them. So you boloni sandwich raised moron can educate yourself and plez bring your Anglosucker mother....
ps my country is very expensive and sorry to tell you is not for you
#62
hey R why you dont joint the little faghetty of tuna sandwich and boloni raised morons army of your that is not able to containing Iraq rats and are pop out one two or five a day
#63
bulldog if I give you a milkbone can you please go back to your corner
islamofascis label is toilet paper so go back to your dog house and chew my bone
#64
tank you Phil you are right I will go away
sorry to agitate all of you rantamburghers I will go away but I will comme back .... exactly in two months by by
hope nobody got heart palpitations...
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Security forces evacuated a private school in Manama on Tuesday following a false bomb scare, an AFP correspondent said. The school principal alerted authorities when he received an e-mail about "a bomb ready to explode" inside the al-Bayan school, the governor of the central region in Bahrain, Salman Al-Zayani, told AFP. Security forces evacuated the school which the message said was teaching pupils "an American curriculum in an Arab-Islamic country." The forces searched the school for six hours but did not find a bomb. "It was a false alert," said Zayani, adding that the authorities were attempting to determine the authors of the e-mail.
The detention renewal judge Wednesday renewed for 15 days the detention of 13 suspects, including 
Militants have killed a mufti of the settlement of Proletarsky and his contemporary in Chechnya. A spokesman at the North Caucasus Operational Staff told Itar-Tass on Friday that the "militants dressed in wearing military uniforms and masks broke into the house and in cold blood made a carnage of the two old people", 69-year-old mufti Amin Gaziyev and Khamidula Umarov. A criminal case has been opened and the search for criminals begun.
A court Friday ordered the imprisonment of a Frenchman who was released this month from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, his lawyer said. 
The Kentucky National Guardsmen were outnumbered and under heavy gunfire when they counterattacked Iraqi insurgents who ambushed a coalition convoy southeast of Baghdad. A 30-minute firefight ensued on a Sunday morning, pitting 10 guardsmen against dozens of insurgents. When the shooting ended, 26 guerrillas lay dead and another was mortally wounded, while six others were wounded and another was captured unharmed. The guardsmen didn't go unscathed. Three members of the military police unit were wounded and later transported for medical treatment in Germany, where they are recovering. "It was crazy," recalled Sgt. Leigh Ann Hester. "Adrenaline pumping, you didn't have time to think about everything that was going on. It was basically kill or be killed."
A Sudanese court has indicted 72 men, including members of the opposition Islamist Popular Congress (PCP) party, for involvement in an attempted coup, party officials and one of their lawyers said yesterday. The group's lead lawyer, Kamal Omar, told Reuters the correct court procedures were not followed and the proceedings were flawed. He called it a "political hearing".
Clashes erupted yesterday between Iraqi forces and insurgents in Fallujah while a friendly fire incident near the Syrian border between Iraqi police and army left five dead. "There are clashes between the army and police and insurgents, but we don't have a toll yet," the Defense Ministry official said. An AFP reporter said shots were heard from the city's northwestern Jolan district and Iraqi police sealed off the district around 1:30 p.m. At the Jolan district's medical center, hospital clerk Abbas Ahmed said four dead Iraqi soldiers were brought to the facility, but the Defense Ministry could not confirm the toll.
Militants shot dead seven people in Indian held Kashmir including the elder brother of the Kashmir's home minister, officials claimed on Thursday. Muhammed Akram, the brother of minister Abdul Rehman Veeri, was gunned down by suspected militants on Thursday in Bijbehara, 40 kilometers south of Srinagar, police said. "A civilian passer-by was also injured in the shooting," a police spokesman said. Veeri is a leader of Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed's People's Democratic Party (PDP). None of the Kashmiri militant groups have claimed responsibility for the daylight slaying. The killings came as Veeri announced that municipal councillors would get more security and protected government accommodation. 
A female author leading a campaign for more rights for Muslim women said she would lead Friday prayers in Boston amid growing opposition from Islamic leaders. 
