April 22, 2005: A terrorist grenade attack (15 thrown, of which only 9 exploded) in Sanaa, Yemen, on April 15 caused few casualties, but suggests that the insurgents operating in the north may be trying to expand their operating area southward. In addition to increasing security in the capitol, the government is already initiating tighter security measures for the annual "Unity Day" observances, to be held on May 22, which commemorate the unification of Northern and Southern Yemen a decade ago. The fighting in the north has died down, with over a hundred dead and several hundred arrested. This has not resolved the deep religious and cultural differences between the tribal north and urban south.
"Hillbillies!"
"City slickers!"
That over simplifies the situation a bit, for every Yemeni feels an attachment to a tribe or clan. But in the north, tribal affairs play a much larger role in ones life. Religion is another major factor, with Islamic radicalism still very popular. Again, this is more the case in the north. The government has shut down 1,400 religious schools that were mainly brainwashing kids to become Islamic warriors and terrorists. The government believes there are still over 300,000 children being indoctrinated in illegal underground religious schools. The fighting between the northerners and southerners has been going on for thousands of years, and it's not just a result of the current wave of Islamic radicalism. But the Islamic radicals are involved this time around, and that makes it important on an international basis. The better educated, and wealthier, southerners are keen on keeping the northern tribes at peace, and have joined in the war on terror to help make that happen.
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Clearly it hasn't occurred to the better educated, and wealthier, southerners to build free community schools up north, so that the Northern kids will have an alternative to the madrassah education. Then have some sort of final exam, and announce the results by tribe -- that'll get their competetive juices flowing. In no time they'll be drilling those poor boys on Arabic poetry and algebra, just like the Japanese... and suddenly the Southern city boys won't have that educational advantage, at least.
A gunfight on the edge of the Saudi city of Mecca has left two militants and two members of the security forces dead, Saudi officials say. The group of four militants, some disguised as women, are said to have failed to stop at a checkpoint.
"Check point ahead, Mahmoud!"
"Don't stop, Ahmed! I can't let anybody see me in this get-up! My purse and shoes don't match!"
They were pursued by the security forces, and the gun battle ensued.
"Kill her! Kill her! Her purse and shoes don't match!"
"Gun it, Ahmed!"
One militant was shot and arrested.
[BANG!] "Ow! I quit!"
The clashes took place hours after voting ended in the country's first nationwide elections. These included polls in Mecca and Medina, the two holiest cities in Islam. It is unclear if the fighting was connected with the voting.
"Hrarr! Let's go out and vote an' then dress up like broads and get in a gunfight!"
Male voters were electing half the members of municipal councils in a third round of voting. Many Saudis hope the vote marks a step towards wider political reform.
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I wonder if those boys intended to be militants when they got into the car, or if they were embarassed to be caught playing dress up.
British would-be suicide bomber Saajid Badat was sentenced to 13 years in prison today for plotting to blow up a passenger plane with an explosive device hidden in his shoe. Badat, 25, agreed to board and destroy an American-bound flight from Europe three months after the September 11 2001 hijackings killed around 3,000 people in New York and Washington. But four days after he was given an explosive device in December 2001, he had a change of heart and backed out of the mission. The court was told he could not face being a "courier of death" and rejected terrorism.
Mr Justice Fulford, sentencing Badat at the Old Bailey, said he had to be given credit for not going through with the plot. "It would not be in the public interest to send out a message that if would-be terrorists turn away from death and destruction before any lives are put at risk, the courts will not reflect in a significant and real way any such genuine change of heart in the sentence which is handed down," he said. Badat was sentenced today after pleading guilty at a hearing in February to conspiring to blow up a passenger jet. Earlier today the court heard that Badat thought he would find "paradise" by blowing up a passenger plane. In letters to his parents - found along with a sock containing explosives at his home - Badat said he was disillusioned with Muslim life in the UK. He wrote: "I have a sincere desire to sell my soul to Allah in return for paradise." Richard Horwell, prosecuting, said the discovery of the makings of a shoe-bomb were found in two suitcases at his home in Gloucester after his arrest in November 2003.
There was evidence that Badat had conspired to become a suicide plane bomber simultaneously with fellow British shoe-bomber Richard Reid. Reid was arrested in December 2001 on a plane to Miami as he tried unsuccessfully to blow up a device in his shoe, and later jailed for life in the US. Badat changed his mind but had kept the dismantled device at his home in St James, Gloucester. Mr Horwell said Badat had told police as he was being driven to the police station after his arrest: "I was asked to do a shoe bombing like Richard Reid". He then told the police about a green suitcase in his bedroom which contained a fuse and detonator. In a black suitcase near a water canister he told them they could find a ball of explosives in a sock. He told officers: "I did not know how to dispose of ... An Arab gave me these things in Afghanistan." Mr Horwell said Badat had used three different British passports, all in his name, to travel to a number of countries at the same time as Reid. The court has been told that they both trained in Afghan terror camps.
There was evidence that both men had used the same Belgium phonecard in September 2001 to contact Nizar Trabelsi, a man later jailed for terrorism. At the time, Reid and Badat were in Amsterdam and then flew to Karachi in Pakistan and stayed in different hotels in the same street. Mr Horwell said: "The crown's case is that, following the terrorist training that Reid and Badat had received, the final plans by them must have been made. They left Pakistan within days of each other and would each participate in corresponding and simultaneous attacks on passenger aircraft flights from Europe to the US. The plot was to cause explosions on two passenger aircraft when in flight across the Atlantic. If they had succeeded, the loss of life would have been considerable and the outrage would have been only a few months from the attack on New York." But whereas Reid had boarded a plane from Paris to the US, Badat returned to the UK. He had booked a flight back to Amsterdam for December but had not booked a transatlantic flight.
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NIZAR TRABELSI
al-Qaeda
Richard Horwell, prosecuting
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al-Qaeda
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al-Qaeda
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SEOUL - North Korea has poured all its resources into developing nuclear weapons, including a likely scheme to enrich uranium, the highest official from the communist state to defect to the South said on Thursday. Hwang Jang-yop was the architect of the North's Juche ideology, an extreme form of self-reliance advocated by the North's late founder Kim Il-sung.
Hwang was head of international relations at the Workers' Party of Korea, the ruling communist party, and a close confidant of current leader Kim Jong-il, before defecting in 1997. "It is a small country, but it has thrown all its strength behind the programmes from the very beginning," Hwang told a forum organised by South Korea's opposition Grand National Party.
Hwang said he had been told by the communist party's secretary heading armament responsibilities in 1996 that the country had decided to begin a uranium-enrichment programme. He said his knowledge of the North's nuclear programmes was indirect, but said he had lengthy discussions with Kim Jong-il, who appeared set on boosting the country's stockpile of nuclear materials, despite a 1994 pledge to stop development.
Kim was determined to maximise the nuclear potential, Hwang said, but his main objective—at least initially—was to boost the country's defensive leverage against the United States. "What Kim Jong-il is most afraid of is the United States," Hwang said.
He spoke of a 1994 episode in which he was asked by Kim to import more plutonium. "Wouldn't it be good to have a little more?" Hwang quoted Kim as saying.
Hwang questioned the usefulness of the six-party process, saying the countries were being manipulated by Kim to attract attention to the impoverished state and raise the stakes.
There was greater discord within the North and discontent toward the leadership now, but it would be a mistake to talk of a collapse of Kim's power, Hwang said. "Kim Jong-il's skills as a dictator are superb." Contrary to common belief outside the North, Kim had effectively been the national leader long before his father's death in 1994, beginning in the 1970s, Hwang said.
The key to the North's survival was in China's hands, he said. It was not unusual for Kim's aides in the military and communist party to question the system's capacity to survive, but Chinese influence should ensure it continued, Hwang said.
He called South Korea's rise from the rubbles of the Korean War "a miracle," adding: "If I had brought Kim Jong-il with me, it would have been so good."
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Hwang Jang-yop was the architect of the Northâs Juche ideology....
So Juich went south, ya say? The only thing propping up the Norks are the Chicoms, and the under-the-table help from SKor. We have some serious issues to discuss with Roh and Co.
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All your Juche Architects are belong to us.
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LONDON (AFP) - British would-be suicide bomber Saajid Badat, an accomplice of "shoebomber" Richard Reid, was jailed for 13 years Friday for plotting to blow up a passenger plane in mid-air.
Badat, 25, who pleaded guilty in February, was alleged to have conspired to blow up an airliner simultaneously with compatriot Reid, who tried in December 2001 to blow up a Miami-bound flight with a bomb hidden in his shoe. Badat ultimately decided not to go ahead with the plot, but kept the dismantled device at his home in St James, Gloucester, in the west of England where the pieces were found in a police raid. Bright boys. One can't light a match, one forgets to toss the evidence. No raisins for you!
Three people have appeared in court in Spain charged with helping to plan the 11 September 2001 attacks. They include the alleged head of an al-Qaeda cell in Spain, who is accused of arranging a meeting allegedly attended by one of the 19 attackers. Another man is charged with filming the World Trade Center and giving the tapes to militants before the US attacks. Also on Friday, a US court will hear a guilty plea from the only man charged in the US over the attacks.
Zacarias Moussaoui, who was born in France to Moroccan parents, has been charged with conspiracy. He could face the death penalty if convicted. The defendants in the Spanish trial are part of a group of 41 suspects indicted by the anti-terrorist judge Baltasar Garzon. Judge Garzon says Spain was a key base for hiding, helping, recruiting and financing al-Qaeda members in the lead-up to the attacks on New York and Washington. The group also includes Osama Bin Laden and other senior figures in al-Qaeda, but under Spanish law suspects cannot be tried in absentia.
The main defendant at the trial is Syrian-born Immad Yarkas, 42, alias Abu Dahdah. Mr Yarkas was arrested by Spanish authorities in November 2001 on suspicion of heading an al-Qaeda cell that allegedly provided funding and logistics for the people who planned the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. With Moroccan-born Driss Chebli, he is said to have set up a meeting in June 2001 which was allegedly attended by at least one of the attack ringleaders, Mohamed Atta, who piloted one of the planes that hit the Twin Towers. Mr Yarkas has denied that he recruited Islamic militants or held planning meetings.
Another suspect, Ghassub al-Abrash Ghaylun, allegedly filmed the World Trade Center and other US targets. The tapes were allegedly passed on to "operative members of al-Qaeda and would become the preliminary information on the attacks against the Twin Towers", wrote Judge Garzon in the indictment. Prosecutors want the three men to receive more than 60,000 years in jail - 25 for each of the more than 2,000 people killed on 11 September 2001.
The others appearing in court on Friday are charged with membership of al-Qaeda. They include a journalist from the Arabic TV station al-Jazeera, Tayseer Alouni, who interviewed Bin Laden after the attacks. He is accused of using a posting in Afghanistan to distribute money to the militant Islamic network. All the suspects deny the charges. Mr Yarkas' lawyer, Jacobo Teijelo, said Spanish prosecutors "have no solid evidence of anything". He said if Mr Yarkas and his alleged accomplices were plotters, the US would have sought their extradition, the Associated Press news agency reported. "That is jarring from the point of view of common sense," AP quoted Mr Teijelo as saying.
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ABU DAHDAH
al-Qaeda in Europe
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DRIS CHEBLI
al-Qaeda in Europe
GHASUB AL ABRASH GHAILUN
al-Qaeda in Europe
IMAD YARKAS
al-Qaeda in Europe
MOHAMED ATTA
al-Qaeda in Europe
TAISIR ALUNI
al-Qaeda in Europe
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al-Qaeda in Europe
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Zacarias Moussaoui pleaded guilty Friday to conspiring with the Sept. 11 hijackers to kill Americans and declared he was personally chosen by Osama bin Laden to fly a plane into the White House during a later attack. Moussaoui admitted guilt in front of a packed courtroom only a few miles from where one of the four hijacked planes crashed into the Pentagon in 2001. He pleaded to six counts, four of which could bring the death penalty.
Asked by U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema if prosecutors had promised him the possibility of a lighter sentence for his admission, Moussaoui said no. Then he added, "I don't expect any leniency from the Americans." Brinkema accepted the plea, making the French citizen the lone person convicted in a U.S. court in connection with the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. While a sentencing phase still must come, the hearing brought a dramatic conclusion to a bizarre three-year legal battle during which the mercurial Moussaoui insulted Brinkema, tried to fire his lawyers and once asked to plead guilty only to change his mind a week later.
Three years of legal wrangling on an open and shut case. I'm ashamed of the American legal system.
Wearing a green prison jump suit and a full beard, Moussaoui entered the hushed courtroom and politely answered questions from Brinkema, a departure to some previous appearances during which he sometimes ranted at her. I'd like to see his ass deep fried, but that won't happen. At least this spares us from the 21st century version of the Colin Ferguson trial.
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i want to volunteer to be the one to end him, i have my sledge hammer here and i promise i will miss a few times, hitting his legs and such before i give him the final knock on his bald head.
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International inspectors fear that nuclear weapons components and specialized tools were diverted from Libya and sent to another country. The 2003 shipment was initially meant for a secret $100-million, uranium enrichment plant and bomb factory being built for Libya by Pakistan's A.Q. Khan and his associates, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday. But it never arrived and International Atomic Energy Agency officials fear it went to an unidentified customer seeking to build nuclear bombs. Libya has since given up on its nuclear bomb making plans. IAEA staffers are working out of an office in Vienna to find the missing components and tools. They are being supported by intelligence officials and prosecutors from other countries, including the United States, Germany, Britain, France, South Africa and Switzerland. To date, seven people have been taken into custody in Dubai, Germany, Malaysia, South Africa and Switzerland. The location of the missing items remains a mystery. (cough) Iran (cough)
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Mohammed El Baradei and the IAEA - ever vigilant to protect the world from nuclear proliferation!
Singapore has arrested a suspected member of Jemaah Islamiyah, a southeast Asian terrorist group linked to Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaida network. In a statement, the Ministry of Home Affairs said Jahpar bin Osman allegedly underwent military training in Mindanao, Southern Philippines, where he was trained in weapons-handling and bomb-making. He was also involved in discussions by the JI to carry out terrorist attacks against Singapore, the ministry said Friday. The government foiled plots in 2001 and 2002 to bomb Western targets in the city-state.
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JAHPAR BIN OSMAN
Jemaah Islamiyah
Jemaah Islamiyah
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Excellent intelligence service, tight as hell border control, and a small geographic area to police. Though it's a helluvalot easier to do there, there's no doubt Singapore is doing it right.
BAGHDAD, April 22 (UPI) -- An Iraqi criminal court sentenced four people, including an Iranian, to prison Friday following their conviction of being involved in terrorist activities. The four were sentenced to prison terms ranging between 6 and 10 years. They were seized in different parts of Iraq and charged with entering Iraq illegally and possessing arms. The Iraqi government has accused Iraq's neighbors, notably Iran and Syria, of allowing gunmen to cross into Iraq to fight U.S.-led multinational troops and Iraqi forces.
On Thursday, Iraqi security forces raided a hideout for insurgents in eastern Baghdad, killing one and capturing nine, including four Arabs.
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Earlier today, the Islamic Army in Iraq released a video tape of the helicopter crash in Iraq that killed 11 today, including 6 American contractors with Blackwater. The video is profoundly disturbing. It shows the jihadis walking through a field of burning wreckage. It shows dead Americans lying dead in the wreckage.
Then the jihadis move from the open field into an area that appears to be high grasses. They find an American lying in the grass, alive.
He is told "Stand up" in English. The man asks the jihadis to give him a hand. After a few moments, the man is shown standing, and is being encouraged to walk.
He hears them speaking behind him, and turns around.
The jihadis begin shooting him.
The message that accompanied the video said the American was murdered in retaliation for Muslims who were killed in Fallujah.
It does no good here for me to say this is in clear violation of the Geneva Convention. Obviously the jihadis do not care about the Geneva Convention.
Watch the video (but not with small children around). It will make you angry.
(The video is profounding disturbing. It is not suitable for children of any ages. Please take this into consideration before watching the video.)"
I saw the video, and it is exactly as described. Gruesome. I don't know what's your take on showing ennemy propaganda, but I think nonetheless this must be shown as widely as possible, to let people realize what kind of scum the us servicemen and women are fighting in Irak. And theses bastards shout their "allah u akbar" when they kill him. God bless this man, I'm not angry, I'm sad, I'm so sad for him and his family. I know everyday us forces are killing off theses rats, and that they are losing more ground every day, I'm not angry at them, I'm disgusted by the collaborators who deems them "resistance fighter", "minutemen",...
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"Iâm disgusted by the collaborators who deem them "resistance fighter", "minutemen",... "
The "collaborators" are like an infectious virus, you think you have them beaten, but they are still there, still doing their dirty work. That their actions harm US servicemen doesn't dissuade them, losing elections doesn't quiet them, millions of Iraqis voting in free elections doesn't faze them, new democratic movements in unlikely places doesn't impress them. They are single minded in their quest for power. Curiously, they aren't really for the Islamists, because they hate all religions. They'll side with Islamists against their own if they think it will enable leftist power. Defeat the democratic capitalists and then worry about the Islamists.
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Sorry. He was Bulgarian, as were the rest of the crew members. He was most likely the pilot or copilot. The Mi-8 vented exhaust to the sides, so IR seeking missiles sould hit it square in the side, causing exploding shrapnel and fuel to enter the passenger cabin and often breaking the helicopter in two. The pilot and copilot, being the farthest away, stood the best chance of surviving.
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political correctness and racial profileing are words that i cant stand coz they stand in the way of us dealing with the jihadis scumbags the way they should be dealt with, lets stop bullshitting and tell it like it is, they fight as dirty as possible and deserve no mercy.
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Sidekick of Sweden Aslam killed in crossfire
A notorious terrorist known to be the sidekick of Sweden Aslam, one of the most wanted criminals in Dhaka''s underworld, was killed in an encounter between his cohorts and police in the city''s Tejgaon area on Thursday early morning. The terror was identified as Abdul Sattar locally known as Moga Babu (26), an absconding accused in several criminal cases including murders. The striking team also recovered one foreign made revolver loaded with three bullets from his possession.
Police said local people caught Moga Babu red handed while he was trying to commit a crime in Green Road area on Wednesday afternoon. The angry mob beat him up indiscriminately and later handed him over to Tejgaon police. During interrogation, police came to know that Babu and his sidekicks had a large number of arms and ammunition.
As per Babu''s statement, a special team of Tejgaon police led by SI Zia Latiful Islam, SI Khabir Ahmed and SI Erphan Uddin along with Babu went near Life Line Urology Centre, just opposite to the Green Super Market at Green Road under Tejgaon police station at about 3 am to recover arms and ammunition.
Nice and dark at 3am, not many witnesses either
As the police team reached the spot, sidekicks of Babu swooped on them, started firing indiscriminately and tried to snatch Babu from them.
"Yar! We're the Sidekicks of Babu, you'll never take him alive!"
Police also retaliated with firing. Both the police and the terrorists exchanged a number of gunshots in which Babu was hit by bullets.
"Ouch, ouch.....rosebud...."
He was rushed to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital where the doctors declared him dead.
"He's dead, Jim."
Police said Moga Babu was a close accomplice of Sweden Aslam. Babu and his accomplice unleashed a reign of terror in Green Road and the nearby areas.
Two Terrors Toasted
A suspected terror and his sidekick were set fire to death at Kazirgaon in Matuail area of the city Thursday evening, reports UNB. Demra police said that "rivals attacked and set fire Kana Ripon and his associate to death" at about 6:00pm. They could not give details as their team was on the spot. Kana Ripon, a "top criminal" of the area, was wanted in at least nine cases, including murders.
Five women muggers caught in Manikganj
BDNEWS, Manikganj :A mob on Thursday caught red-handed five women muggers while they were in a bid to flee from the spot by a CNG run auto rickshaw after taking away gold ornaments from a jeweller at Singair upazila in Manikganj. The women muggers were identified as Sathi, 40, Moni,25, Nazma,32, Jasmine,30 and Lucky,29). They were handed over to police. According to sources, they entered a shop called Suman Jewellers in the morning posing as customers and at one stage, they tried to flee the shop by an auto rickshaw, taking away more than eight tolas of gold.
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BTW - the uncut version of Hunt for Red October is on Spike TV this weekend
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I am trying to remember: Are any of the "accomplices" ever captured or killed? I know that none of the RAB is ever hurt. Doesn't anyone over there get suspicious?
April 22, 2005: In southwest Pakistan (Baluchistan), thousands of armed (with rifles and RPGs) Bugti tribesmen have moved to surround an army base. The tribes and the government are in conflict over how much money the tribes get for oil and gas pumped from the area, and how many troops the army can station in Baluchistan. The death toll, so far, has not been very high. It's been a game of bluff and bluster, backed up by a lot of firepower. In western Pakistan (the tribal areas along the Afghan border), police and tribal volunteers are searching villages for foreigners (al Qaeda terrorists). This is all being done very quietly, with the only army troops in evidence being elite commandos. The tribesmen get agitated when they see convoys of regular troops rolling through their territory. But SUVs and trucks full of police or commandos cause less unrest.
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Translation: Control over our own territory is iffy, at best.
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"The tribesmen get agitated when they see convoys of regular troops rolling through their territory." They just seem in a constant state of agitation akin to the behavior of squirrels in the spring and fall.
Amazing what you can attach with a little spirit gum, ain't it?
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Heh, these are real Live-Under-the-Bridge trolls demanding Pervy pay the toll -- and getting away with it. Is there any way to bring these parts of Afghanistan / PakiWakiLand into the present day? Is there the will or the means, locally? I don't theenk so.
Someday the drugs or whatever - oil pipeline security, which affect the outside world will become a high enough priority and this will be solved in a manner they understand. The only one they understand. Boggles.
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Hold the phone here people: the Bugti aren't our enemies, or at least the vast majority of them aren't. They are an autonomous people that have negotiated very specific autonomy deals with Pakland's central government.
They Bugti didn't land on Pakistan and Iran. Pakistan and Iran landed on them.
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the Bugtis sheltering any of America's enemies?
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Not for free.
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so they're the French of Pakistan, huh?
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FG: so they're the French of Pakistan, huh?
That's better than being the Pakistanis of Pakistan, who not only did not take money from the holy warriors, they *handed out* money to them - billions of dollars. The French of Pakistan we can deal with - we just outbid the holy warriors.
SRINAGAR - The second bus run linking Indian and Pakistani Kashmir, a major symbol of revived hopes of peace between South Asia's nuclear rivals, began quietly and peacefully on Thursday despite threats of violence. Twenty-two Indian Kashmiris and 11 Pakistanis who arrived on the inaugural service on April 7 left for the 170-km (105-mile) drive to Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistani Kashmir, officials said.
Four Muslim terrorist groups fighting Indian rule in the disputed Himalayan region at the centre of 60 years of war and hostility between India and Pakistan have threatened to turn the cross-border buses into a Sea of Fire coffins. The two buses that left Srinagar on Thursday were escorted by police under tight security.
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Coffins! With seats and windows and doors and wheels and stuff! Coffins for those who make frivolous! Beware the Nitwits of Doom!
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The Jihadists are getting ready to deal with this bus service
Indian Army kills 11 Pakistani terrorists
Six were shot dead after crossing the Line of Control. The soldiers intercepted the infiltrators on the Indian side of the LOC very close to where the cross-Kashmir bus service drives past.
Colonel Batra, also said that five other militants were killed after a clash with troops in the northern town of Handwara, also close to the LoC.
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Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal MNA Qazi Hamidullah has been released on bail by a special anti-terrorism court. The court also released his son Kifayatullah and seven workers. They were arrested for allegedly agitating against a mixed mini-marathon in Gujranwala a few days ago. Police arrested them on charges of disrupting the race, injuring people and damaging public and private property. Their bail applications were accepted by the judge after they submitted surety bonds of Rs 100,000 each. Hamidullah, who is in hospital for treatment, told reporters that the MMA's action was against vulgarity, obscenity and un-Islamic culture. He said that it was not politically motivated because the MMA did not want to get any mileage.
Right. And I'm an Irishman named Murphy.
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Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal
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Two former Taliban leaders joined a reconciliation drive that American commanders hope will undermine a three-year-old insurgency in Afghanistan, an official said on Thursday. Mulla Muhammad Nazim and Mulla Mulla Akhtar Muhammad, one-time provincial officials, returned from Pakistan on Wednesday, Muhammad Wali, spokesman for Helmand provincial government, said. Both swore allegiance to Afghanistan's new constitution at a ceremony in Laskhar Gah, the Helmand capital, and were allowed to return to their homes, Wali said.
"This will give more Taliban the confidence to take advantage of the government's offer," Wali said in a telephone interview. That offer is vague: the government says that former Taliban fighters are free to return to their homes except for an undisclosed list of Taliban leaders, including fugitive supreme leader Mulla Muhammad Omar and those accused of atrocities. Afghan and American officials insist that many ex-Taliban fighters have expressed interest in laying down their arms and returning to Afghanistan in return for freedom from prosecution, though few have come forward publicly.
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MULLA AKHTAR MUHAMAD
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Taliban
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Paramilitary forces and tribal police, backed by army commandos, searched suspected houses for foreign terrorists in North Waziristan but made no arrests or seized any weapons, a military official said on Thursday. However, Online news agency, while quoting South Waziristan Assistant Political Agent Mohammad Jamil, reported that the forces had arrested eight suspects but there was no foreigner among them.
The official told Daily Times that around four suspected houses were searched in Edderkhel village near Mir Ali town after intelligence agencies tipped off security forces about the presence of foreign terrorists linked to Al Qaeda. "The search operation was peaceful," Pakistan Army Brigadier Shahjehan told Daily Times. "We got a tip-off and a search operation was ordered in early hours of Thursday," he said but gave no details. Sources in Mir Ali said that around 400 army commandos and paramilitary Frontier Constabulary personnel surrounded the suspected houses at around 3:00am on Thursday but the occupants declined to allow the search of their houses demanding female personnel to lead the search.
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Paramilitary forces and tribal police, backed by army commandos, searched suspected houses for foreign terrorists in North Waziristan but made no arrests or seized any weapons...
Seeing how much practice they've had at this, they should be pretty good at it by now.
Or maybe not...
Indian troops shot dead five militants on Thursday in two separate clashes in held Kashmir, a police spokesman said. He said the five were killed during two gunbattles in the central district of Budgam and northern Baramulla district. "The fighting broke out when Indian troops raided the two militant hideouts," the spokesman said. The violence came as a second bus run linking the two Kashmirs started quietly on Thursday between Srinagar, and Muzaffarabad. Four militants groups have threatened to attack the service.
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Indian Army kills 11 Pakistani terrorists
Six were shot dead after crossing the Line of Control. The soldiers intercepted the infiltrators on the Indian side of the LOC very close to where the cross-Kashmir bus service drives past.
Colonel Batra, also said that five other militants were killed after a clash with troops in the northern town of Handwara, also close to the LoC.
The fighting was said to have broken out after the soldiers raided a suspected militant hideout late on Thursday evening.
In another incident, two militants were killed in a gunbattle with Indian soldiers in Poonch district, Indian authorities said
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another drop of chlorine in the gene pool
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SOFIA - A helicopter that crashed in Iraq on Thursday, killing all nine people on board was Bulgarian, and was shot down by a missile, the defense ministry said in Sofia. "The Mi-8 helicopter from the Bulgarian company Heliaier was shot down by a missile," the statement said.
It said the nine dead were three Bulgarian crew members and six other civilians, whose nationalities had not yet been determined. The defense ministry said the crash occurred in the early afternoon and that the helicopter was apparently also carrying cargo. The ministry did not provide details.
In Baghdad, the US military said that all nine people aboard the aircraft, which was on contract to the US-led multinational forces, were killed when it went down on Thursday to the north of the Iraqi capital. "A contract helicopter has gone down," said the source, who declined to be named. The source said the crash happened at around 1 pm. Initial reports suggested there were no US military personnel on the aircraft.
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Yes, an unarmed someone, for whom survival was a freaking miracle, only to be found by the terrorists and gunned down in cold blood.
He was laying in a field, came to just as the camera came over to him, he got up and mad placating motions with his hands and then was shot maybe 20-25 times.
Bloody reeking savages.
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Can the Lefties remind me why it is they want to extend the provisions of the Geneva Convention to this rabble?
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This smells like Baathist/Islamist spies bribed a Bulgarian to get the info on the copter's time/path and also bribed a bunch of people to get their hands on a shoulder fired missile and maybe a few other similar colaborative steps.
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And why aren't the lefties up in arms about *this* war crime?
Because they approve of it.
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Savages, pure and simple. Shoot them down like you would a mad dog. You should read the Beeb's coverage of this, that is if you want to see your lunch a second time.
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Savages, pure and simple. Shoot them down like you would a mad dog.
I have been saying this repeatedly for God knows how long. Dispatching these barbarians promptly when they are found saves time, money, resources, and the future. NO CAPTURES.
KABUL: Police retreated from a village in a heartland of Afghanistan's drug industry after coming under fire by militiamen accused of trafficking opium into neighbouring Tajikistan, an official said on Thursday. About 150 police pulled back overnight from Chergan Shahr, a village in Badakhshan province 320 kilometres northwest of the capital, Kabul, mayor Mohammed Nabi Bayan told The Associated Press. No casualties were reported.
Officials have appealed in vain for gunmen holed up in the hills surrounding the area to surrender their weapons under a government plan to dismantle Afghanistan's illegal militias and clamp down on its narcotics business, the world's largest. Bayan said police faced 250 militiamen armed with assault rifles and machine guns and that they had pulled back to Ab Ganda, another village in Shahr-e-Buzurg district, after spending two days under sporadic fire.
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Action against militias involved in the drug trade would be a internal matter, more of a police action. We don't get involved in those, there were no airstrikes when the Afghan militias belonging to those two warlords were wacking each other around the last time. We've avoided taking sides, which I think has turned out to be a good thing.
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Agreed. For all the snippy LLL remarks about the blundering Bush administration, we've been surprisingly deft in handling Afghan affairs.
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With the SF in Afghanistan leveraging local forces, one had to become quite deft in moving things along. There have been mistakes, like the handling of the surrounded forces in Konduz, or possibly Tora Bora, but the real facts will not come out for years, so we may never know the Hobbsian choices we had to make then.
But like Steve said, we have avoided taking sides in internal matters. Afghanistan is coming out of centuries of tribal ops. The Brits had a time of it in the last century. The Russians got their asses kicked. The Americans learned from these experiences, made mistakes, had successes, and made things happen. Afghanistan is no longer a santuary for terrorists, unlike PakLand and Waziristan.
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Palestinian resistance fighters have detonated a roadside bomb alongside an Israeli military vehicle on the Gaza Strip border, wounding three soldiers, Aljazeera reported. But the Israeli army said only one soldier was moderately injured. The explosion on Thursday threatened a fragile ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinians, and came just hours before the two sides were set to hold their first meeting on coordinating Israel's planned withdrawal from Gaza.
Thursday's bombing occurred on the Israeli side of the Karni crossing, the main transit point for cargo going in and out of Gaza, the army said. It was not immediately clear how fighters planted the bomb. Gaza is enclosed by a fence that makes infiltrations extremely difficult. Palestinian residents in the area said Israeli troops began firing machine guns after the explosion, and an army helicopter was seen landing in the area.
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Can't let the Jooooos withdraw without claiming credit like Hezbollah in Lebanon, huh?
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The group of four militants, some disguised as women, are said to have failed to stop at a checkpoint. 
Badat, 25, agreed to board and destroy an American-bound flight from Europe three months after the September 11 2001 hijackings killed around 3,000 people in New York and Washington. But four days after he was given an explosive device in December 2001, he had a change of heart and backed out of the mission. The court was told he could not face being a "courier of death" and rejected terrorism.
SEOUL - North Korea has poured all its resources into developing nuclear weapons, including a likely scheme to enrich uranium, the highest official from the communist state to defect to the South said on Thursday. Hwang Jang-yop was the architect of the North's Juche ideology, an extreme form of self-reliance advocated by the North's late founder Kim Il-sung.
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The four were sentenced to prison terms ranging between 6 and 10 years. They were seized in different parts of Iraq and charged with entering Iraq illegally and possessing arms. The Iraqi government has accused Iraq's neighbors, notably Iran and Syria, of allowing gunmen to cross into Iraq to fight U.S.-led multinational troops and Iraqi forces.
April 22, 2005: In southwest Pakistan (Baluchistan), thousands of armed (with rifles and RPGs) Bugti tribesmen have moved to surround an army base. The tribes and the government are in conflict over how much money the tribes get for oil and gas pumped from the area, and how many troops the army can station in Baluchistan. The death toll, so far, has not been very high. It's been a game of bluff and bluster, backed up by a lot of firepower. In western Pakistan (the tribal areas along the Afghan border), police and tribal volunteers are searching villages for foreigners (al Qaeda terrorists). This is all being done very quietly, with the only army troops in evidence being elite commandos. The tribesmen get agitated when they see convoys of regular troops rolling through their territory. But SUVs and trucks full of police or commandos cause less unrest.
Two former Taliban leaders joined a reconciliation drive that American commanders hope will undermine a three-year-old insurgency in Afghanistan, an official said on Thursday. 
Paramilitary forces and tribal police, backed by army commandos, searched suspected houses for foreign terrorists in 
KABUL: Police retreated from a village in a heartland of Afghanistan's drug industry after coming under fire by militiamen accused of trafficking opium into neighbouring Tajikistan, an official said on Thursday. About 150 police pulled back overnight from Chergan Shahr, a village in Badakhshan province 320 kilometres northwest of the capital, Kabul, mayor Mohammed Nabi Bayan told The Associated Press. No casualties were reported. 
Palestinian resistance fighters have detonated a roadside bomb alongside an Israeli military vehicle on the Gaza Strip border, wounding three soldiers, Aljazeera reported. But the Israeli army said only one soldier was moderately injured. The explosion on Thursday threatened a fragile ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinians, and came just hours before the two sides were set to hold their first meeting on coordinating Israel's planned withdrawal from Gaza. 
