From the Times Of India
NEW DELHI: The terrorists are going through a rough patch in the Valley.
In a recent interception of communication between the outfits by the security agencies, its been discovered that the outfits are going through a crunch situation at present.
Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and Hizb-ul-Mujahhiddin (HM) are facing manpower, money, weapon and ammunition crisis. And they have started communicating the urgency for these to their people across the border.
"The terrorists are in a very desperate situation currently. They are sending SOS messages to their people across the border to help them out," said BSF DIG K Srinivasan from Srinagar.
In the latest interception a fortnight back, LeT cadres in the Valley sounded desperate as they asked for ammunitions and weapons.
Victor-3, terrorist in-charge of logistics in the Valley, spoke to his boss Ulfa-3, based in PoK. Ulfa-3 tried to assure that the supply will be restored soon. "You contact XYZ ( some code number) and something will be organised," Ulfa-3 conveyed.
Highly-placed sources in the Valley informed that JeM and HM are the worst hit as they aren't even getting supplies from 'outside'. Sources informed that about 400 newly-trained cadres are waiting with ammunition and sophisticated weapons to cross the border.
"With the three-tier fencing on the border that has thermal sensors and other sophisticated gadgets, pushing people is not so easy for these outfits now, hence the crisis has arised," Srinivasan added.
As a result, LeT cadres are shrinking fast as the 'fresh unit' hasn't been able to arrive.
The ammunition crisis has forced the terrorists to go slow on the assault. Officials inform that the terrorists are not coming in for direct confrontation any more.
"They are trying low cost, high value methods like planting grenades," said a senior official from Srinagar.
It is presumed that in order to conserve ammunition for the 'bigger moments' the outfits are rotating attacks among themselves. It is also being perceived that it is due to this crisis HM chief Syed Salalluddin has started feelers to the Indian government for a ceasefire.
According to an estimate by the security forces, the current reserve of the arms and ammunitions of terrorists will not take them beyond May-June. The forces are now focussing to dig-out these reserves too from the hide-outs.
"We are trying to cut the blood supply," said Srinivasan.
With the cracking down on hawala money, the monetary supply too has been cut off and the terrorists are now resorting to extortion. The security forces have recently killed about 40 terrorists and nabbed 40 weapons and 8000 rounds of ammunitions besides 160 grenades.
However, despite the crisis, sources in Valley informed, that there is a strong perception that there will be a terrorist strike by LeT and Al-Badr within 3-4 days when the Darbar move begins.
"The intention is to keep themselves in news," an official added.
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India purchased advanced ground sensors from the US to monitor the LOC electrified fence. Combined with ground surveillance radars and long range Israeli thermal imagers, they have made a great difference to terrorist infiltration.
Additional counter insurgency units have been deployed and the life span of a jihadi has been dramatically shortened.
Lots of them now want to exfiltrate (back to Pakistan) but they fear being killed as they cross the LOC. Some sought refuge above the snow line but the winter snowfall was bad and about sixty jihadis died from the cold. Those who seek refuge in towns and cities are being killed by the Kashmiri police SOG unit.
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what's the bad news, John?
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Bad news? For the jihadis perhaps.
Four more terrorists killed today
Four infiltrators killed in Jammu:-
Jammu | April 28, 2005 9:44:21 PM IST
Jammu, April 28 : Four militants were killed Thursday while trying to enter India at the Line of Control (LOC) in the Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, about 200 km from here.
Army sources said the militants were challenged by the troops and killed in an exchange of fire in Mendhar area.
Four infiltrators had been shot dead Tuesday in the district.
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Meanwhile the Pakistani military ups the ante. They are supplying ever more sophisticated equipment to their terrorist proxies.
Sophistication of terror equipment up
NEW DELHI: The flow of terror equipment into Jammu and Kashmir along with infiltration may have dipped of late, but intelligence sources point out that the militants are increasingly bringing in more sophisticated equipment.
Lashkar-e-Toiba and Hizbul Mujahideen are the outfits nbringing in such sophisticated equipment. They now use Japanese made ICON wireless sets which are as small as mobile phones but which are capable of a variety of functions. Each has scanning facility which enables it to monitor conversation on different wavelengths.
They (militants) also possess night vision devices with which they can see 30 feet in pitch dark. They use satellite phones, and are armed with sophisticated assault rifles, grenade launchers and C-4 and RDX explosives, according to intelligence sources.
A group of militants killed by the BSF near the Line of Control on the Shamshabari ridge, over 12,000 feet in Kupwara district on Wednesday, was found having the Japanese made ICON wireless sets, BSF spokesman Kamal Kumar said here on Thursday.
Four militants were killed in the encounter and the BSF found one AK-47 rifle, three magazines, two Chinese grenades, 21 rounds and Pakistani currency. "The recovery is still on," Kumar said.
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john: Four militants were killed in the encounter and the BSF found one AK-47 rifle, three magazines, two Chinese grenades, 21 rounds and Pakistani currency. "The recovery is still on," Kumar said.
1 AK and 21 rounds for 4 guys? They're broke. No other word for it.
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HM chief Syed Salalluddin has started feelers to the Indian government for a ceasefire.
Thats terrorist-speak for 'get the enemy to stop hitting us until we can resupply and rearm.' Same as what is happening with the MILF in the Philippines.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, April 28 (UPI) -- Saudi security forces are searching for the bodies of two terrorists believed to have died after being injured in clashes with police. Ministry of Interior spokesman Brig. Mansour bin Sultan was quoted Thursday as saying in daily al-Jazeera the authorities have confirmation that Awad an-Awwad died for lack of medical care to injuries he suffered in clashes with police outside Riyadh on April 1.
Slowly dying in agony, suffering in pain, drawing his last gasping breath in a fly infested stinking hovel...
Bin Sultan also pointed out that another wanted terrorist, Nasser bin Rached al-Rached, suffered serious injuries in the leg which developed in a serious inflammation that caused gangrene.
Will the good news never end?
Al-Rached's leg was amputated with primitive equipment in a hideout of the terrorists causing further complications which led to his death, he said.
"Don't worry, Nasser, we'll have that nasty leg off in a jiffy. Mahmoud, the ten-inch circular saw, please."
"It's busted, effendi! How 'bout the jig saw?"
"That'll do!"
Dr. Maturin could 'whip off a leg' with much less than that ...
"Police are still searching for the bodies of the two terrorists and reports claiming they have been found are untrue," bin Sultan said.
This article starring:
AWAD AN AWWAD
al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Brig. Mansour bin Sultan
NASER BIN RACHED AL RACHED
al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
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Hooray for streptococcus!
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I had a full blown case of sepsis in '97. Rest assured, its all ones malicious heart could desire in the pain and suffering line.
Four suspected accomplices of the militants who seized more than 1,200 hostages in a school in southern Russia in September have been arrested, a top-ranking prosecutor said today.
Nikolai Shepel, deputy Russian prosecutor general for southern Russia, said the four were suspected of aiding the militants who crowded their hostages into the gymnasium of a school in Beslan. Some 330 victims died in the attack, which ended in a hail of explosions and gunfire. Of 32 assailants who took part in the raid, 31 were killed, officials say.
The trial of Nur-Pashi Kulayev, the sole hostage-taker believed to have survived, will start on May 17 at the Supreme Court of North Ossetia, the Russian province where the raid took place. Shamil Basayev, the Chechen warlord who claimed responsibility for the attack, remains at large.
Shepel has said previously that six Beslan accomplices were killed, including Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov, who was killed in a special operation on March 8. Maskhadov had denied involvement in the Beslan raid.
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pliars and blowtorches, please? and a sandwich baggie for their remains after interrogation
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North Korea has the capability of mounting a nuclear warhead on its missiles that could hit the United States, a senior US defense official said.
Vice Admiral Lowell Jacoby, the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, gave the assessment during a Congressional hearing.
Asked by Senator Hillary Clinton whether North Korea had the ability to arm a missile with a nuclear device, Jacoby said: "The assessment is that they have the capability to do that, yes, ma'am."
He said that North Korea also had the ability to deploy a two-stage intercontinental missile that could successfully hit US territory.
"Assessed to be within their capacity, yes," Jacoby told Clinton during the hearing on the defense intelligence budget of the US Senate Armed Services Committee.
North Korea said this month it had shut down its nuclear power plant at Yongbyon and was preparing to reprocess the plant's spent fuel, a move that could result in the production of enough plutonium to build up to six more nuclear bombs.
Reports quoting a US official said last week that the United States believed North Korea was planning to test a nuclear weapon and has asked China to intervene. Every damn democrat Senator who voted against the missile defense shield should pay for this dearly.
French police have announced that they have arrested two alleged Islamic activists in a probe led by anti-terrorism judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere into the "Iraq connection". One of them, Said Al Maghrebi, 39, had been wanted by police for several years for alleged involvement in other illegal activities. Five people were detained earlier in the week but three have since been released. Anti terrorism police confirmed that Al Maghrebi was arrested in the Paris region and is suspected of belonging to the French Jihadist structures which encourage and dispatch combatants to Iraq.
Al Maghrebi, a Moroccan without a residence permit in France, is believed to have frequented al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and had reportedly tried unsuccessfully to reach Chechyna in 2002. Since his return to France he is suspected of having encouraged and prepared young Muslims to go to Iraq, via Syria, to join insurgents fighting the US-led coalition forces.
The French daily Le Figaro said on Thursday that Al-Maghrebi was preparing to depart for Iraq. He is also reportedly linked to the "Frankfurt cell", now dismantled, which was planning an attack in Strasbourg on New Year's Eve 2000.
The identity of the second man, arrested in Marseilles, has not yet been revealed. He is believed not to be directly linked to Al Maghrebi, though involved in similar activities and having links with Islamic cells in Italy.
This article starring:
SAID AL MAGHREBI
al-Qaeda in Europe
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PARIS, April 28 (UPI) -- French police arrested five Islamists on suspicion of urging Muslim youth to fight against the U.S.-led multinational forces in Iraq. Police sources said Thursday the suspects were seized in Paris and the southern port city of Marseilles and referred for interrogation by the intelligence department. They said one of the suspects, Said Maghribi, was arrested in a Paris suburb after being observed for several months. Maghribi, 39, a Frenchman of Arab origin, was mobilizing Muslims to go to Iraq through Syria to fight foreign forces. He traveled to Afghanistan in the past and tried without success to enter Chechnya.
This article starring:
SAID MAGHRIBI
al-Qaeda in Europe
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The two Belgians who were this week freed from US custody in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have been charged in their home country with criminal activity, it emerged on Wednesday.
I'm so happy that Jean-Pierre and Guy can stretch their legs a bit. It must have been dreadful!
The two - Mesut Sen, a Belgian with Turkish roots from Brussels, and Moussa Zemmouri, a Moroccan who was granted Belgian nationality in 1996 - have been charged with belonging to a criminal organisation. "The investigation is continuing and they will be questioned again," Lieve Pellens, a spokeswoman for the Brussels prosecutors office told the AFP news agency. The prosecutor decided to bring the charges after questioning the two men on Tuesday. However the pair have been released while awaiting further questioning. Sen and Zemmouri were flown back to Belgium this week after spending more than three years at the controversial US detention camp in Cuba. Belgian Justice and Interior Ministers Laurette Onkelinx and Patrick Dewael negotiated their release with the American government. The repatriation came shortly after the US promised to release 38 detainees. Sen was originally arrested in Pakistan in December 2001 and Zemmouri was arrested in Kandahar in southern Afghanistan.
Must've taken a wrong turn at Bastogne.
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Laurette Onkelinx
Lieve Pellens
MESUT SEN
al-Qaeda
MUSA ZEMURI
al-Qaeda
Patrick Dewael
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Must've taken a wrong turn at Bastogne.
Somebody musta been screwing with those signs again,Em. Is this the way to Malmedy?
FORT BRAGG, N.C. - A military jury sentenced a soldier to death Thursday for a deadly grenade and rifle attack on his own comrades during the opening days of the Iraq invasion, a barrage that prosecutors said was triggered by religious extremism.
Sgt. Hasan Akbar, who gave a brief, barely audible apology hours earlier, stood at attention between his lawyers as the verdict was delivered. He showed no emotion.
Security has been tightened at the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr after an armed gang raided a vessel carrying Australian wheat, shipping industry sources said on Thursday.
The ship, one of three bringing in wheat and delayed by Iraqi authorities investigating alleged cargo contamination, was raided by three armed men on April 22, the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) said.
Crew members were assaulted and robbed of their cash and other possessions.
Local shipping agents Gulf Agency Company said security had been bolstered after the attack.
The three cargoes are part of a large consignment from Australian wheat exporter AWB Ltd .
Iraq complained last month that Australian wheat was overpriced and that shipments were contaminated with iron dust. AWB has rejected both claims.
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Who put the tribbles in the quadrotriticale?
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The government of Mauritania claims to have arrested the leaders of a terrorist cell that the US military has linked to Al Qaeda.
The detainees are allegedly part of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), close to the outlawed Armed Islamic Group (GIA) that has operated in neighbouring Algeria for more than a decade, said a government statement issued this week.
"The dismantling of this structure has entered a new phase with the arrest on Monday ... of the main leaders of the organisation," read the statement.
The statement said seven people had been arrested but police sources said 18 suspects had been placed under arrest in two days of raids against alleged Islamists.
According to police, the detentions followed the departure a few weeks ago of 20 Mauritanians sent to train in guerrilla camps in the remote southern Algerian desert.
Seven of them were arrested on their return to Mauritania, the others were on a wanted list, the statement added.
According to US military intelligence, the GIA is close to Osama Bin Laden's Al Qaeda movement, blamed for the 11 September 2002 attack on the World Trade Centre in New York.
Sources close to the Islamists told IRIN that the government has drawn up a wanted list of some 70 people that police have been given a special mandate to arrest.
However, some on the list are political figures who were released from prison earlier this year after being implicated in a failed coup in June 2004.
Since the failed rebellion against President Maaouiya Ould Taya, scores of political opponents have been arrested.
The think-tank, International Crisis Group, said in a report early this month that Ould Taya had used the terrorist threat as a thinly veiled pretext to persecute his political opponents, but this had only served to fuel instability in the country.
Oil has recently been discovered in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania and diplomats say Ould Taya is keen to foster closer relations with the United States.
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A powerful bomb exploded in Pakistan's remote northwestern region on Thursday killing two men, believed to be Islamic militants, police said. Officials were unsure whether the men had been planting or carrying the bomb when it went off early in the morning in Matta, a town near the Swat valley, 150 km (95 miles) north of the capital, Islamabad.
"Both bodies are badly mutilated. One had his torso blown up, while the other lost his limbs," said deputy inspector general of police Attaullah Wazir, adding that the men were believed to be local militants.
Until recently, the Swat valley, a scenic region popular with tourists, has had little history of Islamist militancy. But intelligence officials say they have information that more militants are hiding out in the mountains of Swat to escape security forces combing neighbouring tribal areas. In January, security forces arrested a militant who was wanted for his role in a failed plot to kill President Pervez Musharraf in 2002. The previous month, police shot dead two suspects in a gunbattle in the Swat region.
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Must be the red wire-blue wire thing(TM) again
Well, some one had to say it.
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (28/04/05) - The US has agreed to supply Israel with 5,000 "smart bombs" in a US$319 million weapons deal announced on Wednesday.
The bombs include 500 one-ton "bunker-busters", along with 2,500 other one-ton bombs, 1,000 half-ton bombs, and 500 quarter-ton bombs. The news prompted immediate speculation that the bombs may be used to hit Iranian nuclear facilities.
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The US and Israel say they are pursuing a diplomatic course to convince Iran to end all nuclear activity, but Tehran has steadfastly maintained it has a right to develop its nuclear potential for civilian use. On Tuesday, Tehran announced that it had started converting raw uranium into the gas needed for enrichment, a process that can be used to make nuclear weapons. If Iran cannot be convinced to forgo its nuclear program, there are concerns that either the US or Israel may attempt to destroy its nuclear sites.
Concerns? Hell, we're counting on it!
The BLU-109 (Bomb Live Unit) "bunker-buster" — 500 of which will be delivered to Israel - is well suited for such a purpose, as it can penetrate five meters of fortifications. The bombs are mounted on satellite-guided missiles and can be fired from F-15 or F-16 jets. Earlier this year, under the US government's Peace Marble V defense assistance program, Israel had received the first of 102 F-16Is configured for long-range strikes.
As the bombs can be guided by Israel's own military surveillance satellites that monitor Iran, Tel Aviv would not need to rely on US satellites. The precision-guided munitions, or "smart" bombs, are self-guiding weapons intended to maximize damage to the target but minimize collateral damage. However, if their guidance systems fail, they could cause greater collateral damage than an ordinary bomb.
Israeli military officials have not made any statements about whether the bombs could be used against Iran, but they ruled out the possibility that they would be used against Palestinian targets. In July 2002, Israel used a "smart" bomb against a senior Palestinian militant, but the blast also killed 15 civilians, drawing international condemnation.
The Pentagon announced last June that it was considering the sale to Israel in a package meant to "contribute significantly to US strategic and tactical objectives". Funding for the deal will come from US military aid to Israel.
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Yeeeeee-haw!
Getting nervous yet, mullahs? :-D
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I thought we'd already sold them some! Guess we were "considering" it back then, eh? Someone must have some news coming through their intel sources.
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heh. Why not just lob them over to Iran and cut out the middleman?
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hiya all again, rare lurker comes out here to say yay hope America provide all the spare sat imagery and signit-elint stuff,perhaps wrangle some spare remote tempory airstrips in desert remote areas of Iraq through new ties with Iraqi goverment nad mil types- i'm picturing large fighter bomber refueling stations set up in remote areas of Iraq - perhaps even some newly surfaced roads would be ok for some sysytems,say 3 of these capable of refueling aircraft from dusk till dawn,i'm geussing a fair old few Israeli F-15s and F-16s could refuel ( CAP could rearm too perhaps here) over say an 8 hour initial first strike pakage,perhaps get several hundred sorties over Iran in and evening would be a top first strike, hopefully perhaps a few stealthy American assits could join the fight too bet hey the mad mullahs would never realise.Tell me what you think of my cunning master plan guys for Iranian Atomic 'Shock and Awe'.
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Hey! Can I scrawl some personal messages on the sides of a couple of those before Israel takes them and uses them? Something like,
In'sh'allah, Bitch!
Or is that too subtle?
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The fact that these weapons might eventually be needed against paleoterrorists is also part of the equation. It may make Abbas work just a bit harder to cool off Hamas, IJ, etc.
EFL: The Pakistani government's economic development plans for Baluchistan -- the country's poorest, yet strategically most sensitive province -- threaten to provoke an armed uprising by local tribesmen. The prospect of ongoing instability could have a considerable economic and social impact on countries throughout Central Asia. Earlier in April, the risk of a large-scale clash between government troops and local tribesmen appeared acute. Both sides had built fortified military positions along a highway and in the surrounding hills outside the town of Dera Bugti, not far from the Sui gas field. On April 16, though, regional officials announced a negotiated end to the stand-off, and the bunkers and other military strongholds were abandoned.
The confrontation traces its origin to early January rape of Shazia Khalid, a doctor. Local tribal leaders accused a Pakistani army officer of the crime and armed tribesmen took the law into their own hands, disrupting gas supplies from the Sui complex and engaging in other acts of defiance toward central authorities. Officials at first denied the officer's involvement, and a government inquiry subsequently cleared him wrongdoing. But the government's actions did not satisfy local concerns and festering tension eventually exploded. A day-long firefight March 17 between tribesmen and government soldiers left dozens dead and wounded, including a large number of civilian victims of an army artillery barrage, tribal leaders alleged.
Although the latest stand-off was connected to a matter of honor, the tribal resistance to the Pakistani government is deeply rooted in economic issues. Over the past decade, Pakistan has been trying to develop several mega-projects in the impoverished province, and in connection with these efforts, President Pervez Musharraf's administration has bolstered the Pakistani military's local presence. The projects have stirred concern among regional residents and their political leaders, prompting Baluch nationalist leader to call for a detailed political agreement that would cover economic and military expansion projects.
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Poor Perv will have to take time off from his diplomatic/terrorist war against the Hindu infidels.
Amman - Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who celebrated his 68th birthday on Thursday in United States custody, is in good health and spirits, a spokesperson for his lawyers has revealed.
Damm, I forgot to send him a card.
Iraqi lawyer Khalil Dulaimi met Saddam for the second time on Wednesday for six hours, during which he informed him of political and judicial developments, spokesperson Ziad Khassawneh said in a statement. The former dictator "is in good health and high morale", he said, adding that details of the meeting would be published in the next few days.
Saddam, marking his second birthday since he was captured in December 2003, faces charges of crimes against humanity for his regime's campaign against the Kurds and the brutal suppression of a Shiite Muslim uprising, among others.
What to get a man who had everything? I know, how about a reunion with his boys!
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Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who celebrated his 68th birthday on Thursday in United States custody, is in good health and spirits, a spokesperson for his lawyers has revealed.
And it is satisfying indeed to know he's spending it in the Graybar Hotel. :)
April 28, 2005: There's an army in Iraq that you don't hear much about. It's the 20,000 or so armed men who provide security for diplomats, government (both Iraqi and foreign) officials and NGOs (non-government organizations). This is probably the most highly trained fighting force in Iraq, as most of the private security people are former military. Many are from elite units (commandoes, Special Forces), but what makes them so effective is years of military experience (many are recently retired) and a screening process that keeps out most of the cowboys and adventurers.
This security force has seen a lot of action, some 240 of them have been killed so far. That's about the same casualty rate as the military forces, despite the fact that the security people don't engage in offensive type operations. But the security personnel do guard people who are prime targets for the anti-government forces. Few of the people they guard have been killed, although there have been many attempts. That's why the security firms screen applicants so carefully. Lose a few high profile clients, and the rest of your business evaporates. Many of these security people are making over $100,000 a year. Getting killed isn't the biggest danger. Getting dismissed for being lax on the job, too aggressive, or misbehaving off duty, is.
The job has also changed over the last three years. As the Iraqi police have become more abundant, and effective, the private security guards have had to change their behavior. No longer are they a law unto themselves. They have to be more careful when they use their weapons, and depend more on technology to detect potential attackers. Video cameras are a favorite tool. When moving a VIP in a convoy of armored vehicles, vidcams record much of the activity, so that the video can later be reviewed to see if there were any unsuccessful attackers they did not notice. The security firms more frequently share such information with the Iraqi police and American troops. The security forces also have to coordinate more often with the police and troops.
As things continue to quiet down in Iraq, some of these security experts expect to move on to similar work in other parts of the world. But many will rejoin the military, where their experience will be welcomed, if somewhat resentfully because of the higher pay received while getting it. But the resentment is somewhat diminished by the fact that many of the security operators did at least one combat tour in Iraq before they took the higher paying job.
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This is probably the most highly trained fighting force in Iraq,
I know some of these guys (and know of some of the others through them): Many are former Marines (recon) - As well as Seals, PJ's, Rangers, Green-Beanies, Brits out of SAS & SBS, Aussies from SASR, Germans from GSG, Russian Spetz, even the odd Canadian or two from JTF-2 and the old CAR.
These aare the hard core of the hard core. THe only thing they lack is the organization above about a company/battalion level. They function like independant cells, but I think they do miss the higher echelon support in terms of intel and later-links that the normal forces have.
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OS, Do their Iraqi clients all speak English? Or do the commandos speak enough arabic to communicate with them in their own tongue? What do the Russians and Germans speak with their clients?
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sounds right OS, but how do they link up when an Apache strike is needed? Or Evac is needed? Just curious to know the protocol...
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I think that the CEOI is unofficially shared - stuff that would usually get guys written up in peacetime, but which is apparently not bothered with too much in war (unless they need a scapegoat), especially if they know the other guys are operating in the area and will give good tipoffs.
And a lot of these guys are Arabic speakers, alebit of different dialects. Little known: Arabic in Morrocco is different from Arabic in Eqypt which is different from Arabic in Iraq. And by different, I mean that its difficult to communicate beyond routine talk - the idioms, etc can cause complete misunderstandings in addition to bafflement.
The reason they are getting that money is that they are able to operate, interoperate, and communicate. Thats the basis for all good operators - and you'll see that sort there. The Russians and others have linguists the same as we do, although they dont train them assembly-line like we do at DLI (where I learned my Arabic a long time ago).
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One other thing - I put a "smiley" after that statement about the Marines - dunno what happened to it, it was there to show I was just yanking the chain of any Marine here. They are a solid fighting force, and up until recently were trained far and above the US Army standards. But war has a way of forcing the Army to actually train people to fight and win, like the Marines, instead of doing paperwork and filling out charts and quotas. This is especially true when the Drill Sgts have combat experience. So thats why the Army and Marines fought so well at Fallujah, almost arm-in-arm: they were both trained and experienced to the same high level, and troops like that know what needs to be done and do it reliably.
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i would expect there would be cooperation, especially at the "need to" levels... anything less would be counterproductive regardless of bureaucratic orders...."wink and nod" agreements?
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April 28, 2005: The first of 10,000 UN peacekeepers have begun deploying in Sudan. The UN reported that 12 Nepalese soldiers (the lead element of 225 Nepalese) had flown into Sudan aboard transport aircraft and were preparing to move to Kassala in eastern Sudan. The ceasefire between the SPLA and Sudan government continues to hold in the south. However, the Sudan government reported spillover war from Uganda. The government said the LRA (Ugandan rebel movement, the Lord's Resistance Army) had attacked convoy in south Sudan and killed nine people (two of them Sudanese soldiers). The attack took place on April 25.
So that's where they've run to.
You'd think that Nepalese soldiers would be busy at home right now ...
Meanwhile the Sudanese government agreed to open new peace talks with Darfur rebels sometime in May. The last round of talks took place in February. Those talks solved nothing. The intermittent fighting may produce a humanitarian disaster. The World Food Program now estimates that 3.5 million people (roughly half of the population in the Darfur region) will need food aid in July and August. Moving that amount of food requires improved security as well as lots of transport aircraft and trucks. On April 26 the African Union (AU) officially asked NATO to help provide logistical support to AU peace monitoring and emergency relief operations in Darfur. NATO agreed to consider the request. The US and Germany have both provided airlift to AU troops now serving in Darfur.
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Odd, since the LRA has been supported by the Sudanese gov't in the past.
Top terror killed in ''crossfire'' MUNSHIGANJ, Apr 27: An alleged top terror was killed in an encounter between police and his accomplices at Noirpukurpar in Sadar upazila early Wednesday, reports UNB. Police said on a tip-off Mizan Bahini chief Mizanur Rahman alias Mizan, 32, who was arrested from the capital's Motijheel area Tuesday morning, was taken to Noirpukurpar by police at about 3:30 am in search of arms.
"Cuz the nighttime, is the right time, for crossfire!"
"Aw, cripes! It's 3.30 in the morning! I ain't hardly had no sleep!"
"Don't worry about it! We'll make sure youse gets lotsa sleep in a little bit!"
"Uhhh... Hokay. I'll get my turban and we'll go..."
As the police team reached there along with Mizan, the sidekicks of Mizan opened fire on police, forcing the law enforcers to fire back.
"It's the dread Sidekicks of Mizan! Get um, boys!"
Mizan was struck by bullets during the gunfight and died on the spot.
"Aiiieee! They got me! My elbow! Owwww! [BLAM!] Rosebud!"
Oh. Gosh. Darn.
The sidekicks of Mizan managed to flee.
"Run away! Run away!"
Don't they always?
Shoot 'em all the same night, and ya got nuttin' to do tomorrow night ...
Police recovered a revolver and a pipe gun from the scene.
They're real big on "recycling"
Mizan, son Ramzan Ali Bhuiyan alias Rontu Mia, was wanted in seven cases, including one for murder of his associate Zakir. He was also sentenced to three months in jail by a speedy trial court in one case. Mizan''s body was sent to hospital morgue.
"He's dead, Jim"
"Another one, Dr. Quincy!"
"Gosh, Sam! That's the third one this week!"
"And it's only Monday!"
As his death news spread, people in Noirpukurpar, Khasi Pukurpar, Mohakhali, Aldi, Makhati and Madinabazar areas, where he had created a reign of terror, brought out processions in joy.
"Huzza! Mizan is dead, drinks for everyone!"
Cops beat up Ansars for protesting bribery
Police on Tuesday beat up and injured two Ansar personnel at Zia International Airport (ZIA) allegedly for protesting the cops' taking a bribe.
Now they can protest police brutality...
The ansar personnel, Nazrul Islam, 22, and Mehedi Hasan, 29, were released from Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) yesterday. The ansars said they were shooing away a black taxicab parked at a no parking zone at around 7:30pm when a few traffic constables stopped them. The cab driver handed one of the constables Tk 10 before he left, they added.
"Here's a little something for your trouble, officer. There'll be more later, if I can find a place to park.(wink)"
"As we protested the bribery, the constable and some other policemen attacked and beat us up severely with batons," said Nazrul. He suffered injuries in his head and Mehedi in one leg and left hand. They were taken to a local clinic and then to the DMCH. "Police and ansar officers are trying to find out why the incident took place," Reena Begum, duty officer of Airport Police Station, told The Daily Star.
Yeah, don't hold your breath
Two abducted cops killed!
MADARIPUR, Apr 27: Two police officers abducted on April 3 have been killed, indicate sons of suspected underground terrorist leaders who were arrested from Dhaka on Sunday, reports UNB. Mehedi Hasan (21), son Jasim and Sajjad Hossain (22), son of Shahabuddin both leaders of Purbo Banglar Communist Party told the police that sarboharas have killed sub-inspector AH Azam Khan and office assistant Qamrul Alam Khan. But they could not provide details of where, who and when they were killed and who were present at that time.
"Perhaps we can go out and try to find the place. Why don'tcha be ready at around 3 a.m.? Sound good to you?"
Police sources said Mehedi admitted that his father Jasim was involved in the abduction of the two police officers. Mehedi said that his father met him in Dhaka 3 or 4 days ago and informed that he would soon leave the country for Pakistan through India.
Gee, what a surprise
Reliable sources said Sub-inspector Azam Khan was closely linked with PBCP during the student life. Police had arrested him twice from Rajbari. Aziz, a PBCP leader of Rajbari, recognized Azam Khan on April 3 when he was returning home from the office. And Aziz ordered his men to abduct and annihilate Azam and Quamrul. Meanwhile, Police and RAB in joint raids to sarbohara infested areas of the district have so far held 54 people.
"Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!"
"It's a six-passenger van! There are 53 people in there already!"
OC Abdul Wahab Khan of Rajoir thana told UNB that DSB SI Hasnain Azam, 37, and DSB chief office assistant M Kamrul Islam, 50, were kidnapped by miscreants on their way back home from office in the evening on the day. Rajoir police have so far taken 33 people into custody in this connection and they were continuing the manhunt to arrest the kidnappers and rescue the DSB men. DSB sources said the two men had left the office for home as usual on April 3, but the office was informed the following day that they did not return home. After two days' hectic search, the office came to know that they were kidnapped by a gang of 30 terrorists from Shakharpar village in Rajoir thana. They were seen being taken to the other side of the Sri River in an engine boat and nothing could be known about their fate since then.
"Dunno what happened to 'em! They wuz in the boat when we left, wudn't there when we arrived!"
According to locals, the area has turned into a haven of terrorists due to downslide in the law order situation.
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The interim National Assembly approved a partial Cabinet on Thursday, breaking months of deadlock and political wrangling. But disputes remained over key ministry positions and two deputy prime minister slots. The legislators approved a list of 27 ministers and five acting ministers, ushering in Iraq's first elected government since the fall of Saddam Hussein. The Cabinet was approved by 180 lawmakers out of the 185 present in the 275-member parliament, Speaker Hajim al-Hassani announced to applause.
Prime Minister-designate Ibrahim al-Jaafari submitted a Cabinet that includes members of Iraq's main Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish factions. But Al-Jaafari himself, a Shiite, will be acting defense minister, a position that was supposed to go to a Sunni Arab, and disputes remained over two deputy prime minister slots and the defense, oil, electricity, industry and human rights ministries. Ahmad Chalabi, a former Pentagon favorite from al-Jaafari's Shiite-dominated alliance, will be one of four deputy prime ministers and acting oil minister. Kurdish official and former Vice President Rowsch Nouri Shaways will be another deputy and acting electricity minister.
Al-Jaafari has struggled to reconcile the competing demands of Iraq's myriad factions since Jan. 30 elections. Shiite leaders rejected his initial choices for a Sunni deputy prime minister and defense minister because of suspicions they had ties to Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, which brutally repressed Iraqi's majority Shiites and Kurds. Al-Jaafari also faced infighting within his United Iraqi Alliance, the largest bloc in parliament, over the oil and electricity portfolios.Lawmakers earlier said the Cabinet would include 17 Shiite Arab ministers, eight Kurds, six Sunnis and a Christian. Among them are six women, responsible for seven portfolios, according to Thursday's announcement.
President Jalal Talabani and his two vice presidents signed off on the list before Thursday's historic vote. A handover between outgoing Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and al-Jaafari will take place within days, the incoming premier told reporters Wednesday. "The Iraqis will find that this government has religious, ethnic, political and geographic variety, in addition to the participation of women," he said from the steps of his office. "Now that the process has started, we will spare no effort to bring back a smile to children's faces."
Allawi's Iraqi List party, which has 40 seats in the National Assembly, was not included in the new Cabinet. Alliance lawmakers said they had given up trying to balance Allawi's demands with those of Sunni factions that could offer help in beginning talks with Sunni militants, who are believed to be the backbone of the insurgency. Many Shiites have long resented the secular Allawi, accusing his outgoing administration of including former Baathists in the government and security forces. Shiites make up 60 percent of Iraq's 26 million people. The Kurds make up 20 percent, and the Sunni Arabs, who largely stayed away from the elections either in boycott or for fear of attacks, are roughly 15 percent to 20 percent.
Al-Jaafari had been under mounting U.S. pressure to form a transitional government so it can step up and coordinate efforts to suppress the insurgency. Many here believe the political impasse had emboldened insurgents, who have staged a series of dramatic and well-coordinated attacks in recent weeks. On Wednesday, Lamia Abed Khadouri al-Sakri, 50, a Shiite Muslim legislator, was killed at her home, becoming the first elected official slain since millions of Iraqis voted in the country's landmark parliamentary election on Jan. 30.
In new attacks Thursday, insurgents fired at least six mortar rounds toward a U.S. military base Musayyib, 40 miles south of Baghdad, but hit a nearby bus station instead, killing four Iraqis and wounding 21, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. The attack took place during the city's busy morning commute. U.S. forces sent a five-man medical team to the bus station, including a doctor, to help the wounded, and Iraqi forces brought medical supplies, the U.S. military said in a statement. One seriously wounded civilian was airlifted to a U.S. hospital; the others were treated at a local hospital, the U.S. military said.
In another attack Thursday, a suicide car bomb exploded near an Iraqi army checkpoint, wounding four Iraqi soldiers, three U.S. soldiers and seven Iraqi civilians, the U.S. military said. The attack occurred outside Tikrit, 80 miles north of Baghdad, said U.S. Maj. Richard Goldenberg. In the capital, Lt. Col. Alaa Khalil Ibrahim, who worked in the visa section of the Interior Ministry, was shot dead on the way to work by gunmen in an eastern Baghdad neighborhood, police said.
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The Pentagon has said that Iraq's insurgents have lost none of their ability to inflict devastating attacks over the past year, further deflating hopes for a post-election respite.
In recent weeks the pace of attacks has approached the violence of last spring, undermining claims by Washington that the US was making progress in Iraq.
"In terms of the number of incidents, it's right about where it was a year ago," said General Richard Myers, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at a press conference on Tuesday.
"Weeks will differ, and months will differ a little bit. But if you look at the scope of this, over time since May of 2003, that's the conclusion you draw."
There was further evidence yesterday that the post-election respite had ended with the assassination of a female member of the national assembly outside her home in eastern Baghdad.
Lame'a Abed Khadawi, a member of the former prime minister, Ayad Allawi's, party, was believed to be the first parliamentarian assassinated since the elections in January.
It has also emerged that terrorist attacks had more than tripled over the last year.
According to state department statistics released by Democratic congressman, Henry Waxman, the US government recorded 650 significant terrorist attacks last year, more than three times more than the 175 in 2003.
In a letter to Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state, Mr Waxman said the government had failed to give a full account of terrorist attacks in 2004, adding that many episodes were excluded because they did not match official definitions.
He cited a recent briefing for congressional aides during which a senior official of the national counter-terrorism centre admitted that more than 100 attacks in Iraq were not counted because they were not considered to be international attacks.
Washington had hoped that the elections would serve as a turning point for Iraq and that the high turnout at the ballot box would bring some stability.
But the Pentagon's figures suggested that while US troops have suffered fewer casualties in recent weeks, the overall level of violence remains the same as last year notwithstanding the spikes in Najaf and Falluja. The past week has seen a rise in attacks to 50 or 60 a day: bombings, shootings, rocket and mortar attacks.
About 60 people - Iraqis, Americans and others - are injured or killed each day.
The figures mark a steady rise from the average of about 40 attacks a day in the weeks immediately after the election.
Despite such dispiriting news Gen Myers said the US was making progress against the insurgency.
"I think we're definitely winning. I think we've been winning for some time," he said.
Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, was less upbeat. Asked on Tuesday whether America was winning the war, he said: "Winning or losing is not the issue in my view, in the traditional, conventional context of using the word 'winning' and 'losing' in a war. The people that are going to defeat that insurgency are going to be the Iraqis."
Saddam Hussein, who is 68 today, is in good health and high spirits, the chief of his legal team said yesterday hours after a defence lawyer conferred with him. The former Iraqi dictator is being held at an unspecified location in Baghdad by US forces.
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Gilgit's district magistrate imposed Section 144 in the city for two months on Wednesday after unidentified men shot and injured four people in the old polo ground area on Tuesday evening. Sources said Shias were returning home after lighting small fires on nearby hills to mark Prophet Muhammad's (PBUH) birth anniversary (Shias mark the prophet's (PBUH) birthday on 17 Rabiul Awal) when unidentified men shot at them, injuring four people including police constable Muhammad Hussain, in the city's old polo ground area.
After hearing gunshots, the entire neighbourhood erupted in gunfire, which continued for about half and hour, sources said, adding that Pakistan Army, Rangers and police reached the spot and cordoned off the area to search for weapons. Sources said police had arrested 32 people in connection with the incident. The old polo ground area is in the city centre and is inhabited by Shias and Sunnis.
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Gigli? Terrible movie (RIH).
Sunnis + Shi'a + weapons? Lol! Section 8, if not 144.
The crew of an LPG carrier taken hostage by armed pirates off Somalia were freed unharmed on Wednesday after a nail-biting two-week ordeal, an ocean crime watchdog said. The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) said 17 crew of an unnamed Panamanian-flagged Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) carrier were freed early on Wednesday together with the vessel after a deal was struck during sensitive negotiations. "We believe there was a ransom demand, but we don't know if it was paid," said Jayant Abhyankar, deputy director of the IMB told Reuters.
Somalian waters have a fearsome reputation, and have been classed as some of the world's most dangerous by the IMB in the past. "The whole Somalian situation has been quiet for about 18 months and it has now suddenly flared up again. In the last three months there have been three serious attacks, with more reported in the last few days," he said. The IMB says that since late March pirates have menaced and attacked ships with guns and grenades. The LPG carrier was hijacked on April 10, some 135 miles off the east coast of Somalia by a gang in speedboats. It was later taken into Somalian territorial waters where it remained anchored off the coast. The IMB said the attack was particularly worrying because the vessel was lured into a trap by using a distress flare way off the Somalian coast. Abhyankar said he did not know whether militia known to be active along the coast were responsible, though he ruled out any links to terrorism.
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"We believe there was a ransom demand, but we don't know if it was paid," said Jayant Abhyankar, deputy director of the IMB told Reuters.
Sounds like a don't ask, don't tell policy, favored by wankers and gutless turds everywhere.
Somalia. The only place that rivals PakiWakiLand for pure unfettered insanity.
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Seems we could spare a destroyer or cruiser for the area if the piracy is that bad. Problem is that firing on or storming a LPG carrirer is pretty risky - bullets and LP Gas are not a good combination.
Seeing a US destroyer come cruising up at all ahead flank to answer the "distress flare" might discourage that sort of thing.
Having a helo vector in a Standard ASM on one or more of those "speedboats" from over the horizon would change definitely the tune for a while there.
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Y'all were talking not long ago about using tanker ships as "bombs" -- sail it into a port, then blow it up. Could an LPG carrier be used in this way? Should I worry that this was a practice run?
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TW - even though the coal barges have loads of potential BTUs sitting in them I wouldn't worry too much. Not too much LPG/gas tonnage thru Cinny either but never say never.
But the Reds pitching staff is very iffy. THAT will cause lots of sleepless nights.
#12
Now that DC has a baseball team (yay!), I'm thinking about going to watch them play in my hometown, Cincinnati. But which hat to wear? Nats or Reds...
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I'm thinking Q-ship m'self. Couple of 20mm Vulcans in the superstructure behind drop-down panels. "Run out the starboard battery and hoist the battle ensign . . . fire as you bear!"
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An LPG tanker answering a distress flare is a no-no in the first place, esp around Somalia. There has to be a kick-ass policy around these sh*thole places. I can see Jihad Pirates (JPs)luring a chopper in and someone else firing a missile and bringing it down. Around these pirate nesting areas, someone needs to set up some maritime patrols and a show of force (with backup) and it better be someone besides the US. Put the monkey on others' back, if they want safe shipping lanes. Other countries have had a free ride for too long.
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If they wanted to do Somalia a favor, they would've pulled this thing into Mogadishu harbor and blew it up...
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AP,
Contract it out the old fashion way with Letters of Marque and Reprisal, the o'Dead or Alive posters. Extreme Vacation: Pirate Hunting on tonight's edition of ABC.
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suggestion: Somalia as the new Vieques. Plenty to bombard, no real gov't to negotiate with and they've been asking for it, since Mogadishu. Load up and fire at will
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A US soldier and six Afghan policemen were killed in two separate ambushes by Pakistanis militants in southern Afghanistan, the latest casualties in a surge of violence, US and Afghan officials said yesterday. The US soldier, whose name was not released, was killed on Tuesday while on patrol in the troubled Deh Rawood district of the south-central province of Uruzgan, the military said in a statement. "The soldier was medically evacuated to the forward surgical team in Tarin Kowt where he was pronounced dead by medical personnel. His remains were transported to Kandahar airfield for movement back to the United States." No other coalition or Afghan troops were injured in the ambush. The statement did not provide any details of the attack. However, Pakistanis militants from the ousted Taleban regime have increased their attacks on US and Afghan troops over recent weeks.
Six Afghan policemen were also killed Tuesday when Pakistanis Taleban militants ambushed a local police chief in the restive southern province of Helmand. The police chief of Dishu district, which has been the scene of heavy fighting this month, was ambushed en route to his headquarters, provincial intelligence chief Dad Mohammed Khan told AFP. "Pakistanis Taleban attacked the Dishu police chief — they killed six of his bodyguards," Khan said, adding that the police chief escaped and the Pakistanis Taleban bravely fled the scene.
Meanwhile in eastern Afghanistan, three civilians were wounded when American soldiers fired on their minibus after a US troop patrol narrowly escaped a blast from an improvised bomb. Afghan officials said the US troops had fired on innocent civilians but a US military spokeswoman said the troops had been aiming at Pakistanis militants who bravely took cover behind the minibus.
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The Karachi police arrested two members of a banned outfit from the Orangi Town area here and recovered a large quantity of explosives and weapons from them, officials said yesterday. The suspects were members of the outlawed Jaish-e-Mohammad group, they said. "It's a big success for us. They were using this place to make bombs and plan terrorist attacks," said police official Rasheed Khan. One of the suspects picked up in the Tuesday night raid, Mohammed Nafees, was a prayer leader at a mosque, said another official.
Boy, that's never happened before, has it?
The other, Mufti Yaseen, is a holy man cleric wanted in connection with several militant attacks, he said, but gave no details. The two had stored about 70 kg of bomb-making material, including gunpowder and fertilizer that can be used to make explosives, in the basement of their two-room, mud-and-brick home, Khan said. Police also found hand grenades and pistols, he said.
This article starring:
MOHAMED NAFIS
Jaish-e-Mohammad
MUFTI YASIN
Jaish-e-Mohammad
Jaish-e-Mohammad
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The two had stored about 70 kg of bomb-making material, including gunpowder and fertilizer that can be used to make explosives, in the basement
As I recall (Daddy did things for the Haganah pre-1948 -- he was really too young, but wanted to help, and Grandmother's friend Golda Meir forwarded his name to somebody), that kind of thing is rather touchy. Not what I would choose to store in the basement of a house I wanted to stay attached to the ground. ;-)
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, April 28 (UPI) -- Saudi security forces are searching for the bodies of two terrorists believed to have died after being injured in clashes with police. Ministry of Interior spokesman 
PARIS, April 28 (UPI) -- French police arrested five Islamists on suspicion of urging Muslim youth to fight against the U.S.-led multinational forces in Iraq. Police sources said Thursday the suspects were seized in Paris and the southern port city of Marseilles and referred for interrogation by the intelligence department. They said one of the suspects, 
The two Belgians who were this week freed from US custody in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have been charged in their home country with criminal activity, it emerged on Wednesday.
The prospect of ongoing instability could have a considerable economic and social impact on countries throughout Central Asia. Earlier in April, the risk of a large-scale clash between government troops and local tribesmen appeared acute. Both sides had built fortified military positions along a highway and in the surrounding hills outside the town of Dera Bugti, not far from the Sui gas field. On April 16, though, regional officials announced a negotiated end to the stand-off, and the bunkers and other military strongholds were abandoned.
MUNSHIGANJ, Apr 27: An alleged top terror was killed in an encounter between police and his accomplices at Noirpukurpar in Sadar upazila early Wednesday, reports UNB. Police said on a tip-off Mizan Bahini chief Mizanur Rahman alias Mizan, 32, who was arrested from the capital's Motijheel area Tuesday morning, was taken to Noirpukurpar by police at about 3:30 am in search of arms. 
The crew of an LPG carrier taken hostage by armed pirates off Somalia were freed unharmed on Wednesday after a nail-biting two-week ordeal, an ocean crime watchdog said. The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) said 17 crew of an unnamed Panamanian-flagged Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) carrier were freed early on Wednesday together with the vessel after a deal was struck during sensitive negotiations. "We believe there was a ransom demand, but we don't know if it was paid," said Jayant Abhyankar, deputy director of the IMB told Reuters. 
A US soldier and six Afghan policemen were killed in two separate ambushes by 
The Karachi police arrested two members of a banned outfit from the Orangi Town area here and recovered a large quantity of explosives and weapons from them, officials said yesterday. The suspects were members of the outlawed 
