I think the new PHP version of the poster is ready to go, so I'm going to change the link and hope for the best. I'm sure you all will let me know about the bugs when they pop up...
I've got it set up so that all posts after 9.30 p.m. (server time) will go into the holding tank and appear the next day. It's been about a week, so cookies should be pretty well sorted out by now...
I'll be doing some more work under the hood tomorrow (but not Sunday, which is Mother's Day).
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One thing I'm not too keen on with the new PHP page: the articles list tells the number of comments for each article, but not when the most recent comment was; and the list of most recent commenters doesn't show when each comment was made. The old ASP page does these things; will they carry over, eventually?
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sounds good Fred, my part will be in the paypal bin
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I will vote with my PayPal ballot, too, Frank. Great and persistant work! And thanks for putting me plane pic up on the O-C wall bulletin board!
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I had the PHP version of the main page mostly rewritten but the dog FTP ate it. It looked and acted almost exactly like the ASP main page, and had a few improvements. Since I was working on it, I hadn't made a current backup. It'll be rebuilt in the next few days, I hope.
Thanks for your support -- and your contributions. I very much appreciate them!
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np Master Fred - we appreciate your hard work, along with the editors
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I twice tried to post an article by American Taliban Johnny Walker Lindh's dad arguing that his son committeed no crime. Both times I got a message that the webpage had to be closed. Here's the link FWIW: http://www.dcbar.org/for_lawyers/washington_lawyer/may_2005/stand.cfm
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Russian security forces said they foiled a major terrorist attack Thursday, discovering a truck bomb and a cache of poisons days before dozens of dignitaries arrive in Moscow for celebrations marking the Allied victory over Nazi Germany. The find is likely to raise fears that other terror attacks could be in the works as the world turns its attention to Russia and Monday's ceremonies marking the end of World War II. Russian authorities almost immediately blamed the planned attacks on militants, including some with reputed ties to al-Qaida. The truck with more than a ton of explosives was found near the Chechen capital, Grozny, said Maj. Gen. Ilya Shabalkin, chief spokesman for the federal forces in the North Caucasus region. The truck frame and chassis had been fitted with about 2,640 pounds of explosives, he said. "The only thing left to do was to put a suicide bomber behind the wheel and turn on the electric detonator," Shabalkin was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency.
State-run television broadcast video of a man in camouflage fatigues and a black mask removing a tightly wrapped packet from beneath the cab of a blue-canopied truck parked on a muddy road. Other shots showed a man in fatigues extending an antenna from what looked like a briefcase used for remote-control detonation. Authorities linked the incident to Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, and leaders Doku Umarov and Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev, the successor to slain rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov. Russia claimed the rebel leaders had also planned attacks using poisons and toxic substances in the capitals of the North Caucasus region and several large regional centers elsewhere in Russia. A cache containing a cyanide-based substance was discovered in an unidentified settlement on the Chechnya-Ingushetia border, the Federal Security Service said. It said the components were not produced in Russia or elsewhere in the former Soviet Union. It was not clear how much of the substance was found. "Experts have concluded that the application of these strong-acting poisons in minimal doses in crowded places, in vital enterprises and water reservoirs could produce numerous victims," said the security service, which is the successor agency to the KGB. It said that experts believe that less than an ounce could kill around 100 people.
Security services have been on alert for major terrorist attacks before Monday, the 60th anniversary of the Allied victory over the Nazis in Europe. Militants have struck twice in the past on the holiday — one of the most important dates on the Russian calendar. An attack last year killed Kremlin-backed Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov and as many as 24 others attending a parade in Grozny. A bombing in 2002 on a parade in the southern town of Kaspiisk killed 43 people. Underscoring the tension, Moscow authorities have reported almost daily this week that explosives or grenades had been found in cars. Special police and soldiers have been more visible on the streets and guarding station entrances. Chechnya's Interior Minister Ruslan Alkhanov told Interfax that two female suicide bombers blew themselves up as security forces attempted to detain them in a remote Chechen region. Two other fighters and a police officer were killed in the blast, Interfax said. It was unclear when the incident happened.
Yevgeny Volk, the head of the Moscow office of U.S. think-tank Heritage Foundation, said that while terrorists may be active, security personnel also are eager to underline their heightened state of awareness. "Special services ... are interested in showing their capabilities, in proving to their bosses that they are doing a good job," Volk said. "So it cannot be ruled out that they informed their superiors about something that hadn't taken place." Authorities blamed a militant group operating in Ingushetia for the planned chemical attacks. It said the main organizer was a Jordanian named Abu Majahid, who it said had arrived in Chechnya in 1992 and served as an emissary of al-Qaida.
The attack was to have been carried out by the so-called Amanat (Silence) jamaat, a group of adherents to the extremist Wahhabi branch of Islam, the FSB said. The group is headed by Alash Daudov, a former police official whom the service accused of complicity in the 2002 seizure of a Moscow theater, attacks on police in Grozny and Nazran in 2004, and the seizure of more than 1,200 hostages at a school in Beslan in September. The FSB alleged that Daudov had received the poisons intended for the attack through Abu Mujahid, who was believed to have obtained them from an Arab state, which it did not identify. I think we can guess ...
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âSpecial services ... are interested in showing their capabilities, in proving to their bosses that they are doing a good job,â Volk said. âSo it cannot be ruled out that they informed their superiors about something that hadnât taken place.â
That's about right. Russian official pronouncements about terrorist operations and threats are only slightly more trustworthy than the babblings of Baghdad Bob.
THE family of kidnapped Australian Douglas Wood is not considering payment of a ransom to secure his release, a family spokesman said today.
In a DVD sent to media outlets on Monday, the 63-year-old Australian-born engineer pleaded for his life and begged Australia, the US and Britain to withdraw from the war-torn country.
Mr Wood's brothers Malcolm and Vernon release a videotaped statement via al-Jazeera television in Iraq on Wednesday, saying the 63-year-old could die if he failed to receive medication for a heart condition.
A family spokesman today rejected claims in today's Daily Telegraph that the Woods were contemplating putting up a ransom if the terrorists threatening the engineer agreed to release him in return.
Meanwhile, an Iraqi Sunni sheik contacted to intercede with insurgents holding Australian hostage Douglas Wood has reportedly promised to get the captive released alive.
Australian journalist Paul McGeough said he had shown a video of the Wood family pleading for their brother to be released to Sheik Hassan Zadaan and he promised to return Mr Wood alive.
Mr McGeough said it was "highly probable that he laid eyes on Douglas Wood".
"I understand from him that Douglas Wood is being held about 30km from Baghdad which puts him in that south-west arc from the city," Mr McGeough said.
However, the sheik did report that Mr Wood appeared to be in the hands of Islamic extremists possibly associated with the network of Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi.
"He (the sheik) suggested that they were aligned rather than a part of, when he described them as Salafists," said Mr McGeough, a Fairfax journalist.
"Salafism is a virulent strain of Islamist thinking that is the core of the Zarqawi view of the world. So to that extent they are aligned."
Salafists are radical Islamics who condone the killing of non-believers in the name of purifying their faith.
The word Salafi refers to the companions of the Prophet Mohammed, or the first three generations of Muslims.
Salafis hold the traditionalist view that these generations were the perfect example of how Islam should be lived and practised.
Most Salafis claim to be peaceful and strictly guided by the Koran.
Salafists are followers of neo-Salafism, a violent and radical interpretation of this belief.
They aim to purify Islam through such radical means as the oppression of women, intolerance for other faiths and, more recently, the sanctioning of terrorist violence, according to a media guide to Islam produced by the Centre for Integration and Improvement of Journalism at San Francisco State University.
The Australian government has already banned a salafist organisation known as the Salafist Group for Call and Combat.
The group is also listed as a banned terrorist organisation by the UN and the US Government.
It was founded in 1998 as a splinter group of the Armed Islamic Group, one of Algeria's most radical and violence Islamist extremist groups.
An ASIO briefing paper says the 3000-member Salafist Group has been responsible for the kidnapping of western tourists, robberies and assassinations - mainly in Algeria - as well as making statements in support of terror mastermind Osama bin Laden.
Sheik Hassan has reportedly been contacted by member of the Australian team despatched to Baghdad to liaise with US, British and Iraqi officials in a bid to secure Mr Wood's release.
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer was unwilling to provide details of what the taskforce was doing to get Mr Wood freed.
But he said there was optimism that Mr Wood was still alive and they were working hard to have him released.
"We are optimistic that we can still succeed (in having Mr Wood freed) but there's still a long way to go and we just can't be sure," Mr Downer told ABC radio.
"We have no information that he is dead.
"Our team ... has spoken to a large number of people; we're certainly confident he is alive and we're still very determined to get him out."
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Looks to me as if it is time to send in the Marines Italians.
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Today, May 5, 2005, Jund al-Sham (Soldiers of Levant) claimed responsibility for the small explosions outside of the British consulate in New York City, claiming that the attack was "the beginning of war inside and outside of America." No one was hurt in the blast.
Since late March, Jund al-Sham has claimed responsibility for random attacks across the globe, including in Qatar and Lebanon. In addition, the group claimed responsibility for an explosion at a Texas oil refinery.
The group argues that the United States overlooked the Texas refinery explosion, and that more attacks will ensue.
"We're going to California and Texas and New York. And we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan and then we're going to Washington, D.C.! Yeeeeeeah!"
To complete its task, Jund al-Sham calls for "our cells in America to start battles in the streets."
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An inauspicious opening salvo to mark the start of anything. Sounds like bs. My money's still on pathetic anit-CAT activists or kindred mental midgits of the juvenile type.
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There's nothing more frightening than Islamic terrorists who claim to use toy grenades to ruin two planters and hurt no one at 3 a.m. That's it -- I'm taking my flower pots inside tonight.
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Sham doesn't need a translation, just a definition.
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That's it -- I'm taking my flower pots inside tonight.
Aw, man, just when the ferns were starting to do well, and I'm leavin' on vacation. Maybe my neighbor, with his sling shot, can watch them. al-Sham sounds about right!
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They should go up to Beacon Hill or over to Cambridge, where they would face an actual hostile enemy...
Boston's waterfront will look like a battle zone - with military gunfire, circling choppers and Navy SEALs on the attack - under a Pentagon war-games plan that has the support of a high-powered Southie pol but is still under review by the mayor. ``We need to do this. It's part of the training for our troops,'' U.S. Rep. Stephen F. Lynch (D-South Boston) said yesterday. ``The Navy wants to put its special ops forces through realistic situations, an approximation of what they might face in a major city, what they might face in Iraq.'' Lynch is the congressman from my district. Ex iron worker, once arrested for trying to beat on an Iranian student trying to burn an American flag back in the 70's. My kind of Democrat...
But Mayor Thomas M. Menino said yesterday he has not signed off on the idea of having Boston look anything like downtown Baghdad. ``I don't know about any live fire, that's for sure,'' Menino said. ``We're still looking at all the details. We don't want the lives of the people of South Boston and East Boston disrupted by this.'' Tommy likes to save that option for his own cops after Red Sox and Super Bowl celebrations...
Some 50 elite Navy SEALs would practice sniper fire with paint balls and perform hostage extractions, water landings, sea-mine evasions and other urban combat maneuvers from June 6 to June 18 as part of the exercises to be conducted by the Naval Special Warfare Development Group. The Navy is also hoping to land helicopters in urban areas and take advantage of the city's narrow streets to simulate combat situations in labyrinthine neighborhoods, according to Pentagon requests delivered to the city. I'm sure they're paper macheing up the Big Giant Puppets as we speak...
The Navy hopes to take over Drydock and Kennedy avenues at Black Falcon Terminal, as well as the Reserved Channel along the Boston Inner Harbor, for the ``urban military training'' games. Lynch is urging the city to welcome the Navy, saying the military's presence will boost the city's economy and security. On Monday, he wrote to Naval Special Warfare Commander Capt. E.G. Winters, saying he supports efforts to give commandos ``techniques and training necessary to defend themselves and our nation's interests around the globe.'' I'm sure Senator Kennedy will be up there to throw empties at them when he hears that...
Navy Special Warfare Lt. Cmdr. Andrew Levitz said the training will not ``cause any problem for local residents.'' The snipers will fire paint balls, and the area the SEALs take over will be confined to the Black Falcon neighborhood, Levitz said. He would not be specific about the exercises, citing homeland security concerns. There's not a lot down there. A container port, a power plant, some businesses, unused docks. Black Falcon's the cruise terminal, is only used on weekends and is a semi armed camp when the liners are in anyways.
``We are training the SEALs in what they need to do overseas,'' he said, adding that similar simulations have been conducted in other cities around the country. ``Every city gives us a different look, and Boston is a great city.'' Maybe they can come back here someday and overthrow our government. One can only hope...
The city's homeland security director, Carlo Boccia, said he will meet with Navy officials in the coming days to negotiate their proposal. After inquiries from the Herald, Boccia said one thing the city will demand is that live sniper fire and explosives are not part of the Pentagon war games.
``Tentatively, we will not allow any live fire, not allow any explosions,'' he said. ``If they do conduct exercises, it will be in relationship to the port. We would like to get this done as soon as possible, but we are not going to do it unless it satisfies the city's requirements.'' Maybe Kerry can zip by in his speedboat and wave his lucky hat...
See if you can spot the clue AMSTERDAM — The Dutch United Nations employee suspected of involvement in the bombings outside the British consulate in New York has been freed from jail.
The Dutch Foreign Affairs Ministry said on Friday the man is no longer considered a suspect in the FBI investigation. The man — who works with the UN's weapons inspection team UNMOVIC — was questioned by FBI and police after he was found "loitering" near the scene of the Thursday morning blasts.
He was reported by some sources as drunk.
Only minor damage was reported in the explosions and no one was injured when the two devices were detonated outside the consulate at 3.35am (New York time) on Thursday. A chunk of concrete burst through the front door and a panel of glass was shattered. Police have not determined who was responsible or found a motive. Police said the explosives were placed in large concrete flower bowls, which also serve as a vehicle barrier to the building. The consulate is within walking distance of the UN headquarters in New York. A firm which supplies bulldozers to Israel — which uses them to destroy Palestinian homes — is also located in the building.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said it should not be assumed that the British offices were the target of the attack. Police said the explosives were about the same size as hand grenades and were made with gunpowder. Additional: Kelly said investigators are also looking at whether the blast could have been related to an April protest by a left-wing Jewish group that was directed at the office of a member of the board of Caterpillar, which produces tractors used to demolish homes in Palestinian territories.
Could be any number of left-leaning loonie groups , demonstrating against the zionist dozers of doom.
Police said the novelty grenades were filled with black powder, fixed with a fuse and left in the planter in front of the building. Kelly said a review of security video footage revealed a female jogger, a bicyclist and a taxicab near the scene shortly before the blast. He asked those people, as well as other witnesses, to come forward. He said one tape suggested the grenades could have been tossed from across Third Avenue.
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What did I say?! Impotent symbolic gesture. This has Friends of Rachel Corrie written all over it.
Following his apprehension in Pakistan, al-Qaeda's Abu Faraj al-Libbi will soon be placed in the hands of US interrogators, who will be particularly keen to grill him on his connections with al-Qaeda's North African and British cells. But it's the Pakistan army that will be shaking in its boots.
Information gleaned from well-connected military analysts suggests that army officials connected with the Afghan cell during the Taliban period in Afghanistan (1996-2001) are likely to be in the firing line. Action is expected soon against several serving and retired army personnel. Abu Faraj is expected to be handed over to the US soon and is likely to be kept in a US detention center in Jordan or Morocco. Abu Faraj was deeply connected with al-Qaeda's North African cells before becoming involved in Pakistan a few years ago. The North African cells are al-Qaeda's most preserved, and are believed to be key to any future strikes on the US.
Abu Faraj was a trainer at al-Farooq camp in Afghanistan during Taliban rule. He trained hundreds of Pakistani men to be sent to Kashmir to fight against Indian troops. His training skills in not only explosives but also in urban guerrilla warfare saw him rise in prominence and he became popular among the trainees as well as with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence's (ISI's) Afghan cell, which preferred al-Farooq camp ahead of any other al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan. Abu Faraj's interaction with Pakistanis, whether they were private militants or military men, was deep and is characterized by the fact that he was good at Pakistan's national language, Urdu, which is spoken in urban centers, in addition to Pashtu. His choice in marriage was a Pakistani woman.
Abu Faraj had been used as a facilitator between al-Qaeda's cells in North Africa and their support system in the United Kingdom. His first field operation was the assignment to kill Musharraf, which was delegated to him because of his proven abilities and his connections among Pakistani jihadis and members of the armed forces, some of whom participated in the two attempts on Musharraf's life. The duty was assigned by Osama bin Laden's deputy, Dr Ayman al-Zawahiri. Al-Qaeda had invested in Pakistan well before the US invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, anticipating the consequences of the September 11 attack, that is, that they would be driven out of Afghanistan. It was that goodwill among military men and jihadis that Abu Faraj tapped into to carry out his attacks on Musharraf.
Asia Times Online's story, Detentions: A case against Pakistan on April 30 sheds light on how it took about two years to plot to kill Musharraf. Such a mission obviously involves the selection of the right people and the arrangement of finances, etc. Unconfirmed sources claim that Abu Faraj was not only the mastermind, but that he also planted a bomb in one of the cars involved in the second attempt. After the attacks, the focus of attention was on two al-Qaeda operatives, Hadi al-Iraqi and Amjad Hussain Farooqi, as the main masterminds. However, Abu Faraj's name came up when people belonging to militant or welfare groups under the patronage of the ISI were arrested and they fingered him in connection with the plot.
The real significance
There is little chance that Abu Faraj will be able to cough up any details on bin Laden leading to his capture: the al-Qaeda leader is lying extremely low while he chooses a new role for himself. However, the real US interest in Abu Faraj will be in his connections with al-Qaeda's United Kingdom and North African cells, the latter being relatively intact in comparison with others. But it is a matter of debate as to how up to date Abu Faraj is, as he has been based in Pakistan for some years.
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AIMAN AL ZAWAHIRI
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I wouldn't call it a witch hunt, but rather a needed house-cleaning. You can't run any kind of organization, much less a government, when there are a large number of influential people who're out to dispose of the guy in charge.
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I'd keep a 24 hr watch on him....with our guys
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KUFA, Iraq - Five supporters of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr were wounded Friday in a demonstration following the reading of a fiery sermon written by their leader, hospital sources said. "If you leave us in peace, we will leave you in peace. You should be aware of the fact that the Mehdi Army is still alive and has its finger on the trigger," Sheikh Aws al-Khafaji said, reading a sermon by Sadr in the Kufa mosque in central Iraq. He was referrring to the Sadr movement's militia, which pledged to give up its armed rebellion following a deadly standoff with US troops in the shrine city of Najaf last summer. "The government we have been expecting for so long should take concrete action in favour of the prisoners from the Mehdi Army and the followers of the Sadr movement. If you don't free our prisoners, I am ready to die as a martyr," he added.
Hummmm, I don't see a downside to that.
Stirred up by the young cleric's virulent sermon, hundreds of worshippers gathered after prayers and demonstrated to demand the release of the prisoners. Clashes broke out with the police, who opened fire, an AFP correspondent reported. "The protest was not authorised. The policemen first fired shots in the air, then there was an incident in which two people were injured," the province's deputy governor Hassan Attam told AFP.
Must have gotten caught in a "crossfire"
Doctor Samir al-Zabhawi, from Kufa hospital, said he had received a total of five wounded. Hundreds of Sadr fighters and supporters were detained by Iraqi and US forces during the protracted fighting in Najaf last summer.
Those would be the lucky ones
Scores of others were also nabbed last year during fighting in the cleric's Baghdad stronghold of Sadr City, a two-million-strong slum named after his revered father.
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Is this mook still around? See he hasn't changed much. ''ready to die...blah blah blah'', ''finger on the trigger...blah blah blah''.
Run this act by somebody who still buys it, shithead. Like Reuters...
Terrorist killed in shootout with police in Narail
Narail, May 5:—An alleged terrorist was killed in a shootout between his accomplices and policemen at Bosupati village under Lohagara uapzila on Wednesday night, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Azmal Kazi, 30, son of Latif Kazi of Gilatala village in the upazila and a leader of a local criminal group.
Police said they detained Azmal and his three accomplices from Sikdar Mollik village under Najirpur upazila of Pirojpur on Wednesday and brought them to Lohagara police station.
"Howdy, boys. You coming quietly, or do we have to go look for arms?"
On the basis of their confessional statements, the law-enforcers took them to Basupati in a bid to recover hidden firearms the same night.
All four of them? Must have a backlog of cases.
But the advancing police team was fired on in a bid to free Azmal and others from police custody resulting a gunbattle, police said, adding at one stage Azmal was hit by bullets and died on the spot.
Four wanted criminals in custody, dark night, cops and bad guys trading fire, and the gang leader is the only one to catch a bullet. Funny how that works, ain't it?
Police later recovered two pipe guns and three rifle bullets from the spot. Azmal was wanted in seven cases, including two of murders, police said.
No word on his "accomplices".
Outlawed party leader killed in encounter with RAB at Gournadi
Barisal, May 5 :— An outlawed party leader was killed and two RAB men were injured in a shootout between the anticrime force and outlaws at Gouranadi in the district early today, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Hassan Fakir alias Hachan alias Ripon, 31, a regional leader of the Zia group of Sarbahara Party.
Captain Iftekhar, Commander of the Barisal Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) camp, said Hachan was arrested from 'Khan Villa', the house of Jewel Khalifa, in Alekanda Nuria School area of Barisal city on Wednesday morning following secret information.
"Psst, he's hiding in Jewel's villa. Don't tell anyone, it's a secret."
As per his statement, RAB personnel took him to Adhuna-Ghanteswar area under Sharikal union in Gouranadi upazila to search for arms.
..and we all know want happens next..
"As the RAB team went near the house of Belayet Sardar at Adhuna, the associates of Hachan led by Manik, second-in-command of Hachan Bahini, attacked RAB and tried to snatch away Hachan," said the source.
"Get the boss, quick, before the cops shoot.......ah, crap"
A gunfight ensued, and during the 20-minute encounter, Hachan got caught in the crossfire trying to flee and died instantly, according to the RAB source.
A round behind the ear will do that
Sergeant Saiful Islam and constable Golam Rabbani of RAB were injured in the clash and received treatment at a local hospital.
One pistol with ammunition was recovered from the spot after the horde of Hachan Bahini retreated leaving behind the body of their leader.
The Horde of Hachan Bahini is now open for bids on naming rights.
Hachan's body was sent to Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital for autopsy.
"Dr. Quincy, we got another one."
Sources said Hassan formed his terror brigade styled Hachan Bahini that terrorized the locals, specially the rich and minority people, in the Gouranadi-Uzirpur, Agailjhara, Babuganj and Banaripara upazilas. He was wanted in a dozen cases, including 5 murders, toll collection, extortion, rape and terrorism, filed with different police stations in Barisal and Patuakhali districts.
Sleeping with the fishes
MADARIPUR, May 5: Two police officers kidnapped from Rajoir a month ago were cut into pieces and thrown in the river Arialkha, admitted an underground leader in police custody on Thursday, reports UNB. Sub-inspector Hasnain Azam Khan and office assistant Quamrul of the district Special Branch were kidnapped by underground Sarbohara activists from Shakharpar on April 3 when they were returning home from office by a motorbike.
Narrating the brutal episode to the police, Akkel Ali, a leader of Sarbohara party, said Azam and Quamrul were kidnapped at gunpoint from Shakharpar area. With assurance of setting free they were taken to Kacharighat of Shibchar and boarded a trawler. The motorbike was thrown in river Kumar near the trawler ghat.
Aziz, known for his brutality, in the trawler first slaughtered Quamrul and then Azam. Their bodies were cut into pieces and thrown in the water one after another on three km way from Kacharighat to Natun Rajarhat. Akkel further said the trawler returned to Kacharighat where he and the comrades in the group except Aziz got down. Informed sources said Aziz and police officer Azam hailed from the same village in Rajbari district. During his college life Azam had been involved with Sarbohara party and was arrested twice by the police.
Incidentally, top leader of the underground party could recognise Azam when he was passing by Shakharpara in motorbike. He ordered for his elimination, sources added. Police Super Moqbul Hussain Bhuiyan took Akkel Ali to the spot but could not locate Azam's motorbike thrown into the Kumar river.
Prisoner tortured to death in Rajshahi
Rajshahi :A prisoner was allegedly tortured to death in the Rajshahi central jail. A general diary has been filed with the Rajpara police in this regard. According to the general diary, Kafil Uddin Khan, son of Nazir Uddin of village Bagdhani under Paba upzila, had been in the jail since 1990. His punishment was to end next month.
Twenty five years in a Bangladeshi prison......
Rafique Uddin, brother of Kafil, lodged a complaint with the Rajpara police on Wednesday, alleging that his brother was tortured to death in the jail. Rafique said he received a notice from Paba thana that his brother was severely ill on April 30 and admitted to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital. He, along with some villagers, visited the hospital and found his brother lying in ward No 8 in an unconscious state. The body bore marks of injury.
Rafique said the on-duty police could not answer how his brother was injured.
"I don't know, he was like that when I came on duty. Must have fallen down the stairs."
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A another effective week of ''law enforcement'' in Bangladesh. It's wonderful.
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Hachan got caught in the crossfire trying to flee
See, here's their problem. They keep trying to take the shortest route to their ''associates''. If they'd run AWAY from them, they wouldn't wonder into the crossfire.
Ya know what I'd like to see? A little innovation in the crossfire reports. Maybe they capture Bagwan Bill, take him to recover some hidden weapons, the gunfight starts, and Bill escapes! BUT his associate Dacoit Dave was killed during the shooting!
A little variety, ya know?
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What they need is the Bangla version of Walter Winchell to narrate it. Put it on TV on Friday nights, right after the fights.
Iraqi police found the bodies of 14 men, apparently the victims of execution-style killings, in Baghdad. They were found in shallow graves, blindfolded with their arms bound and with bullet wounds to the head - possible victims of revenge killings... The bodies were dressed in long white robes, the traditional Arab garb favoured by Sunni Muslims.
[EFL] Who'da thunk it?
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The jihadi "resistance" fighters like to leave their victims out in the open as to send a message. Since these were buried, the shooters just wanted them to disappear. I'd say someone was getting a little payback.
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Be interesting if this is Shi'ia bumping off some Sunni terrorist scum. I sure hope so. Waste a few of the more virulent Sunni Imams too. Way too many Shi'ite clerics mosques have been targeted and killed
A charter flight with about 200 troops on board is flying out of Darwin tonight, bound for Iraq via Kuwait.
The departure lounge of Darwin International Airport was a sea of camouflage uniforms and long faces this evening as the soldiers prepared to go through Customs.
The Commander of Darwin-based 1st Brigade has farewelled 140 members of Al Muthanna Task group on a six-month deployment to protect Japanese engineers in the southern Iraqi province.
Brigadier John Cantwell says the flight also contains 60 soldiers from Brisbane units, who are relieving the Army's security detachment in Baghdad.
Brigadier Cantwell says the third and final group will fly out in the next week.
"There's about another 120 to go," he said.
"We'll be doing those in the coming week, and that'll see the group complete over in the Middle East, shortly to move into Al Muthanna province to start their tasks."
Posted by: God Save The World ||
05/06/2005 9:42:58 AM ||
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The only thing better than this is if the Japanese could defend themselves. But I'm thankful they are there.
Thanks Australia, and japan.
Colonel Jeffrey A. Powers, CEO of Homeland Security Technology, announced last Thursday that HST has signed a marketing/reselling agreement with GPS World Supply of West Chicago, IL, to offer an exclusive line of rugged, custom packaged GPS devices to the US Armed Forces.
These GPS devices are designed for use in Iraq and Afghanistan and come pre-loaded with maps and databases for those specific locations.
These units offer a solution to an immediate need for personnel working in Iraq and Afghanistan. Survival and mission accomplishment is dependent upon maintaining situational awareness.
This technology is readily available and can be quickly fielded. These units have the ability to display Military Grid Reference System (MGRS), in addition to LAT/LONG coordinates.
"We have been field testing these models in Iraq with civilian security contractors and have modified our offering based on their after action reports. We have recently added Afghanistan databases due to operational commitments of units requesting our GPS," said Colonel Powers.
Speaking as to HST's relationship with GPS World Supply Colonel Powers commented, "Entering into an agreement with GPS World Supply makes our offering of pre-packaged, pre-loaded GPS models very unique.
"We are happy to be on board and have been working very hard in concert with GPS World Supply to provide our troops in the field with what they need the most ... the very best equipment available on the market today."
Posted by: God Save The World ||
05/06/2005 9:49:24 AM ||
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I suppose it's too much to hope for that they have detailed road maps for these GPS units at this early stage. I have such a device (a Garmin StreetPilot III) and maps for the continental US that are a godsend when it comes to navigating in a strange city, as far as finding a specific address, finding alternate routes around construction or traffic jams, and just determining in general where a given road goes. I would think these would be ideal for military units planning roadblocks, ambushes, and pursuits. Yes, I'm sure they have traditional maps for this, but having a device with a computerized map updating your location and direction every second trumps the paper maps everytime when you're in a hurry. However I don't expect anyone has done such detailed mapping for Iraq or Afghanistan yet (although they may have several of the larger, individual cities surveyed).
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I suppose it's too much to hope for that they have detailed road maps for these GPS units at this early stage.
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lex - Here's one to start with. There's another I've seen that might be better - with depth about the tribes - I'm still trying to locate it, lol! Organzied? Who, me? Pfeh, lol!
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However I don't expect anyone has done such detailed mapping for Iraq or Afghanistan yet (although they may have several of the larger, individual cities surveyed).
Maybe not, yet, but Iran and N. Korea on the other hand...
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Well, I'm probably just talking out my butt on the first comment because I have no idea what systems they're using. I'm sure there's some group out there that's tasked to create some detailed electronic maps of all our potential adversaries since GPS is such a useful and major technology.
But I've also seen that many of the troops wind up buying their own GPS receivers, from manufacturers like Garmin, Magellan, et al. I've not seen that the format of the e-maps supported by the various makers are compatible, and I seriously doubt they are due to licensing concerns. I'd be curious to know if these HST-supplied e-maps are offered in more than one format so troops can get the appropriate set for their receivers.
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Throw another Jihadi on the Barbie U.S. agents and Pakistani authorities were interrogating one of Osama bin Laden's top lieutenants after the al Qaeda figure's capture this week, intelligence sources said on Friday. Pakistan says Libyan militant Abu Faraj Farj al Libi orchestrated at least two assassination attempts on President Pervez Musharraf, while U.S. officials describe him as the successor to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed -- the Al Qaeda No. 3 arrested in Pakistan in March 2003.
Speaking during a visit to the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said: "I know that interrogations are going on and that they are proceeding well." Intelligence sources say al Liby is a friend of Mohammed, the alleged brain behind the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. "U.S. intelligence agents have been part of the operation to catch al Liby," said one intelligence official. "Al Liby is being interrogated jointly by a U.S. and Pakistani team." Al Liby was captured in Pakistan's rugged North West Frontier Province on Monday with a handful of fighters, including an as yet unidentified al Qaeda figure who also carries a U.S. reward of several million dollars, one senior Pakistani official said. The Libyan's association with bin Laden dates to the jihad, or holy war, that the United States covertly backed against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, and to Sudan, where the al Qaeda chief and his cohorts was based in the early 1990s.
Prime Minister Aziz, who narrowly survived a suicide bomb attack that killed his driver in July last year, was at best non-committal when asked by reporters whether al Liby might lead investigators to bin Laden. "We have no idea about bin Laden. But certainly Mr Al Liby was a senior member of al Qaeda and we were on the lookout for him for a while and interrogations are in progress," Aziz said. More than 20 suspects have been arrested since al Liby's capture, including eight in Lahore on Wednesday night. One of those, a Pakistani with links to al Qaeda, also had a bounty on him, an intelligence source said. But how many of the suspects detained are actual al Qaeda members, Arab or foreign nationals who have joined bin Laden's Islamist network, is unknown.
President Musharraf has repeatedly said his security forces have "broken the back" of al Qaeda and its allies among Pakistan's militant groups over the past year. Musharraf is regarded as a key U.S. ally and a bulwark against Islamist militancy in Pakistan, while his efforts to make peace over Kashmir with India has made some extremists hate him even more. Pakistan has decimated al Qaeda in the past three years, arresting and killing hundreds of militants, but bin Laden's network struck back by enlisting Pakistani fighters. Bin Laden had a ready-made pool of recruits in Pakistan, as its Sunni Muslim extremist groups share a similar world view, while militants fighting Indian rule in Kashmir attended al Qaeda training camps on the Afghan-Pakistan border before 2001. Most captured al Qaeda members have been handed over to the United States, but the homegrown militants, some of whom had been used by Pakistani intelligence before Musharraf joined the U.S.-led war on terror, fall in a different category.
This article starring:
ABU FARAJ FARJ AL LIBI
al-Qaeda
KHALID SHEIKH MOHAMED
al-Qaeda
Shaukat Aziz
Posted by: Steve ||
05/06/2005 9:56:41 AM ||
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Nope. The fancy new Weber charcoal, with all sorts of attachments. It doesn't give quite the control of a propane grill, but the flavour is so much better. I'm not sure, though, if they've gotten the electric turnspit attachment yet. ;-)
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Mushy got Al Libi before Al Libi got him. Interrogate with extreme prejudice. He's just another common Jihadist criminal. Spare nothing so that innocent lives may be saved.
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I would start first by not feeding him for two days then forcing 8oz vodka down his throat. Then force him to swallow some bacon and pork chops. Then some more vodka. This would crash his Islamic ego and get him to talking before the heavier interrogation is brought in.
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Sakai is right on the preferred method of cooking yet he ignores the true nature of the jihadi - it's bitterness. If memory serves me, there is a man in bejiing who drains the jihadi of all useful information though a thousand small cuts after removing toes. It is only then that the jihadi can be boiled to remove the feathers (they all have em) then washed and prepared for marinating to temper the bitterness and let the chicken release its secrets. After days of stewing in the marinage cooking as prescribed by Sakai can be attemted.
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Grilling or the smoker are the ways to go with Jihadis. Wash thoroughly first
Afterwards. Who cares how greasy the spit is when you stick them on it? But be careful to sanitize afterwards .... they might carry germs.
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Reminds me of a joke:
A customer walks into a cannibal restaurant. The menu has Americans for $5, Spaniards for $5, Mexicans for $5 or Arabs for $75. The customer asks, ''why are the Arabs so expensive?''. The cook replies, ''You every try to clean an Arab?''
PAKISTANI intelligence agents have foiled a new plot by al-Qaeda militants to assassinate President Pervez Musharraf, security officials told AFP tonight. Seven conspirators were arrested in a number of raids in central Punjab province in late April, one week before the capture of alleged al-Qaeda number three Abu Faraj al-Libbi in a northwestern region, they said. The group included Mushtaq Ahmed, a junior airforce official who escaped from jail late last year after being sentenced to death for his involvement in a 2003 attempt to eliminate Mr Musharraf, and who was recaptured last week. "First we smashed the gang plotting a new attack on Musharraf and then a week later we netted two Arabs including al-Libbi," a top intelligence official said.
This article starring:
ABU FARAJ AL LIBI
al-Qaeda
MUSHTAQ AHMED
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Posted by: God Save The World ||
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Suspected Maoist rebels have shot dead a prominent Hindu priest in southwestern Nepal, police said, in what is believed to be the first killing of a religious leader in the nearly decade-long insurgency. Narayan Prasad Pokhrel, the chairman of World Hindu Federation-Nepal, was killed early on Friday in the outskirts of the southwestern town of Butwal. A colleague was also wounded in the attack. Police said Pokhrel died instantly after being shot by five gunmen on motorcycles. They were unsure about the motive behind the killing.
A resident of Kathmandu, Pokhrel had been to the town to attend a religious function. An unidentified official at the World Hindu Federation, a separate Hindu group, told The Associated Press the rebels had previously attacked Hindu activists, but this was the first time a religious leader had been killed. More than 11,000 Nepalis have died since the Maoists launched their "people's war" in 1996 to abolish monarchy and establish a one-party communist rule. Pokhrel's family members and relatives were in a state of shock. "I received a telephone call from him at around six in the morning. He said he wanted to return soon," his wife Malati told AP. "Minutes later, someone called saying he is dead; he has been killed," she said, wailing and shaking her head in disbelief.
Since February 1, Nepal has been under emergency rule and fundamental rights remain suspended, though the royalist government has progressively relaxed restrictions amid intense international pressure. Many of Nepal's major donors have already suspended or have threatened to suspend international aid. India, Britain and the United States, major suppliers of arms to Nepal, have put a hold on military supplies since the royal takeover.
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Where are the vaunted Gurkhas in all this? Looks like the royals are so bad even the Brits, USA and others are siding with the Maoists. Sounds like a crazy situation. I guess I will put off my climb to the top of Everest for a few more years. Huff, huff, puf, puf.
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The climbing is still going on at the same old pace it always has, Ed Viestors is even now attempting to summit Anapurna. If he makes, he would finish off the top 14 8,000 meter peaks in the world, and all without supplemental oxygen.
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The story goes that the sister of a world-famous daredevil climber was asked why she thought he liked to climb mountains. ''I'm not sure,'' she said. ''But we think he likes to get to the top to feel the wind rush through the holes in his head.''
May 6, 2005: Three young women were found killed, by hanging, after being raped last weekend. A Taliban group took credit for "punishing collaborators" (who were working for a foreign relief organization). These murders have caused an uproar across the country, and done the Islamic radicals no good. Police have arrested two men and a woman as suspects in the case.
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A wrong, wrong, wrong move.
In the first months of the WOT I spent some time reading the trafic at the ''World Pashtoon Foundation'' a site used by both nationalistic and islamist Pashtoons and it is still vivid in my mind the horrified reaction of everyone when they heard about a tribal council in Pakistan sentencing a girl to gang-rape. And Mullah Omar built his first power base about the legend of having freed girls who had been kidnapped by the local warlord
If Taliban start raping Pahstoon girls expect for Pashtoon turning on them and Taliban being hung by the balls
May 6, 2005; The January 30 Parliament finally selected government ministers this week. Terrorist attacks have killed over 250 people, mostly civilians, in the last week. The terrorist campaign is remarkable for its persistence, and ineffectiveness. Actually, the terror campaign is beyond ineffective. It is the major reason why popular opinion in Iraq, and the Arab world, has turned against al Qaeda. When the terrorist bombings began to kill large numbers of civilians back in late 2003, many Iraqis believed the Americans were behind the attacks. Iraqis didn't believe al Qaeda and the Baath Party terrorists could be so stupid. Now, Iraqis consider al Qaeda and the Baath Party terrorists to be depraved, and rather clueless, butchers. Even the Sunni Arab international media is having a hard time selling the terrorists as brave warriors fighting the foreign invaders. The terror campaign in Iraq is becoming a growing embarrassment in the Arab world.
The al Qaeda and Baath Party strategy of trying to trigger a civil war between the main factions in the country (Sunni Arab, Shia Arab and Kurds) has been a failure. While a few Shia leaders have called to retribution against the Sunni Arab areas where the terrorists are known to hang out, the Shia Arab leadership, particularly the religious leaders, have called for restraint, and been obeyed. There has been a Shia response to the attacks, although it is largely unreported (because most reporters, fearing injury or kidnapping, report from inside U.S. bases or well guarded hotels). The Shia have increased security along roads and in Shia neighborhoods. Most of the new police and security troops raised in the last year have been to provide security for the Shia population. The Kurds have always been well protected, although a suicide bomber got past security last week (even though he was detected and was being chased), got into a crowd of men applying for police jobs, and killed some sixty people. The police applicants always come back after these attacks. Iraqis are hard to terrorize, but easy to piss off.
Iraqis can't help but notice that less than ten percent of the terrorist victims are Americans, and that the reason for this is that the Americans have better security. The continued terrorist attacks have provided an incentive for Iraqi police and troops to pay close attention when their American advisors and instructors explain to them how a high degree of security can be achieved. There's no magic or wondrous new technology involved. The main ingredient of effective security is people who are dedicated, persistent and disciplined. These qualities were never abundant in the Iraqi police and military, except for a few units that Saddam relied on to keep the country in line. Saddam's crack commandos and intelligence operatives are now the core of the terrorist organization. But the police and army has responded in kind, and have gotten results. It's been over six months since terrorists have been able to overrun a police station. The growing force of Iraqi SWAT teams and commandos have become such a threat that terrorists are targeting them, and their leaders.
For many Iraqis, especially those in central and western Iraq, where most of the violence takes place, security is the major concern. Sunni Arab leaders are
caught between popular demands for security, and death threats from Sunni Arab terrorists. The terrorists fear that the Sunni Arab leadership will turn against them, making Iraq a hostile environment for Islamic terrorists. This has already happened in the Kurdish north, and the Shia Arab south. The drawn out debate over which Sunni Arab leaders will take cabinet positions has much to do with when, and how, the Sunni Arab tribal and religious leaders will turn on the terrorists. There are also arguments over which prominent Sunni Arabs are acceptable as cabinet ministers. Most senior Sunni Arabs either worked for Saddam, or received benefits from him in the past. Many of these Sunni Arab leaders have, as the saying goes, "blood on their hands." The Shia Arabs and Kurds will forgive, but they won't forget. And they know that many Sunni Arabs believe that eventually Sunni Arabs will be able to maneuver themselves back into control. The Sunni Arabs are better educated, and have more administrative experience. They do have self-confidence, ruthlessness, and the support of the Sunni Arab governments that dominate the region (and the Islamic world in general.) The Sunni Arabs have been responsible for many military coups over the last 70 years. Until 1958 there was a constitutional monarchy in Iraq. Sunni Arab generals killed the royal family and established a dictatorship that lasted until 2003. For the Sunni Arabs, those were the good old days, and they want them back.
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I dunno. Maybe they could try fighting each other?
JAMMU, India - Two teenage girls were killed and 17 people were wounded in Indian Kashmir when a bomb planted by Muslim separatists went off at a Hindu wedding, police said on Thursday. "This blast was caused by an improvised explosive device. It was planted by separatists at the marriage function," a police officer told Reuters.
The explosion took place late on Wednesday at a Hindu wedding feast in Lower Matta village, 145 km (90 miles) north of Jammu, the winter capital of India's Jammu and Kashmir state. Fourteen of the wounded were taken by military helicopters to Jammu for treatment, Senior Superintendent of Police J.L. Sharma said.
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I read somewhere that an analysis of the recent National Report on Terrorism shows that 40% or more of all worldwide terror attacks are attributable to the Kashmir conflict. Seems to me that one of these days this thing spills over (or as in the new sexy lexicon - ''tips over'') and gets us involved. Lets pray that India and Pakland learn to handle their problems on the cricket pitch and not here.
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2,000 militants ready to infiltrate into J&K
''Infiltration is likely to increase in view of the melting of snow on mountain ranges along the LoC in J&K. As many as 1,800-2,000 militants are stationed on launching pads along the loc- ready to cross to this side to keep the pot of militancy boiling,'' officials said.
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India is increasingly stopping them at the border. Infiltrating terrorists increasingly looks like a failed strategy in Kashmir.
CAIRO - Egyptian authorities detained about 1,000 people during nationwide demonstrations organised by the banned but usually tolerated Muslim Brotherhood in favour of political reform, judicial sources said on Thursday.
Public prosecutors or state security prosecutors are vigorously questioning about 400 of them, 120 of them in the eastern Nile Delta province of Sharkia, where 12 policemen were injured in clashes during the protests on Wednesday, the sources said. The authorities are expected to either release the remaining 600 or detain them without charges, they added.
Mohamed Habib, the deputy leader of the influential Islamist group, said that the Brotherhood had counted 1,562 people still in detention from Wednesday and that the police had referred hundreds to the prosecution for possible charging.
The Brotherhood said last month that it was negotiating with the interior ministry on holding a massive demonstration that would oppose foreign intervention in Egyptian politics while simultaneously pressing for more rapid political reform. "But they rejected this idea and we of course said: 'Okay, we will stage those demonstrations or stand-ins.' We had 60,000 people over 15 provinces," Habib told Reuters on Thursday.
Dictators generally don't like demonstrations for 'reform'.
Independent estimates of the size of the demonstrations were difficult to obtain from areas outside Cairo but the number of detentions suggested that taken together they were the most successful protests this year in Egypt.
The authorities have fluctuated in their attitude towards the protests, sometimes allowing them to go ahead, sometimes thwarting them in advance and sometimes detaining participants. Habib said: "We had hoped the security would be more responsive, more peaceful and civilised, because in our view it is their job to protect demonstrations, not to thump our butts suppress them."
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How'd that guy get to post without a moniker? Where's Glomer Gossing 2496 when you need him?
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The Brotherhood has been the inspiration and training school for alot of the misfit thugs in that region. President for life M can't let them get too bold. (I for one miss GG sumthin awful Mrs. D. He was the best comic relief I've seen in awhile. Maybe he could join us along with ''Salladin'' or whatever it was.)
A leader from the defunct Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) group was arrested in New York on Wednesday, the New York Post newspaper reported on Thursday. Tariq Javed, a member of Sipah-e-Sahaba which is aligned with Al Qaeda and International Islamic Front, was seen snapping photos last year of the Brooklyn and Williamsburg bridges in New York city and was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly lying on his immigration papers about his terror links, the paper quoted officials as saying. He had declared jihad against Americans, according to the complaint issued by Manhattan US Attorney David Kelly.
This article starring:
TARIQ JAVED
Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan
Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan
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Good. Although simply lying on his immigration papers should be enough to get him deported... the way the FBI convicts gangsters and Mafioso of tax evasion for not declaring to the IRS the income on their ill-gotten gains.
GILGIT: The government will deploy special police squads on a main road here to ensure the safety of residents and tourists, Northern Areas police chief Dil Pazeer said on Thursday. Gunmen have attacked vehicles, injuring people on the road to Gilgit, where sectarian violence between Sunni and Shia Muslims killed 15 in January. "We are aware of the situation, and we hope the new measures will help avoid any future incident," said the police chief. He did not say how many policemen would be deployed on the road.
Pazeer said police were also trying to disarm people in Gilgit and they were in touch with local clerics to ensure sectarian harmony, "and they have assured us of their full support." Officials said local Sunni and Shia leaders signed a peace accord last week to respect each other" faith and help settle disputes. The accord follows the slaying of prominent Shia cleric Agha Ziauddin in January that sparked the violence. Authorities had imposed a curfew and called in army and paramilitary troops. The curfew was lifted later but security forces still man roadblocks in the town.
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Pazeer said police were also trying to disarm people in Gilgit and they were in touch with local clerics to ensure sectarian harmony, ''and they have assured us of their full support.''
Authorities on Thursday banned the display of weapons in North Waziristan Agency while forming two committees to buy heavy weapons from the tribesmen. A spokesman for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas Secretariat stated that after the ban on the display of firearms in North Waziristan Agency's main bazaars, the political administration had set up two committees to purchase heavy weapons from the tribesmen at market prices. "The public display of weapons in the agency's main bazaars has been banned under a disarmament campaign in the tribal areas. Those violating the ban will be fined and their weapons will be confiscated." he said.
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US Marines landed on Somalia's coast in one of their most visible hunts for militants in the country since they set up a Horn of Africa counter terrorism force in 2002. Two boats brought about 20 lightly armed Marines to the fishing village of Maydh in the northwestern enclave of Somaliland on Tuesday, where they showed pictures of suspected "terrorists" to locals before leaving, residents said. "They met some of the fishermen and the people and they showed some pictures they were carrying, saying that these people are terrorists that they are trying to capture," Assistant District Commissioner Ali Abdi told Reuters. It was not clear who the Marines were looking for.
The Marines' arrival coincided with signs of US military activity elsewhere along the coast of Somaliland, a relatively stable region which declared independence in 1991 to escape chaos engulfing the rest of Somalia, but which is not internationally recognized. Two US military helicopters flew low over parts of the Gulf of Aden port of Berbera on Wednesday, including the docks, airport, a fuel depot and former barracks, residents said. Reporters said three US vessels, including a helicopter carrier, had been spotted on Tuesday at the port of Las Qorei, where Marines questioned fishermen about local shipping. Somaliland's interior minister declined to comment. Officers from the US task force based in neighboring Djibouti since December 2002 to hunt down any militants in the region were not immediately contactable for comment.
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Somalia: so many targets, so little time
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Hunting the Somali elk ...
Posted by: Steve White ||
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1) High Value Targets - are there any worth a single American life? Or is this just ThugLand? I dunno. Obviously someone thinks there are. If not -- get the fuck out.
2) Firepower. Make it massive and on instant call -- or get the fuck out.
3) ROE. No limits, no questions, no press -- or get the fuck out.
Somali-whatever is far more deserving of MOABS than risking living breathing no-shit US troops, IMHO. Fuck 'em.
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Except for the language, I am forced to agree with .com. Except that al Quaeda, et al, are looking for a new home, now that (in order) Afghanistan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Lebanon have become uncomfortable for them. I see this more as Bush sending the Marines to deny Somalia to the terrorists, than in truly bringing peace and order to that pathetic excuse for a country. And perhaps protecting, a bit, the Somaliland enclave from joining the rest of Somalia in chaos.
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Let's hope their hunt is successful on all levels. Mehopes the marines get the opportunity to instill a healthy fear in the local thugs while they are off a hunting.
Q We have a story out of Somalia here quoting Somali officials as saying that a small number of U.S. Marines, apparently about 20, lightly armed, landed in Somaliland, which is apparently an enclave of Somalia on the coast, on Tuesday, showed some pictures of terrorists they were looking for, and then left. Is that true? Have any U.S. forces landed on the coast of Somalia for any reason -- looking for terrorists or otherwise?
GEN. CONWAY: I heard that report just shortly before stepping over here. I checked with my DDO and those people in our Regional Operations Directorate who are responsible for that portion of the world. The report is false. The Marines have not landed, but the situation is still well in hand.
Q The situation is still -- (laughter) -- well in hand?
GEN. CONWAY: (Chuckles.)
MR. DI RITA: Come on, Charlie. Work with us here.
Q So no U.S. troops have gone ashore --
GEN. CONWAY: That's correct, Charlie, that there's no indication that the people in the Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa have landed on the Somali coast. They're still in Djibouti and conducting operations.
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1. Arab News
2. Who the hell goes into Somalia ''lightly armed''?
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Hell guys, we have a base in Djibouti. Im sure we've been in and out of Somalia numerous times over the last 3 and a half years. And going in lightly, cause all we're doing is raiding for AQ types.
It would be more efficient if Somalia had a state, but nation building in Afghanistan and Iraq pretty much takes up all the capacity weve got in that skill.
AN Iraqi Sunni sheik contacted to intercede with insurgents holding Australian hostage Douglas Wood has reportedly promised to get the captive released alive. Australian journalist Paul McGeough said he had shown a video of the Wood family pleading for their brother to be released to Sheik Hassan Zadaan and he promised to return Mr Wood alive.
Mr McGeough said it was "highly probable that he laid eyes on Douglas Wood". "I understand from him that Douglas Wood is being held about 30km from Baghdad which puts him in that south-west arc from the city," Mr McGeough said.
However, the sheik did report that Mr Wood appeared to be in the hands of Islamic extremists possibly associated with the network of Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi. "He (the sheik) suggested that they were aligned rather than a part of, when he described them as Salafists," said Mr McGeough, a Fairfax journalist. "Salafism is a virulent strain of Islamist thinking that is the core of the Zarqawi view of the world. So to that extent they are aligned."
The sheik has reportedly been contacted by member of the Australian team despatched to Baghdad to liaise with US, British and Iraqi officials in a bid to secure Mr Wood's release.
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, speaking from New York yesterday, said the Australian team had been given great support. "I am far from giving up," he said. "I still remain as determined as I have ever been and I am very proud of the work that our team on the ground is doing.
"The public internationally and in particular in Australia will understand if we don't give too much in the way of briefing of operational matters.
"Obviously the more that comes out publicly the harder that unfortunately can make it for us."
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President Mahmoud Abbas' ruling Fatah movement led in Palestinian municipal elections yesterday despite a strong showing by Hamas, preliminary results showed. But the hard-line Islamic group disputed the figures and said it was not ready to concede defeat.
"Youse can't defeat us! We got guns!"
"Harrr! We got guns, too!"
A win would be a major boost for Fatah, which had seen its popularity slip amid corruption allegations while support for Hamas was on the rise. It would also reassure Fatah ahead of a parliamentary vote due in July. A Palestinian election official said preliminary results showed Fatah winning roughly 60 percent of 84 councils across the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Hamas won 30 percent. He did not say what percentage of votes had been counted. "All the information being spread is false. Our observers in the municipal councils where Hamas is participating say that our movement is making very good progress," Hamas West Bank leader Hassan Youssef said. He also complained of balloting violations.
Fatah supporters fired guns into the air in Gaza's border town of Rafah to celebrate the results, which are seen as a sign of confidence in political and security reforms by Abbas. "The preliminary results assure the Palestinian people that Fatah continues to be the strongest and the most influential faction," said Jibril Rajoub, a security adviser to Abbas.
Hamas, which boycotted previous elections, posed an electoral challenge to Fatah after gaining street credibility for its fight against Israel, religious piety and charitable services. Fatah feared it could get hammered by Hamas in upcoming parliamentary elections, which a senior official said could be delayed by disputes over election law changes some feel may aid Hamas.
The election had a festive air as the parties erected tents and greeted arriving voters, but the mood deteriorated after polls closed with supporters of both sides claiming victory. About 20 masked men stormed two polling stations in the West Bank village of Attarah and destroyed three ballot boxes as votes were being tallied, an election official said.
More than 2,500 candidates vied for the council seats and turnout was high 80 percent in Gaza and 70 percent in the West Bank, officials said. Some 400,000 Palestinians were eligible to vote. Hamas had trounced Fatah in an earlier round of municipal voting in Gaza in January and made a strong showing in a similar West Bank poll in December, although Fatah got more seats. A final round is planned for later this year.
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Fatah, Hamas, whatever. It's still all the same pile of crap.
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