Leftist rebels killed at least 25 soldiers in two clashes Saturday in Colombia, the worst death toll in a single day for the military since President Alvaro Uribe came to power three years ago on pledges of crushing the guerrillas. Another 18 soldiers were reported missing. Fighting broke out in southwestern Putumayo state when as many as 300 rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, ambushed an army convoy during an attack targeting several nearby oil wells, said Gen. Carlos Lemus, Inspector General of the Army. The military responded by sending helicopter gunships to strafe rebel positions while warplanes swooped down to drop bombs, Lemus said. He said the rebels also had suffered casualties but was unable to provide details.
Television footage showed villagers scurrying for cover along a dirt road as shots rang out and troops carrying wounded comrades wrapped in blood-soaked bandages on their shoulders. The military reported at least eight injured. Lemus said at least 19 soldiers were killed and he announced a search and rescue operation for 18 soldiers who went missing during the battles near Puerto Asis, 330 miles southwest of Bogota. Putumayo is rich in oil and one of Colombia's main cocaine-producing centers. "We were engaged in very heavy fighting at dawn and called in air support," Lemus said at a news conference. "The attack was directed against petroleum installations."
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Were they armed with the AKs Chavez bought in the Spring?
Four explosions aimed at police vehicles and transportation links, including one that derailed a cargo train, wounded eight people Saturday in the volatile Caspian Sea region of Dagestan, officials said. The blasts were the latest in a series of attacks in Dagestan, which suffers from violence spilling over from neighboring Chechnya. Disputes among local ethnic groups and homegrown criminal clans also have plagued the region. A bomb placed on a railway track derailed a cargo train near the border with Chechnya Saturday morning, wounding the train's driver and his assistant, said police spokesman Akhmed Magomayev. The explosion halted railway traffic, delaying four long-distance passenger trains.
In Dagestan's provincial capital, Makhachkala, an explosive device went off shortly after midnight as a police vehicle drove by, wounding two officers. When another police vehicle arrived on the scene, another explosion occurred, wounding four senior police officers, according to the regional branch of Russia's Interior Ministry. Several hours later, another explosion occurred in Khasavyurt, a town six miles east of the border with Chechnya. Nobody was hurt, said Andzhela Martirosova, a spokeswoman for the Interior Ministry.
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A car bomb exploded Saturday near a Madrid stadium used to promote the city's bid to host the 2012 Olympics after a warning call by the Basque separatist group ETA, officials said. No injuries were reported. The bomb went off about 7 p.m. at a parking lot outside the Peineta track and field complex, the Interior Ministry said. The parking lot was nearly empty at the time and the blast, which came after a warning call made in ETA's name to the Basque daily newspaper Gara, caused little damage, the ministry said.
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Try that appeasement thingy on the Basques, Zappy.
After all, it worked so well with the islamofacists....
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Germany has deported a Moroccan-origin German Al Qaeda suspect to Pakistan on court orders, Javed Ibrahim Paracha, chairman of the World Prisoners Relief Commission Pakistan, told Daily Times on Saturday. He said Abdul Karim, a German passport holder, was sent to Pakistan two months ago because the German government did not accept him and that he also refused to go to Morocco.
I'm still trying to figure where Pakistan fits in the picture. If I'm going to get myself deported from, say, Paraguay, and I refuse to go to the U.S.A. (and what choice would I have?) there's still no reason to dump me on Iceland.
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And Pakistan did accept him.
They'll probably give him an AK47 and send him across the border to Indian Kashmir.
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Weird story. Can't find anything about this in the German press.
If this guy holds a German passport he can't be "deported" unless they found a reason to strip him of his acquired nationality. But in that case he still could not be deported to a third country against his will. He might only have chosen to go there by own choice.
A California imam arrested as part of a terrorism probe told an immigration judge on Friday he regretted making angry speeches against the US invasion of Afghanistan and no longer held a negative view of the United States. Appearing at an immigration hearing in San Francisco and speaking through an Urdu-speaking translator, Shabbir Ahmed said his speeches in his native Pakistan in late 2001 were emotional outbursts and his opinion of the United States had turned positive since moving to Lodi, California, in 2002 to take up duties as an imam at a local mosque. âMy mind changed,â Ahmed said at the bond hearing. âI think there is justice here,â he added, noting he had been treated respectfully in jail.
Ahmed is one of three Lodi men arrested earlier this month amid an FBI probe into suspected Al Qaeda links. Ahmed has been charged with overstaying his visa, but the US prosecutor pressing a deportation case against him made clear during the hearing that the federal government believed his religious training in Pakistan brought him into contact with Taliban sympathisers. A grand jury last week indicted Pakistan-born Umer Hayat and his son Hamid Hayat, both of Lodi, with lying to the FBI. The indictment charged Hamid Hayat with one count of falsely stating he was not involved with a terrorist organization and another count of lying about attending terrorist or jihadist training camps.
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A California imam arrested as part of a terrorism probe told an immigration judge on Friday he regretted making angry speeches against the US invasion of Afghanistan and no longer held a negative view of the United States...[snip]
âMy mind changed,â Ahmed said at the bond hearing. âI think there is justice here,â he added, noting he had been treated respectfully in jail.
I don't speak Urdu a**hole and since my sympathy bud wore down past flat years ago, I'd like to drop you off back home from 40,000.
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no longer held a negative view of the United States
At least, until he's out of the courtroom.
Send the bastard back home. Or to Gitmo. Or to hell, I don't care.
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He got lost religion in jail. Who'da thunk it. This declaration, "My mind changedâ, is worth the half-breath it took to utter it. It will change again, when it suits.
Go, MuzzyMam⢠hie thee back to the shithole that bred you.
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Imam man is going to get the boot oot of this country, so he is changing his tune. We have a dim view of liars. Get good fingerprints and an iris scan and get this trash back to Pak or whatever sh*thole place that he will fit into.
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Anti terrorism is;
Arrest any bastard Jews that put Iszrael interest above USA national interests
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It's about 75 IQ points over your pointy little head, but it is precisely because of monkeyboys like you that Israel will always have the support of the US. If you were above moron on the scale, this would blow your brain apart.
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I see we have had a vist by a couple of typical geitenneukers (or the same one.) He must have run out of dimes to feed the machine at the internet cafe and left.
Yea I agree on the "Imam" losing his religion in order to stay in the land of milk and honey. To think that Lodi could be better than the sespit he is from boggles my mind. I have been to Lodi. That said pack his carcass on a plane and send him back to Pakiwakiland, a village is missing it's Imam Moron.
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This really pisses me off. I live on the East Coast, and all the really funny shit here on Rantburg happens after I go to bed.
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This really pisses me off. I live on the East Coast, and all the really funny shit here on Rantburg happens after I go to bed.
I hear ya, Dave. I live in the mountains, and all the NEWS gets posted and commented to HE$$ and back before I even wake up. At least I get to see the funny stuff...
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The U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is considering provoking a military confrontation with Syria by striking Hezbollah bases near the Syrian border in Lebanon, London-based Jane's Intelligence Digest reports.
In an article to be published this week, the journal states that multi-faceted U.S. attacks, which would be conducted within the framework of the global "war on terror", would most likely focus on Hezbollah bases in the Bekaa Valley of eastern Lebanon.
It's noted that the deployment of U.S. special forces in the Bekaa Valley would be highly inflammatory and would "almost certainly involve a confrontation with Syrian troops."
Such a conflict might well prove to be the objective of the U.S., said the journal, which described Washington's strategic benefits from a confrontation with Syria. These include:
- Pressuring Damascus into ending its support for Palestinian resistance groups;
- Persuading Syria to abandon its alleged weapons of mass destruction and to withdraw its troops from Lebanon;
- Stimulating a situation where Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad would be ousted from power;
- Crushing Hezbollah and ending its alleged connections with other groups and parties such as al-Qaeda.
"The political consequences of a U.S. attack against Lebanon. . . could result in the destabilisation of a country that is still rebuilding its infrastructure a decade after a ruinous 15-year civil war," noted the journal.
"It would also fuel Muslim and Arab hostility toward the U.S. at a time when U.S.-led occupation forces are fighting the ongoing "rebellion" in Iraq. In these circumstances, taking on Hezbollah in the Bekaa Valley is likely to prove a highly risky undertaking.
"However," it continued, "given the Bush administration's doctrine of pre-emptive strikes, it remains entirely possible that Washington will soon launch military strikes against Lebanon, regardless of the consequences for wider regional stability."
The report goes on to note that the U.S. administration has long considered Damascus "a prime candidate for regime-change," along with Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and, possibly, Saudi Arabia.
"Syria, once a powerhouse of Arab (nationalism) that could not be ignored, has been seriously weakened, both militarily and politically. Washington may feel that the time is coming to oust Assad and the ruling generals.
"Targeting Syria via Lebanon, the only concrete political influence Damascus has to show following decades of radical diplomacy, could prove to be a means to that end."
The journal also noted that, "there is reason to believe that Iran and the U.S. are moving toward some form of tactical understanding as a consequence of covert diplomacy." As a result, it said, Tehran has been steadily reducing its support for the regime in Damascus.
The journal added that Bashar al-Assad lacks both the ruthlessness and political acumen of his father, Hafez, whom he succeeded in June 2000, and he is constrained by members of his father's old guard who are continuing to block his tentative efforts at reform.
"These factors make Damascus vulnerable to pressure from both the U.S. and Israel, particularly since U.S. forces are deployed in Iraq, Syria's eastern neighbour."
During the past six months, it added, Washington has increased the U.S. military presence along the Syrian border with Iraq "and, on several occasions, has sent special forces into Syrian territory or penetrated Syrian air space.
"In one incident, U.S. troops pursued suspected Iraqi militants into Syria and fought a running battle that left dozens of people, including some Syrians, dead.
"Israel's air-strike in southern Lebanon earlier this week," it added, "is very unlikely to be the last time Israeli forces cross the border to strike at targets alleged to be (resistance) bases and training camps."
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so when did Jane's go to the dark side? Who'd have thought Janes would be into handwringing and timidity - as well as the standard, but we might make them even madder drivel.
Maybe they should rename themselves, McClellan's Digest.
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The article seems to be dated 6/22/05, but I think I've seen it before, about a year or two ago. It reads like recycled material.
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Everyone knows this, except the MSM handwringers. If anyone follows the news, even the MSM news, they know that Jiihadis are coming into Iraq from Saudi Arabia through Syria. The pipeline would logically be interrupted in Syria since the Syrians are unwilling and/or unable to stop the flow.
Alimentary, my dear Watson.
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Why didn't they point out its benefits over glass parking lots?
I don't know, I'm beginning to have less and less animosity toward glass parking lots. In fact, economically, I think they're a GREAT idea. Better than wasting the life of one American soldier. Start with Soddy Rabida, then hit Syria, Tehran/Qom, and finish up with Packiwackiland. If China makes a stink, hit that big new dam of theirs with a TAC nuke - or even a dud, just to let them know we can. I'm tired of playing war with wool mittens on. I think it's time to start waging REAL war, and let the whole damned world know that we're serious. Also let them know that the spirit that built this nation is still alive in at least one group of Americans.
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Baghdad, 23 June (AKI) - US Marines have found manuals on taking hostages and decapitation during a raid on a guerrilla hideout in the Iraqi village of Karabla, near the town of Qaim, close to the Syrian border. The Arab newspaper Al-Sharq al-Awsat reports that in the hideaway the troops also found several hostages who were being held there by Islamic militants. The hiding place was being used as a centre for the interrogation and torture of hostages, and contained electrodes and other instruments of torture.
The manuals found were used as Jihad (Holy War) handbooks. The first was titled: "How to choose the best hostage", the second covered decapitation and was called: "Rules for cutting off the heads of infidels", and the third manual, "principles of the philosophy of the Jihad", was more theoretical.
The three documents, the last of which is 574 pages long, carry the name Abdel Rahman al-Aliya, which the newspaper says is probably a cover name to hide the identity of the real author. The hideout - in the volatile western Anbar province which has been the scene of fierce fighting between insurgents and the US-led forces - is believed to have been used by the group led by the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. He is credited with introducing the practice of decapitation to the activities of the Jihadist movement.
(Ham/Aki)
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Mohammed and Omar have correctly identified the western MSM as an enemy as dangerous to them as Al Qaeda or the "insurgents", if not more so. These guys have put their lives on the line by believing in our commitment to Iraq.
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I might suggest to FOX News that having about 150 terrorists being taken out of action across Iraq in a 48-hour period might just be a *tad* more important then their 150-hour continual coverage of CRAPOLA about whatshername in Aruba.
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I don't bother with TV news anymore. I have to wonder who is watching it. Much as I hate CNN and all of their propaganda, you can get more news through their propaganda these days than you can wading through Michael Jackson and poor whatshername.
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Anonymoose is dead on about Fox News, the only "conservative" network out there, and it is squandering much airtime over the damsel in distress BS out of Aruba. I've protested about this fact on my website and in a posting at www.moonbatcentral.com. Fox needs to get their asses out of Aruba and back in game!
We've got an estimated 178 dead jihadi scum in Afghanistan, another 140 in Iraq, increasing number of beheadings in Thailand, growing unease over the war at home thanks in large part to MSM but also to waging a politically-correct war in Iraq (translation: Syria should have bombed yesterday and we should re-introduce napalm immediately if not sooner), and what does Fox and most media focus on? You know...
If you look at the money the family is putting into to this, I wouldn't be surprise to discover a money connection between the father/mother and senior Fox executives. Rupert needs to visit the headquarters and clean out a few suits, quickly.
Sydney Morning Herald.Hat tip: Tim Blair. The Viking spirit lives on!
A hostage held alongside Australian Douglas Wood in Iraq has hired bounty hunters to track down his former captors, promising to eliminate them one by one.
Swede Ulf Hjertstrom, who was held for several weeks with Mr Wood in Baghdad, was released by his kidnappers on May 30. Mr Hjertstrom has since claimed he shared information with US and Iraqi troops about Mr Wood which led to the release of the 63-year-old Australian engineers two weeks ago, after 47 days in captivity.
Now, he wants to find those responsible. "I have now put some people to work to find these bastards," he told the Ten Network today. "I invested about $50,000 so far and we will get them one by one."
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I can just see the kidnappers paying with cash for something and the capital one vikings running out too get them. Oh, I can't stop grinning!
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Oh jolly good! Remember the US Bounty Hunter Act. If such a practice became common in Iraq, it would go a long way to restoring order. That is, having a class of professional bounty hunters, regulated against doing revenge work, but otherwise free to bring in bad boyz Dead or Alive.
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I am all for revenge work in this case. Stamping out an islamic kidnap culture before it gets well rooted is a good thing. It not just westerners being held and killed by terrorists and as political acts that is going on. There is plent of kidnap for profit and rape. The Chechens have a kidnap culture and it's partialy a reason for it's continued existance as a shit hole.
"Have Gun, will Travel. Wire Palidin San Fransisco."
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We could use pictures of both the vikings and Boba Fett on this one... let me look.
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Ha-haa! Sucker. These "bounty hunters" will take his cash, and then fail to find anyone. "Bounty Hunters" are nothing if not canny, and can milk a customer mark for all he's worth, with promises that success is just right around the corner.
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That's why the posters all say Wanted Dead or Alive. 2b rewards don't get paid until something gets delivered. That is how it works. These are not P.I types.
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Re:[quote] I am all for revenge work in this case. Stamping out an islamic kidnap culture before it gets well rooted is a good thing.[/quote] I'm afraid to disappoint you but in this partical case you are quite a few centuries too late.
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I watched the piece on channel 10. He came across as a shrewd operator, not given to throwing money away. I also got the clear impression he fully expected to pay up and get value for money. It was part of a hour long piece on the Woods kidnapping. Woods himself made the point several times that he didn't know who was behind his kidnapping. I thought the repeated emphasis strange and IMO he does know and may well be planning something himself. He clearly feels responsible for the deaths of his 2 assistants killed by the kidnappers.
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There is much danger in a man who everyone believes is patient and quiet without limit. When the dam of urbanity breaks, all that is left is the Viking going berserk.
KABUL, June 26 (Reuters) - Two German soldiers from Afghanistan's NATO-led peacekeeping force are believed dead and another was wounded in a munitions explosion in northern Afghanistan at the weekend. Several Afghan civilians were also hurt in the blast near an airfield in Takhar province on Saturday afternoon while an ammunition store was being moved and prepared for destruction, a spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force said.
"The soldiers are reported missing and presumed dead -- it was a huge explosion," said the spokesman, Major Joe Bowman.
The missing and wounded soldiers were identified as Germans by a German army spokesman late on Saturday.
The incident happened in the town of Rustaq, a district capital about 300 km (190 miles) north of Kabul. "The ISAF soldiers were observing the operation when the explosion occurred," an ISAF statement said.
Fourteen German peacekeeping soldiers have previously been reported killed in Afghanistan, including four in a June 2003 suicide attack on a bus filled with German troops headed to an airport on their way home. Two died in 2002 along with three Danes in an accident at a munitions site in Kabul.
Thank you, Germany.
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ISAF has confirmed the death of two, third one to be flown to Germany in critical condition.
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Condolences, TGA. Thanks for the sacrifice. And I'm certain the Afghans thank you also.
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Dittos True German Ally, they sacrificed it all fighting for freedom in Afghanistan.
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TGA, if you could find a site in Germany that we could send our condolences to the families and fellow soldiers directly, I'd appreciate it. We've badmouthed the German government for its failure to understand that all of Western civilization is under attack. It's heartening to know that many of the German people DO understand, and are willing to add their sacrifices to ours in our defense of freedom. I'd like the opportunity to say so personally to each and every family member of those killed. May God bless them in this time of sorrow, and give them strength.
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Well said, OP.
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My condolences to the families as well. Here's hoping the third one makes it through.
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"...There is no greater love than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends."
These men died doing a job that will help make and keep Afghan women and children safe. Getting rid of munitions from too many years of war and destruction. Honorable men who died doing an honorable job far from home. God Bless them and keep them. My sympathies to their Familes and the German peoples for their loss.
Bless them for their service in defense of freedom for the Afghanis.
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TGA-
I am hoping I got this translated right:
Sie haben den feinsten Titel erworben, den irgendein Soldat um bitten kann - Schutz und Befreier. Mein tiefstes Beileid zu ihren Familien und zu Ihrer Nation.
Mike
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TGA - let all those over there know we thank Germany for sending its sons to aid the cause of freedom, and we appreciate their "young and brave" giving the ultimate gift to the Afghani people.
Checkpoint Charlie's being razed, Hair Schroder didn't stop it. Gone by 7/4.
A partial replica of the Berlin Wall at the former Checkpoint Charlie border crossing must be torn down, along with 1,065 crosses commemorating people who were killed trying to escape former communist East Germany, a court ruled Friday.The head of a private group that put up the memorial at the former east-west crossing in downtown Berlin said she would appeal.
Three suspected members of the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) group were arrested from a house in a nearby village and a large quantity of explosives were seized late on Friday, police said. Police said that two days ago a house was blown up in an explosion in Chak 83-South Warraichan Wala. But its occupants had removed explosives to some other place which the police seized in a raid and arrested three people.
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An Algerian militant considered the mastermind of the 2003 kidnapping of 32 European tourists in the Sahara desert was sentenced on Saturday to life in prison for helping to create a terror group, but his whereabouts remained a mystery. Amari Saifi, a leader of the al-Qaida-linked Salafist Group for Call and Combat, didn't appear in court even though he was captured by Chadian rebels, then mysteriously turned over to Libya before being handed to Algerian police last fall.
Saifi, a former Algerian paratrooper known by his nom de guerre Al Para, was convicted by the criminal court for "constitution of a terrorist group" and for "propagating terror among a population." Two of five defendants who were present for the one-day trial were sentenced to two years in prison. Three others were acquitted. "For Algerian justice, Amari Saifi is not under detention," said the judge presiding over the trial in response to a lawyer's query. No explanation was given, but the statement suggested the possibility that police never turned Saifi over to judicial authorities after his maximum 12 days of detention. Names of judges typically are not provided in Algeria because of terrorism concerns by Islamic extremists.
The United States and European countries, particularly Germany, had pressed for Saifi's capture as he was wanted in the kidnapping in 2003 of 32 European tourists, mostly German, one of whom died of heatstroke, and in the killings the same year of 43 Algerian soldiers. Saifi was captured by rebels who said they came across him and accomplices in the desert as the men wandered in northern Chad, in flight from West African armed forces, who were supported by the United States and France. He then fell into the hands of Libya after months of negotiations with various countries. Libya turned the suspect over to Algeria on Oct. 27, 2004, the Algerian Interior Ministry said at the time. Germany had issued arrest warrants for Saifi and other leaders of his terror group in connection with the kidnappings. Algerian commandos freed 14 of the captives, while Germany reportedly paid a ransom for the remaining 17 who had been taken to neighboring Mali. One hostage died of heat stroke. Germany refused to confirm the reports.
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KIRKUK, Iraq - The father-in-law of Saddam Husseinâs former right-hand man was arrested on Saturday by US troops in the northern city of Kirkuk, said a police official. Shiekh Sufiyan Omar al-Nuaimi was arrested with three of his guards when US troops raided his home, said the official who did not wish to be named, adding that the men were now being held at a detention facility in the US military base at Kirkukâs airport. Police are still searching for Nuaimiâs son-in-law, top fugitive Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri,
"I dunno. Izzat him?"
who is the most senior former regime element still at large and has a 10-million-dollar bounty on his head. The ailing Duri is accused of playing a key role in sustaining the insurgency raging on in the country more than two years after Saddamâs fall. Security sources said 19 other suspects were arrested in a number of raids by US and Iraqi forces in the Kirkuk region.
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izzat al duri--curse his red mustache--and saddam's cousins--are the main guys running the baathist tip of the "insurgency"--squeeze his father in law's balls in a nutcracker and see if he spews--irs worth a shot
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MIANA SHIEN, Afghanistan - Afghan forces scouring mountains in southern Afghanistan after some of the deadliest fighting since the fall of the Taleban in 2001 have found the bodies of another 76 rebels, the Defence Ministry said on Saturday.
The new fatalities bring the death toll to 178 from fighting in the Miana Shien district of Kandahar province since Tuesday, ministry spokesman Zahir Marad said. âOur forces have collected the bodies of 76 more rebels from the battlefield,â he said.
Marad said he had not received any reports from Afghan army commanders as to whether the fighting was still continuing. Gen. Salim Khan, a police commander on the battlefield, said Friday that the guns had fallen silent, but his forces have kept up their pursuit of rebels fleeing on horseback and motorcycle.
"Cycle of doom don't fail me now!"
Meanwhile, government and US military leaders met Saturday in Miana Shien with about 35 tribal chiefs to try to end fighting. Dozens of Afghan and American troops guarded the meeting, which took place in a tent on a deserted field surrounded by mountains, and was attended by the governors of Zabul and Kandahar provinces, a US military commander and other top officials.
Ali Khail, a spokesman for the Zabul governor, said the officials urged the tribal leaders to cooperate in âfighting off the Taleban.â âThe government is also trying to find out why the Taleban is so active in the region,â Khail told The Associated Press.
About 80 rebels were still believed to be in the mountains holding out against Afghan and coalition forces.
Defence Ministry spokesman Zahir Marad said two Taleban commanders, Mullah Dadullah and Mullah Brader, are believed to be surrounded in the mountainous region. Both are well-known names in the Taleban rebellion, accused of orchestrating attacks across much of Afghanistanâs violence-ridden south.
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Three mortar rounds struck a crowded cafe in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad on Saturday night, killing five civilians and wounding seven, police said. The strike occurred at about 9 p.m., when many people are on the streets before an 11 p.m. curfew. The attack happened a few hundred yards from where three car bombs killed 19 people at a restaurant and a bus station Wednesday in the Shula neighborhood, police Maj. Mousa Abdul Karim said.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Leftist rebels killed at least 25 soldiers in two clashes Saturday in Colombia, the worst death toll in a single day for the military since President Alvaro Uribe came to power three years ago on pledges of crushing the guerrillas. Another 18 soldiers were reported missing. Fighting broke out in southwestern Putumayo state when as many as 300 rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, ambushed an army convoy during an attack targeting several nearby oil wells, said Gen. Carlos Lemus, Inspector General of the Army. The military responded by sending helicopter gunships to strafe rebel positions while warplanes swooped down to drop bombs, Lemus said. He said the rebels also had suffered casualties but was unable to provide details.
Four explosions aimed at police vehicles and transportation links, including one that derailed a cargo train, wounded eight people Saturday in the volatile Caspian Sea region of Dagestan, officials said. The blasts were the latest in a series of attacks in Dagestan, which suffers from violence spilling over from neighboring Chechnya. Disputes among local ethnic groups and homegrown criminal clans also have plagued the region. A bomb placed on a railway track derailed a cargo train near the border with Chechnya Saturday morning, wounding the train's driver and his assistant, said police spokesman Akhmed Magomayev. The explosion halted railway traffic, delaying four long-distance passenger trains.
A car bomb exploded Saturday near a Madrid stadium used to promote the city's bid to host the 2012 Olympics after a warning call by the Basque separatist group ETA, officials said. No injuries were reported. The bomb went off about 7 p.m. at a parking lot outside the Peineta track and field complex, the Interior Ministry said. The parking lot was nearly empty at the time and the blast, which came after a warning call made in ETA's name to the Basque daily newspaper Gara, caused little damage, the ministry said.
Germany has deported a Moroccan-origin German Al Qaeda suspect to Pakistan on court orders, Javed Ibrahim Paracha, chairman of the World Prisoners Relief Commission Pakistan, told Daily Times on Saturday. He said Abdul Karim, a German passport holder, was sent to Pakistan two months ago because the German government did not accept him and that he also refused to go to Morocco.
A California imam arrested as part of a terrorism probe told an immigration judge on Friday he regretted making angry speeches against the US invasion of Afghanistan and no longer held a negative view of the United States. Appearing at an immigration hearing in San Francisco and speaking through an Urdu-speaking translator, Shabbir Ahmed said his speeches in his native Pakistan in late 2001 were emotional outbursts and his opinion of the United States had turned positive since moving to Lodi, California, in 2002 to take up duties as an imam at a local mosque. âMy mind changed,â Ahmed said at the bond hearing. âI think there is justice here,â he added, noting he had been treated respectfully in jail. 
Three suspected members of the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) group were arrested from a house in a nearby village and a large quantity of explosives were seized late on Friday, police said. Police said that two days ago a house was blown up in an explosion in Chak 83-South Warraichan Wala. But its occupants had removed explosives to some other place which the police seized in a raid and arrested three people.
An Algerian militant considered the mastermind of the 2003 kidnapping of 32 European tourists in the Sahara desert was sentenced on Saturday to life in prison for helping to create a terror group, but his whereabouts remained a mystery. Amari Saifi, a leader of the al-Qaida-linked Salafist Group for Call and Combat, didn't appear in court even though he was captured by Chadian rebels, then mysteriously turned over to Libya before being handed to Algerian police last fall.
KIRKUK, Iraq - The father-in-law of Saddam Husseinâs former right-hand man was arrested on Saturday by US troops in the northern city of Kirkuk, said a police official. Shiekh Sufiyan Omar al-Nuaimi was arrested with three of his guards when US troops raided his home, said the official who did not wish to be named, adding that the men were now being held at a detention facility in the US military base at Kirkukâs airport. Police are still searching for Nuaimiâs son-in-law, top fugitive Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, 
MIANA SHIEN, Afghanistan - Afghan forces scouring mountains in southern Afghanistan after some of the deadliest fighting since the fall of the Taleban in 2001 have found the bodies of another 76 rebels, the Defence Ministry said on Saturday.
