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NO MILF jokes....
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And here's to Sir Isaac Newton's mother who dumped him on his tyrannical grandmother at age 3 so she could run away and remarry, thus warping him into a twisted manic depressive recluse who gave us Principia Mathematica.
This evil agency has the names, location and phone numbers of ALL the intelligence workers in the United Stated in their database, and even worse it has provided them on the World Wide Web - in an easily searchable database that people can access, even from overseas! And even worse they have mixed in data on private citizens and business as well - YOU might even be in this database!!!
This massive accumulation of personal data and phone numbers MUST BE STOPPED before it erodes our privacy!
Someone call the USA Today and NY Times, alert CBS, NBC, ABC and CNN!
Get a lawyer and lets sue!
Visit the link in the title and you will see what I really mean.
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And Ohmigod, Ohmigod, Ohmigod. there's a database for addresses too (need a Zip Code or Postal ref) and... Ohmigod, ohmigod, ohmigahd! A Criss-Cross reference even! Such horror of invasion of privacy. Take down the sites. NOW.
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With all the noise generated by this week's USA Today non-story, I decided to read the article.
Also liking sports, I clicked on a sports story while on the site. Guest what? I couldn't access the story until I provided some personal information to USA Today...sheesh
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FYI Fred, I put this under "Opinion" so as to hit page 4 - may want to check that.
HIGH in the arid mountains of southern Afghanistan, a small group of Australian SAS soldiers are battling a hostile population, the harsh climate and the rabid fundamentalist warriors of the Taliban.
Uruzgan is considered one of Afghanistan's most dangerous provinces, a desolate, mountainous region of opium growers, Islamic fanatics and extreme poverty.
John Howard announced last week that 240 more Australian troops would join the 110 SAS soldiers stationed in the lawless region, where the emboldened Taliban forces are gaining strength.
Australian and Dutch troops stationed in Uruzgan would be attacked "until they vanish", Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yusuf told The Weekend Australian.
"The infidel countries have started the war against Islam internationally, including in Afghanistan and Iraq, and we will fight them until we die, until Islam wins and the infidels are defeated, God willing."
The Diggers will join an expected total of 1400 Dutch troops in the battle for Uruzgan. As the death toll approaches 400 for the coalition forces since the Afghanistan operation began, the Australian contingent in Uruzgan is being strengthened at a crucial time.
Dutch forces in the province were attacked recently with rockets, machineguns and grenades. Four Canadians were killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan last month, and two Italians died in a roadside blast near the capital, Kabul, in the past fortnight.
And an Australian SAS soldier going to the rescue of an ambushed supply convoy was shot about a week ago, according to an Uruzgani politician.
Many believe the melting snows of spring and summer will bring fiercer fighting. The Afghan army says there have been six violent clashes in Uruzgan in the past six weeks, with one Afghan soldier killed, four other soldiers wounded (perhaps including the Australian), eight enemy fighters killed and 15 arrested.
"It's going to be an incredibly messy summer," says International Crisis Group senior analyst Joanna Nathan, who believes the insurgents' focus has swung to the NATO-led forces, who will replace US coalition troops in many places in the south this year.
The Dutch and Australian reconstruction taskforce will be under the control of NATO, generally perceived as a softer touch than the US-led coalition forces.
The attackers appear to understand the fragility of the European resolution on Afghanistan. "They are targeting the domestic constituencies back in Europe, very clearly," Ms Nathan said.
The Taliban, whose Islamic fundamentalist regime was overthrown by the US in 2001, retains control of much of the south of Afghanistan.
In Uruzgan, only a narrow strip around the administrative centre of Tirin Kot is safe - the rest is so dangerous most aid agencies refuse to be based in the province.
The supreme leader of the Taliban, Mullah Omar, comes from southern Afghanistan, and the insurgents have promised to keep fighting to the last drop of blood.
Uruzgan is lumped in with the southern provinces of Kandahar, Helmand and Zabul - a patchwork of danger for the foreign forces, who have been increasingly confronted by roadside bombs and suicide attacks.
The commander of the US-led coalition forces, Lieutenant-General Karl Eikenberry, admits that Taliban influence has increased in the three restive provinces.
A member of parliament for Uruzgan, Alhaj Abdul Khaliq, says the rugged province is home to half a million people, almost entirely Pashtun - the volatile people of the Taliban. Mostly farmers, they grow wheat, maize, watermelons, almonds, figs, pomegranates and, increasingly, opium poppies.
The terrible roads and lack of storage facilities mean the Uruzganis cannot take advantage of the Kandahar markets, he says, and many are caught in a vicious cycle of neglect and oppression.
If people help the coalition, they could find a note tacked to their front doors warning of violent retribution.
Little wonder that many Uruzganis have turned to the Taliban, Mr Khaliq says.
"If you look around the province, you can hardly find 500 people who are Taliban, but those 500 can do a lot to destroy the country - much more easily than rebuilding Uruzgan."
Mr Khaliq, who travelled to The Netherlands to answer questions about Uruzgan, said that early in the conflict the central Karzai Government and some non-government organisations built five schools and four clinics in the province.
But now there are no doctors or medicine in the clinics, one of the schools was accidentally bombed by US forces, and another school was burned down by the Taliban.
Uruzganis remember with horror the US forces bombing of a wedding party - a mistake that killed 120 men, women and children.
"Up to now, the US forces have committed some wrong actions," Mr Khaliq said.
"They dropped bombs on civilian houses, and they arrested ordinary people saying they were terrorists.
"People have got a bad impression. At the moment, people in Uruzgan cannot differentiate between Dutch, Americans and Australians. They are all foreigners."
Mr Khaliq says there has been no reconstruction or rebuilding in Uruzgan, so the locals have seen nothing to ease their resentment.
He proposes a peace gesture: releasing all Uruzganis from the prisons where they are held by foreign forces.
This suggestion gets a guffaw from a security analyst. The Uruzganis are extremely tough, he says, weathering chest-high snow in bare feet, wearing large turbans, and adhering to a strict code of honour and revenge.
Released prisoners would not become instant friends of foreigners - they would take the chance to pay off the score.
Afghan army spokesman Zaher Azimi says Uruzgan has special problems. An intersection for drug-smugglers, the province's rocky gullies shelter a range of undesirables, General Azimi says, and opium production is a huge problem.
Dirt-poor farmers grow poppies to feed their families, and the opium is then smuggled out by an international mafia of Taliban, al-Qa'ida and Afghan warlords.
"We admit the Taliban movements have increased," General Azimi said. "It's very clear the enemy is much more active. They have come out of their caves, so it's easier to find and destroy them. Before, they were in hiding. If we don't take advantage of this, it could get worse, and become very dangerous."
Afghan and Australian forces work together in Uruzgan, exchanging information and mounting operations, the general says, but the sooner some of the responsibility can be shifted from the foreign forces to Afghan soldiers the better.
He estimates it costs $US10,000 ($12,880) a month to keep a foreign soldier in Afghanistan, but an Afghan police officer is paid only $US20 - encouraging bribery and extortion.
All this feeds into a noxious mixture of aggression and anxiety, a state worsened by the forced changes under way in coming months.
The withdrawal of the US-led forces in many regions, and their replacement by NATO troops, has been used as propaganda by the Taliban in the south, who say they have the foreigners on the run.
But NATO spokesman Mark Laity says that regardless of perceptions to the contrary, the Dutch are ready for the dangers of Uruzgan.
"The Dutch know this mission is much riskier, with all that entails," he said. "The Dutch know exactly what's going to happen to them, because they have had that debate. So do the Canadians, so do the British.
"All of them have had a big public discussion. They know going south is riskier, and they are prepared for all that entails. Everyone is going into this with their eyes open."
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From reading this, it sounds like the good guyz are surrounded and in defensive positions, being picked off. Instead they are on the offense, clearing out bad sectors at the point of a bayonet, and forcing fights from and enemy whose only choice is to fight or die where they stand. An enemy who literally has no where left to run.
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CA: Diggers drew the short straw
I wouldn't say that. It seems to me that the only way to get useful combat experience is to go up against a reasonably aggressive enemy. That won't happen in East Timor. Or up north in Bagram.
Mortars, machineguns and rockets pounded Mogadishu on Saturday in a seventh day of festivities fierce militia fighting that has killed at least 144 people so far and which spread quickly across the ravaged city. As the street battles dragged on in rundown areas of the Somali capital, the interim government powerless to stop the shooting and unable to enter Mogadishu called for foreign intervention to end the worst fighting there in years.
Yeah. That's gonna happen.
At least 11 civilians were killed overnight and into Saturday as gunmen from a powerful alliance of warlords engaged in close-range firefights and artillery duels with militiamen backed by the city's influential Islamic courts. Fighting had originally been limited to the northern shantytown of SiiSii, but spread into the nearby areas of Yaqsid and Karan before erupting on Saturday in neighbourhoods across southern Mogadishu. Analysts view the fighting in the failed Horn of Africa state as a proxy battle between Al Qaeda and Washington, which is widely believed to be funding the warlords.
And money well spent, we might add...
The warring parties were massing militiamen and another warlord, Mohammad Dheere and his militia arrived from his stronghold in Jowhar to join the battle. "The coalition is planning to attack the Islamic court militia from other fronts," said Ali Nur, a militiaman allied to the warlords. The warlords closed off the entries in and out Mogadishu, including a key road to southern Somalia to block the advance of a powerful Islamic group heading to join its allies. Warlord Colonel Abdi Hassan Awale said his fighters were checking all vehicles travelling in and out of the city for the presence of foreigners believed to be training and fighting alongside the Islamic militias. "It was necessary to put pressure on these roads to catch the foreigners and the supporters trying to escape from the capital," Awale told Reuters.
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the interim government powerless to stop the shooting and unable to enter Mogadishu called for foreign intervention to end the worst fighting there in years.
Witnesses say warlords have deployed hundreds of fighters in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, to battle rivals from the Islamic courts as violence raged for the seventh day. Abdi Hassan Quybdid, a top member of the United States-backed alliance of warlords has deployed a heavily-armed militia and 12 battle wagons . His commanders say Mr Quybdid is preparing to mount a further assault on gunmen loyal to the Islamic courts.
Saturday's pitched battles have killed at least 11 people in the northern district of Sisi. That brings the death toll to at least 111 since fighting between the Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism (ARPCT) and Union of Islamic courts erupted last Sunday. Thousands of terrified civilians have fled the battle zone in the Sisi neighbourhood to safer areas as families report more civilians unaccounted for. "This is the time to save the people of Mogadishu and stop the bloodshed," Ahmed Muhamoud, a top commander in the Quybdid militia, said.
In addition to the volatile Sisi, witnesses say rival militias have pounded each other with heavy artillery, mortar shells and rockets in Huriwa, Waharaade and Yaqshid districts in north and south of the blood-soaked capital. Medical sources say at least 250 people, mostly civilians, have been wounded. "The warring sides are not targeting civilians directly, but most people are killed by stray bullets, mortars or heavy machine guns coming into their shanty houses, penetrating the poorly constructed walls," Mohamed Hirsi, an elderly man who fled from Sisi, said.
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When ther're no good guys in the conflict, who cares(as have been expressed often enough? They have to sort it out the way within the ecenario they created for themselves.
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While there may not be any "good" guys this little tea and crumpet party is denying Al Queerda a base for training, R & R, fund raising, communication base etc. They are probably increasing their duck and cover skills, first aid for 7.62 holes, etc. I can just see some Sodi Jihadi asking his buddy, "Say Ali, want to go to Somalia." "Hell no, I can get shot at in Iraq and if I get captured by the Americans I have a chance. Not so in Mogadissyou."
Up to 10 militants were killed during a raid conducted by the Algerian army in the heights of Jijel province, 360 kilometers east of the Algerian capital. The Algerian press quoted an Algerian security source as saying that "terrorist elements were killed during a raid conducted by a special forces unit inside Ghar Al-Ghoula cave. The source added that the Algerian army discovered inside the cave different kinds of war ammunition and three missiles that were detonated at the scene. According to the source, the army continues to gradually infiltrate into the cave, where its deepness and geographic nature are unknown.
Meanwhile, the source said that the army made several attempts to persuade the militants to turn themselves in and take advantage of the amnesty law. The source indicated that one of the top activists in Al-Salafi Group for Preaching and Fighting turned himself in, where he is considered one of the most dangerous in Jijel after joining the armed groups in 1994.
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Unidentified gunmen shot and killed one person, wounded two others and torched part of a Pentecostal church radio station during the broadcasting of a program that compared teachings of the Bible and the Quran, officials said on Saturday.
In Islamic circles, this is know as an "exchange of opinions."
Church leaders and government officials condemned the late Friday attack on Hope FM and warned Christians and Muslims not to let the raid spark a religious conflict in this East African nation. "The government condemns this attack. It is a criminal act," government spokesman Alfred Mutua said after visiting some of the station's offices that were burnt. "We are asking religious leaders not to say words or preach words that would breed intolerance."
Kinda hazy on the concept of free speech, are they? And they totally missed that part about "sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me."
A security guard was stabbed multiple times and was later shot dead during the attack and another was wounded, according to a passer-by who was shot when he went to look into why the emergency alarm had gone off. Some of the assailants poured a flammable liquid in some of the offices at the radio station and then set it alight, a security guard told the independent Kenya Television Network. The eight masked assailants shouted angrily that producers had failed to take their telephone calls. They ordered a technician to take the station off air, according to church workers. Church leaders pressed the government to quickly investigate the attack and ensure the culprits are prosecuted. Kenyans must know the culprits and their motive, Anglican Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi said after visiting the station in a show of solidarity with the Pentecostal church.
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More "peace" I would guess
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In Islamic circles, this is know as an "exchange of opinions." lol!
A Saudi man believed to be in his thirties, driving in 2001 Nissan Maxima, opened fire on guards at the U.S. consulate in Jeddah. The incident led to a car chase and shoot out with security forces near the consulate. According to a statement from the Saudi Ministry of Interior, " at 5:30pm local time today, a car driving by the consulate fired on security guards. Saudi security forces chased the car and a gunfight ensued, in which the car was damaged. An armed individual exited the vehicle and was subsequently apprehended by authorities. The suspect sustained moderate injuries."
Sources close to the investigation told Asharq Al-Awsat that the armed man appeared confused and unstable during questioning, and was arrested in the past for numerous offences. Security Sources also revealed that investigators are looking into the man's past, in an effort to identify his motives, or any ties he might have with any terrorist cells.
Actually, I'd buy that story. Soddy Arabia's crawling with enough nutters that every shot fired doesn't have to be al-Qaeda, and if this one was it was a pretty poorly thought-out and executed attack.
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Four Turkish soldiers were killed Saturday after clashes with Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) rebels in Southeast of Turkey. Sources in Sirnak state, which witnessed the clashes, told Ihlas News Agency that the fighting resulted in the deaths of four Turkish soldiers and one PKK militant in the mountainous area between Iraq and Syria. They added that major operations in which helicopters were used against the rebels have started two days ago in Sirnak and will continue on. This operation marks the first clashes between Turkish troops and Kurdish rebels during this month.
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A bomb blast killed two children and injured 12 others in Erzincan state East of turkey Saturday, said security sources. The sources told Anadolu News Agency that a bomb exploded in one of Ulalar's town coffee shops and resulted in the death of two children and the injury of 12. Three of the injured suffered serious wounds and were rushed to a hospital to receive treatment for their injuries, the sources added. Police forces hurried to the blast site and started to investigate the incident. No one took credit for the attack.
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Convicted al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui had no idea they were coming when federal marshals showed up in the middle of the night to take him to the nation's highest-security federal prison to begin serving his life sentence Saturday.
Just another step in messing with his mind ...
It was Friday night, shortly before midnight, when federal marshals showed up without notice at Moussaoui's holding cell in Alexandria, Virginia, said a U.S. Marshals Service official who requested anonymity because he is not a spokesman. "Get on your feet," Moussaoui was told before being shackled and whisked away in his green jumpsuit to a small jet waiting for him at a suburban Virginia airport, the official said.
Moussaoui was the only prisoner aboard the Joint Prisoner Air Transportation System plane, which holds 10-12 people, the official said. The flight arrived early Saturday in Florence, Colorado, home of the only federal "Supermax" prison, aka the "Alcatraz of the Rockies." "He can best be described as reluctantly compliant," said the official, who is familiar with details of the prisoner transfer. Moussaoui was given water and crackers on the three-and-a-half-hour flight, and remained mostly silent.
Yummy. And it's as good as it's ever going to be for him right there on Con Air.
The plane landed in Colorado about 2 a.m., and Moussaoui was handed over to the Federal Bureau of Prisons shortly before 4 a.m.
The al Qaeda conspirator was ordered to change into a khaki prison uniform before being led to the cell where he is expected to spend the rest of his life.
Get used to that cell, Mookie ....
The Supermax prison houses a veritable who's who of notorious criminals, including Olympic bomber Eric Rudolph, Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, Oklahoma City bombing accomplice Terry Nichols and Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. "It is a place of extraordinary security, 23 hours a day in cells, one hour of recreation," CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said earlier this month. "It is as close to permanent solitary confinement as exists in our prison system."
The Supermax ADX is one of four federal prisons in Florence, Colorado.
Linky: ADX Florence is a 575-bed facility that generally houses between 400 and 500 male prisoners. About 22 percent of inmates have killed fellow prisoners in other correctional facilities; 35 percent have attempted to attack other prisoners or officers. As a result, most individuals are kept for at least 23 hours each day in solitary confinement. They are housed in a 7-by-12 foot (3.5-by-2 meter) soundproofed room, built behind a steel door and grate. The remaining free hour is spent exercising alone in a separate concrete chamber. Prisoners rarely see each other, and inmates' only human interaction is limited to that of the "correctional officers". Religious services are broadcast in from a small chapel.
Most cells' furniture is made almost entirely out of poured concrete, including a desk, stool, and bed covered by a thin mattress. Each chamber contains a toilet that shuts off if plugged, a shower that runs on a timer to prevent flooding, and a sink missing a potentially dangerous tap. Rooms may also be fitted with polished steel mirrors bolted to the wall, an electric light, a 13-inch black and white television that shows only educational programming, which not all inmates are allowed to have, and a cigarette lighter. Windows in rooms are small, set high up in the wall, and point towards the sky, confusing the prisoner as to his specific location within the complex.
The prison as a whole contains countless motion detectors and cameras, 1,400 remote-controlled steel doors, and 12-foot high razor wire fences. Laser beams, pressure pads, and attack dogs that are trained to attack and silently guard the area between the prison walls and razor wire.
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Rest assured told Zak got a good invasive search before leaving one lockup and upon arriving at the new one he may as well had one before he was allowed to board the flight as well. Hde willl have to get used to that being a regular feature in his life from now on too.
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It's reassuring that Moussaoui:
- will not get to be martyr for allan.
- will spend the rest of his days being a girlfriend to JoJo and Leroy.
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Aw, poor Zak, I almost feel sorry for him. I mean, all he wanted to do was to kill infidels for the sake of the Master Religion(tm). It will be a loooong time before he gets his 72 raisins.
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OT : This is sinktrap material, I can feel it, but, what the hell...
Re John's trends...
I really, really, really shouldn't be posting this (I actually tried to post it quite a while ago, and this was killed by the mods, for obvious reasons), but here it is!
At least, bestiality porn on RB!
I know many were waiting for this...
"Google Labs has released Google Trends, which lets you find out how many people have searched for a given term over the past couple of years -- and, more usefully, compare the volumes for up to five terms. Here, for example, I used playstation 3 and xbox 360 as the search terms."
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Don't worry.. it is safe to click on the link.. just gives two graphs..
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And this is the strange thing.. consider computer and internet penetration in those countries, what proportion of the population is even literate, what propertion reads english.
These searchers are the elites of those societies.. this is not the lonely goatherd googling.. he is likely illiterate and far away from any electricty, far less a computer.
No, this is the educated upper class
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mous thats just wrong! Be the SF team was laughing their asses off.
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From #2:
Each chamber contains a toilet that shuts off if plugged, a shower that runs on a timer to prevent flooding, and a sink missing a potentially dangerous tap
So no need for soap on a rope. He lucked out there.
QUETTA: Twenty-two people have been arrested over the landmine blasts that killed six at a police training school in southwestern Pakistan this week, a senior officer said yesterday.
He said the blasts were set off by booby-traps laid by highly trained terrorists, denying that local people were involved.
We have arrested 22 people in raids over the past 24 hours, provincial police chief Chaudhry Mohamed Yaqub said. We are interrogating them.
Six policemen were killed and dozens were wounded on Thursday when five landmines blew up in quick succession during target practice on a firing range at the school in the provincial capital Quetta.
It was the work of highly trained terrorists. They cannot be local people, the police chief said. I cannot give details at this moment.
Officials earlier blamed the blasts on anti-government tribesmen who have been waging a two-year insurgency in the province to press their demands for a greater share of local natural resources.
Responsibility for the attack was claimed by a group called the Baluchistan Liberation Army (BLA), which was outlawed by Pakistan last month and branded a terrorist organisation.
Yaqub said the latest arrests followed interrogation of two suspects arrested from the area soon after the blasts.
Police have said they were investigating the pair for possible links with an Afghan family who lived near the site and were killed in an explosion at their home last month.
TANK, Pakistan (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist militants shot dead a government official after breaking into his house on Sunday, the latest such killing in the troubled South Waziristan tribal region, officials said.
The killings of pro-government tribesmen and officials have become common in Waziristan region, near the Afghan border, where security forces are fighting al Qaeda and Taliban remnants and their local sympathisers. Hundreds of militants, soldiers as well as civilians have been killed in these clashes.
Attackers broke into the house of the official, Sultan Khan Mehsud, and opened fire and killed him after overpowering four guards posted at the house in Jandola town.
A local intelligence official said Mehsud had received threats from militants for collecting government taxes in the area.
Many al Qaeda militants and their Taliban allies found sanctuaries in Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal belt, inhabited by conservative Pashtun tribes, after fleeing the U.S.-led campaign in Afghanistan following the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001.
Last month, four tribesmen were beheaded by militants because they were believed to be acting as informers for Pakistani forces and Americans across the border in Afghanistan.
Four police officers were killed and five people were injured on Saturday when hundreds of Maoist rebels stormed a relief centre in central India set up to shelter those fleeing guerrilla violence, the government said. The rebels attacked the government centre in Dantewada district in the state of Chhattisgarh triggering a fierce gunbattle with security forces for more than an hour, an official said.
"The Special Police Officers (killed) were not from the uniformed forces but were surrendered Naxalites (Maoists) appointed by the government to counter their former comrades," state home minister Ramvichar Netam said. The emergency centre was one of 27 the state government has set up to house and protect nearly 50,000 people from Maoist violence. Maoist rebels virtually run parallel administrations in 10 of the state's 16 impoverished districts.
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Suspected militants kidnapped Sui Naib Tehsildar Shahzada Bugti, who was investigating into the lands illegally occupied by Nawab Akbar Bugti, Aaj television reported on Saturday. The Dera Bugti District Coordination Officer Lasi said the Kalpar Tribe had recently returned to the area and filed an application to the government that Akbar Bugti had occupied their lands illegally after they left the area under his pressure. Lasi said that he appointed Shahzada to investigate the issue, adding that MPA Haji Jumma Bugti telephoned him and pressured him to stop the inquiry. He said that a kidnapping case had been registered against Jumma and two others.
Unidentified men kidnapped seven members of the Masuri Tribe in Dera Bugti on Saturday, while security forces seized two rockets and a anti-tank landmine in the Sangsila area, officials said. Also, the local administration arrested three Afghans from the Chaman border when they were illegally crossing into Pakistan.
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Until I realized that was a proper name, I thought Mucky had posted the headline.
At least two persons were killed and 23 others injured, four of them seriously, when militants hurled a grenade on a rally at a bus stand in Doda town in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir Saturday. The militants lobbed the grenade at the bus stop Saturday morning in Doda town where a rally was being held against the recent massacre of 19 people at Kulhand in Doda district, news agency Press Trust of India reported Jammu, summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir. The explosion caused injuries to 25 persons, six of them seriously. Two seriously wounded succumbed to their injuries on way to district hospital.
Senior police and other security officials have reached the spot to take stock of the situation. Search operation has been launched to track down the terrorists responsible for the blast, the agency reported.
Two minors were killed and another critically wounded Saturday in a landmine explosion in Pakistani tribal agency of Bajaur, bordering Afghanistan, said security officials. The explosion occurred in Mamound area of the agency near the mud-house of a local tribesman, Daud Khan, officials told KUNA. They said explosion killed two children of ages four and six and wounded another of age eight. They added that the explosion also caused minor property damage.
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High ranking al Qaeda leaders who have been caught or killed have turned out to be former high ranking military or intelligence officers in Saddam Hussein's regime.
Abdel Fatih Isa - former Iraqi Army officer and al Qaeda emir
Ahmad Hasan Kaka al-'Ubaydi - Ahmad Hasan Kaka al-'Ubaydi is a former Iraqi Intelligence Service officer, and is now believed associated with Ansar Al Islam affiliate.
Rafid Ibrahim Fattah - He traveled throughout Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq for the last 15 years, forming a relationship with al-Qaida in 1999. He served as a liaison between terrorist networks, as an operations officer coordinating the activities of the various terrorist groups, and as a security chief for a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan, according to the U.S. military.
Kurdi moved to Iraq in 1992, joining the Islamic Movement of Kurdistan.
Muhammed Hila Hammad Ubaydi - aka Abu Ayman, Until his capture, Abu Ayman, the former aide to the Chief of Staff of Intelligence during the Saddam Hussein regime for 30 years, was the leader of the Secret Islamic Army in the Northern Babil Province . Abu Ayman has strong ties to terror leader Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, still considered the head of Al-Qaeda in Iraq .
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri - possibly dead, "The former vice chairman of Saddam's Baathist Revolutionary Command Council. He swore fealty to Zarqawi last year and commands a significant element of the Baathist/al Qaeda converts. H has significant links in Syria and is an important source of funding for al Qaeda in Iraq (link)."
Unidentified man - "The man who was killed was later identified as a retired officer in the Iraqi Air Force serving under the Saddam Hussein regime. The male who initiated the gunfire is a suspected al-Qaeda terrorist for whom the troops were searching, as well as the retired officer's son. "
Abu Asim - A former Special Republican Guard officer under Saddam Hussein, authorities believe Abu Asim has been active within the insurgency since the fall of the former regime. Associate of Abu Musab al Zarqawi
Fadhil Ibrahim Mahmud Al-Mashadani, "the former leader of the Military Bureau in Baghdad during the Saddam Hussein regime, was apprehended by security forces in a military operation conducted at a farm in the northeast of Baghdad," a government statement said."
Abu Talha, also known as Mohammed Khalaf Shkarah al-Hamadani , a key facilitator and financier for al Qaeda, the purported head of Abu Musab Al Zarqawi's terror cell and former member of Saddam Hussein's once ruling Baath Party and a warrant officer in the former Iraqi army
Abed Dawood Suleiman and his son, Raed Abed Dawood, - Abed was a former Iraqi general believed to be Jordanian extremist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's "military adviser", his son Raed was a former Army captain in the Iraqi army.
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Al Qaida is contracting these ex-Iraqi generals through Hailburton. I thought that was common knowledge? What else is a general forced in retirement to do? LOL
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Just keep rolling them up, boys. It appears attrition is taking it's toll on Iraqi bad boys.
The same for the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Hamas in Gaza.
But we're losing the war, let's pull out, let's run home and hide. Let's surrender and become dhimmocrats.......phalk all democrats, long live Don Rhumsfeld.
High ranking al Qaeda leaders who have been caught or killed have turned out to be former high ranking military or intelligence officers in Saddam Hussein's regime
Well, I for one am just shocked!
Hooda thunk it?
I mean, the Lefties have been telling us all along that Saddass Saddam had no connection with al-Q whatsoever.
So it's a slam-dunk that none of his military officers would be involved with them either, right?
Right?
Yeah, riiiiigggghhhht....
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BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - Bombs destroyed two small Shi'ite Muslim shrines in a rural area about 60 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police said on Sunday, in what appeared to be the latest acts of sectarian violence in Iraq.
No one was hurt in Saturday's attacks on the Abdullah bin Ali shrine in the village of Wajihiya or the Tamim shrine in the nearby countryside.
"The Abdullah bin Ali shrine is completely destroyed," said a police officer in the regional capital Baquba, declining to be named.
Residents in Wajihiya, 30 hm (20 miles) east of Baquba, voiced anger at the attacks and said the shrines were also used as places of prayer by some Sunni Muslims in the area -- a common practice in Iraq.
Several small shrines, marking tombs of respected clerics and local spiritual leaders mainly from the Shi'ite branch of Islam, were attacked after the destruction of the large Golden Mosque, or Askari shrine, in Samarra on February 22.
Widely blamed on al Qaeda's Sunni Islamist guerrillas -- though they have denied it -- the Samarra bombing provoked reprisal attacks by Shi'ites and a wave of sectarian bloodshed that has pitched Iraq towards civil war.
Shi'ites, repressed under Saddam Hussein, are the majority community in the country and now hold sway. The Sunnis were dominant in Saddam's era.
Diyala province, stretching from Baghdad to the Iranian border, has been the scene of much violence in recent months. Its mixed population offers targets for gunmen and bombers from all Iraq's ethnic and sectarian factions.
Saturday's attacks occurred as Shi'ite Prime Minister-designate Nuri al-Maliki was trying to put together a national unity government that can avert a slide into all-out sectarian conflict.
Five months after national elections, he has another week to present a cabinet to parliament under a constitutional deadline set when he was appointed in April.
This release was so similar to one from two days ago I had to read them side-by-side to make sure it was actually another event. I can't tell whose cache(s) they found. I also wonder if both raids were part of a roll-back of a significant intelligence capture recently (there were several.)
BAGHDAD, Iraq Soldiers from the 3rd Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division and Multi-National Division Baghdads 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, located a large weapons cache and detained five suspected terrorists May 12 in northwest Baghdad.
The cache included 155 12 mm mortar rounds, 97 60 mm mortar rounds, 96 sticks of PE-4 explosives, 40 blasting caps, 20 rocket-propelled grenades, seven RPG launchers, two 120 mm mortar systems, two 82 mm mortar systems, two 60 mm mortar systems, nine cell phones, three long-range control transmitters and a charging base for the transmitters. An Explosive Ordnance Disposal team destroyed the munitions.
Al-Shalamja borders in Basra south of Iraq was closed down on Saturday preventing people from traveling to and from Iran. An official at Al-Shalamja center who preferred to remain anonymous said "the borders will be shut down for one day only from 7 am to 8 pm in response to orders from the Iraqi authorities." He said others borders with Iran will remain open for travelers. The source did not elaborate on the reasons behind this decision.
Iraqi police said today that it found five bodies in Al-Najaf and Baaqouba in Al-Diyali governorate among them one suspected to belong to an Iranian man. An Iraqi police source said in a press release that four of the bodies belonged to one family. Two of the four bodies were headless.
The Babylon governorate council issued an order to prevent peaceful and non peaceful demonstrations in Babylon south of Baghdad. A council source said in press statements today the council prevented all forms of demonstrations. A prior written request to hold peaceful demonstrations must be submitted to the council. The source said such a decision was made to protect the innocent lives of demonstrators.
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Iraqi police found a girl's body in a house under construction in Kirkuk north of Iraq and two terrorists were killed and another wounded while attempting to blow up a water pipeline feeding into Kirkuk.
An Iraqi police source in Kirkuk said police found a girl's body inside a house under construction in Al-Khadra district in central Kirkuk. Initial reports indicated that the girl who is not older than 20 was stabbed a number of times with a sharp tool in the chest and neck, he added.
In a separate incident, a bomb exploded among a terrorist group in Kirkuk who were trying to place the bomb on the pipeline feeding clean water into Kirkuk. The source said the blast killed two terrorists and injured another. The fourth terrorist was detained. The blast also caused major damage to the water pipeline, he added.
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Occasionaly....bad things happen to bad people.
Up to three Iraqis were wounded Saturday in an explosion targeting a patrol for the Multi-National Forces in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. An Iraqi police source in Kirkuk said that an explosive device blew up as a patrol for the multi-national forces was driving by along Baghdad Road near a mosque in Kirkuk during which three civilians were wounded and damages occurred to several vehicles.
Furthermore, an artillery for the Turkish forces shelled a border village in Kani Masi area in north east Dahouk in northern Iraq. A source in the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the area said that the Turkish forces raided the village of Douri but no damages have been reported. The Turkish artillery also attacked a few days ago three villages in the same area but no damages have been reported.
The Iranian forces also attacked recently border areas in Iraq's Kurdistan province during which one person was killed, in addition to causing damages to fields, houses and cattle. The shelling had come after confrontations between members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Iranian Army.
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Four Iraqi civilians were killed Saturday near Mosul, northern Iraq, after militants opened fire at a civilian car, while another group of militants assassinated one of the leaders of the Al-Buhamad tribe in the same city. An Iraqi police source told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that the civilian car had been on its way to Mosul and that the driver and three passengers were killed, and a fourth was severely wounded. The same source said unknown militants had opened fire on tribal leader Idris Shahata Nasser in the Al-Amn district, Mosul, killing him instantly.
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A group of 36 military experts in clearing of mines and explosives arrived in Iraq to work with the Multi-National Forces (MNF), a statement from the Bosnian defense ministry said on Saturday. The statement added this was the third group to be sent to Iraq for de-mining missions and defusing bombs in civilian areas. The Bosnian military force will spend the first week in preparations, coordinating tasks with the MNF, and getting to know areas under their responsibilities, statement added.
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The governor of the southern Iraqi province of Basra has suspended the city's police chief, accusing him of links to groups involved in terrorism. Governor Mohammed Musabah al-Waili says he is also demanding the resignation of the commander of the Iraqi Army's Basra-based 10th Brigade, General Abdul Latif Thaban. "He is not cooperating with us and is being loyal to his politics and not the law," the governor said in his statement, which also suspended police chief Major General Hassan Sawadi. Mr Waili says the two security chiefs are suspected of links to "sabotage groups, from outside the city and abroad, that are carrying out sabotage and terrorist attacks".
"We have noticed that some border guards and some of the leadership in the Army have doubtful links to wanted people," he said. The governor also accuses two prominent Shiite clerics of sharing the blame for a recent upsurge in violence in the city and warns of impending attacks against the city.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Masked gunmen on Sunday shot and wounded a Palestinian bodyguard for an intelligence chief reporting to President Mahmoud Abbas, security officials said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the shooting, another case of internal violence in the Gaza Strip where rivalry between the governing Hamas group and Abbas's Fatah faction has led to bloodshed in recent weeks.
Fahd Abu Amraim is a bodyguard for Tareq Abu Rajab, chief of General Intelligence, who was not in the area at the time. Abu Rajab reports to Abbas.
Security officials said about 10 masked gunmen had opened fire at Abu Amraim in Gaza's Beach refugee camp, wounding him in the legs, and then took away his pistol and mobile telephone.
A 13-year-old passerby was also wounded.
Internal violence in Gaza has been fuelled by a power struggle between Abbas and Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh over control of security forces.
Israeli forces and settlers pulled out of Gaza last year and internal clashes in the territory have raised fears among Palestinians of civil war.
Last week, three gunmen were killed and a dozen people wounded in violence between Fatah and Hamas. The two organisations agreed to set up a joint committee to defuse tensions.
Hamas, a militant Islamist group, came to power in March after trouncing Fatah in a January parliamentary election.
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Muslim brotherhood and unity is foremost, so what's a little blood to seal the process? After all that's their tradition and how it all began - by fire and blood.
RAMALLAH, May 14 (Xinhua) -- Islamic Jihad leader Sheikh Mahmoud al-Sadi survived an Israeli assassination in the northern West Bank city of Jenin on Sunday, the militant group said.
Al-Sadi is being treated for injuries in the leg and chest after an Israeli elite force opened fire at him on the outskirts of the city, and his condition is stable now, doctors said.
Al-Sadi is the local leader of Islamic Jihad in Jenin, and wanted by Israel for involvement in plotting suicide attacks against Israel.
Islamic Jihad vowed to retaliate for the Israeli murder.
Unlike all other factions, the Islamic Jihad refused to take part in January's Palestinian legislative elections, and declared an end to a one-year ceasefire with Israel reached in early 2005.
The Islamic Jihad was involved in a series of suicide bombings against Israel, including the Tel Aviv bombing on April 17, which killed ten civilians and wounded dozens of others.
A Palestinian militant was shot dead by Israeli troops in the West Bank town of Qabatiya, shortly after a member of the security services was killed in nearby Jenin, medics said. Saher Anashi, a member of Islamic Jihad, was killed during clashes with soldiers who had entered the town to arrest members of the radical group behind the last eight anti-Israeli suicide attacks. A second Palestinian was shot dead Sunday during clashes with Israeli troops at the local offices of the Palestinian security services in Jenin, security sources said.
In yet another indication of growing tensions between the two movements, Fatah sympathizers in the Gaza Strip have begun boycotting Hamas-controlled mosques, accusing the Islamist movement of inciting against their leaders.
On Friday, thousands of worshipers refused to enter the Farouk Mosque in the Nusseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, saying the preacher was planning to verbally attack Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and other PA leaders. The Fatah supporters prayed in the streets while their Hamas rivals prayed inside the mosque.
Like most mosques in the Strip, the Farouk Mosque is controlled by Hamas. Leaders of Abbas's Fatah party have in recent weeks expressed deep concern over "incitement" in the mosques, saying Hamas preachers were exploiting Friday prayers to launch scathing attacks on them.
Hamas officials dismissed the allegations as "lies" and said the only incitement was that coming from Fatah.
This is the first time that Fatah supporters are boycotting Friday prayers at a mosque in the Gaza Strip. Preachers at the services often target Israel, the US and corruption in the PA.
Maher Miqdad, a Fatah spokesman in the Strip, accused Hamas of using the mosques to incite against political rivals. "They are preparing the stage for bloodshed," he said. "Some of them have even been calling for the elimination of their opponents, whom they describe as apostates and infidels."
A Fatah-affiliated businessman in Gaza City told The Jerusalem Post he had stopped going to the mosque near his home because of the incitement. "Hamas has turned the mosques in the Gaza Strip into platforms for delivering political speeches," he said. "They have decorated the mosques with political signs and banners and the preachers are saying awful things against Abbas and other Fatah leaders."
In Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, thousands of Fatah supporters also boycotted prayers at a local mosque on Friday. They too prayed outside the mosque.
Hamas has been using Friday prayers to urge Palestinians to donate to the new PA government and to criticize Palestinian officials for allegedly conspiring against Hamas. Most of the attacks have been directed against Abbas and Fatah leaders Muhammed Dahlan, former PA minister of state for security affairs head of the Palestinian Preventive Security Service in the Gaza Strip, Jibril Rajoub, former head of the PSS in the West Bank, Tayeb Abdel Rahim, Abbas's top aide, and Abu Ali Shaheen, a former PA minister for supplies who founded Fatah along with Yasser Arafat.
In Nablus, thousands of Hamas followers gathered after prayers Friday to donate money and jewelry to the new government. "These donations are our way of telling the world that we can live without them, and our children are paying what the Europeans should be paying," said Bassam al-Shakaa, a former mayor of Nablus.
Organizers said more than NIS 1 million was collected during the drive. Last week, during a similar campaign in Ramallah, residents donated over $60,000 to the Hamas-controlled PA.
Meanwhile, Hamas leaders on Saturday demanded an apology from Abdel Rahim over allegations that its members had smuggled weapons into Jordan. Abdel Rahim called on Hamas to punish members who were supposedly involved, drawing sharp criticism from Hamas leaders.
"After being acquainted with the details of the plot, we call on the [Hamas] government to condemn this action and to take daring steps to punish those responsible," he said, referring to Jordanian charges that Hamas had smuggled and stored weapons and ammunition in the kingdom in preparation for terrorist attacks.
Hamas spokesmen described Abdel Rahim's statements as "irresponsible" and demanded an apology, accusing him of serving the interests of a "third party."
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"These donations are our way of telling the world that we can live without them, and our children are paying what the Europeans should be paying," said Bassam al-Shakaa, a former mayor of Nablus
They've been sucking on the infidel welfare tit for so long, they can't think straight.
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Of course the Master Religion is entitled to jizya. It says so in that funny little book w/o pictures.
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Pot.
Kettle.
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The worst of it is isn't just that the Palestinians feel entitled to western welfare while they organize to attack westerners, but that the Europeans feel that the Palestinians are entitled to the welfare, too, hoping it will be 'only' Americans and Israelis that they attack.
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This story should be put in all textbooks. "This is what you get when you give aid to shut people up, with no real plan to make them self sufficient"
Red on red - check
Hamas issuing threats of 'dire consequences' - check
Fatah bleating about someone out-terrorising them - check
Hamas telling the Jordanian government what to do (someone ought to remind them how the 'Black September' group came about) - check
Paleostinian economics reaching its Zenith - check
General refrain of "It's not our fault" - check
Time to open a few bottles here I think ;)
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I'm sure once they go back to the usual "Death to Israel and America" crap it will all blow over.
A day before Defense Minister Amir Peretz planned to ask the cabinet to transfer NIS 50 million to the Palestinians, IDF troops outside of Nablus thwarted a suicide bombing on Saturday by capturing an explosives belt that was on its way to be used in an attack inside Israel.
The IDF reinforced its operations near Nablus over the weekend. On Saturday, soldiers from the Haruv Battalion discovered a 10-kilogram explosives belt inside a Palestinian car, ready for use and waiting to be given to someone who was supposed to smuggle across the Green Line. Border Police sappers destroyed the belt in a controlled explosion.
On April 17, a suicide bomber killed ten Israelis after detonating an explosives belt he was carrying in a Tel Aviv restaurant.
"Inside Israel, things are quiet, but not in the territories," said Gilad, deputy commander of the Haruv Battalion. "Terrorists are constantly operating in Nablus and our goal is to keep pressure on the city to prevent the terror from spilling into Israel."
The explosives belt found Saturday, a senior IDF officer said, was intended to be used in a suicide bombing in an Israeli city this week. Together with Jenin, the city of Nablus - an Islamic Jihad stronghold - is currently the source of most terrorism, the officer said. Over the weekend, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) recorded more than 90 terror alerts, including over 15 concrete terror threats.
Earlier Saturday, IDF soldiers discovered three pipe bombs, ready for use, inside a Palestinian taxi near Ramallah. On Friday, troops conducting an arrest raid in Nablus shot and killed a 26-year-old man who had opened fire on them.
Also in the West Bank, police said that settlers broke into a Palestinian-owned quarry in Hawara south of Nablus on Friday and set fire to several caravans there. Several Palestinians were injured after they were allegedly attacked by the settlers. Police said that tracks were found leading to the nearby settlement of Bracha.
Settlers rejected the accusations. "We are not connected to the fire at the quarry," the settlement's leadership said in a statement.
In a separate incident on Friday, IDF troops and the Samaria Regional Council's Search and Rescue team extricated the body of a Palestinian woman from a three-story house near Nablus that had collapsed after a gas canister exploded inside.
Several greenhouses belonging to the former settlement of Morag in the Gaza Strip were destroyed over the weekend during an attempt by dozens of gunmen to take control of the area.
The Palestinian Company for Economic Development, which is in charge of thousands of greenhouses that used to belong to Morag and other settlements in Gush Katif, said the attack, which took place on Friday, was the latest in a series that began almost immediately after the settlements were evacuated.
The company revealed that hundreds of greenhouses and other agricultural installations have been sabotaged over the past few months, expressing its outrage over the recurring phenomenon. The company issued an urgent appeal to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and Interior Minister Said Siam to intervene to halt the attacks on the lands belonging to the former settlements.
"These greenhouses and other installations and projects provide a source of income for over 4,500 families," company officials said. "We are very disturbed by the recurring attacks and thefts. Such actions jeopardize the largest agricultural project carried by the Palestinian Authority after the Israeli withdrawal."
In response to claims by some families regarding their ownership of the lands, the company noted that Abbas had issued a presidential decree on the eve of the withdrawal to establish a special committee that would look into each one of the claims on condition that the owners provided relevant documents.
Friday's attack on the greenhouses, the biggest since the Israeli withdrawal, was carried out by dozens of gunmen belonging to a number of families living in the area. PA security forces opened fire at the attackers, killing 21-year-old Rami al-Masri and wounding four others.
The security forces managed to regain control over parts of the greenhouses, PA security sources told The Jerusalem Post. They said the attackers caused heavy damage to most of the greenhouses before leaving the area.
"This was the most dangerous attack on the liberated lands of the settlements," said one officer. "In the past few months there has been a sharp rise in attempts by local families and gangs to seize control over the lands. We are doing our utmost to protect these lands, which belong to all Palestinians."
Following Friday's confrontation, hundreds of gunmen took to the streets in the nearby city of Khan Yunis and opened fire at PA policemen. Four policemen were wounded, one seriously, and three police stations were set on fire. The gunmen also blocked the main road between Khan Yunis and Rafah and chanted slogans against the PA and its security forces.
Militiamen belonging to various groups in the Gaza Strip have set up training bases on some of the evacuated lands, further escalating tensions in the area. Most of the camps belong to Fatah, Hamas and the Popular Resistance Committees.
PA Interior Ministry spokesman Khaled Abu Hilal on Saturday urged all the groups to evacuate the training bases "for their own safety." Referring to Friday's events, Abu Hilal strongly condemned the attacks on the PA security forces and said a special committee had been established to investigate the killing of Masri.
"We will find all those who attacked the police and we will punish them," he said. "We won't allow anyone to attack policemen and security installations. We will use weapons against anyone who carries weapons."
The mayor of Khan Yunis, Fayez Abu Shamalah, on Saturday resigned in protest against the growing state of anarchy and lawlessness in his city. He was particular enraged by repeated attacks on the municipality by gunmen belonging to various groups.
Last week scores of gunmen stormed the municipality and threatened to kill the mayor and other officials. The raid was apparently linked to disputes over the ownership of lands in the areas that were evacuated by Israel.
Hamas legislators called on the PA to use an iron fist against the gangs that attacked the greenhouses, pointing out that hundreds of greenhouses had been destroyed in recent months. The legislators branded the attackers as thieves, but stopped short of blaming any of the armed groups.
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I see. Now that Fatah and Hamas have hung up their shootin' irons, the only Armed Struggle in the Paleo Proving Ground is being waged by dozens of gunmen belonging to a number of families living in the area. Which is, of course, their Legitimate Right®. I think we can free up that money for Hamas now, since they are in full compliance with the terms of the cease-fire and the violence is being perpetrated by only a few dozens of heavily armed tribes in a key strategic area and is not at all factional in nature.
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Think anyone in the MSM will approach Bill Gates and ask him if he'd like to contribute a few more million to buy the paleos some more greenhouses to replace the first one he bought them - that they've destroyed?
Naaahhhh - me neither.
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where's Gardnin B Hard?
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Give a Gaza Palestinian a vegetable and he will eat for a day, but give a Gaza Palestinian a greenhouse and he will shoot the glass out and demand more U.N. aid.
The Shin Bet security service yesterday revealed the arrest a month ago of two Hamas operatives who were planning to set up a terrorist cell in the West Bank to abduct an Israel Defense Forces soldier. The arrested men are Rizat Shaaban, 33, and Jumaa Azzam, 38, both from the Jabalya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. They infiltrated into Israel through Sinai and were detained by the security forces on April 14 at Mount Harif in the southern Negev. The operatives were carrying two pistols, two hand grenades and $2,300 in cash. They told interrogators that they had met with senior Hamas people, including the head of Hamas's operational arm in the northern Gaza Strip, Ahmed Randor, who instructed them to set up the cell.
Ahmed is now a dead man walking ...
The Shin Bet arrested two others involved in the case - an Israeli Arab from Taibeh, Suliman Nasasrah, and a Palestinian who was residing in Israel illegally. These two were supposed to help the Hamas operatives reach the West Bank. About two weeks before the cell was shut down, Israeli security forces arrested another Hamas operative in Tul Karm who was also connected to the cell. This operative, too, had originally come from Gaza through Sinai.
Shin Bet sources said that the cell's mission was to abduct a soldier to serve as a bargaining chip in negotiations over the release of Palestinians imprisoned in Israel. The cell members were told to rent an apartment in Ramallah to serve as a hideout.
According to the Shin Bet, Hamas operatives are continuing to organize cells for the purpose of preparing "ready-to-go attacks," which the organization could put into action quickly in case of renewed escalation in the conflict with Israel. During the eight months since the disengagement ended, security forces have captured several cells sponsored by Hamas and the Popular Resistance Committees that had infiltrated into Israel from the Gaza Strip via Sinai. In at least one case, a would-be suicide bomber wearing an explosives belt was arrested near the border.
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Israeli police arrested 10 protesters on Saturday after clashes broke out during a demonstration against the separation barrier Israel is building with the West Bank. Dozens of Palestinians and Israelis gathered at the Jerusalem suburb of Ram, which was cut off from Jerusalem by the barrier. Though much of the barrier is comprised of fences, trenches and surveillance equipment, in Ram it is a towering concrete wall that runs down the center of a major road.
Israeli police fired tear gas and stun grenades at the protesters, some of whom hurled rocks at the Israeli forces, according to police and witnesses. One border policeman was injured when a rock hit him in the head, Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben Ruby said in a statement.
Israel says the barrier is needed to keep out Palestinian militants. Palestinians say the barrier, which snakes into the West Bank, is an Israeli effort to annex land they want for a future state. "Nothing will stop us from struggling to put down this wall," said Palestinian lawmaker Mustafa Barghouti, a protest organiser.
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Sri Lanka's military and the island's Tamil Tiger rebels are locked in a low intensity war despite a ceasefire that still technically holds on paper, the head of the unarmed Nordic truce monitors said on Saturday. "You could in some definition say we already have a war. We don't have a peace agreement, we have a ceasefire agreement. So there is a war ongoing. It is a low intensity war. You can say that," Major General Ulf Henricsson, head of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, said in an interview.
Henricsson's comments came after the government bombed Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) territory in the island's north on Thursday after the rebels attacked a navy flotilla and killed 17 sailors in the worst military clash since the 2002 ceasefire. Both the government and the Tigers say they remain committed to the ceasefire, but with more than 270 deaths estimated since early April.
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funny comment, grom - but sadly, due to the stupidity of the self-proclaimed "intellectual elite" a war we will have. In exchange for cheap praise and momentary pride they are willing to provide Iran cover with trendy phrases and waves of the hand. As usual millions will pay the price in blood for their inability to stand tall.
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Hum, thoses who show their submission to the Great-Dictator-In-The-Sky (and his human henchmen) five times a day? That's what I would prefer, obvioulsy.
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Why don't we get SA-7's in the hands of the Arab rebels in the south and Kurds in the N of Iran?
Tit for tat.
They are a lot more vulnerable than we are.
A few bits of C4 in the right places, soem well applied .338 Lapua, and a couple well timed SA-7 shootdowns and you'd Iran in chaos, at least temporarily.
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I suspect the US is not expecially worried about the SA-7s. If I remember StrategyPage's article, these missles have a 1% hit probability and even when they hit are unlikely to bring down a multi-engine airplane. They are dangerous to helicopters though.
Al
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The British used to have an interesting approach to someone committing a warlike act directed at them. They would select some target wholly unrelated to the event at hand for a counter-attack.
The Israelis should adopt a similar technique, say, in this case, blowing up an ammunitions dump outside of Tehran, kept by some other Iranian power bloc than the one responsible for the SA-7s.
The idea is to get competing blocs among your enemy blaming each other for such attacks, and otherwise fighting among themselves.
Lebanese security forces found on Saturday three mortar shells in the southern city of Sidon, an Interior Ministry source told KUNA. An explosives expert defused the shells, which were then removed by security men. On Friday, security men found mortar shells along the beach area in front of the Al-Naema town, south of Beirut.
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An al-Qaida member who escaped from a U.S. prison in Afghanistan last year appeared in a second video and urged Muslims to seek vengeance for the cartoons of Islam's Prophet Muhammad that have appeared in several European publications. Abu Yahia al-Libi, who broke out of prison in July, appeared in a video broadcast by the pan-Arab satellite channel Al-Arabiya last October in which he recounted how he and three other al-Qaida members, who also were shown in the recording, escaped from the facility.
Thursday's video, which was posted on a Web site used by Islamist militants, suggests that al-Libi, who appeared alone, was still alive earlier this year during the cartoon controversy that peaked in January and February. "Sharpen your swords, and get ready and make them drink the glass of death," al-Libi said in Arabic during the 35-minute recording. Shown in front of shelves filled with books, he had a long black beard and wore a black turban and camouflage fatigues. "We tell the state of Denmark, its sister Norway and France the enemy of the veil, chastity and purity, which harmed the Prophet ... we wish to see you toppled," he said.
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i don't know about yall but this bitching about the cartoons is getting old. I fyou can't find something better too bitch and fight about then just shut the fuck up.
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Mortars, machineguns and rockets pounded Mogadishu on Saturday in a seventh day of 
Up to 10 militants were killed during a raid conducted by the Algerian army in the heights of Jijel province, 360 kilometers east of the Algerian capital. The Algerian press quoted an Algerian security source as saying that "terrorist elements were killed during a raid conducted by a special forces unit inside Ghar Al-Ghoula cave. The source added that the Algerian army discovered inside the cave different kinds of war ammunition and three missiles that were detonated at the scene. According to the source, the army continues to gradually infiltrate into the cave, where its deepness and geographic nature are unknown.
Unidentified gunmen shot and killed one person, wounded two others and torched part of a Pentecostal church radio station during the broadcasting of a program that compared teachings of the Bible and the Quran, officials said on Saturday.
A Saudi man believed to be in his thirties, driving in 2001 Nissan Maxima, opened fire on guards at the U.S. consulate in Jeddah. The incident led to a car chase and shoot out with security forces near the consulate. According to a statement from the Saudi Ministry of Interior, " at 5:30pm local time today, a car driving by the consulate fired on security guards. Saudi security forces chased the car and a gunfight ensued, in which the car was damaged. An armed individual exited the vehicle and was subsequently apprehended by authorities. The suspect sustained moderate injuries." 
Four Turkish soldiers were killed Saturday after clashes with Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) rebels in Southeast of Turkey. Sources in Sirnak state, which witnessed the clashes, told Ihlas News Agency that the fighting resulted in the deaths of four Turkish soldiers and one PKK militant in the mountainous area between Iraq and Syria. They added that major operations in which helicopters were used against the rebels have started two days ago in Sirnak and will continue on. This operation marks the first clashes between Turkish troops and Kurdish rebels during this month.
A bomb blast killed two children and injured 12 others in Erzincan state East of turkey Saturday, said security sources. The sources told Anadolu News Agency that a bomb exploded in one of Ulalar's town coffee shops and resulted in the death of two children and the injury of 12. Three of the injured suffered serious wounds and were rushed to a hospital to receive treatment for their injuries, the sources added. Police forces hurried to the blast site and started to investigate the incident. No one took credit for the attack.
Convicted al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui had no idea they were coming when federal marshals showed up in the middle of the night to take him to the nation's highest-security federal prison to begin serving his life sentence Saturday.
QUETTA: Twenty-two people have been arrested over the landmine blasts that killed six at a police training school in southwestern Pakistan this week, a senior officer said yesterday.
TANK, Pakistan (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist militants shot dead a government official after breaking into his house on Sunday, the latest such killing in the troubled South Waziristan tribal region, officials said.
Four police officers were killed and five people were injured on Saturday when hundreds of Maoist rebels stormed a relief centre in central India set up to shelter those fleeing guerrilla violence, the government said. The rebels attacked the government centre in Dantewada district in the state of Chhattisgarh triggering a fierce gunbattle with security forces for more than an hour, an official said. 
Suspected militants kidnapped Sui Naib Tehsildar Shahzada Bugti, who was investigating into the lands illegally occupied by 
Two minors were killed and another critically wounded Saturday in a landmine explosion in Pakistani tribal agency of Bajaur, bordering Afghanistan, said security officials. The explosion occurred in Mamound area of the agency near the mud-house of a local tribesman, Daud Khan, officials told KUNA. They said explosion killed two children of ages four and six and wounded another of age eight. They added that the explosion also caused minor property damage.
High ranking al Qaeda leaders who have been caught or killed have turned out to be former high ranking military or intelligence officers in Saddam Hussein's regime. 
Al-Shalamja borders in Basra south of Iraq was closed down on Saturday preventing people from traveling to and from Iran. An official at Al-Shalamja center who preferred to remain anonymous said "the borders will be shut down for one day only from 7 am to 8 pm in response to orders from the Iraqi authorities." He said others borders with Iran will remain open for travelers. The source did not elaborate on the reasons behind this decision.
An Iraqi police source in Kirkuk said police found a girl's body inside a house under construction in Al-Khadra district in central Kirkuk. Initial reports indicated that the girl who is not older than 20 was stabbed a number of times with a sharp tool in the chest and neck, he added.
Furthermore, an artillery for the Turkish forces shelled a border village in Kani Masi area in north east Dahouk in northern Iraq. A source in the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the area said that the Turkish forces raided the village of Douri but no damages have been reported. The Turkish artillery also attacked a few days ago three villages in the same area but no damages have been reported.
Four Iraqi civilians were killed Saturday near Mosul, northern Iraq, after militants opened fire at a civilian car, while another group of militants assassinated one of the leaders of the Al-Buhamad tribe in the same city. An Iraqi police source told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that the civilian car had been on its way to Mosul and that the driver and three passengers were killed, and a fourth was severely wounded. The same source said unknown militants had opened fire on tribal leader Idris Shahata Nasser in the Al-Amn district, Mosul, killing him instantly.
The governor of the southern Iraqi province of Basra has suspended the city's police chief, accusing him of links to groups involved in terrorism. Governor Mohammed Musabah al-Waili says he is also demanding the resignation of the commander of the Iraqi Army's Basra-based 10th Brigade, General Abdul Latif Thaban. "He is not cooperating with us and is being loyal to his politics and not the law," the governor said in his statement, which also suspended police chief Major General Hassan Sawadi. Mr Waili says the two security chiefs are suspected of links to "sabotage groups, from outside the city and abroad, that are carrying out sabotage and terrorist attacks". 
GAZA (Reuters) - Masked gunmen on Sunday shot and wounded a Palestinian bodyguard for an intelligence chief reporting to President Mahmoud Abbas, security officials said.
A Palestinian militant was shot dead by Israeli troops in the West Bank town of Qabatiya, shortly after a member of the security services was killed in nearby Jenin, medics said. Saher Anashi, a member of Islamic Jihad, was killed during clashes with soldiers who had entered the town to arrest members of the radical group behind the last eight anti-Israeli suicide attacks. A second Palestinian was shot dead Sunday during clashes with Israeli troops at the local offices of the Palestinian security services in Jenin, security sources said.
Israeli police arrested 10 protesters on Saturday after clashes broke out during a demonstration against the separation barrier Israel is building with the West Bank. Dozens of Palestinians and Israelis gathered at the Jerusalem suburb of Ram, which was cut off from Jerusalem by the barrier. Though much of the barrier is comprised of fences, trenches and surveillance equipment, in Ram it is a towering concrete wall that runs down the center of a major road. 
Sri Lanka's military and the island's Tamil Tiger rebels are locked in a low intensity war despite a ceasefire that still technically holds on paper, the head of the unarmed Nordic truce monitors said on Saturday. "You could in some definition say we already have a war. We don't have a peace agreement, we have a ceasefire agreement. So there is a war ongoing. It is a low intensity war. You can say that," Major General Ulf Henricsson, head of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, said in an interview. 
An al-Qaida member who escaped from a U.S. prison in Afghanistan last year appeared in a second video and urged Muslims to seek vengeance for the cartoons of Islam's Prophet Muhammad that have appeared in several European publications. 
