More than 40 suspected Taleban militants have been killed in clashes since Monday, the US-led coalition in Afghanistan says. The clashes between militants and Afghan and coalition soldiers took place in Zabul and Uruzgan provinces, a coalition statement said.
A statement by the US-led coalition said "more than 30" militants were killed in a clash with Afghan and Canadian forces in Arghandab district in Zabul on Monday. "Joint fires were employed, forcing remaining enemies to flee," the statement said.
A spokesman for the coalition said the operations against militants would continue in Zabul. "There are known Taleban extremists in Zabul province, and Afghan national security and coalition forces will continue to attack these enemies of Afghanistan until the province is safe and secure," Lt Col Paul Fitzpatrick said. "We will not be deterred from our mission to provide a safe and secure environment to the Afghan people," he added.
Another 14 militants were killed in two separate clashes in Uruzgan province on Thursday, coalition officials said. A clash happened in the Deh Rawood district when a coalition patrol "effectively disrupted the operations of approximately 30 insurgents" who were gathering outside a village. "Coalition forces attacked the extremist positions with artillery, killing 10 enemy fighters. The remaining enemy fighters broke contact and quickly fled the area," the statement said.
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Do they every count the AC-130 kills in these counts. Some of the vids on the net show lots and lots buying the farm from a distance with these flying pillboxes.
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Violence has been escalating in southern and eastern Afghanistan
I have a problem with phrasing like this because what it doesn't show is that it is OUR side that is increasing the violence by now moving deep into areas that have been left alone until recently. We have decided to take the fight to the Taliban and not wait for them to organize their "spring offensive". We launched a spring offensive of our own and so far we appear to be taking them apart quite nicely.
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You're right Crosspatch. The phrase should be "Taliban deaths are escalating in Southern Afghanistan". I think we need a statement by the Head Turban in Peshawr about why he is sending these boys to the be slaughtered like sheep.
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Someone posted here a few weeks ago (I'm sorry, I don't remember who it was) that his people never reported total numbers killed/captured to the press, which was sometimes off (as I recall) by an order of maginitude. For perspective, for what it's worth.
A roadside bomb hit a convoy carrying the intelligence chief of the Afghan capital, missing him but killing three others, police said Saturday. Kabul intelligence chief Humayoon Aini was returning from a meeting just south of the capital when the bomb hit his convoy in Musayi district, said Amanullah Ghazar, the Kabul police chief.
Did they know he was coming or was this random?
It blew up one vehicle, killing a local politician, a village elder and the car's driver, he said. Aini was traveling in another vehicle and was not hurt.
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EVERYBODY hates the intel pukes. If we're right, the other side hates us. If we're wrong, OUR side hates us. Every once in a while we get things just right, and bad people die. The rest of the bad people don't like that. Everyone in my unit in Vietnam had a $25,000 bounty on their heads, just for being there. I'm sure Old Spook and Fred have similar stories.
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Dutch commando's have killed tens of Taliban fighters in the past months. Dutch colonal Morsink has stated this in an interview with Dutch newspaper the NRC. The commando's are preparing the dutch mission in Uruzgan as 1400 Dutch soldiers will arrive in August this year. The colonel also stated an important Taliban leader was killed by the Dutch commando's recently. On the 30th of may the commando's have been involved in a heavy battle with the Taliban and Dutch Appache helicopters were called in for air support. no Dutch commando's have been wounded or killed in action as we had "a lucky angel with us a number of times" the colonel stated.
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These are not the long-haird conscripts that most people have in mind when they think of the Dutch Army. These are a mix of what we would think of as "commandos" (ranger type) and foreign/colonial legion types. Solid fighters, tough as nails, well equipped, well trained, and well led. Plus the legendary Dutch stubborn streak. Only problem is that there just aren't that many of them around.
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I thought Boers were the South African Dutch remnants when the British took over? Although I s'pose most would have left S.A. by now...
I had the impression that Afghanistan has become an international Special Forces playground. One feels ever so slightly sorry for the Taliban, innocently walking into such a situation.
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I know a LOT of Dutch folks, and this sort of thing is so far removed from their concept of reality, their heads will explode with cog dis when they hear this kind of report. I suspect they had no idea their country even had commandos until recently, much less that any of their military would ever kill anyone.
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Anywhere safer, gromgoru. To my understanding, the South African Boers generally start off tri-lingual -- Dutch, English and Zulu. From that point it isn't hard to expand.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Afghan troops killed 13 suspected Taleban terrorists rebels including two Pakistani nationals on Friday in an operation in southern Afghanistan, a commander said. The terrorists rebels were killed in an army sweep of an area around Tirin Kot city, the capital of restive Uruzgan province which has seen several counter-insurgency operations in the past weeks. Among the 13 bodies on the site, two are Pakistani terrorists nationals. They have Pakistani ID cards, General Rahmatullah Raufi, the Afghan army commander for southern Afghanistan, told AFP.
How many ID cards each?
Uruzgan, where 1,400 Dutch troops are deploying to be part of a NATO-led force that is moving into southern Afghanistan, has seen some intense battles in recent weeks.
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Afghan troops killed 13 suspected Taliban militants including two Pakistani nationals on Friday, taking the death toll from violence in Afghanistan in two days to 26, officials said. The militants were killed in an army sweep of an area around Tirin Kot city, the capital of restive Uruzgan province which has seen several counter-insurgency operations in the past weeks. Among the 13 bodies on the site, two are Pakistani nationals. They have Pakistani ID cards, said General Rahmatullah Raufi, the Afghan army commander for southern Afghanistan.
Uruzgan, where 1,400 Dutch troops are deploying to be part of a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)-led force that is moving into southern Afghanistan, has seen some intense battles in recent weeks. Suspected militants on a motorbike gunned down two Afghan aid workers, while a provincial security chief and a senior police officer were also killed on the same day, officials said. A third aid worker was wounded in Thursdays attack in northern Balkh province, said Sher Jahn Durani, spokesman for the provincial police chief. The militants opened fire on the three workers after they left in a car from a village in Chimtal district where they were helping farmers, Durani said. It wasnt immediately clear who was behind the attack. The workers were believed to be from the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance organisation that works in the health, agriculture and education sectors.
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Their capital unified for the first time in a decade, residents of Mogadishu walked streets free of gunmen and roadblocks to attend Friday prayers led by newly victorious Islamic militants.
Many wondered if peace can last in the hands of radicals accused of links to al-Qaida. But the success of the Islamic Courts Union has forced the United States and other world powers to take notice, amid concerns that radical Islam could be taking hold in the Horn of Africa. "We are supporting the Islamic Courts because these unarmed civilians have to support who is more powerful," Osman Ali Kulmiye said after attending prayers in Mogadishu.
On Friday, clan fighters angered by attempts to disarm members and dismantle the checkpoints they use to extort road tolls attacked the presidential compound in Baidoa, setting off a firefight that killed 10. One government official was wounded; other victims were believed to be clan members.
The relative peace in Mogadishu and violence in Baidoa shed light on the situation in Somalia, said Ted Dagne, an Africa specialist at the Congressional Research Service. "What it does tell us about this whole thing for the first time is that at least you have one group, whether or not that group is legitimate, that does control Mogadishu," he said.
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said this week that the militia's aim "is to try to lay the foundations for some institutions in Somalia that might form the basis for a better and more peaceful, secure Somalia where the rule of law is important."
Still, John Prendergast, a senior adviser with the International Crisis Group, said U.S. goals in Somalia are in disarray. "At this point it's ground zero for U.S. policy in Somalia," he said. "We just have absolutely no policy and no access to any of the authorities on the ground. It's almost a stunning failure across the board of everything the U.S. was trying to do."
Keep wringing your hands, John, and you'll need lotion.
Islamic clerics avoided talking politics during Friday's prayers but instead focused on broad religious teachings. The courts union is divided between moderates and extremists from different clans, so a consensus about the future of governing Somalia is not imminent.
The union started negotiations Thursday with the interim government, which has ruled out establishing an Islamic state. However, Sheik Salad Ilmi, a member of the Islamic militia, said the courts union wants strict Islamic law. "We have had an ideology to rule the country with Islamic law and that was the aim we dedicated ourselves to when we fought the warlords," he said. "If this changes and we are coerced into a secular constitution, maybe it means we were misguided by our clerics."
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This is bad.
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"We are supporting the Islamic Courts because these unarmed civilians have to support who is more powerful"
Ummmm - that could be fixed.
Just sayin', 's all.....
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Color me unimpressed. They have managed to take Greater Mogadishu, whoopee! If and when they manage to take all of Somalia, and then Puntland and Somaliland, they will have done something. Until then, all they have managed to do is get one street gang in charge of a former major urban area. And if the Islamists take on Somaliland, they will be trounced by the 'Landers. Those individuals have an actual functional state, with sewers, water systems, tax collection, garbage service, and the like. Plus, they have an army that is actually deserving of the name, and a sugar daddy in the form of Ethiopia. Somaliland serves as Ethiopia's major sea ports since Eritrea split off.
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My dear, innocent Justice, I'll happily take that job you offered. Of course, my father is a biochemistry professor, and I know all sorts of interesting things that happen when urine splashes and bleach are mixed together, or ammonia and vinegar. Do sleep well!
At least 10 people mostly militia have been killed and dozens more were wounded in heavy clashes erupted in the provisional town of Baidoa between government militia and local militia on Friday. As Somalinet correspondent reports. "The clashes has flared up at around 12:00 am local time and it lasted for one hour with both rival sides exchanged heavy machine-guns and other sorts of weapons, the residents have terrified the sounds of gunfire" witnesses told Somalinet office in Mogadishu.
The cause of the latest skirmishes came after presidential guards of the government ordered local militia to leave a checkpoint near to the presidential palace and they gave objection to that order where then militia from Manas military camp near Baidoa has taken away a rifle from the road blockers. Local official said. The local militia who set up the checkpoint launched an attack on guards at presidential building where they met a strong resistance.
The chief of the local clan whose men were involving in the battle Chief Samow Abdi Garun was confirmed to have died in clashes as he was trying to prevent his militia from the assault. An official from local militia admitted that five of dead people were their militia but on the government side, no one knows about their casualty yet.
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"both rival sides exchanged heavy machine-guns and other sorts of weapons"
I'll givya two PKM's for that DashK?
Yergodda be kiddinme Samatar, my mom inherited this from my granny. besides at the market you get four k's of khat and a pair of oakleys furrit dunchya?
Awwright Bahdoon ya Wiil Waal I'll gee ya the second wife, my lucky rangers foot both PG-7N rounds and I'll throw in a fluffy duck for target practice, watchyasay?
Deal! Watch though the sights still a bit gummed up with pops from 13 years ago.
Days after winning control of Mogadishu, an Islamist militia advanced on Friday toward the last stronghold of secular warlords, Jowhar. Residents said the militia, who won control of the Somali capital on Monday after driving out the warlords, advanced overnight closer to the warlord stronghold of Jowhar, 90 km (55 miles) to the north. "Our forces have moved toward the warlord forces," said Siyad Mohamed, one of the leaders of the Islamic militia.
Jowhar warlords, reinforced by defeated allies, pushed southwards from the town on Thursday to the village of Qalimoy. "The (warlord) coalition took their remaining weapons and militia from the town to strengthen their defense in Qalimoy after word came that the Islamic courts were advancing toward Jowhar," said Abdi Warsame, a farmer. Islamist leader Mohamed said: "If their movements continue, we will have no option but to attack them because they are preparing to attack us."
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One B-1 or 52 sortie against the convoy. Is that too much to ask?
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LONDON: British police said they freed without charge on Friday two men arrested during a raid on a London house that police suspected of being used for making a chemical bomb. One of the men was shot during last week's raid by more than 250 officers, which Muslim groups have criticised as heavy handed. Police found no bomb in a search of the house in the ethnically mixed area of Forest Gate in east London. The men, aged 20 and 23 and reported to be brothers, were released on Friday evening. Police had a warrant allowing them to question them until Saturday. Lawyers for the men have said they deny any involvement in terrorism. "The intelligence received by police continues to be developed and the Metropolitan Police will continue to exhaust all lines of inquiry," a police statement said.
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Egg + face
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Either the cops were set up or these two guys were smarter than the avergae and made sure they kept separate from the evidence, which means that 'chemical bomb vest' is still out there.
Former commander of the special battalion Borz of the so-called Army of Ichkeria has been detained in the Naursky region of Chechnya, Itar-Tass learnt at the press centre of the Regional Operational Headquarters on Thursday.
According to the headquarters, the detainee occupied commanding posts in the so-called Army of Ichkeria: in 1998, he commandered the Naursk regiment, and since 2000, he participated in combat actions against federal forces as a field commander of illegal armed groups.
As a representative of the press centre said, another gunman was detained in the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny. He participated in an attack on several administrative facilities of Ingushetia in the summer of 2004 and was a member of the so-called back-up group which was to capture the school in the Ingush village of Nesterovskaya, the Itar-Tass interlocutor said. The gunman also participated in staging several acts of terrorism in Chechnya.
Besides, according to the press centre, two accomplices of gunmen were detained in the Shelkovskoi region of the republic. One of them supplied gunmen with arms and ammunitions and prepared caches for their keeping. Another detainee transported gunmen to the site of acts of terrorism by his car.
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pliars and blowtorch graphic, please
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Two pro-Kremlin officials were assassinated by gunfire minutes apart on Friday in Ingushetia, a republic bordering Chechnya in Russia's volatile North Caucasus that has been destabilized by the region's separatist and Islamic insurgency.
The assassinations, by gunmen firing from at least one car, appeared to be another round of carefully timed assaults against the government. The first attack killed a woman responsible for helping returning Russian families resettle in the region. The second killed a senior police commander as he drove his three young children to school. The children were also killed, as were the commander's two guards, bringing the death toll in the shootings to seven.
The attacks continued the pattern of sporadic but intensive and often coordinated violence in Ingushetia, where an underground Islamic force, aligned with Chechen separatists, has said it has been carrying out what it calls "responsive measures" against officials involved in government counterterrorism activities in the region.
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Gunmen raked a car with automatic fire Friday and killed a top police commander, his three young children and two other people in Ingushetia, a troubled Russian province neighboring Chechnya, officials said.
At least four assailants opened fire from from both sides of the car that was carrying Musa Nalgiyev, chief of the OMON riot police in Ingushetia and his children, aged 4,5, and 6, deputy regional prosecutor Dmitry Gurulyov said.
The OMON chief's driver and bodyguard also died in the gunfire, and the gunmen fled after the morning ambush in Karabulak, Gurulyov said.
In a second attack, gunmen in a car shot a key administrator of a village close to the border with Chechnya in Russia's south, the Interior Ministry said. Galina Gubina died from his wounds in a hospital, the ministry said.
She was in charge of a program to encourage ethnic Russians to return to the village. Most fled because of the fighting in Chechnya.
On Thursday, a Russian rights group said it has documented the existence of an illegal prison in the war-wrecked Chechen capital of Grozny. It charged that detainees were bullied and tortured.
Activists from the Memorial human rights organization said that they discovered the detention center last week and took videos. "We are talking about rampant violations of human rights," the group's head Oleg Orlov told The Associated Press.
He said the center, which was set up by an Interior Ministry unit temporarily deployed in Chechnya in the late 1990s, should have been shut down when the unit was abolished and merged with local police troops in 2003-2004.
But, he said, notes left by inmates and other evidence indicate that the prison continued functioning until last month.
Alavdi Sadykov, who spent three months in the prison in 2000, told Memorial the police cut his ear off while trying to make him confess that he possessed explosive materials. He said that other prisoners were also tortured.
"They would put you on this bench, your face down, then they would put a board on top of you and start hitting you with a hammer, beating our internal organs," Sadykov said, according to an interview transcript posted on the Memorial Web site.
Oksana Rogozina, an aide to Chechnya's top prosecutor, told The Associated Press that criminal cases have been opened against several Interior Ministry officers for allegedly torturing detainees when the unit was functioning.
Prosecutors are also investigating claims that the prison continued operating illegally, Rogozina said.
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The United States embassy in China issued Friday a warning of a possible terrorist attack on US interests in the communist country and advised its citizens to be on alert. "The United States government has received unconfirmed information of a possible terrorist threat against US interests in China, especially in the cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou," the embassy said in a statement on its website."American citizens in China are advised to be aware of their surroundings and remain alert to possible threats."
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New Zealand has expelled a Saudi pilot linked to one of the September 11 hijackers while Canada has freed an al-Qaeda suspect. Officials said on Saturday that Rayed Mohammed Abdullah Ali, a United States-qualified pilot, was deported late last month after immigration officials raided his home in Palmerston North, where he had joined the local aero club.
"Honey! Have you seen my detonator?"
"Ix-nay on the etonator-day!"
"Oh. Hello, officers. Lovely evening, ain't it?"
David Cunliffe, the immigration minister, said in a statement that Ali was considered a threat to national security because of his activities in New Zealand and because he was "directly associated with" those responsible for the 2001 attacks on the US. He was sent back to Saudi Arabia under escort.
"Officer Friendly!"
"Sir!"
"Take him to Arabia!"
Cunliffe would not comment on what specific information the government had on Ali, or where it came from, but told the Weekend Herald newspaper: "We're satisfied he is the right man." He referred to the US government's September 11 Commission Report regarding "Rayed Abdullah" who lived and trained in Phoenix with Hani Hanjour, the Saudi believed to have piloted Flight 77 into the Pentagon. Ali had arrived in New Zealand in February on a student visa saying he wanted to be a commercial airline pilot and needed to build up his flying hours and achieve an English language qualification. Cunliffe said Ali's true identity became apparent only after he arrived in New Zealand and "he used a variation of his name in applying for entry".
Ahah. The old funny spelling ploy...
Ali was only the second person deported under a section of New Zealand's Immigration Act, which has no right of appeal.
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One person was killed and five others were injured in an explosion in southeastern Turkey on Friday, Turkish news agency (Ihlas) reported. The agency said the explosion occurred in Cizre town of Sirnak province; resided by a Kurdish majority, which led to the burning of buildings and damaging cars. The injured were rushed to Cizre State Hospital for medical treatment, said the report, adding that investigations into circumstances of the blast were underway.
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The Queens chapter of an international jihadist group, founded by the Brooklyn College grad accused of being an al Qaeda sympathizer - is terrorizing people in the extremist's old stomping grounds, residents said Thurdsay. "They have a lot of hatred [but] the police said they can't do anything about them," Kana Chauhan, president of the Jackson Heights Merchants Association, said of the radical group Al Muhajiroun.
The organization is tied to suspected terrorist ally Syed "Fahad" Hashmi, a disciple of Syrian cleric Omar Bakri who was banned from speaking on English college campuses. The Queens-bred Hashmi, who was arrested in London Wednesday on charges he moved funds and military gear to notorious terror camps in Pakistan, founded the local chapter of the extremist group. Each weekend, it sets up its hate-spewing operation on 37th Avenue and 74th Street.
"They're against America, they make trouble," local merchant Amarjit Singh said. "Whatever they say is really nasty."
Nearly every Saturday for more than a year, Hashmi's buddies - who call themselves the Islamic Thinkers - have unloaded their propaganda from a minivan and set up a table festooned with anti-U.S. banners and fliers. Then, shouting and using a megaphone, the young firebrands - most are in their 20s and early 30s - walk the street spewing hate. "They display pictures of people dying in the war. They want people to feel they're right and get them thinking against [President] Bush and America," said Sarabjit Damber, 24. "They're talking crap about America, saying, 'Bush is a terrorist,' or that 'America is not good, don't trust these people,' " he said.
The group also is suspected of trying to recruit second-generation Muslim immigrants to fight against America, police sources said. Fights often break out between the jihadists and passers-by, merchants said.
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Sub title: thousands of Florida gators going hungry.
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It used to be if you started a fight anywhere in NYC, the retaliation gang was battalian strength.
Where are the good old days when you need them ?
A Canadian court denied a request on Friday to delay the release on bail of an Algerian man found to have engaged in terrorist activities and to have lied about links to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network.
Federal Court of Appeals Justice Robert Decary ruled that the federal government had failed to show that the suspect, Mohamed Harkat, would be able to inflict irreparable harm given the tight bail conditions.
Federal Court Justice Eleanor Dawson ruled on May 23 that Harkat could be freed under strict conditions even though she had found him to have lied under oath about his association with Bin Laden lieutenant Abu Zubaydah and having assisted Islamic extremists.
"It is true that Mr. Harkat was found by Dawson ... to have engaged in terrorist activities," Decary said in rejecting the government's request to delay or stay Harkat's release until a full appeal of Dawson's decision could be heard next month.
"It is also true, however, that the very same judge has found that at the present time his release from detention under strict conditions does not pose a threat to national security or a danger to the safety of any person."
Harkat is one of five Muslim foreigners who have been held by Canada on suspicion of being terrorists since shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
They have been held without charge under controversial national security certificates, which allow for secret hearings to determine whether they should be deported.
Harkat's legal team, along with lawyers for two of the other men, will separately challenge the constitutionality of those certificates before the Supreme Court of Canada next Tuesday and Wednesday.
The argument is that if they indeed are suspected of being terrorists they should be charged and tried as criminals under terrorism legislation, and that secret hearings are not fair.
The government makes the point that to get a terrorism conviction requires a judge to be convinced beyond reasonable doubt.
It says it should still retain the authority to deny the right to live in Canada to a foreigner whom it might be difficult to convict criminally but who it has "reasonable grounds" to believe might engage in terrorism.
In Harkat's case, he still remains in prison for at least a few days while the Canada Border Services Agency finalizes arrangements for supervising him.
Among the bail conditions are that he wear an electronic bracelet that will help authorities track his movements and that they be allowed to monitor his phone conversations.
In ordering his release last month, Judge Dawson said the government was taking too long to decide whether Harkat would face torture or death if he were returned to Algeria.
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WASHINGTON Three detainees at Guantanamo Bay committed suicide in what apparently was a joint pact to protest the U.S. military prison that holds suspected terrorists, a senior administration official said Saturday. They are the first deaths reported at the detention center in Cuba, where the United States is holding about 460 men on suspicion of links to Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
It was not immediately clear when the inmates died. It also was not clear whether the suicides were connected to a violent clash last month between detainees and military guards at Guantanamo. The Pentagon scheduled a briefing for later Saturday.
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What a great news week. Tommorrow we will learn bin Laden and Zawahiri were arrested in flagrante delicto, photos at 10PM.
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Bored to death probably. No German Shepherds, no sand bags, no sleep deprivation, no bikinis, no nipple clips, no digital happy snaps, no Lindy England.... life was not worth living.
In the original version of this story, TIME reported that "one of the most damning pieces of evidence investigators have in their possession, John Sifton of Human Rights Watch told Time's Tim McGirk, is a photo, taken by a Marine with his cell phone that shows Iraqis kneeling and thus posing no threat before they were shot." While Sifton did tell TIME that there was photographic evidence, taken by Marines, he had only heard about the specific content of the photos from reports done by NBC, and had no firsthand knowledge. TIME regrets the error.
More interesting evidence. Interesting they bury this at the end of a story titled "The Haditha Scandal's Other Casualty" They think it's America's image overseas. It will surely be somebody's image.
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It looks like Time is out of time with me. Those straws beak and nothing gets mended. What a farce of a news organization. They spend more time damning our soldiers more than anything else. Maybe Time "inc" should convert to Islam immediately and have sharia law imposed onto all of its employees as a test case for it's beautiful vision of utopia. I would love to see margret hansan in a burka.
Maybe make Turner personally repave the west in buffalo money?
The Sky is the limit.
Karma may be extra bad on some people.
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Meantime, 8 marines pine away in confinement, nervous families await their soldiers' fate.
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I do not have a copy of the UCMJ in hand today but are they a flight risk? And if not, why are they presently confined?
Maybe I should butt out. Maybe they are guilty as sin. Who knows. They better have credible witness against them if they are locked up because the media is not AT ALL credible.
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" While Sifton did tell TIME that there was photographic evidence, taken by Marines, he had only heard about the specific content of the photos from reports done by NBC, and had no firsthand knowledge. TIME regrets the error."
Pakistani security forces attacked a militant hideout near the Afghan border on Saturday, killing up to 20 militants, an army spokesman said. The compound, attacked with artillery and helicopters, was near Dattakhel village, in the North Waziristan region on the Afghan border, said the spokesman, Major-General Shaukat Sultan. An attack was launched before dawn on Saturday and about 70 percent of the compound was destroyed, he said. "We believe we killed 15 to 20 miscreants," he said.
The militants at the camp were believed to be foreigners and their Pakistani allies, he said. Foreign al Qaeda supporters, including many from Central Asia, are known to be taking refuge in the area.
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GUWAHATI: At least three people died and eight were injured when a bomb exploded on Friday in crowded marketplace in Guwahati, the main city in India's northeastern Assam state, police said. "The explosion was very powerful with limbs of victims strewn around all over the place. The condition of six of the victims is critical," Police Chief N Gogoi told AFP.
The attacks came soon after it was announced a third round of talks between New Delhi and representatives of the region's most powerful rebel group - the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) - would be held on June 22. The ULFA has fought a war for the secession of Assam from India for more than 25 years, accusing New Delhi of neglecting the state's economy and taking away its rich natural resources.
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RAIPUR: At least 13 Maoist rebels were killed in gunbattles with security forces in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, a government minister said. The clashes took place on Thursday in two remote districts. Paramilitary troops and police raided a village in Dantewada district, 520 km (320 miles) south of Raipur and shot dead 10 rebels in a three-hour gunbattle, said Home Minister Ramvichar Netam. Five rebels were arrested, he added.
In a separate clash, 420 km northeast of Raipur, police killed three Maoists and seized several weapons. Chhattisgarh has been most affected of the 13 Indian states hit by Maoist insurgency that began more than three decades ago to fight for the rights of poor peasants and landless labourers. At least half of Chhattisgarh's 16 districts have a presence of the Maoist guerrillas and over 170 civilians have been killed in the state since January, according to official figures.
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QUETTA: Unidentified men fired 19 rockets on security forces' check posts in several districts on Friday, including Dera Bugti and Sui. Sources told Daily Times that rockets had also been fired on Frontier Corps (FC) check posts in Pir Koha, Sangsila, Kohlu and Wadh. However, the rockets did not cause any serious damage, they said. In a separate incident, a railway track was blown up in Snari, disrupting the railway service. No immediate repairs were reported. Security forces also claimed defusing two landmines under a nearby railway bridge.
In Mustung district, a powerful bomb exploded in front of the Sui Southern Gas Company Limited office, but no one was reportedly harmed. Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the banned Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), calling himself Azad Baloch, claimed to have killed four government officials in Kohlu on Friday. Talking to reporters via satellite phone, the man said that a bomb blast had killed the government officials and injured six others. However, the incident could not be confirmed through independent sources. Meanwhile, police have arrested 16 suspected militants from Sui and Hub. Lasbela District Police Officer Ghulam Haider Baloch told Daily Times that 10 men had been arrested in Sui for their suspected involvement in rocket attacks on military check posts, while six had been rounded up in Hub for the mu
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PESHAWAR: A landmine explosion in South Waziristan on Friday killed one person and wounded four others, officials in the tribal region said. The blast took place in Shakai valley, 35 kilometres southwest of Wana, at around 9:00am when a private tractor hit a landmine. Saeed Rehman, the 18-year-old driver, died on the spot while his four co-workers sustained injuries. The wounded were admitted to a Wana hospital, where two of them were said to be in a serious condition. The tribesmen had been returning home on the tractor after working in the fields.
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MULTAN: Police said on Friday that they had arrested six operatives of a banned Sunni extremist group who were allegedly planning to carry out a suicide attack on a Shia mosque. Police arrested the suspects in an early morning raid on their hideout in the rural town of Rahim Yar Khan in central Punjab, the towns police chief Ahsan Mahboob told AFP. He confirmed that explosives and three weapons belts had also been seized during the raid. They were planning to target a Shia place of worship in Rahim Yar Khan with a suicide attack when police captured them, he said, adding that the would-be bomber was among the six suspects.
They all belong to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a group outlawed in 2001 and blamed for numerous attacks against the countrys Shia minority, the police chief said. Mahboob said that the group had executed a suicide attack against a Karachi-based Shia mosque last year. Police have identified one of the six men arrested as Ghulam Nazik, who was involved in last years suicide attack on a Shia mosque at Nipa Chaurangi, Karachi.
Not as the boomer, obviously...
District Police Officer (DPO) Rahimyar Khan Syed Ahsan Mehboob said that the six detainees had planned to carry out a suicide attack on imam Bargah of Mailsi (Vehari district) during Ashura-i-Muharram, but had been unable to execute their plot due to heightened security in the district. Mehboob said that the police had seized a Kalashinkov, four pistols, a revolver, bullets, bomb-making material and three weapons belts during their early morning raid. Sources said the suspects had, under torture interrogation, admitted to killing Syed Akki Shah, a Shia. They also confirmed that Ghulam Nazik had been involved in the suicide attack at Nipa Chaurangi. Those arrested have been identified as: Muhammad Shaaban Chachar, Abdul Hameed, Imdad-ullah Manak,Qari Muhammad Rafiq, Master Muhammad Nawaz and Javed Akhtar Dashti.
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Eleven men were injured in a bomb blast at an outdoor restaurant in Hub Friday evening. The Balochistan police said they suspected that the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) was behind the act. Ten injured men were rushed to Civil Hospital Karachi. Four were stated to be in critical condition. The police sealed off the exits from Hub in the meantime.
According to the injured, the explosion occurred at hotel Taj Mahal in front of Hub police station. When the explosion occurred more than 25 people were at the hotel. DIG Khuzdar Parvez Zahoor told Daily Times that investigators found smell metal pellets from the locally made one-kilogramme bomb that had been attached to a timed device. Zahoor added that the BLA was suspected as it had used the same material in previous bomb blasts in Balochistan. Investigators have not ruled out the possibility that the attack was linked to a police operation that had been conducted for the last few days in Hub against a Karachi-based gangster. The operation was launched after a Hub SHO was killed last week. Injured Noshad told Daily Times that when the bomb exploded he was with a friend at the Taj Mahal. The bomb went off from under a table. He said the bomb was in a bag.
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AN autopsy is being carried out today on insurgent leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who died in a US air strike earlier this week. "The autopsy is going on right now as we speak and will be concluded by the evening," coalition spokesman Major General William Caldwell said.
Gen. Caldwell said the move was in response to repeated queries about the conditions of Zarqawi's death, especially after it was revealed he was alive when Iraqi and coalition forces appeared. "We are doing the autopsy to see how he actually died," said Gen. Caldwell.
Two military experts were flown in to perform the autopsy, Gen. Caldwell said, adding that they would be sensitive to Muslim sensibilities about dealing with the body. "They are very familiar with this kind of thing. One of them has the information and knows the customs and traditions of the religion," he said. Gen. Caldwell would not specify the location of Zarqawi's body.
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We will, of course, treat the body with respect. Not like the F#$kin& AQ. They seem to think hanging from bridges and draging in the street is fine. I bet the civs in Bagdad would not treat him with the respect we are. Argg!
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Over / under on the number of broken bones - 85...
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If Zman was found with his pants around his ankles, then you know how he survived for some minutes. A whole new set of questions are asked if his "spiritual advisor" was also found with pants around ankles.
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...Um...he was killed by a bomb, Dr. Quincy. No @#$%^! autopsy necessary.
Mike
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"He's dead, Jim!"
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If he was in the building when the bombs hit, his internal organs should all show major blast effect damage : multiple tears throughout the organs, internal crushing and rupturing, perhaps even organ dislocation. Blast effect damage is VERY unpleasant for the short time that you survive, the fact that the human body is so fluid allows the blast effect to flow through you like a wave.
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Osama is still "da Man", the ultimate symbol/epitome of 9-11 and [US] victory in the WOT. Net bloggers are comparing Zarkey's death to the Amer Civil War and the defeat-deaths of important Confederate Generals, i.e. Osama/Zark = Robert E. Lee > must be defeated. Simplistic comparisons but accurate - ONCE AGAIN, THE USA MUST FIND OSAMA AND VERIFY HIS CAPTURE OR PER SE DEATH, AND DO SO REGARDLESS OF WHAT ELSE GOES ON OR OCCURS IN THE WOT.
Baghdad was under curfew on Friday to enhance security in the wake of two evening bombings that followed news that Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had been killed. Even as US and Iraqi officials predicted that Zarqawis surviving lieutenants would launch new attacks to assert their organisations continued presence in the country, two car bombs exploded in predominantly Shia neighbourhoods killing 15 people on Thursday. The curfew is a measure to keep people indoors as there could be more bombings like the ones last night, following Zarqawis death, a Defence Ministry official said.
Vehicles were banned from the streets of Baghdad and nearby Baquba, close to where Zarqawi was killed, from 11am (0700 GMT) until 5pm (1300 GMT), coinciding with Friday prayers. Zarqawi was killed on Wednesday in a joint US-Iraqi raid. Websites devoted to Al Qaeda and other jihadi causes have been flooded with messages of support for the organisation and pledges to continue the fight.
Joost Hiltermann, Middle East director for the International Crisis Group and a long time Iraq observer, pointed out that Zarqawis legacy will long outlive him. He has helped unleash a sectarian dynamic which is going strong and has gained momentum and is difficult to resist, he said.
Fort Carson's 1-68 Combined Arms Battalion had been fighting the forces of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi for weeks in Diyala Provice north of Baghdad, and beating them soundly, before Wednesday night's fatal strike that took out Zarqawi himself, Lt. Col. Tom Fisher said Friday.
The fights had been going on since early in April, when Zarqawi announced in a video message that he intended to take over Diyala Province with his militia. He began a series of atrocities that included taking captives and decapitating them, and executing a bus load of students.
Fighting reached a peak April 27, Fisher said, when about 100 Zarqawi fighters attacked a police station and five checkpoints in an area of Baqouba but were crushed by combined U.S. and Iraq forces, who killed 47, captured 33 and tracked down another nine in the ensuing days.
Meanwhile, U.S. and Iraqi units were gathering information from citizens who had tired of Zarqawi's brutal attacks on innocent civilians, finally locating him earlier this week and calling in the airstrike that killed him.
"The soldiers were more than happy to get the guy who planned all that and take him out," he said. "And the locals are very happy."
Fisher's soldiers were called upon to provide perimeter security after the bombing at the target in Hibhib, just a few kilometers from Baqouba.
"It looks like any house that's been blown up," said Fisher. "There's a crater about 20 feet deep and 40 feet across. Bricks and debris everywhere."
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"And the locals are very happy."
all politics is local
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A U.S. military search of the destroyed safehouse where Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed yielded documents and information storage devices that are being assessed for potential use against his terror network, a military officer said Friday.
The officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because results from the safehouse search have not been announced, said an M-16 rifle and an unspecified number of grenades and AK-47 rifles also were found. The M-16 was fitted with special optics, the official said.
Also found were "media and documents," the officer said, adding that the term "media" as used in this context normally refers to information storage devices such as computer hard drives, digital cameras or other devices. The officer was unable to be specific in this case.
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Flush with intelligence, the U.S. military moved quickly Friday to take advantage of the power vacuum left by the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, carrying out nearly 40 raids in an effort to stop his terror network from regrouping.
A U.S. military search of the destroyed safehouse where the al-Qaida in
Iraq leader was killed Wednesday yielded documents and information storage devices that are being assessed for potential use against his followers, a military officer said.
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Words fail me, Dan, LOL. Have you met Our Leader, yet? You're supposed to say "Take me to your leader." you know. It's in the Galactic Handbook as distributed by the Vogons. :)
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17 simultaneous A-Q Iraq raids on Zarq-Dead-Day Wednesday June 7th.
And 39+ additional raids by Friday June 9th, made possible because of fresh intel exploited from the first raids on Wendnesday.
One Shia Imman's response: "Despite the crimes of al-Zarqawi, the source of terrorism is the Baathists who had supplied him with secure dens and safe havens," Imam Sadr al-Din al-Qupanchi said at a Shiite mosque in Najaf.
[note: the Imam forgot to say anything 'bout Tater & Tots]
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Pentagon Channel: Multi-National Force-Iraq spokesman MG William Caldwell said three women and three men, including al-Zarqawi and spiritual adviser Sheik Abdul-Rahman were killed, but he cautioned that some facts were being sorted out. [note: watch "rapporteurs" accumulate more ass-shine]
Now that Zark is suxing raisins forever, Abu Ayyub al-Masri originally from Egypt looks to be the possible replacement CEO heading up A-Q Iraq.
Abu Ayyub al-Masri first met Zarq in a Afghani A-Q training camp back in the 90s.
Supposedly Abu Ayyub al-Masri has been the main contact link between Zark and A-Q top management all along.
the chain looses the last link: Ayman al-Zawahri Pakistan ----> Abu Ayyub al-Masri ---> Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Iraq
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Abu Abdul-Rahman al-Iraqi... status: Dead
After Da Bombs Pics, High Resoultion Al-Zarqawi's Safe House.
June 10, Maj. Gen. Caldwell
Briefs the media in Baghdad on the neutralization of terrorist Musab Al Zaqarwi. He then answers questions from the media. 3 parts.
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Nice ripple effect. Thats how the ACTION part of the intelligence game is played if you're doing it right.
17 of the top command nodes incuding the central command node itself (AMZ and his 7), and then 39 associated nodes, all in a 24 hour period. And probably a number of unpublicized tertiary raids coming off the second set (39). Add to that the financial data and bank accounts seized, and the forensic accounting that will "follow the money" and give us nice fat targets that have been bankrolling these assclowns.
Thats how you're supposed to be playing this game.
You boys in Langely watching this? The DoD is given out free lessons in how to roll up acommand structure. Back in the day, CIA used to know how to do stuff like this, and had the balls to do it, even in a place like waki-land.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian terrorist leader killed in an airstrike on Wednesday, initially survived the bombing and died from his wounds after Iraqi police officers and American soldiers arrived on the scene, American officials said Friday.
The news came as American forces, trying to sustain the momentum gathered after Mr. Zarqawi's death, raided dozens of suspected hideouts of Al Qaeda across Iraq. The Americans said they detained at least 25 suspects, and a senior Pentagon adviser said documents, cellphones, passports and computers were also seized. But one of the raids, in a village not far from the spot where Mr. Zarqawi was killed, appeared to cause a number of civilian deaths.
The new material provided the Special Operations force charged with tracking terrorists with fresh intelligence to carry out attacks before insurgents can shift their operations, the adviser said. "They're going full blast right now," he said of the force. He was granted anonymity because of the classified nature of Special Operations missions.
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Best US airstrike since they took out the IJNs Yamamoto.
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What about the time between the two bomb hits? It looked like a shoot-look-shoot rather than a classic double-tap. So, who was doing the looking and saw that Zarqawi was still alive (maybe outside) after the first bomb hit? If this has been covered already (It seems obvious), then I missed it.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Intelligence from cell phone technology helped U.S. forces find and kill Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, said an Iraqi army colonel Friday in an exclusive interview with CNN. Col. Dhiya Tamimi said he worked with U.S. forces to monitor al-Zarqawi and his associates' cell phones, helping to lead to Wednesday night's airstrike on a safe house near Baquba.
But did they get a FISA Court warrant first?
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Commander Arlen Specter will git right on this one.
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Glad to hear CNN and company are doing all they possible can to be sure find, understand, and fully explain all our tools and advantages to the ENEMY.
I wonder if after Midway the US media outlets attempted to find out how we surprised and were ready waiting for the Japanese fleet? Somehow I would bet that even if they had known such info the media of the time who considered themselves American not World citizens like our current crop of Seditionist media but they would have done what they could to bury it until the end of the war.
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Glad to hear CNN and company are doing all they possible can to be sure find, understand, and fully explain all our tools and advantages to the ENEMY.
Why isn't that illegal? It's got to be illegal! Is that guy working for Al Qaeda or what? Years ago it would have been called espionage or something close to it. Perhaps the reporter and his buddies can all go to the bar and pick up girls with what they know. They are big shots now after all. And perhaps the colonel is headed off to the mosque to thank Allah for giving him this information and the opportunity to pass it to Al Qaeda without even having to leave his office or pick up the phone. Allah works in strange and mysterious ways. And some reporters do, too. They should think twice about doing things that extend this conflict and cost lives, even if it means passing up a Pulitzer. There's nothing there that I need to know. I promise you, I can wait until after the war for that info. And some dead and injured soldiers (aka humans) would have appreciated it, too. And their families. Maybe what we need is some kind of award for keeping your mouth shut.
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C-Low, ironically enough, the press DID actually spill the beans (to some extent) after Midway. I believe it was the Chicago Tribune that published a report about how US penetration of Japanese codes had aided in the victory. As I recall the Roosevelt Admin. in the end decided to let it pass, as it did not catch on and become a widely-reported item, even though officials were furious. I don't know if anyone has ever researched the question of whether anyone in Japan had come across the Trib report (though in that paper age obviously we were protected by the non-global information network). The other thing that's intriguing is the source of the leak - code-breaking in WWII was exceptionally well protected as a national secret.
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Col. Dhiya Tamimi said he worked with U.S. forces to monitor al-Zarqawi and his associates' cell phones
Notice they went to a host-nation spokensperson (who could phueching be anybody or nobody at all) and not a US soldier or officer. Another good reason to BAN these MSM donks from theater.
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Actually, the Japanese changed their Naval code twice during World War II. Each time, the new code was based somewhat on the previous code, and it didn't take long to decript the new codes. Codebreakers were given TWO WEEKS to learn the new codes letter-perfect. The first code change didn't occur until several months after Admiral Yamato was shot down in the south Pacific, and well after Midway.
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They've known we can listen in on and trace their cell phone calls for decades. They continue to use them a)because it's kewl and b)because they haven't any other way to talk to one another at a distance. It's not like there is an Iraqi or Afghani branch of Ma Bell over there.
An official of the Iraqi major oil sector was abducted on Friday in northern Baghdad and at least one civilian was killed in an armed attack in the northern city of Kirkuk. An Iraqi police source said unknown gunmen abducted the Director General of Oil Projects in the Ministry of Oil Muthanna Al-Bedairi in the area of Adhamiya, northern Baghdad. The source added that the gunmen took Al-Bedairi to an unknown destination, but released his driver.
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Al-Qaeda ideologue Ayman al-Zawahiri has urged Palestinians to reject a referendum on a future state. Zawahiri, in a video on al-Jazeera TV, also praised militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The channel said the video was made before Zarqawi's death. "God bless the prophet of Islam in Iraq, the persistent hero of Islam, the Holy Warrior Abu Musab al-Zarqawi," Zawahiri said. He also encouraged Iraqi insurgents, "who are confronting crusaders and their apostate aids and the merchants of religion".
In his comments on the Palestinian referendum - which could take place as early as next month - Zawahiri said: "Palestine is not for bargaining or bidding." He repeatedly wagged his right finger as he made his declaration, dressed in a white turban and tunic, with an automatic weapon at his side.
Zawahiri went on: "Palestine was a land of Islam, and its liberation is the duty of every Muslim." He called on Muslims everywhere to support the Palestinian people. The video also made references to political tensions in his homeland, Egypt, and to Sudan's strife-torn region of Darfur. It accused UN officials visiting Sudan of preparing "to occupy and divide it".
"I call upon every Muslim and everyone who has faith in Sudan, and every fervent Muslim in Darfur to confront the Zionist Crusader plot to occupy the lands of Islam," Zawahiri said.
Well, actually, Doc', it was a land of the Jews, promised by Jehovah, for a lot longer than it was a land of Islam.
Of course, history hasn't ever been Islam's strong suit, has it?
Otherwise, you might know that even before it belonged to the Jews (oh, and BTW, Doc', nobody except the Romans called it Palestine for most of history), it didn't belong to Islam (oh, and another BTW, Doc', Islam is only 1500 or so years old and the Jews predate your moon cult by a considerable span of millenia), but rather to the Assyrians, the Phoenecians, the Hittites, the Babylonians, and a whole buncha' others, not the least of which was the Romans and the Hebrews/Jews.
But, like I said, history isn;t exactly your srong suit is it?
One Palestinian was killed on Friday and another was wounded in the city of Khan Younis, south of Gaza, when unknown militants opened fire on them in a city street.
Palestinian security forces said the militants, who had been in car, opened fire on 43-year-old Abdul-Rahman Al-Naqla and 32-year-old Ibrahim Hijazi, killing the first and wounding the second in the leg, before escaping the scene. Palestinian police rushed to the area, and investigations were ongoing. No Palestinian body claimed responsibility for the attack.
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"CSI Gaza remains stumped"
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Thousands of Palestinians paid tribute and put to final rest Friday the four resistance members, including Jamal Abu Samhadana, head of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), who were killed just before midnight in a raid on a training camp near the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah. The Palestinians who were boiling with anger
Sometimes they boil with anger, other times they bake with anger, and sometimes they deep fry to a golden brown with anger.
gathered at the city's municipal playground where they performed the prayers for souls of the four resistance members prior to the funeral procession that roamed the city and finally stopped in the martyrs cemetery. Hundreds of armed militants and members of various Palestinian factions had gun sexshot off fired in the air in uproar and grimacedmade facesjumped up and down vowed to repulse the crimes committed by trhe Israeli forces.
"Dire Revenge™ will be ours!"
Abu Samhadana served as an advisor to the Hamas government. He was one of the most wanted of all Palestinian militants, and Israel claims that he was responsible for dozens of deaths, including the 2003 bombing of a diplomatic convoy in Gaza that left three Americans dead. He was also a close ally of the Hamas government and was originally tapped to oversee a new paramilitary force.
I think that one even tightened the Eurosphincter...
A senior PRC member said that the Committee Shura council met early morning and elected a new Secretary General who succeeds Abu Samhadana. However the name of the new leader was bravely not made public due to the critical security situation that dominates all parts of Palestine. Israeli security sources said that liquidation of Abu Samhadana and his colleagues came by order from the Israel War Minister Amir Peretz.
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What, no seething?
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I'd like, just one time, for the Israelis to helizap one of these guys, then follow up with 500lb bombs on the funeral procession. That would put an end to a lot of the seething and gun sex. And funeral parades for "martyrs". Wait to do it at the burial site, and dig up some of the other "martyrs" there at the same time.
This whole paleostain bullshit needs to end, NOW. Killing's too good for them. Flush them to Cairo, where they can REALLY be oppressed.
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Three Palestinians were killed and four others were injured on Friday by an Israeli air strike in Jabalia, said sources from the Islamic Jihad Movement (IJM). The strike, added the sources, targeted a car that contained members of IJM and the Popular Resistance Committees in Palestine (PRCP), adding that the activists were attacked as they were attempting to launch an attack against Israeli towns around Gaza Strip. The dead persons were Khaled Al-Zaanin, Basem Al-Zaanin and Mohammad Al-Zaanin, said the sources.
In another development, the Israeli army conducted a fourth air-strike on Friday, which targeted a civilian car in northern Gaza. According to Palestinian radio stations, several missiles were launched at the car in Gaza's Salah Al-Din street, leading to injuring all passengers onboard the destroyed vehicle.
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Palestinian Ahmad Abu Al-Reish Battalions, the military wing of Fatah movement, launched five missiles at two Israeli targets in Gaza on Friday. The group said in a statement that it had fired three missiles targeting Sofa passageway northeast of Rafah city, while launching two other missiles targeting an Israeli air strip east of Gaza. "The missiles which were launched this evening come in retaliation for the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people," the statement added.
Palestinian Al-Aqsa Brigades, another military wing of Fatah, said it launched five locally made (Shahab 2) missiles against the Israeli town of Sedort south of Israel.
Meanwhile, an Israeli general ordered his troops to cease military operations in Gaza strip temporarily, after earlier attacks killed and injured a number of civilian Palestinians. The order to halt the attack came after an Israeli gunboat fired several shots against Palestinians on a beach north of Gaza city. "The Israeli warship killed many Palestinians, among them women and children," a Palestinian source said. An Israeli newspaper Haaretz said the Israeli army has apologized to the Palestinian authoruty for the killing of innocent Palestinians.
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U fuk with the bull, you're gotta git the horns
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Israeli army has apologized to the Palestinian authoruty for the killing of innocent Palestinians.
How about appologizing for Kasams to the people of Sderot?
A computer hacker has got into the US agency that guards the country's nuclear weapons stockpile and stolen the personal records of at least 1,500 employees and contractors.
A senior US legislator revealed the incident on Friday, which targeted the National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA).
It is the latest agency to reveal that sensitive private information about government workers was stolen.
The incident happened last September but energy department officials were not told about it until this week, prompting the chairman of the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee to demand the resignation of the head of the NNSA.
An NNSA spokesman was not available for comment.
The NNSA is a semi-autonomous arm of the energy department. It guards some of the US military's nuclear secrets and responds to global nuclear and radiological emergencies.
Joe Barton, the committee chairman, said that Linton Brooks, the NNSA administrator, should be removed from office as soon as possible because he did not quickly notify senior energy department officials of the breach.
"And I mean like five o'clock this afternoon if it's possible," Barton, a Texas Republican, said in a statement.
Earlier this week, the Pentagon revealed that personal information on about 2.2 million active-duty National Guard and Reserve troops was stolen last month from a government employee's house.
That comes on top of the theft of data on 26.5 million US military veterans, the department of veterans affairs has said.
Sam Bodman, a spokesman for the energy secretary, declined to comment on the call for Brooks' resignation but said the secretary was "deeply disturbed about the way this was handled internally" and would make it a priority to tell workers about the lapse.
According to Barton, the NNSA chief knew about the incident soon after it happened in September but did not tell energy department officials, including Bodman, until Wednesday.
THE Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is confused as to the whereabouts of Khadaffy Janjalani, chieftain of the terror group Abu Sayyaf, which is being blamed for a number of deadly bombings in the south and in Metro Manila.
FP public information office chief Tristan Kison admitted that the intelligence community received information about the sighting of Janjalani in Sulu while other reports indicated he was in Central Mindanao.
"You should understand, we should also understand that these people are highly mobile," said Kison.
Janjalani is among the five Abu Sayyaf leaders wanted by the US, which raised US$5 million for their arrest. The Philippines has also offered a P15 million reward for his capture.
"He will not stay long in one place, he moves to another place and that is also a strategy to confuse the troops. They keep on moving so it's possible, it's true that they were seen here at one time and then he was in another place at another time," said Kison.
There are reports that Janjalani is with the company of Omar Patek and Dulmaten, two foreign bombers of the Southeast Asian regional terrorist network Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), which perpetrated the 2002 bombings in Bali, Indonesia.
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Always after the big fish. If they would just follow Hapilon or Soliman they would get to him. Stupid Phils, they will never get them unless we hand him to them.
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Last week, Qatari authorities proceeded to arrest about 100 Syrian workers and five Syrian intelligence officers. The Kuwaiti daily Al Seyassah explained that Qatar had foiled a destabilization plot against the monarchy. This plot, reportedly conceived by Assad's brother in law Assef Shawkat (also wanted in conjuction to the murder of ex Lebanese Pm Rafik Hariri) with the help of Hizbullah Imad Mugniyeh activating sleeping cells in the Gulf, targeted vital and strategic centers in Qatar. Syria wanted to take revenge on Qatar because of its vote at the UN for resolution 1680 which calls for a final drawing of the borders between Syria and lebanon and the reestablishment of normal diplomatic relations between the two states.
This story, if proven accurate, only shows how Syria is still using tactics of a terrorist state.
Since Iran has been so much in the limelight, Syria has been left on the backburner. That's why unfortunately the Cedar Revolution of Spring 2005 is only a fading memory and Syria is back to its old tricks.
They rose up quickly to take up Osama bin Laden's call for jihad, ruthless men in their 20s and 30s heralded as the next generation of global terror.
Two years later, 40 percent are dead, targets of a worldwide crackdown that claimed its biggest victory with the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaida's front man in Iraq.
Manhunts in Asia, Africa and Europe have pushed most of the rest deep underground - finding refuge in wartorn Somalia or the jungles of the southern Philippines. While there are still recruits ready to take up al-Qaida's call to arms, analysts say the newcomers have fewer connections than the men they are replacing, less training and sparser resources.
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40% dead is going to make a noticeable difference in the coming years. I suspect the survivors are thinking long and hard about their chosen carreers.
As for the "dissappeared"--Heh(tm). That 40% is prolly a low percentage, based on confirmed kills/Positive I.D.ing. I will bet the actual number is much higher.
Posted by: N guard ||
06/10/2006 9:44 Comments ||
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Sigh, backed the wrong horses the wrong way in Somalia, *again*.
Whoever is sitting that desk at CIA should be fired.
Need to be arming, and inserting coutner-revolutionary forces in Somalia immediately.
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"Another four of the top 12 young militants in the 2004 list have met violent ends - in shootouts in Saudi Arabia, under U.S. bombardment in Iraq, or in an Algerian terror sweep...."
****dab corner of eye with lace-trimmed hankie****
Oh, isn't a shame, they blow up so quickly these days!
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Old Spook, I wouldn't bother. Just level the place to send a firm message - deal with AQ, and you die, plus all your tribe. A dozen B-52 raids down through the middle of the place would send a VERY strong message to that effect. Of course, I'm just a bloodthirsty bas$$$$, and what do I know.
Posted by: Old Patriot ||
06/10/2006 17:47 Comments ||
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The death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi could mark a turning point for al-Qaeda and the global jihadist movement, according to terrorism analysts and intelligence officials.
Until he was killed Wednesday by U.S. forces, the Jordanian-born guerrilla served as Osama bin Laden's proxy in Iraq, attracting hundreds if not thousands of foreign fighters under the al-Qaeda banner. At the same time, Zarqawi had grown into a strategic headache for al-Qaeda's founders by demonstrating an independent streak often at odds with their goals.
Despite written pleas from bin Laden's deputy to change his tactics, Zarqawi alienated allies in the Iraqi insurgency as well as Arab public opinion by killing hundreds of Muslims with suicide bombings. Zarqawi, a Sunni Muslim, repeatedly attacked Shiite shrines and leaders in a bid to fuel an Iraqi civil war, instead of primarily fighting the U.S. military and its partners.
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IOW, ZAWAHIRI you silly Ipan coconut, can you shoot an AK47 or SAW as ably as Zarkey did, or does Paula Abdul have to kick a coconut again???
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Zark wasnt attacking civilians because he was just blood thirsty. Zark was making those attacks because pretty much after the retaking of Falluja and the Anbar sweep that followed his forces no longer had the strength to go head to head with the US forces or even the new Iraqi Army/Police forces. Zark tried to hit the regulars instead of civilians but those attempts resulted in devastating loses with little to no gains. When was the last time you hear of a police station or army base being taken by AQ successfully? Yeah I can remember a couple tries thou with double digit loses in the 60% plus range of assault force, that is just unsustainable loses.
Civilian attacks were all he had left AQ was broken in mid 05 the market bombings just gave the impression of life in a if we cant have it nobody will attempt to destabilize Iraq like post war Afghanistan. They failed at this as well.
We have been in mop up mode on AQ for a while and Zarks death will make it all the more easier. The real threat now is Phase 3 Iran starting with Irans Proxies in Iraq Sadr/Badgr militia. Maliki has already gone around telling the militia its disarm or iron fist, hell he even stated the moving of a IA division to Basra Sadr/Badr land with such orders.
When Maliki starts their sweep of the militias Iran is going to be forced on the spot with 3 choices all losers.
1) sit back and watch their proxies in Iraq surrender and become impotent
2) have their proxies fight and attempt to support their action underground (risking getting caught and retaliated against for) while watching them be decimated like last time they tried
3) jump in and help their proxies in the fight, giving US defensive excuse for Phase 3
This month/summer is going to be one hell of a hot one. We are going to see I believe things moving quickly on many fronts simultaneously. We are back on the offensive.
#5
Same tactics. Just different priority on what parts of the target set they want.
Zark was good at making deathporn that plays well on the web and Arab TV to the kinds of nutjob Jihadi's they need for these essentially suicidal ops. Zark knew how to play the media well. Then again, thre's an old saying that "you can't rape the willing", regarding our press and promoting the terrorist's cause (as long as it damages Bush).
#5
I admire ALL the beauty God has created, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'm safe as long as I don't touch. Wife of Old Patriot has NO sense of humor about that, and she has a HUGE cast-iron skillet.
Posted by: Old Patriot ||
06/10/2006 16:28 Comments ||
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I suspect a truer statement might be, you're safe so long as Mrs. Patriot doesn't catch you with your tongue hanging out, darlingest OP. I also suspect you mastered that particular skill shortly after Mrs. Patriot acquired the skillet. ;-)
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