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Afghanistan
35 Taliban killed in Afghanistan
(KUNA) -- The US-led coalition forces announced killing 35 Taliban militants in an operation in southern Afghanistan, said a statement from the US main Bagram military base on Wednesday and noted the operation was carried out in the Moosa Kala area of the troubled Helmand province last night. The statement said the coalition forces or civilians suffered no injuries. It said several of the insurgents killed were local Taliban.
The remainder being imported Taliban...
"Afghan National Army (ANA) and the coalition forces will continue the relentless pursuit of extremists operating in southern Afghanistan," said the statement.
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's just so hard finding things to do to amuse out-of-town visitors in that part of the world.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2006 11:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Oh, there's plenty to do, but Allan is watching, and they have been ordered to jihad.
What else can a brainless dimwit do with his time these days ?
Posted by: wxjames || 07/06/2006 12:38 Comments || Top||


Multiple bombs kill 1, wound 47 in Kabul
Multiple bombs exploded Wednesday in Kabul for the second day in a row, killing one bystander, wounding 47 and raising fears that violence largely confined to the south and east will increasingly make its way into the capital. The blasts came as U.S.-led coalition forces in the south killed 35 suspected militants during a raid Tuesday night while hunting for Taliban fighters. One British soldier was killed on patrol in a separate attack.

Three bombs exploded in Kabul in rush-hour attacks that targeted buses carrying government workers and security forces, police and witnesses said. On Tuesday, two similar bombings hit Kabul, leaving 10 injured. Kabul's police chief, Gen. Amanullah Ghuzar, said extra police will be posted at checkpoints around the city. He also said all pushcarts had been ordered removed from city streets. Three of the bombs in the last two days were hidden in pushcarts.

In the first attack around 7 a.m., a remote-controlled bomb blew up near an Afghan National Army bus in downtown Kabul, wounding 39 people aboard, the Defense Ministry said. Police said the bomb had been hidden in a garbage container on the street. Video from AP Television News showed plumes of black smoke pouring out of the burning bus as ambulance sirens wailed nearby. The blast caused the bus to veer out of control and crash.
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Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Three Taliban, one ANA soldier killed in Zabul clash
Three Taliban and one soldier of Afghan National Army were killed in a clash in Zabul province on Wednesday, police said. Police Chief of Zabul province, Noor Muhammad Pakteen while giving details to Afghan Islamic Press said, “Taliban attacked a convoy of Afghan National Army in Nowbahar district of Zabul province today’s morning, killing one Afghan soldier and injuring three others.” He added that ANA also returned firing in which thee Taliban fighters were killed.

Earlier, spokesman of Taliban fighters Qari Muhammmad Youaf told AIP that a heavy clash took place between Taliban and coalition forces in Zabul today which left 10 coalition and Afghan soldiers dead while two military vehicles were also damaged. He said that one Talib was also killed and three wounded.

Meanwhile, spokeswoman of coalition forces in Kandahar, Julie Roberge told AIP that Taliban ambushed a patrol of ANA in Zabul province, killing one ANA soldiers and four wounded. She said the injured were transported to the Qualat Medical Treatment Facility for treatment. District Nowbahar is 75 kilometers to southeast of Qalat, capital of Zabul province.
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Horn
Somali Islamists jail men behind W.Cup shooting
The hardline leader of Somalia's newly powerful Islamists said on Thursday militia who shot dead two people demanding to watch the World Cup have been jailed and will face sharia law. In the latest sign of a radical tendency within the movement that now controls a swathe of south Somalia, Islamic militia shot a cinema owner and a young girl during a protest against a ban on watching Germany play Italy in the semi-final. "With the cooperation of the elders of the district, we have put those who were behind the killings in prison," Islamist leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys told local HornAfrik radio. "Those who killed the two civilians will face sharia law as soon as possible," added Aweys, a cleric appointed overall leader a few weeks after the Islamists kicked out of Mogadishu U.S.-backed warlords who had run the city for 15 years.

Four others were wounded in Tuesday night's shooting in the central town of Dusa Mareb, Aweys' home area. There have been other reports of militia from the Islamic sharia courts -- out of which the movement grew -- stopping viewings of the World Cup, provoking protests. Islamist leaders say that is not their policy, but rather the work of over-zealous militiamen.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 07/06/2006 11:27 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Video shows Arabs fighting in Somalia
NAIROBI, Kenya - A recruiting video issued by members of the fundamentalist Islamic movement in Somalia shows Arab terrorists radicals fighting alongside the local wannabes extremists in Mogadishu, and invites Muslims from around the world to join in their "holy jihad."
Come on down! The US is setting up another "two-for-one" kill zone over here!

The video, obtained by The Associated Press, provides the first hard evidence that non-Somalis have joined with Islamic extremists in Somalia.

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Posted by: grb || 07/06/2006 03:37 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  but Saudi and Yemen are our allies...
Posted by: Frank G || 07/06/2006 10:32 Comments || Top||

#2  The Ethiopians have reportedly moved well into Somalia along the two best roads leading from their border to Mogadishu. The Counterrrorism Blog reports that the AU and our guys in the Horn may be poised to help. This problem could be resolved shortly.
Posted by: Chuck Simmins || 07/06/2006 11:28 Comments || Top||

#3  I'd look for Binny in Africa before I would the Afghan-Pak border. His latest tape warned the US to stay out of Somalia, linking him to the region he once knew. At least look for one of his sons to be stirring up the viper's nest.
Posted by: Danielle || 07/06/2006 12:06 Comments || Top||

#4  i thought somalia was already a terrorist haven since warlords ruled the streets.
Posted by: Greamp Elmavinter1163 || 07/06/2006 16:48 Comments || Top||


Six killed in Sudan aid agency ambush
At least six people have been killed and 11 wounded after assailants ambushed a German aid agency vehicle in southern Sudan, witnesses say. Five Sudanese teenagers riding in the back of a pick-up belonging to the German Agency for Technical Co-operation (GTZ) and one attacker were shot dead in the attack, they said on Wednesday. The ambush occurred on Monday, about 20km west of Juba, the provisional capital of southern Sudan. In addition to the casualties, a Kenyan surveyor working for GTZ was reported missing.

About 30 assailants, thought to be members of Uganda's Lords Resistance Army (LRA) stormed the truck carrying non-German GTZ employees and security guards and about 20 passengers, the witnesses said. "They were shooting bullets all around us," said Paul Agos, a Sudanese security guard for GTZ who was in the vehicle. "I fell off the truck and shot one of them. Then they all fled into the bush."

Witnesses said the attackers, some of whom were uniformed, were rebel fighters with the LRA, which has waged a nearly 20-year war in northern Uganda and southern Sudan but is preparing for peace talks with Kampala. Witnesses said that the assailants spoke the Acholi dialect of northern Uganda and that the attack took place in an area known to be frequented by the rebels, but the identities of the attackers could not be independently confirmed.

A spokesman for the LRA delegation in Juba awaiting the start of Wednesday's peace talks with the Ugandan government denied the rebels were involved in any such attack. "I can categorically deny that the LRA is responsible for the attack," spokesman Obonyo Olweny said.
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Somalia: Oromo man kidnapped in Beledweine
(SomaliNet) A Muslim Oromo cleric man is reported to have been kidnapped by unknown men in Beledwiene, the capital city of Hiran region in central Somalia on Wednesday. The cleric who was identified as Sheikh Suleiman, well known man among society who has been several years in the town and used to recite the Holy Koran to the villagers, was taken by unknown men from his home telling him to narrate Koran on a sick woman in somewhere in the town, one of the residents told Somalinet. The kidnappers had not used any weapons for their abduction

He had a center for Koran recitation in Howlwadag village in Beledweine. There were conflicting reports from the kidnap of Sheikh Suleiman. Some reports say he has been kidnapped by men who want to hand over Ethiopia and was being held in west of Beledweine town, while other sources say the Sheikh was abducted and taken to Ferfer border village in Ethiopia where he was extradited to Ethiopian troops. But there are no confirmed reports on the right motive of the kidnapping of Sheikh Suleiman, a Koranic teacher who is widely known by Beledwiene’s people. He was from Oramia region in Ethiopia Villagers in the Beledweine condemned the abduction of Sheikh Suleiman asked for the new Islamic court in the town to try to free the Sheikh.
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Arabia
Cole bombing mastermind Jamal Badawi recaptured
The alleged mastermind of the USS Cole bombing, Jamal Badawi, who had escaped from prison in Yemen, has been caught again according to US law enforcement sources.

Badawi, along with 22 others, had escaped from jail in February through an underground tunnel. The prisoners were believed to have help from both inside and outside the prison to dig the 460 foot tunnel.

Badawi was convicted in the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole that killed 17 sailors. He was serving a 10 year sentence.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 07/06/2006 10:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Any word on who got him and where?
Posted by: tu3031 || 07/06/2006 10:38 Comments || Top||

#2  That was the whole story. Yemeni officials deny the story.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 07/06/2006 10:47 Comments || Top||

#3  The opposition Yemen's Children League Party...

Did they capture Yogi Bear and BooBoo too?
Posted by: tu3031 || 07/06/2006 10:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Were there PiKaNick Boomsticks to be stolen?
Posted by: 6 || 07/06/2006 16:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Why is this animal still using precious oxygen?
Posted by: Captain America || 07/06/2006 18:11 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Trans-Dniester blast kills eight
At least eight people have been killed in an explosion on a city minibus in Moldova's breakaway Trans-Dniester region, officials say. More than 20 people were injured - some seriously - in the blast in the city of Tiraspol. Officials said they believed it was caused by a bomb. The authorities issued an urgent appeal for donors to help the badly wounded. Trans-Dniester, which broke away from Moldova in a 1991-1992 war, is not internationally recognised.

The blast took place at about 0700 (0400 GMT) at a crossroads near the city centre. "The blast was so powerful that the roof of the minibus was thrown a distance of about 100 metres, and clothes were ripped off the bodies of the victims," said Trans-Dniester's interior ministry spokesman, quoted by Russia's RIA Novosti news agency. Several people were injured inside a nearby trolleybus, officials said. Experts are working at the scene trying to determine the cause of the explosion. However, Trans-Dniester's interior deputy minister Oleg Belyakov said it could have been caused by an explosive device which was accidentally triggered.

Trans-Dniester, a mainly Russian-speaking region, has been tense since March, when Moldova and Ukraine imposed a new customs regime. It requires exporters in Trans-Dniester to register with the Moldovan authorities. The Trans-Dniester administration says it amounts to a blockade. Russian troops are deployed in the region to protect the separatists.
Posted by: Steve || 07/06/2006 10:15 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Caucus politix are a bit muddled for me.
Posted by: Seafarious || 07/06/2006 10:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Russian troops are deployed in the region to protect the separatists.

That sentence helps clarify the mud a little.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2006 11:09 Comments || Top||

#3  so muddled that they apply to the trans deniester, which is NOT in the Caucusus ;)
Posted by: liberalhawk || 07/06/2006 11:11 Comments || Top||

#4  TD is the Russian speakers who didn't want to be part of Moldova, which is Romanian-speaking. Their leader, back in the 91-92 pereiod had a totally nondescript name -- Ivan Ivanov, if I remember correctly (too lazy to look it up). I believe the leadership of both sides was made up of mafiosi.

Gen. Lebed' kept the parties apart, preventing the Moldovans from killing all the Russian-speaking nitwits and the Russian-speakers from killing all the Moldovan nitwits, exhibiting qualities of patience that should have qualified him for sainthood.

I'd forgotten all about them until this incident jogged my memory. Lebed's not only moved on but safe in his grave, so the hard boyz can get frisky. Doubt if it's our sort of terrorism, though I suppose it could be a lost Chechen or two.
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2006 11:11 Comments || Top||

#5  yah, but not everyone in TD is russian, some are romanian speakers who want to be part of Moldova, and thus Moldova thinks that independence for TD is Russian aggression (kinda the way Russia - quietly - thinks an independent Ukraine is aggression)
Posted by: liberalhawk || 07/06/2006 11:15 Comments || Top||

#6  (Quietly tiptoes out of thread to go lie down.)
Posted by: Seafarious || 07/06/2006 11:28 Comments || Top||

#7  Try the fainting couch over there, Seafarious dear, and I'll bring us each a nice cup of tea. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2006 11:38 Comments || Top||

#8  SF, fortunately for you, TD and/or Caucasus (caucus is something entirely, ahm..., different) are land-locked regions, so given your nick, we do give you some slack. ;-)
Posted by: twobyfour || 07/06/2006 11:39 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Interceptors were ready for NKor missile
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States placed its interceptor missiles in Alaska and California on alert for the long-range North Korean missile that failed less than a minute after being launched, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.

The launch of Pyongyang's intercontinental Taepodong 2 missile, and at least five shorter-range missiles, marked the first time the fledgling U.S. anti-missile shield has been officially reported to have been primed in response to a specific event. The U.S. Northern Command, which operates the interceptors in Alaska and California as part of its homeland defense mission, said it was "able to determine quickly the missiles posed no threat to (the) United States or its territories."
"We're waiting, little man."
The Northern Command said its personnel detected the launches immediately after North Korea's first series of test-firings. Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, told reporters, "What I will tell you is that each and every launch was detected and monitored and that the interceptors were operational during the missile launches that took place."

The shield, while still being tested, has been made "operational" many times since the end of 2004 but is never known to have been activated in response to a perceived threat. In the case of the Taepodong 2, which fell harmlessly into the Sea of Japan about 40 seconds after launch, there was "far too little time to make a decision on whether to shoot it down," said Victoria Samson, an expert on missile defense at the private Center for Defense Information.
Posted by: Steve White || 07/06/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Put Mad Halfbright and Wendy Sherman into the nose of the ABM before firing
Posted by: Captain America || 07/06/2006 0:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Didn't see anything wid the local Guard and Reserves, but the USAF had two heavily armed F-15's flying non-stop around the island - wouldn't surprise me one bit iff the birds were armed wid air-launched BMD missles.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/06/2006 2:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Poor Kimmie. He can't keep his Dong from blowing early.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/06/2006 9:49 Comments || Top||

#4  We ought to use MK's missile tests as a means of testing our anti-missile defenses. They shoot them off and we try to shoot it down.

Seems that if they fire a missile over international waters it ought to be fair game.
Posted by: DoDo || 07/06/2006 11:23 Comments || Top||

#5  , there was "far too little time to make a decision on whether to shoot it down, said Victoria Samson, an expert on missile defense at the private Center for Defense Information."

Some expert. Wrong. I can't say why, but if you think it through and think of the flight phases and the defenses available at each phase, and the reaction time for each phase - you'll see how simple the solution is and how wrong their "expert" is.

Posted by: Oldspook || 07/06/2006 12:24 Comments || Top||

#6  Their "experts" are only experts in making Bush and the US look bad.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/06/2006 12:31 Comments || Top||

#7  The U.S. Northern Command, which operates the interceptors in Alaska and California as part of its homeland defense mission, said it was "able to determine quickly the missiles posed no threat to (the) United States or its territories."

If they were able to determine threat/no threat within 40 seconds post-ignition, a shoot-down decision should have followed on immediately. Actually, I assume the decision tree was determined shortly after fuelling began, and the decision was made around Second 60. Of course, I'm not an expert on missile defense at the private Center for Defense Information, so my assumptions are worth what you just didn't pay for them. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2006 13:03 Comments || Top||

#8  Vader, don't you know? They have Nodong.
Posted by: Chuck Simmins || 07/06/2006 13:25 Comments || Top||

#9  While they may be able to resolve the trajectory in less than a minute, can they traverse the chain of command to get approval to shoot? Given that it can take a half hour to get approval to off al-Q high value targets, I'm not optomistic. And this was a shot we'd been waiting a week for. What if they try not to telegraph the punch next time?

I think we were lucky it blew apart this time. Next time, we'll be very ready, including the Japanese. That's Kimmie's real problem now.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 07/06/2006 13:26 Comments || Top||

#10  Nimble, ever heard of release to local battery? Especially for boost-phase elements in a high threat environment. You're wrong on this.

NMD has had a longer lead time and has figured this one out, unlike those CYA desk-bound morons that wanted a lawyer and signed PDD every time they dumped on a hival target.

Remeber, this is a NCA that delegates, and so does Rummy's military.
Posted by: Oldspook || 07/06/2006 13:51 Comments || Top||

#11  Down to the battery or ship? On a ship that would be a Captain. Is it a Colonel in the Army or Air Force?
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 07/06/2006 14:05 Comments || Top||

#12  What makes you guys so sure we didn't shoot it down?

Ahem.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/06/2006 15:00 Comments || Top||

#13  "Failure to Launch" was on Kimmie's Netflex wish list, too, daggammit.
Posted by: Capsu78 || 07/06/2006 16:27 Comments || Top||

#14  Apparently the DingDong2 was out of control as soon as it cleared the tower. They've been trying to develop vectored thrust control and maybe haven't got the hang of it quite yet. It was veering so far off a "normal" trajectory that we couldn't even compute probable path. I doubt we would have intercepted unless we felt certain it was weaponized or we thought it would hit Japan. It would be to our advantage to see what their current capabilities are. Remember, this thing will be going to Iran, who funded it's development. We need to know as much about flight parameters as possible.
Posted by: SOP35/Rat || 07/06/2006 19:00 Comments || Top||


N. Korea May Have More Missiles To Launch
SEOUL, South Korea -- Major South Korean newspapers are reporting that North Korea has three or four more missiles on launch pads and ready for firing.

According to one of South Korea's largest dailies, a senior South Korean official says the missiles are either short- or medium-range.

The paper says the North has also barred people from sailing into some areas off the coast until July 11 in a possible sign of preparations for additional launches.
Posted by: Frank G || 07/06/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Go ahead and shoot. We won't do shit. We already proved that.
Posted by: Elmising Sleatch7607 || 07/06/2006 0:14 Comments || Top||

#2  As long as those missles don't threaten to hit anything we will "not do shit" which is how it is in the real world.


Kimmie is a fool and just wasting resources and spurring Japan into a rearmament program and placing more sanctions on North Korea. The Chinese are fools for letting this proceed as well.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 07/06/2006 2:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Will say again that Taiwan, SOuth Korea, and other Asian nations are all PC steppingstones to China's ultimate Asian agenda the subornment and knockout of Japan. Once America-West is gone, all gloves will come off between Global Proletarian Revolution-happy Secular Communists-Socialists, and Global Caliphate-Muslim State-happy Radical Islamists, i.e God/Faith-based Socialists.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/06/2006 3:07 Comments || Top||

#4  ....er huh, ok Joe. Got it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2006 9:24 Comments || Top||

#5  ....er huh, ok Joe. Got it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2006 9:24 Comments || Top||

#6  Security believes that Nork missle launches allow the Chicoms to monitor the airwaves to asertain our security frequencies. Therefore, the Chicoms can use that intel to neutralize American responce to any future military actions. Strategic and tactical changes coming soon. If Taiwan launches their own missle, we will pick up Chicoms security frequencies. Poker, anyone ?
Posted by: wxjames || 07/06/2006 12:47 Comments || Top||

#7  --Security believes that Nork missle launches allow the Chicoms to monitor the airwaves to asertain our security frequencies.--

Enterprise D v. The Borg.

Develop rotating frequencies. Easier said than done.
Posted by: anonymous2u || 07/06/2006 14:15 Comments || Top||

#8  a2u - the Aegis radar works with a wide range of frequencies, and can even do mid-pulse frequency changes. What the Chinese get are primary test and daily operations frequencies, not war-status frequencies. The US isn't COMPLETELY stupid...

One of the primary requirements for AEGIS was the ability to work on multiple frequencies, and to use a wide variety of options to ensure operations in the most degrading electronic environment. China got NOTHING other than daily operational data. While they can get quite a bit of information that's useful, it won't help in a tactical or strategic confrontation.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 07/06/2006 14:57 Comments || Top||

#9  The term just came to me, "shield harmonics."

Thanks, OP. We just don't know what they know. Rummy's unknown unknowns.
Posted by: anonymous2u || 07/06/2006 18:00 Comments || Top||

#10  I'm sure that the New York Slimes can dig out that information if they really try. After all, it is not anything about a particular operation, and I am sure that somehow Bushitler could misuse those frequencies somehow. So the people have a right to know. /sarcasm
Posted by: Rambler || 07/06/2006 18:51 Comments || Top||


Europe
Spain bags an Algerian GSPC money man
An Algerian man suspected of helping to fund a terrorist group linked to al-Qaeda was arrates on Wednesday. Police told EFE that the man has been accused of acting as a "courier" to carry the proceeds of robberies carried out by Muslim militants from Spain to Algeria. The police raided a home in Valencia and arrested the man. He has been moved to Madrid.

The police operation - codenamed Green - by Spain's National Court started after several robberies were carried out in 2004 in luxury villas in Campo de Gibraltar, in the southern region of Andalusia. During the operation, authorities made several arrests in December 2005 on the Costa del Sol. In addition to the robberies, the arrested people allegedly committed other common crimes, such as forging identity cards and smuggling vehicles. Cash from the robberies was sent to the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat either by hand or through a complex system of bank transfers to make it more difficult for the New York Times authorities to follow the movement of the funds. Police monitored meetings between the suspects, believing they were linked with a network financing and otherwise supporting al-Qaeda. In the first phase of the operation, investigators also uncovered connections between the cell and other individuals in several European countries.
Bill Keller could not be reached for comment.
Posted by: Seafarious || 07/06/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bill Keller could not be reached for comment.

as Bill's was busy as the featured speaker for a CAIR fund raiser.
Posted by: RD || 07/06/2006 1:16 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
CIA shuts unit dedicated to tracking down bin Laden
The Central Intelligence Agency has closed a unit that for a decade had the mission of hunting Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants. The unit, known as Alec Station, was disbanded late last year and its analysts reassigned within the CIA Counterterrorist Centre, the New York Times revealed yesterday.

Intelligence officials said the realignment reflects a view that al-Qaeda is no longer as hierarchical as it once was, as well as a growing concern about al-Qaeda-inspired groups that have begun carrying out attacks independent of bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri. Agency officials said that tracking bin Laden and his deputies remained a high priority, and that the decision to disband the unit was not a sign that the effort had slackened. Instead, it reflects a belief that the agency can better deal with high-level threats by focusing on regional trends rather than on specific organisations or individuals, the paper reported. "This is an agile agency, and the decision was made to ensure greater reach and focus," CIA spokeswoman Jennifer Millerwise Dyck told the paper.

The decision to close the unit was first reported by National Public Radio, the Times said.
Posted by: Seafarious || 07/06/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Great PR! OBL don't mean nuthin I tell ya, not unless he wants to give up humping the goats in the cave with the Dr.
Posted by: Captain America || 07/06/2006 0:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Or the CIA can't do jack as long as he holes up with Perv and it's time to stop throwing good money after bad.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 07/06/2006 7:28 Comments || Top||

#3  According to this article, this unit has tracked him for 10 years. If they haven't found him yet, a shutdown is past due.
Posted by: Mike N. || 07/06/2006 8:23 Comments || Top||

#4  I'd also note the timing...the NY Slimes "sells" this story some 6-9 MONTHS after the fact? It's the drive to defeat Bush (at least in their minds) in November.
Posted by: BA || 07/06/2006 9:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Ten years? By 1955 Simon Wiesenthal was just getting into his stride. He missed Muller and Mengele, but he rounded up over a thousand over Nazis. Think we might have the wrong agency looking.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2006 9:33 Comments || Top||

#6  I think part of the untold story is that DoD is basically taking over the function. They've been organizing and implementing their own group since Congress was wise enough to give tactical autonomy to the uniform services. IIRC, some of the talk after 9/11 was that SOCOM had a plan and program to get the man, but were shut out by the Clinton White House staff [Sandy 'the papers are in my socks' Berger].
Posted by: Ebbavitle Omomotle4723 || 07/06/2006 9:52 Comments || Top||

#7  Interesting take on this from James S. Robbins at The Corner for National Review, from Tuesday

OBL & CIA
So CIA analysts concluded that Osama bin Laden wanted George Bush to win the 2004 election, and this is why he released a video tape just days before the election? If true, this is just more evidence that the spy agency needs a thorough cleaning.

There is no doubt that had Bush been defeated in 2004 it would have been seen as a resounding repudiation of his war leadership, and a humiliation of the United States, which are principal objectives being sought by Al Qaeda.

The convoluted theory that somehow a Bush victory would sustain bin Laden's leadership against a Zarqawi challenge is simply nonsense. Yet, it apparently had a great deal of traction in the Agency. One might more straightforwardly conclude that a Bush victory would be viewed as a defeat in Al Qaeda — and might explain why bin Laden went silent for a whole year.

There is no doubt that bin Laden helped the President win re-election, but that does not mean he intended to — the enemy have consistently shown they have a poor understanding of our society and what is important to us. In his video Osama said it didn't matter who won, but he spent much of his time blaming the President for all the world's troubles. We really should take it at face value.

Analysts who warp this into a pro-Bush strategic move are working at about the same level as Zarqawi's wife saying OBL sold him out to the Americans.

It is no wonder we have not been able to apprehend bin Laden with folks like that on the case. And now word comes that the Agency is disbanding the dedicated bin Laden team? Under the circumstances that sounds like a very good move.
Posted by: Sherry || 07/06/2006 11:06 Comments || Top||

#8  Has anyone here considered that this is a misinfomation campaign??? I wonder....
Posted by: peggy || 07/06/2006 22:51 Comments || Top||

#9  yep, looks like a great way to get OBL to crawl out from his cave. I am sure OBL now has a personal subscription after all the help NYT has been for him, and what a better place to put some info to get him to come out into the open.
Posted by: Gromosh Elminegum5705 || 07/06/2006 23:15 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Paks wax 25 Baluchis near Sui
QUETTA, Pakistan - Pakistani security forces backed by helicopter gunships targeted hideouts of tribal militants accused of blowing up gas pipelines and attacking officials in troubled southwestern Pakistan, killing 25 suspects, a senior Cabinet minister said.

The security forces also seized a cache of weapons, including rockets, land mines and other munitions during the two-day operation near Sui, a town about 350 kilometers (210 miles) east of Quetta, Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Sherpao termed the operation “an important success,” but gave no further details.

Abdul Razak Bugti, the spokesman for the Baluchistan government said the slain tribesmen were supporters of Nawab Akbar Bugti, a tribal elder who is allegedly leading the insurgency in various parts of the province. “The 25 people who were killed in the operation were the supporter of Nawab Akbar Bugti. We targeted them with 100 percent accuracy,” he told reporters in Quetta.

He said the security forces suffered no losses in the operation which began Tuesday and ended Wednesday near Sui, where Pakistan’s main gas fields are located and where tribesmen have waged a campaign to press the government to increase royalties for resources such as natural gas extracted from the region.
Posted by: Steve White || 07/06/2006 22:04 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


No lawyer willing to represent alleged Ayodhya suicide attack planners
NEW DELHI: Lawyers in the Utter Pradesh city of Faizabad are refusing to represent the five alleged planners of a suicide attack on the makeshift temple in Ayodhya, leaving their trial in limbo.
"I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!"
"Shuddup. You ain't got no mout'piece!"
The five - Irfan Khan, Asif Iqbal, Aziz, Nasim and Shakil - were arrested last year on charges of supplying weapons and SIM cards and offering shelter to the five suicide bombers who were killed in the attack on July 5, 2005. The Faizabad Bar Association adopted a resolution that its members would not defend the accused. “We thought helping the accused persons in the case would amount to betraying the nation. We still stick to this,” said Amarnath Mishra, an advocate in Faizabad. A lawyer from Delhi had arrived in Faizabad to argue their case last year, but had to beat a hasty retreat from the railway station as local lawyers staged a protest against him as soon he stepped off the train.
"I'm here to represent the — "
"Beat it."
"— alleged planners — "
"We said beat it."
"— of the suicide attack — "
"Big Mukkerjee! Rip his arms off!"
"Ummm... What time's the next train back to Delhi?"
Last month, an advocate from Kashmir who had arrived to fight the case also left after he was allegedly manhandled.
"I'm here to... Aaaaargh!"
"Big Mukkerjee! Give him his arm back. The train's about to leave!"
With the legal battle so far restricted to the routine production of the accused from Naini Jail in Allahabad, and then their return, the district administration is thinking of shifting the trial to a neighbouring district. But Faizabad lawyers have reportedly asked their peers in neighbouring districts also to keep away from the trial.
"So, y'see, we wants yez to stay away from the trial."
"Right. Uhhh... Is that Big Mukkerjee?"
"Yeah."
"He's certainly... ummm... big."
"Wingtips, don't fail me now!"
While Irfan is from Delhi, the others were arrested in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir. They have been charged under sections 153 A (promoting communal enmity) and 153 B (causing prejudice against national integration) of the Indian Penal Code and various sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. The accused last March requested that their cases be transferred from Faizabad as no advocate was willing to plead for them. Even the court’s amicus curiae, NK Singh, said the Faizabad Bar Association had not given him permission to appear on behalf of the accused.
"So where yez want the case transferred?"
"New Zealand?"
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Lawers with a conscience.
Who wudda thunk it.
Posted by: Elmising Sleatch7607 || 07/06/2006 0:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Where's Ramsey Clark?
Posted by: doc || 07/06/2006 7:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Lawyers with a self-preservation gene..
Posted by: Frank G || 07/06/2006 8:23 Comments || Top||

#4  If the attack had been on a Christian church, the ACLU would have represented them.
Posted by: RWV || 07/06/2006 11:33 Comments || Top||

#5  India, the last refuge of sanity?
Posted by: gromgoru || 07/06/2006 15:09 Comments || Top||

#6  Hmmmmm... Maybe we should encourage the ACLU to represent them anyway. Kill two birds with one stone. I've ALWAYS hated the Anti-Christian Lawyer's Union.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 07/06/2006 15:14 Comments || Top||


Tribesmen damage power line in North Wazoo
Several angry tribesmen damaged a main electricity supply line to protest power outages in North Waziristan, suspending power supplies to most parts of North and South Waziristan, Geo television reported. Electricity supply to Chashma near Miranshah has been suspended, the channel quoted WAPDA sources as saying.
That makes sense, in a Wazoo sort of way: No electricity? Go out and damage a power line.
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Powered by Allah, perhaps?
Posted by: Captain America || 07/06/2006 0:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Yaaar ! We like cutting of our noses to spite our faces , yaar !
Posted by: MacNails || 07/06/2006 3:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Well Mo did perfectly well without electricity.. or polo vaccine... or girls' schools..
Posted by: Howard UK || 07/06/2006 7:16 Comments || Top||

#4  Yes, Howard, but he couldn't do without girls, eh?
Posted by: BA || 07/06/2006 9:21 Comments || Top||

#5  a Wazoo sort of way

Legs, this suckers got 'em legs i tell 'ya!
Posted by: 6 || 07/06/2006 16:40 Comments || Top||

#6  Right BA, particulary little girls (and I suspect boys too...).
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/06/2006 17:51 Comments || Top||

#7  Exact-a-mundo, CF!
Posted by: BA || 07/06/2006 23:34 Comments || Top||


Three injured in two explosions in Jammu and Kashmir
(KUNA) -- At least three people were injured in two powerful explosions in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir Wednesday. Guerrillas fired a rifle grenade at a Indian Border Security Force camp at Sopore in north Kashmir's Baramulla district, injuring two passers-by, news agency Indo-Asian News Service reported. The injured have been shifted to hospital for treatment.

In another incident, guerrillas lobbed a hand grenade at an Indian Central Reserve Police Force post in Srinagar, summer capital of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, the agency reported. One bystander received minor injuries and was taken to the hospital for treatment. No group has so far claimed responsibility for the blasts, according to the news agency.
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Pakistani forces kill over 25 militants in an operation
(KUNA) -- Security forces Wednesday in an operation in Southwestern Pakistani province of Baluchistan killed over 25 militants and recovered huge cache of arms and ammunition, said an official. The operation, backed by ground troops and gunship helicopters, was conducted on nationalist militants training camp located few kilometers north of Sangsila area of Quetta capital, said the Baluchistan government spokesman, Raziq Bhatti, while talking to KUNA. The operation killed more than 25 militants and wounded several others, he said. He added that forces destroyed their training camp and recovered huge cache of arms and ammunition. He said the militants were involved in carrying attacks on vital government installations, security forces and gas wells.
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Token
Posted by: Captain America || 07/06/2006 0:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Balochi separatists? Not AQ or Wazibillies?
Posted by: Howard UK || 07/06/2006 8:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Off topic, Howard or an other Englishter, where is Workington? I've been doing a little engineering work and the chemical plant is in Workington. At first I thought someone had misspelled my last name (Northington).
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 07/06/2006 8:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Workington is on the coast in Cumbria - was fairly run down in the eighties - was a study for my Geography A-level in regional economic disparity. I have never been but imagine it's run-down but a pretty place being in Cumbria - Shep and McNails may be able to help further...
Posted by: Howard UK || 07/06/2006 9:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Oh and when itried to post a link to a map I got redirected to 'Roadside America' - must be Fred's tinkering..
Posted by: Howard UK || 07/06/2006 9:42 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Iraqi military beef up security on border with Iran
Baghdad, Jul. 06 – Iraq’s military has launched a new operation to secure the country’s porous border with Iran, a Baghdad daily reported. The daily al-Dastour wrote on Tuesday that the operation was taking place with the support of United States-led forces in Iraq. The daily quoted an unnamed source in the command headquarters of Iraq’s eighth army division as saying that the operation had been codenamed “Iron Gate”. Personnel from the division’s third brigade were taking part in the operation, it added.

The report said the operation was taking place in the north of the Iraqi province of al-Wassit. The province has been a favourite crossing point for Iranians entering Iraq illegally.


Posted by: Steve || 07/06/2006 15:08 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Whack-a-mole(R)
Posted by: Captain America || 07/06/2006 18:10 Comments || Top||

#2  http://tinyurl.com/jffea

Map of Iraq's provinces.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 07/06/2006 18:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Easy answer. Declare a 4 mile "free-fire zone" along the Iranian border fron sunset to sunrise except a couple of main highways. Anything with a heat signature is fair game. I guarantee that will solve a multitude of problems.
Posted by: anymouse || 07/06/2006 19:46 Comments || Top||

#4  This is a process. We have long been building 30-man concrete outposts along the northern border with Iran, and they now probably extend as far south as Wassit.

My guess is that we convince the smugglers that this area is too patrolled, and to head further south for a while, then when they are gone, we can build central Iraq outposts in relative quiet.

We are working from north to south for two reasons. First of all, the south gets most of the traffic between the two countries, in the form of pilgrims.

Second if the US and Iran got into a fight, the Iranians would be tempted to send units into southern Iraq to try and keep the US bogged down there. We actually like that idea, because we could both easily cut their supply lines and massacre their invasion forces easier than if they had remained in Iran.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 07/06/2006 21:09 Comments || Top||


Blast Kills Near Shiite Shrine
Baghdad, 6 July (AKI) - At least 12 people were killed Thursday and about 40 others were wounded when a car bomb exploded at a Shia shrine in the Iraqi city of Kufa. Initial reports said that several of the victims were pilgrims from Iran. The attack happened at about 7:15 am local time near the shrine of Maitham al-Tamar, some 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad.

The blast is the latest in a wave of bombings at religious sites in Iraq, despite attempts to crack down on insurgents.

The bomb blew up two buses carrying the pilgrims. Witnesses said the vehicles were burnt out by the explosion.
Posted by: Steve || 07/06/2006 10:07 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Islam - Religion of Pieces.
Posted by: glenmore || 07/06/2006 10:12 Comments || Top||


Iraqi civilian killed, four injured Wednesday in northern Iraq
(KUNA) -- An Iraqi civilian was killed and another four injured Wednesday in two separate attacks in the northern Iraqi governorate of Kirkuk. Iraqi police source told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that anonymous gunmen opened fire at a civilian car in Kirkuk to injure its Iraqi driver, who died on the way to a nearby hospital. He added that another four civilians were injured in a bomb explosion in Huwaija area and they were transported Huwaija hospital for treatment.

Meanwhile, an Iraqi police patrol found today a headless corpse in Zab River near Halwa Wasta village west of Kirkuk. The corpse was transported to forensic evidence to reveal its identity.
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Eight Iraqi killed, 18 injured in two attacks
(KUNA) -- Iraqi Police announced six people were killed and 15 others were injured Wednesday when a car loaded with explosives blew up near a mosque in the Al-Washash district west of Baghdad. The police also announced that two civilians were killed and three others were injured on Wednesday after being shot by militants in Diyala. A release from the Joint Coordination Center distributed here said that the incident occurred when unidentified militants opened fire in a barbershop in Al-Khalis town in Diyala.
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Six Iraqi civilians killed by armed groups
(KUNA) -- Six Iraqi civilians were killed on Wednesday from fire by armed groups south west of Kirkuk; police meanwhile discovered two missiles ready for launch inside the city. Iraqi police Brigadier Sarhad Qader told KUNA armed groups using a car shot at another car in Al-Oasi village where they killed four, however they were transferred to hospital. "Unknown armed group using a sedan opened fire and killed two civilians in another village close to Kirkuk," the Brigadier added.

Qader also said one civilian was injured when an explosion targeted a civilian car close to Zaiton Bridge in the Huwaja area. Brigadier Qader added an improvised car bomb exploded earlier today when an envoy carrying Iraqi civil defense director was passing by in the city. Iraqi police said the director was not injured, however, three civilians were.
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Seems to be an awful lot of incidental killing going on in the Kirkuk region. Possible Sunnis trying to run the Kurds out of town? This stuff is hard to stop, but I'm sure the Kurds will manage - eventually.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 07/06/2006 15:19 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
AFP : 18 killed as Israel invades northern Gaza
Seventeen Palestinians and an Israeli soldier were killed as Israel thrust deep into Gaza in its largest and deadliest operation in months, reoccupying areas evacuated 10 months ago. Israeli troops effectively created a buffer zone in the northern Gaza Strip as it widened its offensive, upping the pressure on the beleagured Hamas-led government in a bid to free a captured soldier and stop rocket attacks.

One Israeli soldier was shot dead in fighting in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya, a killing claimed by one of the Palestinian militant group behind last week's abduction. Over the day, 17 Palestinian militants and civilians were killed and 46 wounded, local medics and security officials said.

Troops also entered the Palestinian territory deeper in the south, in a two-pronged attack that marked a further escalation in the spiralling crisis that erupted after the June 25 abduction of 19-year-old Corporal Gilad Shalit.

In the worst incident Thursday, 11 Palestinians were killed, including two fighters loyal to the Islamist movement Hamas, and at least 26 wounded in an Israeli bombardment on Beit Lahiya, medics said. Bloodstained bodies could be seen huddled together, as the wounded frantically carried other victims caked in blood through the streets.

Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya, whose Hamas-led government has been directly targeted in the offensive, slammed the assault as "collective punishment" on his people and demanded international intervention.

The massive pre-dawn land and air assault on Gaza sent terrified residents scurrying from their homes with babies and belongings. "There were fighters in our garden. We had to flee to protect the children," said one father, rushing away from a Beit Lahiya neighbourhood with his wife and four children.

In northern Gaza, ground forces, armoured vehicles and sappers advanced around five kilometres (three miles) into the territory in a bid to expand a unilaterally declared security zone aimed at preventing rocket attacks. Further troops massed around the towns of Beit Hanun and moved into two neighborhoods of Beit Lahiya in the deepest Israeli ground operation since Shalit was seized 11 days ago, sparking the worst Middle East crisis in months.

Cross-faction units of Palestinian fighters put up stiff resistance in the northern and southern Gaza Strip, calling in intense Israeli aerial firepower, as the army reported eight rocket attacks launched at the Jewish state. A civilian was killed by tank machine-gun fire in Beit Lahiya. In the south, another two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air strike after ground forces came under fire from multiple rockets. An Israeli soldier was shot dead and two others lightly wounded in clashes with Palestinian militants in the al-Atatra neighbourhood of Beit Lahiya. One of the three Palestinian groups that claimed Shalit's abduction and the killing of two other servicemen last week, said it killed the serviceman. Two members of the armed wing of the governing Palestinian movement Hamas -- which also claimed responsibility the abduction -- and a policeman were killed earlier in helicopter raids and tank shelling.

Trucks and infantry took over the remains of Dugit, Elei Sinai and Nissanit settlements, razed last year as part of Israel's historic pullout from the territory that had meant to draw the curtain on a 38-year occupation. The return of Israeli troops to Gaza has evoked memories of the army's disastrous invasion of Lebanon where its soldiers became bogged down from 1982 until 2000 before pulling out of a self-declared buffer zone.

Dozens of Palestinian families in northern Gaza, fearing for their lives when confronted with the ominous sight of approaching Israeli armour, fled their homes. Women clutching babies and a few belongings scurried away on foot toward a line of waiting taxis amid the boom of gunfire. The offensive has sparked concerns of a humanitarian fall-out with the 1.4 million residents of the largely impoverished Gaza already grappling with food shortages, fuel and power cuts.

Palestinian officials and residents believe Israel is using the soldier's capture as an excuse to try to topple the government led by Hamas, which has not formally recognized Israel or renounced violence. "If you return Gilad Shalit home safe and sound and if you stop your rocket attacks, we will withdraw our forces," Defence Minister Amir Peretz said in comments addressed to the Palestinians on army radio.

The commander of Israel's southern region, Yoav Galant, admitted that troops had encountered "fierce resistance" in parts of Gaza. "Our objective is to keep rocket attacks at bay, so that those who fire them will pay such a heavy price that they will give up," he said.

An unprecedented Hamas rocket attack Tuesday in the centre of the Mediterranean city of Ashkelon saw Israel's security cabinet order the army to step up its assault and section off parts of Gaza. Israel has already bombed the Gaza offices of both the Hamas premier and interior minister, in the occupied West Bank arrested a third of the cabinet and raided multiple militant targets.

In Washington, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called on Israelis and Palestinians to exercise restraint. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, terming the situation "dangerous" also urged both sides "to step back from the brink". But repeated international calls for restraint have largely fallen on deaf ears in what has become the worst Middle East crisis since Hamas came to power in March and Olmert formally took the helm in May. Israel has vowed to unleash its full military might on Gaza, while Hamas's armed wing has warned of a "new era of violence" against the Jewish state.

Noam Shalit, the father of the captured corporal, urged the Israeli authorities to consider swapping his son for a Palestinian prisoner exchange -- conditions flatly ruled out by the Israeli government. "He is alive and his Palestinian kidnappers do not want to kill him because it is in their interest to keep him alive," Amos Gilad, a senior defence ministry official said two days after an ultimatum set by the captors expired.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 07/06/2006 14:57 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Don't spit on 'em---stomp 'em.
Posted by: gromgoru || 07/06/2006 15:04 Comments || Top||

#2  If you read all the way down to Pargraph 13 you finally learn "the army reported eight rocket attacks launched at the Jewish state".
Posted by: Darrell || 07/06/2006 15:04 Comments || Top||

#3  And in Paragraph 14, "another two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air strike after ground forces came under fire from multiple rockets".

So these peace-loving, humanitarian-crisis-laden Paleos seem to be firing more rockets than Dear Leader on the 4th of July.
Posted by: Darrell || 07/06/2006 15:12 Comments || Top||

#4  In northern Gaza, ground forces, armoured vehicles and sappers advanced around five kilometres (three miles) into the territory in a bid to expand a unilaterally declared security zone aimed at preventing rocket attacks.

I'll bet it hasn't occurred to a single Palestinian whose fields have been destroyed to blame the rocketeers and their supporters instead of Israel.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2006 15:24 Comments || Top||

#5  fuck em
Posted by: Greamp Elmavinter1163 || 07/06/2006 16:44 Comments || Top||

#6  a unilaterally declared security zone

I bet the Paleos would be delighted to designate a security zone. As long as they could launch rockets from inside it.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/06/2006 16:56 Comments || Top||

#7  Any chance some zeros got lost in translation?
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 07/06/2006 17:06 Comments || Top||

#8  I think it's going to be a re-run of Operation Defensive Shield in 2002. Pick off and weaken the militants until the Israeli security forces have freedom of go wherever they want.
Posted by: Apostate || 07/06/2006 17:40 Comments || Top||

#9  Pushem' right into the Med and smash all habitable structures. Bring in dozers, and push the rubble down to the beach right behind the rats.
Posted by: SOP35/Rat || 07/06/2006 19:11 Comments || Top||

#10  "Both sides to step back from the brink" Annon says. The only brink here is the Paleos being on the brink of destruction by the IDF.

Fuck 'em, IDF! Roll over their sorry asses!
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/06/2006 22:56 Comments || Top||

#11  Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya, whose Hamas-led government has been directly targeted in the offensive, slammed the assault as "collective punishment" on his people and demanded international intervention.

Boy, if that ain't the most supreme version of chutzpah and projection I've ever read, I don't know what is. Hamas blaming Israel for "collective punishment" when they spew hatred of "the Jooooooos" 24/7 from their mosskkks. Boy, all the activity lately gets me to thinking we're getting close to just having to "go postal" on all of Islam-dom and salt the earth afterwards.
Posted by: BA || 07/06/2006 23:43 Comments || Top||


Israeli tanks push into northern Gaza as militants offer new conditions
Israeli tanks pushed into an industrial zone in the northern Gaza Strip late on Wednesday, advancing several hundred metres, witnesses said. Up to 15 tanks entered the sites of the two former Israeli settlements of Elei Sinai and Nissanit near the Erez border crossing point, the sources said. The settlements were evacuated last year. Heavy machinegun and mortar fire was reported at the scene.

Israel’s security cabinet gave the green light to the army Wednesday for “prolonged” operations into the Gaza Strip in a bid to release a teenage Israeli conscript captured during a June 25 Palestinian militant attack and to prevent rocket attacks on the Jewish state. The cabinet also ordered the military to intensify air raids against Hamas as well as so-called targeted killing operations against militants who launch or order rocket attacks. Overnight, Israeli warplanes attacked the Palestinian Interior Ministry headquarters in the Gaza Strip for the second time in a week, causing heavy damage and wounding four, Palestinian medical sources said. The security cabinet said it had been decided to create an enlarged security zone in the north of the Gaza Strip after an unprecedented rocket attack hit a school in the centre of Ashkelon south of Tel Aviv on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck a major Israeli city for the second time in as many days on Wednesday, Israeli media and a rescue service said. The Zaka service said one person was injured by the rocket that slammed into Ashkelon. Military sources said the rocket landed in an open area without causing casualties or damage, although public television said several people were treated for shock. The army was also given the go-ahead to step up an assault on northern Gaza by surrounding the two key towns of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya and enlarging an interdiction zone to be enforced by aircraft and artillery in a bid to stave off rocket attacks.
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Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Several hundred meters! They must be pacing this in tribute to the 60th anniversary of the Somme. It looks to be equally successful. Dayan and Sharon must be at 14,400 rpm.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 07/06/2006 7:32 Comments || Top||

#2  "How about we come over there and stomp your ass for a while, then ask again?"
Posted by: mojo || 07/06/2006 9:56 Comments || Top||

#3  militants demanded Israel guarantee it would free a specific list of prisoners and by what date. Israel had not agreed to do so, though it said it would release some prisoners by the end of the year if Shalit was freed, the source said,

Sheesh - no wonder the Israelies keep getting their heads pounded on their lockers.
Posted by: 2b || 07/06/2006 10:52 Comments || Top||

#4  I retract my comment above. It does seem they are serious this time. That comment is just from "a source" - which really means nothing anymore.
Posted by: 2b || 07/06/2006 15:08 Comments || Top||

#5  I don't think Israel is playing. I think they're taking ground slowly, going over it inch by inch, and making sure they know exactly what's where. Anything military is being expunged. Once they've gotten the area cleared, they advance an additional space and go over the new area. When they leave, I believe they'll leave behind a nasty minefield. Anyone entering the area to shoot off rockets will be broken into little bitty pieces.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 07/06/2006 15:24 Comments || Top||

#6  OldPat re leaving a minefield. The Paleos will just round up some of their lavral forms and send them to play soccer there (after inviting MSM to the event).
Posted by: gromgoru || 07/06/2006 16:27 Comments || Top||

#7  90 Nimble, 90.
Posted by: 6 || 07/06/2006 16:57 Comments || Top||

#8  Thanks, 6.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 07/06/2006 17:50 Comments || Top||


Deadly explosions rock Gaza beach
Two Palestinians have been killed and 10 wounded in an explosion at a northern Gaza beach. The attack early on Thursday killed a Hamas fighter and a policeman, and wounded six officers from the Palestinian coastal police, four seriously. Four other people were also wounded, hospital officials said.

It was unclear where the shells came from. Palestinian officials said either Israeli navy gunboats or tanks fired the shells. Israel has denied any shelling from either sea or land. Hospital officials identified the dead Hamas fighter as Hussam Hijazi. Palestinians said Hamas fighters were operating in the area at the time.
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sounds like another 'work accident'. Tricky things, those fuzes...
Posted by: PBMcL || 07/06/2006 1:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe they stepped on their own mines? Probably testing them to see if they worked.
Posted by: tu3031 || 07/06/2006 7:23 Comments || Top||


Hamas military wing attacks IDF 'dozer with rocket
The Brigades of Martyr Izziddine Al-Qassam, the military arm of Hamas movement, on Wednesday announced responsibility for attacking an Israeli bulldozer with a rocket nearby Beit Hanon, north of Gaza Strip. In a press release, the brigades said one of its groups fired a locally-made "Yassin" type rocket at the bulldozer, noting that the target received a direct hit.
"Go-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-oa-l!"
The Israeli occupation forces invaded the northern and eastern sides of Beit Hanon and destroyed large farmlands, claiming a search for tunnels or explosive devices planted by Palestinians there.
Posted by: Seafarious || 07/06/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It was a Cat. Took a lickin' and kept right on tickin' . Then it smashed hell out of the hovel the fools fired from.
Posted by: SOP35/Rat || 07/06/2006 1:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Varoom Varoom! Clank, clank, clank,

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#3  DEBKA: Four Palestinian Jihad Islami terrorists killed, 15 Palestinians wounded by IAF missile strike south of Kissufim. The group had just fired a Qassam missile at an IDF bulldozer on the Israeli side of the Gaza Strip border near Kissufim. In another incident, Palestinians fired three anti-tank missiles at an armored personnel carrier outside Gaza at the Sufa crossing.
Posted by: Steve || 07/06/2006 10:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Would that be one of the much feared 'Rachel Anti-Dozer Unguided Ballistic Projectiles?'
Posted by: USN, ret. || 07/06/2006 14:45 Comments || Top||

#5  The one NATO designates as PANCAKE?
Posted by: SteveS || 07/06/2006 22:19 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Nevada man believed to be the first Wiccan killed in combat
This one's a little different...
At the Veterans Memorial Cemetery in the small town of Fernley, Nev., there is a wall of brass plaques for local heroes. But one space is blank. There is no memorial for Sgt. Patrick D. Stewart.

That's because Stewart was a Wiccan, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has refused to allow a symbol of the Wicca religion -- a five-pointed star within a circle, called a pentacle -- to be inscribed on U.S. military memorials or grave markers.

The department has approved the symbols of 38 other faiths; about half of are versions of the Christian cross. It also allows the Jewish Star of David, the Muslim crescent, the Buddhist wheel, the Mormon angel, the nine-pointed star of Bahai and something that looks like an atomic symbol for atheists.

Stewart, 34, is believed to be the first Wiccan killed in combat. He was serving in the Nevada National Guard when the helicopter in which he was riding was shot down in Afghanistan last September. He previously had served in the Army in Korea and Operation Desert Storm. He was posthumously awarded a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star.

His widow, Roberta Stewart, scattered his ashes in the hills above Reno and would like him to have a permanent memorial.

She said the veterans cemetery in Fernley offered to install a plaque with his name and no religious symbol. She refused.

"Once they do that, they'll forget me. They don't like having a hole in the wall," she said. "I feel very strongly that my husband fought for the Constitution of the United States, he was proud of his spirituality and of being a Wiccan, and he was proud of being an American."

Wicca is one of the fastest-growing faiths in the country. Its adherents have increased almost 17-fold from 8,000 in 1990 to 134,000 in 2001, according to the American Religious Identification Survey. The Pentagon says that more than 1,800 Wiccans are on active duty in the armed forces.

Wiccans still suffer, however, from the misconception that they are devil worshipers. Some Wiccans call themselves witches, pagans or neopagans. Most of their rituals revolve around the cycles of nature, such as equinoxes and phases of the moon. Wiccans often pick and choose among religious traditions, blending belief in reincarnation and feminine gods with ritual dancing, chanting and herbal medicine.

Federal courts have recognized Wicca as a religion since 1986. Prisons across the country treat it as a legitimate faith, as do the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. military, which allows Wiccan ceremonies on its bases.

"My husband's dog tags said 'Wiccan' on them," Stewart noted.

But applications from Wiccan groups and individuals to VA for use of the pentacle on grave markers have been pending for nine years, during which time the symbols of 11 other faiths have been approved.

Department spokeswoman Josephine Schuda said VA turned down Wiccans in the past because religious groups used to be required to list a headquarters or central authority, which Wicca does not have. But that requirement was eliminated last year, she noted.

"I really have no idea why it has taken so long" for the Wiccan symbol to gain approval, Schuda said.

The department declined repeated requests from The Washington Post to speak to higher-ranking officials about the issue.

Retired Army Chaplain William Chrystal, a United Church of Christ minister who was chaplain of Stewart's National Guard unit, has strongly backed Roberta Stewart's request.

"It's such a clear First Amendment issue, I can't even conceive of why they are not granting it, except for political reasons," he said. "I think the powers that be are afraid they'll alienate conservative Christians if they approve a symbol that connotes witches and warlocks casting spells and brewing potions."

Nevada's congressional delegation, including Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D), also has supported Roberta Stewart.

But letters printed by Nevada newspapers indicate how much hostility Wiccans face. "I don't see how anything that supports witchcraft and satanism can legitimately be called a religion," one reader wrote to the Reno Gazette-Journal.

Stewart said that she is trying to educate people about Wicca, as well as to fulfill her husband's wishes. "Until he is laid to rest," she said, "I cannot rest."
Posted by: tu3031 || 07/06/2006 09:12 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thank you for your service, Sgt. Stewart. Blesséd be.
Posted by: Seafarious || 07/06/2006 9:47 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm an athiest who firmly believes everyone has the right to believe what they want. Patrick Steward did the right thing and deserves to be honored for what he did. That's all.
Posted by: phil_b || 07/06/2006 9:55 Comments || Top||

#3  IIRC, while the VA will provide a free headstone, nothing precludes a privite one as long as it meets certain height and size requirements for the cemetary.
Posted by: Ebbavitle Omomotle4723 || 07/06/2006 10:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Looks like they need to approve a 39th symbol then.

Appreciate your service, Mr. Stewart.
Posted by: ExtremeModerate || 07/06/2006 10:08 Comments || Top||

#5  This isn't about a headstone. The body has been scattered. This is a political issue important to the living only. I don't know the other side of the story, but short of a swastika, hammer & sickle, etc. I could care less what meaningless, to me, symbol people put on their plaque. Whatever.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 07/06/2006 10:10 Comments || Top||

#6  "Freedom OF Religion" so in my view if you worship ants, the devil or God you should be allowed your due freedom right.

I dont agree with the Wicken thing but if that was his choice so beit.
Posted by: C-Low || 07/06/2006 10:15 Comments || Top||

#7  It means nothing to me - but it meant something to SGT Stewart - and evidently to his wife, and others who knew him. He gave "the last full measure of devotion" - he deserves to have the faith that he practiced displayed just as much as anyone else. Give him his pentacled plaque.
Posted by: Lone Ranger || 07/06/2006 10:20 Comments || Top||

#8  Thank you to Sgt. Stewart, condolences to his family, and a foot up the hind end of the Dept. Vet. Affairs idiots who are holding this up.

Get it done, and give the man the memorial he deserves.
Posted by: Steve White || 07/06/2006 10:37 Comments || Top||

#9  Speaking as a conservative Christian (Catholic), as far as I'm concerned, Wicca is generally just a bundle of recycled newage trash. But it doenst offend me - unlike radical Islam, its not out to hurt anyone.

The way I see it, it is every American's right to worship as he pleases as long as he isnt violating anyone's rights in doing so. So I see no reason for them to deny the symbol as long as its an upright star. This is typical tight-assed-ness on the part of the VA. A combat death is a combat death, and he swore the same oath to "uphold and defend", so should get the same treatment.

(The inverted pentacle is offensive as it is a satanic symbol of long use)

In my opinion, the article takes an unjustified swipe at conservative christians as the source of the delay - more likely its flat out ignorance and bureaucrats at the VA. Anyone that has dealt with the VA knows what I'm talking about.
Posted by: Oldspook || 07/06/2006 10:59 Comments || Top||

#10  In the final book of C.S.Lewis' Narnian Chronicles, as the world of Narnia faces its Armageddon, the Lion Aslan (who, it has become clear, is the allegorical Christ) says, it doesn't matter at which god one lays his worship; good deeds in the Other's name always go to Me, evil done in my name always goes to the Other. Give the man his pentacle; his deeds are laid at the feet of the Good.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2006 11:24 Comments || Top||

#11  Good point, TW. I'm a conservative Christian, think Wicca should be acknowledged as a religion, with the accompanying separation of church and state, and Sgt. Stewart should be recognized for his service, rather than be discriminated against. We all owe our freedoms to the Constitution and any who dies to preserve them for the rest of us should be acknowledged posthumously. I truly don't think anyone will be overlooked in the hereafter either by the righteous Judge of all, as everyone will give an accounting for their own conduct. He's proved himself worthy.
Posted by: Danielle || 07/06/2006 11:53 Comments || Top||

#12  #6 "Freedom OF Religion" so in my view if you worship ants, the devil or God you should be allowed your due freedom right.

Let's not forget they ever popular pedophile prophet and his cute little jihadi death cult. The main pillar of the WOT is to identify Islam as a death cult, rather than a religion, therefore, no rights exist for Islam in any form.
Until that time, Islam slowly wins the WOT. The debate has started, now let's all pile on. Let's demand Islam be labeled a death cult, a teacher of violence and a basis of slavery.
Let's fight to win.
Posted by: wxjames || 07/06/2006 12:27 Comments || Top||

#13  I don't believe Sgt. Stewart's brothers and sisters who are buried in the cemetery would mind if he had a pentacle on his memorial. He fulfilled his oath to his country and deserves to be honored like every other soldier there.

Blessed be, Sgt. Stewart, and thank you for your service, from all the members of my family (a Catholic, a nondenominational Christian, an atheist and a pagan).
Posted by: Swamp Blondie || 07/06/2006 15:11 Comments || Top||

#14  From a practical standpoint, I don't think that the Veterans Affairs should be required to spend the money to retool their equipment for every single god that one can choose to worship. That said - 1800 and growing is a significant number of soldiers and thus it's not an unreasonable request.

We each choose the God we want to worship (or not at all) and that choice should be respected as it is, in my opinion, what you are taking into the hereafter.
Posted by: 2b || 07/06/2006 15:26 Comments || Top||

#15  my uncle, a WW2 Marine who fought in the pacific theater, and a Fernley local for 70+ yrs, was buried there 2 years ago. Nice little cemetary.
Posted by: Frank G || 07/06/2006 15:31 Comments || Top||

#16  There are Wiccans in Fernley, Nevada? Trust me: that's news in and of itself. Seriously, though, the man served his nation honorably. Let him have the symbol he chooses on his grave.
Posted by: Secret Master || 07/06/2006 15:52 Comments || Top||

#17  This is a job for Hillary.
Whatever the soliders want. limited to 26 minutes carving and grinding.
Posted by: 6 || 07/06/2006 16:37 Comments || Top||

#18  Right on TW. Coincidentally I finally got around to buying the Chronicles of Narnia. I enjoy those books, especially "the horse and his boy" - good stuff. Anyways, I agree w/y'all on Sgt Stewart. Put the pentacle up & be done w/it. When I was training recruits I had more wiccans in my companies than Muslims or Jews put together for whatever reason. Eerrily enough, the platoons w/the most wiccans somehow seemed to win all the final drill competitions.
Posted by: Broadhead6 || 07/06/2006 19:29 Comments || Top||

#19  As a Christian, who has had trouble with most established Churches, I feel for this fellow and his wife. I am embarassed for us as a country when someone who has a faith and association cannot have what is important to him & important for his family. Some bureaucrat, has one crosswise up its backside.

Posted by: BigEd || 07/06/2006 19:53 Comments || Top||


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#1  Fffrrrreeedddd!!!
Posted by: Sherry || 07/06/2006 0:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Nice... hairdo. ;-)
Posted by: twobyfour || 07/06/2006 1:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Oh MY!
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 07/06/2006 1:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Fred's a dirty ole man Sherry, somehow got a hold of my girl friend's special picture she sent me.
Posted by: RD || 07/06/2006 2:18 Comments || Top||

#5  What's the jump-rope for?
Posted by: grb || 07/06/2006 3:04 Comments || Top||

#6  grb - given the shoes, probably not jumping...
Posted by: PBMcL || 07/06/2006 3:12 Comments || Top||

#7  PBMcL: Just what I wanted to hear!
Posted by: grb || 07/06/2006 3:26 Comments || Top||

#8  Shoes?
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 07/06/2006 6:12 Comments || Top||

#9  YUMMIE!!!!!!!
Posted by: ARMYGUY || 07/06/2006 7:50 Comments || Top||

#10  Avois speaking of Taliban titsup alongside such a picture.
Posted by: JFM || 07/06/2006 8:15 Comments || Top||

#11  Strong.
Posted by: Broadhead6 || 07/06/2006 8:20 Comments || Top||

#12  Have to go to the mat for that one.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2006 9:21 Comments || Top||

#13  grb - you sure that's not Pelosi's whip? Sorry, but I had to "ruin" your moment, I guess.
Posted by: BA || 07/06/2006 9:23 Comments || Top||

#14  Eww, BA. Anybody know how to get the image out of my head?
Posted by: grb || 07/06/2006 13:10 Comments || Top||

#15  I hear citric acid and steel wool work wonders.
Posted by: BA || 07/06/2006 13:53 Comments || Top||

#16  The "Bristol" part is accurate.
Posted by: Fordesque || 07/06/2006 17:26 Comments || Top||

#17  Plural.
Posted by: Parabellum || 07/06/2006 17:48 Comments || Top||

#18  thatn a nise ass on her chest
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