Militants attacked a coalition convoy in the provinces Baghran Valley on Thursday, killing a coalition soldier and wounding another, said spokesman Sgt Chris Miller. Five militants died when coalition forces returned fire, he said. Miller gave no details about the dead soldiers identity or nationality, but another foreign military official, speaking on condition of anonymity due to policy, said the fatality was American.
Also in Helmand, three suspected Taliban militants died Thursday night and two more were wounded when a bomb they were trying to plant exploded on the side of a main highway in Grishk district, said Helmand police chief Ghulam Nabi Malakhail.
In addition, he said Taliban fighters attacked government offices in Khana Shien district. Police returned fire and the militants retreated after the fighting, leaving bloodstains. It wasnt clear how many, if any, were killed or wounded.
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God bless him and is family.
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(SomaliNet) Another war tension has resumed in southwest suburb of the Somalia capital Mogadishu on Friday where Islamic militiamen and militia loyal former member of anti terror alliance Abdi Hassan Qeybdid are feared to clash. The Islamic militiamen who have already captured a key checkpoint in the main road linking Mogadishu to other southern regions from Qeybdids militia began to block the road ordering all cars heading to the capital to use other road for preparation of all out war.
There are symptoms of war between rival sides, reinforcements of militias and battle wagons from both sides could be seen in the area outside of the capital, an eyewitness told Somalinet. Colonel Abdi Hassan Awale Qeybdid, former police chief, is said to have been preparing for final battle if he is attacked and now he seeks for clan support to defend what he called the clan interest. Col. Qeybdid, who is from Saad sub-clan of Habar-gidir clan, earlier called the assault on him by the Islamists as an occupation of all Saad sub-clan; therefore they should stand for defiance.
The people in the capital are too much worried about possible flare up of fighting between Islamic militiamen and militia loyal to Abdi Qeybdid who has been member of the collapsed alliance for restoration of peace and counter terrorism (ARPCT) in which united by more feared warlords who lost the control of the capital and other key towns in more than three months heavy bloody battles with Islamic courts early June.
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So much for that clean Islamist win, followed by peace and beatings for all. Perhaps Somalis aren't as suited to that kind of peaceful coexitstence as Afghans.
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Frank dear, you know I couldn't possibly imagine the things you come up with -- you are very educational for someone with as sheltered a life as mine has been thus far. And besides, you're an engineer; I'd adore you just for that. ;-)
A leader of outlawed Purabo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP-Janajuddho) was killed during a "shootout" between his cohorts and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members at Chaitrahati in Ataikula upazila early yesterday.
Another dead commie, but remember Bangladesh is a big country.
The dead, Ishaq Khan, 42, was an accused in 10 cases including six for murder.
Wanted on twelve systems ...
Acting on a tip-off, Rab-12 members arrested Ishaq, 42, at Sreekal village in the upazila on Thursday night.
"Ishaq! We were told you'd be here. Youse comin' wit us!"
On his statement, ...
"Ye-e-e-e-e-e-ouch! Stop that!"
... the Rab men took him to Chaitrahati at about 3:30am to recover hidden firearms and arrest his accomplices.
"Can't I just tell you where the hidden firearms are?"
"No." [thump] "Keep moving." [thump]
Sensing the presence of the Rab men, Ishaq's accomplices opened fire on the law enforcers, prompting them to retaliate.
That old spider sense tingled in time again.
According to a Rab press release, Ishaq received bullets during the "shootout" that continued for 20 minutes, ...
He received them rather early in the shootout, perhaps in the first 20 seconds.
LONDON: A Pakistani-origin British national is being kept under surveillance by the Scotland Yard and has been questioned in connection with the terrorist attack in London last July which led to the death of 52 people.
Senior officers who have spent the past year investigating the case believe the Briton, enlisted by Mohammed Sidique Khan to take part in the terrorist attack, was one of the original group of militant Muslims approached to join the cell.
He visited Pakistan about the same time as Khan and his fellow bomber Shehzad Tanweer, between November 2004 and February last year, and is understood to have attended a jihadi training camp, where al-Qaeda teaches volunteers to handle explosives.
According to sources, Hasib Hussain (18) replaced him at late notice. Some officers believe that this is one of the reasons why only three of the bombers-- Khan, Tanweer and Jermaine Lindsay-- made a detailed reconnaissance trip to London on June 28 last year.
The man, who has an address in Leeds, is believed to have been a member of Khan's inner circle, which met at Hamara youth club, in Beeston area of Leeds, and the Iqra radical bookshop.
Others in Khan's circle, which included a former Royal Marine commando who converted to Islam and a number of graduates, have also been questioned. Police said these other men were not connected to the July 7 plot.
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A German of Moroccan descent has been arrested in Hamburg on suspicion that he is a member of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network with contacts to a man close to the Sept. 11 hijackers, federal prosecutors said Saturday. The man, identified only as Redouane E. H., 36, was a resident of the northern city of Kiel and was arrested on suspicion of supporting a foreign terrorist organization, prosecutor's office spokeswoman Frauke Scheuten said.
He is suspected of being in contact with Said Bahaji, who had close ties to the three Sept. 11 hijackers who lived and studied in Hamburg Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah but fled before the attacks and is believed to be in Pakistan. Scheuten said, however, that there is not evidence of direct contact between Redouane E. H. and the hijackers, or their plot.
"The accused had numerous contacts with the international network of violent jihadis, among other places in Syria, Algeria and Iraq," Scheuten said. "At the end of November 2005, he completed explosives training at a camp operated by a terrorist network in Algeria. He is seriously suspected of supporting the al-Qaida foreign terrorist network through recruiting fighters for suicide attacks in Iraq and through financial payments."
The evidence was largely drawn from monitoring the suspect's online chat conversations, Scheuten said. Scheuten said there is currently no evidence the suspect was planning any attacks within Germany. He is also believed to have been in contact with Bahaji, a German national, who is believed to have provided logistical support for the Hamburg cell. Bahaji fled Germany shortly before the Sept. 11 attacks and remains at large, sought on an international arrest warrant issued by Germany. Bahaji, whose father is Moroccan, still has family in Hamburg, including a wife and daughter, and authorities have previously said they had intercepted e-mails from him.
Redouane E. H., prosecutors said, served a "function as an intermediary for messages between the separately pursued Said Bahaji, and his wife." "He knows that he, in order to keep his location secret, could only continue contact with his wife through an intermediary who was trained in conspiratorial techniques," Scheuten added. "Only a person from al-Qaida's logistical network could be entrusted with such a confidential task."
She would not elaborate on how Redouane E. H. received the messages from Bahaji to relay. Scheuten would not say how long the suspect had been under observation, but did say they decided only to arrest him after uncovering evidence he planned shortly to leave Germany.
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(AKI) - Turin mayor Sergio Chiamparino on Friday received a package bomb with a letter against detention centres for immigrants signed by an anarchist group. No one was injured as the mayor's office alerted the police upon receiving the suspected package and police defused the homemade bomb. Reports said the package included a copy of The Idiot by Fedor Mikhajlovic Dostoevskij and a letter in which anarchists calling themselves an 'Informal anarchist federation - Anarchic network of Tuscany' expressed "active and concrete solidarity for immigrants detained in CPTs [Italy's detention centres for immigrants]." According to police the attack, the third in a week following letter bombs sent to a local paper and to a company carrying out construction work in a detention centre for immigrants in Turin, could be aimed at sparking protests by immigrants.
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Why target all immigrants? I only want constraints on those who want to either impose shariah, or make English the second language. And illegal means are hardly productive.
(AKI) - A man has been detained in the capital of Lebanon, Beirut, in connection with a plot to blow up tunnels in New York, counter-terrorism sources told CNN on Friday. The New York Daily News first reported on Friday that the FBI had revealed a plan to bomb New York's Holland Tunnel and flood the financial district in Manhattan.The man arrested in Beirut is reportedly called Amir Andalousi and the Daily News reported that the arrest took place in recent months.
The FBI said on Friday it had no indication of imminent threats to New York's transport system. Plotters reportedly considered targets including the Holland Tunnel which links Manhattan and New Jersey. FBI agents said plotters had discussed driving vehicles laden with explosives into several tunnels around Manhattan and then blowing them up. Information from Islamic militant websites suggests that the late leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, had agreed to give his financial support, the FBI says. None of the suspects sought in connection with the plot is in the United States, a source told CNN.
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Underlying message is send NY more and more money.
The Miami loons were reportedly incompetent, but by every indication, so were these idiots. While they planned a subway "gang bang" they failed to realize how well fortified the NY tunnel is.
The NY captures = send more money
The Miami captures = no additional money
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So I wonder if Maureen Dowd, and the New York Times will belittle these guy that they aren't capable of finding the Holland Tunnel? They did that with those guys in Florida, when MoDo announced, "They can't even find the Chicago Sears Tower."
Wonder if she and the staff of the NYT are willing to be "human shields" and stand at the entrances of the Holland Tunnel to protect their city from being destroyed? After all, these guys, who have been arrested for the very reason of destroying them, had the words and plans of this mission.
Sheezzz...... the NYT editorial will probably invite these killers to come "join us at the entrances of the Holland Tunnel" so we can dialogue...
Some Ms. Townsend on Neil Cavuto, in closing statements tonight, hinted to disgust of even the details of this mission being revealed. Seems she thought that maybe too many details were being published. Kinda got the feeling, she would really have preferred just statements conveying, "We got some guys that wanted to hurt us."
And of course, we all know, this group got rolled up early because of the NYT. Can't we do some kind of class action suit suing the NYT that they have harmed the security of me and mine? The FBI didn't get all the guys they wanted, cause they had to roll this one up early, thanks to the NYTimes ..... I can't continue with this
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Unless the Bush Administration, specifically the DoJ, grows a pair, and prosecutes the NYT, their sources of intel, et al, these kind of LLL types will continue to leak info. I will have to lay long odds on that happening. I am afraid that it will take a major terrorist event in this country to wake enough people up to deal with these traitors. And I am using the word in its true meaning. This stuff makes my blood boil.
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AP...You've got it all wrong, my friend. I have been scanning moonbat blogs and they are convinced this is a fraud concocted by (guess who?) on the anniversary of the 7/7 bombing to revive fear and deflect criticism. They have have to be correct.
A suspected Islamic militant hurled a grenade into a crowded market in Indian Kashmir on Saturday, wounding at least 20 people, many of them critically, police said.
At least 14 people were injured when a bomb exploded in a busy bazaar on Friday. The blast occurred in the crowded Suraj Ganj bazaar where it had been planted under a motorcycle. The injured were taken to the Civil Hospital. Several shops and parked motorcycles were also damaged in the blast. There is a foreign hand in the incident. It is an act of terror which we strongly condemn, said Mir Maqbool Ahmed Lehri, the Quetta City District nazim. He said some people were trying to create law and order problems in the provincial capital. We will not be cowed by such acts of terror, he added.
Meanwhile, tribal militants claimed to have killed seven security personnel in separate clashes in Balochistan on Friday and accused the government of taking 14 civilians including four women and six children into custody in connection with the attacks on the security forces. Separately, two men, Chaudhry Abdul Farooq and Abdul Malik, were injured when a hand grenade hit a house in Gwadar. Meanwhile, sources in the Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) told Daily Times that police had raided the Bugti House in Quetta and manhandled gatekeepers.
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That is bizarre. Balochi nationalists wouldn't bomb a Quetta market. Who would?
Akbar Bugti has left Dera Bugti with 200 Marri militants, Dera Bugti District Coordination Officer (DCO) Abdussamad Lasi told Geo television late on Friday night. Lasi said that around 200 Marri militants had arrived in Dera Bugti to rescue Bugti after the Thursdays encounter in which security forces killed 25 militants. He said that Bugti was now with these militants of the Mari tribe, because his private militia had totally dispersed. Only a few people of his tribe are now supporting Bugti, Lasi added.
Lasi said that Bugti had made his chief commander Khan Muhammad Masori hostage. Bugti fears that his chief commander will also leave him in the lurch like another commander Bangan Khan who surrendered to the government a few days ago, Lasi said. He said that security forces were not conducting any operation in the area, but searching the camps vacated by tribal militants. He said that Bugti was hiding somewhere in Kahan mountains along with his rescuers.
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(AKI/DAWN) - Pakistan's central government has issued for the first time a 'red book' containing information about 162 most-wanted terrorists, including the four individuals allegedly involved in an abortive attempt to assassinate Pakistan's president, Gen Pervez Musharraf. The wanted men belong to banned radical groups such as Lashkar-i-Taiba, Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), Tehrik-i-Jaffariya Pakistan, Sippah-i- Muhammad Pakistan and Bugti, Magsi and Marri Tribes, according to the red book.'
The government has announced a million dollar bounty on the heads of 66 of the country's 162 most-wanted terrorists. The highest head-money, 166,000 dollars, is for Matiur Rehman, alias Ustad Talha. Rehman is alleged to have been involved in the 14 December, 2003 attempt on Musharraf's life. Another man alleged to have been involved in the same assassination attempt, Mansoor Chhota, has an 83,000 dollar bounty on his head, as does a third alleged plotter, Umar Qada. The fourth accused plotter is Qari Ahsanul Haq. All four are SSP members, according to the 'red book'. It was compiled on the basis of information provided by central and provincial intelligence agencies and police. The plotters allegedly planted a powerful bomb on a bridge in Rawalpindi, near the capital, Islamabad, as the Musharraf's highly-guarded motorcade was crossing.
Of the 162 'most wanted' terrorists identified by the 'red book', 83 are from to Punjab province, 29 from Sindh, 11 from the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP), 37 from Balochistan and two from Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
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Only 11 from NWFP? Seems a bit low. Are these the 11 that really pissed somebody (mush) off?
Al Qaeda deputy Ayman al-Zawahri said two London bombers received training in Qaeda camps, according to a video posted on the Internet on Friday. Exactly one year ago, four suicide bombers attacked the London transport system, killing 52 people. Zawahri identified Shehzad Tanweer and Mohammad Sidique Khan as receiving training in Qaeda camps, saying Tanweer was motivated by repression the British are perpetrating in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine.
Video: 2 London Bombers al-Qaida Trained
Two of the four suicide bombers who attacked London a year ago had spent time at an al-Qaida camp to prepare themselves for a suicide attack, the deputy leader of al-Qaida claimed in new video excerpts released Friday. Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri said that Shehzad Tanweer and Mohammad Sidique Khan had come to a base of al-Qaida.
That'd be when they went... ummm... somewhere.
It was known that the two Muslims from north England had visited Pakistan, but al-Zawahri's comment was the first claim that they had actually visited al-Qaida camps.
Oh, yes. That is where they went, isn't it?
"Both of them were seeking martyrdom and wished that they could carry out a martyrdom operation," al-Zawahri said, using the Islamic euphemism for a suicide attack. It was not possible to independently verify the claim, part of a video that was posted on the Internet on the first anniversary of the July 7, 2005, bombings that killed 52 people and the four bombers. Other portions of the video, broadcast Thursday by Al-Jazeera TV, showed Tanweer warning that the attacks were only the beginning of a campaign of terror. "This tape is very interesting from the standpoint that the Metropolitan police said they had no evidence linking the bombers to al-Qaida," said Bob Ayers, a security and intelligence expert at the Chatham House think tank in London.
"The coordinated timing of the tape shows these guys did not act independently and were at a minimum supported by al-Qaida if not recruited, trained and supported by them."
I'd call going to a Qaeda camp being trained and supported, even if they recruited themselves.
"It makes the police look pretty bad," Ayers said. "It means the investigation was either wrong, or they had identified links, but were reluctant to reveal them."
London bombers were not trained in Pakistan: Durrani
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday denied any of the London transit system bombers received training or support during visits to the country, including the suicide bomber who appeared in a recently aired video warning of further attacks.
"No, no! Certainly not!"
Information Minister Mohammed Ali Durrani said there has been no connection proven between Pakistan and the July 7, 2005, bombings that killed 52 people and four bombers, including three British Muslims of Pakistani origin. Let me tell you with full confidence that there is no evidence that any suicide bomber had received training or any other support from militants in Pakistan, Durrani told The Associated Press.
At that point he could say no more, since his lips fell off.
Durranis comments came a day after Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera aired a video showing one of the suicide bombers, Shehzad Tanweer, warning of further attacks. The tape also included a still image of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden who was paraphrased praising the London bombers.
Really, they don't feel shame like we do.
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Don't know which liar to believe
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In one estimate, over 50,000 terrorists - many foreign - trained in the Taleban/al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan alone. And much of what they learned is put on the internet, by ISP's with free speech absolutists as owners.
The old pattern was: a Pakistani-American (or Brit, etc) would save enough money to travel to Pakistan, and take a jihad diversion. Now, jihad training is made here. We need laws that permit indefinite detention, and compulsory disclosure of knowledge of terror threats. The Fall session of the US Congress will separate those with backbone from the spineless.
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Actually, AT8133, you---and everybody else---need to recognize that our system(s) and Islam are mutually exclusive. We can no more tolerate Muslims among us, than we can tolerate cannibals.
Attacks on mosques after Friday prayers killed 11 people in Iraq and 40 were killed or wounded in a Baghdad raid on Shi'ite fighters that the U.S. military said netted a top militant wanted for kidnap and murder. In a separate raid, Iraqi and U.S. forces arrested another commander of the Mehdi Army Shi'ite militia south of Baghdad; a man the U.S. military said was responsible for smuggling weapons, including surface-to-air missiles, and spying for Iran. It was not clear if the two sweeps were part of a crackdown, but Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has vowed to disband militias, some of which, like the Mehdi army, are tied to political parties in his government coalition.
The sectarian attacks, three on Sunni mosques and a car bomb that killed at least six after Shi'ite prayers, were new blows to Maliki's attempts to end bloodshed between Shi'ites and Sunnis that has pitched Iraq towards all-out civil war.
The overnight assault on a building in Baghdad's Sadr City slum killed at least seven people, mostly Mehdi fighters, police and witnesses said. The U.S. military did not identify the group but said the commander targeted had been captured. The U.S. military said Adnan al-Unaybi, a local leader of Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army, was detained in a Iraqi-U.S. raid near Hilla, 100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad on Thursday. Analysts say militias pose a threat to Maliki's seven-week-old national unity coalition government. Sadr's followers staged two uprisings against U.S. forces in 2004.
In the village of Tal Banat near Mosul, a car bomb outside a mosque killed six and wounded 46, police said. Around the same time, a mortar attack and a car bomb killed five people and wounded nine near two Sunni mosques in Baghdad. A roadside bomb near a Sunni mosque in Baquba wounded seven. At dusk, a mortar attack killed three and wounded about 30 in the mainly Shi'ite Shula district of Baghdad, police said.
Maliki has imposed a Friday curfew in Baghdad banning all vehicles to stop attacks. Sectarian tensions are running high since militants blew up a Shi'ite shrine in Samarra in February.
The U.S. military said the wanted man in Sadr City, whom it declined to name, was seized after a firefight in which Iraqi troops killed or wounded 30-40 gunmen. The bodies of at least seven people, including two women, were seen in hospital. The Interior Ministry said there were nine dead in total and 31 wounded and that four houses were destroyed. Shi'ite political sources named the target of the raid as Abu Deraa, a feared commander nominally attached to Sadr's Mehdi militia. They said it appeared Abu Deraa, previously disciplined by Sadr, was still at large. Political sources also said the raid was part of efforts to find a Sunni woman lawmaker whose kidnap prompted the biggest Sunni parliamentary bloc to boycott the assembly this week. The U.S. military said the man targeted may have been running a splinter movement. A spokesman declined to confirm that Abu Deraa was the "high-level insurgent" it had taken.
Sadr aides condemned the operation and local people accused the troops of killing innocent civilians. The young cleric is fiercely opposed to the U.S. occupation but his supporters also hold key posts in the Shi'ite-dominated coalition government. "The captured individual heads multiple insurgent cells in Baghdad whose main focus is to conduct attacks against Iraqi and coalition forces," the U.S. military said in a statement, adding that no Iraqi or U.S. troops were hurt in a "43-minute" battle. "He and his followers have kidnapped, tortured and murdered Iraqi citizens," said spokesman Major General William Caldwell. "He is linked to a punishment committee that carries out vigilante judgement on perceived enemies of his organisation."
Japan began withdrawing some of its 550 troops from the south on Friday, with the first group of ground forces arriving in neighbouring Kuwait, a Japanese official there said.
Calls for the 130,000 American troops to set a timetable for withdrawal have increased among some Iraqi politicians this past week after news of a U.S. military inquiry into a suspected rape and murder of an Iraqi teenager and the killing of her family. President George W. Bush promised "absolute justice" if the discharged soldier facing trial was convicted. His envoy and his top military commander, anxious to stem Iraqi anger, offered "heartfelt condolences" to the family in a joint statement.
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his breath must smell like a fart from hell
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fart from Allah?
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Did Tator turn on Deraa?
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Re #7: Sorry. AOL screwed up the link function. No wonder half of those who downloaded AOL8 and 9, are using 7. If it wasn't free, I wouldn't touch AOL.
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#8-AT8133, you could always learn to code the link by hand, takes about 5 seconds, and once you've done it twice you'll never forget.
Here, I'll show you.
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See how easy that is, just replace the square brackets with angle brackets, place the full URL of the picture between the double quotes and you're done. Cutting & Pasting allowed.
Try it! It's FUN! And, you will never look like an idiot for botching a link again.*
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just be careful of the pic size you're posting. Busted page width results in public scolding and terse discussions in the O-Club, possibly even a stern letter from the UN, and nobody wants that
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Israel launched rapid-fire air strikes against Palestinian militants across the Gaza Strip on Sunday after rebuffing a proposed ceasefire by Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas.
Israel is threatening to expand its offensive unless militants release Corporal Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier abducted in a cross-border raid on June 25, and halt rocket fire on Israeli cities. same demand - new week - get serious
At least three militants were injured in an early morning air strike near the Karni commercial crossing, Palestinian medics and police said. Israel also bombed a key bridge in northern Gaza, despite an appeal from the United Nations to stop targeting the strip's fragile infrastructure. STFU - you're their sugar daddy - you fix it
The army said the goal was to prevent militants from transporting rockets to launch sites.
In southern Gaza, Israel bombed a militant training camp. No one was hurt. 'It was being used to direct attacks,' an army spokesman said.
Israel killed seven Palestinians, including a 6-year-old girl and a policeman, on Saturday, Palestinian witnesses said. who were held as human shields by the cowards of Islam
About 50 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier have been killed so far in the offensive, launched on June 28 to pile pressure on the Hamas-led Palestinian government, already on the brink of financial collapse from a Western aid embargo.
Israeli tanks withdrew from much of the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday but soldiers remain in the southern part of the territory and have deployed close to the outskirts of Gaza City.
'We will soon begin operations in other places,' Israeli Military Southern Command Chief Yoav Galant told Israeli media. 'I see no reason to stop the offensive as long as they are holding our soldier.'
Galant said the Israeli offensive, criticised by the European Union and United Nations, had no time limit and that troops were prepared to continue it for 'a month, two months and more if needed.'
disgraced U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called both sides to exercise restraint and respect their obligations under international law.
'As I have repeatedly stated, I am extremely concerned about the dangerous situation in the occupied Palestinian Territory. I am appalling appealing for urgent action to alleviate the desperate humanitarian situation of the civilian population,' Annan said.
'The Israeli air strikes on Gaza's only power plant have had a far-reaching impact on Gaza's hospitals, qassam factories flour mills, water and sanitation systems,' he said.
Haniyeh said Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and a halt to military actions could 'make it easy for us to end the crisis' over Shalit.
Israel said it would only pull its troops out if militants halted rocket attacks and released the soldier.
The Islamist Hamas and other militant groups have demanded Israel make the first move by releasing hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the soldier. The Jewish state has rejected this.
'Our intentions are to bring security for Israel citizens and to release Gilad,' Galant said. 'If someone expects us to play into the hands of the Palestinians, they are mistaken.' kill em til they beg for mercy - ignore Kofi - he works for the other side
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ISRAEL claims to have killed nearly 40 Palestinian militants since an offensive was launched in the Gaza Strip last week. Israeli officials said an air strike yesterday killed one Hamas militant and wounded three Palestinians as Israeli troops dug in across a swath of the northern Gaza Strip after a bloody day of fighting with Palestinian gunmen. "What is happening on Palestinian land is a crime against humanity," said the Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyeh, as he visited the wounded. "The Israeli killing machine must stop."
The Israeli Army said an aircraft had opened fire yesterday on a group of four armed men close to the scene of the worst violence on Thursday, when 19 Palestinians and one soldier were killed. The father of the captured Israeli soldier Corporal Gilad Shalit called on the Government to consider releasing Palestinian prisoners in exchange for his son, despite its refusal to negotiate with the captors. "Everything has a price," Noam Shalit said. "I don't think there will be some sort of move to free Gilad without a price. That's not the way it works in the Middle East."
A newspaper poll showed 82 per cent of Israelis believed the Government should assassinate Hamas leaders in response to the crisis. The poll showed 47 per cent were unhappy with the performance of the Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert. At the United Nations, Arab states asked the Security Council to demand Israel immediately withdraw from Gaza, but France and the US criticised their proposed resolution as unbalanced. The draft resolution, introduced by Qatar, condemned Israel's detention of dozens of Palestinian officials. "[The resolution] is not balanced enough," said the French envoy, Jean-Marc de la Sabliere. "We will propose amendments."
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Oh yes, the Hamsters are victims (TM) and the Euros need to care for them. Where have we heard this before?
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"What is happening on Palestinian land is a crime against humanity," said the Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyeh, as he visited the wounded.
Define "Humanity".
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"but France and the US criticised their proposed resolution as unbalanced."
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82 per cent of Israelis believed the Government should assassinate Hamas leaders in response to the crisis. The poll showed 47 per cent were unhappy with the performance of the Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert
Israeli troops backed by helicopters have clashed with Palestinian fighters inside Gaza near the strip's key commercial crossing, and several Palestinians were wounded, witnesses and medics said. The clash took place early on Saturday on the edge of a Hamas stronghold near the Karni crossing. An Israeli aircraft fired at least one missile at the Palestinian fighters, witnesses said.
Seven Palestinians were earlier killed on Friday in the continuing Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip while another was shot dead in the West Bank. Two of these were killed by an Israeli air strike that, an army spokesman said, was directed against "two armed cells" in the Al-Atatra area of Beit Lahiya which has been the scene of the deadliest fighting and attacks over the last two days. "We identified hitting both of them," the spokesman said. The victims' names were not immediately released.
In another incident, nineteen-year-old Motaz al-Firi was killed by Israeli tank fire in Atatra and 20-year-old Shadi Omar, who medics said was deaf, was shot in the chest and killed. Earlier during the day, a Palestinian was killed in another Israeli air raid in the same area. An 11-year-old boy died of wounds sustained in an Israeli shooting a day earlier near Beit Hanun in northern Gaza, medics said. In the occupied West Bank, another Palestinian was shot dead in clashes with Israeli forces in Nablus.
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Of course, none of the gentlemen killed by the eeeeevillll Jooooos was doing one damn thing wrong. They were all off to make sure the puppies, kittens and baby ducks weren't traumatized by this unreasonable military action. Any weapons near their dead bodies is strictly coincidental and should not be taken as evidence of any wrong doing on their part whatsoever.
The Palestinian Authority has gone underground as Israeli forces have advanced 12 kilometers through the northern Gaza Strip. Palestinian sources said the Hamas-led government has disappeared over the last two days. "You won't find one Hamas minister either at home or in his office," a source said. they're hiding in nursery schools and baby milk factories
The sources said the PA has relayed orders through couriers in an effort to fight the advancing Israel Army in the Gaza Strip. "Youse guys get out there and fight to the death. We'll be somewhere else... planning future martyr operations"
Israeli military officials said their goal was to target military systems rather than to take back territory, Middle East Newsline reported. "The method of operation has been that of raids rather than conquest," Maj. Gen. Yoav Gallant, head of the military's Southern Command, said. "We aren't seeking territorial assets."
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"Keep 'em occupied? Look, genius, the only way I have of keeping 'em occupied is to let 'em shoot holes in me!"
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(with apologies to Monty Python's Holy Grail...)
"Brave lions of Islam, lions of Islam, ran away...
Bravely ran away, away, oh lions of Islam....
When Israel reared it's angry head, the lions turned their tails and fled, brave lions of Islam...."
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So Hamas leaders vanished. Wouldn't it be nice if the final result would be a permanence of that state... I mean, sure they have to be found in the interim by Israelis, but once 'vanished'... [hint] perhaps no one would miss them. [/hint]
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On Thursday, the PA Interior Ministry ordered security forces to fight Israeli troops closing in from northern and southern Gaza. Interior Minister Said Siyyam, regarded as close to Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, also relayed instructions to the National Security Forces, the largest paramilitary force in the Gaza Strip. Siyyam's instructions have not been obeyed, the sources said.
With apologies to W. S. Gilbert, "The Godoliers"
In enterprise of martial kind, where there was any fighting,
He lead his regiment from behind; he found it less exciting.
But when away his regiment ran, his place was at the fore-o.
That celebrated, cultivated, underrated nobleman, the Duke of Plaza-Toro."
Lebanese Army soldiers exchanged gunfire with smugglers near the Lebanese-Syrian border on Friday in the second such incident this week, security sources said. No casualties were reported. The smugglers, who had reportedly passed into Lebanon from Syria, fled after a 10-minute gun battle, and no one was arrested, officials said. Lebanese soldiers then used bulldozers to close off illegal smuggling routes.
The clashes occurred at around 11 a.m., when an army patrol that was working to block illegal smuggling routes came under fire in the Lebanese village of Suweiri, about 5 kilometers from the Syrian border, Lebanese officials said on condition of anonymity. Witnesses told The Daily Star that security forces raided homes in the town and arrested three people suspected of carrying out smuggling operations across the frontier.
Trade in cigarettes, whiskey, household and electrical appliances, diesel and gasoline has been rife for years between the two countries. In a similar incident on Tuesday, a Syrian smuggler was killed in a clash between the army and a group of traffickers on Lebanon's side of the Syrian border. An army patrol was carrying out a regular tour in the Yabse area, 100 kilometers southwest of Beirut, when eight traffickers on two agricultural tractors opened fire in its direction. The fight claimed the life of Wahid Fadlallah Saqaan, while the seven others managed to escape into Syrian territory.
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Militants attacked a coalition convoy in the provinces Baghran Valley on Thursday, killing a coalition soldier and wounding another, said spokesman Sgt Chris Miller. Five militants died when coalition forces returned fire, he said. Miller gave no details about the dead soldiers identity or nationality, but another foreign military official, speaking on condition of anonymity due to policy, said the fatality was American. 
(SomaliNet) Another war tension has resumed in southwest suburb of the Somalia capital Mogadishu on Friday where Islamic militiamen and militia loyal former member of anti terror alliance 
A leader of outlawed Purabo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP-Janajuddho) was killed during a "shootout" between his cohorts and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members at Chaitrahati in Ataikula upazila early yesterday.
A German of Moroccan descent has been arrested in Hamburg on suspicion that he is a member of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network with contacts to a man close to the Sept. 11 hijackers, federal prosecutors said Saturday. The man, identified only as 
(AKI) - Turin mayor Sergio Chiamparino on Friday received a package bomb with a letter against detention centres for immigrants signed by an anarchist group. No one was injured as the mayor's office alerted the police upon receiving the suspected package and police defused the homemade bomb. Reports said the package included a copy of The Idiot by Fedor Mikhajlovic Dostoevskij and a letter in which anarchists calling themselves an 'Informal anarchist federation - Anarchic network of Tuscany' expressed "active and concrete solidarity for immigrants detained in CPTs [Italy's detention centres for immigrants]." According to police the attack, the third in a week following letter bombs sent to a local paper and to a company carrying out construction work in a detention centre for immigrants in Turin, could be aimed at sparking protests by immigrants.
(AKI) - A man has been detained in the capital of Lebanon, Beirut, in connection with 
At least 14 people were injured when a bomb exploded in a busy bazaar on Friday. The blast occurred in the crowded Suraj Ganj bazaar where it had been planted under a motorcycle. The injured were taken to the Civil Hospital. Several shops and parked motorcycles were also damaged in the blast. There is a foreign hand in the incident. It is an act of terror which we strongly condemn, said Mir Maqbool Ahmed Lehri, the Quetta City District nazim. He said some people were trying to create law and order problems in the provincial capital. We will not be cowed by such acts of terror, he added.
(AKI/DAWN) - Pakistan's central government has issued for the first time a 'red book' containing information about 162 most-wanted terrorists, including the four individuals allegedly involved in an abortive attempt to assassinate Pakistan's president, Gen Pervez Musharraf. The wanted men belong to banned radical groups such as 
Al Qaeda deputy 
Attacks on mosques after Friday prayers killed 11 people in Iraq and 40 were killed or wounded in a Baghdad raid on Shi'ite fighters that the U.S. military said netted a top militant wanted for kidnap and murder. In a separate raid, Iraqi and U.S. forces arrested another commander of the Mehdi Army Shi'ite militia south of Baghdad; a man the U.S. military said was responsible for smuggling weapons, including surface-to-air missiles, and spying for Iran. It was not clear if the two sweeps were part of a crackdown, but Shi'ite Prime Minister 
ISRAEL claims to have killed nearly 40 Palestinian militants since an offensive was launched in the Gaza Strip last week. Israeli officials said an air strike yesterday killed one Hamas militant and wounded three Palestinians as Israeli troops dug in across a swath of the northern Gaza Strip after a bloody day of fighting with Palestinian gunmen. "What is happening on Palestinian land is a crime against humanity," said the Palestinian Prime Minister, 
Israeli troops backed by helicopters have clashed with Palestinian fighters inside Gaza near the strip's key commercial crossing, and several Palestinians were wounded, witnesses and medics said. The clash took place early on Saturday on the edge of a Hamas stronghold near the Karni crossing. An Israeli aircraft fired at least one missile at the Palestinian fighters, witnesses said.
The Palestinian Authority has gone underground as Israeli forces have advanced 12 kilometers through the northern Gaza Strip. Palestinian sources said the Hamas-led government has disappeared over the last two days. "You won't find one Hamas minister either at home or in his office," a source said.
Lebanese Army soldiers exchanged gunfire with smugglers near the Lebanese-Syrian border on Friday in the second such incident this week, security sources said. No casualties were reported. The smugglers, who had reportedly passed into Lebanon from Syria, fled after a 10-minute gun battle, and no one was arrested, officials said. Lebanese soldiers then used bulldozers to close off illegal smuggling routes.
