KABUL: Pakistani and Afghan border security forces clashed over the establishment of a check post in Arya district on the Pak-Afghan border the other night.
The establishment of the check post led to a clash between "Pakistani militia" and Afghan border security forces...
Paktia province security commander Gen Matiullah Rehmani told Bakhtar news agency that the establishment of the check post led to a clash between "Pakistani militia" and Afghan border security forces that lasted half an hour. Later, a delegation of tribal leaders was sent to the area to probe the incident and report to the authorities, he added.
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Talibs don't like to be fenced in. "Pakistani militia" indeed. Next time follow up with air support - into Pakland teritory.
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KABUL: A suicide bomber blew himself up in front of the Afghan Interior Ministry in Kabul on Saturday, killing 12 people and injuring more than 50. Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, but police insisted it was a suicide attack. Police said the attacker detonated explosives strapped to his body in a crowd of Interior Ministry staff and civilians at the compound's gate. The Health Ministry said more than 50 were injured.
Meanwhile, police said that three Taliban fighters had been killed in Gurbuz. Separately, three Taliban were killed in Zabul late on Friday. Police said four policemen were injured in a blast in Kandahar.
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But remember, suicide is against the teachings and tenets of the R.o.P. (And so is murder).
Egyptian security forces arrested four Egyptian policemen, four Palestinians and a Beduin in El-Arish on Saturday night on suspicion of attempting to smuggle hand grenades and other forms of ammunition into the Gaza Strip. Israel Radio reported that the weapons were stolen from an Egyptian army base.
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To the applause of fellow passengers, the Jewish designer was escorted from a New York flight as a potential bomber. Because, he tells Sophie Goodchild, of his holiday tan
Seth Stein is used to jetting around the world to create stylish holiday homes for wealthy clients. This means the hip architect is familiar with the irritations of heightened airline security post-9/11. But not even he could have imagined being mistaken for an Islamist terrorist and physically pinned to his seat while aboard an American Airlines flight - especially as he has Jewish origins.
Yet this is what happened when he travelled back from a business trip to the Turks and Caicos islands via New York on 22 May. Still traumatised by his ordeal, the 47-year-old is furious that the airline failed to protect him from the gung-ho actions of an over-zealous passenger who claimed to be a police officer. He has now instructed a team of top US lawyers to act for him.
The London-based interiors guru, whose clients have included Peter Mandelson and the husband-and-wife design team Suzanne Clements and Ignacio Ribeiro, said he felt compelled to speak out to protect other innocent travellers from a similar experience.
"This man could have garrotted me and what was awful was that one or two of the passengers went up afterwards to thank him," said Mr Stein. He has since been told by airline staff he was targeted because he was using an iPod, had used the toilet when he got on the plane and that his tan made him appear "Arab".
"I was terrified but am fortunate in that I was able to contact a lawyer. Yet someone else who is not assertive could be left completely traumatised."
The incident highlights the increased likelihood of innocent passengers being picked on because they are perceived as "suspicious" or "foreign-looking", especially following the alleged plot to blow up airliners with liquid explosives.
Earlier this month, a plane from London to Washington DC made an emergency landing, escorted by fighters, after passengers alerted crew to the behaviour of a female traveller. It later emerged she had suffered a panic attack. And in August, two innocent Asian students were escorted off a flight from Malaga to Manchester because other passengers thought they were terrorists.
In Mr Stein's case, he was pounced on as the crew and other travellers looked on. The drama unfolded less than an hour into the flight. As he settled down with a book and a ginger ale, the father-of-three was grabbed from behind and held in a head-lock.
"This guy just told me his name was Michael Wilk, that he was with the New York Police Department, that I'd been acting suspiciously and should stay calm. I could barely find my voice and couldn't believe it was happening," said Mr Stein.
"He went into my pocket and took out my passport and my iPod. All the other passengers were looking concerned." Eventually, cabin crew explained that the captain had run a security check on Mr Stein after being alerted by the policeman and that this had cleared him. The passenger had been asked to go back to his seat before he had restrained Mr Stein. When the plane arrived in New York, Mr Stein was met by apologetic police officers who offered to fast-track him out of the airport.
Mr Stein said: "The other passengers looked and me and said, 'What did you do?' It was so humiliating. The fact is he [the police officer] was told I was OK and should have left me alone. The airline had a duty of care. I've got to travel to the US soon, but I'm paying an extra £500 to travel in business class."
American Airlines apologised to Mr Stein, who was born in New York, but withdrew an initial offer of $2,000 compensation on the grounds it would be an admission of liability. In a letter dated 30 May, the airline said it had done everything possible to try and protect Mr Stein.
It read: "Unfortunately, as in any public gathering, there may be occasions when a conflict arises between people or when one individual's actions bother another... As our crew members may not always be witness to the inappropriate acts of a particular passenger, there may be a limit to what our crews can do to improve behaviour that is perceived as a nuisance."
In a twist to the story, Mr Stein has since discovered that there is only one Michael Wilk on the NYPD's official register of officers, but the man retired 25 years ago. Officials have told the architect that his assailant may work for another law enforcement agency but have refused to say which one.
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I fly AA almost exclusively. I find it inconceivable that the crew could not have stopped this. As a standard practice, police officers should ID themselves to the crew members as dicretely as possible, and should only take actions when there is a clear threat or when directed by the crew. Every AA crew member knows this. Air Marshalls have authority to act autonomously but police officers do not. Sue the airline. They failed to protect the passenger by immediately demanding that the 'police officer' go back to his seat, and having the officer arrested upon landing.
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"I was violated!"
"hey are you getting this all down?"
"make sure you spell my name correctly...and get my website addy. You have the name and phone of my PR agent, don't you?"
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C'mon Frank. How would you like to be placed in a head lock while kicking back in your seat? I'm just as much against the 'victimhood' mentality and the litigious nature of our society as the next guy, but right is right, and wrong is wrong.
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may 22nd? Publicity whore. We have his side - let's hear the other
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For security reasons alone, the plane's crew (and therefore the airline) had a significant duty to record all information surrounding this incident, including the supposed "police officer's" identity and the names of any witnesses. Such information is needed by the TSA to assess valid incidents and should be also made available to any passenger who is unfairly assaulted. By not gathering such data, American Airlines has left themselves wide open for a major lawsuit.
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"furious that the airline failed to protect him from the gung-ho actions of an over-zealous passenger"
It seems to me that Mr. Stein's beef is with Michael Wilk. He should have insisted that NYPD press charges for assault. In fact, it's not too late. I'm with Frank: four months later and all the name dropping smells like a publicity whore.
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Nope, I'm with Mr. Stein on this one. The police officer had a duty to follow the rules of engagement, as it were. It's not his job to jump on someone just because they look a little suspicious. Hell, there's one person on every large plane that might look 'suspicious' to someone else.
Someone starts to act crazy? Put a match to a shoe? Grab a flight attendant? No problem, beat his head in, and I'll help hold the SOB.
But I have iPod earphones in my ears the whole time I'm on a plane, and I sure hope that doesn't make me 'suspicious'.
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Ack! If he grabs an attendant... If he goes to the john to soon after takeoff and there's wires coming outta his pantslegs trailing along behind him... If he tries to smoke his shoe... If he cuts someone's throat... If he charges the cockpit... If he hollers Allan's Snackbar! Sheesharoonies, so many rules. My brain hurts.
/vinnybarbarino
P.S. Duh, Wilk... If you do the chokehold right, you don't hafta worry about twerps testifying against you.
/LAPD
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SW - we have,what, one side here? Just kicking bvack, reading a book and ginger ale, the "father of three" was assaulted by a fictitious cop. Spare me
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If he had been the Bottom British Architect...
#13
There is something missing in this story. Also I don't know that an AA stewardess could prevent me from garrotting a fellow passenger. I think we will eventually see a change in the appearance of stewardesses as their job becomes more akin to NHL linesmen. I would be OK with arming them with tasers - more people would certainly listen to their safety briefing.
I don't care whether AA gets sued over this one - they really didn't do anthing outstandinglu positive or negative during the incident, but anytime stories emerge that make America look like a hard target we win. I want there to be significant element of uncertainty about the success of an any terrorist attack planned on America. If the odds are better for an attack of a country that doesn't have a cowboy legacy, we are safer. Afterall we don't have to be faster than the bear.
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While I certainly agree that this doesn't sound like the entire story, some four months late and all that, the airline still had a legal obligation to gather all information related to this incident. Failure to do so makes them culpable because their inaction unfairly limited the victim's avenues of proper legal recourse thereby nominating themselves as the liable party.
Consider the case of a property owner who witnesses a hired subcontractor injure a passerby while performing requested work on the premises. If that property owner fails to gather the appropriate information and permits the subcontractor to leave without having gathered that pertinent data, guess who stands liable in court?
The airline is the property owner, the "police officer" is the sub-contractor (passenger) and the passerby is this other passenger. I see zero fallback or mitigating circumstances for the airline to cite. All that matters is that the victim is in no way filing a false claim.
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My Israeli (amongst other nationalities -- a long story) father always said the Jewish appearance stereotype is really Italian or Arab. The tale proves it, although as told it sounds like the other gentleman both overreacted and lied about his profession to cow our hero into not fighting. Were Mr. Stein a real terrorist, that wouldn't be a bad tactic.
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The terrific delay in the publication of this story is the biggest factor causing suspicion. Normally this would be news on the first few pages of a major newspaper, the same or the next day it happened. Very fishy.
An unidentified gunman fired into a mosque in western Australia packed with hundreds of Muslims observing the holy month of Ramadan, but no one was hurt, police said Saturday. Around 400 worshippers were praying at the mosque in suburban Mirrabooka in the west coast city of Perth when the shooting occurred Friday evening, Western Australia state police Inspector Neville Patterson said.
Ali, head of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, declined to identify the leaders whose comments he thought might encourage such attacks. Prime Minister John Howard has described some segments of the Islamic community as "utterly antagonistic" to Australian society. His ruling Liberal Party deputy, Peter Costello, recently said Muslims who want to live under Islamic law have no place in Australia...
"A single shot was fired from a high-powered rifle from outside the mosque through a window on the second level, narrowly missing a couple of worshippers," Patterson said.
The gunman, who fled the scene in a green sports utility vehicle, has yet to be identified, he said. The bullet was lodged in the mosque wall and ballistics experts were searching for more clues. Patterson said it was unclear whether the shooting was an attempt to murder or to terrorize.
Ahdielah Edries, 38, said she was among 100 women and children praying on the second level of the mosque when the bullet whizzed past her. The men were on the ground floor. "I heard what seemed like a massive explosion and felt something go past my ear," said Edries, president of the Islamic Council of Western Australia. "If I stood a little bit to the left, I would be dead," she added.
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Let's see:
*U/I gunnie
*'Narrowly missed' women and children
*Timing almost immediately after Howard's comments
I call BS.
Mike
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You smell it, too, huh?
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50/50 it was one of the islamic bretheren. Aiming for the womens and childrens is par for the course.
#4
but my question is: where do the criminals get the courage to do this?
Assuming this was an outside attack, the easy answer would be; "Gang rapes of young Australian women who are pissed on after being assaulted." These vile events could easily inspire such outrage "courage".
#7
It's that time of year again, when you can count on reports of pigs' heads being tossed into mosques, hate-words spray painted on Muslims' cars and homes, and such.
Have your BS Detection Meter ready because more of these "incidents" to will come soon. (Hint: It's Ramadan time).
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Y'know now that you mention it I've noticed that all the riots are in heavily "Gun Controlled" countries.
The Muzzies don't want anyone to be able to fight back.
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No. We don't murder infants. We go after those who plan, finance, supply, execute and support, not after the innocents. If innocents are caught in the crossfire because they were put there to be shields, that's a different story, but not in such situations as this. All out war is not the same as deliberate targetting of the uninvolved.
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The Sunni-Shiite-Ahmadiyah conflicts are heating up in Muslim communities in the West. I wouldn't be too quick to point the finger at white racists.
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I have to disagree somewhat with Trailing Wife: We should ALSO go after the vocal exorters and recruiters of the Jihadi army as well.
Other that that small amendation, I am 100% in agreement. If this was an outside job, it was a foolish waste of ammunition and a colossal strategic blunder that only serves the cause of those we oppose. Better to patrol the streets looking for rape gangs and go full roman on them when you find them hitting on a sheila.
On the other hand, the asshole MISSED while firing on the Mosque. A paleostinian import brought in to manufacture outrage perhaps.
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Too bad he missed? Sheesh! Why do we have to go through this same argument every day with some ridiculous post? If he hit someone, that makes him a MURDERER. Are you seriously advocating murder of innocent people?
What the hell are we fighting for if not to destroy the evil of terrorism? Why would this man's act of terror be any less evil than a muslim act of terror?
Fight the Jihadists. Fight their supporters. Fight their financiers. Fight governments who fund and encourage them. Fight them with every fiber of your being, and I'll be right there beside you. Bit if you think that gives you license to commit atrocity, you sir as just as bad as the terrorists, and probably worse, having benefited from living in a free western world where you should know better. Grow some principles!
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It's obviously wrong to fire a high-powered rife into a crowd of innocent worshippers. But maybe the Muslims can ask themselves, "Why do they hate us?", just like they want us to do when we are the victims of terrorism.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - A bomb exploded outside a hospital in the Mediterranean port city of Mersin on Sunday, police said. Three people who were wounded from shattered glass were treated at the emergency department.
The bomb had been placed near a bicycle outside the Mersin State Hospital's emergency department, shattering windows of nearby buildings and cars, the private Dogan news agency reported. Television footage showed glass on the street as well as a wheel and twisted metal from the bike. Police evacuated people and cordoned off the area against the possibility of a second bomb, according to Dogan.
It was not immediately clear who was behind the explosion, which came on the first day of a new unilateral cease-fire declared by autonomy-seeking Kurdish rebels on Saturday.
Suleyman Ekizer, the deputy police chief for Mersin, told the Anatolia news agency that witnesses saw a man with a bicycle leaving the bomb. Ekizer said police were investigating the type of bomb used.
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A Kurdish guerrilla group on Saturday declared a new unilateral cease-fire in its war for autonomy in Turkey's southeast, heeding a call from its imprisoned rebel leader, the pro-Kurdish Firat news agency said on its Web site.
The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) said the cease-fire would go into effect on Sunday "in the hopes of starting a democratic process for the solution of the Kurdish problem," Firat reported.
The group said its fighters will not use arms unless attacked by the Turkish army, Firat said. Turkey, however, is likely to press ahead with its military drive targeting the rebels. Ankara has ignored all previous cease-fires by the group, saying it does not negotiate with terrorists. Military commanders have vowed to fight until all rebels are killed or surrender.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A decorated soldier who deserted from the U.S. Army to avoid a second tour of duty in Iraq has crossed back into the United States after fleeing to Canada almost two years ago. Army Spc. Darrell Anderson, 24, of Lexington, crossed the U.S. border on Saturday and plans to turn himself in at Fort Knox on Tuesday.
Anderson said he is hoping for leniency from the Army but isn't taking anything for granted. "You never know what's going to happen until it happens," he told the Lexington Herald-Leader before starting for home. "I'm sort of hoping for the best but planning for the worst."
I wouldn't offer leniency, but the Army seems to have different ideas.
Anderson's lawyer, Jim Fennerty, said an officer at Fort Knox told him by phone last week that the Army has decided not to court-martial Anderson, and plans to release him within three to five days. Fennerty said the officer told him that a discharge would be mailed to Anderson within a few days after that.
Fort Knox public affairs officer Connie Schaffery said officers had been in touch with Anderson, his lawyer and his family to "explain the process." Schaffery said she "cannot speak about what's going to happen when he gets here until he gets here."
Anderson, who was wounded and received the Purple Heart while serving in Iraq in 2004 with the 1st Armored Division, fled to Canada in early 2005, hoping to avoid another tour in a war he no longer supported. He has been living in the Toronto area, becoming a highly visible war critic and spokesman for Canadian peace groups. But when Anderson's application for Canadian refugee status was filed too late, he could not get a government work permit. Unsure of his future in Canada, he decided to return to Kentucky and accept whatever punishment the Army imposes.
Send him back to Iraq with his unit.
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Hmmm...the unit at Fort Polk belongs to the 10th Mountain Division? Time to set up a historical reenactment section honoring the mule handlers of the 10th in WWII. I think it would be fitting that these publicity guys actually do shovel sh!t in Louisiana for a tour.
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hard time. My son's in boot, and would nevr disgrace his uniform like this POS. Don't enlist if you don't want to do the job. Hard time is the answer
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On Saturday, Kentucky buried one of it's National Guard troops that was killed last week in Iraq. I don't think he will get much sympathy here in Kentucky.
Franks comments ring true here. It angers me to know there is a unit out there missing a troop because he was afraid to go back. He signed up knowing he would deploy. My question is how we, DOD, deal with deployments. Troops are now going back two, three and four tours in the combat zone in their first enlistment. We as a nation don't normally do this with our troops, and yes war is not normal, I got that. We have to come to terms with how much combat is enough for our troops and how to deal with it.
I think we will se a lot more of this. No one knows what combat looks and feels like until they are there. This reminds me of jump school. Troops run out the door on their first jump fine, because they have no idea what they are getting into. On the second jump is where they get scared and give in to fear. I think the right answer for this troop is general him out and move on. Anything more will fuel the left and troops that are just afraid to go back will be pawns in the politics of it all.
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I wouldn't call it leniency per se. The Army is essentially treating him as a non-entity. They'll bring him in, stash him in a room, process him out, and put him back on the street with an other-than-honorable. Odds are he won't see anyone outside of the few who'll process him out.
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Troops are now going back two, three and four tours in the combat zone in their first enlistment.[*] We as a nation don't normally do this with our troops, and yes war is not normal,
In WWII once they deployed, they stayed deployed till it was over. Units in the Pacific only rotated to a suitable location to retrain and refit after taking an island. Troops in Europe were told to be prepared to deploy to the Pacific after the German surrender.
During the Injun campaigns units deployed to remote locations and pretty muched stayed there until there was a need further on in the territories for them.
Bascially, today units are rotated out of theater to refit and be reinforced on a very strategic level. Basically they're being given an extended R&R contact with the family on those rotations, something which troops didn't have during time of America's other major wars.
[*] must have signed for 6. Army units are committed usually for a year. A three year enlistment would only generate two rotations. That doesn't even include the time for Basic, Advanced Individual Training, and any specialty training.
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I can understand why someone who was wounded might go AWOL rather than return to Iraq. Fear is understandable. Becoming a spokespeon for the anti-war crowd is not acceptable. Hopefully his family owns a business that can employ him otherwise its Jiffy Lube for the next 40 years or so.
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We still need about 24 extra Brigade Combat Teams - 16 active and 8 reserve/Guard - to ease the workload and meet all our OTHER objectives. The sooner we begin building them up, the sooner they'll be able to enter the rotation and ease the stress load.
I only went to Vietnam once. The Air Force had enough people that, except for some very isolated career fields, the demand was less than the total number of people available. Still, I had no qualms about going back for a second time. A friend of mine, an AH-1 Cobra pilot, was shot down for the seventh time on his third tour, and broke his pelvis. He'd been in the Army five years.
Things in Iraq are hard on people. I have great sympathy for those going back for the second, third, or fourth tour. I don't have much sympathy for someone so lame they have to run away. They not only let the nation down, they let their buddies and fellow soldiers down. Throw him out, erase his name from the Unit's history, and go on. He's not worth anything more.
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GHALANAI: At least four people were killed and six others were seriously injured in a clash between two rival groups in Sagi area, some 35 kilometres from Ghalanai in Mohmand Agency on Saturday.
According to political administration officials, the incident occurred when a large number of supporters of men who were being detained by the political administration for kidnapping a doctor gathered in Sagi area. "After the protesters blocked the Bajuar-Mohmand, the administration released the men. However, the protesters divided into two groups for unknown reasons and started firing at each other," Assistant Political Agent Islam Zeb told Daily Times. He said that as a result of the clash, Hazrat Nabi, Tawaiz Gul, Umer Gul and Rahim Gul were killed on the spot, while six people received serious injuries. The injured have been admitted to Bajuar Agency and Peshawar hospitals.
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PESHAWAR: The government forced local Taliban to close down their two-day-old office in Miranshah, a spokesman for the Governor's FATA Secretariat revealed in a press statement. He said that though the tribesmen clarified that the office "was not set up to run a parallel administration" in the agency, the issue still remained in the media. The spokesman added, "This measure of closing down the office proves that the tribesmen are fully committed to implementing the peace accord in letter and spirit."
Only thing it proves to me is that Perv's administration doesn't want them operating quite so blatantly yet. No doubt the segment of the population with 2-digit IQs is fooled, but that's only half of us.
The office was "in fact, opened as an internal arrangement to ensure implementation of the peace accord between local tribesmen and the administration", he said.
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Just a reminder: after the Taliban dictatorship was overthrown, US officials facilitated armistices between the Northern Alliance and Taliban tribes. Taliban dogma remains highly influential in Pashto culture, at least. The Talibani who oversaw the destruction of the giant Buddhas, is now an elected Member of the Afghan assembly. Imams in that country's cities regularly call for jihad terror against the NATO troops outside the doors of their mosques. Man in the street interviews in Kabul and elsewhere, reveal widespread nostaligia for the Taliban government. You can also find support for Mullah Omar in the 500,000 Pakistanis who live in the US.
Musharaf reads our ambiguous messages as a license to play the terror card.
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The US must change the nature of dealings with the Pakis-they never were friends and never will be. The border issue has to be readdressed:
SOLUTION
Afghanistan and Balochistan should form a legal team to challenge the illegal occupation of Afghan territories and Balochistan by Pakistan in the International Court of Justice. Once the Durand Line Agreement is declared illegal, it will result in the return of Pakistan-occupied territories back to Afghanistan. Also, Balochistan will be declared a country that was forcibly invaded through use of force by the Pakistanis; and with international assistance, Balochistan can regain its independence. It is the right time to act now because the US and Allied forces in Afghanistan are positioned to facilitate the enforcement of the Courts judgment.
After Pakistan vacates territories belonging to Afghanistan and Balochistan, a new boarder should be demarked amicably to determine Baloch dominated areas to become the new Balochistan, and Pashtun dominated areas to be merged into Afghanistan. And, with the help of the US and Allied forces, the Afghans and the Baloch forces can flush out members of Al-Qaeda and Talebans from their respective countries.
A wise observer once said, Pakistan is a completely superfluous and artificially created spot on the world map that has become a breeding ground for extremism, and trouble that would be best done away with.
http://afghanland.com/history/durrand.html
(KUNA) -- An Iraqi MP threatened to eleminate several reporters, a statement by the press freedom watch center said Saturday. The statement added that MP Mohammed Al-Dayni, who belongs to the Iraqi Front for National Dialogue, threatened to assassinate several employees in Al-Iraqiyah channel.
The Front for National Dialogue wants to discuss the matter with their corpses? Truly, this is a religion of peace!
The center added that the threat of the MP came through a video tape during which he addressed his warning to the workers in the channel, telling them that the cement barriers placed outside the channel will not protect them. Several of the workers expressed to the center their concern towards this threat.
"My myrmidons will find you wherever you hide! You cannot escape... Dialogue!"
According to the statement of the watch center, the statement of the MP is considered a clear violation of the Iraqi constitution, especially article 48 that stipulates that the MP is obliged to protect public and private freedom. The center demanded the parliament to take legal action against the MP and lift his immunity.
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If they're caught in and among the terrortists, I can see his point. The Iraqis lack a hovering F-18 just to drop a big one on the house/position in order to get the whole bunch with one shot.
(KUNA) -- Several tribal members killed Saturday four members of Al-Qaeda, including a prominent leader, whereas several of the network members have escaped towards the Syrian-Iraqi borders, the Iraqi television quoted Al-Anbar council saying.
Ran 'em out of town, did they?
The council, which consists of tribal leaders in the province, said that members of their tribes killed four Al-Qaeda members, including a prominent leader in the network known as Abu Shujae Al-Yamani, during an armed confrontation in Sankoura town in western Iraq. The council said several of the network's members have escaped towards the Iraqi-Syrian borders urging the Iraqi government to pursue them. The council had declared earlier that two Al-Qaeda members were killed and six others were arrested and were handed over to the Iraqi authorities.
Meanwhile, Iraqi security forces continued a wide-scale military operation in Diyala province in northeast Baghdad. Spokesman of the general commander of the armed forces, Qassem Al-Mawsawi told KUNA that 39 militants were arrested in Baqouba during the operation conducted by the Iraqi army. The security forces declared on Friday that 60 militants were also arrested in Diyala.
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Allahu akbar!
So why would they want to run towards Syria, hmm?
Seems like some big numbers here. I wonder if they are old gripes or if there is evidence.
#2
This article is categorically impossible. The war in Iraq has inspired al-Qaeda and has nothing to do with al-Qaeda. Don't you people read the NY Times?
For Muslims (and Iraqi Sunni Arab Muslims at that!) to turn against al-Qaeda would up the ante. Instead of having to believe merely two contradictory things, I would have to accept three! The cognitive dissonance would be jarring. Besides, the first two contradictory propositions produce a self-indulgent and emotionally satisfying glow of Bush hatred. This article suggests that the US presence in Iraq might actually be accomplishing something positive, and since we all know that's impossible, it can't be true. QED.
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It should've happened 3 years and 2500 troop deaths ago. No kudos due - purest Arab tribal self-interest at work. Fuck the Arabs.
#7
Well said .COM, in fact I don't think I could have said it more succinctly myself. They have been hedging their bets for years now and only turned on Al-Q because they think if fits their agenda this week.
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The notion that we could have avoided this merely be increasing troop levels seems dubious. The difference between winning the war and winning the peace is the difference between removing a tumor and creating life -- more doctors ain't the problem.
(KUNA) -- Governor of Basra Mohammad Musbeh Al-Waeli survived on Saturday an assassination attempt which resulted in the injury of three bodyguards.
Al-Waeli said in a press conference "I was attacked in the center of Basra city while returning from Karbala province." The governor accused a group of Basra's interior officers of the assassination attempt on his life. "I accuse Basra's criminal department of conducting the attempt and call Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki to begin an immediate investigation," he charged.
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The Shia south is a disaster. Corrupt and Shia militia / Iranian controlled. I dunno if the "Gov" (no doubt a Shia) is one of them or not, but this is as likely to be a turf battle as anything else.
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Ever get the feeling that things won't sort themselves out until we kill every single male over the age of fifteen ten and hope they all make a fresh start?
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Ever get the feeling that things won't sort themselves out until we kill every single male over the age of fifteen ten and hope they all make a fresh start?
Hell yes, with lard covered bullets during a rib BBQ.
The U.S. military said a captured al-Qaida suspect and members of his cell were "in the final stages" of planning an attack on the Green Zone. An unprecedented curfew prompted by the arrest left millions of Baghdadis stranded at home on Saturday without supplies during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. The U.S. military said the suspected al-Qaida in Iraq member was arrested late Friday at the home of senior Sunni Arab political leader Adnan al-Dulaimi, where he was working as a personal bodyguard.
Intelligence information we received was that there are car bombs and that terrorist Takfiris wearing belts with explosives have entered Baghdad to target civilians...
Al-Dulaimi is a member of the Iraqi Accordance Front the largest Sunni coalition in the 275-member parliament, where it holds 44 seats and the military was quick to distance the politician from the raid, stressing that he was "not the target."
"This operation in no way implies Dr. al-Dulaimi was associated with any illegal activity," the military said, adding that the suspect was captured in a security trailer at al-Dulaimi's home. After the arrest, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was advised by the U.S. military to shut down the capital and order its 7 million residents to stay at home. "They have information terrorists entered Baghdad," Interior Ministry spokesman Brig. Abdul-Kaim Khalaf told The Associated Press. "The prime minister agreed to give our security forces the freedom of movement to raid certain places."
The curfew was rare both in its scope and severity, catching many residents of Baghdad by surprise. Many people are fasting during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, eating and drinking only after sunset, and they were caught without supplies and fresh bread _ a Baghdad staple. Most residents did not have a chance to shop on Friday because of a regular, weekly vehicle curfew to prevent attacks against mosques during prayers.
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IIRC, didn't the initial report say that bomb-making materials were recovered from the scene - now identified as al Dulaimi's house - and now the PR line is that he's not involved?
A PALESTINIAN man was killed and two other people were wounded in an Israeli air raid in the southern Gaza Strip overnight, Palestinian sources said. No one was hurt in a separate attack in the northern Gaza Strip, sources added. "Bassam bin Hamad, 30, was killed and two other persons were wounded, one seriously, by a missile fired by an Israeli drone when they were walking in a street of the town of Rafah," a medical official said. Security sources said Mr Hamad was a member of the radical Islamic Jihad movement.
Members of the Islamic Jihad's armed branch were meanwhile targeted by Israeli missile fire at Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip but escaped unhurt, security officials said. Mr Hamad's death brings to 5405 the number of fatalities since the 2000 outbreak of the Palestinian uprising, the large majority of them Palestinians.
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"Bassam bin Hamad, 30, was killed and two other persons were wounded, one seriously, by a missile fired by an Israeli drone when they were walking in a street of the town of Rafah," ...
Oh the humanity! To be taken out by a lifeless, impersonal drone!
The air force attacked a rocket launcher in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun late Saturday, the IDF said. Palestinians did not report any casualties and the army could not confirm destroying the target. Earlier Saturday, a Kassam rocket struck a house in Sderot, lightly wounding two people.
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London, Sep. 30 Agents of Irans dreaded Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) have arrested the daughter of a Christian priest whose high-profile murder 12 years ago was met with international condemnation, a Christian news agency reported on Friday.
Fereshteh Dibaj, 28-year-old daughter of Reverend Mehdi Dibaj, was arrested on Tuesday with her husband Reza Montazami, 35, in their home in the north-eastern city of Mashad, the news agency Compass Direct News reported. The report said that secret agents raided their apartment at 7 am and transferred the couple to a local intelligence branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). Their six-year-old daughter was reportedly in the apartment at the time.
The couple lead an independent house church in Mashad, where the government executed a convert Christian pastor in 1990, it said.
In July 1994, Mehdi Dibaj, a minister of the Assemblies of God who had converted from Islam, was murdered in a gruesome manner along with two Christian bishops. Prior to his murder, Rev. Dibaj had spent more than nine years in prison, on the charge of "apostasy".
Tehran initially blamed the 1994 murders on the opposition Mojahedin-e Khalq (MeK) and brought several former members of the group on television to testify that they were responsible for the killings. But in the aftermath of the 1997 serial murders of dissidents and intellectuals in Iran, which for the first time lifted the lid on numerous killings by the Intelligence Ministry, journalist Akbar Ganji shed light on the murders, revealing that it had been an inside-job sanctioned on the orders of Deputy Intelligence Minister Saeed Emami and carried out by a team under the command of Mahmoud Saeedi.
Officials in the Khatami administration later acknowledged that the murders of Bishop Haik Hovsepian Mehr, Bishop Tateos Michaelian, and Reverend Mehdi Dibaj were politically-motivated killings by the MOIS to tarnish the image of the Iranian opposition group.
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We trieda be nice. We put him in da slammer for nine years, but dat didn't learn him nuttin'. So we hadda wack'em.
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Unknown assailants on Saturday threw a grenade under the car of a Lebanese judge who is investigating a string of bombings that has come under the scrutiny of the international probe into the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
The assailants appear to have thrown the hand grenade from a speeding car shortly after midnight Friday, targeting one of three cars used by Judge Salah Mokheiber. No one was in the vehicles at the time of the incident.
No casualties resulted from the blast, but there was some material damage, a security official said.
The assailants appear to have thrown the hand grenade from a speeding car shortly after midnight Friday, targeting one of three cars used by Judge Salah Mokheiber that was parked in the garage of his residence in Beit Meri, a mountain town east of Beirut. The car and several others parked in the garage were damaged, said the official. No one was in the vehicles at the time of the incident.
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Are you certain that it has nothing to do with Hezbollah yet?
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Hezb'Allah promised to make a mess out of the "government" after the fighting with the Israelis ended. Seems as though the "government" was too busy trying to end the hostilities to pay attention to what they were trying to save. Maybe they were hoping that if the stopped the rest of Hezb'Allah from getting killed they would be grateful? Not a chance. Hezb'Allah is riding high on a wave of public opinion so they probably think they are untouchable and have an opportunity to reform the government in their image. Or at least tinker with it until it is more to their liking.
October 1, 2006: Al Qaeda in particular, and Islamic terrorist groups in general, are desperate for a major success. Islamic terrorists remember the 19 90s fondly as a time when they were kicking ass big time, or at least more effectively than they have since September 11, 2001.
How soon we forget. In 1993, al Qaeda bombed the World Trade Center in New York City, and had agents assisting warlords in their fight to drive American troops out of Somali. In 1994, an elaborate plan to blow up eleven U.S. airliners over the Pacific was about to get underway, when Filipino police got wind of it. The planner of that operation, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, got another chance and was largely responsible for putting together the September 11, 2001 attacks. In 1995 and 1996, bombs were set off outside U.S. military facilities, killing two dozen Americans and wounding many more. In 1997, al Qaeda scored a major victory that did not involve an explosion, it established a number of training camps in Afghanistan, and began training thousands of terrorist recruits each year. In 1998, there were simultaneous bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224. In 1999, there was another spectacular failure, as U.S. border agents unmasked a plot to set of several bombs during New Years eve celebrations. In 2000, an al Qaeda suicide boat damaged, and almost sank, an American destroyer in a Yemen harbor. That attack killed 17 sailors, and was later found to be the second attempt against a U.S. warship that year.
Then, on September 11, 2001, al Qaeda had its greatest success. But that also prompted the United States to go to war with al Qaeda (and Islamic terrorism in general), rather than continue to treat it as a police matter. As a result, Afghanistan was gone as a base within a few months. Since then, there were no more attacks in the United States, and only two in Europe. In 2003, the U.S. invaded Iraq, causing many Islamic terrorists to hustle back to the Middle East, to "defend the homeland." There they died in the thousands. But worse than that, the terrorist tactics they continued to use was now killing thousands of Moslem men, women and children. The negative publicity caused Islamic terrorism to sink in the opinion polls. This was very bad news. The terrorists depend on public approval, in the Islamic world, for new recruits, protection (from local police) and financial support. The dead Iraqis were killing al Qaeda.
By 2006, Iraqis were turning on al Qaeda, informing on al Qaeda leaders, and any operatives that did not hide carefully from the people they believed they were fighting for. Westerners, unless they observe Arab media closely, and have contacts inside the Arab world, will not have noted this sharp drop in al Qaedas fortunes. It's in the Western media's interest (financial and political) to pump up al Qaedas current standing. But the reality is that al Qaeda is desperate for a big score. The terrorist chatter this year, on several occasions, has indicated that another major attack was imminent. The intelligence agencies did not release any data on what, if any, major attacks were thwarted. But that's normal, because sometimes attacks are called off, not because the intel agencies have intervened, but because the terrorists decided that things were not quite right. In situations like that, the CIA, FBI or whatever, doesn't want to let the bad guys know how close they are.
The chatter is on again. This time there is talk of an al Qaeda video featuring the long unseen Osama bin Laden. The recent reports of his death began as rumors in Arab countries about bin Laden passing away in some inglorious and painful fashion (Typhoid was mentioned.) Actually, many of the "death reports" were actually jokes. Al Qaeda's fortunes have sunk so low in the Moslem world that he is being mocked, via jokes about his demise. While the Western media may not be picking up on this, al Qaeda certainly is, and is eager to do something about it. The chatter also indicates that the new video release may be followed by the long rumored, and oft delayed, "major attack." Either al Qaeda delivers this time, or the organization continues to fade from the Moslem memory.
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please publish verifiable time/date stamps and, if possible, GPS coords in your next "successful" video, Binny. P.S. I think you're dead, Jim
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It is interesting to know that Iraqis would turn in AQ leaders. I wonder whether some of the poll results don't take into account the Iraqis lying to the pollsters. Also it is possible that an Iraqi might support insurgents as long as they choose somebody else's neighborhood to inhabit.
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KABUL: A suicide bomber blew himself up in front of the Afghan Interior Ministry in Kabul on Saturday, killing 12 people and injuring more than 50. Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, but police insisted it was a suicide attack. Police said the attacker detonated explosives strapped to his body in a crowd of Interior Ministry staff and civilians at the compound's gate. The Health Ministry said more than 50 were injured. 
An unidentified gunman fired into a mosque in western Australia packed with hundreds of Muslims observing the holy month of Ramadan, but no one was hurt, police said Saturday. Around 400 worshippers were praying at the mosque in suburban Mirrabooka in the west coast city of Perth when the shooting occurred Friday evening, Western Australia state police Inspector Neville Patterson said. 
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - A bomb exploded outside a hospital in the Mediterranean port city of Mersin on Sunday, police said. Three people who were wounded from shattered glass were treated at the emergency department.
GHALANAI: At least four people were killed and six others were seriously injured in a clash between two rival groups in Sagi area, some 35 kilometres from Ghalanai in Mohmand Agency on Saturday. 
PESHAWAR: The government forced local Taliban to close down their two-day-old office in 
(KUNA) -- An Iraqi MP threatened to eleminate several reporters, a statement by the press freedom watch center said Saturday. The statement added that MP Mohammed Al-Dayni, who belongs to the Iraqi Front for National Dialogue, threatened to assassinate several employees in Al-Iraqiyah channel.
(KUNA) -- Several tribal members killed Saturday four members of Al-Qaeda, including a prominent leader, whereas several of the network members have escaped towards the Syrian-Iraqi borders, the Iraqi television quoted Al-Anbar council saying.
(KUNA) -- Governor of Basra Mohammad Musbeh Al-Waeli survived on Saturday an assassination attempt which resulted in the injury of three bodyguards.
The U.S. military said a captured al-Qaida suspect and members of his cell were "in the final stages" of planning an attack on the Green Zone. 
A PALESTINIAN man was killed and two other people were wounded in an Israeli air raid in the southern Gaza Strip overnight, Palestinian sources said. No one was hurt in a separate attack in the northern Gaza Strip, sources added. "Bassam bin Hamad, 30, was killed and two other persons were wounded, one seriously, by a missile fired by an Israeli drone when they were walking in a street of the town of Rafah," a medical official said. Security sources said Mr Hamad was a member of the radical Islamic Jihad movement. 
Unknown assailants on Saturday threw a grenade under the car of a Lebanese judge who is investigating a string of bombings that has come under the scrutiny of the international probe into the assassination of former Prime Minister 
