A roadside bomb exploded outside a provincial governor's compound on Saturday just as the governor was arriving in his car. The governor was not hurt but another government official was killed, police said. Six Afghan policemen, meanwhile, died after a roadside bomb hit their convoy on Friday in Paktia province. Two NATO soldiers were also killed in fighting in Kandahar province. The governor of the eastern Laghman province escaped injury after someone placed a bomb opposite his compound. Meanwhile, three Taliban were killed in a separate clash.
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An Italian photojournalist working alone in the lawless Taliban stronghold of southern Afghanistan has been kidnapped by gunmen who have accused him of being a spy. Gabriele Torsello was seized by five men from a public bus on Thursday when he was travelling from Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province to neighbouring Kandahar - the two parts of the country where fighting between insurgents and Nato forces is fiercest.
News of his abduction emerged through the independent news agency Pajhwok, which spoke to Torsello's travelling companion, Gholam Mohammad, about the incident.
When Pajhwok rang the journalist's mobile phone, the man who answered said: 'We are the Taliban and we have abducted the foreigner on charges of spying.' However, a spokesman for the Islamic insurgent group told the Reuters news agency that they were not involved in any kidnappings, and blamed criminals instead.
Although born in Puglia, southern Italy, Torsello has lived in London for some years with his wife and son, according to Peace Reporter, an online Italian newspaper which specialises in reports from war zones.
He had been working in Afghanistan since 2005 and had operated in areas of conflicts before. In 2003 he published a book with Amnesty International, titled The Heart of Kashmir. Torsello's website says that he 'is currently in Afghanistan - Helmand province - available for assignments.'
Peace Reporter said Torsello had spoken by telephone after his abduction to the security at a hospital run by an Italian relief organisation in Lashkar Gah. He said that he did not know where he was being held and confirmed how he was taken forcibly from the bus.
Of course the Italian government will buy him out and then deny it.
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Two NATO soldiers were killed Saturday in southern Afghanistan after militants ambushed them with rocket-propelled grenades and gunfire, the alliance said. Canada's defense department identified the dead NATO solders as Canadian but did not release their names. NATO said three soldiers were wounded in the battle in Kandahar province, while Canada said two were wounded. The cause of the discrepancy was not immediately clear.
The soldiers were working on a road that would offer safer passage from the volatile Panjwaii district to Kandahar, Canada's defense department said in a statement. Other Canadian units responded to the attack and became involved in a three-hour battle with insurgents, and NATO helicopters also were called in, the statement said.
Counting the latest fatalities, 42 Canadian soldiers and one diplomat have been killed in Afghanistan since 2002.
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Our buds seem to be taking relatively heavy casaulties. Taliban resurgerance? Testing the Canucks? Crazed Canadians closing and killing the enemy?
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Islamic radicals carried out their second public execution in less than a month Friday amid fears of increasing extremist violence in Somalia. Mahad Osman Ugas, 23, was executed by a six-man firing squad as several thousand people watched.
A jury convicted him of killing a businessman while trying to steal the man's cell phone.
A jury convicted him of killing a businessman while trying to steal the man's cell phone.
"Our son was killed unjustly," said Sultan Ali Sultan Ahmed, the elder of the executed man's local clan, who had wanted to try to pay blood money for the life of Ugas. "We appealed against the sentence but the court rejected it."
Top Islamic leader Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed said the execution was required under Islamic law. "We have given the families of both sides a chance to solve the matter on their own but they couldn't so we carried out the execution."
Just like the Taliban would want it.
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KISMAYO, Somalia (AP) - Islamic radicals repulsed an attack by pro-government forces to recapture a vital seaport and on Saturday took control of a sympathetic coastal town, in further signs of the central administration's weakening grasp.
A militia loyal to the defense minister tried to retake Kismayo, three weeks after losing Somalia's third-largest town to Islamic fighters who have seized the capital and most of the south. "We will continue to launch attacks until we recapture the city," Col. Abas Gurei, a commander for the defense minister, Col. Barre "Hirale" Aden Shire, told The Associated Press by telephone.
The fighting on the town's outskirts lasted for two hours as rival forces used heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, witnesses said. Three civilians and two fighters, one from each side, were injured, said Abdi Yusuf, an official from Kismayo's local hospital.
That's all? Who's training the machine gun operators?
The Islamic forces were pursuing Shire's retreating fighters toward the town of Barhani, some 30 miles west of Kismayo, Islamic Courts official Abdullahi Warsame said.
Armed Islamic militia were patrolling the streets and tensions remained high. "We are prepared for further attacks and we have put our forces on alert," Ahmed told reporters. "We will defend Kismayo."
The Islamic group continued to expand Saturday, with the symbolic takeover of Brava, a coastal town 125 miles southwest of the capital, and one of the small pockets in the south still outside their control. The town's leaders are sympathetic to the Islamic group, but pledged to hand over their weapons.
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Regarding the lenght of the fire exchange, the probably high number of shots fired, and the incredibly low numbers casualties (most of them bystanders)... I wonder how much of the somali warfighting is "tribal", IE posturing and scaring off the ennemy? I'm not implying they're cowards or anything, I'm sure most of these guys have seen more combat than a majority of western soldiers, but I don't know if their notion of "fighting" is the same as ours.
For example, from the little I understand, the "traditional" african way of war (might not be true for actual guerillas and foreign-trained armies like nigeria or the rwandese tutsis, or all the french warschools-educated officers around, dunno) is to have the kid soldiers approach the target firing wildly on full auto; if the defenders feel they're outnumbered/outgunned, they flee without resistance, and the target is taken.
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It has been a truism in Africa that the general approach to combat has been spray and pray : put it on full auto and empty a magazine in the general direction of the enemy. The professional militaries on the continent spend a lot of time drumming aimed shots only into the minds of their troops. Even African troops that qualify as Special Forces have those issues - US, British, French, Israeli, and South African Special Forces all complained about how difficult it was to teach basic marksmanship to African troops, and how quickly they would lose their fire discipline in the field.
Aissat Rabah, an Algerian provincial council head in the eastern Berber Kabylie region, died Oct. 13 after being shot in a cafe by gunmen suspected of belonging to the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat Islamist rebel group. Rabah was a member of the secular opposition Socialist Forces Front, popular in the Kabylie region that is also known as a base for Islamist militants.
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The third soldier was being questioned on suspicion of being the shooter, the officials said without elaborating.
An Egyptian border policeman was killed and another was seriously wounded Saturday while on duty near the border with Israel. Security officials said the incident, which occurred near the Taba border crossing, appeared to be a crime carried out by a third soldier. Authorities were also investigating the possibilities that the policeman was killed by Israeli fire or by smugglers who roam the Sinai peninsula. The third soldier was being questioned on suspicion of being the shooter, the officials said without elaborating.
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The UN Security Council voted unanimously on Saturday to impose financial and weapons sanctions on North Korea for its nuclear test, which the resolution called a "clear threat to international peace and security."
The US-drafted resolution allows nations to stop cargo going to and from North Korea to check for weapons of mass destruction or related supplies.
The US-drafted resolution allows nations to stop cargo going to and from North Korea to check for weapons of mass destruction or related supplies. It was adopted after the United States, Britain and France made some modifications to dealt with last-minute objections from Russia and China. "Today we are sending a strong and clear message to North Korea and other would-be proliferators that there will be serious repercussions in continuing to pursue weapons of mass destruction," US Ambassador John Bolton told the Security Council's 15 members.
The resolution requires all countries to prevent the sale or transfer of materials related to Pyongyang's unconventional weapons programs.
The resolution requires all countries to prevent the sale or transfer of materials related to Pyongyang's unconventional weapons programs. And it demands nations freeze funds overseas of people or businesses connected with North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs. In a concession to China, the resolution specifically excludes the use of force, but allows economic sanctions and a restriction on naval and air transport. But by allowing cargo inspection, the document still puts an international imprimatur on the US-led Proliferation Security Initiative. This was launched in May 2003 and encourages countries to interdict weapons from North Korea, Iran and other states of concern.
North Korea's UN ambassador said his country "totally" rejected the Security Council's resolution.
North Korea's UN ambassador said his country "totally" rejected the Security Council's resolution. Ambassador Pak Gil Yon told the council at a public meeting that Pyongyang conducted a nuclear test because of the "hostile policies" of the United States.
Wang Guangya, China's UN ambassador, told the council Beijing still opposed interdiction and urged nations not to take "provocative steps." The resolution also drops a ban on all arms going to North Korea, but it puts an embargo on all large-sized conventional arms.
In Washington, a US intelligence analysis showed radioactivity in air samples collected near the suspected nuclear test site, a US official said on Friday, five days after Pyongyang announced it conducted the test. "That's right, though this is only a first look. People have been saying all along that the working assumption is it was a nuke," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
US President George Bush had used his weekly radio address to the nation to urge world powers to pass tough sanctions on North Korea and said Pyongyang must face "real consequences" for the nuclear weapons test.
With China fearing a flood of refugees from a sudden collapse of North Korea, which was sorely tested yet survived the demise of the Soviet Union, the death of its founder and a famine that may have killed 10% of its people in the 1990s, some questioned what impact any sanctions would have.
Former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung , the architect of South Korea's engagement policy with the North, blamed US policy in part for the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula, which he said could only end if Washington held direct talks with Pyongyang leaders.
"North Korea is already very familiar with poverty," former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung told Reuters in Seoul on Saturday. "The country can also get support, at least in order to survive, from countries such as China."
Kim, the architect of South Korea's engagement policy with the North, blamed US policy in part for the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula, which he said could only end if Washington held direct talks with Pyongyang leaders. "The United States must talk to North Korea," Kim said in an email interview. "We have to talk not only with friends but also with enemies, if necessary."
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit China, Japan and South Korea from October 17 to 22. A US official said Rice would also likely travel to Russia during the trip. Those five countries had been engaging North Korea in the "six-party talks" aimed at getting North Korea to abandon its nuclear program in exchange for aid and security guarantees.
Highlights of the UN resolution:
Calls upon countries to take "co-operative" action through inspection of cargo to and from North Korea to prevent illicit trafficking in nuclear, chemical or biological weapons and related materials.
Decides that North Korea should abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs and ballistic missiles programs in a "complete, verifiable and irreversible" manner.
Bans trade with North Korea on battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, large calibre artillery systems, combat aircraft, attack helicopters, warships, missiles or missile systems.
Ban trade with North Korea in all items, materials, equipment, goods and technology that could contribute to the country's nuclear-related, ballistic missile-related or other weapons of mass destruction-related programs.
Bans luxury goods going to North Korea.
Decides all countries should freeze funds, other financial assets and economic resources that are owned, controlled, directly or indirectly by people engaged in or providing support for North Korea's unconventional weapons.
Allow a travel ban on people and their families supporting or promoting North Korea's policies on dangerous weapons programs, providing names are approved by a Security Council sanctions committee.
Encourages efforts to intensify diplomatic efforts, refrain from any actions that might aggravate tension and to facilitate the early resumption of the six-party talks, between North Korea, South Korea, the United States, Russia, China and Japan, aimed at convincing Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear ambitions.
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Ugh...yet another tiresome charade by the vaunted international community. Besides little Kimmy, some of Kofi's relatives, and France, I wonder who's going to make a fortune off of this.
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My favorite computer game is not one of the snazzy new super-graphics games, it's Civilization II. You win by either wiping out everyone else on the planet - or being the first to discover nukes.
I'm glad they left out toothless "stringent" UN sanctions, having your hands politically tied by gutless turds, and waiting for the end to come at the hands of evil assholes who are mere cartoonish caricatures to the clueless.
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Authorizing cargo inspection is the important part here. Although it sounds like China is trying to weasel on that point - maybe playing a bit of good cop/bad cop.
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john - It could get very interesting, no? I'd be particularly pleased if some Chinese freighter refused inspection, was boarded (perhaps diabled to make that possible) and NorKie military shit was found onboard.
Might accelerate the "playoff schedule" by a decade.
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Oops, you're right, TW - the other way to win is space flight, not acquiring nuke power, lol. I've only done that once - long ago. You can tell which ending I concentrate on, heh. My earliest Global Domination win was in 910 AD, lol. Highest score was 80% (not same game). I presume you've gotten a higher rating cuz you're like all peaceful 'n stuff. Lol.
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910 AD? that is purty good there! Litterally, global domination with spears and swords. I used to love to wait till I could get a nuke and then win, cuz, I just love set'em off! Waitin' till you get a space colony is definitely a peace weanie kinda strategy.
Can't you just see a little UN graphic making an appearance on your shores and planting a stringent resolution on ya? That would be hillarious!
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Lol. I loves the skeery skulls that show up to show pollution, lol. BTW, I'm disappointed you don't have the option of crashing aircraft into enemy cities and units. In some version of Sim City there was a traffic helicopter that you could click on with the cursor and it would crash the chopper. There was audio of the pilots saying, "We're going down! We're going down!" Great fun. Lol.
His country could foment to the collapse of the North if it wanted to. But for corrupt and craven reasons it refuses to do so.
Instead he is blaming the US, the country without which he would be eating grass, for not holding bilateral talks that would have the net effect of securing the future of the Kim family regime -- the most repressive regime in the world.
South Korea is not an ally. We need to get off the peninsula ASAP and smoke Kimmies ass. Hopefully these sanctions will help push the regime a step towards collapse.
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Going for the score in CivII is incredibly boring. The spaceship is OK, but then the goal becomes maximize future technologies and optimize population. In 1850 or so it goes to a year a turn and really slows down. I've seen 500% scores, but prefer the race horse method. I've wiped them all out in 1200 but 910 is really impressive. Just getting there is a challenge at that point.
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SimCity was much more fun if you did the following.
Play it for a day by just letting it sit there.
Diff it with a save-game at the beginning.
See what changed and hack the date and $ so you start in 1700 and have zillions of dollars..
Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer says the Federal Government is still deciding whether an Australian Navy ship will be offered to help enforce sanctions against North Korea for its apparent nuclear test. "In the meantime, we'll also be considering a full ban as the Japanese have done on North Korean vessels visiting Australian ports," Mr Downer said.
God love the Aussies, they always step up.
The UN Security Council has imposed a range of sanctions, including the inspection of cargo going in and out of the country and a ban on military hardware sales.
Mr Downer says United Nations (UN) Security Council sanctions against North Korea are surprisingly tough. "It's a very robust Security Council resolution, we warmly welcome this resolution.
"It will put enormous pressure on the North Koreans, we'll obviously fully implement our obligations under the resolution and do what we can to help make sure more broadly the resolution is implemented."
Opposition foreign affairs spokesman Kevin Rudd says the sanctions are robust and a good step forward. "The key challenge now is to make sure that these sanctions work," he said.
South Korea
Meanwhile, South Korea says it supports the UN Security Council resolution imposing sanctions on North Korea for its apparent nuclear test. "The government supports the resolution and will take appropriate measures in line with the resolution," Foreign Ministry spokesman Choo Kyu-Go told Yonhap news agency.
South Korea has said its engagement policy with the North is under threat following Pyongyang's October 9 announcement that it had conducted a nuclear test, but has given no details.
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Amen to that Ship! Here ya go - (lat. 38.73278, long. 125.40806)
Of all the things that stick in my craw, the USS Pueblo berthed in NKOR and used as a museum to showcase the running yellow dog, sea of fire, unilateral American capitalists, If the enemy dares to invade us, he will drowned in the boundless ocean of people's war, blah, blah, blah crappola -
that grinds me the worst. After wiping Nampo off the map, air drop Big Macs, Tasty Cakes and food porn (pics of well fed westerners) - that'll fix 'em.
A suspected al Qaeda leader, accused of being involved in September 11 and planning the 2004 Madrid train bombings, has been imprisoned in a secret U.S. jail for the past year, Spain's El Pais newspaper reported on Sunday.
Oh, gee, golly, gosh, shucks. Ain't it a shame?
Mustafa Setmarian, 48, a Syrian with Spanish citizenship, was captured in Pakistan in October 2005 and is held in a prison operated by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, Pakistani and European security service officials told El Pais.
In gross violation of the killer's human rights, we might add...
Setmarian's 2005 capture was reported in May of this year after the United States put a $5 million bounty on the head of the alleged founder of al Qaeda's Spanish network. A photograph of the red-haired Setmarian has been removed from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Intelligence's [sic] most-wanted Web page.
That'd imply he's either in jug or in the ground...
Pakistan has not answered requests from Madrid about the whereabouts of Setmarian, wanted in Spain for allegedly training September 11 hijackers in Afghanistan and ordering Madrid commuter train attacks that killed 191 people, according to El Pais. Spain's high court is unable to request his extradition as he has not been officially imprisoned, the newspaper reported. Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon in June complained U.S. officials were concealing information on his whereabouts.
The Spaniards can have him when we're done with him.
Amnesty International has reported Setmarian's disappearance. The human rights organization says dozens of Islamic radicals captured in Pakistan are held in clandestine jails operated by the United States and other countries. Setmarian is married to Elena Moreno, a Spanish woman who says he is held in a secret CIA jail.
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Why are the Spaniards so concerned about his whereabouts and human rights? - dhimmi pussies
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We'd have to be out of our goddamned minds to turn him over to spain's communist court system. They'd set him free so fast it would make Rove's head spin.
Break ties with the dollar!
As quoted by daily Nawa-i-Waqt, the ex-Prime Minister of Malaysia and leader of the Muslim Ummah, Dr Mahatir Mohammad, said Muslims are not terrorists while America and its allies are terrorists. He said 9/11 was the brain child of America and Jewish lobby. The World trade centre was blown up using dynamite. He suggested that the Muslim world shall create a mutual fund. The Muslim countries can humble America if they break their ties with the dollar and rely on their own currencies. He said there is no need of reform but correct interpretation of the Holy Quran is required.
Some interesting facts
In daily Jang, columnist Munnoo Bhai reported some interesting figures. Afghan women produce an average of 7.5 children, compared to Nigerian women, who give birth to an average of eight children. The UAE is first in disparity between sexes, with 214 men for 100 women. Pakistan has the largest refugee populatin in the world with 11.2 million refugees counted in 2003. Iraqis send the largest number of political asylum seekers to Europe.
Fulla vs Barbie
As reported in daily Khabrain, security forces in Tunis are raiding shops to remove a doll named Fulla from the market. Police said the hijab wearing doll could trigger sectarian conflict in Tunis. The doll with full clothes, hijab and prayer mat is becoming more popular than Barbie dolls among Muslims girls. The report said Tunis doesnt allow its women to wear hijab in public.
Qazi should learn jihad from Hassan Nasrullah
As reported in daily Jang, a member of Mutahida Qaumi Movement, Kanwar Khalid Younas, said in National Assembly that Qazi Hussain Ahmad should learn jihad from Hassan Nasrullah in Lebanon. The Hezbollah leader is not just sitting at home and ordering his members to wage jihad. He has practically taken part in jihad and his two sons have already been martyred. In contrast Qazi Hussain and his ilk want others sons to be killed in the name of Islam and have sent their own children to America for studies.
Muslim train off to wine shop
Sarerahe stated in Nawa-i-Waqt that the German Foreign Minister said that Islam is spreading like wild fire in Germany and Islamic syllabus should be introduced in German schools. The Germans blasphemed against Islam and now want to introduce Islamic syllabus in their schools whereas in Pakistan our rulers are trying to secularize the Islamic syllabus. What is going on? The Muslim Express train is going towards maykada (wine shop) and the Catholic Express train is going towards the Kaaba.
Hezbollahs victory claim is ridiculous
As reported in daily Khabrain, Samir Jaigi, the Christian leader of March 14 group, while addressing a counter rally in Lebanon has said that Hezbollahs claim of victory is ridiculous. Lebanon has faced destruction worth billions of dollars and lost 1,200 innocent citizens. The March 14 group consists of Sunni Muslims, majority leader in parliament Saad Hariri and Drouze party leader Walid Jamblat. Jaigi said there is a state within a state and free flow of arms shall be restricted in Lebanon. Only tears represent the emotions of the people of Lebanon.
New world order and Islam
As reported in daily Nawa-i-Waqt, the leader of Jamaat Islami Qazi Hussain Ahmad said the forces of imperialism and atheism have hijacked the world by plundering and spreading anarchy. The cowardly leaders are aligned with atheist forces to retain power. The Muslims should rise to impose Islam and peace on the whole world and to remove the cause of conflict. The uncivilized and atheist secular agenda, which is already on its death bed in Europe, is being imposed in Pakistan. Pope Benedicts statement is supporting President Bush, who has started the bloodshed of Muslims all over the world. The amendment in the Hudood bill is part of American imperialism and the atheist secular agenda.
Jinns stealing from a house
According to daily Jang, in Chohang Loharan Wala Khoh, jinns have started taking away things from the house of Shafiq Bhatti and sewing needles now appear in bed sheets. Oil lamps start burning mysteriously without oil. The jinns stole three new suits of the owner of house. Things start flying out of the house and crockery is broken within the closed showcases. The owner brought amils and pirs to get rid of them, but the jinns have proved more powerful.
Missiles in Dara Adam Khel
According to Daily Pakistan the DCO Kohat raided with frontier constabulary and captured 71 foreign-made missiles in an underground hideout in a remote area of Tor Chapar in Dara Adam Khel. The missiles were smuggled for terrorism by unknown tribesmen.
AQ Khan's financial advisor in jail
As reported in daily Khabrain, the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, Najib Razaq, said that a Sri Lankan member of the international nuclear black market is in jail in Malaysia. President Bush had earlier charged that the Sri Lankan trader was financial advisor to Pakistani scientist AQ Khan.
Security doctrine of Dr Israr
Writing in Daily Pakistan, Dr Israr Ahmad opined that the crisis in Balochistan is becoming a dilemma after the death of Nawab Akbar Bugti. The international conspirators against Pakistan are exploiting the territorial politics of our country. The army and politicians both protect that system of feudals and sardars. He said he believes in the Islamic revolution, but until the ground realities dont favor the Islamic revolution, we have to be content with democracy. The father of Pakistan is Islam and its mother is democracy. Pakistan is divided into nationalities and has not become a nation. Only when Pakistan moves towards an Islamic revolution will Pakistan be unified as a nation. Today nobody is ready to think about this; that is why we are in a soup.
Dil wale dulhania lay jain ge
As reported in daily Nawa-i-Waqt, a friendship started on the internet resulted in marriage in Khanewal. The Indian bridegroom has reached Pakistan to take his bride back to India. Hundreds of people turned up at the wedding to have a peek at the Indian. When the bridegroom went to police station to report his departure, the police refused to take his bribe and told him that Pakistani police doesnt accept bribes and returned him the money. The groom was dumbfounded at this statement.
Carrots for others and stick for Pakistan
As reported in daily Pakistan, Lt Gen (Retd) Hamid Gul said that America is not satisfied with Pakistans progress on a lot of issues. He said dancing with the wolves is dangerous as you never know when a wolf will stop dancing and attack you. He said Americas target is not Osama bin Laden but the nuclear capability of Pakistan. America is using the policy of carrot and stick. He said the carrot is for someone else and the stick is for Pakistan.
Moon sighting or factional fighting!
As reported in daily Pakistan, a source close to Ruat-e-Halal Committee alleged that NWFP minister Maulana Amanullah Haqqani has maslaki (religious faction) differences with the head of central Raut-e-Halal Committee Mufti Munib ur Rehman. The NWFP government announced the start of Ramazan one day earlier to oppose the announcement of central Ruat-e-Halal Committee. The said Minister attacked and gate crashed the Ruat-e-Halal Committee meeting in Peshawar last year. The Central Raut-e-Halal Committee got no evidence of moon sighting from Peshawar. It announced its verdict after waiting two hours after consulting with all the four provinces.
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Well, thanks for all of this Fred. Some deep research indeed. I wonder though, if the source(s) of this were really meant to be read as news, or were just some local psychobabble captured.
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As reported in daily Khabrain, security forces in Tunis are raiding shops to remove a doll named Fulla from the market. Police said the hijab wearing doll could trigger sectarian conflict in Tunis. The doll with full clothes, hijab and prayer mat is becoming more popular than Barbie dolls among Muslims girls
who don't want to be beaten or stoned to death or have acid thrown in their face
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the djiins the jiins are after me.
"The Muslims should rise to impose Islam and peace on the whole world and to remove the cause of conflict"
Based on crucial external intelligence inputs that were confirmed by the Americans, the Union government had ordered its armed forces to protect Indias nuclear establishments, particularly the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), from a terrorist attack by Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT).
This unprecedented two-month long internal security deployment was withdrawn by the government last Tuesday. The armed forces are now in the process of returning to their barracks.
Government and military sources confirmed to The Sunday Express that the armed forces were put on high alert in the last week of July after a Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) report indicated the possibility of a jehadi attack on Indian nuclear installations in general but BARC and Tarapur facilties in particular. The government took a serious note after the CIA confirmed it.
Even as M.K. Narayanan went on record on July 28 about the LeT threat, the government pressed in para-military forces including the NSG inside the nuclear complexes and the armed forces were directed to deploy on the outer periphery to ward off any aerial threat. Since then, the Army, the Air Force and the Navy had switched on all their radars, activated their surface-to-air missiles (such as Pechora) and deployed shoulder-fired IGLA missile troop regiment outside the nuclear establishments.
Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee had also told Parliament on August 1 that special security measures had been undertaken to ward off the terrorist threat. The government had no options but to call on the armed forces once the Americans and other friendly intelligence agencies confirmed the Lashkar threat, said a senior official. As BARC is surrounded by low-level hills, the armed forces were fearing a possible 9/11-type attack.
Though the government has been tight-lipped about the deployment, the armed forces top brass confirmed that its anti-aircraft guns, surface-to-air weapons and low-level radars were loaded to tackle the attack from the terrorists. We were told to deploy on the periphery as the State would look after security inside the complex, a senior General said.
While BARC was the focus of the armed forces, the government sent additional para-military units to guard Madras Atomic Power Station at Kudankulum and the Navy was asked to patrol the waters to prevent any threat from the sea. Inside the nuclear complexes, CISF and NSG commando contingents were pressed into action.
Although the armed forces have been ordered into barracks, security at all the nuclear installations has been beefed up through biometric access controls and state-of-the-art anti-intrusion equipment.
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Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Mumbai is the main Indian nuclear weapons lab
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New Delhi, Oct. 15 (PTI): Sophisticated surveillance and tracking gadgets like thermal imagers and underground sensors have been installed along the porous Indo-Bangladesh border to prevent infiltration by Pakistan-backed terrorists.
The Border Security Force has been entrusted with installing the gadgets speedily along the 4,096-km frontier on the pattern adopted by the army along the 742-km Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir and parts of the international border (IB) in Punjab and Rajasthan.
The BSF, which guards the Indo-Bangladesh border, has procured 900 hand-held thermal imagers and despatched 400 of them to forward areas. The devices, which cost Rs 28 lakh each, can detect heat from the human body and will help track the movement of people, a senior BSF official said.
Apart from this, the border force is in the process of installing Israeli-made long-range recce and observation system (LORROS), a radar-based system capable of tracking moving vehicles or humans within a 40-km radius.
"We are in the process of procuring 27 such radars at a cost of Rs 2 crore each," the official said.
The introduction of the hi-tech gadgetry to stop infiltration comes close on the heels of revelations by security agencies that five of the 11 Pakistani terrorists responsible for the July 11 train bombings in Mumbai had entered the country from Bangladesh.
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That should be "radar"
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Sssshhshsh. You just brought more attention to the joooooo rader
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I can imagine bangladeshi imams inciting their followers with stories of the "joo rader" that emits invisible radiation beams - a plot to sterilize the muslims.
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a plot to sterilize the muslims.
methinks they're on the road to do that themselves...
Posted by: Frank G ||
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No, no, NO! It does NOT sterilize.
It does, however, cause their penises to shrink. Some report persistent flaccidity too. So men - check very carefully EVERY DAY to see if you are suffering these insidious effects.
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The disappearing penis epidemics hysterias are actually rather quite funny to read about, in a detached, snarky kind of way, be they in africa or in any other location.
Sad thing is, quite often, some people die for this, usually outcast women labelled as witches and lynched by mobs (not sure if this is true for, say, SE Asia).
Anyway, if the Pious Pakistanese Males lose their virility, it won't matter much, as long as they can engage in wild, frenzied gunsex.
Mumbai Police has little hard evidence of Pakistani involvement in the Mumbai train blasts, save for details on Pakistanis it believes crossed into India to conduct operations, reports the Indian Express. An Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) dossier records an intelligence intercept of a phone call soon after Pakistani Kamal Ansaris arrest in Bihar on July 21: One of our men has been caught. Hope to God he doesnt say anything.
The other evidence was the tell-tale Pakistani dialect of two suspects arrested in West Bengal. Additional police commissioner Jagjeet Singh, who interrogated them, told the Express: An Indian Punjabi will say, Main kar raanga, utthe jaa vanga (I will do it, I will go there), but when a Punjabi from Pakistan says the same, he will say, Main kar saan, main utthe jaa saan. Mumbai police suspect 11 Pakistanis were involved in the blasts, but know many of them only through pseudonyms, and none of the Pakistanis questioned by the ATS have been booked in the case.
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10/15/2006 00:00 ||
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QUETTA: Pakistani police seized five hand grenades from a train compartment in Balochistan opn Saturday, according to officials. Policemen found the grenades, packed in a plastic bag and hidden under an unoccupied berth, during a routine security inspection before the departure of the train from Quetta, said police official Mohammad Aslam. The Jaffar Express runs between Quetta and Rawalpindi. Meanwhile, police also seized 10 kilogrammes of hashish from Peshawar-bound Quetta Express and arrested a man, Shaukat Ali Jatoi. A case has been registered against Jatoi.
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A man introducing himself as the 'Jihad leader in Iraq' called on Osama bin Laden to oust Abu Ayyub al-Masri who has been appointed the leader of the Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia,
Abu Osama al-Mujahid complains to bin Laden about unfair acts of violence on the part of the Iraqi unit of Al Qaeda...
Dubai TV station Al Arabia reports.
Al Arabia showed footage of Abu Osama al-Mijahid in which he complains to bin Laden about unfair acts of violence on the part of the Iraqi unit of terrorist network Al Qaeda, whose leader is Abu Ayyub al-Masri. "We insist that we are led by an Iraqi, just like in Afghanistan the leader is an Afghan," Al-Mujahid underscored, cited by the TV station.
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I guess it's a good sign when they want a dead man - or at least a man who is as good as dead - for their leader.
Gaza- At least one Palestinian militant was killed and three wounded, one of them critically, Saturday after an Israeli air force plane fired a missile at their car in Gaza City, paramedics and witnesses said. The incident happened in the Zeitoon neighbourhood of southern Gaza City. Paramedics said that two bystanders were also wounded.
Palestinian security sources said that the four in the car were members of a group which fired homemade rockets into Israel.
Palestinian security sources said that the four in the car were members of a group which fired homemade rockets into Israel.
Israel has escalated military action in the Gaza Strip over the past three days, leaving more than 20 Palestinians dead, many of them civilian bystanders. The Israeli escalation follows an increased number of rockets fired at southern Israeli communities. Predawn Saturday Israeli aircraft fired rockets at a group of Palestinian militants east of the northern Gaza Strip town of Jabalia, killing six people and wounding nine, witnesses and medics said.
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Palestinian security sources said that the four in the car were members of a group which fired homemade rockets into Israel.
Live by the rocket, die by the rocket. Old Chinese saying.
By Nidal al-Mughrabi (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed eight Palestinian gunmen in clashes in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, including seven from the militant group Hamas, amid a surge in violence in the coastal territory.
A local commander of the group who was in the car was critically wounded and two passersby were also hurt.
In the past three days, 21 Palestinians have been killed in fighting in Gaza, the majority of them militants. Two dozen people have also been wounded. There have been no reports of any Israeli military deaths or injuries.
The latest gunman killed was from the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a wing of President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement. His car was struck by a missile in an Israeli air strike, emergency workers said. A local commander of the group who was in the car was critically wounded and two passersby were also hurt.
Four of the Hamas militants killed on Saturday died when a house they were hiding in was hit by a series of Israeli missiles, security sources said. A fifth later died of his wounds. Three others were killed in separate raids.
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10/15/2006 00:00 ||
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nice shooting, Avner
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The IDF arrested two Palestinian infiltrators who entered Israeli territory from Gaza north of the Kissufim crossing Saturday afternoon. The two were being detained for interrogation.
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IDF forces killed an Islamic Jihad operative in Kabatiya near Jenin late Saturday morning. A gunfight ensued between troops and the Palestinian after he was identified carrying weapons.
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A Lebanese man was killed Saturday by a stray bullet at the Ein el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon, security officials said. A scuffle between rival factions in the camp - the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Jund al-Sham, an Islamic group backed by Syria - escalated into a shootout, the officials said on condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to speak to the media. Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a 25-year-old Lebanese man with no ties to either group, was severely wounded by a stray bullet, they said. He died later at a hospital, they added.
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Yet, despite the probably large number of shot fired, none of the intended targets were harmed. This reminds me of the description of US gangs shootouts I've read, were shots are wildly fired, but only bystanders are hurt (there was notably an excellent documentary called "the shootout of Mole street", with the shootout which started the investigation described as drug dealers shooting blindly behind them while running away, hiding behind a grandmother, and the only casualty a young teen struck in the head by a stray).
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Good morning Fred, all, though it is actually mid-afternoon here Down Under.
Now I have been enjoying the Rantburg Ramadan (TM) but was disappointed with all the Ramadan titles there was no Mother of all Ramadans (TM)
How quickly we forget!
If nobody has a recipe for that one, I can supply a nice ham bone and vegetable soup or else lovely American-style bbq pork spare ribs...
#7
Now hear this, man your quarters. Clean sweepdown fore and aft, the smoking lamp is out! The first section has the watch. All other sections: Liberty will commence at 1700 hours. (Somehow the image did not live up to the reality.)
#12
For those of you in the Army, it's 1600 hours, for the Navy, it's 8 bells, for the Air Force, it's 4:00 p. m., and for you Marines, Mickey's big hand is on the 12 and the little hand is on the 4.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A roadside bomb exploded outside a provincial governor's compound on Saturday just as the governor was arriving in his car. The governor was not hurt but another government official was killed, police said. Six Afghan policemen, meanwhile, died after a roadside bomb hit their convoy on Friday in Paktia province. Two NATO soldiers were also killed in fighting in Kandahar province. The governor of the eastern Laghman province escaped injury after someone placed a bomb opposite his compound. Meanwhile, three Taliban were killed in a separate clash.
An Italian photojournalist working alone in the lawless Taliban stronghold of southern Afghanistan has been kidnapped by gunmen who have accused him of being a spy. 
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Two NATO soldiers were killed Saturday in southern Afghanistan after militants ambushed them with rocket-propelled grenades and gunfire, the alliance said. Canada's defense department identified the dead NATO solders as Canadian but did not release their names. NATO said three soldiers were wounded in the battle in Kandahar province, while Canada said two were wounded. The cause of the discrepancy was not immediately clear.
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Islamic radicals carried out their second public execution in less than a month Friday amid fears of increasing extremist violence in Somalia. Mahad Osman Ugas, 23, was executed by a six-man firing squad as several thousand people watched. 
KISMAYO, Somalia (AP) - Islamic radicals repulsed an attack by pro-government forces to recapture a vital seaport and on Saturday took control of a sympathetic coastal town, in further signs of the central administration's weakening grasp.
Aissat Rabah, an Algerian provincial council head in the eastern Berber Kabylie region, died Oct. 13 after being shot in a cafe by gunmen suspected of belonging to the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat Islamist rebel group. Rabah was a member of the secular opposition Socialist Forces Front, popular in the Kabylie region that is also known as a base for Islamist militants.
The UN Security Council voted unanimously on Saturday to impose financial and weapons sanctions on North Korea for its nuclear test, which the resolution called a "clear threat to international peace and security." 
A suspected al Qaeda leader, accused of being involved in September 11 and planning the 2004 Madrid train bombings, has been imprisoned in a secret U.S. jail for the past year, Spain's El Pais newspaper reported on Sunday. 
Break ties with the dollar!
Mumbai Police has little hard evidence of Pakistani involvement in the Mumbai train blasts, save for details on Pakistanis it believes crossed into India to conduct operations, reports the Indian Express. An Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) dossier records an intelligence intercept of a phone call soon after Pakistani Kamal Ansaris arrest in Bihar on July 21: One of our men has been caught. Hope to God he doesnt say anything. 
QUETTA: Pakistani police seized five hand grenades from a train compartment in Balochistan opn Saturday, according to officials. Policemen found the grenades, packed in a plastic bag and hidden under an unoccupied berth, during a routine security inspection before the departure of the train from Quetta, said police official Mohammad Aslam. The Jaffar Express runs between Quetta and Rawalpindi. Meanwhile, police also seized 10 kilogrammes of hashish from Peshawar-bound Quetta Express and arrested a man, Shaukat Ali Jatoi. A case has been registered against Jatoi.
A man introducing himself as the 'Jihad leader in Iraq' called on Osama bin Laden to oust Abu Ayyub al-Masri who has been appointed the leader of the Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, 
Gaza- At least one Palestinian militant was killed and three wounded, one of them critically, Saturday after an Israeli air force plane fired a missile at their car in Gaza City, paramedics and witnesses said. The incident happened in the Zeitoon neighbourhood of southern Gaza City. Paramedics said that two bystanders were also wounded. 
(Reuters) - Israeli troops killed eight Palestinian gunmen in clashes in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, including seven from the militant group Hamas, amid a surge in violence in the coastal territory.
A Lebanese man was killed Saturday by a stray bullet at the Ein el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon, security officials said. A scuffle between rival factions in the camp - the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Jund al-Sham, an Islamic group backed by Syria - escalated into a shootout, the officials said on condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to speak to the media. Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a 25-year-old Lebanese man with no ties to either group, was severely wounded by a stray bullet, they said. He died later at a hospital, they added.
Now hear this, man your quarters. Clean sweepdown fore and aft, the smoking lamp is out! The first section has the watch. All other sections: Liberty will commence at 1700 hours. (Somehow the image did not live up to the reality.)
