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32 killed in factional fighting, Amanullah Khan among them
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Afghanistan
NATO troops kills 15 Taliban, 32 killed in factional fighting
NATO-led troops killed 15 insurgents in southern Afghanistan after the rebels attacked their convoy with guns and rocket-propelled grenades, the force said Sunday. The rebels attacked an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) patrol in Zabul on Saturday, an ISAF statement said. “ISAF forces returned fire killing 15 insurgents. Two ISAF vehicles were damaged and no ISAF personnel were injured,” it said.

Meanwhile, fierce fighting broke out between rival factions in a contested area of western Afghanistan on Sunday, leaving 32 people dead and many more wounded, a provincial police chief said. The fighting in the western province of Herat erupted when a well-known commander, Amanullah Khan, entered an area controlled by a rival commander, said police chief Basir Salangi.
Amanullah's been a greedhead pain in the Wazir for quite awhile. Somebody really should ventilate his turban.
The rival force, led by the lesser-known Arbab Basir, attacked Khan’s convoy. Private broadcaster Tolo television reported that Khan was among the dead, but Salangi could not confirm this.
That would be a jolly thing. Not for Amanullah, of course, but for the rest of us.
“This afternoon two local commanders fought each other for hours and at least 32 people from both parties have been killed,” Salangi said. The fighting erupted in Shindand district, 120 kilometres south of Herat city. Witnesses said the NATO-led force had deployed troops and helicopters to the area to try to control the situation. Afghan soldiers were also on the ground, they said.

Khan has long been at the centre of factional fighting in Herat, much of it over control of Shindand. The ethnic Pashtun commander of several hundred armed men is notorious for deadly skirmishes with forces of his Tajik rival and one-time Herat province governor, Ismail Khan, who is now the national minister for energy affairs. Scores of people have been killed in the sporadic clashes that have spanned several years.
For all his faults, Ismail Khan's six times the man Amanullah is — hopefully was.
Posted by: Fred || 10/23/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Red on red yeilds 32 dead.
Posted by: wxjames || 10/23/2006 7:53 Comments || Top||

#2  The fighting in the western province of Herat erupted when a well-known commander, Amanullah Khan, entered an area controlled by a rival commander, said police chief Basir Salangi.
How cool. Just like on meerkat manor, between the Whiskers group when they go into the Lazuli groups territory on animal planet. Knew I could learn history from that show.
Posted by: plainslow || 10/23/2006 10:09 Comments || Top||

#3  It's kinda like the Blood and the Crips. Except there's goats instead of Escalades. I'm gonna start looking for Sprewell Spinners on those goats.
Posted by: anymouse || 10/23/2006 12:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Good article which adds extra proof that Pakistan is actively training the Taliban

http://www.iwpr.net/?p=arr&s=f&o=260014&apc_state=henh
Why does BUSH tolerate this??????????????????
Posted by: Choluque Grens1160 || 10/23/2006 15:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Cuz he's not actually The Emperor of the Universe?

Cuz he lost his MaGiK wAnD?

Cuz you used up the Internet quota of question marks?

Sheesh, I dunno. I'll ask Ming the Merciless and see what he thinks. I'll get back to you if I get a response.
Posted by: .com || 10/23/2006 15:54 Comments || Top||

#6  #3: It's kinda like the Blood and the Crips.

Ummm, no it's not.
The cops would stop the Bloods and Crips.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 10/23/2006 18:25 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Defence lines dug as Somalia stand-off worsens
MOGADISHU, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Somali pro-Islamist fighters and rival Ethiopian troops supporting the interim government both dug defensive positions around their outposts, after the Islamists retook a strategic town, residents said on Monday. Without firing a shot, pro-Islamist militia backed by Islamist fighters retook Buur Hakaba -- 30 km (20 miles) from the government's base in Baidoa -- after their allies were chased out by government troops over the weekend.

The standoff has fuelled fears that skirmishes could turn to a full-scale region-wide war as the Islamists -- who seized the capital Mogadishu in June -- extend their authority across south and central Somalia, flanking the government on three sides.

Resident Ahmed Abdi said government troops left Buur Hakaba early on Monday and were close to a government military camp. "The local pro-Islamist militias have put a defence line 20 km from Buur Hakaba on the way to Baidoa, while the rest of the Islamic troops are in Buur Hakaba," he said from Baidoa.

At the government's biggest military camp, Daynunay -- about halfway between Buur Hakaba and Baidoa -- one resident said Ethiopian troops, which witnesses say are propping up the Western-backed government, were digging trenches. "I can see Ethiopian troops digging trenches across the road. It looks like a defence line," said the resident, who declined to be named. "They are using shovels and their military trucks are near them. They are so many. I can't count from where I am standing," he added, saying he knew they were Ethiopian because of their uniforms and new military vehicles. Somali officials were not immediately available for comment.

The Islamists have long accused Ethiopia of sending troops into Somalia, but Addis Ababa denies sending anything but military advisers. The Horn of Africa power again warned on Monday it would intervene if the Islamists attacked Somalia's government. "We will defend the government if attacked by the jihadists," senior government official Bereket Simon said. "If they try to overthrow the legitimate government, we will help the government," Bereket, a minister without portfolio and key ally of Zenawi, told Reuters.

Analysts and diplomats fear any conflict between the Islamists and the government could trigger regional war and give Muslim militants a new battlefront -- especially if Ethiopia enters the fray directly. They fear any direct involvement from Ethiopia would spur arch-rival Eritrea to further back the Islamists -- an accusation Asmara denies -- and hand extremists cause to attack what many Somalis believe is a Christian imperialist power backed by the United States.

While the Islamists say their priority is to bring law and order to Somalia and have no intentions beyond their borders, critics say they harbour al Qaeda-linked extremists and are eyeing Ethiopia's ethnically Somali region of Ogaden.
The Islamists' growing power has frustrated the government's efforts to reimpose central rule -- the 14th attempt since the 1991 ouster of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre -- in the country of 10 million. The latest posturing comes a week before both sides were due to hold peace talks in Sudan.
Posted by: Steve || 10/23/2006 12:27 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
One boy dead, two wounded in grenade blast in Chechnya
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia An explosion killed one boy and wounded two others in Russia's war-shattered southern province of Chechnya when the youths attempted to disassemble a grenade launcher they had found, officials said Sunday.

Three boys, aged 12-14, discovered a grenade launcher at the city's garbage dump. A grenade in the launcher exploded as they tried to take the equipment apart, killing one boy on the spot and wounding two others with shrapnel.
The incident occurred Saturday in the Chechen capital Grozny when the three boys, aged 12-14, discovered a grenade launcher at the city's garbage dump, said a spokesman for the regional branch of Russia's Interior Ministry. A grenade in the launcher exploded as they tried to take the equipment apart, killing one boy on the spot and wounding two others with shrapnel.

Civilians often find ammunition in the war-ravaged region. More than 150 people have been killed or wounded in similar incidents this year alone in Chechnya, police officials say.

Also Saturday, police clashed with four suspected militants in the province's southern Nokhchi-Keloy district. Nobody was wounded. The alleged rebels managed to flee and police and military troops have launched a man hunt.
Posted by: Fred || 10/23/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Unfunny Darwin's Award winner.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/23/2006 19:55 Comments || Top||


Europe
French police face 'permanent intifada'
On a routine call, three unwitting police officers fell into a trap. A car darted out to block their path, and dozens of hooded youths surged out of the darkness to attack them with stones, bats and tear gas before fleeing. One officer was hospitalized.

The recent ambush was emblematic of what some officers say has become a near-perpetual and increasingly violent conflict between police and gangs in tough, largely immigrant French neighborhoods that were the scene of a three-week paroxysm of rioting last year.

One small police union claims officers are facing a "permanent intifada." Police injuries have risen in the year since the wave of violence.

National police reported 2,458 cases of violence against officers in the first six months of the year, on pace to top the 4,246 cases recorded for all of 2005 and the 3,842 in 2004. Firefighters and rescue workers have also been targeted — and some now receive police escorts in such areas.

On Sunday, a band of about 30 youths, some wearing masks, forced passengers out of a bus in a southern Paris suburb in broad daylight Sunday, set it on fire, then stoned firefighters who came to the rescue, police said. No one was injured. Two people were arrested, one of them a 13-year-old, according to LCI television.

More broadly, worsening violence in France testifies to Europe's growing struggle to integrate its ethnic minorities. Some mainstream European politicians — adopting positions previously confined largely to far-right fringes — are suggesting that the minorities themselves are not doing enough to adapt to European mores.

Ethnic integration and violence against police are both becoming issues in the campaign for the French presidency. Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, the leading contender on the right, said this month that those who do not love France do not have to stay, echoing a longtime slogan of the extreme-right National Front: "France, love it or leave it."

Michel Thooris, head of the small Action Police union, claims that the new violence is taking on an Islamic fundamentalist tinge.

“ Many youths, many arsonists, many vandals behind the violence do it to cries of 'Allah Akbar'”
"Many youths, many arsonists, many vandals behind the violence do it to cries of 'Allah Akbar' (God is Great) when our police cars are stoned," he said in an interview.

Larger, more mainstream police unions sharply disagree that the suburban unrest has any religious basis. However, they do say that some youth gangs no longer seem content to throw stones or torch cars and instead appear determined to hurt police officers — or worse.

“These are acts of war”
"First, it was a rock here or there. Then it was rocks by the dozen. Now, they're leading operations of an almost military sort to trap us," said Loic Lecouplier, a police union official in the Seine-Saint-Denis region north of Paris. "These are acts of war."

Sadio Sylla, an unemployed mother of three, watched the Oct. 13 ambush of the police patrol in Epinay-sur-Seine from her second-floor window. She, other witnesses and police union officials said up to 50 masked youths dashed out from behind trees.

One of the three officers needed 30 stitches to his face after being struck by a rock. On Saturday, five people were placed under investigation for attempted murder in relation to the ambush.

The attack was one of at least four gang beatings of police in Parisian suburbs since Sept. 19. Early Friday, a dozen hooded people hurled stones, iron bars and bottles filled with gasoline at two police vehicles in Aulnay-sous-Bois, a flashpoint of last year's riots, said Guillaume Godet, a city hall spokesman. One officer required three stitches to his head.

Minority youths have long complained that police are more heavy-handed in their dealings with them than with whites, demanding their papers and frisking them for no apparent reason. Such perceived ill-treatment fuels feelings of injustice, as do the difficulties that many youths from immigrant families have finding work.

Distrust and tension thrive. Rumors have flown around some housing projects that police are hoping to use the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which ends this week, to round up known troublemakers, on the basis that fasting all day will have made the youths weaker and easier to catch.

Police say that suggestion is ludicrous. However, they are on guard ahead of the first anniversary this week of last year's riots. That violence began after two youths who thought police were chasing them hid in a power substation and were electrocuted to death.

Police unions suspect that the recent attacks may be an attempt to spark new riots.

"We are getting the impression these youths want a 'remake' of what happened last year," said Fred Lagache, national secretary of the Alliance police union. "The youths are trying to cause a police error to justify chaos."
Posted by: lotp || 10/23/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  National police reported 2,458 cases of violence against officers in the first six months of the year

This represents over TWO ATTACKS PER HOUR for every day of that entire six months. They need authorization, determination and sufficient amounts of testerone to cure this problem for once and all.

This is only a "permanent intifada" because the police lack courage to impose some "permanent" solutions.

Posted by: Zenster || 10/23/2006 1:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Sorry, one attack per every two hours, but the lack of effectiveness is essentially the same.
Posted by: Zenster || 10/23/2006 1:28 Comments || Top||

#3  If the French have OHSA type legislation, then work refusal would be permitted in respect of personal safety. However, if civil authorities were impotent in securing public peace, then use of military force is lawful. Last year, the French took over 12,000 torched cars on the chin, and made very few arrests. In fact, Socialists joined the Islamofascist chorus, and blamed the rioting on majority racism. Even the slavishly deferential Frogs have to have limits of tolerance. If they allow a repetition of last year's fiasco, then we should treat France as a failed state and take it over. And we won't back off when Muslipunks torch cars.

Does this sound great?: the State of Provence, USA.
Posted by: Snease Shaiting3550 || 10/23/2006 2:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Maybe they're angry becuz all France has to work 35-hours or more a week so that Socialist Paris-France can have tax revenues to pay its Euro-bills???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/23/2006 2:38 Comments || Top||

#5  OTOH, M & C.com > Russian ALEXANDER DUGIN = WESTERN SECULARISM and forms therefrom are DYING. The Western world is slowly but steadily re-discovering its relious roots.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/23/2006 2:42 Comments || Top||

#6  I suggest a two state solution. We should support a peace process leading to the creation of an independant state on occupied Muslim land with Paris as its capitol. We should also call for an end to French settlement in the area and investigate and condemn human rights abuses committed by the Frenchified entity. The end of French occupation will remove a major irritant which is an obstacle to peace and an inspiration for anti-Western radicalism worldwide.

We must reexamine US policy in the region; our reflexive, unqualified support for France should be reconsidered. The French lobby has pulled the strings of US policy for far too long and has put their own narrow interests ahead of the national good, engendering anti-US sentiment everywhere. Franco-American control of the media and canned goods industries are well known. We lose our moral authority by supporting such oppression and brutality.
Posted by: Baba Tutu || 10/23/2006 3:13 Comments || Top||

#7  I would add that the Frenchified entity must return to its pre-732 borders and abandon all lands conquered as the result of French aggression at the Battle of Tours. The occupation of Muslim land ruthlessly and illegally removed civilians from their ancestral homes and they and their descendants must be given the right to return to their homeland. There can be no peace while the on going oppression continues.
Posted by: Baba Tutu || 10/23/2006 3:22 Comments || Top||

#8  That high-pitched whining sound you hear in France today, is the sound of both Charles Martel and Napoleon spinning like tops in their graves.
Posted by: Shieldwolf || 10/23/2006 5:04 Comments || Top||

#9  If france can't figure out how to deal with this (obvious to any dolt) then I can't feel sorry for them. If you have 50 punks rioting, send in 100 riot officers and start cracking heads. The "riot" will be over before it even gets started. Don't just stand around arguing whether or not it has a religious element and blaming yourselves for not being generous enough with your welfare.
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 10/23/2006 5:14 Comments || Top||

#10  Bush's fault.
Posted by: Admiral Allan Ackbar || 10/23/2006 5:20 Comments || Top||

#11  SW - Martel, definately. Caliph Bonaparte? Not so sure...
Posted by: Admiral Allan Ackbar || 10/23/2006 5:25 Comments || Top||

#12  the Frenchified entity must return to its pre-732 borders and abandon all lands conquered as the result of French aggression at the Battle of Tours.

That is what they want, isn't it?
Posted by: lotp || 10/23/2006 7:07 Comments || Top||

#13  Bush's fault.

Bush will be gone in a few years, we need something more generic and more accurate than Great Satan.
After finally getting around to reading "The French Path to Jihad" link, that anonymous 5089 posted a couple of days ago, may I suggest the term Universal Scapegoat's fault? Even the acronym fits.
Posted by: Gladys || 10/23/2006 7:25 Comments || Top||

#14  Twas the Phrench who laid down with the devil decades ago, their fault. Now, what to do about it ? Why not hire an American right winger to fix the situation ?
Posted by: wxjames || 10/23/2006 7:58 Comments || Top||

#15  Maybe the french people need to have another French revolution and oil up the ole gillotines.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/23/2006 8:18 Comments || Top||

#16  Franco-American control of the media and canned goods industries are well known.

Oh dear.

As for Napoleon, whatever he may have said to seduce the Egyptians to support him over the British, he didn't tolerate insurrection at home. His methods were much more along the lines of "First give the mob a whiff of grapeshot, then fix bayonets and charge"
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/23/2006 8:27 Comments || Top||

#17  Police being police, this will result in them organizing death squads against the more vicious troublemakers. Cops know how to send a message when they are pushed.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 10/23/2006 9:08 Comments || Top||

#18  Why is my sympathy meter still broken? I called the repairman and he said he be here to fix it and he hasn't shown up and I don't know what I'm gonna do cuz it ain't workin and I'd really like to have some sympathy for the poor french who sold out their country to muzzies and I really wanna feel but the dang things busted and the needle's stuck on zero....and.....and....and.....
Posted by: mcsegeek1 || 10/23/2006 10:04 Comments || Top||

#19  #6 IS BRILLIANT!
Posted by: Claimble Angomotle5042 || 10/23/2006 10:11 Comments || Top||

#20  If the Phrench pull out, they can live in tent cities along the Rivera. The chunnel will have to be blown up to save Blairistan from the Phrench refugees.
Posted by: wxjames || 10/23/2006 10:48 Comments || Top||

#21  At first I thought: “That would never happen in America.” But some places in Oakland, L.A., and New York are just as bad but the youths don’t attack the police with any regularity. That being said if a mayor allowed the daily burning of cars, business, and homes without calling for the National Guard then he would be tossed from office (Except in New Orleans). I agree that this calls for tough love, wielding batons, and if necessary deadly force. The may be Arab but they are also Phrench, so after a good beating they will surrender. Failing that we should partition Phrance into Muslim/Phrench regions.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge || 10/23/2006 10:48 Comments || Top||

#22  Canned goods? choke...cough...sputter.

Pehaps John Heinz Kerry could enlighten us.
Posted by: johnnycanuck || 10/23/2006 10:49 Comments || Top||

#23  Failing that we should partition Phrance into Muslim/Phrench regions.

That is exactly what they want and what we should prevent. The muzzie parts will metastsize as they invade the French parts. The only rational choices for France are expulsion or assimilation. If they are native French, send them to Devil's Island. The French know how to run places like that.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 10/23/2006 10:53 Comments || Top||

#24  #14 james: "Why not hire an American right winger to fix the situation?"

Send 'em Pat Buchanan - God knows we don't want him.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 10/23/2006 11:18 Comments || Top||

#25  That is exactly what they want and what we should prevent. The muzzie parts will metastsize as they invade the French parts.

Yes, this is the general idea of the planned conquest of France/Belgium first, then Europe, that was exposed to a french writer by an algerian islamist, back in the late 90's.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 10/23/2006 11:35 Comments || Top||

#26  For those who can read french (there's an autotranslation tool on top of the page, results "funny"), here's an excellent interview of a private security responsible about the state of private security in France.
France-Echos Interview exclusive jihad sur les métiers de la sécurité

Basically, this sector is heavily (80%) manned by Youths, for PC reasons (whitey stopping a Youth is a racist), for "style" (large cities bouncers are black sub-saharan africans, cheap and very impressive physically), and because ethnic french are too devirilized in general... and this lead to very serious abuse (anti-white racism empowered by the badge, or inside complicity for organized stealing in malls, robberies,...).

Fear not, the army is already well on its way to being islamized, a feature, not a bug, a top brass has just recently said he wished to promote CO from the 'hoods, and police is planned.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 10/23/2006 11:41 Comments || Top||

#27  The French have descended into anarchy. The Socialists deliberately disarmed the general populace. Now, they refuse to defend them from thugs. I hope Americans observe this. Never allow yourselves to be disarmed by the Leftists. Even the Aussies are suffering from being defrauded of their right of self protection. The elites of French society think they are insulated from damage. What fools. As the anarchy grows, their lovely estates will be overrun just like the residential areas abutting the slum worlds the elites created on the periphery of cities. No one is safe with total disorder. The same is going on in the hell hole of Iraq.
Posted by: SpecOp35 || 10/23/2006 11:49 Comments || Top||

#28  No doubt, society is fragile. If a county sized area has 200 police, they may also have 2000 trouble makers, which become 20,000 as the police become overwhelmed. And then, chaos. No police, no courts, no law and order. It's happening in Phrance on a larger scale. There is no attempt to end it now. What are they waiting for ? The Phrench need the situation to spin out of control so they can justify the use of force ? Pussies !
Posted by: wxjames || 10/23/2006 12:16 Comments || Top||

#29  How can France finally begin to crack down on these violent Muslim yoots and still maintain their façade of Franco-Arab fraternity? The entire Eurabian contract pivots upon preferential treatment of Muslims as a hedge against creeping Americanization both in France and the MME (Muslim Middle East).

I think this is a collision of two monumental egos, French and Muslim. What the snickering elitist French simply did not take into account was the hyper-violence of their Muslim coconspirators. If France was not a possessor of nuclear weapons and some of the world's finest artworks, I'd just as soon see them flushed down their richly deserved Islamic toilet. Sadly, some other fix is required. I forsee Europe stalling on this long enough to where another "Final Solution" will become necessary. Let us hope that if this proves necessary it will also serve as the "Final Repudiation" of their idiotic fascination with multiculturalism.
Posted by: Zenster || 10/23/2006 13:00 Comments || Top||

#30  Let us hope that if this proves necessary it will also serve as the "Final Repudiation" of their idiotic fascination with multiculturalism.

I'll say an Amen to that. Maybe the US can learn something here too. We have our own 'idiotic fascination' with multiculturalism, and it's proving to be an unmitigated disaster. I see America going down the same toilet as France in the next few decades unless we wake the hell up.

Back to the melting pot. I've had my fill of the salad bowl.
Posted by: mcsegeek1 || 10/23/2006 13:26 Comments || Top||

#31  This is Paris-centric and more a problem of juvinile deliquency than rampant islamicintifadaradicalism!! I have relatives in France and lived there for a time. I go there often. Yes, they are in a bit of cultural and political squeeze due to over-accommodation of multi-culturalism mostly as a result of a serious socialist induced guilt complex and their own system of "apartheid". By that I mean how they have completely segregated Paris the same way the Boers did Jo'burg in SA. Paris itself is white effete wine sipping Galoise smoking intellectuals. While outside turmoil boils. This the RER equivalent of the bridge and tunnel crowd in NYC. But it is not new and until someone like Sarkozy gets elected it won't get better.
Posted by: Jack is Back! || 10/23/2006 16:10 Comments || Top||

#32  Read further down, Jack. If you're putting any faith in Sarko, you're dreaming. What a scumbag!
Posted by: mac || 10/23/2006 16:26 Comments || Top||

#33  Read further down, Jack. If you're putting any faith in Sarko, you're dreaming. What a scumbag!

Regarding sarko, I just want to say this is my feeling about him, but he might be a positive surprize. He's playing the outsider (like his socialist rival) even though he's been a professional pol for about 30 years or so, and his discourse sure is a grand departure from the usual french PCness.
So, he could be an improvement on some regards (if he wants to save the System, he must reform it somehow), or at least the least worse choice.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 10/23/2006 17:10 Comments || Top||

#34  "Islamic fundamentalist tinge"
"Many youths, many arsonists, many vandals behind the violence do it to cries of 'Allah Akbar'..."

So they say they're upset about not getting jobs? Yeah, these are the sort of folks I want working for me, NOT.
Get the damn riot police out there to get these idiots.
I'm leaning towards being like Sarah Connor in the Terminator, hording weapons for protection when this sort of crap happens here and no one will stop the thugs.
This PC attitude or multiculturalism is very stupid, and it's killing me how this mind set has taken over, very scary.
Posted by: Jan || 10/23/2006 17:30 Comments || Top||

#35  How times change

During the last days of WW2, Islamic elements in Algiers were agitating for independence (as they would do successfully with Soviet and Euro-communist support some years later).

In 1945, though, things reached a climax on VE-day, May 7th. Muslims, enraged at the Nazi defeat and offended by admittedly raucous French celebrants, poured into the streets; looting shops, burning the few cars that were around in those days, and beheading the odd Frenchman or Europeanized Arab they could catch.
The flics brought out their Bren guns and restored order, at a cost of 450 "protestors" dead. Obsolete M-3 Stuart tanks were also reported in action, their 37mm canister rounds being ideal for this work.
This incident is mentioned in the ultra-PC Golden Book Encyclopedia, complete with a "typo of convenience" that inflates the Islamic death toll to 45,000.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 10/23/2006 18:33 Comments || Top||

#36  hording weapons for protection when this sort of crap happens here and no one will stop the thugs.

I have a thing for auto Glocks. They are so nice.
Posted by: Floluter Phemp9244 || 10/23/2006 22:44 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Shia leader killed
A Shia cleric was shot dead in Bahwalpur on Sunday, police said. Arriving at the scene after receiving reports of the incident, police confirmed that Shia leader Syed Asif Ali Shah, a resident of Mozou Fort Abbas, was gunned down by unidentified armed assailants. The religious leader was immediately taken to Bahawal Victoria Hospital, but died on the way. Asif Ali had been working as a clerk at Commercial College Fort Abbas, where his father, Syed Ghulam Abbas Shah, serves as president Fiqa-e-Jafria Fort Abbas Tehsil. Police said that an investigation into the murder was underway, amid speculation that the killing may have been motivated by a personal enmity.
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Punjab seeks to detain Hafiz Saeed
The political activities of the Jamaatul Daawa chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed have compelled the Punjab government to request the federal government to issue fresh detention orders for the former chief of the Lashkar-e-Taiba after Eid. He is accused of making inflammatory speeches against the US and India. Hafiz Saeed was released on Tuesday on the orders of the Lahore High Court after spending three months in detention. The Punjab government placed Saeed under house arrest in Lahore on August 9.
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Iraq
US troops arrest 'al-Qaeda leader'
US forces stormed a building in the northern Iraq city of Mosul today and arrested a suspected "high-level al-Qaeda leader" in an operation that led to the death of a 12-year-old boy...

...The detained militant was not identified, except as allegedly "one of the main foreign terrorist facilitators in Iraq".

In a separate operation in the Julaiba district of Baghdad, a US air strike "killed one terrorist and wounded another after coalition forces observed the individuals loading a vehicle with illegal weapons and explosives". The suspects had been under surveillance and were suspected of planting roadside booby traps. When the were spotted loading their car, US troops called in air support and the vehicle was destroyed.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 10/23/2006 18:50 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Arrrr! Now that's the way ta git 'er dun, mateys! ;-)
Posted by: gorb || 10/23/2006 19:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Arrrr! Now that's the way ta git 'er dun, mateys! ;-)

»:-)





Posted by: RD || 10/23/2006 20:34 Comments || Top||


US Soldier Missing in Baghdad
BAGHDAD – A Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldier was listed as duty status-whereabouts unknown Oct. 24 in Baghdad at approximately 7:30 p.m.

Coalition and Iraqi Security Forces immediately responded to attempt to locate the Soldier, the search is ongoing. More information will be provided as it becomes available.

Al Reuters has also picked up the story.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 10/23/2006 18:43 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Holy Shiite!

CNN's John Roberts just reported that US troops have raided a private Iraqi TV station in connection with the search for the missing soldier and uncovered a large cache of weapons and explosives. They are also reporting that the missing person is not an American but an Iraqi translator. Roberts is embedded with the same unit as the missing translator.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 10/23/2006 18:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Yeah Fox hit this with the little bit of info they had a little bit ago and indicated it was a translator and, thus, probably not a US soldier.
Posted by: .com || 10/23/2006 18:55 Comments || Top||

#3  CNN's John Roberts just reported that US troops have raided a private Iraqi TV station in connection with the search for the missing soldier and uncovered a large cache of weapons and explosives.

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Posted by: mrp || 10/23/2006 19:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Television stations now have their own private weapons caches? What do the reporters imagine is happening beyond the entry lobby doors?
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/23/2006 19:48 Comments || Top||

#5  The ones that are overt propaganda machines do, it would seem.
Posted by: lotp || 10/23/2006 20:26 Comments || Top||

#6  Private TV station...

Hostile to the US...

Armed and a danger to the US...

HOLY SHIT!!! THEY RAIDED CNN!!!
Posted by: Robert Crawford || 10/23/2006 20:48 Comments || Top||

#7  Inshallah.
Posted by: lotp || 10/23/2006 20:59 Comments || Top||

#8  RC, LOL!
Posted by: twobyfour || 10/23/2006 21:04 Comments || Top||

#9  They discovered a weapons cache in Iraq?
NO F'ING WAY!
Posted by: Floluter Phemp9244 || 10/23/2006 22:28 Comments || Top||

#10  And after the Iraqi National Security Advisor, or some such office, found out about the weapons seizure, he ordered (successfully) the US to return the weapons.
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/23/2006 22:35 Comments || Top||

#11  Yeah Fox hit this with the little bit of info they had a little bit ago and indicated it was a translator and, thus, probably not a US soldier.

Sounds like he's both: translator and USA officer.

Via foxnews.com: An employee at Baghdad's al-Furat TV, which was raided by American forces earlier Monday, said the U.S. forces conducting the search told him they were looking for an abducted American officer of Iraqi descent.

I read elsewhere that he's an American of Iraqi descent and a US soldier.

God be with him and his family.
Posted by: xbalanke || 10/23/2006 23:23 Comments || Top||


Five insurgents killed, building destroyed south of Balad
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition Forces killed an insurgent Monday morning as they conducted movement to a suspected terrorist location south of Balad and later destroyed a building associated with terrorist activities, killing four more.

As ground forces approached the objective, an insurgent along their route engaged them with rifle fire. A coalition element then engaged and killed the insurgent as the ground forces continued to the objective.

Credible intelligence indicated the presence of several suspected terrorists on the objective prior to the raid. When Coalition Forces arrived at the objective, they announced Coalition presence and called for all occupants to exit peacefully. A woman and five children exited the house without incident.

Due to intelligence that several men were present as well, Coalition Forces again requested all occupants to exit peacefully, sending the woman back inside the building to encourage the men to exit. The woman again exited the building without the men. In order to ensure the safety of the force as well as surrounding residents, Coalition aircraft delivered precision munitions onto the building, resulting in its destruction and the death of the four occupants who refused to exit.
Never bring an AK-47 to a JDAM fight.
And there's good advice ...
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 10/23/2006 10:35 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What? Another "inappropriate response"? Tsk, tsk, using airplanes when they don't have the same ability. Why its downright bullyingish.
Posted by: Jack is Back! || 10/23/2006 16:13 Comments || Top||

#2  What? Another "inappropriate response"? Tsk, tsk, using airplanes when they don't have the same ability. Why its downright bullyingish.
Posted by: Jack is Back! || 10/23/2006 16:14 Comments || Top||


To Stand or Fall in Baghdad: Capital Is Key to Mission
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 10/23/2006 10:23 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Iraq Police Improving? (Or Mosques are Holy Places?)
Another press release from CentCom which will probably not make it into your MSM Iraq news roundup.
NPs SEIZE IEDs IN ALl KUR MOSQUE

BAGHDAD – Iraqi National Police from 3rd Battalion, 5th Brigade, 2nd National Police Division, seized weapons and munitions when they searched the Al Kur Mosque and nearby houses Thursday in Mansour, a muhalla in western Baghdad.

Upon entering the mosque, the policemen discovered a completed improvised-explosive device, an IED that was not yet complete, components for an armor piercing IED, three sets of body armor and an AK-47.

The search expanded to houses around the mosque; when residents saw the NPs coming, they fled. The policemen discovered Iraqi Police uniform items, pictures of military activities, a pistol and loose 7.62mm ammunition in a house directly adjacent to the mosque. In another nearby house, they discovered a police scanner that was monitoring the NPs while they were searching the mosque.
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/23/2006 10:20 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Again, for perspective...every Iraqi household is allowed 1 AK-47 for domestic security, these weapons take 7.62 mm ammo: the level of civil disorder in Iraq mandates this. Middle aged Iraqi women with bifocals will often carry such items to work at NGO's for their own safety. I automatically discount any news report about "finds" of such materiel.
Because so many Iraqi hit squads and terrorist groups currently wear NP uniforms, it would only be sensible to flee them on sight. What would you do in such a case?
OTOH, any mosque found with high explosives such as IED's should be razed to the ground. This is not being done, AFAIK.
Posted by: Slaviger Angomong7708 || 10/23/2006 11:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Another armory exposed. Such great surprise. did they level it ?
Posted by: SpecOp35 || 10/23/2006 11:53 Comments || Top||


More Good News Monday
AIR STRIKE KILLS FIVE TERRORISTS SETTING ROADSIDE IED

BAGHDAD — An air strike early Sunday morning killed five terrorists and wounded one as they emplaced an IED on a road near Arab Jabour.
No virgins for youse guys!
Coalition Forces observed a group of terrorists digging a hole in a road on the outskirts of Arab Jabour while one individual stood watch. As the terrorists placed an IED in the hole, Coalition aircraft engaged the group with precision fires causing the bomb to detonate.

Ground forces transported the wounded terrorist to a nearby medical facility.

Coalition Forces conducted this operation after careful and deliberate analysis to mitigate collateral damage.
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/23/2006 10:18 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What happened to this man, he is badly burned.
His toaster exploded.
Posted by: wxjames || 10/23/2006 10:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Coalition Forces conducted this operation after careful and deliberate analysis to mitigate collateral damage

Why?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/23/2006 11:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Ground forces transported the wounded terrorist to a nearby medical facility.

Where they were administered drugs intended to heighten the sensitivity of nerve endings and immediately sent to surgery.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 10/23/2006 12:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Where they were administered drugs intended to heighten the sensitivity of nerve endings and immediately sent to surgery.

You left out the part about it being the anesthesiologist's day off.
Posted by: Zenster || 10/23/2006 13:18 Comments || Top||

#5  When they finally get civilized, and unionized, the story will read "...five stood around watching, while one dug..."
Posted by: USN, ret. || 10/23/2006 13:53 Comments || Top||

#6  Caution: Slow Men Working
Posted by: Capsu 78 || 10/23/2006 20:44 Comments || Top||

#7  hey Capsu... long time no see! Post more often! :-)
Posted by: Frank G || 10/23/2006 21:17 Comments || Top||

#8  When they finally get civilized, and unionized, the story will read "...five stood around watching, while one dug..."

You mean, sort of like this?
Posted by: Floluter Phemp9244 || 10/23/2006 23:10 Comments || Top||

#9  (scroll up)
Posted by: Floluter Phemp9244 || 10/23/2006 23:10 Comments || Top||


Good News Monday - When ROE Work
FIVE INSURGENTS KILLED, BUILDING DESTROYED SOUTH OF BALAD

BAGHDAD – Coalition Forces killed an insurgent Monday morning as they conducted movement to a suspected terrorist location south of Balad and later destroyed a building associated with terrorist activities, killing four more.

As ground forces approached the objective, an insurgent along their route engaged them with rifle fire. A coalition element then engaged and killed the insurgent as the ground forces continued to the objective.

Credible intelligence indicated the presence of several suspected terrorists on the objective prior to the raid. When Coalition Forces arrived at the objective, they announced Coalition presence and called for all occupants to exit peacefully. A woman and five children exited the house without incident.

Due to intelligence that several men were present as well, Coalition Forces again requested all occupants to exit peacefully, sending the woman back inside the building to encourage the men to exit. The woman again exited the building without the men. In order to ensure the safety of the force as well as surrounding residents, Coalition aircraft delivered precision munitions onto the building, resulting in its destruction and the death of the four occupants who refused to exit.
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/23/2006 10:15 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This seems to be a more PC variant of the Israeli tactic of bulldozing the homes of terrorists (or their survivors).
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/23/2006 10:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Good. More of this, please.
Posted by: Jonathan || 10/23/2006 10:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Knock, knock....
Who is there ?
Landshark.
WHO ?
Candygram.
Posted by: wxjames || 10/23/2006 10:51 Comments || Top||

#4  The same thing could be done for wider urbanized areas held by terrorists, IMO.
Posted by: Slaviger Angomong7708 || 10/23/2006 11:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Knock knock.

Who's there?

Jay.

Jay who?

JDAM! BOOM!
Posted by: Parabellum || 10/23/2006 17:12 Comments || Top||


Baghdad: At least 5 dead in market bombings
Bombs on Sunday ripped through crowds of shoppers at a market and bakery stocking up on sweets and other delicacies to celebrate the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, killing at least five people, police said. The carnage in the Shurja wholesale market, Baghdad's oldest and largest, marked the second time in as many days that open-air shopping places have been targeted and looks to cap a surge in deaths during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, which ends on Sunday for Sunnis.
Posted by: Fred || 10/23/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Iraq the Model and FreeRepublic's Allegra
report heavy airstrikes in east Baghdad, Sadr's hangout, overnight. This has been very rare since 2004. Allegra (a contractor who has been there since '04) thinks that jets were involved, not just helos.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 10/23/2006 0:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Looks like Bush has stuck his boot up Maliki's ass, "we're on the hunt!"
Posted by: Captain America || 10/23/2006 1:03 Comments || Top||


Mortar attack, bombings kill 18 in market south of Baghdad
Five bicycle bombs and a hail of mortar shells ripped apart a market south of Baghdad, killing 18 people in yet another sign that Iraq's government is struggling to contain sectarian violence. Three U.S. Marines were also killed, making October the deadliest month for American forces this year.

In Washington, President Bush met with his top military and security advisers to study new tactics to curb the staggering violence in Iraq, where more than 3 1/2 years of war have now taken more American lives — at least 2,791 — than the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center. U.S. officials have blamed the skyrocketing violence on the holy month of Ramadan, which ends Sunday for Sunni Muslims, as well as the increased vulnerability of American forces during a major two-month security sweep in Baghdad and the approaching U.S. midterm election.

Failure in Iraq will be a failure for the United States but a disaster for the region.
A senior U.S. State Department offered an unusually candid assessment in an interview Saturday with Al-Jazeera television, saying the U.S. had shown "arrogance" and "stupidity" in Iraq. Alberto Fernandez, director of public diplomacy in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, also said the U.S. was ready to talk with any Iraqi group — excluding al-Qaida in Iraq — to reach a national unity. "We are witnessing failure in Iraq and that's not the failure of the United States alone but it is a disaster for the region. Failure in Iraq will be a failure for the United States but a disaster for the region," he said.
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Police recruits killed in Iraq ambush
At least 13 Iraqi police recruits have been killed and at least 24 wounded after fighters ambushed a bus convoy. A senior police official said the policemen were attacked on Sunday as they travelled home to Baghdad from a training centre that had come under fire the previous day. Major-General Ghassan al-Bawi, Diyala province police chief, said: "They were being brought home to Baghdad from the training centre for a new emergency response brigade when insurgents set up a roadblock to stop them and opened fire."

Baquba, 65km north of Baghdad, is an area with a mixed population of Shia and Sunni Arabs and it has seen relentless bloodshed in recent months.
Posted by: Fred || 10/23/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  By now it's just intolerable that police recruits do not travel in armed convoys. It's obvious that they are a prime target for all sorts of troublemakers, and they should be armed to the teeth.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 10/23/2006 9:06 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm still surprised at how many Iraqi office holders (judges,lawyers,legislators,police recruits. etc.) are shot to death without putting up a fight. Even Iraqi homes are allowed to have an AK-47 apiece for self-defense, even prayer leaders in mosques carry arms, so why aren't these folks packing heat? Utopian pacificism? Stupidity?
Posted by: Slaviger Angomong7708 || 10/23/2006 9:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Possibly the fatalism of the "Inshallah" philosophy, Slaviger Angomong7708. What use to fight what God wills?
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/23/2006 13:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Did it ever occur to them that maybe God wants them to fight and live?
Posted by: Bobby || 10/23/2006 17:03 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Jenin: 30-kilogram explosive device found
Posted by: Fred || 10/23/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  60 some pounds. They should have returned it to the local Mosque.
Posted by: Icerigger || 10/23/2006 9:25 Comments || Top||


One Palestinian killed in IDF W. Bank arrest raid
One Palestinian was killed and 15 wounded Sunday in a battle with IDF troops in a West Bank town during an arrest raid, witnesses and Palestinian security officials said. The troops entered Tamoun in the northern West Bank to arrest an Islamic Jihad operative. Palestinians attacked the troops with rocks, firebombs and gunfire, the witnesses said, and the troops fired back, killing a man whom Palestinians said was a bystander. The IDF said soldiers returned fire from Palestinians during the raid, during which they detained the suspect. There were no IDF casualties or damage, the army said.
Posted by: Fred || 10/23/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Southeast Asia
Bali bombing 'sentences cut' to mark the end of Ramadan
TWO militants jailed over the 2002 Bali bombings, in which 202 people including 88 Australians died, are reportedly to be released to mark the end of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan.

Sirojul Munir, sentenced to five years for hiding one of the bombing masterminds, will walk free from the jail in East Kalimantan's capital of Balikpapan tomorrow, a fellow prisoner Edi, has told wire newsagency Associated Press (AP).
Another unidentified militant will be released from the main prison on Bali island, the justice ministry's head of Bali's prison division, Anak Agung Mayun Mataram, has told AP.

Indonesia traditionally marks national holidays by cutting prison terms for inmates who exhibit good behaviour - usually by several months.

33 people were jailed over the 2002 Bali blasts, which were blamed on the al-Qaeda-linked militant group Jemaah Islamiah.

Ten other militants jailed for the bombings will have their sentences reduced, officials said.

The clemency is likely to anger Australia and other countries that lost citizens in the suicide attack on nightclubs in the main Balinese city of Denpasar.

Amrozi, Ali Gufron and Imam Samudra have been given the death penalty over the attack and three others are serving life sentences. Under Indonesian law, they are not eligible for prison sentence reductions.
Posted by: Oztralian || 10/23/2006 04:04 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  coincidentally, the 202 dead people will be still be dead to mark the end of Ramadan
Posted by: Frank G || 10/23/2006 7:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Indonesia traditionally marks national holidays by cutting prison terms for Islamic inmates who exhibit good behaviour.

Fixed it for ya.

I noticed the two christians who were murdered executed by Indonesia recently (after a show trial where they were not even allowed to mount a defense) didn't get their sentence reduced. Oh and they are not even looking for those who beheaded those christian teenage girls (for being christian) last year.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/23/2006 8:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Let the Abu Garib soldiers out for Christmas. The Muslim's would understand.
Posted by: plainslow || 10/23/2006 8:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Indonesia is a cesspool. Between the Muzzies, animalists and cannibals, I'm not sure who is worse!!! We need someone like Pershing to go into Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines and clean house, again.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 10/23/2006 9:11 Comments || Top||

#5  49Pan

A 'little' avian like flu epidemic would be far more effective. Diseases effectively and efficiently kill far more numbers and far more deeply into societies than bullets. Plus it has the added effect in primitive societies to cause people to pause and actually ask, what did we do to invite this upon us. It also has the effect of causing others to isolate the centers of outbreak with far more speed than any UN resolution.
Posted by: Procopius2K || 10/23/2006 10:07 Comments || Top||

#6  Today is EID. Celebrate the peace and tolerance of Islam. Free the Camp Pendleton Eight.
Posted by: Mark Z || 10/23/2006 10:36 Comments || Top||

#7  Exactley Mark
Posted by: plainslow || 10/23/2006 11:12 Comments || Top||

#8  I thought a big boom was supposed to happen by the end of Eid?

Did I miss something? Or did they?
Posted by: anonymous2u || 10/23/2006 12:18 Comments || Top||

#9  We need to help these assholes celebrate EID by sending them some IEDs. Preferrably, several B52s worth of them.

The message is clear. Indonesia supports international terrorism. I don't give damn if it is the CIA, the SAS or whomever but Bashir needs to be exterminated yesterday as a message to these pricks. Oh, and when the next tsunami hits, our message needs to be an unequivocal, "EAT SHIT AND DIE MOTHERFUCKERS!"
Posted by: Zenster || 10/23/2006 12:18 Comments || Top||

#10  Ramadan: A pathetic excuse to free terrorists to continue with their work. As stated by CF, perhaps they should release those of other faiths as well to demonstrate their sincerity. And perhaps the MSM could pick up on this, too. Just kidding! Everyone knows the Christians would be let go long before the MSM would switch sides in this war. :-)
Posted by: gorb || 10/23/2006 15:51 Comments || Top||

#11  when the next tsunami hits, our message needs to be an unequivocal, "EAT SHIT AND DIE MOTHERFUCKERS!" "God obviously does't love you any more, and we don't want to offend Him, now do we?"

Very understanding, very compassionate, while twisting the knife. "Mean, evil, wicked, bad, nasty, cruel and heartless" - the new motto for dealing with islamonuts.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 10/23/2006 16:15 Comments || Top||

#12  I hope Australia sends some black ops guys on a little 'Indonesian vacation' soon.
Posted by: Parabellum || 10/23/2006 17:15 Comments || Top||

#13  Parabellum: I wish that I could make it so, but I fear the West (including the brave and good land of Oz) has forgotten how to fight or have otherwise have lost the crucial will to fight.

I sincerely believe targeted assasination can be your friend. Dot com is more articulate than I and he can discreetly enlighten you. Watch for his posts or use the search engine to access his wisdom.
Posted by: Mark Z || 10/23/2006 18:27 Comments || Top||

#14  Hunter-killer teams are one of the few quick and truly cost effective ways to turn around the Global War on Terrorism. Begin with abu Bakr Bashir, Osama bin Laden, Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Moqtada Sadr, mullah Krekkar, Mawlawi Dadullah, Kahled Meshaal, Ahmad Abu Laban, Hassan Nasrallah, Anjem Choudary, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Seyed Ali Khamenei.

Ridding the world of just this one dozen individuals would make a huge dent in terrorist leadership. It would also send an unmistakable message that loudly advocating the West's downfall has serious consequences.

Short of naming a national holiday after abu Bakr Bashir, Indonesia could not possibly have done more to outrage the entire non-Muslim global community. There needs to be some serious penalties levied upon Indonesia for this affront to humanity.
Posted by: Zenster || 10/23/2006 20:03 Comments || Top||


Sri Lanka
Scores killed in Sri Lanka sea battles
The Sri Lankan navy has killed at least 41 separatist rebels in two separate sea battles in the country's restive north. Two Tamil Tiger boats were destroyed on Saturday off an island, killing six rebels, a naval spokesman said, the second military engagement at sea in less than 24 hours.

On Friday, the navy destroyed seven Tamil Tiger craft in a major sea battle, killing at least 35 rebels off the northern Jaffna peninsula. Saturday's clash took place near the government-controlled Kytes island off the Tamil-dominated peninsula after navy patrol boats spotted rebel craft approaching the island. "All six LTTE [Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam] members on board were killed," Commander D K P Dassanayake said.

The Sri Lankan navy also killed at least 35 Tamil Tiger fighters in an ongoing sea battle in the northern Jaffna region. A navy spokesperson said: "Sri Lanka navy boats destroyed seven suicide Tamil Tiger vessels in a sea battle, killing at least 35 rebels. We managed to destroy seven boats. The fighting is going on and we are chasing them." He said two sailors were also wounded in the fight.

The latest clashes come ahead of peace talks between the Tigers and the government on October 28 and 29. Peace envoys are pushing both sides to stay the course for the planned talks but a surge in violence risks undermining the meeting in Geneva.
Posted by: Fred || 10/23/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Sri Lankan navy has killed at least 41 separatist rebels

Guess the proper term "Mooslum terrorist" is to PC for the press magots.

I'm betting that their camels don't swim. "Allan Ackbarned!"
Posted by: Icerigger || 10/23/2006 9:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Actually Ice,

The Sri Lanka civil war is the result of Tamil's which are a Hindu/Christian group ethnically the same as Indians from the Tamil Nadu State in Southern India. The Muslim population is for the most part non-violent and sides with the government and or ethnic Singhalese majority. Sri Lankan muslims comprise about 10% of the population and are of the Sufi/non-violent sect. I would imagine if they were to become a larger minority problems could develop. As long as the Saudi's and Wahabs are kept at bay Sri Lanka might be OK.
Posted by: Rightwing || 10/23/2006 10:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Sufi mysticism isn't necessarily non-violent, although apparently the Sri Lankan Muslims are both Sufi and non-violent.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/23/2006 13:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Sufi mysticism isn't necessarily non-violent,

Yup...
Jihad Watch Bostom Sufism Without Camouflage (Beyond Stephen Schwartz)
Also, north africa was traditionally sufi (now, wahabism & salafism are in the process of supplanting it), this didn't prevent the natives of engaging in slavery, piracy,... nor did it stopp the fln butchers to cut babies in pieces and put them back in the belly of their slaughtered mothers...
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 10/23/2006 14:01 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran expands nuclear centrifuge programme
VIENNA – Iran has launched a second batch of centrifuges at its pilot nuclear fuel plant despite possible U.N. Security Council sanctions, diplomats said.
Tehran fired up the new cascade of 164 interconnected centrifuges, which can enrich uranium for either power plant or nuclear bomb fuel, earlier this month to go with an initial network of 164, they said. But Iran appeared to be only testing the second cascade, without feeding 'UF6' uranium gas into it, as it has generally done with the first cascade, which first yielded a tiny amount of home-grown enriched uranium in April.

A senior diplomat familiar with U.N. nuclear inspections in Iran said Tehran remained a long way from 'industrial scale' capacity that would signal its emergence as a nuclear power, as North Korea showed on Oct. 9 by detonating an atomic device. 'The second cascade was brought on line earlier this month but they appear to be just running it empty. That is, vacuum-testing to assess durability,' said the diplomat, close to the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency. 'What they are not doing is building a stockpile of enriched uranium that would give them a bomb breakout ability, something like 100-200 kg (240-480 pounds). It is just a few grams here, a few grams there,' he said.

There was no immediate comment on the centrifuges from Iran, but President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday that Western powers were wrong if they thought his country would retreat under political pressure from its nuclear plans. The Islamic Republic says it wants to enrich uranium only to generate electricity. The West suspects that OPEC's No. 2 oil exporter is trying to build bombs under the guise of a civilian programme to threaten Israel and Western interests.

Diplomats said Iran could have fired up the second cascade months ago but may have decided to do so now only after the recent collapse of talks with the European Union to explore a compromise on enrichment that could avert U.N. sanctions. 'The message of the second cascade seems to be: 'Talks have broken down and we are not going to suspend'' as the precondition for negotiations to implement trade incentives offered by six world powers, said the first diplomat.
'IAEA inspectors have not seen Iran enriching (recently), but they had been on the verge of starting the second cascade for quite some time,' said a second senior diplomat.

While Iran had processed enough uranium ore to inject large amounts into centrifuges, and proven it could enrich to the benchmark 5 percent level for power-plant fuel, it seemed to be holding back to avoid alienating Russia and China. Iran counts on Moscow and Beijing, both major trade partners and Security Council veto holders, to prevent the United States from pushing through anything more than largely symbolic sanctions.

France, Britain and Germany are drafting an initial Security Council sanctions resolution likely to target only imports that could be used for nuclear work. Iran's progamme has been largely based on smuggled technology for years. Diplomats in the EU, which Iranian officials have threatened with unspecified penalties if sanctions are enacted, fear a tough resolution now could boost Ahmadinejad domestically.

Western intelligence experts estimate Iran remains 3-10 years away from an industrial-scale operation of thousands of centrifuges that could yield enough fuel for nuclear bombs. IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei has suggested the West has time to do more to find a face-saving compromise with Iran. This could entail giving Iran incentives, such as security guarantees, to rely only on imported enriched uranium for atomic energy, thereby not mastering the critical technology at home.

ElBaradei fears Iran could make good on veiled threats to cripple IAEA inspections if slapped with sanctions. 'The IAEA fully expects the Iranians to limit the scope and access of inspector visits, for example by withholding visas, if this (pending) resolution passes,' one senior diplomat said.
Posted by: Steve || 10/23/2006 12:21 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It was ridiculous to have an Egyptian monitoring nuclear proliferation in Iraq and remains ridiculous for Iran.
Posted by: RWV || 10/23/2006 20:47 Comments || Top||


G'morning...
Italian gift to Pope may renew Muslim ireUS envoy in Hong Kong for NKorea bank talksNATO troops kills 15 Taliban, 32 killed in factional fightingMirza Aslam Beg: Paks protecting Talib 'assets'Arab countries step up mediation for PAOne boy dead, two wounded in grenade blast in ChechnyaNATO troops kills 15 Taliban, 32 killed in factional fightingFrench police face 'permanent intifada'
Posted by: Fred || 10/23/2006 00:25 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If she's ready for a header, so am I!
Posted by: Zenster || 10/23/2006 2:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Get in line Zenster!
Posted by: elbud || 10/23/2006 4:07 Comments || Top||

#3  ima game!
Posted by: RD || 10/23/2006 4:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Wilson!
Posted by: Frank G || 10/23/2006 7:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Del Monte.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 10/23/2006 8:51 Comments || Top||

#6  I've never seen a woman play vollyball wearing class A makeup and an evening dress.

OK. Now I'm officially turned on.

Posted by: mhw || 10/23/2006 8:52 Comments || Top||

#7  Humor note, Greta what's holding the left one up? :)
Posted by: Icerigger || 10/23/2006 9:27 Comments || Top||

#8  Humor note, Greta what's holding the left one up? :)

I'm told by engineers that cantilevers can hold massive amounts of weight.
Posted by: mcsegeek1 || 10/23/2006 10:01 Comments || Top||

#9  Play ball!
Posted by: Mike || 10/23/2006 10:04 Comments || Top||

#10  Reference: A Stress Analysis of the Strapless Evening Gown, Charles Siem.

Orig. pub. Worm-Runners Digest, 1959 (?).

Reviewed in the American Journal of Physics, September 1969 -- Volume 37, Issue 9, pp. 944-945
Posted by: lotp || 10/23/2006 10:09 Comments || Top||

#11  lotp, link password protected for the intelligentia and revenue generation. Any relevant bits or diagrams you can post under fair use?
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 10/23/2006 10:45 Comments || Top||

#12  NS, you can see the original article with drawings, right?

Here's some of the review:

The joke ... is to use formal scientific language on incongruous subject matter. Engineer Siem approaches this task with considerable good humor ... "Figure 2 shows one of these cantilever beams [ed - a breast] (minus any aesthetical details) removed as a free body (and indeed, many such beams can be, in reality, removed as free bodies; e.g., certain artifacts). " and so forth.

The structure [ed - of the paper] is actually similar to that of most scientific papers .....


BTW, Siem was a well-known civil engineer responsible for some major bridges IIRC. Which makes the paper funny to those in the know.
Posted by: lotp || 10/23/2006 11:02 Comments || Top||

#13  Another one of the chapters in the book that reprinted Siem's Stress Analysis is this poem by John Updike, which I rather like:

Cosmic Gall

NEUTRINOS, they are very small.
They have no charge and have no mass
And do not interact at all.
The earth is just a silly ball
To them, through which they simply pass,
Like dustmaids down a drafty hall
Or photons through a sheet of glass.
They snub the most exquisite gas,
Ignore the most substantial wall,
Cold shoulder steel and sounding brass,
Insult the stallion in his stall,
And scorning barriers of class,
Infiltrate you and me! Like tall
and painless guillotines, they fall
Down through our heads into the grass.
At night, they enter at Nepal
and pierce the lover and his lass
From underneath the bed-you call
It wonderful; I call it crass.
Posted by: lotp || 10/23/2006 11:06 Comments || Top||

#14  Yes, got the original earlier in life, but thought the AJP might have new data that I had not been able to ascertain during my empirical investigations.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 10/23/2006 11:08 Comments || Top||

#15  It's a topic that has inspired a great DEAL of ... um, scientific ... exploration, to be sure.
Posted by: lotp || 10/23/2006 11:11 Comments || Top||

#16  As well it should do! It's through the application of esoteric scientific principles to the mundane that critical insights can be achieved. Robert Feynman spoke of achieving one such key insight while watching a juggler spinning plates on sticks.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/23/2006 12:34 Comments || Top||

#17  So sorry, but 'midst all them spinning plates, I could swear I thought I read a story about Kevin Tillman, and it's gone now after a re-boot.

Just like to say that he would have taken the $3 Mill contract, unlike his bro. God bless.
Posted by: rhodesiafever || 10/23/2006 15:14 Comments || Top||



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