(KUNA) -- Two NATO soldiers were wounded when a suicide bomber hit their convoy in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday. The blast occurred in the southern city of Kandahar, the former stronghold of Taliban and a hotbed of insurgency. Afghan officials and witnesses said two vehicles of the alliance's forces were damaged in the suicide attack, which was carried out just metres ahead of a market in Kandahar city. Civilians remained unhurt. Military sources said the injured soldiers were medically evacuated to a NATO medical facility at the Kandahar Airfield. A day earlier, three NATO soldiers were killed in an attack by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan's remote and mountainous province of Nuristan.
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THE Australian mother whose two sons are in a Yemeni jail on terrorist charges was suspected of being involved in a Jemaah Islamiah plot to attack the Sydney Olympics. The Daily Telegraph understands Rabiah Hutchison, reportedly a former Mudgee dope-smoking hippie and now a radical Muslim who wears a burqa, was married to Indonesian Abdul Rahim Ayub.
Rabiah Hutchison, reportedly a former Mudgee dope-smoking hippie and now a radical Muslim who wears a burqa, was married to Indonesian Abdul Rahim Ayub.
Ayub and his twin brother, Abdul Rahman Ayub, set up the first JI cell in Sydney, called Mantiqi4. In the lead up to the 2000 Olympics, intelligence sources had reports of an al-Qaeda terrorist plan which had been discussed among members of Mantiqi4.
Ms Hutchison was well known to security organisations in the region. Her lawyer, Adam Houda, said yesterday she was concerned about the health and welfare of her sons, Mohammed Ayub and Abdullah Ayub, whom she was with in Yemen. Mr Houda said he was briefing lawyers in the Gulf state because he had not been able to contact the young men, aged 18 and 20, in prison in the capital Sanaa.
The mother-in-law of one of the young men yesterday took stress leave from her teaching job at a private Sydney Islamic school, concerned for the future of her daughter and grandchildren, also in Yemen.
The mother-in-law of one of the young men yesterday took stress leave from her teaching job at a private Sydney Islamic school, concerned for the future of her daughter and grandchildren, also in Yemen. A spokeswoman for the Rissalah College in Lakemba said the teacher had told staff her son-in-law was innocent. The two young men from Canterbury were arrested in a sting operation three weeks ago, along with a third Sydney man of Polish background - Marat Sumolsky - who is now living overseas.
Their father Abdul Rahim and his twin brother moved throughout suburban Sydney, Melbourne and Perth in the late 1990s, drawing together radical Muslims. Abdul Rahman joined his brother in Australia in December 1997 and applied for refugee status, which was refused. When their plan to take control of the mosque at Dee Why was defeated by moderate Muslims, they moved to Sydney and Perth, mixing with Jihad Jack Thomas and Jack Roche. Thomas told the ABC's Four Corners program he attended a bush camp organised by the brothers for "jihad training".
Abdul Rahman was deported from Perth in 1999. In February 2000, Abdul Rahim sent Jack Roche, Australia's only convicted terrorist, to visit JI mastermind Hambali, said to be behind the deadly 2002 Bali bombings. Abdul Rahim fled Australia three days after the bombings, which he is suspected of being involved in.
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...Doug and Dinsdale Piranha were born, on probation, in a small house in Kipling Road, Southwark, the eldest sons in a family of sixteen. Their father Arthur Piranha, a scrap metal dealer and TV quizmaster, was well known to the police, and a devout Catholic. In 1928 he had married Kitty Malone, an up-and-coming East End boxer. Doug was born in February 1929 and Dinsdale two weeks later; and again a week after that....
A British court ruled Wednesday there was not enough evidence to try two brothers charged in connection with an alleged plot to bomb trans-Atlantic airliners in mid-air. Umair Hussain, 25, and Mehran Hussain 23, had been charged with failing to disclose information about an act of terrorism in connection with the plot, which police said they foiled in August.
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THE two Australian brothers arrested in Yemen as suspected al-Qaeda terrorists were under observation over a suicide bomb plot to blow up Sydney's Kings Cross railway station. The Daily Telegraph can reveal that a terrorist cell was last year planning a London-style attack on peak-hour commuters at the busy underground station. The plot was three months in the planning before it was foiled last year by ASIO and NSW and Federal counter-terrorism police.
Authorities believed the men were linked to plotters stockpiling a range of chemicals including acetone, known as "Mother of Satan", an explosive precursor used in the London bombings. Mohammed and Abdullah Ayub - arrested in Yemen accused of being members of an al-Qaeda cell and gun-running - were being watched because their father is Abdul Rahim Ayub, the former head of Jemaah Islamiah in Australia. Their mother, Australian-born Rabiah Hutchison, is a leader of a radical clique of Muslim wives, including those married to some of the men arrested over the Kings Cross plot. Ms Hutchison and her Islamic wives club regularly travel for "holidays" and religious instruction to Yemen, which is a hotbed of radical Islam.
Authorities have only recently pieced together the web linking the Ayub brothers and their family to the plotters. The Ayubs were stopped at Sydney airport and spoken to by ASIO agents when they left for Yemen.
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You don't need a lot of them to have a serious problem. A few disciplined, fanatical converts can wreak a huge amount of damage if not identified, tracked and stopped when they cross into aiding, abetting or committing terror crimes.
My gues is that these women will not do the deeds, but will significantly abet and aid them.
Security has been tightened in Goa amid fears of a terrorist attack by Pakistan-based militant groups Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed, ahead of the tourist season and the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) there, officials said on Wednesday.
A Goa police officer said the state had been warned by central intelligence agencies that there could be an attack.
A Goa police officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the state had been warned by central intelligence agencies that there could be an attack.
Arrival of tourists from the US and Europe has started peaking in Goa and the militant groups might try to create disturbance by targeting the foreign tourists, official sources said. Earlier this year, two Lashkar militants, who were trying to target tourists, were arrested in Goa.
Earlier this year, two Lashkar militants, who were trying to target tourists, were arrested in Goa.
The state police have sought two additional companies of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) as a precautionary measure. "A local CISF company, along with another from Mumbai, has been deployed in the state as the tourist season has begun", D K Sawant, Superintendent of Police, North Goa, said.
He, however, denied that there was any specific threat perception for IFFI or the New Year season that would follow. IFFI will commence from November 23, while the feast of St. Francis Xavier at Old Goa would be celebrated on December, four. "Tourist season has already begun in Goa with guests flocking to the beaches and city roads. We are taking ample precautions considering that a large number of tourists have flown into Goa", Sawant said.
He, however, said there is no need to panic. "Whether there is a specific threat or not, it is a fact that the tourist season is a high-impact time for any terror attack," an official said. "We have to see that we don't have a Bali-like incident," he added. Intelligence agencies have warned attacks could be carried out by suicide bombers and might also target Army camps and other vital installations such as nuclear plants.
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Goa is heavily Catholic and has been the site of attacks by both Mulsims and Hindus.
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Oddly enough, Goa used to belong to Portugal, like Hong Kong to Britain. I've a friend from there whose family has supplied a number of India's ambassadors. He was the petted baby of the family, so they let him amuse himself by going into industry instead.
PESHAWAR: Pro-Taliban militants loyal to Maulana Faqir Muhammad have executed a tribesman for his suspected role in the airstrikes on a madrassa in Bajaur Agency, sources said on Wednesday. Jan Muhammad Buneri was taken from his home, not far away from the madrassa, by the militants moments after Mondays airstrikes, sources close to Maulana told Daily Times by phone. We had been suspecting that he was spying on us and our suspicion proved right, the sources quoted militants as saying. Meanwhile, Maulana Faqir told DT by phone that he would continue to use Pakistans soil against infidels.
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Least they never got Jim Bond.
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They don't have a clue who was spying but are concerned that someone was. So they pick out some random Muhammad, declare him the spy, and execute him. Object lesson to past and future real spies (except the real on in this instance, who knows they executed the wrong guy) - 'we know who you are and if you aid our enemies we will execute you within the week.'
PESHAWAR: A former colonel of the Pakistan Army, Ghaffar, who had been court-martialled for leading a group of army personnel supporting Al Qaeda, has been released from Peshawar Central Jail after serving four years in prison. According to a press release, issued by World Prisoners Relief Commission of Pakistan Chairman Javed Ibrahim Paracha, a number of former army officers and ulema, booked in the Major Adil case, received Ghaffar on his release from prison. Ghaffar, who was earlier under detention at Attock Fort for two years, spent another two years in Hyderabad to plead his case before a tribunal.
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This pisses me off royally. You can bet that once the shipping and handling charges are all racked up, replacement Humvee windshields are going to run well over a solid $1,000 dollars each. Our troops are not even allowed to engage these worthless little shits.
Rubber bullets, bean bags, a nice dose of mace, water cannons filled with sewage, there are lots of alternatives to just blowing away these little turds, which is what they deserve.
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It's not hard to convince a kid to act like an idiot. I'm amazed the bad guys didn't get this sort of thing going long ago. The real way to defeat a modern western army is two-fold (a) attack using targets we're reluctant to fight back against such as kids and women (b) Use passive resistance and get lots of media coverage to change the mindset back home.
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. . . or a bunch of kids throwing rocks for the sheer exuberant fun of throwing stuff at moving vehicles?
Happens all the time around here; that's why freeway bridges in cities have high fences along the rails.
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Its a hustle-
Have little Uday stone the convoy, see if you can provoke an (appropriate) harsh reaction, kick into full victim mode, wait for US paymaster come by a week from now with some local cash to spread around to buy a little peace and love.
Don't say I like it, it just is what it is.
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A bit OT, but what's up with arab youths, and stoning???
In iraq or gaza, I can understand, but from born & raised "westerners" (cf the ubiquitous use of pelting, in France, in Holland, in Sweden,...)???
Probably something in the Koran.
Besides, it makes them sound all harmless and shit to idiot reporters.
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He wants to use deadly force against a kid throwing rocks?
Maybe you missed the footage of Iraqi kids kicking around the dismembered remains of an American soldier. Would you condone that? Do you suggest that we should not retaliate against such conduct? While it may be a foreign concept to you, children in the Middle East are indoctrinated from the time they can barely speak. Watch the "Obsession" video to see kindergarteners declaring how they want to be suicide bombers.
Oh, and get a clue, once a windshield is cracked, its structural integrity is thoroughly compromised. A sniper or an IED has a much better chance of killing the vehicle's occupants after the first round of damage is already done. These rock-throwing kids are exposing our military personnel to increased danger and I don't like it. This is nothing but low-grade warfare utilizing illegitimate targets, something the Middle Easterners are famous for. A couple of run over or dead kids would make their parents think twice about putting children in harms way..
The MME (Muslim Middle East) countries are quite simply crippled by this sort of hatred. These rock-throwing kids aren't doing it just for fun they know that their targets are military. I have little doubt that their parents encourage them. The sheer ingratitude of this is almost more galling than anything else. Some liberal super-soaker applications of mace would cut this shit out in a heartbeat.
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A bit OT, but what's up with arab youths, and stoning???
a5089, I seem to remember that they had to put tarmac or concrete over the streets of Paris because the residents were in the habit of tearing up the cobblestones and hurling them at those they disapproved of... like the French army during the first Revolution. And the second revolution, and...
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A bit OT, but what's up with arab youths, and stoning???
It is realted to Sharia. Dhimmis have no right to raise a hand on a Muslim even in self defence. Muslim adults are not supposed to gratuitously harrass dhimmis but youngs are encouraged to it. A way to show both to the youngs and the dhimmis that even a five year old Muslim brat is superior to a dhimmi
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It's not just the youths that are into stoning. Ask a rape victim (without five witnesses) in the Islamic world. They're just practicing for judicial careers.
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One thing P.J O'Rourke noticed that besides all the rock throwing practice the Arab youths have no aim and can barely hit vehicles. Good thing they play soccer and not baseball.
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Paintballs of 62 caliber with fluorescent pink dye and capsaicin first.
If that fails, 12 gauge shotguns with rocksalt.
If that fails, then rubber bullets {they can be fatal at times, so use them third in line}.
If that fails, live ammo.
Allows sufficient time for a learning curve, with demonstrable negative effects if negative behavior continues.
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Heavy wire slingshot with a piece of rubber tube, a marble sized stone, and at about 200 to 300 feet per second, big red welts appear.
You'd have to open the vehicle's canopy somewhere to let off a shot. No go.
Shieldwolf's program of escalating retaliation fills the bill. During the first round, track back all of the pinked-out kids to their homes and toss each location thoroughly for evidence of terrorist cooperation. Make the visits extremely uncomfortable and destructive. Monitor these familes afterwards as well.
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Do you suggest that we should not retaliate against such conduct?
If rocks were your biggest problem in Iraq I think you'd be mighty happy. Besides, just ask President Bush what he thinks. He remarked that if he were occupied he wouldn't be happy either. So there.
The U.S. military said Thursday that it had killed an Al Qaeda in Iraq commander and his driver in a precision air strike in Ramadi. In a brief statement, the U.S. military said Rafa al-Ithawi, also known as Abu Taha, was killed on Wednesday in a laser-guided attack on his vehicle. The U.S. military said al-Ithawi had been named an Al Qaeda in Iraq emir, giving him the rank of local level commander in Anbar province, the heart of the Sunni insurgency that has stubbornly battled U.S. troops and their Iraqi allies.
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he's an emir smear?
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Probably won't make the Big Media, but a decent little story. A shame about the murdered policeman though (probably). Nobody to interrogate, but also nobody to get released in a few days either.
COALITION FORCES KILL ASSASSINATION TEAM
CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq- An Al Qaeda assassination team was killed by Coalition Forces in Fallujah Tuesday.
Coalition snipers heard gunshots and quickly responded to the murder of an off-duty Fallujah policeman by gunmen in civilian clothes. The Marines from 1st Battalion, 24th Marines, Regimental Combat Team 5 immediately engaged the armed gunmen and killed two of them.
The third gunman was killed as he attempted to flee in a vehicle.
We honor the service of the Fallujah policeman Hamed Mohammed Jassim, said Coalition spokesperson Marine Lt. Col. Bryan Salas. He stood against the murder and intimidation campaign of the terrorists to help bring security and prosperity to his neighbors in Fallujah. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.
Assault rifles and other items were recovered from the gunmen.
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It's amazing how professional, not to mention brave, are those uneducated, not-so-smart guys who didn't do their homework (according to Horseface John FN Kerry) are in situations that would cause most of "smarty-pants" to pee in our pants.
IRAQI security forces patrolling near the Iranian border found six donkeys carrying dozens of high-explosive anti-tank mines, the US military said.
The military said two men fled the scene in the religiously mixed Diyala province where the insurgency was active. It was not clear from the statement where the donkeys, a common form of transport in the region, had come from.
The statement said Iraqi forces seized 53 Russian- and Italian-made anti-tank landmines and one anti-tank projectile. The donkeys were later released unharmed into the local area, the military said.
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Dear Lord, the Democrats really have gone over the edge.
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African or European swallows donkeys?
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lol, Scott. Makes me think of the slap on the wrist letter that PETA sent Yassir Arafish (before he became "stable") about a donkey that was harmed by a suicide bomber. Of course, no mention of the Joooooos that were killed also.
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The donks are really ratcheting up their opposition to the Iraq war.
ABU AJIL, Iraq, Nov. 1, 2006 The Iraqi soldiers and U.S. Paratroopers passed the afternoon hours before their mission double-checking radios and performing last-minute inspections of their vehicles and weapons. Despite the language barrier and cultural differences, they shared conversations accentuated with cigarette smoke and laughter. Soon, the cheerful mood would shift to serious and mission-focused. The sun would set, and the illumination of the quarter-moon would be all that was left of light in the town of Abu Ajil.
The rural farming area is about 2.5 miles, or 4 kilometers, east of Tikrit, and was the setting for Operation Portland, a joint-cordon and search mission with Iraqi soldiers from Company C, 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 4th Iraqi Army Division, and Paratroopers from Battery A, 1st Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Oct. 28, 2006.
The target was an insurgent cell responsible for numerous indirect fire and roadside bomb attacks against U.S. and Iraqi forces throughout Tikrit and its surrounding villages and towns. At least six houses were suspected of harboring the insurgents.
Several times during the pressing hours until the mission, voices called out, FRAGO!, which is a military acronym short for fragmentary order, basically meaning there is a change to the mission. This could happen for many reasons. There could be a change in the location of the target, how many or which homes are going to be searched, the route that will be driven, or the time the mission will begin, said 1st Lt. Brett Popp, 3rd Platoon leader, Battery A.
The troops had to re-group and make sure everyone in every platoon and squad including the Iraqi soldiers knew what adjustments to make because additional houses were added to the search list. Things are never going to go as planned, Popp said. Sometimes we receive new intelligence on a mission up until the moment we roll out the gate, but weve done a great job making last-minute adjustments and not letting those changes get in the way of accomplishing our mission.
Just after 9 p.m., the more than 20-vehicle convoy, staggered with Iraqi army pickup trucks and U.S. humvees, left the gate of Saddam Husseins Birthday Palace now an Iraqi army base en route for their targets. The convoy began splitting up once it reached the village. Each Iraqi platoon and its U.S. counterpart were responsible for cordon and searches of their own objectives.
The troops dismounted their vehicles in a frenzy as they rushed the gates and doors of each home. The women and children were quickly asked to separate from the men, and all were questioned. Some troops searched rooms and property while others pulled security.
Iraqi soldiers explained to the women why their men were being questioned. Some of the women wept with fear of their husband or son being taken away to a coalition detainment facility.
Only two men were detained, but both were positively identified as individuals the troops were searching for, Popp said. Any insurgent we can get off the streets makes a difference, said Staff Sgt. Jason W. Walker, 3rd Squad Leader, Battery A.
The mission was a success in all aspects, not only because of the captured insurgents, but because of the level of competence the Iraqi soldiers are showing, Walker said.
When the Paratroopers of Battery A arrived to Tikrit in August, the Iraqi soldiers didnt grasp the complexity of conducting military operations.
They didnt understand pulling security or segregating the men and women, Walker continued, but now theyre even starting to use hand-and-arm signals they developed on their own. Theyve come a long way since we first started working with them, Walker said.
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For joint US-IF missions I would think mission change orders upon leaving the gate would be 'standard' - too many leaks in the IF hierarchy who would signal warnings to the real targets, so revise targets from place-holders to actual only after underway.
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it might work for you now Grom, such a good video i suspect the server got overloaded with people trying to veiw it hence the buffering issues, but yeah top vid for sure, just wish they could make them in colour, maybe with a seperate 'face cam' in high zoom on the savages faces inserted in the corner of the screen,hell some music too while there at it.Seriously though great work.
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Too bad we can't get al Jizz to show this, as a warning. Nah, they'd prolly say it was innocent farmers or treasure hunters, or simple folk burying their savings near the road.
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Aah, it's probably the crappy internet connection in China. I hate how so much of the content on the Web these days is video...makes it tough sometimes.
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Great video! Talk about rearranging the furniture! Now, if we can just do that to Tater, we would make a quantum leap in progress in the war in Iraq.
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Firewall ... ppppphhhh!
It pays to be in IT and have the keys to the kingdom and the backdoor around such things.
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Jack's tounge firmly embedded in cheek. Why would CNNABCCBSNBC show that? That's a success story in Iraq. They would rather show terrorist-snipers killing US troops. Helps to convince the US is in a vietnam quagmire, and to vote Donk.
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The sound he heard is comparable to a slowly arising boiling tea pot kettle. By the time it's alarming enough to react to, you've 'bought the farm'!
(KUNA) -- An Iraqi security source disclosed Wednesday that the US forces stormed the home of former Iraqi Premier Iyad Allawi who leads the Iraqi list, one of the biggest Iraqi parliament blocs, and arrested eight of his bodyguards.
The source told Kuna that the US force of four Humvies and tanks stormed Allawi's National Reconciliation Movement's list and ransacked its contents at the Raghma Khatoun neighborhood. A US army spokesman denied any comment on the storming and said he knew nothing about that. The National Reconciliation Movement did not make any statement on the storming attempt.
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(KUNA) -- At least 10 policemen were killed or wounded in a spate of armed and bombing attacks in the northern city of Mosul over the past hours, police said on Wednesday. A bomb blew up in Al-Aden district in the city killing two policemen and wounding three others, a police source said.
Separately, gunmen shot dead wife of a policeman in Al-Tahreer neighborhood in the city, the source said. In the region of Al-Somar, gunmen killed a policeman. In southern Mosul, armed insurgents shot dead three persons including a policeman, and a police patrol found a disfigured human corpse in the region of Ras Al-Kour in southwestern Mosul.
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When Iraqi policement are murdered I have to wonder - were they good cops, killed by radical Shia bad cops for being good cops, or were they radical Shia bad cops being killed by militant Sunni (Baath, AQ or other)?
(KUNA) -- Seven people died in a car bomb blast in the heart of the Iraqi capital on Wednesday, police said. Police said the explosives-laden vehicle was parked near Uqba Bin Nafea Square. The blast killed seven people and wounded 11 others.
Separately, three bodyguards of Abdel Aziz Al-Hakim, the head of the parliamentary majority, were wounded when mortars crashed near his house in the capital. It was not known whether Al-Hakim was at home when the shells crashed.
A security source said the American forces have recently set free a notorious terrorist, who had been nabbed in Diyalah northeast of the capital. Atta Saadoun had been detained in an operation in the province last month.
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(KUNA) -- In a raid Tuesday morning, Multi-National Forces killed a terrorist and detained another in Balad north of Baghdad, said an MNF statement today. The raid was targeting a militant affiliated with a senior Qaeda suspect "who is known for links with foreign terrorists and improvised explosive device (IED) attacks in the area," according to the statement. The militants fled the area as MNF forces approached. A clash ensued and coalition troops returned fire killing one gunman. MNF forces arrested a suspected insurgent as three others fled the area.
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Dozens of Palestinian gunmen swarmed to Beit Hanun to engage IDF units that raided the northern Gaza Strip village Tuesday night in the latest bid to strike at the Kassam rocket infrastructure in the area. After a day of fierce battles, an IDF soldier and at least 10 gunmen were killed but rockets continued to fall inside the Green Line.
St.-Sgt. Kiril Golenshin, 21, a dog-handler in the crack "Sting" canine unit from Moshav Shekef in the Negev, was killed before dawn when gunmen opened fire on troops as they navigated the narrow alleyways of the village, IDF officials said. Golenshin was shot in the head and was evacuated quickly, but died soon afterwards.
Despite IDF action in Beit Hanun, northern Gaza Kassam rocket squads still managed to fire nine of their crude rockets at communities in the western Negev. Army sources said the missiles were fired four kilometers to the south.
Two of the rockets fell inside Sderot - one near a warehouse inside the industrial area, and the second on a playground in the city's center - spraying shrapnel that lightly wounded a young boy.
Two of the rockets fell inside Sderot - one near a warehouse inside the industrial area, and the second on a playground in the city's center - spraying shrapnel that lightly wounded a young boy, and causing property damage. Israeli officials suggested the operation, dubbed Operation Autumn Clouds, would last days, and did not represent a widening of the overall campaign in Gaza.
The operation, described by the army as the largest strike against Hamas since reentering the Gaza Strip four months ago, began just after midnight when tanks and armored engineering units surrounded the village. In firefights throughout the day, IDF soldiers killed 10 gunmen and identified hits on at least 60 others, an IDF spokesman in the Southern Command said. IDF troops uncovered a weapons cache in one home consisting of rifles, ammunition, and optical equipment.
Palestinian hospital officials also reported that at least 44 people were wounded Wednesday. Most were gunmen, but a woman and an 11-year-old boy were also hurt.
Palestinian hospital officials also reported that at least 44 people were wounded Wednesday. Most were gunmen, but a woman and an 11-year-old boy were also hurt, they said. Dr. Jamil Suleiman, director of the Beit Hanun hospital, said all of the hospital's blood supplies had been used up.
Abbas's office issued a statement condemning Israel's operation in Beit Hanun and urging the international community to take action to halt it.
A spokesman for Hamas's military wing, Abu Obeidah, advised residents of Sderot to flee. "Staying there is going to put their lives in danger. The rockets are not going to stop."
A spokesman for Hamas's military wing, Abu Obeidah, advised residents of Sderot to flee. "Staying there is going to put their lives in danger," he said. "The rockets are not going to stop."
Speaking at a press conference at the Gaza Command earlier Wednesday, Peretz said: "No one can put an absolute stop to Kassam fire, but that doesn't mean we have to remain helpless. We won't let these [terrorist organizations] grow stronger." Peretz added that the public debate on whether the IDF should reoccupy areas of the coastal strip could "hamper" the army's operational capability.
IDF spokeswoman Capt. Avital Leibovitz said Beit Hanun was targeted because 300 rockets had been fired from the town since the beginning of the year, out of a total of 800 launched from Gaza. A report in Ma'ariv on Wednesday cited IDF officers who said tactics had been changed following the "Hizbullah-lization" of Hamas's military wing in Gaza. The officers said they learned lessons from what happened in southern Lebanon - where Hizbullah cells targeted Israeli armored divisions with advanced anti-tank missiles and huge land mines.
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Abbas's office issued a statement condemning Israel's operation in Beit Hanun and urging the international community to take action to halt it. Hmm I wonder if the un will pass a resolution? How about ole Abbas get his people to STOP making and USING rockets? That may stop the attacks on Gaza.
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Hey Sarge, you know that the whole cause->effect thing is way beyond the Paleostinians. Besides, the residents of Sderot have been warned that the rockets are not going to stop, so they should run away.
Palestinians released an Israeli Arab in the southern West Bank town of Hebron Wednesday, whom they had briefly kidnapped in what police said was a falling out over a financial debt. Anonymous gunmen abducted the man from northern Israel after he arrived in Hebron to get his car repaired, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
He was freed after several hours and handed over to Israeli police in the divided city by Palestinian security services. He will be accused of violating a military order prohibiting Israeli citizens from entering Palestinian-controlled areas and released on bail, said the spokesman.
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Defense Minister Amir Peretz has authorized the transfer of 5,000 rifles to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's Presidential Guard, Channel 2 reported Wednesday night.
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Feeding the hand that bites you.
(I made that saying up in the 7th grade along with "Ships from a sinking rat".
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Not necessarily. Fatah has proven that it is preferable to Hamas, Hizb'allah, and Al-Q, so making the Fatah gang the strong one to survive the coming civil war is not necessarily the worst choice. After all, we in the West chose to back Stalin over Hitler and then had to contain the Soviet Union for all of those years. But having Hitler actually defeat the Soviet Union and gain all those resources and all that manpower {think of the Ukraine and the Free Russian Army} would have been worse. In the same view, backing Fatah over the other thugs in Paleoland makes strategic sense, although it sucks in many ways.
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Rifles engineered to blow up in the shooters' faces after x years or y rounds? I just thought of this 'planned obsolescence' application, but it strikes me as something we ought to consider with all our export arms.
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Shielfwolf, I understand your logic and it is most likely an accurate assessment of the situation. It's much like having to opt for being raped instead of murdered. I'm just wary of all things Palestinian. These ingrates have proven themselves to be absolutely unworthy of the least generosity. Let's hope these weapons are of a calibre that only Israel makes the ammunition for.
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rifles dont mean a thing against IDF tanks, if it comes to that. As long as they dont have antitank weapons, and years to build up defenses, like Hezb did. And since the IDF has repeatedly been in and out of Gaza, I dont think anyone there is getting the respite that Hezb got.
Rifles are useful for the Gaza civil war, though. No I dont think theres ANY caliber of ammo that cant be made elsewhere, but I dont think thats a huge concern.
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I hope Israel recorded all of the weapons' serial numbers so that their military can tell when they fall into terrorist hands. Anyone willing to bet that it won't happen?
The armed wing of Hamas, Salah a-Din, claimed on Wednesday that it had shot a Nasser-1 short-range missile towards a settlement in the Nablus area. A statement released by the organization said that the IDF had confirmed the attack and that it was "a present to the martyrs and their spirits, the wounded and the Palestinian prisoners," adding that it was "the first step on the way to exterminating the Zionists with missiles of the Palestinian resistance."
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But they didn't violate the UN Resolution, right? Only the Joooos do that!
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So Hamas has admitted committing an act of war against Israel? It's only right that Israel be given a fair chance to respond in kind, right UN?
What? The Jooos can't defend themselves as that would be attacking the poor, defenseless Paleostinians? Then where did they get that rocket they admit to firing into Nablus?
Oh, you say that the Paleostinians are only exercising their legitimate right of return to lands occupied by the Heebs? Gee, didn't the Heebs build Jerusalem according to the Old Testament, a book that Islam also says it honors? What? You mean that Big Al actually gave Jerusalem to Islam thousands of years before the Heebs occupied it?
IRAN'S Revolutionary Guards fired missiles with the capability of carrying cluster warheads at the start of 10-days of military manoeuvres today, state television reported.
Iran had said the manoeuvres, which will last until November 11 and will include drills in the Gulf and Sea of Oman, would be a show of "defensive strength".
"Shahab missiles were fired. Its range is up to 2000km and it can carry cluster warheads," a reporter for state-owned Arabic-language Al-Alam television said from central Iran, near where he said the missiles were fired.
There was no immediate confirmation from Iranian authorities.
Yahya Rahim Safavi, commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary Guards, had said the Guards would fire "dozens" of missiles including Shahab-2 and Shahab-3 types with cluster warheads.
Experts say Iran's Shahab-3 missiles have a maximum range of some 2000km, making them capable of hitting Israel as well as US military bases in the Gulf. They say the Shahab-2 missile has a range of up to 700km.
US officials accuse Iran of planning to equip its missiles with nuclear warheads. Iran denies the charge, saying its nuclear program is aimed at making electricity not bombs.
Mr Safavi had said ground, air and naval forces, including submarines, would take part in the exercises called "The Greatest Prophet", mainly in the Gulf and Sea of Oman.
The Revolutionary Guards, the ideologically driven wing of the armed forces which has a separate command structure from the regular military, held war games in the Gulf in April in which they tested new missiles, torpedoes and other equipment.
Analysts interpreted those war games as a thinly veiled threat that Iran could disrupt vital oil shipping lanes if pushed by an escalation in the dispute over the country's nuclear program.
The start of Iran's manoeuvres follow US-led naval exercises involving 25 nations in the Gulf on Monday aimed at training the forces to block the transport of weapons of mass destruction and related equipment.
A rifle-fired grenade targeted a major police barracks in west Beirut on Wednesday night, witnesses and local media said. The explosion was heard in the Corniche Mazraa commercial and residential district, in the Muslim section of the Lebanese capital. Radio and television reports said the grenade targeted a building at the Helou barracks, causing some damage but no casualties. The blast came amid heightened tensions between Hizbullah and its pro-Syrian allies, and the Lebanese government's anti-Syrian majority.
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(KUNA) -- Two NATO soldiers were wounded when a suicide bomber hit their convoy in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday. The blast occurred in the southern city of Kandahar, the former stronghold of Taliban and a hotbed of insurgency. Afghan officials and witnesses said two vehicles of the alliance's forces were damaged in the suicide attack, which was carried out just metres ahead of a market in Kandahar city. Civilians remained unhurt. Military sources said the injured soldiers were medically evacuated to a NATO medical facility at the Kandahar Airfield. A day earlier, three NATO soldiers were killed in an attack by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan's remote and mountainous province of Nuristan.
THE Australian mother whose two sons are in a Yemeni jail on terrorist charges was suspected of being involved in a Jemaah Islamiah plot to attack the Sydney Olympics. The Daily Telegraph understands Rabiah Hutchison, reportedly a former Mudgee dope-smoking hippie and now a radical Muslim who wears a burqa, was married to Indonesian Abdul Rahim Ayub. 
THE two Australian brothers arrested in Yemen as suspected al-Qaeda terrorists were under observation over a suicide bomb plot to blow up Sydney's Kings Cross railway station. The Daily Telegraph can reveal that a terrorist cell was last year planning a London-style attack on peak-hour commuters at the busy underground station. The plot was three months in the planning before it was foiled last year by ASIO and NSW and Federal counter-terrorism police. 
PESHAWAR: Pro-Taliban militants loyal to Maulana Faqir Muhammad have executed a tribesman for his suspected role in the airstrikes on a madrassa in Bajaur Agency, sources said on Wednesday. Jan Muhammad Buneri was taken from his home, not far away from the madrassa, by the militants moments after Mondays airstrikes, sources close to Maulana told Daily Times by phone. We had been suspecting that he was spying on us and our suspicion proved right, the sources quoted militants as saying. Meanwhile, Maulana Faqir told DT by phone that he would continue to use Pakistans soil against infidels.
PESHAWAR: A former colonel of the Pakistan Army, Ghaffar, who had been court-martialled for leading a group of army personnel supporting Al Qaeda, has been released from Peshawar Central Jail after serving four years in prison. According to a press release, issued by World Prisoners Relief Commission of Pakistan Chairman Javed Ibrahim Paracha, a number of former army officers and ulema, booked in the Major Adil case, received Ghaffar on his release from prison. Ghaffar, who was earlier under detention at Attock Fort for two years, spent another two years in Hyderabad to plead his case before a tribunal.
The U.S. military said Thursday that it had killed an Al Qaeda in Iraq commander and his driver in a precision air strike in Ramadi. In a brief statement, the U.S. military said Rafa al-Ithawi, also known as Abu Taha, was killed on Wednesday in a laser-guided attack on his vehicle. The U.S. military said al-Ithawi had been named an Al Qaeda in Iraq emir, giving him the rank of local level commander in Anbar province, the heart of the Sunni insurgency that has stubbornly battled U.S. troops and their Iraqi allies.
(KUNA) -- An Iraqi security source disclosed Wednesday that the US forces stormed the home of former Iraqi Premier Iyad Allawi who leads the Iraqi list, one of the biggest Iraqi parliament blocs, and arrested eight of his bodyguards.
(KUNA) -- At least 10 policemen were killed or wounded in a spate of armed and bombing attacks in the northern city of Mosul over the past hours, police said on Wednesday. A bomb blew up in Al-Aden district in the city killing two policemen and wounding three others, a police source said.
(KUNA) -- Seven people died in a car bomb blast in the heart of the Iraqi capital on Wednesday, police said. Police said the explosives-laden vehicle was parked near Uqba Bin Nafea Square. The blast killed seven people and wounded 11 others.
(KUNA) -- In a raid Tuesday morning, Multi-National Forces killed a terrorist and detained another in Balad north of Baghdad, said an MNF statement today. The raid was targeting a militant affiliated with a senior Qaeda suspect "who is known for links with foreign terrorists and improvised explosive device (IED) attacks in the area," according to the statement. The militants fled the area as MNF forces approached. A clash ensued and coalition troops returned fire killing one gunman. MNF forces arrested a suspected insurgent as three others fled the area.
Dozens of Palestinian gunmen swarmed to Beit Hanun to engage IDF units that raided the northern Gaza Strip village Tuesday night in the latest bid to strike at the Kassam rocket infrastructure in the area. After a day of fierce battles, an IDF soldier and at least 10 gunmen were killed but rockets continued to fall inside the Green Line. 
Palestinians released an Israeli Arab in the southern West Bank town of Hebron Wednesday, whom they had briefly kidnapped in what police said was a falling out over a financial debt. Anonymous gunmen abducted the man from northern Israel after he arrived in Hebron to get his car repaired, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. 
Defense Minister Amir Peretz has authorized the transfer of 5,000 rifles to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's Presidential Guard, Channel 2 reported Wednesday night.
The armed wing of Hamas, Salah a-Din, claimed on Wednesday that it had shot a Nasser-1 short-range missile towards a settlement in the Nablus area. A statement released by the organization said that the IDF had confirmed the attack and that it was "a present to the martyrs and their spirits, the wounded and the Palestinian prisoners," adding that it was "the first step on the way to exterminating the Zionists with missiles of the Palestinian resistance."
A rifle-fired grenade targeted a major police barracks in west Beirut on Wednesday night, witnesses and local media said. The explosion was heard in the Corniche Mazraa commercial and residential district, in the Muslim section of the Lebanese capital. Radio and television reports said the grenade targeted a building at the Helou barracks, causing some damage but no casualties. The blast came amid heightened tensions between Hizbullah and its pro-Syrian allies, and the Lebanese government's anti-Syrian majority.
