NATO and Afghan troops killed 10 Taliban rebels and captured two suspected militant leaders in a raid on an alleged suicide bomb cell in southern Afghanistan, the alliance said Friday. Separately, six Taliban were killed and two other insurgents arrested after a three-hour gunbattle with Afghan police.
One NATO soldier was lightly wounded in the operation against the suicide cell carried out early Thursday in the troubled Sangin district of Helmand province, a spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said. The identity of the suspected commanders captured in the raid was not revealed.
An ISAF statement said troops seized two suicide vests, several rocket-propelled grenades and a cache of equipment and weapons that were ready to be used in future attacks. Warplanes and helicopters backed up the troops in the operation, it said, adding that there were no civilian casualties. Most of the NATO troops stationed in Helmand are British.
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Does anyone have a body count for dead Talibunnies since the vaunted Spring Offensive began back in April of 06? I'm guessing it's somewhere at around 2,000 dead fluffy bunnies.
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More authoratative than the AP, Roooters, and the UN Convention on the Counting of Bodies of Misplaced Freedom Fighters.
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I'd love to quote this source, but it's Paki. There was a raid, but the ISAF press release does NOT quantify the number of Talibs killed.
I also don't quote the Afghan police on their "luck" with the Talibs.
I spend quite a bit of time each day checking with multiple parts of the military for info. There is little coordination and, especially with NATO, they have a tendancy to release information days after it happened. So, I'm constantly going over the same stuff looking for new data.
(SomaliNet) Somalis interim government top official said on Friday that troops defected from the Islamic Courts Union joined his government in Baidoa city, the capital Bay province in southwest Somalia. It is the first time militia from Islamic Courts joins the government since its rise in Somalia in early June.
In a news conference held today in Baidoa city, the deputy minister of defense in the transitional federal government Salad Ali Jelle said that they had welcomed in Baidoa large number of defected militia from Islamic Courts after they could not stand with what he called the extremism acts.
We are here indicating that my government has welcomed the joining of about 350 militia from Islamic Courts to the government Mr. Ali Jelle said they were the local militia who came from Bur-Hakaba area where it controlled by the terrorist group of Islamic Courts.
He told the reporters in Baidoa that the defection of the militia came after they faced difficulties from the Islamic Courts, which confiscated all the battlewagons they belonged. The militia reached at Karkor village 20km of Baidia, where we have sent trucks to take them to the city, Jele added.
The Islamic Court official in Bur-Hakaba town 180km southwest of the capital admitted the defection of the local militia but their number is smaller than the claim by the government. Mohamed Ibrahim Bilal, the leader of the Al-Bayan Islamic Court, confirmed the news on the defection but said they were about 13 militia who would not have an impact on the Islamic Courts. There have been thirteen local militia who defected to the government and I think they do so for Khat reasons, because they were all Khat consumers and this would have nothing to do with our power, Bilal said. I am absolutely dismissing the remarks from Salad Ali Jelle in which he said the number of the defected militia were hundreds he was lying and told untrue story to the reporters.
Three officers of the defected Islamist troops identified as Abdi Madey Ibrahim, Abdi Gaas Hussein and Barow Mohamed Hassan could be seen sitting beside where Mr. Jelle was speaking to the reporters in Baidoa.
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(SomaliNet) Somalis interim government top official said on Friday that troops defected from the Islamic Courts Union joined his government in Baidoa city, the capital Bay province in southwest Somalia. It is the first time militia from Islamic Courts joins the government since its rise in Somalia in early June.
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How does anyone know they really defected? Couldn't they be doing that Muslim lying thing and faking defection, so they can attack from the rear while the ICU attacks from the front?
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That's possible Glenmore, but being muzzie they could also be strong horsing it for a bit, then maybe change back, depending. In'shalla they will find the winner.
(SomaliNet) Reports from Galkaayo city, the capital of Mudug province in central Somalia say that nine cleric men belonging to Tabliq religious sector have been arrested by Puntland authorities. Reliable sources confirmed Somalinet in Galkaayo city that the clerics are now being held in a prison located in the city for suspicion. They are being questioned in the cell for their destination amid high tension between Islamic Courts and Puntland authorities.
Unconfirmed reports emerging from who were behind the arrest of the religious men with some reports say that militia loyal to Colonel Abdi Hassan Qeybdid have been responsible for apprehending the preachers. It is the second time that pro government militia arrest the Tabliq priests. Recently, about ten Tabliq Islamist clerics, who had been held in Baidoa city, southwest of Somalia, were released after being found no guilty.
Tabliq men are known to have been devoted to the Islamic religion and their work is only for preaching the practice of Islam through many difficulties. In everywhere in the world, Tabliq send teams of clerics to reach the Islam to the non-Muslims. In Somalia, they go to places where the Somalis seem be weak in practicing the Islam.
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Recruiting future Muslime terrorists during times of stress. Sounds just like USA prisons.
Three Egyptians suspected of links to Al Qaeda were sentenced to death on Thursday for involvement in the October 2004 bombings in northern Sinai which killed 34 people. The defendants erupted into shouts of "God is great" when the verdict was pronounced in the court in the canal city of Ismailiya. Ten other defendants who were also in court received prison terms ranging from five years to life.
The bombings marked the beginning of a spate of deadly attacks in Sinai and triggered an ongoing hunt by Egypt's security forces for extremist Islamist groups in the peninsula. The judge at Ismailiya emergency state security court sentenced Younis Mohammad Mahmoud Erian Garir, Osama Mohammad Abdel Ghani Nakhlawi and Mohammad Gaez Sobah Hussein Abdallah to death by hanging.
Both trial and verdicts were criticised as unfair by human rights groups and defence lawyers. The defendants charged that Israel and the US were behind the attacks as they were being led away from the court. No date has been set for the executions.
In September, the files of Garir, Nakhlawi and Abdallah were handed to the grand mufti, the state's top cleric, who must approve all death sentences before they can be pronounced, except those issued by military courts.
Hossam Bahgat, director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, who has campaigned for the death penalty to be abolished in Egypt, described the verdict as "heart-breaking" due to what he said was the lack of evidence to prove the defendants guilt. "These people never received a fair trial," said Bahgat, whose rights organistation monitored the Taba case closely. "The defendants have all presented credible allegations of torture in court and they were denied access to a lawyer during the interrogation," he told AFP.
There is no right of appeal for trials in emergency state security courts. The defendants' only option is to petition the president, who has the authority to reduce the sentence or order a retrial.
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Hanging ... the method of execution usually reserved for the lowest of the low.
An underground operative was killed during a "shootout" between his accomplices and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Durgapur upazila of the district last night. They don't even bother to hide the facts anymore in the "shootouts".
Police said the dead, Babu, 30, son of UP Chairman Afsar Ali, was an active member of an outlawed party. Islamicist? No-o-o-o. Communist? Ye-e-e-s.
Acting on a tip-off, ... ... that coming from our man, Mahmoud the Weasel ...
... a team of Rab personnel raided the old cattle market area near Taherpur-Durgapur road at about 7:15pm to arrest Babu and his cohorts. We have no idea where that is.
Sensing the presence of the Rab men, Babu and his accomplices opened fire on the law enforcers, prompting them to retaliate. Spider-sense tingling, random, aimless fire, and retaliation all in one sentence.
Rab sources said, Babu received bullets during the encounter ... ... received one behind each ear, in fact ...
...and died on the spot.
"Which spot?"
"That spot!"
Police said Babu was arrested in 2004 on charges of criminal acts and released on bail only two months ago. He again got involved in criminal activities, they added. And his mother didn't love him either.
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Boo hoo, Babu. Out only two months and he crossed The Weasel. Word will get out...
Amir Abu Hafs, the Deputy Military Amir of Chechen Mujahideen martyred (Shaheed, insha Allah) in a fierce battle that lasted for several hours in the Dagestani town of Khasavyurt, on Sunday, November 26, 2006, according to a Tuesday report for the Kavkaz Center news agency from the Eastern Front Headquarters of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria's Armed Forces.
Two other Mujahideen martyred with him in the battle, Allah's willing, the report says. Earlier the Russians falsely claimed that they had killed 5 Mujahideen in the action.
Details of the battle are still unavailable. The battle lasted for the whole light-time period on Sunday, the report says. The Russians earlier claimed that it lasted for 4 hours.
Amir Abu Hafs was born in 1973 in Jordan. After graduating from a university, he came in 1995 in Chechnya to fight as a volunteer against Russian aggressors. After martyrdom (Shaheed, insha Allah) of Amir Hattab, Abu Hafs became a deputy of Amir Abu Walid. And after Abu Walid (Shaheed, insha Allah), he became the commander of a group of volunteers. He was nominated a Deputy Military Amir of Chechen Mujahideen by the order of the Chechen President in 2005.
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Wow ... you think this particular news source is a tad bit biased? Allan Akbar!
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Wow ... you think this particular news source is a tad bit biased? Allan Akbar!
It's kavkazcenter, an oldie but goodie, in its Xth incarnation; the voice of the caucase hard boyz, complete with stories about the Incredibly Heroic Deeds of the Lions Of Islam from all over the world.
My favorite was the 12 years afghan boy who killed twenty or so crusaders and their lackey, and destroyed an US tank too, all this with grenades, before vanishing into the sunset.
Follow the IED hunter from down under, Cpl Hover, as he shows how he identifies IEDs planted by the rascally Eye-rackies. Be sure to sit through the credits for the bonus items.
Not quite a Fat Lady moment, but the third time's the charm and I for one am oiling up the ululator. This punk is dirty to the core of his shriveled puny soul, assuming he still has one.
A court convicted four Dutch Muslims on Friday of plotting terrorist attacks and sentenced them to up to eight years in prison, a victory for prosecutors who had failed several times before to convict would-be terrorists before they acted. The prosecution was pleased with the verdict even though it was much less than the 15 years prosecutors sought, spokeswoman Digna van Boetzelaer said. The heaviest sentence was reserved for Samir Azzouz, 20. Judges said he had played a "central role" in the group and had prepared a suicide video meant to "strike terrible fear into the Dutch people." The judges ruled that the defendants shared an ideology of jihad, or holy war. But they said the defendants did not constitute a terrorist organization, which likely would have led to longer sentences.
Azzouz had been arrested twice before as part of investigations into alleged terrorist activities. The first time he had bombmaking materials, but was released without charge on a technicality. The second time he was charged with planning an attack but was acquitted when the judges found the preparations had not advanced far enough to prove a terrorist conspiracy. On Friday, presiding Judge E. Koning said Azzouz had taken "concrete steps" toward an attack by gathering automatic weapons. Koning also said the suicide videotape, together with a tapped telephone conversation "could mean nothing else" except that Azzouz was close to carrying out the attack. In that conversation, he mentioned a "soup about to boil."
Azzouz's lawyer Victor Koppe called the verdict "political" and said his client plans to appeal. "Everything (Azzouz) says is interpreted in the worst possible way," he told Dutch television.
I still want to know who Victor Koppe's paymaster is...
Among other suspects, Nouredine al Fatmi, who already is serving a five-year sentence in a separate terrorism case, was given an additional four years for plotting attacks and for recruiting others for armed attacks. Mohammed Chentouf, who judges said did not play a leading role but was also plotting attacks was sentenced to four years. Soumaya Sahla, al Fatmi's ex-wife, was given a three-year sentence for conspiring with the others. One other defendant was convicted of passport fraud and sentenced to three months. A sixth defendant was acquitted of all charges. All six had pleaded not guilty. Defense lawyers argued they were innocent religious victims of police harassment, and that several witnesses who had testified against them were not credible.
"Yer honor, da witnesses is all dirty kafirs! Dey can't possibly testify! Allan sez so!"
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"Everything (Azzouz) says is interpreted in the worst possible way," he told Dutch television.
Not much different from what YOU get paid to do, jackass. Payback's a b*tch, ain't it?
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I still want to know who Victor Koppe's paymaster is
No doubt the Dutch taxpayers. And such fine examples of the legal profession. The 'Hofstadgroup' Terror Trial Koppe belongs to a group of Amsterdam based political lawyers who happen to have very good relations with selected members of the press. These lawyers have a special preference for defending terrorism suspects and leftwing fringe groups. They believe that intelligence and security agencies should be abolished as quickly as possible. It all originated with the famous Dutch lawyer P.H. Bakker Schut, who sympathized with the notorious German terrorist Baader-Meinhof gang, a Marxist group from the 1970s and 80s, which was seeking the violent overthrow of the German state. Bakker Schuts adept Ties Prakken specialized in leftist fringe groups and anarchists, and her successor was a blond female lawyer from Germany named Britta Böhler. She happened to be a great admirer of Abdullah Öcalan, a Turk-Kurdish macho with a preference for blond European women and the leader of the PKK, an extremely violent Kurdish terrorist network which specialized in liquidating opponents. In Ocalans terrorist camps, there were a few German women who previously belonged to, or sympathized with the Baader-Meinhof gang.
BTW, Koppe graduated from the University of Virginia law school.
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A UVA grad, yikes. Thomas Jefferson is spinning in his grave right about now.
Though he's ostensibly paid by the Dutch government, I still think he has some sort of 'understanding' with someone connected with the Soddies. Zero proof, of course, but he is to smooth to be a mere public servant.
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The judges ruled that the defendants shared an ideology of jihad, or holy war. But they said the defendants did not constitute a terrorist organization, which likely would have led to longer sentences.
Once again proving that this world has yet to make the link between Islam and terrorism. How many more people will need to die before all pretenses are dropped about Islamofascism, Islamism, Jihadism and other such garbage, such that Islam and Islam alone is finally taken to task for the violence it preaches?
Abdullah Öcalan, a Turk-Kurdish
For brevity's sake, can't we just shorten that to "Turdish"?
A French engineering student who was expelled from Syria on suspicion of trying to join Islamists fighting U.S. forces in Iraq has been placed under formal French judicial investigation, a judicial source said on Friday. Moustapha el-Sanharawi, 20, from the central city of Tours, was arrested in mid-October on the Syrian-Iraqi border. He was a student at ENSTA, a French engineering institute, in Paris before leaving for Syria, the source said.
Agents from the DST domestic intelligence service detained him on his arrival back in France on Wednesday. "He was placed under investigation for associating with wrong-doers in relation to a terrorist undertaking," the source said.
In France, judges lead investigations before any charges are brought. Since 2004, French authorities have dismantled several networks ferrying young French Muslims to fight in Iraq, mostly passing via Syria. French intelligence said last year at least six French nationals had died in fighting in Iraq since 2003 and around 10 others were believed to be fighting alongside rebels. Authorities fear fighters returning from Iraq could form the core of new French terrorism networks.
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Ima hope this Investigation weighs about 1200 lbs. kilos
This story has been on Drudge for a coupla daze. I don't think it's been posted on da 'Burg, though... If I'm wrong, plz Trash this post, if I'm not - I wonder why. Rather big implications for security - and a Sure-Fire Shitstorm from every deep dark nasty corner of disingenuity - ACLU, CAIR (Imagine the Muzzy outrage, lol), ANSWER, The Black Helicopter Krowd, you name it.
PHOENIX (AP) - Sky Harbor International Airport here will test a new federal screening system that takes X-rays of passenger's bodies to detect concealed explosives and other weapons. The technology, called backscatter, has been around for several years but has not been widely used in the U.S. as an anti-terrorism tool because of privacy concerns. Thank you, ACLU.
The Transportation Security Administration said it has found a way to refine the machine's images so that the normally graphic pictures can be blurred in certain areas while still being effective in detecting bombs and other threats. Uh oh, TSA has discovered naughty bits...
The agency is expected to provide more information about the technology later this month but said one machine will be up and running at Sky Harbor's Terminal 4 by Christmas.
The security agency's Web site indicates that the technology will be used initially as a secondary screening measure, meaning that only those passengers who first fail the standard screening process will be directed to the X-ray area. Even then, passengers will have the option of choosing the backscatter or a traditional pat-down search. Lol. Compromised from the git-go. Of course, anyone refusing should get a cavity search.
A handful of other U.S. airports will have the X-rays machines in place by early 2007 as part of a nationwide pilot program, TSA officials said. The technology already is being used in prisons and by drug enforcement agents, and has been tested at London's Heathrow Airport.
The security agency says the machines will be effective in helping detect plastic or liquid explosives and other non-metallic weapons that can be missed by standard metal detectors.
Some say the high-resolution images - which clearly depict the outline of the passenger's body, plus anything attached to it, such as jewelry - are too invasive. This is an outrage! I am purdy outraged! I posted my naughty bits on MySpace - if they wanna see 'em they can go there - I want the hits! There's a few thousand terrabytes of high quality pr0n floating around the net, and the ACLU is outraged over this?
But the TSA said the X-rays will be set up so that the image can be viewed only by a security officer in a remote location. Other passengers, and even the agent at the checkpoint, will not have access to the picture. In addition, the system will be configured so that the X-ray will be deleted as soon as the individual steps away from the machine. It will not be stored or available for printing or transmitting, agency spokesman Nico Melendez said. Since it would be helpful, it doesn't stand a chance. And her right boob is bigger 'n her left boob.
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Think there was a test of this system at the Orlando,Fla airport a few years ago...strickly voluntary on the passengers part,though...
You can,however,insert a plate into your pants,provided by TSA to block your privates from xray..just don't let it slip...(grin)
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Watch out! This thing could get ugly
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Sure puts a lie to the burqua bitches doesn't it? It addition anything metallic larger than a pin would show up nicely. Bravo. I wonder how much energy is used per each individual ?
BUFFALO, N.Y. A man was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday for running an unlicensed money-transfer business that sent $5 million to Yemen. Mohamed Albanna of Lackawanna arranged the transfers from his Buffalo cigarette and candy wholesale business from 1999 to 2002.
U.S. Attorney Terrance Flynn said authorities did not allege that money transferred by the business went to support terrorism but could not rule it out. Albanna, along with a brother and nephew, were arrested in December 2002, after the arrests of six other Yemeni-American men from Lackawanna who admitted to attending a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan. One of the "Lackawanna Six" used the unlicensed business to send $1,500 to Kamal Derwish in March 2002, according to a ledger investigators took from the business. Derwish is believed to have been killed by a CIA missile strike in Yemen later that year.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Lynch outlined other transactions that he said would have triggered alarms at legitimate money-transfer businesses. But with no paper trail, investigators hit a dead end, he said. Albanna, a leader in Buffalo's Arab-American community, has said the money was sent from Yemeni-Americans in the United States to relatives back home. "My intention was always to assist my fellow man," he told U.S. District Judge William Skretny.
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But with no paper trail, investigators hit a dead end,
They knew this was completely illegal and hid the end landing. This had clear implication of Muslim terrorism. So why are these Moozlimbs even allowed in the West?
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The Yeminis grow ever bolder in Lackawanna. We were in Lackawanna/Buffalo for Thanksgiving -- Mr. Wife comes from Lackawanna, home of the long-shuttered Bethlehem Steel plant, I from the university suburb on the other side of town. My darling mother-in-law reports that the high school boys' soccer team was shut down mid-season because the Yemeni lads were in the habit of egregiously abusing their kafir opponents -- spitting, gouging, shouted abuse -- the school superintendent finally put his foot down. Next year they get a three-year probation, but in the meantime lots of claims that college scholarships were lost, etc (yeah, right -- Lackawanna has never been that kind of academic haven). The school has a prayer room now, and Christmas has been banished into the mists of history. And my darling mother-in-law and the friend she goes walking with several mornings a week continue to be pushed off the sidewalk by hijab-coiffed Yemeni women, who do so with malice aforethought.
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Thanks for update TW. Yes, cesspools all...Dearborn,Lackawanna, and apparently Minneapolis. These are out of control. We can't let these cancer pits gain credence in upending American traditions. The Muzzies must be thrown out. There can be no accomodation given.
It sounds like Mr. Derwish was running a simple hawala thingy, a traditional Muslim non-bank money transference set-up, often involving family members at both ends. I b'lieve that's illegal altogether in the U.S. if a certain money level is crossed (prob'ly $10,000 total transactions or something), irrespective of whether or not any of the handled funds were transferred to terrorists or terror organizations.... Just as mobsters are convicted of not paying the proper taxes on their ill-gotten gains.
Guwahati, Dec 02: The Indo-Bhutan border in the Assam sector has been sealed following an incident of bomb blast in neighbouring Bhutan. "The Indo-Bhutan border has been sealed and there is additional deployment of the para military force, Shastra Seema Bal (SSB), following the incident of blast", police additional DGP of Assam B P Rao told media persons here.
He said that security has been tightened along the Indo-Bhutan border, including at Samdrup Jhongkar in Nalbari district, which is the entry point to the Himalayan kingdom.
When asked about any insurgent outfit behind the blast, Rao said preliminary reports point out the involvement of ULFA. "But involvement of other outfits other than ULFA cannot be ruled out at this moment", he said.
The Assam police, he said, have taken all precautionary measures and are in touch with the BSF and SSB in this regard, Rao said.
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SSB - Special Security Bureau - has both intelligence gathering and commando (behind enemy line) functions - raised after the 1962 Indo-China war.
SSB reportedly infiltrate into Tibet and China proper to gather intelligence.
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Bhutan doesn't have a military, but it does have a well-trained police force. There aren't very many of them, but they're all fiercely loyal to the Prince. We won't hear anything more about this if they catch the culprits.
Bhutan is one nation that doesn't really worry about China. The easiest pass to cross from China to Bhutan is at 16,800 feet above sea level. The pass into India is only about 4500 feet.
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That doesn't stop China from coveting Bhutan.
Only its status as a virtual Indian protectorate keeps the PLA out.
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Pakistani security forces arrested seven suspected Taliban fighters in a raid in Quetta, said police on Friday. The seven Afghan nationals were arrested late on Thursday from a house in Quetta, said Deputy Inspector General of Police Abdul Qadir Thabo. They are Taliban fighters, but there is no important commander among them, said Thabo, adding that investigators were trying to trace their origin and links with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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Twenty-eight people were formally charged in the July 11 train bombings in Mumbai that killed more than 200 people. Thirteen of the accused are in custody, police prosecutor Raja Thackeray said. The 28 were charged with murder, handling explosive substances, committing terrorist acts and causing damage to public property in Mumbai, formerly called Bombay. They could face the death penalty. Police say the 28 suspects belong to Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based Islamic militant group, as well as the banned Students' Islamic Movement of India.
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The Indian Army Friday claimed to have gunned down a key accused in the serial blasts in the national capital on Diwali eve last year that killed nearly 60 people.
Army spokesman Lt Col AK Mathur said that security forces gunned down Ali Baba alias Abu Huzefa, deputy commander of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in an operation at Kreeri in north Kashmir's Baramulla district, 40 km from Srinagar. "On specific information provided by locals about the presence of Ali Baba in fields in Kreeri, troops of Rashtriya Rifles launched an operation when the rebel was trapped in a gorge and engaged in a gunfight before being gunned down," Mathur said.
Several arms, ammunition and documents were recovered from the slain guerrilla. "He was involved in the pre-Diwali serial blasts in New Delhi and also in atrocities on locals here. He was a resident of Pakistan's Sindh province and was active in Pattan Sopore area for the past two years," Mathur said.
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And thus avoiding any Abu-Grabby or GITMO type of bad press from the hand wringing crowd.
Good on ya!
Army in mountainous and forested area of Mahore in district Udhampur on Thursday killed three Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terrorists including a Battalion Commander. According to PRO Defence Lt Col SD Goswami, troops of 59 Rashtriya Riffles on information regarding movement of terrorists in the area have launched a search operation at Deolmarg area, some 180 kms north of Jammu.
An encounter occurred during the search operation, when terrorists opened fire on the troops. During the fierce gun battle, army have gunned down three Hizb terrorists including the Battalion Commander that has been identified as Shabir Ahmed. The other two slain terrorists have been identified as Abdul Hameed alias Aashiq and Mohammad Amin alias Juneid. One Ak-47 riffle, three magazines, 58 rounds, one SLR riffle, four magazines, 50 rounds, one 9 mm pistol, one magazine, four rounds and UBG have recovered from the possession of slain terrorists.
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A bomb planted in a motorcycle exploded in a posh residential colony near the US consulate and military intelligence buildings, killing one person. Witnesses said that a motorcycle parked at the Defence Market on Khyber Road exploded at around 6:30pm, killing a passerby. Residents identified the victim as Zahoor, a resident of Chagar Mati and watchman at a nearby house. NWFP IG Raffat Pasha said that it was not a suicide attack because bodies of suicide bombers get mutilated beyond recognition. He added that the bomb was of low intensity. Peshawar police chief Habibur Rehman believed that it was a premature blast, which did not reach its target.
Law enforcement agencies and police reached the spot soon after the explosion and cordoned off the entire area. The explosion also damaged some vehicles parked near the site. This is the sixth explosion in the provincial capital since September 8. At least 11 people have been killed and another 45 injured in these incidents.
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Army officials have admitted that Iraqi police may have been implicated in the death of a British sergeant, but no one is likely to be brought to justice.
Just weeks into his second tour of Iraq, Sgt John Jones, 31, of the 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers was killed by a roadside bomb as he commanded a routine patrol in Basra. Four other soldiers were injured.
A charismatic, compassionate man with a sharp sense of humour, Jonah, as he was known to his friends, was killed in what John Reid, who was Defence Minister at the time, described as a "barbaric act of terrorism".
It was revealed yesterday, however, that Sgt Jones was one of several British soldiers murdered by Iraqi police. Just a week after the anniversary of his death, his parents received a report from the Army that appeared to suggest his killer or killers may have been among the same Iraqi security forces the British have been training.
Describing the moment of Sgt Jones's death on 20 November 2005 as his patrol was heading back to the Shatt al-Arab base, it read: "It was observed at this point that there were a number of unknown Iraqi males wearing Iraqi Police Service and military uniforms and that they were observing the scene from the Port Authority area. An Iraqi Police Service car was seen to turn around and head away from the scene, back the way it had come."
Sgt Jones's mother, Carol, 60, said she was devastated by a covering letter from the Army's directorate of personal services, which added: "The jurisdiction for the case was handed over to the Iraqi Police. As yet, no one has been detained in connection with your son's death.
"However, as a cautionary note, I would say that, based on other similar circumstances, there is not a hugely realistic chance of this happening."
Mrs Jones, from Tamworth in Warwickshire, added: "A lad who was with John told us it was definitely Iraqi police. There was nobody else in the street. It was uncannily quiet. At his inquest, they said no one was investigated because they had got ID on them. One of the policemen had a mobile phone or remote [which could set off a roadside bomb] but he had ID on him so he just walked away.
"I have spoken to other mothers - three at least - who are waiting for reports and been told by the Army the police are the killers. It is frightening. They can't be vetting them properly."
Mrs Jones, who recently suffered a stroke, said the latest news had left her terribly shaken, adding: "I thought I was coming to terms with it. But when I read this report I just went to pieces. I have not slept. I can't even eat. I just want somebody brought to justice. I just want to ask the Army why aren't they out there looking for the people who did this?
"If I was well enough to get on a plane I would go over there and find him myself. It is heart-breaking. He had a five-year-old son. We feel so terribly frustrated."
The Ministry of Defence has long claimed that Britain's exit strategy from Iraq relies on building a strong Iraqi police and army, trained by the military. Senior officers have now conceded that there is a "small rotten core" within the Basra police. Locals, however, have long claimed that the force is heavily infiltrated by insurgents and responsible for the vast majority of murders in Iraq's second city.
Mrs Jones continued: "Tony Blair tells us that our soldiers are protecting the Iraqi people but they obviously don't want us there if they are killing us.
"John loved the Army but I don't think he would have joined if he thought that he would die like this."
The Ministry of Defence said in a statement last night: "Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Sgt Jones. Any further investigation into the events surrounding Sgt Jones's death must be handled by the Iraqi authorities. The UK and coalition forces will continue to offer support to the Iraqis on this matter.''
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Actually it was the Iranians via their agents in the Iraqi police, that is the truth. The Iranians have totally inflitraterd Basra because of the "soft power" The UK forces have been forced to persue.
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The IP in the south are riddled and run by the militias - which are, AFAICS, simply Shia Mafia.
What's missing from the article is "Why Sgt Jones?"... Jones was commanding the patrol and happened to be the only death in the attack, does that prove it was personal? It's certainly problematic to kill one guy in a patrol with a roadside bomb - is it not?
Is he an especially irritating foe of the militias - has he made a local name for himself messing in their business? Lawd, that would certainly set him apart, IMHO, as it seems the UK Pol & Mil "leadership" can't wait to "turn over control" and haul ass - leaving this total cock-up behind.
Sgt Jones' death is rotten, to be sure, but nothing here actually proves it was personal. This appears to be a Mob hit on the "Federal coppers". If more than that, then they have failed to make a case for it in this article.
IMHO, the real problem is the way the south was "handled" (mishandled) by the UK Pol & Mil "leadership". Their people, their troopers, certainly started out rough and ready to do a military job... but it has devolved into a military failure and now a Law Enforcement mess facing corruption from top to bottom of every office of authority with no hope of improvement without re-invading, militarily.
(KUNA) -- Three people were killed and 20 others were wounded when a car bomb went off in a popular market in a northern Baghdad district on Friday, a police source said. "A car bomb exploded in a popular market in the Shiite neighborhood of Husseiniyah, killing three civilians and wounding 20 others," the source told KUNA.
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Good work, boys! Keep it up, except alter the deal/captured ratio, k?
In a string of operations across Iraq this week, Iraqi forces detained 28 suspects, coalition forces killed 17 insurgents and rescued three Iraqi hostages, and four Iraqis were killed in a suicide attack, military officials in Iraq reported.
The 9th Iraqi Army Division, with coalition support, detained 28 suspected insurgents for questioning in an operation within the Iraqi capital today in Rusafa. U.S. attack helicopters were used in support of the mission to assist the ground elements with their mission. An assortment of small arms and munitions also were seized during the operation. Nice combined arms, combined units operation. Just the sort of thing we say we're training the Iraqis to do.
Elsewhere, coalition forces used air-delivered precision ordnance to kill three insurgents today in Ubaydi. Insurgents attacked coalition forces with small-arms fire and then attempted to run away flee in a vehicle. In response to the attack, coalition forces used precision ordnance to destroy the vehicle and the insurgents inside. Aside from the vehicle, there was no further damage. 'cause it's precision, you know. In another operation, coalition air and ground forces combined to kill 14 insurgents and wound two at about 2 a.m. yesterday after the individuals engaged a coalition convoy with small-arms fire southwest of Samarra. While the insurgents fled in trucks and motorcycles, Task Force Lightning attack helicopters tracked them for several miles and used two guided bombs to destroy one of the vehicles. Subsequently, helicopters and strike aircraft engaged the remaining vehicles, killing or wounding all of the insurgents. Honda Gold Wing don't fail me .. [ZAP] .. rosebud ..
Upon further investigation of the site, Task Force Lightning soldiers discovered more than 1,500 rounds of small-arms ammunition and various semi-automatic machine guns including six AK-47s, two heavy machineguns, two destroyed motorcycles with homemade machine gun mounts and one rocket-propelled-grenade launcher.
Separately, Iraqi police successfully engaged a suicide car bomber attempting to breach an entry-control point leading to a police station in the Dawasa neighborhood Nov. 29 at about 12:15 p.m. The Iraqi police prevented the terrorist from breaching the entry control point, but the bomb exploded outside the checkpoint, killing four Mosul citizens and the suicide car bomber and injuring 29. The four citizens killed in the blast included two children and two adults. Those injured were transported to Mosul general hospital for treatment. One Iraqi police officer received treatment for superficial wounds and was released. That's not engaging 'successfully'; 'successful' is when the splodydope is nailed before he pulls the cord.
"Iraqi police in Ninewa province are vigilant to these types of attacks," said Army Maj. Adam Rocke, operations officer for 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. "The sad part is the innocent citizens who are killed or injured as a result of these cowardly acts, especially the children.
In another operation, three handcuffed hostages were rescued from insurgents by soldiers of the 3rd Squadron, 61st Cavalry Regiment, near Forward Operating Base Loyalty on Nov. 29. A fourth handcuffed hostage was found nearby, dead from a gunshot wound to the head.
The three rescued hostages were discovered after the U.S. soldiers noticed an illegal checkpoint being manned by six individuals in military uniforms. One of the six manning the checkpoint had a fake Ministry of Interior identification. The six suspects caught running the illegal checkpoint were detained by U.S. forces for questioning
Elsewhere, soldiers from Multinational Division Baghdad uncovered a sizeable cache of munitions in a northwestern neighborhood of the Iraqi capital Nov. 29. After receiving a tip, soldiers from Company A, 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, conducted a combat patrol to search a house of a suspected mortar man. When the troops arrived at the residence, there was no one at the home. During the search of the house, they discovered a weapons cache. They found 16 82 mm mortar rounds, one 60 mm mortar round, one 82 mm mortar tube with a tripod, one 60 mm mortar tube with a base plate, 11 grenades, one machinegun with three full magazines, one rocket-propelled-grenade launcher sight, one set of body armor with plates, one set of body armor without plates, 42 mortar primers, 59 grenade fuses, two radios, and a bomb protective suit.
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Elsewhere, soldiers from Multinational Division Baghdad uncovered a sizeable cache of munitions in a northwestern neighborhood of the Iraqi capital Nov. 29.
Were these leftover munitions from the Saddam era or recently shipped and off-loaded bad stuff from, oh I don't know, maybe Iran or Syria?
Yea, let's get the two involved in "discussions" and see if they'll help us out. Brilliant idea ... Not!
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I think we need to take up a collection here on Rantburg to buy the Army a dozen sets of thumb screws and a few other sundries for serious "questioning" of subjects. We need to keep it small, so they're easily portable - no Iron Maidens or racks. Maybe a chain saw with an extra large splash shield, for really SERIOUS questioning... Find out once and for all who's naughty and who's nice, especially in the Iraqi police.
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Old Pat, if you've a field phone, you don't need anything else.
Two Mujahideen groups in Iraq, the Tawhid Knights Brigade [Saraya Fursan al-Tawhid] and Creed of Abraham Brigade [Saraya Millat al-Ibrahim], were announced on Wednesday, November 29, 2006, to having joined the ranks of the Islamic State of Iraq. According to the statement, they pledged loyalty to the Emir of the Believers, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi. The group states: "These brigades had hurt Allah's enemies and executed heroic battles that hurt the Crusaders and their helpers. They offered unto Allah some of the best men, may Allah accept them".
The Islamic State of Iraq and its Ministry of Information was established to protect the Sunni Iraqi people and defend Islam, by the Pact of the Scented People. It is composed of a variety of insurgency groups, including the Mujahideen Shura Council in Iraq, Conquering Army [Jeish al-Fatiheen], Army Squad of the Prophet Muhammad [Jund al-Sahaba], Brigades of al-Tawhid Wal Sunnah, and Sunni tribes. It has a presence in the governorates of Baghdad, Anbar, Diyala, Kirkuk, Salah al-Din, Ninawa, and parts of Babel and Wasit, and is head by the Emir of the Believers, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the Wasington-based SITE Institute reported.
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Ha! Old Bill's looking better since he left the Twangers and developed an interest in 50's Cheesecake world affairs.
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The Islamic State of Iraq and its Ministry of Information was established to protect the Sunni Iraqi people and defend Islam, by the Pact of the Scented People
Ah the smell of camel schit in the morning. And we fought for these people!?
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I do believe, gentlemen, that this group has nothing to do with the central government of Iraq and the press release just more of the same self aggrandizing twaddle that these motheaten jihadi groups routinely produce. As they say, nothing to see here.
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Toast 'em like marshmallows. We need to reduce the hot air to fight global warmening (it's 22 degrees here in Co Springs, and has been snowing all morning).
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Sri Lanka's defence secretary, the brother of the country's president, narrowly escaped with his life today after a suicide bomber targeted a military convoy in which he was traveling through the heart of the island's capital. The audacious strike, by a suspected Tamil Tiger bomber, left at least two people dead and 15 wounded. Moments after the explosion police sprayed the site with bullets. It appears the bomber drove a rickshaw alongside the five-car convoy, carrying the defence secretary, Gotabhaya Rajapakse, and detonated the device.
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Hundreds of thousands of opposition protesters crammed into the heart of Beirut Friday and besieged the headquarters of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's government in a peaceful show of force to bring down the ruling Cabinet. "We are here to criticize Siniora, and not the entire Sunni community!" MP Michel Aoun, leader of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) and Hizbullah ally, said from behind bulletproof glass to a vibrant crowd of demonstrators at Riad al-Solh Square in Downtown Beirut.
Siniora has "made many mistakes" and his government has "made corruption a daily affair," Aoun said, calling for the resignation of the premier and his ministers.
"Siniora out," the massive crowd chanted in response to Aoun's verbal assault as they overflowed nearby parking lots and streets after arriving from across the country waving Lebanon's national flag.
Simultaneously, a newly composed song blared over erected loudspeakers, titled "Tears protect no one." The song, set to a hard-hitting upbeat track, compiles extracts from a recent speech by Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the Hizbullah leader, critical of Siniora's emotional addresses to the nation during the July-August war with Israel. "I wish that the prime minister and his ministers were among us today, not hiding behind barbed wire and the army's armored personnel carriers," Aoun said. "He who has his people behind him does not need barbed wire."
Demonstrators blocked all access roads around the government headquarters, setting up tents and staging sit-ins to keep Siniora and his ministers holed up inside their offices.
As The Daily Star went to print the siege was being partially dismantled after a telephone call by Siniora to Speaker Nabih Berri, leader of the Amal Movement and a key Hizbullah ally, to "take responsibility" and ensure that access in and out of the Grand Serail was not inhibited. According to local television LBCI, Siniora made the call to Berri after receiving "information" that demonstrators might try to storm the Serail during the night.
As the sun set, the demonstration continued, albeit in slightly reduced numbers, after MP Ali Hassan Khalil, Berri's representative at the rally, called on protesters to "continue the sit-in, during the night, the day and even dawn." "We will not budge until we hear that the government had resigned," Khalil said.
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Wouldn't take a nuke, LoD, just a few runs with napalm. After that, Hezbollah couldn't get enough people together to play four-handed pinochle. Hopefully, we could bag Nasty and Aoun at the same time.
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How about marshmallows? With Olmert, that's about all you'll get.
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NATO and Afghan troops killed 10 Taliban rebels and captured two suspected militant leaders in a raid on an alleged suicide bomb cell in southern Afghanistan, the alliance said Friday. Separately, six Taliban were killed and two other insurgents arrested after a three-hour gunbattle with Afghan police.
(SomaliNet) Somalis interim government top official said on Friday that troops defected from the Islamic Courts Union joined his government in Baidoa city, the capital Bay province in southwest Somalia. It is the first time militia from Islamic Courts joins the government since its rise in Somalia in early June. 
(SomaliNet) Reports from Galkaayo city, the capital of Mudug province in central Somalia say that nine cleric men belonging to Tabliq religious sector have been arrested by Puntland authorities. Reliable sources confirmed Somalinet in Galkaayo city that the clerics are now being held in a prison located in the city for suspicion. They are being questioned in the cell for their destination amid high tension between Islamic Courts and Puntland authorities. 
Three Egyptians suspected of links to Al Qaeda were sentenced to death on Thursday for involvement in the October 2004 bombings in northern Sinai which killed 34 people. The defendants erupted into shouts of "God is great" when the verdict was pronounced in the court in the canal city of Ismailiya. Ten other defendants who were also in court received prison terms ranging from five years to life.
An underground operative was killed during a "shootout" between his accomplices and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Durgapur upazila of the district last night.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. A man was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday for running an unlicensed money-transfer business that sent $5 million to Yemen. Mohamed Albanna of Lackawanna arranged the transfers from his Buffalo cigarette and candy wholesale business from 1999 to 2002.
Twenty-eight people were formally charged in the July 11 train bombings in Mumbai that killed more than 200 people. Thirteen of the accused are in custody, police prosecutor Raja Thackeray said. The 28 were charged with murder, handling explosive substances, committing terrorist acts and causing damage to public property in Mumbai, formerly called Bombay. They could face the death penalty. Police say the 28 suspects belong to Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based Islamic militant group, as well as the banned Students' Islamic Movement of India.
The Indian Army Friday claimed to have gunned down a key accused in the serial blasts in the national capital on Diwali eve last year that killed nearly 60 people.
Army in mountainous and forested area of Mahore in district Udhampur on Thursday killed three 
Army officials have admitted that Iraqi police may have been implicated in the death of a British sergeant, but no one is likely to be brought to justice. 
In another operation, coalition air and ground forces combined to kill 14 insurgents and wound two at about 2 a.m. yesterday after the individuals engaged a coalition convoy with small-arms fire southwest of Samarra. While the insurgents fled in trucks and motorcycles, Task Force Lightning attack helicopters tracked them for several miles and used two guided bombs to destroy one of the vehicles. Subsequently, helicopters and strike aircraft engaged the remaining vehicles, killing or wounding all of the insurgents.
Two Mujahideen groups in Iraq, the Tawhid Knights Brigade [
Hundreds of thousands of opposition protesters crammed into the heart of Beirut Friday and besieged the headquarters of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's government in a peaceful show of force to bring down the ruling Cabinet. "We are here to criticize Siniora, and not the entire Sunni community!" MP Michel Aoun, leader of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) and Hizbullah ally, said from behind bulletproof glass to a vibrant crowd of demonstrators at Riad al-Solh Square in Downtown Beirut.
