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Afghanistan
17 Taliban killed in Afghan-NATO operation
Afghan and NATO troops killed 17 rebels, including two commanders in southern Afghanistan, the interior ministry said on Wednesday. “Seventeen enemy elements were killed, including two Taliban commanders, and three wounded were also arrested,” ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary said.

Bashary said the operation took place in Helmand. Helmand police chief General Mohammad Nabi Mullahkhail said two Taliban pickup trucks were also destroyed in the operation in and around the province’s Kajaki district. The British military would not immediately comment. An ISAF spokesman in Kabul confirmed there had been “sporadic incidents” in the area, but could not confirm the interior ministry’s death toll.

Separately, insurgents torched a newly built school for refugee children in eastern Afghanistan. The school set alight on Monday night in Nangarhar was made up of tents from the UN children’s fund, UNICEF, provincial spokesman Hazrat Hussain said. “Five tents of a new UNICEF-built school were burned down last night in Behsud district,” he said. Hussain blamed the attack on the “enemies of Afghanistan”. Gul Pacha Khalizay, the deputy education director of the province, said about 200 boys and girls from a nearby refugee camp used the primary school.

An Afghan police chief was missing after Taliban insurgents raided and torched a district-level government office and clinic, police said on Monday. The insurgents raided a district headquarters in the western province of Farah on Sunday night. Provincial police chief General Sayed Agha Saqib told the Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) news agency the districtÂ’s police chief was missing after the raid in which the Taliban also set fire to a wheat storage depot.
Posted by: Fred || 01/04/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  17 more blood sacrfices for allan.

allan's snackbar!
Posted by: anymouse || 01/04/2007 1:51 Comments || Top||

#2  America Akbar!!!
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 01/04/2007 9:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Kill 'em all. Any group that wants to keep kids from learning to read, write, and add two numbers needs to die.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 01/04/2007 12:50 Comments || Top||

#4  "two Taliban pickup trucks"

That's gonna hurt. Taliban can always recruit the gullible, but trucks cost some serious dinar.
Posted by: Omar Knot Hed || 01/04/2007 21:08 Comments || Top||


Forces targeting Taliban leadership
Afghan and international military forces battling the resurgent Taliban are increasingly targeting the insurgency’s hardline leaders, believing that foot soldiers can be persuaded to lay down their arms, officials have said. The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has been pushing this strategy for the last three weeks in a new operation in the volatile Panjwayi district of Kandahar province, officials confirmed. ISAF spokesman in Kabul, Major Dominic Whyte, said the approach was “twin-track”.

“That basically means there are some Taliban out there who want the Taliban regime and will not negotiate and they will not stop fighting until they are killed or captured,” he said. However, Whyte added that ISAF believed other recruits could be persuaded to stop fighting by being shown that the hardliners offered “no future”, unlike the government and its allies, which were pushing development alongside military action. This group, he said, included fighters who had been principally lured by money, since Taliban reportedly pay them around five to 12 dollars a day. In Panjwayi, development projects worth several million dollars are intended to win over fighters.
Posted by: Fred || 01/04/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is a sad commentary on our tactical and strategic decision-making, if this story is true.
Posted by: Clolutle Slans5753 || 01/04/2007 9:16 Comments || Top||

#2  The GWOT in it's entirety is a "sad commentary." It will never be won through diplomatic bakhshesh, Iraqimazation, or a flimsy half-assed police action. These bastards must be very aggressively hunted down, given no quarter, and thoroughly destroyed! Entire cities destroyed, armies dessimated, navies sunk. Nothing short of total victory must be achieved, and soon. We have already wasted several years. The nieve concept of nation building, rehabilitation and reform is absolutely ludicrous. It is a western concept that is foreign to the understanding of these tribalists. They are savages, diabolical murderers well beyond the scope of most in the civilized world to imagine. If we do not go on the hunt soon, the West will be drained both economically and politically, similarly to what took place in the FSU leading up it's fall. Action is required, victory is much needed. Take the butcher's bill to them immediately. We have the means, all that is lacking is the will.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/04/2007 9:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Quite right Besoeker. It's a travesty to expect any less from the fighting men and women of Us Armed Forces. This policy from the top of holding hands is a crock of shit and leads to unnecessary deaths daily. That's why I reject more troops into Baghdad unless they are allowed to function in the fighting mode. If that means taking out city blocks, fine.
Posted by: SpecOp35 || 01/04/2007 10:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Forces targeting Taliban leadership

We're going to attack Quetta and the NWFP?
Posted by: Old Patriot || 01/04/2007 12:52 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Somalis, Ethiopians engage Islamists
The Last Roundup?
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Government troops backed by Ethiopian soldiers were fighting about 600 Islamic militiamen in the southern tip of Somalia, an official spokesman said Thursday.

In the past 10 days, Ethiopian-backed government forces have driven out the Islamic movement that had controlled Mogadishu and much of southern Somalia for more than six months. The Islamic movement retreated to the southern tip of Somalia and vowed to keep fighting, raising the specter of an Iraq-style guerrilla war.

The Somali forces have surrounded the Islamic militiamen "from every direction" in the southwestern district of Badade, near the Kenyan border, government spokesman Abdirahman Dinari told The Associated Press. "The fighting is going on," Dinari said. "We hope they will either surrender or be killed by our troops."
Strike one...
Kenya sent extra troops to the Somali frontier and closed its border, fearing an exodus of refugees and foreign fighters.
Strike two...
Dinari said some Islamic militants have been trying to escape by sea. "But U.S. anti-terrorist forces have been deployed there to prevent them from escaping," he added.
Strike three.
In Washington on Wednesday, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said U.S. Navy vessels were deployed off the Somali coast looking for al-Qaida and allied militants trying to escape.

Dinari said the government believes foreign terrorist elements are among the Islamic militiamen fighting in Badade.

With the Islamic movement's fighters on the run, concern has grown about extremists believed to be among them. Three al-Qaida suspects in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa are believed to be leaders of the Islamic movement. The movement denies having any links to al-Qaida.

Earlier Thursday, Somalia's Interior Minister Hussein Aideed said there are about 3,500 Islamists hiding in the capital and they are "likely to destabilize the security of the city." Aideed did not explain the source of his information or what prompted his comments. Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi later tried to play down the threat and disputed Aideed's number of Islamists hiding in the capital, although he did not offer his own estimate.

Gedi said his government would begin efforts to disarm Somalis by seizing large arms caches located around Mogadishu. A house-by-house search will follow, the prime minister told journalists, without saying when that will happen.

Thursday was the deadline for people in Mogadishu to surrender their arms. Gedi said the disarmament program was progressing but offered no details. By Wednesday, only a handful of people had heeded Gedi's demand and turned in any weapons in the capital.

In Ethiopia, a top U.S. diplomat said that she hopes African peacekeepers will be in Somalia by the end of the month.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni had promised President Bush in a recent phone call that he could supply between 1,000-2,000 troops to protect Somalia's transitional government and train its troops, said Jendayi Frazer, assistant U.S. secretary of state for Africa, after meeting Museveni.

Frazer said there had been no request for U.S. troops or military assistance so far.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has pressed the international community to send in peacekeepers quickly, saying his forces cannot play that role and cannot afford to stay long.

Aideed, the Somali interior minister, said that there are about 12,000-15,000 Ethiopian troops in Somalia, and when peacekeepers arrive in the country the Ethiopians will leave. Ethiopia has put the number much lower, at around 4,000, and said it would pull out within weeks.

With the fighting raging just over the Kenya-Somalia frontier, Kenyan Foreign Minister Raphael Tuju said his country had officially closed its border. The U.N.'s humanitarian agency has said there are thousands of Somali refugees reported to be near the border, unable to cross into Kenya.

Tuju said Wednesday that Somali government troops were not threatening civilians so he didn't believe Somalis should be trying to cross the border into Kenya. A Kenyan security helicopter and air force plane were fired at by unidentified gunmen on either side of the border on Wednesday.

Somalia's last effective central government fell in 1991, when clan-based warlords overthrew military dictator Mohamed Siad Barre and then turned on each other. The government was formed two years ago with the help of the United Nations, but has been weakened by internal rifts.
Posted by: tu3031 || 01/04/2007 12:22 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No prisoner's please.
Posted by: plainslow || 01/04/2007 13:01 Comments || Top||

#2  I hope they slaughter every one of those bastards, then proudly announce their identities and nationalities.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 01/04/2007 14:41 Comments || Top||


3,500 Islamists Said Hiding in Somalia
Remnants of Somalia's Islamic movement still pose a threat in the capital, the interior minister said Thursday, a week after his government and Ethiopian troops chased most of the militiamen from Mogadishu. "There are 3,500 Islamists hiding in Mogadishu and the surrounding (area) and they are likely to destabilize the security of the city," Interior Minister Hussein Aideed said at a news conference.

Aideed said that there are about 12,000-15,000 Ethiopian troops in Somalia, and when peacekeepers arrive in the country the Ethiopians will leave. Ethiopia has put the number much lower, at around 4,000, and said it would pull out within weeks. A proposed African peacekeeping force has not yet been organized, though diplomatic efforts are under way to get one on the ground.
Posted by: ryuge || 01/04/2007 06:18 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If there are that many, unless they are Somali, they are in deep trouble. No provisions, no help, and the Somalis can probably make some easy money by turning them in.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 01/04/2007 8:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Or just shoot them for sport.
Like shooting crows.
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 01/04/2007 9:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Give them $100 for every turban they hand over. With a head in it.
Posted by: gorb || 01/04/2007 14:18 Comments || Top||

#4  At that rate, they'll shoot only one a week. Make it $10.
Posted by: wxjames || 01/04/2007 15:16 Comments || Top||

#5  Somalia---the equivalent of the Rantburg sinktrap. We can only hope that the Ethiopians take these guys out like varmits. Here's to good shootin' boys. Take out the plage in Mogadishu. Gutshots are ok.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 01/04/2007 18:17 Comments || Top||

#6  Tweeney kids back wid their parents???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 01/04/2007 21:11 Comments || Top||


Gunmen shot at Kenyan helicopter
(SomaliNet) Unknown gunmen but thought to be Somali Islamists fired shots at a Kenyan security helicopter patrolling near the border with Somalia on Wednesday, report says. The helicopter was flying over the southeastern Kenyan border town of Hulugho. The report did not say if the aircraft was damaged but said gunmen fired smalls arms from the region of Ras Kamboni, the base for the fleeing Islamists.
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#1  Kenya needs to take lessons from the US and defend its border ..... er, um, uh... never mind.
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/04/2007 7:16 Comments || Top||


Somalia: Government collects few guns
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Kenya Sends Troops to Somalia's Border
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Kenya sent extra troops to its border with Somalia on Wednesday to keep Islamic militants from entering the country and said it would limit the number of Somali refugees seeking to cross the frontier because they were not in immediate danger.

The U.N.'s humanitarian agency said about 4,000 Somali refugees were reported to be near the Somali border town of Dhobley, unable to cross into Kenya. The agency gave no further details, but noted fears of newly laid land mines in southern Somalia following the latest fighting.

Kenyan Foreign Minister Raphael Tuju said Somali government troops were not threatening civilians so he didn't believe Somalis should be trying to cross the border into Kenya.
As good a reason as any.
Kenyan officials have detected a large number of people fraudulently applying for refugee status in the last year and have instituted a strenuous screening process, including taking fingerprints. With the added danger of combatants trying to slip into Kenya, Tuju said the Kenyan government would strictly enforce the tight screening process as long as the refugees waiting to cross were not in immediate danger. "There's no reason at all to allow an influx of people unless there are women and children and it's really, really obvious that they are in danger in their own country. At this particular time, we don't see that danger from the monitoring we are doing," Tuju told journalists.
Posted by: Steve White || 01/04/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
76-year-old militant turns himself in
(Interfax) - The oldest ever militant has turned himself in to law enforcers in Chechnya, Interfax was told at the Chechen Interior Ministry on Wednesday. "A 76-year-old local resident came to the Grozny district police saying that in 1998 he had voluntarily joined the armed formation led by Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev and received a Kalashnikov assault rifle. He claims that two months later Yandarbiyev took away the Kalashnikov because the man had not taken active part in militant operations," a ministry spokesman said.

Law enforcers are screening the man. Since the address of Director of the Federal Security Service Nikolai Patrushev to militants over 380 former militants have surrendered to law enforcers in the hope of being amnestied.
Posted by: Fred || 01/04/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  most likely needed sum soup and nursin.
Posted by: RD || 01/04/2007 4:00 Comments || Top||

#2  aaaw bless !

Armchair militants ! Easy laid back approach to militancy !

"Yandarbiyev took away the Kalashnikov because the man had not taken active part in militant operations"
Posted by: MacNails || 01/04/2007 10:33 Comments || Top||

#3  I can see it now; Alright men, take the hill !........Okay, I'll break it down.
Alright men, stand up...........
Okay, help each other up.
Posted by: wxjames || 01/04/2007 15:23 Comments || Top||

#4  So gramps had an AK?
Bet the kids stayed offa his lawn...
Posted by: tu3031 || 01/04/2007 15:28 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Gas pipeline blown up in Dera Bugti
Unknown assailants blew up an 18-inch diameter pipeline in Dera Bugti on Wednesday, suspending the supply of gas to Pir Koh and other areas of the district.

Sources said that an explosive device had been planted in the Loti gas field. Following the incident, security forces cordoned off the area and started looking for the miscreants. Separately on Monday, suspected tribal rebels blew up a gas pipeline and two power pylons in Dera Bugti, said officials.

The gas pipeline and pylons were damaged when home-made bombs planted by the rebels exploded, said a security official, but there were no casualties. Balochistan Liberation Army leader Wadera Alam Khan Bugti claimed responsibility for MondayÂ’s attack. He aslo claimed responsibility for two other incidents in which three electricity poles in Dasht and a gas pipeline were blown up.
Posted by: Fred || 01/04/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Gas pipeline blown up in Dera Bugti

Honey would ya please turn out the lights...the Dera Bugti gas line was blowed up again and the rates are gonna go thru the roof.

whataya mean I left em on, it waz me?
Posted by: Mahmood || 01/04/2007 5:11 Comments || Top||


Police arrest 26 terrorists
Police in Quetta and Jaffarabad arrested 26 alleged terrorists and seized arms from their possession on Wednesday. According to Aaj TV, Quetta police arrested two terrorists allegedly involved in gas pipeline explosions in Balochistan. Separately, police in Jaffarabad arrested 24 alleged terrorists and seized several weapons, according to Geo TV. The channel also reported two blasts in Kandh Kot, near Kashmore.
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#1  Whilst the Taliban were allowed to go about their business freely!!!!!
Posted by: Ebbolump Glomotle9608 || 01/04/2007 5:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Are these "terrorists" Christians or Jews?
Posted by: Brett || 01/04/2007 7:28 Comments || Top||

#3  My guess would be Balochs.
Posted by: Fred || 01/04/2007 10:20 Comments || Top||


Militants held at railway station are brothers
The two alleged conduits of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) arrested at the New Delhi railway station here by the Special Cell of the Delhi police are brothers allegedly involved in several terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir. The two, Samiullah Sheikh and Ali Mohammad Sheikh, had reached the Capital by the Andaman Express and were planning to plant a bomb in the crowded Paharganj Market near the railway station on New Year's eve. Two live Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) weighing two kg were seized from them and defused.

Joint Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Karnal Singh said Samiullah was involved in many terrorist operations in the Valley, including a mine blast on a highway near a village Uther in May last, injuring nearly 10 civilians and damaging an Army vehicle. In July 2006, he along with another terrorist allegedly shot dead one Kashmiri informer. In October, he allegedly planted a landmine on Ussan Road near Palhallan in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir targeting an Army convoy.

Mr. Singh said Ali Mohammad runs a medical store from his native village Palhallan. Police said the duo visited Chennai in November to receive alleged LeT conduits reaching there via the sea route. Both were imparted training in handling the Global Positioning System device to safely receive them on the coast. Their father, Mohiuddin Sheikh, and two elder brothers were activists of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen.
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Iraq
U.S. doubts Iraqi leaders after taunting of Saddam
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The taunts and insults hurled at Saddam Hussein minutes before his execution Saturday have prompted some U.S. officials and Iraqi politicians to conclude that Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's government is led by Shiite Muslim radicals and cannot be counted on to disarm Shiite militias.
Wowzers. How'd they come to notice that? I mean, it's so subtle...
Several U.S. officials in Baghdad and Washington said that, practically speaking, the Bush administration no longer can expect Maliki to tackle the militias because Saddam's hanging exposed the depth of the government's sectarianism.
I've been reading through some of the stuff we have from 2004, contrasting Maliki with Allawi. The diffo's like night and day -- and Allawi's a Sunni.
The scene at the execution "confirms everyone's worst speculations about the government: It is sectarian and incompetent," said a U.S. official who agreed to speak under a promise of anonymity.
Remember the whole idea was to set up a "government of national unity." Governments of national unity boil the problems in the same pot with the solutions.
The militias and Maliki's government are intertwined "so much that you don't know for sure from issue to issue what is the militia and what is the government," the official said.
That's assuming there's a difference between the two. Successful states don't have militias. Force is a monopoly of government.
That assessment underscores the Bush administration's challenge as it considers sending thousands of additional U.S. troops to confront Iraq's growing sectarian violence.
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Posted by: Spomort Greling4204 || 01/04/2007 07:57 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I thought Allawi was a Shiite.
Posted by: Brett || 01/04/2007 11:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Gah. My mistake. Allawi's a secular Shiite.
Posted by: Fred || 01/04/2007 11:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Considering the treatment of Iraqis under said dickhead, taunting before death is the very least he deserved.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/04/2007 11:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Interesting bit of history from Michael Ledeen from NRO, concerning the Saddam hanging.

"I agree with Rich that the Iraqis botched the execution of Saddam. It was not the American way, it was the traditional way. In the course of writing a book about Naples, I read scores of accounts of hangings, and there's a copious English-language literature on such things as well, from which it emerges that Saddam's treatment—the insults, the jibes, the jokes, all those things that offend us—have long been part of the ritual. Remember the final scene in "Braveheart"? When the torturer has the crowd laughing with him about the agonies to which Mel Gibson is about to be subjected?"
Posted by: Sherry || 01/04/2007 11:50 Comments || Top||

#5  The hell with Sammy's "dignity". They could've taken turns pissing on his head and I wouldn't care.
Posted by: mojo || 01/04/2007 12:07 Comments || Top||

#6  Let's just point out to the Euros and their brethren of how 'collaborators' were treated before their execution, sans trials, when the allies liberated the cities in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. This boils down to the classical western liberal standard of 'do as I say, not as I do'. Insert photo of Mussolini here.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/04/2007 12:19 Comments || Top||

#7  Geez, had we been invited, we would have brought confetti and noisemakers, and "beer elf'ed" Saddam with magic markers after.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 01/04/2007 12:34 Comments || Top||

#8  Whether or not Sammy deserved taunting isn't finally the point. Anti-war, pro-insurgent apologists are now armed with some "kangaroo court" evidence they so badly want: the executioners were there to serve Shiite tribal interests, not overall justice in Iraq.

A strong, ethical government prevents displays of vengeful emotionality and tribalism during a criminal execution. Sadly, Iraq's government is neither strong nor ethical. It's right that Saddam has finally been delivered the justice he deserves, but Iraq's chances are only further diminished by what happened in that execution room.
Posted by: Jules || 01/04/2007 12:40 Comments || Top||

#9  "Set up" is the right word. And they walked right into it. Thanks, guys.
Posted by: Perfesser || 01/04/2007 14:53 Comments || Top||

#10  I agree Jules, Iraq is going nowhere fast. I don't have much hope for them or anyone else in the middle east these days. It will take a earth shattering event to change the status quo there.
Posted by: Unique Battle || 01/04/2007 16:37 Comments || Top||

#11  I stand second to none in having wished that the execution would have been done with the decorum and elegance of a Nobel Prize ceremony. But the moral confusion of western elites has now become so profound that they have truly lost their ability to deal with life on this planet.

Name the high-points of moral outrage in both the Sunni Arab and western media since 2003. That's right - Abu Ghraib (several hours of non-injurious misbehavior by guards who were detected, stopped, and prosecuted rather harshly by their own service), the upsurge in Shi'a death squad activity post-Golden Mosque booming, and Saddam's execution (an entirely legal affair following a trial in which the defendants had almost unlimited scope to challenge the evidence).


Gee, did anything else happen in the time meriting some outrage? Hmm .... let's see. How about a years-long war of incredibly barbarous terrorism against Shi'a, so far with a toll in the many many thousands of innocent lives. Which is the major factor in Iraq's current difficulties, to include the popularity and activity of many Shi'a militias.

What, you haven't noticed the moral outrage and tut-tutting in the west and Arab world over that?

The contempt with which any sane Iraqi Shi'ite would hold the Arab world and west for their fainting spell over the execution chamber histrionics, after years of indifference to massive and horrendous atrocities against them, should be and probably is intense and deep.

Painting the unprecedented delivery of justice to one of modern history's worst criminals as a set-back or stain is a breath-taking demonstration of the moral insanity that characterizes our times.
Posted by: Verlaine || 01/04/2007 16:53 Comments || Top||

#12  Verlaine-I don't disagree with you about the ridiculous way the West responded to Abu Ghraib, nor that Saddam's Baath party committed "incredibly barbarous terrorism against Shi'a".

My point wasn't that the execution should've been carried out with the "decorum and elegance" of a Nobel Prize-that's a bit of hyperbole. But it might have helped THE IRAQIS if the execution had been carried out with cool steeliness and statesmenship, rather than appearing like one more, Arab-enraged act of vengeance. It was a world-witnessed, state criminal sentence, which Shi'a were understandably happy about; but the smuggled film recorded tribal vengeance, which does not serve Iraq in the long-term, unless you intend to divide the country into 3 regions. As we have seen in the Arab world, acts of vengeance are always met with counter acts of vengeance. As far as Iraqis are concerned, I think it would been better if his execution were seen as meting out a criminal sentence, rather than as a victory of Shi'a over Sunni.
Posted by: Jules || 01/04/2007 18:05 Comments || Top||

#13  I should have said "3 permanently warring states".
Posted by: Jules || 01/04/2007 18:11 Comments || Top||

#14  By the customs of the area, Saddam was executed with decorum and statesmanship. No one should have expected much more than really happened. Get over it.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 01/04/2007 19:42 Comments || Top||

#15  I'd rather he was pushed into a mass grave of terrorism/sectarian strife victims and buried alive, but that's just me
Posted by: Frank G || 01/04/2007 21:20 Comments || Top||

#16  Saddam is as "dead" as the REAL ZARKEY???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 01/04/2007 22:03 Comments || Top||

#17  Jules, I don't disagree with a thing you said, and yes I did use a bit of hyperbole, but obviously just to emphasize my point that any flaw in anything associated with the US becomes an obsession, while the true horrors going on are virtually ignored.

I'm not sure whether there would be much practical benefit to a solemn execution, in terms of Iraq's future, but I'm sure it was worth a try to see. Oh well. I wish I could say I was surprised, but I was close enough to this whole process to know that the court or govt. was more likely than not to botch at least the atmospherics.
Posted by: Verlaine || 01/04/2007 23:22 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Fresh clashes in Gaza kill one, Haniyeh urges calm
Clashes! Get ya fresh clashes heah!
GAZA, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Gunbattles broke out between forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Hamas government in northern Gaza on Thursday, killing a Hamas policeman and wounding two other people, witnesses said.
Trucefire holding...film at eleven.
Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, a senior Hamas leader, called for calm in the wake of the renewed internal violence. Five people were killed on Wednesday in fighting."These clashes must stop, this bloodshed must end. Let all of you love one another, let's resolve differences through dialogue and not with weapons," Haniyeh told reporters after returning from making the Haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.
...and are my arms tired.
"Weapons must only be directed against the Israeli occupation."
Jeez, if only they were still here...
Wednesday's violence was the worst internal fighting since Hamas and Abbas's Fatah agreed to a shaky ceasefire two weeks ago.
Well if it's a shaky ceasefire, I guess this stuff is okay then...
The two sides declared the truce in an attempt to end violence that surged after Abbas challenged Hamas by calling for early parliamentary and presidential elections after unity government talks failed. Hamas has labelled Abbas's move a coup to oust it less than a year after it surprised the once dominant Fatah faction to win a parliamentary ballot.
I curse your mustache!
Well I curse your mustache! And your wife's mustache! HA!

Fatah sources said the northern Gaza clash erupted when members of a Hamas police unit attacked the house of a senior Fatah official. Hamas said its forces were shot at first.
We didn't do it.
Well we didn't do it.
Well we didn't do it.
Okay. Ceasefire?
Okay.

The affiliation of the two wounded was unclear.
Teamsters probably...
Unknown gunmen also fired on mourners at a funeral for three security officers loyal to Abbas who were among the dead on Wednesday.
Open up, boys! The dead don't shoot back...
Fatah sources and medical officials said two mourners were wounded during the funeral march in central Gaza when gunmen shot at the procession.
Funerals, weddings. Is there anyplace we can go where we don't get shot?
A senior Hamas member was also kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in Gaza City, the Islamists said.
Again? Okay, boys, but can we stop for falafel first?
Posted by: tu3031 || 01/04/2007 16:05 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "All is well! Return to your homes!"
Posted by: mojo || 01/04/2007 16:32 Comments || Top||

#2  I urge more clashes and deadly shootings.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/04/2007 21:16 Comments || Top||

#3  stale clashes suck. More fresh clashes! When oh when will someone rid us of Saeb Erekat?
Posted by: Frank G || 01/04/2007 22:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Only one dead? That shows a disappointing lack of effort.

Love 'trucefire', btw.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/04/2007 23:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Calm down indeed. Take a deep breath, hold and aim true boyz.
Posted by: ed || 01/04/2007 23:20 Comments || Top||


IDF Firefight in Ramallah Bags Two
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen exchanged heavy fire in downtown Ramallah on Thursday after undercover Israeli forces tried to arrest fugitives in the city's vegetable market. Two Palestinians were killed and 25 were wounded.

Separately, a new round of factional fighting broke out between the rival Hamas and Fatah groups in the Gaza Strip, leaving two Palestinians dead.

Assailants also targeted three senior Hamas officials in the West Bank, kidnapping one, torching the car of a second and shooting in the air as a third emerged from a mosque, security officials said Thursday.
Does that fulfill his requirements for martyrdom status?
The Israeli arrest raid came as Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, to find ways to restart Mideast peace talks that have been stalled for more than six years. Israeli media reported that Mubarak would propose a regional peace summit involving Israel, the Palestinians, Egypt and Jordan, but Olmert's aides said they were unaware of such a proposal.
Peace summit? HuhÂ…what you talkinÂ’ bout Willus? Wait a secÂ…anybody seen Peres lately?
Israel and the Palestinians agreed to a shaky cease-fire ...
(Or was it a fragile truce?)

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: DepotGuy || 01/04/2007 12:13 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Israeli forces tried to arrest fugitives in the city's vegetable market

Drop that Sweet 'tater or BANG! BANG! BANG! we shoot
Posted by: Shipman || 01/04/2007 17:29 Comments || Top||


Foreigners advised to leave Gaza
Palestinian security officials have advised foreign nationals to leave Gaza due to kidnap threats two days after Jaime Razuri, a photographer, was snatched by unknown armed men. Security officials said they have advised American and European nationals to leave because of a threat of further abductions. "We've had warnings of kidnapping operations and have asked American and European nationals to leave Gaza," a security source said. Razuri, a Peruvian national working for AFP, was abducted from the centre of Gaza City by unknown men as he returned from an assignment on Monday.
Posted by: Fred || 01/04/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Finally
Posted by: gromgoru || 01/04/2007 0:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Means there won't be any innocent collaterals killed during the bombardment:)
Posted by: Hyper || 01/04/2007 1:54 Comments || Top||

#3  I still think it would be best for Israel to do everything in its power to make sure that Fatah and Hamas can never be within 100 feet without trying to kill each other. A permanent rupture, leaving the West Bank totally Fatah, and Gaza totally Hamas. Two different "governments" and all.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 01/04/2007 8:08 Comments || Top||

#4  The MSM can always find "innocents" killed during an Israeli/US attack.
Posted by: Jackal || 01/04/2007 8:08 Comments || Top||

#5  "We've had warnings of kidnapping operations and have asked American and European nationals to leave Gaza,"

South Amercians are still up for grabs. Gotta have someone available for kidnapping.
Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 || 01/04/2007 10:02 Comments || Top||

#6  They have to be "advised" to leave? How stupid are these people?
Well, they are in Gaza...
Posted by: tu3031 || 01/04/2007 10:04 Comments || Top||

#7  Does that include the "Gazans"? After all, they're foreigners too.
Posted by: mcsegeek1 || 01/04/2007 11:45 Comments || Top||

#8  "Am-scray"
Posted by: mojo || 01/04/2007 14:51 Comments || Top||

#9  For anybody in Gaza (including the regular inhabitants): Too stupid to live should be a valid diagnosis.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 01/04/2007 19:12 Comments || Top||


Fatah: Hamas blocking ambulances
Palestinians sources say that in all, 10 Palestinians have been kidnapped by both Hamas and Fatah throughout Wednesday. Among the abductees are three 17 year-old youths, nephews of a senior PPSS officer loyal to Fatah. Fatah also claims that Hamas gunmen have set up roadblocks and are conducting searches throughout northern and southern Gaza. Fatah says the roadblocks are preventing ambulances from reaching the conflict zones and tend to the wounded.
Because Hamas knows darned well what the ambulances are transporting ...
A spokesman for the Fatah organization in Gaza, Mahar Maqddad, accused Hamas of assassinating members of the Palestinian Preventive Security Service and a Fatah operative in Gaza on Wednesday. "Fatah will not remain silent in the face of these crimes perpetrated by Hamas," said the spokesman. Maqddad called on the factions to uphold the ceasefire agreement and make sure that Hamas honors it as Fatah has.
Posted by: Fred || 01/04/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fatah also claims that Hamas gunmen have set up roadblocks and are conducting searches throughout northern and southern Gaza. Fatah says the roadblocks are preventing ambulances from reaching the conflict zones and tend to the wounded

Well Hamas should know catching terrorists inGaza is all about the ambulances..how come we don't know that?
Posted by: Dunno || 01/04/2007 3:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Keep it up, this is better than soap opera.
Posted by: Spomort Greling4204 || 01/04/2007 7:35 Comments || Top||

#3  the roadblocks are preventing ambulances from reaching the conflict zones

after all, hamas is first and foremost a "humanitarian" organization
Posted by: PlanetDan || 01/04/2007 8:13 Comments || Top||

#4  "Fatah will not remain silent in the face of these crimes perpetrated by Hamas."

Maybe they should get Carter to write a new book on Palestinian Apartheid.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 01/04/2007 9:44 Comments || Top||

#5  Now Hamas is as bad as the Israelis!

/SARC OFF
Posted by: gorb || 01/04/2007 14:20 Comments || Top||


Hamas in control in Gaza
Palestinian sources reported that senior Fatah military wing leader Hassan al-Qasas, member narrowly escaped an assassination attempt after gunmen fired an RPG towards him and another senior group member. Fatah has blamed Hamas for the attack. Ahmad Sarur, a resident of Beit Lahiya, told Ynet on Wednesday that the situation in northern Gaza is "very frightening." Sarur says that masked gunmen are positioned at every junction and along every route. According to Sarur the gunmen interrogate people on the street and search them. "Everywhere you go there are masked Hamas fighters," he described his surroundings, "Fatah is nowhere to be seen in the streets, Hamas has taken control of things here."

Sarur said that residents are embittered about the situation and that there seems to be no solution to the crisis. "We elected a government so that it would bring change to the security situation, but its only gotten worse and is deteriorating," he said, "no one goes anywhere in the north (of Gaza), people only want to stay in their homes so as not to be caught in the crossfire between Hamas and Fatah."

The violence started early on Wednesday with the shooting of a Fatah member in Beit Lahiya. His family members, along with other Fatah gunmen, blocked nearby roads and chanted anti-Hamas slogans. In another incident Wednesday a Hamas member was wounded after a bomb he was working on apparently detonated prematurely in Gaza City. The wounded man serves as Interior Minister Sayeed SiyamÂ’s bodyguard. Another Hamas member died Tuesday under similar circumstances.
Posted by: Fred || 01/04/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It sounds like the Palestinian Territories have achieved de facto partition -- West Bank to Fatah (as they seem to be once again calling themselves), Gaza to Hamas. I vote we formally recognized the division and call for the respective ruling bodies to negotiate a split of assets and liabilities before engaging the outside world in any way.

/wishful thinking
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/04/2007 3:39 Comments || Top||

#2  I wonder if there are any Gaza residents wishing Israel hadn't withdrawn.

Ahhh, the good old days.
Posted by: PlanetDan || 01/04/2007 8:12 Comments || Top||

#3  these are the good old days
Posted by: RD || 01/04/2007 8:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Nice voting, Paleos. Maybe you can do better next election.
Posted by: Unique Battle || 01/04/2007 16:41 Comments || Top||


Qassam lands north of Karni
A Qassam rocket fired Wednesday evening from the Gaza Strip landed north of the Erez Crossing. No one was wounded and no damage was caused. After three days of relative quiet in the south, on Tuesday Palestinians disrupted the calm, firing mortar shells which landed near the Karni goods crossing. One person was lightly wounded and was evacuated to the Soroka Medical Center in Beer Sheba. A truck was also damaged. Despite the rocket fire, the crossing remained open.

Just two weeks ago Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas agreed to improve security scans at the crossing to enable the crossing of 400 trucks per day between Gaza and Israel. Manager of the Karni Crossing Yoni Dotan told Ynet: “The rocket landed near a parked truck. Rockets are fired in the area constantly, although according to our assessments, they aren’t aimed here. A rocket hit could cause a large-scale disaster at the crossing." The incident itself didn’t interrupt work at the terminal.

On the same day Palestinian gunmen fired two rockets towards Israel. One was apparently aimed towards Ashkelon but landed in an open area on the Gaza side. Another rocket landed in the Shaar Hanegev local council near a kibbutz. There were no reports of injuries or damages.
Posted by: Fred || 01/04/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  On the same day Palestinian gunmen fired two rockets towards Israel. One was apparently aimed towards Ashkelon but landed in an open area on the Gaza side.

The Palestinians are making good progress toward clearing their side of the border precisely one rocket's worth. Well done, gentlemen!

/sarcasm
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/04/2007 3:49 Comments || Top||


Beit Lahiya: Fatah member shot dead
A member of FatahÂ’s armed wing, the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades was shot to death Wednesday in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya. An anonymous sniper shot Alla Inaya, 24, killing him on the spot. The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades accused Hamas gunmen of killing the man. Following the shooting InayaÂ’s family members, along with al-Aqsa gunmen, blocked nearby roads and chanted anti-Hamas slogans.
Posted by: Fred || 01/04/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Darn it! I've run out of popcorn again.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/04/2007 3:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Mazel Tov!
Posted by: mojo || 01/04/2007 10:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Every day, in a dozen different ways, these people prove they not only don't deserve their own state, but that they need "adult supervision" 24/7. Israel needs to flush them from Gaza and the West Bank, forcing them into Egypt and Jordan. Then the US needs to TOTALLY cut the funding for UNWRA so these arab idiots MUST assimilate, instead of being kept in camps to prolong the agony. A few tons of explosives delivered here and there will stop most of the bi$$$ing.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 01/04/2007 13:11 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Reported Dead
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 01/04/2007 15:37 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If only he had been more holy, he wouldn't have died!

Mebbe that's why Jimmuh Cahtah is still alive.....
Posted by: Bobby || 01/04/2007 16:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Awww, too bad.
Hope it was painful.
Posted by: tu3031 || 01/04/2007 16:25 Comments || Top||

#3  I heard Ariel Sharon was seen driving away from the hospital...
Posted by: Seafarious || 01/04/2007 16:46 Comments || Top||

#4  While the various Kleptomullah and messianicmullah factions fight, it would be a good time to smuggle some stuff to the various arab, azari, kurd, etc. forces.
Posted by: mhw || 01/04/2007 16:56 Comments || Top||

#5 
He's not only merely dead
He's really most sincerely dead!
Posted by: doc || 01/04/2007 16:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Woud saying "Ayatollah you so!" be in poor taste?
Posted by: Mike || 01/04/2007 17:03 Comments || Top||

#7  Does he carry his turban with him?
Posted by: Shipman || 01/04/2007 17:32 Comments || Top||

#8  May his corpse rot in hell.
Posted by: Brett || 01/04/2007 17:42 Comments || Top||

#9  If Castro kicks off this week too, Lucifer may have a crowd control problem.
Posted by: DMFD || 01/04/2007 17:48 Comments || Top||

#10  Does he carry his turban with him?

Actually there is a "Devil Issue" Turban, red with the pentagram blazened on the front... For the Devil's special Imam Corps...(or, "I C")


Posted by: BigEd || 01/04/2007 18:26 Comments || Top||

#11  He's dead, Jim...
Posted by: Bones McCoy || 01/04/2007 18:31 Comments || Top||

#12  Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

(fill in your own caption.)
Posted by: Anonymoose || 01/04/2007 18:39 Comments || Top||

#13  #12 - Howzabout "Go join your friends in HELL. Have a nice day.™"

:-D
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 01/04/2007 19:03 Comments || Top||

#14  "You shall get 72 virgins, except they will be doing the boning!"
Posted by: Charles || 01/04/2007 20:23 Comments || Top||

#15  (fill in your own caption.)

It's good news week
Saddam's bungee-jumped somewhere
Islamic Courts vanished in thin air
Khamenei fell from his tree
Posted by: Singing Defective || 01/04/2007 20:37 Comments || Top||

#16  but is he completely ded?

can we halp him be deder?

where's the buzzard vulture thingy?
Posted by: RD || 01/04/2007 21:32 Comments || Top||

#17  A mortal Mullah, isnt that a contradiction of the rules of mullahdum, or is it just a fatwah that had many spelling errors, and thus failed in its edicts by virtue of translation....

its possible other fatwahs may be negated too....once the readership of supreme fatwas, start writing letters to the editor....the whole thing could spiral into oblivion....just like the Myth that Oil is a fossil fuel.
Posted by: Ulolump Ebbomort5927 || 01/04/2007 21:36 Comments || Top||


Stennis To Join Eisenhower And Boxer In Gulf
The Pentagon will send a second aircraft carrier and its escort ships to the Gulf, defense officials said on Wednesday, as a warning to Syria and Iran and to give commanders more flexibility in the region.

Officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Bremerton, Washington-based USS John C. Stennis strike group would deploy this month. It will put 5,000 more U.S. sailors in the region, bringing the total to 16,000.

The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier group entered the Gulf in December.

Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman declined to comment, saying the Defense Department would not discuss future deployments or ship movements. But military analysts said the move was intended to demonstrate U.S. resolve in the face of acts by Iran and Syria that it sees as provocative, such as Tehran's pursuit of its nuclear program.

The Stennis had been scheduled to deploy to the Pacific region. But the Pentagon agreed instead to send the carrier group to the Gulf after a request from U.S. Central Command, the military command responsible for Middle East operations.

Senior defense officials have said that request was aimed at increasing Central Command's flexibility in a variety of operations and providing deterrence in the region.

Washington has locked horns with Tehran over the Iranian nuclear program. American defense officials also regularly charge Iran and Syria with fanning sectarian violence in Iraq and contributing to the deteriorating situation there by providing arms and technologies.

The second carrier, while adding relatively few service members to the region, is valuable as a symbol of America's increased presence in the Gulf, military analysts said.

Longer term, however, the Bush administration must decide if it will keep two carrier groups in the Gulf indefinitely.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates previously said the increased American presence in the Gulf was a message to the region as a whole and not a response to any specific action by Iran.

"I think the message that we are sending to everyone, not just Iran, is that the United States is an enduring presence in this part of the world," Gates told reporters on a December visit to Baghdad. "We will be here for a long time and everybody needs to remember that -- both our friends and those who might consider themselves our adversaries."
Posted by: Anonymoose || 01/04/2007 07:44 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Anyone for Stennis?
Posted by: Eric Jablow || 01/04/2007 9:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Well...that puts at least 90+ F18s well within striking distance of Irans' oil fields and platforms.

CenCom requested the additional battle group, eh? That's very interesting...

Posted by: FOTSGreg || 01/04/2007 10:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Tally Ho!
Posted by: Warthog || 01/04/2007 11:11 Comments || Top||

#4  Don't we usually keep 2 carriers in the region?

And what is the Boxer? USMC Expeditionary Group?
Posted by: Anon4021 || 01/04/2007 11:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Think it's a worthless ugly garbage scow named after Barbara Boxer ;)
Posted by: Warthog || 01/04/2007 12:22 Comments || Top||

#6  The USS Boxer's a Wasp-Class LHD - Dock Landing Ship/Helicopter platform. The history goes back to the War of 1812. Go here for more info.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 01/04/2007 13:17 Comments || Top||

#7  it's a worthless ugly garbage scow named after Barbara Boxer

LOL!

Really, why is the Boxer there? Isn't it supposed to deliver EGs or something? Are they using it as some kind of carrier? Are they swapping out some Marines?
Posted by: gorb || 01/04/2007 14:17 Comments || Top||

#8  Fots:Call me nostalgic, but if the Intruders hadn't been sacrificed at the altar of the "one size fits all" lawn dart, there would be no reason to even have a CV inside the gulf as the "skypig" not only had longer legs than the hornet but also had a bigger payload carrying capacity. 15K worth of ordnance and still had 16K internal fuel, or you could hang 4 drop tanks and a buddy store on one and provide all sorts of IFR capacity (26K of fuel)to those dragging the bombs around. show me a lawn dart with the same numbers.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 01/04/2007 14:55 Comments || Top||

#9 
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Posted by: wxjames || 01/04/2007 15:15 Comments || Top||

#10  'bout time for some LLL human shields to protect those poor poor uranium centrifuges.
Posted by: DMFD || 01/04/2007 18:37 Comments || Top||

#11  Wouldn't need carriers at all if we hadn't scrapped the battleships.

Nothing warms the cockles of my heart more than a good Alpha strike. Go 'truders!
Posted by: Chuck Simmins || 01/04/2007 20:37 Comments || Top||

#12  Whats over TAIWAN = NORTH KOREA ways???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 01/04/2007 21:10 Comments || Top||

#13  if the Intruders hadn't been sacrificed at the altar of the "one size fits all" lawn dart,

I was under the impression the Interuders had reached end-of-life due to the stresses of carrier ops. The EW variant is flying, I believe, since they weren't as heavily loaded. Feel free to correct any misunderstandings on my part since you are obviously closer to the problem.

The A-6s had some impressive capabilities as a bomb truck. Seems like a shame not to replace them with something as functional. Maybe everyone simply punted after the A-12 mess?
Posted by: SteveS || 01/04/2007 21:19 Comments || Top||

#14  SteveS: While the stresses of carrier ops were in play, the Boeing plastic winged A-6s were doing a superb job. That's right, Boeing beat out Grumman for the rewing effort. There was a coule of upgrades on the table an also in flying status, the Block 50 SWIP and the A6-F. The SWIP had a lot of EA-6 B Prowler ECM stuff as well as some other (still classified I believe) goodies, while the 'F' was basically a re-engined 'E' with more bombing capabilities as well as a glass cockpit. The engines were the -408s from the Prowler. Now all this was going on at the same time as the F-A 18 early variants were being scrutinized for cost / perfromance overruns ( read 'Pentagon Paradox for a complete and saddening rundown on what our tax $$ bought) as well as the A-12 Avenger II Stealth bomber. The A-12 ( flying Dorito) was something like 5000 ounds overweight and many millions of dollars over budget. Something had to go and the majority of Dorito heavies were old A-6 / F-14 bubbas, (some personal opinion inserted here) after the A-12 got axed, the senior NAVAIR types were all of the Light Attack Mafia (A-7 and Hornets) so they pulled the plug on the Intruder. There are something like 100 (plastic wing) still in war reserve in the Davis-Mothan Boneyard, and about 33 or so off the coast of St. Augustine Florida, forming the 'Intruder Reef.' The remainder have been cannibalized for Prowler compatible parts ( not many) or placed in the Foreign Military Sales used airplane lot. They have had the weapson system stripped and were being advertised as visual bombing or tankers only ( as of about 2 yrs ago).
Yeah they weren't stealthy, but stand in the bullseye at Nellis and have a flight of 12 come at you ont of the sun, and even knowing that the racks were empty, it still made you want to find a (big) rock to crawl under when they blasted over @ about 100 ft and 450 kts. better than sex, it was!

Posted by: USN, ret. || 01/04/2007 22:36 Comments || Top||

#15  Be it via "Nuclear Victory" celebration come February 2007, or any appearance by the Imam/Mahdi this Spring Equinox, iff Dubya follows thru on "FORTRESS IRAQ/ISRAEL/ME" scenarios, Iran will have to either forsake its support for Iraqi-and other regional insurgent efforts, OR ELSE INITIATE=LAUNCH NEW ATTACKS IN ME + WORLD, INCLUD INSIDE AMERICA, to "SAVE FACE". e.g. Amer Hiroshimas/new 9-11's. Moud vs Dubya > WHOM WILL "BLINK FIRST" ala Cuban Missle Crisis + JFK-Kruschev. IMO Dubya knows there is risk of himself glowing-in-the-dark or by other BCWar means, but Radical Islam-Terror can't be allowed to possess Nukes/WMDS. GOTTA ADMIRE DUBYA FOR THAT.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 01/04/2007 22:43 Comments || Top||

#16  ...when they blasted over @ about 100 ft and 450 kts. better than sex, it was!

I bet it was! Thanks for the inside info, USN, ret. I've always had a fanboy love for the A-6.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/04/2007 23:23 Comments || Top||

#17  Lawn darts, sky pigs, who cares, as long as we use those toys to kill sand monkeys, that's all.
Lock and load, let's roll, tally ho !
Posted by: wxjames || 01/04/2007 15:15 Comments || Top||


Good morning
Oil Prices Fall Below $59 a BarrelKenya Sends Troops to Somalia's BorderHamas in control in Gaza17 Taliban killed in Afghan-NATO operationPoll boycott in BangladeshIraq move may quash 'bipartisan' CongressBoy dies trying to imitate Saddam's hanging
Posted by: Fred || 01/04/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  gorb wood.
Posted by: gorb || 01/04/2007 0:19 Comments || Top||

#2  “And the Nattily Wood had become the Evelyn Wood.”—Bored of the Rings
Posted by: Eric Jablow || 01/04/2007 1:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Unfortunately, she died in a tragic drowning while she was drinking.
Posted by: Sneaze Shaiting3550 || 01/04/2007 6:20 Comments || Top||

#4  The three woods that don't float:

1. Mahogony
2. Teak
3. Natalie
Posted by: tu3031 || 01/04/2007 8:34 Comments || Top||

#5  Ahhhh, the fantasies of youth.

In this pic she presents the same "look" as CZJ, fantasy of age 8^(
Posted by: AlanC || 01/04/2007 8:44 Comments || Top||

#6  I always wanted to be Robert Wagner - first marries Natalie Wood and then Jill St John....yikes!
Posted by: Frank G || 01/04/2007 8:48 Comments || Top||

#7  what frank said and i still have a crush on NW.
Posted by: RD || 01/04/2007 9:54 Comments || Top||

#8  Jill St.John...happy sigh...I think she kickstarted me into puberty when I saw her in
Diamonds Are Forever .

Or is it pullstarted..I can never remember.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 01/04/2007 10:55 Comments || Top||

#9  Ah, little Natalia Nikolaevna Gurdin (nee Zakharenko)

Yummy. One of the finest Russian imports this century.
Posted by: mojo || 01/04/2007 14:01 Comments || Top||

#10  The same expression she had in Miracle on 34th Street.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 01/04/2007 16:02 Comments || Top||



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Sat 2006-12-30
  Saddam hanged
Fri 2006-12-29
  Daffy Janjalani presumed dead
Thu 2006-12-28
  Islamic Courts Hang It Up
Wed 2006-12-27
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Tue 2006-12-26
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Mon 2006-12-25
  Ethiopia launches offensive against Somalia's Islamic movement
Sun 2006-12-24
  UN Security Council approves Iran sanctions
Sat 2006-12-23
  Somali provisional govt, Islamic courts do battle
Fri 2006-12-22
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