KHOST: A bomb planted on the side of a road killed newborn twins, their mother and grandmother in southeastern Afghanistan on Sunday, while gunmen on a motorbike shot dead a school principal, police said. The bomb struck the family while they were in a wagon driving home from a clinic in Khost, where the babies were born overnight, deputy police chief Sakhi Mir said. Two newborn babies and two women were martyred in the roadside bomb blast and another woman and a man in the vehicle were wounded, Mir said. In Helmand earlier on Sunday, armed men on motorbikes killed a school principal as he left a mosque, provincial education director Saiful Malok Nuri said.
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Nothing says Islam like the senseless butcher of defenseless women and new-borns.
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Pull our people out, nuke the place till it glows, and declare victory. It's not worth the blood of one more civilized human being.
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mac, I'd suspect those 2 wimmin and newborn twins were (at the very least) just concerned about gettin' home. Hardly un-civilized in my book. I personally think the Afghanis could very well become some very civilized people (at least in that neck of the woods around them). Hard working folks, and most just want to get along in life. The jihadis & taliban remnants on the other hand could all be nuked and I wouldn't blink an eye.
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And, I 2nd Fred's comment as Snark of the Week (already)!
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British troops have destroyed a Taleban training camp in southern Afghanistan, killing dozens of insurgents, according to the military. About 110 Royal Marines carried out the operation in northern Helmand, which it is hoped will pave the way for repairs on a hydroelectric dam in the province. It is hoped nearly two million people will now get access to electricity.
Operation Clay was launched on New Year's Day. Plymouth-based 42 Commando were engaged in four days of fighting. A senior Taleban commander and "tens" of his henchman are said to have been killed during the operation. Only one marine was hurt during the battles. The soldier was shot through the hand.
Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has thanked Operation Clay's commanders. Mr Karzai, who is championing the scheme to fix the Kajaki Dam, sent a personal message.
Insurgents had been stalling repairs on faulty turbines at the dam, which is situated at the source of the Helmand River. Repair work on the facility, which was built in 1953, will now commence next month. It is estimated it will bring electricity to about 1.8 million people and treble the area of irrigated farmland in the fertile province.
Military spokesman Major Oliver Lee said: "We needed to sort out the insurgency that there has been in the environs of Kajaki.
"And we very successfully did that over this past week or so with some very focused targeted military operations, which included killing the key insurgency commander at that location." He said there had been "running firefights" for up to four days against "fairly coherent sustained attacks of small arms, rockets and indirect fire".
Maj Lee said he believed the operation, which had the support of the Afghan National Police, could also boost their campaign against the Taleban fighters in the province. He said: "I would suggest that we have significantly seized the initiative from the irreconcilables in that area."
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I love it how the Brits "sort things out" and we "clean out".
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British troops have destroyed a Taleban training camp in southern Afghanistan, killing dozens of insurgents, according to the military. About 110 Royal Marines carried out the operation in northern Helmand, which it is hoped will pave the way for repairs on a hydroelectric dam in the province. It is hoped nearly two million people will now get access to electricity.
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Isn't it wonderful how these thugs and their cult keep their own people stuck in the 7th Century by refusing to allow repairs to a hydroelectric facility that could bring bits of civilization to almost 2 million people.
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I still haven't decided if the terrorists are adrenaline junkies and just like to blow $hit up and kill people, or if they really believe what they are fighting for. I suspect it's a mix.
A U.S. Air Force gunship has conducted a strike against suspected members of al Qaeda in Somalia, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports exclusively. The targets included the senior al Qaeda leader in East Africa and an al Qaeda operative wanted for his involvement in the 1998 bombings of two American embassies in Africa, Martin reports. Those terror attacks killed more than 200 people.
The AC-130 gunship is capable of firing thousands of rounds per second, and sources say a lot of bodies were seen on the ground after the strike, but there is as yet, no confirmation of the identities. The gunship flew from its base in Dijibouti down to the southern tip of Somalia, Martin reports, where the al Qaeda operatives had fled after being chased out of the capital of Mogadishu by Ethiopian troops backed by the United States.
Once they started moving, the al Qaeda operatives became easier to track, and the U.S. military started preparing for an air strike, using unmanned aerial drones to keep them under surveillance and moving the aircraft carrier Eisenhower out of the Persian Gulf toward Somalia. But when the order was given, the mission was assigned to the AC-130 gunship operated by the U.S. Special Operations command.
If the attack got the operatives it was aimed at, reports Martin, it would deal a major blow to al Qaeda in East Africa.
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If the attack got the operatives it was aimed at, reports Martin, it would deal a major blow to al Qaeda in East Africa.
OH YES, OH YES.
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included the senior al Qaeda leader in East Africa and an al Qaeda operative wanted for his involvement in the 1998 bombings of two American embassies in Africa
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What is the standard follow through after an AC-130 gunship attack?
Not with the AC-130s necessarily. I am hoping we don't take our focus off killing as many as possible too early. Don't let them regroup. Hound them. Kill them. Don't let them rest until you hurt them so bad they crawl under a bush, die, and those in other countries don't consider going back.
Those U.S. gunships kill everything in their path and there is little doubt that many, many innocent Somali Muslims were slaughtered. How much more blood, Muslim and American, will we spill for the sake of the right-wing Israeli government and those among the American elite who make money on war and have dreams of world empire.
In fact, this left-liar is following the Goebbels dictum that a big lie is better than a small one.
The AC-130's guns are the most accurate aerial weapons we have, capable of picking off a single individual if required, or of knocking down a single small building with little risk to the occupants of neighboring structures. It was probably chosen for this mission for that specific reason; in preference to, say, a B-1 load of JDAMs .
Of course, after contradicting some pretty well-documented facts, "John antiwar" goes on to make any number of unsupported authoritarian pronouncments, as though his word alone were enough to persuade readers of his position.
This obvious combination of arrogance and ignorance is another example of why I do not believe in the sincerity of any anti-war activist.
They are all murderers, power-seekers, and totalitarians at heart, acting out of sympathy and admiration for the Islamic terrorists, just as the Cold War peace movment was largely motivated by sympathy for communism and envy for its ruthless power structure.
In 1000 years, people will shake their heads in wonder that we did not shoot these lying frauds in the street, let alone that millions pretended to take them seriously. The people of that time will see the peace hypocrites the same way we see the Spanish Inquisition or the witch hunters or medieval relic peddlers.
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Gorb! The blood of a soldier runs through you! HT!
The red stringer or rounds of the AC 130 always gets me to stop and watch, or listen. I know that somewhere someone, who is very deserving, is having a very very bad day. Little Bird gunships, Predator gunships, AC 130 gunships, they just make me a warm and happy troop!
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Could be the Kadina boys as well, Fallon's lettin then in to play.
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Those U.S. gunships kill everything in their path and there is little doubt that many, many innocent Somali Muslims were slaughtered.
Is that supposed to bother me, because it doesn't...
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Even if there aren't many, many, innocents cut down by the gunship. (and I bet there aren't) I'm sure the Somalia version of Green Helmet Guy will make sure there are... and just in time for him fondle and cart the little corpses around for all the cameras.
not that there aren't enough authentic libtards called "John Anti-wars" on the net, but many a Mohammed, Hameeds, and Abduls pose as "John Anti-wars" also.
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Wasn't there any helicopters on hand to drop a some troops in afterward? Would be nice to make sure nobody survived, or last make sure the ones that didn't were double or triple dead.
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Front-line grunts like JDAMs, and really like supporting A-10's, and love supporting Attack Helicopters - but positively lust for an AC-130 Spectre in direct support.
It is - effectively - to have the power of certain death and destruction at your fingertips. If something displeases you within your field of observation, you can make it simply disappear.
KISMAYO, Somalia A jungle hideout used by Islamic militants that is believed to be an al-Qaida base is on the verge of falling to Ethiopian and Somali troops, the defense minister said Monday. While a lawmaker had earlier told The Associated Press that the base was captured, Somalia's Defense Minister Col. Barre "Hirale" Aden Shire said troops had yet to enter it and that limited skirmishes were still ongoing, though troops were poised to take the base.
Ethiopian soldiers, tanks and warplanes were involved in the two-day attack, a government military commander told the AP on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
Shire said there had been heavy fighting with high numbers of casualties. "There are a lot of casualties from both sides," he said, declining to give details.
Residents in the coastal seaport of Kismayo, some 90 miles northeast of Ras Kamboni, said they saw wounded Ethiopian soldiers being loaded onto military helicopters for evacuation. "I have seen about 50 injured Ethiopian troops being loaded onto a military chopper," said Farhiya Yusuf. She said 12 Ethiopian helicopters were stationed at the Kismayo airport.
Somali officials said the Islamic movement's main force is bottled up at Ras Kamboni, the southernmost tip of the country, cut off from escape at sea by patrolling U.S. warships and across the Kenyan border by the Kenyan military. On Sunday, gunmen attacked Ethiopian troops, witnesses said, sparking a firefight in the second straight day of violence in the capital, Mogadishu.
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50 injured Ethiopians loaded onto a single Chopper? Boy, those Ethiopian choppers must be big!
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Get every last one of 'em. Remember -- bin laden was emboldened by the Blackhawk Down incident in Mogadishu, so he thought Somalia would be a good al qaeda base.
(SomaliNet) Small skirmish has broken out in the Somalia capital Mogadishu tonight between Somali militiamen and the Ethiopian forces killing at least one person and wounding two others. The clashes came after armed militiamen attacked on military vehicles belonged to Ethiopian troops passing in front of the Sahafi hotel in southern of Mogadishu. Both the dead and the injured were Somalis. The dead person was 13-year-old girl while one of the wounded was an old man who was in serious condition.
Witnesses told Somalinet that they heard huge explosion around 8:00 pm local time when the gunmen fired Rocket Propelled Grenade at the convoys of the Ethiopians but missed its target. The Ethiopian forces responded by opening fire at every corner around the area.
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(SomaliNet) Somali cleric who had links with the defeated Islamic Courts Union was shot dead by unknown gunmen overnight in the Somalia capital Mogadishu as the insecurity situation looms in the city. Abdi Wali Hassan Omar in his middle age was killed around his house in the west of the capital when unknown men opened fire on him where he has died on the spot.
Fadumo Samatar, the wife of the killed man condemned the killing of her husband as inhuman and told the local media that her husband was killed in political motivation. My husband was innocent and did no wrongdoings to my knowledge but apparently he was killed because of his belief and he was supporter of the Islamic Courts, said Samatar.
Witnesses told Somalinet that Hassan was not killed for robbery acts because he was holding a pistol and high cost cell phone. Unconfirmed reports say that the killing of Hassan was a revenge action.
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(SomaliNet) The Ethiopian forces command in central Somalia has arrested the Somalia army commander for central provinces after he refused to comply with the Ethiopian order, reports say on Sunday. Colonel Mukhtar Hussein Afrah was taken to Mogadishu, Somalia capital where the main central command of Ethiopian military is located. Witnesses said a large number of Ethiopian troops along with tanks and pick-up trucks mounted with artillery arrived at the town of Baledweyn and took away the commander.
Reports say that Col. Hussein showed the Ethiopians a written statement but dismissed it. The local tribal chiefs, elders and the intellects of the province have declared that Farah Moalim, an Islamist but among the forgiven Islamists, the statement said.
The arrest of the senior official has sparked a conflict between the Ethiopian and government officers. The Ethiopians wanted the central military commander to hand over Farah Moalim Mohamud, former Islamist leader in the region who was released from the jail but Mr. Hussein rejected to do so. Farah Moalim was released after the interim government offered amnesty to all former Islamists.
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Ethiopian forces arrest Islamist commander
can you hear the thundering hooves of ACLU, UN and AM-Int LAWYERS pounding the ground for Mogadishu?
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The local tribal chiefs, elders and the intellects of the province
Curious as to what qualifications or IQ one must have to be a Somalian "intellect" - able to strip an AK-47 in under 30 secs, hang your sister for forgetting to bow when entering the room, etc.??
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If they are smart they will hold a quick French-Style military tribunal, convict the bastard, and then carry out the sentence before the ACLU support team gets on the ground.
Who needs any other reason than they're part of the ACLU? If the law wasn't so picky around here, I'd do it in my back yard. Got a nice maple with a perfect hangin' limb. Learned how to tie a hangin' knot in 4th grade - back before the ACLU took over runnin' the schools.
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Must be getting tired; whatever happened to the reported intense field interrogations and then the summary execution? now they have a face the ACLU and all the other SPCAs wanna bes can point to.
(SomaliNet) The Kenyan police said on Saturday that they have arrested two Islamist members who crossed into Kenya from Somalia as the Ethiopian backed interim government forces are still chasing down remnants of Islamic Courts Union in the southern Somalia border areas.
Abukar Omar Addane, one of the main financers of the defeated Islamic Courts Union and his son have been captured from the Kenyan border town of Liboa by the Kenyan police. Reports say that the police was informed about the presence of these men in the town and they suddenly rushed to where the Islamists were hiding, local resident said. Haji Abukar Omar, a paralyzed man on a wheel chair, who is well-known businessman, is believed to be the main financer of the ousted Islamic Courts Union. He and his son are being held in prison located in Garisa city in northeast region of Kenya where the police are questioning them.
No harassment was subjected to Haji Abukar and son and they were treated well according to the Kenyan police officers. Both of them were suspected to be among the fleeing Islamists in the border areas between Somalia and Kenya where Somalia government troops backed by Ethiopian forces are engaging clashes with the remnants of Islamic fighters who are on the run.
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(Sh.M.Network) - Armed militias that have set up a roadblock in north Mogadishu were apprehended by government forces after they were seen taking extortion money from buses. Bus drivers that work around Sinay and Bakara market at the center of Mogadishu town said they were pleased that road blockers were finally jailed for forcefully taking illegal money from them. Local clan elders and intellects, who are related to the militias, have taken a role in jailing them.
It's the old free-lance toll collector routine. It worked pretty good until the Islamic Courts showed up and ran the hard boyz out of town. There's a chance, I suppose, that since they've now had their pants pulled down and been knocked over backward in the schoolyard that they've lost enough face that the local citizenry will greet them with flung fruit and bad names rather than cash. We can always hope.
Illegal checkpoints set up by local militias have increased in different locations in the capital Mogadishu following the fall of the Union of Islamic Courts. Insecurity has also loomed in the capital as gunshots could be heard at nights and people feel afraid to walk at nights and even early in the evening. The civilian population in Mogadishu is concerned about the massive return of warlords to the capital and militias setting up checkpoints to take extortion money from people and passenger buses. Many of the warlords who spoke to the people through local radios promised they would not rearm themselves or recruit tribal militias. So far the promise seems to be fake as some of the warlords have begun buying arms from Mogadishus biggest arms sale, known as Ir-Tookte.
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I'm glad to hear things are getting back to normal in Mog.
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Frankly: So what? If these people cannot govern themselves it is only our problem in so far as they harbor our sworn enemies. If someone feels generous they could email copies of the Federalist Papers as a "how to" but that is about it.
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Yes they did bury the lede, LH; but you were not supposed to notice that. This is a prime example of slanting news - the real news in the article is that the new government is arresting these thugs and breaking up the roadblocks. Before the ICU took over and made everyone's life more of a hell in Mog, these roadblocks were pretty common. The ICU broke them up to show how they were pro-law enforcement and the Western media fell for it. Now that the non-Islamofascist government has taken over, the roadblocks are still not being tolerated. But now the media is reporting much more on them because it fits the template of "Islamofascists bring security, fighting them brings insecurity" that the media is applying everywhere that people resist the spread of fundie Islam.
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Well, I see the Washington Post is already in full Quagmire mode...
Somalis Rail at Ethiopian Forces
By Stephanie McCrummen
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, January 7, 2007; Page A16
MOGADISHU, Somalia, Jan. 6 -- Hundreds of angry and fed-up Somalis demanded that Ethiopian troops leave the city Saturday, smashing cars, burning tires, and hurling stones and threats as a prevailing sense of insecurity deepened in the patched-together neighborhoods of Mogadishu.
A volatile mix of grievances fueled the clashes between demonstrators and Ethiopian troops, leaving at least two people dead
Tensions are rising over the presence of the Ethiopian troops, who are perceived here as having U.S. backing and last week pushed out an Islamic movement widely credited with bringing security to the capital.
The Islamic Courts movement, which took power in June, included moderate leaders as well as some suspected of having ties to al-Qaeda and of sheltering three suspects in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The Islamic Courts leaders have denied those charges, and analysts say the connection between the movement and al-Qaeda has been exaggerated.
The Islamic movement's fundamentalist brand of Islam was foreign to most Somalis, who adhere to a more moderate interpretation but seemed willing, at least at first, to tolerate the social restrictions in exchange for security.
(Sh.M.Network) - Foreign Affairs minister Mr Raphael Tuju has issued a terse statement warning Somali leaders opposed to peace efforts in the Horn of Africa country would be expelled from Kenya. Tujus statement comes after five Somalia MPs were arrested on Friday and detained after they addressed a press conference in which they asked for the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops from their country. "The Kenyan Government will not standby and watch as efforts to bring peace to Somalia are undermined by a group of self-seekers calling themselves leaders, operate from the comfort and safety of luxurious hotels in Nairobi," said Tuju.
The minister said the Government would not allow its territory to be used by people who abuse the hospitality given to them and who are bent on promoting selfish interests. The Government, he said, would not hesitate to take decisive and punitive action against those who subvert peace efforts. He said measures that could be taken against them include expulsion. He said the MPs were issuing hostile statements to the media even when a meeting was being held in Nairobi to restore order in their country.
Tuju reiterated that there was a new momentum to restore peace and stability in Somalia and the efforts should not be "held hostage by any single interest or side issues being propagated by a few Somali leaders".
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Chinese police raided an alleged terrorist camp in a western mountain region near the border with Pakistan, killing 18 suspects and arresting 17, a police official said Monday.
Song Hongli, director of the general office of the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau, said the raid occurred Friday at a training camp run by the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, or ETIM.
One police officer was killed and another was injured in the shoot-out, Song said.
Police are searching for suspects who are believed to have escaped during the raid, Song said, but did not say how many.
Police found 22 grenades and material for 1,500 more, he said.
Song said the camp was located in the Pamir Plateau, a sprawling high-altitude section of China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region near the borders of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan.
Song did not give an exact location.
China has long claimed that militants among the region's dominant ethnic Uighurs are leading a violent Islamic separatist movement in Xinjiang. The Uighurs are Turkic-speaking Muslims with a language and culture distinct from the majority of Chinese.
Critics accuse Beijing of using claims of terrorism as an excuse to crack down on peaceful pro-independence sentiment and expressions of Uighur identity.
Chinese troops occupied Xinjiang at the end of the communist revolution in 1949, shipping in millions of Chinese migrants and interfering heavily in Uighur religious affairs.
Chinese authorities say ETIM is one of the region's most violent groups, labeling it a terrorist organization and alleging that it has links to al-Qaida.
The United States has also put ETIM on a terrorist list.
Two years ago, China claimed that Muslim separatist groups and individuals in western China had carried out 260 attacks since 1995, killing 160 people and injuring 440.
Diplomats and foreign experts, however, say that many of the bombings and other violence China has linked to the group actually stem from personal disputes.
About two dozen Uighurs were captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
China has demanded their return, but the United States fears they might face persecution there. Five Uighurs were sent to Albania last year after no other countries would accept the men.
China often paints a contradictory picture of the security situation in Xinjiang.
Officials seem eager to show they are cracking down on what they consider to be anti-government activity, but they also sometimes deny terrorist activity in the region, apparently wanting to portray it as safe for development and international investment.
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Diplomats and foreign experts, however, say that many of the bombings and other violence China has linked to the group actually stem from personal disputes.
You know how it is with honorable Muslim families.
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Critics accuse Beijing of using claims of terrorism as an excuse to crack down on peaceful pro-independence sentiment and expressions of Uighur identity.
Ok given Chinas abysmal track record on human rights the use of alleged in the headline might be warranted. But cmon they cant find even one pain the rump activist to go on record here. Oh wait I see theyre Diplomats and foreign experts. Well then never mind.
Since the charges were dropped against those guys in the truck, this surely has to be a coincidence.
MIAMI (Rooters) - A police bomb squad was sent to the Port of Miami to investigate a suspicious item being unloaded from a truck on Monday but police could not confirm television news reports that tests had detected C-4 explosives.
Scanning instruments detected an anomaly on a pallet being removed from a truck, and the Miami-Dade County Police bomb squad was sent to the busy cruise and cargo port for further investigation, spokesman Roy Rutland said.
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orrect, NS. The truck incident was also testing, as the gas smell in NY may be.
And the bird deaths in Texas ?
Coordinated testing. Look for more of this.
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I was busy over the weekend, so I missed all the details (baby brother brought his fiance to meet us, wedding scheduled for June). But looking back through Drudge's archives, it looks like the first incident involved three permanent resident aliens from Deerborn, Michigan trying to make a delivery without the required daypass (whatever that is): two Iraqis and a Lebanese, to whit driver Amar Al Hadad, 28, and his passengers, Hussain Al Hadad, 24, and Hassan El Sayed, 20. The contents of the truck did not match the shipping mainifest, and also the driver tried to conceal the existence of his young passengers.
Incident #2 was a shipment of sprinkler parts that tested positive six times for the presence of explosives, but now supposedly this kind of plastic sprinkler part is known to give a false positive result. The sprinklers were destined for one of the cruise ships in port.
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...You know, I'd like to see some data to back up that claim of 12-25 lives a day lost due to illegal aliens - but even if the low end of that estimate is overblown by 300%, that still means as many Americans are dying from the Mexican Invasion (and let's call it what it is)as are dying every day in Iraq.
Mike
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As I said before, I'll gladly pull my two, three week stint guarding the border, but the ROE HAS to allow me to shoot at anyone coming across. First round to turn them around. Second round, if that doesn't work, to stop 'em until they can be caught and hauled back where they belong. If they still insist on crossing, third round to stop 'em permanently. If they're armed, we go directly to third round, skipping the rest.
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I'm all for a nice mine field too before the rounds start hitting them.
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It will be very interesting to see if the federals try an intervene to stop the Minutemen from firing on drug smuggling Mexican army personnel.
And a word of warning: it is just as important for these Minutemen to carry video cameras that will show their enemies. Otherwise, any major incident will be buried under "he said/she said" and intentional obfuscation.
Video being propagated all over the Internet will work even better than gunning down a dozen uniformed Zetas.
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The longer this stays in the news, the more Americans know Bush has sold us out.
That's good. It's justice. He better hope the Minutemen don't get shot. Then the whole issue gets filed under failures.
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Border security normally falls under the purvue of the US Congress, whose legislations are acted upon/enforced by Federal Agencies. That being said, the Office of POTUS remains the greatest singular representative-symbol of the USGovt + America in general, which is why Dubya will get the MSM blame. FOX > CAVUTO > the Dems FOR THE THIRD TIME IN AS MANY DAYS have gone back on their own self-proclaimed 2006 elex agendas, INCLUDING TODAY TO NOT DO ANYTHING ABOUT PROTECTING THE BORDERS = STEMMING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION FLOWS FROM MAHICO.
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An attribution for the source: Illegal aliens murder 12 Americans daily Twelve Americans are murdered every day by illegal aliens, according to statistics released by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa. If those numbers are correct, it translates to 4,380 Americans murdered annually by illegal aliens. Thats 21,900 since Sept. 11, 2001.
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While King reports 12 Americans are murdered daily by illegal aliens, he says 13 are killed by drunk illegal alien drivers for another annual death toll of 4,745. Thats 23,725 since Sept. 11, 2001.
Where I live, whenever a news report of an attempted school child abduction or exposure, it is an illegal alien. Last year, 2 women were abducted, raped and killed by illegals. This is in one of the lowest crime rate counties in the nation. The price of cheap carpentry and lawn care.
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Twelve still seems high, but I'll agree with ya, ed. Seems that, in the matter of the last 5-10 years, the names in the police blotter have almost all gone hispanic. A LOT of Mexican gang activity here in the Atlanta suburbs. So far, a LOT of it's red on red, but it's just a matter of time.
Crossing the border is a "gateway" crime, if you want to call it that. When you see that we don't intend at all to enforce our border, it becomes easier to do other crimes. Now, I'm not saying a lot of the illegals are here to do that (I truly believe most of them are here to better their own lives and/or send money back home), but it's just a matter of time before they form gangs (see how other immigrants groups first got power here way back when), learn how to milk the system and then, feel like they're "owed" something. I pray that cycle doesn't happen, but I fear it will, and may very well take us down quicker (internally) than the jihadis could ever dream of.
Just see the other article linked on page 3 or 4 today about your "average" illegal criminal. Rounded up and arrested 6 times (on average) w/o either deportation or life in prison/death row. Last week's report of California's penal system being 25% illegal immigrants, etc. That's a LOT of our tax $ being spent on "housing" these crooks and wasting our local police force's time on them.
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Shahawar Matin Siraj was either a naive stooge lured into a phony bomb plot or a homegrown terrorist determined to inflict misery on New Yorkers as revenge for wartime abuses of Iraqis. Lawyers for Siraj - convicted of conspiring to blow up one of the city's busiest subway stations - and prosecutors painted the conflicting portraits recently in court papers in advance of his sentencing Monday in federal court. Defense attorneys have sought to convince a judge that Siraj's sentence should not exceed 10 years since the attack never came close to being carried out.
Siraj, a 21-year-old high school dropout at the time of his August 2004 arrest, "is not a dangerous psychopath, but more of a confused and misguided youngster," the defense team argued in its papers.
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Merely a misguided "youth". Maybe he thought he was in Frawnce.
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How about giving this little piece of islam a one-way ticket to the biggest swamp in Indonesia? Cut his Achilles tendons just before dumping him out of the helicopter at 10 feet. Make sure he hits water.
Notice there's no mention of his citizenship status in this report, so we can't decide if he should be deported or not.
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I just saw it on LGF. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
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TINSUKIA (Assam) Hundreds of soldiers yesterday patrolled parts of violence-torn Assam in the wake of an indefinite curfew and shoot-on-sight orders issued after a wave of militant killings left 48 Hindi-speaking people dead. There were no overnight reports of violence and the situation was gradually limping back to normal, said a police spokesperson.
The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) went on a rampage for two straight days beginning on Friday killing 48 people and wounding 30 in separate raids in the three eastern districts of Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, and Dhemaji, targeting Hindi-speaking migrant workers.
Security forces have fanned out across the region with the army, police, and paramilitary troopers engaged in a systematic anti-insurgency offensive, Tinsukia district magistrate Absar Hazarika told IANS.
Hundreds of soldiers and policemen raided insurgent hideouts in jungles of Assam yesterday. Security officials said the attackers had run away fled to the mountains of neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh state where they are said to have training camps. Troops were in pursuit, a military commander said on condition of anonymity.
We are going all out against the Ulfa, Tarun Gogoi, Assams chief minister, told Reuters. Massive combing operations have started and additional troops are being rushed to the affected areas.
Pretend that you're Aethiopian and that the bad guys are Islamic courts gunnies.
Security was tightened in areas adjoining the violence-hit eastern districts of Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Golaghat and Sivasagar to prevent a spill-over of violence.
Authorities in eastern Assam have formed several peace committees involving leaders of all communities to instil confidence among the Hindi-speaking minorities, many of whom are reported to be fleeing their homes in panic. These peace committees are working as vigilantes, helping the affected people come to terms with reality and trying to heal the wounds," a police official said.
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Many Assamese politicians are in cahoots with the ULFA.
The UFLA has degenerated into a criminal enterprise, engaged in smuggling, drug trafficking, extortion etc and facilitating the settling of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
Ironically they claim to be fighting for Assamese people, yet the illegals will soon be a (muslim) majority in Assam.
The illegal immigrants are provided with voter registration and ration cards and are a captive vote bank for the politicians who back the UFLA.
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I hope we can stay abreast of developments there. Would be good to see how India fights their own fifth column. Shoot-at-sight sounds like they are out of patience.
(KUNA) -- Two Islamist militants of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) guerrillas were killed by security forces in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir Sunday. The duo were killed in an ambush in Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir today, news agency Indo-Asian News Service reported. The two were identified as Shabir Ahmed Rather and Muzamil Jihadi. Arms and ammunition were also recovered from the encounter spot, the news agency said.
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Soldiers of the 1st Squadron, 89th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (LI) conducted a nighttime raid on a Baghdad meat-packaging facility suspected of being a terrorist meeting place in the Al Rashid district Jan. 7.
The 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division concurrently assaulted the salt factory next door, also a suspected terrorist planning area. Joining the two U.S. units on the operation were members of the 3rd Battalion, 4th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division. The two-pronged joint assault netted 32 detainees and more than 20 weapons, including 11 AK-47s, a Kalishnikov assault rifle, two Russian-made carbines, 15 60mm mortar rounds and a submachine gun. The men detained, some of whom were guards at the building, were held on suspicion that they were allowing the buildings to be used as a terrorist rendezvous point, a suspicion strengthened by the weapons found in the area.
The 1-89 Wolverines staged at Forward Operating Base Falcon, Iraq, with the 1-18, then rolled out under cover of darkness. It was our first joint operation, said Lt. Col. Mark Suich, a native of Greenville, Penn., and commander of 1-89. It was a very successful operation.
Sgt. Jess Thurman of Denver, a team leader with Troop C, 1-89, said the Soldiers seemed glad to put their skills to use. Its not often we get to do this, Thurman said. Its fun to do our job as infantrymen and take down the bad guys.
The factory was locked up for the night, and Soldiers stormed the building methodically, breaking down doors and clearing each room despite the fact that they had been awake and working for many hours leading up to the raid. Its been a long day, said Thurman, But everyone kept their heads up and kept their motivation.
Pfc. William Salser, an infantryman with Troop C and a native of Calumet City, Ill., enjoyed the mission. This mission rocked! he said. We got to enter and clear a building. My buddy and I got to kick a door down. It really increased my motivation hearing the word Breach!
1st Lt. Andy Kimes, a platoon leader with the troop and a native of Fostoria, Ohio, said he was pleased by the Soldiers teamwork, which theyve trained on extensively. I enjoyed it because its a pay off of all the training, he said. Seeing it all come together was great.
Troop Cs lead scout, Staff Sgt. Myles Page, a native of Birmingham, Ala., also was pleased by the execution of the mission. The motivation the entire platoon had upon entering the objective was high, he said. Everyone was pumped about such a large-scale operation. All the drills wed completed and the skills weve acquired gave us the will to accomplish the mission.
The raid netted 32 people who were detained for questioning. Six of those were kept in custody and brought to Camp Cropper, Iraq, for further questioning; the others were released. In addition to the men detained in the operation, Soldiers found money and bonds from various countries in one of the buildings and a cache of 15 mortar rounds nearby.
Spc. Christopher Ray, a native of Waveland, Miss., and a cook with 1-89, guarded and searched the detainees. He summed up the mission in a single sentence. We were expecting weapons and bad guys, Ray said. We found what we were looking for.
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(KUNA) -- A high level Iraqi official survived an assassination attempt Sunday morning when a road side bomb blasted his car in Baghdad, a security source told KUNA. The General Manager of the Development Bank at the Iraqi Ministry of Education was not injured by the blast but his two bodyguards were wounded.
Meanwhile, a second bomb detonated near the Technology Institute in Baghdad killing one civilian and injuring two others. Baghdad Police Chief, Ali Al-Yasseri survived an assassination attempt yesterday when a booby trapped car exploded as his motorcade went through. The attack killed one civilian and injured six people including two of Yasseri's bodyguards.
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(KUNA) -- Three US Air Force soldiers were killed as a result of a roadside bomb near the Iraqi capital Baghdad, a US Army statement said Sunday. The soldiers allocated to the Engineering division were killed on duty, the statement said, adding that a fourth soldier in the bomb squad team was injured during the blast. Earlier today, Iraqi security forces told KUNA that two soldiers were killed in separate incidents, one from the Multinational Division in Baghdad and the other assigned to the First Marine Expeditionary Force.
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Insurgents on Sunday killed at least 14 Iraqis, nine of them in Baghdad, security officials said. Four people were killed and five wounded when several mortars exploded near a car service company, Al-Rasheed, in Baghdads eastern Karada district, a security official said. Two bodyguards of Hamed al-Shammari, a senior official in the Education Ministry, were killed when a roadside bomb struck his convoy in Baghdad.
Two civilians were killed when another roadside bomb exploded near central Baghdads university of technology. In another attack, gunmen shot dead a doctor from Baghdads Yarmuk hospital. In Hilla, south of Baghdad, a car bomb killed one woman in a market. In Diwaniyah city one Iraqi soldier was killed by gunmen, while another soldier was killed in a roadside bombing east of the Shia city of Kut. Two bodies were also found in the Tigris River near Kut. In a related development, a senior Iraqi official said on Sunday that three Iraqi army brigades from the Kurdish north and the Shia south would be brought in for a security crackdown in Baghdad. Meanwhile, US military losses in Iraq touched 3,000, according to latest figures on Sunday, amid reports that another 20,000 troops are to be rushed to Baghdad to stabilise the violence-wracked capital.
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Moved to Monday for further discussion and commentary. AoS.
HT AOSHq
The Iraqi government has said that the executions of two senior associates of former leader Saddam Hussein, will take place some time during the week. "A day ending with a "y", but before the next round of NFL playoffs.."
This is despite an appeal from the new UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, that they should not go ahead. "STFU"
Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said the execution orders for Barzan al-Tikriti and Awad al-Bandar had been signed, and there was no way back. except down...
Saddam Hussein's execution has led to a chorus of international criticism. from the usual Chorus I must be getting really old. My mind's going. For the life of me, I can't recall the usual suspects's chorus of international criticism for these beauzeaux' victims.
Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Saddam Hussein's intelligence chief, and Awad al-Bandar, a former chief judge, were convicted along with Saddam Hussein for their part in the killing of 148 Shia Muslims in the Iraqi village of Dujail in the 1980s. Mr Dabbagh said that while the government respected the UN's view, it also had to respect the victims of Saddam Hussein and his henchmen. Hmmm... Y'mean they can't recall, either? "hench-victims have rights too"
"Certainly, the execution orders have been signed and are ready to be implemented," he said. "There are some technical preparations that need to take place in order to carry out the court's decision." an extra couple ropes...
Saddam Hussein was hanged on 30 December amid chaotic scenes. UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, who had been criticised for saying nothing on the issue, has now joined the critics. What happened to his spine? Has Cheri removed it along with his balls?
His officials now say the prime minister does believe the way Saddam Hussein was taunted and filmed before he was hanged was completely wrong.
I'm not especially happy about it -- hanging should be a dignified affair for all the world to see -- but on a cosmic scale of things I think I've already gotten over it.
Earlier, the man expected to succeed Mr Blair as prime minister, Chancellor Gordon Brown, described events at the execution as deplorable and completely unacceptable. as is your position, puss
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Hang 'em. Hang 'em high and exercise the dawgs.
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As I recall, Baghdad Bob once tried to turn himself in but was laughed off--literally. He won't be swinging unless he does so himself.
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I don't approve of the way Saddam was hung, either. It should have been in a public place, say from those "crossed swords" on that broad street he had everybody march down. The crowd should have been allowed to count down from ten, with him dropping on "zero". Celebrate it for the joyous occasion it was - the death of one who made far too many people's lives a living hell.
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I'm with ya, OP, with one change - don't drop him down, haul him up.
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"we sentence your hypoid bone to fracture and the neck innards to exposure"..there, fixed that fer ya
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Aziz will be a defendant in the marshes case, should it come to trial (it's one of six cases total - including Dujayl and Anfal - on which the US has provided major investigative support to the tribunal). As noted above, Baghdad Bob was questioned but was of no interest in any of the investigations.
Have John Howard or his foreign minister Downer chimed in yet on the Saddam execution? Of all the world's leaders, they're about the only ones with an ounce of sense that they allow to be publicly displayed on such matters. Blair? Nice rhetoric at times, and basically gets it, but illustrative of his country's ambivalence to utterly unambiguous things (devotion to globaloney on various fronts and ridiculous obsession with mythical "peace processes").
JERUSALEM - Israel has categorically refused to release Palestinian prisoners in exchange for a recording of an Israeli soldier seized by militants in Gaza in late June, a senior official told AFP Sunday. This proposition is completely unacceptable, the official said on condition of anonymity.
He should have ended his statement with words along the lines of, "Shalit alive or Haniyeh dead."
Quoting senior officials, the Maariv daily reported Sunday that the Palestinian ruling Hamas movement had offered that a video tape of Corporal Gilad Shalit, which has been passed to Egyptian authorities, be handed over to Israel in exchange for the release of up to 250 Palestinian prisoners. The exact nature of the recording was unclear, with the Israeli media referring to it as a video and some officials calling it an audio tape.
The official told AFP that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rejected the proposal, saying that the recording would add to the suffering of Gilad Shalits family.
Not to mention opening themselves to being nickel-and-dimed on the transfer.
A senior Hamas official, Mussa Abu Marzuk, said on Thursday in Damascus that Shalit was alive and that a recording of him had been handed over to Israeli authorities.
Shalit, 20, was seized on June 25 in a cross-border raid carried out by three Gaza militant groups, including the armed wing of Hamas. Egypt has been mediating between Israel and the Palestinians over the servicemans release.
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.... so for 1 video they want 250 Palos released?
.. Gee sounds fair to me..
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"JERUSALEM - Israel has categorically refused to release Palestinian prisoners in exchange for a recording of an Israeli soldier seized by militants in Gaza in late June, a senior official told AFP Sunday."
I'd counter-offer with a boxed set of 250 Paleo prisoners helping the IDF with its enquiries, and throw in a copy of "Greatest Eid Stampedes Vol 1"
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Simply astounding. And just when you think your contempt for the Paleos has maxed out. How about trading the video for a boxed set of 250 heads? The only reason I can see to make such a ridiculous offer is that Shalit is dead.
But you're right in that it is an outrageous offer.
It may be that they truly understand that Israel deeply cares for the life of its citizens. Way more than paleos do. If so, that's what they're banking on (could you imagine if the offer were the other way around -- Israel offering a video of one prisoner for many from the paleos?).
If that's not what they're banking on, then they did expect to be rejected, making Steve's assumption all the more plausible.
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At least Olmert showed a little spine.
I would start killing Paleo prisoners one per hour until I get the soldier back. I think he is dead, so the prisons would be less crowded by the time I was done.
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How about this? Israel makes a statement along these lines:
With all due respect and condolences to the Shalit family, from this day forward we will no longer negotiate for hostage release for any reason. Any release of prisoners currently held in Israeli detention facilities will be carried out in accordance with their respective sentences under sovereign law. Any deviation from this policy will be held on a case by case basis and will be a matter of public record and scrutiny. This policy applies especially to known terrorist and criminal organizations (or their affiliates) that have been proven to use extortion and other threats as a means of negotiation. Furthermore, any individual or organization that uses kidnapping or extortion as a means to further their nefarious activities will be subject to a shoot to kill order in the event that a rescue or repatriation operation is attempted. This new policy is intended to break any future cycle of kidnappings and hostage taking that has plagued this region for generations.
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Exchange his vid against a mixed set of hardcore Pr0n, the paleos will stampede over each others to be the first one to "confiscate it" in order to preserve gaza's muslim Purity.
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Olmert shows spine, and my surprise meter doglegs another pointer.
My logic says he's dead. Israel should prepare a proper retaliation, like the first son of every non-vingin. The world would go nuts, the UN would be UNplugged, but what else can they do ? Pass a resolution ?
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Well, according to the Paleostinians, one live Israeli soldier is worth over 1000 scumbag terrorists. I say if that soldier is dead, so should over 1000 scumbag terrorists. In an equally mysterious fashion.
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"Exchange his vid against a mixed set of hardcore Pr0n, the paleos will stampede over each others to be the first one to "confiscate it" in order to preserve gaza's muslim Purity."
(KUNA) -- A small explosive device went off near the Palestinian interior ministry building in Gaza city Sunday evening, security sources said. The blast caused minor damages to the security and protection headquarter at the ministry building, the sources said. Palestinian security authorities began an investigation into the incident.
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I'm going to copyright CSI Gaza. No need for writers, cos all the stories would be real.
Jordan's military prosecutors on Sunday charged two men with allegedly plotting to carry out attacks against Americans residing in the kingdom. The prosecution indicted Mohammed Shehada, 25, a Jordanian, and Sameeh al-Hotari, 25, who was born in Kuwait, of conspiracy to carry out terrorist attacks and possession of an automatic weapon, a Kalashnikov.
According to the indictment, Shehada and al-Hotari, who are in police custody, allegedly decided to avenge Muslims "who suffer from the Americans" and planned to kill an American who lived in an Amman suburb and worked in the Jordan. The indictment did not identify the American man but said the two suspects named their operation "Yoya." The two men allegedly began watching the American man's movements in August but were not able to carry out their plan to kill him because they were arrested, the indictment said.
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A grenade was thrown into a parking lot on Haifa's Jaffa Street on Sunday evening. No one was wounded but several cars were damaged. Israel Radio reported that police were searching for the perpetrators.
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Damn whipper-snappers playing catch in the parking lot with live munitions.
Kidnappers on Sunday freed a Peruvian news photographer held since Jan. 1, according to officials from the Palestinian Fatah movement. The photographer, Jaime Razuri, 50, worked for the French news agency AFP. He was abducted at gunpoint from a part of central Gaza City where many foreign journalists have offices. There was no immediate word on who the kidnappers were.
Razuri was taken to the office of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said Abbas aide Tayeb Abdel Rahim. Abbas was in the West Bank at the time. Fatah officials said Fatah and Popular Resistance Committees, a small militant Gaza group, mediated in his release.
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They are part of the USS Bataan Strike group carrying 2,000 Marines and equipped to insert forces ashore by helicopter, landing craft and amphibious vehicles. The Baatan is equipped with helicopters and fast hovercraft capable of landing thousands of Marines on beaches and providing the landing with cover. The Shreveport, known as the Super Gator, combines the logistical-intelligence support of a command ship with the assault capabilities of combat loaded marines. It is designed for extended amphibious operations. The USS Oak Hill is designed to assist distressed vessels.
DEBKAfiles military sources add that another three warships are due to sail out of Norfolk for the Gulf this week with marine personnel aboard. This will bring to more than 20,000 the complement of sailors, marines and pilots either heading for the Gulf region like the USS John C. Stennis strike group, or already present like the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and the USS Boxer.
The deployment of the USS John C. Stennis strike group, announced last week, was billed as a warning to Syria and Iran.
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Iran just today made disparaging comments about the usability of the straits of hormuz. Someone needs to show them that big talk only counts for so much. When you have a million tons of American heavy metal bearing down on you, talk is worth even less.
Iran has arrested a number of suspects linked to a Sunni militant group over a deadly bomb attack last month in the southeast of the country, the semi-official Fars news agency said Sunday. The people behind this (bombing) have been identified. They are supporters of Abdolmalek Rigi, Deputy Interior Minister Mohammad Baqer Zolghadr said, referring to the leader of the Sunni militant group Jundallah. This group has been confronted several times and some of its elements have been arrested. But we cannot yet confirm whether these people were the bombers, he added.
One person was killed last December in a car bomb explosion in Zahedan, the capital of Sistan-Baluchestan province, on the eve of local elections. Bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan in southeast Iran, Sistan-Baluchestan is a major throughfare for narcotics and the scene of frequent deadly clashes between smugglers and the police. The province has also been hit by a string of attacks and kidnappings blamed on Rigis shadowy hardline Sunni group Jundallah (Allahs Brigade). Iranian officials have accused Britain and the United States of supporting ethnic minority rebels operating in the Islamic republics sensitive border areas.
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Having read the story of her life - I would not want to be in the same room with betty without a sawed off shotgun.
She was seriously, very dangerously totoally nuts!
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you must have had relations wid one of my sweet formers Gort.
I take a chance on Betty tho for a few visits, guess i never lernd too gud or to quick.
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You guys would screw up a good w*t dream. I like to think of Bettie as quixotic and insouscient; a free spirit. Betties numerous contradictions undoubtedly added to her charismatic personality. Nice and naughty, shy and daring, simple and exotic. Crazy's might be O.K. for a night or two. Besides I've got a shotgun. The wife went to what used to be Peabody (now Vanderbilt). It seems I can recall a story in the alumni magazine about Bettie; the article was well done--not at all sleazy or tawdry.
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KHOST: A bomb planted on the side of a road killed newborn twins, their mother and grandmother in southeastern Afghanistan on Sunday, while gunmen on a motorbike shot dead a school principal, police said. The bomb struck the family while they were in a wagon driving home from a clinic in Khost, where the babies were born overnight, deputy police chief Sakhi Mir said. Two newborn babies and two women were martyred in the roadside bomb blast and another woman and a man in the vehicle were wounded, Mir said. In Helmand earlier on Sunday, armed men on motorbikes killed a school principal as he left a mosque, provincial education director Saiful Malok Nuri said.
A U.S. Air Force gunship has conducted a strike against suspected members of al Qaeda in Somalia, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports exclusively. The targets included the senior al Qaeda leader in East Africa and an al Qaeda operative wanted for his involvement in the 1998 bombings of two American embassies in Africa, Martin reports. Those terror attacks killed more than 200 people.
(SomaliNet) Small skirmish has broken out in the Somalia capital Mogadishu tonight between Somali militiamen and the Ethiopian forces killing at least one person and wounding two others. The clashes came after armed militiamen attacked on military vehicles belonged to Ethiopian troops passing in front of the Sahafi hotel in southern of Mogadishu. Both the dead and the injured were Somalis. The dead person was 13-year-old girl while one of the wounded was an old man who was in serious condition. 
(SomaliNet) Somali cleric who had links with the defeated Islamic Courts Union was shot dead by unknown gunmen overnight in the Somalia capital Mogadishu as the insecurity situation looms in the city. Abdi Wali Hassan Omar in his middle age was killed around his house in the west of the capital when unknown men opened fire on him where he has died on the spot. 
(SomaliNet) The Ethiopian forces command in central Somalia has arrested the Somalia army commander for central provinces after he refused to comply with the Ethiopian order, reports say on Sunday. Colonel Mukhtar Hussein Afrah was taken to Mogadishu, Somalia capital where the main central command of Ethiopian military is located. Witnesses said a large number of Ethiopian troops along with tanks and pick-up trucks mounted with artillery arrived at the town of Baledweyn and took away the commander. 
(SomaliNet) The Kenyan police said on Saturday that they have arrested two Islamist members who crossed into Kenya from Somalia as the Ethiopian backed interim government forces are still chasing down remnants of Islamic Courts Union in the southern Somalia border areas. 
(Sh.M.Network) - Foreign Affairs minister Mr Raphael Tuju has issued a terse statement warning Somali leaders opposed to peace efforts in the Horn of Africa country would be expelled from Kenya. Tujus statement comes after five Somalia MPs were arrested on Friday and detained after they addressed a press conference in which they asked for the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops from their country. "The Kenyan Government will not standby and watch as efforts to bring peace to Somalia are undermined by a group of self-seekers calling themselves leaders, operate from the comfort and safety of luxurious hotels in Nairobi," said Tuju.
Shahawar Matin Siraj was either a naive stooge lured into a phony bomb plot or a homegrown terrorist determined to inflict misery on New Yorkers as revenge for wartime abuses of Iraqis. Lawyers for Siraj - convicted of conspiring to blow up one of the city's busiest subway stations - and prosecutors painted the conflicting portraits recently in court papers in advance of his sentencing Monday in federal court. Defense attorneys have sought to convince a judge that Siraj's sentence should not exceed 10 years since the attack never came close to being carried out. 
TINSUKIA (Assam) Hundreds of soldiers yesterday patrolled parts of violence-torn Assam in the wake of an indefinite curfew and shoot-on-sight orders issued after a wave of militant killings left 48 Hindi-speaking people dead. There were no overnight reports of violence and the situation was gradually limping back to normal, said a police spokesperson.
(KUNA) -- Two Islamist militants of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) guerrillas were killed by security forces in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir Sunday. The duo were killed in an ambush in Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir today, news agency Indo-Asian News Service reported. The two were identified as Shabir Ahmed Rather and Muzamil Jihadi. Arms and ammunition were also recovered from the encounter spot, the news agency said.
(KUNA) -- A high level Iraqi official survived an assassination attempt Sunday morning when a road side bomb blasted his car in Baghdad, a security source told KUNA. The General Manager of the Development Bank at the Iraqi Ministry of Education was not injured by the blast but his two bodyguards were wounded.
Insurgents on Sunday killed at least 14 Iraqis, nine of them in Baghdad, security officials said. Four people were killed and five wounded when several mortars exploded near a car service company, Al-Rasheed, in Baghdads eastern Karada district, a security official said. Two bodyguards of Hamed al-Shammari, a senior official in the Education Ministry, were killed when a roadside bomb struck his convoy in Baghdad. 
JERUSALEM - Israel has categorically refused to release Palestinian prisoners in exchange for a recording of an Israeli soldier seized by militants in Gaza in late June, a senior official told AFP Sunday. This proposition is completely unacceptable, the official said on condition of anonymity.
Jordan's military prosecutors on Sunday charged two men with allegedly plotting to carry out attacks against Americans residing in the kingdom. The prosecution indicted Mohammed Shehada, 25, a Jordanian, and Sameeh al-Hotari, 25, who was born in Kuwait, of conspiracy to carry out terrorist attacks and possession of an automatic weapon, a Kalashnikov. 
A grenade was thrown into a parking lot on Haifa's Jaffa Street on Sunday evening. No one was wounded but several cars were damaged. Israel Radio reported that police were searching for the perpetrators.
Kidnappers on Sunday freed a Peruvian news photographer held since Jan. 1, according to officials from the Palestinian Fatah movement. The photographer, Jaime Razuri, 50, worked for the French news agency AFP. He was abducted at gunpoint from a part of central Gaza City where many foreign journalists have offices. There was no immediate word on who the kidnappers were. 
Iran has arrested a number of suspects linked to a Sunni militant group over a deadly bomb attack last month in the southeast of the country, the semi-official Fars news agency said Sunday. The people behind this (bombing) have been identified. They are supporters of 
