Kabul, 13 March (AKI) - At least three civilains were killed and another eight injured on Tuesday in a suicide attack in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar.
The bomber had crossed the border from Pakistan.
This is according to a report on China's Xinhua news agency, which sited a local police official who was named simply as Raziq. Reports say that the suicide bomber carried out the attack while he was in a line of people waiting to be checked by the border police in the town of Waish, about 460 metres inside Afghanistan's Kandahar province. The bomber had crossed the border from Pakistan. There were no reported casualties among the police.
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Were four people killed or is the bomber counted as a civilian (or not counted as a person)?
A roadside bomb targeting a police convoy killed nine officers and left one critically wounded Monday in western Afghanistan, officials said. The police were traveling in the Bakwa district of Farah province when the bomb hit them, said provincial police spokesman Baryalai Khan. The Bakwa police district commander was among the nine killed. One of the three vehicles in the convoy was destroyed, said Interior Ministry spokesman Zemerai Bashary.
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NATO and Afghan troops clashed with suspected Taliban insurgents on Monday in southern Afghanistan, shortly before calling in an airstrike on a compound that left two militants dead, a spokesman said. The clash started when militants opened fired and lobbed mortars toward NATO and Afghan troops in the Gereshk district of Helmand province, said Squadron Leader Dave Marsh, a spokesman for NATOs International Security Assistance Force. Two Afghans and one NATO soldier were lightly wounded in the clash, Marsh said.
A tribal leader said that western forces killed five Afghan civilians in the airstrike in Helmand. The elder, Meera Jan, said civilian houses were hit in the attack. As well as the five people killed, four were wounded, he said. A spokeswoman for NATO troops in Afghanistan said an airstrike had been carried out in the Gereshk district of Helmand province late on Sunday but NATO forces were not involved. A spokesman for a separate US-led force said he had no information about any air strike.
Must have been the Swedish air force on a marketing run for the Grippen.
Meanwhile, during a search operation in neighbouring Kandahar province, Afghan troops arrested a high-ranking suicide attack coordinator in Panjwayi district, the ISAF said on Monday. An ISAF statement said that Mullah Mohammad Wali organised suicide attacks in Kandahar and worked for the Taliban.
Separately, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark said on Monday New Zealand would extend its military commitment in Afghanistan to September 2008. New Zealand has had 120 soldiers serving in a provincial reconstruction team in Bamiyan province for 3-1/2 years and their term would be extended for another year, Clark said. The objective is to ensure that Afghanistan does not revert to being a failed state and again become a haven for terrorists, Clark said in a statement.
Defence Minister Phil Goff told a press conference the security situation in Bamiyan province was less dangerous than other areas in the country. Under the commitment, New Zealand will also supply a small number of soldiers to help train the Afghan National Army, work at the International Security Assistance Force headquarters and work in a medical unit at Kandahar. A New Zealand frigate will be deployed to the Arabian Gulf in the middle of next year as part of a multi-national maritime security force and four police will also help train local police in Afghanistan.
German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Monday that Germany would not bow to terrorist threats demanding the withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan. We will not be blackmailed, Schaeuble told RBB radio. He added, however, that the government took seriously threats made at the weekend by two Islamist groups to attack Germany and to execute two German hostages being held in Iraq unless Berlin ended its Afghanistan mission. We are part of a global target. We should have no illusions that we are as much under threat as Spain, England or other nations, Schaeuble told RBB.
He said German soldiers were also contributing to our own security by helping to stabilise Afghanistan. Germany has almost 3,000 troops in northern Afghanistan, where it commands the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force.
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March 13 (Bloomberg) -- Five British embassy staff kidnapped in Ethiopia on March 1 have been released, U.K. Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said. The four Britons and a French citizen were released earlier today to the authorities in neighboring Eritrea, Beckett said in a televised statement from her office in London. ``I understand that broadly they are all in good health,'' Beckett said. The U.K. is ``concerned'' about the eight Ethiopians who were with the group when they were captured and have not been located, she said.
Eritrea has denied claims its forces seized the foreigners in a cross-border raid. Ethiopia and Eritrea fought a border war between 1998 and 2000 that left as many as 100,000 people dead and displaced 250,000 Eritreans. Beckett said the five are being cared for at the British embassy in Asmara, the capital of Eritrea.
The Foreign Office named them as Peter Rudge and Jonathan Ireland, two of its officials at the British Embassy in Addis Ababa; Malcolm Smart and Laure Beaufils from the U.K. Department for International Development in Addis Ababa; and Rosanna Moore, the wife of the head of the British Council in Addis Ababa.
``We continue to be concerned about the welfare of the Ethiopians who were taken at the same time as the British embassy group, about whom we don't yet have news,'' Beckett said.
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nice they gave a statement of concern for the remaining ethiopian hostages. Hope they stay on the Eritrean's case til they are released
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Blimey. Thought this was going to be orange jumpsuits all round with lashings of Allahu Akbar on the side. Fair point Frank - there are still hostages, one presumes.
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If any, it was too much, and the wrong kind. Of course, if Britain were to deliver PROPER "ransom", they' have to break out all the Lancasters and Wellingtons in British museums to deliver them. NOT having a world-travelling air force is one of the first signs you're not a global power any more. Of course, I'm sure George would have "loaned" Tony a dozen or so BUFFS, if he'd asked nicely and said "please".
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(SomaliNet) The Ugandan forces of the AU peacekeepers have officially taken over control of the main Mogadishu airport in Somalia capital from the Ethiopian troops, the spokesman for the African Union peacekeeping said on Sunday. Paddy Ankunda Faith! 'Tis Paddy Ankunda!
Sure and he must be one of the Black Irish
who is now in Mogadishu made the statement in an interview giving to the local media in the capital saying the Ugandan troops are now in charge of the airport in Mogadishu and its surrounding areas. Well, first of all weve been able to take over the security of the airport and there are several changes currently taking place having in partnership with other stakeholders. There's no security issue at the airport and we think that will spread to other areas of Mogadishu so that there is peace around the area, said Ankunda.
Captain Ankunda confirmed that the mission of the Ugandan troops in Mogadishu is to establish the security and facilitate ways to promote peaceful dialogue among the rival sides in Somalia. Ankunda also talked about the matter of the plane that caught fire at the airport recently. The plane was carrying military supply to the Ugandan troops in Somalia. He said they are still conducting investigations over whether the fire on the plane was technical fault or it was hit by a rocket fired by the Islamist supporters. Well as far as we are concerned, we cannot confirm on behalf of Islamic that they are the people shot down the plane but we have instituted a team of inquiry that is going to find out what caused the fire and then when we get information we will make it public, Ankunda said.
Captain Ankunda said that the plane was towed from the runway of the airport and is now under investigation and repairing. The commercial planes are normally landing and taking off and the security is assured, he said.
Ankunda stressed that there are ongoing efforts in the capital to pacify the rival sides in the country to get sustainable solution for the conflict. Two Ugandan soldiers were wounded on Wednesday night after unknown gunmen attacked the African Union convoy passing by KM4 Street, one of Mogadishus most hostile roads for the foreign troops. Paddy Ankunda, said the Ugandans were on their way to Global hotel in north of Mogadishu where some government officials are based when they were ambushed.
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(SomaliNet) A court in the Somalia southern port city of Kismayu has released on Monday five detainees who were accused of bombing last months gathering in the city where several senior government officials were wounded. All the released defendants have been freed after they were in jail for 30 days. They were found not guilty, the court said.
On 11 February, several hundred people, including government officials and traditional elders, assembled at Kismayu Freedom Square to welcome Somalias deputy army commander-in-chief, Gen. Abdi Mahdi. At the end of the gathering, a bomb was thrown to the crowds killing a number of soldiers and wounding several top military officials.
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(SomaliNet) At least one civilian has been killed and three others were wounded in the Somalia capital Mogadishu on late Monday when a bomb exploded in market, north of the capital as Mogadishu plunged into waves of violence. A gunman has reportedly thrown a hand grenade bomb into a restaurant where several people were having dinner, witnesses told Somalinet. The body of Ahmed Haji Abdi Gobe and the three injured were taken away from the site of explosion. The attacker was thought to be belonging the insurgents of the Islamists supporters that vowed to continue hit and run attacks against what they called the foreign invaders until they withdraw from the country.
Shortly after the explosion, the attacker has again left a plastic sack full of explosives at the Four Garden junction in Yaqshid neighborhood, north of Mogadishu. The explosives were were meant to be a booby-trap aimed at the police vehicles passing there but the plan fell apart after local residents saw the man was was planting the device and shouted at him. The man drew a pistol pointing at the people and ran off.
Recent days, Somali insurgent groups in the Somalia capital were conducting attacks against targets of the interim government forces and its Ethiopian troops. In some parts of the capital, supporters of the ousted Islamists are more active in organizing fresh attacks on the government and its outsiders.
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Spanish police have arrested a Canadian man suspected of helping finance Islamist terrorist activities, authorities said on Monday. The 61-year-old man, identified as Brian David Anderson, is wanted by US authorities for fraud and is believed to have helped finance a training camp in Afghanistan, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. He was arrested in a Madrid hotel thanks to joint collaboration with the FBI, the ministry said. It also added Anderson is thought to be linked to a New York businessman called Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari, 53, who is currently being tried on terrorism charges in the United States.
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Al-Qaeda threatened Spain directly in a video which was issued on Monday. A hooded man said the presence of Spanish troops in Afghanistan "exposes Spain again to threats" according to the video which was shown on a web page. Germany and Austria were also threatened in the video, unless they withdraw their troops from Afghanistan.
The figure says: "The Spanish people have been tricked by a socialist government which withdrew troops from Iraq and sent 600 to Afghanistan. Islamic nations are the same nation" - a reference of Spanish troops in Afghanistan as part of the peacekeeping force.
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U.S. military officials have held initial hearings for three terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, including the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks on the United States, the Pentagon said on Monday. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said a three-member panel examined the case of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed at a closed hearing on Saturday at the U.S. military prison camp on Cuba.
Mohammed is among 14 prisoners identified by U.S. authorities as "high-value" terrorism suspects and transferred to Guantanamo last September from secret CIA prisons abroad. The hearings to determine whether the suspects meet U.S. authorities' definition of an enemy combatant began on Friday, the Pentagon said. The cases of two suspects -- Ramzi bin al Shaibah, a Yemeni also accused of involvement in the September 11 attacks, and alleged senior al Qaeda figure Abu Faraj al Libi of Libya -- were examined on Friday, Whitman said.
Whitman said not all the prisoners had chosen to participate in their hearings but he declined to give any more details. The Pentagon has said it will release an edited transcript of each hearing some days after it is held.
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DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Suspected Sunni militants on Monday shot dead a Shia man in this remote Pakistani town, where four people have died in sectarian violence in the past week, police said. Speaking to AFP, local police official Habib Khan confirmed that rickshaw driver Syed Arshad Abbas, 35, was shot dead by two gunmen on a motorcycle in the Ara outskirts of northwestern Dera Ismail Khan city. The attackers fled after the shooting, he added.
Another police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the recent spate of murders appeared to be linked with sectarian attacks, adding that police had launched investigations into the killings. In the latest two attacks, unidentified gunmen killed a Shia retired soldier late on Friday in Dera Ismail Khan and a Shia government employee in the same region on Saturday.
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The Jammu and Kashmir Police in Rajouri on Sunday claimed that they have foiled terrorists' plan to strike in Chandigarh and Punjab by detecting sleeper cells of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) here. While a 25-year-old resident of Bapudham colony in Chandigarh, Mohammed Khan was arrested along with three other militants, the police are on the lookout for their three other accomplices who are believed to be in Chandigarh, the J&K police told The Times Of India over phone from Rajouri.
Khan, a suspected LeT terrorist, was arrested along with other three near Manja Kote in Rajouri, as they were travelling in a bus to Mendhar in Poonch district. On a tip-off, the police set up a special naka or barrier where the bus was stopped and these terrorists were arrested.
The others arrested have been identified as 35-year-old Mohmmad Taj, 40-year-old Showkat Ahmed, both residents of Poonch, and 28-year-old PoK resident Mohammad Zubar. The police had got the mobile number of their commander, Afzal Shah who had asked two of his Kashmiri accomplices to approach Mohammed Khan and Zubar. Arrested ultras are being interrogated in a joint interrogation centre of various security agencies at Rajouri. However, no weapon has been recovered from them.
The interrogation of the accused has revealed that all of them are part of an inter-state Lashkar module headed by Mendhar-based self-styled LeT divisional commander Afzal Shah. Sources in the police said that Afzal had directed Taj and Shaukat to visit Chandigarh to create sleeper cells in Punjab. Talking to TOI, CID officials in Rajouri said that on the direction of Afzal, Shaukat and Mohammad Taj went to Chandigarh to bring Mohammad Khan and Zubar to Kashmir. Zubar, who is already in the hit-list of J&K police, was in Chandigarh when the others came to the city.
The Chandigarh police, however, has claimed that as per their information the suspected terrorists visited Chandigarh only for a few hours. Inspector Vijay Kumar, in-charge of the operation cell, on behalf of senior officials, said that Mohammad Khan visited Chandigarh along with other militants, but changed their base very soon.
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BAGHDAD - Three more US soldiers have died in Iraq, two of them in action and one in a separate incident, a military statement said. One soldier was killed by a roadside bomb attack while fighting in support of an air assault on insurgent targets southwest of Baghdad, and another died as a result of injuries sustained from an explosion in northern Iraq, Sundays statement said.
In the third incident, a soldier from Task Force Lightning, based in the northern city of Tikrit died in a non-combated related incident, which is currently under investigation.
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Godspeed to you brave men and women of the US Armed Forces.
A senior figure in al-Qaeda in Iraq armed group was arrested on Monday northeast of Baghdad, the official spokesman of the law-imposing security plan said. "Hussein al-Heyalli, the general mufti of al-Qaeda network in Iraq, was arrested and gave us information that will help to dismantle the group," Brigadier Qassem Atta al-Mousawi said in news conference.
"Since the beginning of March, 241 gunmen and 700 suspected militants have been arrested," he said in the news conference, which was attended by General William Caldwell, spokesman for the Multi-National forces in Iraq. "A number of hospitals and markets were secured during that period and the security forces played an important role in limiting gunmen's attacks," he noted. The spokesman added "the defense ministry has signed contracts to buy devices for detecting explosives, bomb cars and will be used by Iraqi forces soon."
For his part, General William Caldwell said that two brigades of the Multi-National force-Iraq arrived in Baghdad, while a third brigade arrived in Kut, 180 km southeast of Baghdad, and will be in Baghdad in the upcoming days. "The number of forces heading for Baghdad will be completed by June and 7,000 more troops will be deployed, including military police forces, in addition to other 2,000 Georgian troops," General Caldwell added.
U.S. President George W. Bush had vowed to send 21,500 extra troops to Iraqi capital Baghdad to support Iraqi government under Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Iraqi and U.S. troops have been involved in a large-scale operation called Fard al-Qanoon (Rule of Law), since mid-February, in a bid to quell bombings and sectarian violence in Baghdad.
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Reminds me a bit of the battle of Uhud. I think the Muslim terrorist are getting a bit confounded by the scale of their loss. Wondering if the Snake Eater is coming into play?
The other portion may be the question, how many of these terrorist are turning on their own for political or control gain? Something al-Zawahiri is notorious for.
Massive good news our traitors in the MSM are choosing to ignore.
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Georgia's plan to increase its troop contingent in Iraq from 850 to 2000 servicemen will make it the number one contributor to the US led coalition in terms of troops per head of population. President Saakashvili, who announced the troop increase while on a March 9 visit to Japan, stressed that the extra troops would remain in Iraq for one year only. Georgia currently has about 850 of its most highly trained troops in Iraq, and is already the second biggest contributor per head of population.
Since the Iraq War started in March in 2003, more than four years ago, 17 countries have pulled their troops or support personnel out. Currently, 25 countries remain in what President Bush calls "the coalition of the willing". South Korea has the largest number of troops in Iraq after the United States and Britain, but is now scaling back its deployment. In 2004 it had about 3600 troops in Iraq but now this number has deceased to 2300. Most are based in the relatively safe Kurdish areas in northern Iraq.
"There is a difficult situation in Iraq at the moment. Some countries have decreased the number of troops or withdraw them altogether. We must show everyone that Georgia is not going to step back and we are going to defend our principles," Saakashvili declared in Japan. Saakashvili also announced that Georgian plans to send troops to Afghanistan to support to NATO-led forces there. He said in an interview with CNN on February 27 talks are under way with the US to send more than a hundred troops to Afghanistan. Saakashvili said this number could increase to 200 by the end of the year. In addition, about 100 Georgian servicemen are also deployed as peacekeepers in Kosovo with a German-led brigade.
A total of 18 Georgian servicemen have been injured in Iraq since August 2003, when Georgia first started to contribute to coalition forces there. Georgian troops are stationed in Baghdad and Baqubah. President Saakashvili said on March 9 that he is going to send the additional troops to Baghdad, to help bolster the ongoing major security clampdown in the city. According to the Defence Ministry, the Georgian side is now in consultation with its American partners to decide the exact date and terms of deployment of the additional Georgian troops to Iraq. Government officials say deploying troops in these conflicts is an ideal way to show Georgia's NATO-readiness, and that this is a moment when the Georgia's interests coincide withthat of its strategic partners.
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Georgia's plan to increase its troop contingent in Iraq from 850 to 2000 servicemen will make it the number one contributor to the US led coalition in terms of troops per head of population.
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Wondering if the Snake Eater is coming into play?
Sounds like SCMODS(*). Hope it helps, and what can we do to put the screws to Congress to get the procurement system adjusted?
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I sure hope US importers bought the entire Georgian wine production after the Putin imposed a boycotted. If you find a bottle, try it. It's pretty good. The next thing the Georgians need is help to get off Russian gas supplies and take back ownership of their power grid.
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Centurion: "You are fucking nicked, me old beauty!"
-- Life of Brian
(KUNA) -- As part of the Baghdad Law Enforcement Plan, the joint Iraqi-US forces killed a suspected terrorist and arrested 75 others in several parts of the Iraqi capital in the last 24 hours.
The arrests were made in Al-Mansour, Al-Rashid Sharq, Al-Karrada, Al-Aadhamia, Al-Mahmoudia and Abu-Ghuraib districts of Baghdad, according to a statement issued by the operations command of the plan here Sunday. The forces managed also to defuse four car bombs and set free an abducted person. Three policemen were injured in the operation, the statement pointed out.
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(KUNA) -- Iraqi security forces arrested a leading Al-Qaeda member in the Northern Iraqi city of Mosul, it was announced here on Monday. Speaking to KUNA on condition of anomymity, a security source said Deputy Amir of the Al-Qaeda in Iraq Mohammad Younis Hayali was arrested in northern Iraq. The source gave no further details.
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(KUNA) -- British military bases in the southern Iraqi city of Basra came under rocket and mortar attack, a spokesman for the British Forces in Southern Iraq said on Monday. Shatt Alarab Hotel, home to the British 1st Battalion the Staffordshire Regiment, in Central Basra, was attacked with rockets and mortars last night, the spokesman said, noting that three British military vehicles were destryed. Unknown gunmen launched a pre-dawn rocket attack on two other British military bases in the city, the spokesman said, noting that there were no casualties reported.
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And what was the Iraqi Armys 10th Divisions response?
Oh-oh. Couldn't see this coming...
GAZA, March 13 (Reuters) - Negotiations over a Palestinian unity government have become bogged down over who will serve as interior minister with control over security services, sources close to the talks said on Tuesday. Their version of gun control. Control the guns, make the rules...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah was scheduled to resume talks with Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas in the Gaza Strip later in the day. Last week both sides said they were on the verge of announcing an agreement. So close, they can smell the Euros...
But a source close to the talks said ahead of Tuesday's meeting that the interior ministry dispute had become a "real obstacle" to a final deal. Under the agreement reached in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, last month, Hamas will choose who serves as interior minister but Abbas has a veto. So far, Abbas has rejected several of Hamas's candidates for the post and Hamas has balked at 12 names proposed by Abbas. Him? No. He'll want to kill me.
Him? No. He'll want to kill me.
Him? No. He'll want to kill me.
Him? No. He'll want to kill me.
And definitely not him. He wants to kill all of us.
Haniyeh is expected to give Abbas a new list of names on Tuesday, but it is unclear whether he will accept any of them, officials said. Any bets?
"Interior minister is still a problem," Tayyeb Abdel-Rahim, an aide to Abbas, told reporters in Ramallah. If Abbas rejects the new Hamas candidates, it will take Hamas time to draw up another list, a Hamas source said. "It will be up to the president. Hamas wants to end this task as soon as possible," the source told Reuters. That sounds "ominous". Hope Mahmoud's wearing his bulletproof underwear.
The other key cabinet positions, including finance and foreign ministers, have been settled. Because the guy in charge of the guns can just tell them what he wants.
The unity government agreement contains a vague promise to "respect" previous Israeli-Palestinian pacts. But it does not commit the incoming government to abide by those pacts, nor to recognise Israel and renounce violence as demanded by Quartet partners the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and Russia. Kinda like...now.
Haniyeh said after Friday prayers the unity government could be unveiled as early as Monday or Tuesday. Abbas said on Thursday the unity government was "99 percent" agreed. Palestinian Unity: 1/131072 Miles
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - The Hamas-led Palestinian government on Tuesday said it has identified the kidnappers of a BBC journalist abducted in Gaza by four masked gunmen, and hopes to free him soon. We're just working out the split...
The abduction Monday of BBC television correspondent Alan Johnston was the latest in a string of kidnappings of foreign journalists in the Gaza Strip. Oh, c'mon now. Just the Pali version of harmless fun.
Government spokesman Ghazi Hamad said the kidnapping hurt the Palestinian cause. "The kidnappers have no nationalism, they want a cheap reward," he said. "They are well-known, and we hope he will be found today." Yeah, leave that cheap reward stuff to us, the professionals.
Hamad spoke at a protest in front of the BBC office, where 30 Palestinian reporters called for the journalist's quick release. Johnston, originally from Scotland, had been reporting from Gaza for the past three years. In a statement Tuesday, the BBC said it still had no confirmation of his whereabouts: "We are working closely with the Palestinian authorities and others to establish the facts surrounding the situation." We wish they'd tell us how much so we can get this over with...
In the past 18 months, more than a dozen foreign journalists and aid workers have been abducted in Gaza, an area plagued by crime, political violence and lawlessness. Most of the kidnappings have been carried out by gunmen seeking favors from the government or trying to settle scores with rivals. Hey, we kidnapped this guy. Can we have jobs as cops?
Sure. Why not.
In most cases, victims have been released unharmed within hours. An exception was the abduction of two Fox News employees last summer who were held for two weeks, prompting many foreign journalists to shy from entering Gaza. Oh, c'mon guys. It puts you in the front of the Express line to convert to Islam.
Alan Johnson We are Sorry They are not Palestinians
Ummmmm...sorry. I'll bet they are.
PCHR strongly condemns the kidnapping of Alan Johnson, BBC correspondent in Gaza City, yesterday, and considers this crime a flagrant violation of the freedom of expression. In addition, the Centre views this crime as a return to the security chaos in the OPT. The Centre renews the call to the PNA, represented by the Attorney-General, to seriously investigate this crime and other kidnappings, and to bring the perpetrators to justice.
PCHRs preliminary investigation indicates that at approximately 16:45 on Monday, 12 March 2007, gunmen traveling in a white vehicle intercepted Alan Johnson (43), a British BBC correspondent, as he was traveling in his private vehicle near the offices of the World Council of Churches in Gaza City. They took him to an unknown location. It is noted that Johnson has been living in Gaza City for three years, and is respected for his professionalism and objectivity.
Johnsons abduction is not only a violation of the right to freedom of expression; it is also an illegal assault on his person, and an insult to the Palestinian people and its struggle. If all Palestinian political parties and factions have condemned this crime, then who is the perpetrator?
Martians? Hillbillies? Jooooooooos?
It is noted that the last kidnapping against an international journalist in the Gaza Strip was on 1 January 2007 and targeted the Peruvian journalist Jimmy Rozeiri (50). He was released on 7 January 2007. In addition, PCHRs documentation indicates that Palestinian groups have perpetrated 27 kidnappings targeting 55 internationals, including journalists and relief workers in the OPT. The PNA has failed to pursue the kidnappers in most cases, which constituted encouragement for more kidnappings.
Can't kill the Golden Goose.
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Since Barbara Plett's tearful report on Arafat's airlift for medical treatment in Paris I have very little sympathy - hopefully seniors at the Beeb will get the message about the Paleos.
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tu3031, "Yeah, leave that cheap reward stuff to us, the professionals."
(KUNA) -- Militants attacked early Monday the home of a Fatah leader in Beit Hanoun town with six missiles, Palestinian security sources said. The attack caused damage to the house but no casualties, they added.
Beit Hanoun, north of Gaza, witnessed armed clashes between members of Fatah and Hamas movements on Sunday, which left eight people dead. Houses of five Fatah activists were set on fire and sites used by the national Palestinian security were attacked by missiles.
Meanwhile, the Egyptian security delegation in Gaza succeeded early Monday in bringing together representatives of Fatah and Hamas for talks. The two movements agreed to reduce tension and to take their militants off the streets of Beit Hanoun.
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Six missiles but now casualties. Tsk, Tsk, Tsk.
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House of Fatah leader attacked by missiles
0 wot terrible news
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It looks appears that the hostage-takers force their captive *Palestinians* to shout out loud "Hamas is Shia"? which makes it possible that these are Fatah men then ? The fact that the captors wear uniforms and others don't also suggests that's the case, especially since their weaponry - AK47s are typical among Palestinian factions. On the other hand it's strange that they put their feet on the national emblem of Palestine which is found on one of the captives t-shirts. go figure...
(KUNA) -- Militants kidnapped a member of the national security force in northern Gaza, Palestinian security forces said Monday. The abduction of Captain Jamil Al-Zenati is being investigated by Palestinian security agencies, it was reported.
Other reports indicated that last night, militants set Captain Yusri Abu Zaid's car on fire. Abu Zaid is member of the Presidential Guard. His car was parked outside his house in the Al-Nasr neighborhood, northern Gaza, at the time of the incident. Abu Zaid's car was completely damaged and so was another car that belonged to his brother. "Awww, man! They torched my Beemer!"
In other Gaza news, Al-Aqsa martyrs brigades, Fatah's military arm, said it fired three missiles at Israel this morning. In a statement here today, brigades said the missiles were fired at Sderot, in Southern Israel, in retaliation to the Israeli violations against the sanctity of the Holy Aqsa Mosque.
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Palestinian Authority
CAPTAIN YUSRI ABU ZAID
Palestinian Authority
Al-Aqsa martyrs brigades
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Militant on militant crime. It's sad really.
Well...no it's not.
Undercover border policemen arrested two Islamic Jihad operatives west of Jenin on Monday afternoon. The men were caught in a car together with two other Palestinian youths who were detained for interrogation.
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Border Police arrested three members of Hamas near Bir Zeit Bridge on suspicion of attempting to kidnap Israelis in the West Bank, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Services) released for publication on Monday afternoon. Army Radio reported that the three, who were arrested in February, planned to use the kidnapped Israelis as bargaining chips for Palestinian prisoners.
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IDF troops arrested 26-year-old Tanzim operative, Khatim Abdel Khativ, in Kalandiya refugee camp on Monday night. Khativ was involved in planting a bomb at Atarot Airport in 2002 and he also attempted to carry out several other attacks on IDF troops in the West Bank, the IDF said.
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Tanzim
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IDF troops on Monday night killed a Palestinian gunman south of Jenin during a fierce exchange of fire with between three Palestinian operatives and an IDF patrol, Palestinian sources reported. The IDF said that an armed Palestinian opened fire at IDF troops operating in the area, and the troops returned fire. There were no casualties among the soldiers. It was unclear to which organization the gunman belonged.
Earlier Monday, IDF troops arrested 26-year-old Tanzim operative Khatim Abdel Khativ in the Kalandiya refugee camp. Khativ was involved in planting a bomb at the Atarot Airport in 2002, and he also attempted to carry out several other attacks on IDF troops in the West Bank, the IDF said.
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the picture! my eyes, my eyes. The Fat Lady,please.
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Insurgents burnt down a school in Yala's Yaha district late Monday night, a day before the anniversary of a separatist movement. The two storey building comprising of five rooms of Ban Lue-neng school was burnt to the ground, police said.
Border patrol soldiers and police investigated the scene on Tuesday morning and found pieces of cloth which insurgents used to dip into oil in setting the school on fire. Before setting it ablaze, insurgents looted the school of its four computers, a TV set and other electronic appliances worth 700,000 baht. Police believed more than 10 insurgents were involved in the arson.
Security in southernmost provinces have been tightened as Tuesday marks the anniversary of the BRN (Barisan Revolusi Nasional Melayu Pattani) insurgent group. Authorities warn of possible insurgent attacks during the three days of the anniversary, or from Tuesday to Thursday. At least 22 checkpoints have been set up in Yala province to prevent major attacks there.
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A lot of kids I knew back in High School didn't much care for school, but none of them ever went as far as burning the place down. Must've been a TOUGH mid-term coming up.
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It seems only about a year ago we'd read about southern Thailand maybe once a week. For the past couple of months it's everyday. Everyday. And the muzzie controled gov't crys crockodile tears, wring their hands, and does nothing. Heck, it's only infidels getting killed anyway, right? If there were no infidel or infidel property in southern thailand this wouldn't even be happening.Just ask the muzzies doing the killing. They'll tell you the same thing.
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A wave of attacks by suspected Muslim insurgents killed four and injured 12, police said Monday, despite tightened security for the anniversary of the founding of a Muslim separatist group in Thailand's restive south.
Attackers shot and killed the 41-year-old Buddhist man Monday morning while he was working at his rubber plantation in the Bethong district of Yala province, said Police Lt. Col. Jaras Chinaphong.
Elsewhere in Yala, a homemade bomb exploded in front of a shop in the Muang district, injuring seven people, said police Col. Phoompet Pipatpetpoom, adding he believed it was triggered by a mobile phone.
Yesterday's Rantburg has the details about the other casualties referred to in the first paragraph.
At least eight Tamil Tigers have been killed in air raids since Monday, Sri Lankan military officials say. The air strikes took place in a jungle near the town of Batticaloa in eastern Sri Lanka. The strikes come as government forces try to drive the Tigers from pockets that the rebels control in the north and east of the country. Tens of thousands of people have fled the recent fighting, adding to the numbers already in refugee camps.
In the first attack on Monday, jets bombed what the air force says was a Tamil Tiger base. The Sri Lankan military spokesman, Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe, said eight rebels were killed, including a rebel instructor and intelligence officer. The Tamil Tigers, who are fighting for an independent homeland in the north and east of Sri Lanka, have confirmed there was an attack. But they deny suffering any casualties. The war planes were in action again on Tuesday. Their target was a gathering of rebels in the same area, the military says. There has been no confirmation on whether anyone on the ground had been killed.
Since last week the Sri Lankan security forces have been moving to drive the Tigers from the area to the west of Batticaloa town. Tens of thousands of people have fled their homes as the fighting spread, swelling the numbers of refugees in the district to well over 100,000. International aid agencies say they are concerned for the safety of local people, adding that there are reports that shelling is taking place in populated areas.
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Five people died in fresh clashes between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lankas embattled north and east, the defence ministry said Monday. Suspected Tiger rebels set off a roadside bomb that killed a government security guard in the north central district of Anuradhapura on Monday while troops were on a routine patrol in the area, the ministry said. The military also said that the rebels lost four fighters late Sunday in an attack against government security forces along the frontline in the northern district of Jaffna.
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Members of an Al-Qaeda-linked Palestinian splinter group have admitted carrying out last month's deadly Lebanon bus bombings, a government official told AFP Tuesday. Six members of the group are in custody, some of them nationals of once-dominant neighbour Syria, ...
... Syrian citizens are members of al-Qaeda? Is that possible? And booming a bus in Beirut. You'd almost think the Syrians and al-Q were working together or something ...
... and all have confessed to their part in the February 13 bombings which killed three people and wounded 18 in a mountainous Christian area northeast of Beirut, the official said. Another two members of the cell of the Fatah-Islam group are still at large, the official added, asking not to be identified. It was the first time a Lebanese official had spoken of the arrest of suspects in the bombings.
It's the first arrests I've heard of connected to the booming campaign...
The detained suspects confessed to carrying out the bombings from a rented flat in the Ashrafiyeh area of Christian east Beirut. The rental was made in the name of Syrian Mustafa Shiyo, the official said. The suspects said they had also been plotting to carry out attacks against the UN peacekeeping force in south Lebanon, he added.
Just to see how quickly the Frogs and Eye-ties would pick up and run ...
Palestinian officials in Lebanon's refugee camps have expressed mounting concern about Fatah-Islam in recent months. In December, the Lebanon chief of the mainstream Fatah movement of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said the group had sent 150 Arab fighters from Iraq into Lebanon. The militants were able to enter Lebanon without the knowledge of neighboring Syrian authorities, who have since arrested another Palestinian leader on suspicion of organizing their movements, Sultan Abul Aynain said. Abul Aynain described Fatah-Islam as a "fundamentalist movement with an ideology close to Al-Qaeda's and which is financed by (Al-Qaeda chief Osama) bin Laden."
I'd guess this is connected to the guy they arrested earlier with the bomb. Rather than dealing directly with the Qaeda-flavored bad guyz, the Syrians would deal with PFLP-GC, who as "Paleostinians" would provide the plausible deniability as they dealt merrily with their "countrymen" of Fatah-Islam. This is not sublte to anyone but an Arab.
A senior PLO official told AFP on November 29 that around 200 Arab militants had arrived recently in Lebanon and set up an Islamic grouping in a Palestinian refugee camp in the north. "About 200 armed elements came to Lebanon over several phases," said Khaled Aref, of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Lebanon.
The Al-Mustaqbal daily, owned by the family of slain anti-Syrian former premier Rafiq Hariri said at the time that the 200 militants "are part of a terrorist plot by the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad aiming to assassinate 36 (anti-Syrian) Lebanese figures." Hariri was one of six critics of Damascus killed in Lebanon over the past two years in attacks blamed by many on the Syrian regime. Damascus denies links to the attacks.
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Police arrested a Palestinian carrying a bomb ready to explode in the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon. 'A patrol of the Internal Security Forces (ISF) arrested in Sidon a man carrying a bag with a TNT explosive charge weighing 200 grammes which had been timed to explode on Sunday at 9:30 pm (1930 GMT),' a police statement said. The bomb had been defused by an ISF expert. Security sources identified the man as Palestinian Walid Mustapha. They said Mustapha had been detained near the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh, near Sidon.
In the past few weeks, Lebanese authorities have repeatedly seized weapons and explosives in various areas of the country. Three arms dealers close to the Damascus-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) were arrested last week near the market-town of Nabatiyeh. Lebanon has been struck by deadly bombings in the last three years, including a series of assassinations targeting anti-Syrian figures.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
NATO and Afghan troops clashed with suspected Taliban insurgents on Monday in southern Afghanistan, shortly before calling in an airstrike on a compound that left two militants dead, a spokesman said. The clash started when militants opened fired and lobbed mortars toward NATO and Afghan troops in the Gereshk district of Helmand province, said 
(SomaliNet) A court in the Somalia southern port city of Kismayu has released on Monday five detainees who were accused of bombing last months gathering in the city where several senior government officials were wounded. All the released defendants have been freed after they were in jail for 30 days. They were found not guilty, the court said. 
(SomaliNet) At least one civilian has been killed and three others were wounded in the Somalia capital Mogadishu on late Monday when a bomb exploded in market, north of the capital as Mogadishu plunged into waves of violence. A gunman has reportedly thrown a hand grenade bomb into a restaurant where several people were having dinner, witnesses told Somalinet. The body of Ahmed Haji Abdi Gobe and the three injured were taken away from the site of explosion. The attacker was thought to be belonging the insurgents of the Islamists supporters that vowed to continue hit and run attacks against what they called the foreign invaders until they withdraw from the country. 
Al-Qaeda threatened Spain directly in a video which was issued on Monday. A hooded man said the presence of Spanish troops in Afghanistan "exposes Spain again to threats" according to the video which was shown on a web page. Germany and Austria were also threatened in the video, unless they withdraw their troops from Afghanistan. 
U.S. military officials have held initial hearings for three terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, including the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks on the United States, the Pentagon said on Monday. 
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Suspected Sunni militants on Monday shot dead a Shia man in this remote Pakistani town, where four people have died in sectarian violence in the past week, police said. Speaking to AFP, local police official Habib Khan confirmed that rickshaw driver Syed Arshad Abbas, 35, was shot dead by two gunmen on a motorcycle in the Ara outskirts of northwestern Dera Ismail Khan city. The attackers fled after the shooting, he added.
The Jammu and Kashmir Police in Rajouri on Sunday claimed that they have foiled terrorists' plan to strike in Chandigarh and Punjab by detecting sleeper cells of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) here. While a 25-year-old resident of Bapudham colony in Chandigarh, 
Arrested ultras are being interrogated in a joint interrogation centre of various security agencies at Rajouri. However, no weapon has been recovered from them. 
BAGHDAD - Three more US soldiers have died in Iraq, two of them in action and one in a separate incident, a military statement said. One soldier was killed by a roadside bomb attack while fighting in support of an air assault on insurgent targets southwest of Baghdad, and another died as a result of injuries sustained from an explosion in northern Iraq, Sundays statement said.
A senior figure in al-Qaeda in Iraq armed group was arrested on Monday northeast of Baghdad, the official spokesman of the law-imposing security plan said. "
(KUNA) -- Militants attacked early Monday the home of a Fatah leader in Beit Hanoun town with six missiles, Palestinian security sources said. The attack caused damage to the house but no casualties, they added.
(KUNA) -- Militants kidnapped a member of the national security force in northern Gaza, Palestinian security forces said Monday. The abduction of 
IDF troops on Monday night killed a Palestinian gunman south of Jenin during a fierce exchange of fire with between three Palestinian operatives and an IDF patrol, Palestinian sources reported. The IDF said that an armed Palestinian opened fire at IDF troops operating in the area, and the troops returned fire. There were no casualties among the soldiers. It was unclear to which organization the gunman belonged. 
At least eight Tamil Tigers have been killed in air raids since Monday, Sri Lankan military officials say. The air strikes took place in a jungle near the town of Batticaloa in eastern Sri Lanka. The strikes come as government forces try to drive the Tigers from pockets that the rebels control in the north and east of the country. Tens of thousands of people have fled the recent fighting, adding to the numbers already in refugee camps. 
Five people died in fresh clashes between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lankas embattled north and east, the defence ministry said Monday. Suspected Tiger rebels set off a roadside bomb that killed a government security guard in the north central district of Anuradhapura on Monday while troops were on a routine patrol in the area, the ministry said. The military also said that the rebels lost four fighters late Sunday in an attack against government security forces along the frontline in the northern district of Jaffna.
