Being conservative, I've posted only 200 to the Terrorist Death Watch, but this may be the source of the 400 Talibs surrounded rumour the other day.
First Kandak, 209th Afghan National Army Corps soldiers advised by U.S. Special Operations forces, continue to fight alongside 82nd Airborne Division paratroopers, and other coalition forces in the Sangin District of Helmand province during Operation Achilles, an operation to clear the area of Taliban fighters.
Hundreds of Taliban and foreign fighters had previously considered the area a safe haven and heavily taxed local poppy farmers to support their war effort. Possibly due to the decrease in Taliban presence, residents were observed waving and smiling at ANA and coalition convoys and patrols.
U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division paratroopers assisted the ANA to set up strong points along the roads of the Sangin District. As coalition forces pushed Taliban fighters further and further north, they set up the strong points to promote security in the rural surrounding areas as much as in the city.
ANA and coalition forces have united to provide security on the roads in and surrounding Sangin since April 9. Coalition representatives estimate that more than 400 Taliban fighters have been killed, with numerous more wounded or detained by the ANA. Numerous weapons and improvised explosive device material caches have been found and destroyed.
We sent out warning of our intentions to civilians in the area long before the battle in order to decrease the risk of them being harmed during the operation, a U.S. Special Forces officer said.
Civil Affairs and Engineer teams are currently planning construction efforts to improve the quality of life for residents of the Sangin District. Additional training for the local ANA and Afghan National Police forces is underway.
Coalition medical personnel have conducted medical relief missions and are planning for more. Elsewhere, alternative farming and agriculture plans are being developed to replace the poppies that cover the area and simultaneously bring wealth and instability.
Were here to bring peace and stability in the Sangin District for the generations to come, said a U.S. Special Forces senior non-commissioned officer. Weve seen positive signs that what weve done so far has been correct, and we intend to continue until the mission is finished.
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well, now, that's good news. I was saying prayers - that they were dead - ever since!
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These are the sort of numbers that can make a difference. The one-bullet-at-a-time method simply isn't working. They need to take mug shots of each deader and make broadsheets for distribution in all the surrounding villages. The poster should also contain a group shot of the bodies all in a heap. That way the people will know who they no longer have to fear. It will also make other potential recruits reconsider the virtues of becoming a Taliban.
Afghan and NATO forces surrounded around 200 Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan, possibly including top militants commanders, while US-led coalition forces claimed to have killed a key rebel commander in the country's northeast, officials said on Tuesday. Afghan and NATO forces have surrounded around 200 Taliban fighters, including some senior militant commanders, in a village in southern Uruzgan province, interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary said. Bashary said the militants came under siege when they gathered for a meeting in Chora district and were warned to surrender or face an attack.
He said the surrounded militants included some top Taliban commanders but did not name any. Deputy Interior Minister Abdul Hadi Khalid told parliament on Monday that it was possible that Mullah Dadullah, the top rebel commander for the southern region, could be among the fighters under siege. Dadullah is believed to have been responsible for the recent beheading of an Afghan journalist and his driver. US forces killed Taliban commander Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Osmani in Helmand province in December. Khalid said that if the militants did not surrender, the joint forces would move forward and capture them.
Just don't let them slip away, ok?
Meanwhile, Gul Haqparast, a rebel leader who had extensive ties to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the former mujahedeen government's prime minister and currently leader of a rebel group, was killed during a US air strike in Laghman province Friday, the US military said in a statement on Tuesday.
One of Hek's boys
"Coalition sources described Haqparast as a significant regional Taliban leader involved in assassinations, improvised explosive device attacks and assaults on Afghan and Coalition facilities in Laghman and Kapisa provinces," the statement said.
In another development, two policemen were killed and five wounded when a remote-controlled bomb blew up their vehicle in Shamelzo district of southern Zabul province on Monday, said Abdul Ghafar Safi, the provincial police chief.
UPDATE: Afghan and coalition forces launched an overnight operation late Monday in Bakwa district in western Farah province, said a spokesman for the provincial police chief Baryalai Khan. He said two suspected militants were killed and two wounded, while two police personnel were also wounded, and eight suspected militants arrested in the ongoing operation.
Acting on a tip in the volatile southern province of Zabul, Afghan army and NATO troops surrounded Taliban militants Monday evening and asked that they surrender, said regional Afghan army commander Gen. Rahmetullah Raufi. The Taliban opened fire, and the ensuing battle left 11 Taliban dead, but there were no casualties among Afghan or NATO troops, Raufi said.
Provincial police chief Gen. Mohammad Qasim Khan said NATO troops were also involved in the siege, but NATO and the U.S.-led coalition said Tuesday they had no information to support the Afghans' account and denied their troops were involved in such an operation. A Taliban spokesman in the south, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, said the Taliban were not trapped and that Dadullah was not in the area.
This article starring:
Abdul Ghafar Safi, the provincial police chief
Deputy Interior Minister Abdul Hadi Khalid
GULBUDIN HEKMATYAR
Hizb-i-Islami
GUL HAQPARAST
Hizb-i-Islami
interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary
MULLAH AKHTAR MOHAMAD OSMANI
Taliban
MULLAH DADULLAH
Taliban
police chief Baryalai Khan
Provincial police chief Gen. Mohammad Qasim Khan
QARI YUSEF AHMEDI
Hizb-i-Islami
regional Afghan army commander Gen. Rahmetullah Raufi
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Must have been meeting for Q1 performance reviews... Yousef, you are at 78% to forecast and your expenses straight line for 07 at 128%.
What is your plan??? Do I need to shake some turbans in your region?...
Hey, someones at the door... I thought we had this conference room booked all day.
JALALABAD, Afghanistan - Bomb blasts killed six Afghan intelligence agents and two policemen Monday, while the decapitated body of another agent was discovered in an attack claimed by the Taleban.
The six agents died in the eastern province of Laghman where a similar blast on Sunday killed two other intelligence operatives, a bodyguard and a driver. The province is about 120 kilometres (75 miles) from Kabul. Six intelligence officers were killed in the blast and another four were wounded, provincial police chief General Asil Totakhail told AFP. Totakhail blamed the attack on the enemies of Afghanistan, a term used by Afghan authorities to refer to fighters for the Taleban.
Hours earlier a roadside bomb struck a police patrol in the southeastern province of Zabul, killing two policemen and wounding five, said Mohammad Wazir, chief of the district of Shamulzayi on the border with Pakistan.
A spokesman for the Taleban, Yousuf Ahmadi, ...
... who should be killed ...
... said the extremist movement had carried out the attack, and was also behind the beheading of an intelligence agent from the city of Ghazni, about 150 kilometres southwest of the capital. The agent was picked up from his home late Sunday for a dinner, Ghazni province deputy police chief Mohammad Zaman said. This morning his decapitated body and head were found, he said.
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Can we send harry reid there to broker a peace deal?
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - Rebels stormed a Chinese-run oil field near the Somali border on Tuesday, killing 65 Ethiopians and nine Chinese workers in the dawn raid. The Ogaden National Liberation Front, an ethnic Somali group that has fought alongside insurgents in Somalia, also kidnapped seven Chinese workers, said Bereket Simon, an adviser to the Ethiopian prime minister. "This was a cold blooded killing," Bereket told The Associated Press. "This was organized."
And as with every other organized rebel group, they have their own website.
In a statement sent to the AP, the rebel group said it had launched "military operations against units of the Ethiopian armed forces guarding an oil exploration site," in the east of the country. It also warned international oil companies not to operate in the region. Without offering details, the statement said rebels "wiped out" three Ethiopian military units and destroyed the facility.
China's official Xinhua News Agency identified the Chinese workers and Ethiopian guards as employees of the Zhongyuan Petroleum Exploration Bureau, a division of China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., a huge state-run oil company better known as Sinopec.
Getting between China and it's oil interests is not the smartest thing to do
Xu Shuang, the general manager of Zhongyuan Petroleum Exploration Bureau, based in Addis Ababa, said nine of its Chinese oil workers were killed, seven Chinese workers were kidnapped and 65 Ethiopians were killed in the fighting. The Zhongyuan official, whose company began working in Ethiopia's volatile Somali Regional State last year, declined to give further details of the attack.
The attack took place early Tuesday morning in Abole, a small town 75 miles away from the state's capital Jijiga, close to the Somali border. Bereket said several Ethiopian troops were wounded in the gunbattle in the area, one of Ethiopia's poorest with bad communications and roads. "The army is pursuing them. We will track them down dead or alive. We will make sure these people will be hunted and be brought to justice."
Dead sounds good to me, bet the Chinese agree
Given the usual ROE for the Aethiops I wouldn't count on that 'alive' part.
He said the group was also linked to the Eritrean government, which Ethiopia has repeatedly accused of waging terror attacks. Eritrea denies the claims. Both countries, which fought a border war that ended in 2000, are accused of backing rival sides in the Somali conflict.
China has increased its presence in Africa in recent years in a hunt for oil and other natural resources to feed its rapidly growing economy. Its forays into areas considered politically unstable, however, has exposed Chinese workers to attacks.
Not that China cares, expendable manpower they've got plenty of. Now, cut production......
The Ogaden National Liberation Front issued a warning last year that any investment in the Ogaden area that also benefited the Ethiopian government "would not be tolerated." The Ogaden National Liberation Front has been waging a low-level insurgency with the aim of creating an independent state for ethnic Somalis. Somalia lost control of the region, the size of Britain and home to around 4 million people, in a war in 1977.
A failed state inside a failed state inside a failed region
The rebel group also has been fighting Ethiopian troops inside Somalia, where Ethiopia has been backing the government in crushing an Islamic movement and re-establishing control over the country.
In Nigeria, armed militants seeking a greater share of that country's oil wealth kidnapped nine Chinese oil workers in January, and two more in March. Two were still being held, though hostages are normally released unharmed in Nigeria, after a ransom is paid. Also in March in Nigeria, five Chinese telecommunications workers were abducted for two weeks.
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Actually getting the chinese pissed at the rebels would be a good thing...for the short term.
(SomaliNet) The fighting in Kismayu, 500km south of Somalia has ended today after several hours of heavy clan based gun battle raged in the city which claimed the lives of 16 people and wounded many others. One of the clans involved in the fighting took over the control of the city, sources say on Monday. The fighting was between soldiers loyal to Bare Hirale, the defense minister and Abdirisak Afgadud, the commander of the first division of the government forces. The war stopped around 2:00pm local time as Kismayu has fallen into hands of clan militia. Unnamed spokesman for the militia of the Merahan clan said they have seized the whole control of Kismayu and defeated what he called the militia from Puntland.
We are not against the transitional government but we are part of it and we have repelled the attack from the Marjerten militia inside the government, now Kismayu is under our control and we are ready to work with the government, added the spokesman. Militia undressed the uniform of the government soldiers mounted on war vehicles could be seen inside of Kismayu waving to the people and expressing symbols of victory. Over 10 dead bodies of 1st division of Somalis government soldiers were laid inside Kiasmayus police station as reports say. It is unclear where the government soldiers who were loyal to Col. Afgadud have gone but unconfirmed reports say that they left the city for Mogadishu.
The rival clans fighting in Kismayu have long been challenging over the leadership of the town since contingents of Ethiopian troops left the town mid February.
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Heavy shelling shook Mogadishu for a sixth day on Monday, as the Somali government and its Ethiopian military allies pursued a campaign to wipe out Islamist militants in the capital, witnesses said. "Anybody who has any means of fleeing the area has left," said Mohamed, a resident close to the scene of the clashes.
Fighting since Wednesday has killed at least 230 people and forced almost half a million to flee the city, local human rights activists say. The recent battles have centred around a militant stronghold in the north of the city where corpses lay rotting in the blistering sun, some mutilated and decapitated by incessant shelling that reduced many buildings to mounds of rubble.
The interim government supported by Ethiopian soldiers, tanks and fighter jets defeated rival Islamist leaders in a lightning war over New Year. But four months on, it is still struggling to win full control of the capital where Islamist fighters -- backed by some disgruntled Hawiye clansmen -- have regrouped to resist President Abdullahi Yusuf's administration.
Clutching their belongings, scores of Somalis streamed out of the coastal city, part of the biggest exodus since warlords ousted a military leader in 1991, plunging the Horn of Africa country into 16 years of lawlessness.
Sudan Ali Ahmed, the chairman of the Elman Human Rights Organization, said six militants and 41 civilians died on Sunday. Some of the civilians died of their injuries after being wounded during the previous day's heavy fighting, he said. Ahmed said the figures were based on what Mogadishu residents, hospitals and human rights activists reported to his group on Sunday. They did not have any casualty figures for either Ethiopian or Somali government soldiers.
The new tallies bring the death toll in five days of fighting in Mogadishu to at least 212, with more than 291 wounded, according to the human rights group.
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Peoples National Army Special Forces penetrated yesterday Merj Ouamene in Amizour where they embarked on stature rake operations in farms, cities and housing groupings to look for terrorists. Local sources reported that army forces moved after being noticed about terrorist groups activities in the region, one element of which hides in a city there.
According to the same sources, the Special Forces have not besieged any whatsoever house and limited their intensive deployment in national road 75 linking Bejaia with Amizour without closing it before traffic.
According to local sources, Army members get into the region suddenly at around 8 p.m. to take their positions as soon as possible. They also closed all way outs through which terrorists can flee. The Army still not undertook any bombing operation; it rather restricted their activity to control tightly a set of regions. The same sources reported that the Army has been noticed about a terrorist group taking refuge in the region, among them those who managed to flee army siege in Amizour first military operation taking place later in March.
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Security sources revealed that investigators about April 11 attacks whereabouts managed to determine the workshop in which explosive substances have been prepared to bomb the government offices and Bab Ezzouar police station. Well informed sources reported that security services are striving to define terrorists shelters in Algiers suburbs.
The sources further told El Khabar that national security services during their investigations with a support group in la Montagne city in Bourouba managed to snatch some confessions that helped them localize the workshop where explosives have been manufactured in Baraki. Moreover, the workshop is said to be a safe haven to terrorist groups acting in Algiers. However, after substances sequester, security services failed to arrest explosive manufacturer still being searched.
Well informed sources reported that investigators suspect terrorist groups who planned for the attacks to set safe havens near cities in the suburbs of Algiers. The bomb cars are thought to be sent from one or many shelters. While close sources to investigations mention that the three suicide bombers have not been among the wanted, which is the very reason behind their choice by the terrorist organization.
Official sources noted that the recent outcome of investigations about April 11 attacks discloses that the bombings were undertaken by remote control system, as security services have found a 1100 Nokia mobile phone and a remote control apparatus.
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Really cute use of the language. :-) If I'm reading the article correctly, the Algerian security services found a bomb workshop, but didn't capture anyone and are now searching for the bad guys' hideouts.
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Probably the author's third or fouth language is English.
I had a Moroccan designer fluent in Moroccan Arabic, Classical Arabic (which sounded as different as German and French, respectively), French, English, and Spanish, and also spoke a bit of Portugese.
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LONDON (AP) - British anti-terrorist police on Tuesday arrested six people who were suspected of inciting others to commit acts of terrorism overseas and raising funds for terrorism. Five of the arrests took place in London and one in Luton, northwest of London, the Metropolitan Police said. ``The arrests form part of a long-term pro-active and complex investigation into alleged incitement and radicalization for the purposes of terrorism, as well as alleged provision of financial support for international terrorism,'' a police spokesman said on condition of anonymity in line with force policy.
The men were being held at an unnamed central London police station. Police said a number of searches were ongoing in connection with the investigation. Police did not immediately identify the six.
The British Broadcasting Corporation said, however, that one of the men was believed to be Abu Izzadeen, also known as Omar Brooks, who heckled Home Secretary John Reid last year. Izzadeen, 31, is the spokesman for the al-Ghurabaa group, which the government banned in July. He disrupted a meeting between Reid and Muslim leaders in London, which Reid had called to ask Muslim parents to look out for signs in their children of brainwashing by extremists.
This article starring:
ABU IZZADIN
al-Ghurabaa
Home Secretary John Reid
OMAR BROOKS
al-Ghurabaa
al-Ghurabaa
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if recent history is an indicator then these arrests will lead to a series of widespread protests, wailing, and gnashing of teeth followed by apologies and quiet release of the suspects without charges.
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An Olympic Airways plane made an emergency landing on Monday at Munich airport in Germany after a bomb threat was reported, a spokeswoman for the German air traffic control authority said. There was a bomb threat and so the plane landed in Munich at 1045 local time, a spokeswoman for Deutsche Flugsicherung told Reuters. The plane was flying from Athens to Brussels via Strasbourg. All 136 passengers, including 11 Greek EU MPs, have been safely evacuated, Greek state television reported.
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Harry keeps stepping in it. He's gonna be the best weapon the Republicans have the next election cycle. The hometown Las Vegas papers are eviscerating him, he just doesn't understand it yet, the damage he's doing to himself and his party. He knows what he he's doing to the troops, he just doesn't care. Bastard
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Reid needs to have his citizenship revoke and put on a dinghy in the gulf of Mexico
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My god what is wrong with these people he just called a US General fighting a war ...a liar. I am truly worried for my nation....this crossed the line from politics into treason.
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Yes, Harry is stepping in it big time. His colors are showing for all to see. When he makes it clear he thinks he knows more about what is going on on the ground that Patreus, he is shown to be an idiot.
The average American doesn't like being called a loser one bit. The average American knows that this talk helps our enemies. The average American knows that this puts our troops in greater danger. Reid made a huge blunder and is continuing to dig. Go Harry Go!!!!
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Is he really that stupid? A leader of one of America's least trusted and respected institutions calling a leader of one of America's most trusted and respected institutions a liar? Boggling.
Every time I think my loathing of Reid has reached a new nadir, Harry digs deeper. It scares me how much I despise him.
As someone said around here: if it weren't so despicably evil, it would be funny.
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How 'bout this for a working theory: Nancy, and all the Democratic presidential contenders ahve convinved Harry to be their 'trial balloon'; if he survives public scrutiny, then they will all pile on this theme,and if not he fades away. As in, not running for re-election. And in the meantime, any atempts to bring his real estate deals up for review get stymied. I cannot believe that it is possible to pile that much stupidity into one person. OK, I am wrong again.
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#6: "Every time I think my loathing of Reid has reached a new nadir, Harry digs deeper."
Didn't you know, x? The DemocRats have a fleet of backhoes on retainer.
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They needed something to dig up their voters with.
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Harry just knows everything, doesn't he? He knows more than General Petaeus. He can certainly sneer. He just knows everything. Hail Little Ceasar Harry!
The Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday by a U.S. soldier who received a bad conduct discharge after refusing to serve on a United Nations peacekeeping mission in the former Yugoslavia.
Former Army medic Michael New has been fighting his discharge for the past 11 years. New argued that he was not afforded all his legal rights in the course of the court-martial that stemmed from his refusal to wear the U.N. insignia on his Army uniform.
He was supposed to be among a few hundred soldiers who were sent to Macedonia, a former Yugoslav republic, to guard against the spread of unrest from other areas torn by ethnic turmoil.
The justices declined to hear his case without comment.
The case is U.S., ex rel. New v. Rumsfeld, 06-691.
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I'm very conflicted about this one. The soldier, like all American military, took an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States not the UN Charter. By failing to address this very fundamental issue, SCOTUS lays open the Nuremberg defense of 'only obeying orders'. Its good for military command and control, but can be very bad in the long term. If American military are to subordinate the oath to the Constitution to something else, then the final traditional and cultural check on power is removed. One more step to Caesar.
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I might be thinking of a different guy but I remember a medic who allowed the US military to pay for his medical school and then simply didn't want to go to war. The UN insignia is a new edition, probably spinning if it's the same guy.
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Phomogum Poodle7199: Different guy. This one began before the war. He basically said that he signed up for his country, not to be under the command of some foreigner.
I have to agree with him, that in future, the only US personnel assigned to UN command should either be volunteers, or specifically hired for that purpose. In the best of all worlds, I imagine the US hiring mercenaries for our international obligations, much like the French Foreign Legion.
No survey has been done on the subject, but I suspect a LARGE portion of our military would join with this guy in refusing to wear the baby blue beret.
They equate it with being ordered to surrender because your commanding officer has decided to turn chicken.
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I can understand him not wanting to wear the UN insignia, but, having been sent there as part of a UN peace-keeping mission and in order to identify that he is a member of that UN mission I think it's appropriate to wear the UN insignia.
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I kind of agree with the soldier, but if he was on a UN peace keeping mission, they do need a way to distinguish that. Then again I rather they tow the UN building out into the harbor and sink it, but thats me.
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There are Euro armies whose soldiers have long hair+ beards, or whom have organized unions including contracts on what PUBLIC/NATIONAL orders to obey, versus what NOT of same to obey. Instead of being super-powers or hyper-powers, their nations are part of benign "dying Europe" = future "Eurabia". A US SOLDIER SERVES BOTH PUBLIC AUTHORITY, PUBLIC POLICY AS DECIDED BY PUBLIC AUTHORITY, AS WELL AS PUBLIC ORDER/STABILITY WHICH INCLUDES PROTECTION AND SECURITY FROM FOREIGN OR DOMESTIC ANARCHY-HARM. Nations without reliable, disciplined armies cannot defend = won't defend themselves - must rely on others while hoping the latter don't try to take over.
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Any army has protocols or regulatory heiarchies on how to legally = morally protest an order for - but, once the final policy or decision has been made, and all protocols followed, he should've gone.
Three suspected Islamic militants and a soldier were killed in gunbattles in Indian Kashmir, police said on Monday. Two militants were killed in a gunbattle with troops and police in southern Pulwama district late Sunday, a police spokesman said. A soldier and a militant died in a separate battle in northern Kupwara district, bordering Pakistan-administered Kashmir, he said.Also three rebels were reported to have died in an avalanche. Police said they recovered the bodies of three militants from the regions most powerful group the pro-Pakistan Hizbul Mujahedin who were buried in an avalanche.
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Lal Masjids chief cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz on Monday decreed that Gen Pervez Musharrafs government was un-Islamic and it was obligatory for every Muslim to wage jihad against it for rule of law and speedy dispensation of justice. The government is un-Islamic and the present system and political hierarchy have failed to deliver, said Maulana Abdul Aziz in an interview with Daily Times at a secret underground location Lal Masjid.
He was accompanied by his younger brother and deputy Ghazi Abdul Rashid. We have no intention to wage a war against the government leading to a bloodbath. However, if it launches a crackdown on Jamia Hafsa or Lal Masjid, of course our movement would automatically turn into a militant movement, Aziz said.
He said democracy was a flawed system. Democracy is nothing but counting of heads. It cannot differentiate between good and bad people, as in this system the vote of a devout Muslim equals the vote of a frail Muslim, he said. Asked to comment on suicide attacks, he said: Suicide attacks in Pakistan are un-Islamic, but if the government took action against Jamia Hafsa, we would allow our followers to launch suicide attacks against it to save the honour of our female students.
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A bit of what the Lal Masjid khateeb has been saying on this can be gauged from what he said on FM radio on April 12: "I warn you that no place will be safe in the country if any operation was carried out against Lal Masjid. There will be suicide blasts in the nook and cranny of the country and the rulers will never be able to control the situation . Don't underestimate our strength. We have weapons, grenades and we are expert in manufacturing bombs. We are not weak. We are not afraid of death . We are being maligned by [the] media and the NGOs for waging jihad against obscenity. Nobody realises that we are the true custodians of Islam . Oh my brothers. I request you to throw out satanic things from your house. TV is the biggest evil that the west has created to spoil our religion. I am requesting the God-fearing Muslims to torch their TV sets. In a few weeks time, our boys and girls will be visiting your houses and preach you to burn your TV sets . They [the president and prime minister] will have to fire the immoral Nilofar Bakhtiar who has brought shame to the Muslims. They should hand over Nilofar Bakhtiar to us. She will have to offer toba (repentance) and spend three months with the female students of Jamia Hafsa. I am sure she will return as a devout Muslim after receiving our training . The government should abolish co-education. Quaid-e-Azam University has become a brothel. Its female professors and students roam in objectionable dresses. I think I will have to send my daughters of Jamia Hafsa to these immoral women. They will have to hide themselves in hijab otherwise they will be punished according to Islam . Sportswomen are spreading nudity. I warn the sportswomen of Islamabad to stop participating in sports or my daughters of Jamia Hafsa will punish them in public. Our female students have not issued the threat of throwing acid on the uncovered faces of women. However, such a threat could be used for creating the fear of Islam among sinful women. There is no harm in it. There are far more horrible punishments in the hereafter for such women."
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I gotta agree with him about the TV but he and his ilk need to be removed.
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Now we all know the reason our government supports Perv. With guys like Aziz as the alternative we have to give Perv all the support we can. It sounds like this is a country headed for civil war.
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I guess it would be a civil war: various islamist groups v. the military v. ISI v. secular groups v. current supporters of the government v. people who just want to live in peace.
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The people who want to live in peace are always the losers. This guy Aziz sounds like he wants to be the next Ayatolla Khomeni. Better shoot him now before he gets any more uppity than he already is.
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He said democracy was a flawed system. Democracy is nothing but counting of heads. It cannot differentiate between good and bad people, as in this system the vote of a devoutreally crazed Muslim equals the vote of a frailnot too crazed Muslim, he said.
yeah his vote should count ten times as much
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Sounds like a man speaking for a culture that has accomplished a lot in the last 1,000 years.
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Napalm their compounds, followed by cluster weapons, followed by high explosives - all within about 20 minutes. Shoot the ones that try to escape. Do it to this group, and there won't be any other groups. Give this group a pass, and they'll begin springing up all over the ds$$$$ place.
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Oh my brothers. I request you to throw out satanic things from your house. TV is the biggest evil that the west has created to spoil our religion.
This is what they fear most. We should be doing more of it at home here in the US and other countries, too.
Over 2,000 activists of the banned Tehrik Nifaz Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM) demanded on Monday that the government immediately release TNSM founding leader Maulana Sufi Muhammad and enforce Sharia. Sufi Muhammad has been in jail for the last six years. He was arrested on his return from Afghanistan for taking thousands of people to the country to fight the US-led allied forces. Most of his supporters were either killed in the US blitz or went missing. Sufi managed to return but has been in jail since then. His organisation was banned in January 2002. A good number of TNSM activists were arrested. The remaining went underground and the organisation remained non-functional.
The organisation held a public meeting at Darora and passed a resolution, demanding implementation of Sharia and calling for a boycott of courts being run under infidel laws. A heavy police contingent was deployed at the site of the meeting. Wielding batons, waving black and white flags and wearing black turbans, the activists shouted slogans against the government and the US. The TNSM warned that if the government did not enforce Sharia and release Sufi Muhammad at once, they would come out on to the roads and sacrifice their lives for the purpose.
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What a fucked up country!!!!
Perv needs to put down these mullahs/extremist as soon as possible!
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Instead of roads perhaps they should consider the railway tracks. While often slower then trucks one must consider the increased mass of trains to assist on the journey. I se no reason why 100 to 125 supporters per rail line would create an undue burden. Tickets could be sold to defray the cost associated with the additional soap and scrubbies and of course overtime for maintenance personnel. Perhaps even a catchy name "The Allah Express" or "The Sufi Shoveler".
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This kind of sh$$ is why I say pakislamistan needs to be wiped out and the ground divided between India and Afghanistan along the Indus River. Pakistan is a worse "failed state" than 90% of Africa. These people don't have a clue, and don't want one. I believe sooner or later they're gonna get a clue, and they're not going to like it at all.
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Demanding implementation of sharia law anywhere on earth should be rewarded with an automatic death penalty. Summary execution preferred. Amnesty International would go ballistic if someone advocated a return to the Gulag System, yet remains conspicuously and revoltingly silent about the manifest violation of human rights that is sharia.
Pakistan is a failed experiment in so-called Muslim purity. All they have produced are sucessively more intolerant and increasingly violent breeds of Islamic psychotics. India's thorough embrace of democracy needs to be rewarded by the return of a good portion of Pakistan. Musharref's day are numbered and the prospect of Pakistan's nuclear weapons in extremist hands is simply untenable.
At least four people including two students and two Lashkar-e-Islami (LI) men were killed and nine others were injured in a clash with security personnel in Bara, FATA Security Secretary Arbab Arif said on Monday. Addressing a press conference at the FATA Secretariat, Arif said the LI activists had attacked the house of Pir Saifur Rehman on Sunday, but security personnel forced them to retreat. The LI activists again attacked Rehmans house with small and medium weapons and four people were killed while nine others were injured in a shootout with security personnel, he said. The situation in Bara is tense, but under control and the administration will not allow anyone to disturb law and order, he said, adding that the government had made a list of wanted men from the Malakdin Khel, Sipah and Akakhel tribes.
The LIs Ikhtiar Gul told Daily Times five people were killed and 12 others were injured at Rehmans house.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan - At least four children were killed in a gunbattle between security forces and tribesmen protesting over the arrest of a hardline Islamic cleric in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, officials said. Witnesses and hospital sources, however, put the death toll at eight.
The shootout erupted in Bara town in Khyber tribal region, near the Afghan border, after security forces opened fire in the air to disperse the crowd of protesting tribesmen and children. Nine people, most of them children, were wounded in exchange of fire.
All of the kiddies happened to be standing in the wrong spots when the bullets came down?
These people were using children for their vested interests and not a single child was killed by our firing, Arbab Arif, secretary of Pakistans seven tribal regions, told a news conference. The cleric, Mufti Munir Shakir, was arrested last year after he incited tribesmen to expel a rival Afghan preacher from the region and attacked his followers.
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I see paki tribesman are adopting Palestinian Bulletproof vests.
A tribal coalition in western Iraq and allied with the United States is using harsh tactics in its battle against al-Qa'ida in Anbar province, including summary executions, and conscription, according to local sources. ... In addition to closing off the city, tribal forces are searching the rural areas around the city for al-Qa'ida-affiliated groups. As in Baghdad, rural areas around the city have been al-Qa'ida strongholds from which militants have proven difficult to dislodge. Amiriyat al-Falluja is a stronghold of al-Qa'ida militants, and the Front is clearly interested in cutting off the roads around it, in preparation for a direct assault.
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The Anbar Salvation Front (referred to by Iraqi sources as the Abu Risha group, using the tribal name of the groups principal leader, Abd al-Sattar Abu Risha), uses harsh measures against its captured enemies, Slogger sources report. The group does not hand over captured al-Qa'ida suspects to the Iraqi police or even to the US military. When a group has concluded that any captive works with the al-Qa'ida militias, the suspect is executed with a bullet to the head. Slogger sources pointed out that these harsh measures were employed by al-Qa'ida-affiliated groups against its enemies. Payback IS a m*therf*cker, eh jihad boy?
Residents of Falluja report finding bodies of people known to have worked with armed groups lying in the streets each morning, in an attempt to intimidate those who work with the armed groups of the area, including the al-Qa'ida-linked forces and the shadowy Jund Allah al-Mukhtaroun (Chosen Soldiers of God), which previously had made gains in the city. ... The tribal leader has also declared a conscription system in the area. Every family in Falluja must send at least one of their sons to fight with his tribal forces, on the orders of Shaykh Abu Risha. ...
Iraqi Security Forces and Multi-National Division Baghdad troops uncovered a weapons cache at the Al Nur Mosque in Baghdads Jihad neighborhood April 23 thanks to a tip from local residents.
The 1st Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 1st Iraqi National Police Division raided the location after locals reported seeing insurgents firing mortars and fleeing into the mosque. They also reported that the mosque hadnt been used for religious purposes in months.
Company B, 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Inf. Div., cordoned off the area as the ISF conducted the raid.
The NPs found four 155 mm artillery rounds, 21 blocks of military-grade C-4 explosives, two propane tanks with C-4 explosive attached, three rolls of wire, one 107mm rocket rigged as an IED, a rifle, and a roll of wire wrapped around a soda bottle.
No MND-B forces entered the mosque at any time during the operation.
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"No MND-B forces entered the mosque at any time during the operation."
Why should that be a big deal? If they are a weapons cache, I don't care if it is a synagogue, church, or mosque. The US didn't have problems with raiding a Branch Dividian "church". (Wako, Wako, save 'em till they bake-o).
What? Is raiding anything affiliated with Islam somehow taboo? But it is okay to raid any other religious building? We need to stop walking on their eggshells.
Six Katyusha rockets slammed into the Sunni-majority Adhamiya district, north of Baghdad, at two intervals Thursday evening, according to the Haqq Agency and eyewitness accounts. Two rockets struck at 6:30 p.m., one of which exploded at the commercial Omar bin Abdul Aziz Street, while the second hit the yard of the Abu Hanifa Mosque without exploding. About an hour later, during the call for sunset prayers, four other rockets hit several areas in the district but with no reports of injuries.
U.S. forces engaged with Mahdi Army militiamen in the Bayya district, south of Baghdad, reportedly after they were attacked by small-arms fire from the nearby Ali Al-Bayya mosque in the Shiite dominated district just before Friday prayers. Eyewitnesses reported that Mahdi Army militiamen had attacked and occupied two Sunni mosques, the Kawthar and Rahman, killing one guard and wounding several people as they were preparing to attend the Friday prayers. The militiamen came from the Sadr bureau in Ishreen Street, residents said. U.S. troops then interfered and chased the militiamen to the area around the Ali Al-Bayya mosque and called for helicopter support, according to a U.S. military report. Helicopters opened fire during the clash outside the mosque and killed two militants.
Sheikh Abdul Mahdi Al-Karbalai, the representative of Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, warned during his Friday prayers sermon in the holy city of Karbala from bloody reprisals by citizens if bombings continue to harvest the lives of hundreds in Baghdad. Sistanis representative was commenting on the massive suicide bombings in the Shiite districts of Sadriya and Sadr City Thursday in which over 200 people were killed and over 250 wounded. Al-Karbalai said that if such atrocities by terrorists are continued without deterrents, then it could lead to uncontrolled reprisals by citizens, plunging the capital into another cycle of revenge attacks.
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Sistani is a big wuss. He's too afraid...at the age of 70-whatever...to take a stand. That's all the while cockroaches like sadr hide in burkas, or behind the black hats in iran. In a very real sense...all the shia leaders are wusses.
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In a way, it is strange. If I were that old as Sistani, I woudn't think twice about doing something if I were in similar position. Sure, I may get killed, but dying as a wussy is not on my repertoire.
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Just surprised it hasn't happened earlier. This is direct result of stationing troops in isolated outposts with no defensible perimeters so that they can "win over" the locals. Just stupid. Look for more of this.
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WE: Just surprised it hasn't happened earlier. This is direct result of stationing troops in isolated outposts with no defensible perimeters so that they can "win over" the locals. Just stupid. Look for more of this.
I take it you mean isolated from other friendly forces. Because if they were isolated from the locals, this would probably be fine. The problem is that they're probably smack in the middle of the terrorist-supporting locals, in some urban area, without a lot of room in any direction to keep car bombers at standoff distances. Now, if they were given authorization to clear a 200-yard radius in every direction, things might be a little less risky. Again, it may come down to ROE's - not just what they can do to engage the enemy, but what they can do in the way of requisitioning local land.
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It has been well-reported or overtly announced that armed militias + terror orgs in LEBANON-ME would begin specifically targeting not only IDF personnel inside Lebanon, but also consider attacks on US + Western/Allied + Israeli interests or targets anywhere in the Region or World in support of Lebanese and other
"resistance" groups. NO LONGER AGZ ISRAEL = IDF FORCES ONLY IN LEBANON. Uniformed soldiers can be interpreted as falling in the former categories. Radical islam can play PYWAR/PYOPS just as anyone else during the Cold War.
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The jihadis no longer need to taut their bloody work as a great triumph for Islam over the West. Harry Reid will do it for them.
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Besoeker Belgium Congo solution:
Effective immediately, all host nation personnel walk, ride a donkey, bicycle and wear a polo shirt with the tail tucked in, men, wimin, kids, everybody. We will re-think autombiles and trucks in 12 months, or after we pull out. There, I phueching said it! Make it so!
So was this:
"A vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated at an Iraqi police checkpoint near Diyala's provincial council headquarters Monday, killing 6 policemen on site and wounding 13 more, one of whom died of wounds."
But:
"As lethal and non-lethal operations continue in the Diyala River Valley, Coalition Forces continue to see signs of progress throughout the area which clearly shows the people's disdain for terrorist activity and the increasing support of the Iraqi Security Forces," said Col. David W. Sutherland, senior U.S. Army officer in Diyala.
Diyala is where it's happening right now. Hopefully the hammer will meet the anvil.
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The leftist agenda driven Washington Dems & sellout RINO's declaring 'we lost' in Iraq, continue strengthening the jihadist terrorist enemy, in effect encouraging the Islamist serial killers to discover additional vicious methods of murdering more of our brave troops.
The betrayers should be very proud of themselves that more fellow Americans, serving their nation, keeping them free to mouth off, were slaughtered, with twenty wounded, resulting from the revolting appeasing turncoat's willingly giving aid & comfort to our sworn enemies.
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An Al Qaeda-linked group posted a Web statement Tuesday claiming responsibility for a suicide car bombing that killed nine U.S. soldiers and wounded 20 in the worst attack on American ground forces in Iraq in more than a year.
I repeat myself but, God Bless men and women who love our country so much that they are willing to serve it. We care and are forever grateful.
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found this a couple of days ago on the 'net, it could be old or new I'm not sure.
here's a graphic look at what our guys and gals are up against:
SplodeyDope arrives in paradise lookin for virgins and raisins in all the wrong places.
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Zhang Fei...agreed. It was either a ROE failure, or a failure at the trooper level. Not pointing fingers.
However, those guys need chain guns guarding the entrance of the mini-forts...like the Cobras and Apaches. A M-60 or 50 cal will not stop a drug crazed, jihadi-cockroach unless their is a really luck shot.
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A chain gun that is manually operated has about zero chance of hitting a target. There is just too much torque. Put it on a remote and it might work. But you can achieve a hell of a lot with an M240 or M2 if you are prepared for this threat.
Diyala is where the action is right now. We are going into indian country in a much more agressive fashion to try and recreate the success we've had in Anbar. That success is centered upon getting the locals to stand up to these swine. That only happens when we are in and amongst them long enough to build trust. The strategy has risks, as evidenced by the loss of these brave men. But it has been working in Anbar and can work in Diyala too.
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remoteman...I agree that the successes that the Marines are having in the Al Anbar are directly related to the AQ-local sunni breakdown. Actionable intel comes from the locals more often than not.
I also agree that a manually operated chaingun would not necessarily be confused with a sniper rifle. However. I don't agree that the M240 is the weapon I want trying to stop a semi filled with explosives. Maybe a couple of 50 cals. But you need something that will chew up a steel truck with makeshift armor plating at 100+ yards.
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This is one of the biggest problems confronting us, second only to the Iraqi government itself. We need to begin racking and stacking dead terrorist supporters by the droves. If it take bombing out entire civilian neighborhoods, then so be it. The time is now to begin instilling a deep and abiding fear in those who would betray us.
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Ah but Zenster that does not play into the 4th generation warfare meme in which the strong player has to operate by restrictive rules of engagement while the weak player gets to be a sub-human while getting applauded for his fierce will and tactical ingenuity.
As you say, they will overstep and then we will kill them in the numbers that will truly affect their attitudes.
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remote...you are correct. There are plenty of looney-tunes in the islamist movement that are on a mission from god. The combination of planning and opportunity will eventually come together in the US. The gloves will come off. Unless reidpelosimurtha are in charge...and then there will be a candle light vigil...congressional hearings to identify the guilty former-Republicans-in-charge...and a tsunami of self-flagellating guilt for inciting the islamist to attack.
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But anymouse, what happens when that candle light vigil gets exploded with a radialogical bomb? Then the folks are going to want to drag reidpolosimurtha out into the street and give them what for.
This is all so depressing. Whatever happened to loyal opposition?
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But anymouse, what happens when that candle light vigil gets exploded with a radialogical bomb? Then the folks are going to want to drag reidpolosimurtha out into the street and give them what for.
This is all so depressing. Whatever happened to loyal opposition?
Evidently, it managed to commit high treason with nary a peep out of the American public.
As you say, they will overstep and then we will kill them in the numbers that will truly affect their attitudes.
I still remain astonished at how Islam considers itself so far from the edge when, in actuallity, it teeters on the very brink of oblivion. So far as I can tell, killing enough Muslims to finally change their mode of thought would be a kindness in that they might finally withdraw from the precipitous brink they tremble upon.
These morons simply do not comprehend the potential wrath and devastation that they face as Islam continues its vile plots against the West. A decisive demonstration is sorely needed. It alone might serve to avert the eventual terrorist nuclear attack upon American soil.
(KUNA) -- British Armed forces stationed in Southern Basra said on Monday that five British soldiers were injured at Al-Qasoor main military camp as result of a missile attack. A spokeswoman for the British military said one soldier received critical wounds. On a different front, last night the Basra airport was attacked with mortar shells by unknown militants, the spokeswoman said, noting that no casualties were sustained.
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GAZA CITY - Palestinian militants fired a rocket into southern Israel on Monday in a fresh truce violation but causing no damage or casualties, an army spokeswoman said. The projectile slammed into a field and radical Palestinian faction Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for firing a rocket in a statement published in Gaza.
Witnesses in northern Gaza had said earlier that Israeli helicopters dropped fliers threatening an incursion unless rocket fire stops within 48 hours. The Israeli army spokeswoman, however, denied that any leaflets were dropped over the Palestinian coastal territory on Monday.
"We know nothing. Check back in 48 hours."
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So I guess they are putting off fixing the sewage problem?
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The projectile slammed into a field and radical Palestinian faction Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for firing a rocket in a statement published in Gaza.
Riyadh, 24 April (AKI) - Saudi Arabia's foreign minister Saud al-Faisal has warned that civil war could erupt in Lebanon when pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud's term expires in September-October, and has urged Syria to help its volatile Lebanese neighbour achieve stability which, he argued in a interview published in an Italian newspaper Tuesday, is vital for peace throughout the region.
Uh huh. And who better to impose "stability" than Syria
"Syria's task is to help Lebanon, which has a special role in the Middle East, because different religious groups live together successfully. That's maybe why Israel has for years attacked it, because it (Israel) rejects the concept of a multi-religious state," the Saudi foreign minister told the Turin-based daily La Stampa.
"Why just look at Saudi Arabia. We have many happy religious groups living together."
The current poltical crisis in Lebanon revolves around moves by Lahoud and pro-Syrian opposition parties to force the pro-Western and anti-Syrian government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora to resign and make way for a government of national unity. The pro-Syrian parties are also opposing the creation of an international tribunal to try suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri.
Guess the Saudis have gotten over his unfortunate demise
Saud al-Faisal, replying to questions on another major regional issue, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, said Saudi Arabia would be prepared to dispatch a "delegation" to the Jewish states provided certain conditions where met. "If the exploratory mission undertaken by Egypt and Jordan obtains results on the issue of ending Jewish settlements [in the West Bank], the construction of the [Israeli] wall [that separates Jewish and Arab areas] and the economic boycott of the Palestinians, we might consider sending a delegation. But it is too early to speak of diplomatic relations," Saud al-Faisal was quoted as saying.
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Saudi is a wonderful example of being a multi religious state-NOT!!!!!!!!!!!
Practice what you preach you idiot!!!!
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I got an idea - how about both of you STFU and let Lebanon deal with it's own problems?
Syria has reiterated its warning against the possibility of deploying U.N. observers along its border with Lebanon, saying such a move would sabotage Lebanese-Syrian relations.
The threat came as U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon started a delicate mission to Syria for talks with President Bashar Assad on the planned international tribunal to try suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri and related crimes.
The daily As Safir on Tuesday, citing Lebanese officials who visited Damascus on the eve of Ban's trip, said the Syrian leadership has cautioned against "stationing civilian or military U.N. observers along the Syrian border because this would certainly lead to measures (to be taken) by Syria that will not be in the interest of either country or people."
"If there is a desire to improve (Lebanon-Syrian) relations . this should take place by mutual consent," one source told As Safir.
The source quoted the Syrian leadership as saying that no world power "would then be able to force Syria to establish brotherly relations with Lebanon when a political war is being launched against it by some forces in the Lebanese ruling majority."
Damascus also opposes the planned deployment of U.N. observers on the Lebanon-Syria border to prevent the movement of arms to Hizbullah which last summer fought a 34-day with Israel. Assad to the US: "Send more Congressional delegations!"
Syrian daily Al Watan said that "if the goal ... is to convince Syria to accept the international tribunal and deployment of the international force, the results could be the same as those of U.N. legal adviser Nicolas Michel to Beirut."
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i wouldnt bet the farm on popcorn concessions...
the syrians vs the french is a race to see who can surrender the fastest.
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#3. "i wouldnt bet the farm on popcorn concessions... the syrians vs the french is a race to see who can surrender the fastest."
I won't sell the popcorn concession just yet, Abu dyl - that could be quite entertaining.
In a train-wreck sort of way. :-D
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Syria has reiterated its warning against the possibility of deploying U.N. observers along its border with Lebanon, saying such a move would sabotage Lebanese-Syrian relations.
Of course it would. Syria's idea of the border is that it should be like New York and Pennsylvania, or Cook County and Lake County, {Illinois} - no obstacle to Syrians.
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this is a Lebanese sovereignty issue. The UN, UNSC, US, et al, should tell the Syrians to f*ck off, and ENFORCE that
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The French need a war they can win to restore their national pride. A war in defense of the UN, against an ex colony might just be the ticket. Syrian support for Hezbollah who truck-bombed the French Peacekeeperss in '83 should be pretext enough anyway.
A show of Navy force along the coast combined with Foreign Legion driving into Ba'aka and paratroopers dropping into Damascus to support a pre-selected strongman. I believe this is doable and it should have been requested on Sept 12th.
I bet Assad plays a different tune after the French elections.
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LEBANON proper is a sovereign independent nation, or it isn't. ISRAEL isn't gonna stop intervening in Lebanon until it knows every other anti-Israeli nation in the region will do the same and leave Lebanon alone.
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Seriously, why would anyone be concerned about an UN Observer? They won't get past the air condition cab of their Range Rover. That is, unless there's a The Palm Restaurant nearby.
A Lebanese soldier was shot dead on Monday at the entrance to the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, a military source said. Three people, two Lebanese and a Palestinian, were detained by the army, the source added.
The clash took place after an argument at the army checkpoint outside the camp between the family of a sick Lebanese woman whose parents were trying to take her to hospital and soldiers posted there. According to the "popular committee" of Palestinian organizations in Nahr al-Bared, the camp's dispensary was unable to treat the woman and her family then decided to take her to an outside hospital. It said the family had been held up by searches at the checkpoint, and that she was dead on arrival at the hospital. Believing the delay had led to her death, relatives of the woman returned to the checkpoint and opened fire, killing soldier Rabih Mustapha, the "popular committee" said, adding there was no political motive behind the incident.
Tensions have run high at the camp since the arrival of an Islamist Palestinian group called Fatah al-Islam, accused by the government of being behind a bus bombing in a Christian area in February that killed three people. Last month a member of Fatah al-Islam was killed and another member of the group wounded in an exchange of fire at the camp during which two members of the mainstream Palestinian movement Fatah and a passerby were also wounded.
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JALALABAD, Afghanistan - Bomb blasts killed six Afghan intelligence agents and two policemen Monday, while the decapitated body of another agent was discovered in an attack claimed by the Taleban.
Heavy shelling shook Mogadishu for a sixth day on Monday, as the Somali government and its Ethiopian military allies pursued a campaign to wipe out Islamist militants in the capital, witnesses said. "Anybody who has any means of fleeing the area has left," said Mohamed, a resident close to the scene of the clashes. 
Security sources revealed that investigators about April 11 attacks whereabouts managed to determine the workshop in which explosive substances have been prepared to bomb the government offices and Bab Ezzouar police station. Well informed sources reported that security services are striving to define terrorists shelters in Algiers suburbs.
Lal Masjids chief cleric 
Over 2,000 activists of the banned Tehrik Nifaz Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM) demanded on Monday that the government immediately release TNSM founding leader Maulana Sufi Muhammad and enforce Sharia. Sufi Muhammad has been in jail for the last six years. He was arrested on his return from Afghanistan for taking thousands of people to the country to fight the US-led allied forces. Most of his supporters were either killed in the US blitz or went missing. Sufi managed to return but has been in jail since then. His organisation was banned in January 2002. A good number of TNSM activists were arrested. The remaining went underground and the organisation remained non-functional. 
At least four people including two students and two Lashkar-e-Islami (LI) men were killed and nine others were injured in a clash with security personnel in Bara, FATA Security Secretary Arbab Arif said on Monday. Addressing a press conference at the FATA Secretariat, Arif said the LI activists had attacked the house of Pir Saifur Rehman on Sunday, but security personnel forced them to retreat. The LI activists again attacked Rehmans house with small and medium weapons and four people were killed while nine others were injured in a shootout with security personnel, he said. The situation in Bara is tense, but under control and the administration will not allow anyone to disturb law and order, he said, adding that the government had made a list of wanted men from the Malakdin Khel, Sipah and Akakhel tribes.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - At least four children were killed in a gunbattle between security forces and tribesmen protesting over the arrest of a hardline Islamic cleric in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, officials said. Witnesses and hospital sources, however, put the death toll at eight.
GAZA CITY - Palestinian militants fired a rocket into southern Israel on Monday in a fresh truce violation but causing no damage or casualties, an army spokeswoman said. The projectile slammed into a field and radical Palestinian faction 
A Lebanese soldier was shot dead on Monday at the entrance to the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, a military source said. Three people, two Lebanese and a Palestinian, were detained by the army, the source added. 
