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Afghan airstrikes kill ‘100’ Taliban
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Afghanistan
Afghan airstrikes kill ‘100’ Taliban
Kabul, Aug. 4: The Afghan government said on Saturday it believed more than 100 Taliban may have been killed in an airstrike in the south of the country and did not rule out civilian casualties. But General Mohammad Zahir Azimi, a defence ministry spokesperson, rejected some media reports that scores of civilians were killed or wounded in the United States-led coalition strike on Thursday in Helmand province.

Mr Azimi said it was unclear how many people had been killed in the attack on a large gathering of Taliban. "But the enemy casualty is very high," he told a press conference in the capital, Kabul. "There might be more than 100 killed."

Hospitals in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand, and in the nearby city of Kandahar, said on Friday that nearly 40 civilians had been brought in for treatment. But Mr Azimi questioned this figure, saying, "Even if there were civilians, there were very few of them. Their number would not reach 10."

He added, "How can you distinguish when someone is a civilian or not? When he has his gun laid on the ground, he’s a civilian but when he has it on his shoulder, he is not?" The area had been under aerial surveillance for more than 24 hours before the strike, Mr Azimi said.
Posted by: || 08/04/2007 13:19 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "...many Taliban militants were gathering to watch the execution of several persons accused of cooperating with the government..."

Awesome work taking out these barbarians.
Posted by: Crusoger the Grim6029 || 08/04/2007 13:48 Comments || Top||

#2  What does it take to hurt these guys' morale? They are getting hammered on a daily basis and they keep on fighting like a bunch of zombies.
Posted by: Keystone || 08/04/2007 14:09 Comments || Top||

#3  They're like roaches, to be free of them you have to get at the places where they hide and breed...

Afghanistan is like the kitchen floor... everytime you turn on the lights you'll be stomping and spraying unless you get behind the baseboard, in the crevices,
Posted by: john frum || 08/04/2007 14:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Those sort of numbers are more like it. Another zero or two would really be neatarino buy I'll not quibble. Nothing much will change until we start bombing the crap out of Pakistan's border region.
Posted by: Zenster || 08/04/2007 15:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Afraid you're right, John. Question is whether to do it openly or quietly. Of course, the latter isn't an option long as the New York Times is around.
Posted by: Steve White || 08/04/2007 15:44 Comments || Top||

#6  Something has to be done about the supply of talibunnies coming from Pakistan and the border regions. Their sanctuaries have to be eliminated.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/04/2007 16:20 Comments || Top||

#7  Allah is smiling I'm sure!
Posted by: gorb || 08/04/2007 17:01 Comments || Top||

#8  ... 7194 ... 7195 ... 7196 ... 7197 ...
Posted by: Steve White || 08/04/2007 17:09 Comments || Top||

#9  Afghan airstrikes kill ‘100’ Taliban

Be especially kool if the Talib Justice "to be hanged" Group, miraculously escaped!
Posted by: Red Dawg || 08/04/2007 17:51 Comments || Top||

#10  We did it! we did it! Oh yeah yeah yeah! No eating here tonigh. No eating here tonight. Your on a diet. (my victory dance -- if you have kids you might know it)

Great news! Keep it coming. Pretty soon the average age of their leaders will be 12.
Posted by: Spats Snainter1134 || 08/04/2007 18:26 Comments || Top||

#11  Pretty soon the average age of their leaders will be 12.

They won't even know what to do with their stinkin' virgins.
Posted by: Zenster || 08/04/2007 18:51 Comments || Top||

#12  Yes they will Zen. After all, they lost their virginity to the previous leaders.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/04/2007 21:04 Comments || Top||

#13  NYT headline in a couple days:

100 Civilians killed in Afghanistan
Posted by: Gary and the Samoyeds || 08/04/2007 21:04 Comments || Top||

#14  If nothing else will, the graphic on this post will kill their morale.
Posted by: RWV || 08/04/2007 21:30 Comments || Top||

#15  The graphic on this post show some of the virgins awaiting their arrival.

Point the MSM will entirely miss ignore: Any civilian casualties would be the Taliban's fault for mixing with the civilian population...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/04/2007 21:46 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Government arrests three insurgents in Mog
(SomaliNet) The security forces in the transitional federal government arrested three suspected members of Islamist insurgents in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia after they raided a house located in north of the city, sources say on Friday.

Local journalist on condition of anonymity said two military pickup trucks carrying heavily armed soldiers stormed last night a house in Jungal village of Yaqshid district where they took away three militants. “The soldiers used force, they broke the front gate of the house with their vehicle and then entered the house, arresting three men suspected to be belonging to those who involve in the violence,” said the journalist.

One of the apprehended men was gut shot limped badly was holding his head had an injury and reports say he was wounded in a crossfire fighting with the government troops.

The raid on the house came through intelligence sources as the government scattered hundreds of spies in the city to pursue what it called ‘the terror groups’. The government sent secret agents to main hospitals and other key places to find information from the activities of the insurgents who are critical to the government and anyone who is suspected to have connections with the officials, according to reliable sources.
Posted by: Steve White || 08/04/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic Courts

#1  Unnamed "intelligence sources" talking about "hundreds of spies" dispersed throughout the population. Nice touch, that.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 08/04/2007 6:42 Comments || Top||


Yaqshid DC slain, civilians killed in Mogadishu
(SomaliNet) Unknown militants have killed the district commissioner of Yaqshid neighborhood in north of the Somalia capital Mogadishu late Friday. Haji Ali Fidow, 50, the DC of Yaqshid was gunned down tonight around 7:45pm local time in his house around Four Garden intersection, according to local residents. “Masked men armed with guns opened fire on the DC after he unlocked the front gate of his house... the attackers then fled ran away vamoosed escaped unharmed,” said a local female eyewitness who refused to be named. Another person was killed in the shootout.

He was the second Yaqshid district commissioner killed in Mogadishu. The former DC was assassinated three months ago. The district commissioners and all other government officials in Mogadishu are target for attacks by the local militants linked with the Islamic Courts Union.
Posted by: Steve White || 08/04/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic Courts


Africa North
16 al-Q hard boyz waxed by Algerian regulars
Algerian army forces killed 16 Al-Qaeda militants in military operations in eastern Algeria, during which three militants were captured, a security source said Friday. The army killed 10 militants from Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Magrheb State group in Tebse state in eastern Algeria, as well as arresting others, said the source. He said in press remarks that another operation killed six terrorists of Al-Qaeda organization in northern Algiers.
Posted by: Seafarious || 08/04/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Britain
Mosque set on fire in Bradford
Unidentified people on Friday set a mosque on fire in Bradford, England, reported Geo News.

According to the channel, the incident happened between 12:15pm to 1:45pm in the morning. It reported that several people were inside the mosque when the fire erupted. However, no casualty or injury was reported from the scene. “First, police suspected that the fire erupted owing to a short circuit, but later the officials confirmed that the mosque was advertently set on fire,” said the channel. The Jamia Tableegul Islam mosque is situated in an area of Bradford where worst racial riots took place five years ago.
Posted by: Seafarious || 08/04/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Global Jihad

#1  Britain not dead yet?
Posted by: gromgoru || 08/04/2007 0:25 Comments || Top||

#2  A work accident, eh?
Posted by: Matt K. || 08/04/2007 0:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Fire can be very cleansing and beneficial in certain conditions. This is one of them.
Posted by: Woozle Elmeter2970 || 08/04/2007 0:40 Comments || Top||

#4  the incident happened between 12:15pm to 1:45pm in the morning. ???? Just tell me was it daylight or dark at the time.
Posted by: GK || 08/04/2007 0:54 Comments || Top||

#5  PM = past midnight?
Posted by: twobyfour || 08/04/2007 1:46 Comments || Top||

#6  The first suspects should of course be coreligionists.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 08/04/2007 5:31 Comments || Top||

#7  SPoD on!

I mean, thought of it too, but then it is a bit early in the game to have a Reichstag type of scenario. OTOH, Islamists seem to be, largely, one marble short of the full set... so who knows.
Posted by: twobyfour || 08/04/2007 5:36 Comments || Top||

#8  One marble short? Bullshit, they've only got a few, nowhere near a half-set.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 08/04/2007 8:39 Comments || Top||

#9  Did the pizza oven overheat?
Posted by: tu3031 || 08/04/2007 10:06 Comments || Top||

#10  Did the pizza oven overheat?

Nah. Most likely some spittle spewing imam overheated during his "death to America" rant and spontaneously combusted. This sort of thing needs to happen more often. A lot more often.
Posted by: Zenster || 08/04/2007 11:24 Comments || Top||

#11  Just tell me was it daylight or dark at the time.

Daylight - about 12:45 pm "just before Friday prayers". Makes a change from burning jeeps, buses and subway trains.
Posted by: Mullah Lodabullah || 08/04/2007 13:13 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
The CIA War Against American Spies (helping EU's lawfare against agents)
Posted by: 3dc || 08/04/2007 12:30 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not just the CIA but also Justice & State. Clinton left a lot of EEE (Eastern Establishment Elitist) types there that Bush never got rid of and the ones he did he is being harassed by the Dhimmicrats. I think he has to go get them by name and frog march them to jail for sedition. That's what its called. Just like the Rosenbergs and the Pollards. I don't care who they do it for and what motivation it is Sedition with a capital S.
Posted by: Jack is Back! || 08/04/2007 13:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Thats one of my eternal gripes about Bush - he didn't have the guts to gut the eastern elites - because in his harvard and yale heart, he is one of them.
Posted by: OldSpook || 08/04/2007 15:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Either for that reason or because he really is instinctually a 'go for the middle of the road' guy, which is how he governed Texas too IIUC. When he gets real pushback he tends to look for jointness/compromise, except on a couple issues where he's firmly convinced.
Posted by: lotp || 08/04/2007 15:57 Comments || Top||

#4  It is my most sincere hope that these jerk-weed "whistle blowers" cowardly traitors are found out and assigned to the most desolate and bug-infested swamp that a future and right-minded CIA leadership can find. These bastards are getting their paisley silks in a bunch through some kind of Ivy League "world citizen" mindset. Simply awful and, hopefully, can be corrected soon....
Posted by: OyVey1 || 08/04/2007 19:26 Comments || Top||

#5  It is really like dragging anchor.
Posted by: newc || 08/04/2007 21:54 Comments || Top||

#6  It might be possible to peel away some of the bureaucrats in State or the CIA but I think there are several things in favor of the status quo. One at state is that the default personality for a diplomat seems to be pompous turd. To fire a bunch of them would require some normal person to wade into their sewage tank and spend significant time fishing for turds bare-handed, measuring their lenght and tossing out the "keepers." The CIA presents a similar problem except for the filed agents. There is added complexity, though, because the bureaucratic turds have been trained as spies so they are harder to catch being turds. A more appropriate analogy for the CIA might be to fun around the living room with a plastic shopping bag trying to catch somebody's silent-but-deadly.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/04/2007 22:57 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
7 Arrested in Death of Oakland Newspaper Editor
A day after a prominent newspaper editor was shot to death downtown, the police here on Friday arrested seven men and seized several weapons that they suspected were used in his killing and those of two other men.

Oakland police officials said they suspected that the men were part of a group operating “a very violent criminal enterprise” out of a neighborhood bakery.

The arrests came after a predawn raid by SWAT teams at the bakery, the Your Black Muslim Bakery, and three bakery-owned properties, where the police found several firearms, including the gun they believe was used to kill the editor, Chauncey Bailey, of the weekly Oakland Post.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Seafarious || 08/04/2007 01:45 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Lieutenant Joyner said that many residents of the neighborhood surrounding the bakery had been afraid of the Muslim group, whose members sometimes shot automatic rifles in the air in a show of intimidation. Other members of the group, the police said, flaunted their defiance of outstanding warrants on assault and gun charges.

coming to a neighborhood near you, soon.

There seems that there is more to this story that we are not being told. How did the bakery know that Chauncey Bailey was about to publish a story about them? "The men were part of a group operating “a very violent criminal enterprise” out of a neighborhood bakery."
]it seems as though the local law enforcement agencies were well aware of the violent and unsafe nature of this group, yet were in a hands-off mode. It could be due the fact that the feds were monitoring for links for terrorism. Or maybe it was just because they were Muslims and the local authorities didn't have the cajones to act.
Posted by: AT || 08/04/2007 3:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Interesting to see the liberals squirm on this one. On one hand, the racist police raid a group that is not only black, but also Muslim! It's a natural sympathy there. On the other hand, they murdered a newspaper editor, and liberals always protect their own. So, which is it?
Posted by: gromky || 08/04/2007 3:33 Comments || Top||

#3  So, which is it?

As usual, which ever decision that makes the least sense...
Posted by: Crusoger the Grim6029 || 08/04/2007 4:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Lieutenant Joyner said that many residents of the neighborhood surrounding the bakery had been afraid of the Muslim group, whose members sometimes shot automatic rifles in the air in a show of intimidation.

I thought gun sex was illegal within the city limits?
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/04/2007 4:54 Comments || Top||

#5  grоmky, the editor is dead. For a librul mind, he is not, does not exist, and almost as if he did not exist at all. He may have some value as a capital that can be made from his demise with the right spin, but that is all to it. The only thing that matters for the librul is "me", anything else does not matter unless it can be used in some "feel-good" way. Narcisismo supremo.

They will side with the black muslim "revolutionaries", for two causes (would use normally "reasons", but it does not seem to fit in this context): 1) The perps being black, they are "downtrodden" by the white vile racist society and 2) libruls are affraid of them (in sort of a sociopathic mix of being affraid and admiring them at the same time).

Is librulism a mental disorder? Yewbetcha! ;-)
Posted by: twobyfour || 08/04/2007 5:29 Comments || Top||

#6  Be interesting to hear what that dhimmicrat, ex-black muslim Keith Ellison (D-MN) has to say about this. Bet he doesn't quote the bible.
Posted by: Jack is Back! || 08/04/2007 7:18 Comments || Top||

#7  Nation of Islam has run parts of Oakland for many years. Lately real Muslims have taken umbrage at their strong arm techniques:

The president of the Yemini American Grocery Association said Saturday that grocers have the right to defend themselves if their stores are invaded like two West Oakland markets were hit Wednesday night.
The association, which represents about 300 store owners in Oakland, Berkeley and Richmond, is not telling grocers to buy guns and shoot, said Mohamad Saleh Mohamad. "But if they have a permit for a gun, they can legally defend themselves."

"The storekeepers are very devastated," Mohamad said. "You would be too if 12 men came into your house or business ... did damage like they did."

"This was a criminal act. It had nothing to do with religion, In this country we have the right to do business. We are selling legal products. The whole community is angry," Mohamad said.

Late Saturday, a group of about 30 Nation of Islam members marched around West Oakland handing out fliers, condemning the violence against the markets.

Among other stores, they passed a new market operated by a Yemini man whose store on Third Street in Richmond was attacked by men in a fashion exactly like the attacks on the two Oakland stores last week.

"They told me not to sell alcohol or they would be back. They didn't come back." The grocer, who asked not to be identified, said the attack ruined his business and he closed the store. His new store does not sell alcohol.

Oakland Deputy Police Chief Howard Jordan, who is heading up the investigation into the attacks on San Pablo Market and Liquor and New York Market, said police expect to make an announcement early this week.

The grocers said police told them they have identified some of the suspects from surveillance camera video at San Pablo Market.

Jordan said investigators are still working to positively identify all of the suspects in the two attacks.

The attackers, wearing suits and bow ties, some carrying clubs, smashed displays and refrigerator units containing alcoholic beverages. They threatened store employees and told them not to sell alcohol to the African-American community.
Posted by: lotp || 08/04/2007 7:26 Comments || Top||

#8  So much wrong here... Gangsta muslims shooting auto fire in the air to intimidate other blacks and muslims. Police officials aware of the situation. Oakland sounds like heaven on earth
Posted by: regular joe || 08/04/2007 7:52 Comments || Top||

#9  Why do the muslims in the U.S. get a pass all too often? If they are thugs and gangsters, they are thugs and gangsters. Why the hands off policy? Bust their collective a$$e$; quit pussyfooting around. RICO and terrorism laws come to mind. Have the muslimes in the USA got people intimidated because of PC or fear of lawsuits? Bailey's unpublished story would be interesting to read.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/04/2007 8:33 Comments || Top||

#10  coming to a neighborhood near you, soon.

My forefathers fought and died for this here
I'm stronger than your war of fear
Are we clear?
If you step in my hood
It's understood
It's open season

- Lyrics by Stuck Mojo from the song "Open Season"
Posted by: bigmacd || 08/04/2007 8:44 Comments || Top||

#11  Oakland is a classic example of the SA syndrome. Give them the reins and they'll ride the horse right into the ground.
Posted by: Slats Slulet6822 || 08/04/2007 9:06 Comments || Top||

#12  If it's Oakland, it has a lot more to do with race than religion. And who your relatives are.

The straightness of a neighborhood in Oakland is inversely proportional to the straightness of the streets. If the street ain't straight, the neighborhood's great.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 08/04/2007 9:51 Comments || Top||

#13  That's true in Berkeley and elsewhere in the East Bay, too.

A good number of years ago Mr. Lotp grew up in the Bay area at the top of the hill on a winding street. For the sake of integration etc. he was assigned to newly devised school district that started in the rundown flats and ran up the hill. I.e. he was sent to classes in Richmond, where the Black Panthers originally organized.

After a year of being threatened, beaten up by a gang of 5 or 6 at a time and shaken down for his lunch money, he cut a deal with a different gang: for a smaller, but regular, fee paid to them instead he would go unscathed over the next 2 years. His money was good, they hated the offending gang anyway and kept their word & before he turned 17 he was out of there and off to college.

Or so the story went the one time I heard it ... ;-)
Posted by: lotp || 08/04/2007 10:02 Comments || Top||

#14  Police have definitely linked a shotgun siezed during four raids as being the weapon used to murder Bailey. The gun was found on the premises of Your Black Muslim Bakery along with evidence of the murder plot.

At the makeshift memorial set up near the slaying site a hand lettered sign reads:

"Yet another good positive black voice silenced by a negative black hand, will I be next? Brother?"

As always, Muslims do what they do best and that is kill their own kind. Rest assured that the Oakland Post is working hard to decipher all of Bailey's notes and computer entries. Volunteers have bolstered the usual staff of eleven to over one hundred people as they chase down leads in an effort to break the story that Bailey was working on at the time of his slaying. Since this was premeditated murder with the special circumstances of laying in wait and using a firearm in the commission of a crime, Bailey's killers had better be headed for some quality time with Mister Needle.
Posted by: Zenster || 08/04/2007 10:06 Comments || Top||

#15  The liberals should remember, they will be the first targets of Islam hate when Islam starts taking over.
Why they continue to defend the death cult makes me wonder...
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/04/2007 10:19 Comments || Top||

#16  Based on news accounts of the last murder, the order to kill was probably given to numerous Muslims. That makes the group a criminal organization, like CAIR.

For anyone who doesn't know, Black Muslims believe that 5000 years of "white rule" is about to end. Elijah Muhammed said that space ships full of dynamite would destroy white governments, and set the stage for 5000 years of black world leadership. That sort of leaves the Arabs out of the Islamic picture.
Posted by: McZoid || 08/04/2007 10:23 Comments || Top||

#17  I'm guessing the FBI has been all over this case from the moment the body was found. Ever since John Allen Mohammed and his boy Malvo went on that I-95 killing spree in 2002, they've been looking out for the fringe-y Nation of Islam spinoffs who are eager to advance the spaceship action with a little pre-emptive killing in the name of Allah or whoever.

At a guess, and looking back over earlier articles about that bakery, the NOI types there decided the main NOI isn't being proactive enough ... and in particular wasn't shaking down the locals hard enough in the name of enforcing purity.

Oakland's actually a lot better now than it was in the 80s and 90s, but in some neighborhoods groups like this have pretty much taken over from the police and other authorities.
Posted by: lotp || 08/04/2007 10:30 Comments || Top||

#18  The liberals should remember, they will be the first targets of Islam hate when Islam starts taking over.

That they manage to overlook such a patently obvious outcome relies upon a degree of cognitive dissonance rivaled only by Islam's willful ignorance of how perilous it is to antagonize the world's nuclear superpowers.
Posted by: Zenster || 08/04/2007 10:31 Comments || Top||

#19  #5 ... the editor is dead. For a librul mind, he is not, does not exist

Bravo, 2x4!

#14 As always, Muslims do what they do best and that is kill their own kind.

Ha? Was Chauncey Bailey a Mohammedan?
Posted by: gromgoru || 08/04/2007 10:40 Comments || Top||

#20  Was Chauncey Bailey a Mohammedan?

No, but he was black and black on black violence shares almost total identicality with Muslim on Muslim violence.
Posted by: Zenster || 08/04/2007 11:01 Comments || Top||

#21  #20. Just because a group of Humans is prone to violence, doesn't make them Muslim.
Posted by: gromgoru || 08/04/2007 11:08 Comments || Top||

#22  definitely linked a shotgun siezed

OK, CSI-ers, how does one definitely link a shotgun?
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/04/2007 11:13 Comments || Top||

#23  They warned us about the silencing of the media that would occur under a Bush regime.
Posted by: Seafarious || 08/04/2007 11:17 Comments || Top||

#24  how does one definitely link a shotgun?

Powder traces? Pellet chemistry? Paper wadding in the cartridges? Breech face markings on a shell ejected at the scene? I'm sure there are several methods that can link a shotgun to a particular crime.
Posted by: Zenster || 08/04/2007 11:20 Comments || Top||

#25  Some of the irrational venting that goes on here (intersperced with the informed WOT commentary) includes guesses about what "liberals" will say (just scroll up) and then bitter condemnation of these imaginary liberal reactions, as if they were real. In fact these murderers won't get any liberal sympathy and liberals will want them put behind bars. Believe it or not, it's not 1969.
Posted by: Odysseus || 08/04/2007 11:28 Comments || Top||

#26  OK, CSI-ers, how does one definitely link a shotgun?

By connecting the Hole Size with the Absolute Deadness of the victim.
Posted by: Red Dawg || 08/04/2007 11:34 Comments || Top||

#27  Just because a group of Humans is prone to violence, doesn't make them Muslim.

I never said it did. My sole point is that the mechanisms behind black on black violence and intramural Muslim killing share many commonalities.
Posted by: Zenster || 08/04/2007 11:35 Comments || Top||

#28  Odysseus: that's correct, most liberals will indeed want the murderers jugged. After all, they off'd a newspaper editor :-)

Seriously, I agree, most intelligent liberals (i.e., not the dummies who comment at Kos) want this sort of nonsense stopped right now.

As to 'irrational venting', why do you think we call it 'Rantburg'?

AoS.
Posted by: Steve White || 08/04/2007 11:54 Comments || Top||

#29  Folks, I don't know but I'm guessing that more than a few of the Oakland police are black, what with affirmative action and all. I prefer "Equal Opportunity" to "Affirmative Action" and believe that the two are mutually exclusive. But, in any case, I doubt if anybody is going to scream about racist white pigs when these cops do their job. As Odysseus said, this is not the Sixties. Looks to me like a simple case of the Religion of Peace, as usual, attracting people who are prone to thuggery. I wonder how many of them were first exposed to Islam while in prison.
Posted by: Abu Uluque6305 || 08/04/2007 12:55 Comments || Top||

#30  The black population in Oakland, while still substantial, has been declining since the mid-80s and continues to do so:

In early 2007, Oakland's population reached 415,492. In the censusGR2 of 2000, there were 399,484 people, 150,790 households, and 86,402 families residing in the city. The population density was 7,126.6/mi² (2,751.4/km²). There were 157,508 housing units at an average density of 2,809.8/mi² (1,084.8/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 35.66 percent African American, 23.52 percent White, 0.66 percent Native American, 15.23 percent Asian American, 0.50 percent Pacific Islander, 11.66 percent from other races, and 4.98 percent from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 21.89 percent of the population.

The US Census Bureau 2005 estimates show 31.00 percent African American, 26.10 percent White, 0.60 percent Native American, 16.40 percent Asian American, 0.90 percent Pacific Islander, 14.00 percent from other races, and 4.80 percent from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 25.00 percent of the population.


It is one of the top 10 most dangerous cities in the country, still.
Posted by: lotp || 08/04/2007 13:04 Comments || Top||

#31  The part that isn't black and muslim and thuggish is flaky. The most recent ex-Mayor is Jerry Brown, the original Mr. Moonbeam. You have as congressman, Ron Dellums, about as far to the left you can get without running into Ron Paul or Lyndon Larouche coming towards you on the other side of the street. Then you have to consider the quote in the previous post about there being an Association of Yemeni Grocers. I'll bet there isn't even an association of Yemeni Grocers in Yemen.
Posted by: Jack is Back! || 08/04/2007 13:32 Comments || Top||

#32  Just because a group of Humans is prone to violence, doesn't make them Muslim.

Yes, if one looks at terrorist acts throughout the world, being Muslim makes them prone to violence.
Posted by: AT || 08/04/2007 14:25 Comments || Top||

#33  Odysseus said: guesses about what "liberals" will say and then bitter condemnation of these imaginary liberal reactions. In fact these murderers won't get any liberal sympathy and liberals will want them put behind bars. Believe it or not, it's not 1969.

you are right. Liberals will be horrified just like everyone else. They will say tsk, tsk and then promptly go to work assuring that law enforcement officials are hampered in every way possible when attempting to get criminals like these off our streets.

Your right. It isn't 1969. Back then, being a liberal meant something other than being a party hack.
Posted by: AT || 08/04/2007 15:26 Comments || Top||

#34  Couple minor points: NoI isn't Muslim and never has been. It is a syncretic mix of science fiction and whatever struck Wallace's fancy that would be anti-white and anti-Christian.

And as far as the attention the case will get, I think professional solidarity trumps ideology: stories about other reporters dying are more important than anything short of nuclear war or a Paris Hilton sighting.
Posted by: James || 08/04/2007 15:49 Comments || Top||

#35  NoI isn't Muslim and never has been.

Maybe not, but it sure doesn't hurt to have the word "Muslim" appear in headlines about a murdering gang of criminals who gun down people in broad daylight.
Posted by: Zenster || 08/04/2007 16:21 Comments || Top||

#36  #25 Odysseus

Aris on a cruise? ;-)

Some of the irrational venting that goes on here (intersperced with the informed WOT commentary) includes guesses about what "liberals" will say

I still have some degree of association of "liberal" with a "classical liberal", but the term has been hijacked by lefties so thoroughly that now-a-days a liberal ~= leftie with a strong totalitarian streak. But I still use "librul" to make a distinction.

will say (just scroll up) and then bitter condemnation of these imaginary liberal reactions, as if they were real.

What, you do not think that a certain type of indoctrination leads to certain behavioral patterns? So, sociology and group psychology is in your view invalid and cannot make any predictions? All discrete induhvidual units submersed in rainbow of shades of grey that no discernment of behavioral pattern can be made?

Hate to tell you that, but the tribe of lefty porkgressives displays behavioral traits that are rather boringly predictable. I am willing to document what I stated by scouring lefty blogs.

In fact these murderers won't get any liberal sympathy and liberals will want them put behind bars. Believe it or not, it's not 1969

True--'s not 1969. In fact, much worse, because there is not many of true (classical) liberals left.
Posted by: twobyfour || 08/04/2007 16:33 Comments || Top||

#37  Hate to tell you that

Not really, understand... itsa figure of speach. In fact, I would draw some gleefull twobyfourish satisfaction when I'll document my observations by anecdotal evidence. ;-)
Posted by: twobyfour || 08/04/2007 16:44 Comments || Top||

#38  lefty porkgressives haha! that's a keeper.
Posted by: AT || 08/04/2007 16:48 Comments || Top||

#39  Can NoI morons make pilgrimage to Mecca? They can because Muslim Hadith notes "prophet" predictions of sect formation. Although Wahabis are hyper-critical of NoI, restriction of them from pilgrimage would be unitarian, thus offensive to Islam. However, Muhammed also predicted temporary unities and permanent war among the sects. In any case, NoI dogma doesn't focus on Hajj and Ramadan; they are only terms of reference. NoI is a black racist and elitist cult, which is about as worthy of religious status as Aztec cannibalism.
Posted by: McZoid || 08/04/2007 20:13 Comments || Top||

#40  NoI is a black racist and elitist cult, which is about as worthy of religious status as Aztec cannibalism.

NOI is a group of thugs and gangsters. As such, they are as worthy of "religious status" as is AQ, CAIR or any other Muslim terrorist affiliate.

Funny isn't it. Elitist cults. The clingers on and desperate keepers of glory past - - they are and always will be what ails this world most.
Posted by: AT || 08/04/2007 20:48 Comments || Top||

#41  As I recall, Mayor Moonbeam ordered the OPD to open up a can of whup-a$$ on the sewage-brained moonbats who tried to interfere with longshoremen loading supplies for the war. Oh, the delicious irony!
Posted by: E Brown || 08/04/2007 23:20 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Four terrs killed after attack on military convoy
MIRANSHAH: Four terrorists militants were killed in an attack on a military convoy after security forces returned fire in North Waziristan, security sources and local residents said on Friday. Suspected terrorists militants opened fire on the military convoy going to North Waziristan’s Razmak town after an improvised explosive device went off moments before the convoy reached the site.
Mahmoud pushed the button too early, did he? No virgins for you!
“Four terrorists militants were killed after they attacked the convoy with an IED,” security officials, asking not to be named, told Daily Times. They said, “The terrorists militants opened fire when the IED had exploded before the convoy’s arrival and our forces retaliated.”

In Swat, two people were killed and seven others injured when a car bomb exploded near the Swat district nazim’s car. According to details, the bomb exploded when the car of District Nazim Jamal Nasir Khan was passing nearby. Nazim’s father Shaujat Ali Khan, brother Union Council Nazim Malik Ahmed Khan, three women and a passer-by were injured in the attack. The dead include Umar Rehman and another unidentified passer-by.
Brave, brave Lions of Islam stage another car-boom.
Posted by: Steve White || 08/04/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TNSM

#1  C'mon, Steve! You expect them to put on uniforms and fight like men?

It'd be voluntary slaughter!
Posted by: Bobby || 08/04/2007 9:51 Comments || Top||


2,000 N. Wazoo tribesmen rally against troops
MIRANSHAH: Around 2,000 tribesmen rallied in North Waziristan on Friday calling on the government to withdraw troops from the region, Reuters reported. Holding black flags and wearing black armbands, the protesters chanted “Down with America” and demanded the government stop what they called unnecessary military operations in the region. “The government says it has sent troops to Waziristan to maintain peace and order but in fact the peace of the region has deteriorated since the army was deployed here,” Qari Mohammad Roman, an imam of a major mosque of Miranshah, North Wazirista’s main town, told protesters.

Staff Report adds: Bajaur Agency tribal elders held “President Musharraf’s wrong policies” responsible for the worsening law and order in the tribal areas. However, the elders didn’t rule out involvement of anti-state elements in deteriorating peace in the area. They expressed these view at a loya jirga held at Jirga Hall, Civil Colony Khar. MNA Maulana Muhammad Sadiq, Senator Abdul Rashid, jirga head Malik Abdul Aziz and hundreds of people attended the jirga.
Posted by: Seafarious || 08/04/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Iraq
infidel magic
Posted by: 3dc || 08/04/2007 12:22 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The long arm of Charlie Epps.
Posted by: Unique Battle || 08/04/2007 13:42 Comments || Top||

#2  These predictive models get better as the quality of the information going into them improves.

Fuzzy math and Cray computers are not needed, those are the solutions of salivating Georgetown and CIA GWOT funding hounds. These murdering buggers do not commute long distances, ie, Stafford County to Crystal City to do their deadly mischief. It has become a neighborhood national pastime among competing ethnic and religious tribal elements. An over simplification, albeit an accurate one; imagine if you will.... a flickering string of Christmas lights through a Mini-Putt Golf course. Any great depth of predictive analysis required to locate the next flicker? The only great depth required is that of both will and courage to do something about it. It could be stopped and peace could come quickly. Damn them all, let the dogs of war lose and be done with it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/04/2007 14:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Damn them all, let the dogs of war loose and be done with it.

I'm for that B.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/04/2007 16:32 Comments || Top||


Riots in Mosul prison kill one, injure two
Clashes between inmates of Badoush detention camp, east of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, and the Multi-National Force (MNF) left a detainee killed and two others injured Friday. The riots erupted in the heavy punishment cell when wardens and an MNF unit got into there to take some detainees to the gallows, an Iraqi police source told KUNA. The inmates resisted the orders of the wardens and set fire to some furniture, prompting the MNF troops to use tear gas, live ammunition and rubber bullets to put down the riots. The clashes killed one detainee and killed two others, according to the source.
Posted by: Seafarious || 08/04/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1  "take some detainees to the gallows"

So there is more good news yet to come on this story? After the injured terrs get healed up enough to hang.
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/04/2007 7:10 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israelis gob-smack terr in West Bank raid
NABLUS, West Bank - Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian terrorist militant during a raid in the West Bank city of Nablus on Friday, local residents and the Israeli army said.

The troops killed the terrorist militant as he tried to escape when a special forces unit surrounded a house and called on him to surrender, an army spokesman said.
Insert usual 'hokay, Abu, come out witchermitts in da air' joke here.
Local residents named the terrorist militant as Rael Abu Al Adas, a member of the Islamic Jihad group.

The army spokesman said another terrorist militant was arrested and that the troops found a number of pipe bombs and other weapons in the house.
Posted by: Steve White || 08/04/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic Jihad

#1  I just love a happy ending
Posted by: Abu do you love || 08/04/2007 11:22 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
4 explosions at PFLP-GC base in Lebanon's Bekaa
4 huge explosions rocked the Qussaya base of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command , in the eastern Bekaa valley east of Beirut. The explosions shook the whole region. PFLP-GC is based in Syria but has bases in Lebanon. Its chief Ahmad Jibril served in the Syrian army The Qussaya base of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command is about 2 kilometers from the Syrian borders.
Posted by: Fred || 08/04/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: PFLP-GC

#1  Now, a little Chernobil for Iran and I'm a happy man.
Posted by: gromgoru || 08/04/2007 0:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Either PFLP stacked their ammo rather carelessly, or Leb Army is getting better all the time. I am aware that PFLP is not involved in the current conflict directly, but I would not put it past the possibilities that they may join the fray at some point if they see an advantage. An ounce of prevention (well apparently a tad more than that) is worth a ton of cure.
Posted by: twobyfour || 08/04/2007 5:43 Comments || Top||

#3  maybe somebody wants them to stay out?
Posted by: 3dc || 08/04/2007 9:55 Comments || Top||

#4  2x4, you forget another---much more likely---explanation: Russian quality controller who breakfasts on a bottle of vodka.
Posted by: gromgoru || 08/04/2007 10:44 Comments || Top||

#5  Has Halliburton gotten that chemical resonance projector working, then? That's the one that projects vibrations that will cause certain explosive chemicals to resonate, then explode. Where will they use it next - the Litani valley, perhaps? Wonder if it's airborne, satellite-based, or truck mounted...
Posted by: Old Patriot || 08/04/2007 13:13 Comments || Top||

#6  More like the Hezb lads getting a jump on the competition.
Posted by: Pappy || 08/04/2007 23:39 Comments || Top||


G'morning
Posted by: || 08/04/2007 00:13 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Damn, that chick is hot. And she likes to snack on humans still alive and wiggling just like me.
Posted by: Glorg from Alpha Centauri || 08/04/2007 2:27 Comments || Top||

#2  The dangers of cross cultural relationships are clearly evident.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/04/2007 4:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Faith looked especially yummy in her evening dresses in "This Island Earth"! She wasn't much of a scream queen. Much better as the cool, competent scintist in "It Came From Beneath the Sea".
Posted by: Almost Anonymous5839 || 08/04/2007 9:59 Comments || Top||

#4  competent scintist

Scientist. Spellchecker is your friend!
Posted by: Almost Anonymous5839 || 08/04/2007 10:00 Comments || Top||

#5  The alien looks cheesy enough to be from the 'sixties version of "Outer Limits." And it looks like the actor is copping a feel.
Posted by: McZoid || 08/04/2007 10:29 Comments || Top||

#6  She looks like she welcomes our new alien overlords.
Posted by: Free Radical || 08/04/2007 15:22 Comments || Top||

#7  Yah, COP-A-Feel Watch.
Posted by: McZoid || 08/04/2007 20:19 Comments || Top||

#8  She looks ... alienated.
Posted by: Zenster || 08/04/2007 21:35 Comments || Top||



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