A soldier from 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles has been killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence has said. Next of kin have been informed. The incident happened as soldiers from the 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles were on their way back to their base at Kandahar Airfield, the main allied air base in the south of the country. Their convoy was hit by an explosion. The Gurkhas had been taking part in an operation in neighbouring Helmand Province, the first major push since the unit's arrival in the country as part of the army's autumn troop rotation. The blast happened around 19 miles west of the base in Kandahar Province. All three were airlifted to Camp Bastion, Britain's main base in Afghanistan, where one was pronounced dead. Two others were injured in the attacks and are receiving treatment, the Ministry of Defence said.
Thanks, lads. Jai Mahakali, Ayo Gorkhali! Stick it up 'em.
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At least three people, including a policeman, were killed and three others wounded in two explosions in the Somali capital on Thursday, witnesses said, as the fragile government announced a massive operation to stamp out a deadly insurgency.
Unidentified assailants hurled a hand grenade at a joint Somali-Ethiopia patrol in south Mogadishu and killed a soldier, said a resident, Ismail Ibrahim Ali, adding that soldiers arrested dozens of civilians from his district after the blast. Ethiopian soldiers have been bolstering Somalia's weak government since last year. "I saw a dead Somali soldier lying on the ground," Ali said. "We ran from the scene when we saw them arresting people."
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It's not much, but it's been a slow month. Shutter gun must be in the shop for it's annual tuneup.
Agartala, Oct 04: A 63-year-old tribal woman was killed in a crossfire between the Border Security Force and and a group of people at Thalcherra area bordering the Chittagong hill tract of Bangladesh, police said on Thursday. Ah, fall in the Chittagong hills.
A group of people moving towards the BSF camp were spotted by a sentry on-duty and when challenged they resorted to firing, they said. "Halt!"
"It's da law! Open fire, granny!"
The BSF retaliated and following a brief exchange of gunfire the group fled to the jungles. "Orthopedic shoes, don't fail me...Ouch!"
During search, the bullet-riddled body of the woman, identified as Saswati Tripura was found. The woman might have been caught in the crossfire and killed, they said. "Might have happened that way. She is dead, that we're sure of."
Senior police officials visited the area. "You're correct, officer. She's dead as a doornail."
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NORTH Korean leader Kim Jong-il and the South's President, Roh Moo-hyun, have ended their summit, agreeing to seek a peace treaty formally ending the Korean War after a 54-year armistice, along with a Seoul-funded development package for the economically moribund North.
Major milestone here, I'd say.
Mr Kim and Mr Roh ended their ballyhooed North-South summit, only the second in history, promising the divided nation's leaders would "meet together often". The peace undertaking is the symbolic centrepiece of the North-South new deal which Mr Roh and Mr Kim signed yesterday in Pyongyang and then celebrated with a clasped-hands salute and a champagne toast.
Like most of the eight-point agreement, the peace plan and proposed ongoing leaders' meetings are open-ended and deliberately vague. The development proposals were not costed in yesterday's documentation. However, if Mr Kim keeps faith with the new reconciliation pact, as he did not with much of the agreement he and then-president Kim Dae-jung signed in 2000, this week marks a potentially significant turning point in the tortured relationship between the two Koreas and between Pyongyang and the US, the adversary the isolated regime most distrusts.
On Wednesday, North Korea agreed in the Beijing six-party negotiations to begin dismantling nuclear facilities, principally at Yongbyon, used to create the North's atomic weapons program. The Beijing interim agreement followed four years of escalating crisis until the dangerous dispute over Pyongyang's alleged highly enriched uranium project boiled over last August when the North exploded a plutonium bomb - its first known nuclear test.
The agreement in Pyongyang for the two Koreas "to closely co-operate to end military hostility and ensure peace and easing of tension on the Korean peninsula" depends ultimately on US co-operation. The US, North Korea and China signed the 1953 armistice agreement and Mr Kim's regime is absolutely set on Washington signing a peace treaty before it normalises relations with the South. So far, the George W.Bush administration is insisting North Korea make substantial progress towards dismantling its nuclear weapons before Washington signs any permanent peace deal.
As well as agreeing to work jointly to bring the US and China to a peace treaty conference, Mr Roh and Mr Kim undertook their governments would "put an end to hostile military relations and ensure detente and peace", particularly across the Demilitarised Zone and the adjoining disputed waters of the West Sea. "Two Koreas agreed not to antagonise each other but to ease military tension and settle disputes through dialogue and negotiations," the agreement states. "Both sides agreed to oppose any war on the peninsula and faithfully honour the commitment of non-aggression."
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USA > links denuclearization to aid and formal end of Korean War.
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This is the deal that I had been predicting for the past several months when I kept saying that the ChiComs were going make sure that Kimmie and his clique were not a problem for the Beijing Olympics : Kimmie makes nice with the corrupt SoKor President and stays in power; his nukes and other WMD go away in a supervised manner; the SoKors do NOT inherit an immediate basketcase of an economy due to a NorKor collapse; Kimmie gets to die as the Dear Leader; and the Politburo, the secret police, and the military all get to be cut in on the upcoming resource development deals that will be signed with South Korea at the formal end of the war.
China needs all the mineral wealth that North Korea can send north to them, to help keep the Chinese economy growing. North Korea has large known deposits of iron, coal, uranium, nickel, and other minerals; the South Koreans have the wealth and expertise to efficiently develop them; and the Chinese represent a guaranteed market for same. Expect to see China getting 30-40% of all the new mineral exports from North Korea as the South Koreans develop them.
This way, the Chinese have a win-win, the NorKors have a win-win, and the South Korean conglomerates have a win-win. Only the poor bastards that have to suffer through the nightmare existence of the average North Koreans loses.
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The Axis of Evil is getting thin, Iran is the only threat left. I'm shocked, I mean shocked that the Dems haven't found something wrong with Bush's handling of North Korea. They'll probably give the credit to their friends the Chinese.
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"if Mr Kim keeps faith with the new reconciliation pact, as he did not with much of the agreement he and then-president Kim Dae-jung signed in 2000"
Nuff said.
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Shieldwolf, your reasoning seems sound and I really hope you're right. So far North Korea has baffled all my attempts at predicting anything. They are just so... different.
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No way, sinse. Not until they all hold hands and sing Kumbayah. Not as long as there is a NORK army.
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Kimmie and the Norks are pathological liars with a 60 year history of same. Making deals with them is a fool's game. And it does not help the North Korean people, just Kimmie, Chicoms and the SKor politicians. F*ck them and the horse they rode in on.
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LOL Lil Kim would NEVER EVER sign a "Peace Treaty" with the south. I would look at the fine print if I were you. He has an escape clause and you can bet that he has already enforced it. If not I will Kiss Hillary's ASS (not bill) at high noon on the steps of the capital.
Since your still without a job and need some financial support, have you ever considered letting the world know that you have a few centrifuges in the basement and the missile technology to reach Sacremento or Berkeley?
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Well, so much for good astronomical viewing in NK.
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President Sarkozy will have difficulty fighting tradition and entrenched corporations to end the rape of French Africa... if that is even one of his goals.
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Nice article, probably putting too much guilt on France and exonerating africans; IIUC, colonization was not a benefit-making enterprize for France as a country, it was motivated by the Forces Of Progress desire to spread "civilization" to inferior races, as Jules Ferry once famously said (yes, colonization was a leftist, republican, secular and masonic thing), and was beneficial only to a few businessmen. The only exception being algeria, which was basically created from scratches and eventually incorporated into french mainland (IE not a colony, but a department).
Decolonization of african french colonies was for all purposes a privatizations, with management ran by masonic and old boys networks, and profits going to the Françafrique.
Again gaullists really are to blame here, this is their legacy (to cut some slack to mitterand, he was dying from cancer in 1994, and his grip on power was very nominal, rwanda was handled by the gaullists).
Frankly, we should cut all ties to africa, this bring us nothing, except a continous flow of hateful, resentful immigrants sucking off welfare... but, of course, this divorce won't be done, because 1) the Grandeur of France's last pillar is its african backyard, or rather, what's left of it after the rwanda and RDC and 2) money that flows to africa as aid as a severe tednancy to flow back to top french politicians.
Sarko certainly has less ties to the middle east and to africa, so 2) is less of a factor I'd say, but 1) remains.
This is in straight line with what the Republic has been from the very start, shameful.
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colonization was not a benefit-making enterprize for France as a country, it was motivated by the Forces Of Progress desire to spread "civilization" to inferior races
a5089. Yu have read too much Commie litterature and it has impreganted you. Let's remind you that it was Colonization not African tecnology who brought cures to paludism, cholera or that illness propagated by the tse-tse flty. It was colonization who brought "Habeas Corpus", roads, railways and so on. That for all evils of colonization it must have profited to the natives (at least in French and British colonies, German and Belgians that is an entirely different matter) since their population was far highrer at end of colonization than at beginning. Of course the capital sin was drafting the natives into wars between europeans, specially when it involved fighting not in their own country but in the trenches of Flanders or at Cassino.
I nearly forgot, one of the reasons for colonization was eradicate slavery and slave trade towards Middle East.
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Now colonization had its good sides but I wouldn't say the same thing about the post 1960 pseudo independence. De Gaulle's idea was to have an African block of twenty or more African countries taking oders from Paris for their UN votes so he could be the power broker between East and West. Bastard.
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"I nearly forgot, one of the reasons for colonization was eradicate slavery and slave trade towards Middle East."
Too bad that didn't work out, eh, JFM?
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Can't fault someone for trying though BS ;)
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Its a French thing.
Once, our partner in France asked for a special dinner meeting just so he could tell us that to do business in France we needed to show strong consideration for the plight of Africa.
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This article stinks of conspiracy theory, and I have no belly for that sort of thing.
Security forces have shot dead an Islamic militant leader and his aide, police said, claiming a "major success" in the fight against terrorism insurgency in Indian Kashmir. An army officer also died in the fierce gunbattle Thursday night, said S.M. Sahai, police chief for the Muslim-dominated Kashmir valley. "The elimination of the two militants is a major success for police and security forces," he said in a statement.
Sahai named the slain top rebel as Musa alias Wafa, who was serving as "divisional commander" of the hardline Lashkar-e-Taiba (Army of the Pious). "The neutralisation of Musa has given (a) severe jolt to Lashkar," he said.
Letter left with bodies threatens three executions a day
Tribal senator says Baitullah killed troops to avenge 'Mehsuds' humiliation'
Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud on Thursday executed three soldiers from a group of more than 250 taken hostage last month in South Waziristan and vowed to carry out more executions if the government continued the Mehsud tribes humiliation, officials and a tribal senator said.
Two types of persons can do such a thing a terrorist or a coward, military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad said in reaction to the soldiers execution.
Security sources in Tank city told Daily Times that the bodies of the three soldiers were found on Thursday morning on the Wana-Jandola road in Jandola near the border with South Waziristan. They (the soldiers) were shot in the chest from close range, the sources told Daily Times, asking not to be named. Unofficial reports said that a letter left with the soldiers bodies said: We will gift three bodies everyday.
Around 300 soldiers including eight army officers went missing near Ladah on September 30, and Baitullah Mehsud claimed that he had taken them hostage.
Mehsuds humiliation:Tribal Senator Saleh Shah said that Baitullah Mehsud carried out the executions to express his anger at the governments inhumane treatment of the Mehsud people during interrogation. Senator Shah said he wasnt sure about the safety of the other abducted soldiers. God knows what the future holds for them, he added.
Gen Arshad said he had heard that the people of South Waziristan do not harm unarmed people, but such actions had proved otherwise. Asked how the government would react to the executions, the military spokesman said: We will see what we need to do. He refused to disclose if any operation was being planned for the soldiers recovery. He said the army exercised restraint so that the jirga could make efforts for the soldiers release, but the militants had disrespected the jirga by executing the three soldiers.
Rockets fired at checkpost: Militants fired several rockets at a checkpoint in Speen Wam, wounding three soldiers, officials said, AP reported.
This article starring:
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well , will this make the Pakistani military take this "war" with the militants seriously and kick the shit out of them , or are they able too really fight a war?
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Aren't these the same that 'took' the war to the talibunnies, only to surrender w/out firing a shot?
and there is now an expectation of getting serious?
BS meter is on standby here.
A DOUBLE US air strike on an Iraqi village killed about 25 suspected Iranian-linked insurgents today, the military said, as Iraqi officials claimed women and children were among the dead.
The strikes on Jayzani Al-Imam, 50km north of the capital, came after a ground operation ran into trouble against insurgents firing rocket-propelled grenades, the US military said.
The operation was launched to capture an insurgent commander linked to Iranian intelligence agents and believed to be smuggling weapons from Iran, accused by the US of fuelling sectarian conflict in Iraq, it said.
There were two air strikes; one helicopter, one fixed-wing. There was continued fighting between the two air strikes, US Major Winfield Danielson later said.
Iraqi police spokesman Khudhayir al-Timimi said women and children were among the dead and wounded in the raid, but the Americans said they had no knowledge of civilian casualties.
Twenty-five people were killed and 40 others wounded, including women and children, in the US air strike that targeted Al-Jayzani, Mr Timimi said.
Witnesses said US helicopters attacked Jayzani Al-Imam, near the mainly Shiite town of Al-Khalis, about 2am, destroying at least four houses.
A witness saw at least four trucks, each carrying several bodies from the village, being driven through Baghdad to the Shi'ite holy city of Najaf for burial. One of the dead was clearly an elderly man.
Ahmed Mohammed, 31, said he had travelled with 15 wounded, among them women and children, to the Medical City Hospital in Baghdad.
There are 24 bodies on the ground in the village and 25 others wounded in Al-Khalis hospital, he said.
Major Danielson said he had received no reports that any Iraqi civilians were killed as a result of the US air strikes.
I can say that we had personnel on the ground who engaged a hostile force, and they didn't assess that there were any women or children present in the area, he said.
Coalition forces only engage hostile threats and take every precaution to protect innocent civilians, he said.
The US military said the target of the operation was a Special Groups commander believed to be associated with members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Quds Force.
Special Groups is a term for what the US military says are secret Shi'ite cells that wage acts of terrorism in Iraq with the financial and military backing of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards units.
The decision to carry out the air strikes came when US forces saw an insurgent carrying what appeared to be an anti-aircraft weapon, according to the military.
Perceiving hostile intent, supporting aircraft engaged, killing an estimated 25 criminals and destroying two buildings, their statement said.
Danielson said the operation's main quarry, the Special Groups commander, appeared to have escaped.
We do not believe he was in the area at the time of the engagement and we have not assessed him as one of the terrorists killed, he said.
In other operations targeting al-Qaeda in Iraq today, the US military said it had killed 12 insurgents: seven in Baghdad; one in Yusufiyah, south of the capital and another in the northern city of Kirkuk.
It said at the weekend it had seized sophisticated Iranian-made surface-to-air missiles that were being used by insurgents in the war-torn country.
Today's clash comes a fortnight after US forces detained Iranian Mahmudi Farhadi in northern Iraq, prompting Tehran to close its border with the Kurdish autonomous region.
The US military claims Farhadi is an officer in the covert operations arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, accused by American commanders of helping Shi'ite militias involved in Iraq's bloody sectarian conflict.
Yadayadayada, Chimpy McBushitler made them do it.
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...... "If you've never been outside the wire, you really have no basis -- you don't have a basis to judge what I do or what I don't do. You've never been in a life-or-death situation, where you've had to count on the guy to your left and right," Hand said.
"People who stay back here, in my opinion, are not mentally in the game. They've never been out there."
Iraqi policemen from the 1st Brigade, 1st National Police Division killed a foreign fighter from Yemen Sept. 27 southwest of Salman Pak. This is the first confirmation of foreign fighters operating in areas patrolled by 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team Soldiers or their Iraqi counterparts.
The Yemenese-born fighter, Abu Muhammad Al-Yameni, was armed with a PKC machine gun and grenades at the time of his death. This is a great example of the Iraqi National Police conducting independent operations, said Maj. Dave Fivecoat, Delaware, Ohio, 3rd HBCT operations officer. This foreign fighter was definitely a threat to the people of Salman Pak and their government.
Soldiers from the 3rd HBCT work daily with policemen from the 1-1 NP to secure Salman Pak and its surrounding communities. Working with our Iraqi Security Force counterparts has been one of our priorities from the beginning, said Fivecoat. We see this as a positive step in the development for the National Police in Salman Pak.
The Madain Qada is a portion of the Baghdad Province just east of Baghdad. The 3rd HBCT has been working with various Iraqi Security Forces since their deployment to the Qada in March 2007. The 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division is from Fort Benning, Ga.
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al-Qaeda in Iraq
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Well done, Iraqi Police! It looks like they're making progress on training the good ones, and weeding out the bad.
Coalition forces killed 12 terrorists and detained four suspects Friday while conducting operations targeting al-Qaeda in Iraq in the northern and central parts of the country.
Coalition forces conducted an operation in Baghdad targeting an associate of al-Qaeda in Iraq senior leaders. When the ground force arrived in the target area, they observed a group of armed men on the roof of a building. Coalition forces called the buildings occupants to come out, and the individuals on the roof began to reach for their weapons. Coalition forces again issued verbal warnings and the men did not comply. Perceiving a hostile threat, the ground force engaged the armed men, killing seven terrorists. Surveillance elements led Coalition forces to a follow-on location, where they detained a suspect who left the target building prior to the engagement.
Also in Baghdad, Coalition forces captured one wanted individual while conducting an operation to further disrupt the greater Baghdad foreign terrorist facilitation network. The suspect is allegedly the courier for the southern belt and is involved in facilitating finances to support terrorist operations in the region.
Near Yusufiyah, Coalition forces killed four terrorists, including an associate of al-Qaeda in Iraq believed to be a foreign terrorist facilitator in the southern belt. The wanted terrorist was also alleged to have close ties to Abu Usama al-Tunisi, the former emir of the region who was killed during an operation Sept. 25. As Coalition forces approached the target area, they observed four armed men, two of whom were wearing military-style assault vests, maneuver away from the target building. Perceiving hostile intent, Coalition forces engaged, killing them. In addition to the military-style assault vests, the ground force discovered several rifles, grenades and a backpack with explosive material.
Coalition forces killed one terrorist in Kirkuk while targeting an alleged al-Qaeda in Iraq foreign terrorist facilitator operating in the al Tamim province. When Coalition forces called for the target buildings occupants to come out, three men fled the building refusing to comply with instructions. Perceiving hostile intent, the ground forces engaged, killing one terrorist. One of the individuals was followed to a nearby house, where the owner identified him and he was detained.
In Samarra, Coalition forces conducted an operation to deny sanctuary to al-Qaeda in Iraq and captured a wanted terrorist who identified himself to the ground force.
Coalition forces were engaged in a heavy firefight Friday morning, killing an estimated 25 criminals during operations west of Baqubah.
Coalition forces were targeting a Special Groups commander believed to be associated with members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Quds Force. Intelligence indicates that he was responsible for facilitating criminal activity and is involved in the movement of various weapons from Iran to Baghdad.
Upon entering the target area, Coalition forces received heavy fire from a group of armed men fighting from defensive positions. Responding in self-defense, the ground force returned fire. Enemy fire intensified and supporting aircraft were called in an attempt to suppress the threat.
The armed group continued to engage, and began to aggressively maneuver toward Coalition forces, firing assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades. The ground force also observed one armed individual carrying what appeared to be an anti-aircraft weapon into a nearby building. Perceiving hostile intent, supporting aircraft engaged, killing an estimated 25 criminals and destroying two buildings.
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Of course the anti-American propaganda has been deployed. An anonymous Iraqi army official wouldn't lie, would he?
An Iraqi army official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information, said U.S. aircraft bombed the neighborhood repeatedly and he claimed civilians, including seven children, were among those killed and three children were among the 28 wounded.
He said the civilians were killed when families rushed out to help those hurt in the initial bombing.
The town's top official said U.S. forces targeted areas built up by locals to protect their Shiite neighborhood against attacks by al-Qaida gunmen. The guards were armed and worked around the clock, he said.
"These places came under attack by American airstrikes," said Khalis Mayor Odai al-Khadran. "Locals were protecting themselves by guarding their village. They are not militias killing people."
So why were these locals shooting at the Americans? Thought we were Al Qaeda?
Coalition special operations forces continue to attack the Iranian-backed Special Groups operating inside Iraq with the same ferocity as it attacks al Qaeda. Twenty-five Special Groups fighters were killed during an engagement northwest of Baqubah FOB WARHORSE this morning during a raid on a Special Groups leader.
Just like Sea mentioned yesterday, [WE All]
I know more things about Iraq than I do the entire Near East, Middle East and Far East.
For a semi-retired building contractor it's info that is useless for business.. LOL.. my girl friend, friends and family have Zero, Zed, Nada interest in the WOT or Iraq or A-stan.
But if you are an obsessive compulsive Civilian or currently serving in our Military who loves US History and Nation, the interest oozes out of us over every cuppa from Reveille to Taps.
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Between Afghanistan and Iraq...hedge funds are gonna run up virgin futures.
The US military said Friday it was investigating the deaths of three civilians who were shot by American troops near a checkpoint set up by Iraqis who have joined forces against extremists. Here we go again&0151;-the notion that loyalty is a two way street just doesn't seems to penetrate
Domestic outlets like Daily Kos and the Puffington Host will continue to be ignored.
The U.S. military says it has captured at least six al-Qaeda media centers in Iraq and arrested 20 suspected propaganda leaders since June. The seizures of the centers underscore the importance al-Qaeda has placed on media, primarily the Internet, as a tool to communicate to its members and use against U.S. forces in Iraq. The group's media emphasis continues to increase, intelligence analysts say.
The progress against al-Qaeda's media operations stems from new offensives aimed at al-Qaeda sanctuaries and an emphasis on blunting the terrorist group's extensive propaganda operations, U.S. officers say. "One of our goals is to target these propaganda networks, and we've had more success over the past three months," says Air Force Col. Donald Bacon, a staff officer at Multi-National Force-Iraq. Those seizures have sharply curtailed the amount of videos and other communications posted to the Internet from Iraq, Bacon says.
Recent U.S. efforts have made it difficult for al-Qaeda's Internet operations, but such successes are hard to define and may only be temporary, says Rita Katz of the SITE Institute, which monitors terrorist websites. The SITE Institute noted al-Qaeda in Iraq's recent distribution of a 20-minute video, called "The Astray Arrow," alleging the failure of the coalition's offensive in Diyala province, Operation Arrowhead Ripper. Al-Qaeda's media output in Iraq dipped starting five or six weeks ago, Katz says, but it has since recovered.
The terrorist group's media centers are nondescript from the outside but jammed with production equipment, Bacon says. One house raided recently in Samarra, north of Baghdad, included 12 computers, 65 hard drives and a filming studio. The U.S. military says it has uncovered media operations in the past, but not as many as in recent months. It is not clear how many centers exist, Bacon says.
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Here's another you can take down.... One CNN Center, Atlanta, GA. 30348-5366
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I never will forget travelling to work one day (I work just 2 blocks from CNN in Atlanta), and right across the street, staring CNN in the face was a HUGE Fox News billboard. It was touting how they had "stolen" Greta from CNN (years ago), but I guess CNN got even with stealing Kiran Chetchry. I'd like an off-season swap of those two back to their original home bases to up the "babe factor" on Fox again. I wish I would've taken a pic of the billboard, though!
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TW it's down town Atlanta. They could do that in the Highland's, L5P or old buckhead my olde haunt off, Delmont, buts its still tenuous as whether Atlantan's will visit. Especially necks like me from the outer burbs of Forsyth, Hall, Cherokee for example
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I'm also haliburton but as an asisde I've still got the coffee mug of Atlata's "view of the world" surrounded by the great mall wall. It's actually sad. I haven't been down Peachtree-Battle in well over 15 years til last week. Don't know when I might've gone had it not been for $12 falcon tickets Which allowed me and my 10 year old to dine like kings at Fellini's pizza on Peachtree in Buckhead, otherwise it'd been the Varsity for my grease intake
Iraqi parliament decided Thursday to sack a Sunni Iraqi Accordance Front legislator after he 'joined the armed resistance and expressed regret to taking part in the political process,' media reports said.
After a long debate, the Parliament agreed to dismiss MP Abdul Nasser al-Janabi, and ordered that his party nominate a replacement, independent Voices of Iraq news agency reported. Shiekh Khalid Attiya, the first deputy of the Iraqi parliament, had earlier decided to postpone the decision, saying since al-Janabi had not resigned from the Iraqi Accord Front, the move was 'illegal.' But Shiite Unified Iraqi Coalition members rejected efforts to put off the issue and pressed for action against al-Janabi. The session chairman then decided to sack him and ask IAF to nominate a replacement.
Al-Janabi was a member of the National Dialogue Council, one of three Sunni organizations that make up the IAF. Al-Janabi had said he 'regretted participating in the political process,' and that he had joined 'the Iraqi resistance.'
Separately, the IAF's spokesman Selim al-Jaburi said Thursday that US forces detained the front's MP Naif Jassim while he was at a wake along with other mourners. Al-Jaburi local media reports that Jassim was arrested at an al- Qaeda terrorist network meeting in Sharqat town in Salahaddin province, 175 kilometres north of Baghdad. Al-Jaburi called on the US military to release Jassim immediately. More details:Baghdad, 5 Oct. (AKI) - Iraqi MP Nayf Jasem Muhammad is among 24 suspected militants arrested during a US raid on an alleged al-Qaeda cell outside Baghdad. According to the Arab newspaper, al-Sharq al-Awsat, the Sunni parliamentarian was in reality a member of al-Qaeda. The US offensive focused on a summit meeting of a local cell of the terrorist organisation on Thursday. Intelligence sources said the meeting was to elect a new leader following the death of Sabah Abdel Rahman al-Ayush who was killed by US forces in a clash a few days ago.
The MP, a member of the main Sunni political party, the National Concord Front, was arrested with 23 other terrorists including one reportedly responsible for financing the local cell which is believed to have raised more than a billion dollars from Jihadi sympathisers. Having MPs linked to al-Qaeda could show how the terrorist network has succeeded in getting around security measures imposed in Baghdad in recent years.
The Sunni Iraqi National Accord Front occupies 44 seats in the 275-seat Iraqi parliament. The front was founded by three Sunni parties: the Iraqi Islamic Party, the General Council for the People of Iraq and the Iraqi National Dialogue Council.
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That's it? he's unelected?
Hang the bastard.
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The MP, a member of the main Sunni political party, the National Concord Front, was arrested with 23 other terrorists including one reportedly responsible for financing the local cell which is believed to have raised more than a billion dollars from Jihadi sympathisers.
Four Iraqi civilians were killed and eight others were wounded Thursday after a parked car bomb exploded near a line of cars waiting to fill their tanks at a gas station, police said. The explosive device was lodged in an empty car, parked about 100 meters from the station in Baghdad's southeastern area of Zafaraniyah. Several vehicles were damaged in the 7:15 a.m. blast, according to the police officer who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.
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srael is preparing for a Syrian response to the 6 September raid in northeast Syria, after both countries confirmed that the attack took place.
Israeli intelligence agencies are mostly concerned that the Syrian response will be in the form of a terror attack on an Israeli target around the world. Israeli official delegations worldwide and airlines were ordered to increase precautions, recalling the Syrian attempt to bomb an El-Al flight from London to Tel Aviv in 1986.
"I believe that the Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad would rather act through proxies, such as terrorist organisation, than test his army in war against Israel," former Israel Defence Force (IDF) Chief of Staff, Lieutenant-General Moshe Ya'alon told Jane's.
Indeed, when asked by the British Broadcasting Corporation if he intends to retaliate against Israel, Syria's President Assad said: "Retaliate does not mean missile for missile and bomb for bomb. We have our means to retaliate, maybe politically, maybe in other ways. But we have the right to retaliate."
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I think Syria is scared shitless over the deep attack with no warning. Syria will need to respond or look even weaker and more humiliated in the arab world, but I don't think it will be anything major. Pin prick with major PR hype.
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Moud has failed to live up to the expectations of the Syrian-Iran alliance - unless Iran does something very soon in overt = publicly acknowledged retaliation agz Israel for 9/6, Syria has to keep one eye on Israel, and the other on Iran. IMO ITS NOT ENUFF FOR SYRIA FOR A TERROR GROUP TO STRIKE ISRAEL ON IRAN's ORDERS BUT IRAN DENIES ANY ROLE.
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While Israel has its official strategy about attacking Syria, they could probably deter a lot of crap if they were to be let it known, unofficially, that if Syria attacks them, even with proxies, that Israel will retaliate strongly against the Alawite Shiite minority that rules Syria.
Since the Alawites are less that 10% of the population, if they get much weaker, they majority Sunnis could overthrow them. And they know it. So they would lean on their son, Assad, to cool his jets.
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YNETNEWS > NASRALLAH > Besides blaming Israel for recent Leb assassinations/killings, says he WISHES ARAB ARMIES WOULD MOVE/INVADE? INTO PALESTINE to stop Israel-Zionists. ALso claims ZIONISTS WERE [historically]ASSISTED BY BRITAIN TO REPRESS/PERSECUTE THE PALESTINIANS.
Also from YNETNEWS > calls for HIZBULLAH to be merged into Lebanese Army???
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While Syria is indeed traditionally majority Sunnis, Iran has been engaged in a "conversion" campaign with the blessing of the Assad government. Iran is paying Syrian families to "convert" to Shiism. I have no data on the number of families converted so far.
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Israeli Poster > believes COMMUNISM IS AT WAR WITH THE WEST AND USING MUSLIM TERRORISTS AS PROXIES TO DESTABILIZE, ATTACK, AND WEAKEN WESTERN INTERESTS WHILE ALSO FATTENING THEIR [COMMIE] WALLETS???
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Instability in the middle east tends to raise the price of oil. This would benefit any country that is a net exporter of oil. Anything that disrupts supply from the middle east would increase both the price and the demand for oil from regions outside the middle east.
Russia and Venezuela would be major benefactors to any problems in the middle east. So when looking at issues in that region, you might ask yourself ... "who benefits?".
The Qassam rocket (also Kassam) is a simple steel rocket filled with explosives, produced by the Palestinian armed resistance movement Hamas. . . . Although they are sometimes erroneously referred to as missiles, they are free-flight artillery rockets lacking any guidance system.
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IDF troops killed a Palestinian gunman near the border fence in the central Gaza Strip overnight Thursday.
The gunman fired at the soldiers and he was shot dead in the ensuing firefight. There were no casualties among the troops. Arabs have this picture of themselves as warriors
Popcorn time in old Gazatown
After failing to organize a popular uprising against Hamas in Gaza, Fatah has begun resorting to "insurgency" tactics in a bid to undermine the Islamist movement, Hamas officials said Thursday. The officials told The Jerusalem Post Fatah militiamen were behind a series of bombings that targeted Hamas members and institutions over the past few weeks. Another Hamas official told the Post that Fatah was behind at least 14 attacks against Hamas figures and institutions in the Gaza Strip over the past month. It's a quagmire
If there's one thing you can count Palestinian culture to be good at, it is uprising. A perpetual state of low level warfare has been the norm for decades. It's also their only reliable export, although that market may be shrinking.
I wish them the best of luck with their new venture.
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The air force fired a missile at a car in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday afternoon, but apparently missed the intended targets and wounded some passersby instead. The attempted strike wounded three civilians, Islamic Jihad and Palestinian medical officials said. The three were lightly to moderately wounded, according to Palestinian sources. The IDF said it attacked the car because it was carrying terrorists involved in firing rockets and mortars at Israel.
Thursday night a Kassam rocket fell in the Nir Am region, but caused no damage. Twelve mortars were fired at Israel from Gaza over the holiday and three landed in a community in the south-western Negev. No one was wounded and no damage caused.
Meanwhile, in the West Bank, an officer was lightly wounded Thursday afternoon when rocks were thrown at IDF forces in Bil'in. He was initially treated at the scene and then transferred to the hospital for further treatment. Rocks were also thrown at an Israeli vehicle southeast of Kalkilya. No one was hurt but the car sustained damage.
At the Hawara checkpoint south of Nablus, soldiers discovered two knives on a Palestinian on Thursday evening during a routine check. The knives, seven and 11 centimeters long, were confiscated and the man was turned over to the security services for questioning.
On Wednesday, a Palestinian was killed by IDF fire during a raid in southern Gaza, Palestinian doctors said. The IDF said that during an operation against terror infrastructure, the force identified an armed Palestinian and wounded him. Nearby, a Hamas gunman was killed when an RPG he was handling went off.
The IDF also said that two outposts along the security fence in central Gaza came under fire, but no one was wounded and no damage was caused.
Elsewhere, a Hamas gunman died of wounds in an explosion blamed on Israel. However, Israel denied involvement. Meanwhile, Hamas said a member was killed digging a tunnel near the Israeli border. Two others were hurt.
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"Hamas gunman was killed when an RPG he was handling went off."
An explosion went off early Thursday near a group of Hamas policemen patrolling in Gaza City, wounding three, including one critically, Hamas officials said. Hamas blamed the rival Fatah movement for the attack, and said it has rounded up several suspects.
Also Thursday, a Fatah activist was wounded in an exchange of fire with Hamas gunmen in a refugee camp in southern Lebanon, Israel Radio reported.
On Wednesday, Hamas police took control of a four-story Fatah office building, a Fatah spokesman said. Fatah activists were ordered to leave the building without their belongings, said Fatah spokesman Hazem Abu Shanab. Since taking control of Gaza by force in June, Hamas has closed down most Fatah institutions in Gaza.
Wednesday's raid came a day after four people were killed in what Hamas said was an attempt to carry out an attack on a Hamas security compound in Gaza City. Three of those killed were members of Fatah. Hamas said the assailants were killed when explosives they were handling exploded prematurely. Fatah activists said Hamas had attacked the group with rocket propelled grenades.
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An Islamic militant was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison for opening fire on a boat in which two Christians were wounded in eastern Indonesia in 2005.
Judges said Sulthon Qolbi was a member of Kompak, an Islamic militant group that took part in fighting between Christians and Muslims in the eastern Maluku island chain between 1999 and 2002. The group kept up occasional attacks against Christian targets after the war ended. Qolbi was found guilty of violating the country's anti-terror laws for taking part in the attack on the passenger boat off Buru island in February 2005. He and several other militants opened fire on the boat with automatic weapons.
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Sri Lanka soldiers killed 22 Tamil Tiger rebels in clashes in the north of the island, the military said on Thursday, as it pressed on with an offensive in the restive region.
But the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam said they had foiled an attempt by soldiers to advance towards areas controlled by the rebels in the northern Vavuniya region. There were two confrontations today with LTTE in Vavuniya, there army killed nine and in another incident army fired at a group of terrorists and killed seven. No casualties to the military, said military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara.
Six rebels and three soldiers were killed in clashes in the same district on Wednesday, the government said. A LTTE military spokesman said government forces had shelled rebel-controlled areas in Vavuniya in a bid to advance but were pushed back. He accused the military of using civilians as human shield in their attempt to gain ground.
It is a crime to use civilians as human shield and we are unable to retaliate or neutralise their batteries due to civilian population in the aria, Rasiah Ilanthiraiyan said. Independent confirmation of how many people were killed in the fighting or what had happened is not possible. Military analysts say both sides tend to exaggerate enemy losses and play down their own.
Call for diplomats expulsion: Sri Lanka on Tuesday called for the expulsion of an Icelandic diplomat who made a clandestine visit to the Tamil Tiger-held north of the island. Sri Lankas foreign ministry said it asked Reykjavik to recall Bjarni Vestmann, a minister-counsellor at Icelands foreign ministry, after he entered the country on a tourist visa and went to the north to meet with rebels.
The (Sri Lankan foreign) minister strongly protested the action of Mr Vestmann and requested his immediate recall, a ministry statement said. Foreigners and journalists are not allowed to enter territory held by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) without government permission. The diplomat, however, had managed to get a ride with Scandinavian truce monitors, the ministry said.
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MUslim Posters [ISRAELI NEWS FORUMS] > Generally, are in rough agreement tha TIME FAVORS MUSLIMS AND ANTI-ISRAELI GOVTS-NATIONS. Believe that the West has been unsucessful in stopping the Terror groups, will never succeed, and now will fail in stopping Iran = Radical Islmaism from getting nuclear techs and nuke weapons. POSTERS > e.g. GAZA - WEST BANK TERROR GROUPS > ISRAEL IS BEING SURROUNDED BY ARMED HOSTILE FACTIONS IN ADDITION TO SYRIA-IRAN. ISRAEL MAY WIN "BATTLES" BUT IN LT WILL LOSE THE WAR - DITTO FOR USA-WEST.
Nearly 98 Fatah al-Islam militants killed during battles with the Lebanese army since May were buried Thursday in a mass grave in the northern city of Tripoli. Wrapped in white shrouds and placed in numbered wooden coffins the bodies of the 98 slain militants, most of them from Gulf Arab countries, were buried in four mass graves in the Ghorabaa cemetary in the Bab al Tabaneh neighbourhood of Tripoli. A Sunni Muslim sheikh performed the prayer before the burial ceremony.
A Lebanese security source said the countries to which the militants belonged refused to receive their bodies, 'so we decided to bury them in this grave.' The buried militants included Fatah al-Islam number two, Shebab Kaddour, a Lebanese national also known as Abu Hureira, who was killed during a clash in Tripoli in August.
According to Lebanese security sources, some 222 militants were killed and more than 100 others were arrested during the clashes that took place inside the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon. 168 Lebanese soldiers were also killed in the clashes.
This article starring:
Abu Hureira
Fatah al-Islam
Shebab Kaddour
Fatah al-Islam
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I still haven't found gainful employment, though I've had several good interviews in the past few days. If you've got spare change, please hit the tip jar. The kitty's pretty empty.
I've also added advertising on the Burg in addition to BlogAds, which have fallen off at precisely the wrong time. If you know anybody who wants to buy a spot, send them our way.
And a reminder that your Amazon purchases benefit Fred if you enter thru the Amazon link on the sidebar >>>>>
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I started a Paypal account for Fred (O.K., and Michael Yon) but after a bit of giving, Paypal is giving me the cold shoulder. The Amazon ad, between PayPal and Support Rantburg on the right, will also let you send Fred a small measure of your devotion.
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Hey Fred! Same here, if you can provide a snail mail I'll send a donations.
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It's easy with Amazon as long as you can remember your password. I like it that way because Mrs. Uluque6305 won't see it in the checkbook and I won't have to explain (as if she doesn't run up her share of weird expenses). But a PO box might be a good idea.
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Done. Thanks Fred and the moderators for all your hard work, long hours and no pay that makes Rantburg the best WoT site. As Bobby and Abu U have said, the Amazon pay system was easier to use than Paypal.
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Finally made those sales on eBay, Fred, and was planning on sending some proceeds your way. Consider it done (check your PayPal account in a few minutes).
And THANK YOU from the bottom of my cold, black heart. This site is a true treasure, an island of semi-sanity in a slough of leftistssocialistscommunistsidiots despond.
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Real devalued US currency from Alaska in your Paypal account, Fred.
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I sent moneys from the Republic of California via PayPal Fred. Not posting much but lurking some.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
NORTH Korean leader Kim Jong-il and the South's President, Roh Moo-hyun, have ended their summit, agreeing to seek a peace treaty formally ending the Korean War after a 54-year armistice, along with a Seoul-funded development package for the economically moribund North.
Taliban commander 
Iraqi policemen from the 1st Brigade, 1st National Police Division killed a foreign fighter from Yemen Sept. 27 southwest of Salman Pak. This is the first confirmation of foreign fighters operating in areas patrolled by 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team Soldiers or their Iraqi counterparts.
Iraqi parliament decided Thursday to sack a Sunni Iraqi Accordance Front legislator after he 'joined the armed resistance and expressed regret to taking part in the political process,' media reports said. 
Four Iraqi civilians were killed and eight others were wounded Thursday after a parked car bomb exploded near a line of cars waiting to fill their tanks at a gas station, police said. The explosive device was lodged in an empty car, parked about 100 meters from the station in Baghdad's southeastern area of Zafaraniyah. Several vehicles were damaged in the 7:15 a.m. blast, according to the police officer who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.
An explosion went off early Thursday near a group of Hamas policemen patrolling in Gaza City, wounding three, including one critically, Hamas officials said. Hamas blamed the rival Fatah movement for the attack, and said it has rounded up several suspects. 
Nearly 98 Fatah al-Islam militants killed during battles with the Lebanese army since May were buried Thursday in a mass grave in the northern city of Tripoli. Wrapped in white shrouds and placed in numbered wooden coffins the bodies of the 98 slain militants, most of them from Gulf Arab countries, were buried in four mass graves in the Ghorabaa cemetary in the Bab al Tabaneh neighbourhood of Tripoli. A Sunni Muslim sheikh performed the prayer before the burial ceremony. 
I still haven't found gainful employment, though I've had several good interviews in the past few days. If you've got spare change, please hit the tip jar. The kitty's pretty empty.
