(KUNA) -- A woman and two children were among 18 people killed in a military operation in southern Afghanistan, the US military said on Monday.
A statement from the US main Bagram base here said the operation was conducted in Garmsir district of the southern Helmand province. The target was a group of insurgents who were involved in improvised explosive device blasts against the Afghan and foreign troops, said the statement. An estimated 15 insurgents were killed in the operation. Additionally, a woman and two children also perished, said the coalition troops.
"Coalition forces conducted an operation November 11 to detain Improvised Explosive Device (IED) and weapons facilitators with links to Taliban extremists in Helmand Province. Approximately 15 militants were killed along with one woman and two children during this operation," said coalition spokesperson Major Chris Belcher.
Militants engaged coalition forces with heavy small-arms fire from several different buildings on one of the compounds. Coalition forces responded with small-arms fire, killing several gunmen.
Performing a post-hostilities search of the area, Coalition forces found a woman and two children in the collapsed building who were dead along with several militants and their weapons, he added.
Coalition forces also found a wounded woman in the immediate area. She and her escort were transported to a medical facility for treatment. The injury to the woman was non-life threatening.
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Women and children dead! is sort of an obligatory effect of any action against the Taliban in Afghanistan. The surprise meter would redline if there ever was an event were there were NO women or children killed co-laterally.
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Lions of islamTM regularly hide behind women, children, in burkas. It's going to happen.
A Yemeni court sentenced a man to five years in jail on Monday for shooting at the U.S. embassy's compound in 2006, the official news agency Saba reported. The prosecution had charged the gunman, Saleh al-Ammari, who shot a semi-automatic rifle at the embassy in December, of seeking 'to damage Yemen's diplomatic relations', the agency said. AdvertisementAmmari was wounded after embassy guards returned fire. No embassy staff were hurt.
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al-Qaeda in Yemen
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Russian police killed eight suspected militants in a special operation in the southern region of Dagestan, the local police chief said on Monday. The operation was the bloodiest for several months in Dagestan, where Moscow's forces are fighting a low-level insurgency linked to Islamist radicals. Most of the dead were in an apartment which police special forces raided in the town of Buinaksk, 40 km (24 miles) from the regional capital of Makhachkala, on Monday morning, police said. "UP to seven people have been killed at the scene of the special operation," Dagestan's Interior Minister Adilgerei Magomedtagirov told reporters. He said another militant had been killed on a nearby street. There were no reports of any casualties among the police.
Russia has put down large-scale rebel resistance in Chechnya, the scene of two bloody separatist wars since 1994. But violence, blamed by Russian officials on radical Islamist groups, has spread to Dagestan and other neighbouring provinces. Reports of attacks on officials and the Russian military, as well as operations by security forces against militants come almost weekly from both Dagestan, east of Chechnya, and Ingushetia, Chechnya's western neighbour.
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ANKARA - Separatist Kurdish rebels kidnapped seven people, two of them pro-government village guard militiamen, in eastern Turkey near the Iranian border, media reports said Monday.
The incident occurred late Sunday near the village of Ogulveren in Van province, about 10 kilometres (six miles) from the Iranian border, where Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels set up a roadblock, CNN-Turk reported. Security forces launched a large-scale sweep of the region after the kidnapping, it said.
The Europe-based pro-PKK Firat news agency also reported the kidnapping, but gave no details. Officials were not immediately available for comment.
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Send in Ross Perot. He knows Van like the back of his hand.
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Dumb PKK, dumb. I would lie low until the US forces were almost gone as I stockpile weapons. Then strike out in a blitz. But, now they are pissing off everyone in the area INCLUDING the US. Not a good long term survival strategy. But, no one ever claimed terrorists were bright.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan police arrested scores of school students, the youngest being a 12-year-old, who participated in a silent rally in Islamabad to protest against the Emergency imposed by President Pervez Musharraf.
With silver and black tape stuck on their mouths and holding placards with slogans like "Justice for justices" and "Free the media", about 100 students braved police batons near the upmarket Jinnah Super market on Monday.
Police arrested 48 of them, who were later released on bail.
Samad Khurram, who took part in the protest, told the News, "students of various high schools organised a silent protest. When the policemen approached us and asked us to stop, we did and tried to cooperate with them.
"But as we were going back, 600-700 policemen, including women officers, anti-terrorist squad commandos and officers in plainclothes descended and told us they would arrest us because a protest rally was not allowed," Khurram said.
He accused the police of using batons to disperse the children and pushing, dragging and even abusing them before they were shoved into police vans.
A large number of girls also participated in the protest, probably the first organised by school children though demonstrations have been organised in several universities and colleges over the past week.
"Most of those arrested are studying in classes 9 to 12, the youngest was just 12 years old!," Khurram said.
After police shoved 48 students into vans, some lawyers and human rights workers managed to convince them not to arrest more children.
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Please read the following segment from Mushy's emergency declaration. He claimed that he needed powers to fight terrorism, yet he has committed hundreds of troops and police to keep the democratic opposition in custody.
Musaraf:
Today, I am speaking to you as Pakistan stands at a dangerous crossroads. It is in inner turmoil, everything that is happening, it is due to internal reasons.
This moment ... in the history of many nations there are moments of painful decisions ... this is such a moment for Pakistan when important and difficult decisions have to be made. And, I fear, that if we don't act immediately, then God forbid, the very union of Pakistan is in danger.
Before I say anything else, I just want to make one promise to this nation. That whatever I do, whatever decision I have made, it is, before all, on the basis of Pakistan ... and that is my guiding principle. Before all, Pakistan. Beyond personal benefit, beyond personal consideration, Pakistan first. And I hope that the nation will also feel the same way.
My brothers and sisters, in the past months, the circumstances have changed rapidly in Pakistan. I want to speak with you about that - frankly. One thing I have been saying all along - terrorism and extremism has reached extreme levels. Right now, suicide attacks are happening across Pakistan. That which happened in Karachi, and then in Rawalpindi, and then in Sargogha, in all of Pakistan, it is intensifying. Extremists are roaming across the country without fear and without hindrance. In fact, they are not even scared of the law enforcement agencies. They are confident. Things were happening in the frontier provinces and we were dealing with that. Some of it spread to the settled areas. You know what is happening in Swat and in southern districts as well. We have faced that challenge. But, the tragedy is that in Islamabad, the heart of Pakistan, the capital of Pakistan ... even here, extremism has spread and people are uncertain. These extremists are taking the writ of government in their own hands. They want to establish a state within our state. And the worst bit is that their corrupt ideas about Islam, they want to forcibly enforce them upon the peace and justice seeking people of Pakistan. And in my view this is a direct challenge to the union of Pakistan.
Let us move forward. How is the government functioning? In my view, it is in semi-paralysis, stricken. All of the senior representatives of the government are constantly going to the courts - especially to the Supreme Court. They are being giving sentences. They are being shamed publicly in the courts. Hence, they don't want to take any more decisions. At least 100 suo moto cases are currently running in the Supreme Court. And I am being told that thousands of applications are pending. And all of these suo moto cases are concerning the executive branch of the government. Functioning of the government is paralyzed at the moment.
(KUNA) -- A day after President Pervez Musharraf said that his men will take action in the northern Sawat district the army went on the offensive carrying out mop-up operations against the militants.
Two military gunship helicopters pounded militants positions in Matta area of the district for the first time since Musharraf imposed emergency in the country, police sources told KUNA. They said the strike left many people wounded, adding that there were reports that about 10 militants were killed.
Addressing foreign journalists here on Sunday, Musharraf said the Army in the troubled areas of Swat, prior to the imposition of emergency, was not allowed to act in aid of the paramilitary forces. "Now after the emergency, the army will take action to combat terrorism," he said. The army has assumed the lead role in Swat from today onward, said military spokesman Waheed Arshad while talking to media. He said the army will be conducting operations in coordination with local and provincial authorities. He declined to give any timeframe for the operation but said that it will continue till the "militants are brought to book."
Earlier, the Law-enforcement agencies, Police, FC and Frontier Core (FC), had been conducting operation against local radical Muslim cleric, Maulana Fazlullah, and his supporters since last three weeks. Fazlullah, known as "Mullah Radio" is covertly running Al-Qaeda linked banned group Tahreek Nifaz-e-Shariat Mohammadi (TNSM) in Swat that has given rise to militancy and extremism in once-peaceful lush green valley. Few days after the operation was launched, militants kidnapped and executed eight security personnel in public.
The operation has killed over 200 militants and caused immense property damage, compelling the local population to flee to safe areas.
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TNSM
MULLAH RADIO
TNSM
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Tahreek Nifaz-e-Shariat Mohammadi
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Government troops killed four militants, two of them wanted commanders, in fresh fighting in revolt-hit Indian Kashmir, police said on Monday. Three of the militants were killed during an early morning gun fight in the village of Dooru, near northern Sopore town, a police spokesman said.
One of the dead was identified as Osman Qari, an alleged Pakistani national and the deputy chief commander of Harkat-ul-Mujahedin.
A fourth rebel, Mushtaq Sofi alias Zahid, was shot dead during another brief gun fight in southern Pulwama district on Monday, the spokesman said, adding he was also a wanted commander with the Jaish-e-Mohammed group.
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Jaish-e-Mohammed
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Harkat-ul-Mujahedin
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Indian army soldiers stands guard as the dead body of a suspected militant lies on a road near the site of a gun battle in Dooru, a village 55 kilometers (35 miles) north of Srinagar, India
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Elsewhere....
Indian Army Soldiers observe silence in honor of those departed during World War I on Armistice Day at a memorial service at the St. Marks Cathedral in Bangalore, India, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2007
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Built in the memory of more than 90,000 Indian soldiers who lost their lives during the Afghan Wars and World War I. The names of the soldiers who died in these wars are inscribed on the walls.
Inscribed on top of India Gate in capital letters is the line:
To the dead of the Indian armies who fell honoured in France and Flanders, Mesopotamia and Persia, East Africa, Gallipoli and elsewhere in the near and the far-east and in sacred memory also of those whose names are recorded and who fell in India or the north-west frontier and during the Third Afgan War.
The shrine itself is a black marble cenotaph with a rifle placed on its barrel, crested by a soldier's helmet, which marks the Unknown Soldier's Tomb. Each face of the cenotaph has inscribed in gold the words "Amar Jawan" (Immortal Warrior). This cenotaph is itself placed on an edifice which has on its four corners four flames that are perpetually kept alive.
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Police arrested several Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) leaders and activists from Regal Chowk on Monday when they were protesting against the proclamation of an emergency in the country.
Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), the religious alliance of which the JI is a component, and All Parties Democratic Movement (APDM) leaders did not participate in the protest. JI Karachi Ameer and former member of the National Assembly (MNA) Hussain Mehanti, former member of the Sindh Assembly (MPA) Nasrullah Khan Shaji, former MPA Hameedullah Khan advocate and Iqbal were among the arrested.
Mehanti, before his arrest, told reporters that the nations had rejected the juntas attempt to prolong its rule by imposing the emergency. Musharraf had proved his authoritative mindset by curbing the freedom of the Judiciary and media, he said, adding that the peoples right to protest could not be usurped. Earlier, the JI had announced it would stage a protest at Empress Market in Saddar, but it suddenly changed the venue to Regal Chowk.
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Jamaat-e-Islami
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A soldier was injured when militants attacked an army convoy with a remote-controlled bomb at Eidak on Monday, officials said. They said the blast damaged a convoy vehicle, which was on it way to Miranshah from Bannu. Meanwhile, people made announcements through mosques in North Waziristan, asking teachers and students of government schools to start attending their institutions from today (Tuesday). Public schools in the agency were opened on Monday.
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A grenade was lobbed into the Quetta city police station on Monday, injuring a police official, police sources said. Unidentified miscreants lobbed the grenade into the police station from the southern flank of the compound, the sources said. Policeman Wali Daad was injured and the windows of five vehicles parked in the compound were shattered by the explosion, they said. By Monday evening it had been determined that a homemade grenade had been used, the police sources added.In a separate incident, Agricultural Research Institute Principal Bashir Baloch was shot and critically injured by unidentified attackers. He was taken to Bolan Medical Complex, where he was reported to be in critical condition.
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The Commonwealth on Monday gave Pakistan a 10-day deadline to restore the Constitution and lift other emergency measures or face suspension from the 53-nation grouping. The ultimatum came after the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) held an emergency meeting in London to decide how to respond to President General Pervez Musharrafs declaration of a state of emergency.
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Is there anybody outside the Commonwealth mandarinate who cares about this?
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While all of this is going on, you have the test matches between India and Pakistan taking place. This may be the most intense rivalry in any sport in any place in the world. This is more important than Mushy, Benazir or Binny. Not much will ever happen in Pakistan (except for some middling protests) until after the test matches conclude. Go India, Beat Pakistan.
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Who even knew they were a member of the commonwealth?
This strikes me as similar to them pissing in black pants. It might give them a warm feeling, but nobody will notice.
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Military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad confirmed on Monday that the army had taken the lead role from paramilitary personnel in the operation in Swat.
"Awright, youse! We're in charge now!"
Whatever steps are necessary will be taken now that the army has assumed the lead role in Swat, he said, a day after President General Pervez Musharraf announced that the army will take control of operations from paramilitary forces, reported Online. We will take on the operations today in coordination with the local and provincial authorities, Arshad said. However, he did not say how long the army would remain in the area, reported AFP. There is no timeframe, but rest assured the militants and criminals will be brought to book.
"Yep. They're really gonna get it! I'd get out of town if I was them!"
Three injured: He told reporters that gunship helicopters had carried out an operation in which three militants were injured, while Online reported that four militants were also killed. The helicopters targeted militant positions in Pir Kalay, Sambat, Baryam and Bamakhela villages of Matta, Jalawat and Ghorija villages of Imam Dheri and Salanda area of Maglor. The rebels returned fire but military personnel reported no injuries.
Rebel cleric Maulana Fazlullahs spokesman Sirajuddin confirmed the bombings and three injured. Two injured were admitted to a hospital. We did not fire at the helicopters nor do we have anti-aircraft weapons to do so if we had them we would definitely use them, he told AFP.
He said it was not a military operation, but merely an incident.
Reports from Matta suggested that cell-phone service had been disconnected in the area on Monday, although no reason was provided.
NWFP caretaker Home Minister Shahzada Gustasap told Daily Times that the military helicopters retaliated when they were fired upon. He said it was not a military operation, but merely an incident. He said the helicopters were attacked from the ground, and expressed ignorance about any injured militants as a result of the army helicopters retaliatory fire.
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PPP Chairwoman Benazir Bhutto, having been issued a seven-day restraint order to stop her from leading a mass rally, was placed under house arrest on Monday evening in Senator Latif Khosas house, which was declared a sub-jail, according to the detention notice.
Sources said the deployment of law enforcement personnel outside the house of Senator Khosa was increased to around 300. However, SSP Operations Aftab Ahmed Cheema told journalists that Bhutto refused to receive the warrants for her house arrest.
No long march: Minister of State for Information Tariq Azim told AFP that the authorities concerned would not allow the PPP long march to occur. She [Bhutto] will not be allowed to break the law, hence there will be no long march, he said, referring to the ban on political gatherings.
The Ravi Town SP submitted a report stating that Taliban commander Qazi Hussain Ahmed had sent suicide bombers to Lahore.
Sources, meanwhile, said the Ravi Town SP had submitted a report stating that Taliban commander Qazi Hussain Ahmed had sent suicide bombers to Lahore. There are also reports of eight North Waziristan suicide bombers hiding here. Sources in the Home Department, meanwhile, said an intelligence source has warned the Punjab government that a suicide bomber of Arab origin had reached Lahore and intended to target Bhutto and other prominent PPP leaders. A Home Department official said it had warned Bhuttos security in-charge, Rehman Malik, of the looming threat.
Surely the lowly Ravi SP hasn't spoken the unspeakable, revealing Qazi as the shadowy supreme "Taliban" commander? That's, of course, ridiculous. It would suggest that what we've assumed all along has been in fact correct.
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What day is it, Morticia?
Well, I'm under house arrest, Gomez, so that would make it...Monday.
BAGHDAD Multi-National Division-Baghdad Soldiers arrested a suspected extremist and found a weapons cache during ongoing operations in the Doura area of the Iraqi capital Nov. 11-12.
Troops with Company D, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, operating in southern Baghdad attached to the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Inf. Div., detained a suspected al-Qaeda operative during a night mission Nov. 11.
The individual was identified thanks to information provided by an area resident. The man, suspected of numerous murders and kidnappings, is being held for further questioning.
At approximately 6 a.m. Nov. 12, troops found a weapons cache hidden in an abandoned building. The Soldiers found more than 100 rounds of rifle ammunition, an old rocket-propelled grenade launcher, an assault rifle bolt and bolt carrier and an 82mm mortar round. That's a mighty meager weapons cache. Let's hope it's a sign of the times.
The cache was recovered by explosive ordnance disposal personnel for disposal.
CW4 Yoakum acted to protect his wingman and destroy an enemy anti-aircraft position designed to produce the continued loss of coalition aircraft. His decision to knowingly risk his life to cover his lead aircraft, despite having the opportunity to land or return to the airfield, put the accomplishment of his mission and the protection of his comrades over his own personal safety. His personal bravery and uncommon valor at the risk of his own life reflects great credit upon himself, the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, the First Cavalry Division and the Multinational Division-Baghdad, and the United States Army. This is the second DSC awarded in November, thought you wouldn't know it from the media. Pass it on.
US and Iraqi Security Forces are maintaining the pressure on al Qaeda in Iraq's network nationwide. October netted the highest number of senior terror leaders since the surge went into full effect in mid June. While the Iraqi and US forces have degraded al Qaeda's network inside Baghdad in the Belts, the terror group is attempting to regroup in the north and east.
The daily raids conduct by Task Force 88, the hunter-killer teams assigned to dismantle al Qaeda's network in Iraq, have resulted in significant losses for the terror network. Forty-five senior al Qaeda in Iraq operatives were killed or captured during the month of October, said Colonel Donald Bacon, the Chief of Strategy and Plans, Strategic Communications at Multinational Forces Iraq said in an interview on November 13. Among those captured or killed include:
6 Emirs at the city level or higher in the AQI leadership structure, including the leader of Diyala province.
6 Geographical or functional cell leaders
14 Foreign terrorists facilitators.
3 Car bomb cell leaders.
6 Logistical support emirs.
8 Media / propaganda operatives.
The numbers of senior al Qaeda operatives killed or captured have steadily increased since the surge kicked off in mid June, with 19 senior al Qaeda killed or captured in July, 25 in August, and 29 in September.
Multinational Forces Iraq may be closing in on al Qaeda's top tier of leadership. Two of the cell leaders captured were members of Abu Ayyub al Masri's personal bodyguard. Al Masri is the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq.
"Draw your own conclusions" about the significance of these captures, Bacon said when discussing the detention of al Masri's bodyguards. "We think we're squeezing the, having success," in closing in on al Masri. In September, US forces captured Ali Fayyad Abuyd Ali, al Masri's father in law who was a senior advisor to senior al Qaeda in Iraq leaders, including al Masri.
While Multinational Forces Iraq and the Iraqi Security Forces have had success against al Qaeda's network, the terror group has not been defeated. "Al Qaeda in Iraq has been hurt, but still has capabilities," said Bacon. "Al Qaeda has been weakened in Baghdad and the Belts, but is not defeated." Al Qaeda in Iraq is still "capable of conducting strikes but at a much reduced level."
Al Qaeda is believed to be reorganizing in the northern and eastern regions in Iraq. "They are migrating to Mosul, the Hamrin mountains, Diyala to the east," said Bacon. "Ninewa province and Hamrin mountains" are the "two main areas" where al Qaeda is thought to be regrouping to continue its campaign.
The Hamrin Mountains span Diyala, Salahadin, and Tamin provinces in the north. Multinational Forces Iraq and Iraqi Security Forces launched Operation Iron Hammer in the northern provinces of Ninewa, Tamin, Salahadin, and Diyala on November 5.
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Compare to GULF NEWS Op-Ed > US CASTS AN IMPERIAL SHADOW IN THE MIDDLE EAST. USA has had a milpol presence in the ME since 1942 - many Muslims are angry at USA not becuz of differences in [common]values, BUT BECUZ USA HAS MILFORS IN ME WHILE NOT TOLERATING SAME FROM FOREIGN NATIONS IN ITS OWN BACKYARD [CONUS-NORAM].
FORWARD OPERATING BASE LOYALTY, Iraq A 10-year old Iraqi girl was killed when extremists detonated an improvised explosive device in the New Baghdad district of the Iraqi capital Nov. 11.
Following the attack, Iraqi Army troops and Soldiers with 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, rushed to the scene and sealed off the area. One Army vehicle and an apartment were also damaged in the blast.
The victim, a student at Isha Primary School in New Baghdad, was struck by shrapnel from the blast. Was the IED a taxi whose driver thought he was disregarding DynCorp instructions, but missed?
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ION, ISRAEL > CENTRAL BUREAU OF STATISTICS, WORLD BANK > THERE IS NO [ISRAELI/JEWISH] DEMOGRAPHIC PROBLEM. Israelis/Jews having more sex = babies than Arabs-Muslims???
(KUNA) -- American forces have arrested five Iranians near Al-Khales town in Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad, on Monday, an Iraqi security source said.
The source, requesting anonymity, told KUNA the US troops, accompanied by support Iraqi forces, arrested the five Iranians after they made sure they entered Iraqi without passports thus illegally. The source did not elaborate, but US and Iraqi forces are frequently arresting Iranians entering the Iraqi territories illegally claiming they wanted to visit the shrines of the Shiites. Diyala is near the Iranian borders. The US army released nine Iranians last Friday.
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Nothing to see here, just a bunch of lowly pilgrims on a journey of faith. Ignore the AK-47s, that all the pilgrims are military-aged males, and all seem to wear their clothes like uniforms, etc., etc., ...
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IMRA version of a Nov 13 Haaretz story
A group of militants from the Fatah-affiliated Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, all on Israel's wanted list, strolled into Fawzi Baba, a coffeehouse in the Tul Karm refugee camp around noon. Within a few seconds, a scene that has become routine took place: Everyone dropped their card games and rushed out.....
"Let's say a wanted man orders a taxi from the nearest stand," Abu Talab [non al aqsa member]explains. The driver comes, sees who he's dealing with and steps on the gas.......
"I wanted to marry a girl from the camp," [Al Aqsa member] Mawid Abu Taman relates, "but because I'm wanted, her father refused. What kind of life could I offer her?"
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i really like how everyone runs out of the Coffee house when the militants walk in, like some scene from West Side Story. Evidently some folks understand the IDF is active.
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They're all my friends, but I wouldn't want
my daughter to marry one. I want her to have a good life, without having the army coming into her house all the time to arrest her while her husband escapes into the streets.
Damn! It's the Zionist Occupiers! Jamilya, time to take one for the team! I'm outta here. Inshallah...
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Although the place emptied out with their arrival, there is no mention as to whether the paino player quit, and if the bartender dipped below the counter for his shotgun. And just WHERE did the dancing girls run off to?????
( Calling Mel Brooks, please incorporate into BZ 2, the Sequel)
Philippine legislator Wahab Akbar was killed in a bomb attack at the House of Representatives, raising the death toll to two with at least 10 injured, hospital staff and radio reports said.
Three of the injured are members of Congress.
A session of Congress had just ended and members were leaving when the blast happened.
One witness says the explosion appeared to come from a car parked outside the Congress, which is just north of the capital, Manila.
A police chief says one of the people killed was the driver of a congressman who was sitting in a parked van near the building.
At least 18 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels have been killed in separate clashes in Northern and Eastern Sri Lanka.
At Muhamalai in Jaffna penninsula, Sri Lankan Army today killed five LTTE rebels, the Army said in a statement in Colombo Monday, news agency Press Trust of India reported.
Four LTTE rebels were killed by the security forces at Pariyapantrichurichchan in Vavuniya district yesterday, the Sri Lankan Defence Ministry said in a statement.
In Narikkulam also in Vavuniya three LTTE cadres were killed yesterday. Another three rebels were killed in Mannar district last night, military sources said. In another incident three LTTE men were killed by the Sri Lankan Special Task Force yesterday, the news agency said.
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Sri Lankan troops shot dead at least six women fighters of the Tamil Tigers during a clash in the north of the island, the defence ministry said Monday. Following an attack on a bunker line of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) along the de facto front line with guerrilla-held territory, the troops found six bodies of women fighters on Sunday, the ministry said. It said security forces also recovered a light machine gun, three automatic assault rifles and ammunition. The report came amid sporadic clashes in the north of the island and a warning from neighbouring India that Sri Lanka and the Tiger rebels must return to the negotiating table to end their conflict. Indias Finance Minister P Chidambaram said Sunday that while New Delhi backed Sri Lankas sovereignty and territorial integrity, military action would not bring an end to the rebel drive for a separate state for minority Tamils. Neither side can finally prevail over the other through conflict. Peace must be forged at the negotiating table, he said. Tens of thousands of people have died since the conflict began in 1972. Fighting has escalated since December 2005, when a Norwegian-brokered truce began to unravel.
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did they all have Mario moustaches too?
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I just noticed that Fred has a Rantburg Store in the yellow sidebar. So I clicked it, and ended up ordering mugs to give to the trailing daughters for Hanukkah. Thanks for setting that up, Fred!
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.
A Yemeni court sentenced a man to five years in jail on Monday for shooting at the U.S. embassy's compound in 2006, the official news agency Saba reported. The prosecution had charged the gunman, 
Russian police killed eight suspected militants in a special operation in the southern region of Dagestan, the local police chief said on Monday. The operation was the bloodiest for several months in Dagestan, where Moscow's forces are fighting a low-level insurgency linked to Islamist radicals. Most of the dead were in an apartment which police special forces raided in the town of Buinaksk, 40 km (24 miles) from the regional capital of Makhachkala, on Monday morning, police said. "UP to seven people have been killed at the scene of the special operation," Dagestan's Interior Minister Adilgerei Magomedtagirov told reporters. He said another militant had been killed on a nearby street. There were no reports of any casualties among the police.
ANKARA - Separatist Kurdish rebels kidnapped seven people, two of them pro-government village guard militiamen, in eastern Turkey near the Iranian border, media reports said Monday.
(KUNA) -- A day after President Pervez Musharraf said that his men will take action in the northern Sawat district the army went on the offensive carrying out mop-up operations against the militants. 
Government troops killed four militants, two of them wanted commanders, in fresh fighting in revolt-hit Indian Kashmir, police said on Monday. Three of the militants were killed during an early morning gun fight in the village of Dooru, near northern Sopore town, a police spokesman said.
A grenade was lobbed into the Quetta city police station on Monday, injuring a police official, police sources said. Unidentified miscreants lobbed the grenade into the police station from the southern flank of the compound, the sources said. Policeman Wali Daad was injured and the windows of five vehicles parked in the compound were shattered by the explosion, they said. By Monday evening it had been determined that a homemade grenade had been used, the police sources added.In a separate incident, Agricultural Research Institute Principal Bashir Baloch was shot and critically injured by unidentified attackers. He was taken to Bolan Medical Complex, where he was reported to be in critical condition.
Military spokesman 
