A KEY Taliban commander denied he had been sacked by the leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, claiming the report was part of a "conspiracy" against him.
"Did not!"
"Did too!"
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahed on Saturday said that Omar had issued a statement sacking Mullah Mansoor Dadullah "because he disobeyed orders of the Islamic Emirate" of the Taliban. Dadullah had succeeded his elder brother - the Taliban's top military commander Mullah Dadullah - who was killed in an Afghan and NATO operation in May.
Shohabuddin Atal, claiming to speak on behalf of Masnoor Dadullah, however said the statement was not issued by Omar and was a conspiracy against the rebel commander. "Mullah Mansoor Dadullah is still Taliban commander and has never been sacked by ... Mullah Omar," Atal said, by phone from an unknown location. "The statement attributed to ... Omar is rather a conspiracy by some elements within the Taliban movement against Mansoor Dadullah. They want to weaken the Taliban movement," he said.
"Mullah Omar is our leader, our commander and whatever order he gives we'll obey without any objections. But this statement has not been issued ... (by) Omar."
The elder Dadullah was the most high-ranking Taliban commander to be killed since the group launched an insurgency following the toppling of their government in a US-led invasion in 2001.
Taliban leader Mullah Omar has sacked one of his key military commanders, accusing him of not obeying orders, a spokesman said on Saturday.
Was he one of the commanders talking to the two Brits that Karzai had expelled?
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahed read over the telephone to AFP a statement issued by Omar that said Mullah Mansoor Dadullah was sacked because he disobeyed orders of the Islamic Emirate of Taliban. The statement did not give details. Mansoor succeeded his elder brother Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah who was killed in an Afghan and NATO operation in May.
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Is there another Dadullah brother? I think this calls for Dire revengeTM.
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That dude is watching way too much celebrity apprentice.
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I'll bet if he were to go talk to Coalition forces they'd be more than happy to extract Dire RevengeTM for him. And arrange a meeting with his 72 doe-eyed virgins.
Seven Somali civilians were killed on Sunday as fierce fighting erupted between Ethiopian-backed government forces and insurgents in the Somali capital, witnesses said.
Five members of the same family died when a mortar shell struck a populated area in northern Mogadishu, they said. "A mortar shell landed in the General Daud neighbourhood, killing a mother and four of her children," local elder Abdullahi Hassan Sheikh said. "There was a heavy explosion after which we discovered the bodies of five people," he added.
Other witnesses reported the same death toll. In the southern Shirkole neighbourhood, one man was caught in crossfire. "He died instantly when a stray bullet hit him in the head," said eyewitness Mohamed Khassim. "This is the heaviest fighting in recent days. They are using all sorts of heavy artillery," he added.
According to several other witnesses, another Somali civilian died when a mortar shell struck his house in the same neighbourhood.
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Malian authorities have announced arresting a man suspected of taking part in the assassination of 4 French tourists in Mauritania last week. Media sources in Nouakchott, Mauritania, reported that the defendant has been arrested in the region of Douentza, in the centre of Mali, adding that he was holding an automatic gun and a grenade. In this context, an army officer in Mali said the defendant was holding arms and a satellite mobile and banding his his wounded hand, adding that all this signs are identical to a wanted man.
The same official said the arrested holds a Malian ID carrying the name of Mohamed Ouled Ahmed and an Algerian passport carrying the name of Belkacem Zayoudi. He further said the arrested mentioned that he is a Moudjahid we are investigating with him and we are to contact Mauritanian authorities to know whether he has links with the assassination of 4 tourists last week in their.
On another side, Mauritanias Interior Affairs Ministry said it is committed to secure the track of Lisboan- Dakar Rally on its territories from 11 to 19 January 2008. After a meeting he hold with the Rally organization direction, Interior Minister said his country will devote about 2000 soldiers as well as many civilian policemen who will be in charge of securing the rally convoys while passing by Mauritania..
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Al Qaeda's wing in north Africa has said it was behind 15 attacks that it said had killed four Mauritanian soldiers, Al Arabiya television reported yesterday. "We are glad to inform our Muslim nation about the victories achieved by the mujahideen (fighters) of the Al Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb through 15 simultaneous operations," a spokesman for the group said on an audio recording aired by the station.
The television said it could not authenticate the recording, which it said it had received, without giving further details. Mauritanian authorities had said gunmen travelling in two vehicles killed three Mauritanian soldiers in a desert clash on Thursday.
The spokesman said the attacks, some of them against troops in Algeria, were carried out late on Wednesday. There was no mention in the report of the killing of four French tourists in Mauritania on Monday, which officials have said may have been carried out by Islamic militants.
The attacks have raised fears that Al Qaeda-linked militants who have carried out attacks in Algeria and Morocco may be seeking to extend their operations southwards to Mauritania, Senegal and Mali.
Meanwhile, the organisers gave the green light yesterday for the 30th Dakar rally to proceed as planned through the African state of Mauritania despite security fears prompted by recent Al Qaeda linked attacks.
Mauritania has announced that it would mobilise 2,000 soldiers and 2,000 plainclothes police to monitor the rally as it passes through the country between January 11 and 19. "We are going ahead with the Mauritanian stages of the rally.... It now seems that the security situation is back on track," Etienne Lavigne, the French director of the event said. "There is nothing to fear, every precaution has been put in place," Interior Minister Yall Zakaria said.
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Morocco's anti-terrorist tribunal has jailed 15 Islamists for between one and four years in three separate cases on conviction of terrorist activity or connections, the MAP news agency reported yesterday.
The special court in Sale near Rabat sentenced seven people late on Thursday to between one and two years in prison after the prosecution accused them of links to May 2003 attacks in Casablanca, which killed 45 people including 12 suicide bombers. Another group of seven were jailed for four years each, after being found guilty of receiving paramilitary training with Algeria's extremist Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), which was in January renamed the Al Qaeda Branch of the Islamic Maghreb.
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(KUNA) -- The Turkish security troops have captured 19 al-Qaeda suspects, a security source said on Saturday. The source added that the police forces were chasing terrorist cells that planned to launch terrorist attacks in the main Turkish cities. The NTV quoted the security source as saying that the suspects had been caught in the cities of Axari, Ankara and Adhna and that they would be referred to court charged with planning to launch terrorist attacks in the country.
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ISLAMABAD (AP): Suicide attackers tried to kill a leading Pakistani politician Sunday as members of Benazir Bhutto's political party prepared for critical meetings on whether to boycott Jan. 8 elections following her assassination.
The Pakistan People's Party meeting also was set to read Ms Bhutto's last will and testament and consider her replacement as leader. The meeting comes amid controversy surrounding her death, which triggered nationwide riots and thrust the nuclear-armed country into deep political crisis.
The government rejected suggestions it should enlist foreign help in investigating Ms Bhutto's killing Thursday in a suicide bomb and gun attack. The Islamic militant group blamed by officials for the attack denied any links to the killing, and Ms Bhutto's aides accused the government of a cover-up.
A pullout by the Pakistan People's Party could destroy the credibility of next month's poll, already being boycotted by Pakistan's other main opposition leader, Nawaz Sharif.
Washington has pressured its ally, President Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in a coup eight years ago, to push ahead with the election to promote stability in the country and help it better fight rising violence by al-Qaida and Taliban militants.
Mass unrest among her supporters since Thursday has left at least 44 people dead and tens of millions of dollars of damage. Rioters have destroyed 176 banks, 34 gas stations, 72 train cars, 18 rail stations, and hundreds of cars and shops.
Sunday's suicide attack was the first in Pakistan since Bhutto's killing.
Two suspected militants blew themselves up close to the residence of residence of Ijazul Haq, a senior leader of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Q party, in eastern Pakistan, said Zafar Abbas Bukhari, the district police chief. Both men died, but there were no other casualties.
Police said Haq was the target of the attack, but was not home at the time.
Haq was minister for religious affairs in July when the government launched a military operation against a militant-linked mosque in Islamabad, killing over 100 people. He is reportedly on a militant hit list.
Meanwhile, uncertainty intensified over the circumstances of Ms Bhutto's assassination as she waved to supporters from the sunroof of her armored vehicle outside a campaign rally.
Video footage shows a man shooting at her three times from close range seconds before her car is caught up in an explosion from a suicide attacker.
Authorities initially said she died from bullet wounds, but subsequently Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema said Bhutto was killed when the shockwaves from the suicide bomb smashed her head into the sunroof as she tried to duck back inside the vehicle.
Ms Bhutto's spokeswoman Sherry Rehman said, ``We saw a bullet wound in the back of her neck. What the government is saying is actually dangerous and nonsensical. They are pouring salt on our wounds.''
The government blamed the attack on the Tehrik-i-Taliban, a newly formed coalition of Islamic militants led by Baitullah Mehsud along the Afghan border believed to be linked to al-Qaeda and committed to waging holy war against the government.
But Mehsud spokesman Maulana Mohammed Umer said ``We strongly deny it. Baitullah Mehsud is not involved in the killing of Benazir Bhutto.''
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Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud, blamed by the Pakistan government for masterminding the assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto, had twice sent emissaries to inform her that he was not her enemy, according to a senior leader of her party.
"Identify your enemy, I am not your enemy, I have nothing to do with you or against you or with the assassination attempt on you on October 18," Mehsud had said through the emissaries.
This was revealed by Farhatullah Babar, the spokesman for Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party. "The top PPP leadership trusted the message," Babar told The News.
Mehsud had conveyed to Bhutto that his activities were limited to Waziristan and were of a 'defensive nature. "I have neither the resources to fight outside Waziristan nor do I have any plans to attack Benazir Bhutto in the future," Mehsud had told the PPP leadership.
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The chickens have really come home to roost.. the son of General Zia Ul Haq is the target of suicide bombers?
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It is day of sorrows, tears and hat ness. We condemn the act of Martyrdom/ assassination of Muhatarma Benazir Bhutto. The attack upon her was not an attack on her self but same was on Pakistan. That is not a single time we are receiving the death body of leader from the establishment especially from Punjab. It was last chance to them to show and prove their sincerity to Sindh. It is fact that it is second time that Punjab sent us a death body of Sindhi leader and Ex- Prime Minister. Still we could not forget the assassination of Mr.Zulifqar Ali Bhutto.
Benazir was not single lady but she was a symbol of the Pakistan, shelter of Sindh and chain in the Federation of Pakistan. Assassination of Banazir is actually is an assassination of federation. She was full shined star on the sky of the Global politics. It is unfortunate for the Pakistan and all progressive mind people of the world that Martyred Benazir is not in between us. I think it total responsibility of state to provide the security to the life of the people and Benazir was an international personality and several times she rote to the Government to take measures to secure her, but how Government could take steps to secure when it is involved in this assassination. We know Musaraf and his terror Party are involved in this political assassination. How now lovers of Pakistan can will satisfy the people of Sindh that they thinking them as equal. It is totally fraud with people of Pakistan and specially with people if Sindh . It is also shameful that Government and Military establishment is continuously trying to hide the assassinators and changing their statements in regard of her killing. Government is throwing the burden of killing on Al-Qaida and represents of Al-Qaida already denied for that, it is fact that it is the custom of Al-Qaida to announce and to take the responsibility of their all acts committed by them. Assassination of Benazir Bhutto is a target killing and killers are known by Government, Choudhris, their allies and Terrorist group of Karachi, who like to control of country in their hands and are worried for wining position in the coming elections of the country.
The people of Sindh are under shock and they can not forget this political assassination and the assassinators. Benazir is from the soil of Sindh. So people of Sindh continuously drop the tears. Jehangir Rahujo,Advocate
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Government is throwing the burden of killing on Al-Qaida and represents of Al-Qaida already denied for that, it is fact that it is the custom of Al-Qaida to announce and to take the responsibility of their all acts committed by them.
A trenchant point. Thank you for your post, Mr. Jehangir Rahujo. We share your sorrow that this political murder was done. One wonders if, after, Sindh will consent to remain part of Pakistan.
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Government is throwing the burden of killing on Al-Qaida and represents of Al-Qaida already denied for that, it is fact that it is the custom of Al-Qaida to announce and to take the responsibility of their all acts committed by them.
Kinda like 9/11, which took several years of denial before anybody in AQ took public responsibility.
You can make assertions to back your claim, but it doesn't make them true.
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Kinda like 9/11, which took several years of denial before anybody in AQ took public responsibility.
Is that true? I've forgotten already. I thought they were bragging early on.
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On 16 September 2001, bin Laden read a statement later broadcast by Qatar's Al Jazeera satellite channel saying:
I stress that I have not carried out this act, which appears to have been carried out by individuals with their own motivation.[65]
God has struck America at its Achilles heel and destroyed its greatest buildings, praise and blessing to Him.[66]
In November 2001, U.S. forces recovered a videotape in Jalalabad. In it Laden discusses the attack with Khaled al-Harbi in a way indicating foreknowledge of the attack. "We calculated in advance the number of casualties from the enemy;" and "We had notification since the previous Thursday that the event [the 9/11 attack] would take place that day."
West Bengal and Jharkhand police have decided to get rid of the barrier of jurisdiction in adjoining Maoist-hit areas to take faster action against the Maoists.
In the Maoist affected belt of six districts of the tow States -- Singhbhum, West Singhbhum and Sareikela-Kharsawan of Jharkhand and West Midnapore, Bankura and Purulia of West Bengal -- policemen can now move freely into each other's territory, West Midnapore Superintendent of Police R Rajsekharan, who attended the meeting said on Friday.
After launching an attack in one state, Maoist ultras usually flee to another through the forest covered border and the police fail to chase them due to the jurisdiction barrier.
But now, if a police station of West Bengal has some information on a Maoist activity, it could directly tip-off the respective police station in Jharkhand instead of informing Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), Rajsekharan said.
The existing rule was that, only a DIG level officer could pass on such information to another DIG level officer. But, by the time the information reaches from a police station to the DIG's office of one State and from the DIG's office to the police station concerned in the other, precious time gets lost and the ultras escape easily, police sources added.
The new system would reduce the time delay significantly, the sources said after the joint meeting of the DIG of Kolhan range of Jharkhand and his Midnapore range counterpart in West Bengal at Kharagpur on Friday.
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ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani TV news channel has aired photographs of two men it said were involved in the assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto after an election rally in Rawalpindi on Thursday.
One of the two grainy photos which Dawn News channel said were clicked by an amateur photographer showed a youth wearing sunglasses aiming a pistol at Bhutto's back while she waved through the sun-roof of her bulletproof vehicle to her supporters.
The other picture, apparently taken before the shooting, showed the same youth standing next to another man who had a white cloth wrapped around his face. Dawn News described the second man as the "suspected suicide bomber".
The position of the youth with the pistol in the photo coincided with the position of the shooter seen in video footage of the attack on Bhutto released by the interior ministry on Saturday. In that footage, the face of the shooter is obscured but his hand can be seen holding a pistol that is used to fire three to four shots towards Bhutto.
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Might be interesting to note that Blackwater Security has never lost a principal (protected person).
Sources said that the bomber used a 30-bore pistol and his three shots missed the target. They said that the police seized two pistols, one used by the bomber and other of an unidentified person, were in the police custody. Sources said that Rawalpindi Police barred Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) officials from examining the crime scene.
They should have come with their own damn fire hoses...
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The guy looks lighter skinned than the others in the photo. Shaky and inconclusive, for sure, still, just sayin'...
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short, white....it's Tom Cruise in MI4!
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In the military town that safehoused Kalid Sheikh Mohammed, it's truly a surprise that so many assassins (including one wrapped up for burial) could get so close to Bhutto.
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That first picture sure looks 'doctored' to me! Unless thats some type of two toned dark formal suit he has on; the right arm sleeve looks totally 'washed' unto the photo. Did HE really do the shooting or does someone need 'the angle' to make it work?
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It is a screenshot of the new video of the assassination. Bhutto is very clearly shot, her veil and hair lift up and she drops like a stone back into the vehicle. This blows the "official" government report out of the water and brings serious questions about why they would either lie, or be completely wrong.
10-1 the Pakistani intelligence service is in on it.
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Well, that last video seems pretty conclusive to me. She is shot up to 3 times, drops like a stone into the car, splodeydope goes off killing over a dozen - but noone in the car died other than her.
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Doesn't look like she hit anything on the way down...
and the bomber does look like he is wrapped in a sheet...
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You may remember the pic of the sunroof handle covered in gore from yesterday. Today NBC news showed a pic of an absolutely pristine sunroof handle offered as evidence that she hadn't impacted on it.
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At Zardari's insistence, Bhutto was buried without an autopsy and the debate over her cause of death has undermined confidence in the government and further angered her followers.
Why would he do that? Would not it have been important to establish whether or not she had been shot? Jeesh.
And I have to admit those photos do look doctored. Without an autopsy, now we will never know.
(KUNA) -- A top insurgent of outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) was killed and another injured in an encounter with the Army in Tinsukia district in Indias Northeastern state of Assam Saturday. The encounter took place at Kulabari, in upper Assam's Tinsukia district this afternoon, news agency Press Trust of India reported. The slain insurgent was identified as 'Corporal' -- Dhaman Chetia and the injured as Amjad Chetia -- both belonging to ULFA's "28 battalion", the news agency said, quoting an official of the Assam police.
The outlawed ULFA wants to create a "sovereign Assam" carved out of India and is waging an insurgency since 1979. It has little public support in Assam and most of its top leadership are reported to operating from neighbouring Bangladesh. New Delhi has often raised with Dhaka the issue of the presence of Indian Insurgent Groups from Northeast including ULFA on Bangladeshi soil and urged the authorities to act against the ULFA leadership based there.
Leading US think tank Stratfor, few months back, in a report -- India: ULFA Abandons Peace Talks -- had said that ULFA was keen to work with groups like Bangladesh-based Harkt-ul-Jihadi-Islami in India's Northeast and has begun to outsource terror operations.
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(KUNA) -- As many as two insurgents of banned group Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) were killed by security forces in Pulwama district of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir Saturday. The encounter took place in Drubgam village in Pulwama district this evening, a spokesperson of Jammu and Kashmir police told news agency Indo Asian News Service. One of the slain insurgents have been indentified as Abdul Gani Dar alias Jangvi, the spokesperson said. One AK-47 rifle has been recovered from the slain JeM insurgents.
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Violence, arson and looting continued on third day in the province of Sindh and five persons were killed and 13 injured in these incidents on Saturday. Army has taken control in the affected areas. Ghaibana namaz-e-janaza was offered invarious small and big sities of Sindh.
Army has been deployed in 16 disrtricts of the province including in Karachi. The Army is patrolling in Safora Chowk, Bin Qasim, SITE area, Steel Mills, Orangi Town and Korangi of Karachi. Ininterior Sindh, the army took control in Hyderabad, Jamshoro, Badin, Thatta, Mirpur Khas,Tando Allahyar, Nausheroferoze, Dadu, Larkana, Khairpur, Shahdadkot, Ghotki and Kashmore. There has been an state of mourning and calm prevailed all over the province including Karachi and Hyderabad.
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Headlines like that actually make sense in Pakistain.
Any word on when they plan on releasing his body?
They'll have to find an appropriate one first. Check 'Missing Persons' ...
KHAR: Unknown kidnappers on Saturday released the head of a 130-member peace jirga in Bajaur Agency alongwith two members of his staff. The jirga was facilitating the negotiations between the local Taliban and the government.
The jirga head, Jamiat Ulema-a-Islam (JUI-F) Bajaur General Secretary Maulana Abdul Rashid, who is also a senator, was kidnapped on Thursday with his driver and guard from the Loway Sum area while returning home after attending an election campaign event of Mufti Shabir Ahmed, a candidate from NA-46.
They were released unconditionally. The senator did not comment on the identities of his kidnappers or what they had wanted.
Several days earlier, former Member of the National Assembly Maulana Ghulam Muhammad Sadiq, who is contesting elections on NA-36 from Mohmand Agency, was also kidnapped and later released by unknown people on December 24.
Sadiq said his kidnappers shifted him to Afghanistans Kunar province and suspected that he was a close ally of President Pervez Musharraf, believing that he had voted for Musharraf in the presidential elections.
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(KUNA) -- Iraqi law-enforcers have discovered a large arms cache at the house of one of the bodyguards of Chairman of Iraqi Accordance Front Adnan Al-Duleimi. The arms cache includes large quantities of weapons, explosives and mortar shells, Spokesman of Baghdad Law-Enforcement Plan Brigadier Qassem Atta told reporters here Saturday.
The house of Al-Duleimi's bodyguard Riyadh Mahmoud Al-Falahi is close to Al-Duleimi's in Al-Adel district, west Baghdad, Atta pointed out. Al-Fallahi's house belongs originally to an Iraqi immigrant family but was given to the bodyguard by Al-Duleimi's son Mekki who is being held in police custody in connection with a terrorism charge, the senior police officer disclosed.
Atta played a film showing the security operation against Al-Fallahi's house and the munitions seized. Mekki was arrested by the Iraqi law enforcement agencies in connection with the murder of one of the militiamen of the pro-government Awakening councils and the seizure of two explosives-laden cars near Al-Duleimi's house early in December.
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everyone around Al-Duleimi's a bad guy, but he's pure as the driven snow, I tells ya!
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(KUNA) -- American troops have killed three members of Al-Qaeda and arrested 34 others in action in central and northern Iraq, the American Army said in a statement released on Saturday. The troops burst into a building north of the city of Tikrit, searching for a leading member of Al-Qaeda. Aircraft attacked the building after gunmen entrenched in it opened fire in the direction of the regulars. The air attack killed three of the insurgents, one wearing a belt laden with explosives. The statement added that 34 members of Al-Qaeda were detained north of Tirkrit, west of the region Al-Tarmiah and in Mosul. In Al-Daghara in southern Baghdad, the troops arrested six militiamen in an identical operation.
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ANKARA - A landmine explosion hit a convoy of Turkish trucks in northern Iraq on Saturday, killing one driver and leaving five others injured, Turkeys NTV news channel reported.
Foreign ministry spokesman Levent Bilman confirmed the convoy, transporting construction material from Turkey to neighbouring Iraq, ran into a landmine, but said Turkish authorities were still trying to clarify the casualties. The incident occurred early on Saturday on a road linking the northern Iraqi cities of Dohuk and Mosul, NTV said, citing local sources.
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Israel said on Saturday it had recently seized a truck carrying chemicals used to make explosives hidden in bags marked as EU aid for the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. The army said 6.5 tons of potassium nitrate were in bags marked as sugar from the European Union for Palestinians in the coastal enclave. EU officials in Jerusalem had no immediate comment.
The cargo in a Palestinian truck was traveling in the West Bank and seized several weeks ago at an Israeli checkpoint, the army said.
The EU is the largest provider of humanitarian assistance to Gaza. Israel tightened its military and economic cordon of the Gaza Strip after Islamist Hamas seized the territory in a June war with secular Fatah.
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Yes, but Potassium Nitrate can be used for so many things other than making your own gunpowder..... um, I think it's a diuretic for donkeys... yeah that's it, no doubt an epidemic of donkey lock has hit Palestine....
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KNO3 has been used in the past -- mixed in food -- to suppress the sexual urges of adolescent males... for which purpose it is entirely ineffectual, by the way. However, it was discovered in the 1980s to be very effective at reducing dental sensitivity when applied in a toothpaste. Sensodyne makes a version, I think, and possibly Crest.
ARMED men from the Islamist Hamas movement raided the Gaza offices of the rival Fatah movement overnight ahead of a key anniversary of president Mahmud Abbas's party, according to Fatah officials.
Gunmen from the Hamas-run Executive Force broke into Fatah headquarters in Gaza City, confiscating equipment and computers, Fatah officials said. At least two other Fatah offices in the coastal territory were also targeted.
"Armed men from the Hamas movement at dawn raided the headquarters of the Fatah movement... just as they raided several branch offices of the movement in different areas of Gaza," said senior Fatah official Ahmed Hellis.
"This behaviour is incomprehensible and follows continuing aggressions against the members and institutions of the Fatah movement."
The Executive Force, a paramilitary group that has policed the Gaza Strip since Hamas violently seized power in June, also raided Al-Azhar University, arresting dozens of students.
A spokesman for the Executive Force said the students were arrested for "illegal" activities.
The incidents come two days before a key anniversary of the secular Fatah party founded by the late Palestinian iconic leader Yasser Arafat. On January 1, 1965 Fatah for the first time declared itself as an armed Palestinian resistance group.
Long a dominant force in Palestinian politics, Fatah was crushed in parliamentary elections in January 2006 by the Islamist Hamas.
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) seized control of the Gaza Strip in June, routing forces loyal to Fatah after a week of deadly street fighting.
It's *totally* comprehensible. You're the Paleos, you nitwit. You do this stuff all the time; nicking each others stuff, throwing each other off buildings, shooting each other, promising dire revenge (TM), using kids as shields, blowing yourselves up and generally, being completely bonkers wankers.
Sheesh, what a numskull....
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Ma'an Hamas-allied Palestinian police in the Gaza Strip have banned a Fatah-organized festival scheduled for January 1st. Jamal Jarrah, the Deputy Director-General of Police in the de facto government of the Gaza Strip said Fatah leaders would not commit to 'police standards' required for the protection of civilians. He denied that the decision was politically motivated.
Jarrah said he would not allow a repeat of the violence that marred Fatah-organized rallies commemorating the death of Yasser Arafat in November. Seven were shot dead after clashes between stone-throwing Fatah supporters and Hamas-affiliated police. "We are working to protect the lives of civilians," he said.
Gaza Strip police detained a number of Fatah activists in An-Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. The police said the detainees were "troublemakers."
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Ma'an Several members of the military wing of Fatah, the Al-Aqsa Brigades, survived an Israeli assassination attempt near Kisufim crossing in the Gaza Strip on Friday, the fighters said. They said they had been the target of a surface-launched missile.
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Ma'an Israeli forces seized the field commander of the military wing of Fatah, the Al-Aqsa Brigades in the West Bank city of Hebron and four other Al-Aqsa Brigades members on Friday.
The raid comes a day after Palestinian fighters killed two Israeli settlers in a drive-by shooting near Hebron. The Al-Aqsa Brigades Media Center said commander Ahmed Muhammad Abu Sitteh, also known as Abu Suleiman, was detained late on Friday night and taken to an unknown location. Israeli officials confirmed the raid and the detention of the five Palestinians, accusing them of involvement in Friday's drive-by shooting that killed two off-duty Israeli soldiers, both residents of the Kiryat Arba settlement, near Hebron.
The Al-Aqsa Brigades denied any involvement in the attack. Islamic Jihad's military wing, the Al-Quds Brigades, claimed responsibility for the shooting on Friday. The Al-Quds Brigades were likely retaliating for the assassination of one of it's high-ranking leaders in the Gaza Strip earlier this week. Witnesses identified the detained men as brothers Naim Nabil Natsheh, Firas Natsheh, Hazem Natsheh, Omar Noman Natsheh, Abdullah Natsheh and Shadi Natsheh.
Palestinian security sources said the Palestinian car used in the shooting has been found, and that the vehicle contained blood, as well as bullets and objects belonging to Twenty-two-year-old Nabil Basil Natsheh, who disappeared following the attack.
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It's time--actually, long past time--for the Israelis to start killing Paleos for murdering their citizens. Both sides believe in the Old Testament; go back to an eye for an eye. Start with Samir Kuntar. When I read about what that bastard did on a post at Totten's blog, I was ready to kill him myself. I hope that son of a bitch screams in Hell for all eternity. There is no horrible torture I can think of that is bad enough to make him suffer enough to even start paying for his brutal crimes.
All Paleos understand is force. Since that is so, Israel should break them with it and flush the remnants, like the sewage they are, out into the cesspools of Egypt and Jordan.
RAMALLAH - Palestinian security forces arrested 14 members of Hamas as part of a West Bank crackdown on the Islamic movement, Hamas said Saturday. The detentions took place in Hebron and Nablus, Hamas added in the statement.
Also Saturday, the top Palestinian security official, Minister of Interior Abdul Razzak Yehya, confirmed reports that Fatah militias, Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, had been dismantled and no longer existed.
Hey Fred, what are they called now?
"Bob," I think...
Speaking on the official Voice of Palestine radio, Yehya said steps to dismantle all other militias operating in the Palestinian areas were under way. He expressed the hope that they would all cooperate with the Palestinian security plan to disarm and disband, warning that if they do not do that willingly, then the security forces would disarm them and collect what he called their illegal weapons.
Wonder if the Fatah gunnies have mastered the art of the 'crossfire'?
A senior Islamic Jihad leader, Naffez Azzam, responded in Gaza Saturday by calling on Yehya to restudy his attitude and calculations about the weapons and factions of resistance because what is happening ... needs to be carefully understood.
"Or else youse and your boyz are gonna git it!"
He said that 25 Palestinians had been killed in various Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip over the past couples of weeks.
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Sri Lanka's military said on Saturday troops captured rebel positions in the island's northwest killing 20 rebels, while rebels said they had killed 20 soldiers in the latest clashes in the civil war. The rebels said they had injured dozens of others soldiers and three of its fighters were killed, while the military said it has not sustained any fatalities.
The confrontation, in the northwestern district of Mannar, is the latest engagement in intensified fighting between government forces and Tamil Tiger rebel fighters.
"The troops advanced to the terrorist forward defense line in Mannar and captured about a one kilometer stretch, communications confirmed at least 20 terrorists were killed including two leaders," said military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara.
He denied rebel claims and said no soldiers were killed in the fighting.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who are seeking to carve out an independent state in northern and eastern Sri Lanka, said in an emailed statement they had repelled a military attack in Mannar on Saturday.
"The Sri Lankan Armed Forces (SLAF) launched a three pronged offensive to dominate areas administered by the LTTE. The SLAF fighting units are already beaten back in two of the three fronts," said Tamil Tiger rebel military spokesman Rasiah Ilanthiraiyan. "The shelling duel and fire fights still continue in those areas. The SLAF have lost at least 20 soldiers and over forty other SLAF soldiers have sustained injuries so far," Ilanthiraiyan said, adding three rebels were killed in the fighting.
There was no independent confirmation and military analysts say both sides exaggerate enemy losses and play down their own.
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(KUNA) -- Two Lebanese nationals working for a British demining company were seriously wounded on Saturday when an anti-personnel mine, from last year's Israeli war on the country, exploded. A land mine had exploded in the two Lebanese working for the British Bactec company while they were dismantling it causing them serious injuries, A Lebanese security source told KUNA. Following their July-August 2006 aggression on Lebanon, the Israeli troops left hundreds of thousands of cluster bombs and land mines south of the country, many of which went off later wounding hundreds of people.
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Osama bin Laden warned Iraq's Sunni Arabs against fighting al-Qaida and vowed to expand the terror group's holy war to Israel in a new audiotape Saturday, threatening "blood for blood, destruction for destruction."
Most of the 56-minute tape dealt with Iraq, apparently al-Qaida's latest attempt to keep supporters in Iraq unified at a time when the U.S. military claims to have al-Qaida's Iraq branch on the run.
The tape did not mention Pakistan or the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, though Pakistan's government has blamed al-Qaida and the Taliban for her death on Thursday. That suggested the tape was made before the assassination.
Bin Laden's comments offered an unusually direct attack on Israel, stepping up al-Qaida's attempts to use the Israeli-Arab conflict to rally supporters. Israel has warned of growing al-Qaida activity in Palestinian territory, though terror network is not believed to have taken a strong role there so far.
"We intend to liberate Palestine, the whole of Palestine from the (Jordan) river to the sea," he said, threatening "blood for blood, destruction for destruction."
"We will not recognize even one inch for Jews in the land of Palestine as other Muslim leaders have," bin Laden said.
In Iraq, a number of Sunni Arab tribes in western Anbar province have formed a coalition fighting al-Qaida-linked insurgents that U.S. officials credit for deeply reducing violence in the province. The U.S. military has been working to form similar "Awakening Councils" in other areas of Iraq.
Bin Laden said Sunni Arabs who have joined the Awakening Councils "have betrayed the nation and brought disgrace and shame to their people. They will suffer in life and in the afterlife."
White House spokesman Tony Fratto said bin Laden's tape shows that al-Qaida's aim is to block democracy and freedom for all Iraqis.
"It also reminds us that the mission to defeat al-Qaida in Iraq is critically important and must succeed," Fratto said. "The Iraqi people every day, and in increasing numbers are choosing freedom and standing against the murderous, hateful ideology of AQI. And we stand with them."
Several hours before the tape was issued, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, said al-Qaida was becoming increasingly fearful of losing the support of Sunni Arabs and had begun targeting the leaders of the Awakening Councils.
Petraeus said al-Qaida attaches "enormous importance" to "these tribes that have turned against them, and to the general sense that Sunni Arab communities have rejected them more and more around Iraq."
"They are trying to counter this and they have done so by attacking them," which is increasingly turning Sunnis against al-Qaida, he said.
In the audiotape, bin Laden denounced Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha, the former leader of the Anbar Awakening Council, who was killed in a September bombing claimed by al-Qaida.
"The most evil of the traitors are those who trade away their religion for the sake of their mortal life," bin Laden said.
Bin Laden said U.S. and Iraqi officials are seeking to set up a "national unity government" joining the country's Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds.
"Our duty is to foil these dangerous schemes, which try to prevent the establishment of an Islamic state in Iraq, which would be a wall of resistance against American schemes to divide Iraq," he said.
He called on Iraq's Sunni Arabs to rally behind the Islamic State of Iraq, the insurgent umbrella group led by al-Qaida. Besides the Awakening Councils, some Sunni insurgent groups that continue to fight the Americans have rejected the Islamic State.
Bin Laden said Sunnis should pledge their allegiance to Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the little known "emir" or leader of the Islamic State of Iraq. U.S. officials have claimed that al-Baghdadi does not exist, saying al-Qaida created the name to give its coalition the illusion of an Iraqi leadership.
"Failure to give allegiance to the emir after he has been endorsed leads to great evils," bin Laden warned. "Emir Abu Omar would rather have his neck severed than betray the Muslims ... Emir Abu Omar and his brothers are not one of those who accept compromise or meeting the enemy halfway."
The authenticity of the tape could not be independently confirmed. But the voice resembled that of bin Laden. The tape was posted on an Islamic militant Web site where al-Qaida's media arm, Al-Sahab, issues the group's messages.
The tape was the fifth message released by bin Laden this year, a flurry of activity after he went more than a year without issuing any tapes. The messages began with a Sept. 8 video that showed bin Laden for the first time in nearly three years. The other messages this year have been audiotapes.
In an October tape, bin Laden sought to patch up splits between Iraqi insurgent factions, urging them to unite with the Islamic State of Iraq the insurgent coalition led by al-Qaida. He took a conciliatory stance, chiding even al-Qaida's followers for being too "extremist" in their positions toward other insurgents.
Bin Laden's deputy Ayman al-Zawahri took a sharper tone in a Dec. 16 video, branding as "traitors" those who work with the anti-Qaida tribal councils and calling for Sunnis to purge anyone cooperating with the Americans.
Everytime Osama bin Laden talks of crushing the infidel, I cant help but think of Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf pointing vigorously skyward and practically spitting at the reporters: We are crushing the American army as we speak!
Al Qaeda terrorists can continue to murder Iraqis and Americans at the behest of Osama, but their tactics will only backfire. Osama will no more own Iraq than he will own America. His is a lost cause. Not because of decisive military defeats, (although these have helped) but because decent Iraqi people from all quarters, sects and regions of Iraq have had enough of his people cutting off heads of children.
Its understandable that this turn of events might come as news to Osama, because he cannot set foot in Iraq for fear of his life. Osama is welcome to prove this wrong by visiting Basra, Baghdad or Mosul. Iraqis and Americans will welcome Osama in these cities.
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Better keep the message to keeping the American left from fighting. They at least will listen. Especially if you throw in some buzzwords like, healthcare and tax the rich.
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I wonder when some enterprising journalist will question the U.S. intelligence community regarding the number of Osama bin Laden casettes collected over the years. This recent bit sounds suspiciously like the material he reportedly produced in the period August 1990-April 1991. Remember, it is in the best interest of the CIA to keep OBL alive. It is money in the bank, and no questions asked from Congress.
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IRAN-DAILY > SYRIA: NO PEACE WITHOUT LAND, including but not limited to Israel giving up any and all parts of Israeli-controlled/annexed LEBANON?; + OLMERT: NO PEACE - ISRAEL will NOT initiate any peace moves wid PA unless PA cracks down and controls militant groups.
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Taliban leader Mullah Omar has sacked one of his key military commanders, accusing him of not obeying orders, a spokesman said on Saturday. 
Seven Somali civilians were killed on Sunday as fierce fighting erupted between Ethiopian-backed government forces and insurgents in the Somali capital, witnesses said. 
Malian authorities have announced arresting a man suspected of taking part in the assassination of 4 French tourists in Mauritania last week. Media sources in Nouakchott, Mauritania, reported that the defendant has been arrested in the region of Douentza, in the centre of Mali, adding that he was holding an automatic gun and a grenade. In this context, an army officer in Mali said the defendant was holding arms and a satellite mobile and banding his his wounded hand, adding that all this signs are identical to a wanted man.
(KUNA) -- A top insurgent of outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) was killed and another injured in an encounter with the Army in Tinsukia district in Indias Northeastern state of Assam Saturday. The encounter took place at Kulabari, in upper Assam's Tinsukia district this afternoon, news agency Press Trust of India reported. The slain insurgent was identified as 'Corporal' -- Dhaman Chetia and the injured as Amjad Chetia -- both belonging to ULFA's "28 battalion", the news agency said, quoting an official of the Assam police.
(KUNA) -- As many as two insurgents of banned group Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) were killed by security forces in Pulwama district of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir Saturday. The encounter took place in Drubgam village in Pulwama district this evening, a spokesperson of Jammu and Kashmir police told news agency Indo Asian News Service. One of the slain insurgents have been indentified as Abdul Gani Dar alias Jangvi, the spokesperson said. One AK-47 rifle has been recovered from the slain JeM insurgents.
Violence, arson and looting continued on third day in the province of Sindh and five persons were killed and 13 injured in these incidents on Saturday. Army has taken control in the affected areas. Ghaibana namaz-e-janaza was offered invarious small and big sities of Sindh.
(KUNA) -- American troops have killed three members of Al-Qaeda and arrested 34 others in action in central and northern Iraq, the American Army said in a statement released on Saturday. The troops burst into a building north of the city of Tikrit, searching for a leading member of Al-Qaeda. Aircraft attacked the building after gunmen entrenched in it opened fire in the direction of the regulars. The air attack killed three of the insurgents, one wearing a belt laden with explosives. The statement added that 34 members of Al-Qaeda were detained north of Tirkrit, west of the region Al-Tarmiah and in Mosul. In Al-Daghara in southern Baghdad, the troops arrested six militiamen in an identical operation.
ANKARA - A landmine explosion hit a convoy of Turkish trucks in northern Iraq on Saturday, killing one driver and leaving five others injured, Turkeys NTV news channel reported.
Ma'an Israeli forces seized the field commander of the military wing of Fatah, the Al-Aqsa Brigades in the West Bank city of Hebron and four other Al-Aqsa Brigades members on Friday.
RAMALLAH - Palestinian security forces arrested 14 members of Hamas as part of a West Bank crackdown on the Islamic movement, Hamas said Saturday. The detentions took place in Hebron and Nablus, Hamas added in the statement.
Sri Lanka's military said on Saturday troops captured rebel positions in the island's northwest killing 20 rebels, while rebels said they had killed 20 soldiers in the latest clashes in the civil war. The rebels said they had injured dozens of others soldiers and three of its fighters were killed, while the military said it has not sustained any fatalities.
