AN American al-Qaeda militant has urged Islamist militants to welcome President George W. Bush "with bombs" when he visits the Middle East this week, and has torn up his US passport on camera. Welcome him not with flowers and applause but with bombs and traps, Adam Gadahn said in an Arabic aside on a 50-minute video posted on the Internet, which was mostly recorded in English and aimed at the American public.
Oh, him again. Can't we capture him?
Gadahn, also known as Azzam the American, said the jihad against the United States will continue until it releases Muslims from its jails. He complained about the treatment of jailed US Islamist militant John Walker Lindh, and others.
In a theatrical move, he took his US passport from his breast pocket and showed its pages on camera before ripping it up in protest at the treatment of Muslim detainees.
It's not like he was going to use it ...
The jihad against you will remain our duty as long as there remains even one Muslim in American captivity, Gadahn said. That is why it is incumbent upon you (the American people) to take the steps necessary to force the regime in Washington to free each and every one of them, wherever they are and whatever their supposed crime.
Gadahn devoted most of the tape, entitled An Invitation to Reflection and Repentance', to a detailed explanation of the shortcomings of US foreign policy and Western Christian civilisation and their defeat at the hands of Islam and Muslims. The first question Americans might ask is: has America really been defeated? The answer is yes, and on all fronts, said Gadahn, who had a long beard and wore glasses and an Arab-style red and white chequered scarf. American and coalition officials have stated repeatedly that they are unable and unwilling to face the mujahideen in Afghanistan and Iraq militarily but are still trying to win the battle for hearts and minds, which they have also lost in spectacular fashion despite the equally spectacular amounts they have spent in payoffs and propaganda.
Gadahn also listed Pakistan, Chechnya, North Africa and Somalia as areas where the United States is losing its battle against Islamist groups.
The authenticity of the tape could not immediately be verified, but it was posted by As-Sahab, al-Qaeda's media arm, and had been advertised on an Islamist site for days.
Gadahn is a California-born convert to Islam and the first American to be charged with treason since the World War Two era. He is believed to be in Pakistan.
It'll be especially nice to grab him and watch him whine like a Nancy boy in a federal court.
Gadahn has made a number of videotaped messages on behalf of al-Qaeda. In August he warned the United States and its allies of impending attacks on embassies and diplomats in retaliation for US actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. In an earlier tape in May, he warned of attacks worse than the September 11 suicide hijackings against the United States.
The treason charge against Gadahn carries a maximum punishment of death. The FBI has been seeking to question Gadahn since 2004 and the US Government has offered a cash reward of up to $US1 million ($1.14 million) for information leading to his arrest.
Gadahn converted to Islam from a Jewish-Christian family when he was 17 and a few years later moved to Pakistan. He was previously known as Adam Pearlman and grew up on a goat ranch outside Los Angeles.
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So who is that is brave? The men who hide thier faces, and live in caves, or those who show themselves to people, live, and not on safe video's, where you can retape your mistakes, and little danger of harm.
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Is it a requirement for all of these guys to have 'bad teeth'?
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Yes, Richard.
As a Mullah, you should know that.... ;-p
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Thanks for the vote of confidence, Barbara!
Well at least i skimmed enough of my Mosk's funds to get corrective dental work done.
Then i skimmed some more for for my beautiful new toupee.
Then i realized that no one could see it under my dishtowel...
So i got depressed and started wearing a burkha (which hid my new dental work).
In the heat and stinkyness of that thing, I had a revelation!
This religion of peas is pretty stupid!
Hope that explains my current position........
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If I were among the troops that captured him, I'd be sure to make his teeth VERY bad. He'd have an "accident" against the butt of my rifle three or four times, he'd "fall down" every other step, and I'd help him up with my foot. I'd also share him with my fellow troops, who would likewise treat him with "tender loving care", as well.
If there's ONE bomb, the entire Afghan-Pakistani border should be made to glow for 10,000 years.
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The title of the Book he's holding is in English. Why? Propaganda?
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cuz Al-Ameriki doesn't know Arabic totally yet...just like he never did well in English as a goat-herding Joooo in Riverside
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In the heat and stinkyness of that thing, I had a revelation!
You is have a road on the no damask experience?
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Look for sudden increase in work accidents in the territories.
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Again, Dubya has made it clear he will neither accept Radical Iran having nuctech nor be a "lame duck" POTUS - between now and May-June 2008 is held by many as the ideal period for any US-Iran war during Dubya's last year, hence it is also the likely ideal time for Dubya to get hit. OSAMA BIN LADEN'S END-TIMES BELIEF = ISLAMIST APOCALYPSE IS IRAN-CENTRIC/FOCUSED- EVEN A FAILED ATTEMPT TO STRIKE AT DUBYA [Washington DC, etc.?]MAY USHER IN THE US-IRAN CONFLICT OSAMA DESIRES, espec as anti-US US pols are seen as putting their own personal elex pol power ahead of stopping Dubya = US entrenchment in the ME.
Gunmen kidnapped two Libyan diplomats at a market in Somalia's lawless capital on Saturday, but the envoys were later freed, Libyan officials said.
In the first reports from Somalia, a guard at the Libyan Embassy in Mogadishu reported the kidnap. "They were abducted by men with pistols," said the guard, who asked that his name not be used because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
A Libyan Foreign Ministry statement at that time said "the two were attacked and forced to leave their car" while shopping in Bakara Market, south of the city center. It identified the diplomats as Naji Gassouda and Fathi Boudiyah, but did not say what positions they held at the embassy.
In the Libyan capital, Tripoli, the Foreign Ministry official who later announced the diplomats were released said no ransom money was paid, and that the two were freed after unspecified efforts made in the intervening hours.
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A Moroccan court convicted 50 radical Islamists on Friday of plotting bombings and robberies and jailed them for up to 25 years, court officials and lawyers said. They were members of the Ansar el Mehdi "Mehdi Partisans" group, and shortly after they were rounded up in 2006 the authorities seized explosives and laboratory equipment. The government said the group planned to declare 'holy war' in northeast Morocco, had recruited members of the police and the military and planned to rob banks and convoys and use the money to buy more explosives. Their leader, Hassan Khattab, was jailed for 25 years and the 49 others were sentenced to between two and 20 years in prison, including four women who got five-year jail terms.
All the defendants pleaded not guilty. One man who stood trial with the others was acquitted. Khattab smiled to display his indifference as the judge read out the sentences. "We did nothing to get such sentences. We left our children alone and hungry," said Abdesalam Debibeh, who was sentenced to eight years in prison.
The court found the defendants guilty of plotting to bomb government buildings and tourism landmarks in Casablanca and other cities and belonging to an illegal group, collecting money to fund terrorism and undermining state security and public order. During the trial Khattab broke his silence only to deny the charges against him, attack the Moroccan government as an "apostate dictatorship" and assail its ally, the United States. "I say to (U.S. President) Bush 'we are coming to attack you,'" he said. "One day we will manage to wipe you out."
One day the world will take you at your word. Then we'll wipe you out.
Moroccan police have broken up more than 50 cells and arrested some 3,000 people since 2003, when suicide bombings killed 45 people in Casablanca.
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ABDESALAM DEBIBEH,
Ansar el Mehdi
HASAN KHATTAB
Ansar el Mehdi
Ansar el Mehdi
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A court hearing the Musharraf assassination attempt case was forced to adjourn as the leading defense lawyer pled he had lost his case files when the dog ate them his flat was burnt in the riots following Benazirs killing.
"Dat's right, yer honor! They burnt me house down!"
Leading defence counsel Advocate Abdul Waheed Katpar approached the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC-I) for Karachi division that adjourned the hearing till January 8 (Tuesday).
Katpar was supposed to make final arguments before the court on Saturday after which a final judgment was likely to be issued. But when the proceedings began, he sought an adjournment on the grounds that on December 27 some people torched a bank in main Clifton, affecting his apartment, located on the same buildings first floor. He said that the building had to be evacuated and he lost his file and case notes in the process. Special Public Prosecutor Niamat Ali Randhawa offered his file to Katpar and the court also offered the entire proceedings and a file to help him but, on his request, the proceedings were adjourned till Tuesday.
Security forces on Saturday arrested Maulana Abdur Rehman, a lover close aide of Maulana Fazlullah from Bahrain, Swat. According to reports, the arrest was made by the security forces in a late night operation against the militants in Bahrain area. Maulana Abdur Rehman is said to be an Afghan national. The security forces have also seized a large quantity of weapons from his possession, and shifted him to an undisclosed location for interrogation.
I've come to the conclusion that every third person in Pakistain is named Abdur Rehman, and every third Abdur Rehman is a maulana. I have no idea where they get them all.
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MAULANA ABDUR REHMAN
TNSM
MAULANA FAZLULLAH
TNSM
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One word - inbreeding...
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Many areas of the restive Kurram Agency remained calm following successful efforts by s local jirga in arranging a ceasefire between rival Sunni and Shia groups on Saturday. The Hangu Aman Jirga, comprising elders from two sects, arranged a ceasefire after successful negotiations with representatives of the rival groups over the previous few days. The jirga met in the Baleshkhel area of Lower Kurram on Saturday and held more negotiations to bring permanent peace to the troubled area that borders Afghanistan.
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GUWAHATI: Curfew at Lakhipur in Assam's Goalpara district was relaxed for two hours on Friday, even as one injured person in the Wednesday's violence died on Friday taking the toll to eight.
The curfew, clamped after the violence on Wednesday, was relaxed in the area since 1.30 PM, where an uneasy calm prevailed as the last rites of those killed were performed, official sources said.
The sources said one of the injured, identified as Sahidul Islam, succumbed to his wounds at the Gauhati Medical College Hospital this morning.
Goalpara Superintendent of Police Abhijit Bora said that the situation was under control and no fresh incident was reported so far.
The army had been staging flag marches to maintain peace in the Lakhi Bazar area with a heavy presence of police and CRPF to prevent eruption of further violence.
Emphasis was also put on restoring peace by holding meetings at various places, the sources said.
People were seen flocking to the shops to buy provisions and medicines as the markets opened for the brief curfew relaxation hours.
On Wednesday Bangladeshi immigrant Muslims under the banner of a non-Rabha (local ethnic community) organisation attacked the police with sharp weapons to enforce a bandh and road-blockade in Goalpara and south Kamrup districts demanding that the government reverse its decision not to hold the ongoing panchayat polls in the Rabha-Hasong Autonomous Council administered areas in Goalpara.
The police lathi-charged, blank-fired and then fired to control them killing five on the spot, while three others died in hospital.
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A SUICIDE bomber targeting a gathering of Iraqi soldiers and civilians commemorating Army Day killed at least eight people in central Baghdad, police said. Army Day - an official holiday - this year marks the 87th anniversary of the establishment of Iraq's army with military parades and other ceremonies.
Among the dead were four police officers, three Iraqi soldiers and one civilian, a police officer said on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to speak to the media. At least 12 other people were injured in the attack, which took place around 12:30pm local time.
Earlier in Baghdad, a Shiite tribal sheik who was part of an effort to form an armed group to combat militias in his Baghdad neighbourhood was shot and killed, police said.
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US military spokesman Lieutenant Steven Stover said that, according to witnesses, two Iraqi soldiers were killed when they flung themselves onto the attacker as he detonated his explosives.
"They absorbed some of the blast. They saved a lot of lives," Lieut Stover said.
"The selfless sacrifice of the two Iraqi (soldiers) should not be forgotten," he said in a later statement. "These two Iraqi martyrs gave their lives so that others might live."
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The Iraqis may not have found their George Washington. but it is men and women like these, those whose actions embody the words, "Here I stand. I can do no other," who are the founders of a true nation.
Iraqi Security Forces, advised by U.S. Special Forces, detained a suspected al-Qaeda in Iraq terror cell leader, a suspected criminal weapons supplier and two suspected terrorists in separate operations Jan. 4 and 5.
Iraqi Special Operations Forces detained a suspected al-Qaeda in Iraq cell leader near the city of Balad Jan 5. The suspect is believed to lead a cell that is responsible for numerous mortar and improvised explosive device attacks against Iraqi and Coalition Forces stationed at Logistical Support Area Anaconda.
The operation was the latest in a series of operations over the last 40 days, targeting extremists and extremist cells that are responsible for indirect fire and improvised explosive device attacks against LSA Anaconda. In all, 17 extremists have been detained and two have been killed during the operations, resulting in a decrease of indirect fire attacks against LSA Anaconda.
In Diwaniyah, Iraqi Forces detained a suspect believed to have been transporting weapons and providing financing to extremists operating in the region.
In Keshkul Kabir, near As Sa Diyah, Iraqi Forces detained two suspected extremists and six other persons of interest. The operation targeted an extremist network involved in kidnapping and improvised explosive device attacks against Iraqi civilians in the Keshkul Kabir area.
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Iraqi Security Forces, advised by U.S. Special Forces, detained two suspected extremists and two extremist cell leaders in separate raids Jan. 4.
In Mahmudiyah, south of Baghdad, Iraqi Special Operations Forces detained two suspected extremists who are believed to be responsible for the kidnapping and murder of Iraqi citizens, weapons trafficking as well as attacks on Iraqi and Coalition Forces. During the course of the operation, the assault force received small arms fire from an individual near the target objective. Iraqi and U.S. Forces engaged the individual, killing him.
In a separate operation, an Iraqi Special Weapons and Tactics Team from Ninewah detained two extremist cell leaders in western Mosul. The two suspects are believed to be responsible for financing and planning attacks against Iraqi and Coalition Forces along with smuggling weapons for extremists in the region.
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Arrests and captures of that kind could not be done without local informants. The terrorists have lost the people.
Iraqi Security Forces, advised by U.S. Special Forces, detained four known extremists Jan. 3 in an operation in Barrah. The extremists are said to be part of a counterfeiting and smuggling cell in and around villages near Barrah. They are reported to be involved in the smuggling and distribution of counterfeit U.S. and Iraqi currency, weapons and explosives, as well as reporting Iraqi Army and Coalition Forces movements to foreign fighters. One other suspect is being held for further questioning.
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Coalition forces captured a suspected Special Groups leader and detained eight other suspects early Thursday during operations to disrupt criminal element networks in the Huwaysh area, north of Baghdad.
The targeted individual reportedly aided in attacks on Coalition forces throughout the Diyala Province as an intelligence source and financial facilitator. The wanted individual was also reported to be an associate of several other senior-level criminal element leaders involved in attacks on Coalition forces.
Intelligence led ground forces to the target area where they captured the wanted individual and detained eight other suspected criminals without incident. During the operation, Coalition forces also discovered body armor, two assault rifles, five pistols and five shotguns. While violence has decreased, a tough fight remains ahead, said Maj. Bradford Leighton, MNF-I spokesperson. We will continue to pursue those who dishonor al Sayyed Muqtada al Sadrs cease fire pledge by committing criminal acts against the Iraqi people.
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Any idea how many Special Groups leaders there are? Seems like several per week have been getting captured.
Coalition forces detained 18 suspects today during operations targeting al-Qaeda networks in central Iraq.
North of Samarra Coalition forces captured a wanted individual believed to be an associate of the terrorist network in the region. The suspect is allegedly involved in weapons facilitation and media and propaganda operations in the Tigris River Valley. Reports also indicate the wanted individual is associated with a suspect detained during an operation Nov. 15 for his ties to al Qaeda in Iraq senior leadership. The individual identified himself to the ground force and was subsequently detained along with three other suspects.
Ten suspects were detained north of Habbaniyah during another operation targeting associates of al Qaeda in Iraq media and propaganda operations. As the ground force cleared the target area, they discovered ID making materials, several machine guns, rifles and ammunition.
During an operation in Sadiyah, Coalition forces captured another wanted individual believed to be involved in the facilitation of weapons for terrorist activities in the region. Reports indicate the wanted individual is associated with numerous al-Qaeda members operating in the Diyala River Valley network who have recently been involved in engagements with Coalition forces. In addition to the wanted individual, the ground force detained three suspects on site, and safely destroyed one vehicle assessed to be used for terrorist activities. This continues to be a tough fight that will test the courage and strength of the Iraqi people, the Iraqi Security forces and Coalition forces, said Navy Capt. Vic Beck, MNF-I spokesman. Together, we will continue to disrupt al Qaedas operations and degrade their ability to attack innocent Iraqis.
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How many of these guys were part of the thousands of criminals Saddam released at the start of OIF? Are they really AQ or just opportunistic common criminals being recaptured? Maybe a few are 'real' jihadis, but a lot are just thugs working for their dinars.
Coalition forces captured a suspected Special Groups facilitator early Saturday during operations to disrupt criminal element networks in the Qasarin area, north of Baghdad.
The targeted individual was reportedly a financial facilitator in the Qasarin area and aided in the planning of attacks on Coalition forces throughout the Diyala Province. The wanted individual was also reported to be an associate of other senior-level criminal element leaders involved in financial facilitation and attacks on Coalition forces. Intelligence led ground forces to the target area where they captured the wanted individual without incident.
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Coalition Forces and Iraqi Army Soldiers detained nine individuals and killed one enemy combatant during a joint operation in Abu Tamur Jan. 3. One of the detainees is a known al-Qaeda in Iraq operative wanted by the Iraqi Army for stealing weapons.
Soldiers of Company B and Company C, 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division from Fort Lewis, Wash., were clearing the village when they were engaged with small arms fire by enemy forces. One U.S. Soldier was wounded. The troops returned fire, killing one enemy combatant. The wounded Soldier was air-evacuated to Balad for medical treatment.
Five Iraqi Army Soldiers were killed and two wounded when a house-born improvised explosive device exploded in the house they were clearing. The wounded Iraqi Soldiers were taken to Forward Operating Base Warhorse.
A cache was found in the area containing four AK-47s, six AK-47 magazines, a PKC, PKC drum and PKC ammo belt. AQI presence (in) this area was confirmed, and I believe it validates our assessment that (the village) was an AQI safe haven from which they planned attacks, said Lt. Col. Ricardo Love, 1-38th commander. I believe this operation will positively impact peace and security in the area.
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A Palestinian gunman was killed and four were wounded on Saturday night when they were shot by IDF troops in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinians reported. The army said that soldiers shot two armed Palestinians who had approached the security fence.
Earlier Saturday, several people were suffering from shock after Palestinian terrorists in northern Gaza fired eight Kassam rockets toward Sderot. Two of the rockets landed inside the western Negev town, one landing in street and severely damaging a car. The other rockets landed outside the town.
On Friday, a 17-year-old boy was lightly wounded when one of six rockets fired into Israel from Gaza hit a Sderot home. Several others were treated for shock and the boy was evacuated to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon. Magen David Adom medics treated the other victims at the scene. The house sustained heavy damage in a barrage during which three other rockets landed in open areas in the western Negev town. Earlier Friday, two rockets were fired into the town causing no casualties or damage.
In addition, Palestinians fired eight mortar shells into the Gaza periphery town of Netiv Hashayara on Friday afternoon. Most of the shells landed in open areas. No casualties or damage were reported.
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The IDF wrapped up a four-day operation in Nablus on Saturday during which troops uncovered a Kassam manufacturing lab, several weapons caches and an underground tunnel system used by terrorists to hide and plan attacks against Israel.
More than terror suspects were arrested during the Nablus operation (19 belonged to Fatah's Aksa Martyrs Brigades), including 10 whom IDF sources said were involved in shooting attacks and placing bombs along roads in the area. A ready-for-use suicide explosive belt was also discovered. The army also arrested two officers of the Palestinian Authority's Military Intelligence Force for allegedly helping the Aksa Martyrs Brigades in Nablus, according to Palestinian sources.
Hundreds of soldiers from the Paratroopers Brigade's Reconnaissance Unit, as well as the Haruv Battalion and elite Engineering Corps units participated in the operation, during which the military imposed a curfew on the city's casba, or marketplace, confining some 30,000 people to their homes.
Despite being one of the IDF's largest operations in the West Bank in recent months, no one was killed during the clashes that erupted between soldiers and demonstrating Palestinian civilians. Palestinian medical officials said more than 40 residents were treated in local hospitals.
On Thursday night, troops discovered a rocket-manufacturing lab inside a room beneath a building in the casba. Soldiers also found rails that were intended to be used as the rockets' launchers.
Sources in the Central Command said the so-called rockets were not yet operational but underlined the necessity for continuous operations deep inside West Bank towns. The sources said the IDF worked closely with the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) throughout the operation.
On Friday, PA Prime Minister Salaam Fayad accused Israel of compromising nascent Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking with the Nablus raid. In a radio interview Saturday, Fayad said he had called off a trip to Egypt to meet with Arab foreign ministers to attend to the developing situation in Nablus. "The current Israeli operation aims to heat up the atmosphere before [US President George W.] Bush's visit," he told an-Najah Radio. "They are trying to sabotage the Palestinian Authority's successes in the city."
An official in Jerusalem rejected Fayad's criticism, saying that Israel was acting in the West Bank because the PA was not up to the challenge. "In the absence of effective action by the PA security forces, a vacuum will be created - a vacuum that will be exploited by the extremists. When the Palestinian security services are ready and capable of taking action, Israel will be ready to stand down," the official said.
Before troops pulled out, Massoud Kalboneh, a 35-year-old construction worker, accused soldiers of roughing up his five-year-old nephew after he dived under a bed, unaware that he was a child and thinking he was trying to escape them. Because food wasn't able to get in, Kalboneh said he and his family had lived off stored cheese and olives, and baked their own bread. "This was one of the most aggressive raids" Nablus has known, he said.
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ready-for-use suicide explosive belt
You know they used that EID gift card from you know where.
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This was one of the most aggressive raids" Nablus has known, he said
Egypt discovered five weapons-smuggling tunnels next to the Rafah border crossing into the Gaza Strip, Egyptian authorities announced Saturday night. The tunnels were exposed by heavy rain that fell during the day and Egyptian security forces were working to destroy them.
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1. Add up all the enemies sworn to destroy the USA,
2. Divide the number by the total US Treasury.
3. Complain bitterly"There's not enough Funds",
4. Raise taxes.(The whole idea anyway)
5. Proudly proclaim "I"M a Democrat, the system works."
6. Repeat.
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Forgot #7, "Steal enough to live very well but disguise it as "Pork for your district".
8. Don't get caught, if you do be sure you've "Bought" enough Judges for rapid aquittal.
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ONE of the Bali bombers has written from his Indonesian jail that he feels so pretty "beautiful" on the eve of his execution that "no words can describe how good the feeling is". Mukhlas, the elder brother of the so-called smiling assassin Amrozi, posted a 10-page statement on the internet exhorting Muslims to show their support for him by turning out in mass numbers for his burial.
An Islamic militant's website is carrying the statement, fuelling fears the execution of the three bombers could ignite violence and arouse public sympathy for their cause in the world's biggest Muslim nation.
The controversial Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir warned last month of a "big disaster" in Indonesia if the executions were carried out. He made the comments after visiting the bombers in jail. But the Jakarta security expert Sidney Jones says that while the executions are likely to generate anger and retaliation against Indonesian government installations or personnel, "careful security arrangements should be able to prevent any incident".
Mukhlas, a father of six who is also known as Ali Gufron, titled his jail writings The Right And Good Dreams. "Please read my writing," he urged Muslims in the internet statement, which he called his "last will and testament". "I would not trade how I am feeling now with anything else in the world," he said.
Mukhlas claimed that Amrozi and the third bomber, Imam Samudra, are also writing books in their cells in a high-security jail on Nusakambangan Island, off Central Java.
A former Islamic preacher in his late 40s, Mukhlas has showed no remorse for helping to organise the 2002 bombings in Bali's Kuta tourist district, which killed 202 people, including 88 Australians. Many of the victims were Muslims. He claimed on the internet he has sympathy "from all Muslims in the world" for what he did as well as the "blessings of God". Earlier, the three bombers said in a signed statement smuggled from jail that their deaths would make them heroes to God and that being "thrown out of the country" would be "an adventure" and "a sightseeing trip".
"If we are executed, then our drops of blood that flow - with God's permission - will become light for those good Muslims and will become hell burning fire for those who are not Muslims and the hypocrites," they wrote.
A countdown for the bombers to face a firing squad has begun after prosecutors visited the bombers on Wednesday and told them they had 30 days to lodge an application for clemency or the executions would be carried out. Lawyers for the men will seek final instructions when they go to the jail, expected within days. But the bombers have said repeatedly they will not seek clemency from the President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who would be highly unlikely to grant it for extremists who carried out the deadliest terrorist attack in Indonesia's history.
Ms Jones, of the International Crisis Group, said fears of more terrorist attacks in Indonesia had fallen and the risk of more Bali-style bombings was low. "Most extremist groups here have concluded that indiscriminate attacks on civilians are counterproductive but they have not given up on local targets, even if their capacity to go after them is weak," she wrote in The Jakarta Post.
The militant group Jemaah Islamiah "is trying to sterilise and consolidate its ranks" after the arrest of a number of its leaders this year, Ms Jones said. Other militant groups were "reaching out to disgruntled members of other organisations and new groups are emerging and recruiting members, particularly in Java". Ms Jones said the biggest danger to Indonesia "lies not in terrorism, separatism, election disputes or any external threat but in poorly managed communal tensions that have the potential to fray this country's social fabric".
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"If we are executed, then our drops of blood that flow - with God's permission - will become light for those good Muslims and will become hell burning fire for those who are not Muslims and the hypocrites,"
I'd bet that the permision won't be given. By God, that is, not by Allan.
he feels so "beautiful" on the eve of his execution that "no words can describe how good the feeling is"
Enjoy, won't last.
People don't understand what Hell is. It is not a place of consuming fire and of demons shredding your internal organs. You may think you have a body, but you don't. There are no internals, nor limbs.
It's a junction outside space and time where your actions and intents would be replayed, with all the pain that your victims felt, unadulterated, raw, in full force. Outside time, it would feel like eternity.
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There is an upside, and a downside, in twobyfour's hell (which he happened not to mention).
The upside first: you will be periodically given the opportunity to tear into the guts of those who deceived you, starting with Mohammed, causing them great pain as you screech at them for misleading you.
Please take a number.
Now the downside. The people you deceived with be periodically given the opportunity to tear into your guts, causing you great pain as they screech at you for misleading them.
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Ptah, you are making this up. No.
No guts. Granted, some souls do tend to get stuck in the transposition of their baggage into the next world. But that is their construct, a facade that for some reason they are unable to let go of. They would be creating their own torment. It would have nothing to do with anyone else.
You stand confronted with your maker, it's between you and your maker alone. You are your own judge--you are given means to do the job--a mirror that reflects your life, but with a superb clarity and with causal connections totally un-obscured. Many orders of magnitude real than your lifetime experiences.
Once again, this is outside of time. If your actions have causal consequences beyond your lifetime, you'll get them too, served on a plater.
Bad and good.
I am sorry I can't present something more than a terribly reduced glimpse. But if you had some experience that allowed a peek into workings of this mechanism, you'd know that there is no room for vengeance, for that you would turn against yourself.
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Two by four, your description of hell has to be one of the best I've read in many years. An honest question, is this treatise yours, or is it something you read or got from someone else. The reason for the question is I would like to use it in my 6th, 7th and 8th grade religion classes, and I want to be able to give credit where credit is due. Lemme' know wassup' iffen' you can. Pardon the slip into street dialect; sometimes my inner city student's speech and writing rubs off on me.
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If you tell yourself something over & over & over & over & over again, pretty soon your going to start believing it. This guy is dilusional, just like the rest of em'.
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WolfDog, the desciption is mine, if I can claim the ownership... because it was not me who set that up.
There is a whole body of literature that somewhat corroborates the concepts I described, albeit due to difficulties of human language, it is always rather fuzzy and for he most part fragmented and colored by a framework of concepts of the individual's philosophy.
I had an acident as a child, at the age of 9. The release mechanism was triggered, although I were not nearly as dead. You may say I were given a tour. It was, thankfully, free of religious overlays. Maybe because I grew up in atheist environment, I did not have any firm beliefs formed, yet. Raw deal.
There is much more, in what transpires before and after the final judgement--in a causal, not in time flow sense, but thigs are really hard to translate from concepts that are rather alien to our way of sorting out the reality.
The term final judgement used above is not a mis-label. One again, I am talking a causal relationship, not a timeline relationship. In that timeless domain, the concept of time is a mere direction of a thought.
By all means, use the description as you see fit. After all, I was just an accidental observer, and despite that the experience was personal, its essence does not have an ownership.
Sri Lankan soldiers shot dead the head of military intelligence for the Tamil rebels in an ambush in the country's northern province, a Defense Ministry spokesman said.
Shanmuganathan Ravishankar was killed, along with 20 other members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, when the soldiers ambushed a van in which he was traveling in the Adampan area of Mannar, spokesman Udaya Nanayakkara said today in a telephone interview from the capital Colombo. ``There was a heavy exchange of artillery and mortar fire. He was shot dead by the soldiers.''
Ravishankar was in charge of ``internal intelligence'' of Tamil ground forces and led a regular combat force that has been deployed in the Mannar region, pro-rebel TamilNet reported on its Web site. Three of his lieutenants were also killed in the ``claymore mine ambush,'' it said. The LTTE spokesman, Rasiah Ilanthrirayan, was not immediately available for comment.
Sri Lanka on Jan. 2 announced its plan to formally withdraw from a 2002 cease-fire accord, saying the Tamil rebels had used the cease-fire to rearm, recruit and prepare further attacks on the South Asian island. Norway, which brokered the agreement, said it may have to withdraw international cease-fire monitors, weakening efforts to protect the civilian population.
The Tamil Tigers, designated a terrorist group by the U.S., the European Union and India, have been fighting for 24 years in a conflict that has killed more than 70,000 people. The group hasn't commented on the government's decision to end the truce.
Fighting intensified in late 2006 in the country's north and east after two rounds of peace talks failed.
The military captured the eastern region in July last year and then stepped up operations against rebel bases in the north.
The offensive aims to force the Tamils to abandon armed struggle and seek a political solution to the issue of Tamil separatism, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said last week.
Sri Lankan soldiers know the movements of Tamil rebels, Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa said, according to the transcript of an interview posted on the Defense Ministry Web site. ``We are after Prabhakaran. We are specifically targeting their leadership,'' he said, adding that the Tamil Tigers must renounce violence.
The government said in December it has information that rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran was wounded in an air raid on the group's headquarters at Kilinochchi, in the north, on Nov. 26.
S.P. Thamilchelvan, the head of LTTE's political wing, was killed in a Nov. 2 air raid near Kilinochchi as the military increased its operations against the Tamil Tiger bases.
Thirteen civilians, including seven children who were playing in a school, were injured in air raids by the Sri Lankan air force in northern Mullaithivu yesterday, the LTTE said in an e-mailed statement today. During the last year 659 Tamil civilians have died in the conflict, it said.
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Excellent. Hope they can get Prabhakaran as well.
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The Sri Lankans love those claymores. They can't get enough of them.
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Sri Lankan soldiers shot dead the head of military intelligence for the Tamil rebels in an ambush in the country's northern province, a Defense Ministry spokesman said.
Sri Lankan troops killed 34 Tamil Tiger rebels in northern Sri Lanka, the military said on Saturday, following the governments formal scrapping of an already tattered truce in the two-decade civil war.
One soldier was killed and 11 wounded in fighting in the northern Jaffna peninsula, the northern district of Vavuniya and northwestern district of Mannar.
Fighting on Saturday in Jaffna, Vavuniya and Mannar killed 26 LTTE terrorists. Eight soldiers were also wounded from the fighting, said a spokesman at the Media Centre for National Security,who asked not to be named in line with the policy.
The military also said fighting on Friday killed eight Tamil Tiger rebels in Jaffna and Mannar, while one soldier was killed and three wounded in three different mine blasts in Vavuniya. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who are seeking to carve out an independent state in north and east Sri Lanka, were not immediately available for comment on the fighting.
There were no independent accounts of how many people were killed or what had happened. Analysts say both sides tend to overstate enemy losses and play down their own. President Mahinda Rajapaksas administration formally notified mediator Norway late on Thursday it was giving a stipulated 14-day notice period to end the truce.
The Nordic Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, which kept a tally of violations of the truce agreement, was initially seen as a deterrent to human rights abuses by both sides, but became increasingly ineffective as its access in conflict areas was hampered. Its role ends with the ceasefire. The end of the truce dashes hopes of resurrecting collapsed peace talks any time soon. Analysts expect the 70,000 death toll from the 25-year-long civil war to continue its inexorable rise.
Monitoring mission: Sri Lanka urgently needs an international rights monitoring mission following Colombos decision to pull out of a ceasefire pact with Tamil rebels, a London-based rights group said Saturday.
The Minority Rights Group International said Colombos decision to formally withdraw from the ceasefire deal with the rebels would result in escalating violence and lead to more rights abuses against minority Tamils and Muslims. The Scandinavian monitoring mission appointed to oversee the ceasefire will cease operations January 16 following the governments decision announced earlier this week.
There is now going to be a greater void in the monitoring and reporting of human rights abuses in the conflict zone, Minority Rights Groups director Mark Lattimer said in a statement received here. The need for international human rights monitors is now ever more crucial, Lattimer said. Sri Lanka has rejected previous calls for a UN rights mission here.
The rights group accused the Sri Lankan government of reducing security of key minority politicians and called on Colombo to ensure proper protection for minority political leaders. The statement came after opposition Tamil lawmaker T. Maheswaran was gunned down earlier this week in Colombo as he prayed at a Hindu Temple.
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result in escalating violence and lead to more rights abuses against minority Tamils and Muslims.
Gosh, the fact that the minority Tamils caused the cease-fire to end themselves totally escapes them, eh? This disconnect between cause and effect totally escapes me.
Iran has expelled a German diplomat, apparently in response to the expulsion by Germany of an Iranian diplomat last summer, Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported on Saturday.
The German Foreign Ministry refused to disclose details on the German diplomat's departure.
The German magazine Der Spiegel reported in December that Berlin had expelled an Iranian diplomat who allegedly sought to buy equipment for Iran's nuclear program.
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With a face like that, she could have been in movies or something.
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With a face like that, she could have been in movies or something.
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I've met her. Seriously she, Mr. McArthur and Danno did serious fund raising and name-lending to the FSU School of Theatre. Course she was about 80 at the time...
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Helen Hayes is one of those women that aged well, and was still attractive in her 80's. She was a tremendous actress and a genuine good person - something rare in today's queue of "talent".
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I don't think I've ever seen any pics of her prior to dotage - she was a knockout! Yow!
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I agree with Frank G. The eyes. The lips. Hell, the nose. And all natural...no fix-ups, no silicon. Wow.
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AN American al-Qaeda militant has urged Islamist militants to welcome President George W. Bush "with bombs" when he visits the Middle East this week, and has torn up his US passport on camera. Welcome him not with flowers and applause but with bombs and traps, 
Gunmen kidnapped two Libyan diplomats at a market in Somalia's lawless capital on Saturday, but the envoys were later freed, Libyan officials said. 
A Moroccan court convicted 50 radical Islamists on Friday of plotting bombings and robberies and jailed them for up to 25 years, court officials and lawyers said. They were members of the 
Iraqi Security Forces, advised by U.S. Special Forces, detained a suspected al-Qaeda in Iraq terror cell leader, a suspected criminal weapons supplier and two suspected terrorists in separate operations Jan. 4 and 5.
In Mahmudiyah, south of Baghdad, Iraqi Special Operations Forces detained two suspected extremists who are believed to be responsible for the kidnapping and murder of Iraqi citizens, weapons trafficking as well as attacks on Iraqi and Coalition Forces. During the course of the operation, the assault force received small arms fire from an individual near the target objective. Iraqi and U.S. Forces engaged the individual, killing him.
Iraqi Security Forces, advised by U.S. Special Forces, detained four known extremists Jan. 3 in an operation in Barrah. The extremists are said to be part of a counterfeiting and smuggling cell in and around villages near Barrah. They are reported to be involved in the smuggling and distribution of counterfeit U.S. and Iraqi currency, weapons and explosives, as well as reporting Iraqi Army and Coalition Forces movements to foreign fighters. One other suspect is being held for further questioning.
Coalition forces captured a suspected Special Groups leader and detained eight other suspects early Thursday during operations to disrupt criminal element networks in the Huwaysh area, north of Baghdad.
Coalition forces detained 18 suspects today during operations targeting al-Qaeda networks in central Iraq.
Coalition forces captured a suspected Special Groups facilitator early Saturday during operations to disrupt criminal element networks in the Qasarin area, north of Baghdad.
Coalition Forces and Iraqi Army Soldiers detained nine individuals and killed one enemy combatant during a joint operation in Abu Tamur Jan. 3. One of the detainees is a known al-Qaeda in Iraq operative wanted by the Iraqi Army for stealing weapons. 
A Palestinian gunman was killed and four were wounded on Saturday night when they were shot by IDF troops in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinians reported. The army said that soldiers shot two armed Palestinians who had approached the security fence. 
The IDF wrapped up a four-day operation in Nablus on Saturday during which troops uncovered a Kassam manufacturing lab, several weapons caches and an underground tunnel system used by terrorists to hide and plan attacks against Israel. 
Sri Lankan soldiers shot dead the head of military intelligence for the Tamil rebels in an ambush in the country's northern province, a Defense Ministry spokesman said.
Iran has expelled a German diplomat, apparently in response to the expulsion by Germany of an Iranian diplomat last summer, Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported on Saturday. 
