KABUL (Rooters) - An explosion killed a soldier from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in southern Afghanistan and wounded five others, the force said on Monday.
More than 760 foreign soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since U.S.-led and Afghan forces toppled the Taliban in 2001. Last year was the most violent yet as the conservative Islamist movement's insurgency became more widespread. "Quagmire!"
ISAF does not disclose the nationality of casualties until the country's defence ministry makes an announcement, but most of its soldiers in the south of Afghanistan are from Britain, the United States, Canada and the Netherlands.
Taliban rebels are active throughout the rural areas of southern Afghanistan while ISAF and Afghan troops hold the cities and towns.
The United States is sending 3,200 Marines to southern Afghanistan after commanders complained they often do not have the manpower to hold ground taken from the insurgents and Afghan security forces are not yet strong enough to do so for them.
A Taliban roadside bomb killed five Afghan civilians and wounded two others in the south of Afghanistan, a provincial official said on Sunday. The bomb hit a van in the Panjwai district, west of the main southern city of Kandahar, on Saturday. "The bomb was planted by the Taliban to attack foreign or Afghan forces' convoys in the Panjwai district but it killed poor civilians," said a district police official, Ghulam Mohammad.
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(KUNA) -- The US-led coalition and Afghan forces claimed detaining four Taliban militants and an insurgent leader during an operation in southern Afghanistan.
A statement from US' Bagram base here on Saturday said that operation was conducted in Qalat, capital of the country's Zabul province on Friday. Without revealing his name, the military statement said one of the detainees has been identified as commander of the militants in Zabul province.
Separately, the Taliban militants claimed they had downed a coalition forces drone in central Afghanistan, however, the troops did not comment. The pilotless aircrafts having a length of some one and a half metre are used for spying missions. Earlier, a similar plane had come down in the southeastern province of Khost. Taliban had claimed responsibility for its shooting down but the foreign troops had said it had dropped due to technical reasons. Both Taliban militants and the Afghan government usually made tall claims of casualties and losses against their opponents while hide their own.
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Gunmen fired mortars at the Somali president's house on Sunday, hours after the country's new prime minister arrived in Mogadishu for the first time since he was sworn in last November, a presidential aide said. "At least five mortar rounds have been fired at the president's house, where the prime minister is now staying, but they missed," the aide told Reuters on condition of anonymity. He did not know of any casualties.
The attack also coincided with the arrival of 440 soldiers from Burundi, only the second nation after Uganda to contribute to an African Union peacekeeping force trying to bring order to the chaotic Horn of Africa nation.
Somalia's parliament picked Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein in November to replace his unpopular predecessor Ali Mohamed Gedi, who quit last year over a feud with President Abdullahi Yusuf. "We will be engaged in reconciliation ... We will adopt a national system and try to secure Mogadishu by talking to the rebels," Hussein told journalists at the airport.
Seen as a neutral figure in an often fractious political scene, Hussein's challenge is to help bring unity to a country in which fighting has displaced a million people. Last week, at least 13 people were killed and 75 wounded in heavy fighting in the Somali capital. The final contingent of Burundian peacekeepers, which an AU military source said numbered 440 soldiers, boosts an existing 1,800-strong African Union force.
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A twenty one tube salute, minus about sixteen. Formalities must be observed.
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The 1998 Kenyan embassy bombings by AQ, the church burnings, the armed dreadlocked ethnic gangs spreading throughout Africa and the Caribbean, and Osama's son surfacing with dreadlocks have never seemed coincidental to me. What's surprising is the 'planned killings' report on CNN and the BBC.
Yemen detained dozens of suspected al Qaeda supporters on Sunday, following the killing of two Belgian tourists and their Yemeni drivers in the east of the impoverished country, an official said.
Friday's attack came less than a week after al Qaeda's wing in Yemen vowed to carry out unspecified operations to win the release of jailed Islamic militants. Yemeni officials have not ruled out al Qaeda involvement in the shooting and are searching for the attackers though no one has claimed responsibility for the shooting near Shibam, famous for its old towers, in the Hadramout region. The arrests were made in Hadramout and the nearby Maarib and Shebwa areas.
The bodies of the two Belgian women were sent home late on Saturday for burial, the official said.
In July, a suicide bombing killed seven Spanish tourists and wounded six at the Queen of Sheba Temple.
Yemen, which joined the U.S.-led war on terrorism after al Qaeda's September 11, 2001 attacks on U.S. cities, has often been the site of militant attacks and kidnappings by disgruntled tribesmen. The ancestral home of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, Yemen is viewed in the West as a haven for Islamic militants. In an Internet posting last week, al Qaeda's wing in Yemen vowed to free its prisoners from the country's jails and retaliate for the killings of militants by the government. Officials said last year that July's attack had been preceded by an al Qaeda demand for the release of jailed comrades.
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An Iranian MP says the Netherlands will face widespread protests firebombings, riots, maybe even a homicide or two!
Silly dhimmi, now, back to your cowering.....
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I don't think that we need any more proof that provoked muslims will detroy property and kill people.
I don't know why the Hague should be able to censor expression. I don't have a problem with local elected government preventing the screening of the film based on the capabilities of their fire departments.
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I hope that right wing organization has the chutzpah to follow up their little PR stunt, after the riots, with a big recruitment campaign. Blanketing the country with leaflets to "join us, and we'll kick the buggers out", would probably go very well after lots of scenes of rioting and threats.
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well seems Iran and the rest of the muslim world think they can censor everyone else in the world. When are all the christian countries gonna finally band together and kick the shit out of these assholes? Hell Israel kicked the crap out of what 6 diff muslim countries by themselves in 67 didn't they. May Irael should accidentally set ALL their nukes off on them already
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For better or worse, I am convinced that we are in a death struggle of biblical proportions. We are in a full blown struggle for survival of our culture, our values and our future. The muslims have sworn to convert the world or kill everyone in the process.
I believe that the world leader have to come to the realization that we cannot negotiate, we cannot reason with or pacify these people.
We have to resign ourselves to a long war and what might appear to be a cruel one. We have to be willing to fight for our future and the survival of our civilization or face an apparent oblivion under the Shiria.
I look at Afghanistan under the Taliban and ask any rational person, do you want your sons and daughters to live like that?
It is now at the point of kill or be killed. Annihilate or be annihilated.
I apologize to the reasonable and rational moslims for this but your silence and your willingness to tolerate extremism and virulent hate amoung your fellow believers has brought us to this point. Much as Chamberlain allowed Hitler to florish, the moderate moslims have allowed the fanatics to take over the direction of their religion.
We are beyond the point of no return. It is now to the point of kill or be killed.
#8
I really wish you would quit using my "name" you have been asked repeatedly not to do so yet you persist. I actually own the domain and my use predates yours.
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SPoD in #7, would you do me the kindness of adding #2 or The Otherto your name, or some other indicator? My memory is more porous than I would like, and it would really, really help me keep you two straight in my mind. Sadly, when I get confused about identity, I have trouble pondering seriously the thoughts presented.
#10
I've been the Sock Puppet of Doom ever since I was promoted to supreme Proconsul of the Galactic sector of Jupiter and subdivisions.
On my planet, sock puppets are all Sock Puppets of Doom. We have infiltrated this planet and will conquer it.
If you insist, I will unleash my transmorphigizer on your flock of sheep.
(KUNA) -- Turkish authorities arrested on Saturday a prominent Kurdish official from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). According to Turkish newspaper (hurriyet) on its website, the Turkish police arrested a 50-year-old man who was a prominent figure in PKK in the city of Gazianteb, south of Turkey. During a raid of the man's house, various weapons were confiscated, including weapons caches, drugs, and illegal leaflets. On a different front, Turkish military chief of staff said today that Turkish forces were conducting combing operation when they discovered few klashnikovs and substances to develop hand-made bombs in Hakkari province east of Turkey. On November 17th of last year, the Turkish parliament authorized the army to launch a large-scale military operation in northern Iraq to crush PKK rebels.
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Two people, who were arrested from Dera Ismail Khan for their alleged involvement in assassination of PPP Chairperson Benazir Bhutto on December 27, have been shifted to Islamabad for further investigation, reported a private television (ARY One World). More arrests are expected in the light of initial investigation and efforts are being made to trace the contacts of suspects with Baitullah Mehsud.
One suspect, Aitezaz Shah,15, belonging to Hazara division of NWPF, has confessed his involvement in the plan of BBs assassination at Liaquat Bagh, Rawalpindi, the report said. One of the two arrested suspects has said that his next target was US Consulate General in Karachi, the report added.
According to preliminary investigation, the arrested suspects have no link with the October 18s Karsaz incident in Karachi. However, the report quoting Interior Ministry sources said that some arrests have also taken place in connection with the October 18 incident, which would lead to more arrests.
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Baitullah Mehsud
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Nine civilians and three security forces persons were injured when miscreants fired a mortar round on the gate of an Imambargah in Hangu district on Sunday. According to an ISPR press release, earlier a Muharram procession was fired upon by miscreants using small arms and mortar.
The Hangu Peace Committee had allowed a small Moharram procession to pass through a specified route. A helicopter covering the procession was also fired upon by miscreants. The helicopter engaged miscreants location silencing their fire.
Following these incidents the peace committee has taken over again, promising strict action against anybody violating the peace accord which includes a fine of Rs 10 million. Calm now prevails in Hangu, the press release added.
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A 13-year old holding a box of chocolates and wearing a vest packed with explosives blew himself up among a group of tribal leaders, becoming one of the youngest suicide bombers since the US-led invasion, Iraqi police said.
Hospital officials said six people were killed and 10 wounded in the blast on Sunday in the Western city of Falluja.
Police said he was the son of one of the five most-wanted leaders of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
A tribal chief, Hadi Hussein al-Isawi, was among those killed in the attack on a meeting of leaders of the Anbar Awakening Council, a US-supported group that has turned against al-Qaeda in Iraq. Five of the wounded were reported to be in a critical condition.
The attack was the second deadly bombing in as many days in Anbar, where violence has increased in recent months after local tribes joined forces with the US military to push Sunni Islamist al-Qaeda out of the vast region. Sunni Arab tribes rebelled against al-Qaeda because of its indiscriminate killing of civilians and harsh interpretation of Islam.
The US military has warned that al-Qaeda will try to make a comeback in Anbar, where it once held swathes of territory until many of its gunmen were driven out in the past year.
■ US war planes pounded suspected al-Qaeda havens on the southern edge of Baghdad on Sunday night, hitting more than 30 targets in a 35-bomb attack, the military said yesterday. It is the third such operation in the area this month. The US has not released casualty figures, but a US military spokesman said that 1023 suspected extremists had been arrested and 121 killed.
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The attack was the second deadly bombing in as many days in Anbar, where violence has increased in recent months after local tribes joined forces with the US military to push Sunni Islamist al-Qaeda out of the vast region.
Violence is increasing in Anbar? Not based on everything else I've read. But I see that meme in 2 articles in today's Iraq section. Is it a revised talking point regarding Anbar?
BAGHDAD: U.S. and Iraqi commandos killed a suspected Shiite militia leader Monday during a raid in western Baghdad, the military said. But relatives said the man was an innocent truck driver who was killed while trying to shield his wife from the troops. His truck transported bombs, Shiite Militia and Sunni hostages.
Hundreds of men chanted "there is no God but Allah" and carried a huge Iraqi flag as they followed the coffin of Jawad Abdul-Kadim during a funeral service in the Amil neighborhood. Protesters said he was not affiliated with any militant groups.
"No, no, certainly not!"
The military said the slain extremist brigade commander led a network of 10 groups in Baghdad that were implicated in murder, kidnappings and other criminal activity against Iraqi security forces and civilians. The suspect had established a group to collect information used to target Iraqi troops, according to the statement. "Credible intelligence indicates he and his group are responsible for the sectarian murder of several hundred Iraqi civilians in the past year," the statement said.
The man, who was not identified by the military, ran into another room after the assault force entered the building, according to the military's account. He was killed after troops forced the door open and saw him trying to grab a weapon, it said.
Just another innocent man with an AK and a reason to run.
U.S.-led forces have routinely carried out raids in Baghdad searching for Shiite extremists since they launched a security crackdown in the capital nearly a year ago. Residents frequently complain of unnecessarily heavy-handed behavior at the hands of the troops.
Abdul-Kadim's son, Hamza Jawad, said his father was trying to keep the troops out of the bedroom until his wife could dress properly, but one of the soldiers reached through a space in the door and opened fire. "My father is innocent, and he is not affiliated with any group," the 13-year-old said. The groups are affiliated with him.
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I hope a LOT of US and Iraqi intel guys were taking pictures of those "hundreds of men", to add to the database. With that many, you can be your bottom dollar a LOT of outstanding wants and warrants would show up.
(KUNA) -- Five Iraqi civilians were killed in a suicide attack in the town of Falluja west of the capital Baghdad, police said on Sunday. The attack took place when a suicide bomber blew himself up where people were celebrating the release of a man from a nearby prison, an Iraqi police source told KUNA. The blast resulted in killing the released person and four others, in addition to injuring ten more, some with severe injuries. The province of Anbar had plunged into violencence since tribes rebelled against al-Qaeda.
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The province of Anbar had plunged into violencence since tribes rebelled against al-Qaeda.
violencence? I get it! The Surge worked but it's still a quagmireire!
(KUNA) -- US forces pardoned over 204 Iraqi detainees last week, according to a statement released by Iraqi Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi on Sunday.
The release of the prisoners came in line with a scheduled process to pardon inmates, launched during the fasting month of Ramadan laet year, the statement added, Number of the freed prisoners in the recent operation, since start of the new year, increased to 552, it said, noting that the figure, since Ramadan, reached 3,694. About 24,000 Iraqi are currently detained in two Multi-National Forces' prisons in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, and the southern city of Basra.
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(KUNA) -- Eight Iraqi and American servicemn were killed and 17 others injured in a twin suicide bombings in the city of Ramadi on Saturday, a security source said.
The source told KUNA two suicide bombers wearing belts packed with explosives blew themselves up against Iraqi police stations in Ubaidi neighborhood in northern Ramadi. A third suicide bomber was arrested before detonating the explosives, added the source. Two Iraqi police officers, three of their bodyguards and two guards were killed in one of the blasts which also injured 14 others, said the source. Sheikh Abduljabbar Al-Fahdawi, one of the tribal elders fighting Al-Qaeda, said one the blast killed an American soldier and injured three others. The American army did not confirm the attack yet.
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(KUNA) -- An explosion caused by a bomb left inside a popular restaurant in the Sadr City, east of Baghdad has killed two people and wounded 13 others, a security source at the Interior Ministry said on Saturday. The source said the explosion occurred at 8:30 p.m. local time and that it was a result of a bomb that was placed inside a bag left in a restaurant. The source did not give any other details about the incident. It added that the security forces immediately cordoned off the explosion scene and banned citizens from approaching.
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Hamas claimed Sunday night that five patients died because of the cutoff of electricity in Gaza hospitals resulting from the Israeli blockade. The claim could not be confirmed. Hamas officials shut down the territory's only power plant just before 8 p.m. Sunday. Hamas said the move was made after Israel blocked a shipment of fuel that powers the plant.
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Yet they still have money to buy missiles to fire on Israeli civilians. I hope they starve.
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So five people are dead already because the hopital doesn't have power? Isn't the hospital supposed to have some kind of generator backup and fuel? Why not make it 500 dead? Probably couldn't assemble that many actors on short notice to put together one of those documentaries they know how to do so well. Just make sure the same guy doesn't show up 500 times this time, OK?
One of those unguided Qassam rockets missed a building full of kids by 40m a couple of days ago. Is there any outcry from the Paleostinians for that act? Would there have been if that missile had hit the building and killed a bunch of kids?
Perhaps they would let in some Israelis to bring you a shipment for use at the hospitals and not fire on them on the way in or out?
I know, probably just a pipe dream.
If it's so bad, hang all the bad guys. Or at least point them out and let the Isrealis take care of them.
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I wonder of the deceased were old and infirm, or young men full of Fatah lead?
In the latter case, one might have cause for suspicion...
The lights went our, yer honor, then somebody shot the patient in the head. Three times.
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Hamas officials shut down the territory's only power plant
Apparently Hamas also diverted fuel shipments from Egypt for their own use too. They elected these idiots and are free to express their displeasure at their own officials...hopefully limb by limb!
Israeli missile strikes killed at least two Palestinian militants and critically wounded two others in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, local medical workers and Hamas officials said.
Hamas Islamists, who control the coastal territory, said the targets of the Israeli strikes were militants who were involved in firing makeshift rockets into southern Israel. The Israeli army confirmed it carried out the two missile strikes. Israel has killed dozens of Palestinians in Gaza -- many of them militants -- during the past week as part of what officials describe as a stepped-up campaign to curb rocket fire into the Jewish state. Gaza militants have fired more than 200 mortars and rockets at Israel in the past five days, the army said.
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1 missile in response to 200 mortars and rockets?
Why not counterbattery every time?
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"Er, let's see here. If I remember, four comes after three, so we have four ears. Achmed, you are the mathematician here, how many martyrs is that?"
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YNETNEWS > IDF CHIEF: HOME FRONT BECOMING THE BATTLEFRONT. Israel's enemies are changing and the IDF = Israel must change also to confront a full spectrum of new threats. The IDF is tailored for dealing wid organized armies - some of which have WMDS and suppor Terrorist organizations. IDF CHIEF > ISRAEL CANNOT ALLOW/ACCEPT A NUCLEAR IRAN.
SUPPORTS A LENGTHENING OF TERMS/PERIODS OF NATIONAL SERVICE + COMPREHENSIVE NATIONAL PLANNING + INTENSIFIED ANTI-DRAFT DODGING MEASURES.
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JPOST > JOHN BOLTON - US INTELLIGENCE HAS BECOME POLITICIZED. US INTEL establishment has become "illegitimately politicized" and overpol by US STATE DEPT, etc. despite advent of new NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE layer.
IOW, US INTEL IS TOO POL TO DO ITS JOB EFFECTIVELY + MAY ACTUALLY POSE A NATIONAL-GLOBAL SECURITY DANGER TO ITSELF, US INTEL EFFORTS AND THE USA. i.e. may had been COMPROMISED + PENETRATED TO THE DETRIMENT POF THE AMER GOVT-NATION.
We know how ANNA NICHOLE SMITH + SAID GIRLS, etal. ENDED UP.
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Note to g(r)omgoru: never read Joe's posts before second tab of LSD.
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I find that they're more understandable taken as a Gestalt (one lump) and disconnect your sanity section.
Works, try it. In other words, don't read it word for word, try to get the flavor by swallowing it as a whole.
(Course the wife says I'm crazy, so maybe like minds, and all that?)
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The lights went out on the Gaza Strip last night when the only electricity plant in the seaside territory closed down after Israel severed fuel supplies.
Life is tough. It's tougher when you're stoopid. Being vicious doesn't seem to alleviate it.
As the power failed, 1,000 men, women and children held a candlelit procession in Gaza City to protest at the breakdown of their basic services.
If I was the Israeli PM, which I'm not, to the relief of us all, I'd start my response with "Eat me!" and go downhill from there.
Some carried posters calling on the international community to come to their aid, others condemned the state of siege that they are living under. I appeal to Egypt to break the siege because our children and sick people are dying, Umm Raed, a 52-year-old housewife, said.
I feel approximately the same amount of sympathy Gazans feel for the inhabitants of Sderot.
Egypt has a border with Gaza, but has mainly shown solidarity with Israel in enforcing an embargo on the Hamas-run territory.
Could be that even the Egyptians realize that if somebody's raining rockets on your territory every day, they're telling you in their own special way that they don't need any assistance from you.
As mobile phone repeaters ran out of power, mobile phones started to lose reception, plunging many areas into silence as well as blackness.
The heart [urp!] burns bleeds.
Unable to end the ceaseless volleys of rockets fired by Gaza hardliners into its southern towns and farms, Israel cut off diesel supplies to the Strip, where 1.5 million Palestinians live, in an attempt to force its Islamist rulers to end the attacks.
It's more fun wearing ski masks and shooting rockets in the general direction of civilian areas than it is to build a functioning society.
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The world hasn't seen a good old fashion siege since Leningrad.. About time to see one now.
Enjoy eating your briefcases Gazians.
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since Israel cut off Gaza neither the Saudis nor the Egyptians nor even Iran has offered to help Hamas
eventually they will do so (the legacy of their internal anti Israel propaganda to their own population) but the longer they hold off they better the message sent
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Gaza is used as a base of operations for multiple groups carrying out warfare against Israel. Gaza is governed by a democratically elected administration that openly and repeatedly calls for Israel to be destroyed and whose founding charter relies on the Protocols of Zion.
It is insane that Israel should provide any food, water or medical assistance to the enemy under any circumstances. Much as the rest of the West pays for the jihad against us through a ludicrous oil giveaway to the "House" of Saud, Israel pays for the enemies on its own doorstep.
The proper response to war is war. Instead we have hand-wringing and appeasement. I love Israel but until they learn the lessons of their own Prophets they deserve exactly what they get. So do the rest of us.
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I guess "cause and effect" isn't a concept taught in those UNRWA schoools.
Why upset the locals. Let them continue to think that this happens for absolutely no reason...
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Can we expect (hope for?) the lack of power to cause the Dreaded Sewage Tsunami??
("Watch where you step Abdul, that ain't necessarily a mud puddle.")
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Actually only some of the power is off in Gaza.
It's true that they have only 1 electricity plant but they still import electricity from Israel (which is generated at the Ashkalon plant that the long range Gaza rockets have come close to hitting).
I think the company temporarily closed all the circuits to rebalance the load.
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#7: If you act like Neanderthals, eventually you will live like Neanderthals.
And star in insurance commercials.
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Gaza should get no support of any type from Israel; no water, no food, no fuel, no electricity. The crossings should be permanently closed. Let Gaza deal strictly with Egypt, and use a rolling barrage of artillery to pulverize any area that is either overtly or covertly complicit in the rocket attacks. Kill enough of the bastards and they'll eventually get the message. However, if it takes killing all of them to drive the message completely home, so be it. Gaza can be an object lesson for southern Lebanon and Syria.
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I don't get it. If I were a hard-core jew-hating jihadi, I wouldn't want Israeli electricity. Turn it off, I'd say! Don't want no Zionist electrons in *my* Islamic household wiring. Damn electric joo cooties coming in thru the empty outlets. That's why you gotta keep plugs in them at all times.
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That's the night the lights went out in Gaza
That's the night that they shot an innocent man
Don't trust your soul to no terrorist Gaza lawyer
Cause the judge in the towns got bloodstains on his hand...
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I don't get it. If I were a hard-core jew-hating jihadi, I wouldn't want Israeli electricity. Turn it off, I'd say! Don't want no Zionist electrons in *my* Islamic household wiring.
Even as the prime minister and other top officials were going South to review the progress current status of the jihad insurgency, an undetermined number of terrorists insurgents detonated a bomb using a cell phone signal near a railway station in Narathiwat's Rue So district, injuring eight soldiers. The new violence occurred as a military unit on foot-patrol to ensure safety for railway passengers were assaulted. The government soldiers and the presumed insurgents exchanged gunfire for five minutes before the assailants withdrew.
In nearby Pattani province, a police informant was gunned down on Monday morning in the provincial seat. Abdultorlae Tohadam was shot in a drive-by shooting riding a motorcycle and died at the scene.
The prime minister, accompanied by Defence Minister Boonrawd Somtas, Army Chief Anupong Paojinda , and National Police Chief Seripisuth Temiyavej, flew to Yala Monday to convene a meeting with officials from the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Centre (SBPAC). Prior to the meeting, the premier disclosed that he was going to hear an inventory of SBPAC's problems from the SBPAC.
He conceded the continuing jihad insurgency in the restive region could not be tackled in the near future even though the government has more local support and more coordination among state agencies concerned. But if the government had more support and coordination, it would mean that the problem was being tackled, no?
Gen. Surayud stressed that the Army has been instructed to improve its intelligence as some local soldiers were found to be involved in information leakage to the terrorists insurgents. "Listen guys. I need you to spy like you've never spied before. And no more leaking, you hear?"
The loss of classified military information was brought to light recently when two soldiers and a civil servant were arrested on charges of leaking confidential material to terrorists insurgents. Seven police officers were later taken in for questioning on suspicion of handing information to jihadis insurgents.
The visit came a week after eight soldiers were ambushed in a deadly bomb attack in Narathiwat's Chanae district, in which one soldier was beheaded.
Philippine security forces have apprehended an Islamic militant suspected to have taken part in the beheading of 10 Marines on a southern island last year, the head of the national police said on Monday.
Truncheon time!
Avelino Razon said a team of soldiers and police officers arrested Aramil Sulayman at a Muslim village in Shariff Kabunsuan province, on the southern island of Mindanao, on Saturday.
"Our boys never gave him the chance to resist and flee," Razon told a news conference at the main police headquarters in Manila, where Sulayman was brought before the media.
Sulayman, wearing an orange prison uniform and in handcuffs, smiled but was prevented from replying when asked whether he was involved in the beheading of soldiers on Basilan island on July 10 last year.
Razon said Sulayman, who belongs to the Abu Sayyaf group, was among 128 rebels facing murder charges for the beheadings. He is the first to be arrested, although there were reports some were killed by the military in fighting on Basilan island last year.
The smallest of several Muslim rebel groups active in the south of the largely Roman Catholic country, the Abu Sayyaf is responsible blamed for the Philippines' worst militant attack, the bombing of a ferry in 2004 that killed 100 people. But some of those named in the killing of the Marines have links to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the largest rebel group in the country. The group is finalising a peace deal with the government.
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Sri Lanka's military said soldiers killed a commander of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam as the army fought on three fronts in the Jaffna area, the last region controlled by the Tamil Tigers.
The LTTE commander was killed in Thendamarachchi south of Jaffna yesterday, the army said on its Web site. Troops advanced on rebel positions during clashes yesterday in Mannar, Vavuniya and Welioya, the Defense Ministry said in a statement.
LTTE forces drove off soldiers trying to overrun bases in the Manalaaru Ceylon areas yesterday, TamilNet reported on its Web site, citing unidentified Tamil Tiger officials.
Sri Lanka's army has stepped up its attacks since capturing the eastern region in July, leaving the LTTE in control only of bases in the north to continue its 25-year fight for a separate homeland. The government last week formally ended a 2002 cease- fire with the rebels after President Mahinda Rajapaksa said in November that terrorism will be eradicated in the country.
The LTTE is ``in total disarray'' as a result of the offensives, Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka, the army chief, said Dec. 31. At least 22 rebels were killed in fighting Jan. 19, the military said yesterday.
Sri Lanka's military has targeted the LTTE leadership in the north since capturing the east. Velupillai Prabhakaran, the LTTE leader, was wounded in an air raid in November, according to the government, and the head of the political wing was killed two months ago. The group's military intelligence chief was killed Jan. 6.
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I dont understand why he is still breathing. We should have liquidated him a long time ago. I recommend the Cabinet assassinate the man.
Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit of ruling party Kadima echoed the sentiment, saying, Nasrallah is a person who has crossed all inhuman lines. We dont need to negotiate with him, we need to destroy him. Housing and Construction Minister Zeev Boim reiterated Sheetrits call, referring to the Hezbollah leader as a sewer rat who should dig his own hole.
hey the Israeli cabinet finally caught up with the RBees!!
'Cepting Israel haz about 100% more of the ways and means to get the job done!
CAIRO, Egypt - Sympathizers submitted hundreds of questions to al-Qaida deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri's "on-line interview" before a recent deadline. Among them: Why hasn't al-Qaida attacked the U.S. again, why isn't it attacking the Israelis and when will it be more active in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria?
So far, there have been no answers.
Al-Qaida's media arm, Al-Sahab, announced in December that al-Zawahri would take questions from the public posted on Islamic militant Web sites and would respond "as soon as possible."
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"I'm going to have to have you come in Saturday, yeah because we lost some people last week and we are behind. Also, if you could come in Sunday that would be great."
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See also PRAVDA > OSAMA BIN LADEN IS NOT DEAD; + TOPIX > OSAMA BIN LADEN'S SON SAYS HIS FATHER SHOULD JUST STOP FIGHTING. Argues there is a better way for Pop OSAMA to promote Islam than violence or war.
Again, effective worldwide US REGIONAL-GLOBAL ENTRENCHMENT under Dubya gener means the Radical Islamist hope for an anti US-Western, OWG-Global Islamist-Jihadist State/Caliphate may be all but officially defeated, AND NOT JUST TEMPORARILY EITHER [forever?]. ZAWI is being asked these questions becuz these dedic Muslims recognize the looming defeat or destruction of the Radic Islamist Global agenda. DITTO AGAIN ALSO FOR MOUD = RADICAL IRAN + RADICAL MULLAHS > ISLAMISM FACES USSR-STYLE SELF-OBSOLESCENCE/DECLINE, IMPLOSION AND CERTAIN DEFEAT UNLESS THEIR GLOBAL WAR AGZ THE US-WEST ENDS IN ISLAMIST VICTORY. *ZAWI QUESTIONERS > RADICAL ISLAMISM = ISLAM MUST NOT GIVE UP + MUST TRY TO ATTACK THE US-WEST AGAIN, AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN ........@.
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(KUNA) -- The US-led coalition and Afghan forces claimed detaining four Taliban militants and an insurgent leader during an operation in southern Afghanistan.
Gunmen fired mortars at the Somali president's house on Sunday, hours after the country's new prime minister arrived in Mogadishu for the first time since he was sworn in last November, a presidential aide said. "At least five mortar rounds have been fired at the president's house, where the prime minister is now staying, but they missed," the aide told Reuters on condition of anonymity. He did not know of any casualties.
Yemen detained dozens of suspected al Qaeda supporters on Sunday, following the killing of two Belgian tourists and their Yemeni drivers in the east of the impoverished country, an official said.
(KUNA) -- Turkish authorities arrested on Saturday a prominent Kurdish official from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). According to Turkish newspaper (hurriyet) on its website, the Turkish police arrested a 50-year-old man who was a prominent figure in PKK in the city of Gazianteb, south of Turkey. During a raid of the man's house, various weapons were confiscated, including weapons caches, drugs, and illegal leaflets. On a different front, Turkish military chief of staff said today that Turkish forces were conducting combing operation when they discovered few klashnikovs and substances to develop hand-made bombs in Hakkari province east of Turkey. On November 17th of last year, the Turkish parliament authorized the army to launch a large-scale military operation in northern Iraq to crush PKK rebels.
BAGHDAD: U.S. and Iraqi commandos killed a suspected Shiite militia leader Monday during a raid in western Baghdad, the military said. But relatives said the man was an innocent truck driver who was killed while trying to shield his wife from the troops. 
(KUNA) -- Five Iraqi civilians were killed in a suicide attack in the town of Falluja west of the capital Baghdad, police said on Sunday. The attack took place when a suicide bomber blew himself up where people were celebrating the release of a man from a nearby prison, an Iraqi police source told KUNA. The blast resulted in killing the released person and four others, in addition to injuring ten more, some with severe injuries. The province of Anbar had plunged into violencence since tribes rebelled against al-Qaeda.
(KUNA) -- US forces pardoned over 204 Iraqi detainees last week, according to a statement released by Iraqi Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi on Sunday.
(KUNA) -- Eight Iraqi and American servicemn were killed and 17 others injured in a twin suicide bombings in the city of Ramadi on Saturday, a security source said.
Hamas claimed Sunday night that five patients died because of the cutoff of electricity in Gaza hospitals resulting from the Israeli blockade. The claim could not be confirmed. Hamas officials shut down the territory's only power plant just before 8 p.m. Sunday. Hamas said the move was made after Israel blocked a shipment of fuel that powers the plant.
Israeli missile strikes killed at least two Palestinian militants and critically wounded two others in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, local medical workers and Hamas officials said.
Sri Lanka's military said soldiers killed a commander of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam as the army fought on three fronts in the Jaffna area, the last region controlled by the Tamil Tigers. 
