(Xinhua)-- A commander of a rebel movement in the conflict-torn western Sudanese region of Darfur has been killed in fighting near the Chadian capital N'djamena between the Chadian government troops and rebel forces, Sudan's official SUNA news agency reported on Monday.
Mohamed Abdallah, commander of the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), was killed on Sunday as his force was moving to support the Chadian army which was fighting with the Chadian opposition forces near the capital.
SUNA said the Chadian opposition forces were obliged to withdraw from the Chadian Adri town Monday after it had come under shelling by rockets to preserve the safety of the civilians. The report also said the Chadian opposition forces had managed to inflict heavy losses to a Chadian battalion coming from the border with Central Africa while it was moving to support the government forces.
JEM is one of the main rebel movements in Darfur, where some ten thousand civilians have been killed since conflicts erupted in 2003, according to statistics of the Sudanese government, while western media claimed that more than 200,000 people have been killed there in the past five years.
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I'm confused Fred. The Commander of the Sudanese rebels that was taken out has a name that at first glance, would be cause for celebration. However, it seems that he is fighting for the Chadian loyalists who I have presumed to be the good guys. Is this another case of the enemy of my enemy is my friend?
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The Sudan government is backing the Chad rebels.
The Sudan rebels are backing the Chad government.
There are two main Sudan rebel factions, of which JEM is associated with Turabi, who was Binny's patron when he was in Sudan. I don't know much about the other faction, can't even remember its name of the top of my head.
As far as I can see, they're all bad guyz. Deby's an old style kleptocrat dictator, Turabi's an Islamist lunatic, and the Chad rebels are pawns doing the bidding of the Sudanese Evil Overlord, who probably wears a colorful skin-tight costume, cape, and domino mask when he's not posing as just another mild-mannered regional dictator.
The people who're actually doing the suffering are the "black" Sudanese and Chadians -- racially different from the "Arab" Sudanese, who're actually Nilotic. Arrogant as they may be dealing with the "blacks," when they go to Mecca they're just another bunch of colored guys in the eyes of the Arabians and are treated accordingly. I occasionally pull that thought out and chuckle over it when the Evil Overlord is feeling his oats.
The suffering, downtrodden Blacks, by the way, would be perfectly happy to cheer the deaths of our troops or any EU troops who'd be silly enough to get involved in keeping a non-existent peace. So while my sympathy meter twitches while they're being raped, murdered, beaten, and dispossessed, it doesn't really go much over 4.
Do we have any Crackerjacks?
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pretty concise and cynical explanation. I like it
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The Commander of the Sudanese rebels that was taken out has a name that at first glance, would be cause for celebration. However, it seems that he is fighting for the Chadian loyalists who I have presumed to be the good guys.
Jihad in Sudan is not merely against Christians and animists but in order to take land from untermeschen Blacks (even when they are Muslims) and give it to the master race.
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.....our troops or any EU troops who'd be silly enough to get involved in keeping a non-existent peace
Fred's assessment squarely hits the nail on the head, amen and amen. To that I would simply add, stay "Out of Africa." The story and movie by that title, is based ironically enough on the memoirs of Danish coffee plantation owner Isak Dinesen in Kenya.
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And the candidate for POTUS, who seems to be quite interested in the affairs in Kenya, who has many relatives there, and who would probably direct US troops to intercede there contrary to US interests is whom ? Oh yeah, B. Hussein Obama.
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needless to say Im not convinced that the suffering people of Darfur would cheer the deaths of western troops, though Im not enamored of all the Darfuri rebel leaders. I would only point out the support we have received in Iraq and elsewhere from Albanians, and, amazingly enough, Rwandans (whom we didnt save, but who understand which side is which in the struggle over genocide and democracy)
Now IF we are going to make a case that our interventions in Iraq and elsewhere are truely about democracy, and its not just a cover for other interests, we need to take a stand in Africa as well.
Of course it may well be that the pro-democracy moment in US for pol is past, in which case the e may not apply.
I would also suggest that kleptocrats are preferable to genocidaires. And that Sudans orientation toward the China axis is not without significance.
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To that I would simply add, stay "Out of Africa."
Perhaps. But we should exploit Darfur and Arab support for the genocidiacl regime to the hilt in order to divide Islam. Split it between Arabs and non-Arabs. Specially Muslim Blacks (including those in our own societies). Follow until they envision Islam as an instrument of foreign domination.
An Al Qaeda group has claimed responsibility for killing eight paramilitary gendarmes in an ambush in eastern Algeria last week. Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb said in a statement posted late on Sunday on a website that it had seized the gendarmes’ weapons, bullet-proof vests and night binoculars. “The operation came as revenge for the killing of our brothers in the recent clashes in the southern region, so the apostates know that they will pay a dear price for every martyr of ours that falls,” said the Arabic-language statement. The Feb 7 ambush was the deadliest attack in Algeria since Dec 11 when 37 people, including 17 United Nations staff, were killed in a double suicide bombing in the capital Algiers. The attack on the gendarmes occurred in the village of Draa Argayen in the desert province of El Oued, about 500 km southeast of Algiers.
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(AKI) - A Yemeni al-Qaeda cell has threatened Syrian- Bahraini singer Asala Nasri with death if she performs in the Yemeni city of Aden on 14 February for Valentines Day, reported Arab TV network, al-Arabiya. "Your fate will the same as former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto", said the message. "We ask all Yemenis to oppose the concert and we confirm that al-Qaeda will not allow it [the concert] to go through."
The statement referred only to the 38-year-old Syrian singer, but not to his singing partner, the Egyptian Isam Karika, who was slated to sing with her on stage. "We will not allow the corruption of our society. This is how we will save our youth from these depravations, which are contrary to Islam" said the message.
The threat comes despite efforts by local authorities to downplay the threats and condemnation by Islamic parliamentary authorities in Yemen. Three months ago, a group of Yemeni Ulema or Islamic scholars, issued a fatwa or religious edict which banned music concerts in the country. Among the signatories of this fatwa is one of the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in Yemen, Abdel Majid al-Zindani.
Asala Nasri has a prominent career and has composed 20 music albums and is now married to Palestinian-American director Tarek al-Eryan. Her Bahraini citizenship was reportedly granted to her by Bahrain's King Hamad Bin Issa Al Khalifa, following a concert in celebration of Bahrain's independence day.
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I'll give it 3 to 1 odds that in the equation of keeping her mouth shut and hoping Al Qaeda is forgiving, or throwing 'The Bird' and leaving the country for the West, the money and fame will lead the way. Life is too short, screw Yemen; and Asala...don't look back!!
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According to Jyllands-Posten, the newspaper that originally published the cartoons in September 2005, the suspects are accused of planning to kill 73-year-old Kurt Westergaard.
He drew the cartoon that caused the most controversy, depicting Mohammad with a bomb in his turban.
Ah. One of the top three for clarity and pointed-ness (the other two being the one with the women in burkas and the other on the virgin shortage.)
Danish police said Tuesday they have arrested several people suspected of plotting to kill one of the 12 cartoonists behind the Prophet Muhammad drawings that sparked a deadly uproar in the Muslim world two years ago.
The arrests were made in pre-dawn raids in Aarhus, western Denmark, "to prevent a terror-related murder," the police intelligence agency said. It did not say how many people were arrested nor did it mention which cartoonist was targeted.
However, according to Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper that first published the drawings on Sept. 30, 2005, the suspects were planning to kill its cartoonist Kurt Westergaard. It said those arrested included both Danish and foreign citizens. "There were very concrete murder plans against Kurt Westergaard," said Carsten Juste, the paper's editor-in-chief.
The cartoons were later reprinted by a range of Western publications, and they sparked deadly protests in parts of the Muslim world.
Westergaard, 73, and his wife Gitte, 66, had been living under police protection because of the murder plans, Jyllands-Posten reported. "Of course I fear for my life when the police intelligence service say that some people have concrete plans to kill me. But I have turned fear into anger and resentment," Westergaard said in a statement published on Jyllands-Posten's Web site.
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"for fear it could lead to idolatry."
Seems to me with all their worship of every 'perfect' word and act of Mohammed they are already idolotrous, even without a physical depiction.
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Had some inspiration - get a rock, put a set of those bubble-eyes on it, then some of these legs from the chomping mouth wind up toy. Crank it up and let that baby bang its head around the desk.
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The best thing about this entire episode is that Denmark's major newspapers are going to re-print the "offending cartoon", that this person drew; the one with M with a bomb in his turban.
BARCELONA: As the terrorism suspects congregated in the largely Pakistani neighborhood here over the past few months, they were joined by a young man who called himself Asim. He had come from the Pakistani borderlands where the leadership of Al Qaeda is said to have regrouped.
The suspects, he later told Spanish investigators, envisioned a wave of spectacular attacks: Coordinated suicide bombings would start in Barcelona's vast subway system and then sweep through Portugal, Germany, France and Britain if certain demands were not met.
Asim had been sent to Spain to be a suicide bomber, but he also was an informer for French intelligence working in the no man's land of Waziristan in Pakistan. After he got word to his handlers of an impending attack, the military police in Spain swooped into the neighborhood of Raval in the early hours of Jan. 19 and arrested 14 men.
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"terrorism suspects congregated in the largely Pakistani neighborhood"
Ethnicity has nothing to do with it, it's purely coincidental - and a xenophopic, anti-immigrant, 'racist' statement at that! Move along, nothing to see here.
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Look no further than Pakistan,Iran and Saudi for our biggest enemies and Islam/Mullahs and Imans at the Centre of our fight!!!!
Target the religious folk and we would be on our way to victory!!!!
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Target the religious folk and we would be on our way to victory!!!!
The "religious folks" - the mullahs, imams, etc., are only the rabble-rousers. The real leaders are usually the kleptocrats that run the regime. Iran is the exception, not the rule. The House of Saud runs Saudi Arabia, including the religious establishment. Pakistan is run by a dozen tribes that held power in the area under the British Raj, and will never give it up without being virtually wiped out to the last man, woman, and child. Tribalism is a mainstay of Arab islamism, and provides the basis for power for every Arab government, plus many in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and even in Indonesia. There is an almost unbreakable bond between the tribes and religion, and vice versa. Even in Iraq, the most influential people are all tribal leaders. The mullahs have learned this, and support whichever tribe they feel will make their job easier.
Break the tribal cohesion, and you break islam. Break the tribal cohesion, and you can build any kind of democratic or republican form of government you wish, but unless you DO break the tribal loyalty, you can do neither.
Nukes help. A lot.
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Security forces on Monday arrested two suspected militants moments after defusing a landmine planted on the Tank-Wana road, sources told Daily Times. The troops defused the landmine prior to arrival of an army convoy in Wana.
Also, security personnel flagged down two motorcyclists near an old Customs checkpost, located around eight kilometres from Tank. The troops opened fire on the motorcyclists when they did not stop and tried to speed away, injuring one of them. The other was arrested after a long chase.
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Security forces on Monday critically wounded and captured a top Taliban leader, along with six of his security guards, during an operation in Balochistan.
Five, six, somewhere around there anyway...
The FC and the Anti-Terrorist Force (ATF) captured Mansoor Dadullah, brother of slain Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah, and six of his accomplices when they were discovered to be hiding in the Pak-Afghan border town of Kili Gwal Ilamilzai.
Hiding in a madrassah, in fact...
Sources said that when the security forces had surrounded the Taliban hideout from all four sides, the militants sent a message requesting they be allowed to escape from the area peacefully.
"We don't want no truck widda law! Turn yer backs an' we're outta here!"
Upon receiving a negative reply, the Taliban exchanged fire with the security forces,
[BANG! BANG! BANGETY BANG!] "Take dat, coppers!"
ending the clash only after Dadullah was critically injured.
"Aaaargh! My brisket!"
"Da boss! Dey got da boss!"
The AP, however, quoted army spokesman Major General Athar Abbas as saying that the militants had been captured while they were trying to cross Afghanistan’s border into Pakistan. “We have captured Mansoor Dadullah along with five other people in Balochistan,” Caretaker Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz Khan told Reuters.
"Really. It's not like they lived in Pakistain or something! They just showed up!"
A senior military official told AP that Dadullah died of his wounds on the way to hospital, but Abbas denied the claim.
"He ain't dead! He's just pinin' for the Khyber Pass!"
Sources said Dadullah was out of danger, but one of security guards had died en route to Quetta for further treatment and investigation.
So he might live to fight and run away another day. That's rather surprising.
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Sources said that when the security forces had surrounded the Taliban hideout from all four sides, the militants sent a message requesting they be allowed to escape from the area peacefully.
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Yeah, it seems strange that a so-called big turban like that could only muster five or six bodyguards. Aren't the truly high value targets usually surrounded by enough bodyguards to put up a real fight?
A day after three Lashkar-e-Taiba militants were arrested in Rampur for their alleged involvement in the January 1 attack on the Central Reserve Police Force camp, the special task force (STF) of the Uttar Pradesh police on Monday arrested two more persons in this connection.
According to police sources, Gulab Khan, who was arrested on Monday, had offered his motor garage for storing the weapons used in the attack in which eight persons, including seven security personnel, were killed. One of the arrested militants, Mohammad Sharif, had allegedly kept the weapons in Khan's garage, sources said.
The STF arrested one Mohammad Kausar, a resident of Pratapgarh district, in whose house some of the weapons were also kept, sources said. The two were produced before a district court in Rampur, which remanded them to judicial custody for 14 days.
The STF arrested six LeT militants from Rampur and Lucknow on Sunday who had attacked the CRPF camp and were also involved in the 2005 attack at the Indian Institute of Sciences in Bangalore.
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(Xinhua) -- The Pakistani army Monday confirmed that the security forces had arrested a top Taliban commander, Mulla Mansoor Dadullah. The army said in a statement that Mulla Mansoor Dadullah and his five accomplices were arrested in the southwestern Balochistan province while crossing into Pakistan. "Taliban Commander Mulla Mansoor Dadullah while trying to cross the border at Gaddal Post (Qilla Saifullah) was arrested after an exchange of fire with Frontier Corps (paramilitary force) Balochistan," the statement said. "Five of his accomplices have also been arrested. Initial information reveals that Mulla Mansoor Dadullah is injured and has been arrested while trying to enter into Pakistan," said the army statement.
Local TV channels reported that the captured Taliban leaders were flown to Islamabad in a helicopter for questioning.
Security forces conducted a secret operation early Monday morning on a tip and even the local authorities were not informed about the operation, TV channels said. A large number of security forces took part in the operation. When they conducted a raid, the Taliban leaders started firing at the Pakistani forces, according to reports. They also recovered weapons including rockets, grenades and machine guns from the compound. Mullah Bakht Mohammad, known as Mansoor Dadullah, was appointed Taliban commander after his brother Mullah Dadullah, top commander of Taliban, was killed in May last year in a battle with the U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan. Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar had appointed him to take the place of the Taliban top operational commander in the south after his brother's death.
A senior U.S. official said on Friday that Taliban leader Mulla Muhamamd Omar and members of Taliban Shura or council are living in the Pakistani city of Quetta and are coordinating attacks from there. However, Pakistan denied the allegation.
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Anybody want to start a pool on when he'll be released in order to 'foster communications and improved relations?' Or traded for some European or East Asian charity worker hostage?
Police in northern India have held six alleged Islamic militants suspected of planning an attack on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), a report said Monday. "The BSE was going to be their first target," said Amitabh Yash, a police officer with Uttar Pradesh state's anti-terror force, according to a report in the Times of India. "These terrorists have multiple targets. In case they fail in one, they quickly move on to the next."
The men are all believed to be members of the hardline Lashkar-e-Taiba, one of nearly a dozen groups fighting against Indian rule over a part of Muslim-majority Kashmir, the report said.
The rebel outfit has been previously been linked to Al-Qaeda by India's national security advisor M.K. Narayanan. Narayanan reiterated the connection on Sunday in Munich at an annual gathering of security experts, where he said Lashkar-e-Taiba and other Asian militant groups were part of Al-Qaeda's "elite terrorist network."
"They have forged common funding structures, common training curricula and have a common resource for obtaining explosives and weapons," said Narayanan, whose remarks coincided with the announcement of the foiled attack.
Three of the Lashkar suspects were planning to board a bus for Mumbai on Sunday. State police chief Vikram Singh said they received a tip-off leading them to the men, who were arrested Saturday. The men were carrying automatic rifles and grenades when they were arrested, the report said, adding that at least one man had a Pakistani passport. They have also been linked to a New Year's Day attack on a paramilitary camp in Uttar Pradesh that killed eight, and a strike at a southern science university in 2005 in which a professor died, the paper said.
India's stock market is a potent symbol of the country's booming economic growth. In 2007, it rose by a record 47.1 percent, the largest climb in four years.
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Terror suspects Mohammed Ghouse alias Riyazuddin Nasir and Asadullah Abubaker were subjected to a brain mapping test on Thursday. The two were put to tests at the Bangalore Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL).
Before being driven to FSL at Madiwala, the two suspects were taken to Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology. For nearly two hours, doctors examined the two and gave the green signal to put them under the scanner. However, the two will undergo narco analysis on Friday at the Bowring hospital.
Based on the outcome, the truth serum tests might be extended by a day or two.
A senior CoD officer told Deccan Herald that the questions they had prepared and the outcome of the tests are encouraging. “We need to wait and gather more facts, especially with regard to the money and arms flow to the terrorist organisations. A lot depends on the narco tests,” the officer said.
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Will waterboarding be done to confirm the results of truth serum and brain mapping? Does this stuff really work? Is that why we don't do waterboarding anymore?
Pakistan's ambassador in Afghanistan was gone missing under mysterious circumstances along with his driver and two bodyguards
Pakistan's ambassador in Afghanistan was gone missing under mysterious circumstances along with his driver and two bodyguards, said sources Monday.
Tariq Aziz-u-Din went missing in Khyber tribal agency while traveling to Afghanistan, an official source in Peshawar, capital of North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), told KUNA. The source could not confirm whether it was a kidnapping case but said that it would be safer to say that he has gone missing in Jamoord area.
The political administration of Khyber agency has also confirmed the missing of diplomat. It said that an operation has been launched in the area to trace him out.
Three insurgents with suspected links with Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) were killed in an encounter in Goalpara district in India's Northeastern state of Assam Monday.
The Indian security forces have recovered cab fare a nine mm pistol, a magazine with five rounds of ammunition, two hand-grenades, a local pistol and several documents from the slain insurgents, news agency Press Trust of India reported. The three maintained links with ISI aiming to create disturbances in India's Northeastern region, the news agency said, quoting an Assam police official.
Assam is home to number of insurgent groups including outlawed United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), alleged to maintain close ties with ISI. India has also alleged that ULFA's top leadership operate from neighbouring Bangladesh.
Mansoor Dadullah was clinging to life after Pakistani commandos attacked his hideout in a remote tribal area close to the Afghan border. [H]e was allegedly sacked by the extremists' spiritual leader, Mullah Omar, for negotiating with MI6. He was also blamed for losing Musa Qala, a Taleban stronghold in Helmand, which fell to British and Afghan troops last year.
Definitely on the poop list.
Pakistani officials admitted they received an intelligence tip-off ahead of the raid.
[Ring! Ring!]
"Hello?... Yeah... Hang on... Chief! Dis guy sez he wantsa talk to youse!"
"Who is it?"
"Sez his name's Mahmoud da Weasel!"
"I'll take it in my office!"
The local police chief, Saud Gohar, said: "We had reports of his presence from intelligence sources. He was hiding in a house in the village."
"Well, really, we can't do nuttin', cuz we ain't got precise information on his location..."
"606 Back Alley of the Veiled Pleasure Boy, Apartment C!"
It is thought Mansoor may have been double-crossed as part of a deal between the hardline "neo" Taleban in Pakistan, and local security forces.
Or thrown to the dogs by Mullah Omar, who had somebody a little more competent and a little less greedy in mind."
It comes less than a fortnight after a senior al-Qaeda commander, Abu Laith al-Libi, was killed by an American rocket attack in Pakistan's northern Waziristan province. Terrorism analysts believe Pakistan's intelligence service, the ISI, may have passed the United States details of Libi's whereabouts to relieve US pressure on Islamabad over insurgent activity.
Really? They'd do something underhanded like that?
Pakistan denies international claims its border is a safe haven for religious extremists, who use it to launch attacks against Nato troops in neighbouring Afghanistan.
"No, no! Certainly not!"
But the operation against Mansoor came a day after Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, warned that sanctuaries in the tribal areas pose a direct threat to Islamabad.
"They do? Chaudry, shouldn't we do something?"
"I'd think so, Perv. Why don't we shoot Mansour Dadullah?"
"Good idea!"
A spokesman for Pakistan's army claimed Mansoor was seized as he sneaked across the border from Afghanistan.
"Yeah. We don't let riff-raff like that in our country!"
Major- General Athar Abbas said Mansoor refused to stop at a checkpoint.
[BANG!] "Halt or we'll [BANG! BANG!] shoot!"
He said: "Security personnel returned fire. As a result, all of them were ventilated sustained injuries and all of them were captured. Dadullah (Mansoor] was arrested alive, but he is critically wounded."
"He's not quite dead, Jim!"
Mansoor said in a phone interview in January that he remained a Taleban commander and had asked Mullah Omar, to dispel "rumours" of his dismissal. He also claimed that he had met with al-Qaeda's No. 2 leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, a few months ago. He said Taleban and al-Qaeda fighters in Helmand were fighting alongside each other and sharing tactics.
That accounts for the dead Paks and Arabs and Uzbeks, doesn't it?
The arrests coincided with a rare announcement from Mullah Omar. In a statement, published in the Afghan Islamic Press, he said: "We want legitimate relations with countries of the world and we are not a threat to anyone. If foreign troops leave Afghanistan, that will be a victory for the people of Afghanistan."
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TITLE IS MISLEADING/AMBIGUOUS > So far this article strongly hints at DADULLAH being sacrificed as a COVER/PATSY for internal sectarianism = power struggles going on widin the TALIBAN.
ON THE NET AWHILE BACK THERE WERE REPORTS OF SUB-LEADERS WITHIN RADICAL ISLAM DEMANDING THAT AMERICA ANDOR BRIT BE ATTACKED TIME(S) AGAIN AS AMER WAS ON 9-11, and reportedly were arguing wid their Islamist superiors over this point.
DANGER TO US-WEST > IT IS NOT CLEAR WHETHER INTERNAL ISLAMIST ORGANZ DISAGREEMENTS, ETC. SUCH AS ABOVE HAD BEEN RESOLVED.
IOW, the USA, etc . may yet suffer NEW 9-11's/AMER HIROSHIMAS as Islamist options in the name of ISLAMIST-SPECIFIC ORGANZ INTERNAL UNITY-STABILITY??? As illustrated by US DEMOLEFT suppor for keeping US milfors in the ME while harshing criticizing POTUS Dubya, AS SAID BEFORE BOTH MOUD + RADICAL ISLAM CANNOT COUNT ON THE US UNILATER WITHDRAWING = REDUX IN THE ME EVEN IFF THE ANTi-DUBYA/GOP US DEMS WIN THE 2008 POTUS ELEX. Continuing US Regional-Global ENTRENCHMENT post-2008/Dubya > THE GLOBALIST OWG AGENDA OF BOTH WORLD ISLAM + RADICAL ISLAM. AS ACHIEVED BY WAR OR GOD-BASED TERROR, IS ALL BUT FINISHED, A MILITARY AND IDEO-DIVINIST [JIHADIST] FAILURE.
Sub-IOW, short of any de facto HIDDEN IMAM-MAHDI showing up and saving the Islamic = Islamist OWG agenda, and given the penchant-desire of many dedic Islamists [ e.g. RADICAL MULLAHS] for GLOBAL MUTUAL DESTRUCTION + GREAT POWER CONFRONTATION, "NEW 9-11's/AMER HIROSHIMAS" REMAINS A POTENT OPTION.
Good thing the guys - Iraqis! - were alert and caught this one - it could have been a disaster. Unless the Iraqi forces set it AND found it, to make points or distract attention.
BAGHDAD – Iraqi Security Forces found a house rigged with at least 11 improvised explosive devices in the Rusafa Security District of eastern Baghdad Feb. 11. Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment attached to 2nd Battalion, 69th Armored Regiment investigated the site and reported ISF found the house, which was rigged with 10 IEDs in the courtyard and one at the front door.
Explosive Ordnance Detachment personnel were dispatched and executed an explosive breach to allow for further investigation of the house. EOD found two doors booby trapped with wire, an anti-tank mine and three 57 mm rockets. The 1st Bn., 504th PIR commander on the scene said he believes the house was rigged to target Coalition Forces that might enter the house while investigating a rocket launched against Coalition Forces.
The ISF and Coalition Forces suffered no casualties as a result of the incident.
BAGHDAD – Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers captured a suspected special group criminal cell leader in the Rashid District of the Iraqi capital Feb. 11. Soldiers captured the alleged criminal cell leader during a pre-dawn raid in the Abu T’Shir neighborhood in southeast Rashid.
The suspected cell leader is believed to have been involved in attacks against Coalition and Iraqi Security Forces involving improvised-explosive device, explosively-formed penetrator, small arms and rocket. The suspect was taken to a Coalition Detention Facility for further questioning.
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition forces detained two suspected Special Groups criminals early today during operations in the Suwayrah area, south of Baghdad. Coalition forces were targeting an individual who reportedly facilitated paramilitary training for Special Groups members in preparation for attacks against Iraqi and Coalition forces. Reports also indicate he was an associate of several senior-level criminal element leaders involved in attacks on Iraqi and Coalition forces.
Intelligence led ground forces to the target location where they detained the two suspected criminals without incident. The identity of the suspects is still being determined.
"Al-Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr's cease-fire pledge has helped increase stability," said Lt. Michael Street, MNF-I spokesperson. "We welcome that stability, but we will continue to dismantle the criminal networks of those who choose not to honor that pledge."
A separate presser:
BAGHDAD – Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers captured a suspected special group criminal cell leader in the western Baghdad neighborhood of Hurriya Feb. 10. Soldiers with Company A, 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), MND-B, detained the alleged cell leader during a raid in Hurriya.
The cell leader is believed to have been involved in improvised-explosive device and small-arms attacks aimed at Coalition and Iraqi Security Forces. The suspect was taken to a Coalition Forces Detention Facility for further questioning.
This action is part of Multi-National Division – Baghdad offensive operation in support of Operation Phantom Phoenix.
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TW - that's because there are some Spartan women still in the American gene pool* :)
The 'I brought you into this world and I can take you out' school of philosophy. Not necessarily articulated in those exact words, but applied with love in so many ways.
The acting director of a Baghdad psychiatric hospital has been arrested on suspicion of supplying al-Qaeda in Iraq with the mentally impaired women that it used to blow up two crowded animal markets in the city on February 1, killing about 100 people.
Iraqi security forces and US soldiers arrested the man at al-Rashad hospital in east Baghdad on Sunday. They then spent three hours searching his office and removing records. Sources told The Times that the two women bombers had been treated at the hospital in the past. “They [the security forces] arrested the acting director, accusing him of working with al-Qaeda and recruiting mentally ill women and using them in suicide bombing operations,” a hospital official said.
“We have fairly good reason to believe this is not the first time they have recruited mentally handicapped individuals.”
Ibrahim Muhammad Agel, director of the hospital, was killed in the Mansour district of Baghdad on December 11 by gunmen on motorbikes. Colleagues suspect that he was shot for refusing to cooperate with al-Qaeda. Even before Sunday’s arrest, US officials believed that al-Qaeda was scouring Iraq’s hospitals for mentally impaired patients whom it could dupe into acting as suicide bombers. They said that al-Qaeda had used the mentally impaired as unwitting bombers before.“We have fairly good reason to believe this is not the first time they have recruited mentally handicapped individuals,” said one senior officer, though he did not think there had been more than half a dozen cases.
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A car bomb followed by a mortar attack struck near the compound of one of Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite politicians on Monday, killing at least three civilians and wounding seven, police said. A huge plume of white smoke rose into the sky and sirens wailed after the blast occurred just before noon behind a gas station near the offices of Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, the leader of Iraq's largest Shiite party, Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, or SIIC. Police said it was not yet known if the car was parked or being driven by a suicide attacker.
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A roadside bomb apparently planted to hit an Iraqi police patrol missed its target and killed one civilian instead Monday in eastern Baghdad, police said.
Four others were wounded in the blast, which hit the mostly Shiite Mashtal area during the morning rush hour, police said. Most of the victims were in a civilian car driving behind a police convoy, they said. Across town, another bomb went off early Monday at an Iraqi Army checkpoint near a children's amusement park, police said. No one was hurt.
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The US television network CBS reported Monday that two of its journalists had gone missing in the predominantly Shiite southern city of Basra.
CBS said all efforts were under way to find the journalists. It did not name the journalists and requested "that others do not speculate on the identities of those involved" until more information was available.
Iraqi police and witnesses said the kidnapping occurred Sunday morning when about eight masked gunmen wielding machine guns stormed the three-story Sultan Palace Hotel.
In New York, the Committee to Protect Journalists said it was "deeply concerned for the safety of our colleagues, and hope they are located swiftly and able to resume their important work covering this critical story."
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(Xinhua) -- A suicide car bomb struck a checkpoint manned by an Awakening Council group outside a village in Salahudin province on Sunday, killing 17 people and wounding more than 40 others, a local police source said. "A suicide bomber rammed in the afternoon his explosive-laden car into a checkpoint outside the village of Mazarie near the townof Yathrib, 70 km north of Baghdad," the source from town's police told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The source said the casualties include Awakening Council members and civilians. Earlier, the source put the death toll at four, with eight others injured. The Awakening Council groups are Sunni fighters who turned up against al-Qaida in Iraq network, cooperating with the U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces by guarding neighborhoods or providing information. Rifts emerged between predominantly Sunni insurgent groups and the al-Qaida in Iraq organization after the latter adopted a hardline Islam and exercised indiscriminate killings against both Shiite and Sunni Muslim communities.
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A senior commander in Tanzim, the military wing of Fatah, was arrested during an overnight operation in Bethlehem, the IDF announced on Monday.
Salaam Hamed al-Aviyat is suspected of planning and perpetrating multiple terror attacks against Israeli security forces, as well as Israeli civilians, the army said. Among his alleged acts of terror, al-Aviyat is suspected of helping to plan a car bomb attack on the Tunnel Road outside of Jerusalem in December, 2005. In addition, he is accused of staging multiple shooting attacks on civilian targets in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa, attacking IDF troops, and recruiting terror operatives.
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Army aircraft on Monday fired two missiles at a car transporting Hamas operatives in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, Palestinian sources said. All of the operatives escaped without harm, the sources said, but a bystander was hurt.
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DILI (Rooters) - Australian troops began arriving in East Timor on Tuesday to help enforce a state of emergency after the tiny nation's president was critically wounded in a double assassination attempt and flown to Darwin for treatment.
An Australian warship also arrived off the Dili coast on Tuesday to support the first of 200 fast reaction troops sent to reinforce international security forces as doctors said President Jose Ramos-Horta would remain on life support until next week.
The United Nations said 11 people had been questioned over Monday's attack, in which a rebel soldier leader was also killed, and that international security forces had responded swiftly.
"Investigations will be extensive and ongoing but we are expecting to give the first progress report to the prosecutor-general this afternoon or tomorrow morning," Finn Reske-Nielsen, acting U.N. mission chief, told a news conference.
In the northern Australian city of Darwin, where Ramos-Horta was airlifted with gunshot wounds in the chest, back and stomach, doctors said they planned more surgery.
"His condition remains extremely serious, but, by the same token, stable," Royal Darwin Hospital general manager Len Notaras told reporters, adding the president would need more surgery in the next 24-36 hours.
"He will be in an induced coma until at least Thursday, intensive care until Sunday or Monday of next week," he said.
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Two planes, carrying a total of 120 Australian soldiers and equipment, landed late on Tuesday afternoon.
In the capital Dili, East Timor's interim president Vicente Guterres declared a state of emergency and appealed for calm, after apparently coordinated attacks against the president and prime minister threw the young nation into a fresh crisis.
Around 1,600 U.N. police, backed by about 1,000 Australian soldiers, were patrolling Dili and other cities amid fears of fresh violence by rebel soldiers, whose leader Alfredo Reinado was killed in the surprise early morning assault.
"The government of East Timor is in firm control," said Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, ahead of a visit to the troubled nation later this week.
The commander of East Timor's military, Brigadier-General Taur Matan Ruak, called for an investigation into Monday's attacks and questioned the role of international forces.
"There has been a lack of capacity shown by the international forces who have primary responsibility for the security within Timor Leste (East Timor)," he told a news conference.
He also urged the public and media to persuade Reinado's followers, who had fled into the jungle, to return for talks.
Indonesia's military had increased border patrols to ensure rebels did not try to flee, Antara state news agency reported.
The commander of international troops in East Timor said separately that Ramos-Horta had opted to use local guards.
"Unless we had information that led to the time and the place the attack would occur, there was not a great deal that could have been done about it," said Brigadier James Baker.
Schools, businesses and government institutions were open in Dili, as local police stopped and checked cars, but the calm appeared uneasy and residents admitted they were nervous.
Meetings and protests are banned under the emergency, and all citizens must stay home between the hours of 8 p.m. and 6 a.m.
Ramos-Horta, 58, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1996 for waging a non-violent struggle for independence, was shot at his home early on Monday by renegade soldiers.
Reinado and another rebel soldier died in the shoot-out, which the East Timor government said was a coup attempt.
Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao escaped a similar attack that left his car riddled with bullets.
Asia's youngest nation has been unable to achieve stability since hard-won independence. The army tore apart along regional lines in 2006, triggering factional violence that killed 37 people and drove 150,000 from their homes.
Foreign troops were needed to restore order.
Reinado had led a revolt against the government and was charged with murder during the 2006 factional violence, although later that year he escaped jail with 50 other inmates, embarrassing security forces.
The former Portuguese colony of about a 1 million people gained full independence in 2002 after a U.N.-sponsored vote in 1999, marred by violence, ended more than two decades of brutal Indonesian occupation.
The predominantly Roman Catholic nation, though one of Asia's poorest countries, is strategically important for Australia and Indonesia, and has potentially lucrative energy reserves.
Thailand's new government will consider granting some degree of self-rule to Muslim-majority provinces hit by bloody terrorism separatist unrest, Interior Minister Chalerm Yubamrung said Tuesday. In the latest atrocities unrest, a 40-year-old Buddhist man was shot and set ablaze in Pattani province late Monday, while three others were shot dead in nearby provinces early Tuesday, police said.
"I want to reaffirm that autonomy is possible, but we will have to discuss what type of autonomy it would be," Chalerm told reporters. He said that Thailand would consider China's westernmost Xinjiang region, which is autonomous and predominantly Muslim, as a possible model. "We cannot afford to allow so many deadly bombings. We must take measures to improve the situation and not just wait to be killed," he said.
However Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej was cautious about the proposal, saying his government would develop its policy on the jihad insurgency within a few days. "What Chalerm proposed, he thinks a good idea. But I think this idea could be dangerous and it could get out of hand," he told reporters after his second cabinet meeting.
Chalerm said that unlike his predecessors, he would not make frequent trips to the Muslim south, saying such trips only spark more violence. "Terrorists Militants retaliate fiercely when a senior government minister visits the region," he said.
Chalerm also indicated that intelligence agencies continued to believe terrorists militants could seek to expand their activities and possibly stage bomb attacks in the southern commercial centre of Hat Yai or even in Bangkok. He said night clubs in the southern region were particularly at risk, because terrorists militants saw them as an affront to Islam. Chalerm said he would ask local officials to consider new restrictions on night life.
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If you grant them autonomy you might as well declare them an independent country because your war will increase until that happens once you've given in to their initial demands.
(Xinhua) -- Two policemen and six Tamil Tiger rebels were killed on Monday in northern Sri Lanka as clashes between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels intensified, defense officials said. Officials from the Media Center for National Security said two police officers were killed when a police motorcycle was caught in a mine explosion triggered by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels in the Vavuniya district around 7:50 a.m. (0220 GMT).
In the Mannar district, one police officer was injured at 7:00 a.m. (0130 GMT) due to a claymore explosion while doing route clearing. Meanwhile, six LTTE rebels were killed by government troops in Muhamalai of the Jaffna peninsula in two attacks carried out around 8:45 a.m. (0315 GMT) and 12:45 p.m. (0715 GMT) respectively.
Intensive military conflicts are underway in the north, with the government determining to defeat the LTTE before the end of this year. The military said more than 700 people have been killed in the escalating conflict since the beginning of this year.
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The officials [two technicians from the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission] were on a routine visit to conduct a geological survey for mineral exploration.
Nuke Experts? Sounds more like rock farmers with gieger counters.
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Taliban kidnap Pakistani ambassador to Afghanistan, demand release of Mansoor Dadullah
On the same day Pakistani security forces captured the former Taliban commander of southern Afghanistan the Taliban retaliated by kidnapping Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan. The Taliban have offered to release Ambassador Tariq Azizuddin in exchange for Mansoor Dadullah.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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(Xinhua)-- A commander of a rebel movement in the conflict-torn western Sudanese region of Darfur has been killed in fighting near the Chadian capital N'djamena between the Chadian government troops and rebel forces, Sudan's official SUNA news agency reported on Monday. 
An Al Qaeda group has claimed responsibility for killing eight paramilitary gendarmes in an ambush in eastern Algeria last week. 
Terror suspects Mohammed Ghouse alias Riyazuddin Nasir and Asadullah Abubaker were subjected to a brain mapping test on Thursday. The two were put to tests at the Bangalore Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL).
The acting director of a Baghdad psychiatric hospital has been arrested on suspicion of supplying al-Qaeda in Iraq with the mentally impaired women that it used to blow up two crowded animal markets in the city on February 1, killing about 100 people. 
A car bomb followed by a mortar attack struck near the compound of one of Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite politicians on Monday, killing at least three civilians and wounding seven, police said. A huge plume of white smoke rose into the sky and sirens wailed after the blast occurred just before noon behind a gas station near the offices of Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, the leader of Iraq's largest Shiite party, Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, or SIIC. Police said it was not yet known if the car was parked or being driven by a suicide attacker.
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