A firefight between Islamic insurgents and Somali police at a checkpoint outside the capital has left five people dead, witnesses said Thursday.
Four officers and one civilian were killed in the gunbattle that started late Wednesday when insurgents raided the police checkpoint. The insurgents used machine-guns, rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles in the surprise attack, said Asho Nur, who sells tea at the site.
A spokesman for the military wing of a radical Islamic movement, Abdirahin Isse Adow, said the aim of the raid was "to cripple both the military and the economic sources of the enemy."
Thousands of Somalis have been killed in fighting between Islamic insurgents and Ethiopian troops supporting Somalia's shaky government over the past 12 months.
The Islamists vowed to fight after the Ethiopians dislodged them from power in December 2006. They had held the capital and much of southern Somalia for six months before they were pushed out.
Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew dictator Mohamed Siad Barre and then turned on one another. A web of clan loyalties and the involvement of archenemies Eritrea and Ethiopia further complicates the conflict in the impoverished country.
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Accordion lady until confirmed by U.S. agencies. Similar story with Colombian sources from the BBC.
Appears to have not been a good week for FARC...
BOGOTA, Colombia - A top rebel leader was killed by his own chief of security, who gave Colombian troops the leader's severed hand as proof, the defense minister said Friday. Ooooookay...
Five fingerpads for prints; grind the rest to extract the DNA ...
Ivan Rios was the second top rebel killed in a week, a major setback for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the country's largest rebel force.
No top Colombian rebel leader had ever been slain until Raul Reyes was killed Saturday in a cross-border raid by Colombian troops into Ecuador that set off an international diplomatic crisis."The FARC has suffered a new, major blow," Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos told reporters, calling Rios' death "yet another demonstration that the FARC is falling apart."
He said troops launched an operation designed to capture Rios on Feb. 17 after receiving tips that he was in a mountainous area straddling the western Colombian provinces of Caldas and Antioquia, and engaged the guerrillas' outer security ring seven times.
Thursday night, he said, a guerrilla known as Rojas came to the troops with Rios' severed right hand, laptop computer and ID, saying he had killed his boss three days earlier. It'd be tough to use a laptop with one hand anyways. Better off he's dead. Or supposedly dead...
Maybe it was the left hand, and he could still use a mouse ...
It was unclear what motivated the killing, but Santos said it was to "relieve the military pressure" because the rebels were "surrounded, without supplies and without communication." The U.S. State Department has a bounty of $5 million for Rios' capture. Unclear? I can think of 5 million motivations, myself...
Five million buys a lot of rice and beans ...
Santos said Colombia waited to make the announcement until it had confirmed Rios' identity, which it did Friday. He did not say what happened to Rojas, nor whether authorities had recovered the rest of Rios' body. He did not take questions.
I'd like the severed head myself, but I am a neat freak about these things ...
Rios, whose real name has been given as Jose Juvenal Velandia and Manuel Jesus Munoz, faced U.S. federal charges of drug smuggling, and was on a U.S. Treasury Department list of terrorists and drug traffickers.
The 46-year-old Rios became known across Colombia as one of the rebels' main negotiators in failed peace talks that ended in 2002. Unlike the FARC's mostly peasant leadership, he was a former university student who engaged journalists and foreign envoys in political and economic discussions.
Most of the commie bigs have a university, middle-class background.
"He was the youngest member of the secretariat. He was very important to the rebels," said Alfredo Rangel of the Bogota-based think tank Security and Democracy. "This shows the army is capable of taking down the rebels' most important pillars and that any of the leaders can fall at any time."
In a 1999 interview with The Associated Press, Rios said he joined the insurgency as a student in Medellin to avoid being killed by right-wing death squads that had attacked other student activists. He commanded the FARC's central bloc, which operates throughout Colombia's northwestern coffee region. Security forces say he frequently accompanied the FARC's senior leader, Manuel "Sureshot" Marulanda, in recent years.
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A top rebel leader was killed by his own chief of security, who gave Colombian troops the leader's severed hand as proof, the defense minister said Friday.
Much easier to carry around in your pocket, and Fedex is expensive for a whole body, not to mention all the biohazard rules.
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Prudent to keep accordion lady, but quite a lot of details to this story, including the delay in confirmation, which makes the separate anti-FARC actions timing very interesting.
Quite a bot of divide and conquer, and seige, and starve and flush and hack (PC) and hack (hand) and pressure and coordination going on here.
Seems Uribe has FARC, Chavez and toadies rocked back on their heels. It's good to be offensive.
SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela ended a dispute on Friday, publicly shaking hands at a summit after a week of troop buildups that also saw several countries cutting ties with Colombia.
"And with this ... this incident that has caused so much damage would be resolved," leftist Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said before standing up and shaking hands with his U.S.-backed Colombian counterpart Alvaro Uribe.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who had blamed the United States for the crisis as he sent tanks to the border with U.S.-ally Colombia, joined in shaking Uribe's hand vigorously, applauding loudly and smiling broadly.
The resolution of the dispute, which erupted on Saturday when Colombia raided inside Ecuador to kill a commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, was a surprise ending to the summit.
The handshakes were broadcast live on television across Latin America in response to a special request from summit host Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernandez.
Earlier Uribe and Correa had clashed at the meeting.
Correa had called his conservative Colombian counterpart a liar after he accused him of links to guerrillas.
The crisis had spread across the region with leftist allies Venezuela and Nicaragua joining Ecuador in cutting diplomatic ties with Colombia, while Venezuela and Ecuador poured troops to their borders against the strongest U.S. ally in the region.
Nicaragua responded to the ending of the dispute by restoring ties with Colombia.
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The smart money would be on Venezuela; el dictador is loaded with oil money, and armed to the teeth. What is Ecuador's interest? They claim that Peru occupies half of their real territory. They are probably thinking of some post-Columbia move against Peru. Then there is Bolivia, which claims much of southern Peru.
Folks, the global enemy is loaded with oil and drug money. We played the political-islam and phony-freedom (viz supporting one-time pseudo-democratic elections) cards and failed, miserably. Six years of post-911 wheel spinning, has yielded nothing but global realignment in favor of the enemy. And now Obama is well positioned to include the White House in said realignment.
If I hear one more politician speak of our need to respect the wishes of the people of Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Venezuela, I will puke. I don't want terrorists to vote; I want them to die.
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Don't know wether this is related but...
March 7th, 2008
Border incident between Colombians and Venezuela
http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=1302
from the above link-
"Noticias24 reports a border incident between Colombian civilians and the Venezuelan Army.
My rough Spanish-as-a-second-language translation follows;
In a confused incident, a unit of the DISIP (Venezuelan Security forces) has crossed the frontier and has penetrated into Colombian territory in Paraguachón. The inhabitants have surrounded the patrol and they have not allowed that the Venezuelan officials to recover the patrol.
Apparently, the unit of the DISIP was recovering a vehicle. The group of citizens of Paraguachón has exchanged insults against the DISIP of Venezuela and, with their aggressive attitude, units of the National Guard have crossed the border to help them and to protect them.
After minutes of tension, the situation returned to the calm but the vehicle of the DISIP still is in Colombian territory surrounded by the inhabitants of the locality. Colombian police units have approached the place."
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) A top rebel leader was killed by his own chief of security, who gave Colombian troops the leader's severed hand as proof, the defense minister said Friday. Ivan Rios was the second top rebel killed in a week, a major setback for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the country's largest rebel force.
No top Colombian rebel leader had ever been slain until Raul Reyes was killed Saturday in a cross-border raid by Colombian troops into Ecuador that set off an international diplomatic crisis.
"The FARC has suffered a new, major blow," Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos told reporters, calling Rios' death "yet another demonstration that the FARC is falling apart."
He said troops launched an operation designed to capture Rios on Feb. 17 after receiving tips that he was in a mountainous area straddling the western Colombian provinces of Caldas and Antioquia, and engaged the guerrillas' outer security ring seven times.
Thursday night, he said, a guerrilla known as Rojas came to the troops with Rios' severed right hand, laptop computer and ID, saying he had killed his boss three days earlier.
It was unclear what motivated the killing, but Santos said it was to "relieve the military pressure" because the rebels were "surrounded, without supplies and without communication."
Well, well, well...a blast from the past. We all remember our boy, Mamdouh, right?
A judge ruled Friday that an Australian man's claim that he was mistreated in custody in Pakistan before being sent to the U.S. jail for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay could not be believed. Justice Peter McClellan of the New South Wales state Supreme Court ruled against Mamdouh Habib in the man's defamation suit against a Sydney newspaper, which Habib said had implied he lied about being tortured.
He said Habib was "prone to exaggerate," "evasive" and had made claims about mistreatment in Pakistan and Egypt which could not be sustained.
"I am satisfied that Mr. Habib's claims that he was seriously mistreated in the place of detention in Islamabad cannot be accepted," McClellan said. He said Habib was "prone to exaggerate," "evasive" and had made claims about mistreatment in Pakistan and Egypt which could not be sustained. "I have reflected at length on his evidence and have ultimately concluded that I cannot accept the allegations of mistreatment in the detail which he gave the evidence in this court," the judge said.
Habib said he would appeal. I wonder if ASIO is still sneaking into his house and moving around his furniture?
Habib, an Egyptian-born immigrant, was arrested in late 2001 in Pakistan. He says he was held there for 28 days and was interrogated by Americans before being transferred to Egypt, then six months later to the U.S. military base at Bagram, Afghanistan and then Guantanamo Bay.
Habib told the court he had been beaten "like a dog" and electrocuted by his captors while he was in Pakistan, and that while in Egypt he was kept drugged and shackled, had his fingers broken, and was sexually molested. He claimed that Australian officials were present during parts of his ordeal.
Habib was returned to Australia in January 2005. No charges were ever filed against him, and the Australian government says he has committed no crime under Australian law. The government cancelled his passport, however, saying he posed a continuing security threat. U.S. officials accused Habib, of traveling to al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and knowing about the September 11, 2001 attacks before they happened. "I spent half my life in Guantanamo Bay, the rest I'm going to spend in an Australian court house," he told reporters outside the court. "I want to get justice, that's what I'm after." Habib has appeared regularly in media interviews talking about the alleged abuse. Christ, he sounds like Roger Clemens...
Habib sued Sydney's The Daily Telegraph newspaper for a 2005 article he said defamed him by implying he had lied about the alleged torture, and a civil jury initially upheld Habib's claim. The paper's publisher, News Ltd., launched a legal defense of the article that was based on challenging Habib's credibility. Friday's ruling was the result of that case. Habib is also suing the federal government for compensation, arguing the government failed to uphold his rights as a citizen during his detention. It was not immediately clear what effect Friday's ruling would have on the compensation case, which is under way in a different court. Keep it up, bub. Gitmo's still there...
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Habib:I spent half my life in Guantanamo Bay
Thanks, ptah, now I know the significance of the photo. The kid in the cowboy outfit must be
Mamdouh when he was captured.
Little wonder that Judge McClellan concluded that Habib has a propensity to exaggerate.
The Netherlands has raised its terrorism alert level to "substantial" because of the planned release of an anti-Islam film by a far right politician, the justice ministry said Thursday. "While there is no concrete indications of impending attacks in the Netherlands, the increased international terrorism threat has prompted to raise the threat level for the Netherlands from 'limited' to 'substantial'," the ministry said. "Compounding the threat is the fact that the Netherlands has been cast in a negative light in the Islamic world due to the tone of the debate on Islam in this country, especially since the announcement of a controversial film on the Koran," the statement added.
Far right deputy Geert Wilders has said that his short movie -- which he says attacks the Koran as a "fascist book" -- will air in March. The international media attention for Wilders movie "has led to the posting of death threats against the Freedom Party leader on one of the leading international jihadist web forums", according to the national anti-terrorism coordinator NCTb. Other factors, such as the Dutch government's decision to extend the mandate of Dutch troops fighting in Afghanistan, were also taken into account in raising the threat assessment, it added.
In light of thwarted terrorist attacks in Germany and Denmark in December 2007 and in Spain in January of this year motivated by the presence of Western troops in Afghanistan, "this is a real source of risk for the Netherlands". The Wilders film has caused uproar in Muslim countries, some of whom have called for an economic boycott of the Netherlands if the film is shown.
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If islam is not a cause of terrorism, why raise the terror alert level?
muslims will likely decry such actions (out of one side of their mouth) and explain why violence is completely understandable as a response (out of the other side).
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So will it or won't it air? reports yesterday said no Dutch station would braodcast it, but it would be available via the web; seems to me that if the terror alert is going up for a webcast, might as well go all in and put it out over the airwaves. flush the muzzies from the sewers to they can be dealt with.
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What percent Muzz are in Netherlands ? Is it more than 20 % ? Are these pikers going to knuckle down and present their necks for decapitation for 20 % shrieking Islamos? Why not put out a national alert sayinmg ANY rioting would be met by troops firing live ammo with no hesitation to kill.
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Wilders should put his work on YouTube. And if YouTube won't take it he should put it on a web site of his own. Let the seething commence. If we are ever going to drag these people kicking and screaming into the 21st century so that we have a chance of surviving with our own culture in tact we need to get into their faces with the truth.
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If islam is not a cause of terrorism, why raise the terror alert level?
Awesome quote, hope you don't mind if I use it.
"has led to the posting of death threats against the Freedom Party leader on one of the leading international jihadist web forums",
..but this is not a hate crime?
An alleged international arms dealer has been charged with conspiracy to provide weapons to a foreign terrorist organization, the U.S. Justice Department said.
Viktor Bout, arrested Wednesday in Bangkok, was charged with conspiring to sell millions of dollars worth of weapons -- including surface-to-air missiles -- to Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, or FARC, a designated foreign terrorist organization, the Justice Department said Thursday.
The indictment alleges that Bout and associate Andrew Smulian agreed to sell to FARC millions of dollars worth of weapons. During recorded telephone calls and e-mails, Bout and Smulian agreed to sell the weapons to two confidential sources working with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration who presented themselves as FARC representatives.
The U.S. plans to pursue the extradition of Bout from Thailand, the department said. "Viktor Bout and Andrew Smulian agreed to arm terrorists with high-powered weapons that have fueled some of the most violent conflicts in recent memory," said U.S. Attorney Michael J. Garcia.
Michele M. Leonhart, acting DEA administrator, said Bout's arrest resulted from DEA working with his partner. "This arms trafficker was poised to arm a narco-terrorist organization, but he now faces justice in the United States," Leonhart said.
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I bet the underground arm's world is talking and someone will take his place.
A protege perhaps of the "Prince of Marbella" [Monzer al-Kassar]. I'd first look in the Spanish cell he's supposed to be locked up in, since June 8, 2007.
Monzer al-Kassar waz an old asshole buddy of the dead Hafez Assad #1.
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Victor Bout would sell leaking WMD arty rounds to his grandmother and work for the United States and sell al-Qaeda Nukes/weapons. Africa waz one of his favorite stomping grounds.
*The kind of guy the World's spy agencies love to keep tabs on and "work" with. [comment welcomed]*
Viktor Bout, Russian arms dealer: Liberals were thrilled when it waz discovered that we hired his Company's [Irbis] fleet of 60 + - Air Cargo haulers from the huge Ilyushin 76 down to rugged Soviet cargo/puddle jumpers to supply the build up in Iraq, while other agencies of our gubmint were looking to arrest him.
Became one of liberals favorite whipping boys when going after VP Dick Cheney and Prez. Bush.
*Yuri Orlov*, Nicolas Cage's character in the 2005 film Lord of War is said to be partially based on Viktor Bout.
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Victor Bout: Raconteur, Whipping Boy and Clothes Horse
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ABC News said last night he would fly into some hell hole with a plane load of weapons and then fly out with a plane load of drugs. Prison's too good for him. He looks like the kind of guy who would enjoy it. How about a polonium cocktail, comrade? Then you can tell us what we wanna know if you want us to put you out of your misery.
But Bout's arrest in Thailand begs the question: what was he doing there?
Bout has armed insurgencies in the region in the past, in particular in the Philippines. There is more to suggest that Bout was in the region not to arm insurgents, but to negotiate the purchase of arms. Though there is an insurgency in Southern Thailand, almost all of their weaponry has been captured.
Thai authorities announced that they will hold a press conference on Friday on the details of Bout's arrest. They have revealed little information other than the fact that he had recently landed in Thailand, though had been in the region for a period of time and that they had been tracking him.
That he was arrested on a DEA tipoff suggests that he may have been involved in narcotics, metamphetimines or heroin from Burma, serious concerns for both the Americans and Thais.
If he was shopping for arms, my educated hunch is he was buying surplus Chinese weapons from the Burmese junta. They have enormous stockpiles of weapons provided by China and need the cash.
Bout used to buy up the huge cache of weaponry (mainly Chinese) at the border market between Thailand and Cambodia, but his consignment-amount of weapons aren't so available there anymore.
Bout may also have been in either Burma or Cambodia to illegally purchase end-user certificates which would allow him to purchase large amounts of weaponry illegally.
One could also not rule out a meeting with North Korean arms dealers. North Korean operatives are active in Southeast Asia, where they purvey everything from weapons, to metamphetimines, to "Super Notes" (high-quality counterfeit U.S. dollars).
The Koreans have a history of selling end-user certificates to unsavory figures. A few years ago they sold the Tamil Tigers end-user certificates that allowed them to purchase a large consignment of weapons from NORINCO.
Thailand is the regional transit hub, and it has a long history of being a center of narcotics trade and document forging. But since 9/11 the government has upgraded its intelligence capabilities as well as its border security.
Bout was not the first big fish to be arrested there. These investments are paying dividends.
From Bill Roggio and the Long War Journal. Lots of speculation on the various blogs (try Google and 'Adam Gadahn dead') but little real information. Lots of salt, folks.
As US and Pakistani intelligence attempted to determine who else might have been killed in the Jan. 29 US airstrike in North Waziristan that took the life of al Qaeda commander Abu Laith al Libi, a new, unconfirmed report claimed Adam Gadahn, Laith's American deputy, died in the strike, as did two Kuwaitis and four other terrorists.
Sources inside Pakistan told the Nine/Eleven Finding Answers Foundation that US traitor Adam Gadahn was killed, along with Abu Suhail, Laith's former deputy; Hamza al Somali, who is presumably of Australian or US nationality; Abu Ubayda Tawari Rakhis al Mutairi, a Kuwaiti national; Abu Adil al Kuwaiti, another Kuwaiti; and at least three Uzbek nationals. "It should be noted that the death of the American Gadahn has not yet been officially confirmed," the Nine/Eleven Finding Answers Foundation reported.
Maybe the body parts are just too scattered, or maybe they're admixed with others ...
Speculation about Gadahn's death surfaced immediately after the airstrike, as Pakistani sources told US and Pakistani news agencies that Gadahn had not been seen or heard from since the strike. Gadahn was purportedly attending the meeting chaired by Laith, who was planning al Qaeda's 2008 campaign in Afghanistan. Al Qaeda has been quick to lionize the death of its leaders, for propaganda and recruiting reasons. Laith's death was announced on a jihadi Internet forum within three days of the airstrike in North Waziristan.
This article starring:
ABU ADIL AL KUWAITI
al-Qaeda
ABU LAITH AL LIBI
al-Qaeda
ABU OBEIDA TAWARI AL OBEIDI
al-Qaeda
ABU SUHAIL
al-Qaeda
ABU UBAIDA TAWARI RAKHIS AL MUTAIRI
al-Qaeda
ADAM GADAHN
al-Qaeda
HAMZA AL SOMALI
al-Qaeda
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The always reliable HotAir is saying he's dead, but still no official confirmation.
Mike
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Maybe the body parts are just too scattered, or maybe they're admixed with others ...
or because....fat burns
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Hopefully, He is enjoying his 72 Virginians!
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If they're Virginians, they'll be enjoying it, anyway. Mr. Gadahn likely is not. But then, he isn't smart enough to realize why, poor man, so that's ok.
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Compare wid RENSE > POLIDICS.com - BBC DOCUMENTARY: CIA OPERATIVES CLAIM AL QAEDA IS A COMPLETE [US] FABRICATION. BBC documen "THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES".
ABOVE BBC DOCUMEN SCOPE - IOW, by definition/
extension then, RADICAL ISLAM IS LOSING IN IRAQ-ME, ETC BECUZ UNKNOWN ELEMENTS IN ITS LEADERSHIP = ORGZ's ARE ACTUALLY US INTEL "DEEP COVER/
COVERT" AGENTS-OPERATIVES, THAT RADICAL ISLAMISM HAS BEEN PENETRATED AND COMPROMISED???
A petition challenging the allegedly unlawful detention of a frontline Al-Qaeda operative, Shaikh Khalid Muhammad, filed by his sister Mariam, was disposed off Thursday, March 6, by a division bench of the High Court of Sindh (SHC) comprising Justice Azizullah M. Memon and Justice Arshad Noor Khan. Ghulam Qadir Jatoi advocate, appearing for the petitioner, submitted that news items carried by the local and foreign media have alleged that the detainee was in the custody of the US authorities. The bench made it clear that the case was futile as the petition cited the Pakistani authorities, including the Federal Interior Secretary, DG ISI, DG IB, Home Secretary Sindh. The court has no command or jurisdiction over foreign authorities, the bench observed while disposing of the petition. Shaikh Khalid Muhammad was arrested from a Karachi township and was handed over to the US authorities. He was identified as a chief Al-Qaeda operative.
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Shaikh Khalid Muhammad
Is this the same as Khalid Shieck Muhammad??? AS IN- the guy who admitted to running the 9/11 attacks? And after we waterboarded him, gave us specific intelligence on what these f* ups were up to next????
Grab his little sister Mariam. Waterboard her too.
I'm sorry- it's just that there is mass grave on the south of my island. It makes me a bit 'touchy.'
Security forces arrested three suspected militants and seized suicide jackets and explosives at Batti Chowk near Minar-e-Pakistan in Lahore on Thursday, police said. Lahore Police Chief Malik Iqbal said police and intelligence agents arrested the suspects after they arrived on a bus from the Tribal Areas.
Police seized four suicide jackets, 50 kilogrammes of explosives and other bomb-making materials that the three men were carrying in their luggage, Iqbal told a news conference.
The men said they belonged to a terrorist organisation, Iqbal said. They were to accelerate the wave of terrorism in Lahore and had planned to blow up some important installations and target some important personalities, he said. Iqbal didnt identify the terrorist group or the suspected targets saying it was a sensitive matter.
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An anti-terrorism court on Thursday remanded five suspects in custody for their alleged involvement in the assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto in a gun-and-bomb attack.
Besides the attack on Benazir, Rafaqat and Hasnain Gul are also accused of involvement in three other suicide attacks in Rawalpindi: two in Royal Artillery (RA) Bazaar that targeted a secret agencys officials, and one at a police checkpost near Army House.
Rafaqat, the son of a retired headmaster, and his brother-in-law Hasnain Gul have confessed to providing logistics to suicide bombers in the four blasts in Rawalpindi. They were arrested in January on information gleaned from the investigation of Aitzaz and Sher, who were arrested in Dera Ismail Khan and confessed that they knew the people who had planned and executed the attack on the former premier.
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ABDUL RASHID
Taliban
AITZAZ SHAH
Taliban
HASNAIN GUL
Taliban
RAFAQAT
Taliban
SHER ZAMAN
Taliban
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A soldier was killed and two others wounded when a landmine blew up their vehicle in Balochistan early on Thursday, AFP quoted officials as saying.
The blast happened near a gas field in Nasirabad, a security official who requested anonymity said. The two injured soldiers were rushed to hospital after their vehicle was destroyed, the official said. The vehicle had been carrying troops on a routine patrol when it hit the land mine, AP quoted local police chief Najmudin Tareen as saying.
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I never thought to ask... what kind of squirt-gun is the big turban carrying?
Emotions are running extremely high in Shaikhan village, bordering the Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency, with villagers on Thursday blowing up a bridge and blocked the main road. This follows an attack on a shrine by armed supporters of private tribal militia leader Mangal Bagh on Monday, which killed 12 and injured scores of others.
On Monday, several armed men affiliated with Lashkar-e-Islam (LI), a tribal militia operating in Khyber Agencys Bara tehsil, stormed a shrine in the Shaikhan village, killing 12 villagers, including the majavars (custodians) of the shrine. The LI men attacked the shrine with rocket launchers, set it ablaze after taking away a grill that had enclosed two large graves. According to residents, they also tried to blow up the graves, but the explosives did not go off. Many other small graves in the shrine compound were damaged in the attack though.
On Thursday, angry villagers blew up a bridge and blocked Bara Road with tree trunks near the Bara Qadeem checkpost.
No shrines warning: A villager told Daily Times that the head of the LI, Mangal Bagh, had warned villagers on Wednesday on his illegal FM radio channel that his organisation would not tolerate shrines in the area. There are more than five shrines in the locality, he added.
Which government should we obey, the one in Peshawar or the tribal militia leader from Bara?
Farhad Ali, a resident of Shaikhan village, said the LI men also took jewellery and other precious items from villagers homes after the raid on the shrine. He asked, why does the LI not shut heroin and hashish centres in Bara instead of attacking our villages? In terms of the writ of state in the area, Ali asked also: Which government should we obey, the one in Peshawar or the [one the] tribal militia leader from Bara [is trying to enforce]?
Villagers said they were worried about further incursions by the militia. They said members of the dominant tribe of the area, the Khalil Mohmand tribe, would sit together on Friday at Sarband to decide the future course of action.
Tit-for-tat: Locals said they would not tolerate the militia leaders shenanigans and would give a tit-for-tat response for the attack. They said they would continue their struggle till Baghs sway in the area ended.
Sarband Police Station officials told Daily Times the situation was under control in the area after Mondays attack. Police had registered a first information report (FIR) against Mangal Bagh and 500 hundred of his supporters on Tuesday under the anti-terrorism act, he added.
Any of them arrested? I thought not.
SSP Operations Syed Imtiaz Shah told Daily Times the security forces, including the police and the Frontier Constabulary (FC), had been deployed in the area to prevent any further incursions. He said the police had also written to the Khyber Agency political agent asking for the arrest of Mangal Bagh and his followers. He said it was the political administrations responsibility to arrest Bagh as he was living in the tribal area [under their governance].
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MANGAL BAGH
Lashkar-e-Islami
Lashkar-e-Islam
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A previously unknown extremist group calling itself Al Qaeda Punjab has threatened to destroy United Nations (UN) offices in Pakistan if the newly inducted two women drivers in UNICEF are not fired within a month, according to an e-mail and letter that was sent to the UN operations chief.
UN Islamabad security adviser Joe Gordon has asked the Islamabad police superintendent, in a letter, to trace the unknown extremist outfit and tighten security of UN offices.
Police has set up an investigation team in this regard. UN Security Operations Officer Suleman Khan could not be contacted despite repeated telephone calls.
Sources quoted the content of the email as, Dear Muslim brothers, convey our message to foreigners that they have started hiring women drivers to spread vulgarity. Have men vanished? A woman working in office is tolerable, but the UN is insulting women by hiring them as drivers. UNICEF has committed a mistake by hiring the two women in Islamabad. We are warning UNICEF that if it does not expel the women drivers, we will destroy its office. Three of our associates are working with the UN under the car rental business. We will destroy UN offices in Islamabad, Lahore, Quetta and Peshawar if [our demands are not met]. Ignoring this letter will be a mistake. From Abu Al-Hassan, the information secretary Al Qaeda Punjab.
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Indeed, two women driving trucks might bring down your entire religion.
Unidentified miscreants on Thursday chopped off a mans ear some 30 kilometres from Bajaur Agency headquarters Khar, while in a separate incident a youth was killed and another person injured when unidentified gunmen opened fire in Khars Inayat Killay Bazaar. Bajaur Agency resident Faisal Khans ear was chopped off because miscreants suspected him of providing water to government employees in the Nawagai area. He has been admitted to Khar Hospital for treatment. Political authorities are investigating the incident. Meanwhile, gunmen opened fire in the Inayat Killay Bazaar, killing a youth, Yar Gul, and injuring another local, Syed Rehman. They were rushed to Khar Hospital, where the latters condition was said to be stable. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack so far. Traders closed the second-largest bazaar of the agency in protest. Because of the volatile security situation in the bazaar, the political administration had already shifted all banks to Khar Bazaar. Security has been beefed up in the agency and Levies deployment has been reinforced at sensitive places.
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At least 25 tribesmen were kidnapped on Thursday, by rival groups from different parts of Kurram Agency and the Mamoond area near Thall in Hangu district, official sources said.
Four Turi tribesmen were kidnapped on Thursday morning from Mamoond, a settled part of the Thall area. In response, the Turis abducted 21 people of the Mangal tribe from different parts of the agency.
Residents of the Mamoond area told APP that the people of Kurram Agency were involved in the kidnapping of Turi tribesmen. They demanded that the government act against those involved in the kidnapping. A tribesman said the kidnapping had made the situation tense in the agency. It may trigger unrest if the administration does not act quickly, he said.
Separately, the power supply to the agency was suspended due to a fault in a 132KV transmission line, a Tribal Electric Supply Company (TESCO) official said. We are trying to remove the fault as soon as possible, he added.
The agencys oil supply was also suspended after a number of oil-tanker drivers blocked a main road with their vehicles, in protest against the killing of their colleague in Lower Kurram.
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Security forces and police raided some godowns in the Kozabamakhela area of Matta tehsil, Swat, on Thursday, recovering a huge amount of weaponry.
No one was arrested in the raids, in which the security forces recovered 22 rocket launchers; a bomb; two crates of Bren gun rounds; three crates of mines; explosives used in bomb-making; a welding machine; stolen quilts and blankets; and edible items.
A curfew was re-imposed on the area until 3:00pm. It was earlier lifted for an hour, while a search operation was launched in the Sambat, Rahim Abad, and Sambat Cham areas of Matta. Separately, a large number of security personnel were deployed in the mountains of the Barikot area, and rumours of a potential operation in the area panicked the residents.
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God--what a waste--there must have been nothing recognizable left of those 5 guys. I can't believe they would be so careless trying to remove a shell like that! If they had any training whatsoever, they certainly ignored it.
Should have just detonated it in place.
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"There's one guy firing into the air"
"He's in mourning for his friend."
One good thing that may come out of this is perhaps they can use the video to drive home the point that volunteers should listen better to their instructors.
BAGHDAD Coalition forces captured a suspected Special Groups facilitator and killed an armed criminal here early this morning. The targeted individual was reportedly an Iranian-backed Special Groups facilitator who arranged for Special Groups criminal militia members to receive training in Iran. Hope his class rosters were recovered.
The training prepared Special Groups criminals for sniper, improvised explosive device and explosively formed penetrator attacks against Iraqi and Coalition forces. As a facilitator, he reportedly coordinated Special Groups funding, training and weapons. Reports also indicate the wanted individual was an associate of Iranian-backed Special Groups criminals involved in attacks on Iraqi and Coalition forces.
Upon arrival at the target area, Coalition forces were engaged by an armed man with an assault rifle. Coalition forces returned fire in self-defense, killing the criminal. Doesn't speak well of the quality of training this guy facilitated, fortunately.
Coalition forces continued the operation, capturing the wanted individual without further incident. "While violence has decreased across the region, a tough fight remains ahead," said Lt. Col. Maura Gillen, MNF-I spokeswoman. "We will continue to pursue the criminal militias who dishonor al-Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr's ... Currently recuperating in Iran from lead, blood, er food poisoning?
... cease-fire pledge by committing senseless acts of violence against the Iraqi people and the security forces that protect them."
BAGHDAD - Two bombs went off within minutes of each other in a Baghdad commercial district Thursday evening, killing nine people and wounding 18, police and officials at three hospitals said. At least one of those killed died at the hospital, an official said.
A roadside bomb detonated first in the primarily Shia, middle class neighborhood of Karradah neighborhood, which was followed a couple of minutes later by a bomb in a nearby garbage can.
A police officer said the blasts also damaged seven shops and four parked cars. Like the rest of those who provided information, he spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasnt authorized to release information. Many of the victims were teens or young adults and four were women, police and hospital officials said.
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US and Iraqi forces killed nine suspected insurgents and detained eight others in a raid targeting Al Qaeda in northern Iraq, the US military told AP on Thursday. Three Iraqi troops were killed in the operation.
The Tal Afar Special Weapons and Tactics team, made up of US forces and Iraqi SWAT teams, on Sunday targeted a cell responsible for assassinations and bombing attacks in the Tal Afar area in Iraqs Ninevah province, the military said in a statement.
During the raid, several fighters opened a barrage of gunfire at the Iraqi and US troops, killing the three Iraqi soldiers and wounding three others. In the ensuing gunfight, the US-Iraqi team killed nine suspected insurgents. Three Iraqi civilians were wounded and treated at the scene and eight suspected cell members were detained for questioning, including two who were wounded and evacuated to a military hospital for treatment, the military said.
During the operation, the team found bomb-making materials, a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, rifles, grenades, a landmine and ammunition, according to the statement.
Pullout: Also, some 2,000 US soldiers are being withdrawn from Baghdad as part of a planned reduction of US forces in Iraq, the US military said.
The 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, was part of the extra 30,000 soldiers sent last year to stop savage sectarian violence between Sunni and Shiite Muslims that had threatened to tip the country into a civil war.
I can state that (they) are leaving and there is no replacement brigade combat team coming in, US military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Steve Stover told Reuters.
Since the 30,000 troops became fully deployed in mid-2007, violence has dropped by 60 percent, prompting General David Petraeus, the US military commander in Iraq, to announce that five of 20 brigades would be pulled out by July 2008.
There are more than 150,000 US troops in Iraq, with about 34,500 deployed in the Iraqi capital. The drawdown is expected to cut the overall total by about 20,000.
Stover said the 2,000 soldiers of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team based in northeast Baghdad were also in the process of returning home after a 15-month tour. They included support and service staff as well as combat troops.
For operational reasons he could not say whether other US soldiers or Iraqi forces would fill the gap left by the departing brigade.
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Yitzhak Dadon, a student at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva, described the events of a terrorist shooting attack at the school Thursday evening, which left eight dead and nine others wounded, saying he was armed with a rifle and waited on the roof of a nearby building.
He came out of the library spraying automatic fire the terrorist came to the entrance and I shot him twice in the head, he said.
The director of the yeshiva Rabbi David Simchon vowed Thursday that the evenings terror attack would not undermine his or his students religious faith. No terrorist will succeed in stopping our faith, our values, the justice of our cause or what we teach her at the yeshiva, he said. I think the terrorists knew that this was Rosh Hodesh Adar, which is a [time of] great joy. I dont know if they directed themselves toward our celebration. They sure did. Now that's worth two shots to the head any day
On the scene update of earlier story as Arizona considers letting students bring guns to school Im glad that in this day and age, people are getting more comfortable with meeting the mature responsibility of righteous killing. That 70s liberal utopia, earth is a kiddie playground shit, is over. Are you ready to protect your family in the event of a home invasion? Are you really? Or are you relying on your rhetorical skills to talk any psychopathic out of anything.
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Rosh Hodesh: the first day of the month, a minor celebration
Adar: the first (as I recall) month of spring, in which Passover occurs. Easter is early this year because last year was a leap year in the Jewish calendar, which means we had an extra month in winter (essentially a second February). Long, long ago, when the Jews were primarily an agricultural people, the Jewish year began in Adar not, as it does now, in the fall (approx Sept/Oct).
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About the article itself. Yesterday it was reported that it was an off-duty Israeli soldier who lived down the street who killed the bad guy. Perhaps the religious community should require their yeshiva students to take military training and do military service like the rest of the country?
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I don't think so, t. Violence has no place in religious studies. Ask anybody!
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Oh, and apologies -- Adar has the holiday of Purim, which celebrates the story from the Book of Esther. The children wear costumes and the grown-ups get drunk. A fun little holiday.
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Oh, and apologies -- Adar has the holiday of Purim, which celebrates the story from the Book of Esther. The children wear costumes and the grown-ups get drunk. A fun little holiday.
/not because it's important, but at least it should be correct.
Palestinian militants in Gaza staged a daring raid into Israel, detonating a roadside bomb and then ambushing the emergency response team sent to deal with the blast. The relatively sophisticated attack on Thursday, which killed an Israeli soldier, was the first of its kind by Palestinian militants. It appeared to have been inspired by the tactics of the Iranian-trained Lebanese group Hezbollah.
Israel has long complained that militants from Gaza have been smuggled out to receive military training in Iran, Syria, Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East. But such an attack bearing Hezbollah's hallmarks will prove deeply alarming for Israel.
It was the first time since June 2006 that militants have penetrated Israel from Gaza in significant numbers. The Hezbollah-style strategy of pre-positioning an ambush team had not been used by Palestinians before. In spite of last weekend's bloody incursion into Gaza by the Israeli army that killed scores of gunmen and civilians, militants continued to pile pressure on Israel by firing rockets out of Gaza.
The growing sense of crisis led Israel's Defence Minister, Ehud Barak, to postpone a trip to Washington next week.
The early-morning explosion came as an Israeli army vehicle moved along a patrol road on the Israeli side of the frontier with Gaza. The detonation was large enough to blow the vehicle to pieces and set it alight. One soldier died and three were injured, one seriously.
Culvert mines are a favourite tactic of Hezbollah and were used to devastating effect in the late 1990s to pressure Israel to withdraw from Lebanon. But it was the ambush of the other Israeli army vehicles and troop carriers that deployed to the scene that made the incident stand out. It is not normal Palestinian militant practice to set up secondary ambushes.
The attack, which both Islamic Jihad and Hamas claimed responsibility for, was reminiscent of the Hezbollah raid into Israel from Lebanon in July 2006 that sparked that summer's 34-day conflict.
THE man who shot dead eight students at a right-wing Jewish institute in Jerusalem on Thursday is believed to be a former Arab employee of the organisation who was recently held for two months by Israeli police.
Residents of the killer's neighbourhood in Arab East Jerusalem named the attacker as Alaa Abu Dheim, 20, a former driver at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva (Jewish religious school). They told journalists that the man had been arrested by police four months ago and then released two months later.
Armed with a Kalashnikov rifle and a pistol, the lone gunman burst into the school's library at 8.30 pm Thursday local time and killed eight youths and young men before he himself was shot.
While no claim of responsibility has been confirmed, Hezbollah's television station in Lebanon reported that a hitherto unknown group calling itself the "Galilee Freedom Battalions - the Martyrs of Imad Mughniyeh" said it carried out the attack.
The Galilee is a mainly Arab-populated region of northern Israel, while Imad Mughniyeh was a Hezbollah leader killed in a mysterious car bomb attack in Damascus last month.
Yesterday's attack was the biggest death toll in Israel since a suicide bomber killed 11 at a Tel Aviv falafel stand almost two years ago. It was the first major terrorist attack in Jerusalem since a suicide bomber killed seven bus passengers in February 2004.
Large numbers of police were patrolling Jerusalem last night in response to the attack. Both the Israeli and Palestinian leaderships said that it would not derail flagging peace talks.
The incident brings to at least 62 the number of civilians killed in the 10 days since Israel's assassination of five Hamas leaders, in response to a fatal rocket attack in the Israeli town of Sderot.
Most of those who died were Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip last weekend where, according to the United Nations and other human rights groups, 120 people were killed, at least 52 of them civilians including 27 children.
There is speculation in the Israeli media that the Mercaz Harav yeshiva was targeted because of its role as the cradle and spiritual centre of Israel's far-right religious settler movement.
"This was not an accidental arrival at some city's commercial centre and the setting off [of] an explosive charge," wrote the Ha'aretz defence correspondent Avi Issacharoff. He continued: "The perpetrator knew where he was heading and that many armed young men would be there."
The mass daily Ma'ariv reported that "those who planned, who sent and who carried out the terror attack can say today that they succeeded in striking a harsh blow to the very place from where the occupation sprung".
The attack resembled in its execution the 1994 incident in which Baruch Goldstein, a physician and member of the religious settler movement, shot dead 29 Palestinian worshippers in a Hebron mosque before he was killed by survivors.
One student at the yeshiva claimed to have shot the attacker twice in the head with his weapon. Police say the attacker was killed by an off-duty army officer who rushed to the rescue when he heard shooting.
The incident has been widely condemned by foreign governments and by the UN secretary-general, Ban Ki Moon.
A US attempt to pass a statement condemning the shootings, together with an attack on Israeli troops in Gaza, failed after a UN Security Council member, Libya, said the resolution should also include condemnation of Israel's killings of civilians in Gaza.
Israel's Foreign Ministry said that the attack "expresses at its most deplorable the fundamentalist-extremist foundations, in the name of which Palestinian terrorism operates Israel expects the nations of the world to support it in its war against those who murder students, women and children."
The Palestinian Authority chairman, Mahmoud Abbas, also condemned the attack on the yeshiva.
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I can't help but ask the obvious.
Do you think that finally, Israel will realize that allowing the enemy to mingle within Israel's population is a massive mistake and requires an immediate resolution ?
Also, will Israel finally take necessary measures to even the score ?
I say there is no option for Israel but war for space and blood payment or this terrorism will never cease.
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Over 2,000,000 Christians have been coerced out of Arab majority sections of Palestine, since WW2.
We need to declare Temple Mount a Judaeo-Christian Heritage site, and enforce a Muslim free zone around the area.And I am with the Kahanists on giving the Arab the boot from Israel.
Arabs aren't an original people in what was once Roman Palestine. Prior to Christianity, there were Baal worshipping Phoenicians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, etc. None of those peoples either spoke Arabic or were of that ethnicity. Greeks have a stronger claim to the Levant than the arab.
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I'd bury this bastard wrapped in a pigskin, bulldoze his family's house and deport the lot of them to Gaza with nothing more than the clothes on their backs. And I'd consider that much kinder treatment than they deserved.
Egypt is building a 13-foot high concrete and rock wall interspersed with watch towers along its narrow boundary with the Gaza Strip to prevent Hamas militants from breaching the border, an official said Thursday.
The wall, set back nearly 35 feet from an existing metal barrier, has guard towers every 100 yards. With it, Egypt hopes to prevent any future breaches like one in January when Palestinians broke through to escape an Israeli blockade, a security official said on customary condition of anonymity.
On Jan. 23, Hamas broke through the metal wall to let hundreds of thousands of Palestinians escape the blockaded Gaza. At first, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak ordered his troops to let the Palestinians cross freely as long as they came to buy food and commodities.
But after 12 days, Egypt sealed its borders and strongly warned against any attempts to forcibly open the border again. "Work on the wall started as soon as Egyptian authorities closed the borders and they have completed about eight kilometers (five miles) of the wall," said Ashraf Barhoum, a local farmer living nearby.
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If our American contractors cant get it done, why don't we just hire the Egyptians?
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It was 10 feet yesterday.
Not that I'm complaining...
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Something I saw in a comments thread back in '03 comes to mind:
Jest send out your chiefs and surrender;
in person or call us by phone.
You can drive a carpool,
If you do you're a fool,
'cause you can't get away from the drones.
Jest send out your chiefs an' surrender
if not we will powder your bones
you can turn on your cell,
then you'll end up in hell,
'Cause you can't get away from the drones.
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Mike, thanks for the update of Kipling's Screw Guns:
... For you all love the screw-guns -- the screw-guns they all love you!
So when we call round with a few guns, o' course you will know what to do -- hoo! hoo!
Jest send in your Chief an' surrender -- it's worse if you fights or you runs:
You can go where you please, you can skid up the trees, but you don't get away from the guns!
....
For you all love the screw-guns -- the screw-guns they all love you!
So when we take tea with a few guns, o' course you will know what to do -- hoo! hoo!
Jest send in your Chief an' surrender -- it's worse if you fights or you runs:
You may hide in the caves, they'll be only your graves, but you can't get away from the guns!
Yala governor Thira Mintrasak participated in a ceremony where 80 terrorists insurgents surrendered to authorities on Friday. Of the 80 terrorists insurgents, three are reportedly core leaders. They are Mahama Yaruding, Leepeng Kuning and Ma-air Yusoh. The three were involved in terrorism insurgency movement in Yaha and Kabang districts. Mr Thira said their surrenders are a result of security forces' works. They have been pressuring the terrorists insurgents by surrounding and searching suspected areas.
An official from the Yala Islamic Committee also performed a ceremony to annul the religious oath that the terrorists insurgents had taken. The oath binded them to fight for the terror insurgency groups in the deep South. The Yala Islamic Committee has powers I never imagined.
An al-Qaeda operative sent to the country to carry out bomb attacks was captured middle of last month, sources in the Philippine National Police told the Philippine Daily Inquirer on Thursday. Investigators were verifying if Khalil Hasan Al-Alih of Jordan was also involved in the purported plot to assassinate President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Al-Alih was picked up at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on Feb. 15 after arriving from Saudi Arabia, the sources, who sought anonymity for lack of authority to speak, said. One source, a ranking police officer, said Al-Alih was sent to the Philippines to bomb targets that included the American and British embassies. He reportedly used a Kuwaiti passport and had been coming in and out of the Philippines since the 1990s.
Lost in airport
The source said Al-Alih dropped a package that contained documents in Arabic that detailed the plot. The package was picked up by an airport security guard and turned over to police, he said. The documents were reportedly shown to intelligence and security personnel from the US and other embassies for assessment.
PNP Director General Avelino Razon was to report Al-Alihs capture at an international conference of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) in Hong Kong Thursday. Razon was to deliver a report on terror links between Central Asia and the Southeast Asia-Pacific region and the Philippines efforts to combat terrorism.
More embassy targets
The Associated Press, quoting Filipino officials, said local authorities had arrested three suspected Middle Eastern militants suspected of involvement in a plot to bomb the US and three other embassies in Manila. There is a high probability they are involved in some kind of plan to sow trouble, Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita told reporters on the sidelines of an annual antiterrorism and business security conference in Makati City. All were Middle Eastern nationals, Ermita added.
One of the militants was arrested in Metro Manila and the others were captured separately in the southern Philippines recently, he said. Ermita refused to provide details, but two senior Filipino security officials told AP that investigators were verifying intelligence information the three may have been involved in a plot to bomb the US, British, Australian and Israeli embassies in Manila. Authorities believed the three had links to the Indonesia-based regional terror group Jemaah Islamiyah and the Abu Sayyaf in the southern Philippines.
Funds released
Funding for the plot had been secured, indicating an attack against one of the embassies may be in an advanced stage, one of the officials said, adding that all the embassies concerned had been notified.
The two officials were concerned the threat would be dismissed by the political opposition as a government effort to justify a heavy military and police presence in the capital while President Arroyo grapples with the NBN-ZTE corruption scandal. One of the officials said there was no indication the terror plot involved a direct threat against Ms Arroyo.
Ermita, in his speech at the Protect 2008 conference in Makati, said terrorists were planning to use the street demonstrations against President Arroyo to launch their attacks. He said the authorities took two suspects into custody before the Feb. 29 interfaith rally in Makati.
This article starring:
KHALIL HASAN AL ALIH
al-Qaeda
Abu Sayyaf
Jemaah Islamiyah
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ION, GUAM K57.com > "STATE OF CALAMITY" declared in CALAMBA City due to seemingly uncontrolled TYPHOID OUTBREAK. Apeals for aid as Calamba hospitals run out of space, beds, meds, etc.
Sri Lankas Tamil Tigers said on Thursday an Army special forces unit blew up a rebel-backed member of parliament in their northern stronghold with a roadside bomb, and a party colleague confirmed his death.
It was the latest in a string of attacks inside rebel territory using Claymore mines as roadside bombs that the rebels have blamed on government troops, who are using the Tigers own deadly methods against them as a 25-year civil war escalates. K Sivanesan, an MP with the rebel-backed Tamil National Alliance (TNA), was driving near his home in Mankulam in the Tigers de facto state in the far north of the island when the blast occurred, killing him and his driver, his party said.
Army accused: It was an Army deep penetration unit, rebel military spokesman Rasiah Ilanthiraiyan said by telephone. His vehicle was precisely targeted, because there were several vehicles travelling along this road. Its another example of how the regime in Colombo acts. The military denied any hand in the attack. We dont know what exactly happened because it has occurred in an uncontrolled area, said military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara. There are no deep penetration units operating in that area. We totally deny it.
Sivanesan had attended a meeting in parliament on Wednesday. He left the parliament quarters after attending the parliament sessions yesterday, said fellow MP Suresh Premachandran. Most probably in those areas the Army is deploying deep penetration units, he added. This fellow is a victim of that.
Abductions: The attack came as Sri Lankas government faced a barrage of criticism over its human rights record. Human Rights Watch issued a report on Thursday accusing the government of being responsible for widespread abductions and disappearances as it fights the Tigers, which the government denies. And a panel of international experts observing a Sri Lankan investigation into a raft of human rights abuses and killings said on Thursday it was quitting Sri Lanka, accusing the government of hindering the process and saying the probe was seriously flawed.
Analysts say the military has the upper hand in the latest phase of the long-running war given superior air power, strength of numbers and swathes of terrain captured in the islands east. But they still see no clear winner on the horizon. An estimated 70,000 people have died since the civil war began in 1983.
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sir
about my freind kamal elbahja is not terroreat because i know him very good .im sure that there is samething not claire .
thank you .
m
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If you would be so kind as to provide us more information so that we can draw our own conclusions, m, I would be grateful. I'm afraid an anonymous testimonial is not very persuasive. Thank you.
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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A petition challenging the allegedly unlawful detention of a frontline Al-Qaeda operative, 
An anti-terrorism court on Thursday remanded five suspects in custody for their alleged involvement in the assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto in a gun-and-bomb attack. 
A soldier was killed and two others wounded when a landmine blew up their vehicle in Balochistan early on Thursday, AFP quoted officials as saying.
Emotions are running extremely high in Shaikhan village, bordering the Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency, with villagers on Thursday blowing up a bridge and blocked the main road. This follows an attack on a shrine by armed supporters of private tribal militia leader 
Security forces and police raided some godowns in the Kozabamakhela area of Matta tehsil, Swat, on Thursday, recovering a huge amount of weaponry.
BAGHDAD - Two bombs went off within minutes of each other in a Baghdad commercial district Thursday evening, killing nine people and wounding 18, police and officials at three hospitals said. At least one of those killed died at the hospital, an official said.
Egypt is building a 13-foot high concrete and rock wall interspersed with watch towers along its narrow boundary with the Gaza Strip to prevent Hamas militants from breaching the border, an official said Thursday.
Yala governor Thira Mintrasak participated in a ceremony where 80 
