Militants set ablaze a secondary school in Afghanistans southern city of Kandahar on Friday, authorities said, in at least the third attack on educational institutes this year. Gunmen set fire to classrooms, books and offices at the Mian Abdul Hakim school for boys and girls, said Mohammad Anwar, head of the Kandahar province Education Department. They burnt to ash everything, the building, books and chairs, he told AFP. More than 1,200 students study at the school, including up to 200 girls, said Anwar.
He blamed the attack on enemies of Afghanistan, a term often used to refer to Taliban insurgents.
In a similar incident on January 31, militants burned down a primary school in the province of Logar, near Kabul. On January 1, a newly built school for refugee children was torched in the eastern Nangarhar province.
The tactic appears to be intended to disrupt progress in education, apparently one of the most successful sectors of the post-Taliban governments largely Western-funded reconstruction. The Education Ministry said in January that the Taliban had burned down 183 schools and killed 61 teachers and students in the past 18 months. Attacks by the insurgents had also closed down nearly 400 schools and deprived around 300,000 children from access to education, it added.
The British charity Oxfam said in November that nearly seven million Afghan children were still not in school although nearly the same number were enrolled.
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Or it might have been lit by somebody who had neglected to study for a test today.
#2
I watched the video. The young people enlisting in the services now are brave, patriotic and idealistic. However, the people they are trying to save, especially the Pashtuns in eastern Afghanistan are not worth saving.
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Looks mighty chilly, like blue bone cold with razor blades aflyin.
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My take:
Another anti- American hack job by the Socialist Brit Media.
So predictable, a Twerp Brit Reporter cum-Guru who knows nothing but his brain washed Socialist biases twists up a piece which could have been done by any of his clones going back 50 years.
This Brit "reporter" couldn't park a bicycle let alone strip a Ma Duce or search a Vil.
why American Commanders even talk give these guys the time of day I'll never understand.
If he asked me for a good story, I would recommend that he travel to some thick Talib country with only an interpreter for a sure Pulitzer win.
#4
in watching this it seemed obvious to me that a warning before the search (especially given to the women) that if anything is found the forces will blow the house followed with the destruction of the property after the discoveries would go a long way.
a clear understanding that hiding weapons will cause the house to be leveled would put a lot of internal pressure on the people to come out with it. what i saw was people lying and lying and lying and no consequences for their lying leads them to repeat the process over again.
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I took this reporter was Australian. Cold to him is the temperature Foster's is served at.
Demographically, I see Afghanistan as nearly an ideal place (if it had a friendly port then 100% ideal) for a proxy war where 60% of the population hates the Pashtuns bigots for the atrocities they have committed. The west doesn't need to do the fighting in Afghanistan. Trainers and supply troops equipping the Tajk, Uzbeks, Hazaras etc to wage traditional warfare and carry off loot and women would subdue our enemies much more quickly and inexpensively.
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no body else picked up the snobish narrative slant in the video? oh well...:)
(Xinhua) -- Afghan and foreign forces, while patrolling, were ambushed by Taliban insurgents Friday in southern province of Zabul and the ensuing fighting left three militants killed and two more injured, a local official said. The around half-an-hour clash took place in Mizan district of Zabul at 8 a.m. local time, district chief Mohammad Younus Akhunzada told Xinhua via phone. "A Taliban commander Mullah Mohammad Rhain and his two followers were killed." The combined force suffered no casualties in the incident, he added.
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This is starting to look like a pattern - good guys get ambushed, inflict significant casualties on ambushers, suffer few or none themselves. Are we using ouselves as 'bait' and ambushing the ambushers, or are the Taliban running low on fighters with even minimal military skill?
Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer appealed on Friday to Al Qaedas North Africa wing to release two Austrian tourists but said he had no intention of yielding to the hostage-takers demands.
Our priority is the health of the hostages. Hence we appeal to the kidnappers to free the hostages unconditionally, Gusenbauer told reporters on arrival for the final day of a European Union summit in Brussels. Gusenbauer said he would raise the issue for discussion at the summit.
He said Austria was in touch with the authorities in the region, adding, We do not intend to meet the demands. Al Qaeda demanded on Thursday the release of militants held in Tunisia and Algeria within three days. The three-day ultimatum began at midnight on Thursday, according to a statement issued by Al Qaeda on an Islamist website.
Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik said on Thursday that efforts were being made to secure the release of the hostages but noted that the demands were outside Viennas jurisdiction. In its posting which contained the pictures of hostages Andrea Kloiber, 43, and Wolfgang Ebner, 51, Al Qaeda said the demands and a list of the names of the groups prisoners had been sent to Vienna through unidentified mediators.
The group, waging a violent campaign against government forces and foreign interests in North Africa, said its members had been jailed for confronting the new crusade against Islam.
The hostages, who went missing last month during a trip to Tunisia, appeared in the pictures dressed in robes and surrounded by militants in a desert area. Their captors were armed with rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers.
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Oh, you'll pay a ransom all right - or be unseated at the next elections for being Bu$hitler stooges. That's how it works in Europe.
#2
Don't forget that Austria has the Kurt Waldheim vote, which is a tad reactionary.
While Germans tend to look with annoyance at the Austrians panda bear-like sloth, people tend to forget that they used to rule an empire, and a pretty arse-kicking one at that.
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Start throwing every non-citizen muslim out if the butchers kill the hostages. In fact all of Europe needs to send every non-citizen muslim to their home of origin. And, NATO needs to leave Serbia and Croatia.
Al-Qaida's branch for North Africa posted a new Internet statement Thursday, setting conditions and giving a three-day deadline for the release of two Austrian tourists it claimed to have kidnapped in Tunisia last month.
In the statement -- which included six photographs purportedly showing Austrians Wolfgang Ebner and Andrea Kloiber -- al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa said it would set the two free if some of the group's members were released from jails in Tunisia and Algeria. The posting gave Austrian authorities three days, starting Thursday midnight, to comply.
"Austria is responsible for the lives of the two hostages in the event of the expiration of the time period and not responding to our demands," it said and urged families of the two Austrians to pressure their government to meet the group's demands and "save the lives of the two tourists."
The woman in the photographs, said to be Kloiber, was shown wearing a blue headscarf and her face was obscured. According to extremist Islamist beliefs, showing a woman's face in public and in images is prohibited as un-Islamic. Both she and the man, who had a graying mustache and a short beard, were wearing traditional Arab robes.
The pair were surrounded by hard boyz militants with rocket propelled grenade launchers, some masked, seated on the ground in an open, desert area with some bush vegetation. A white pickup truck was also seen in the photos.
The statement also said the Austrian government has been informed of the mujahideens' demands and that they had handed over to unnamed "negotiators" the list of names of their detained members who should be released from jails. There were no details on how many were on the list.
On Monday, the al-Qaida branch first said in an audio recording that it was behind the Feb. 22 kidnapping of the two Austrian tourists, saying it was an act of retribution for Western cooperation with Israel. The audio statement claimed the hostages were in good health. U.S.-based SITE group, which tracks militant messaging, said it had also intercepted the al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa statement Thursday.
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A retired Kuwaiti superstar singer has recently the left the Gulf emirate for Afghanistan to join ranks with al-Qaeda and Taliban forces in fighting foreign troops there, according to a press report published Saturday.
Hussein al-Ahmad, who was until recently one of the Gulfs most famous pop stars, decided to join his Mujahideen brothers in Afghanistan to support Islam and fight alongside his fellow Muslims in al-Qaeda, reported Kuwaiti daily Al-Rai Saturday.
Al-Ahmad has previously told Kuwaits Al-Rai TV that the reason he decided to quit singing was a dream where he saw his own journey from this world into the hereafter through death.
Ive seen horrors and terrors I dont think anybody else has. I thanked Allah for being alive when I woke up and I was grateful for the fact that He has given me a second chance, the retired singer said.
I then informed my family and friends that I would retire from the dark world of sin (singing). Since then, my job has been to warn against arts and their sinful atmosphere.
The retired singer will soon appear in his new military outfit in Afghanistan, in a video expected soon on a website known to be affiliated with al-Qaeda extremists, according to the paper. We can but hope he inspires his Hollywood brethren to join him there.
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Hopefully it'll be live streaming audio and video when an A-10 notices them, and then drops them a few presents. If it can't be naplam, how about FAE?
Dutch police had arrested a Pakistani man, who they said was linked to a network of extremists that was largely dismantled after raids in Barcelona this January, they said on Friday. The 26-year-old suspect was picked up late on Thursday in the south-western Dutch town of Breda, the public prosecutors office said in a statement.
The Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcabsur said when the group was broken up that it was on the verge of violent action, as materials for manufacturing explosive devices were found in the Barcelona raids. The attacks would be claimed in the name of Al-Qaeda by warlord Baitullah Mehsud from Pakistans Tribal Areas, the media reported.
The police had been investigating the suspect, who was not identified by name, since late January acting on information of the security services here. He was under 24-hour observation by police and was finally arrested to prevent terrorist activities, the prosecutors office said.
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I was feeling depressed the other night when I got a call from a Pakistani call center. I told them to go away as I was suicidal.
They got all excited.
Wanted to know if I could drive a truck.
:)
A 39-year-old Turkish resident of Germany was fired upon and suffered injuries in the northern city of Braunschweig, police said on Friday.
Police said the Turk was targeted with gunfire shooting when he emerged from a mosque in the town, late on Thursday, where he performed prayers. The attacker opened fire in the direction of Turk from a passing car. The Turkish national wounded in the face and had to be hospitalized.
#1
Bound to happen sooner or later. Evidence German people have reached their limits in appeasing Islam. Of course this is the WRONG response, but it's still a sign of change.
On the other hand, it could be the guy got shot for boinking some other Muslim's wife.
And - I thought Germany had tough gun control laws? How could this happen?
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muzzies are on a really short leash. Let another "9/11 event" happen with 1000s of deaths and there will a blowback all over Europe that will make the Japanese internment, and the trains to Polish prison camps look like a trip to Disneyland.
(Xinhuanet) -- A Canadian man pleaded guilty Thursday in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to a federal terrorism charge for plotting to blow up the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline in 2000.
Prosecutors say Alfred Heinz Reumayr wanted to drive up the price of oil in order to profit from the sale of oil and gas futures he had planned to purchase. The plot was broken up after a co-conspirator went to federal authorities. Reumayr, 58, of New Westminster, British Columbia, pleaded guilty to one count of terrorism transcending national boundaries in an agreement with prosecutors accepted Thursday by U.S. District Judge Bruce Black. He faces 13 years in prison; his lawyer said the sentencing hearing could be held this summer.
Prosecutors say Reumayr planned a series of explosions along the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System in early January 2000 aimed at disrupting the oil supply from northern to southern Alaska. Had it been successful, it would have had "an enormous negative economic and environmental impact on the United States and Canada," said William Newell, special agent in charge of the Phoenix field division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Authorities said Reumayr sought help with the scheme from a former Green Beret and explosives expert with whom he had served time in a Texas prison. Jim Paxton of Albuquerque who is now dead went to the ATF and became an informant.
Paxton testified in a 2001 extradition hearing in British Columbia that Reumayr wanted the explosions to coincide with Jan. 1, 2000, to capitalize on fears of computer failures. Reumayr has been in custody since August 1999 and was indicted on eight counts. He lost his fight against extradition to the U.S. in 2006, when the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed his appeal.
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It took 7 years to decide and extradition issue; and almost 10 years to close the file. Something is screwy.
#4
Seafarious, you've got the sequence wrong.
1 Sell short
2 Blow pipeline
3 collect on your short profit
That's what the FBI is looking at on the 9-11 WTC disaster, just who profited from it.
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Seafarious, you've got the sequence wrong.
1 Sell short
2 Blow pipeline
3 collect on your short profit
That's what the FBI is looking at on the 9-11 WTC disaster, just who profited from it.
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Four missiles were fired from Afghanistans Paktia province in the border area of Kurram Agency on Friday, reported Geo TV channel. The channel quoted sources as saying that the missiles landed near a checkpost in the border area of Bor, adding that no casualties were reported.
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The poor aim indicates these were Taliban missiles. Fired INTO Pakistan? Sounds like Musharraf's guys must actually be doing something, if Taliban are taking refuge in Afghanistan to attack Pakistan.
KOHAT: Six policemen were wounded on Friday when unidentified people hurled a hand grenade at a police checkpost on Shakar Darra road. The injured were rushed to a local hospital where the condition of two of the six is said to be critical. A search operation has been started to find the culprits.
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Security forces and police arrested 43 militants, including five key aides of rebel cleric Maulana Fazlullah, during a daylong search operation in Swat on Friday, while a minor was killed in one of three remote-controlled blasts. The operation was conducted by both army and police officials. The sources said that the security forces had started to prepare for a major operation, adding that a curfew had been imposed from 3pm and would last for an indefinite period of time.
However, an Inter-Services Public Relations statement released on Friday said that the curfew was imposed to facilitate the search and cordon operations. Separately, a minor was killed and two people injured in three remote-controlled bomb blasts. The blasts also completely destroyed two vehicles.
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DERA MURAD JAMALI: Five people were badly wounded when an explosive device planted on a bicycle detonated as the vehicle of a tribal elder passed by, here in the Naka Jatoi area on Friday, DPO Mujahid Kanwal said. The police said unidentified miscreants planted explosives on a bicycle and left it parked on the roadside. As soon the vehicle of a tribal elder of the Bugti tribe, Wadera Abdul Rehman Bugti, crossed its path the explosives went off. Among the seriously wounded rushed to the civil hospital were Muhammad Sharif, Ahmed, Merkia Khan, Jamali Khan and Junaid.
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Eight armed people forced their way into the Karachi Press Club (KPC) late on Friday night, and kept on enquiring about Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) President Khurshid Tanveer and the KPC president and secretary. The armed men remained present at the club premises for 15 minutes, and left after hurling threats at the journalists present there. The KUJ condemned the incident.
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Investigators suspect that a single proclaimed offender-led organisation is involved in the recent three suicide bombings in Lahore, Daily Times has learned.
Sources close to investigators said the group was headed by Zafar Ahmed, alias Qari Zafar, a resident of Sanghar (Sindh), whom a court had declared a proclaimed offender in the US consulate, Karachi, attack case.
Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director General Tariq Pervez said that Ahmed might also have been involved in Lahore blasts. He said that evidence available to investigators hinted at the involvement of a single group in all three of the recent Lahore bombings.
However, he said: Were in no position to say anything with certainty until we get something substantial. Sources said investigators suspected that a single group had bombed the Navy War College on March 4, and FIA provincial headquarters and a Model Town bungalow on March 11. They said two bombers had exploded bombs, made of potassium chlorate using electronic triggers. Sources said 40kg of explosive material was used at FIA offices and 30 kg at the Model Town bungalow.
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Militants killed a tribesman after accusing him of working as a US spy in a tribal area bordering Afghanistan, officials said on Friday. The militants shot and then slit the throat of the 30-year-old man, in the latest in a series of executions of people allegedly working for US and NATO forces across the border. His body was dumped on a road in Sham, a town between the North and South Waziristan tribal regions, a security official told AFP on condition of anonymity. They left a note claiming that he was a US spy, and warning that anyone working for the US will suffer the same fate, an official said.
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I don't think we're using a bunch of human spies in either Afghanistan or Pakistan. There are so many different ways of getting information that don't involve people we cannot trust with the truth.
The new microbugs that look like insects also help. The plastic dragonfly has a range of 50 miles, and we have them all over Pashtun-held territory. Watch what you say, guys - we're listening.
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Isn't it still winter in those parts? I'd think a dragonfly buzzing around might be a bit noticeable just now... No doubt by spring miniaturization will have proceeded to the point that the fly on the wall will be one of ours. At that point paranoia is a quite reasonable response!
CAMP VICTORY On the heels of Operations Marne Thunderbolt and Grand Slam south of Baghdad, Multi-National Division Center will push further south to squeeze extremists during Operation Marne Rugged, which kicks off March 15.
The operation will cover a rural area southeast of Baghdad, south of the Tigris River in the area of operation of 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division and 3rd Brigade, 8th Iraqi Army.
One phase of the operation will be the establishment of Patrol Base Summers, a joint Iraqi Army and Coalition forces base. It is named for Staff Sgt. Vincent Summers, who paid the ultimate sacrifice with 2nd Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment during Operation Iraqi Freedom III.
We have found that when we put Iraqi Army and Coalition forces in a patrol base in an area like Summers, the population comes to us and gives us that refined intelligence, so that we can do precise operations against any al-Qaeda that may be in this area, said Col. Tom James, commander of 4th BCT, during a pre-operation briefing at Forward Operating Base Zulu March 10.
In addition to establishing the patrol base and eliminating al-Qaeda and any other extremists, Marne Rugged will focus on capacity building. In anticipation of the operation, the Coalition and IA have already identified approximately 2,500 Iraqi security volunteers who are eager to transition into Sons of Iraq in the short-term and into Iraqi Security Forces in the long-term.
We see two major tasks that we have to accomplish: One, we have to integrate the Iraqi security volunteers, James said. The other is to provide quick-impact, small projects to the local civilians.
Col. Ali Abdul Hussein, commander of 3/8 IA, also cited the importance of local projects, in particular repairing water pumps that he said were damaged by terrorists.
Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, commander of MND-C, told Hussein that Coalition forces could help the IA fix the pumps in addition to facilitating other projects.
I believe we have a window of opportunity, Lynch said. You see, Ive got this idea to transition from security to stability, and stability is about jobs, services, schools, and we can help with all that.
(Xinhua) -- The death toll from a car bomb attack in central Baghdad on Thursday rose to 10, with 50 others wounded, an Interior Ministry source said on Friday. "The final toll from the Bab al-Sharji area car bombing rose to10 killed and 50 others injured," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. The attack took place at about 2:00 p.m. (1100 GMT) when a booby-trapped car parking near the commercial building of al-Khaiyam in the crowded area of Bab al-Sharji detonated, the source said. Earlier, the source put the toll at seven civilians killed and 20 others wounded.
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Members of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's militia clashed with Iraqi police in the southern city of Kut on Friday, a day after a close Sadr aide ordered militiamen to abide by a ceasefire, police said.
Mehdi Army militiamen clashed with Iraqi and U.S. soldiers earlier this week in Kut, 170 km (105 miles) southeast of Baghdad, sparking concerns a ceasefire may unravel and lead to an upsurge in violence. The fighting on Friday, in which one policeman was killed and two civilians injured, police said, started soon after the end of the funerals of men killed on Tuesday.
"Kut has been lost and I'm not able to fight the gunmen with the few troops I have," said Lieutenant Aziz al-Amara, who commands a rapid reaction unit.
Mortars and small arms were used in the clashes, which took place in the Izzeh, Sharqia, and Hawia districts of the city.
Gun battles in Kut killed a total of 11 people on Tuesday, according to the city's police chief, prompting U.S. special forces to call in air strikes after requests from Iraqi authorities for help.
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This is Shia on Shia action, with the IP trying to calm things down. While we should root for massive losses, the two side shoot so poorly that the civilians are in the most danger. A combo of negotiations and reinforcements from the INA will settle things down eventually.
(Xinhua) -- A German citizen was stabbed near Al Husseini Mosque in the middle of Amman on Friday, Jordan's Public Security spokesman Major Mohammad Al Khatib said.
The injured tourist was immediately admitted to one of hospital and a medical surgery was performed for him, Khatib was quoted by Jordanian official news agency Petra. He said the health condition of the injured man was stable. An investigation was underway with view to uncover the full facts after a policeman who was on duty near the incident managed to seize the perpetrator, said Khatib. He added acting Prime Minister Eid Fayez and Public Security Director Mazen Al Qadi, who were on a tour at the time of incident, went directly to hospital to check on the injured health.
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Islamic Jihad military wing, Al-Quds Brigades, said it attacked Israeli rocket launchers east of Gaza city. It said in a statement its fighters fired two "Quds" rockets against rocket launchers used by the Israeli army to attack the Palestinians. The fighters confirmed that the rockets hit their targets, it added.
#4
I believe this can be counted as bullshit by he title alone, The Israelis don't use "Rocket Launchers" they use helicopters, drones and artillery, no rockets, they do use missiles launched from the above Predators, Helicopters, etc.
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good catch jim,
the paleos [people of the Lie] are never deterred by those pesky ole things called facts.
#6
The story says the rockets were fired against the Israeli rocket launchers... It also says that they hit their target... IT does not say what their target actually was.
My guess is that the earth was their target, and sho-nuff they hit it.
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Hamas said its fighters fired at and hit an Israeli helicopter flying over northern Gaza Strip on Friday. Hamas military wing, Izzuddin Al-Qassam brigades, said in a statement that it used medium and heavy machineguns in its attack against an Israeli helicopter gunship and hit it. The machineguns hit the helicopter which, according to the statement, left the area and made an emergency landing inside the Jewish state.
The Israeli army acknowledged the attack and said the body of the helicopter was hit by the brigades, and considered it a dangerous development against the Israeli airforce.
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The IDF knows the source of the fire. They just need some dumb bombs dropped and make a 100 meter blast radius. Rapid, overwhelming response. Rinse and repeat. No negotiations. Let Hamas beg the IDF. This could be over in a week.
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Send 'em three B-52s and all the iron bombs they can carry. Hell, rebuild a dozen B-29s and send THEM against Hamass and the Gaza. Same results. I'm sure the Israelis even have the technology and equipment to convert a 707 or 737 into a bomber, pdq. A-10s are ok, but they don't dig very deep holes. 500lb bombs with four foot fuse extenders do a GREAT job of clearing the area and converting rubble into sand. Lot of collateral damage, but I'm beginning to believe that's the only thing that's going to put an end to the fighting. When ma and the kids get it, pa has the chance real quick to understand it's Hamass' fault. Failing to make that connection may prove fatal.
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Reminds me of my mother when she was in her thirties. Made me want a gal "just like mom". Came close! Not as close as Vera, but a guy can't have everything...
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Don't mind me -- I'm just resetting my cookie. Just pretend I don't exist!
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(Xinhua) -- Afghan and foreign forces, while patrolling, were ambushed by Taliban insurgents Friday in southern province of Zabul and the ensuing fighting left three militants killed and two more injured, a local official said. The around half-an-hour clash took place in Mizan district of Zabul at 8 a.m. local time, district chief Mohammad Younus Akhunzada told Xinhua via phone. "A Taliban commander Mullah Mohammad Rhain and his two followers were killed." The combined force suffered no casualties in the incident, he added.
Al-Qaida's branch for North Africa posted a new Internet statement Thursday, setting conditions and giving a three-day deadline for the release of two Austrian tourists it claimed to have kidnapped in Tunisia last month. 
Dutch police had arrested a Pakistani man, who they said was linked to a network of extremists that was largely dismantled after raids in Barcelona this January, they said on Friday. The 26-year-old suspect was picked up late on Thursday in the south-western Dutch town of Breda, the public prosecutors office said in a statement.
(Xinhua) -- The death toll from a car bomb attack in central Baghdad on Thursday rose to 10, with 50 others wounded, an Interior Ministry source said on Friday. "The final toll from the Bab al-Sharji area car bombing rose to10 killed and 50 others injured," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. The attack took place at about 2:00 p.m. (1100 GMT) when a booby-trapped car parking near the commercial building of al-Khaiyam in the crowded area of Bab al-Sharji detonated, the source said. Earlier, the source put the toll at seven civilians killed and 20 others wounded.
(Xinhua) -- A German citizen was stabbed near Al Husseini Mosque in the middle of Amman on Friday, Jordan's Public Security spokesman Major Mohammad Al Khatib said. 
