An Afghan soldier and five Taliban were killed in a bomb attack in southern Afghanistan on Friday, Afghan military officials said. The soldiers were on foot patrol in a volatile area of Kandahar early on Friday when a roadside mine exploded, killing one trooper and wounding three others, district army commander Rahamatullah Khan said. Yousuf Ahmadi, a Taliban spokesman, confirmed that the device had been planted by members of the militia. Adding that the Taliban had been attacked overnight and five Taliban were killed in the return fire.
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At least five Taliban militants were killed and six injured on Friday in a gunfight with the police in southern Afghan province of Zabul, officials said Friday.
The incident took place at 1 a.m. A group of insurgents attacked the office of the district chief in Shinkay in Zabul Province. The police have killed the militants in a gunfight, Shinkay district chief, Barat Khan, said.
Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, who claimed to be a spokesman for the Taliban, told Xinhua from an unknown location over telephone that his group took the responsibility.
Do the reporters ever ask from where these guys call?
He said five of their fighters and seven policemen were killed in the gunfight.
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ever ask from where these guys call?
Probably have them on their Caller ID 'approved' list.
An Afghan man involved in a hijacking eight years ago was arrested after being found working as a cleaner for British Airways near Heathrow Airport, officials and a press report said Friday.
Nazamuddin Mohammidy, 34, was among nine Afghans who threatened to blow up a Boeing 727 during a four-day stand-off with police at London Stansted Airport in 2000. This week he appeared in court after police pulled his car over, on suspicion of being a bogus taxi driver, only to discover his identity and that he had a security pass as a cleaner for British Airways, said The Sun newspaper.
He had a British Airways pass on him. It was discovered he was in breach of bail and he was arrested. Then it emerged he was one of the Stansted hijackers, a source told the daily. Theres got to be something seriously wrong with a country that lets a hijacker work at an airport. Its shocking. According to the tabloid, Mohammidy lives near Heathrow in west London and has spent months employed by a local company which has a contract to clean a British Airways training centre.
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"...their convictions were controversially quashed in 2003, citing the duress of fleeing the Taliban, and they were granted the right to stay in Britain."
Yes, we must bow before the infinite wisdom of the Liberal Judiciary.
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There really doesn't seem to be a lot to this story. His job was to clean a British Airways training facility, not the airport. He was pulled over and stopped under suspicion of running an illegal taxi, and his crime was being in breach of bail. Assault is a fairly serious charge, but there isn't enough information about that case to determine if he was a threat to anyone else. He's an EMPLOYED muslim, which is encouraging. The rest is pretty much the main-slime media making a mountain out of a molehill.
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Authorities in France, Germany and the Netherlands on Friday detained at least 10 people suspected of helping to fund Al Qaeda-linked militants with roots in Uzbekistan, officials said.
One suspect was detained in Germany; another in the Netherlands, with the rest detained in France, said a senior French police official only authorized to discuss the arrests on condition of anonymity. The suspects nationalities were not given but officials said they were Turkic-speaking.
French police suspect they collected funds for the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), a militant group said by the United States to have close ties to Al Qaeda. The senior official described the arrests as preventative because the funds thought to have been collected were not known to have been used to carry out terror attacks.
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A member of an Afghan Taliban cell was convicted by a federal jury on Thursday on charges of narco-terrorism and narcotics distribution, the US Justice Department said in a statement.
Khan Mohammed, from Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan, is the first person to be convicted under a narco-terrorism provision of the USA Patriot Act that went into effect in March 2006, the statement said. US officials said Mohammed was caught in an investigation by the US Drug Enforcement Administration with the help of a cooperating witness. As an enemy of the United States, Khan Mohammed intended to ship heroin to the United States and use profits from the trade to assist the Taliban, DEA administrator Michele Leonhart said. A dangerous double threat, Kahn Mohammed purchased rockets to attack American and coalition soldiers, she added. He faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years and a maximum of life in prison. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 10.
Mohammed was first indicted in Dec 2006 on narcotics distribution charges and was brought to the United States in November 2007. A second indictment in January 2008 charged him with engaging in drug trafficking to fund a terrorist organization.
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countdown for HRW too start bitching. let me take first shot he kidnapped
Security forces killed six suspected Islamic militants in a gunbattle Saturday in Indian-controlled Kashmir, the army said. Indian army spokesman Lt. Col. Anil Kumar Mathur said the clash began after troops and police sealed off a forested area near Lurgam following a tip that militants were hiding there. Lurgam is 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of Srinagar, the summer capital of India's Jammu-Kashmir state. Mathur said the rebels belonged to the Jaish-e-Mohammad militant group, which authorities have blamed for a number of bombings and attacks, including an assault on India's Parliament in 2001. With the area still sealed off, there was no independent confirmation of the incident and no immediate comment from the rebel group.
Authorities found the beheaded body of a paramilitary soldier in the Bajaur Agency on Friday, close to where a United States missile strike left at least 20 people dead.
A note left on the body of soldier Aftab Gul in the Pusht Bazaar Salarzai area read that the beheading was retaliation for the US bombing of Damadola. The note, signed by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, also warned tribal elders that they could face similar action if they co-operated with authorities.
The body has been sent to Guls hometown of Mansehra, local sources told Daily Times.
Also on Friday, around 100 students belonging to various madrassas held a demonstration in Multan, and burned effigies of US President George W Bush and President Pervez Musharraf. Hundreds of people also rallied across the NWFP and Peshawar after the Friday prayers to protest the missile attack, witnesses and police told AFP.
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What a difference between the way Ghandi (successfully) overthrew oppression by a civilized power and the way the Taliban are trying to protest offenses by the US. There must be something different in the culture of the Taliban from the Indians; what could it be?
#3
Time to start napalming these little get-togethers. The locals both love and fear the Taliban. Time to teach them that the US is also a nation not to get angry, because we can be pretty darned fearful when we're angry.
Perv played a very dangerous game of trying to appease all factions, and in the end, pleased no one. Now he's neck deep in boiling water. The rest of the Pakistanis are so brainwashed they can't think, and let their imams do the thinking for them. I don't think they'd be equally as likely to also bleed for the imams, if it came to that, but I may be wrong. Again, it's time for Pakistan to disappear from the world's maps, to be replaced by both an expanded Afghanistan and an enlarged India.
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That will win friends and influence enemies. How did that strategy work out for you so far Talibunnies. You have gotten your dicks dinged up pretty badly so far as I can tell.
Security forces and local Taliban engaged in another round of prisoner exchange on Friday, as army troops continue to adjust positions in South Waziristan to facilitate the return of the displaced Mehsud tribe families.
Six security personnel and 23 militants loyal to Baitullah Mehsud were freed during the third round of prisoner exchange since the government brokered a deal on Wednesday. Security officials said that only local militants were released, as the release of foreign militants was not part of the deal.
Under the deal, the army has also agreed to withdraw troops from the areas that displaced Mehsud tribes are returning to.
The political authorities of the region told APP that paramilitary forces were being withdrawn from areas close to the Pak-Afghan border to help the region return to normal. Tribal elders have welcomed the departure of the troops, saying that the move would bring local tribesmen and security forces closer together.
Meanwhile, Taliban spokesman Maulvi Umar told BBC Urdu that the Taliban would not give up resistance against foreign forces in Afghanistan under any possible agreement with the Pakistan government. He said it was the Talibans religious obligation, as Muslims, to evict occupying foreign forces from Afghanistan.
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Two security officials were killed and another was injured when a remote-controlled bomb set off and damaged their vehicle in the Kohat Cantt area, locals and officials told Daily Times on Friday. They were on routine petrol. The attack follows Sundays operation against suspected militants in Darra Adam Khel. Forces had razed a building in the Shagiwal locality, where militants took refuge after attacking security forces.
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Unidentified gunmen shot dead a prayer leader in Swat districts Kabal tehsil on Friday, police said. They said Maulana Qayyum Zaman was preparing for Isha prayers when a group of armed men entered his house and took his family hostage. Zaman exchanged harsh words with the gunmen, following which they gunned him down. Kabal police have registered a case.
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Maoist rebels have shot and killed two men in southern India, hours before the second phase of polling began in a state election, police said on Friday.
The Maoists, who say they are fighting Indias government on behalf of the landless poor, have called for a boycott of the election in Karnataka state, home to the outsourcing capital of Bangalore. Few voters are paying any heed, police say. One of the victims was a teacher suspected by the Maoists of being a police informer, police said. He was shot on Thursday night as he returned home on a motorbike in a village about 380 km from Bangalore.
The results of the Karnataka elections will be seen as an indicator of the fortunes of the Congress party, which leads Indias coalition government, and the Bharatiya Janata Party, the main opposition, in forthcoming general elections. Voting in Karnataka which began with the first phase on May 10 has been staggered to allow security forces to be deployed across the state to ensure a fair election. Maoist rebels operate in a large swathe of India stretching from the east to some southern states, mostly in the countryside, and attack government officials and property.
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Coalition forces killed one terrorist and detained 19 suspected terrorists during operations targeting al-Qaeda in Iraq criminals in central and northern Iraq Friday.
Coalition forces targeted members of AQI suicide bombing cells near Khan Bani Saad, about 20 miles north of Baghdad. While targeting an individual who supplies explosives to the cell, an enemy suspect refused to obey Coalition forces instructions to surrender. Perceiving hostile intent, he was killed when he attempted to flee through a security perimeter. Another man in the area was taken into custody.
Using information from an operation May 3, Coalition forces in Baghdad targeted a suicide bombing facilitator and detained one suspected terrorist.
Coalition forces focused on the terrorist finance network in the north. In Mosul, the ground force captured an alleged financier for AQI and seven additional suspects. In Tikrit, about 100 miles north of Baghdad, Coalition forces detained four suspected terrorists.
Near Balad, which is about 50 miles north of Baghdad, Coalition forces detained five suspected terrorists during operations to disrupt the AQI foreign terrorist facilitation network.
We continue to target al-Qaeda in Iraqs terrorist who bring nothing but misery to the Iraqi people, said Maj. John C. Hall, NMF-I spokesman.
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Multi-National Division Baghdad Soldiers detained a suspected criminal at approximately 2:30 a.m. May 15 in the Rashid district of southern Baghdad.
Soldiers from Company A, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, conducted a point-specific operation to detain a suspected Special Groups criminal wanted in connection with extra-judicial killings, improvised explosive device attacks and weapons trafficking.
The Soldiers of 1st BCT Raider Brigade remain steadfast in their efforts to bring these dangerous criminals to justice, said Maj. Dave Olson, spokesman, 1st BCT, 4th Inf. Div. The Iraqi Security Forces and Coalition forces strive to provide a stable, secure environment for the Rashid district and its citizens.
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An Iraqi photographer working for Reuters was hospitalized Friday after police beat him at the scene of a bombing, officials told CNN. The unnamed still photographer was in stable condition after five Iraqi policemen struck him on the head with AK-47 rifles, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.
A police official said the photographer was filming the aftermath of a suicide bombing in Fallujah when police approached him and asked him to stay back for his own safety. Seven people were killed in the suicide bombing, including an infant and four soldiers. The official, who described the scene as chaotic, said the photographer disregarded the request and began filming the scene along with a video cameraman from Reuters.
An argument between police and the cameramen ensued, leading to violence, the official said. The cameraman was also injured, but he was not brought to the hospital.
Folks, if there is a bombing, and the police stretch the yellow tape out at the scene to do an investigation, and you cross the yellow tape, you're going to get thumped by the coppers. True in Fallujah, true in Chicago.
The five policemen involved were detained, and the case is under investigation, the official said. Reuters said a senior police official had given the photographer permission to take pictures at the scene.
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Cop: "Stay back!"
Reuterist: "My dear fellow, do you not know who we are?"
Cop: "Stay back, Allah curse you!"
Reuterist: "We are Reuters, and we at Reuters need not take orders from mere...." THWACK!
#2
it seems to me that willingly making footage that is clearly intended for propaganda purposes constitutes an act of war. Fine line yes, but this clearly crosses it. I hope the police get a reward.
Besides, what the *(&(^ is wrong with these people anyway. Killing infants and just people walking down the street. Sheesh. They are the living dead.
#3
we have to get real about footage and speech being used as propaganda. Right now, restrictions only work one way - as in the dutch case or with French TV. Islamists feel free to threaten and intimidate and there are few consequences for their actions. They also have found a way to use free speech to elevate the impact of bombing civilians and to promote fear - with virtually no downside to their actions.
Unfortunately, common sense and deceny are in much shorter supply today than they once were and so a large enough portion of western society will attempt to move heaven and earth to protect this Reuter's camerman to uphold the principle of free speech, yet do nothing to speak out against the injustice of what is happening to cartoonists in Holland.
It is the imbalance of tolerating "free speech" that threatens us - not free speech itself.
The Islamists have succeeded in undermining us at the very foundation of our society - our goodness and our freedoms. They are organized, funded and working as a united force against our way of life. We have no such unity.
If we don't come up with some sort of world-wide counterbalance to demanding equal protections for all free speech and other western values, the Islamists will turn western civilization into the hell-hole they seem so eager to create.
I'm not saying we should restrict speech - I'm saying that we should begin demanding equal protections for westerners so that truth can prevail. We need to do it forcefully and now. It's our only hope of winning a world worth fighting for.
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Is there a Pizza charity for Fallujah police force?
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Ropes, lampposts, journos. Some assembly required.
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Any front line reporter in Iraq is a partisan of some kind. Celebratory pics of Islamofascist murders are posted throughout the Muslim tyrannies. That beaten "photographer" wasn't exercising freedom of expression; he was serving as an accessory after the fact.
#9
Read Yon's book and what he has to say about the media war. It's just as, if not more, important than the shooting one. And that's one we've all but lost, courtesy of traitors like the staff of the NYT.
I'd like to see the Black Marias lined up at the Times Bldg. taking those S.O.B.s down to Rikers, and I'd particularly enjoy seeing Pinch, Herbert, Krugman and Dowd resisting arrest and getting really ruffed and cuffed into submission.
As for the trial, I'd say 15 to 20 at Attica, without parole, would be less than they deserve.
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Don't let's forget that there are a great many fewer professional journalists, ie salaried, at the New York Times and others, compared to five or ten years ago... and the number keeps shrinking. Most of these people are having to find real jobs, while the share held by Pinch, et al will soon reduce them to joining the middle class. There really are consequences for their behaviour, even if not so dramatic as Black Marias.
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Hell it wasn't until the recent 4-5 decades that there were 'Journalists' (much less a school of Journalism - how hard is it to report what is happening?) - before that they were regular joe reporters who wanted to report the news - not shape it to fit their agenda.
Now we have the MSM - The 'Ministry of Truth' (ala 1984) who's job it is to distort the truth and tell all the lies it can to achieve its political goals.
An Iranian Embassy convoy came under fire in Baghdad, wounding four people, including three Iranians and an Iraqi, a spokesman said Friday.
Teheran issued an angry response blaming the United States for encouraging attacks against Iranian interests in Iraq with its rhetoric against the Islamic republic. The US military said it "condemns any attack on guests or visitors of any country."
It was not clear who shot at the convoy. An Iraqi Interior Ministry official said Iraqi soldiers exchanged fire with guards in an argument that broke out when members of the convoy failed to produce identification cards.
Iranian Embassy spokesman Manoucher Taslimi said he did not know who the gunmen were but said the convoy was attacked while it was en route to a revered Shi'ite shrine in the northern neighborhood of Kazimiyah.
The shooting comes as relations between Iraq's Shi'ite-led government and the rulers in neighboring Iran have come under unprecedented strains as Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki moves against rivals and negotiates long-term pacts with Washington.
The US military also has stepped up allegations that Teheran is arming and funding Shi'ite militias who have been engaged in fierce clashes with American and Iraqi troops in Baghdad. Iran denies that it is fueling the violence in Iraq.
The shooting occurred about 5:30 p.m. Thursday as the convoy approached a bridge that links Kazimiyah with the predominantly Sunni area of Azamiyah, Taslimi said.
Taslimi said those wounded, including two Iranian diplomats and an Iranian and an Iraqi administrative employee, were in stable condition.
The Interior Ministry official said five people were wounded when the two-vehicle Iranian convoy exchanged fire with Iraqi soldiers at a checkpoint near the bridge after most of the Iranians failed to produce identification cards.
"The checkpoint staff asked them for ID cards, but nobody had one except for one Iranian called Abu al-Fadhil," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to release the information.
Lt. David Russell, a US military spokesman in Baghdad, said the Iraqi army had found four wounded Iranians in a vehicle with an Iraqi driver. The discrepancy in numbers could not immediately be reconciled.
Reports indicate the Iraqi security forces "handled the situation appropriately and with a high degree of professionalism, once again demonstrating their capability at maintaining security in their districts," Russell said in an e-mailed statement.
A spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry blamed the United States for the shooting, saying "the suspicious behavior of US forces" has led to "increasing insecurity in Iraq."
"Responsibility for providing security to
diplomats as well as diplomatic and international bodies in Iraq rests with the occupiers," Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said Friday in a statement that was obtained by The Associated Press.
Hosseini said Iran will pursue the case with Iraqi government officials.
The US military insisted the Americans were "in no way involved in this attack."
Meanwhile, the so-called "general military command" of the Mahdi Army militia that is loyal to anti-US cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on followers to adhere to an agreement reached this week to end clashes in Baghdad's Sadr City district.
In a statement circulated in the Mahdi Army stronghold before Friday prayers, the group praised the "resistance against occupation and tyranny."
But it called on them to "cease fire and obey orders and instructions" to prevent more bloodshed among Iraqi civilians. "We are confident of your obedience to your leadership in spite of all the challenges, the statement said. "Let all hear, that if any party violates the agreement, we will have another attitude toward it."
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Iranian convoy exchanged fire with Iraqi soldiers at a checkpoint
If the jpost writer has his story right, that verb "exchanged" just might explain why the Iranians got shot. While they might have thought they themselves were under attack by a fake checkpoint (as does happen), cops or sorta-cops anywhere are likely to shoot you if you pull a gun on them.
#3
the pretense of "new names= new groups" is stupid. A blanket smackback starting with Hamas Bigs and Paleo Spokesholes (heellllooo? warty nose? erekat? I specifically requested that some time ago??) getting home remodeling (as a crater) with them inside should be on the freaking menu, EVERY day. USDOS should keep inert, like a good bureaucracy, and STFU
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You [the People] deliver the USDOS STFU, IDF will deliver a "blanket smackback"
Ma'an - Palestinian sources reported early on Friday morning that unidentified gunmen blew up the door of the Rosary Sister's school in Tal Al-Hawa in the middle of the Gaza city. The sources told Ma'an that the gunmen detonated a bomb near the door of the school at 2.00 am on Friday morning, which resulted in some material damage. No injuries were reported.
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Suspected members of the Abu Sayyaf bandit group figured in a gunbattle with members of the Philippine Marines during turnover ceremonies for a road project in Tipo-tipo, Basilan Thursday afternoon.
Col. Rustico Guerrero of the 1st Marine Brigade said the skirmish took place along the main road of Barangay Baguindan.
Guerrero said the bandits tried to disrupt the ceremonies for the turnover of the project conducted by the National Development Support Command of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
Guerrero said no government casualties were reported. One Abu Sayyaf suspect was wounded, Guerrero said, citing reports from the field.
Some 20 families in the area reportedly fled their homes for fear of being caught in the crossfire.
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A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber rammed his motorbike into a police bus in the Sri Lankan capital on Friday, killing 10 people, the military and hospital authorities said.
Doctors at the National Hospital in Colombo said eight policemen and two civilians were killed and more than 85 people were wounded in the blast, which happened in a commercial quarter of the capital near the Hilton Hotel. The area is a high security zone that is also the site of the Sri Lankas presidential office and military headquarters.
The military blamed Tamil Tiger rebels for the attack. The Tigers, who routinely deny involvement in such attacks, were not immediately available for comment. The target was a police bus and a motorbike had crashed into the police bus, said military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara. Fighting between government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has intensified since the government formally pulled out of a six-year-old ceasefire pact in January, though a renewed civil war has been raging since 2006.
Air raid: On Friday, Sri Lankan air force jets bombed rebel positions in the far north of the island for a second day running, the military said, adding ground troops had killed 33 rebel fighters over the past two days. The LTTE hasnt commented on the latest clashes and independent confirmation of battlefield casualties is not possible because of lack of access. Both sides are known to exaggerate enemy losses.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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At least five Taliban militants were killed and six injured on Friday in a gunfight with the police in southern Afghan province of Zabul, officials said Friday.
An Afghan man involved in a hijacking eight years ago was arrested after being found working as a cleaner for British Airways near Heathrow Airport, officials and a press report said Friday.
Authorities found the beheaded body of a paramilitary soldier in the Bajaur Agency on Friday, close to where a United States missile strike left at least 20 people dead.
Unidentified gunmen shot dead a prayer leader in Swat districts Kabal tehsil on Friday, police said. They said 
Maoist rebels have shot and killed two men in southern India, hours before the second phase of polling began in a state election, police said on Friday. 
