Four Canadian soldiers were wounded, one seriously, in two separate attacks yesterday in the Zhari District, about 30 kilometres west of Kandahar City.
In the first incident, insurgents engaged Canadian soldiers with small-arms fire during a security operation. One Canadian was injured.
At about the same time nearby, an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated, resulting in one soldier being seriously wounded while two other Canadians and an Afghan interpreter were badly injured. The blast occurred while soldiers were on foot patrol.
All five casualties were airlifted to Kandahar Airfield's multinational medical unit, with the seriously injured soldier expected to be transferred to Landstuhl, Germany. The interpreter was transferred to General Shirzai Hospital, where he is reported to be in good condition. The Canadian Forces did not identify the wounded soldiers.
The Canadian Task Force and Afghan national security forces recently completed a successful operation to neutralize IED production cells in Kandahar Province. "We have come to expect retaliation from insurgents following their setbacks, and we do everything possible to ensure we are prepared," said navy Lieut. Al Blondin, spokesman for the task force.
Both attacks occurred in the midst of the "days of tranquillity," a three-day period when international aid agencies such as UNICEF and the World Health Organization planned to blanket the southern area of conflict with mobile teams sent to inoculate children under the age of five against polio. UNICEF officials said earlier yesterday that "access negotiators" had spoken with the Taliban to arrange a temporary cessation of hostilities in the most dangerous areas, which includes Zhari.
The latest days of tranquillity, an initiative that has been employed in other global hotspots in order to reach at-risk civilians, was to have run until tonight. It's supposed to be a three-day respite to eradicate polio in children.
That sort of thing is supposed to get the infidels to let their guard down so the Faithful can get in some effective whacks. The commies used to do the same thing. In fact, there was a truce in effect when the Tet offensive began.
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The ringleader of a gang accused of plotting to blow up transatlantic jets with liquid explosives admitted Tuesday planning an explosion at Heathrow airport.
Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 27, said Monday he that he had wanted to set off a device in the Houses of Parliament in central London to attract attention to an online documentary attacking British and US foreign policy. At top-security Woolwich Crown Court, he said the plan to strike at Westminster was later dropped in favour of the airport, one of the busiest in the world, because "security was not so tight."
He denied his group intended to board aircraft, saying the target was the terminal three building, which is used by several US carriers. "When we thought about the airport, it was the terminal and more specific American offices," he told the court on the second day of defence evidence. We were trying to create a disturbance, not kill anyone. We did not even think about boarding a plane, our aim was to set off a device at a terminal, cause a disturbance then release our video."
Ali, also known as Ahmed Ali Khan, is on trial alongside seven other men. They all deny plotting to detonate home-made liquid bombs on board flights bound for north America in mid-2006.
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ABDULLA AHMED ALI
al-Qaeda in Britain
AHMED ALI KHAN
al-Qaeda in Britain
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These pirates should have been long since hanged and their families deported.
(Xinhua) -- Turkish General Staff has sent a large group of troops to the region bordering Iraq to fight against the banned Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) on Tuesday, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported. The report said the General Staff sent the Turkish troops to Besta region and Cudi and Gabar mountainous areas in Sirnak province along the neighboring country early Tuesday.
Last Thursday, Turkish jets launched an air strike against 16 PKK targets in the north of Iraq. The Turkish military has periodically bombed and shelled suspected PKK positions in Turkish-Iraqi border area during the past few months after it launched an eight-day ground incursion into Iraq in February.
The PKK, listed by the United States and Turkey as a terrorist group, took up arms against Turkey in 1984 with the aim of creating an ethnic homeland in the southeast. More than 30,000 people have been killed in the over-two-decade conflict.
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A court on Tuesday acquitted three defendants in Norway's first terrorism trial since anti-terror laws were strengthened after the the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. The Oslo City Court said there was insufficient evidence against Arfan Bhatti and two other suspects to convict them of plotting attacks against Israeli and U.S. embassies in 2006. But the court found Bhatti guilty of possessing illegal firearms.
Bhatti, 30, and a second man were accused of firing 13 shots at Norway's main synagogue during the night of Sept. 17, 2006. No one was hurt in the attack. Bhatti and the third suspect also faced charges of plotting an attack against the U.S. and Israeli embassies in Oslo. They were found innocent.
The charges of plotting embassy attacks - which never took place - partly were based on a police recording of the suspects talking about ways to attack the embassies.
The trial opened in the Oslo court on March 31. It was Norway's first anti-terror case after the country tightened security and legislation in the wake of 2001 attacks in the United States.
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al-Qaeda in Europe
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The Yemen of the North.
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re: message received: You'd think at some point westerner civilization would also get "The Message".
And that message is that Islamists and other tyrants do not see appeasment as a reason to back off; they see it as a weakness that can be further exploited for their own gain.
For some reason, there are large portions of the western world that simply can not grasp this obvious concept.
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So the charge of plotting attacks on the embassies was based on a recording of the three men plotting attacks on the three embassies? Yes, I'd acquit them, too.
A federal judge on Tuesday threw out the government's case against a former Islamic charity leader and partially overturned the convictions of two others, ruling prosecutors failed to prove all the charges.
The charity leader, Samir Al-Monla, was cleared of all charges and immediately released. The two others - Emadeddin Muntasser and Muhammed Mubayyid - remain in custody pending sentencing next week on the remaining counts.
The three were convicted in January of duping the US government into awarding their Boston-based organization, Care International Inc., tax-exempt status by hiding its pro-jihad activities.
Care International, which is now defunct, described its mission as helping war orphans, widows and refugees in Muslim nations. But prosecutors said the organization also distributed a newsletter promoting jihad and supported Muslim militants involved in armed conflicts around the world.
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Care International Inc.
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Care International Inc.
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Care International Inc.
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What the next stage of appeal, Circuit Court?
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The idiot reporter doesn't even give the judge's name. I suppose that is why news industry stock has gone from blue chip to penny status.
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This case has alot of twists and turns. Miss Kelly has the poop.
Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV. Saylor was appointed by Bush #1 to the District court in 2003.
"Muntasser, 42, owner of the Logan Furniture Co., was born in Libya and now lives in Braintree, MA. Mubayyid, 42, was born in Lebanon and now lives in Shrewsbury, MA. Al-Monla, 50, was born in Kuwait, now lives in Boston, MA and is a U.S. citizen."
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After his arrest, Muntasser hired a team of top-notch legal advisers including Liberal political pundit Susan Estrich and civil liberties champion Harvey A. Silverglate of Boston to defend him on grounds of free speech, freedom of religion and civil liberties.
IOW, Let's turn this case on its head,
ahh... now take terrorism for instance: It's just fighting for freedom... correct! Sure Right-0!
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Our legal system only works when judges have a shred of sense. Otherwise, slick lawdogs can get anyone off with the use of unlimited money and "expert" testimony. Look at O.J. Simpson, a true travesty. Made a laughing stock of the criminal court system. They were able to pre-select a jury of morons and free a murderer. Why ? Idiot judge who could have controlled the trial, but didn't (or maybe wasn't intellectually capable). The Muzz have decided that liberal judges are the best way to game our system.
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Of interest,far from Boston, & prior to the primary, there were Care Int. billboards with teary-eyed Somolian women and children pleading for donations in the immigrant sponsoring meat-packing towns such as Muscatine Iowa.
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sometimes it just feels like we are screwed. Our government has become our enemy. Enjoy every day before they change the laws and tax us into peasants.
Actually - I have faith that we will survive this assualt on our liberty - but sometimes, in dark moments, I wonder what will be the change agent that makes us stand up and fight for what is so quickly slipping away.
A powerful bomb ripped through a video shop in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, killing three people and wounding three, police said. Local police chief Abdul Rauf said the attack happened in the town of Kohat, about 45 miles south of Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province bordering Afghanistan. He said the dead and injured were taken to a hospital. The blast also damaged some nearby video and CD stores. The latest attack came weeks after suspected militants sent letters to shop owners in Kohat and elsewhere in the region, warning them to close their businesses.
Earlier Wednesday, militants also blew up two dozen video and music stalls on a market in the northwestern town of Miranshah in the North Waziristan region, part of an ethnic Pashtun tribal belt in northwest Pakistan that has never come under the control of any government. No injuries were reported. "About 25 masked militants came at about 1:30 a.m planted explosives and blew up the entire market," said Mohammad Sakhi, who runs a workshop next to the market. The stalls offered pirated Indian and Hollywood films as well as music discs of Pashtun folk music. Some kept more racy movies under the counter, a resident said.
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I believe that when you allow Islam within your culture, you allow slavery. Look close, the complete control of the women and children, right down to control over what you hear, and when.
This is the very kind of inhumaness, that helped formed this nation of free men, and made it complete signed in blood. Allowing slavery now is inexcusable.
SADDA: Four persons were killed and seven others injured in a bomb explosion at a roadside in the Spin Tara area of Kurram Agency on Tuesday, officials said. Political administration officials said a Suzuki truck carrying passengers to central Kurram Agency drove over a landmine. Four passengers died on the scene and seven were injured. The injured were rushed to Doaba hospital. The dead included two Afghan nationals, a nine-year old boy and an 11-year-old girl. One Levy Force worker named Syed Rehman was also injured in the blast.
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A bomb explosion on Tuesday afternoon killed five members of the same family and injured seven others including two women, police sources said. The bomb exploded inside a house in Kili Gashkori, Sabzal Road, sources said, adding that there were two children among the dead. The explosive device was placed in a scrap store in the house where the family was working, the sources said. Three of the dead bodies were moved to Bolan Medical Complex (BMC) and two were taken to the Civil Hospital. Police said it had recovered another explosive device from the blast site. The investigation was underway, the police said, adding that the bomb disposal squad was searching the house-cum-store for more explosives.
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PESHAWAR Eight people including two children were killed and seven others injured as a result of a landmine explosion in the Mandara area of Kurram Agency yesterday.
A pick-up was on its way from the Naryab area to Sadda, the second biggest town of Kurram Agency. When it reached Mandra it hit a landmine planted by unidentified people on a katcha road. The explosion was so strong that it caused the death of several people on the spot. Sources said that so far eight deaths had been confirmed. So far no one has claimed the responsibility in this respect.
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Pakistani potholes.
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A tractor-trailer loaded with Shiite militia rockets accidentally exploded Wednesday in a densely populated area of northeast Baghdad, killing 18 people and wounding 75, the U.S. military said. It was the deadliest explosion in Baghdad in more than two months.
Iraqi police said the blast was a suicide truck bomb that struck near the home of an Iraqi police general, killing his nephew and wounding his elderly parents.
But the U.S. military said Shiite extremists were positioning a large truck of loaded with rockets and mortars, aiming the weapons at a U.S. combat outpost 700 yards away, when it mistakenly exploded. The explosion crumbled several two-story buildings, buried cars under rubble and sheared off a corrugated steel roof. From next to the police general's house. How clever.
"They were trying to attack us at that FOB (forwarding operating base), and it went off (accidentally). They wouldn't waste rockets like that," said Lt. Col. Steve Stover, a U.S. military spokesman.
Stover said the militants responsible for the truck had likely fled recent fighting in Sadr City.
Also Wednesday, three U.S. soldiers were shot dead in northern Iraq, and the decaying bodies of at least 23 Iraqis were discovered in a shallow grave and a sewer shaft at separate sites near Baghdad.
The Americans were killed when gunmen opened fire on them in the northern Iraqi village of Hawija, according to a brief military statement. The area, once a hub for Sunni militants and disaffected allies of Saddam Hussein, is thought to have been pacified in recent months. Last year it hosted one of the largest sign-on ceremonies for tribal sheiks partnering with U.S. forces to fight al-Qaida in Iraq.
The latest U.S. deaths brought to at least 4,090 the number of U.S. military personnel who have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
South of Baghdad, Iraqi villagers and soldiers unearthed at least 13 bodies from a shallow, dusty grave in farmland on the outskirts of Latifiyah, a mostly Sunni town that also has some Shiite residents. The bodies were first discovered Tuesday, but digging continued a day later. Associated Press Television News footage showed Iraqi troops and civilians clawing through dusty soil with shovels. At least three severely decomposed bodies could be seen in side-by-side graves.
The U.S. military could not confirm the discovery, but said its soldiers, acting on a tip from a local citizen, found at least 10 decomposed bodies Tuesday in a separate location, in the sewer shaft of a building in east Baghdad. Those victims appeared to have died more than two years ago, Stover said, adding that Iraqi police have taken over the investigation.
Latifiyah, which lies about 20 miles south of Baghdad, was taken over by al-Qaida-linked militants a few years ago, and became a hotbed of Sunni militant activity before U.S. and Iraqi forces regained control late last year, said Iraqi Maj. Faisal Ali Hussein, who supervised that digging Tuesday.
Only now are villagers feeling safer without the militants there beginning to point out possible sites of mass graves in the area, he said.
Most of the bodies were too decomposed to identify and they were reburied next to where they were discovered, said another Iraqi army officer at the scene, who refused to give his name because of safety concerns. Or did he just refuse to give his name for employment concerns?
Meanwhile, the U.S. military said it detained nine suspects and destroyed two "terrorist safe houses" Wednesday in raids targeting al-Qaida in Iraq across central and northern parts of the country. One of the men had been wanted for alleged involvement in weapons distribution and car bombings in Baghdad, the military said in a statement. Another suspect was responsible for organizing suicide bombings and helping foreign militants enter Iraq, the statement said.
Information from other detainees already in U.S. custody led American troops on Wednesday to two facilities that housed foreign militants west of Mosul, it said. The buildings were safely destroyed.
In a separate operation Wednesday, Iraqi police said they uncovered a large weapons cache near Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad. Among the load were hundreds of explosive belts, three assembled car bombs and several different types of rockets, an officer said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information. One suspect also was arrested in the raid. Hundreds of explosive belts? Do they really need that many?
AP - American troops grabbed two al-Qaida in Iraq bombing suspects and a Shiite militia leader Tuesday in separate raids north and south of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
The command also said U.S. soldiers killed four other suspects a day earlier after coming under fire from machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades in Shiite sections of the capital. The troops seized dozens of rifles and several rounds of ammunition, the statement said. What? No AP comment about how the US soldiers didn't even give them a chance to reform first?
One of the two al-Qaida suspects, who was captured with four aides in Mosul, is believed to have overseen security for the group's branch in that northern city, the military said. Mosul is one of the terror network's last urban strongholds and the target of a joint U.S.-Iraqi operation.
The man, who was not identified by name, is also suspected of masterminding bombings against Iraqi police in the area, the U.S. military said.
The other al-Qaida in Iraq su0pect was apprehended along with an assistant in Tikrit, a Sunni Arab city south of Mosul. He allegedly helped organize suicide bombings and the movement of foreign fighters into the country, a U.S. statement said.
The suspected Shiite militia leader and five associates surrendered without incident at his home in Kut, southeast of the Iraqi capital, the U.S. said. He was accused of involvement in the murder of Iraqis and American soldiers, it said.
Violence has dropped dramatically in Iraq since a May 11 cease-fire put an end to seven weeks of fighting by U.S. and Iraqi troops against Shiite militias in Baghdad's Sadr City district.
Since then, government forces have intensified security operations to restore control of Sadr City and Basra, the big southern city where Shiite gunmen had ruled the streets for more than three years.
Basra residents say the operation has brought considerable improvement to security in a city where Shiite extremists intimidated women who tied to wear Western clothes and forced video and music shops to close.
Despite the improvements, an Iraqi cameraman working for state television was wounded Tuesday night when a bomb exploded at a newly-reopened music shop, police said. Camera operator Odai Sabri was injured while filming shops which were back in business after the government crackdown, according to police. Ah, now that's more like the AP we've all come to know and love!
Witnesses in Mosul, meanwhile, said Kurdish troops reinforced their positions at Iraqi government buildings in the city's northern al-Arabi district, deploying fighters to rooftops despite an order from Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to vacate the area.
"We've seen an intensified presence of peshmerga (Kurdish militia), and their numbers have increased along with armored vehicles," one resident said on condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisals. He said government troops also had increased their patrols.
The recent fighting in Mosul has been mainly to quash al-Qaida in Iraq militants, but the city also suffers from tension between Kurdish and Sunni Arab factions.
The discord stems largely from lopsided political representation in local government, which is dominated by Kurdish parties and their allies even though Arabs hold a slight majority in Mosul's province, Ninevah. Sunni Arabs boycotted the last provincial elections in 2005.
Mosul's deputy governor, a Kurd, denied Tuesday that Kurdish fighters were in a standoff with government forces.
"We are national political parties participating in the government and not fighting its forces," deputy governor Khisro Koran said. "We support the government and its security measures so that we are not excluded."
(VOI) - Five persons, including a child, were killed and 20 others were wounded, while security forces arrested 21 persons in acts of violence that took place in Iraq from 9:00 p.m. on Monday until this afternoon, security sources said.
In Diala, a suicide bomber was killed on Tuesday afternoon while trying to tie an explosive belt around his body in his house in Baaquba, Chief of local police General Ghanem al-Qureshi said.
"One al-Qaeda gunman was wounded in the attack," he added.
The body of a child kidnapped three days ago was found in al-Katoun neighborhood, west of Baaquba district, on Tuesday, a security source said.
A police source said three operatives of al-Qaeda network were killed in clashes that erupted near a checkpoint of the Sahwa (Awakening) tribal forces east of Baaquba on Tuesday.
A security source said ten Iraqi soldiers were wounded on Tuesday when an improvised explosive device went off near a military convoy north of Baaquba city.
In Kirkuk, two civilians were wounded when an improvised explosive device went off southwest of the city of Kirkuk, where the police captured five people wanted by security agencies, a police source said on Tuesday.
"A roadside IED went off near an orchard on Tuesday, leaving two people harvesting wheat and barley in Nazaka village wounded," the source, who asked not to have his name mentioned, told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI). Nazaka is a village that lies between the districts of al-Riad and al-Huweija, 70 km southwest of Kirkuk.
Meanwhile, another police source told VOI that a joint force from the Iraqi police and Sahwa (Awakening) tribal fighters conducted a search raid on Monday evening in al-Yarmuk neighborhood, Huweija, capturing five wanted men belonging to the so-called Islamic State in Iraq group.
In Salah al-Din, a police source said three Iraqi army and police officers were wounded when an improvised explosive device went off near a joint patrol east of Tikrit city on Tuesday.
In Muthanna, southern Iraq, joint police and army forces arrested five wanted men and 11 suspected gunmen during a security raid in southern Samawa, the media spokesman for the Muthanna police said on Tuesday.
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Completely misleading headline. One baby murdered by kidnappers. Four that needed killing killed.
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In Diala, a suicide bomber was killed on Tuesday afternoon while trying to tie an explosive belt around his body in his house in Baaquba.
Rolf, What an epitaph! LOL!!
Here Lies The Poor Mangled
Body Of Asswad
His Poor Poor Soul Couldn't
Stand The Blast
And His Head Went Straight
Through His Ass To Hell!
(VOI) - One Iraqi soldier died as a result of a non-battle incident and 16 wanted men were arrested in acts of violence that took place throughout Iraq from 2:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. on Tuesday. The U.S. army said on Tuesday that one of its soldiers died in a non-combat incident in Baghdad. The death brings the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq since the U.S.-invasion of Iraq in March 2003 to 4087.
In Basra, a police source said police forces on Tuesday arrested 16 wanted individuals, including one woman, and seized quantities of ammunition during raid operations conducted in Basra.
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(VOI) Three operatives of al-Qaeda network were killed in clashes that erupted near a checkpoint of the Sahwa (Awakening) tribal forces east of Baaquba on Tuesday, a police source said. "Three members of al-Qaeda were killed on Tuesday when clashes broke out near a checkpoint of the Sahwa fighters in al-Mufisa village, Abu Sayda district, (20 km) east of Baaquba," the source, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, told Aswat al-Iraq.
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(VOI) Three Iraqi army and police officers were wounded when an improvised explosive device went off near a joint patrol east of Tikrit city on Tuesday, an Iraqi police source in Salah al-Din province said. "The IED went off today in the area of Talloul Hamrin near a joint army-police patrol roaming some remote areas used by gunmen in movement between the provinces of Salah al-Din, Diala and Kirkuk. Three officers were wounded in the explosion," the source, who refused to reveal his name, told Aswat al-Iraq Voices of Iraq (VOI).
"Lt. Colonel Kamel Nassif, the commander of the engineering corps of the Iraqi army's 4th Division, Capt. Sofyan al-Naji, the al-Khalifa police commander and son of the Salah al-Din tribal chiefs council, and a third officer in the company were wounded in the blast that also destroyed their vehicle," the source added. The Salah al-Din tribal chief council chairman, Naji al-Jabbara, was kidnapped and killed by al-Qaeda network last year, according to security officials.
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Putting themselves on the line for Iraq. May they heal well and quickly.
(VOI) - Joint police and army forces arrested five wanted men and 11 suspected gunmen during a security raid in southern Samawa, the media spokesman for the Muthanna police said on Tuesday. "A joint force of local police and the 29th brigade of the 10th division of the Iraqi army waged a crackdown operation in Nissan 9 neighborhood in southern Samawa, where it arrested five wanted men and 11 suspected gunmen," the cabinet's national information center quoted the spokesman as saying in a statement received by Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI). "The force found four Kalashnikovs during the operation," he added. "The operation aims at seizing all unlicensed weapons," he also said, noting that other operations would be launched throughout the province.
Muthanna enjoys relative security and did not witness any violet acts last months. It was the first province to receive the security file in July 2007.
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(VOI) Three operatives of al-Qaeda network were killed in clashes that erupted near a checkpoint of the Sahwa (Awakening) tribal forces east of Baaquba on Tuesday, a police source said. "Three members of al-Qaeda were killed on Tuesday when clashes broke out near a checkpoint of the Sahwa fighters in al-Mufisa village, Abu Sayda district, (20 km) east of Baaquba," the source, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, told Aswat al-Iraq Voices of Iraq (VOI). Baaquba, the capital city of Diala, lies 57 km northeast of Baghdad.
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A terror cell using sophisticated methods in an effort to kidnap Israeli Air Force officers has worried the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), Channel 10 reported Wednesday.
The cell was discovered when an officer received a call to his military-issued cellular phone by a man claiming to be a commander of a new top-secret IAF squadron.
The man tried to extract information on the officer's training, location and fields of expertise, the officer said, adding that the caller had a distinct Arabic accent. The man called the officer on the pretext that he was setting up interviews with IAF officers in order to handpick the soldiers who would man the "new" squadron.
The method by which the terror cell operated was simple: They called cellular phones randomly, relying on the fact that the phones that the military issues to officers of a specific unit all have phone numbers beginning with the same sequence.
(Xinhua) -- Three Islamic Jihad militants were injured on Tuesday afternoon in an Israeli airstrike on an area east of the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis, medics and witnesses said.
Mo'aweya Hassanein, chief of emergency and ambulance services in the Palestinian health ministry told reporters that three people were injured in the airstrike, one of them critically. Witnesses said that an Israeli aircraft fired one missile at a group of Islamic Jihad militants east of the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza Strip, adding that three were injured.
Earlier Tuesday, the group claimed responsibility in a leaflet sent to reporters for launching a homemade rocket from Gaza at Western Negev area in southern Israel. Israeli Radio quoted Israeli army sources as saying that a homemade rocket fired from the Gaza Strip at southern Israel wounded at least five Israelis, two of them were moderately injured.
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Shucks, only three terrorists wounded... No virgins passed out.
One is critical, so there better be 72 ready, just in case gangrene, sepsis or something else sets in.
(Xinhua) -- The Islamic Hamas movement on Tuesday claimed its responsibility for wounding an Israeli soldier in an exchange of fire during an Israeli incursion into central Gaza Strip.
Ezz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, said their fighters opened fire on Israeli Special Forces which entered the eastern part of central Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Witnesses said that an Israeli soldier was injured in the shooting, while Israeli press sources said the soldier was moderately wounded and evacuated to a hospital in Be'er Sheva. A number of Israeli tanks and bulldozers rolled for 800 meters into the Palestinian-controlled territory alongside the border fence. Such incursions have been regular since Hamas took over the Gaza Strip nearly a year ago.
Earlier in the day, Palestinian militants said they fired two rockets into the southern Israel city of Sderot. Israeli media said the missiles caused no casualties or damages.
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I have an idea for Israel to try to put a stop to the rockets hitting Sderot: for every rocket fired at Israel, Israel will demolish one building in Gaza. Hamass will eventually run out of rockets or buildings, one or the other. Israel needs to broadcast their intended response to all Gazans, drop leaflets, etc., before beginning, but after that, it's all up to Hamass.
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Four people have been killed in attacks by suspected separatists across Thailand's far south, police say, including one woman who died when a bomb ripped through a fair.
Last night's bomb hit an annual event organised by the Thai Red Cross in Yala province. A 24-year-old Buddhist women was killed, while four people were seriously injured, Yala police said. In the same province, two Muslim men and a woman were killed when suspected rebels sprayed their house with gunfire as they were conducting evening prayers, local authorities said.
Government spokesman Wichianchot Sukchotrat told AFP they planned to study what lessons could be learnt from the way Indonesia tackled separatist unrest in its Aceh province. The cabinet has ordered the interior ministry and the southern administrative body "to study the Aceh peace model in order to use information to solve our own southern unrest problem," Wichianchot said.
(Xinhua) -- Sri Lankan police in the eastern town of Kathankudy has imposed a curfew following unrest, officials said Tuesday. "Police curfew has been enforced from 5:45 p.m. (1215 GMT) this evening until 6 a.m. (0030 GMT) tomorrow," police spokesman Ranjith Gunasekera said in the capital Colombo.
A group of Muslims at Kathankudy, about 303 km from Colombo staged a protest Tuesday afternoon. They burnt tyres on the road while forcing the closure of shops and halting public transport. They demanded the release of a Muslim abducted Tuesday morning by an unknown armed group. The police said the Muslim was later released.
Problems have flared up between the Muslim and Tamil communities in the Eastern Province since the Eastern Provincial Council election held on May 10. Muslims and Tamils have a long history of animosity in the multi-ethnic Eastern Province. The newly appointed chief minister in the province Pillayan has assured support for all three communities in the province. There have been killings of several Tamil and Muslim civilians since the election.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Four Canadian soldiers were wounded, one seriously, in two separate attacks yesterday in the Zhari District, about 30 kilometres west of Kandahar City.
(Xinhua) -- Turkish General Staff has sent a large group of troops to the region bordering Iraq to fight against the banned Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) on Tuesday, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported. The report said the General Staff sent the Turkish troops to Besta region and Cudi and Gabar mountainous areas in Sirnak province along the neighboring country early Tuesday. 
PESHAWAR Eight people including two children were killed and seven others injured as a result of a landmine explosion in the Mandara area of Kurram Agency yesterday.
