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Talibs Attack Kandahar Kalaboose With Car Boom, Free Inmates
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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Another Cuttering-edge edition of the RDS&TP!
Posted by: Mike || 06/13/2008 6:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Early Thai cammo
Posted by: George Smiley || 06/13/2008 9:03 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Militants Attack Afghan Prison With Car Bomb, Free Inmates
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Militants attacked the city's main prison with a suicide car bombing and rockets late Friday, killing police and setting hundreds of prisoners free, Afghan officials said. "All the prisoners escaped. There is no one left," said Wali Karzai, president of Kandahar's provincial council and also the brother of President Hamid Karzai.

A car bomber blew up his vehicle at the prison's gates in the southern Afghan city, Justice Minister Sarwar Danish said. Danish said he did not have immediate details on how many prisoners might have escaped. But a prison official at the scene said most prisoners escaped.

The prison holds common criminals but also Taliban militants fighting NATO troops and the Afghan government.

Officials with NATO's International Security Assistance Force said they were aware of the attack but did not have any details yet.

Last month, some 200 Taliban suspects held at the Kandahar prison ended a weeklong hunger strike after a parliamentary delegation promised their cases would be reviewed. Lawmaker Habibullah Jan said some of the hunger strikers had been held without trial for more than two years. Others were given lengthy prison sentences after short trials. Jan said 47 of the prisoners had stitched their mouths shut during the hunger strike in May.

Kandahar — the Taliban's former stronghold and Afghanistan's second-largest city — has been the scene of fierce battles between NATO forces, primarily from Canada and the United States and Taliban fighters the last two years.
Posted by: Sherry || 06/13/2008 17:07 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Jan said 47 of the prisoners had stitched their mouths shut during the hunger strike in May.

So they shouldn't be too hard to find. Look for the skinny guys with thread hanging outta their mouths.
Posted by: tu3031 || 06/13/2008 18:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Karzai and the other Pashto tools will find some way to blame it on the coalition forces. Ima getting tired of Afghan incompetence while they bite the hand that feeds/protects them
Posted by: Frank G || 06/13/2008 19:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Seriously, such a large group of jackasses shouldn't be that hard to find, right? Shoot anything that moves in the mountains.
Posted by: Thamble the Rash8664 || 06/13/2008 20:24 Comments || Top||


Two UK soldiers killed in Afghanistan
LONDON - Britain's Ministry of Defense says two British soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan.

A spokesman says the two men were hit by enemy fire while patrolling the area around their base in the Upper Gereshk Valley. He says a third soldier was also injured in Thursday's attack. The men served in the 2nd Battalion the Parachute Regiment.

On Sunday, three soldiers serving in the same unit were killed in an attack in the Upper Sangin Valley.
Posted by: Steve White || 06/13/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Record drug haul unearthed in Taliban trenches
THE world's biggest drug bust has been executed by narcotics agents in Afghanistan, who say they uncovered 236 tonnes of hashish hidden in trenches in the south of the country.

The massive haul, found in the southern province of Kandahar on Monday, was worth more than $US400 million ($426 million) and would have netted the Taliban about $US14 million in profits, NATO officials said yesterday. It weighed as much as 30 double-decker London buses. "To our knowledge, this was the biggest drug seizure in the world," said Afghanistan's deputy interior minister Abdul Hadi Khalid. He said the drugs were found hidden in multiple trenches and that all 236.8 tonnes were burned in the trenches later the same day.
"Whoa! Dewd! Blow some my way!"
The previous record was set in Colombia when 81 tonnes of coca were seized, Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper said.

The UN Office on Drugs and Crime today congratulated Afghan police on the raid. "This is a massive seizure, and a major success for counter-narcotics in Afghanistan," said UNODC executive director Antonio Maria Costa. "Notorious for being the world's biggest producer of opium, Afghanistan has also become a major source of cannabis resin."

Sixteen people, including four Iranians and seven Pakistanis, have been arrested in connection with the stash.
Another five tonnes of opium was seized in southern Helmand province over the weekend. Sixteen people, including four Iranians and seven Pakistanis, have been arrested in connection with the stash.

Afghanistan's biggest drug problem is not hashish but opium. It produced 9000 tonnes last year, enough to make 93 per cent of the world's heroin supply. But officials have increased warnings that farmers who no longer grow opium poppies because of successful eradication programs have turned their fields to cannabis, the plant used to produce hashish and marijuana, giving the country a second drug problem.

Deputy Interior Minister Abdul Hadi Khalid said three men were arrested over the hashish bust. He said 21 of the country's 36 provinces were opium free, but eradication efforts in Kandahar, Helmand, Farah and Uruzgan provinces did not go well this year because of continuing violence. Forty-three members of the country's counter-narcotics police were killed in eradication operations this spring, he said. In nearby Helmand province, the Interior Ministry said police seized 5100kg of opium and arrested 13 drug dealers.
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  "regional protests over a food shortage, particularly 'munchies', were seen, but lethargic"
Posted by: Frank G || 06/13/2008 6:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Actually, hash consumers prefer grow-op stuff over outside crop. Grow-op product can be controlled for potency. The growers could have seen too many Cheech and Chong movies.
Posted by: McZoid || 06/13/2008 7:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Pile it all up on the border and torch it. Would calm things down over there for months probably.
Posted by: tu3031 || 06/13/2008 10:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Dude, it's, like, too bad allan won't let 'em try some for themselves.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/13/2008 12:27 Comments || Top||

#5  Start lighting it up wherever you find it. As it stands now Coalition troop cannot molest drug crops at all.
Posted by: Lionel Glang9752 || 06/13/2008 12:44 Comments || Top||


Afghan police kill would-be cross-dressing boomer
Afghan police said on Thursday they killed a would-be suicide bomber disguised in a burqa after he ignored warning shots.
Officers guarding a police compound in Helmand shot the man after he ignored an order to freeze and started running towards the building. He was shot in the forehead and was killed on the spot. When we took off his burqa we found he was a man with suicide vest tied around his body."
Officers guarding a police compound in southern Helmand province shot the man after he ignored an order to freeze and instead started running towards the building, said provincial police chief Mohammad Hussain Andiwal. "He was shot in the forehead after he ignored warning shots and was killed on the spot. When we took off his burqa we found he was a man with suicide vest tied around his body," Andiwal said. The explosives did not go off and there were no other casualties, he said.

Andiwal said the man was a Taliban militant, but there was no immediate claim of responsibility from the group, which has claimed most of the suicide attacks against Afghan and foreign forces.

Last week a BBC reporter Abdul Samad Rohani in Helmand was abducted and later killed. The Afghan government said its initial findings indicate the Taliban killed the reporter who had received death threats from the extremists, but they said they were not involved in the killing.

"They were abducting children, were raping them and were video recording the sexual abuse for networks they were in contact with."
Kabul: Separately, a criminal group, which abducted and raped schoolchildren then recorded the abuse to make pornographic videos, has been busted in Kabul, intelligence officials said. The group of four people had kidnapped five children below the age of 12 as they went home from school in the city, said a spokesman for the Afghan National Directorate of Security. "They were abducting children, were raping them and were video recording the sexual abuse for networks they were in contact with," Sayed Ansari told reporters. Ansari said the men had confessed to their crimes. Meanwhile, agents also raided a house where kidnappers kept a man they abducted for ransom in an overnight raid last night, killing the group leader and arresting two others, one of them a woman, he said.
This article starring:
Abdul Samad Rohani
Mohammad Hussain Andiwal
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
Somalia: Ethio-Som Troops Stretch Mogadishu Road, President Attacked
Following Ethiopian and Somali troops have extended into Makara Almukarramah Main Street in Mogadishu to safeguard government officials wanted to pass that road abrupt heavy fighting has erupted that coincided at the departure time of Somali president Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed Thursday morning according to the residents. "Heavy artillery and gunfire weapons started as the president's convoys were close to the international Mogadishu airport where he wanted to fly from" the spokesman of somalia president Husein Mohamed Mohamud "Hubsires" told Shabelle English service" the president was unharmed.

The official added that suspected islamist fighters have violently begin attack from northern side of KM4 in Mogadishu that close to the airport and the government -Ethiopian answered that attack.

Unofficial reports said that AMISOM troops also fired mortars from the airport to the islamists attacked the soldiers. "I can perceive bang sounds of mortars being fired from the direction of the airport where AMISOM troops based" KM4 resident Sadiya Adan Jimale told Shabelle English service by phone" we put our chests on the ground."
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic Courts


Africa North
Al-Qaeda arrested recruits likely to reach 21 people
Guemar court in El Oued province, east-south of Algeria has been surrounded, yesterday, by security forces, following the introduction, to the general prosecutor, of 11 youngsters suspected of attempting joining terror fiefs.

National gendarmerie in Reguiba area managed arresting the aforementioned 11 youngsters two days before living the area, thanks to investigations being opened on the issue. The arrest youngsters’ age varies between 19 and 29. They are facing charges of belonging to an armed terror group inside the country and abroad, as well as providing support to terrorism and not informing about terrorists.

In this context, local sources in El Oued said the number of new recruits in ranks of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb being arrested by security services is likely to reach 21 people. However, security sources said Al-Qaeda in the Islamic target specific areas, including El Oued, Msila and Algiers, when it comes to recruiting new elements.

The same sources said the recruits are usually attracted after being persuading to go fighting in Iraq, but they are soon subject to brainwash to be transferred to terror fiefs in Algeria.
On another side, Draa Ben Kheda’s judicial police, in Tizi Ouzou managed dismantling a terror support network activating in Tadmait village.

Local sources told El Khabar that the dismantled network is made up of 10 people who used to provide terrorists with information about security services movements, as well as attributing terrorists with food and clothes. They are to be heard by Tizi Ouzou court’s general prosecutor soon.
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


China-Japan-Koreas
Blast kills one, injures 35 in China: police
One person was killed and 35 others injured in a huge blast in eastern China believed to have been set off deliberately, police said on Thursday. The blast struck late on Wednesday at a public square used as a gathering place for migrant workers in Yiwu city, Zhejiang province, local police said on the city's website. Following investigations at the scene, "police believe that this is a criminal case involving a man-made explosion. Preliminary estimations have ruled out a terrorist attack," said a transcript of a press conference posted on the site. The local government has ordered a broader investigation into the blast, it said, adding the lone fatality and most of the injured were male migrant workers. With the Beijing Olympics set to begin in August, Chinese police have been on the lookout for violent crimes and terrorist activity. In early May, three people were killed when flammable materials carried by a passenger caused an explosion on a crowded bus in China's financial hub of Shanghai. Shanghai officials have yet to reveal the results of the investigation into that explosion more than a month after it occurred, state media said on Thursday.
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Taliban hang woman for spying
KHAR, Pakistan - Pakistani Taliban in a remote tribal region bordering Afghanistan carried out their first reprisal killing of a woman today, accusing the victim of being a spy, an official said.

The militants hanged the woman and dumped her body on a roadside in the Bajaur tribal district with the noose still tied around her neck, the official, who did not want to be identified, told AFP. A note left at the site said the woman, who was not identified, had been punished for spying on Taliban members and running a brothel.

"Her activities were against Islam and she was spying on Taliban and passing on information about them. She was also running a brothel," said the note, attributed to Mujahiden (holy warriors) Bajaur.

Residents said they heard gunshots early today and found the woman’s body lying on the roadside when they went to investigate. There was no bullet wound and the firing was probably designed to attract attention, the official said.

Taliban militants have killed several tribesmen in recent months in the tribal region, accusing them of spying for the US-led coalition forces across the border.
Posted by: || 06/13/2008 14:09 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A brothel? I'll bet she got some great intel. Probably would've done even better if she added a petting zoo...
Posted by: tu3031 || 06/13/2008 14:47 Comments || Top||


U.S.: Taliban was the target
U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan disputed Pakistan’s version of an aerial attack in the frontier area that killed 11 security personnel and wounded 13 others.

The U.S. released a video to prove the aerial strike was in self-defence, and aimed at Taliban militants who were firing on coalition troops on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. A spokesman for the coalition forces said the attack was carried out in “coordination” with the Pakistan Army.

The attack angered Pakistan, which described it as “unprovoked” and called it an “act of aggression” against its sovereignty. The Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and Army condemned the attack saying it would undermine cooperation with the coalition forces.

The Army said Tuesday’s attack in the Mohmand Agency was aimed at a check-post manned by the Mohmand Rifles, a unit of the Frontier Corps.

Ambassador summoned
The Foreign Ministry summoned U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson to register protest. In a statement, the U.S. embassy expressed “regrets that actions in Mohmand Agency on June 10 resulted in the reported casualties among Pakistani forces, who are our partners in the fight against terrorism.”

But a statement from the coalition forces said its troops were attacked by militants during the course of an operation in Kunar Province. The unmanned drone’s video footage supported the American version. It showed a group of men, identified by a voice-over as “anti-Afghan militants,” firing from the top of a ridge.

Coalition forces are not seen in the video. The voice-over said the troops were on a reconnaissance mission when they came under fire from the militants.

The video, posted on the BBC website, showed the men moving back and forth between the ridge and positions that the voice-over said are inside Pakistan. About a dozen bombs were dropped on the positions, killing all militants, the voice-over said.
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  The DoD needs to go all out in countering enemy propaganda. They shouldn't hand stuff out piecemeal.
Posted by: McZoid || 06/13/2008 7:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Talib, Paki ISI... not even a razor thin difference in this case.
Posted by: OldSpook || 06/13/2008 9:18 Comments || Top||

#3  What it'll boil down to is the the US and Afghanis will try to secure a border the Pakistani have ceded to the Taliban. Meanwhile while the Pakistani government will shake its fists and howl for the cameras.

At least with Chinese opera you get a meal and booze first.
Posted by: Pappy || 06/13/2008 9:29 Comments || Top||

#4  You don't want us to bomb your side of the border, keep it secure and people from firing at us.

End of story.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/13/2008 9:34 Comments || Top||

#5  Do the Punjabis and Sindhs really want to support the Pashtun Liberation Front? Seriously?
Posted by: Caesar Ebbaviger1593 || 06/13/2008 10:59 Comments || Top||

#6  "About a dozen bombs were dropped on the positions, killing all militants, the voice-over said."

There will be no habeas corpus for you!
Posted by: DepotGuy || 06/13/2008 11:19 Comments || Top||

#7  Maybe when Perv moves to London we can drop the pretense that Pakistan is our ally.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/13/2008 12:30 Comments || Top||

#8  Unless an alternative logistics route into Afghanistan comes about, we're stuck with Pakistan, Perv or no Perv.
Posted by: Pappy || 06/13/2008 12:42 Comments || Top||


Encounter Between Indian Army and Kashmiri Militants is on in Samba Sector
(ABC Live): An encounter between Indian Amy and Kashmiri militants is going in Samba Sector Village on Sunday. In Morning two Lashkar-e-Taiba militants came in house located near Samba Army Sector and made the family hostage.

When Army got information from local about this incident from local residents they took positions and started action to nabbed terrorists and free hostages.

Till last report reached from spot from ABC Live local correspondent encounter is on four people lost their lives including one army man, a press photographerfrom daily excelsior and two local residents. According to army sources action will take little more time as army will try to save lives of hostages at all costs.

The coming assembly elections and favorable weather conditions incites terrorists to show their rest while strength in Jammu & Kashmir this incident is resultant of this but proximity where it is carried out may alert Indian Army as it is very close to Army center in Samba Sector.
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Taiba

#1  This incident was from last month
Posted by: john frum || 06/13/2008 6:25 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: john frum || 06/13/2008 6:28 Comments || Top||

#3  My bad. It just showed up on Google news.
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2008 9:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Great pics as usual, John. Thanks!
Posted by: Steve White || 06/13/2008 11:17 Comments || Top||


7 militants freed from Malakand jail
A foreign national was among seven militants freed from jail in the Malakand division following release orders by an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC).

Abdul Matin, son of Abdul Qudoos, and a resident of Afghanistan’s Nuristan province was released along with six local militants from Taimargara Jail on Thursday, local officials told Daily Times. Bakht Amin, s/o Hashmat Gul, resident of Bara Bandai Swat, Abdul Hayat, s/o Momin Khan, resident of Dagai Kabal, Mohammad Naeem, s/o Bacha, Akhtar Gul, s/o Gul Akbar, resident of Shahdara Fizagat, Bakht Jahan, s/o Cherai and Fazal Wahab, s/o Lajbar. Akbar Ali, s/o Shujaat Ali, Rahim Akbar, s/o Gul Akbar and Akbar Said, s/o Sher Ahmad have had their release prisoner orders issued by the ATC on Wednesday.
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Two killed, as many injured as Taliban, locals trade fire
BARA Two persons were killed and two others sustained injuries on Thursday when Taliban and locals traded fire at Mulla Gori in tehsil Jamrod of Khyber Agency. Two brothers Abdul Qayyum and Sonny Sani, sons of Abdul Hameed, had a family dispute for a long time.
"Abdul, I want my lawn mower back!"
"I gave your lawn mower back!"
"That was not my lawn mower! My lawn mower was red!"
One of the brothers approached the local Taliban and requested them to solve the dispute through a jirga.
"Make him give my lawn mower back!"
"Okay. We'll have a jirga!"
"Good. I'll go get my gun!"
Sources said Abdul Qayyum did not attend the jirga held on Thursday on which the Taliban went to Qayyum’s house and asked him why he did not attend the jirga.
"Why didn't you go to the jirga, Abdul?"
"Cuz I didn't wanna go to the jirga!"
"Then go fer yer guns!"
Both sides exchanged fire which resulted in the killing of Qayyum
[BANG! BANG! BANGETY BANG!] "Aaaaaiiiieeee! Rosebud!"
and a chickpea seller Sufi, a resident of Shagai.
"Chickpeas! Getcher chickpeas! [KERPOW! BANG!]... Hey! My ciccerones!... Ow!... [BANG!] Hey! Stop it! That hurt!... [KERPOW!] Aaaaiiieee! Rosebud!"
Sufi succumbed to his injuries in a Peshawar hospital.
[Rattle!]
Rambail and Roohul Amin, a dispenser, were seriously injured.
"Ow! My elbow!"
"My spleen!"
However, they were said to be out of danger. Political administration officials said Sufi was seriously wounded and not dead.
"Really. I'm not dead."
"Shuddup and lay down!"
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  So the last will and testament of Qayyum now includes a lawn mower in addition to the goat.....
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 06/13/2008 13:37 Comments || Top||


Six Nepalese arrested at Torkham border
LANDIKOTAL: Khasadar Force arrested six Nepalese on way to Afghanistan at the Torkham border on Thursday. The agencies have started enquiries and their travelling documents will be checked for verification, officials said. Intelligence sources have claimed that the Nepalese had illegal travelling documents, however, another source said that their documents were legal but they did not carry route permit from Khyber House. The Nepalese have been identified as, Shiam Lal, Terta Bahadar, Preme Bahadar, Budhi Teming, Chandra Bahadar, and Subh Bahadar.
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


Iraq
250 Special Groupies Need a New Leader
So we learn what 'mid-level' means in MNF-speak.
BALAD, Iraq – Iraqi Special Operations Forces captured an alleged mid-level Special Groups criminal cell leader in Baghdad, June 12. The ISOF conducted an operation to capture the reported leader of 250 criminal members suspected of improvised explosive device attacks against Iraqi and Coalition forces. They are also accused of kidnapping and killing 19 Iraqi citizens, including three individuals who worked on a U.S. base.

During the operation, ISOF also found and detained a man wanted on a Ministry of Justice warrant.

“The detention of this cell leader will likely affect the ability of Special Groups criminals in Baghdad to conduct attacks against the local citizens and Iraqi and Coalition forces,” said Lt. Col. Neil Harper, a spokesman for Multi-National Corps – Iraq.
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/13/2008 18:23 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


4 gunmen killed in failed attack in Salah el-Din
(VOI) - Four gunmen were killed in a failed attack on a Sahwa (Awakening) fighters' center in Salah al-Din province, said a police source on Thursday. "Sahwa fighters and police forces on Wednesday night foiled an attack by gunmen on the Sahwa center in al-Ishaqi region in al-Kasara village in north of Baghdad," the source, who asked to remain unnamed, told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI). "Four gunmen, including two Egyptians, were killed in the attack," he added. "All of them were wearing explosive belts," he noted.

The U.S. army said in a statement that "sons of Iraq members thwarted an enemy attack in the Salah al-Din Province that resulted in the killing of four al-Qaeda in Iraq members June 11."

"An SOI element killed four AQI members, three of whom were wearing suicide vests, after being attacked while responding to a report of civilians being attacked in their homes," the statement added.
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq


Police patrols free captive in Missan
(VOI)-Police patrols on Thursday freed a kidnapped person in Amara, a Missan security source said. "Police patrols managed to free a person with his truck from his captors on Basra-Amara highway at the southern inlet of Missan province", a Missan security source, who requested anonymity, told Aswat al-Iraq-Voices of Iraq- (VOI). The source noted "the patrols raided the kidnappers' location, setting the captive free". He pointed out "the captors were seeking a ransom in return for releasing the kidnapped person".
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Iraqi Insurgency


Operation looms in Missan as reinforcements arrive-Source
(VOI)-A Missan security source on Thursday said Iraqi army and national police reinforcements arrived at the southern province to carry out a new security plan. "Missan witnessed on Thursday the arrival of large numbers of national police forces from Baghdad and Iraqi army troops from Basra", a Missan security source, who requested anonymity, told Aswat al-Iraq-Voices of Iraq-(VOI). The source noted "the forces stationed at al-Ibtiraa military airport, 10 km north-west of Amara".

He did not provide details about the timing of the security plan, but he said "the troops are waiting for the kick-start of the law imposing operation". The source added "the operation includes pursuing person wanted for judiciary authorities, removing all excesses, searching for medium and heavy weapons and evacuating government buildings" occupied by political parties and movements.

Early Thursday, Missan had witnessed large deployments of police forces at the province's inlets and outlets along with tightened checking all cars entering and departing the province.
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Two roadside bombings leaves 2 wounded in Mosul
(VOI)-Two people, including a policeman, were wounded in separate roadside bombings in Mosul on Thursday, a Ninewa police source said. "A roadside bomb went off targeting a police patrol in al-Sukr district, northern Mosul, leaving a policeman wounded, "a source from Ninewa operations command told Aswat al-Iraq-Voices of Iraq-(VOI). The source noted "a second roadside bomb detonated against a police patrol in al-Muhandisin district, northern Mosul, leaving one woman wounded".

Meanwhile, Brig. Khalid Abdel Sattar, spokesman for Ninewa operations command, pointed out "joint army and police forces defused a car rigged with explosives in al-Sukr district". Mosul, a Sunni city, has been a scene of a large-scale operation that started on May 3 to crack down on armed groups operating in the city.
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq


Diala police open security center in former al-Qaeda stronghold
(VOI) – The Diala police chief on Thursday said a new security center opened in one of the province villages that had been an al-Qaeda stronghold for more than three years. "Diala police command opened a new security center in Hanbas village in central Muqdadiya, 45 km north-east of Baaquba, which had fallen under the control of al-Qaeda gunmen for three years," Brig. Gen Ghanim al-Qureishi, Diala police chief, told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI). The police office did elaborate on further details, but he said "the center consists of 40 policemen."

Al-Qaeda network controlled a number of villages in Diala province, which witnessed spates of attacks and assassination operations before the launch of a large-scale offensive to crack down on the province.
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq


Car bombing leaves 18 casualties in central Baghdad
(VOI) - Three persons, including one police element, and 15 others were wounded in a car bombing that targeted a police patrol in central Baghdad on Thursday, a security source said. "A car bomb parked on al-Muthana airport road near al-Alawi district, central Baghdad, detonated leaving three persons including a police element dead and 15 others, including 12 policemen, wounded," a police source, who requested anonymity, told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI).

Earlier, 26 security members and civilians were wounded in a number of violent acts across Baghdad.
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Iraqi Insurgency


Senior Sadrist arrested in Kut
(VOI) - Iraqi security forces on Thursday arrested a senior member of al-Sadr's office in Kut from his house, a source from the office said. "Policemen arrested Sheikh Hussein Yassin Ubaid al-Attabi, a senior in al-Sadr's office official in Kut," the source, who asked not to be named, told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI). "He was arrested from his house in al-Zahraa region in northeast of Kut and was taken to an unknown place," the source noted. No reasons were revealed by the police for the arrest of the Sadrist official.
This article starring:
SHEIKH HUSEIN YASIN UBAID AL ATTABIMahdi Army
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Mahdi Army

#1  Hopefully, they took him to Saddam's spider hole.
Posted by: McZoid || 06/13/2008 9:05 Comments || Top||


Gunmen blow up Islamic party's headquarters in Falluja
(VOI)- The headquarters of the Islamic party in Falluja was detonated by an explosive charge on Thursday, said a police source. "An explosive device, planted by unidentified gunmen inside the headquarters of the Islamic party in al-Jumhouriya neighborhood in central Falluja, was detonated, causing several material damage to the building," the source told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq (VOI) on condition of anonymity. The source did not give more details.
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1  unidentified gunmen? the falluja police?
Posted by: Ununter Trotsky3132 || 06/13/2008 15:56 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas set off massive Gaza blast
The armed wing of Hamas has admitted that a massive explosion in the Gaza Strip on Thursday was caused by militants preparing an armed operation.
"Oops! Sorry! Our bad!"
Seven people, including a four-month-old baby were killed in the blast, in Beit Lahiya, in the north of the strip. Hamas had initially blamed the explosion on an Israeli air strike and responded with rocket fire, but Israel denied any involvement.
"Wudn't us."
Egypt is currently trying to broker a truce between Israel and Hamas.
Which apparently hasn't happened yet, since this wouldn't fall under the terms of most truces...
Israel said on Wednesday that it would support Egypt's efforts but instructed the army to prepare for possible military action in Gaza if they failed.
"Moshe, we're negotiating a truce with Hamas!"
"Yessir!"
"Order more ammunition!"
'Preparing operation'
"Members of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades were trying to prepare for a Jihad operation," the Hamas movement's armed wing said in a statement.
"Awright, boyz! Gather 'round and I'll show youse how to wire up an explosive! Woman, move this stuff off the kitchen table!"
The statement said six members of the brigades were killed in the blast, as well as the four-month-old baby of one of the militants.
"I'll just take the baby next door while you're..."
"No, no! Leave the child! Can't start learnin' this stuff too young, y'know!"
About 50 people were wounded, among them 15 children, Palestinian medics say.
"Ow!"
"Ow!"
"Ouch!"
"Golly! Is that how it's done? I'm glad I learned that!"
"How old are you, kid?"
"Ten."
The blast destroyed a house and damaged about 10 neighbouring homes.
"That does it! I'm complaining to the community association!"
On Thursday, Hamas militants fired dozens of rockets into Israel. A 59-year-old woman was seriously wounded in the barrage.
"Take that, middle aged Zionist lady!"
In other violence on Thursday, an Israeli air strike on a refugee camp in Gaza killed three Hamas militants and four other militants were killed in various clashes.
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2008 13:59 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  I hope the new Prime Minister (probably Bibi Natenyahu (spelling? Sorry, I'm tired today)) does something terribly effective to stop the rockets. This is (and has been) completely unacceptable.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/13/2008 14:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Depends on what version of the Izzy Al Qassam website ya read.

Ya got your Arabic...

Qassam : Martyrs of Beit Lahia risen and they put the finishing touches to the task of jihad special
2008-06-13 2008-06-13

The "Martyr Brigades, Izz al-Din al-Qassam," the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement "Hamas", to live up to its martyrs who Ela Thursday (12 / 6), in an explosion in a house of Beit Lahia, was martyred as they put the final touches on their way to carry out the task of Jihad in particular.

The asphalt "Qassam", the military statement issued Friday (13 / 6) martyrs and said they are "field commander Shahid Ashraf Naim desired fruit, and field commander Shahid Hassan Mohammed Abu Hqvh, Shahid field commander Magdi Adel Hammouda, the struggling divisions martyr Abu Mohammad Sabri survived , Shahid Mohammed Hamdan divisions struggling Xu, Shahid divisions struggling Munir Ahmed Sobeih, "adding they were" Knights sections of the unit who witnessed the arenas of jihad partnerships with many heroic, "according clarified.

The statement said the Qassam "on the path of Jihad and resistance; goes Qassam Miami men worshipped Zaki and sacrificed their bodies pure bridge crossing and access road to victory and liberation and empowerment, and on this thorny path goes to the heart convoys of innocent martyrs, who pay tax Jihad from their blood and lives."

The "Qassam" may also be termed "the hero martyr Mahmoud Attaya, Hamouda, a martyred girl Noor Magdi Hammouda daughter martyr leader Magdi Hammouda,"Treaty of God" on the path of jihad and martyrdom, and the blood of martyrs will not be lost in vain, and remain loyal to them and Palestine and the Aqsa "


And ya got your English...

2008-06-12
Zionist war planes destroyed a house completely,7 civilians were martyred

Palestinian local sources reported that the Zionist war planes shelled a Palestinian house full of children and women.

Palestinian medical sources reported that seven Palestinians were martyred, at least more 40 wounded in the large explosion in northern Gaza on Thursday afternoon.

The incident occurred in the home of Ahmed Hamouda, a member of the Ezzedeen al Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas. Palestinian witnesses confirmed that the explosion was caused by a Zionist airstrike.

The Palestinian medical sources reported that there are women and children among those wounded, five of them are said to be in serious condition.

The explosion resounded throughout the far corners of the city and the house has been completely destroyed. A number of neighboring residential buildings and business establishments were seriously damaged.

The Islamic resistance movement Hamas blamed the Zionist war planes in this attack against the Palestinian civilians.


I'm sooooooooo confused...
Posted by: tu3031 || 06/13/2008 14:45 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: USN, Ret. || 06/13/2008 15:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Just got off the phone talking with one of our customers currently in Tel Aviv; asked him what was going on over there, he said he doesn't get much news over there ( he's a Texan working at (AIA). told him about logging onto the 'burg for the latest. Hi Bob!
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 06/13/2008 15:06 Comments || Top||


Jordan jails three Hamas suspects for plotting attacks
A Jordanian military court on Thursday jailed three nationals suspected of belonging to the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas for plotting attacks in the kingdom in 2006. The state security court sentenced Ayman Naji Hamdallah, 35, to 15 years in jail for "plotting to carry out terrorist attacks" in Jordan two years ago. The court jailed Ali Ahmad Abu Rabei, 28, and Ahmad Nemer Abu Thiab, 30 for five years each for "illegal possession of explosives and weapons."

The three men, of Palestinian origin, can appeal within 30 days. They were arrested in April and May 2006 as part of a sweep that netted 20 people, and the group confessed on state television that they had plotted to kill senior officials in Jordan's intelligence services.

Hamdallah has said he made frequent trips to Syria and tipped off the Jordanian authorities about a weapons cache, including Iranian-made Katyusha rockets, in the north of the kingdom. Iran, Syria and Hamas have denied any involvement in the alleged plot, although Amman has not accused Tehran or Damascus of implication.

The Damascus-based leadership of Hamas on Thursday condemned the court's decision. "The men have sought to support the Palestinian resistance against Israel, and the charges have been fabricated. Hamas does not target any Arab country," the group said in a statement. "Jordan has been busy with fabricating accusations against Hamas. We demand the government cancel the arbitrary and harsh verdicts."
This article starring:
Ahmad Nemer Abu ThiabHamas
Ali Ahmad Abu RabeiHamas
Ayman Naji HamdallahHamas
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Eleven killed and dozens injured in bloody day in Gaza, explosion destroys house in Beit Lahiya
Ma'an – The number of Palestinians killed in the explosion on Thursday at a Beit Lahiya home in the northern Gaza Strip increased to seven, after three members of the Hamas-affiliated Al-Qassam Brigades died from their injuries. The announcement of the deaths of Al-Qassam fighters Muhammed Hamdan Maqdad, Muhammed Sabri Abu Naja, and Ahmad Munir Subeih in the explosion brought the death toll on Thursday in Gaza to 11, with dozens injured.

Medical sources had earlier announced that the body of Al-Qassam fighter Ashraf Naim Mashtahi was also retrieved from the rubble of the two-storey Hamoudeh family home in Beit Lahiya, which was destroyed by a massive explosion on Thursday afternoon. More than 40 people were reported wounded in the explosion, at least six of them seriously.

Four-month-old Nour Majdi Hamoudeh, 22-year-old Mahmoud 'Ataya Hamoudeh, and 27-year-old Omar Abdel Ra'ouf Abu Shaqfeh were also killed in the explosion.

Earlier on Thursday afternoon, Dr Mo'awiya Hassanein, Head of Ambulance and Emergency Services in the Ministry of Health, said that at least three corpses and 35 injured citizens arrived at Gazan hospitals after an explosion destroyed the Hamoudeh family home in Beit Lahiya. He said he expected the number of casualties to increase because of the serious nature of the injuries.

Eyewitnesses reported that the house was completely destroyed over its residents, and that emergency services evacuated the dead and wounded from the rubble.

Contradictory reports were received regarding the explosion at the house owned by Khaled Hamoudeh. Hamas affirmed that the explosion was caused by Israeli F-16 aircraft bombing the house of an Al-Qassam Brigades leader. However, the Israeli military denied bombing the house.

Hamas and the de facto Palestinian government in Gaza accused Israel of responsibility for the "massacre" and called on the international community to "assume its responsibilities and move urgently to protect the Palestinian people under occupation and the Israeli killing machine."

In a separate incident, a Palestinian was killed and two others were injured in an Israeli air strike on the Khuza'a area, east of Khan Younis, on Thursday afternoon.

Earlier on Thursday morning, three Palestinian resistance fighters were killed by Israeli fire on Thursday in two separate operations in the northern Gaza Strip.

Two members of the Al-Aqsa Brigades and the National Resistance Brigades, the military wings of the Fatah and DFLP movements respectively, were killed in a joint operation on Thursday morning after infiltrating inside the Green Line near the evacuated settlement of Dugit, north of Beit Lahiya, and clashing with Israeli forces in the area. Armed with a machine gun and hand grenades, they fought Israeli forces for more than half an hour.

Two fighters were killed in the operation: 20-year-old Mohammad Dawla from the Al-Aqsa Brigades and 21-year-old Khaled Zaki Zohd from the National Resistance Brigades.

Meanwhile, the Israeli army announced early on Thursday that Israeli forces killed an armed Palestinian near the electric fence in the northern Gaza Strip, stating that soldiers opened fire at a Palestinian fighter approaching the fence and killed him. No Palestinian faction or brigade has claimed responsibility for this operation yet, and Israeli forces have still not returned his corpse to Palestinian authorities.

In related developments, several Israeli communities and towns in the western Negev and the Erez crossing were attacked with homemade projectiles and mortar shells launched by Palestinian fighters. An Israeli woman in Yad Mordechai was lightly injured, and a fire broke out from the shelling near Kibbutz Beiri in the Negev.
This article starring:
AHMED MUNIR SUBEIHHamas
ASHRAF NAIM MASHTAHIHamas
Dr Mo'awiya Hassanein
KHALED ZAKI ZOHDDFLP
MAHMUD 'ATAIA HAMUDEHHamas
MOHAMAD DAWLAAl-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
MUHAMED HAMDAN MAQDADHamas
MUHAMED SABRI ABU NAJAHamas
OMAR ABDEL RA'UF ABU SHAQFEHHamas
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Hamas admits setting off massive Gaza blast

That didn't take long.
Posted by: ryuge || 06/13/2008 6:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Darwin's law: unfit to live
Posted by: Frank G || 06/13/2008 6:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Israeli killing machine

Roll Zionist Tide!
Posted by: George Smiley || 06/13/2008 9:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Also killed in the explosion were the finance director in the Hamas Interior Ministry - who was also a member of Izzadin Kassam - a commander of the Hamas anti-aircraft unit and a commander of the group's rocket manufacturing unit, Israel Radio reported.

That's a pretty good score. Thanks, idiots...
Posted by: tu3031 || 06/13/2008 11:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Is it something genetic: color blindness etc...?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/13/2008 19:24 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Release of kidnapped Philippine TV star sought after one freed
Negotiators were working on Friday to secure the release of a prominent television reporter and two colleagues kidnapped in the southern Philippines, after one hostage was freed. Angelo Valderama, a cameraman for the country's biggest television network ABS-CBN, was released by his captors on Thursday night.

Efforts to free well-known female presenter Ces Drilon, her cameraman and a university professor who was accompanying them intensified on Friday.
Y'know, I think I've seen that movie...
The Manila Standard Today newspaper, quoting an unnamed security official, said Drilon had spoken with ABS-CBN bosses and told them her captors were demanding 10 million peso (225,000 dollars) in ransom money. Drilon, a glamorous television journalist who has covered unrest in the southern Philippines for several years, was seized with her colleagues shortly after arriving in Jolo on Sunday. Authorities say they are being held by the Abu Sayyaf, a Muslim extremist group linked by intelligence agencies to the Al-Qaeda terror network.

Presidential aide Amilbahar Amilhasan said he believed a ransom of two million pesos had been paid for the release of Valderama despite government policy not to pay ransoms. Isnaji Alvarez, the mayor of Indanan town and one of the negotiators who helped free Valderama, told local radio that the cameraman was released as a "goodwill gesture" by the kidnappers. Alvarez said that "board and lodging" was paid for Valderama -- a more acceptable term for negotiators than saying it was ransom. Alvarez said he was confident the others could be released within days.
Posted by: ryuge || 06/13/2008 01:45 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Abu Sayyaf

#1  Are the Phillipine media allied with the terrorists like the Western media are?
Posted by: gromky || 06/13/2008 3:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Can they kidnap some American ones? I have a handy list.
Posted by: tu3031 || 06/13/2008 13:29 Comments || Top||

#3  I have a little list,
I have a little list,
Of folks who won't be missed.
Of folks who won't be missed,
From the Queens handmaden on down.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 06/13/2008 21:42 Comments || Top||

#4  I've been told that both DRILON and VALDERAMA are relations to my family's distant relations in the Philippines [Filipino branch]- GOT ME WONDERING ABOUT JUST WHOM IS ON THE OTHER SIDE KIDNAPPING THEM.

D *** NG IT, ANOTHER TASTY BEACH PICNIC REUNION BITES THE DUST???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 06/13/2008 22:48 Comments || Top||


Muslim rebels free 2 captive Philippine marines
Muslim rebels freed two Philippine marines they had lured to a meeting about a possible surrender and then seized as hostages to demand the release of a guerrilla commander's nephew, officials said Friday. Philippine navy spokesman Lt. Col. Edgard Arevalo said the corporals, Jessie Duatin and Bernie Alcabasa, were released pre-dawn Friday to marine officials on southern Basilan island without ransom or concession to their Moro Islamic Liberation Front captors. They were taken at gunpoint Tuesday by rebels led by Commander Malat Sulaiman to demand the release of his nephew, Salih Dungkal Alih, the navy said.

Alih was arrested last week in Basilan's Lamitan township as a suspected member of the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf group, and has been implicated in the beheadings last year of 14 marines.
Rebel spokesman Eid Kabalu confirmed Sulaiman was a commander of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, which has been holding peace negotiations with the government. In a telephone interview Kabalu said Sulaiman will be investigated and dealt with in accordance with the guidelines of a joint cease-fire committee. Arevalo said Sulaiman's sister - who is Alih's mother - persuaded him to free the marines. A navy statement Thursday said Alih may have been erroneously arrested because his name differs slightly from one on the arrest warrant in the al-Qaida-linked beheadings. Arevalo said his release will be up to the court.

The navy said the marines had been responding to surrender feelers by Sulaiman and were going to meet an emissary. "But on their way to the appointed place, the marine personnel were halted at gunpoint, taken forcibly and detained," a navy statement said. The military will file a protest with the rebels through the cease-fire committee despite the men's release, Arevalo said.
Posted by: ryuge || 06/13/2008 01:32 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


One dead, four rangers injured in southern Thailand
A Muslim man was shot dead inside a rubber plantation of this southern border province Wednesday morning, police said. Police were alerted at 8:30 am that the body of Tamisi Yusoh, 23, was found inside the plantation in Moo 5 village of Tambon Mayo in Mayo district. He was believed to be killed about 1 hour before his body was spotted.

Plus:

Four rangers were seriously injured Wednesday from a roadside bomb planted at the entrance of a highly contested village in Pattani's Nong Chik district. The four were part of an eight man security detail escorting a group of forensic officers who had just finished taking DNA samples from the security unit in the area.
Posted by: ryuge || 06/13/2008 01:14 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Sappers Defuse Two Roadside Bombs in North Lebanon
Army sappers safely defused two explosive charges planted on the main highway leading from northern Lebanon to Syria. The two bombs were concealed in powder milk cans and linked with a thin wire that allows their simultaneous explosion once fitted with a fuse, a security source told Naharnet.

The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the bombs were planted along the Abdeh-Homs international highway that leads to neighboring Syria.

Each of the bombs, according to the source, was made up of almost two kilograms of heavy explosives that are similar to a bomb that went off at a Lebanese military intelligence outpost in Abdeh almost two weeks ago.

Army patrols sealed off the region and launched a search for more bombs.

The development came almost one day after a Lebanese soldier was wounded in a clash with gunmen at the entrance to the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh in south Lebanon.
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Gunman killed, army officer wounded in Ein el-Hellhole
A gunman was killed and a Lebanese army officer wounded in a shootout near the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh in south Lebanon.

Security sources said the incident occurred late Wednesday when three unidentified assailants in a white Renault Rapid opened fire on the soldiers as they tried to make their way through an army checkpoint at the western entrance to the camp. They said army troops returned fire wounding one gunman, Issa Qiblawi. The second gunman was arrested while the third fled, the sources said. But Qiblawi died of his wounds soon afterwards. "The vehicle drove past the checkpoint and when troops fired warning shots, they were shot at and an exchange of fire developed," one reporter said.

An explosives expert was dispatched to the scene to examine the car the assailants were in. A Palestinian official at Ein al-Hilweh said the three attackers were members of the Islamic grouping Jund al-Sham and Issa Qiblawi was the brother of Sheikh Qiblawi, killed in 2004 in Iraq while fighting for al-Qaida. The shootout came almost two weeks after a would-be suicide bomber was shot and killed by Lebanese soldiers as he tried to detonate an explosives belt at a checkpoint on the edge of Ein el-Hilweh. A Palestinian official has said the suspect killed on May 31 was most likely a Saudi citizen.

Members of extremist groups believed to have links with al-Qaida have settled in Palestinian refugee camps across Lebanon in recent years, particularly in Ein el-Hilweh, which is partly controlled by Jund al-Sham. The refugee camps are off limits to Lebanese authorities with Palestinian factions in charge of security.
This article starring:
Jund al-Sham
Issa QiblawiJund al-Sham
Sheikh QiblawiJund al-Sham
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Jund al-Sham

#1  Perfet meat for the translator.
Posted by: George Smiley || 06/13/2008 11:52 Comments || Top||



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