"Soldiers fought off Taliban attacks, killing 250 insurgents"
...without loss. Just goes to show what can happen when you take the fight to the enemy rather than hunkering down and letting them come to you. Shame there aren't turbines to be installed all over the place (and a few in Basra might have helped).
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From the headline I was expecting hyperbole, and ridiculous hyperbole at that. I was wrong. The Brits pulled off a large operation that they can be proud of.
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'We don't need electricity. We have Islam.'
You just got to love their 7th century mindset.
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OK, I call bullshit on one quote: George Wilder, the Texan engineer overseeing a Chinese company
refurbishing the powerhouse, said the powerlines need upgrading all the way to Kandahar to handle their new load.
And that's after the new turbine is installed.
'We've got a year to do it,' he said. 'But I think we can do it in nine months, depending how much I keep my foot on their arse.'
no Texan says "arse". Had to be a mistranslation of boot on...
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- The United States has deployed a much-needed battalion of 800 troops to assist Canadian and Afghan Forces in Kandahar and to try to tame the province's Wild West. While the battalion has been active in Kandahar since early July, it has only just begun its operations in the past few weeks in the Maywand district, which borders on Helmand province to the west, and will serve as its new home.
Until now, insurgents have been using Maywand as a corridor to move soldiers, money, and weapons into Kandahar from Pakistan, through the Helmand River Basin. A lack of security in Maywand has helped feed the insurgency in such hotly contested areas as Zhari and Panjwaii in Kandahar, which have been the epicentre of the fighting here this summer.
The new troops come from the 2-2 Infantry Battalion assigned to the third brigade of the first infantry division of the U.S. army and are based in Fort Hood, Tx. The battalion is better known as the "Ramrods" or the "2-2s". The battalion, which will now fall under the command and control of the Canadian Forces, will serve a vital role in disrupting the activities of insurgents in Maywand, which has lacked a permanent presence by Coalition and Afghan forces due to a lack of personnel, according to Brig.-Gen. Denis Thompson, Canada's top soldier in Kandahar.
"This district is a key district. It's key as a logistics hub for the movement of insurgent fighters, arms and money, and the presence of 2-2 infantry will disrupt these activities and have a real impact on the security picture here in Kandahar," Brig.-Gen. Thompson said a news conference at the Kandahar Air Field Saturday morning. He added that the new U.S. troops will assist the Canadian and Afghan forces by "choking off" this vital lifeline for the insurgency.
In order to take control of Zhari and Panjwaii, Brig.-Gen. has already asked Kabul for 4,000 trained police officers, up from the 1,000 currently trained here, and another battalion of Afghan National Army troops, in addition to more support from Canada's NATO allies.
The new U.S. troops got their first look at Maywand in early August as part of a recent operation in the district led by Canadian and Afghan forces that yielded caches of weapons, opium, and materials for building IEDs.
"The biggest challenge we now face is getting a feel for the area, because no one has been out there for so long," said Lt.-Col. Daniel Hurlbut, commanding officer of the Ramrods.
The battalion's 15-month deployment in Kandahar comes at a time when both Brig.-Gen. Thompson and Defence Minister Peter MacKay have been lobbying Canada's NATO allies for more support in the volatile region of Afghanistan, where the bulk of Canada's 2,500 troops here are stationed.
Brig.-Gen. Thompson called the Ramrods' presence in Kandahar an "interim measure" while Ottawa decides how it will meet the recommendation contained in the Manley report, which, among other things, called for an additional 1,000 troops on the ground in Kandahar. The Ramrods' presence in Kandahar has been one of the more poorly guarded secrets here, but was one that could not be reported earlier due to security reasons.
Its 800 troops will be deployed here in a combat capacity and will add to the 1,000 infantry and combat armed soldiers Canada has in the province.
Lt.-Col. Hurlbut said the battalion has been meeting with the locals in Maywand over the past few weeks in order to establish what will be needed to win their loyalty for the Karzai government and to reject to the Taliban. "100% of them say security," he said, adding that agricultural support for crops other than poppies is a close second.
"The system that does function, is the illicit system, which we are clearly staying away from," he said. " It will be a challenge to get a legal crop and agricultural system up and running."
He said the population of Maywand is essentially split down the middle over the troops' presence in the district. Many have seen coalition forces establish a presence in the area, only to move on after a few weeks, leaving the district, and its people, in the hands of insurgents.
(SomaliNet) Dozens of Ethiopian troops were killed and many others injured when heavy explosions rattled the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Press TV correspondent in Somalia reported on Monday that the blasts hit north Mogadishu's Towfikh district, which drew heavy gunfire from Ethiopian troops and anti-government fighters, killing dozens of Ethiopians, and injuring many others.
According to eye witnesses, some 13 Ethiopian soldiers are still lying dead on the streets, while 14 other soldiers have been reported as missing.
Meanwhile in Suuq Baced area in northern Mogadishu, three other Ethiopian soldiers were killed by Bazooka rockets as the fighting continued. Al-Shabaab spokesman Abdi Rahim Isse Addow told our correspondent that the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) is responsible for the attacks.
The streets of Mogadishu are the scene of daily clashes between opposition forces and Somali government forces, backed by Ethiopian troops. Al Shabaab (meaning "youth") is the armed wing of the sharia courts movement that ruled most of southern Somalia until early 2007 when US-backed Ethiopian troops entered the country and installed a transitional government there.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said on Thursday that Ethiopian troops were to leave Somalia and withdraw their support for the country's interim government.
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CAIRO - Egyptian police on Monday found a large cache of weapons in the Sinai desert during a routine patrol of the area, a security official said. Police found "171 mortar shells, anti-tank and anti-personnel grenades, 29 shells, 212 anti-tank projectiles as well as a number of detonators," the official told AFP.
Weapons and explosives found in Sinai are generally believed to be destined for the neighbouring Hamas-run Gaza Strip.
Really? Sure they're not going to Mauritania?
Last week, Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak hailed Egyptian efforts to stem the flow of weapons into Gaza, saying they had been "visibly effective" but that more effort was still needed.
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but the weapons may also have been intended to blow up an Egyptian luxury hotel or two
A court here yesterday sentenced a leader of the banned Islamist outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to 34 years rigorous imprisonment in arms and explosive cases.
He was also awarded 14 years imprisonment for possessing explosives and fined Tk 20,000, in default, he will have to suffer for another six months.
According to the prosecution, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members arrested Abdullah from Ashulia bus stand in Dhaka on January 30, 2006 and recovered three LGs and some explosives from his possession.
Two cases, one under Arms Act and the other under Explosive Substances Act, were filed against the JMB leader.
This article starring:
ABDULLAH AL SUHAIL
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
Special Tribunal Judge S M Rezaul Karim
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Three men were charged Tuesday in connection with a foiled 2007 terrorist plot to attack U.S. and German targets in central Germany, the federal prosecutor's office said.
The suspects are accused of being members of the radical Islamic Jihad Union, an offshoot of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, a jihadist group with origins in Central Asia. According to the U.S. State Department, the Islamic Jihad Union was responsible for coordinated bombings outside the U.S. and Israeli embassies in July 2004 in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent. Members have been trained in explosives by al-Qaida instructors and the group has ties to Osama bin Laden and fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar, the State Department says.
The German cell had stockpiled 1,600 pounds of highly concentrated hydrogen peroxide at a rented cottage in central Germany in preparation for their plot -- enough to build bombs more powerful than those that killed 191 commuters in Madrid in 2004 and 52 in London in 2005, authorities have said. Officials said they could have mixed the peroxide, purchased from a chemical supplier, with other substances to make explosives equivalent to 1,200 pounds of dynamite. ...
This article starring:
Tashkent
ADEM YILMAZ
Jihad Union
DANIEL MARTIN SCHNEIDER
Jihad Union
Frank Wallenta
FRITZ MARTIN GELOWICZ
Jihad Union
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Good. If only Germany weren't trying to decide whether to submit to Russia or to the U.S., I'd be a lot happier.
Pakistan's security forces have missed the opportunity to capture al-Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, a senior government official has said.
Rehman Malik, the adviser to Pakistan's prime minister on security affairs, said on Monday they also received a report al-Zawahiri's wife had been in the tribal region of Mohmand.
Pakistani forces stormed the location but did not find the couple, he said, without indicating when the raid took place.
He said al-Zawahri moved between Mohmand and the Afghan provinces of Kunar and Paktika. "We certainly had traced him at one place, but we missed the chance. So he's moving in Mohmand and, of course, sometimes in Kunar, mostly in Kunar and Paktia."
Al-Zawahiri and Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaeda's leader, have been in hiding since the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. They are both believed to be in tribal region that straddles northwest Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan.
According to Malik, three weeks of fighting in the Pakistani-Afghan border district of Bajur had killed a number of civilians and badly damaged several villages. Al Jazeera's correspondent in Islamabad quoted a tribal and security sources as saying 15 Pakistani civilians were killed in tribal area of Bajaur when two shells fell on their two homes.
Of about 500,000 people who fled, many of them to government relief camps, about 30,000 had returned by Monday.
Hand in glove
Malik said the Pakistani Taliban were working directly with Al-Qaeda, providing them with shelter and acting as their mouthpiece. "They have not only connections, I would say Tehrik-e-Taliban is an extension of Al-Qaeda," he said, referring to a Pakistani Taliban umbrella group which authorities blame for a string of bomb attacks over the past year that have killed hundreds of people.
Pakistan last month banned the Taliban group, which was also accused of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister, in December.
The US says Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters are based in sanctuaries in Pakistan's tribal areas where they orchestrate attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan and plot
violent attacks in the West.
The resignation of Pervez Musharraf, the former president and staunch US ally, last month raised questions about the government's commitment to the unpopular US-led "war on terror" campaign. But US Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US armed forces, said last week he was encouraged by recent Pakistani action against fighters, while adding both Pakistan
and the United States needed to do more to shore up security.
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Yeah, and I just about won at Bingo. Just one more square. Actions speak louder than words, esp. in PakLand.
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Agreed AP. "Almost" winning at bingo doesn't really stand for much. Whoever in Pakland delivers Zawahiri can begin enjoying something like $25 million reward as I recall. My recollection is that we paid $25 million for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Some guy and his family became instant millionaires for giving up KSM.
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So Bragging about the 'almost'capture did nothing except eliminate one known hidey-hole. Now the recon will have to work harder to locate the new burrow. And probably cost how many lives?
BTW, what's with the 'capture' thingy anyway? I prefer 'dead.'
Much more final.
And no trial theatrics.
WANA, Aug 30: Four people, including two Canadians of Arab origin, were killed and two other people injured when a missile reportedly fired from Afghanistan hit a house in the Korzai area of South Waziristan on Saturday.
They could tell they were Canadians. They were wearing Canuckluks.
According to local people, a plane was seen flying over the area shortly before the missile hit the house of one Noor Khan Gangikhel near a scout camp in Wana at around 4.30pm. The injured, who reportedly belong to Punjab, were taken to a local hospital.
This is the same episode we reported a couple days ago...
AFP adds: A local intelligence official said the owner of the house had recently rented it out to some "foreigners".
Militant groups in Balochistan have suspended their 'activities' indefinitely, Aaj TV reported on Monday.
The groups include the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) and the Balochistan Republican Army (BRA), according to the channel.
The channel quoted BLA spokesman Sarbaz Baloch as saying that the group had suspended its 'activities' for the Baloch people. He denied the suspension was a result of any deal with the government. He, however, warned of retaliation if security forces did not stop the use of force against the group. He demanded the government stop establishing cantonments and launching new projects in the province.
Nationalist groups in Balochistan are demanding more control over and additional benefits from the exploitation of natural resources in the province. There have been a number of attacks on gas and electricity installations in the province.
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The groups include the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) and the Balochistan Republican Army (BRA), according to the channel.
Aaah so reminds me of the Life of Brian
BRIAN: Are you the Judean People's Front?
REG: Fuck off!
BRIAN: What?
REG: Judean People's Front. We're the People's Front of Judea! Judean People's Front. lol.
FRANCIS: Wankers.
BRIAN: Can I... join your group?
REG: No. Piss off.
Five militants, including a Taliban commander, surrendered to the authorities on Monday.
Taliban commander Maulvi Hazrat Nabi surrendered to the political authorities at the office of the assistant political agent in Landi Kotal.
Landi Kotal Tehsildar Javedullah Mehsud told Daily Times that Hazrat and his brother were issued notices to stop their activities. Javed said the Taliban commander gave a surety bond of Rs 4 million that he would not disturb the transportation of supplies to Afghanistan nor invite militants from other areas to Landi Kotal, adding that seven tribal elders stood as guarantors for him. Four militants belonging to the Mattani and Adezai areas surrendered to the city police at the Malik Muhammad Sa'ad Shaheed Police Lines in Peshawar.
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At least nine people were killed and 52 others injured as the operation against militants in Darra Adam Khel continued for the fourth consecutive day on Monday, Geo News reported. According to the channel, security forces used helicopter gunships and artillery to target suspected hideouts of militants in Orakzai Agency.
Army spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told the Associated Press, "In our view, the back has been broken. Main leaders are on the run and the people of the area are now openly defying whatever the militants had achieved there."
Stray shell: In Bajaur Agency, at least 10 people -- including eight children -- were killed and eight others wounded when an army mortar shell hit a house in the Anayat Kala area, officials and residents told Daily Times. .
A Frontier Corps (FC) official confirmed the incident, and said the deceased were civilians and that their death was an accident, AFP reported.
Houses burnt: Separately, a tribal lashkar burnt the houses of four local Taliban commanders in the agency's Salarzai tehsil, bringing the number of burnt houses of the Taliban to 18. Locals said militants had been expelled from the Kasai, Pusht, Chelagam, Danqun and Kotki areas, following the formation of the lashkar.
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A tribal lashkar formed to end militancy in Kurram Agency on Monday re-took Char Dewal and Jalmai villages, strongholds of the Taliban, while six militants among nine were killed and 26 injured in fresh clashes. Meanwhile, the local tribesmen have intensified their peace efforts and plugged all entry points to stop entry of the militants into the Kurram Agency.
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Military aircraft bombed Taliban positions in the Ghat Piochar area of Swat on Monday, but the number of militant casualties was not known, officials said. The same area was bombed during the night between Friday and Saturday, when the military officials claimed killing nearly 50 Taliban.
Militant spokesman Muslim Khan said five abandoned houses, and a middle school were destroyed in the bombing.
Separately, one person was killed when a shell allegedly fired by the security forces at Taliban positions hit a house in Koza Bandi, sources told NNI. Five people were injured in the incident, the sources added. Security forces used artillery and helicopter gunships to bomb Taliban positions in the upper Swat areas of Koza Bandi, Bara Bandi, Dhaire, and Matta.
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The district police on Monday foiled a terrorism bid in the Shahukhel area of Hangu by seizing a 65-kilogramme bomb near a roadside. According to police, the Hangu Police station house officer was patrolling the area when some children pointed towards an abandoned cylinder. The police found explosive material inside the cylinder. Talking to journalists, District Nazim Haji Afzal Khan confirmed that the police had seized the bomb.
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(AKI) - Pakistan's central bank has directed the country's commercial banks to freeze the bank accounts of one of the country's most violent militant groups, the Tehrik-e-Taliban.
The State Bank of Pakistan spokesman, Syed Wasimuddin said that directives had been issued for the closure of all the accounts of the Tehrik-e-Taliban from Monday. Under the move, no amount can be deposited or withdrawn from their accounts.
The government moved against the Tehrik-e-Taliban movement after it claimed responsibility for several terrorist attacks, including the devastating bomb attack that killed at least 70 people and injured many others at a Pakistani arms factory in August. According to the Pakistani network, GeoTV, the bank has also directed commercial banks to provide all the details of these bank accounts - deposits, names of account holders, postal addresses and telephone numbers.
The bank's action follows a directive from the federal government to clamp down on the organisation.
Tehrik-e-Taliban recently warned it would carry out suicide attacks in major cities, including Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad, unless the military halted operations in key areas bordering Afghanistan.
The government last week announced it would impose a ban on Tehrik-e-Taliban, which is run by militant leader Baitullah Mehsud. Mehsud is accused of organising a wave of suicide attacks in Pakistan since mid-2007, including the murder of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
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That's not where they keep their drug money, is it?
TAHRIR, Iraq -- As Iraqi security forces continue to take the lead on missions in much of the country, the U.S. military has generally -- and deliberately -- slipped into the background.
But at an irritable area bordering Baqouba, where there are fears that recent gains made by an Iraqi-led offensive could be lost, the opposite has happened. Manpower issues and a perceived lack of initiative by Iraqi police have forced soldiers with Company E, 2nd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, out of Vilseck, Germany, to patrol Tahrir mainly alone.
U.S. soldiers conduct daily missions in the town to keep the peace and deter enemies from trickling back. Local Iraqi police tend to hold down checkpoints at safer locations on the outskirts, soldiers say.
"It is frustrating," said Capt. Solon Webb, company commander, adding he has to focus more time spreading out his forces than targeting high-value targets.
Intelligence gathering has also been a difficult process with the scarce Iraqi police, whose police chief is a major sitting in a colonel slot, a two rank difference, he said. "It's not as free flowing," said Webb, 32, of Walnut Creek, Calif. "I still get the same amount but I have to work twice as hard to get it."
Iraqi police Maj. Sa'ad, the police chief of Tahrir, said he has only 122 policemen and needs twice that number to cover his jurisdiction. "Tahrir is a big area. We need more IPs," Sa'ad said through a translator. "I need 250 to be ready to control this area."
He's working on bringing more into his force, he said. Sa'ad also denied that his policemen were avoiding the U.S. soldiers. "We always join with coalition forces and cooperate with them," he said. "If they need anything we help them."
Last week, soldiers held a knock-and-search raid in a troublesome sector of Tahrir. In the searches, which they call "block parties," soldiers asked Iraqis of any suspicious activity in the area and then snooped around the homes.
Second Lt. Richard Faille, 23 of Beverly, Mass., led his platoon of soldiers in the searches without police support despite inviting them. Though he and his soldiers would prefer to do operations alone, their main mission is to bolster the Iraqi security forces so U.S. troops can leave the country, he said.
"They're difficult to work with but it's necessary," Faille said of the Iraqi police. "We try to give them support and confidence," a hard thing to do when they don't show up for joint missions, he added.
Many of the Iraqi police officers in town are Muslim and will be fasting during Ramadan, which begins Tuesday, said Webb, who predicted that fewer will show up for work.
In June, violence surged in Tahrir with suicide bombings, shootings and roadside bombs. The largely Sunni town, next to Diyala province's governance center and its Iraqi police headquarters in Baqouba, became a popular hangout for insurgents. "It's an area where people love to prove a point," Webb said.
Iraqi security forces led an offensive starting in late July that cleared the area and got rid of U.S.-funded "Sons of Iraq" fighters. The city of roughly 75,000 residents was then left to U.S. soldiers and a limited supply of Iraqi police.
"I fear if we keep it sparse, the next couple of months could see an increase of enemy activity," Faille said. He said he has heard plans to boost the town's Iraqi police numbers in the near future.
With or without the Iraqi police, Webb vows not to let the town fall into enemy's hands. "We won't let it happen," he said. "We're not going to give up this fight."
Iraqi forces Monday took over control of Anbar, once the most explosive battlefield in Iraq, from the U.S. military, symbolizing the growing security gains in the war-torn country.
"We would not have even imagined this in our wildest dreams three or four years ago," Iraqi national security advisor Mowaffaq al-Rubaie told reporters before the ceremony in the provincial capital Ramadi. "If we had said that we were going to hand over security responsibility from the foreign troops to civilian authority, people would laugh at us. Now I think it's a reality."
Anbar is the 11th out of Iraq's 18 provinces and the first Sunni Arab province to be returned to the control of the Iraqi government since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. The turnover in the desert region had been slated for June, but was delayed due to a row between local political leaders.
Important milestone
Lt. Colonel Chris Hughes, spokesman for the U.S. Marines in western Iraq said the handover was largely ceremonial since Iraqi forces had been operating independently for several months.
The U.S. military said in a statement that the transfer of security was an "important milestone' but it "does not necessarily mean that the security situation is stable or better," but rather that governmental and provincial authorities will take over responsibility. "Iraqi police have better intelligence than ours," said Martin Post, a top U.S. commander in Anbar. "They have more abilities than us to do the job."
After the transfer, U.S. forces will withdraw to their bases and will take part in military operations only if requested by the provincial governor. The U.S. military currently has 28,000 soldiers in Anbar, down from 37,000 in February, according to U.S. army figures, while the number of Iraqi soldiers and police has grown to 37,000 from just 5,000 three years ago.
Monday's handover is expected to help the U.S. military cut its overall troop level in Iraq at a time when there is growing pressure to beef up forces in Afghanistan, where the level of violence is higher.
'Awakening' in a former 'safe haven'
Anbar, with little oil wealth but strategic importance in its borders with Syria, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, was once a haven for Sunni Islamist al-Qaeda and the scene of fierce battles against U.S. forces and Iraq's Shi'ite-led government. Some of the bloodiest fights in more than five years of war have taken place in Anbar, including two devastating assaults by U.S. forces on the city of Falluja in 2004.
Sunni Arabs in Anbar were the first to turn against U.S. forces after the toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003, mounting a raging insurgency that tore through the world's most sophisticated military. In the first years after the invasion, the country's biggest province became the theatre of a brutal war focused on the cities of Fallujah and Ramadi, while a string of towns along the Euphrates valley became insurgent strongholds and later safe havens for al-Qaeda.
Around one third of U.S. forces or 1,305 troops have been killed in Anbar, more than 40 percent caused by improvised explosive devices or IEDs.
Things changed in late 2006, when Sunni Arab tribal leaders fed up with al Qaeda's harsh tactics and puritanical brand of Islam switched sides, helping the U.S. military to largely expel the group from the region. Sunni tribes formed Sahwa (Awakening) groups which began fighting al-Qaeda militants and within a year the province became the safest in Iraq and became a model for grassroots guard units across the country.
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The masked gunmen threw themselves to the ground, rolled over and came up firing their assault rifles at an imaginary target. Jaysh al-Ummah, or the Army of the Nation, a Palestinian Islamist group modeled on the ideology of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda, was training for battle with Israel.
"We are coming, Jews," read graffiti daubed on a wall inside its private training base in the Gaza Strip.
"We are coming, Jews," read graffiti daubed on a wall inside its private training base in the Gaza Strip, where Reuters journalists were allowed rare access.
"Run, run, take the ground, shoot," Abu Hafss, Jaysh al-Ummah's leader, cried as some 25 gunmen, all clad in black, performed drills.
Jaysh al-Ummah refuses to say how many members it has in the Gaza Strip, territory seized by Hamas Islamists from the largely secular Fatah faction in June 2007. Hamas allows it to operate, with the unwritten understanding that it stays out of internal Palestinian politics and does not use force to implement its beliefs on the people of Gaza.
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A bomb has torn apart a bus at a terminal in the southern Philippines, killing six people and and wounding 27 others, police and military officials say.
Cesario Darantinan, a police chief in Davao del Sur province, on Mindanao, said the vehicle had been stationary when a "crude" bomb went off inside on Monday. "It could have been a crude bomb that was set off remotely," Darantinan said. "The explosion was so powerful that the bus was almost broken into two."
The provincial disaster co-ordinating council intially said four people were killed and 19 others were being treated at the hospital. The Philippine military confirmed six people were killed after two people later died in hospital.
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Reply with mosque bombs.
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Seems the MILF is claiming th Digos Bombing was the work of a crime/criminal gang, not the MILF?
ION PHILIPPINES > NUR MISUARI [MILF Ldr]: WE ARE BOTH FILIPINO AND BANGSAMORO. Same Philipp Nation + People as tied to MINDANAO BUT DIFFER FAITH???; ISLAMIC REBELS THREATEN TO WLAK OUT OF PEACE TALKS WITH PHILIPINE GOVT + PHILIPINE ARMED FORCES DISMISSES JIHAD WARNINGS FROM MILITANTS.
Also, SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES GROUP [MILF] BUILDING A NEW ARMY [120,000-pers] FOR SECURITY. 300,000 is desired.
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Nur Misuari is the leader of MNLF, the broader organization MILF split off from. They've been pretty tight with Abu Sayyaf. I'm not real trusting of anything Nur sez.
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At least 68 people, including two civilians, were killed over the weekend amid clashes between security forces and Tamil Tiger rebels, the defence ministry said yesterday.
Four government troops were killed in a mortar attack carried out by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) guerrillas in the rebel-held Wanni region on Saturday, the ministry said. It said troops also recovered the bodies of 10 rebels killed by troops and estimated the total number of guerrillas killed over the weekend's fighting to be 62.
Separately, gunmen shot dead two men in Jaffna on Sunday, the ministry said, blaming the attacks on the LTTE.
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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
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CAIRO - Egyptian police on Monday found a large cache of weapons in the Sinai desert during a routine patrol of the area, a security official said. Police found "171 mortar shells, anti-tank and anti-personnel grenades, 29 shells, 212 anti-tank projectiles as well as a number of detonators," the official told AFP.
A court here yesterday sentenced a leader of the banned Islamist outfit 
Three men were charged Tuesday in connection with a foiled 2007 terrorist plot to attack U.S. and German targets in central Germany, the federal prosecutor's office said.
Pakistan's security forces have missed the opportunity to capture al-Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, a senior government official has said.
WANA, Aug 30: Four people, including two Canadians of Arab origin, were killed and two other people injured when a missile reportedly fired from Afghanistan hit a house in the Korzai area of South Waziristan on Saturday.
Five militants, including a Taliban commander, surrendered to the authorities on Monday.
(AKI) - Pakistan's central bank has directed the country's commercial banks to freeze the bank accounts of one of the country's most violent militant groups, the Tehrik-e-Taliban. 
