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*Hearts* Glorious Gloria *Hearts*
Ima in luv
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Ever wonder why a woman wears high heels when she is sitting down? Longer is not taller. Never thought of that, did you? Hmmm.. Well anyway, she looks great.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon ||
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Ever wonder why a woman wears high heels when she is sitting down?
In my case, Richard, because otherwise my bottom won't reach as high as the chair, so the down-sitting would be a lot lower. If you look a little more closely, you'll notice that Miss Talbott needs to be on her toes for her bottom to reach the top of that whatever-it-is she's leaning it against. Really, it's an issue of basic arithmetic.
Q: If Gloria's down-sitting parts is/are 32 inches from the ground, and the "whatever-it-is" (H/T: TW) is 36" from the ground, how far can a Hornet fly before needing the tanker?
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Q: If Gloria's down-sitting parts is/are 32 inches from the ground, and the "whatever-it-is" (H/T: TW) is 36" from the ground, how far can a Hornet fly before needing the tanker?
The Court ruled that people whose assets are frozen must be allowed to make their case.
There must be a legal recourse. The court simply ruled that you cannot simply be put on a list and have your assets frozen without ever been heard. Errors can occur, as well. With Arabic names, a bit more often.
It did rule that freezing may well occur before the person in question is heard.
He will be heard and his assets will remain frozen unless he can exonerate himself. Which of course he can't.
Posted by: European Conservative ||
09/03/2008 18:07 Comments ||
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It's a pity they didn't rule the assets frozen until the miscreants personally appeared to present their respective cases.
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They didn't have to
They allowed the authorities three months to modify the conditions of the freeze (which is not lifted until then).
So the authorities can declare a new freeze and tell the guy to appear in a European court with free shuttle to Guantanamo to make his case. Doubt he will
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09/03/2008 19:06 Comments ||
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Thanks for the inside information, EC. The workings of European courts and governments seem a little weird to Americans - just as I'm sure our courts and governments seem weird to you all.
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the Ninth Circuit for sure
Posted by: European Conservative ||
09/03/2008 19:30 Comments ||
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It's called the Ninth Circus over here. :-D
(Including among lawyers. They do it so often that a lawyer arguing before them actually slipped and said that to the court sometime last winter. Heh.)
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
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The European court is usually quite reasonable.
A few days ago they rejected the appeal of a UK hacker not to be extradited to the US.
He had hacked into US military computers causing extensive damage)
Posted by: European Conservative ||
09/03/2008 19:39 Comments ||
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The hacker is not going to die if he is found guilty, so send him away, they think.
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09/03/2008 20:32 Comments ||
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#9 The hacker is not going to die if he is found guilty, so send him away, they think.
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There's an old saw that the punishment should fit the crime. I suggest this doofus be made to answer all the spam email that gets spread around the United States. Each time it appears, he has to write a full, one-page response. I'll gladly forward him all of mine.
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09/03/2008 20:50 Comments ||
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Leave some work for the admin of the computers he hacked into
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I know itÂ’s meant to denigrate McCain/Palin, but I rather liked it. Might backfire a little on the very excellent satirists who are undoubtedly clever.
Mild language warning. NQSFW.
"I'm the freaking Governor of Alaska. I didn't get there by just eating mooseburgers and popping out kids."
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So the simple act of shooting a gun makes her some kind of lunatic? Pansies.
Germans are wary of military deployments at the best of times. But there is little doubt that Germany's contribution to the NATO force in Afghanistan, which has prompted great controversy in Berlin, is forcing the country to face its own discomfort about participating, once again, in war.
For that, indisputably, is what the Afghan mission now is - even for German troops who thought they were very much 'peacekeepers', out of the country's southern conflict zones. Well, they may not have wanted to go to the battle, but such is the deterioration of the security situation that the battle has evidently come to them.
Last week, a convoy of military vehicles outside the town where Germany has its local Afghan HQ, Kunduz, was hit by an IED, killing a German soldier and wounding three more.
On Sunday another German convoy got the same treatment. Yesterday a suicide bomber blew himself up near German soldiers, killing only himself and a civilian. Such is the routine. No one in Germany, where many question whether the country should even have armed forces, can dispute that its soldiers are now very much in a fight.
But a fourth incident, which took place on Friday, sandwiched between the two IED convoy attacks, and which caused no German casualties, may have an even bigger impact on German attitudes to men and women in uniform than the deaths and injuries to the brave boys from the Bundeswehr.
It happened routinely, as so many of these incidents seem to. A minibus, en route from a wedding, filled with civilians failed to stop at a checkpoint. Maybe it couldn't stop - quickly - maybe the brakes were old. Maybe there was confusion over hand signals between soldiers and driver.
Whatever the cause, the NATO soldiers at the checkpoint, no doubt fearing a car bomb attack, fired on the bus. A woman and two children were killed, more civilians injured.
The problem for Berlin is that this checkpoint wasn't in Helmand or outside Baghdad. These weren't US or British soldiers, the checkpoint was south of Kunduz, and it was German troops who fired the fatal bullets.
Long opposed to the war in Iraq, and squeamish about existence of their own military, it would be natural for German critics to point to this as a nadir. Not only, they might say, are German troops back in action, but they are back in action fighting a war in which they are targeted as occupiers, and end up killing the civilians they are meant to protect. Just like the Americans! In Iraq!!! What could be worse?
And indeed, some Germans, have voiced these fears.
Gregor Gysi, a leader of the post-communist Left Party, said Germany now risked falling into a "dirty war".
But, in an encouraging sign of a refreshing realism and hard-headedness over military matters in Germany, his voice was in the minority.
Instead, there was sympathy for the victims and compassion for the young soldiers who made a deadly mistake.
"One is tempted to follow the shame and the shock with a drastic reaction, but calls to withdraw the troops or shift the focus onto training Afghan forces are too easy," noted one editorial back home in Berlin. "After this tragedy, the issue is not just the military and blame, but the military and protection. The outcome must be that more is done, not less. This is about
supporting the soldiers, not hindering them with hypocritical moral debates."
The timing of these incidents is crucial, for the German government will decide in early October whether to prolong it tour of duty of its more than 3000 servicemen and women in Afghanistan. It will also consider whether to enlarge the commitment to 4500 soldiers.
Lumbered with their history, it might be easier for modern Germans to bury their heads in the sand and call the troops home. True, German soldiers are discovering the "dirty" sides to war, both in taking casualties and inflicting them. But as a modern global power, Germany cannot shirk the reality of its NATO commitments. And encouragingly, despite the grim recent toll in Afghanistan, it shows no sign of doing so.
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but such is the deterioration of the security situation that the battle has evidently come to them
Wonder if the genius who wrote this at 'military world' ever considered the possibility that the Germans are being deliberately targeted, so they can generate the kind of response Herr Gysi and the newspapers are providing theem?
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1) We need to call this a war, not a peace keeping mission
2) We need to call troops who get killed "fallen heroes", not "lost his life".
3) We need to state the purpose of the mission: It's about killing Talibans, who enabled 9/11 and gave shelter to the most vicious terrorists on earth. It's about preventing a second Islamic Khmer Rouge system, a stone age Islamism that would shelter the same terrorists again.
That'll be a start
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If Chancellor Merkel did so, European Conservative, how many of your countrymen would then support their troops and the mission?
Commander Abu Gharib al Makki, a senior al Qaeda field commander from Saudi Arabia, has been killed in recent fighting with US forces in southwestern Afghanistan. The slain commander was lionized in a statement penned by al Qaeda in Afghanistan’s overall commander, Mustafa Muhammad Abu Yazid, who sent the letter to Pajhwok Afghan News. The statement lacked many details but indicated Commander Abu Gharib, whose real name is Kamal Saleem Atiya Fazli al Fazli, was killed “48 hours ago” in the southwestern province of Farah.
Two separate clashes were reported during that time span in Farah province. In one incident, eight Taliban insurgents were killed after ambushing a logistics companyÂ’s fuel convoy in the Farahrod district, according to FarahÂ’s provincial governor. Two fuel tanker trucks were destroyed during the ambush and at least one security guard was seriously injured.
A second clash broke out in the isolated Bakwa district after Taliban gunmen attempted to ambush a joint US and Afghan patrol. The Bakwa district, a long known stronghold for Taliban insurgents and criminal gangs, has born the brunt of this year's Taliban activity in southwestern Afghanistan. The Taliban reportedly lost one fighter and six other were shot during the battle. It is unclear which clash Commander Abu Gharib al-Makki was killed in.
A massive clash between US forces and Taliban fighters on August 9 in Farah's Bala Baluk district left up to 20 insurgents dead and scores others injured. Arab fighters were reportedly among the dead during that battle as well, an alarming indicator that foreign fighters are making their way onto battlefields further west from the traditional battlegrounds of eastern Afghanistan or the southern hot-spots of Helmand and Kandahar provinces.
Heavy fighting has taken place throughout southwestern AfghanistanÂ’s desert provinces since the spring of this year. A modest Provincial Reconstruction Team led by American forces is tasked with aiding in reconstruction and security measures throughout Farah province. Bakwa and the Bala Balouk districts remain hotly contested as small pockets of Taliban occupied villages continue to serve as key staging grounds for large scale Taliban attacks in the south and western areas of Afghanistan. Insurgents in Farah are mostly led by local gangs or Helmand based Taliban groups. Commander Abu GharibÂ’s death marks the first known al Qaeda in Afghanistan leader to be killed this far west in Afghanistan.
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Now that the fighting in Iraq is winding down, the evil ones are gathering in the Pak-Afghan theater. The Al Qaeda movement seems to be advancing further and further into remote areas. Or is that retreating?
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gee, a soddy terrorist without the surname of al Saud... who knew?
Nine Australian special forces soldiers have been wounded in a battle against Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan. One has life-threatening injuries, five have serious wounds, and the other three have slight wounds.
Defence says the nine were members of a Special Operations Task Group (SOTG) detachment fighting an overnight battle with the Taliban in Uruzgan province. It says several members of the Taliban were killed during the fight. The Defence Department says the soldiers were part of an ongoing SOTG operation to disrupt Taliban command and control networks.
In a statement, Defence spokesman Brigadier Brian Dawson said the wounded received immediate first aid from fellow patrol members at the scene and were evacuated by helicopter to ISAF medical faciltiies. "All nine soldiers have been evacuated from the area of the contact and are receiving the best possible medical care at present," he said in the statement. The soldiers families have been notified, the statement said.
The incident follows the death in July of 25-year-old SAS Signaller Sean McCarthy, the sixth Australian soldier to die in theatre in Afghanistan, also in Uruzgan.
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Suspected U.S. commandos from Afghanistan killed 20 people, including women and children, fluffy bunnies and rubber duckies in a pre-dawn raid inside Pakistan, officials said, an attack branded as an assault on the nation's sovereignty.
The attack is likely to spark uproar in Pakistan, where it will be seen as undermining sovereignty at a time when a new civilian government is struggling to assert authority in the turbulent nuclear-armed state.
"It is outrageous," Owais Ahmed Ghani, governor of North West Frontier province, said in a statement.
"This is a direct assault on the sovereignty of Pakistan and the people of Pakistan expect that the armed forces ... would rise to defend the sovereignty of the country and give a befitting reply," he said.
Security officials in the region said they suspected U.S. soldiers backed by helicopter gunships mounted the attack.
A spokeswoman for Afghanistan's NATO-led force said she had no information about the incident. They're the last people who should be told.
A spokesman for a separate U.S.-led coalition force declined to comment, referring questions to the U.S. Central Command.
The United States says al Qaeda and Taliban militants are based in sanctuaries in northwest Pakistan's ethnic Pashtun tribal areas on the Afghan border, where they orchestrate attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan and plot violence in the West.
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Most of our supplies for Afghan operations come through Pakistan. Have we developed alternatives? Til then, we need to play footsie with the Pak government no matter how disgusting.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon ||
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If they were risking putting boots on the ground rather than just a missile strike, it must have been a very big fish.
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Interestingly the site of the US-led allied troops is situated around three hundred metres away from the camp of security forces in the border areas between the two neighbouring countries.
That Pak military camp is probably there to protect the Al Qaeda compound
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Pakistan's prime minister survived an apparent assassination attempt Wednesday when at least two shots hit his limousine as he drove toward the capital. Officials said Yousuf Raza Gilani was unhurt and brought to safety after the incident on the main highway leading into Islamabad.
Zahid Bashir, the premier's press secretary, said two bullets struck the driver's side of the vehicle in a "murder attempt."
State-run Pakistan Television aired footage of Gilani's black Mercedes car with the two impact points clearly visible on the driver's window. The glass was cracked but intact. "The prime minister is fine, he is back in Islamabad at the PM house," Information Minister Sherry Rehman told Dawn News TV.
The incident adds to the tension in Pakistan at a time when its new civilian government is vowing to crack down on Islamic militants after ousting U.S. ally Pervez Musharraf from the presidency.
It was also the second apparent assassination attempt in quick succession. Shots were fired last week at a car carrying Lynne Tracy, the top U.S. diplomat in Pakistan's troubled northwest, as she was heading toward her office in the city of Peshawar. No one was hurt.
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To be a leader in Pakistan you need major life insurance!!!!
Posted by: Paul ||
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Or it could have been a wedding.
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I think any insurance company will require a really solid security plan(s) to include a fleet of armored cars, random routes and times, lots of prayer to deity of your choice.
A tribal lashkar has gunned down six Taliban in fresh clashes in various parts of Kurram Agency, official sources said on Tuesday.
The fighting continued for the 27th day in Bagazai, Inzari, Tapay Makam, Sadda, Khar Kalay, Balish Khel, Sangeena, Karman, Para Chamkani, Pewaar, Tari Mengal, Maqbal and Kanj Alizai. Online reported that eight people had been killed while 11 others had sustained serious injuries.
Meanwhile, the tribal lashkar torched five houses to punish tribesmen for providing refuge to Taliban at Salarzai tehsil of Bajaur Agency on Tuesday.
The 10,000 strong tribal force torched the houses in Nazki, Ghazai and other areas. Tribal force chief Malak Manasib Khan claimed the force had eliminated Taliban from the tehsil. He said peace had been restored in Salarzai tehsil, adding that the tribal force now controlled over 90 percent areas in the tehsil. He said the displaced people had also begun returning to their homes.
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Pakistani Taliban on Tuesday claimed they had kidnapped two Chinese telecommunications engineers and two Pakistanis and that abductions would continue until the government stopped attacking militants.
Talking to Daily Times over telephone, Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan said the two Chinese engineers, their guard and driver were in the custody of his colleagues. He said the four were in good health.
"Our aim is to hit the government's interests wherever they are. We kidnap everyone irrespective of whether he's Pakistani or Chinese and we'll continue to do this until they stop killing our people," Reuters quoted Khan.
China on Tuesday urged Pakistan to rescue the Chinese engineers. "We have requested that the Pakistan government rescue the two missing staff and ensure their safety," AFP reported foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu as saying.
However, the law enforcement agencies in Dir and Swat districts were still clueless about the whereabouts of the missing.
The spokesman would not say whether the missing persons were in Dir or shifted to Taliban hideouts in Swat.
Locals said the two Chinese were kidnapped from Shal Plam area of Khaal in Lower Dir.
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Taliban are reportedly using them in forced labor to whitewash a dirty mosque, but to no avail; proving once again that Two Wongs don't make it white.
(PTI) Atleast nine militants were killed today as helicopter gunships targeted Taliban hideouts in Pakistan's restive northwestern Swat valley even as the rebels blew up six shops belonging to a political leader in the same area. The militants were killed in air strikes carried out by the helicopters in Peochar area of Swat, where security forces have been conducting a major operation against Pakistani Taliban militants led by radical cleric Maulana Fazlullah.
The helicopter gunships carried out fresh strikes in Ghat and Peochar areas, considered to be strongholds of the local Taliban.
Meanwhile, the Taliban blew up six shops belonging to a leader of the Awami National Party, which rules the North West Frontier Province, in Matta sub-district of Swat. No loss of life was reported in the attack.
The local Taliban had earlier sent letters to ANP leader and former federal minister Afzal Khan Lala to vacate the shops. Following this, the shops had been vacated.
In separate acts of violence, a traffic policeman was shot dead in Mingora, the main town in Swat district, while a retired school teacher was gunned down by unidentified men in Kabal sub-district. Militants also blew up a post office in Kabal early this morning. No casualties were reported in the bombing.
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(AKI/DAWN) - Six tribes in Pakistan's troubled border region declared a ceasefire on Monday after nine people were killed and 26 others were injured in ongoing clashes.
The conflict between the Turi and Bangash tribes took place in the Kurram Agency bordering Afghanistan.
The tribes announced their ceasefire after a meeting with political administration officials in the town of Sadda.
The fighting between Turi and Bangash tribes erupted on Saturday and continued on Sunday, despite a unilateral announcement of a ceasefire by the Turi tribe in reverence for the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
According to the Pakistani daily, Dawn, 104 people have died in fierce clashes since Sunday and 226 others have suffered injuries.
Local hospitals are reported to be facing problems because of a shortage of medicines.
Northwest of Pakistan has suffered a wave of militant violence since July and hundreds of people have been killed including many members of the security forces.
Shias are the majority in the region, but they are surrounded by Sunni tribesmen and much of the conflict appears to be sectarian in nature.
Kurram is home to various Taliban militant groups and served as an important launching pad for the Afghan mujahideen during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in 1980s.
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Iraqi troops and Kurdish peshmerga forces are bracing for conflict in the disputed city of Khanaqin in the most serious threat of clashes between Arabs and Kurds since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
A delegation flew from Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish regional government, to Baghdad at the weekend to try to resolve the crisis. The two main Kurdish parties are allied and form part of Iraq's coalition government.
However, Massoud Barzani, the president of the Kurdistan region, and leader of the Kurdish Democratic party, said Iraq was still living under the influence of Saddam's regime and the central government was not serious about sharing power with Kurds. He claimed many military decisions were made without consultations with General Babakir Zebari, a Kurd who is the Iraqi army's chief of staff.
Gen Zebari, apparently torn between competing loyalties, visited Khanaqin on Monday and was quoted in the Baghdad media as saying Iraqi troops had the right to launch operations in the area.
The crisis has grown since July when the Iraqi government ordered peshmerga forces to withdraw to Kurdistan from Diyala. It also told the two main Kurdish parties to move out of the numerous government buildings in Diyala which they had taken over when Saddam's regime fell.
The Iraqi president, Jalal Talabani, is a Kurd and the two Kurdish parties have been firm allies of the prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki's Shia-led government since its inception. But on Sunday, the government in Baghdad shocked its Kurdish partners by announcing it would send finance ministry auditors to check customs revenues levied by Kurdish officials on the Turkish border. Transit traffic and smuggling are the main sources of revenue for some Kurds.
Parts of northern Diyala are claimed by Kurds as part of their ancient homeland. An estimated 85% of the population of Khanaqin, which is situated on a dusty plateau close to Iran, are Kurds and Kurdish leaders insist that Khanaqin must remain under peshmerga control.
"The Iraqi army still wants to enter, and the peshmerga is present," said Ibrahim Bajelani, a Kurd who heads the provincial council. "Everyone is on edge. If the Iraqi army tries to enter without prior agreement, we can't be held responsible for the consequences."
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This actually is a good thing, a sign that the country is starting to mature. The Iraqis have moved beyond the question of survival to the big questions of what the country that they all feel ownership in is going to look like. The Sunnis have given up the idea of regaining the control they had under Saddam Hussein; now the Shiites are going to have to realize that being in the majority doesn't give them ownership either, the dream they've been clutching ever since they discovered that they actually were a majority of the population.
That doesn't mean the next bit won't be painful, though.
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I agree with Trailing wife. This is very impressive. Now, if we could just get Americans to show this kind of maturity...
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Perhaps the worst argument of early America was the fight between Federalists and anti-Federalists--which was never really resolved, only forced by George Washington's suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion, which is still argued as illegal and unconstitutional.
That is, the anti-Federalists won.
And this same argument has been going on for two decades in the EU, and it is now becoming acute in Iraq.
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My conservative instincts suggest to me that Iraqis will revert to type within a decade. Note that upon independence (from European or American rule), a lot of countries were organized as democracies including Iraq, Cuba and the Philippines. Maliki is doing a lot of the things I would expect from a would-be dictator. A key move is arranging for the expulsion of American troops because they might interfere with his plans for a life term in office.
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As we all post, al-Maliki is pressuring President Bush to sign a get-the-hell-out (SOFA) agreement by 2011. What pressure? He can revive the civil war at the bat of an eye. Do we respect Iraq's territorial integrity in 2012 if they start murdering Kurds?
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If I recall correctly, every stage of withdrawal was contingent upon Iraq meeting certain standards in terms of control of the violent, rule of law, and democratic steps, not absolute time.
(VOI) -- Police forces on Tuesday released a female hostage half an hour after she was kidnapped by two men in southern Karbala, a local police chief said. "Police forces captured two persons, who had kidnapped a woman while she was riding in a taxi in the south of the city," Karbala Operations Commander Maj. Gen. Raed Shakir Jawdat told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI). "In light of intelligence tips, a police force was sent to chase the taxi, arrest the two kidnappers and release the hostage...," the source explained. The arrest was made in al-Sinaie (Industrial) neighborhood, according to the same source.
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(VOI) - One Iraqi soldier was killed and three others wounded by a suicide car bomb in the northern city of Mosul, a security source said. "A car bomb driven by a suicide bomber went off against an Iraqi army patrol in Baghdad Road, south Mosul, leaving one soldier killed and three others wounded," a Ninewa security source, who requested anonymity, told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI). The bombing was the second in the northern volatile city of Mosul.
Earlier, a suicide bomber driving a car rammed into an Iraqi army patrol in al-Quds district, leaving seven civilians killed and seven others wounded."
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(AKI) - A suicide car bomber struck an Iraqi army checkpoint in the northern city of Mosul on Tuesday, killing seven and wounding seven others.
The suicide bomber drove his explosives-laden car into a checkpoint in the al-Quds neighbourhood of the city which is the capital of Ninevah province.
"Seven were killed and seven others wounded in Tuesday's car bombing that targeted a checkpoint of the Iraqi army in al-Quds neighbourhood," a source told the news agency, Voices of Iraq.
Iraqi security forces immediately sealed off the area to secure the scene and evacuate the casualties.
Nineveh province, and its capital Mosul, some 400 kilometres north of Baghdad, is widely regarded as an Al-Qaeda stronghold in Iraq.
In Baghdad, two roadside bombs targeting police patrols killed four people and wounded 17, including women and children, on Tuesday morning.
In the first incident, an improvised explosive device detonated near Al-Kendi Hospital in central Baghdad, killing a policeman and a civilian, police said.
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(VOI) - The U.S. army announced its troops arrested 16 al-Qaeda network suspects in central and northern Iraq during operations conducted throughout the past 48 hours. "Coalition forces detained four suspected terrorists Tuesday in Baghdad, including a man who is reportedly involved in a terrorist facilitation network," said U.S. army statement received by Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI). "Intelligence reports indicate the group brings foreigners into Iraq and provides false documents to help them move around the country and conduct attacks against civilians," it added.
The U.S. army noted they captured two wanted men and three additional suspects in Sharqat, 90 km south Mosul. "One of the wanted men is assessed to be a cell leader and senior advisor in an area stretching from Kirkuk to the Tigris River Valley. The other wanted man allegedly has ties to al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) senior leaders."
Two suspected terrorists were detained in an operation targeting an AQI extortion cell Tuesday in Mosul, and U.S. forces discovered bomb-making materials along with the suspects. "A wanted man and an additional suspect were detained in Mosul on Monday during an operation targeting the AQI propaganda network," the announcement noted.
The announcement highlighted the U.S. army detained three suspected gunmen. "One of the detainees is believed to conspire with an AQI leader who operates a kidnapping cell to finance other terrorist activities," the announcement added.
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(VOI) - The U.S. army on Tuesday announced its forces arrested four break-away Shiite group operatives in Baghdad. "Coalition forces captured four suspected members of the Shi'ite group Kataib Hezbollah Tuesday morning during an operation in the Adhamiyah district of Baghdad," said a U.S. army statement received by Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI).
The U.S. army noted the forces targeted an alleged Kata'ib Hezbollah financier. "The wanted man is believed to be a key figure in the administration of the criminal group," the announcement pointed out.
The statement highlighted the U.S. forces arresting the suspects "found multiple weapons and more than $60,000 in American and Iranian currency at the residence."
Kata'ib Hezbollah is Shiite group that broke away from loyalty to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr when the latter announced a ceasefire in August 2007. The U.S. army believes the group receives support from Iran in the way of funding, logistics, and weapons.
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Ma'an -- The Israeli court at Kfar Saba sentenced 26-year-old Imad Ubeid, a resident of the West Bank city of Qalqilia, to eleven years in prison on Tuesday after convicting him of stealing 150 cars and reselling them to their Israeli owners.
Ubeid also was charged with 60 counts of property-related crimes, including taking stolen cars into Palestinian Authority-controlled areas, then selling them back to their owners for 3,000 to 4,000 shekels each. Ubeid was said to specialize in deactivating car alarms. He was also charged with robbing 80 houses.
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Words fail me. How can it possibly take that long to catch this guy?
Did nobody call the police when they were offered their cars back?
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Extortion along the lines of hijacking networks. The 'recovery' price runs between $800-$1100 USD. The victims probably figured if they talked, next time the car would disappear for good.
Prosecutors on Tuesday indicted two Israeli Arabs for a series of grave security offences including forming an Islamic Jihad cell and planning to assassinate Israeli pilots, scientists and university professors.
The pair are Shfaram residents Anis Sappori, 20, who studies communications at Bir Zeit University in Ramallah, and Hussam Khalil, 19, who studies electrical engineering in Jordan.
They reportedly attempted to contact Islamic Jihad operatives in Syria, with the intent of receiving money and expertise in order to help them carry out terror attacks in Israel.
The two suspects used the internet to find the names of physics professors at Israeli universities, and proposed using remote operated car bombs to kill them.
The two also planned to carry out attacks on Israeli pilots, telling investigators that they wanted to take revenge for Israel Air Force operations in the Gaza Strip.
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Israeli naval vessels fired warning shots at Palestinian fishing boats carrying international human rights workers several kilometers off the coast of the Gaza Strip, the activists told The Daily Star on Tuesday. Upon leaving the Gaza City port early Monday, three Israeli gunboats began trailing the fishing convoy. The Gaza fisherman, accompanied by human rights activists from the Free Gaza movement, maintained their course. At 6 miles (9.6 kilometers) the Israeli presence became more pronounced, according to Donna Wallach of Free Gaza.
"Typically [the fisherman] can't get out past 3 to 6 miles," Wallach said, adding that the coastal Gaza fisheries have been heavily depleted because of over-fishing due to Israeli interference. "[But] we continued out to 9 miles, trawling up and down the Gaza coast."
"There were seven fishing boats in the convoy," she said, "and warning shots were fired at each boat. One boat was given seven so-called 'warning shots.'"
Wallach told The Daily Star that the fishing convoy contacted the Israeli vessels over a shared radio frequency to inform them that internationals were aboard the Palestinian boats, but that the warning shots continued. "They [the naval gunboats] came close; we could see their faces," she said. "They screamed 'khalass' in Arabic and 'Go back.'"
But the Gazans continued fishing, and according to Wallach had a very successful day. There were no injuries and no damage to the boats or their trawling equipment was reported.
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They were testing their ability to screw with the Israelis, I trust they now know just how far that will be allowed to go unchecked. The Israelis haven't had a good international incident in a couple of years now, they are prolly about due.
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So what if internationals were aboard? Why does that exempt them from anything?
Besides, the internationals could have been Saudi, Egyptian, and Syrian.
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Government forces fought fierce battles with ethnic Tamil separatists along Sri Lanka's northern front lines in a wave of fighting that killed 43 rebels and four soldiers, the military said yesterday. The bloodshed came amid weeks of escalating violence in the area, as government troops pushed deep into rebel-held territory, seizing key Tamil Tiger bases and towns that had long been under rebel control.
Battles raged Tuesday over the key town of Mallavi, which lies along an important northern road used by the rebels, military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara said. "We have taken over about three-quarters of the area," he said. "It's not cleared yet."
Security forces marched into the town on Monday evening and on Tuesday morning were "hunting for remaining Tigers," the ministry said. "Domination of the well-known Mallavi town... marked one more decisive and impressive phase of the 'war for peace'," the ministry said, referring to its drive to take the Tiger political capital of Kilinochchi, further north.
It said 49 guerrillas and 11 soldiers were also wounded in the fighting on Monday.
The capture of Mallavi, where the Tigers had medical facilities, would be a psychological blow to the guerrillas as it is regarded the birth place of Tiger supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran's wife, defence officials said.
In the worst of Monday's fighting, troops captured six bunkers in the Nachchikuda area of Kilinochchi region, killing 26 rebels, the military said. Fighting in the area also killed two soldiers, it said. Air force jets pounded a facility where the rebels stored mortar shells north of Nachchikuda on Tuesday morning, the military said.
Battles across the Welioya, Mullaittivu and Vavuniya regions killed another 17 rebels and two soldiers, the military reported.
The rebel-affiliated TamilNet Web site, citing unnamed Tamil Tiger officials, said at least seven soldiers were killed in the fighting at Nachchikuda. With most communication cut with the northern areas, rebel spokesman Rasiah Ilanthirayan could not be reached for comment.
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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.
Germans are wary of military deployments at the best of times. But there is little doubt that Germany's contribution to the NATO force in Afghanistan, which has prompted great controversy in Berlin, is forcing the country to face its own discomfort about participating, once again, in war.
Nine Australian special forces soldiers have been wounded in a battle against Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan. One has life-threatening injuries, five have serious wounds, and the other three have slight wounds.
Pakistani Taliban on Tuesday claimed they had kidnapped two Chinese telecommunications engineers and two Pakistanis and that abductions would continue until the government stopped attacking militants.
(PTI) Atleast nine militants were killed today as helicopter gunships targeted Taliban hideouts in Pakistan's restive northwestern Swat valley even as the rebels blew up six shops belonging to a political leader in the same area. The militants were killed in air strikes carried out by the helicopters in Peochar area of Swat, where security forces have been conducting a major operation against Pakistani Taliban militants led by radical cleric Maulana Fazlullah.
(VOI) -- Police forces on Tuesday released a female hostage half an hour after she was kidnapped by two men in southern Karbala, a local police chief said. "Police forces captured two persons, who had kidnapped a woman while she was riding in a taxi in the south of the city," Karbala Operations Commander Maj. Gen. Raed Shakir Jawdat told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI). "In light of intelligence tips, a police force was sent to chase the taxi, arrest the two kidnappers and release the hostage...," the source explained. The arrest was made in al-Sinaie (Industrial) neighborhood, according to the same source.
(AKI) - A suicide car bomber struck an Iraqi army checkpoint in the northern city of Mosul on Tuesday, killing seven and wounding seven others. 
(VOI) - The U.S. army announced its troops arrested 16 al-Qaeda network suspects in central and northern Iraq during operations conducted throughout the past 48 hours. "Coalition forces detained four suspected terrorists Tuesday in Baghdad, including a man who is reportedly involved in a terrorist facilitation network," said U.S. army statement received by Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI). "Intelligence reports indicate the group brings foreigners into Iraq and provides false documents to help them move around the country and conduct attacks against civilians," it added.
(VOI) - The U.S. army on Tuesday announced its forces arrested four break-away Shiite group operatives in Baghdad. "Coalition forces captured four suspected members of the Shi'ite group Kataib Hezbollah Tuesday morning during an operation in the Adhamiyah district of Baghdad," said a U.S. army statement received by Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI). 
Israeli naval vessels fired warning shots at Palestinian fishing boats carrying international human rights workers several kilometers off the coast of the Gaza Strip, the activists told The Daily Star on Tuesday. Upon leaving the Gaza City port early Monday, three Israeli gunboats began trailing the fishing convoy. The Gaza fisherman, accompanied by human rights activists from the Free Gaza movement, maintained their course. At 6 miles (9.6 kilometers) the Israeli presence became more pronounced, according to Donna Wallach of Free Gaza.
