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looks like she needs help pulling her stockings back up into place. i kin help. since there ain't none of them gardner thingys to hang 'em on, i may just have to stay there for awhile, K?
Insurgents shot down a U.S. helicopter after exchanging fire with its crew in central Afghanistan on Monday, while a suicide bomber in the north killed two U.S. soldiers inside a police station, officials said.
The helicopter was forced down in Wardak, one province west of Kabul, after insurgents hit it with gunfire Monday, said Lt. Cmdr. Walter Matthew, a U.S. military spokesman. The crew survived and have been extracted from the area, he said.
"The helicopter crew exchanged fire with the enemy before the damage brought the helicopter down," Matthews said. Coalition troops secured the area and "are in the process of recovering" the helicopter, he said.
At least four militants were killed in the exchange, said Fazel Karim Muslim, the chief of Sayed Abad district.
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Ethiopian soldiers will begin a phased withdrawal from neighboring Somalia next month following the signing of a cease-fire agreement between the Somali transitional government and a faction of the main opposition.
Ethiopian troops will start pulling out of the capital, Mogadishu, and the central town of Beledweyne on Nov. 21, according to a copy of yesterday's agreement e-mailed by United Nations Envoy Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah's office today. They will be replaced by peacekeepers from the African Union and militias loyal to Somalia's government and the opposition Alliance for the Re-Liberation, or ARS, of Somalia.
U.S.-backed Ethiopian forces invaded Somalia in December 2006, ousting an Islamist government and installing the UN- supported government. Fighting between pro-government forces and Islamic insurgents has driven one million people from their homes. Somalia's most powerful opposition group, the al-Shabaab militia, is not party to yesterday's agreement.
``Some very important principles have now been established,'' Ould-Abdallah said in an e-mailed statement. ``The challenge is to ensure that concrete action is taken to show the Somali people how this will benefit them.''
The agreement revives an accord signed June 9 in Djibouti that called for a cease-fire and Ethiopia's withdrawal from the country within four months. Since that deal fighting has intensified between Ethiopian troops and Islamist and clan- backed militias. Al-Shabaab has said it will not make peace until all Ethiopian troops are withdrawn from Somalia.
The cease-fire will take effect Nov. 5. The government and the ARS will form a 10,000-strong police force to maintain peace in Mogadishu and surrounding areas. The two groups have asked the UN to pay for the police force.
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The text of the agreement didn't set a timetable for the withdrawal of all of Ethiopia's estimated 10,000 to 15,000 Ethiopian troops. Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi hasn't specified a timeline, while saying the country will accept any Somali government that is able to bring peace to the country.
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(SomaliNet) At least six were killed amidst battle between the Somali government soldiers and the Islamic hardliners of Al-shabab on Friday in Somalia's southern town of Wajid district which is some 350KM from the Somali capital Mogadishu.
Sources say the combat was so heavy and both the warring sides have exchanged heavy weaponries such as rocket propel grenades, artillery, cannons, and mortars, and eventually the forces of Al-shabab were overrun and the town fell into the hands of the government soldiers.
"I have seen the dead bodies of 6 of the local residents of Wajid district with my naked eyes, but I cannot whose bullet they were hit" said Aliyow Iman a local resident speaking to Somaliweyn radio.
"This mission is part of mass eradication which we have earlier announced to eliminate the so called Al-shabab, and we shall continue to fight them till the last minute comes" said the regional commissioner of Bakool Mohamed Moalim speaking to Somaliweyn correspondent in the southern town of Baidoa the current base of the Somali transitional federal government.
The latest reports from Wajid district confirms that the all have now returned to normal on Saturday, and still the town is under the authority of the Somali government after ousting the Al-shabab group.
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Oh noes! Worse than the Stalingrad Tractor Factory I tells ya.
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The Somali government signed a ceasefire agreement with some opposition members on Sunday, meeting one of the opposition demands by giving a date for the withdrawal of Ethiopian forces backing the interim administration.
Over 10,000 people have been killed and a million displaced in fighting since early last year, pitting President Abdullahi Yusuf's government and allied Ethiopian forces against rebels -- mainly the al Shabaab militia, listed by Washington as a terrorist group.
Insurgents have stepped up their attacks on government and Ethiopian targets in recent months, vowing not to relent until Addis Ababa withdraws its soldiers from Somalia. "Effective 26 October 2008, ceasefire observance has been announced. It will become effective 5 November 2008 ... starting 21 November 2008 the Ethiopian troops will relocate from areas of the cities of Beledweyn and Mogadishu," the agreement said.
"The second phase of the troop withdrawal shall be completed within 120 days," said the deal, signed in Djibouti by the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS) opposition. It remained unclear when exactly the last Ethiopian troops would leave Somalian territory. An African Union (AU) peacekeeping force will be responsible for security in the areas vacated by Ethiopian forces, with the help of Somali government troops and opposition ARS security forces, until the deployment of United Nations forces, the deal said.
Somalia has been without an effective central government since 1991 and the transitional government is the 14th attempt to establish one.
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Apparently word didn't get to the Wajid area in time to save those six jihadi POS.
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Insurgents have stepped up their attacks on government and Ethiopian targets in recent months, vowing not to relent until Addis Ababa withdraws its soldiers from Somalia.
And when the Ethiopians withdraw the whackos are gonna "relent"? Good luck with that one.
A 62-year-old lawmaker held captive eight years by leftist rebels walked to freedom in a western Colombia jungle on Sunday along with the young guerrilla commander who had been his jailer.
Whoa! I think I seen this movie!
President Alvaro Uribe said the rebel and his girlfriend would be rewarded with asylum in France. Yeah, and she's played by Liv Ullman or somebody...
Oscar Tulio Lizcano is the first Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia hostage to gain freedom since the July 2 rescue of former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and three U.S. military contractors. His escape is yet another blow to Latin America's last major rebel army, which is battling record desertions under withering pressure from Colombia's U.S.-backed military.
The white-bearded Lizcano encountered a military road checkpoint three days after escaping with the leader of the unit that held him.
He looked haggard in a grimy black shirt and muddy training pants during Sunday's news conference at a military base in the western city of Cali. He apologized for his somewhat incoherent speech, saying his captors had forbidden him to speak. He thanked "the person who had the courage, the valor to leave with me."
"I was really sick," he said, seated in a chair beside a standing Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos and police and military commanders. He said he had eaten little while on the run with his 28-year-old captor, known only by the alias "Isaza."
Lizcano was taken to a clinic, where doctors said he was dehydrated and had signs of malnutrition.
Santos said the escape followed the Oct. 10 desertion of a second rebel, alias "Moroco," from the camp where Lizcano was being held. He said that guerrilla disclosed Lizcano's precise whereabouts to authorities, who already had a rough idea of the location and had been strangling the rebels' supply routes.
Santos put their number at about eight women and six men. Lizcano said food was so scarce in the camp that he ate a lot palm hearts and sugar cane in recent weeks.
Colombia's military has in recent months put withering pressure on the guerrillas known as the FARC, killing or capturing top commanders and spurring record desertions and betrayals among rebels with lucrative reward offers.
Uribe said "Isaza" would receive an as-yet unspecified cash reward and asylum in France along with his girlfriend. He made the announcement as he prepared to meet in Cali with leaders of some 30,000 Indians who had marched to the city demanding land and justice in the murders of indigenous laters.
The young rebel, a patch over his left eye covering a 4-year-old wound, beamed at the news.
Late last year, France offered asylum to any FARC rebels who demobilized, part of an effort to secure the release of hostages including Betancourt, a dual French national.
"The French government has now told us that it accepts having Isaza in France," Uribe said.
Lizcano was kidnapped on Aug. 5, 2000. The government's peace commissioner, Luis Carlos Restrepo, had said last week without providing details that FARC deserters had reported Lizcano's health was delicate.
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Who will be the last FARC guerilla? President Uribe is doing impressive work, with a little help from his friends. With FARC dropping out of the cocaine trade, is this opportunity for the drug lords or peril?
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sorry Hugo. Bet he's talking...
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Hoogo needs to "take one for the people". The sooner, the better. Preferably before any change in Washington.
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All FARC has to do is hold out till January, then the US funding and intel will change sides, and Uribe will be a goner.
seems I remember some information on a hard drive on a laptop to that effect a while back... some e-mails that were captured when they killed some FARC big-wig.
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Six alleged Sydney jihadists obtained, or sought to acquire, a stockpile of chemical weapons capable of causing "substantial damage and loss of life", potential jurors have been told. Counsel for the prosecution Richard Maidment SC said they were driven to wage violent jihad against the Australian public by fervent Islamic beliefs in martyrdom.
Mr Maidment on Monday addressed the first 220 potential jurors at the trial of Bradley Umar Sariff Baladjam, 31, Khaled Cheikho, 35, Moustafa Cheikho, 31, Mohamed Ali Elomar, 43, Abdul Rakib Hasan, 39, and 24-year-old Mohammed Omar Jamal. The six have pleaded not guilty to conspiring to commit acts in preparation for a terrorist act, and are standing trial in the NSW Supreme Court.
Offering a "thumbnail sketch" of his case, Mr Maidment said the accused were among a group of at least nine western and south-western Sydney men allegedly planning one or more terror-related acts. Literature, images and video were found in their possession which advocated the activities of "notorious persons such as Osama bin Laden" and the pursuit of martyrdom through jihad.
"Each of these men were apparently strong adherents to the Islamic faith and were each motivated by a particular religious, political or ideological cause, that being the pursuit of violent jihad," Mr Maidment said. "In essence that meant that the accused were motivated to carry out violent activities against members of the Australian community as a whole, in pursuit of their ideals."
Mr Maidment said the men obtained large quantities of firearms and ammunition between July 2004 and November 2005, as well as significant amounts of chemicals such as acetone and hydrogen peroxide. They also had detailed written instructions on how to manufacture explosives "capable of causing substantial damage and loss of life", he said.
Justice Whealy said the trial was expected to run for up to a year, with up to 700 witnesses, with brief breaks over Christmas and Easter. Five thousand potential jurors have been summonsed, and the selection process is expected to take the rest of the week. The two-week crown opening is expected to begin next Wednesday, November 5.
A suspected U.S. missile strike killed up to 20 people in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, officials said, the latest salvo in an intensifying assault on militant hide-outs near the Afghan border. The reported strike occurred in the South Waziristan region, part of Pakistan's wild border zone that is considered a possible hiding place for Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri.
Two intelligence officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to media on the record, said the targeted house in Mandata Raghzai village belonged to a lieutenant of local Taliban chief Maulvi Nazir. The officials, citing reports from agents and informers in the area, said militants cordoned off the scene. The identities of the 20 bodies pulled from the rubble were not immediately known, they said.
Pakistan's new leaders have protested the missile strikes -- as well as a highly unusual raid by helicopter-borne commandos in September -- as unacceptable violations of their sovereignty. The US embassy has retained the services of Inspector Clouseau to the bottom of these suspected, and suspiciously on target, strikes.
They can't complain about 'violations of their sovereignty' when they themselves don't defend it.
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My Pet Jawa says BBC is reporting Mullah Omar is one of the 20.
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Top Pakistani Taliban commander Mohammad Omar died in an overnight missile strike in the troubled South Waziristan tribal area bordering Afghanistan, satellite Arabic TV channel Al-Jazeera cited the Pakistan Taliban as saying on Monday. Omar is said to have died shortly after the airstrike, which hit a compound owned by him in Mandatta village, and was reportedly carried out by a pilotless US drone.
The airstrike killed 20 people, according to witnesses and officials. The compound was reported to be a meeting point for local Pakistani Taliban leaders.
Initial reports did not state if civilians died in the attack, which completely destroyed the compound and two neighbouring houses.
The US has made no comment on the incident. It rarely confirms or denies such attacks.
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Ooh. Did al-Vinny the stool pigeon just score a $10 million jackpot?
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AWESOME!!! Thanks Tipper!
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Rreuters: "They were very accurate. The missiles struck rooms where the guests were having dinner. None survived," a militant said by telephone. "We've recovered 20 bodies," said the militant, who declined to be identified.
Pakistan officials said a low-level Pakistani Taliban commander who had links with veteran Afghan militant commander Jalaluddin Haqqani was killed in the strike. Also killed were some foreign militants who had attended the funeral of a younger brother of Mehsud, Yahya Mehsud, an intelligence official said.
Save fuel and just hit the funeral instead. Friends of the top dog. Ought to be a very interesting obituary page in tomorrow's newspaper.
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Blinky doorknob dead! Oh noes!
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NY Times: An American drone aircraft hit a militant compound in South Waziristan Sunday night, killing 20 people, including two important local Taliban commanders known for their attacks against American soldiers in Afghanistan, a senior government official and a local resident said.
One of the dead commanders, Eida Khan, was wanted by the Americans for his cross-border attacks from bases in Waziristan, the government official said. Another, Wahweed Ullah, worked with Arabs who were part of Al Qaeda, the local resident said. ... Mr. Khan and Mr. Ullah, as well as two brothers of Mr. Khan, were affiliated with the militant network of Jalaluddin Haqqani
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Poor people having dinner then having to suffer the indignity of a US missile dripping in pig's blood (I only hope that is the way it was).
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Ok, I'm beginning to suspect mistaken identity. Not Mullah Omar but Omar Khan, a deader from Sunday's Hellfire strike: Officials said Haji Omar Khan, a lieutenant of veteran Afghan Taliban chieftain and former anti-Soviet fighter Jalaluddin Haqqani, died in the incident in the lawless South Waziristan area on Sunday. ... He was a cousin of late Taliban commander Nek Mohammed, who was killed in 2004 in one of the first apparent US missile strikes in the region.
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either way they are of all the same gene pool.
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"The missiles struck rooms where the guests were having dinner."
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner! (1967) -- Dr. Prentice (Sidney Poitier)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner! (2008) -- Hellfire (Lockheed Martin)
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TOUCHDOWN! Let's hope that the report will confirm the PAT. I didn't see this report on ABC, CBS, NBC, or the CNN illuminati station. Odd? To busy in Obama's Bum.
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At least 11 people, seven of them Frontier Corps personnel and three Khasadars, were killed and five injured on Sunday in a suicide attack in Mohmand Agency, Dawn News reported. The channel quoted sources as saying that a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into the Naqi checkpost, killing the 10 security personnel and a technician. The dead and the injured were shifted to Ghalaanai Hospital, where some of them are in critical condition.
Talking to the channel, Mohmand Agency Assistant Political Agent Saeed Ahmad Jan, however, denied that anybody had died, saying that the attack had only injured nine security personnel. Both the president and the prime minister have condemned the attack.
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Suspected US drones fired missiles on Sunday into an alleged Taliban compound in South Waziristan, killing at least seven people, security officials said.
The strike targeted a compound about 20 kilometres northeast of Wana, the agency headquarters, the officials said. "Initial reports say at least seven people were killed in the missile strike, which destroyed the premises," one senior security official told AFP. There was no immediate confirmation of the strike from the military or from the US-led coalition in Afghanistan.
The attack is the 12th such incident in the past 10 weeks, all of which have been blamed on US-led coalition forces or CIA drones based in Afghanistan.
On Wednesday, at least eight people were killed when suspected US spy drones fired missiles into a madrassa in North Waziristan set up by veteran Taliban leader Jalaluddin Haqqani, a major target for US forces. The attack occured hours after the parliament passed a unanimous resolution that called for defending Pakistan's territorial sovereignty.
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More goodness from this Sunday strike: Suspected US strike kills Pakistani Taliban commander A Taliban commander and at least 15 others died in a suspected US missile strike on a militant training camp in Pakistan's tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, officials said Monday.
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Officials said Haji Omar Khan, a lieutenant of veteran Afghan Taliban chieftain and former anti-Soviet fighter Jalaluddin Haqqani, died in the incident in the lawless South Waziristan area on Sunday. "The death toll has gone up to 16 as six more bodies have been recovered from the site. Senior Taliban commander Haji Omar died in the strike," local administration official Mawaz Khan told AFP.
Two lower-level Taliban commanders from neighbouring North Waziristan tribal district, identified only as Waheedullah and Nasrullah, were among those killed, security officials and residents in that area said. They had gone to meet Omar at his camp, along with five militants from North Waziristan who also died. The others killed were mainly guards of the commanders.
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Khan, a member of Pakistan's feared Wazir tribe, was active in attacks on US-led and NATO troops across the border in Afghanistan, local residents and security officials said. He was a cousin of late Taliban commander Nek Mohammed, who was killed in 2004 in one of the first apparent US missile strikes in the region.
"Omar was sending fighters into Afghanistan and commanded them in several outings. He did not have any political affiliations and was linked to Haqqani," a security official said on condition of anonymity.
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I still like ARCLIGHT strikes, but these drone attacks are growing on me. Let the US buy and begin using 40,000 drones, all flying over the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. They don't have to actually DO anything, but the mere sight of them will probably drive the locals even more crazy than they are anyway.
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ahhh...cockles get sum Monday warmpth!
warmpth = sum gud radiant heat and sum fair share of wampum!!
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Police have found the bullet-riddled body of a man said to be the younger brother of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud, in NWFP's southern district of Bannu. The body was found on Sunday 14 kilometres from Bannu on a road. Police identified the man as Yahya Mehsud, the son of Haroon Mehsud and a resident of South Waziristan. AFP confirmed the man was Baitullah Mehsud's younger brother. The agency said that Yahya was abducted on Sunday, and his body was later found dumped. Police said the Yahya was not a member of TTP, and was not wanted in any case. Meanwhile in Khyber Agency, gunmen killed an elder of the Kookikhel tribe in the area's Jamrud tehsil on Sunday.
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Tribesmen killed 20 Taliban in clashes that followed a botched attempt to abduct an elder in Swat on Sunday. Taliban meanwhile beheaded a tribesman and abducted dozens of others.
Police said a group of pro-Mullah Fazlullah Taliban were trying to hustle Pir Samiullah -- chief of a lashkar (tribal militia fighting Taliban) -- from his home in the Mandaldag area of Matta tehsil to a getaway car when dozens of local tribesmen confronted them and snatched him back.
Dilawar Bangash, the Swat police chief, said hundreds of Taliban later returned, seized three members of the militia and beheaded one of them on a road before a large crowd. "This is a lesson for anyone who tries to oppose us," they told the people according to accounts gathered later by police.
Meanwhile, the lashkar was gathering men from the surrounding area who engaged the Taliban in an hours-long gunbattle. Bangash said 20 Taliban, six militiamen and four bystanders were killed in the shooting and another police official said several tribesmen were reported missing. Among the killed Taliban were four commanders including Shamsher, a bomb making expert, and two close aides of Fazlullah. Muslim Khan, a Taliban spokesman contacted by telephone, confirmed a clash but said only three Taliban died. He claimed that 12 tribesmen were killed and another 62 abducted.
Barbershop: Three civilians were killed as Taliban targeted a barbershop in Sambat area of Swat. In Totani Bandai, Taliban attacked a military checkpost injuring a soldier. Fifty suspected Taliban were arrested in Kooza Bandai.
Bajaur: In the nearby Bajaur Agency, Taliban attacked a security post on the outskirts of agency headquarters Khar. Troops retaliated, killing six Taliban. Five more fighters were killed when troops attacked a suspected Taliban base in Charmang district, another security official said.
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(AP)U.S. forces fought off an attack in the early hours of the morning Monday against a military base, killing five of the assailants, in a neighborhood that was once a notorious Shiite militia stronghold. The attackers opened fire on the joint U.S.-Iraqi security station at 1:20 a.m. in the eastern district of New Baghdad, the U.S. military statement reported. The soldiers returned fire, killing at least five of the assailants.
"Coalition soldiers will continue to use deadly force to defend themselves when attacked by militants and extremists," said Maj. Joey Sullinger, spokesman for the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division.
Hours later, a roadside exploded in the same district, tearing through a minibus and killing three civilians and wounding six others, Iraqi police said. The U.S. military set the toll at only two dead.
The former Shiite militia stronghold saw fierce clashes between U.S.-Iraqi forces and extremists earlier this year. But such brazen attacks have been relatively rare since anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr declared a cease-fire.
Elsewhere in the country, there was a rash of so-called "sticky bomb" attacks in which militants target certain individuals by attaching explosives to their vehicles. One of the bombs struck a car carrying a doctor and his friend as they left his clinic near the Khillani Square in central Baghdad. The two men were killed and seven other people were wounded, police said.
Another bomb hidden under the car of a director-general in the Trade Ministry exploded in the garage of a hospital he was visiting, seriously wounding the official and a civilian, according to police and hospital officials.
In northern Iraq, a bomb stuck to a car in Tuz Khormato exploded, killing an Iraqi soldier who was driving, an official at the local hospital said.
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Wowsers! an Exploding Roadside!! i think they left out 'bomb' as part of their 'word conservation programme...'
of course the exploding roadside took out civilians the article surely must make mention of.
Families in this Syrian village on Monday buried loved ones they said died in a U.S. helicopter attack. A U.S. counterterrorism official said American forces killed the head of a Syrian network that funneled fighters, weapons and cash into Iraq. The raid Sunday targeted the home of Abu Ghadiyah, the nickname for the leader of a key cell of foreign fighters in Iraq, according to the U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence.
Also Monday, a villager said U.S. forces grabbed two men and took them away by helicopter during the cross-border raid.
During the funerals, residents shouted anti-American slogans and carried banners reading: "Down with Bush and the American enemy." Syria's foreign minister condemned the raid as "cowboy politics."
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good, too hell with russia and iran condemning anything . who cares it's not like they haven't sponsored everything against us in the last 80 years at least.
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The only complaint I've got about this is that it's abour five years too late.
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An Associated Press journalist at the funerals in the village cemetery saw the bodies of seven men--none of them children. The discrepancy could not immediately be explained.
AP reporter is going to lose his job for not getting the full propoganda line straight. ALWAYS include women, children and baby ducks!
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If Syria is trying to stop the flow of terrorists from their country to Iraq as they say, it seems like their response should be 'thank you very much to our American friends for your help'.
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I noted that two were captured and carried off. I imagine that Assad in Damascus is going to be having sleepless nights for a while.
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"I imagine that Assad in Damascus is going to be having sleepless nights for a while."
Awwwww, da' poor babeeeeee.
We could fix that for him, 'moose.
With a dirt nap. :-D
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Per tu above, the only problem here is that this comes years late. There probably should have been dozens of such operations carried out - and even much bolder and more aggressive ones - starting in late '03 or thereabouts. Even assuming some covert festivities we don't know about, clearly there was a failure to exploit the strategic momentum as well as prosecute the Iraq operation properly by confronting Syrian and Iranian meddling and imposing an unsustainable cost for it. And this is NOT hindsight.
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Syria's foreign minister, Walid al-Moallem, described the raid as "cowboy politics." He warned that if there was a repeat attack on Syria, "we would defend our territories."
Considering the situation...that's about as measured of Syrian diplo-speak as it gets. It will be interesting as to who gets invited to next weeks party.
Since an Obama-Reid-Pelosi govt will be doing everything possible to disengage, the Iraqis had better get used to a more direct way of talking like say, "Thanks USA, Kill more terrorists please."
Syria on Sunday summoned the U.S. and Iraqi envoys to Damascus to protest a U.S. military attack on its territory and to demand that Iraq prevent U.S. forces from attacking Syria from its territory, official media reported.
"Syria condemns and denounces this act of aggression and U.S. forces will bear the responsibility for any consequences," the SANA news agency quoted an official as saying. "Syria also demands that the Iraqi government accepts its responsibilities and launches an immediate inquiry following this dangerous violation and forbid the use of Iraqi territory to launch attacks on Syria," it said.
Nine people were killed and 14 injured after U.S. military helicopters attacked a village inside Syria along its border with Iraq, moments later U.S. soldiers stormed a building in the same area. "Nine people were killed and 14 wounded in the raid, which hit a group of builders while they were working," the private television channel al-Dunia said. "All victims were civilians," it said.
Reports said American helicopters attacked the village of Al-Sukkiraya, east of the capital. It was unclear when the attack happened. A Pentagon spokesman declined to comment on the attack.
Commander Darryn James said that there was "no response" from the U.S. Department of Defense about Syrian media reports of the attack, in which four American helicopters were said to have breached Syrian airspace to launch the operation, killing eight civilians "We are in the process of investigating this," Sergeant Brooke Murphy, a U.S. military spokesperson, told AFP in Baghdad.
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So far there is no US confirmation. All reports so far as I can find are "unnamed or unattributed" sources.
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"SyriaIraq condemns and denounces this act of aggression and U.S.Syrian forces will bear the responsibility for any consequences," the SANA news agency quoted an official as saying. "SyriaIraq also demands that the Iraqi Syrian government accepts its responsibilities and launches an immediate inquiry following this dangerous violation and forbid the use of IraqiSyrian territory to launch attacks on SyriaIraq," it said.
There, fixed it.
Everything old is new again. It's all a matter of perspective. The tables are turned. Now the shoe's on the other foot. Do unto others. And so on and so forth. Not that they actually see the irony of their own words or anything . . . .
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Builders? What happened to wedding party attendees? Sounds like bio-metric targeting, tough to shake those bio-bots moving back and forth across borders.
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The article is not clear, was the building a milk factory, or a shelter for orphaned fluffy bunnies? I thought the syrians would be more professional.
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StrategyPage: October 25, 2008: U.S. Army Special Forces raided a farm eight kilometers inside Syria, killing at least eight people. The attack was on smugglers who moved terrorists, weapons and money into Iraq. The U.S. had asked Syria to shut down operations like this, but this particular location was apparently protected by some very generous bribes. U.S. and Iraqi forces have shut down most of the smuggling gangs inside Iraq, at least those that specialize in supporting terrorists. In the last six months, these operations have shut down about half the terrorist related smuggling. Only about twenty terrorist recruits are getting into Iraq each month, down from over a hundred two years ago. Although al Qaeda urges new recruits to go to Afghanistan, many prefer Iraq because it is closer and not such an unfamiliar culture. Already the word has filtered back that Afghanistan is an alien and hostile place, even for suicide bombers.
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Long War Journal: Syrian strike aimed at al Qaeda's coordinator in Syria - Abu Ghadiya, a senior al Qaeda leader who has been in charge of the Syrian network since 2005.
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9 dead wedding party members, 14 wounded orphans... but no mention of fluffy ducks and bunnies??
Damn, the imperial stormtrooper legions are slipping. Time for some remedial training.
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Syrian villager says 2 men grabbed in US raid The Syrian government statement said eight people were killed, including a man and his four children and a woman. However, local officials said seven men were killed and two other people were wounded, including a woman among the injured.
An Associated Press journalist at the funerals in the village cemetery saw the bodies of seven men none of them children. The discrepancy could not immediately be explained.
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SUKKARIYEH, Syria (AP) - A resident of the village that was the scene of a U.S. raid says he saw at least two men taken into custody by American forces and whisked away by helicopter.
The villager spoke on condition of anonymity because he feared for his life.
Another villager at the site displayed amateur video footage he took with his mobile phone that shows four helicopters flying toward them as villagers point to the skies in alarm.
An Associated Press journalist at the attack site in far eastern Syria on Monday saw the grainy video.
A U.S. military official in Washington confirmed Sunday that special forces had conducted the raid in Syria, targeting al-Qaida-linked foreign fighters. At least seven men died.
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Tough shit next case. The world needs to understand that COWARD TERRORISTS will no longer be tolerated and if you are stupid enough to stand in the way, we will steam roll your stinking MUSLIM ASSES. This planet has had it with these chicken shit ARABS!!! Death to all those Sons Of Bitches!!!!!!!!
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At least 11 people, seven of them Frontier Corps personnel and three Khasadars, were killed and five injured on Sunday in a suicide attack in Mohmand Agency, Dawn News reported. The channel quoted sources as saying that a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into the Naqi checkpost, killing the 10 security personnel and a technician. The dead and the injured were shifted to Ghalaanai Hospital, where some of them are in critical condition. 
Suspected US drones fired missiles on Sunday into an alleged Taliban compound in South Waziristan, killing at least seven people, security officials said.
Police have found the bullet-riddled body of a man said to be the younger brother of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud, in NWFP's southern district of Bannu. The body was found on Sunday 14 kilometres from Bannu on a road. Police identified the man as Yahya Mehsud, the son of Haroon Mehsud and a resident of South Waziristan. AFP confirmed the man was Baitullah Mehsud's younger brother. The agency said that Yahya was abducted on Sunday, and his body was later found dumped. Police said the Yahya was not a member of TTP, and was not wanted in any case. Meanwhile in Khyber Agency, gunmen killed an elder of the Kookikhel tribe in the area's Jamrud tehsil on Sunday.
Tribesmen killed 20 Taliban in clashes that followed a botched attempt to abduct an elder in Swat on Sunday. Taliban meanwhile beheaded a tribesman and abducted dozens of others.
Families in this Syrian village on Monday buried loved ones they said died in a U.S. helicopter attack. A U.S. counterterrorism official said American forces killed the head of a Syrian network that funneled fighters, weapons and cash into Iraq. The raid Sunday targeted the home of Abu Ghadiyah, the nickname for the leader of a key cell of foreign fighters in Iraq, according to the U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence. 
Syria on Sunday summoned the U.S. and Iraqi envoys to Damascus to protest a U.S. military attack on its territory and to demand that Iraq prevent U.S. forces from attacking Syria from its territory, official media reported. 
