Hi there, !
Today Sun 11/30/2008 Sat 11/29/2008 Fri 11/28/2008 Thu 11/27/2008 Wed 11/26/2008 Tue 11/25/2008 Mon 11/24/2008 Archives
Rantburg
531688 articles and 1855967 comments are archived on Rantburg.

Today: 51 articles and 190 comments as of 10:39.
Post a news link    Post your own article   
Area: WoT Background    Non-WoT    Opinion    Local News    Politix   
Indo security forces engage ''Deccan Mujaheddin''
Today's Headlines
Headline Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
7 00:00 JosephMendiola [] 
5 00:00 JosephMendiola [] 
0 [] 
42 00:00 OldSpook [1] 
5 00:00 JosephMendiola [] 
1 00:00 DepotGuy [] 
14 00:00 Rambler in Virginia [] 
0 [] 
0 [] 
0 [] 
0 [] 
0 [] 
2 00:00 JosephMendiola [] 
0 [1] 
0 [] 
1 00:00 JosephMendiola [1] 
1 00:00 Frank G [] 
Page 2: WoT Background
0 []
7 00:00 JosephMendiola []
0 []
0 []
1 00:00 M. Murcek []
0 []
3 00:00 JFM []
0 []
0 []
2 00:00 Mike N. []
0 [1]
0 []
0 []
9 00:00 JosephMendiola []
8 00:00 Jan from work []
Page 3: Non-WoT
0 []
10 00:00 GolfBravoUSMC []
0 []
2 00:00 DMFD []
0 []
0 []
0 []
0 []
4 00:00 JosephMendiola []
8 00:00 Hellfish []
Page 4: Opinion
1 00:00 Besoeker []
26 00:00 Thing From Snowy Mountain [1]
Page 5: Russia-Former Soviet Union
8 00:00 Jolutch Mussolini7800 []
6 00:00 JosephMendiola []
6 00:00 JosephMendiola []
1 00:00 bigjim-ky []
0 []
3 00:00 bigjim-ky []
Page 6: Politix
7 00:00 GK []
Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 11/27/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Barock Obama commemorative mirror?
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/27/2008 2:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Of the many things I have to be thankful for today, few do I appreciate as often as I do Rantburg. And Rantburg serves to make me understand more clearly how much I have to appreciate as an American every day. I'm happy to have a holiday that encourages me to express my gratitude to those who's contibutions might become taken for granted over time.

Thank you so much, Fred and all the others who do so much we can never know to keep this site the extraordinary and beautiful project that it is. And God bless all those who have served our country. How much more dreadful a place the world would be without them!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING
Posted by: ryuge || 11/27/2008 6:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Ima thankful for a shitload of stuff... including being able to hear again... Ima make deh SP^N but damn.... 6 minutes in listen, listen to America.

Posted by: .5MT || 11/27/2008 7:37 Comments || Top||

#4  O noooooooooooooes!
Ima already find ways to get deaf again...

Deh GTB360A Ogolomoto Makeeee you sure to listen to heeem..................
Posted by: .5MT || 11/27/2008 7:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Diana

reparatur am roller
reparaturen notebook
motorrad reparatur
lupo reparaturhandbuch
drucker reparatur laserjet
lkw planen reparatur
notebook reparatur munchen
reparaturanleitung saab 900
porzellan reparatur hamburg
anhanger reparatur
reparaturanleitung seat
reparaturanleitung solo 641
waschmaschine reparatur wedel
reparatur notebook
reparatur aller art lang en
handy reparatur frankfurt am main
porsche reparaturanleitung
reparaturanleitung kawasaki zx10r
reparaturanleitung yamaha xz 550
parkett reparatur
tv reparaturtips
reparatur
reparaturhandbuch cd nissan zx 300
mietrecht reparatur
cd player reparatur
mietrecht schoenheitsreparaturen
tacho reparatur
audi a6 reparatur
scheinwerfer reparatur
f50 reparatur
audi a3 reparaturanleitung
reparatur lkw
aldi notebook reparatur
ford focus reparaturanleitung
reparaturanleitung bmw e60
antik lampe reparatur
nach reparatur
notebook zubehoer reparatur
pumpe duese einheit reparatur
reparatur zeilentrafo
zahnkrone reparatur
reparatur miele g 866 sc
reparaturanleitung de
reparaturleitfaden porsche 944
www kfz reparatur
auto reparatur moeckern
peugeot elyseo reparatur aachen
computerreparatur laim
laptop reparatur dortmund
waschmaschine reparatur koeln
reparaturanleitung volvo 460 download
betrug notebook reparatur ebay
hardware reparatur
saeco kaffeemaschine reparatur
ford escort reparaturanleitung
kerze reparatur wachs
reparatur waschmaschine berlin
reparatur windschutzscheibe
gitarre reparatur
nokia display reparatur dbox 2
reparaturanleitung download suzuki
monitor reparatur service
reparaturanleitung bmw e30
handys reparatur
reparatur geschirrspueler
handyreparatur jena
notebook reparatur mainz
sony ericsson reparatur
laptop reparatur stuttgart
gilera stalker reparaturanleitung
yamaha keyboard reparatur
reparatur getriebe leipzig
fujitsu siemens notebook reparatur
handy reparatur zurich
notebook reparatur hannover
pc reparatur koln
reparaturanleitung zafira
bierkrug reparatur
reparaturanleitung peugeot 306
abs reparatur
gfk reparatur
Posted by: Pepscooks || 11/27/2008 8:13 Comments || Top||

#6  Ima thankerful for bein able to unnastann wut he's talk about .5 of the time.

kinder liek your friends moms meatloaf. Ya didn't know what was in it, but it taste good.

Oh Dear Lord. Please let the turkey not taste like Jimmys mothers meatloaf
Posted by: Mike N. || 11/27/2008 8:33 Comments || Top||

#7  Thanks .5 Took my late father-in-law back to RAF Burtonwood in 1986. Tower and orderly room were still standing. He was a veteran of the Mighty Eighth AF.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/27/2008 9:31 Comments || Top||

#8  Rantburgers, get out of my bedroom and don't ever come back unless your loaded for bare!
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 11/27/2008 9:33 Comments || Top||

#9  Dang, what is more dangerous about that woman... the gun or the basilisk gaze and that FINGER!
Posted by: Free Radical || 11/27/2008 11:11 Comments || Top||

#10  "here, pull my finger"
Posted by: Frank G || 11/27/2008 11:29 Comments || Top||

#11  Rantburgers, get out of my bedroom and don't ever come back unless your loaded for or bare!
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/27/2008 12:08 Comments || Top||

#12  Happy Thanksgiving to all! We have a lot to be thankful for this year, and we're happy to share with all the Rantburg clan, including the lurkers. I issued a special invitation to Governor Palin and her husband to join us last week. Don't know if it's going to do any good, but we can hope.

Phyllis is a tasty dish, even in her high-heel paisley house slippers.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 11/27/2008 13:23 Comments || Top||

#13  #3 We saw this at a leadership class a year ago. All four categories of leader were presented aimed at the willing and able; willing, but unable; unwilling, but able; and unwilling and unable.

Even tho I saw it many years ago, I was so impressed, I bought it for the three kids (25-30 years old) for Christmas. My Dad was a navagator on a B-24, with 26 missions after D-Day.

God bless 'em all.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/27/2008 13:38 Comments || Top||

#14  Bobby, what group was your dad in? My dad was a ground crewman in the 444th at Shipdham (Spelling?) Aerodrome.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 11/27/2008 15:12 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Kabul car bombing kills 4 in morning traffic
A suicide car bomber plowed a Toyota into rush-hour traffic on a commercial boulevard in Kabul on Thursday morning, killing at least four civilians and wounding up to 17, the police and hospital authorities said. The bomber was apparently aiming at a passing convoy of NATO troops, the Interior Ministry said in a statement, but several witnesses said there were no security forces, either Afghan or foreign, in the immediate vicinity of the blast.

The explosion occurred about 150 meters, or 500 feet, from a major traffic circle and a heavily guarded entrance to an access road leading to the U.S. Embassy, raising speculation that the bomber may have intended to blow himself up there but detonated his device prematurely. The embassy was playing host at a Thanksgiving Day fun run beginning at 9 a.m., so Americans and other Westerners were entering the embassy compound when the bomb went off, The Associated Press reported.

According to witnesses, the car was weaving through traffic, then hit a pedestrian and a series of cars before exploding. "I thought he was drunk," said Salih Muhammad, 35, a street cleaner who was working on that stretch of road when the attack occurred. "Then there was this huge explosion."

Two other cleaning crew members were wounded in the blast, and co-workers rushed them to a nearby hospital. Muhammad stood with another street cleaner outside the emergency room waiting for news of their colleagues. His hands and orange work clothes were covered in the blood of one of his colleagues whom he had carried from the street.

Noor Agah Akramzada, director of the hospital, said he had received 10 of the wounded and the body of one of the victims. Officials at a military hospital in the neighborhood said they had received at least seven other wounded civilians.

Within minutes of the attack, the victims had been carted away and government investigators had begun sifting through the wreckage. But more than an hour later, the bloodied, twisted body of the suicide bomber still lay in the street, about 50 meters from the blast site where only the mangled front end of his car remained.

Qari Ayob, 37, the owner of a small store near the blast site, said he was in his shop at the time of the attack. "At first I felt a huge flame and then heard a very big explosion," he said. "I felt as if the flame came into my shop. Then a darkness came, and it blinded me for a while." As he spoke, workers were cleaning up his shattered shop window. The store would remain open, Ayob said. "There is no alternative," he said. "This is my job. I need to continue."
Posted by: ryuge || 11/27/2008 06:37 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
'Free our Mujahideens' demand Bombay terrorists
The gunmen holding dozens of hostages in two of Bombay's luxury hotels are demanding the release of 'Mujahideens' held in Indian jails before they free their prisoners.

Speaking from inside the Oberoi hotel where at least half a dozen foreigners are being held hostage one of the gunmen, identifed as Sahadullah, told India TV he belonged to an Indian Islamist group seeking an end to the persecution of Indian Muslims.

"We want all Mujahideens held in India released and only after that we will release the people," he said. "There are seven of us inside Hotel Oberoi."

The demands came as the death toll in the terror attacks rose to 101, with six foreigners among the dead, according to police. Another 287 people have been injured, of whom at least seven are British, according to the British High Commissioner in India.

Estimates of the number of hostages held and people trapped in the Hotel Oberoi and Taj Mahal Hotel vary between 50 and 200.

Sir Richard Stagg, Britain's High Commissioner to India, told the BBC: "We have visited most of the central hospitals where those injured have been taken and have met seven British victims who are in hospital at the moment and we understand there is likely to be some other injured of British nationality."

He refused to discuss the nature of their injuries and added that the nationality of the hostages being held in the city was unknown, although some were "foreign".

As dawn broke over the country's financial capital after the night of carnage, gunfire could still be heard in the country's financial capital.

Police with loudspeakers declared a curfew around the Taj Mahal Hotel, where at least two gunmen are still holding a number of hostages, many of them British and American.

Green uniformed soldiers were seen entering the Taj and the Oberoi. Ambulances were moved close to the Taj, in what might signal the start of a police assault on the building and its occupiers.

The attacks began late last night, when militants swept through the southern part of the city attacking a railway station, a backpacker hotel and the two hotels with automatic rifles and grenades. A taxi was bombed near the international airport.

At Leopold Café, a bar popular with tourists and backpackers, witnesses described pools of blood and bullet-scarred walls.

Eleven police officers, including the chief of Bombay's anti-terror squad, were killed in stand-offs with gunmen. Police later said that they had killed four suspected terrorists and arrested nine.

A police spokesman said: "We have only a very tenuous grasp on what is happening so far. People are scared. The incidents being reported are so many. Gunmen are under siege at several locations but we are worried about hitting civilians." Later, police said that they had killed four suspected terrorists.

The iconic Taj Mahal Hotel was set on fire, gutting the upper floors, and this mornng it was still ablaze. Soldiers and firefighters helped one woman and several others to climb down ladders and escape the blazing edifice as the firing continued inside.

A clutch of weeping Spanish, Italian and British guests huddled outside the hotel this morning, clutching bottles of water and haversacks.

A few miles away across town, eyewitnesses said gunmen hijacked a police van and then opened fire on crowds that had collected near two hospitals close to the police headquarters.

"We heard a car speed up behind us, it was a police van, but the men inside were firing at us," said Manish Tripathi, at a police cordon near one of the hospitals. "Men were screaming that they had lost their fingers. There was blood all over. I feel they are still screaming."

The ultra-orthodox Jewish outreach group, Chabad Lubavitch, was reportedly attacked overnight. Shots have been heard coming from the building and witnesses say a Jewish family is being held hostage, including a Rabbi. This has not been confirmed.

Schools and colleges have been ordered to close today, and the stock market will remain closed for at least the next 24 hours.
Posted by: Fred || 11/27/2008 10:28 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Indian Mujahideen

#1  Speaking from inside the Oberoi hotel where at least half a dozen foreigners are being held hostage one of the gunmen, identifed as Sahadullah, told India TV he belonged to an Indian Islamist group seeking an end to the persecution of Indian Muslims.


Always the victim never the troublemaker!!!!
Posted by: Paul2 || 11/27/2008 11:09 Comments || Top||

#2  If you never take any muj alive it takes away this argument.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/27/2008 11:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Every one of them they list as "must be freed" shoudl be executed, decapitated and dumped in front of the hotel.
Posted by: OldSpook || 11/27/2008 12:16 Comments || Top||

#4  Better yet, be more subtle.

Feed them some "Putin Spice" on their food just before freeing them.
Posted by: OldSpook || 11/27/2008 12:20 Comments || Top||

#5  There might be a better way. Rehabilitate the Thugee on condition they go after Muslims. There are a heck of a lot of Hindus who are Shiva worshipers, and Kali is the consort of Shiva.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 11/27/2008 12:28 Comments || Top||

#6  Probably a bad idea, 'moose. We don't want to create any more Frankenstein's monsters.
Posted by: PBMcL || 11/27/2008 13:11 Comments || Top||

#7  Se also TOPIX > MUMBAI TERRORISTS DEMAND INDIAN RETURN OF STOLEN MUSLIM LANDS; + EVIDENCE MUMBAI ATTACKERS WERE ANGLO-AMERICAN INTEL OPERATIVES.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/27/2008 23:26 Comments || Top||


Mumbai attacks: Neighbours battle terrorists attacking Jewish centre
Police commandoes battling the Mumbai terrorist attacks surrounded the headquarters of the ultra-orthodox Jewish outreach group Chabad Lubavitch, which gunmen had seized overnight during a series of coordinated attacks across the city.

Thousands of gawkers stood in the narrow alleyways near the white, five-story building in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) in India, where heavy curtains hung behind windows broken by gunfire. Neighbours had tried to protect the house as armed gunmen seized it Wednesday night.

A witness said three people were killed in the attack, but the account could not be confirmed.

"It seems that the terrorists commandeered a police vehicle which allowed them easy access to the area of the Chabad house and threw a grenade at a gas pump nearby," said Rabbi Zalman Shmotkin, a spokesman for the Lubavitch movement in New York, adding the attackers then "stormed the Chabad house."

The house serves as an educational centre, a synagogue and offers drug prevention services.

Residents tried to protect the centre, clashing with the gunmen and throwing rocks at them in an effort to drive the militants away, said Puran Doshi, a local businessman who lives nearby.

The crowd eventually retreated under fire from the gunmen, who wounded one man, killed three others and threw several hand grenades, he said. Police could not immediately confirm his account.

"They shot indiscriminately into the crowd," Doshi said.

Sanjay Bhasme, 40, who lives in the building behind Chabad house, said he notified the police after the shooting began about 9:45 p.m., but no police arrived for more than 30 minutes — and only after he'd repeatedly telephoned for help.

Shmotkin said he had been unable to confirm reports that a couple and a teenager had been killed in the melee. He did not know the status of Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg, the main representative at Chabad house, or the rabbi's family.

He said there were other families who lived at the house, which draws hundreds of Israeli and Jewish visitors from India and abroad each year.

Shots were heard a few times Thursday morning, and the commandoes fired tear gas at least once at the house, said witnesses. Three people were lead from the building and escorted away by police: a woman, a child and an Indian cook.
Posted by: john frum || 11/27/2008 09:44 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Indian Mujahideen

#1  Residents tried to protect the centre, clashing with the gunmen and throwing rocks at them in an effort to drive the militants away

Kudos to the brave residents of Mumbai
Posted by: john frum || 11/27/2008 9:50 Comments || Top||

#2  clashing with the gunmen and throwing rocks

Unfortunately, here in South Louisiana we don't have any rocks to throw at well-armed terrorists. On the other hand, we do have lots of guns with which to throw stuff. I guess they don't in India - culture or law?
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/27/2008 9:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Remember Glenmore, we got our independence from Britain by armed revolt. The Indians went the 'non-violent' route. Which of course only works when you deal with enlightened civilizations. Not so much when you face the types they see today.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/27/2008 11:43 Comments || Top||

#4  I caught a glimpse of a Indian policeman or soldier carrying what appeared to be an Lee Enfield MK V Jungle Carbine. Several were armed with MK IV's A bit dated, but still quite an effective weapon.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/27/2008 11:53 Comments || Top||

#5  ION INDIA, PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > HINDUVATA: ALL INDIAN MUSLIMS BRACE FOR GUJURAT-TYPE VIOLENCE; + INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > PAKISTAN WATER COMMISSION: INDIA TO MAKE PAKISTAN BARREN [no water] BY 2014, + INDIA'S WATER WAR AGZ BANGLADESH [Bangla also "drying out"].

VARIOUS POSTERS - Wid PAKISTAN already being a NUCLEAR STATE, + BOTH BANGLA + MYANMAR INTERESTED IN NUCLEARIZATION + BALLISTIC MISSLES, INDIA IS POTENTIALLY FACING WAR(S) [WMDS-Missle, Nuclear?] ON MULTIPLE FRONTS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/27/2008 20:41 Comments || Top||


Mumbai toll: 101 killed, 287 injured
The dead toll rose to 101 in the terror attack that struck Mumbai in yet another series of synchronised mayhem that was unleashed in the financial capital of India around midnight on Wednesday. At least 287 people were also injured in India's most audacious terror attack.

Fresh gunshots rang out on Thursday morning at the Taj and Oberoi hotels where security forces battled terrorists holding hostages after a night of horror. As soldiers, police and elite commandos fanned out across the country's commercial capital to rescue hostages and kill terrorists who stormed the city at night and struck at seven sites in the business hub of south Mumbai, one of the terrorists claimed that the attack was to avenge the "persecution" of Muslims in India.

The otherwise bustling city - home to Bollywood - was still on edge after a large but unknown number of terrorists armed with automatic rifles and grenades sneaked into Mumbai by the sea, a clear indication that they must be foreigners.

Desperate to cope with a situation they had never encountered before, the authorities declared a holiday in Mumbai on Thursday. The Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange were ordered closed for the day.

"This is a most audacious attack. It is a very serious situation and gun battles are still on in at least three places," said Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh as leaders around the world denounced the well-planned terrorist operation.

The terrorists began targeting high profile landmarks close to the sea and popular with Western tourists from between 10.15 and 10.30 p.m. on Wednesday. The targets included Hotel Taj, Hotel Oberoi-Trident, Metro Theatre and the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus) railway station. A grenade was also hurled at a taxi in Vile Parle, destroying it and killing its occupants, and one more attack took place at Mazgaon, a Mumbai suburb. A police van was hijacked.

Panic set in quickly all over the city, which has seen several terror attacks in the past. The outwitted police took them on but suffered losses initially. Among the first to die was Hemant Karkare, the highly regarded Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief heading the controversial probe into bomb attacks in Maharashtra blamed on Hindu radicals.

Among his four colleagues who were also believed to be killed were Additional Police Commissioners Ashok Kamte and Sadanand Date and Mumbai Police officer Vijay Salaskar who was known as "encounter specialist" for killing gangsters.

As police reinforcements rushed to the attack sites, backed by the hurriedly summoned paramilitary and Indian soldiers, 200 commandos of the National Security Guards (NSG) were flown from New Delhi. The NSG is trained to take on terrorists. The security forces killed two terrorists and caught nine. But within a short time, a huge blast was heard on the top floor of the Taj Hotel and a raging fire erupted. Smoke billowed from there even on Thursday.

The situation appeared to be somewhat under control Thursday, with police officers herding several tourists from the two hotels into ambulances and police vehicles to move them to safety. Yet there was no word on how many foreigners were dead but one Western woman - her nationality not known - was reportedly killed at Hotel Taj.

Maharashtra Director General of Police A.N. Roy said: "The terrorists have fired indiscriminately."

Mumbai Police Commissioner Hasan Ghafoor said AK-47 and AK-56 as well as semi-automatic rifles besides grenades were used in the "coordinated terrorist acts". On Thursday, a five-kilometre radius in south Mumbai, which covers business districts such as Colaba, Cuff Parade, Nariman Point and Churchgate, was cordoned off.

A nationwide alert was sounded following the synchronised attacks that came less than a month after over 50 people died in serial terror bombings in the northeastern state of Assam.
Posted by: Steve White || 11/27/2008 00:40 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Indian Mujahideen

#1  November 27, 2008 11:44 IST
According to highly reliable intelligence sources, two boatfuls of weapons and some 18-20 terrorists most likely came from Karachi in Pakistan.
Intelligence agencies are zeroing in on the Lashkar-e-Tayiba as the agency behind the terror attacks.

The initial interrogation of terrorists captured in Mumbai has yielded some basic information. According to sources, for some time the directions kept coming "live" to the terrorists in Mumbai via satellite phones.

http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/nov/27mum-terrorists-in-touch-with-karachi-via-satphone.htm
Posted by: Wheting Hitler2646 || 11/27/2008 1:55 Comments || Top||

#2  I am listening to a live feed. Two bodies were just removed from the Taj hotel. So far the word is that they were guests.
Posted by: crosspatch || 11/27/2008 2:01 Comments || Top||

#3  The two bodies are said to have been women. More ambulances are now being pulled into position near the entrance of the hotel.

Two RDX bombs were found and disarmed. Not sure where those were located.
Posted by: crosspatch || 11/27/2008 2:03 Comments || Top||

#4  http://broadband.indiatimes.com/toishowvideo/3763271.cms
Posted by: Wheting Hitler2646 || 11/27/2008 2:07 Comments || Top||

#5  I'm watching an IBN feed.
Posted by: crosspatch || 11/27/2008 2:09 Comments || Top||

#6  According to highly reliable intelligence sources, two boatfuls of weapons and some 18-20 terrorists most likely came from Karachi in Pakistan.

That's not an "attack" that's is an invasion. Commence the nuclear bombardment of Karachi immediately.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/27/2008 2:16 Comments || Top||

#7  Contrary to some reports the best solid information I have at this point is they have captured one of the individuals, six are still at large and believed to be holed up with hostages.

Any information that they came from Karachi is way too preliminary to have much reliability at this point. But Pakistan seems to be the nexus for pretty much every major global terrorist operation so it wouldn't surprise me to find that to be the case.
Posted by: crosspatch || 11/27/2008 2:28 Comments || Top||

#8  10 sepparate attacks across the city, over 900 hurt or worse, 2 possibly targetted executions of officials.

No way this was done by 18-20 guys, I am thinking about 40 to 60, and I am as always quite weary to except things at face-value when the ISI is somehow involved.
Posted by: Wheting Hitler2646 || 11/27/2008 2:34 Comments || Top||

#9  This is some Die Hard shit.
Posted by: Omomomble Tojo8809 || 11/27/2008 2:46 Comments || Top||

#10  Make that 3 possibly targetted executions.

http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/79154/ats-chief-top-cops-killed-in-mumbai-attacks--pics.html
Posted by: Wheting Hitler2646 || 11/27/2008 2:53 Comments || Top||

#11  I really feel for these hostages, but negotiating for the release of hostages is a giant moral hazard. The reason so many hostages are taken in this world is precisely because taking them triggers a negotiation process and not an immediate death sentence. Negotiating with even the local crazy in the trailer park should have been stopped several decades ago at least.

Betweens the thousands of movies, tens of thousands of tv shows and probably hundreds of thousands of books and comic book featuring hostages the message has made it to every soul on the planet. Taking hostages gives you a chance to get out alive.
Posted by: Mike N. || 11/27/2008 3:14 Comments || Top||

#12  I just hope the backlash is larger than these attacks.
Posted by: Marzipan || 11/27/2008 4:16 Comments || Top||

#13  The 101 dead includes some of the terrorists. I hate it when we group them together.

Posted by: mhw || 11/27/2008 4:32 Comments || Top||

#14  Its about time India attacked Pakistan as they are the cancer in the region!!!!
Posted by: Paul2 || 11/27/2008 5:08 Comments || Top||

#15  The IN frigate Vindhyagiri has chased down and boarded the MV Alpha, which reportedly transported men and weapons from Karachi
Posted by: john frum || 11/27/2008 5:50 Comments || Top||

#16  sadanand date is injured and is critical. pls dont get panic due to this report.
he is improving.
Posted by: neelesh kulkarni || 11/27/2008 6:00 Comments || Top||

#17  Let me say the obvious here: If India and Pakistan destroy each other in war, it'd de facto be a victory for China and Russia, as their supremacy would now be uncontested in Central/Southern Asia.

Iran would also benefit, as with Pakistan's destruction it'd be the most powerful militarily muslim state, and (since Saddam's overthrow) the only muslim country that could threaten its hegemony in the region.

Therefore I wouldn't be surprised if these attacks were therefore so encouraged by agents of one of these three powers for the explicit purpose of weakening both India and Pakistan by driving them to conflict.
Posted by: Slim1704 || 11/27/2008 7:02 Comments || Top||

#18  Unless India wins without destroying itself. Maybe then the Chinese and Ruskies could go after each other and we could finish what the Indians start.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 11/27/2008 7:45 Comments || Top||

#19  Mike N., as someone who took FBI hostage training many moons ago....it's not a moral hazard in the slightest. The goal is to get the people held against their will released safely, and yes, getting the nut in the trailer park out without getting someone else hurt in the process. That includes the good guys, since from time to time the hostage takers/crazies have booby traps set up.

Besides, if you don't talk to them, you may be losing out on some valuable intelligence. It could range from where in their "fortress" they might be vulnerable to a SWAT-type operation, to who's underwriting the whole thing, to.....who knows what else. Just sayin'.
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie || 11/27/2008 9:09 Comments || Top||

#20  Thanks for the updates, neelesh kulkarni and john frum. I am so sorry this has happened to your country. (Am hoping that a good friend of the Tsar wasn't kicking around there for a few days as planned and went straight off to Puna like a good boy.)
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie || 11/27/2008 9:12 Comments || Top||

#21  Don't admit you captured ANY of the terrorists, or if there are witnesses, make sure you report that the prisoners were critically injured and died shortly afterward. You don't want your hands tied during your 'discussions' and you don't want them to be 'celebrities'.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/27/2008 10:07 Comments || Top||

#22  I wonder which training camps these people are from - the Indo-Pak or the Afghan-Pak side of the border? Either way, I suspect Uncle Sam will seriously step up bombing raids in Pakistan because of US casualties.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 11/27/2008 11:42 Comments || Top||

#23  Despite the large scale and the sea access this does not look like an attack that the ISI command would sponsor.

The jihadists (and I think that's the most accurate term to call them) may have had help from a few rogue ISI agents (or ex agents) but that's not the same thing.

In short, I don't think this atrocity comes from Pakistan as much as it comes from Islam.
Posted by: mhw || 11/27/2008 11:45 Comments || Top||

#24  Some more speculation: Al Qeada has been hurt badly by Pakistan's push into the territories. Al Qeada needs Pakistan to do something besides go after the territories. I'd be very interested if Al Qaeda cadre were among the dead terrorists. Sent in to prod the Indians into distracting the Pakistani army.

20 cadre from Pakistan linking up with an in place support network of maybe 5 times that would account for the scope of the operation.
Posted by: Minister of funny walks || 11/27/2008 11:48 Comments || Top||

#25  Pakistan is a cancer on the region.
Posted by: OldSpook || 11/27/2008 12:23 Comments || Top||

#26  "Any information that they came from Karachi is way too preliminary to have much reliability at this point."

"Satellite phone recovered from dead terrorist. 3 calls made to Karachi after the attack"
pretty damning evidence, but hey he could have been calling his mom to wish her a happy birthday....
Posted by: Jan from work || 11/27/2008 13:14 Comments || Top||

#27  Cell phones and credit cards recovered would appear to indicate they might have been planning to melt into the population at some point.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/27/2008 13:34 Comments || Top||

#28  The problem is that Pakistan is an Islamic state with nukes. Pakistan cannot now be economically self supporting. They seem to get help from the US, China, Saudis, in various forms, to various groups.

They need their nukes, nuke infrastructure, and means of subsidy taken away. Then they can go back to their tribal sh*thole backwater that they seem to prefer.

So the issue is how to achieve these ends. We need some research, thoughtful analysis, a plan and a figurative or literal wrecking crew, and carry out the mission. I am not talking frontal assault. I am not talking about nation building. I am talking about dismantaling this petri dish of terrorism. I think that the US and India could create a strategic partnership in the task.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 11/27/2008 13:41 Comments || Top||

#29  Pakistan is part of the problem, no matter where these particular subhuman specimens came from. The madrassas spew hate and intolerance for everyone not a muslim, and those muslims that don't worship quite the way the imam of the madrassa believes. Eliminating the source of so much hate cannot be a bad thing. India's new western border should be the Indus river (from which India gets its name, and one of the major travesties of the British partition). Afghanistan, UNDER US OCCUPATION, should take over the other half. Let India also reclaim Bangladesh, another source of muslim perfidity. It won't end all the "fun and games", but it will slow it down a bit.

John, if you can, could you provide an update later this afternoon? Your work is the best I've seen from that area. If Time Magazine weren't so deeply imbedded in the left, you would make an excellent correspondent for them.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 11/27/2008 13:42 Comments || Top||


#31  An FBI team is reportedly on the way. An Israeli team is on the ground now
Posted by: john frum || 11/27/2008 14:37 Comments || Top||

#32  There are rumors of an electronic intercept of communication between the Pak embassy and the terrorists. Some of the terrorists spoke with Punjabi and Pashtun accents
Posted by: john frum || 11/27/2008 15:00 Comments || Top||

#33  #32 There are rumors of an electronic intercept of communication between the Pak embassy and the terrorists

Very, very bad juju.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/27/2008 15:33 Comments || Top||

#34  From Newsweek
Around 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, a band of 10 young armed militants zoomed up to a fishermen's colony in Colaba, on the Mumbai waterfront, in inflatable Zodiac speedboats. Locals confronted them: unlike the dark-skinned Mumbai fishermen, who speak only Marathi, the regional dialect, the intruders were young, tall and fair-skinned and spoke Urdu with a northern accent. According to local press, the gunmen reportedly told them to mind their business, then gave a raised-thumb gesture, and splitting into small groups, walked off into two different directions. The fishermen reported the suspicious men to a police post nearby, but the tip-off failed to rouse the cops to action.
Posted by: john frum || 11/27/2008 15:50 Comments || Top||

#35  "There are rumors "

There are going to be a lot of rumors and early reports that are going to turn out to be false. At this moment it really isn't important for us to have a clear picture of what went on. In fact, it is probably best if we don't at this point. We need to be patient and the news media would probably do the world a better service if it would stop trying to report every snippet it finds.
Posted by: crosspatch || 11/27/2008 16:21 Comments || Top||

#36  Mumbai foto slide show here.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/27/2008 16:33 Comments || Top||

#37  It still isn't over yet. Apparently they still have one hotel surrounded with holed up terrorists insid.
Posted by: crosspatch || 11/27/2008 17:49 Comments || Top||

#38  Latest from cnn/ibm

One injured terr still holed up at Raj Hotel

Ops still ongoing at Oberoi Hotel and Nariman House.
Posted by: phil_b || 11/27/2008 19:33 Comments || Top||

#39  Commandos have just slithered down ropes from a M1-17 chopper onto the roof of Nariman house where the Israelis are being held hostage
Posted by: john frum || 11/27/2008 20:55 Comments || Top||

#40  Willing to bet that the interrogations of these assholes doesn't stop at waterboarding. and also willing to bet that any lib-based whining is ignored ( as it should be, and should have been)
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 11/27/2008 21:26 Comments || Top||

#41  Some Indians in a forum said that accent and language of Terrorists they heard in news are clearly pashtun/Pakistan.
Posted by: Uleck Ghibelline9225 || 11/27/2008 23:35 Comments || Top||

#42  Its the f**king ISI.

Pakistan needs to be dismembered - and so does the ISI - individually and physically.
Posted by: OldSpook || 11/27/2008 23:54 Comments || Top||


Mumbai terrorists came on boats
The terrorists, who created havoc in Mumbai overnight, came by boats and struck at 10 places but their number is not known immediately, Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said. Addressing a press conference in the wee hours, he said two terrorists had been killed in encounters with police and security forces and nine suspects have been detained.

The terror attacks began between 9 pm and 9.15 pm with indiscriminate firing and bomb blasts, Deshmukh said. The terrorists came by boats and started firing, he said but their number was not immediately known. The attackers threw grenades and fired indiscriminately while storming the hotels across Mumbai, he added. At least two sten guns have been recovered from the terrorists, the Chief Minister said.

To a question, he said it was not immediately known as to who was involved in the attacks as the entire police force is concentrating on saving lives. He said around 200 National Security Guard (NSG) commandos had been dispatched from Delhi for the operation to flush out terrorists. Asked whether foreigners were the target of the attacks, the Chief Minister disagreed, saying it could not be said.
This article starring:
Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh
Posted by: Steve White || 11/27/2008 00:26 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  send in the snake charmers
Posted by: Captain Ozone Layer || 11/27/2008 2:48 Comments || Top||

#2  From Pakistan?
Posted by: Paul2 || 11/27/2008 4:48 Comments || Top||

#3  We can but hope the Indian response for their citizens being murdered by Muslims, is done at the same ratio the Israelis response when their citizens are murdered by Muslims.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 11/27/2008 8:50 Comments || Top||

#4  I can't think of any reason to start the attack from a boat like this (apparently it was a zodiac-like landing boat) unless it was launched from a larger boat offshore.
Posted by: crosspatch || 11/27/2008 15:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Lessirree, STRATFOR > INDIA: DECCAN MUJAHIDEEN EMAIL CAME FROM RUSSIA, + RED ALERT: THE POSSIBLE GEOPOLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE MUMBAI ATTACKS, i.e. IRRECOVERABLE? Harm to India-Pakistan Relations = War, Internal Pakis Govt. humiliation = new destabilization???

* TOPIX > MUMBAI ATTACKS UNDERLY RISE IN SERIOUS THREAT OF ISLAMIC RADICALISM TO INDIA AND ASIA.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/27/2008 20:17 Comments || Top||


Taliban warn govt against operations
The Taliban on Wednesday warned of attacks against the government if the military operations continued
Omar said the Taliban would launch a countrywide campaign against the government if it did not put an end to the offensive against them.
in Bajaur, Mohmand and Darra Adamkhel. Talking to journalists over the phone, Taliban spokesman Maulvi Omar said the Taliban were concerned over the operations in Tribal Areas, and demanded the government immediately cease fire. Omar said the Taliban would launch a countrywide campaign against the government if it did not put an end to the offensive against them. He said the Taliban were ready to negotiate with the government to resolve all disputes peacefully, adding that they would resort to violence if their demands were not met.
This article starring:
Bajaur
Darra Adamkhel
Mohmand
MAULVI OMARTaliban
Posted by: Fred || 11/27/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Rockets hit NATO truck depot in Peshawar
Unidentified men on Wednesday fired three rockets that hit a terminal for trucks carrying supplies to NATO and United States troops in Afghanistan. Neither of the rockets caused serious damage or any injuries, police officer Abdul Qadir said. Qadir said officers were not sure whether the truck terminal was the target of the attack. The rockets are normally fired into the city from hills on its outskirts some 10 kilometres away, AP reported.

Up to 75 percent of the supplies for Western forces in landlocked Afghanistan pass through Pakistan. Peshawar is a key stop for convoys en route to the Khyber Pass and on to Western Afghanistan.

Earlier this month, suspected Taliban hijacked several trucks near the Khyber Pass whose load included Humvees heading to the US-led coalition. Pakistan halted traffic along the road for several days while it arranged for armed troops to guard the slow-moving convoys. In a sign of its frustration, Washington has carried out a surge of missile attacks in the lawless area since August, killing dozens of militants but angering Pakistan's young government and many of its 170 million people.
Posted by: Fred || 11/27/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Body of suspected US spy found in Jamrud
The body of a person killed on suspicion of spying for the United States was found in Jamrud tehsil of Khyber Agency on Wednesday, officials said. Political administration officials told Daily Times that Khasadar personnel found the dead body in the Tauda Meela area. The killers left a letter alongside the body, warning that anyone spying for the Americans would be treated the same way. The identity of the killed person could not be ascertained until the filing of this report.
Posted by: Fred || 11/27/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan


Pakistani rebels launch rocket attacks
Militants have fired ten rockets at several buildings in the Pakistani cities of Bannu and Peshawar amid a surge in insurgency in Pakistan.

One of the rockets fired late on Wednesday in Peshawar, the provincial headquarters of North West Frontier Province (NWFP), hit a terminal for trucks carrying supplies to NATO and US troops in Afghanistan, said police officer Abdul Qadirwhich. Other rockets destroyed a security check post in Bannu, northwestern Pakistan.

Khan Markaz, the main office of the Awami National Party was also hit by rockets.

Local police officials told Press TV that militants attacked the house of Union Council, Nazim Abdul Malik in Matni area of Adezai while the police and local people in retaliation killed at least four people including two "extremists".
Posted by: Fred || 11/27/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Deccan Mujahideen claims responsibility
An organisation calling itself the Deccan Mujahideen has claimed it was behind attacks in Mumbai that left at least 80 people dead, television channels reported on Thursday. The previously unknown or little known group sent an email to news organisations claiming responsibility. Indian journalist Ameet Sha told a private TV channel there was no confirmation but the pattern suggested involvement of Laskar-e-Taiba. She said terrorist attacks of such a magnitude and the participation of such a large number of gunmen raised questions on the security situation in India.
Posted by: Fred || 11/27/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Indian Mujahideen

#1  Amer tourists are allegedly being randomly shot or attacked on the streets, whilst two US INTEL Officers have reportedly been killed.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/27/2008 20:28 Comments || Top||


Deaths in Mumbai 'terror' attacks
At least 80 people are reported to have been killed and 250 wounded in a series of gun and grenade attacks across the Indian city of Mumbai. "It seems to be a terrorist attack, many places are under siege by gunmen," A.K. Sharma, a government police commissioner, said on Wednesday.
The teevee said the Indian forces are engaging the terrs in at least one of the hotels.
Attacks were launched on about eight places in Mumbai, India's main financial centre, police said. Armed men attacked a crowded Mumbai train station, a restaurant popular with tourists and several luxury hotels, often firing indiscriminately. "They entered the passenger hall of the station and started firing," Sharma said. "The terrorists have used automatic weapons and in some places grenades have been lobbed. The encounters are still going on and we are trying to overpower them," A.N. Roy, a senior police officer, said."

'People panicking'
Malay Desai, a correspondent for the Mumbai Mirror, told Al Jazeera: "There are reports of panic on the roads. Not all of the members of the planned operation have been gunned down yet, a lot of them are still roaming around the streets in Mumbai, firing at will and creating panic among the people of Mumbai." He confirmed that there had been a blast outside the city's airport, saying it was a "peak time for flights coming from the West to Mumbai".

A group calling itself the Deccan Mujahedeen claimed responsibility for the attack, the AFP news reported, but Mahan Abedin, an insurgency analyst, told Al Jazeera: "At this stage, that name does not necessarily mean that much. I've never heard of that group."

'Westerners held hostage'
Hemant Karkare, the chief of the police anti-terrorist squad in the city, was killed during the attacks, Indian television channels reported.

Three members of staff were shot dead at the luxury Taj Mahal hotel in Colaba district, the Press Trust of India reported. Westerners were also being held by armed men at the venue, according to media reports. "They wanted anyone with British or American passports," one witness at the hotel told the NDTV Indian news channel. "They wanted foreigners."
I suspect that's really why the incident has received the play it's getting in the news. Turbans routinely inflict agonies on the Indians with barely a blurb on Google News when all the casualties are Indians.
Kashif Khusro, a journalist for the Times Now newspaper, told Al Jazeera hostages were being held at the city's Trident hotel. He said: "Army commanders have surrounded the luxury hotel - there are three hostages inside. Three of the gunmen have been shot. The gunmen inside are armed with automatic weapons." Another three people died in a bomb blast in a taxi in the south east of the city.

'Serious attack'
Speaking from Mumbai, Al Jazeera's Riz Khan said: "This was a serious attack by people armed with AK47s. The police were taken by surprise ... they are not equipped for this. The attacks would have been organised as they struck several areas at once."
Wonder how many of the guys running around waving AKs has been let off by the courts for lack of evidence?
He said landmarks and heavily populated areas had come under attack. "Seeing these two major landmarks - the Taj Mahal and Oberoi hotels - on fire is psychologically damaging for people in India and is comparable to the affects the September 11 attacks had on Americans in 2001."

One woman, who gave her name as Souad, escaped an attack on the Oberoi hotel in the city. She told Al Jazeera: "We heard no alarms, nothing. My husband opened the door and we couldn't see outside - it was so dark with all the smoke - we couldn't breathe. We were on the 17th floor of the hotel and we used towels to protect ourselves and then ran and got a taxi and then we just drove as far away as we could."

'Nowhere safe'
Police said there were reports of shootings in other parts of the city, including some in five-star hotels. Al Jazeera's Matt McClure said: "There was at least five attacks - the largest on a Mumbai railstation and there were three on large, luxury hotels. It seems clear what the intent is here - to sow fear and leave people worried and thinking 'nowhere is safe'."

India has witnessed a series of co-ordinated attacks in recent months. A little-known Islamic group, the Islamic Security Force-Indian Mujahedeen, claimed responsibility for serial blasts last month in which 80 people died in India's northeast state of Assam. A total of 12 explosions shook the northeastern state, six of them ripping through crowded areas in the main city of Guwahati. Six weeks earlier, the capital New Delhi had been hit by a series of bombs in crowded markets that left more than 20 people dead, the attacks were claimed by a group calling itself the Indian Mujahedeen.
This article starring:
Deccan Mujahedeen
Posted by: Fred || 11/27/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Indian Mujahideen

#1  If I were a muzzie in Kashmir, I'd think twice before protesting in the near future. Hindu patience may be at an end
Posted by: Frank G || 11/27/2008 10:32 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Ammo, explosives found in Missan
Aswat al-Iraq: Police forces in Missan province on Wednesday discovered large amounts of ammunition and explosives in downtown Amara city, a local police source said. "Emergency police forces have seized four hand grenades, an improvised explosive device (IED) and other ammunition during a raid in central Amara city," Col. Sadeq Abdelazeem al-Halw told Aswat al-Iraq. Since June 2008, Iraqi security sources have been conducting a wide-scale security operation, called Bashaer al-Salam (Promise of Peace), in Missan with the aim of tracking down armed groups and outlaws in the province.

Posted by: Fred || 11/27/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Iraqi Insurgency


18 Qaeda suspects nabbed- MNF
Aswat al-Iraq: A total of 18 al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) suspects were detained during operations in different parts of central and northern Iraq, the Multi-National Force (MNF) said on Wednesday.

"Coalition forces further degraded al-Qaeda in Iraq on Tuesday and Wednesday, detaining 18 suspects during operations targeting the terrorist group's bombing and leadership networks," read an MNF statement received by Aswat al-Iraq.

"Coalition forces operation Tuesday in Qayarrah, about 60 km south of Mosul, captured one wanted man believed to be an AQI operative. Reports suggest the man was actively involved in planning a car bomb attack in Sharqat at the time of his capture. One additional suspect was detained for further questioning."

"Forces continued to target AQI bombing networks Wednesday. Two alleged Bayji-based improvised explosive device facilitators were captured near Hadithah, about 211 km northwest of Baghdad. One of the wanted men surrendered himself to Coalition forces during the operation. Four additional suspects were also detained.
Another operation Wednesday in Baghdad netted two suspects believed to be associated with an AQI car bomb and IED operative in the city," the statement added.

"A wanted man assessed to be a Diyala AQI administrative operative and explosives facilitator was captured Wednesday in Tuz Khurmatu, about 70 km southeast of Kirkuk. The suspected terrorist, who reports suggest has connections to al-Qaeda operatives outside of Iraq, was detained with another man assessed to be his associate.

Coalition forces partnered with Iraqi forces during a Tuesday operation targeting AQI military leaders near Hawijah, 60 km southwest of Kirkuk. The forces captured one suspected terrorist believed to have connections to a Tamim AQI leader. One additional man was detained for further questioning," it noted.
"Four suspects were detained by forces Wednesday near Ad Dawr, 136 km north of Baghdad, during an operation targeting a Sumarra-area terrorist cell leader," according to the statement.
Posted by: Fred || 11/27/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq


97 arrested on criminal, terror charges in Basra
Aswat al-Iraq: A total of 97 persons were arrested during a security operation in different parts of Basra province, the media office of Basra's police said on Wednesday. "On Wednesday, Basra police forces conducted a wide-scale security operation to search for wanted persons in different parts of the province," the office told Aswat al-Iraq. "Those arrested are wanted on criminal and terrorism-related charges," it added. Basra, 590 km (340 miles) south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, has an estimated metropolitan population of 2,300,000 in 2008.

Posted by: Fred || 11/27/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Mahdi Army


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Libya sends supplies to break Israeli blockade
(AKI) - A Libyan ship carrying tonnes of humanitarian supplies is travelling to the Gaza Strip in a bid to break the Israeli naval blockade. The Libyan ship, the first aid ship sent by an Arab government to Gaza is carrying 3,000 tonnes of food supplies, as well as Palestinian and international peace activists, said Palestinian MP Jamal Al-Khudary.
"Your Enormity! A Libyan ship has broken through the blockade!"
"Good! How much dynamite did they send?"
"Ummm... None. Only food."
"Food? What the hell are we gonna do with food?"

Al-Khudary, who is also head of the Popular Committee to Break the Siege on Gaza, called on other Arab states to do the same. "This ship is a practical measure against the siege. It is not for media consumption," said Al-Khudary, quoted by the Palestinian news organisation, the International Middle East Media Center.

Several dozen politicians and volunteers have sailed from Cyprus to the Palestinian territory with humanitarian supplies since August in defiance of the Israeli blockade as part of the so-called Free Gaza Movement's humanitarian voyages.

If the Libyan ship is successful, it will be the fourth vessel to reach Gaza in clear defiance of Israel's naval blockade.

Rights group Amnesty International said recently that 80 percent of Gazans depend on international aid, compared to 10 percent a decade ago.

Israel claims the blockade, imposed after the Islamist Hamas movement seized control of the Gaza Strip, is to counter indiscriminate rocket attacks on Israeli cities by Palestinian militants.

News of the Libyan mission came a day after the Palestinian Liberation Organization's Central Council called on the United Nations' Security Council to lift the siege off the Gaza Strip.
Posted by: Fred || 11/27/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  “…as well as Palestinian and international peace activists…”

Palestinian peace activists huh? BTW, what port will the good ship Al-Oxymoron be sailing out of anyway?
Posted by: DepotGuy || 11/27/2008 9:56 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran: Space rocket launched as 5,000 new centrifuges announced
(AKI) - Iran on Wednesday test-fired a rocket into space on Wednesday. Iran fired the 'Kavosh-2' (Explorer-2), which parachuted back to earth 40 minutes after launching. The test was conducted within the framework of Iran's 20-year outlook plan and Iran's strategic space plan, said Iran's Mehr news agency.

Before the launching of the rocket, Iran announced that it had more than 5,000 uranium-enrichment centrifuges running. "At present, we have more than 5,000 centrifuges operating," said Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, quoted by official Iranian news agency Irna. Aghazadeh spoke on the sidelines of his tour of the Exclusive Exhibition on Nuclear Industry Achievements.

UN officials have previously said that it would take 1,700 kilogrammes of low-enriched uranium for Tehran to be able to enrich the uranium further for use in an atom bomb. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran has stockpiled 630 kilogrammes of low-enriched uranium.
No one seems to be doing anything about it, either ...
Posted by: Fred || 11/27/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Tick Tock...
Posted by: Omomomble Tojo8809 || 11/27/2008 2:49 Comments || Top||

#2  IRNA > Iran has now turned into a REGIONAL POWER.

ISRAELI-IRAN CONFLICT SCENARIO > all things equal, and given that various Perts believe the NUCLEARIZATION OF IRAN WILL EFFECTIVELY END WORLD ANTI-NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION EFFORTS = NPT [Treaty], it may come down as to WHOM WILL PREEMPTIVELT STRIKE THE OTHER FIRST, + IFF CAN RECOVER.

Lest we fergit, 9-11/WOT > WAR FOR DOMINATION = AKIN TO ASYMMETRIC "TOTAL WAR", aong other. RADICAL JIHAD IS ULTIMATELY NOT WAGING JIHAD FOR "PARITY", "DETENTE", BI-POLAR ANDOR MULTI-POLAR "MUTUAL CO-EXISTENCE", ETC. WID NON-ISLAM = NON-ISLAMISM.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/27/2008 17:48 Comments || Top||



Who's in the News
23[untagged]
5TTP
5Indian Mujahideen
4Govt of Iran
3Pirates
2Iraqi Insurgency
2Hamas
1Muslim Brotherhood
1Taliban
1Global Jihad
1al-Qaeda in Pakistan
1al-Qaeda in Iraq
1Islamic Courts
1Mahdi Army

Bookmark
E-Mail Me

The Classics
The O Club
Rantburg Store
The Bloids
The Never-ending Story
Thugburg
Gulf War I
The Way We Were
Bio

Merry-Go-Blog











On Sale now!


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.
Click here for more information

Meet the Mods
In no particular order...
Steve White
Seafarious
tu3031
badanov
sherry
ryuge
GolfBravoUSMC
Bright Pebbles
trailing wife
Gloria
Fred
Besoeker
Glenmore
Frank G
3dc
Skidmark

Two weeks of WOT
Thu 2008-11-27
  Indo security forces engage ''Deccan Mujaheddin''
Wed 2008-11-26
  80 killed, 900 injured, 100 taken hostage in attacks on Hotels in Mumbai
Tue 2008-11-25
  Somali pirates jack Yemeni ship
Mon 2008-11-24
  Holy Land Foundation members found guilty of supporting terrorism
Sun 2008-11-23
  Iraqi forces bang AQI Mister Big in Diyala
Sat 2008-11-22
  Rashid Rauf dronezapped in Pakistain: officials
Fri 2008-11-21
  US strikes inside Pakistain 'intolerable', says Gilani
Thu 2008-11-20
  U.S. Dronezap Kills 6 Terrs in Pakistain
Wed 2008-11-19
  Indian Navy destroys Somali pirate mothership
Tue 2008-11-18
  B.O. vows to exit Iraq, shut down Gitmo
Mon 2008-11-17
  Pirates take Saudi supertanker off Mombasa
Sun 2008-11-16
  Lankan Army seizes entire west coast from LTTE
Sat 2008-11-15
  Al-Shabaab closes in on Mog
Fri 2008-11-14
  U.S. missiles hit Pak Talibs, 12 dead
Thu 2008-11-13
  Somali pirates open fire on Brit marines. Hilarity ensues.

Better than the average link...



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.
44.210.239.12
Help keep the Burg running! Paypal:
WoT Background (15)    Non-WoT (10)    Opinion (2)    Local News (6)    Politix (1)