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Don't click on the hacked YNET link. My firewall intercepted two attempts to install DLLs. For those who have already clicked, run an antivirus program.
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Can the YNET link be removed so others don't have the same problem as ed?
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Published: 01.02.09, 14:47 / Israel News
An Islamic group based on Morocco hacked into DomainTheNet's registration system server on Friday, effectively "highjacking" various prominent domain names, the likes of ynetnews.com and Bank Discount, and rerouting users to a page featuring anti-Israel messages
DomainTheNet is a multinational registration service provider (RSP), which offers registration and site-hosting services. The attack is believed to be in retaliation to Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip.
The attack resulted in some users being referred to the hostile webpage, while others were able to access the original websites, undisturbed. The group did not hack the actual websites.
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I connected on my Linux machine and got the above. I've disabled the Ynet link in Phil's comment just in case.
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all i can say after looking at Ms Lane is 'yummy!'
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Afghanistan's southern rim, the Taliban's spiritual birthplace and the country's most violent region, has for the last two years been the domain of British, Canadian and Dutch soldiers. That's about to change.
In what amounts to an Afghan version of the surge in Iraq, the US is preparing to pour at least 20,000 extra troops into the south, augmenting 12,500 NATO soldiers who have proved too few to cope with a Taliban insurgency that is fiercer than NATO leaders expected.
New construction at Kandahar Air Field foreshadows the upcoming infusion of American power. Runways and housing are being built, along with two new US outposts in Taliban-held regions of Kandahar province.
And in the past month the south has been the focus of visiting US and other dignitaries - Sen. John McCain, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, US congressional delegations and leaders from NATO headquarters in Europe.
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Logistics are a nightmare there. How are they going to feed and supply these troops?
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Technically, Afghanistan could be agriculturally self-sufficient. I wonder if any logisticians have looked into developing it as a supply base? Maybe setting up munitions factories, that sort of thing? It's a fucking country, not besieged Stalingrad. Throw in aerial supply routes for the high-tech stuff and traditional LoC - evac, reinforcements, back-and-forth. It'd be expensive, but if you can cover the bulk munitions and foodstuffs supply out of Kabul, maybe the Kyber headache isn't prohibitive?
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And why some idgit hasn't figured out of constructing bio-fuel plant(s) in the place, so that farmers on marginal land could produce a crop they could sale and a product other than drugs that someone would buy, all contributing to an alternative means of sustaining the movement of both commercial and military materials. If you don't have to haul the fuel you need, you save a lot of the lift for other things or reduce your imports of the stuff.
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If you could make $100,000 per year selling Opium, and some do-gooder offered a chance to make $1,000 on biomass, How hard would you laugh?
Question two, what chance has said do-gooder of getting away alive?
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The answer is yes, hide the opium within the bio-mass (hemp of course, the all purpose, happy plant).
Seriously tho, it could be done, but the cost would be incredible. Importing un-employed Afrikan famers might work, altho I'll bet the opium crop would then skyrocket.
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The farmer who's fields are hit by a poppy blight would probably end up with less income than the farmer who's field was verdant with a good bio-mass. Just saying....
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We appear to have only the military side of the surge ready. The COIN civil ops and the necessary support of the rural populace are lagging.
Much has to do with the current government. It is seen, accurately, as corrupt and full of war lords, by much of the population. The ANP are seen as their tools. Senior ANP officers are picked in Kabul and their replacement for cause is a near impossibility.
The Afgahn Army is a source of pride in the country. Its numbers are very small compared to what is needed but a combination of factors affect Army growth.
The first is the corruption that requires fewer troops so that business can continue as usual. The second is the odd policy, possibly NATO, that units must be stood up together. They enter basic, and work their way up to fully trained before being deployed.
That said, the ANA air corps is doing fantastic work in support of its forces. The ANA itself is overcoming 60% plus illiteracy in its recruits, a mish-mash of Afghani languages in the barracks and the very real inability of the NATO nations to agree upon what they will train and supply the ANA with.
The Afghan is among the fiercest fighters in the world. When engaged, ANA troops demonstrate raw courage and a willingness to carry the fight to the enemy. Without the missing pieces of the COIN puzzle, though, they have to keep fighting over the same pieces of real estate.
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Roads. This hole in the ground needs roads. Then we start moving to cultivation of bio-mass. Until we get the roads, it has to be high value small volume crops. What could that be?
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ION TOPIX > CHOSUN ILBO - NORTH KOREA CALLS FOR UPRISING IN THE SOUTH; + CHINESE MIL FORUM [old] NEWSMAX - A-BOMBS OVER THE KOREAS. Is NOKOR dev DOngFeng21C/25's BMS wid 10-Warhead capacity???
* WAFF > RUSSIAN CARRIER KUNETZOV IN GREECE [Nav/MilEx]: RUSSIA DE FACTO RECOGNIZING GREEK DOMINATION OVER THE AEGEAN [versus Turks]???
KABUL - Taliban insurgents attacked a house in southern Afghanistan and killed 20 Afghan policemen and a woman, officials said Thursday. The attack took place in Musa Qala district in the volatile southern province of Helmand after the policemen had gathered in the house for lunch, said Daoud Ahmadi, spokesman for the provincial governor.
"The enemy fighters attacked the policemen after they had lunch in one of their comrades' house," Ahmadi said, adding, "The attack left 20 of our policemen dead."
He said the militants also killed a mother who pleaded with them to spare her son, the spokesman said.
Taliban spokesman, Qari Mohammad Yousif Ahmadi, said their fighters killed 30 policemen in the attack.
The police were working as guards for the district governor, Mullah Abdul Salam. The governor, a former Taliban commander in the area, defected to the Afghan government last year. Taliban militants have carried out several attacks against Mullah Salam in the past.
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Makes it difficult for recruitment of new police officers.
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Maybe Mullah Abdul Salam had second thoughts about his defecation, and is now playing both sides.....triangulating like a clinton?
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian maritime forces saved an Indian tanker from being hijacked yesterday, foiling the new year's first attack by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden, the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) said.
But, soon after, another gang of pirates succeeded in hijacking a 28-crew Egyptian cargo ship, Blue Star, near the Horn of Africa nation, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said yesterday. 'The crew are hostages... there are efforts under way to conduct the necessary talks to free the ship,' said spokesman Ahmed Rizq. The Blue Star was carrying 6,000 tonnes of fertiliser and was headed east, when the heavily armed pirates attacked.
The Indian tanker had a narrow escape. Carrying a full load of oil and 40 crew, it was steaming towards the Suez Canal when it was attacked by two small boats, one of which carried seven pirates dressed in military-style uniforms, said Mr Noel Choong, an official from the Kuala Lumpur-based IMB. 'They came close to the ship and started firing machine guns, hitting the bridge and the accommodation area,' he said.
The pirates, believed to be Somalis, tried to board the vessel several times while 'firing repeatedly' but failed, Mr Choong said.
The captain increased the ship's speed to maximum, made evasive manoeuvres and sent an SOS, which was received by a Malaysian frigate, KD Sri Inderah Sakti, only 15 nautical miles away. The frigate dispatched a Fennec light military helicopter, which arrived within minutes, said Mr Choong. On spotting the helicopter, the pirates stopped firing and fled. There were no injuries to the crew but the tanker sustained some damage.
The Malaysian rescue comes as more and more countries are sending warships to join a multinational naval force to protect commercial vessels passing through one of the world's most important sea routes. On Christmas Day, a German helicopter similarly saved an Egyptian ship off Somalia. The Malaysians, who are part of the multinational task force, also saved a Chinese ship less than two weeks ago.
The rescues are a sign that foreign navies patrolling the key shipping lane linking Europe and Asia are adopting more effective tactics against the surge in piracy in waters off Somalia. More than a dozen warships are now patrolling the vast gulf including those from Britain, India, Iran, the United States, China, France and Germany.
'Despite the increased naval presence, the pirates are still finding loopholes to attack ships like this, highlighting the need for more effective anti-piracy measures,' said Mr Choong.
The rise in attacks on shipping prompted Nato ships to begin anti-piracy operations off the Somali coast last October, joined by other nations such as China and India. Last year, 111 ships were reported to have been attacked and 42 hijacked. Fourteen of the hijacked vessels and more than 240 crew members are still being held by pirates.
Nearly 20,000 ships pass through the Gulf of Aden each year on their way to and from the Suez Canal.
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A shipload of fertilizer and a tanker of oil - the makings of a heck of an Oklahoma City truck bomb? A Hiroshima nuke sized truck bomb, if you could make it all go 'boom' before flying apart.
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All the ships in the world won't do any good if you don't hit them where they live. Bomb the he$$ out of their home ports, and they'll give up piracy as being too expensive to pursue. Until you do, they'll keep playing these $%^#%^$% games.
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CAIRO - Somali pirates hijacked an Egyptian cargo ship with a crew of 28 near the coast of Somalia, the Egyptian foreign ministry said on Thursday. About 15 pirates, some of them heavily-armed, attacked the Blue Star, which carried 6,000 tonnes of fertiliser, near Bab al-Mandab at it was headed east, said foreign ministry official Ahmed Rizq.
"The crew are hostages ... there are efforts underway to conduct the necessary talks to free the ship," Rizq said in the statement.
Pirates had captured an Egyptian ship with a crew of 25 in September, holding them for almost a month before setting them free. Egypt said it did not pay a ransom for the crew and ship.
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Somali pirates have released a second Yemeni fishing ship without ransom, more than two weeks after they hijacked the two ships in the Gulf of Aden, the commander of Yemen's coast guard force said in remarks published on Friday.
Brigadier General Ali Ahmed Rasi told the state-run al-Thawra daily that the pirates freed the MV Qana'a without receiving any ransom. He said the ship arrived in the southern Yemeni port of Aden late Wednesday with eight crew members on board.
The ship was hijacked along with another fishing ship in the Gulf of Aden Dec 10. The other ship, the MV Falluja, was released Dec 27 with 12 crewmen on board. Yemeni officials said later that no ransom was paid for the ship's release.
The pirates attacked the ships as they sailed off the Mait area near the southern port city of Aden. Before the pirates took control of the ships, seven fishermen escaped on a small boat to report the attacks to the Yemeni Coast Guard Authority in Aden.
Rasi said the motive behind hijacking the two ships was not ransom. "The pirates intended to use the ships as mother ships for their attacks on merchant ships crossing the Gulf of Aden," he was quoted as saying.
Last month, Somali pirates freed a Yemeni cargo ship two weeks after they hijacked it in the Arabian Sea and demanded $2 million in ransom. Yemeni officials said it was released without ransom after negotiations between the pirates and Somali tribal leaders.
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Professional courtesy.
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A pro bono hijacking? This is getting twisted.
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Five people have died and 65 were wounded when a grenade exploded during a New Years party in a remote region of northern Colombia.
The explosion at the party, attended by local indigenous groups, was not an attack on the community, army general Luis Paredes told reporters. Apparently someone attending the event was carrying the grenade, which could have exploded accidently, he added.
The region's governor Jaime Arias, however, expressed suspicion of the army's account.
In the past, the United Nations has expressed concern over "systematic and widespread" killings of civilians by Colombia's US-backed security forces.
There's a gratuitous snipe courtesy of presstv.ir Iran, where they know a thing or two about systematic and widespread killings of civilians ...
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Danish police on Thursday said they arrested a man suspected of shooting and wounding two Israelis at a shopping mall on Wednesday.
Police spokesman John Jacobsen said the suspect is a 27-year-old Dane born in Lebanon of Palestinian parents. A court on Thursday ordered the suspect held for up to four weeks while police investigate. The suspect has denied attempting to kill the Israelis but acknowledged carrying a gun Wednesday at the mall in the central Danish city of Odense, police said.
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Is it... common for people to walk around armed in public promenades in Denmark? Do they have concealed carry laws there? It seems unlikely... and a quick google suggests otherwise.
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27-year-old Dane born in Lebanon of Palestinian parents
ISLAMABAD: On the heels of their crusade against girls going to schools, the Taliban have now issued new dictum in the areas under their sway asking parents of the grown up daughters to marry them to militants or "face dire consequences". "We come fer yer daughter, Chuck!"
This new force-marriage campaign is being run in most of the areas in the Pakistan's troubled NWFP through regular announcements made in mosques to congregations. Such instances have come to light recently through some of the affected women daring to go to authorities for justice rather than meekly surrender to the militants' dictates.
Salma, who teaches in a primary school in Peshawar, told the Dawn newspaper that Taliban have told families to declare in mosques if they have unmarried girls so that their hand could be given in marriage, most probably to militants. If they did not do so, the girls would be forcibly married off, the newspaper quoted the 30-year-old widow as saying.
She also said the Taliban in the Swat valley of NWFP have threatened women with dire punishment, if they are found outside their homes without identity cards and a male relative accompanying them.
Couples should also carry 'Nikah Nama' or marriage certificates with them when they venture out of home or they will be in trouble, she said. "I have heard that Taliban have announced that if a girl above the age of seven is found outside her house, she would be slaughtered," Salma said.
Once an avid listener of Pakistani Taliban commander Maulana Fazlullah's FM radio station, Salma doesn't tune in to the channel any more. "Usually there is only dreadful news on the radio, so I stopped listening to it," said Salma, who has three sons.
Fazlullah, also known as Mullah Radio for the fiery sermons he broadcasts on his illegal FM station, leads a campaign by Taliban militants to enforce Shariat or Islamic law in Swat. Fazlullah's followers have blown up or torched over 100 girls' schools in Swat and barred women from going to markets.
The Taliban's recent decision to completely ban girls' education from January 15 has upset Salma and her colleagues because most of them are the sole bread-winners of their families. "My colleagues were crying when they heard this bad news. Some have aged and handicapped parents while others have lost their male members in the ongoing conflict," she said.
"Our principal has said that all female teachers should write down the domestic problems forcing them to work so that they could be forwarded to Taliban, who would be requested to review their policy about women's education," Salma said.
Women who go out for work, especially social work, are tagged as immoral and eliminated by militants controlling the area, he said. Bakht Zeba, a 45-year-old woman councillor who was a staunch supporter of girls' education, was murdered on November 25. She was first threatened by Taliban to stop her activities or face dire consequences. When she did not pay heed to the warnings, the Taliban shot her dead in her house.
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Boy that was close. And here I figured they would do something that would irritate NOW. We should have Bush order the same thing of the Taliban Women, then they would be mad.
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Leave it up to the Taliban and al-Qaeda to know how to make friends. Hopefully the local tribesmen will start cutting their throats on sight. Maybe visit on of their mosques and not leave until all the supplicants have bled out.
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"I have heard that Taliban have announced that if a girl above the age of seven is found outside her house, she would be slaughtered," Salma said.
Why not make it six years old?
If that six year old temptress Alisha could seduce Mohamed into doing "naughty things" what chance can a illiterate barbarian Taliban have?
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The rest of the world isn't named "The Islamic Republic of ... "
Pakistan is. It was the first modern state with that title. No other state has an army with the motto: Iman-Taqwa-Jihad fi sabilillah (Faith, Piety, Jihad in the way of Allah). No other army in the world is sworn to jihad.
This is just a natural progression of the ideology of Pakistan.
As General Zia Ul Haq said, "If not Islamization, then what? We rejoin Mother India?"
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this the same kind of stuff AQI was doing shortly before the locals turned on them?
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Abducting women is what they do... one of the reasons they didn't capture all of Jammu and Kashmir in 1947. They were so busy raping the nuns at St. Joseph's Convent in Baramulla that they allowed time for India to airlift troops.
To force the issue, sections in Pakistan's army and political leadership encouraged an invasion of the Kashmir valley by thousands of Pathan tribesmen. They crossed the border in the early hours of 22nd October and - aided by desertions from the maharaja's army - quickly took control of the town of Muzaffarabad.
Khan Shah Afridi, a veteran of the invading force, said he was instructed to go to Kashmir by a Muslim holy man.
"Dirty, blood-stained, ill-kempt with ragged beards and hair; some carrying a blanket, most completely unequipped," wrote Father George Shanks, a missionary priest in Baramullah, describing the ill-disciplined tribal army as it entered the town. They were armed "with rifles of Frontier make, double-barrelled shotguns, revolvers, daggers, swords, axes and her and there a Sten gun. Jostling one another, shouting, cursing and brawling, they came on in a never-ending stream".
The tribesmen ransacked the mission, looted Muslim homes and businesses, and abducted Sikh girls and women. The quest for booty delayed their advance towards the Kashmiri capital... the Kashmiri nationalist leader Sheikh Abdullah - an opponent of both the maharaja and of the tribal army - stepped into the power vacuum. He organised a militia of his supporters, men and women, to help keep the tribesmen at bay.
His grandson, Omar, has just been elected Chief Minister of Kashmir.
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A pamphlet for a women's militia formed to fight the tribesmen
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Kashmiri women are still trained by the Indian Army to fight the invaders....
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Like everywhere in India there are Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Jains, Muslims etc in Jammu and Kashmir.
There are Hindu (and Buddhist) majority regions in the state.
The Kashmiri Hindus (the Pandits - India's First Prime Minister Nehru was a Kashmiri Pandit) have been ethnically cleaned from the Kashmir valley by the jihadis. The Pandits are one of the largest internally displaced populations in the world.
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A Pakistani official says the main supply route for U.S. and NATO troops fighting in Afghanistan has been reopened. Operations against militants in the area are ongoing.
The Khyber Pass in northwest Pakistan was closed Tuesday to allow troops to target militants blamed for attacking convoys carrying equipment to Western forces in neighboring Afghanistan. Khyber administration head Tariq Hayat Khan says the road reopened Friday for all traffic but military operations were continuing "on its outskirts."
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Martyr Moose: Sorry, folks! We're closed for two weeks to clean and repair America's favorite family fun park supply run. Sorry, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh!
#4
given the duplicitous lameness with which the Paks have sucked down resources while doing the absolute minimum possible, our pursuit of alternate routing may have made them realize: they just aren't all that, are they? If they won't prosecute the WOT in earnest, won't internally control their wholey-owned subsidiary terrs who prey on the supply route, foment a nuke war with a nation we have good relations with, and then, bottom line, they're just no use to us any more, and become a target. Pakis may have woken up to the fact that they don't really hold all the cards, eh?
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waking up to the facts is un-islamic.
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At least 13 people -- 10 militants and 3 security personnel -- were killed in a clash between security forces and militants in Balochistan on Thursday. According to the security forces, the gunbattle started when the militants -- reportedly members of the Bugti tribe -- attacked a patrol party in Dera Bugti district in the morning. The clash continued for the entire day in Uch, Gandoi and Zan kho areas. At least five security personnel were also injured in the gunbattle.
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Three policemen were killed and six injured in two bomb blasts in Peshawar and Bannu districts, police said on Thursday. Unidentified men blew up a police checkpost near Jabba Mosque on Pejaji Road in the Mathra police station precincts. A police constable, identified as Asif Khan, was killed in the attack, a police official in Peshawar told Daily Times. He said the explosives were planted near the checkpost's wall and were detonated through a remote control around 4am. Senior police official Jamilur Rehman said the attack could be a reaction to the ongoing military operation in Khyber Agency. He said security had been beefed up in the area and all entry and exit points were being monitored. Meanwhile, two policemen - Abbas Ali Khan and Muhammad Ali Khan - were killed and six injured when a bomb being defused by officials of the Bannu Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) exploded. Three of the injured in the attack, which occurred in the limits of Hoveed police station, were in critical condition. Police official Muhammad Nazir told Daily Times the bomb went off at around 10am.
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Security forces on Thursday arrested 10 suspected Taliban along with their supplies from Kazari area, as a security official was killed in clashes with the Taliban in Darwazgai area of Mohmand Agency.
The security forces recovered a huge cache of arms, including explosives and suicide jackets, from the possession of the arrested Taliban.
Arms: A spokesman for the Mohmand Rifles said officials seized a vehicle, Klashnikov assault rifles, several home-made bombs, masks and suicide jackets.
He said officials were interrogating the arrested Taliban, adding the forces were expected to intensify the assault after extracting information from the arrested men.
Attacks: The clashes between the Taliban and security forces occurred when the Taliban attacked the security forces' checkposts in Lakaro and Darwazgai areas. A Taliban rocket hit the Darwazgai checkpost, killing Lance Naik Niaz Muhammad Jan and injuring two other personnel.
The spokesman said troops continued targeting Taliban hideouts with artillery and mortar fire in Kazari, Jabeebzai, Haider Korona, Malkana and Sando Khail areas of Mohmand, adding the Taliban suffered heavy losses in the assault.
Curfew had also been imposed in Ghilani bazaar, Mian Mandi bazaar areas and the Ghandhap-Peshawar Road was also closed for traffic for three hours, he added.
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A suspected United States missile strike on Thursday killed at least five Taliban in South Waziristan Agency, local officials said. The suspected US strike was the latest targeting alleged Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives in the Tribal Areas.
A local security official told AFP a US drone had fired three missiles in Karikot area of Wana in the agency - the same spot where eight suspected Taliban were killed in a US drone strike 10 days ago. One of the missiles struck a vehicle, killing all five passengers, another security official said, adding those killed were known Taliban.
The other two missiles hit a hilltop house that was a known Taliban hideout, but was empty at the time of the strike, the officials said. One Taliban was injured in the strike, they added.
AP said at least three of those killed in the attack on the vehicle were foreigners. The three militants killed were from a Central Asian country, it quoted officials as saying, without providing further details. They said they received information about the attack from local agents.
Pakistani military officials were not immediately available for comment.
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No word on how many chilluns, bunnahs, duckies, kittens and puppys wuz smoked...
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Hmmmmm... Smoked puppy. I've heard that was a delicacy in some parts of the world.
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Four civilians were killed in Bajaur Agency on Thursday when the Taliban fired rockets at local government offices, an official said. At least four rockets landed near a court and government complex in Khar, the main town in Bajaur, local administration chief Israr Khan told AFP."The attack left four civilians dead and 16 injured," Khan said. APP reported officials as saying that at least six rockets were fired on Civil Colony, where government offices and residential quarters for government officials are located. One of the rockets, the officials said, hit the office of FATA Rural Development Programme. Meanwhile, security forces continued targeting Taliban hideouts in various parts of Bajaur.
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Aswat al-Iraq: The Kirkuk Police Academy chief survived an attempt on his life with a sticky improvised explosive device (IED) that targeted his vehicle near the Kirkuk provincial building on Thursday, a senior security official said. "Brig. Kawa Ghareeb, the director of the Kirkuk Police Academy, survived on Thursday (1-1-2009) an assassination attempt with a sticky IED attached to his vehicle in central Kirkuk," Sarhad Qader, the director of the Kirkuk Districts' Police Department, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. "Ghareeb was not inside or near his vehicle at the time of the blast that left no casualties," Qader added, not giving more details.
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Aswat al-Iraq: An Iraqi police force on Thursday found an unidentified body in an area between two villages in the district of Khanaqin, a security source said. "The body, of a man in his 30s, was found between the villages of Daka and Kani Masi, of Khanaqin, (155 km) northeast of Baaquba city," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. "The body, which showed signs of having been tortured, was removed to the morgue in Khanaqin," the source added, not giving more details.
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Aswat al-Iraq: A civilian man was killed by unidentified gunmen fire while two others were wounded in an improvised explosive device attack separately in Mosul city on Thursday, a security source said. "Unidentified gunmen opened fire on Thursday (1-1-2009) at a civilian man in the area of Bab Sinjar, western Mosul, killing him instantly and escaping to an unknown place," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The same source also said that two civilians were wounded when a roadside IED went off in the area of al-Dawasa, central Mosul. "The wounded were rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment," he said.
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Aswat al-Iraq: Four men wanted on criminal charges were arrested on Thursday in Thi-Qar, the province's police chief said. "A force from the Thi-Qar province police arrested three in al-Salihiya and a fourth in al-Zuaylat in search raids," Maj. General Sabah Mohsen al-Fatlawi told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. "The detainees are wanted elements in accordance with article 406 and were referred to investigating authorities," Fatlawi added.
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Aswat al-Iraq: Policemen on Thursday freed a man taken hostage a few hours after he had been kidnapped by a group of four persons arrested during the operation, a security source from the Falluja police said.
"The man, who was reportedly kidnapped in al-Khalidiya district, south of Falluja city, was freed by the police six hours after his kidnapping and all four kidnappers were arrested," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
"The father of the kidnapped man is one of the prominent tribal chiefs in Falluja. In initial investigations with the culprits, they confessed that they were planning to kidnp the man and ask his family for a ransom," the source added. "Light weapons -- two Kalashnikov assault rifles and two guns -- were seized in the kidnappers' possession," he said, noting the kidnappers were referred to the prosecution in Falluja.
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The IDF has also used what they are calling "roof knocking" operations, in which they inform the residents of suspected buildings that they have 10 minutes to leave the premises. In some cases, residents of suspected houses have been able to prevent bombing by climbing up to the roof to show that they will not leave, prompting IDF commanders to call off the strike. In these cases, Channel 10 reported Thursday, the IAF sometimes launches a relatively harmless missile at the corner of the roof, avoiding casualties but successfully dispersing the crowd.
It appears that the "roof knocking" technique was used in the assassination of Hamas leader Nizar Ghayan Thursday, but Ghayan decided to stay indoors with his family, and the army opted to bomb the house anyway.
#2
Maybe Nizar was watching a good show. You would think that he would have sent the kids up onto the roof until it was over. Human shields work better when they are visible.
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"IAF sometimes launches a relatively harmless missile at the corner of the roof, avoiding casualties but successfully dispersing the crowd."
Pig's blood gives more bang for the buck, if you are into that "dispersing" thing.
#5
just fucking bake them. it doesn't matter what you do to show your humanitarian side, so just fuck them and set the dial to extra-crispy. I mean, I applaud your efforts, but demonstrations around the world have shown no one understands that the "Palestinians" are bullies and need to have their ass kicked. It is interesting that in movies (and the general sentiment) when bullies harass their revenge is applauded. not so here; why?
A poster with the photographs of several operatives belonging to Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's military-terrorist wing, killed in Operation Cast Lead. The poster was co-published with the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades. The text on the bottom of the poster reads:
"[They] are those who ascended to Heaven, Allah willing, in the massacre against the Gaza Strip in December 2008" (mypal, a Palestinian online forum, December 31). Hamas's propaganda campaign attempts to play down the fact that most of those killed in the operation are terrorist operatives.
The Israeli defense establishment has expressed growing concerns Hamas missiles may pose a threat to its top-secret nuclear facility at Dimona, the London Times reported Friday.
The report quoted Israeli officials as saying that Hamas has acquired dozens of Iranian-made Fajr-3 missiles and that the more sophisticated weaponry will bring the nuclear installation in Dimona, some 20 miles east of Beersheba, into its rocket range. Dimona houses Israel's only nuclear reactor and is believed to be where nuclear warheads are stored.
Operation Case Lead has seen Hamas capable of shelling the southern cities of Ashdod and Beersheba -- 18 and 25 miles away from the Gaza Strip.
As for Hamas' actual capabilities, prior to the onset of the Israeli offensive in Gaza, Shin Bet Chief Yuval Diskin said that "Hamas' military wing is ready for a prolonged military conflict with Israel. It has improved it long-range fire capabilities, and may even reach Beersheba."
The extensive bombardment of the southern metropolitan has proven his prediction true.
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Seems like this justifies the IDF flattening everything within the missle's radius, just to prevent hiding them. After the obligatory phone call of course.
Israel destroyed the homes of more than a dozen Hamas operatives and bombed one of its mosques on Friday, the seventh day of a blistering offensive in Gaza and the day after a deadly strike killed a prominent Hamas figure.
In what appeared to be a new Israeli tactic, the military called at least some of the houses ahead of time to warn inhabitants of an impending attack. In some cases, it also fired a sound bomb to warn away civilians before flattening the homes with powerful missiles, Palestinians and Israeli defense officials said.
Israel launched the aerial campaign last Saturday in a bid to halt weeks of intensifying Palestinian rocket fire from Gaza. The offensive has dealt a heavy blow to Hamas, but has failed to halt the rocket fire. New attacks Friday struck apartment buildings in a southern Israeli city. No serious injuries were reported.
After destroying Hamas' security compounds, Israel has turned its attention to the group's leadership. In airstrike after airstrike early Friday, Israeli warplanes hit some 20 houses believed to belong to Hamas militants and members of other armed groups, Palestinians said.
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#1
Knowing the problem is half the solution. The reason Hamas began sending rockets is due to the prison their people have been forced to live in. It is true that Israel does not occupy Gaza, but they have encased Gaza into an area where they do not allow food or supplies to enter to these desperate people. A Prison. Israel controls the air above, the sea and the land surrounding this poor strip of land. They have been cut of from the rest of the world and basic human supplies. The tunnels are their only source to the outside world. If Israel would open up the gates, and treat these people like people, there would be no need for tunnels or aggression. These are desperate people, with no hope, a very dangerous combination! Recently, Condoleezza Rice announced the US is allowing Gaza students to enter the US to continue education. Israel forbade them to leave! Israel is the aggressor for suppressing human beings! There will never be peace in the region until Israel respects basic humanity. The world needs to wake up!
#2
There will never be peace until someone is defeated. That's the way war works. This one will go on for a long time because the Paleos don't know how to defeat the Israelis and the Israelis don't have the will to do what needs doing. So it will go on. They deserve each other.
#3
So Speaper what variety of troll are you? Saudi, Iranian, Syrian, lefty-loon?
The Paleos live as they do because that is there choice. Let's have a little thought experiment, hmmm?
If the Paleos had not fired one rocket or attacked one Israeli or destroyed one green-house after the horrid Juice left Gaza, what would Gaza be like today? The followers of this dark age death cult (aka muzzies) get the results of their choices. TS
#5
I've never heard of a prison before where the inmates are able to fire missiles at their 'guards' for weeks on end before getting their just deserts.
#6
What the world calls terrorists, in this case, could just as easily be called freedom fighters. These people have had their land and their homes taken away from them and have been forced into what would be called here in the US a reservation. Israelis are living in homes built by Palestinians; they are farming land which was once farmed by Palestinians. When the Palestinians fight back, they are called terrorists to hide what Israel has done to them.
Jews are not the enemy of the Arab nations and their people; the government of Israel is. Hundreds, if not thousands of Jews actually live in peace in Iran, one of the fiercest enemies of Israel. It is the nation of Israel that causes the problems over there. That government should be on the list of terrorist nations. They have committed attrocities against the Palestinians which have gone unpunished, because the world is afraid to condemn their actions. Every time someone does call them on the carpet, they are accused of anti-semitism and the holocaust is brought up.
Israel has even been caught spying on the US, with no action taken against them. It is time they were held accountable for their actions, just as we try to hold the Arab nations accountable for theirs. No diplomatic relations with Iran? Fine... how about severing ties with Israel. Once their support from us dries up, perhaps they might realize they can't get away with their actions... they can't get away with murder.
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Ten years ago, from CIA list, terrorist organization named KLA (involved in kidnapping and killing non Albanian population on Kosovo) was backed up by US Government and given state. Why double standards, why so many blocked UN resolutions against Israel. How many civilians Israel has to kill prior obvious happen- Palestinian State. Until US unconditionally support Israel PEOPLE will die.
All followers of the three (3) great Abrahamic religions, Judaism,
Christianity and Islam believe in the Ten (10) Commandments. In our humble
opinion, if anyone killed another innocent human being or himself, he is neither
a Jew, nor a Christian, nor a Muslim, because he disobeyed one of the
most important Commandments of Almighty God (Allah): Thou Shall Not Kill.
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Given below are some of the verses from the Holy Quran in support
thereof, referring to the number of Surah (Chapter) first followed by
the number of Ayah (Verse), later (from an English translation of the
Holy Quran by Mr. Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall).
Yet ye (Children of Israel) it is who slay each other and drive out a
party of your people from their homes, supporting one another against
them by sin and transgression, and if they came to you as captives ye
would ransom them, whereas their expulsion was itself unlawful for you.
Believe ye in part of the Scripture and disbelieve ye in part thereof?
(2:85)
Lo! those who disbelieve the revelations of Allah (God Almighty), and
slay the Prophets wrongfully, and slay those of mankind who enjoin
equity: announce them a painful doom. (3:21)
#9
No, David, they're not freedom fighters, they're terrorists:
1) they seek to murder Israeli civilians. If they wanted to be freedom fighters, they would avoid killing civilians and go after the Israeli army. But they don't seem to do that.
2) they hide behind their own civilians, putting them at risk. If they wanted to be freedom fighters, they would avoid risking their own people.
3) they use indiscriminate weapons of terror. If they wanted to be freedom fighters, they would put away the Qassam rockets and use more precise weapons in their fight against the Israelis.
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Speaper earns an appropriate moniker. My hat tip again to the naming algorithm.
Gaza does not need to be a prison. When Israel withdrew it gave the Gazans every chance to live peacefully with them. Remember the incident with the greenhouses? That was repeated throughout Gaza. And almost right away the Gazans began going after the Israelis. That's the reason for the wall. And then the Gazans began to light off rockets.
Ever wonder why the Egyptians keep the Rafah border crossing under such tight control? Why would the Gazans brother Arabs not allow free crossing? Yup, there'd be no need for tunnels if they could get along with the Egyptians, but they can't.
The tunnels, by the way, are used to smuggle ammo, guns, rockets, and cigarettes into Gaza, well before smuggling food. And given the stocks in the grocery stores (re the pic with that British ninny who came in by boat from Cyprus), the Gazans seem to be well fed.
And if I were Secretary of State, I wouldn't allow any Gazans into the US for any reason.
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So Qazi, what do we do with all the Muslims in Gaza who are out killing people?
How about the Hamas and Fatah hard boys who went after each other?
How about the Hamas rocketeers who kill innocent civilians?
Let me know what your holy book says about that.
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THOU SHALL NOT KILL, PERIOD.
I believe it translates 'Thou shall not commit murder.' Eskimo have hundreds of words for snow, in all its variations; Mid-easterners seem to have as many for killing, in all its variations - I can't imagine why.
#13
Jake apparently can't make us his mind as to what he wants, except that whatever the US is for, he's against.
The KLA, odious as they were, didn't light off rockets into Serbia. And while they were insurgents, they (generally) didn't go after obvious civilians. Not that I'd want the KLA in my country either.
All the nonsense in Gaza could end tomorrow if Hamas and the Gazans simply agreed to respect the border, work with the Egyptians, and not attack Israel in any way. The world community would flood the strip with aid, the Israelis would hold their fire, and the Egyptians would be persuaded to open the border.
What David C willfully misses is this: Hamas is dedicated to destroying Israel. It's in their charter. You could look it up. And they continue, at every opportunity possible, to lash out against the Israelis.
If you go to the zoo, hop the barrier fence, pick up a stick, and repeatedly jab a tiger, don't be surprised when the tiger mauls you.
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David, first of all these people did not have their lands and homes taken from them. They voluntarily, of their own free will, left their homes in advance of the Arab attack on Israel back when Israel was first formed. They left in order to be able to return and participate in the rape of Israel.
And its funny that, before the creation of Israel there were no Palestinian people - they did not exist. The people there were Syrians, Jordanians, Egyptians, etc...
It is not their fight against Israel which makes them terrorists - its their methods of deliberately targeting and murdering civilians - the more and younger the better. Didn't Hamas celebrate when a 8 month pregnant woman and her 4 (under 12) daughters were murdered in cold blood?
Israel does not target Civilians. They target Hamas terrorists who both hide behind civilians and in dense civilian populations as well as place their ammo dumps and bunkers in Hospitals, Mosques, and Schools. Any civilian casualties are the fault of Hamas - not Israel.
Israel does its utmost to _not_ hit civilians - up to and including calling the residents of the target building and advising them to evacuate.
The 'peaceful' Jew (and Christians) who live in Iran live in a Dhimmi culture (look it up) as third class 'citizens' under their Muslim masters. Try building a church or synagogue in Saudi Arabia or Iran. Talk to the Coptic Christians of Egypt. Churches are being openly burned to the ground in Indonesia and the government does nothing. Christian children there are murdered for the crime of being christian and their murders get a slap on the wrist while christian parents face a death sentence for the high crime of inviting their kids muslim friends to an easter party.
#16
When the Palestinians love their kids more than hate Jews they will begin to look for peace.
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Wish the lefty crazies would go elsewhere since most of the R-Burgers are former intell people who know more accurately what the score is versus the Muslim World League-ers and Cynthia McKinney-ites.
#18
Thats great and all until one looks at reality and sees with open eyes:
1)There are people who don't believe in the passages and go out of their way to kill
2)There are people like me who will kill those people to protect my family; I go to hell so my family lives and goes to heaven.
How many plowshare can one make out of a single kassam unguided saturn missile? The Egyptians 1000's of years ago were able to do more civic projects with less technology. Fact is Gazans have had enough generations grow up with hate that it has turned into a pasttime, much like tailgating before the game has here, except in this case the superfans like to drive bulldozers over others based solely on ignorant bigotry.
And you would be hard pressed to convince me otherwise with this concept of Arab Street, where everyone makes a point to know eveyone else's business (makes the Gauls look like introverts IMHO), that nobody knew that their neighbors were conducting operations against Israeli civilian targets with random killing weapons.
If they spent 1/4 of their energy spent hating on tending their own garden theirs would be a paradise on earth as much as any other culture in history which has made the desert bloom. Instead they take the easier self-satisfying low road of attempting superficial short term gains solely by violence.
#19
Wicked: "they have encased Gaza into an area where they do not allow food or supplies to enter to these desperate people"
If you actually believe that, you're beyond stupid. If not, then you're just a plain old evil anti-semite.
No one stops food or non-military supplies. In fact, the Philistines are GIVEN all the food, fuel, and water they can use. The only thing the Philistines give in return is violence and hate. But I suspect you already know this. By the way, what's your position on the right of return for Jews to Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc? You realize most inhabitants of Israel have been dispossessed by Arabs, right???
#20
Isn't it comical how these shitbirds always declare that they love the Israeli people and the American people, it's just their governments they despise. Buy a f**kin' clue moron. And, just why is Rice promoting the entry of this scum into our country ? Have you seen the demonstrations by these foreign invaders in Dearborn, Ft. Lauderdale, LA ? Why is it not legal to go remove these fifth column terrorists from our midst ? And, you may only guess how I might suggest doing it. It is sacrilege to allow this scum to dirty the streets of this country when our citizens have been sacrificed trying to control this scum. We have many who won't return, and many who have whose lives are permanently altered. And, to allow this on our streets ? This just about drives me buggy.
#21
Woozle:
An analyst on TV was discussing the very real problem with Hamas and Hezbollah members living here in the US. The Palestinians have used charities as fronts to fund terrorism and buy and smuggle those 20' missiles capable of reaching Dimona. And why State encourages more to come here when we have a massive Homeland Security problem with so many potential sleepers living next door to us is beyond me!?! We won't even let our National Guard protect us from foreign and domestic enemies freely crossing the border, let alone target them as Israel is doing. The Palestinians are indefensible, the Israelis have the right to defend themselves, and the US should be following their lead.
#24
Occupation's over, loser. Wake the f*ck up, intellectually, and morally
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"Palestinians" are an invention of the Egyptian and Jordanian governments (two more ethnicities made up by the British) so they could wash their hands of governing their own barbarian demographic.
Phakestinians should be be treated with exactly the same charity the Hamas charter extends to the Jews.
#26
not sure who should weak up?
Governments comes and go , people stay.
Tell me how many Israeli Palestinians killed and how many children Israel killed. baby killers
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01/02/2009 15:11 Comments ||
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ethnicities made up by the British
I sometimes wonder what the world would look like today without the overprint of European colonialism. 'We' (er, 'they'?) blame so many of the problems of our time - Rwanda, Rhodesia, Pakistan, Palestine, Vietnam ... the list goes on - on 'colonial legacy'. Yet, with virtually no exceptions, the best times any of those places ever knew was under colonial rule. Makes one suspect the problems are not from the colonialism, but from its end - that we are now where we would have been in the first place, but delayed by colonial intervention and exacerbated by modern weapons and communication.
#29
I know there's a lot of Palestinian children killed by Hamas placing military and terrorist installations in dense civilian population centers, schools, mosques, and hospitals - and that is just in the last week or so.
Also a lot of Palistinian children saved by the Israeli process of calling up the residents of a target building to advise them to evacute before hitting it.
#34
I spied a Nuke! 4oz. of Borus Vodka, 1/2 Habenero in a shaker with crushed ice. A pinch of salt. Shake and pour into a Martini glass. Add a Cayenne for color.
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#35
you haven't answered the question yet, who came first hamas or occupation?
see i can respond to you with out any profanity
and you havent tell us how many Israelis (young and old) hamas and other Palestinians insurgents killed, and how many babes I mean babes(under 1 year old) Israel killed?
#36
intent matters. Civilians (real, not made-up Paleo civilians) are not targetted by the eeeevil Joooos. Only Hamas and the other "offshoots" from that inbred family tree targets civilians. That makes them war criminals by international law. There is no occupation, and if teh Paleos could stop their death cult worship, and quit shooting rockets at Joooo civilians, they might enjoy life, but nooooo they locate their weapons among real children (a typical cowardly Islamic tradition, it appears) and revel in the martyrdom of the "babes" when they are counterattacked. You brainwashed fool
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01/02/2009 17:15 Comments ||
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#37
Israel destroys it and the EU re-builds it with upgraded stainless steel appliances and granite counter tops.
#38
by the way, every time a "mosque" is blowedup real good, and the secondary explosions from the illegal weapons stored there go off real big? I ululate, and pass out candy to the neighborhood kids
cya!
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01/02/2009 17:17 Comments ||
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Slotle,
You need to read up on the real intentions of Hamas. The term "occupation" when mentioned by Hamas, is not only talking about the Gaza Strip or West Bank. Hamas defines term "occupation" as ALL of Israel. That means ALL Jews must leave the Middle East. I was just wondering if you were aware of that fact?
#41
yes I'm a ware of it, same when Israel say all Palestinian territories it is for Israel and not for anyone else.
that is a tactic both side playing
#42
Which came first? Israeli pull-out from Gaza or the kidnapping of Schalit? Who observes the Genevea convention - Israel or Hamas? Who ended the most recent "truce" - Israel or Hamas? Who protects civilians and who hides behind them - Israel or Hamas? Who avoids civilian casualties, and who targets them? Israel or Hamas?
Two can play this game. Answer some questions, you evil anti-semite.
#43
The kidnapping of the head of the Palestinian parliament and other 10 K of Palestinians that still in prison came first or those dont count?
You should be ashamed of your self to bring Geneva Convention,
What truce was it about 23 Palestinians killed during this periods and hundreds die of lack of medical and hunger because on the embargo and border closing
Yes Israel protect there civilian and hid behind the Palestinian during each incursion I wish and can post videos and picture to see the soldier how they hid behind women and children (tha is palestinians women and kids)
When you cant answer questions call people anti-smite, that is old come up with some thing new genius
#44
"yes I'm a ware of it, same when Israel say all Palestinian territories it is for Israel and not for anyone else. that is a tactic both side playing"
If Israel wanted all the land, then why are they providing 70% of the electricity to the Gaza Strip?
If Israel wanted all the land, then why did Israel give back the Al-Aqsa Mosque back to Jordan after Israel defeated Jordan in the '73 war?
#45
Not sure about your logic here.
Of course they will provide electricity for 2 reasons
1) International law oblige they occupier to provide all the necessary means to the occupied and you said it 70 % only( that is Israel and it respect to international law)
2) if they let them get there power from some where els then they loose power over that part.
Again you are not connecting the dots or you dont want to.
Why give it to Jordan, Israel is occupying Palestine and not Jordon. (if it is Jordanian can any Jordanian drive to pray in the mosque?
#47
No one is starving in Gaza. If you've ever seen video footage it's plain as day most of them are FAT! No one dies from lack of medicine in Gaza, they have modern fully stocked hospitals (that may be running low on supplies now, but that's what happens when you start a war and lose). All prisoners in Israeli jails are held in standard with "International Law" and full access by the Red Cross/Crescent/Thingy. When was the last time Shalit got visit from the Red Cross/Crescent/Thingy?? Who can even say if he's still alive? Why does Hamas store ordnance in Mosques? In private homes? In children's schools? Why do Gazans kill their own children with mis-handled munitions? Why is Hamas obsessed with killing Jews, instead of their many opportunities to build a peaceful society? Try again, anti-semite.
#48
Congratulations, Slotle, you are now in the same class as those pioneers of activist media, Goebbels and Streicher.
Follow their path, share their fate. ("Turkey neck" indeed.)
#49
I am so looking forward to the next Nuremberg tribunal. We will have to move it to the Astrodome to accommodate all the defendants who will be occupying the Julius Streicher's former chair.
#50
FYI a bit of enlightement for the pro-terroist jerks here regarding "Thou Shalt Not Kill".
There are 2 words in Hebrew that involve taking a life. One is Harog, the other Tirzach. The latter means murder, the former means kill.
The prohibition in the Decalogue is Lo TirzachThou shalt not murder. Unlike Christinity there is no pacifist underpinnnings in Judaism and one must always do the most ethical and as the Book of Ecclesiastes (Koheleth) points out 'To everything there is a season.....a time for war, a time for peace"
So there you have it - you are WRONG and owe apologies.
Are you courageous enough to own up to your error and apologise?
#51
No one dies from lack of medicine in Gaza, I;m sure you get all your info from Israeli news and the FOX.
The only prisoner that are been allowed red X and ) are the ones that have some kind of civic crimes(shoplifting,,,,,,) . But the politicians and activist no way.
For the Israeli prisoner Egypt and EU been given access, do you watch real the news ?
For hiding in the mosques, Israel bomb mosques churches restaurants houses ) , So do give me that crap.
Again how many Israeli killed by Palestinians and how many babes killed by Israel
#57
I'm so tired of people stating that Israel wants to control Gaza like it some sort of truism. It's a product of willful ignorance or intellectual dishonesty. If they wanted it, they wouldn't have tried their level best to give it to Egypt.
The simple fact is, Israels wants it GONE, but NOBODY WANTS IT! Excepting militant Palestinians whom Israel CAN'T give it to.
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#58
FRANK: I ululate, and pass out candy to the neighborhood kids
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01/02/2009 19:21 Comments ||
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#59
No one dies from lack of medicine in Gaza, I;m sure you get all your info from Israeli news and the FOX.
Perhaps if the ignorant shits bought their own farking medicine! instead of weapons that have long since proven to
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01/02/2009 19:27 Comments ||
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#60
Ooops!
NOT LEAD TO STEHOOD!, they wouldn't die from lack of medicine. But NoOoOoO, those fucks kill all the food in the greenhouses instead!
They haven't offered anything to the world since the lateen sail. Since then they've done exactly dick!
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01/02/2009 19:29 Comments ||
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#61
The unwashed truth is all the answer required to answr lies, note That means you. (Whatever name you use)
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01/02/2009 19:31 Comments ||
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#62
Too much for Israel to handle, that is why they want out of GAZA.
Who ever is insulting is a simpleminded and I'm not going to go down to your level
#65
They most certainly did ask for my money. And Europes, and Israels and other Arabs nations etc etc. They ask for it every single friggin year.
Next is the 'They didn't ask to be born!' defense?
Posted by: Mike N. ||
01/02/2009 19:42 Comments ||
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#66
open the borders = let the Paleo poison out and weapons in, idiot. Think nobody here knows what Paleo jibberish is? We understand the situation, and have had better Paleo chew toys than you. You're boring. I'm done with you.
Happy Ground Invasion tomorrow. The day of Hamas illusionary power and rocket-sex is OVAH, bitch!
/washes hands carefully
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Mike N
I never said they give it a way they want to give it a way the same why the give the mosque
They are out but still control all the borders so the food power and anything that goes in and out is controlled by Israel,
You are they one defending the baby killers so who is her for propaganda?
You're the only one here defending the paleos, turkeyneck.
Oh, yeah - that's right. Joooooo babies don't count with you, do they?
Go crawl back under your rock with your murderous buddies. And tell your masters handlers to send the "A" team next time. You're pathetic, repetitive, and boring.
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01/02/2009 19:52 Comments ||
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#69
Certainly they didnt ask Israel actually Israel owes Palestinians millions of dollars from taxes.
And Americans are paying for Israel weapons including me, and look what they are doing with it killing babies
#70
barbara ,you just wok up,
they do count as matter of fact , the PLO condemned it every time, can you tell me when Israeli GOV ever condemned the killing of the Palestinians babies?
Fred, what did we do to attract such pathetic trolls? I seem to remember when we had a much higher class of the little loser assholes living in their mom's basement.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
01/02/2009 19:59 Comments ||
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#72
Does the phrase baby killers not sound a bit like propaganda to you?
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01/02/2009 20:02 Comments ||
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#73
apparently, the quality-troll bubble is over as well. God forbid they ask for a bailout, since most live/post from Momma's cellar already
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#74
Slotle, dear, if the PLO condemned attacking children, why are they targeting kindergartens?
Go crawl back under your rock, and don't come out again til you've actually bothered to think matters through.
#76
Inform your self, PLO is not armed anymore and doesn't carry any attack on Israel since the Oslo accord
Israel killing people every day, it is a bad addiction!!
#77
Turkeyneck, I see you have no rational response to our questions. If you can't engage in civil, well-reasoned, discourse... well, I can promise you'll be out of here soon.
#80
"I don't fight" - typical Paleo supporter from afar
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#81
Like I said, you are a coward - that's not namecalling, its stating a fact, as shown by your lack of courage to even answer questions here or present your case with facts to back it up.
The Iraqi Army back in 91 had lots of men far better than you. They were soldiers. On the wrong side, but soldiers. Those that lived are on the right side now.
You're just a typical "upper class" Arab from all that I can tell. Sputing off ball brave, accusing others of the evils you do (its a psychological malady in the Arab world called "prjection", boy, go look it up). WHen confronted with reality and hard truth, you show your true selves: Gutless, superstitious, massive inferiority complex, and capable only of in hiding behind (or in) your mother' kirt.
#82
Inform yourself. PLO is not armed anymore and doesn't carry any attack on Israel since the Oslo accord
Inform yourself, you ignorant bastard. Fatah are indeed armed. So was al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.
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Slothe,
I will not call you names. I will suggest a thought excercise.
Why through classical history do you not see the word palestine nor palestinian?
Why do Egypt and Jordan close the borders and keep them closed?
This next one is really fun. Draw a map of the region. Now since the UN authorized creation of Israel (the modern state, that is) in that region color all of the countries which have attacked Israel.
After said exercise, how many have attacked Israel?
Now repeat, but adjust for attacks outside the creation of modern israel. This requires a view to classical history, How many ancient empires have resolved to destroy Israel?
How do you react or respond to Hamas spending resources on weapons post gaza pull out instead of infrastructure? What are the expenditures in Euro or Dollar of hamas on weapons vs. Infrastructure?
How do you react to egyptian press calling Hamas responsible for the situtation?
And lastly, and most importantly, what are your typical sources of info?
Not a single name calling, and simple thought excersie here. I am interested in your truthful and thoughtful answers.
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"I am interested in your truthful and thoughtful answers."
Hope you're not holding your breath, bombay honey.
Truthful and thoughtful are above this loser's pay grade.
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Truthful and thoughtful are above this loser's pay grade.
hint: he's Arab?
Posted by: Frank G ||
01/02/2009 21:39 Comments ||
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What the world calls terrorists, in this case, could just as easily be called freedom fighters. These people have had their land and their homes taken away from them and have been forced into what would be called here in the US a reservation.
I live in a majority white town right next to an Indian reservation. Our girl's basketball teams play each other a few times a year. When we both have enough boys in their teens, our high schools play football. Then we all go have dinner at the local eatery.
I'm sorry, what was your ignorant ass talking about again?
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- The Gaza Strip has lost its last lifeline after five days of Israeli bombing raids that destroyed dozens of smuggling tunnels under the sandy border with Egypt. The passages did not just supply Hamas with arms, but brought in flour, fuel and baby milk.
But mostly arms ...
Ah, the legendary baby milk! What about adult milk? Or teeen-age milk? How about geriatric milk? Diapers? MP3 players? TVs? Tell me more!
For Gazans, already used to blackouts and shortages from an 18-month border blockade, the daily hunt for basics is ever more desperate -- though there are no reports of outright hunger. And guns, rockets, explosives, ammunition, yellow bandanas, ski masks, assault weapons, grenades, RPGs, and did I mention guns?
"I fed the children cooked tomatoes today, I can't find bread," Nima Burdeini, a mother of 11, said Wednesday at the Rafah refugee camp on the Gaza-Egypt border. Cooked tomatoes? You mean they still have gas?
Israeli warplanes pounded the illicit tunnels as a part of the heavy bombardment of Hamas targets in Gaza that began Saturday. The hundreds of tunnels were seen as key to keeping Hamas in power.
After the Islamic militants seized Gaza by force in June 2007, Israel and Egypt imposed a blockade on the territory, allowing in only basic goods and humanitarian supplies. Most of Gaza's 3,900 factories have closed, unable to import raw materials or export products. Construction halted and thousands of people were thrown out of work, deepening poverty in an area where most of the 1.4 million residents rely on U.N. food aid to get by.
Therein lies the problem ...
At times, Israel tightened the closure, restricting the inflow of fuel, cash and other key supplies. The blockade caused frequent power outages and interruptions in the water supply.
And the Thugees still didn't get the message ...
In the two months leading up to Israel's offensive, Israel kept Gaza tightly sealed in an attempt to force Gaza militants to stop firing rockets at southern Israeli towns.
The tunnels became a lifesaver for Hamas -- and for Gaza. Some were used to sneak in arms, including rockets that militants are now firing into Israel. But somea few most of the underground passages were used to haul in consumer goods, from motor bikes to goats, refrigerators, flour and chocolates. Refrigerators? Yeesh, I'm sure with tunnels like that they had plenty of guns.
The tunnel area that residents once jokingly referred to as Gaza's "duty-free zone" is now a wasteland of smashed concrete and deep craters, churned up by Israeli bombs.
Late Wednesday, the tunnel area was struck by 19 times within a half hour, residents said. A Gaza health official, Moawiya Hassanain, said two people were killed and 42 wounded, including at least four children. Before that report, Israeli air force officials said the bombing campaign had demolished more than 80 tunnels. Egyptian officials said the number was at least 120. How would they know?
Residents say there are several hundred tunnels under the 9-mile border. Owners said they believe many tunnels are badly damaged, but tunnel workers fear going near the area to check because of the attacks.
If I were the commander of the Israeli forces and had a perverse streak, I'd announce a truce and an 'all clear' -- for a day. And when the tunnel rats swarmed underground I'd light them up again. But that's just me.
The tunnels are not visible from the air, but their locations are well known -- brazen owners put up colorful tents over tunnel entrances. Where roaches check in but they don't check out.
Economist Omar Shaban estimated some two-thirds of goods sold in Gaza came through the tunnels. From diggers, drivers and haulers, the passages employed around 12,000 Gazans, Shaban said. "It was Gaza's new economy, even if it was just importing commercial goods," Shaban said. Commercial goods. Right. Dictionary's right over there, pal.
Tunnel owner Abu Sufian said he and his colleagues lost millions of dollars in merchandise that they had paid for, but that cannot be delivered now from the Egyptian side.
Shaban said destroying the tunnels would bruise, but not bloody Hamas' Gaza rule. The militant group also funds itself through local extortion taxes and a network of businesses controlled by loyalists, he said.
But demolishing the tunnels has deepened civilian suffering. But not enough to stop the rocket fire. Keep turning the screws.
Throughout Gaza, Israel's bombings have brought Gaza's dwindling economic activity to a halt. For fear of getting caught in an airstrike, wholesalers aren't distributing their goods and many shopkeepers stay home. Shelves are emptying at grocery stores. In most areas, the few shops open are those whose owners live nearby. People don't venture beyond their own streets, leaving them hostage to shortages and rising prices. Flour for baking is in short supply, and there is little cash to buy goods because banks are closed.
Burdeni, 45, the mother of 11, relies on U.N. aid to feed her children, but officials halted food distribution Dec. 18, citing shortages caused by the border closure.
"People are doing pretty badly. Everyone we know is sharing whatever they have, not just with their families but with their neighbors," said Karen Abu Zayd, commissioner of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, which helps needy Palestinians. "Here, have some bullets. One of my sons who I encouraged to join Hamas and be a terrorist doesn't need them anymore."
"We haven't seen widespread hunger. We do see for the very first time -- I've been here for eight years and seeing new things nowadays -- people going through the rubbish dumps looking for things, people begging, which is quite a new phenomenon as well," she said by video link to reporters at U.N. headquarters in New York. But I thought that Gaza was one continuous humanitarian train wreck according to the UN.
Chris Gunness, a U.N. spokesman, said aid distribution should resume Thursday as Israel allows humanitarian aid into Gaza. The United Nations issued a new emergency appeal Wednesday for $34 million to deal with the new crisis. And they'll only keep half of it for their own travel, hotel and dining expenses.
Burdeni's brother gives her small amounts of cash, but the search for food is becoming tougher. Burdeni found tomatoes Wednesday, cooking them when electricity flickered on in her area. "My children ate it with spoons," she said bitterly. Better than what the Jews got in the concentration camps. But wait, you don't believe in that.
In Gaza City, Hiba Dahshan, 22, said the price for a 110-pound bag of flour had jumped from $30 to $100. Her family can't afford it, but the local shop still has cheese and canned meat -- their menu the past three days. She can't find vegetables on her street. Well, maybe if you hadn't scrapped the greenhouses the Israelis left you when they bailed out you could have had some to eat. Of course, you'd also have to stop supporting folks like Hamas, too.
Despite the shortages, some people said they are eating more than usual -- because they're pinned down at home and gripped with anxiety from the sounds of bombs exploding around them. "I'm eating with like a savage," Dahshan said. Share some of that with Burdeni, would you?
Bader Tulbeh, 46, described his eight children as "locusts" with newly enlarged appetites. "They are an army," Tulbeh said while purchasing vegetables from a vendor in central Gaza City. Looks like Bader and Burdeni need to coordinate their lies better.
Eight kids??? You need to spend some money on rubbers, fool. Haven't these idiots ever heard of birth control? Doesn't the UN teach ANYTHING useful there
The male kids become splodydopes, the females become breeders. Stick with the plan ...
Maher Lubad, 45, a salaried worker in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya, bought lentils on credit from his cousin's grocery shop because he couldn't withdraw any money from the bank.
Meanwhile, tunnel owners watch and wait. "Even as they bomb us, we are thinking of how to make new tunnels. Maybe we'll try go under the sea," said tunnel owner Abu Sufian. You do that. Make sure to videotape the entire undertaking.
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"Tunnel owner Abu Sufian said he and his colleagues lost millions of dollars in merchandise that they had paid for, but that cannot be delivered now from the Egyptian side."
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"Tunnel owner Abu Sufian said he and his colleagues lost millions of dollars in merchandise that they had paid for, but that cannot be delivered now from the Egyptian side."
Obviously he had MILLIONS OF DOLLARS to spend. Tell me about that crushing poverty again, please. This "rich American" can't afford a girlfriend, much less a wife plus eight to eleven kids! :spit:
It's expensive stuff! Ya ever tried to milk a baby?
Damn hard it is
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OK - it's settled.
Frank wins the thread!
(BTW, you owe me a new monitor, Frank.)
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Burdeni, 45, the mother of 11, relies on U.N. aid to feed her children
Islamist imams urge Palestinian women to have as many children as possible. Then they demand that the world subsidize those children. The aim is to swamp Israel.
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At least they aren't trying to smuggle Baby Oil.
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Gaza supposedly had 3,900 factories that are closed down. Either this number is bogus, the factories were making molotov cocktails, rockets and rocks or the residents of Gaza had previously prosperous lives that they stupidly decided to flush because Hamas' message was so outstandingly persuasive.
I am leaning towards 3,900 factories being a liberal interpretation of the definition of factory.
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01/02/2009 17:37 Comments ||
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"Gaza supposedly had 3,900 factories that are closed down. Either this number is bogus, the factories were making molotov cocktails, rockets and rocks or the residents of Gaza had previously prosperous lives"
I'll take Door #2, SH.
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"underground passages were used to haul in consumer goods, from motor bikes to goats"
Israel Air Force aircraft struck a mosque in Jabaliya late Thursday night used as a terror-hub by the Hamas terror organization.
The mosque was used as a storehouse for a large amount of Grad missiles, Qassam rockets and additional weaponry. The strike set off series of secondary explosions and a large fire, caused by the ammunitions stockpiled inside the mosque.
The mosque was also used as a center of operations for Hamas, as a meeting place for its operatives and a staging ground for terror attacks, the Israel Defense Forces spokesperson's office said in a statement.
"The IDF will continue to attack any target used for terrorist activity, and will not hesitate to strike those involved in terrorism against the citizens of the State of Israel, even if they deliberately choose to operate from locations of religious or cultural significance," the statement went on to say.
Earlier Thursday, an Israeli aircraft killed a high-ranking Hamas official in Gaza along with nine women, including at least four wives, and 11 of his children, in the first major assassination since the IDF launched Operation Cast Lead on Saturday.
According to sources from the defense establishment, decision-makers are increasingly inclined to order a ground invasion into Gaza.
The assassination of Nizar Ghayan left dozens of people from neighboring buildings injured and brought up the body count on the Palestinian side to 425 people since the start of the campaign. The number of wounded is now estimated at around 2,000.
The IDF Spokesman said that Ghayan's house had served as a weapons silo and a war room for Hamas. Under the house, according to the IDF, was a tunnel which was meant to serve as an escape route in case of an Israeli attack.
Palestinian media reported that the incident was not a planned assassination, but rather a routine bombing of a target suspected by the IDF to contain weapons.
The IDF has code named such operations "roof knocking," in which the army informs the residents of s suspected building that they have 10 minutes to leave the premises. In some cases, residents of suspected houses have been able to prevent bombing by climbing up to the roof to show that they will not leave, prompting IDF commanders to call off the strike. In these cases, Channel 10 reported Thursday, the IAF sometimes launches a relatively harmless missile at the corner of the roof, avoiding casualties but successfully dispersing the crowd.
Sources familiar with Ghayan's record said he was one of the people who encouraged Gazans to climb on rooftops to prevent bombings.
It appears that the "roof knocking" technique was used in the assassination, but Ghayan decided to stay indoors with his family, and the army opted to bomb the house anyway.
A lecturer at Gaza's Islamic University, Ghayan, 49, had mentored suicide bombers and would sometimes go on patrol with Hamas fighters. He was known for his close ties to the group's military wing and was respected in Gaza for donning combat fatigues and personally participating in clashes against Israeli forces. He sent one of his sons on an October 2001 suicide mission that killed two Israeli settlers in Gaza.
He was also an outspoken advocate of renewing suicide bombings against Israel. Hamas said Israel would pay a "heavy price" for his death. Ghayan was one of the most extreme opponents of Fatah, and supported violence against Fatah's men during Hamas' seizure of power.
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni rejected calls for a 48-hour "humanitarian pause" and told her French counterpart, Bernard Kouchner, that Hamas must not be given the opportunity to gain any sort of legitimacy within a renewal of a truce. Under the current offensive, she said, Hamas understand that Israel will not tolerate Gaza rocket fire without response.
In addition to the assassination, the Israel Air Force bombed several other Hamas targets.
Hamas fired about a dozen rockets into Be'er Sheva and near Ashdod, resulting in no injuries. In all, Gaza militants fired at least 50 rockets at southern Israel throughout the day Thursday.
Awaiting a decision by the political leadership, ground forces of the IDF are in the final stages of preparations for an invasion into Gaza, and the army has amassed the forces outside the Strip in formation for a rapid deployment in the area as soon as the order is given.
But even as IDF tanks rev their engines, various international powers are offering to broker a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel. The IDF is recommending a major, but relatively short-term, ground offensive in the Gaza Strip.
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He sent one of his sons on an October 2001 suicide mission
This means that the women killed had already sent off one of their sons as a boomer. Fuck them, they were warned, they were defiant and guilty, they had it coming.
Surrender is an option, assholes. Especially in cases like this.
Posted by: Mitch H. ||
01/02/2009 6:41 Comments ||
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I must go to the Mosque. My weapons are there and I Mosque go and gettem!
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Same way they 'brokered' a ceasefire between the Hezbos and Israel and then the UN turns a blind eye (or actually assists) Hezbollah rearm with more advanced missles from ther puppetmasters in Iran.
(Xinhua) -- Jordan on Thursday sent a military plane to evacuate injured Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, which has been under Israeli intensive offensive since Saturday, a military official said.
Upon directives by King Abdullah II, an airplane of Royal Jordanian Air Force headed for the Egyptian city of Al-Arish, which is nearby Gaza, to transfer injured Palestinians from Gaza to Jordanian hospitals for treatment, said the official, who declined to be named.
The Israeli onslaught on Gaza continued on Thursday for the sixth day in a row, with warplanes striking at more targets in the Hamas-controlled territory.
Mu'awia Hassanien, a Palestinian health emergency official, said the offensive has so far killed some 410 Palestinians and left 2,000 wounded.
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(Xinhua) -- The Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip continued on Thursday for the sixth day in a row, with warplanes striking at more targets in the Hamas-controlled territory. Mu'awia Hassanien, a Palestinian health emergency official, said the offensive had so far killed 400 Palestinians and left 2,000 wounded.
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Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Thursday night issued a general curfew in the West Bank beginning at midnight Thursday and ending at midnight on Saturday.
The decision to issue the curfew was made due to warnings by the Security Establishment that terrorists were planning attacks in revenge of Israel's military operation in the Gaza Strip.
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IAF jets on Thursday evening bombed the home of Nabil Amrin, a senior terrorist and the commander of a Hamas battalion. A series of secondary explosions detected following the air strike confirmed that Amrin's house in the Sheikh Raduan neighborhood of Gaza City contained a large weapon and ammunition cash. It is yet unclear if Amrin was killed in the attack.
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I guess willingness to store explosiuves in your kids bedroom is how "senior Hamas leaders" are selected.
Ma'an - Dozens of projectiles landed on Israeli soil before midnight on Thursday, Israeli sources said.
The launches were the response of Palestinian fighters to the sixth straight day of Israeli shelling and air assaults on the Gaza Strip that hit about 50 sites on Thursday.
At 11am the Al-Qassam Brigades launched a projectile that reached as far as the Netsarim airbase on the edge of the Negev, southeast of Beersheva.
Other groups claimed responsibility for several attacks on Israeli targets Thursday:
Al-Quds Brigades
Islamic Jihad's military wing launched two projectiles at Sderot and Kfar Azza early Thrusday morning.
Al-Aqsa Brigades
Fatah's military wing in Gaza launched two projectiles at Sderot and western Negev shortly after 7am Thursday and another one before dawn. Later, the armed group said it targeted two more Israeli towns near the border with Gaza. It also said that some of its members escaped death in an Israeli airstrike in eastern Gaza City.
National Resistance Brigades
The armed group affiliated with the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) launched two projectiles just after midnight on Thursday morning.
Al-Mujahedin Brigades
The armed group linked to Fatah launched two projectiles at the Israeli monitored Sufa crossing point Thursday morning.
"Eagles of Palestine"
The previously unknown armed group first claimed to have launched projectiles at Sderot on 30 December. On Thursday they claimed the launch of two more projectiles, one at Sderot and one at Kfar Azza.
An-Nasser Brigades
The Brigades affiliated with the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) launched two projectiles at the Karem Shalom crossing and the Nerim Kibbutz east of Khan Younis in the early hours of Thursday morning.
This article starring:
Al-Aqsa Brigades
Al-Mujahedin Brigades
Al-Qassam Brigades
Al-Quds Brigades
An-Nasser Brigades
Eagles of Palestine
National Resistance Brigades
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And since IDF air offensive will have USA support till rockets stop...
GAZA CITY - Hamas called on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and annexed east Jerusalem to mark a "day of wrath" on Friday by demonstrating against the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip. The Islamist movement called on its website for "massive marches" following the weekly Muslim prayers, starting off from the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem and from "all the mosques in the West Bank."
"Let Friday be a day of solidarity with our people in Gaza and a day of wrath against the Zionist occupation and its settlers," said Hamas, which has ruled the Gaza Strip since ousting forces loyal to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in June last year.
And for Allan's sake, get out those civilian crowds to prevent Israeli strikes!
At least 414 Palestinians, most Hamas members but including scores of civilians, have been killed in the Israeli blitz on Hamas targets in Gaza that started on Saturday.
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Actually for Hamas every day is a day of wrath against Israel.
For many muslims, every day is a day of wrath against Jews, Christians, Hindus, gays, women who don't veil, pork...
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Time for cluster bombs, daisy-cutters, gunships and napalm. Hamass needs to feel the WRATH of free people everywhere. Just for grins, need to find one of those old cast-iron sinks and drop it, too. Suckers weighed about 80 pounds. Would probably ruin some poor schmuck's day if it hit his house.
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Dies irae,dies illa
Solvet saeclum in favilla
Teste David cum Sybilla
Quantus tremor est futuris
Quando judex est venturus
Cuncta stricte discussurus!
Two bombs planted by terrorists suspected separatist insurgents have killed one person and injured nine others in the Muslim-majority south of Thailand, police said on Friday.
A 20-year-old man was killed and two others including a policeman injured by a bomb planted in a motorcycle on Thursday evening in Narathiwat, one of three southern provinces badly hit by a five-year-long jihad insurgency.
Also in Narathiwat a day later, a powerful car bomb injured four policeman and three civilians. Police said 40kg of explosives were packed in a car parked by a train station and detonated by mobile phone, but the police escaped death as they were travelling in an armoured vehicle.
Southern terrorists insurgents on Friday morning shot and critically wounded a soldier in Muang district of Pattani province. Following the ambush, a 29-year-old soldier identified as Private Sutthisak Namesi suffered a bullet wound in the head, and he was immediately sent to Pattani Hospital.
According to reports, a group of gunmen opened fire at Private Sutthisak with a pistol while he was heading to Thepsatri-Sisunthon Camp in Nakhon Si Thammarat province via a motorcycle. The perpetrators were able to escape the crime scene.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lankan soldiers fought their way into the Tamil Tiger rebel capital Friday for the first time in a decade, military officials said, following months of fierce battles on the outskirts that left scores dead.
Troops entered the northern town of Kilinochchi from two sides, senior military officials told The Associated Press. The level of fighting inside the town remained unclear. The military had predicted Thursday that soldiers would seize the town within two days.
The fall of Kilinochchi would be devastating to the separatist Tigers, who have had used the town as their political and military headquarters for the past 10 years and have created structures for an independent state, such as a police, courts, and tax offices.
Recent government military offensives have forced the rebels out of much of their territory in the north of the Indian Ocean island nation. President Mahinda Rajapaksa has promised to crush the rebel group and end the nation's 25-year-old civil war this year.
Senior Sri Lankan officials have said repeatedly over the past two months that Kilinochchi would fall soon, but troops became bogged down by heavy rains and fierce rebel resistance.
The rebels could not immediately be reached for comment. But Tamil Tiger political leader Balasingham Nadesan told The Associated Press on Tuesday that they began as a guerrilla group and would be able to keep fighting even if they lost much of the territory they controlled in the north.
Military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara said that 15 insurgents were killed in daylong fighting near the rebels' northeastern stronghold of Mullaitivu on Thursday. Thirteen soldiers were wounded in the battle, he said.
The rebels have fought since 1983 to create an independent homeland for the minority Tamils, who have suffered decades of marginalization by successive governments controlled by the Sinhalese majority. The conflict has killed more than 70,000 people. I wonder what the death toll would have been if they had just crushed the movement at the beginning.
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Beyond that pass is a peninsula, where the Tigers established bases and a supply route.
If they're pulling out of there, then it's likely they've taken a step backwards from relatively cohesive fighting force, down to the guerrilla model(the opposite of classic insurgency military escalation).
The Sri Lankan military seized a key crossroads in the north from the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels on Thursday after fierce clashes that killed at least 54 fighters, an official said.
Capturing the strategic Paranthan junction after 10 years under rebel control is the latest in a series of battle successes for the government, which has vowed to defeat the insurgents this year to end their 25-year separatist campaign. Government officials made the same prediction last year but faced stiff rebel resistance. Military spokesman Brig Udaya Nanayakkara said taking control of Paranthan after about six weeks of fighting will open a third front against the guerrillas' de facto capital of Kilinochchi, which is four kilometers to the south. It will also isolate a rebel stronghold at Elephant Pass to the north and allow soldiers to march into northeastern rebel territory, he said. Kilinochchi has eluded the military for months despite top officials' claims of its imminent fall. The military said in a statement Thursday that infantry troops entered Paranthan on Wednesday with air force jet and helicopter support and fought close-range battles for a day to beat back rebel resistance.
"Unable to withstand the fury of the combined army and air force onslaught, LTTE terrorists withdrew from the town in total disarray," the statement said using the acronym for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels. Some 50 rebels and four soldiers were killed in the fighting, Nanayakkara said. Soldiers also captured Iranamadu junction on the south of Kilinochchi on Thursday, Nanayakkara said, calling it another boon for the troops fighting to capture the rebel stronghold. He did not give casualty details. The latest government offensives have forced the rebels to abandon territory and retreat into an increasingly shrinking area in the northeast. Rebel officials could not be contacted for comment. It is difficult to verify battle accounts because reporters are barred from the war zone.
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Yesterday we had 27 comments under the bloid on the main page. Of those, 13 were spams, most of them dealt with by our software routine. 13 out of 27 makes them tedious, so at some point, probably today, I'm going to make them disappear.
Mods, please leave any that don't vaporize with an alert on the poster page, and I'll add their content to the filters.
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We vaporize spam, the IAF vaporizes Hamas, it's all good ...
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If we get enough Hamas honcho's no one will want to be number 3. And as we have found in Iraq and Afghanistan that is a good thing.
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I've built the back end to the counter. Assuming this works okay, I'll build the rest of it this evening or tomorrow.
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As I sit here hoping to out-snark Frank G someday soon, it warms my heart to know that Fred is on guard behind the scenes, fighting malicious morons from Russia and China to Berkeley and Vancouver. I just wish he could gun them down.
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KABUL - Taliban insurgents attacked a house in southern Afghanistan and killed 20 Afghan policemen and a woman, officials said Thursday. The attack took place in Musa Qala district in the volatile southern province of Helmand after the policemen had gathered in the house for lunch, said Daoud Ahmadi, spokesman for the provincial governor.
CAIRO - Somali pirates hijacked an Egyptian cargo ship with a crew of 28 near the coast of Somalia, the Egyptian foreign ministry said on Thursday. About 15 pirates, some of them heavily-armed, attacked the Blue Star, which carried 6,000 tonnes of fertiliser, near Bab al-Mandab at it was headed east, said foreign ministry official Ahmed Rizq.
Five people have died and 65 were wounded when a grenade exploded during a New Years party in a remote region of northern Colombia. 
ISLAMABAD: On the heels of their crusade against girls going to schools, the Taliban have now issued new dictum in the areas under their sway asking parents of the grown up daughters to marry them to militants or "face dire consequences".
At least 13 people -- 10 militants and 3 security personnel -- were killed in a clash between security forces and militants in Balochistan on Thursday. According to the security forces, the gunbattle started when the militants -- reportedly members of the Bugti tribe -- attacked a patrol party in Dera Bugti district in the morning. The clash continued for the entire day in Uch, Gandoi and Zan kho areas. At least five security personnel were also injured in the gunbattle.
A suspected United States missile strike on Thursday killed at least five Taliban in South Waziristan Agency, local officials said. The suspected US strike was the latest targeting alleged Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives in the Tribal Areas.
Aswat al-Iraq: An Iraqi police force on Thursday found an unidentified body in an area between two villages in the district of Khanaqin, a security source said. "The body, of a man in his 30s, was found between the villages of Daka and Kani Masi, of Khanaqin, (155 km) northeast of Baaquba city," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. "The body, which showed signs of having been tortured, was removed to the morgue in Khanaqin," the source added, not giving more details.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- The Gaza Strip has lost its last lifeline after five days of Israeli bombing raids that destroyed dozens of smuggling tunnels under the sandy border with Egypt. The passages did not just supply Hamas with arms, but brought in flour, fuel and baby milk. 
Ma'an - Dozens of projectiles landed on Israeli soil before midnight on Thursday, Israeli sources said. 
GAZA CITY - Hamas called on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and annexed east Jerusalem to mark a "day of wrath" on Friday by demonstrating against the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip. The Islamist movement called on its website for "massive marches" following the weekly Muslim prayers, starting off from the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem and from "all the mosques in the West Bank."
