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sounds like a party, make some tapes for goodness sakes. a treed kitten, spotted behind the b&b, get err down and bring er in its cold outside, but the brut will warm er up have fun gb.
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Something's wrong with my browser, it missed the picture between "Brut" and "Bubbly". Can the Rant fix it?! I'm sure the picture had good points two to it. Anyway, a very good morning to Miss Hyer, I know she can't see me but I'm saluting her!!
And to our Fearless Leader, President Zero I say: "Thanks alot, A$$hole!"
Many of the Guantanamo prisoners, if released, have no place to go. No country will accept them. Do you turn them loose in the United States? These guys would love that. Even if you put them under 24/7 surveillance (very expensive), the tail is simply seen as a challenge to the terrorists, who already know how easy it is to disappear in the United States. Even when you are being watched.
Even if there is available evidence to convict a terrorist in a conventional court, the rules-of-evidence (which allow the accused to scrutinize the evidence) puts the sources and methods of that evidence at risk of becoming known to the terrorists. This makes it easier for other terrorists to evade capture, and enables them to identify and kill those who assisted in the capture of terrorists being tried in the United States.
This process also brings politicians and lawyers into the intelligence collection process, something that makes counter-terror efforts more difficult. For example, as with police investigations of criminals, collecting intelligence on terrorists often means dealing with some unsavory people. This is political dynamite, because the mass media likes to portray this as somehow unethical. This is never an issue when common criminals are sought as sources of evidence, or even witnesses to crimes. But when terrorism is involved, it becomes an issue. Government bureaucrats tend to respond by installing more lawyers to supervise the intelligence collection effort. This, in turn, persuades the intelligence bureaucrats to order their field operatives to simply stay away from any source that might later prove embarrassing. That results in much less intelligence, fewer captured terrorists, and more terrorist attacks. If that leads to a large loss of American life, the restrictions are quietly lifted, and the field operatives are instructed to go Jack Bauer on the bad guys until the problem is dealt with. Then the cycle begins again.
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I read Pennsylvania Congresscritter John Murtha wants 'em - seems there was more than one reason for Obama to give his speech at Penn State U.
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If that leads to a large loss of American life, the restrictions are quietly lifted, and the field operatives are instructed to go Jack Bauer on the bad guys until the problem is dealt with.the American people finally wise up, realize there ain't no return to September 10th, and introduce every Obama-worshipping journo scum to his/her own rope and tree.
There. Fixed it.
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Nine Rwandan Hutu rebels have been killed during a joint Congolese-Rwandan military operation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
A joint statement said the Democratic Force for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) rebels were killed in fighting which began on Friday, after the arrest of Congolese Tutsi rebel leader Laurent Nkunda in Rwanda.
Rwanda has sent at least 5,000 soldiers into neighboring DR Congo as part of the operation launched Tuesday to track down the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) rebels.
The clashes follow Rwandan forces' arrest late Thursday of Nkunda, the Tutsi leader of a separate rebel group whose soldiers routed government forces and captured parts of eastern DR Congo last year.
His arrest marked a striking turnaround, with Rwanda having previously been accused of supporting Nkunda in his campaign against the Kinshasa government, raising fears of a regional conflict.
Rwanda has in turn accused DR Congo of sheltering the FDLR. That group includes some of the main perpetrators of the 1994 Hutu genocide in Rwanda which saw the slaughter of 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
Nkunda's capture and the joint operations have signaled shifting alliances in the conflict-torn east and tighter cooperation between former rivals Rwanda and DR Congo.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame praised the operation late Friday, saying he had "never been more hopeful."
The FDLR have thrived in eastern Congo, where armed groups have effectively been proxies of Rwanda and DR Congo.
A number of them have holed up in Marangara, a small eastern village.
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A pro-Israel rally in Malmo, Sweden was torn apart Sunday by pro-Palestinian residents who arrived on the scene with eggs, bottles, and tear gas grenades which they threw at Israel's supporters. Police dispersed the entire crowd.
Seven hundred people took part in the rally in support of Israel, which was held at the city's main square. It was organized by Malmo's Jewish community and Sweden's Democratic Party. Protestors carried signs that said 'Stop eight years of Qassams' and 'Peace for children in Israel and Gaza'. The organizers received a police permit for the demonstration.
However, a number of pro-Palestinian protestors who did not have a permit to demonstrate took to the streets in retaliation to the approved rally. They were not dispersed by police despite lacking a permit.
"At some point, about a half an hour after the protest began, pro-Palestinian protestors began to throw eggs, bottles, and even a tear gas grenade," Elad Meier, a Bnei Akiva and Jewish Agency envoy to Sweden, recounted. Meier added that the lawless protestors disconnected the speakers brought to the square by the Jewish community while its leader was speaking. The act brought the pro-Israel rally to an end, as others could not speak.
At this point, Meier said, police stepped in and asked the unruly protestors to leave. Officers then proceeded to clear the square of all present, including those who had received permission to demonstrate. The Jewish community in Malmo was angered by the police's conduct, and its president has lodged an official complaint stating that only those who had protested without a permit should have been dispersed.
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El Universal reports that a bomb was found on the bridge between Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and Laredo, TX. The bomb was detonated by American firemen. The controlled explosion was strong enough to shake the bridge. The bridge, which is used by 12 million people annually, was later reopened.
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Phuquing Dirtbag Scum Wetbacks. It might be gettin about time to open up a can of Woop Ass on these punks
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Considering the state of Mexico today, they found the bomb on a "bridge to nowhere". Interestingly, timing is evidently everything in Mexico. One week after the Spec Ops Command issued its findings on the fragility of Mexico politically and security wise - a strong dozen page special feature ad on Mexico appears in the Sunday NY Times Magazine section. Pure coincidence no less.
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Jack, this has been building for a while now. Last year LOTP posted a report that was down right frightening. We as a nation have our heads in the sand over Mexico. It is going to ugly on our borders.
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Time to end the war on drugs and create a registration, manufacturing and prescription approach. Such a plan would end the storm surge of money that is destroying the development of infrastructure in South L.A., Mexico and Afghanistan and Columbia and Peru and Burma and some new place next year.
We know from the twenties that prohibition doesn't work. I am tired of sending firemen and police to clean up toxic meth labs in our communities and soldiers to every sh1+hole country that has become the low cost producer of some horrible drug.
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The flip side of your suggestion, rammer, would be the truly high rates of addiction we would suffer as a result.
After all, if it's cheap and legal, more people will try it. And we know that both cocaine and heroin are rapidly addicting in a substantial number (not all, of course) of people who try it.
I worked for a time during my residency days on a drug-rehab unit. One of my better training experiences, frankly, and I got to see, up close and personal, the debilitating effects of long-term drug addiction.
Not something I'd wish on others.
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Steve, worked in comparable situation. Agree with Rammer. Knock on consequences of prohibition include burglaries, mugging, prostitution, etc. Your arguments regarding addiction could - and indeed were - made about alcohol. You are not wrong. But in my opinion the consequences of what we are doing now are worse.
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Excal, I understand the sentiment and I'm not entirely unsympathetic.
Note that Prohibition did work: alcoholism rates in the U.S. fell dramatically during that time. We judged the consequences of organized crime, etc., to be unacceptable (and FDR wanted to re-open the breweries and distilleries to provide jobs).
You could (and I think are) making the same argument: the consequences of the War on Drugs are greater than letting people consume drugs legally.
My concern is a simple one: drug addiction is much worse than alcohol addiction. It's quicker, hits a greater percentage of users, and devastates the users far worse than alcohol addiction.
Again, I understand the argument. I'm not sure legalization is the answer.
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We used to live in a neighborhood full of fractured families. The effect of the parents' drug use on the kids was devastating. My home was the neighborhood safe place. We had kids coming to us to call the cops when their parents were too bombed or stoned to take care of them.
Gentlemen, if you had sat up with your neighbor's kids while their mother was in detox, you wouldn't be making such asinine statements about legalizing this poison.
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Those who advocate drug legalization have never seen up close the devastating effects of cocaine, meth and heroin addiction. Want to see devastation of families, children thrown out like last week's trash and 100,000 murders per year? Allow adults to buy all the crack or meth they want.
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If you're going to legalize it, you also have to declare in that same law that drug addiction is NOT a disability. No welfare, etc. - NONE of my money goes to these idiots. I'll agree to ONE chance for rehab on the taxpayers' dime - after that you can live in the gutter, kill yourself, whatever.
Also, we re-open orphanages. If you are found to be neglecting or abusing your kids because of your self-chosen drug habit, unless you have relatives who will raise your kids and keep you away from them, they go to an orphanage and you don't get them back or see them unless you clean up.
Why orphanages? Because the foster care system sucks for the kids who are in it long-term, and there aren't enough decent foster families as it is now. At least at an orphanage the kids have stability, and a family of sorts, and might be able to stay in the same school.
Any anyone who sells or gives this crap to minors goes to jail for LIFE. (I'd prefer they be shot, but I doubt that'll fly.)
Make drug addiction have actual consequences and maybe there'll be less of it. At the very least, they'll have less of my hard-earned and confiscated-by-the-gummint money. >:-(
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I resent having so much of my taxes being used in a vain attempt to prevent idiots screwing themselves up with drugs. Prohibiting drugs is an old fashioned bit of paternalistic government with the intent of protecting people from their own bad decisions. I don't need the government telling me not to take drugs and frankly the vast majority of others don't either. In a healthy society the irresponsible should be allowed to fail.
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I'm slightly confused by those who have experienced life amongst neighborhoods full of addicts. Aren't cocaine, meth and heroine illegal? Strange, then, that there could be such numbers of addicted.
Also, the War on Drugs has provided pretense for extensive abuse of asset forfeiture laws by state and local law enforcement; increased militarization of the police, and concomitant decrease in the mutual trust that should exist between civilians and civil authorities; and a complete erosion in our 4th amendment rights.
I would agree with those who argue for legalization.
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ppl are gonna do the drugs whether they are legal or not so why not make them legal so that a new generation of users might not start using in the first place since the rebellion and stigma is taken off of such use? Hell the governement has pretty much started the legalization of Methadone so that opiate junkies can get their fix without going too the street dealer too get it. What's the difference in that and legalizing small amounts of marijuana or cocaine?
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OK, here's more:
Unit A let her dogs leak all over everything and her kids were living in filth.
Unit C lost her kids because of her alcoholism
Unit D was the dealer. Mice were running merry hell in the halls. The kids had no food. Called the cops early and often on them.
Then there was the guy running a meth lab in his garage with his girlfriends kids running around.
Fight this with everything you've got. Don't roll over and play dead, whitetail, Fight 'em, dammit! Pay attention to your own kids, your neighbor's kids, and call the cops when needed
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"I'm slightly confused by those who have experienced life amongst neighborhoods full of addicts. Aren't cocaine, meth and heroine illegal? Strange, then, that there could be such numbers of addicted."
Well, I grew up in a neighborhood like that. Have you ever gone and picked up the needles off the playlot before you play so the little kids don't get hurt? I don't think that strange is the word you are looking for, I think you want 'horrifying'.
If you haven't been in a neighborhood like that then you won't understand where I'm coming from when I say that were it legal, in that type of area it would have been even worse.
The main problem is that we have not fought a war on drugs. We have railed against it loudly without putting any serious punishments in place.
Yes, people will continue to use drugs. But legalization is not the answer.
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Mom, I agree with you, yet all the problems you site can be attacked with laws other than drug prohibition. All those drug users shattered lives are tragic as you say. My argument is that with prohibition we already have that tragedy, and the drug gangs too.
Legalization with regulation, much like Oxycodon, ritalin, or valium are now, would probably result in better monitoring and outcomes for those who end up addicted (c.f. Rush Limbaugh), while depriving the criminal element of most of the cash they use to corrupt the system. Our existing laws can then be enforced by uncorrupted officials to reduce the potential growth of the resulting problems.
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Comparisons to prescription drugs are a stretch. Nobody needs a meth prosciption, so if we do let them buy a little, they'll still get hook and find a way to fund their addiction and get it black market.
This solves nothing.
Legalizing will not stop the importing or homebrewed drugs. They will be far cheaper than the legal ones.
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I was a teenager when somebody in Congress got the great idea that we should decriminalize use of drugs and only "go after the pushers."
Of course, more people tried drugs when the penalties for use were lower.
Our existing laws can then be enforced by uncorrupted officials
I am so tired of paying family members to take care of their own sister's, cousins or grandchild's kid because the mom is drug addicted. This is done without checking the family member who is assigned to take over care of the child for drug use. One would think that the family member would gladly take care of their own, but why when the government has programs to pay them to do so.
I do like the idea of orphanages, too many times I've witnessed babies and kids going back into a bad family situation and the laws on the books prevent any other intervention. If the mother has a positive screen for drugs, but is in a rehab program she is usually able to take the child home, as though that makes a difference. All that tells me is that her rehab isn't working. Many social workers hands are tied. Meanwhile, those kids have a very rough start in life. Getting away from orphanages to give kids a family setting was a good idea, but with our many broken homes with the mother working or staying home using drugs often times, I don't think is better in these times.
Clean tox screens should be used to be able to get welfare, if the kids are in an orphanage, it wouldn't be a concern that the kids are suffering as they wouldn't be living with the addicted parent.
If folks had to have clean tox screens for services, and if they were found positive for drugs, they would be encouraged to go into rehab which would be a good start. This may sound harsh, but after seeing the abuses of the system and our tax dollars going down the drain it sickens me. These drugs are expensive aren't they? If they have money for drugs do they really need welfare? Time to try a new approach. Many of these kids growing up in these broken homes where drugs are involved usually get the wrong nurturing if they get any at all, maybe it's time to go back to orphanages like Barb suggested.
I don't like the big brother mind set, but using illegals as an analogy, instead of embracing the idea of having to move them back, make it hard for them to be here. Have them show proof of citizenship at every turn, for housing, work etc, making it hard for them, they wouldn't be able to survive here and would have to go back home to Mexico for their own survival. The same for people using drugs. Instead of trying to keep drugs out of our country, say you need a clean tox screen to get a job as a start maybe. I would like to think it may slow down the use of drugs for those who want a job. No unemployment for those with a positive drug screen either, if that's why they lost their job.
The fact that marijuana stays in your system for so long and you don't have to be high for it to be found in your system is why I feel it isn't legalized. This poses a hard point when someone say gets into a car accident has the crap in their system but weren't high during the accident as an example. For this reason, to start by applying the above laws for opiates, crystal methamphetamine, and the like would be a good start.
One would think that the fact of using these opiates which are supporting the Taliban would be enough deterrent to not use the crap.
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I live in a city where the Mayor went to jail for a few thousand dollar bribe.
I live in a world where 30 people are killed a week in TJ. Each a tragedy. In this world, I wonder how much money it takes to erase the border between civilization and anarchy.
I live in a Universe where the people who are suffering so much now with addiction are paying to tear down that border, not just for them but for us all.
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Page 1 for sure. This is an after action report from the primary battlefield. If we have the will, we will without question prevail on the foreign front. The domestic front is not a traditional battlefield, and defeat is quite possible here. But note that the juror felt like a character in 24, in a US judicial proceeding. As long as TSA is in business, I'd say we're losing.
The enemy wants to mount attacks on us from a fifth column. How we repel these attacks is of paramount importance in determining whether there will be more or fewer such attempts in the future. We are far from, and I hope we never get to, the point where we expel all Muslims. So the question is whether we can assimilate them to the point where they feel they are getting a fair day in court as would any other Americans.
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I liked their defense: "young men who like to talk tough but never going to do anything". Just like thousands and thousands of young Islamic men in Pakistan, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, et. al. who are just talking, man. You got us confused with some else. We'd never do this kind of stuff. America is making it all up.
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hey, what would happen if someone uttered a threat against the new savior? That's right, prove you didn't mean it.
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"Honest to God, it was the most amazing thing to see, 12 strangers coming together in this unified thing," she said. "It worked. It worked beautifully."
This is good news, the American people still have the stomach to do what's right. I hope each and every juror get their stories published. They were exposed to things most Americans only watch on the computer between pron and email. They did the right thing, we won that fight and it's good news for a change.
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We are far from, and I hope we never get to, the point where we expel all Muslims.
Rarely do I disagree with one of your points, however on this I have to. We're closer than you think. I think in the end, the Muslims will have to go. I also believe that Europe will have to be retaken and the Islamic world reduced, then quarantined.
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Compare wid ISRAELI MILITARY FORUM [repost frm May 2008] > AL JAZEERA: JORDAN PROFESSOR IBRAHIM ALLOUSH - SEND SUICIDE BOMBERS WITH NUCLEAR BOMBS [SMALL NUCLEAR BOMBS + other WMDS = CBRN/NBC] AGZ ISRAEL.
ALso on IMF > NEW THREAT MADE AGZ CHABAD HEADQUARTERS IN NEW YORK CITY [NY Chabad = Mumbai Chabad = Pan-Mumbai-style Attack?]. Pro-Islamist Personage last 12/2008 vua JIHADWATCH had also previosly advocated the UNLEASHING OF ANTI-JEWISH/ZIONIST GENOCIDE ON NYC STREETS.
Sure is a good thing that we're closing Gitmo, huh ...
WASHINGTON (AFP) Two men released from the US "war on terror" prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have appeared in a video posted on a jihadist website, the SITE monitoring service reported.
One of the two former inmates, a Saudi man identified as Abu Sufyan al-Azdi al-Shahri, or prisoner number 372, has been elevated to the senior ranks of Al-Qaeda in Yemen, a US counter-terrorism official told AFP.
Did his time in stir and now is a made man ...
Three other men appear in the video, including Abu al-Hareth Muhammad al-Oufi, identified as an Al-Qaeda field commander. SITE later said he was prisoner No. 333.
A Pentagon spokesman, Commander Jeffrey Gordon, on Saturday declined to confirm the SITE information. "We remain concerned about ex-Guantanamo detainees who have re-affiliated with terrorist organizations after their departure," said Gordon. "We will continue to work with the international community to mitigate the threat they pose," he said.
On the video, al-Shihri is seen sitting with three other men before a flag of the Islamic State of Iraq, the front for Al-Qaeda in Iraq. "By Allah, imprisonment only increased our persistence in our principles for which we went out, did jihad for, and were imprisoned for," al-Shihri was quoted as saying.
Al-Shiri was transferred from Guantanamo to Saudi Arabia in 2007, the US counter-terrorism official said.
The Defense Department has said as many as 61 former Guantanamo detainees -- about 11 percent of 520 detainees transferred from the detention center and released -- are believed to have returned to the fight. The latest case highlights the risk the new US administration faces as it moves to empty Guantanamo of its remaining 245 prisoners and close the controversial detention camp within a year.
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And then you have that idiot cartoonist Mike Lukovich in Atlanta who has Bin Laden telling one of them who has just been released "that after being unjustly imprisoned and torture you still don't like America."
In other words all these jihadi's who go to AQ after being released are innocents that got religion at our expense in Gitmo. Sicko and Blotto idiots of the media.
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If a Caribbean vacation with gourmet chicken meals hasn't affected their appreciation of American justice, then nothing will. Remote controlled exploding micro-chips upon release, after tracking them to the jihadi nest but implanted on the lawless international waters enroute seems like a good legal compromise to me.
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If they're unlawful combattants, as the government's been saying, just shoot 'em. That will send the clearest, most unambiguous message possible, one even these morons can understand. In the future, catch 'em, wring 'em dry, then shoot 'em. Bury them in the bottom of a sewage settling pond for later generations to dig up and ponder.
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Capital punishment has to fall on ANYONE who participates in jihad terror. Any other legal approach is a joke.
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Two suspected terrorists were killed in an encounter with the UP Anti-Terror Squad in the wee hours of Sunday morning in Noida, a day before the nation celebrates its 59th Republic Day.
Police sources said the encounter took place in Sector 97 of Noida, which is a suburb of Delhi and an important part of the National Capital Region (NCR). Police further said that one of the slain alleged terrorists is a Pakistani.
Two AK-47s and handgrenades were recovered from the alleged terrorists. Based on the recovery of the weapons, SSP of Noida, Navin Arora, feels that the dead criminals can be terrorists. He further said that any confirmation in this matter will be done by the DGP of UP Police in Lucknow later on Sunday.
According to the SSP, ATS was informed of two armed criminals trying to enter Delhi by a car numbered UP14E 9531. As soon as it got the information, the ATS chased them. When the Maruti 800, in which they were travelling, reached near Mahamaya flyover, the UP ATS team stopped them. They tried to run away through the Noida-Delhi expressway towards Sector 97, the SSP further informed.
Arora further informed that the criminals started firing on them once the ATS team closed in on them. In the exchange, the two were injured and later nabbed. Police took them to a nearby hospital where they were declared dead.
The SSP also informed that an identity card of one Sameer Chaudhary was also recovered from their car. Police however also says that the identity card may be fake.
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"Two suspected terrorists shot dead in Noida"
It's a start....
"one of the slain alleged terrorists is a Pakistani"
Imagine their my surprise.
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Eleven people, including eight militants, were killed and four others were injured in different incidents of violence in the restive Swat Valley on Saturday. Sources said the security forces raided the house of a militant commander Bakhtiar in Ningwalai area of Kabal Tehsil after reports about the presence of militants there.
The militants opened fire on the forces instead of surrendering and eight of them, including Bakhtiar, were killed in the exchange of fire, said the sources. The forces also recovered arms and ammunition from the house. Separately, the security persons deployed at Fizzagat checkpost opened fire on a suspected car, killing a female identified as Sameera while her mother Yasmeen sustained serious bullet injuries. Similarly, a mentally-retarded person, Abdul Ghafoor, was killed while approaching the security checkpost in Bariam area. The officials deployed at the checkpost warned him to stop, but he continued his march towards the post following which the officials took him for a suicide bomber and shot him dead. In a similar incident, a person, identified as Amanullah, was killed when security forces pounded suspected hideouts of militants in Khwazakhela area.
Separately, militants hurled a hand grenade at officials of the Frontier Constabulary deployed at a girlsÂ' school in Nawan Killay of Mingora city, injuring an FC official Janat Gul whereas the boundary wall of the school was partially damaged. In another such incident, a cop identified as Zahoor Khan was injured when militants shot him in Dewlai area of Kabal Tehsil. Earlier, Muslim Khan, the spokesperson for the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, Swat chapter, while talking to media from an undisclosed location said that the list of those wanted by them would be published on Sunday (today).
About the conditional amnesty offered by the provincial government, he said both the central and the provincial governments were powerless and did not have the capability to abide by any agreement as the real power was with the Army and the US. He said no meeting of the Shura was scheduled whereas a meeting of the militant commanders was held in which matters pertaining to operations were discussed.
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Thirteen victims of missile strikes by US drone planes in North and South Waziristan Agencies were Saturday laid to rest in their ancestral graveyard. Of the total fatalities, nine were laid to rest in Zirgai graveyard in North Waziristan and five were buried in Gungi Khel graveyard in South Waziristan Agency. The funerals were attended by hundreds of tribesmen and tribal elders. The dead included Dilfaraz Khan Wazir, his three sons Maitool Khan, Habib Khan and Ghulam Khan, and grandson Haider Khan. Talking to reporters, Malik Taj Muhammad Wazir, Malik Muhammad Azam Khan and others demanded of the Obama administration to take solid measures to stop drone attacks in the tribal belt.
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The CIA's already pissed at Obambi for appointing Panella as its head. Obambi has to be very careful, or the CIA may conduct a pilotless drone attack somewhere else other than Pakistan. Obambi's behavior so far is very close to the same thing as kicking sand in the face of a dozen Navy SEALS.
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So they buried nine of the thirteen victims in one graveyard and five of them in another? Either someone can't do basic arithmetic or one of them was in enough pieces to be buried in two different places.
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Hola, Dr Weevil!
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NEW DELHI - Indian police shot and killed two suspected militants on the outskirts of the capital New Delhi early Sunday morning, Indian media reported. An anti-terrorist squad gunned down two men in the suburb of Noida, 20 kilometres (13 miles) from central Delhi, after chasing their car, said the United News of India news agency. One police officer was also injured in the encounter.
Reports said police found two AK-47 assault rifles and several hand grenades. Several television stations reported that police recovered documents indicating one of the men was from Pakistan, including a Pakistani passport.
Pakistain you say? Seems to be a lot of that going around these days ...
The incident occurred just one day before Indias Republic Day holiday, which is being marked amid heightened security measures in the wake of Novembers militant attacks in Mumbai.
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Aswat al-Iraq: Two people were killed and a third wounded when Multi-National Force (MNF) personnel opened fire on a house in the district of al-Huweija, southwest of Kirkuk, on Saturday, a source from the province's police operations room said. "The MNF troops opened fire at a house in the village of al-Ilyawa, Huweija, (65 km) northwest of Kirkuk, killing Diaa Hussein Ali, a colonel of the dissolved former Iraqi army, and his wife Fataheya, and wounding his daughter Ahlam," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The source neither indicated the motives behind the incident, nor gave furtherdetails about it. Aswat al-Iraq news agency failed to reach al-Miqdad Gabriel, the MNF media advisor, for comments.
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Aswat al-Iraq: A civilian man was killed and two others wounded in a blast from an improvised explosive device in the city of Mosul on Saturday, a police source in Ninewa said. "An IED went off near a police patrol in Bab al-Jadeed area, central Mosul, killing a civilian and wounding two others, including a policeman," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. The source did not reveal more information about the incident.
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Aswat al-Iraq: Joint Iraqi-U.S. forces captured five men suspected of having targeted a U.S. convoy earlier on Saturday in northern Wassit province, a police source said. "Joint forces from the Iraqi police and U.S. army detained five persons in al-Hafriya district, (105 km) north of al-Kut city, on charges of involvement in an operation that targeted a U.S. convoy earlier today (Jan. 24) with an improvised explosive device (IED) that destroyed one vehicle," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. "The arrests were made based on intelligence tip-offs," he added.
An IED planted by unidentified gunmen on the main road that links the Iraqi capital Baghdad to Kut city went off on Saturday near a U.S. convoy, destroying a Hummer vehicle.
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Aswat al-Iraq: Three policemen and a civilian were wounded on Saturday when a bike bomb went off on a street inside the city of Baaquba, an official security source in Diala said. "The explosive bike, parked on the Khrisan street, central Baaquba, ripped through the area, leaving four people, including three policemen, wounded," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. The source did not give further information.
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Iraqi election officials on Saturday ordered transport bans and night-time curfews to boost security on the eve of the country's January 31 provincial polls and on election day. Iraq's borders will be sealed off as well as all civilian airports and provincial borders from 10 pm (1900 GMT) on Friday until 5 am (0200 GMT) on February 1, the election commission announced.
Curfews are to be imposed next Friday and Saturday nights from 10 pm until 5 am, and civilians banned from carrying guns, even with a permit. Only vehicles with official authorisation will be allowed to take to the streets of Baghdad and provincial capitals on Saturday. "In no instance will any car be authorised to approach a polling station," it said.
Polling day and Sunday will be declared public holidays. Some 15 million Iraqis are being called to the polls to elect officials for 440 seats.
Meanwhile, when Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki came to Basra to whip up votes for an upcoming election, it felt more like a giant cry for help from the southern city's desperate poor than a campaign rally. About half the 2,000-strong crowd, some on crutches or on wheelchairs, surged against a human barrier of security men in a bid to make their pleas for assistance heard as Al Maliki concluded a speech, praising security gains and promising development.
"She's blind and has a mental problem, I went to Baghdad and got no help, we have nowhere left to turn to," said Abu Zahra, thrusting his daughter forward.
Al Maliki did not address the pleas personally, but sent his security guards to collect the files with letters begging for help, some with gory photos of injuries.
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As Israel's last troops left the Gaza Strip Wednesday, Hamas officials conceded that they are executing Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel during the three-week invasion.
In the West Bank, Fatah officials said at least 19 of its members have been executed and many more brutally tortured. Gaza residents say Hamas is using schools and other public buildings in Gaza City, and the towns of Khan Yunis and Rafah as detention centers to interrogate members of Fatah, their political rivals. They said three men have been blinded during questioning and more than 60 have been shot in the legs as punishment.
"They are committing human rights violations in a very brutal manner," Mahmoud Habbash, Palestinian Authority minister of social welfare said in Ramallah. "Not only did Israel perpetrate war crimes, but Hamas also has been targeting innocent Palestinians."
'Kisses to Israeli warplanes'
A leaflet distributed by the Fatah military wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, pleaded with Hamas to "respect the blood of the Palestinian martyrs" and urged them to stop pursuing Fatah members in Gaza. The leaflet said Hamas has arrested hundreds of Fatah members since the cease-fire and has threatened to shoot anyone who refuses to surrender.
While Fatah leaders in the West Bank also accused Hamas of stealing U.N. aid convoys, Hamas officials denounced Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah movement for collaborating with Israel and said they no longer recognized his authority since his term officially ended on Jan. 9.
In Damascus, Moussa Abu Marzook, the Hamas deputy political leader, told reporters that senior Fatah officials had "distributed candy celebrating the Gaza offensive, sent kisses to Israeli warplanes" and "guided these planes to their targets." Admitting that suspected collaborators were being executed in Gaza, Abu Marzook said "many people from the former Palestinian Authority viewed the Israeli offensive as an opportunity to rise to power again" in Gaza.
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Sri Lankan troops on Sunday fought their way into Mullaittivu, the last town held by Tamil Tiger rebels who are holed up in the northeast of the island, military sources said.
Troops in small groups entered the western edge of Mullaittivu, the final known urban stronghold of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), via boats, a military official said.
The Tigers blewn up a dam and flooded surrounding areas on Saturday in a bid to slow down the military advance towards Mullaittivu town, but troops used boats to enter the town's outskirts, the official said declining to be named.
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this has been going on for 25 or so odd years right? So is the US giving AID too sri lanka or did they finally tire of dealing with the tigers shit too end this already/
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They grew tired of the Tigers' shit. There was a Norwegian-brokered ceasefire that the Tigers used to rearm and retrench. Eventually their violations became sufficiently routine that the govt couldn't even pretend the Tigers had ceased firing. So they decided it was a case of "pay me now, pay me later," and went ahead and spent the resources.
The Tigers had burned their support bridges with India when they assassinated Rajiv Gandhi. Nobody else cares about them particularly, with the exception of overseas Tamil communities, who can be mined either voluntarily or using strong-arm tactics. There have been noises of support from Tamil politicians in India, but I think India's taking the position that it's an internal Lanka matter. The UN makes gets the usual case of projectile diahrrea about the civilian casualties, but since the U.S. isn't involved at all doesn't go far.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: Tamil Tiger rebels used explosives to blast through the walls of a reservoir Saturday in an attempt to stall advancing Sri Lankan government troops, the military said. On Saturday, Tamil guerrillas used explosives to destroy the walls of Kalmadukulam reservoir "in a desperate attempt" to stall a military advance on rebel-held Visuamdu, located in Mullaittivu district, the military said. Two villages were flooded as a result.
Details of damage caused by flooding were not immediately available and it was not possible to independently verify the military's claims, as journalists have been banned from the war zone.
Rebel spokesmen could not be contacted for comment because communication to the north has been severed.
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I've looked at the area several times on Google Earth. About a third of the area is swampland, with very few high spots. There is a lot of jungle, which is the hardest terrain in the world to fight through. There's a pretty good-sized reservoir in the area the Tamils still hold sway over, but I can't see how that's going to help them save themselves. This will only turn the remainint Tamil civilians more against them, since they're the ones that will suffer the most from the flooding.
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Eleven people, including eight militants, were killed and four others were injured in different incidents of violence in the restive Swat Valley on Saturday. Sources said the security forces raided the house of a militant commander Bakhtiar in Ningwalai area of Kabal Tehsil after reports about the presence of militants there. 
Thirteen victims of missile strikes by US drone planes in North and South Waziristan Agencies were Saturday laid to rest in their ancestral graveyard. Of the total fatalities, nine were laid to rest in Zirgai graveyard in North Waziristan and five were buried in Gungi Khel graveyard in South Waziristan Agency. The funerals were attended by hundreds of tribesmen and tribal elders. The dead included Dilfaraz Khan Wazir, his three sons Maitool Khan, Habib Khan and Ghulam Khan, and grandson Haider Khan. Talking to reporters, Malik Taj Muhammad Wazir, Malik Muhammad Azam Khan and others demanded of the Obama administration to take solid measures to stop drone attacks in the tribal belt.
NEW DELHI - Indian police shot and killed two suspected militants on the outskirts of the capital New Delhi early Sunday morning, Indian media reported. An anti-terrorist squad gunned down two men in the suburb of Noida, 20 kilometres (13 miles) from central Delhi, after chasing their car, said the United News of India news agency. One police officer was also injured in the encounter.
