[Bangla Daily Star] Law enforcers arrested six outlaws from three south-western districts on Thursday night and yesterday as a crackdown on the extremists continued amid an increasing number of killings in this region.
Two operatives of Lal Pataka, a faction of outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party, were captured in Meherpur, two of the same faction held in Khulna, and two Gono Mukti Fouz men arrested in Kushtia.
Police recovered three rifles and 40 bullets during the drive in Kushtia.
Acting on a tip-off, a team of Rab-6 surrounded Gangni upazila parishad building in Meherpur and arrested Suklal, 36, and Mashiur Rahman Tipu, 40, about 11:30pm. A group led by regional leader Tipu was about to hold a secret meeting there.
The operatives were taken for interrogation and then handed over to Gangni police yesterday.
The arrested are accused in several cases including bomb blasts, extortion and robbery. Tipu is also accused in a murder case filed with the Gangni Police Station.
On information, a team of Kushtia sadar police raided Saker Ali's house in sadar upazila about 12:30pm and arrested his son Shariful, a member of outlawed Gono Mukti Fouz, yesterday.
Police arrested Samid Sheikh, another member of Gono Mukti Fouz, after extracting information from Shariful.
Meanwhile, Detective Branch of Khulna district police arrested two extremists--Mostafa Kamal, 27, and Shamim Khan, 28, of Rupsha upazila about 11:45pm on Thursday, our staff correspondent reports from Khulna.
Police recovered a pipe gun and two cartridges from their possession.
Law enforcers recently launched a joint drive following killings by outlawed groups in the country's south-western region.
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[Bangla Daily Star] A mob allegedly beat a Rapid Action Battalion member to death as he demanded toll from drug peddlers at Ratanpur under Madhabpur upazila in Habiganj yesterday afternoon, local sources said. He was identified as Abul Quashem from Chokoria upazila under Cox's Bazaar district. Quashem joined the Rab several months ago.
Rab-9 officials, however, said Quashem died of cirrhosis a heart attack.
Meanwhile, most males of Ratanpur left their homes for fear of arrest by Rab personnel who had already arrested three villagers.
Platoon Commander Quashem, deputed to Rab from Ansar, came under the attack of villagers when he went there in plain clothes along with two informants --Biplab and Raju--to extort money from drug peddlers, locals said. The peddlers as well as villagers challenged the Rab man and shouted for help saying 'dacoit, dacoit'. The two informants instantly fled the scene.
At one stage, the villagers gave the Rab man a good beating and confined him to a house, said the sources. Later the union parishad chairman and other Rab men from Srimangal camp rescued the critically injured Quashem and rushed him to Sylhet Sadar Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
When contacted, Rab-9 Commanding Officer Syed Anagh told The Daily Star, "I came to know about the death of a Rab personnel. But I am yet to know the details."
Captain Manzur of Rab-9, however, claimed Quashem conducted an operation Thursday night and later he fell sick yesterday morning that led to his death. He also said that Quashem died of a heart attack.
Police Super of Habiganj Dr Akkas Uddin Bhuiyan also told The Daily Star the Rab man Abul Quashem along with constable Mujibur Rahman and sources went to the village in plain clothes on an auto rickshaw. Quashem sustained injuries as villagers took him for a criminal and beat him up after confining him to a house. A Rab team and the UP chairman rescued them.
On his return to the Ansar camp he fell sick and was immediately taken to the Habiganj Sadar Hospital where the physicians declared him dead at about 2:00pm, the official added. A post mortem on the body was completed at 8:30pm and now the body would be sent to his family, the SP said, adding that filing a case is also in progress.
Meanwhile, Rab men detained three villagers, Rais Miah Sarder, Rubel Miah and Abu Bakar, from Ratanpur on charge of drug peddling.
In another incident, male villagers of Ekuria village in South Keraniganj in Dhaka also went into hiding after they beat up two Rab members of Rab-10 who allegedly favoured one of the feuding groups on Thursday. Rab-10 officials filed a case against the villagers for beating up Rab personnel.
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I guess it had to happen sooner or larer.
Ahd what's this about "Collecting Toll" was he "On the Take"?
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Sooner or Later (Dammit)
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ION TOPIX > UP TO 30,000 FLEE MYANMAR VIOLENCE [mostly Chinese entrepeneurs]; + CHINA TELLS MYANMAR TO STOP FIGHTING ETHNIC MILITIAS.
OTOH WMF > CHINA WILL BRING UP THE ISSUE OF OKINAWA SOVEREIGNTY TO UN [CHINA = OKIN + RYUKYUS is part of its CONTINENTAL SHELF, ancient PRO-CHIN CHIN-OKI ties before takeover by mainland Japan/Nippon, + Chin's desired future EEZ + pertinen Right to establish trade in Oki.
SAME > CHINA is also not thrilled about Japan's propos mil buildup on OKONOTORI REEF-ISLET.
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OOOPSIES, forgot to add that OKONOTORI REEF-ISLET > CHIN is agz any extens of sovereignty and EEZ by JAPAN to same ["Continental Shelf Diplomacy"], + CONSIDERS IT A DE FACTO STRATEGIC THREAT TO CHINA'S INTERESTS IN NORTH. NORHEAST ASIA-PACIFIC.
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expect a bad future for the village of Ratanpur
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China's going to keep pushing Japan, and the Japanese are going to rewrite their Constitution. One section will declare that ALL of China belongs to Japan, and Japanese nuclear forces will impose Japanese writ there - again. There is no love lost between the Japanese and Chinese, and China is rubbing just about everyone in the Pacific the wrong way.
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[Dawn] Two Chechen militants blew themselves up Friday to escape capture, wounding three policemen and three civilians in the process, police said.
It was the third suicide bombing in the past week in Chechnya and part of a rising wave of violence in Russia's predominantly Muslim North Caucasus that appears to have alarmed the Kremlin.
President Dmitry Medvedev called Friday for more comprehensive youth programs to discourage young men from joining the militants.
'Unfortunately, rebel groups are still able to bring young people under their wing, into their criminal activities. This is a fact,' Medvedev said during a televised meeting with regional political and religious leaders. He encouraged the leaders to offer educational programs and activities.
The two militants who killed themselves early Friday were on a federal wanted list and had been trapped inside a house by police in the town of Shali, Chechen Interior Ministry spokesman Magomed Deniyev said. When police demanded they give themselves up, the militants opened fire and then set off explosives attached to their bodies, he said.
Three policemen and three civilians were hospitalised with shrapnel wounds, the spokesman said.
A suicide bombing Tuesday at a gas station-carwash complex in the Shali region killed four Chechen police officers, and another four were killed last week by suicide bombers on bicycles.
The worst suicide bombing to hit the region in years occurred August 17 in the neighbouring republic of Ingushetia, when a van packed with explosives blew up a police station, killing at least 25 people.
In another North Caucasus republic, Dagestan, police said they killed three militants early Friday who had opened fire on a police post. The post in Makhachkala, the capital, was unmanned at the time, but police patrolling nearby tracked the militants to a house and surrounded them there, Interior Ministry spokesman Mark Tolchinsky said.
Police, who were backed up by special forces and armoured vehicles, exchanged fire with the militants for several hours before killing them, he said.
Also Friday, a policeman was shot dead in a separate attack in Dagestan's capital, police chief Shamil Guseinov said.
Separatist militants and Russian troops fought two full-scale wars in Chechnya over the past 15 years. After a period of relative calm, Chechnya and other predominantly Muslim republics in southern Russia have seen a steady increase in attacks on police and soldiers.
From 200 to 250 police and soldiers have been killed in the North Caucasus republics so far this year, according to regional authorities.
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Lemme guess , those damn Jainist separatist militant extremists at it again ...
WASHINGTON — The United States has accused Pakistan of illegally modifying American-made missiles to expand its capability to strike land targets, a potential threat to India, according to senior administration and Congressional officials.
The charge, which set off a new outbreak of tensions between the United States and Pakistan, was made in an unpublicized diplomatic protest in late June to Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani and other top Pakistani officials.
The accusation comes at a particularly delicate time, when the administration is asking Congress to approve $7.5 billion in aid to Pakistan over the next five years, and when Washington is pressing a reluctant Pakistani military to focus its attentions on fighting the Taliban, rather than expanding its nuclear and conventional forces aimed at India.
While American officials say that the weapon in the latest dispute is a conventional one — based on the Harpoon antiship missiles that were sold to Pakistan by the Reagan administration as a defensive weapon in the cold war — the subtext of the argument is growing concern about the speed with which Pakistan is developing new generations of both conventional and nuclear weapons.
“There’s a concerted effort to get these guys to slow down,” one senior administration official said. “Their energies are misdirected.”
At issue is the detection by American intelligence agencies of a suspicious missile test on April 23 — a test never announced by the Pakistanis — that appeared to give the country a new offensive weapon.
American military and intelligence officials say they suspect that Pakistan has modified the Harpoon antiship missiles that the United States sold the country in the 1980s, a move that would be a violation of the Arms Control Export Act. Pakistan has denied the charge, saying it developed the missile itself. The United States has also accused Pakistan of modifying American-made P-3C aircraft for land-attack missions, another violation of United States law that the Obama administration has protested.
Whatever their origin, the missiles would be a significant new entry into Pakistan’s arsenal against India. They would enable Pakistan’s small navy to strike targets on land, complementing the sizable land-based missile arsenal that Pakistan has developed. That, in turn, would be likely to spur another round of an arms race with India that the United States has been trying, unsuccessfully, to halt. “The focus of our concern is that this is a potential unauthorized modification of a maritime antiship defensive capability to an offensive land-attack missile,” said another senior administration official, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity because the matter involves classified information.
“The potential for proliferation and end-use violations are things we watch very closely,” the official added. “When we have concerns, we act aggressively.”
A senior Pakistani official, also speaking on the condition of anonymity because the interchanges with Washington have been both delicate and highly classified, said the American accusation was “incorrect.” The official said that the missile tested was developed by Pakistan, just as it had modified North Korean designs to build a range of land-based missiles that could strike India. He said that Pakistan had taken the unusual step of agreeing to allow American officials to inspect the country’s Harpoon inventory to prove that it had not violated the law, a step that administration officials praised.
Some experts are also skeptical of the American claims. Robert Hewson, editor of JaneÂ’s Air-Launched Weapons, a yearbook and Web-based data service, said the Harpoon missile did not have the necessary range for a land-attack missile, which would lend credibility to Pakistani claims that they are developing their own new missile. Moreover, he said, Pakistan already has more modern land-attack missiles that it developed itself or acquired from China.
“They’re beyond the need to reverse-engineer old U.S. kit,” Mr. Hewson said in a telephone interview. “They’re more sophisticated than that.” Mr. Hewson said the ship-to-shore missile that Pakistan was testing was part of a concerted effort to develop an array of conventional missiles that could be fired from the air, land or sea to address India’s much more formidable conventional missile arsenal.
The dispute highlights the level of mistrust that remains between the United States and a Pakistani military that American officials like to portray as an increasingly reliable partner in the effort to root out the forces of the Taliban and Al Qaeda on Pakistani territory. A central element of the American effort has been to get the military refocused on the internal threat facing the country, rather than on threat the country believes it still faces from India.
Pakistani officials have insisted that they are making that shift. But the evidence continues to point to heavy investments in both nuclear and conventional weapons that experts say have no utility in the battle against insurgents.
Over the years, the United States has provided a total of 165 Harpoon missiles to Pakistan, including 37 of the older-model weapons that were delivered from 1985 to 1988, said Charles Taylor, a spokesman for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency.
The countryÂ’s nuclear arsenal is expanding faster than any other nationÂ’s. In May, Pakistan conducted a test firing of its Babur medium-range cruise missile, a weapon that military experts say could potentially be tipped with a nuclear warhead. The test was conducted on May 6, during a visit to Washington by President Asif Ali Zardari, but was not made public by Pakistani officials until three days after the meetings had ended to avoid upsetting the talks. While it may be technically possible to arm the Harpoons with small nuclear weapons, outside experts say it would probably not be necessary.
Before Congress departed for its summer recess, administration officials briefed crucial legislators on the protest to Pakistan. The dispute has the potential to delay or possibly even derail the legislation to provide Pakistan with $7.5 billion in civilian aid over five years; lawmakers are scheduled to vote on the aid package when they return from their recess next month.
The legislation is sponsored by Senators John Kerry of Massachusetts and Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, the top Democrat and Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, as well as Representative Howard L. Berman, a California Democrat who leads the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Congressional aides are now reconciling House and Senate versions of the legislation.
Frederick Jones, a spokesman for Mr. Kerry, declined to comment on the details of the dispute citing its classified nature but suggested that the pending multifaceted aid bill would clear Congress “in a few weeks” and would help cooperation between the two countries.
“There have been irritants in the U.S.-Pakistan relationship in the past and there will be in the future,” Mr. Jones said in a statement, noting that the pending legislation would provide President Obama “with new tools to address troubling behavior.”
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They would enable Pakistan's small navy to strike targets on land
leading India to reduce said "small navy" to "nonexisting"
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I'm imagining a P-3 in ground attack mode, swooping around like an A-10.
PAKISTANI troops have killed at least 18 militants including six would-be suicide bombers during an ongoing offensive against Taliban insurgents in northwest Pakistan.
Gunship helicopters were called in after intelligence and locals said a suicide attack mastermind was present in Charbagh town in the Swat valley, an area the army previously said had been emptied of militants.
"At least six would-be suicide bombers were killed in the shelling by gunship helicopters, the same place was being used as launching pad for training the suicide attackers," an army official said.
A military official in Mingora, the main town in Swat and 20 kilometres from where the air raid was carried out, confirmed the strikes in the Mangaltan area of the town and the death toll, adding several militants were also wounded.
Separately, the bullet-riddled bodies of six suspected Taliban rebels were found in a village in Swat valley eight kilometres from Mingora, police said.
"Six badly mutilated bodies were found from two different places at Odigram," Ghulam Farooq, a senior police official said, adding that the bodies had bullet wounds. It was not clear who had killed them.
Earlier this month, 18 suspected militants turned up dead in Swat under similar circumstances. A military official said that since July almost 200 bodies of militants and some civilians had been found in the region.
Five beheaded bodies were recovered from different areas of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency on Friday. Letters found near the bodies said anyone who tried to move the bodies before 9pm would meet the same fate. Sources told Daily Times that three bodies were retrieved from Sipha while two from Kohi Sher Haider. Sources said the dead were identified as Dr Rafiq, Dr Noor Khan, Taj Mohamamd, Syed Wali and Misri Khan. Tribal sources said the slain belonged to the Malak Dinkhel tribe and were members of the banned militant outfit Ansar-ul-Islam.
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An Indian court on Friday sentenced a Muslim militant to life in prison after ruling he was guilty of sedition and plotting to wage war against the state. Mujeeb Ahmad, 46, called out his innocence to reporters after he was taken from the courthouse in this southern Indian city, saying the prosecution was politically motivated and laying blame on Asaduddin Owaisi, a powerful member of parliament who heads a mainstream Muslim political party. "Let the police make arrangements for the security of the family of the MP," he shouted in an apparent threat of revenge. Mujeeb was arrested in 2005 after police stopped a truck heading from Indian-held Kashmir to Hyderabad. Hidden amid the truck's load of marble were three assault rifles, 220 rounds of ammunition and explosive detonators.
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Hidden amid the truck's load of marble were three assault rifles, 220 rounds of ammunition and explosive detonators
Pro'lly just going down to the dump to shoot some rats.
So how long is a 'life sentence' in India, compared with, say, Scotland?
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It is not fixed. Indian law states that it should not be less than 14 years. The Indian Supreme Court has ruled that there is no fixed limit and a sentence continues until the state decides to commute it. There is no 'right' to be released after 14 years and the state is free to leave the person in jail until death.
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laying blame on Asaduddin Owaisi,
Owaisi's father was a powerful Razakar leader involved in mass killings in Hyderabad at the time of partition. The Razakars were a Muslim paramilitary that wanted the merger of Hyderabad with Pakistan. They began ethnic cleansing of the majority Hindu population but India sent in the army.
The State of Hyderabad under the leadership of its 7th Nizam, Mir Usman Ali, was the largest and most prosperous of all princely states in India. It covered 82,698 square miles (214,190 km2) of fairly homogenous territory and comprised a population of roughly 16.34 million people (as per the 1941 census) of which a majority (85%) was Hindu. Hyderabad State had its own army, as well as its own airline, telecommunication system, railway network, postal system, currency and radio broadcasting service, with a GDP larger than that of Belgium.
The Razakar leader was deported to Pakistan. Many of the Nizam's Arab troops were summarily executed.
Owaisi is known for asking detailed questions in the Indian parliament on defence issues, primarily the status of various missile and nuclear projects. He has built a tall building that coincidently overlooks a DRDO research facility.
It is assumed by many that he is an ISI asset.
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...he shouted in an apparent threat of revenge. Apparent threat of revenge? It sounds very real to me.
[The News (Pak)] Some unidentified armed men shot dead four people and injured two others here in Natha Singh Street on Jinnah Road before dawn on Thursday.Unknown armed militants opened indiscriminate fire in the street, killing two people including Sahahzad and Naveed while four other received serious injuries.
The injured were rushed to nearby hospital where two Rauf and Asif, succumbed to injuries. The condition of the other two injured is said to be stable.
High-level police officials reached on the spot after the incident.The relatives and friends of the deceased also held a protest in the hospital and demanded early arrest of the offenders. Police have registered a case against unidentified men and started investigation to arrest the killers.
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[Dawn] Twenty-two Khasadars were killed when a suicide bomber struck a security post near Torkham along the Afghan border on Thursday evening.
According to witnesses, the bomber blew himself up when the tribal policemen gathered at the checkpost and were about to break their fast.
The bodies and the injured were taken to Landi Kotal's Agency Headquarters Hospital in Khyber tribal region. 'The scene here is chaotic. We have called all medical staff to deal with the situation,' a doctor at the hospital told Dawn on telephone. 'So far we have received 22 bodies, but we can't say at the moment about the exact number of casualties. The situation is bad and we have asked for ambulances from other towns,' Dr Zar Alam Shinwari said. Local people and transport workers said they had retrieved 13 bodies from the blast site. 'We collected body parts and put them into handcarts,' they added.
Torkham, about 55km north of Peshawar, is one of the main border crossings between Pakistan and Afghanistan and connects Khyber with Afghanistan's eastern Nangrahar province. It is the main supply route for Nato forces in Afghanistan.
Landi Kotal's political tehsildar Nasir Khan confirmed that 22 people had lost their lives, but warned that the death toll could rise. 'We are still pulling out bodies.'
(According to AFP, a senior administration official, Rehan Gul Khattak, said 'authorities have found head of the bomber at the site of the attack').
The witnesses said that personnel of the Khyber Rifles, a paramilitary force, and Khasadars had reached the place after 30 minutes and cordoned off the area to retrieve the bodies and collect evidence.
The suicide bombing came just two days after the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan announced a new successor to Baitullah Mehsud, who was killed in a drone missile attack early this month.
Later, on Friday, the Pakistan Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was their first retaliation for their leader's death. 'We claim responsibility for the blast,' Azam Tariq, spokesman for Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), said in a telephone call from an unknown location. 'This is our first response since the death of our chief Baitullah Mehsud,' Tariq told AFP. 'We will continue similar attacks in the future also.' He said 'the victims of the suicide attack were all those supporting the United States. Anybody supporting the US is our enemy.'
Baitullah Mehsud was killed in a missile strike by a US drone aircraft on August 5. His death was confirmed by Taliban commanders on Tuesday.
Thursday's bombing came hours after a US drone attack killed eight people in the nortHwestern tribal area of South Waziristan.
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[Dawn] At least six militants were killed during a clash with security forces in Malakand where internally displaced people are returning.
The six militants were killed during a clash in Thana area of Malakand Division on Friday morning. Security forces recovered a large cache of arms and explosive from their possession including six hand grenades, five Kalashnikovs, five rocket launchers and several shells from their possession.
The militants were reportedly foreigners whose bodies have been placed in the local hospital for identification. On the other hand, Swat media center announced curfew relaxation till 11:00 pm in Mingora, Fizzaghat, Charbagh, Kanju and Kabal whereas curfew was eased till 6:00 pm in Matta, Khawazakhela, Darashkhela, Madeen and Peochar.
Two militants killed, five arrested in 24 hours: ISPR
Two militants were killed and five arrested in a continuing search and clearance operation in Swat and Malakand, said ISPR.
Security forces carried out a search operation between Ningulai and Kanju and killed two militants, according to ISPR.
Security forces apprehended three suspects during a search operation at Kukrai and Dangram. Search operations were also conducted at Alamganj near Waliabad and apprehended one militant from Gulibagh.--
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[Dawn] Security forces have arrested 12 foreign militants from the border between NWFP and Punjab on Friday.
The militants were arrested from Tarmeen Check Post situated at border of Nwfp and Punjab. The arrested terrorists were coming from Quetta in a Hiace. Out of 12 arrested terrorists, seven belong to Turkey, three from Sudan, one from Iran and one from Russia.
According to the security forces sources, the arrested militants intruded into Pakistan via Iran and they wanted to go to South Waziristan. CDs, computer, USB, Islamic literature and a dagger were also recovered from their possession.
The security forces believe the arrested militants belong to al-Qaeda. The arrested foreign terrorists have been shifted to undisclosed locations where interrogators are investigating them.
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The Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of the Sindh police on Friday arrested a Taliban deputy commander in a raid in Sultanabad area of Keamari Town, as three of his aides managed to escape. SIU chief SSP Raja Umer Khattab said the raid was launched following a tip off from sources. After a brief gunfight, several policemen entered the house, where a Taliban attempted to blow himself up with a hand grenade. The SIU chief said the grenade did not explode and the policemen arrested the Taliban, identified as Ayaz Khan alias Abu Kasha. He said Ayaz had admitted that he came to Karachi to escape the military operation in Swat.
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Two truck bombs struck separate communities north of Iraq's capital on Saturday, killing at least 16 people in the latest attacks that indicate insurgents are targeting relatively unprotected areas as security forces focus on defending the cities.
The Iraqi government is eager to demonstrate it can protect the population following the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from urban areas nearly two months ago. But a recent series of high-profile bombings that have killed hundreds in both major cities and remote areas has raised concerns Iraqi forces are not up to the task.
Saturday's deadliest attack came at about 8 a.m. when a suicide truck bomber attacked a small police station in the remote village of Hamad north of Baghdad, killing at least 12 people, including six police, said officials from the Iraqi army and police.
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Where are the large amounts of explosives for all these truck bombs coming from? Saddam-era dumps? Or fresh shipments from Syria or Iran (paid for how?) Or directly from Maliki's forces?
Ma'an -- Three Palestinians were killed and another injured after a tunnel collapsed in southern Gaza on Friday morning.
Medics at Yousef An-Najjar Hospital told Ma'an three bodies were brought in after the Rafah tunnel collapsed. Another injured Palestinian was taken to the European Hospital, they said.
All four men were thought to be from the same family, the Al-Lahhams of Khan Younis.
Dr Mu'awiya Hassanein, the head of emergency and ambulance services at Gaza's Health Ministry, confirmed the three deaths later on Friday morning.
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An alleged member of a Philippine Muslim extremist group was extradited to the United States to face charges of kidnapping four US citizens, US embassy statements said on Saturday.
Madhatta Haipe, also known as Commander Haipe, was sent to the United States on Thursday to face charges of "hostage-taking" and other crimes. He could face life imprisonment, the embassy statements said. US ambassador Kristie Kenney identified Haipe as a suspected member of the Abu Sayyaf, a Muslim extremist group that intelligence agencies have linked to the Al-Qaeda terror network.
Haipe, a former university professor in Islamic studies, allegedly led a group of armed men in abducting 16 people, including four Americans, from a waterfall site in the southern island of Mindanao on December 27, 1995, the embassy said. The hostages were threatened and mistreated until they were ransomed off later that month, the embassy said. Haipe had eluded arrest until earlier this year.
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Oh oh. It's the comfy chair, halal meals and guards forbidden to touch koran for him. 5 years of this torture then it's off to a tropical paradise courtesy of the US taxpayer.
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The long arm of the law reaches out and touches that special someone.
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He's a Filipino, the muzzie look at them as slave labor. The rest of the prison will look at him for sex. He is going to hell in a US prison. I can't be happier.
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Go to your room, Parabellum. You ought to be very ashamed of such cleverness!
Terrorists Suspected insurgents on Saturday shot and killed two Rangers in the trouble-plagued southern province of Narathiwat, police said. The incident took place shortly after noon Saturday when four men on two motorcycles fired at the victims, riding a motorcycle on a Bacho district road. The first Ranger was hit by two bullets to his head and back and died at the scene, while the second victim was hit three times on his chest, right rib and right leg and was sent to hospital for treatment, where he died later. The gunmen fled and are still at large, police said.
A former local official was killed and 17 others were wounded when terrorists presumed insurgents tossed a grenade at them as they played a traditional Thai variation of lawn bowling this restive southern province early Saturday morning. The incident occurred Friday shortly after midnight when a group 22 Muslim villagers were playing boules -- based on French petanque -- in a late night Sai Buri district gathering. Two terrorists presumed insurgents on a motorcycle threw their grenade toward the bowlers, and the grenade exploded as the assailants sped away.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Al-Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman Zawahiri called on Pakistanis to support jihadists in the country's tribal areas on Friday, saying it was "the" battle against the American "crusaders," US-based SITE Intelligence group reported
Ayman al-Zawahri's comments were delivered in a video called "Path of Doom" posted on jihadist websites and monitored by SITE, a private group that follows jihadist activities on the Internet.
" The war in the tribal areas and Swat is an inseparable part of the Crusaders' assault on the Muslims the length and breadth of the Islamic world "
Ayman al-Zawahri
"The war in the tribal areas and Swat is an inseparable part of the Crusaders' assault on the Muslims the length and breadth of the Islamic world," Zawahiri was quoted as saying.
"This is the battle, briefly and plainly; and this is why anyone who supports the Americans and Pakistan Army--under any pretext, ploy or lie--is in fact standing with, backing and supporting the Crusaders against Islam and Muslims," he said.
He argued that the U.S. military was using the Pakistani army as its proxy in the tribal areas and Swat as a means to defeat the insurgency in neighboring Afghanistan.
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See also TOPIX > AL QAEDA LEADER [Ayman]: PAKISTAN IS THE MAIN BATTLEFIELD; + TALIBAN INSURGENTS RETAKE/PARTS OF TWO AGHANISTAN NORTHERN PROVINCES.
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" The war in the tribal areas and Swat is an inseparable part of the Crusaders' assault on the Muslims the length and breadth of the Islamic world " - Ayman al-Zawahri
To sum up ... IF you werent a bunch of sick twisted psychos , we'd leave you alone , but you are , so ... tough
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If he keeps up that kind of nonsense, it'll be Pakistanis shooting at him as well as Americans. It's never wise to seriously annoy one's host, or one finds oneself fondly remembering the quarters the host formerly provided.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Bangla Daily Star] A criminal was killed during a 'shootout' between the law enforcers and his gang in a sugarcane field
[Dawn] At least six militants were killed during a clash with security forces in Malakand where internally displaced people are returning.
[Dawn] Security forces have arrested 12 foreign militants from the border between NWFP and Punjab on Friday. 
The Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of the Sindh police on Friday arrested a Taliban deputy commander in a raid in Sultanabad area of Keamari Town, as three of his aides managed to escape. SIU chief SSP Raja Umer Khattab said the raid was launched following a tip off from sources. After a brief gunfight, several policemen entered the house, where a Taliban attempted to blow himself up with a hand grenade. The SIU chief said the grenade did not explode and the policemen arrested the Taliban, identified as Ayaz Khan alias Abu Kasha. He said Ayaz had admitted that he came to Karachi to escape the military operation in Swat.
Ma'an -- A Hamas-affiliated militant from Khan Younis died overnight, its armed wing said in a statement on Friday morning. 
Ma'an -- Three Palestinians were killed and another injured after a tunnel collapsed in southern Gaza on Friday morning. 
[Al Arabiya Latest] Al-Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman Zawahiri called on Pakistanis to support jihadists in the country's tribal areas on Friday, saying it was "the" battle against the American "crusaders," US-based SITE Intelligence group reported
