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Posted by: Fred || 10/25/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


#2  I understand that the "silver wings and santiago blue" crowd ferried the planes from the factories to various air strips.
If there were any warranty work needed, they probably found out about it ten minutes into the first flight.
Fortunately, most of those factories were in the Plains states.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 10/25/2009 15:32 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Morale dips for American Marines in Afghanistan
In a remote part of Helmand troops are dismayed by the ambivalence of locals and a sense that the Taliban can outlast them.

A mile from South Station, an outpost of US marines in Helmand province, the tribal chief was openly hostile. “The Americans threaten our economy and take our land for bases. They promise much and deliver nothing,” he said.

“People here regard the American troops as occupiers,” said Haji Khan, a leader of the Baluch tribe, who rules like a medieval baron. “Young people are turning against them and in time will fight them.”

Inside South Station, soldiers are proud of the progress they have made. Until they arrived, this remote part of Helmand had not had a government presence for years. But many are pessimistic about where the conflict is heading.

“I’m not much for this war. I’m not sure it’s worth all those lives lost,” said Sergeant Christian Richardson as we walked across corn fields that will soon be ploughed up to plant a spring crop of opium poppy.

A New Yorker who joined the marines after 9/11 and served two tours in Iraq, Richardson, 24, said his men had achieved much. “You can see we are making progress, slowly. But when we leave, the Taliban and Al-Qaeda will surely return.”

With enough effort, resources and time, the marines are confident the population can be won over. But, with the platoon’s influence limited to a small area around their base, many soldiers wonder if the Taliban and Al-Qaeda may simply outlast them, or if the US and Afghan governments have the resolve to send enough troops to win.

Third Platoon, Charlie Company of the 2nd Light Armoured Reconnaissance Battalion, came last July to Khan Neshin, as far south as Nato soldiers have reached in Afghanistan. It was part of a summer offensive by more than 4,500 troops of the Marine Expeditionary Brigade, which has joined British and other forces trying to turn the war in Helmand.

Although they have read the manuals on counterinsurgency and heard generals speak about how to defeat the Taliban, the reality has been bloody, painful and frustrating.

The platoon knows there are at least 20 booby-trapped bombs on the high ground around the base. More than half the men have already been caught in blasts. One marine explosive expert was killed; others suffered broken legs and amputated feet. Three have survived two explosions and come back to fight again.

General Stanley McChrystal, the US and Nato commander in Afghanistan, says the mission is to protect the population and isolate them from the Taliban, but the marines are finding it no easier to defeat the Taliban than it has been for the British, who have fought in the province for three years. Villagers are rarely willing to express a simple opinion, let alone inform soldiers where the enemy is hiding. One marine described the way the Taliban blended with the population as “unbelievably frustrating”.

In terrain crisscrossed by canals with weak and narrow bridges, the platoon has to approach villages on foot. Even when they have surrounded the Taliban, the marines have found the enemy has an uncanny ability to slip away in the ditches. All this adds to the strain of facing improvised explosive devices, which are the main threat.

“We are all brothers here,” said Lance-Corporal Corey Hopkins, 22, from Georgia. “And it hurts to see your brother hurt or put him in a bag for the last time. It pisses you off. It makes you mad. You know people out here know what’s going on, but they won’t tell you.”

Corporal Gregory Williams, 22, from North Carolina, said: “It’s going to take a lot of proving out here to make them talk to us. It’s working so slowly.” The marines are trying to implement a strategy dictated from Washington that bids them separate the population from the insurgents. But attempting that means a battle not only against the Taliban but against a feudal system that places real power in the hands of landowners such as Haji Khan.

When we talked to the grey-bearded men in the village, in the shade of one-room mosques, most appeared friendly. Asked if they wanted a school or more doctors, all said such questions were a matter for those who own the fields.

The marines hope to open a school and provide medical facilities. They are also offering to pay Khan and others to provide jobs to improve the canal system.

At a shura, or village meeting, at South Station last Friday, Khan showed up with 40 elders and heard Captain Chris Conner, commander of Charlie Company, promise development. “From the bottom of my heart, I want to say that we are here to help you,” he said.

The villagers welcomed the canal scheme and the idea of making use of a doctor at the base. But Khan and another landowner rejected the idea of a school. “Security is still too bad. We’ve seen how they are burnt down [by the Taliban] elsewhere.”

Some marines were unconvinced about paying money for the canal to a tribal leader and drug baron who gave them almost no help and would probably keep the cash.

Later, a marine intelligence officer said the drug economy and the feudal system made the strategy of winning hearts and minds extremely complex. As drug producers, men such as Khan had a “working relationship with the Taliban”.

Nobody knew of the announcement last week in Kabul of a new round of national elections. Nobody voted in the first round. “We never even heard of elections. If we had, I suppose we might have voted,” said one villager.
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 10/25/2009 03:12 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Here in Bangkok, I was talking to a very impressive Marine NCO last week - he was here on R&R, before heading back to Afghanistan. He was a picture-book Marine - tall, muscular, rugged-looking. He told me that he has been in for 14 years - and he surprised me by stating that he is looking forward to getting out as soon as his present enlistment is up. He told me that he and his mates were all fed up with fighting a pointless war, for clueless political leaders.

I know that re-enlistments have been booming in recent years. If this NCO's comments were at all representative of the current state of mind of the troops, then the military may be about to see a sudden reversal of those trends - and a mass stampede for the exits.
Posted by: Lone Ranger || 10/25/2009 6:09 Comments || Top||

#2  You will have no military in few years time. They will all get out and fight for America at home where the real enemies have taken over.

Posted by: newc || 10/25/2009 7:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Baluchi clan chief, hah? War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. I had no idea that there was a Baluchi minority in Helmand until today.
Posted by: Mitch H. || 10/25/2009 10:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Note to Obama: like we say in the military: you have to be smarter than the equipment (or in this case personnel) you're using. Or they (it) doesn't work. Many I served with bitterly headed for the exits, fed up with feeling ineffective.
Posted by: GirlThursday || 10/25/2009 10:51 Comments || Top||

#5  It's a simple equation. Military personnel only function well when the following questions are answered:

1) What are we doing here? (strategic)
2) Who are the friendly and enemy forces (including "known unknowns")?
3) What is the plan of execution and its timetable? (tactical)
4) Do we have the means to execute the plan? (logistics, fire support and ROE)
5) What are the metrics for success and failure?
6) Who is in charge and how do they lead? (command and communications)
7) What are the rules of replacement, rotation and retirement? (during and the end of mission)
Posted by: Anonymoose || 10/25/2009 12:02 Comments || Top||

#6  'Moose got it right.

Sending an internet via USPS, don't abuse it.
Posted by: .5MT || 10/25/2009 12:47 Comments || Top||

#7  you have to be smarter than the equipment

I would not guarantee you that Obama's advisors are smarter than a sack of hair.

Posted by: Frozen Al || 10/25/2009 13:18 Comments || Top||

#8  I think the equation is even simpler than 'moose's list. How can troops have good morale if their mission objective isn't victory and they aren't given the means to be victorious even if it was?
Posted by: Mike N. || 10/25/2009 17:13 Comments || Top||

#9  You will have no military in few years time.

Yup that's Obama's plan.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 10/25/2009 19:00 Comments || Top||

#10  We are all Rhodesians now.
Posted by: rhodesiafever || 10/25/2009 21:15 Comments || Top||

#11  no commander's intent, final result desired or end state - Obama is epic failure as a wartime pres. Sat on McChrystal's report for 7 weeks. What a loser. Typical politics above patriotism. I hope the 52% of douchebags that voted for this sack of shit are happy. Oh, but he gives a good speech and says pretty things...we are Rome 400 AD.
Posted by: Broadhead6 || 10/25/2009 21:31 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Yemeni army bombs three markets in north
[Iran Press TV Latest] Houthi fighters in Yemen say they have inflicted heavy losses on government forces as the army continues to target residential areas in Saada Province.

In a statement released on Saturday, the fighters said they captured two military camps along with all their equipment in the town of Al-Razih. The Houthi statement also said that the government continues to target residential areas in the Northern Province, leaving dozens killed and wounded.

According to the statement, the military planes targeted a crowded market in the Shaaf area of Saada Province, killing several people and wounding others. Four civilians have sustained critical wounds, the report said.

The military planes also attacked two other markets in Al-Razih and Sahar in Saada Province, destroying many shops and buildings in the area.

In al-Iqab, army troops along with an armed vehicle attempted to take the control of the Samaa base; they, however, failed and their armed vehicle was destroyed.

According to the statement, targeting civilians has only led to the strengthening of the people's solidarity and encouraged them to resist tyranny.
Posted by: Fred || 10/25/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Bangladesh
Six suspected militants held in Meherpur
[Bangla Daily Star] Rapid Action Battalion and police yesterday arrested six youths at Amjhupi village of Meherpur Sadar upazila for suspected involvement with militant outfits.

Villagers alleged that they are operatives of Hizb ut-Tahrir Bangladesh, banned by the government.

But the arrestees, who were taken to Meherpur Sadar Police Station, claimed they are activists of Bangladesh Biswa Shanti Ahban Samity.

Of them, Mustafizur Rahman Chandan of Sylhet and Nur Mohammad Hedayetullah of Jamalpur said they work at a foreign mission in Dhaka.

Rezaul Ahmed of Faridpur said he is a lecturer at Dhaka Commerce College.

Of the others, Madhusudan Sarker hails from Bagerhat, Mahfuzul Islam from Magura and Shah Alam from Narayanganj.

The officer-in-charge of the Meherpur Sadar Police Station said the six were sent to jail after being produced before a court.

Mamul Islam, headmaster of Amjhupi High School, and Imdadul Haque, a local muazzin, said the villagers got infuriated when the six youths tried to incite them to violence in the name of religion.

Paltan police, meanwhile, said they went to Hizb ut-Tahrir's central office at Purana Paltan yesterday but found it under lock and key.

They said they filed a petition with a Dhaka court, seeking permission to search the office.
Posted by: Fred || 10/25/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hizb-ut-Tahrir


Col Rashids daughter held for blast link
[Bangla Daily Star] Police yesterday arrested the eldest daughter of Lt Col (retd) Khandaker Abdur Rashid, a fugitive condemned to death in Bangabandhu murder case, for suspected links to Wednesday's bomb attack on Awami League lawmaker Fazle Noor Taposh.

The Detective Branch picked up Khandaker Mehnaz Rashid from her father's residence at Gulshan-2 in the morning. Later in the day, a court placed her on a five-day remand. Mehnaz is the second to be arrested from among the families of convicted killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Earlier on Thursday, police held Kamrul Haque Swapan, younger brother of Major (retd) Shariful Haq Dalim.

Both Dalim and Rashid have been holed up abroad since the trial of August 15 killings began in 1996. Earlier in that year, AL came to power and Sheikh Hasina became the prime minister.

DB sources said Mehnaz has been involved in reorganising Freedom Party, an outfit formed by the self-confessed killers of Bangabandhu and most of his family members. She contested the parliamentary polls in 2001 and 2008 from Chandina of Comilla on Freedom Party ticket.

Metropolitan Magistrate Tania Kamal remanded Mehnaz for five days in response to police prayer for 10 days'.
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Posted by: Fred || 10/25/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
50 arrested during Lahore search operation
[Geo News] At least 50 suspected people have been arrested, as the police search operation is currently underway in various areas of the city in the wake of the terror incident, Geo News reported Saturday. According to SP Cantt Ghulam Azfar, various suspected foreigners have been arrested from various areas including Manawan, Factory Area and Walton. The arrested include Imran, Abdur Razzaq, Nadeem, Fayyaz and Zafar. Police said these arrested people belong to areas including Kohat and Rahimyar Khan, adding the most of these people do not possess any identity documents. Police have shifted them to undisclosed location for interrogations.
Posted by: Fred || 10/25/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Sub-Inspector dies in suicide blast near ILMI
[Geo News] A suicide bomber late on Saturday night exploded himself near Islamabad-Lahore Motorway Interchange (ILMI), killing a Sub-Inspector of motorway police, Geo news reported. According to motorway police spokesman, motorway police officials, intercepting a suspected vehicle indicated to stop near Islamabad-Lahore motorway interchange, namely Lilly, but the driver, on the vehicle, killed himself up with explosives and as a result, a sub-inspector motorway police Shah-e-Iran embraced martyrdom. Another suspected person was nabbed near blast scene and was taken to unidentified location for investigation, sources said.
Yes, Sub-inspector Shah-e-Iran sacrificed himself to protect the civilians driving on the motorway. Pakistan still has some true heroes.

Posted by: Fred || 10/25/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Pak army helicopter crash kills three: officials
[Dawn] Three security personnel were killed and six others injured when a military helicopter crashed near Charmang area on Saturday.

Official sources said the Russian-made MI-17 helicopter was returning from the border area of Nawa Pass to Khar, the headquarters of Bajaur agency, when it went down after developing some technical fault near Sarkari Qilla of Charmang Valley in Nawagai tehsil.

The sources said that security personnel had gone to Nawa Pass to supply ration to troops manning a post of Bajaur Scouts.

It is learnt that three personnel of Frontier Corps -- two of Tall Scouts and one of Bajaur Scouts -- were killed in the crash.

The bodies and the injured were taken to Khar's main hospital by a special helicopter. The injured included the pilot and co-pilot of the helicopter.

Some witnesses claimed that they saw the helicopter on fire before it crashed into a field.

Security forces have been engaged for four months in efforts aimed at clearing Charmang from militants and last week they had claimed securing the area.
Posted by: Fred || 10/25/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Was that the third or fourth MI-17 to go down in the last two months? We should give them US helicopters in a effort to keep out production facilities up and runng to the PAKs current crash rates...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 10/25/2009 18:03 Comments || Top||


Two key Taliban commanders killed in Swat
Two key Taliban commanders were killed and ten other terrorists arrested in clashes with security forces in Swat on Saturday, official sources said. The sources said the two commanders, Saidul Bashar and Karim alias Commando, were close aides of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Swat chief Mullah Fazlullah. They told Daily Times that Bashar and Karim were killed in clashes with the forces at Sahra area of Matta tehsil. Apart from the 10 terrorists arrested during search operations, three Taliban surrendered to the security forces, they said.
Posted by: Fred || 10/25/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Terrorists shaving beards to flee SWA: ISPR
Security forces took control of Kotkai -- an important Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) stronghold and the native town of its chief Hakeemullah Mehsud -- after intense fighting on Saturday.

Addressing a joint press conference with Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira, Inter-Services Public Relations Director General Major General Athar Abbas said 21 terrorists had been killed and three soldiers martyred while eight people had been injured in the last 24 hours

He reiterated that the military operation in South Waziristan was completely indigenous and added that the terrorists were facing large-scale desertions among their ranks due to growing pressure by the armed forces, and were trying to flee from the area.

"Reliable sources have reported that due to the pressure of the ongoing operation, there have been large-scale desertions amongst the rank of terrorists groups. It has been also reported that the terrorists are shaving and trimming their beards to escape from the area," Abbas said.

He said the military had not reached an accord with any militant outfit in FATA, adding however, that the government had signed a few agreements with people from the Tribal Areas, including the Ahmedzai and Wazir tribes through the FATA Secretariat to secure their support against the terrorists.

Asked about collaboration with the US in executing the operation, the army spokesman said, "We have asked them (the US) to let us finish the job on our own and get the support of local population (against terrorists)."

To a question about reports of the US vacating checkposts along the Pak-Afghan border and its possible fallout in the Pakistani area, Abbas said the reports were being verified and if confirmed the matter would be taken up at the appropriate level and the reasons for withdrawal would be sought.

He said there were no reports that the terrorists in South Waziristan were getting assistance from Afghan Taliban.
Posted by: Fred || 10/25/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: TTP

#1  So hunt quickly, while a facial tan line is your signal.
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/25/2009 7:50 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
Nuclear Expert Killed By 120ft Stairwell Fall
A British nuclear expert has fallen to his death from the 17th floor of the United Nations offices in Vienna. The 47-year-old man died after falling more than 120ft to the bottom of a stairwell. He has not been named.

He worked for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, an international agency charged with uncovering illicit nuclear tests.

A UN spokesman in the Austrian capital said there were no "suspicious circumstances" surrounding the man's death. Police said no other person was believed to have been involved. No suicide note has been found.

Four months ago another UN worker also believed to be British fell from a similar height in the same building, it has been reported.

The latest incident happened on Tuesday as the United States, France, Russia and Iran held talks nearby about Tehran's nuclear programme.
Posted by: Fred || 10/25/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What are the chances of two people falling to their deaths in the same building four months apart? Sounds like a case for OSHAIS.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 10/25/2009 3:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Probably the most pro-active the UN has ever been !

"Investigating nuclear things ?"

"yes"

"oooooh no you dont , dont want the rest of us to look bad "

push
Posted by: Galactic Coordinator || 10/25/2009 5:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Ahahha, no link whatsoever, but it reminds me of the infamous "frégates de Taiwan" scandal, a massive corruption case which involved the core of the french politicians, and was a perfect illustration of the general sleaziness and incomptence (though not to get backchich and bribes) of the french Enlightened Elites; lotsa others related affairs, from related arms deal to saudi arabia to the ongoing "de villepin" Clearstream silliness, all offshoots of that one...

Anyway, funniest part of this was there was quite a few incidental deaths, Sudden Suicide, Deplorable Domestic Accident,... both in Tapei and in Paris (taiwanese general, french engineer, french middleman,...)... and IIRC, four of them involved defenestrations...

As one investigator bitterly joked about in a french teevee political show a few years ago, the fact that the "signature" of the chinese/taiwanese triad involved in this convoluted web of corruption is to defenestrate its assassination targets - a way to mark their deed to all parties involved, yet remaining on the realm of "accidental death" - was just a coincidence.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 10/25/2009 8:34 Comments || Top||

#4  If something works, stick with it....
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 10/25/2009 10:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Could be worse - he could have shot himself in the back of the head - twice.

At least this way his family gets to claim accidental death insurance.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/25/2009 11:11 Comments || Top||

#6  Nuclear expert achieves half-life at 60 feet down. His family achieves Whole Life at 120 feet down.

Posted by: Asymmetrical Triangulation || 10/25/2009 21:30 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Death toll rises to 132 in suicide bombings
Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- At least 132 people were killed and 520 wounded in twin suicide car bombings in central Baghdad Sunday, officials said -- the deadliest attack on civilians in Iraq this year.

Two car bombs detonated in quick succession near Iraqi government buildings about 10:30 a.m., an Interior Ministry official said.

One of the bombs exploded outside Baghdad's governorate building and the second one outside the Justice Ministry, about 500 meters (1,600 feet) away.

Plumes of smoke billowed from the sites of the attacks as victims fled, some with blood streaming down their faces. The streets were strewn with debris, including charred cars and chunks of concrete from damaged buildings. Some government buildings and others in the area were heavily damaged.

Sunday's attacks came a day after Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, completed a two-day visit to Iraq that included a stop at the nearby Foreign Ministry.

An Iraqi official said the government was working to bolster security, but regional cooperation was needed to help fight suicide bombers.

"We are calling on international and U.N. envoys to come and find out why Iraq is being targeted this way," said Ali al-Dabbagh, the Iraqi government spokesman.

The spokesman said Iraq's setbacks are mainly caused by a fledgling intelligence that has "not been completed."

The European Union condemned "this terrorist attack" and sent its condolences to the families of the victims, the Swedish presidency said in a statement.

The Foreign Ministry, near the site of Sunday's blasts, was one of six places attacked on August 19. That day's attacks killed at least 100 people and wounded hundreds more. The area is close to the heavily guarded Green Zone that also houses the U.S. Embassy.

The August attacks shook confidence in the abilities of Iraqi security forces who took over securing urban areas from U.S. troops over the summer.

The Iraqi government has blamed Syria for harboring former Baath party members, who it said planned the August attacks, and asked for their handover.

Relations between the two neighbors were strained after the bombings. Each withdrew its ambassador from the other's country.

Security in the capital was tightened after the August bombings, and a decision to normalize the situation in Baghdad by taking down blast walls was reversed and checkpoints increased.

Iraqi and U.S. officials have warned of a possible increase in violence ahead of the country's national elections scheduled for January 16.
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 10/25/2009 09:16 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State of Iraq

#1  "The Iraqi government has blamed Syria for harboring former Baath party members, who it said planned the August attacks, and asked for their handover."

Why just use diplomacy? You are a bigger country with a better military. Threaten them.

They should also seek reparations from all their fellow arab countries in the Maghreb whose citizens have come to Iraq to blow up her people.
Posted by: Penguin || 10/25/2009 14:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Maghreb is North Africa (Tunis, Algeria, Morocco). You meant Arabian Peninsula?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/25/2009 14:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Actually, I did mean it as North Africa. Many jihadis are from there unless I'm wrong. Because there are no better opportunities for guys who live in those countries.
Posted by: Penguin || 10/25/2009 14:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Jihadis may be from N Africa, they may be from Syria, they may be from Arabia but they all have a certain religion.

Its not Methodist.
Posted by: lord garth || 10/25/2009 15:51 Comments || Top||

#5  "they may be from Arabia but they all have a certain religion. Its not Methodist."

Is this a guessing game, Lord Garth? May I play?

It's Amish, right?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 10/25/2009 15:56 Comments || Top||

#6  It's Amish, right?
Posted by Barbara Skolaut


No, not Amish. Shriners I believe, riding go-carts in formation. I blame them.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/25/2009 16:36 Comments || Top||

#7  Actually, just about every country that has a Muslim population has contributed to the terror war in Iraq. Instead of sending reparations, they should all commit to sending a battalion of troops to support the Iraqi army. The US should remain to coordinate and train. The non-Iraqi forces can all go home after Iraq has gone six months without a suicide bomb attack or IED explosion.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 10/25/2009 19:35 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran jails wives, children of reformists: report
[Al Arabiya Latest] Iranian authorities have detained 35 relatives and supporters of jailed reformists, including wives and children, the reformist Sarmayeh newspaper reported on Saturday.

In a separate report reformist website norooznews said "armed, masked guards" on Thursday raided a prayer ceremony in Tehran attended by families and supporters of jailed reformists who opposed the June re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Sarmayeh reported that initially 60 people were arrested, among them the wives and children of jailed reformists including from the Islamic Iran Participation Front (IIPF) party, and that 35 remain in detention.
Posted by: Fred || 10/25/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  in my darker moods I imagine Obama looking with envy on the way Iran can quash dissent
Posted by: lord garth || 10/25/2009 0:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Lord G, we're heading that way, and Obama is just a symptom, not the cause.
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/25/2009 7:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Jailing a bunch of PTA moms would be a very, very grave error indeed, the results of which would be obvious in minutes.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/25/2009 14:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Shows they're, relatively, civilized. In other Muslim countries they just kill the whole families of opponents.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/25/2009 14:59 Comments || Top||


Lebanese Court Convicts Men of Al Qaeda Links
A Lebanese court convicted 11 men of having links to Al Qaeda and carrying out terrorist acts, and sentenced them to life in prison, a court official said Saturday.

The men -- six Palestinians, three Lebanese and two Syrians -- were tried in absentia since they are still on the run, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.

The men were convicted Friday of transporting fighters from Lebanon into Iraq and from Syria into Lebanon to carry out attacks, said the official. They were also found guilty of forming an armed gang with the intent to carry out terror attacks, forging government documents and giving shelter to wanted people.

The same court also convicted a Palestinian man and four Lebanese of belonging to an armed group and attempting to carry out terror acts. The five, all in custody, were given prison terms ranging from two to five years.

On Tuesday, a Lebanese investigating judge indicted 21 members of an Al Qaeda-inspired militant group, Fatah al-Islam, for a bombing in northern Lebanon last year that killed 18 people, mostly soldiers.

Posted by: Fred || 10/25/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq



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2Taliban
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1Islamic State of Iraq
1Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh
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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.
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Sun 2009-10-25
  Talibs said already shaving beards to flee South Wazoo
Sat 2009-10-24
  Faqir Mohammad eludes dronezap
Fri 2009-10-23
  Bangla bans Hizb-ut-Tahrir
Thu 2009-10-22
  Mustafa al-Yazid reported titzup
Wed 2009-10-21
  20 deaders in battle for Kotkai
Tue 2009-10-20
  Algerian forces kill AQIM communications chief
Mon 2009-10-19
  South Waziristan clashes kill 60 militants
Sun 2009-10-18
  Battle for South Waziristan begins
Sat 2009-10-17
  Pakistan imposes indefinite curfew in S. Waziristan
Fri 2009-10-16
  Turkish police detain 50 Qaeda suspects
Thu 2009-10-15
  Pakistani Police Attacked in Two Cities; 15 Killed
Wed 2009-10-14
  Italy: Attempted terror attack against army barracks injures soldier
Tue 2009-10-13
  Charges against Hafiz Saeed dismissed by Lahore High Court
Mon 2009-10-12
  Pakistain says 41 killed in market bombing
Sun 2009-10-11
  Pak army frees 30 at army HQ, ending siege

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