The U.S. military suffered another day of heavy losses in Afghanistan on Tuesday as roadside bombs killed eight U.S. service members, the U.S. military said.
An Afghan civilian working with NATO troops also was killed in the attacks in southern Afghanistan, the military said.
The military gave no further details about the bombings, which it said also wounded several other service members.
The attacks happened a day after 14 Americans were killed in a pair of helicopter crashes in Afghanistan. It was the largest number of Americans killed in Afghanistan in a single day in more than four years.
With the deaths of two troops on Sunday, a total of 24 Americans -- most of them military -- have been killed in a 48-hour period. That makes October 2009, with 58 fatalities, the deadliest month for the U.S. military since the Afghanistan war began in October 2001.
Enemy action was not thought to be the cause of either of Monday's helicopter crashes. Three Drug Enforcement Administration special agents and seven U.S. troops were killed in one crash in western Afghanistan as they returned from a raid on a compound believed to be harboring insurgents tied to drug trafficking.
The other crash, in which two helicopters collided over southern Afghanistan, killed four Marines.
But it is roadside bombs -- commonly referred to as IEDs, short for improvised explosive devices -- that have caused the majority of U.S. fatalities in Afghanistan in recent months.
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That makes October 2009, with 58 fatalities, the deadliest month for the U.S. military since the Afghanistan war began in October 2001. .
How long is it going to take for people to realize that our young men and women in the military being either defeated or dead is EXACTLY what Obama wants?
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I don't think the majority of Afghans want us there, particularly the Pashtuns in the south. There is no way to stop the material for these bombs...fertilizer and diesel. Lets say Obama grows a set and sends in 60,000 troops. What is that going to get us? Can we really secure this shithole? The geography works against us and against creating any kind of nation.
Most parts of the country are still in the stone age. Is it our job to bring them forward 600 years, especially if they don't want to change?
I think this is a waste of our good men and our treasure. I believe it is better to get the hell out and leave with the very clear message that we will use our air assets liberally and without discrimination against anything we perceive to be a terrorist training area. If we should be attacked, then areas of the country will be flattened by those air assets.
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I am becoming disgusted with Savages, My mind is changing from HELP FREE THEM, to Fuck them all.
Let's go ahead and sterilize the region of Islam, the poison in their minds.
Leave NO minaret standing, and when they scream tell them "You didn't leave is alone".
THEN leave.
First thing that happens Like 9-11 send a flight of B-52s over their holy rock and vaporize it.
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They have proven what we all knew. They are not worthy of saving.
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One must understand the Bantu mind. These warriors are Impi from a previous ruler. Their loyalties and the loyalties of their Izinduna leaders are of no use to Barry's long term goals. Barry will raise a new army with new Isinduna loyal only to him.
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For me this isn't about Obama. I think we would be in the same situation were McCain president or anyone else.
The Iraq war, for all intents and purposes is over. The US won. Al Q was handed a major defeat. Sure they can still light off a few bombs and kill some civilians, but they won't be a power in Iraq anytime soon.
That means that all the bad guys are now focusing on Afghanistan. I think that Afghanistan was quiet all those years precisely because we were fighting in Iraq.
But I just don't see the upside in staying. My only alternative view is that we make a major surge for a year or two, beat back the Talibs, then declare victory and leave pronto. But a lot of guys are going to die just so we can save some face. Is it worth that?
Somali pirates said on Tuesday they had seized a yacht in the Indian Ocean with a British couple aboard and were taking the vessel to the Horn of Africa nation.
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Hate to blame the victims, but haven't these folks read the news the last few years? Who would yacht in the Indian Ocean these days?
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I know (Second hand) of a guy who's Yatch is equipped with a .30BMG (And he has had to use it ocaisionaly too)
I heard of him when visiting an arms dealer friend and this guy called in an order for 3,000 rounds 30 cal on belts, he normaly carried 2,000 rounds but had been jumped by 3 powerboats off bermuda and used all but 50 sinking them, so now he wanted 3,000.
So although he's NOT in the gulf of Aiden, there ARE some MEN still around who WILL shoot back. (And win)
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I think it's safe to assume that these two had a good innings. If the RN wants to risk some of its men in rescuing them, that's OK with me, God forbid the pirate scum get paid a penny.
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Thats it. I am going to be running 'Pirate Tours' out into Somali waters. Pop-up .50cal on a 100ft boat, maybe add a 25mm Bushmaster or 40mm Oerlikon on the front deck.
$10k gets you out to the Gulf with a rifle and 500 rds. $12.5k gets you that and 500 rds of .50cal. $20k and you get to use the Bushmaster/Oerlikon for the trip. Minimum 10 pax (enough to crew all weapons) and the chance to shoot up a couple of Somali pirates.
Anybody want to provide a little start-up capitol?
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They were sailing around the world on a 40' sailboat--and yes, they often are ignorant of the news. A little BBC weather and ringing up the relatives after tea, and cheerio, we're off to wherever the breeze takes us. The pirates must be a little desperate, tho, as I doubt they have much money for ransom.
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With respect, Lumpy, that's a load of crap. They knew exactly what the risks are in that area. A ransom would come from the national Government, or agents of. The pirates apparently don't know, or are willing to test, the fact that, for all its many faults, even the current British Government does not have a history of paying ransoms to terrorists.
[Maghrebia] Algerian security services recently dismantled several terrorist support networks and made dozens of arrests, Echorouk reported on Sunday (October 25th). In the first operation, security officers in the western province of Relizane were tipped off by a terrorist. Information provided by a repentant terrorist also led to the arrests of 28 alleged members of two separate terror-support groups in Medea and Biskra provinces. Weapons and medical equipment were seized during the operations.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Yemen's navy seized on Monday an Iranian ship loaded with anti-tank weapons off its north-west coast in the Red Sea, an Al Arabiya correspondent in Sanaa reported, citing informed government sources.
The sources added that five Iranians and one Indian aboard the ship were detained and immediately taken to the capital Sanaa for investigation.
The ship was reportedly heading to Yemen's northern coast to unload its weapons' shipment in an area where it could be temporally hidden before being transported to the Houthi rebels in the Saada province.
The six-member crew aboard the ship were weapons experts who were sent to Yemen to replace other Iranians fighting alongside the Houthi rebels and who are thought to be wounded in battles with the government forces.
Yemen has repeatedly accused the Muslim Shiite-run Iran of backing the Shiite Zaidi rebels who took arms agains the Arab state's government in 2004.
The conflict between the two intensified in August when government forces launched Operation Scorched Earth against the rebels after several failed attempts to reach a peaceful deal.
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Many of the reports we've been getting here lately about Yemen come from IranPressTV, especially the ones about the Yemeni government killing innocent civilians. It's kinda funny how this report from Al Arabiya seems to take a somewhat different point of view.
[Bangla Daily Star] Former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar was shown arrested yesterday in a murder case filed in connection with the August 21 grenade attack.
Dhaka First Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ehsanul Haque passed an order to show him arrested in the case for allegedly giving administrative support to the attackers.
The court order came after Abdul Kahar Akond, additional superintendent of Criminal Investigation Department of police and investigation officer of the case, submitted a petition to show Babar arrested in the case and place him on a ten-day remand for interrogation.
The court fixed October 28 for hearing on the remand prayer in presence of Babar and asked the jail authorities to produce him before it on that day.
Twenty-three people were killed and 300 others injured in the grenade attack on an Awami League rally at Bangabandhu Avenue on August 21, 2004.
Police filed two cases -- one for murder and another under the Explosive Substances Act -- with Motijheel Police Station a day after the grenade attack.
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I'm not surprised. There was always something creepy about that elephant.
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Do you dislike circus clowns as well, Steve? Babar and Tintin were two of my childhood favourites, so I get a shiver down my spine every time the Bangladeshi one blackens the name with his miscreant ways.
[Bangla Daily Star] Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested two majlish-e-shura members and four other operatives of banned Islamist militant organisation Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), busting their dens in Narayanganj, Jamalpur, and Bagerhat early yesterday.
Majlish-e-shura is the highest decision making forum of JMB.
The two top tier leaders -- Mehedi Hasan alias Abeer, who was in charge of JMB's Khulna division, and Zahirul Islam alias Zahid alias Badal, who was in charge of Dhaka division (north), were arrested from a house at Borpa of Rupganj in Narayanganj.
The elite battalion seized one foreign pistol, 19 grenade casings, 20 detonators, other bomb making materials, and some books on jihad from the hideout.
Following up on information provided by the two arrestees, another team of Rab intelligence wing launched drives at different places in Jamalpur and arrested Hasan Sheikh, an ehsar member who was in charge of Jamalpur district, and gayre ehsar members Abdul Mazed and Akhtaruzzaman alias Shuruz Master, with four CDs and some books on jihad in their possessions.
In a near simultaneous raid Rab arrested the banned organisation's ehsar member also in charge of Bagerhat, Akbar alias Al Amin, from Mollahr Hat in the district.
Abeer, a long time JMB member was inducted into majlish-e-shura in 2007 while Badal, a close aide to JMB's current coordinator Bashar, was inducted into the top forum about two months ago, Rab officials said.
The officials also said Badal was looking after financial affairs of the organisation since Bashar, son of JMB chief Maulana Saidur Rahman, had stopped looking after the matter about two months ago.
"Although we couldn't arrest the JMB chief, we arrested his two close associates. We are hopeful of capturing the Ameer," Rab Director General Hassan Mahmood Khandkar told a media briefing at the battalion's headquarters yesterday.
The Rab chief said religious militancy in Bangladesh is effectively under control, but it has not been totally uprooted yet.
"We are noticing two things in JMB now, they are trying to increase their organisational strength, and they are preparing to carry out subversive activities in the future," the Rab DG said adding that the banned outfit is currently too weak to carry out any attack. He however added that his battalion is on alert to thwart any such attempt.
The arrested Islamist militants were paraded in front of the media at the briefing, but were not allowed to talk.
Rab officials said during primary interrogation the two shura members said they were planning to hold a meeting in the capital soon for coming to some decisions regarding strengthening JMB's activities.
They also admitted to Rab that they are now looking into use of guns, instead of their traditional penchant for bombs and grenades.
The Rab officials claimed that Al Amin was providing financial support to families of arrested JMB members, and was maintaining contacts with jailed operatives of the organisation.
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Bashar sez: curly-toed slippers...
Sounds like they may be wising up. These two spilled their guts immediately, sounds like. Maybe they won't get taken for the traditional 3am ride.
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has completed the construction of its largest and most sophisticated missile base on the west coast, laying the groundwork for improved intercontinental ballistic missiles, senior officials here said Monday. The Dongchang-ri base has been under construction for several years, deepening outside concerns that North Korea is continuing to develop its capability to deliver weapons of mass destruction.
"The construction is as good as finished," one South Korean official said. "The necessary facilities are all there."
Another official said North Korea has been testing missile parts such as boosters at the site about 200km northwest of Pyongyang and only 70km west of the main nuclear complex in Yongbyon.
"It's a leap in North Korea's ballistic missile development," the official said, adding the construction ended "only recently."
Analysts say the Dongchang-ri base is about three times larger than the Musudan-ri site where North Korea launched a long-range rocket in April, claiming that it put a satellite into space. Less than a month later, North Korea went ahead with its second nuclear test, triggering U.N. sanctions tougher than those imposed after the first one in 2006.
In June, South Korean officials said North Korea transported an intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, by train to the Dongchang-ri site from a munitions factory near Pyongyang, fueling tensions already high from the nuclear blast.
Nam Sung-wook, who heads a research institute affiliated with South Korea's spy agency, said in July that the Dongchang-ri site would allow for testing of missiles with a range of over 3,000km. The officials said the newest base is for ICBMs, which can fly at least 5,000km. The long-range rocket which the North fired in April is believed to have flown at least 3,000km.
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Y'all in the SKOR can be reassured that your food aid is being properly used in NORK, why without it the NORK's couldn't feed their slaves, while they poured Concrete.
Not SARC, Just disgust at SKOR's Stupidity.
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Mohammed El Fazazi, a radical cleric serving time in Morocco for his role in the 2003 Casablanca attacks, has written an open letter to Muslims in Germany, saying he has forsworn violence and praising Germany's religious tolerance. German authorities say the letter is a sensation.
This seriously made the surprise meter twitch ...
Mohammed El Fazazi, a Moroccan preacher who knew three of the Sept. 11 suicide pilots, appears to have forsworn violence. Fazazi, who was sentenced to 30 years in jail in his home country for the 2003 Casablanca attacks, has written an open letter addressing Muslims in Germany and saying he has "taken a wrong turn" and "overshot the target."
In 1999 and 2000, when he was imam of the Al-Quds mosque (now Taiba mosque) in the northern port of Hamburg, he called on Muslims "to remove the infidels from power, kill their children, capture their women and destroy their houses."
Now Fazazi writes that "Germany is not a battle zone." Every immigrant has a contract with the German state that must be adhered to. Germany, he writes, "has a freedom of religion which does not exist in many Islamic countries."
The fact that Hamburg alone had 46 prayer rooms was evidence of the German state's tolerance towards Muslims, he said, "because there is no comparably large number of churches in a city in any Islamic country."
Fazazi wrote that opposition to Germany's military involvement in Afghanistan must only be expressed through peaceful demonstrations. He added: "The strength of an argument does not lie in a rifle bullet." He also urges Muslims not to live off state benefits. "It is better for a Muslim to live from the work of his hands and the sweat of his brow because that mouthful is flavorsome and sweet," wrote the preacher.
German security authorites say the letter, which is dated July 21, is authentic and sensational. Even though Fazazi is in prison, he is unlikely to have written such an appeal under duress, they say. The letter has led to intense discussions in radical mosques in particular, officials say.
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"Don't arrest and deport me."
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Even though Fazazi is in prison
Ok, "Don't deport me." Casablanca has no comfy chairs.
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Remember that most of the Muslims in Germany are Turks, who are as a group a heck of a lot less radical than the predominantly Pakistanis in England, Moroccans and Algerians in France, Moroccan in Spain, and even "home grown" Muslims in the East, such as Bosnians and Albanians.
Add to that both the German police and cultural orderliness, which makes being a troublemaker a lot more problematic, and it's no surprise they have less trouble overall.
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Saying he has "taken a wrong turn" and "overshot the target." ... he called on Muslims "to remove the infidels from power, kill their children, capture their women and destroy their houses."
He overshot when he said destroy their houses. The houses did nothing and could be very helpful come winter. The rest, well if he said it and believes it, can only means he prefers a demographic victory.
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Maybe there is hope for some sectors of Islamic society after all. I dont know enough about the guy to determine whether he's full of crap or not, but I'll give him the benefit of doubt; he's already in jail, after all.
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Hmm. More Fadelism. Apparently fanatics get bored while stuck in stir. Sometimes they write Mein Kampf or In the Shade of the Quran, sometimes they "find Jesus".
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Indeed, Mitch. I think it was a year ago that the spiritual inspiration for the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda published a book -- from imprisonment in Egypt -- saying that Al Qaeda's violent approach is un-Islamic... or something like that. The 1968-ers have been growing old, and starting to think about the lives they're leaving their grandchildren.
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He also urges Muslims not to live off state benefits
I wish we could hear more Clerics say this in Europe as Unemployment is highest in Muslim neighbourhoods as they say they have to pray five times a day!
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A-Moose in Albania proper the US had some of the highest approval ratings, also Albanians showed tremendous heroism in WWII in hiding and protecting Jews. Many of the Albanians the moved West ie England and France have made wonderful gangsters and drug dealers but religon is typically not a factor. They used religon during the KLA/Serb war as a recruiting tool and financial support from arabs - deal with the devil - but typically Albanians put ethnicity and culture before religon.
A terrorist suspect accused of two counts of plotting to bomb a skyscraper in Dallas, Texas, pleaded not guilty Monday in federal court.
Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, a 19-year-old Jordanian, entered the United States illegally and lived in Texas, where he tried to set off an explosive attached to a vehicle at the base of the 60-story Fountain Place office tower, federal officials contend.
Smadi initially drew authorities' scrutiny because of his violent posts on an extremist chat site, court papers say. He was arrested last month in a sting operation. "Smadi was discovered by the FBI within an online group of extremists," the affidavit says. "Among many others in the group who espoused and endorsed violence, Smadi stood out based on his vehement intention to actually conduct terror attacks in the United States."
Undercover officers posing as members of an al Qaeda sleeper cell contacted Smadi and, after months of conversations, considered him to be a legitimate threat, according to the affidavit.
Smadi picked several potential targets, including the Dallas/Forth Worth International Airport, before deciding on the skyscraper, which houses Wells Fargo Bank, the affidavit says. It details a conversation that Smadi had with authorities in which he allegedly said: "I have decided to change the target. God willing, the strike will be certain and strong. It will shake the currently weak economy in the state and the American nation, because this bank is one of the largest banks in the city."
Smadi said many times that he wanted to commit violent jihad and that he was a soldier of Osama bin Laden, the affidavit says. Undercover agents tried to get Smadi to "re-evaluate his interpretation of jihad," saying there were nonviolent ways to commit the act, the affidavit says, but "Smadi again communicated his continuing commitment for violent jihad."
After casing the bank in July, Smadi told an undercover agent he would target it, according to authorities. Initially, Smadi told the agent he wanted to bomb the bank on September 11, but decided to wait until the Islamic holy month of Ramadan ended on September 20, authorities said.
After receiving what he thought was an explosive from an undercover agent, Smadi drove a car carrying the fake bomb into a parking garage under the skyscraper, authorities said. Smadi thought he could detonate the bomb by dialing his cell phone. When he dialed, the number rang a phone in authorities' possession, the affidavit says.
Smadi is charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, which carries a potential sentence of life in prison and a $250,000 fine upon conviction. Authorities said they have found no tie between Smadi and any terrorist group.
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It is impossible that he could have sneaked in and been living here illegally. Our immigration policies have been assembled by very wise politicians. [Like Ted Kennedy. Who years ago said that it's not like we will ever have a million illegals living amongst us, the implication being that more than that would obviously be a problem.] Anything else would mean that we are vulnerable to infiltrators on top of our own homegrown variety of terrorists. Fellow citizens, unless we firmly bury our heads in the sand, we are in trouble, because if we admit their presence, then that magically enables them.
A top militant commander and an aide of Swat Taliban chief Fazlullah was arrested from Charbagh on Monday, sources told Daily Times. Security forces arrested Ali Shah during a search operation and recovered sensitive documents from him. Separately, the bodies of four terrorists, including senior commander Rehmat Ali, were also recovered from Khawazakehla. Two terrorists were also taken into custody from Charbagh, while the troops also ousted Taliban from security forces' checkposts they had occupied in Mingora and its periphery.
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Hmm, Fazi must be squealing like a pig to the truncheon holders.
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My suspicion is that That the Paks are not adhering to the interrogation standards we use at Gitmo. A suspicion, not a known fact.
Four policemen died in a Maoist landmine attack in central India and six rebels were killed in a shoot-out, officials said on Monday, as government troops prepare to tackle a growing insurgency.
The police officers were killed on Sunday about 450 kilometres from Raipur, the capital of Chhattisgarh state, which is a stronghold of the left-wing rebels, superintendent Ambrish Mishra told AFP.
In a separate incident, police said they shot dead six suspected rebels and recovered a cache of weapons and explosives in a nearby district. Government and paramilitary forces are preparing for a major operation to take on the Maoists in the densely forested Chhattisgarh region. The Maoists, known as Naxals in India, have vowed to fight back by unleashing a "tornado" of violence.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has described the insurgency, which began as a peasant uprising in 1967, as the single greatest threat to India's internal security.
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Four policemen died in a Maoist landmine attack
Thirteen terrorists were killed and four security personnel martyred in separate clashes in Bajaur and Orakzai on Monday, as the military continued to target Taliban positions in the Tribal Areas. Six terrorists were killed in Orakzai Agency as Pakistan Air Force jets bombed terrorists' positions, a private TV channel reported. According to the channel, security forces conducted an operation in Mamozai, Upper Orakzai and Shakar Tangi, Central Orakzai. Seperately in Bajaur, Taliban fighters attacked a checkpoint near Matthak village, killing four security officials. Seven terrorists died in the clash, AP quoted Syed Ghulam Rasool, a local government official as saying. The Taliban also attacked security checkposts at Khar and Siddiqabad, wounding at least three security personnel.
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Pakistani forces detained 12 Iranian Revolutionary Guards on Monday for crossing into Pakistan days after an Iranian commander was reported saying his men should be allowed to confront terrorists in Pakistan.
"There are 12 Iranians who have been arrested along with two vehicles," Mohammad Akbar Durrani, home secretary of Pakistan's western province of Baluchistan, which borders Iran, told AFP.
"They are being interrogated," Durrani said, declining to give any details on the men's identities. "We informed the Foreign Office about the arrests."
A border official earlier said 11 Iranian Revolutionary Guards were arrested after they crossed the border into Pakistan, but he spoke on condition of anonymity and there was no other confirmation.
The Guards were arrested in the Mashkhel area on the border with Iran eight days after a suicide bomber killed 42 people, including six Revolutionary Guard commanders, in Iran's southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan province.
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Iranian hot air about the CIA aside, apparently the local authorities have a pretty good idea who's behind Jundallah.
Between this, the sabre-rattling on the Bangla/Burmese border, and the Syrian-Iraqi tension, I'm starting to get kind of a "widening gyre" feel from the news in South Asia this month. Ten months into the Age of Hope, and the facts on the ground suggest that the collective Middle East thinks the centre ain't holdin'.
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Security forces killed 34 Taliban in separate clashes in South Waziristan and Hangu on Monday as the military pressed on towards the Taliban stronghold of Sararogha, officials told Daily Times.
In South Waziristan, forces moved towards Makeen -- the main bastion of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) -- securing a key junction at Kazhakas on the road to Inzar Kallay and Sararogha.
A pitched battle was fought as security forces moved to secure the village of Gharlai and nearby ridges on the Kotkai-Sararogha road. According to ISPR, "10 terrorists were killed and 6 soldiers embraced shahadat, while 14 others were injured," it added.
On the second front, forces secured the small town of Chalwastai, and moved on the village of Sarwek just to the north. They also took control of the surrounding ridges. Security personnel then carried out a clearance operation to remove mines, IEDs and booby traps from the area. Seven terrorists were killed and five soldiers injured in the fighting there.
On the third front at Razmak, security forces secured the Shaga heights and Sharakai Sar in Nawazkot, giving them control of the Nawazkot-Makeen road. Two terrorists were killed and one soldier injured by sniper fire at Sharakai Sar.
Hangu: A group of terrorists launched what security officials termed "a diversionary raid" on a security post near Hangu. Fifteen terrorists and one soldier were killed in the counterattack. Later, security forces destroyed six hideouts and arrested 21 terrorists during a search operation.
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Okay,
I looked at a map.
Sararogha is about 150km south of Islamabad and 150km WNW of Lahore...
This is far from the Afghan border ...
Does Pakiwakiland control ANY of it's territory?
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Most of the country's south of Islamabad, 3dc. Sara Rogha is an old British Imperial fortress which was the site of a shocking Pakistani military defeat last year, when a battalion-sized element of Taliban overran the forty-man garrison. From the map here, it's in central South Waziristan, and on the eastern edge of the contested territory.
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KARBALA / Aswat al-Iraq: Casualties from the car bomb explosion that ripped through Karbala on Monday evening rose to three dead and eight wounded, director of the health department said.
Three people, including a woman and a policeman, were killed and eight others, including a woman and two children, were wounded in the booby-trapped car blast in north of Karbala, Alaa Hamoudi told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
A police source had said earlier that three civilians were killed and five were wounded in the explosion.
Karbala is 110 km southwest of Baghdad.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Iraqi security forces were on high alert on Monday, a day after twin suicide vehicle bombs blamed on al-Qaeda killed 155 people and blasted government offices in Baghdad.
More than 500 people were also wounded in the near-simultaneous attacks, which the government said were carried out by al-Qaeda and supporters of ex-dictator Saddam Hussein's banned Baath Party.
U.S. President Barack Obama led international condemnation of Sunday's attacks and offered his condolences by telephone to both Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and President Jalal Talabani.
The European Union's Swedish presidency expressed its disgust, while France offered its "full solidarity" and Britain said the attacks had "no justification."
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen condemned as "reprehensible" the attacks.
Iran joined the condemnation. "These terrorist actions aim to wreck stability and the process of reinforcing democratic structures," a foreign ministry official said.
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A KATYUSHA-TYPE rocket fired from Lebanon hit northern Israel today without causing any casualties, prompting Israel to retaliate with a salvo of missiles, sources on both sides said.
The rocket fired from Lebanon hit open ground east of the Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona and started a fire, which did not cause any serious damage, they said.
Witnesses in Kiryat Shmona said Israeli artillery retaliated by firing on targets in southern Lebanon. Asked to comment, an Israeli military source would neither confirm nor deny that.
Following the incident, a security source in Lebanon said eight rockets fired from Israeli hit near the border village of Hula. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
UN peacekeeping troops and the Lebanese army cut off the road leading to Hula and were searching the area, an AFP correspondent said.
Residents of Hula said they heard a rocket fired from the brush outside the village shortly before the rockets hit the area. This was the fourth rocket attack this year from Lebanon towards Israel and comes as cross-border tensions have been increasing.
On September 11, at least two rockets fired from the southern village of al-Qlaileh slammed into Israel without causing casualties but triggering retaliatory artillery fire.
A group linked to al-Qaeda claimed responsibility, according to US monitoring group SITE Intelligence.
In February, Israeli artillery bombarded al-Qlaileh in response to a rocket attack. There were no casualties in Lebanon, while a few Israelis were lightly wounded.
In January, during Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip, four rockets fired from Lebanon hit northern Israel, wounding two women.
Shiite movement Hezbollah, which fought a devastating 34-day war with Israel in 2006, has its stronghold in south Lebanon, where a rocket exploded on October 12 in the home of activist Abdel Nasser Issa in Tayr Felsay village.
The Israeli army released film it said showed rockets being removed from Mr Issa's home following the explosion, but Hezbollah said the pictures were of metal shutters at the location where explosion happened.
The Israeli army said the blast "proves again the presence of weapons forbidden in southern Lebanon" under UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 war.
The 34-day war killed more than 1200 Lebanese, mostly civilians, and more than 160 Israelis, mostly soldiers.
Resolution 1701 called for the removal of weapons in southern Lebanon from the hands of everyone except the Lebanese army and other state security forces.
Israel has repeatedly accused Hezbollah of rearming, and an Israeli army spokesman claimed on Tuesday night the group had "dozens of arms caches containing hundreds of rockets".
Following the October 12 incident, Israeli President Shimon Peres accused Hezbollah of having turned Lebanon into a powderkeg.
"It's not Israel that is endangering Lebanon, but rather Hezbollah, just as Hamas is endangering the Palestinians.
"There is no reason for Israel not to make peace with Lebanon," he said, adding that Israel's northern neighbour "could be, with the help of this peace, the Switzerland of the Middle East. But it's clear to everyone who is preventing this" .
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See how evil the Joooos are? Some innocent kid in Lebanon accidentally fired off a rocket he had built for a science fair project, and it accidentally landed in Israel, and didn't even hurt anybody. Yet the Joooos fired a bunch of rockets back at Lebanon. Who hadn't even done anything.
/sarcasm
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Its nice to see neighbors exchanging greetings.
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HAARETZ/TOPIX > IRAN: WORLD CAN'T STOP OUR ATOMIC PROGRAM AS LONG AS ISRAEL HAS NUKES.
AKA "We'll give up ours after Netanyahu = Israel gives up his".
* Also from TOPIX > SYRIAN GOLAN HEIGHTS: CAN INTERNATIONAL STOP FORESTALL A NEW [Syrian[ INTIFADA? Iff the Huzzies Hizzies Hezzies Hissies in Lebanon, + Hamas in Gaza, can do agz ISRAEL, why not SYRIAN PATRIOTS as per the GOLAN???
SAME > PRESSURE GROWS IN SYRIA TO TAKE BACK THE GOLAN HEIGHTS BY FORCE.
A policeman and a suspected Muslim separatist were killed in a shootout in Thailand's restive south, and another policeman was seriously wounded, police said on Tuesday. The incident took place on Monday evening in Pattani, one of three mainly Muslim provinces near the Malaysian border where more than 3,600 people have died in violence since 2004.
The 25-year-old police officer and the 27-year-old Muslim, believed by the police to be an insurgent, were killed when a group of soldiers, policemen and provincial officers went into a village where they suspected militants were hiding. The wounded policeman was shot in the shoulder and leg.
Two Buddhists were killed in a separate incident earlier on Monday in Pattani, shot dead by unidentified gunmen. In neighbouring Yala province, a bomb buried under the road near the railway in Raman district exploded early on Tuesday, injuring one ranger badly while he was on patrol.
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] Former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar was shown arrested yesterday in a murder case filed in connection with the August 21 grenade attack.
[Bangla Daily Star] Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested two majlish-e-shura members and four other operatives of banned Islamist militant organisation Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), busting their dens in Narayanganj, Jamalpur, and Bagerhat early yesterday. 
