Gunmen attacked a guest house used by U.N. staff in the Afghan capital of Kabul early Wednesday, killing at least seven people including three U.N. staff, officials said. A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility, saying it was meant as an assault on the upcoming presidential election.
Heavy gunfire reverberated through the streets shortly after dawn and a large plume of smoke rose over the city following the attack in the Shar-e-Naw district. Kabul police chief Abdul Rahman said seven people were killed, including some attackers.
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[Bangla Daily Star] The kidnappers of a Franco-British Red Cross worker in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region are demanding a three-million-euro ransom, a senior Sudanese official said yesterday.
Abdel Baqi Gilani, a state humanitarian affairs minister, said they have "demanded a ransom of three million euros (4.5 million dollars), but we will not pay a ransom, and the same goes for the Red Cross."
Gilani added, without elaborating, that the government had ruled out any military option to free Gauthier Lefevre, 35, kidnapped last week in West Darfur state near the Chadian border.
For her part, International Committee of the Red Cross spokeswoman Tamara al-Rifai said the kidnappers had asked for the ransom on Monday but stressed that the Red Cross did not discuss such demands.
"The policy of the ICRC is not to pay a ransom," she said, without disclosing any figure.
The ICRC said after a previous contact with the kidnappers that Lefevre was in good health.
This was the fifth abduction of a foreign worker since March when Sudan's ties with foreign aid groups soured after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for President Omar al-Beshir for alleged war crimes in Darfur.
It is the first time a Red Cross employee has been targeted.
Last week, two female aid workers -- Irishwoman Sharon Commins and Ugandan Hilda Kawuki -- were freed after being held hostage for 107 days in Darfur.
An Irish newspaper quoted a Beshir advisor, Musa Hilal, as saying they were ransomed for 150,000 euros (225,000 dollars). Irish, Sudanese and Ugandan authorities denied they were freed in exchange for money.
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Red Cross recruiting just fell like a rock of a cliff, NO loyalty to employees, you're on your own.
Morons.
(Employers, not Employees)
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Write them a check. It worked in some of our ransom situations.
[Maghrebia] Security services in Niger earlier this month arrested a high-profile Mauritanian terror suspect, Journal Tahalil quoted security services as saying on Monday (October 26th). Taghi Ould Youssouf was reportedly apprehended following the October 7th kidnapping of four geologists working near the Arlit uranium site in northern Niger. The geologists were freed later the same day.
Mauritanian authorities also reportedly suspect Youssouf in connection with the deadly attack on a broadcast centre in Tevragh Zeina in April 2008 by a terrorist group linked to al-Qaeda.
This article starring:
Taghi Ould Youssouf
al-Qaeda
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[Al Arabiya Latest] A Yemeni court sentenced to death four men involved in a Shiite rebellion in its northern provinces bordering Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, while Iran denied a Yemeni claim to have seized a ship with arms for the rebels.
On Monday, Yemen said it had impounded a vessel carrying weapons destined for the rebels of the Zaidi Shiite sect and detained its Iranian crew at the Red Sea port of Medi, in Haja province bordering the area of conflict.
Iran's Arabic language television channel Al-Alam reported "informed Iranian sources" saying on Tuesday that no Iranian vessel delivering weapons to the rebels was stopped, and describing the story as a "media fabrication".
Yemen's embassy in Washington said security officials were questioning the ship's five Iranian crew members.
Sanaa has suggested an Iranian hand behind the rebels, often termed Houthis after their clan and religious leaders. Government officials have said Iranian media backs the rebels and Saleh said Iranian religious figures provide funding.
Shiite power Iran and Shiite allies such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Iraq have called on Sanaa to bring the fighting to an end through negotiations.
The Houthis first took up arms against the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in 2004, citing political, economic and religious marginalization by the Saudi- and Western-backed government.
The government accuses the rebels, known also as Huthis, of seeking to restore the Zaidi imamate which ended in a republican coup in 1962.
The conflict intensified in August when the army unleashed Operation Scorched Earth. Aid groups, who have been given limited access to the northern provinces, say up to 150,000 people have fled their homes since 2004.
The court on Tuesday delivered a death sentence to four of 16 men on trial. Eleven were jailed for up to 15 years, while one was released for already having served out his sentence.
On Monday a court opened proceedings in absentia against Yahya al-Houthi, the brother of the rebels' leader, who is now based in Germany.
Veteran ruler Saleh also faces a separatist movement in the south and top oil exporter Saudi Arabia fears the instability will help al Qaeda launch more attacks there.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Police arrested four suspected JMB members at Bandarban early yesterday while Rab arrested two more at Bagerhat on Monday.
With the help of Bandarban sadar police, Naikkhangchhari police caught four JMB men from two separated residential hotels in the town.
The arrestees are identified as M Afsar Selim, 37, Shahidul Islam, 28, Abul Bashar, 20 and Nurul Afsar, 28.
Police said Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) earlier arrested these four at Naikkhangchhari check post on September 19. They were coming from Jaruliachari, a hilly border area. The four were produced before a court and placed on remand. Afsar Selim, on September 21, confessed that he was an ex-active member of Rohingya Solidarity Organization, a militant organization of Arakan Rohingya independent movement, police added.
The four men were released on Monday. A Bandarban Judicial Magistrate's Court granted them bail.
Police said they arrested the four again during a drive against JMB and also because their movement seemed suspicious.
They were later, produced before a local judicial magistrate's court. Police sought a ten-day remand, which is to be decided today after the hearing of the charge. "We have information that after release the arrestees were trying to contact other JMB men," Officer-in-charge of Bandarban Police Station Jahangir Alam told The Daily Star.
In a joint operation of Rab-6 and police two more JMB men were arrested on Monday at Gaola union under Mollahat upazila in Bagerhat.
The arrestees were identified as Akbar Ali Munshi, 24, son of Wahab Ali of Sharulia village and Daud Hossain Sheikh, 40, son of Abdur Rashid Sheikh of Udaypur village under Mollahat upazila.
Rab recovered 17 brochures and over a hundred of leaflets with instructions and guidelines on how to carry out militant activities.
Of the arrestees, Daud is wanted in connection with serial bomb blasts in Bagerhat town on August 17, 2005, police said.
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This and the other shooting death make it clear: the Left is prepping the battle space in Honduras.
TEGUCIGALPA, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- Alfredo Jalil, 81, father of Honduras' acting Deputy Defense Minister Gabo Jalil, was kidnapped Tuesday in Tegucigalpa near the government house, police reported. Alfredo was forced out of his car by at least two men, some 300 meters from the government house, police spokesman Orlin Cerrato said.
According to the local radio station Radio Globo, Alfredo's wife Gloria Mejia did not rule out the possibility that this kidnapping was related to the political crisis in the country. She publicly blamed paramilitaries of Venezuela, Nicaragua or El Salvador that might be involved.
Alfredo Jalil was deputy of the Honduran Congress in 1982. His son, Gabo Jalil, was appointed deputy defense minister by de facto President Roberto Micheletti, whose nephew was found dead on Monday.
On Sunday, a colonel of the Armed Forces, Concepcion Jimenez, was killed in front of his house in Tegucigalpa.
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If the Marxists want a dirty war, give it to them. C-130 flights over the Caribbean departing daily.
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This time around, Ed, USA is on the other side.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (Yonhap) -- Influential North Korean figure Jang Song-thaek will likely play the role of regent in helping to smooth the way for a third-generation power transition to one of leader Kim Jong-il's sons, a North Korean defector said Tuesday.
"With likely candidates dubbed too young to effectively govern, Kim Jong-il's worsening health and the fear of a sudden power vacuum might justify resorting to such a transitional system," said Kim Kwang-jin, former manager of North Korea's Northeast Asia Bank in Singapore, who defected to South Korea in 2003.
"This power shift would most likely be made either to a power block with a central player such as Jang Song-thaek or to collective leadership," Kim told a forum here at the Brookings Institution where he is a visiting fellow. Jang is Kim Jong-il's brother-in-law. So he's the best choice for regent; a family member too old to be king himself but with enough power to protect the wonder boy until he's full-grown.
The defector was discussing talks of a power transition to Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader's third and youngest son, who is believed to be the senior Kim's favorite.
Reports said the 26-year-old Jong-un has been for years serving as a mid-level official at the North's all-powerful National Defense Commission, through which Kim Jong-il controls the military as well as political and economic affairs.
In April, the North's parliament appointed Jang to the National Defense Commission, apparently to allow him to play a caretaker role in a smooth power transition. North Korea last month revised its constitution to formally make the head of the commission "the supreme leader" of the North.
The defector dismissed any chance of a military coup, saying, "No imminent challenge will come from the military as long as Kim Jong-il is in control."
"The possibility of military coup is low," he said. "High ranking military officials above the level of regiment commanders, as well as political leaders, are under constant, strict surveillance and supervision. In this system, close ties among superiors, subordinates and peers do not extend past official matters."
Kim Kwang-jin said that the North Korean system does not allow for any formation of power blocks.
"However, with a royal family background and high-level position at the Administrative Department, Jang Song-thaek has developed a strong reputation and is a trusted power in the Kim Jong-il regime," he said. "Jang could be expected to begin in a capacity with less power than Kim Jong-il until a hereditary successor would be deemed fit to serve."
Another scenario is the emergence of an interim collective leadership, he said.
"In the event that Kim Jong-il would not support Jang Song-thaek as the leader of transitional government or if Jang were reluctant to do so, a collective management could arise," he said. "In the case that a hereditary successor was named, this option could be chosen to divert support away from Jang Song-thaek, who with experience and reputation poses a possible threat to an incoming hereditary regime. Or the opposite could be true -- Jang could recognize the weakness of the hereditary heir and use it to wrest control of the state from the Kim family."
None of Kim Jong-il's three sons has had major posts in the government, military or the ruling Workers' Party. The senior Kim, by contrast, had consolidated power for two decades in various party and government posts by the time of the death of his father Kim Il-sung, the North's founding father, in 1994.
Jong-un was born to the leader's third known wife, Ko Young-hee, who died of breast cancer in 2004. The second son, Jong-chol, 28, who was also born to Ko, seems to be sidelined in the succession due to a weak chin temperament stemming from a hormone-related disease.
Jong-nam, the oldest son, who was born to the leader's late second wife, Song Hye-rim, has been adrift in China since 2001, when he was caught trying to visit Disneyland in Tokyo with his son and wife on a forged passport. The defector, however, said that 38-year-old Jong-nam still might have a chance due to his affiliation with Chinese leaders, noting China has saved him from an assassination attempt.
"It is believed that Kim Jong-nam's chances to lead would increase if (China) became involved in the North Korean transition," he said. "Kim Jong-nam lives in Macau and is generally assumed to act under the protection of the People's Republic of China. If China found a reason to intervene, China might be expected to give support to Kim Jong-nam."
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A Kurdish member of Turkey's parliament was sentenced to 18 months in jail Tuesday for "terrorist" propaganda, according to court records seen by AFP while a group of Kurdish refugees said they were denied entry visas.
The judge ruled that Aysel Tugluk "spread the propaganda of a terrorist organization" in remarks favoring the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has led a bloody 25-year rebellion against Ankara and is listed as a terrorist group, the document said.
A lawyer for Tugluk, who belongs to the Democratic Society Party (DTP), said they would appeal the sentence, handed down by a court in Diyarbakir, the largest city of the Kurdish-majority southeast.
In a speech made at a rally in Diyarbakir in 2006 before she was elected parliament member, Tugluk praised a declaration signed by tens of thousands of Kurds upholding jailed PKK chieftain Abdullah Ocalan as their leader.
She also said PKK demands should be taken into account in efforts to end the Kurdish conflict.
The court sent the ruling to parliament, which, under Turkish law, has to lift a deputy's judicial immunity before any prison term can take effect.
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ION TOPIX > ISRAEL ACCUSES HIZBOLLAH OF PLANNING ATTACKS IN TURKEY.
A-Pee article, full article at link. short version: A-hole Imam (Luqman Ameen Abdullah AKA Bob Christopher Thomas) of black radical Sunni Islamic group resists arrest in FBI raid in Detroit, gets ventilated
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what a truly excellent story..thanks for sharing.
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Also busted 2.5 Canadians. Fencing or smuggling goods over the border too?
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So, uh, Mr. Thomas, how long is that line to the 72 virgins -- oh, but wait a minute if you're in line are they still virgins? Oh, the complexities of thine chosen radical religion.
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In another article at the Det dot com site:
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement unveiled today a 50-member task force comprised of federal, state, local and Canadian agencies designed to combat cross-border crimes. The Border Enforcement Security Task Force, or BEST, will focus on national security and terrorist threats, human smuggling and trafficking, contraband smuggling, money laundering, bulk cash smuggling, transnational gang activities and other criminal acts. The team, which is the third along the northern border, covers 721 miles. The initiative will be housed in the federal building downtown.
In 2008, task forces nationally seized 1,083 points of cocaine, 52,420 pounds of marijuana, 432 weapons, 299 vehicles, four properties and $8.8 million in cash and monetary instruments.
Looks like they are at least putting some of that vacant property to good use.
Two Chicago men are charged with planning terrorist acts against overseas targets, including a Danish newspaper that sparked riots in the Muslim world when it published cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, prosecutors said Tuesday.
David Coleman Headley, 49, and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 48, were charged in separate complaints filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Chicago. Headley told FBI agents that the initial plan called for an attack against the newspaper building in Copenhagen, but he later proposed just killing the paper's cartoonist and former cultural editor, according to an FBI affidavit released Tuesday.
The charges were unsealed nine days after the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force conducted a massive raid on an Islamic butcher shop in the tiny rural town of Kinsman, Ill., that left residents stunned. The halal butcher is one of a few businesses owned by Rana.
Prosecutors say Headley traveled to Denmark twice this year to identify potential targets for a terrorist attack, and that Rana helped arrange Headley's travel, concealing the true nature of his trips.
Headley, who changed his name from Daood Gilani in 2006, is charged with conspiracy to commit terrorist acts involving murder and maiming outside the United States, and could face life in prison if convicted.
He and Rana are both charged with plotting to provide material support to a foreign terrorism conspiracy, a charge that could net Rana 15 years in prison. Headley is a U.S. citizen; Rana is a native of Pakistan and a citizen of Canada, though he resides primarily in Chicago.
Headley was arrested Oct. 3 at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport on his way to Pakistan -- where federal officials charge he was planning to meet with representatives of the Pakistan-based terrorist groups Lakshar-e-Taiba and Harakat ul-Jihad Islami (HUJI), a group tied to Al Qaeda.
He told FBI agents following his arrest that he received training from Lakshar-e-Taiba while in Pakistan and had worked with Ilyas Kashmiri, a local chief of HUJI.
On Oct. 18, two weeks after Headley's arrest, the Joint Terrorism Task Force searched four locations in Illinois and arrested Rana at his home in Chicago. The JTTF also searched Headley's home and Rana's immigration business in Chicago, as well as the halal butcher operation Rana owns in Kinsman.
Prosecutors charge that Headley has "corresponded extensively" in coded communications with Pakistani terrorists regarding what he called the "Mickey Mouse Project" -- planned attacks on the Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, and its employees.
The Danish Security and Intelligence Service, or PET, said it and the FBI worked together to thwart the plot and that an attack was not imminent.
"PET and the FBI assess that the arrests and the uncovering of the terrorist plans have reduced the risk of an attack. PET and the American authorities however are continuing their intensive investigation in order to mitigate this threat," said agency head Jakob Scharf.
Headley's attorney, John Theis, said he had no comment. Rana's attorney, Patrick Blegen, said that his client "is a well respected businessman in the Chicagoland community."
"He adamantly denies the charges and eagerly awaits his opportunity to contest them in court and to clear his and his family's name," Blegen said. "We would ask that the community respect the fact that these are merely allegations and not proof."
When federal agents arrested Headley on Oct. 3, they found a memory stick with 10 short videos of sites in Denmark, including the two offices of Jyllands-Posten, the inside and outside of Copenhagen's central train station and a nearby military barracks, according to their affidavit.
Officials charge that Rana purchased plane tickets for Headley's frequent travels around Europe and Pakistan over the past year, helped him engage in e-mail contact to further his plans and employed Headley in what may have been a cover operation, as Headley appears to have done little or no actual work for Rana's immigration business.
E-mails between Headley and a member of Lakshar-e-Taiba show that the terrorist group also asked him to visit India to help plan an attack there, the complaint says. Lakshar-e-Taiba was responsible for the 2008 attacks in Mumbai that killed more than 170 people.
Another attack in India? Remind how connected LeT is to the ISI?
Federal prosecutors said there was no imminent danger in the Chicago area, but the charges underscore the continuing threat of terrorism on U.S. soil and overseas.
"This case is a reminder that the threat posed by international terrorist organizations is global in nature and requires constant vigilance at home and abroad," said David Kris, assistant attorney general for National Security.
The cartoons that prosecutors say inflamed Headley appeared in the Jyllands-Posten newspaper in 2005. The 12 cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad triggered widespread protests throughout the Islamic world and threats from extremist groups. Headley wrote online that the images "disposed him toward violence," the complaint alleges.
One cartoon showed Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban. Any depiction of the prophet, even a favorable one, is frowned on by Islamic law as likely to lead to idolatry.
The below added at 4:49 pm ET: A few new details from the Times. Hattip Mark Steyn:
Two men from Chicago who went to military school in Pakistan face terrorism charges for allegedly targeting the Jyllands-Posten newspaper, which outraged hardline Muslims by publishing the 12 cartoons in 2005.
The men allegedly planned to kill Flemming Rose, the cultural editor, and Kurt Westergaard, the cartoonist.
Court papers said that Mr Headley told FBI agents that he went to Denmark in January and July this year to carry out surveillance on the newspaper's offices in Copenhagen and Ã…rhus "in preparation for an attack to be carried out by persons associated with Kashmiri and Individual A", another Lashkar-e-Taiba contact in Pakistan. Between the trips he allegedly met Individual A in Pakistan.
He also allegedly conducted surveillance at a synagogue because of a mistaken belief that Mr Rose was Jewish.
Isn't everyone the jihadis dislike?
When he was arrested, Mr Headley allegedly had a ticket to fly from the US to Denmark on October 29.
Mr Headley is charged with conspiracy to commit terrorist acts involving murder and maiming outside the US, which carries a life sentence.
While in Denmark he allegedly posed as a potential advertiser on behalf of a Chicago business, First World Immigration Services, run by Tahawwur Hussain Rana.
What reason could he possibly give for why such a business would advertise in a Danish village newspaper?
Court papers indicate that Mr Headley and Mr Rana, 48, a Pakistani-born Canadian citizen, who is reported to be a former Pakistani army captain, went to the same military school in Hasan Abdal, Pakistan.
Very interesting, that bit.
Mr Rana, who was arrested in Chicago on October 18, faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted of lending material support to a terrorist conspiracy.
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"...Any depiction of the prophet, even a favorable one, is frowned on by Islamic law as likely to lead to idolatry."
- only Sunni sharia is like this; Shia law is silent on the issue
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Say this sentence out loud a few times for it to really sink in: They were going to kill people because of some cartoons.
An explosion rocked a women's market in Pakistan's main northwest city of Peshawar on Wednesday, killing at least 43 people in the latest attack to shake the country as the army battles Islamist militants along the Afghan border.
The death toll was expected to rise further as local media reported "scores" buried in rubble.
At least 35 people were wounded in the blast, police said. It coincided with a trip to Pakistan by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who was in the capital, Islamabad, some three hours drive away.
The explosion hit Peepl Mandi, a neighborhood in the city where many Shiite Muslims live. Police official Sajid Khan said it struck the Mina Bazaar, which caters to female shoppers. Another police official Abdul Sattar confirmed the casualty figures.
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up to 86 dead as os a few minutes ago
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They've still got 50 or 60 deaders to go to catch up to their brethren in Iraq, which was likely the idea...
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Yes, the brave lions of Islam blowing up women at a market. Even their own women. But it's far safer than attacking boy scouts or Allah forbid, actual soldiers...
Guess they must have run out of acid to throw on the faces of the women... Talk about a crappy draw to be born a women in a Muslim country...
[Al Arabiya Latest] Pakistani authorities on Tuesday released 11 Iranian Revolutionary Guards detained a day earlier for trespassing into Pakistani territory, officials said.
The guards were arrested in the Mashkhel area on the border with Iran eight days after a suicide bomber killed 42 people, including 15 members of the Revolutionary Guards, in Iran's southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan province.
A Sunni Muslim group, Jundollah (God's soldiers), claimed responsibility for that blast and Iran said the group operated from Pakistan. On Tuesday last week, a senior Revolutionary Guards commander said his force should be given permission to confront terrorists inside Pakistan, state media reported.
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HMMMMM....
ION PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > INDIA BUILDS 60 DAMS ON THE JEHLUM TO DENY PAKISTAN WATER???
Wehell, fortunately for PAKLAND + perhaps even CHINA, INDIA + ITS WORLD-CLASS ENGINEERS REPOR
HAVE A REPUTATION FOR BUILDING SOLID DAMS WHICH EVENS COLLAPSE IN SHORT TIME???
CHINA'S DAMS = IMO akin to WW2's "SINK THE TIRPITZ" [Sandinavian fjords], i.e. protecting agz VARIOUS COMMANDO + AIR STRIKE OPERS [confined spaces], ESPEC IFF JAPAN GOES NUKULAAR MILITARZ COME YEAR 2020 OR SHORTLY AFTER.
[Dawn] The mastermind of the Hayatabad and Khyber bazaar blasts has been arrested, Inspector General Police Malik Naveed said on Tuesday.
Naveed said a number of people were arrested during the past few days and security in Peshawar was put on red alert.
He said there were apprehensions that militants would intensify attacks in the North West Frontier Province, in retaliation to the South Waziristan operation, but added that police was so far successful in foiling their attempts.
Naveed said a huge quantity of explosives was recovered during the past week and a comprehensive plan was being chalked out to provide maximum security to educational institutions. -- DawnNews
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[Dawn] Nineteen suspected militants and six troops were killed in clashes in South Waziristan on Monday.
An army statement said troops were progressing on three fronts in South Waziristan, but were meeting resistance on all of them. It said over the last 24 hours, 19 militants and six soldiers had been killed.
The heaviest fighting was reported on the advance towards the Taliban stronghold of Sararogha after the military claimed its first major success in capturing Kotkai, the hometown of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Hakimullah Mehsud.
In the fight to secure Ghalai village, on the main road from Kotkai to Sararogha, six soldiers and 10 militants were killed, the military said.
Troops also secured an important road junction en route to Sararogha and the ridges that dominate to the east and west.
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WMF > GILANI: ARMY WILL NOT STOP WAZIRISTAN OFFENSIVE DESPITE LOSSES + WEAKNESS: SOUTH WAZIRISTAN ANTI-TERROR OFFENSIVE VULNERABLE TO LACK OF US BUDGET FUNDING; + TALIBAN FACE MULTI-SIEGE IN WAZIRISTAN.
VARIOUS NET > Can INDIA, CHINA, + CENTRAL ASIAN STATES/-STAND MIL STOP THE TALIBAN, etal. FROM ESCAPING INTO THEIR REGIONS iff defeated in South Waziristan by the PAK Army???
[Dawn] Sixteen militants were killed and 23 others injured during a joint operation by the army and Frontier Constabulary in Tora Warai area of Hangu district on Sunday night and Monday. Fifty-four militants, some Afghans among them, were captured.
According to officials, security officer Abdul Jaffar lost his life and seven other personnel suffered injuries in the operation which was launched after an attack by militants on a military checkpost in Tora Warai late on Sunday night.
According to reports reaching here, hundreds of militants of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan from Orakzai Agency and no-go areas of Hangu took part in the attack.
Troops repulsed the attack after a gunbattle which continued for about two hours.
The officials told Dawn that militants had taken away the bodies of their colleagues and the injured.
Six hideouts of militants were destroyed in Tora Warai and a large quantity of arms and ammunition, including two rocket-launchers, five rockets, two grenades, three shotguns, two rifles, four pistols and automatic weapons, was seized.
Militants use Tora Warai to enter North Waziristan from Orakzai. A few days ago, security forces blew up a road linking Hangu with North Waziristan to stop the movement of militants.
Meanwhile, DPO Gul Wali Khan said that police had arrested 22 suspects, including seven illegal Afghan nationals, during a search operation in Hangu and Thall.
Two Kalashnikovs, three rifles, five shotguns, seven pistols and cartridges were seized.
Police also foiled an attempt to smuggle a large quantity of food items to Afghanistan and arrested six people. Three trucks carrying 1,050 bags of flour, 10 bags of wheat, 400 bags of sugar and 60 tins of ghee were impounded.
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[Dawn] A high-ranking army officer narrowly escaped an attempt on his life here on Tuesday.
This was the second attack on a senior officer here in less than a week. On October 22, Brig Moinuddin Ahmad was killed by terrorists in G-11/1 sector.
Brig Waqar Ahmad Malik, director of defence services guards at the GHQ, was going to a bank along with his mother in his official car bearing private registration number when a gunman in khaki and wearing a shawl opened fire on him.
The brigadier, who was in mufti, escaped unhurt because his driver Lance Naek Nasir Mehmood sped the vehicle away. The windscreen of the car was smashed and its roof was badly damaged.
Sources said the gunman had been lying in wait near the Sui gas chowk since 7:45 in the morning and when the brigadier's car reached there at around 9:15 he unleashed a hail of bullets from a sub-machine gun.
When the officer reached the Industrial Area police station, he was provided with a police escort. He returned to the site of the attack before proceeding to his house.
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[Dawn] The military has claimed to have killed 42 militants in South Waziristan during 24 hours since Monday evening. One soldier lost his life.
The Inter-Services Public Relations said that troops continued their advance towards Sararogha, a stronghold of followers of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan chief Hakimullah Mehsud, after flushing out militants from their positions around Kotkai. A number of villages have been cleared and important hills have been secured.
According to an official, troops reached Touda China and Ganra Kach, near Sararogha, after fierce clashes.
Warplanes attacked militants' hideouts in Laddah and Shiraki. A college building under occupation of militants was also bombed.
According to ISPR, troops cleared the village of Zeriwam and nearby hills on the Jandola-Sararogha axis. Ridges around the main road and Ganra Kas and Konar Height were secured. Troops also cleared Garlai after clash in which five terrorists were killed and one soldier laid down his life.
On the Shakai-Kaniguram axis, troops cleared an area along the Sherwangi-Laddah road and reached the suburbs of Kund Mela-Momekaram. Seven terrorists were killed.
On the Razmak-Makin axis, security forces surrounded Nawazkot and took positions on important ridges. They regained control of the old FC post in Nawazkot and seized a large quantity of arms and ammunition.Thirty militants were killed when troops attacked their positions in Pakallita Sar, Manza Sar, Green Ridge, Lahgar Narai, Zar-i-Sar Base, China and Makin.
Tip Ghar, Pt 6813 and Laghar Narai areas were cleared. Two soldiers were injured when terrorists fired two rockets at a camp in Razmak.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] A group linked to al-Qaeda said it carried out the twin suicide bombings that killed 155 people in Baghdad on Sunday and revived doubts about security in the run-up to Iraq's elections in January.
The statement dated Oct. 26 was posted by the Islamic State in Iraq group on a website often used by militants to announce responsibility for such attacks.
"Suicide bombers targeted the dens of infidelity and pillars of the rejectionist Shiite state in the land of the caliphate," the statement said.
It employed language often used by Sunni Arab militants to describe the Shiite Muslim majority that has dominated the Iraqi government since the U.S.-led invasion of 2003.
"Among the chosen targets were the ministry of oppression known as the ministry of justice and the Baghdad provincial assembly ... The enemies only understand the language of force," said the statement.
The authenticity of the claim could not be immediately verified.
The same group said it was behind attacks near government ministries in Baghdad that killed 95 people in August.
Officials said two mini-buses were used in Sunday's attacks, circumventing a ban on truck traffic in heavily policed central Baghdad.
Both were driven by suicide bombers from a nearby site, according to aerial images from U.S.-operated airships that hover over the city.
Iraq has blamed Sunday's attack and bombings on Aug. 19 on al-Qaeda and supporters of Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath party.
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Suspected Islamic terrorists militants shot dead four civilians in Thailand's south Wednesday, police said, one day after the prime minister backed plans for the mainly Muslim region to get more autonomy.
Police said terrorists gunmen burst into a motorbike repair shop in restive Pattani province on Wednesday and shot a Buddhist man dead before dousing the body in petrol and setting it alight. Two other Buddhist men and a Muslim man who was a government informer were killed in other, separate drive-by terrorist shootings on Wednesday, they said.
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Tuesday lent his support to a suggestion by his Malayasian counterpart Najib Razak that the south should have "some form" of autonomy. Razak is due to visit Thailand in December and will go with Abhisit to the south.
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Yeah - Firefly/Serenity had two extremely HOT women - Jewel Staite and Morena Baccarin.
Choosing between them is like choosing between Ginger and Maryanne.
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Miss Staite has been appearing in Dollhouse on Fox on Fridays at 9 pm, for those who miss her.
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] The kidnappers of a Franco-British Red Cross worker in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region are demanding a three-million-euro ransom, a senior Sudanese official said yesterday.
[Maghrebia] Security services in Niger earlier this month arrested a high-profile Mauritanian terror suspect, Journal Tahalil quoted security services as saying on Monday (October 26th). 
[Al Arabiya Latest] A Yemeni court sentenced to death four men involved in a Shiite rebellion in its northern provinces bordering Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, while Iran denied a Yemeni claim to have seized a ship with arms for the rebels.
[Bangla Daily Star] Police arrested four suspected JMB members at Bandarban early yesterday while Rab arrested two more at Bagerhat on Monday. 
Two Chicago men are charged with planning terrorist acts against overseas targets, including a Danish newspaper that sparked riots in the Muslim world when it published cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, prosecutors said Tuesday.
[Dawn] The mastermind of the Hayatabad and Khyber bazaar blasts has been arrested, Inspector General Police Malik Naveed said on Tuesday. 
[Dawn] Security forces captured a close aide of Swat Taliban chief Maulana Fazlullah on Monday.
[Dawn] Sixteen militants were killed and 23 others injured during a joint operation by the army and Frontier Constabulary in Tora Warai area of Hangu district on Sunday night and Monday. Fifty-four militants, some Afghans among them, were captured.
[Dawn] A high-ranking army officer narrowly escaped an attempt on his life here on Tuesday.
[Dawn] The military has claimed to have killed 42 militants in South Waziristan during 24 hours since Monday evening. One soldier lost his life.
