I've put us back into normal configuration. I've got some changes I need to make under the hood, and Badanov's working on something beyond my pale comprehension. When we went back to the normal configuration the Chinamen were still there, spamming mechanically.
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I've modified comments so they will only take three links within the text. That should make it less worthwhile to spam us.
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Thank you for all your hard work over the years, it is truely appreciated
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Thanks Fred!
I'll hit the tip jar next week for ya! ;)
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I REALLY wanted to answer your security picture correctly but you didn't have MMA as one of the answers.
Re:#4 Bobby, that's a good question. Fred (and all the wonderful elves helping) do you know if your attacks are unique to you or part of a larger pattern? (i.e. are they going after all/many/most popular conservative sites?)
stuff like that
things that hit home to every Chin.
reverse censorship
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Mike Hunt: More subtle and to the point would be a side by side of Mao and Hong Xiuquan, the "Son of Heaven" and leader of the Taiping Rebellion, that ended up slaughtering at least 25 million Chinese.
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Not surprised--even Google, who bent over and grabbed their ankles for the Chi-coms, has had enough of their hacking and stopped colluding with them. "Do no evil" meets hard, cold reality.
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Or Google looked in the mirror and recognized they were getting deeper into evil and still being targeted. "Enough."
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Ranburg: Commies and terrorists recognizing you as a threat is an honor. Thank you for your service to the free world. You deserve at the very least, a purple heart.
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Fred (and all the wonderful elves helping) do you know if your attacks are unique to you or part of a larger pattern? (i.e. are they going after all/many/most popular conservative sites?)
Short answer: No.
Spammers are online thieves. Rather than pay a reasonable fee through ad agencies to hawk their wares, spammers steal bandwidth in order to make their money through advertising.
The really dishonest ones, the ones who can report back to a customer "Hey we just posted 26,000 ads for mal3 3nhanc3m3nt, pay this invoice.", even though the ads are in archives to be seen by very few people; they are the problem in rantburg.com at the moment.
My view is that the spamming is not officially sanctioned; Officially, the Chicoms have bigger fish to fry than rantburg.com
The second part of your question: I visit regularly a number of (IMO) top conservative websites ( redstate.com American Thinker freerepublic.com ) and none of them report DDOS attacks, nor have I heard of DDOS attacks on them since 2002.
No one DDOS attacks political sites any more especially ones with wide pipes. The old DDOS attacks earlier in the decade were easy marks intending to being down a shared server and a number of websites at the same time.
Nowawdays it is hard to gather the resources necessary be hammer an ethernet port anonymously.
Some of the *chans has the resources to do it, but none of the ideological opponents to the GWOT do.
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CYBERCATS NEWS SERVICE > [Senator Lisa Murkowski]TALIBAN STRONGEST IN SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN [Helmand > 50%] WHERE 2009 US CASUALTIES ARE CONCENTRATED. Too many Taliban, not enuff local Afghan Govt. Army-Police.
SNETAOR MITCH MCCONNELL: THERE IS NO QUESTION THE US MILITARY PRESENCE IS CREATING [badly needed] IMPROVEMENTS.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Locals say troops of the US-led alliance have killed at least eight Afghan civilians at a demonstration organized to protest against the alliance forces' desecration of the Holy Quran.
The mortalities were caused by fire from the alliance forces during the demonstration, which about 2,000 people attended, in the southern province of Helmand, locals said on Tuesday, the German news agency DPA reported.
Residents said the troops had stormed a house and destroyed copies of the Muslim holy book in a local mosque in the province's Garmsir district on Sunday.
"We have proof that they destroyed our Holy Quran. We can show it to [President Hamid] Karzai's government or the foreign forces," said resident Habibullah Jan.
"The people came out of their homes today [Tuesday] to protest this action of foreign forces in a peaceful way, but the Afghan and international forces opened fire on us and killed eight people," Haji Abdul Manan, one of the organizers of the demonstration, was quoted as saying by DPA.
And over 20 people were injured, he added.
"In this demonstration, 13 people died and 25 were wounded. The situation is very bad and the protest is still going on. People are very angry with foreigners because they have desecrated our Holy Quran. Also, they fired on demonstrators. I repeat that many people died and were wounded during the protest," Reuters quoted Haji Jan Gul, who brought some of the wounded to the hospital, as saying.
However, US spokesman for the military alliance Lt. Nico Melendez claimed that no shots had been fired and added that the alliance's troops had not committed any sacrilegious acts, Associated Press reported.
"We take such allegations very seriously and would support a combined investigation with local Afghan authorities," he stated.
In response to a similar act of desecration in Wardak province in October, angry rallies were held.
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We have proof that they destroyed our Holy Quran. We can show it to [President Hamid] Karzai's government or the foreign forces," said resident Habibullah Jan...Al Qaeda told us.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] At least 36 people have been killed and over 50 others injured in the third day of heavy clashes in central Somalia as Ahlu Sunnah attempts to take the Al-Shabab stronghold.
Pro-government Ahlu Sunnah forces and Al-Shabab fighters fought for the second day in the central villages of Wabho and Warhole, in the Galgadud region, causing the death of at least 16 people while more than 30 others were injured, a Press TV correspondent reported on Tuesday.
According to witnesses, the clashes started late on Monday and continued for the better part of Tuesday in both the villages, which are strategically important for the armed groups battling for control of the region.
The villages, which are under the control of Ahlu Sunnah, are near Elbur town, where Al-Shabab's largest military base is located.
Some reports suggest that Al-Shabab has deployed thousands of its fighters to defend the base from any incursion.
However, Sheikh Abdullahi Abdirahman Abu Yussuf, a spokesman for the Ahlu Sunnah group, vowed that Ahlu Sunnah would not rest until they capture Elbur.
"We will not rest until we make sure that the region, especially Elbur, is free of Al-Shabab. We are prepared to do everything," he added.
He also claimed that Ahlu Sunnah forces killed several Al-Shabab fighters.
"The fighting, which started early today (Tuesday) and stopped later in the day was intense. Some of the dead bodies of Al-Shabab fighters are scattered all over the place," the Ahlu Sunnah spokesman said, adding that the village, together with neighboring Warhole, is still under their control.
Meanwhile, in the strategic central town of Beledweyne, which lies some 300 kilometers north of Mogadishu, heavy clashes between Hizbul Islam fighters and pro-government forces have claimed more than 10 lives while 23 others have been injured.
According to Shuriye Farah Sabriye, Hizbul Islam's governor in the region, the battles were the fiercest clashes that the town has seen.
Hundreds of families have evacuated Beledweyne due to the fighting.
The death toll from Monday's fighting is reportedly over 10. Some of the victims were buried on Tuesday, before the resumption of the clashes.
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ION PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > AL-SHABBAB: BLACKWATER/XE MERCENARIES[US CIA-INTEL controlled] HAVE ARRIVED IN SOMALIA [Mogadishu], ostensibly to launch LOCAL US-ORDERED PROXY TERROR ATTACKS E.G. PUBLIC PLACES IN AND AROUND MOGADISHU.
[Maghrebia] The six Europeans kidnapped in Mauritania and Mali since November are currently being held by three different al-Qaeda groups in the northern Mali desert, Journal Tahalil reported on Monday (January 11th), citing Malian security sources and the AFP Bamako bureau.
Frenchman Pierre Camatte is being held by radical Algerian AQIM emir Abdelhamid Abu Zeid, responsible for beheading British hostage Edwin Dyer last June. The three Spanish humanitarian aid workers abducted in Mauritania last November are reportedly in the hands of Algerian Mokhtar Belmokhtar, aka Lâaouar. According to Algerian daily Ennahar, however, they are with Abu Zeid's more "dangerous" faction. The Italian couple is held by Abu Yahya Amane, "a lieutenant of Abu Zeid, wishing to mark his own territory", the security source said.
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ABDELHAMID ABU ZEID
al-Qaeda in North Africa
ABU YAHYA AMANE
al-Qaeda in North Africa
MOKHTAR BELMOKHTAR
al-Qaeda in North Africa
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A Moroccan court on January 7th sentenced members of the group Fath al-Andalous (Reconquest of Andalusia) to fines and 4-15 year prison terms for plotting terrorist attacks against military and civilian facilities.
Those convicted were arrested last summer and charged with preparing terrorist attacks against the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) headquarters. Authorities also claimed Fath Al-Andalous had exchanged messages about how to assemble explosives with members of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria, Mauritania, France and Spain.
The prison terms handed down by the court, which specialises in terrorism cases, were far less severe than the prosecutors' recommendations. "The sentences issued in that case were mitigated," a Moroccan expert on extremism, Mohamed Darif, told Magharebia after the trial. He claimed that the judges in such courts hand out light sentences because they are embarrassed by the weak evidence submitted by investigators.
The court sentenced Rachid Zerdani, a mechanic and the alleged leader of the terrorist cell, to 15 years in prison and a 500,000-dirham fine. Four others -- Kamal Zeimi, Ismail Ammar, Abdel Mawla Emara and Abdel Rahman Oufi -- were each sentenced to 10 years in prison. Six others earned eight-year terms, while another three were sentenced to 3 years behind bars. One defendant will serve no time, but must pay a 5,000-dirham fine.
The defendants hail from Laayoune, Tangier, Tetouan, Larache and Casablanca.
Terrorism researcher Idriss Kasouri called the sentences too severe. "The [court] specialised in terrorism cases plays its role in the continuation of the pre-emptive war on terrorism," he said. "Thus ... as soon as defendants are made to appear in court, severe sentences are handed down against them, even though the prosecution's evidence is usually not that strong".
Security specialist Mohammed Benhemmou told Magharebia that the threats of extremism and terrorism still exist and that there is a need to remain vigilant. "Today, if we are to combat the menaces of extremism and terrorism, we need to be united not just at the local and regional levels, but also at the international level," he said.
However, Unified Socialist Party chief Mohammed Moujahid expressed concern that heavy-handed measures might backfire on Morocco's anti-terrorism campaign. He claimed that extremism had diminished in recent years, both in Morocco and across the Arab region. While acknowledging that a threat still exists, Moujahid said it was important to build the foundation of a healthy democracy by reforming the constitution, the school system and the legal system. Most importantly, he said, Morocco needs to eliminate the twin scourges of marginalisation and restricted liberties. "We have to build a solid economic and social space that allows the public to exercise their full rights as citizens," he said. "In this way, extremism will be deprived of the breeding ground it needs."
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ABDEL MAWLA EMARA
Fath al-Andalous
ABDEL RAHMAN UFI
Fath al-Andalous
ISMAIL AMAR
Fath al-Andalous
KAMAL ZEIMI
Fath al-Andalous
RACHID ZERDANI
Fath al-Andalous
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Yemeni security forces killed a suspected militant who was on a government list of wanted al-Qaida figures, and arrested four others in a raid on a house in a remote mountainous province, the region's governor said Wednesday.
Elsewhere in Shabwa province, suspected al-Qaida fighters ambushed a patrol before dawn Wednesday, killing two members of the security forces and wounding four others, officials said.
Shabwa's governor, Ali Ahmadi, identified the slain militant as Abdullah Mihzar, a native of the province who was on a government list of wanted al-Qaida figures. Ahmadi told reporters he was killed in a raid on a house Tuesday night. During the fighting, Mihzar was killed, four others were arrested, but the rest escaped, the officials said.
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Does anyone think countries like Yemen,Pakistan and Somalia want Al Qaeda so they can collect cheques from the West to pretend to fight them?
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Does anyone think countries like Yemen,Pakistan and Somalia want Al Qaeda so they can collect cheques from the West to pretend to fight them?
No. At least not all of them.
Somalia doesn't have a functioning central government. Any so called peacekeeping is being done by the African Union.
The sad fact is that, at this point, Yemen and Pakistan are necessary-evil involvements. Yemen, because it's a maritime choke-point for the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, a potential enlarged supply route for Al Qaeda (it already is), as well as a weak spot for the KSA.
Pakistan, because out of necessity it's a NATO supply point for Afghanistan (something that has been repeatedly mentioned here).
[Bangla Daily Star] Police pressed charges against 30 members of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh at a Nilphamari court in a case filed in connection with conspiring to keep people away from the December 29, 2008 parliamentary elections.
In the charge sheet they also mentioned that the militants distributed leaflets and CDs in different districts, using a courier service, asking people not to cast votes. The CDs and leaflets also tried to motivate people into launching a jihad.
Jaldhaka Police told this to journalists yesterday even though they submitted the charge sheet on December 30. The court is yet to accept the charge sheet as the chief judicial magistrate of Nilphamari is on leave, police said.
Of the 30 accused, 18 are now behind bars.
The investigation officer of the case Sub-Inspector Mozaharul Islam of Jaldhaka Police Station said he found evidence of involvement of 57 JMB men but did not mention them in the charge sheet since identity details of 27 of them could not be found.
Jaldhaka police lodged the case on December 4, 2008, after they seized a number of CDs and leaflets, which the JMB men were sending to Rangpur. Later, police raided different places in northern districts and arrested 18 JMB men.
During the drives police also seized JMB's training manuals, photos of different parts of AK-47 assault rifle, books on Jihad, lethal weapons, CDs and leaflets.
The investigation officer said 14 of the accused made statements under section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code confessing their involvement.
The arrested 18 accused are Noor-e-Alam, 22, Mamunur Rashid, 35, Guljar Hassain, 22, Didar Rahman, 53, Mazadul Islam Babu, 35, Hafijul Islam, 28, Abdul Kuddus Khan Salafi, 47,Abdul Baki, 25, Abul Kalam, 39, Afiar, 35, Shahajahan Ali, 57, Hasanur Rahman, 28, Moshiar Rahman, 40, Monwar Hossain, 42, Moshiur Rahman, 25, Saiful Islam Dablu, 26, Azizul Islam, 43, and Golam Mostofa, 38.
The fugitives are Amzad Hossain, 28, Mahamudul Islam Rubel, 27, Saiful Islam, 26, Shamim, 24, Mintoo, 25, Abdur Rashid, 32, Samirul, 26, Dabirul Islam, 32, Arman Ali, 32, Jahangir Alam, 25, Shamim, 25 and Abdul Gafur, 30.
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[Bangla Daily Star] An alleged criminal was killed in a alleged staged 'shootout' so no time to fetch the shutter gun from the RAB HQ lock-up
between his cohorts and Rapid Action Battalion at Old Kochukheth Bazar in city's Kafrul early yesterday. The deceased was identified as Firoz alias Kosai Firoz, 30, of Kafrul area in Mirpur.
Maj Khandakar Golam Sarwar of Rab-4 told The Daily Star that around 3:00am a Rab patrol team challenged a gang of six to seven criminals who were roaming suspiciously at Old Kochukheth Bazar. "Hey, youse guys! What's wit da roaming after dark?"
The gang opened fire on the Rab team prompting the law enforcers to retaliate, he said. Opening fire on RAB is hazardous to your health
Firoz fell in the line of fire and was found dead in front of Nur Masjid in the area while his accomplices fled the scene. Like they were never there
The law enforcers took him to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where the duty doctors declared him dead, Rab sources said. "He's dead, Jim"
Officer-in-charge Delwar Ahmed of Kafrul Police Station said Firoz was accused in at least 15 cases on twelve systems. He used to patronise extortionists and snatchers active at Kafrul, Mirpur, Pallabi and other areas, the OC added.
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There are times when I wonder whether the RAB is for real, but after I recall the b*tch*ng from the Bangladeshi version of the ACLU about "extrajudicial" killings, my doubts evaporate.
Philip J. Crowley, assistant secretary of state for public affairs, acknowledged last week at a news conference that State Department officials made two key errors in the initial reporting about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
They misspelled his name -- "a one-letter difference," an intelligence official said -- in filing their first report Nov. 20, the day after Umau Mutallab, a Nigerian banker, described his concerns about his son.
And they didn't officially look for Abdulmutallab in a department database of U.S. visa-holders. Abdulmutallab, Abdulmutalab, there's no real difference between these spellings, except to a computer
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SE tool in layman's terms, yes. Layman being myself of course. A bit more advanced than Bing. I see you are familiar with the basic protocol. Gorb's comment sums it up nicely. I'm always a bit wary of those who immeditely blame a computer or system for a shortcoming.
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When you're dealing with non-English names and variants, it'd seem useful to use something a little larger than the name as a tag-- name+parents' names + home town--and allow for fuzzier matches in the database.
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ION NEWSMAX > [DHS Report]AL QAEDA LINKED TO ROGUE AVIATION NETWORK. Mystery Twin-Turboprops = Shuttles, Executive Jets, + retired Boeing 727's flying trans-Atlantic drug routes between HUGO'S COLUMBIA + UNSTABLE WEST AFRICAN COUNTRIES + SAHEL.
* SAME [last week]> THE JIHADIST DECADE COMETH.
** TOPIX > FREEREPUBLIC = REPORT: AL QAEDA PLANNING NEW ATTACK AGZ THE UNITED STATES.
MyFoxDetroit.com - Sources tell Fox 2 that a flight from Amsterdam into Detroit Metropolitan Airport was held on the tarmac after landing because of unruly behavior by some of the passengers. The source says four men from Saudi Arabai were saying something in Arabic that alarmed four on-board Federal Air Marshals. The Marshals speak Arabic. A decision was made to stop the plane on the tarmac away from the passenger terminal and remove the men from the plane.
Once the men were removed, the rest of passengers were then taken to the terminal for deboarding.
The Transportation Security Administration says the unruly passengers were interviewed by Customs and Border Protection officials. But the TSA says the passengers were released and no arrests were made.
Delta Air Lines spokeswoman Susan Elliott says the crew of Northwest Flight 243 requested that authorities meet the plane Tuesday after it landed because four passengers didn't follow their instructions. She says nobody was injured but wouldn't describe what the passengers were doing.
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This is becoming ever more increasingly common. Just count the incidents alone in the past three months.
I believe it to be a little more than just funky moslems acting goofy on the planes every week.
News dispatches may be used as intel.
You soften up the authority with frivolous junk until it is weakened enough to allow something really big in.
At the same time, you communicate using flight numbers, locations, airline identification and so forth.
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I'd like to be as reasonable, open-minded, tolerant and fair as anyone else.
But if this nonsense continues, I have a simple solution: no Saoodis on any US airplane. You want to fly from Amsterdam to Detroit, fly Royal Saoodi Air, because Northwest doesn't have a seat for you.
And if His Decrepititude doesn't like it and turns off the oil, we'll survive. He won't.
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I say let them ride. Find out who they are and start finding out who these people are networking with.
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Its nice to be tolerant , but alas that time passed many moons ago ..
Steam roll them , flatten them , throw them off and throw them in isolated holding cells for 24 hours . Let them experience a mini Gitmo . Repeat offenders x 2 lock up for 10 years in the desert .
SO19 employed the correct tactics the other week , but it was against drunken louts of non muslim background
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It isn't just international flights to be worried about. I've had several domestic flights of concern (Houston, Dallas, Chicago, NY) with Muslims I've kept an eye on just in case. You can check-in and board in a small regional airport without scanners, pass through a major hub and deplane without ever catching the connecting flight, while the checked bag continues or something is left behind in a bathroom. We had a major Newark delay and they put lunches onboard last minute while we waited on the tarmac and apologized. Airport employees are of concern, also. I say body scan all passengers and any refusals get full pat-downs with body cavity searches. The newest scanners are very quick and would include any sensors to check shoes for explosives. After all this, I still think these antics are to divert attention and resources while something else big is in the works. Something big is coming, tho....I can feel it in my gut.
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In the soon to be written post-mortem, I suspect the Australian experiment in prison systems will be seen as one the Empire's few success stories. Proving simply that the inmates actually can quite run the institution. Three cheers and a hat tip to the Convicts!
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Might I suggest Heard Islands & McDonald Islands, in the Southern Ocean. Not far from Antarctica, with weather to match. An uninhabited, hard to reach and thoroughly dreadful place. Did I mention it is COLD there.
[Al Arabiya Latest] The criminal case against the first detainee transferred from Guantanamo Bay for trial in a U.S. civilian court should be thrown out because he was denied the right to a speedy trial, defense lawyers argued on Monday.
The government countered that the prosecution of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani -- a Tanzanian national charged for his alleged role in the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya -- was delayed for a legitimate reason: gathering high-value intelligence from Ghailani during interrogations.
The prosecution described its national security needs as "weightier, more significant" than a speedy trial demands.
The case is being watched for precedents that could affect others, including that of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, who is also due to be tried in Manhattan federal court.
Ghailani was taken into custody in Pakistan in July 2004 and interrogated outside the United States as part of the Bush administration's secret "extraordinary rendition" program under which terrorism suspects were captured in one country and interrogated in another at secret CIA "black sites".
He was transferred to Guantanamo Bay in 2006 and his case was moved to Manhattan federal court last June.
Ghailani, allegedly a former cook and bodyguard to Osama bin Laden, pleaded not guilty to federal conspiracy charges in June, including plotting with other members of al-Qaeda to kill Americans, and separate charges of murder for the 224 people killed in the African bombings.
Constitutional rights
In oral arguments before U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, lawyers for Ghailani said the "political decision" to put off a trial while he was interrogated should not mean he gives up his rights under the U.S Constitution.
The government "clearly chose to ignore his Constitutional rights ... and instead chose to transform him from an accused defendant to an intelligence asset and relegated him to a modern-day gulag," said defense lawyer Peter Quijano.
But Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Farbiarz said the burden of proof for the case to be thrown out lies with the defense and Ghailani had failed to demand a speedy trial while held at Guantanamo Bay.
"The government is not trying to gain an advantage over the defendant at trial," but to "incapacitate others" and pursue "third parties," said Farbiarz.
"I think everybody can agree that whatever I do here would be unprecedented," the judge said, alluding to the importance of the proceeding, which coincided with the anniversary of the first group of 20 detainees being brought to Guantanamo Bay's Camp X-Ray in 2002.
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BSF troops today foiled two infiltration bids after a brief encounter with militants along the Indo-Pak border in Akhnoor sector of Jammu division, the seventh such attempt by ultras from across the border this month.
A group of five militants entered Indian territory around 1200 hours and their movement was picked up by the patrolling party of BSF at Tent Border Out Post in Akhnoor sector, a senior BSF official said.
The militants were challenged and the gun battle between the two sides continued for over an hour. The militants later fled back.
Another attempt was probably made by the same group some distance away from the Tent post around 0430 hours and after a brief fire fight between BSF and the infiltrating militants, they fled, the official said.
This was the seventh infiltration bid by militants from across the border in the region this month.
The first infiltration bid this year was foiled by BSF at Narianpur Border Out Post in Ramgarh sub-sector of Samba district on January 4.
It was followed by another infiltration bid along the Line of Control (LoC) in Balakote area of Poonch district on January 8.
A patrolling party of BSF had foiled an infiltration bid by militants, who had cut the border fence and entered the forward area of Garkhal in Pargwal belt of Akhnoor tehsil on January 10.
On January 11, militants triggered a blast to cut into the border fencing but BSF troops foiled their attempt after a fierce gun battle between the two sides in Akhnoor sector.
Another infiltration attempt was foiled the same day.
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[Dawn] At least one security official was killed and three were injured in Momand Agency on Tuesday after militants attacked the Ghanamshah security checkpost in Baizai tehsil, DawnNews reported.
More than 30 militants attacked the checkpost in the mountainous town of Ghanan Shah in northwest Momand district before dawn.
"They came from three sides and attacked the post with automatic weapons and rocket launchers," local administration official Zabit Khan told AFP.
"One soldier was killed and three were wounded."
Earlier, security forces claimed to have taken out eight suspected militants in Swat. A soldier died in the battle, while six other suspected militants were arrested from Swat.
According to the ISPR, security forces have cleared the area around Katori Sar including Jang-Wam.
Security forces also carried out search and clearance operation at Sheikh Yousuf Adda and arrested two suspected militants. Three IEDs were also diffused in the Kund area.
The post is located about 40 kilometres southwest of Khar, the main town in Bajaur.
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The brother of a Jordanian man identified as a militant killed in a US drone attack in North Waziristan confirmed on Tuesday the alleged militant's death.
"A man called me on Sunday and said my brother died in the US attack. He spoke bad Arabic and said he escaped the attack. I think he is a Pakistani," Omar Mahdi Zeidan told AFP.
Websites monitored by US-based SITE Intelligence said on Monday that a man who moved to Afghanistan in 1999 and stayed on to fight US-led forces was killed in a US drone attack in Pakistan's Waziristan region.
The forums Al-Fallujah and Shamukh al-Islam announced the "martyrdom" on January 10 of Mahmud Mahdi Zeidan, whose nom de guerre was Mansur al-Shami, SITE reported.
"My brother called us a week before his death and asked us to pray to God to make him martyr. He used to call us from time to time," Zeidan said.
"He was the bodyguard of Al-Qaeda's field leader Mustapha Abulyazid."
SITE did not specify which drone strike in which the Jordanian was killed.
Pakistani officials said last week that 13 militants, including four foreigners, were killed in two US drone strikes in North Waziristan.
Zeidan appeared on January 4 in a recording by As-Sahab, a website frequently used by Al-Qaeda, giving a sermon for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, SITE Intelligence said.
He also recorded an audio message released by As-Sahab last August giving advice to mujahedeen fighters.
Born in 1974, Zeidan, who is of Palestinian origin, obtained his BA in sharia Islamic law from Yarmuk University in the northern Jordanian city of Irbid in 1997.
He was married and had four children.
"My brother worked for Taliban radio in 2001 and then he joined the mujahedeen," Zeidan said, adding that their father is a leader of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood movement.
"We are accepting condolences now over his death, and the authorities did not prevent us from doing so" in Irbid's Palestinian refugee camp, the brother added.
Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, the man believed to have killed seven CIA agents and his Jordanian handler in a suicide attack in eastern Afghanistan last month, was also of Jordanian origin.
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Iraqi forces seized a large cache of explosives and arrested suspected insurgents allegedly planning to target government ministries Tuesday, in a crackdown across the capital that brought parts of the city to a standstill.
The security measures demonstrated the ever-present fear that insurgents will carry out more bombings, like the ones against government buildings in past months that killed hundreds, ahead of the March elections.
The government's announcement that it had arrested 25 suspects and seized 880 pounds (400 kilograms) of military grade explosives also set off bitter accusations from some Sunni politicians that the government had exaggerated the incident to burnish its security credentials.
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Finally, some good news to interrupt the drumbeat of Baghdad detonations. It was getting hard to believe the improved-situation violence statistics when every week or so there was another couple dozen or a hundred or more innocents killed by bombing cells.
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[Dawn] Iraqi security forces closed off access to large portions of Baghdad on Tuesday and conducted a vast search operation after receiving information on possible attacks, a military spokesman said.
Security forces "have taken preventative security measures as part of a search operation in most of Baghdad's quarters which has blocked traffic," Qassim Atta, spokesman for the city's military command, told AFP.
The Iraqi capital was gridlocked with vehicles backed up as several bridges and routes into the city were closed, forcing people to travel on foot as military helicopters circled overhead.
A defence ministry official said information had been received that bomb-laden vehicles had been placed in the capital.
"The commander of security forces (then) gave the order to stop vehicles entering the capital," the official said.
Insurgents, weakened in the past year, have changed tactics in recent months and focused their efforts on high-profile attacks on "hard" targets such as government buildings, rather than so-called soft targets in civilian areas.
Co-ordinated vehicle bombings in Baghdad in August, October and December killed nearly 400 people in all.
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01/13/2010 00:00 ||
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Terrorists Suspected militants launched a series of bomb and shooting attacks in Thailand's troubled Muslim-majority south Wednesday, wounding twelve people including three soldiers, police said.
A bomb hidden in a motorcycle was detonated by mobile phone outside a tea shop in the main town of restive Pattani province early Wednesday, wounding five villagers.
Another bomb exploded shortly afterwards at a food market in neighbouring Yala province, injuring four people including three soldiers.
Gunmen five minutes later targeted three male fruit vendors in drive-by shooting attacks nearby, wounding all of them.
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