Kabul - Eight Arab, five Pakistani and two Afghan militants were killed when bombs they were making exploded prematurely inside a mosque in eastern Afghanistan, the Interior Ministry said Sunday. I love starting the week on a happy note
The insurgents were assembling bombs in Desi Mosque of Yousifkhela district in the south-eastern province of Paktika on Friday, the ministry said.
Pakika borders the Pakistani town of Wana, where Taliban militants are said to have training bases. Afghan officials have repeatedly blamed Islamabad for not doing enough to clamp down on cross-border infiltration by insurgents.
In the northern province of Kunduz, several Taliban fighters including a foreign insurgent commander were killed Saturday by a NATO airstrike in Chardarah district, NATO said on Sunday. 'After verifying insurgent activity and conducting careful planning to avoid civilian casualties and mitigate collateral damage, coalition aircraft were called in for the precision airstrike,' it said. The targeted commander coordinated logistical support and operations 'with the Taliban's Pakistan foreign fighter cell leadership,' it said.
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Kabul - Eight Arab, five Pakistani and two Afghan militants were killed when bombs they were making exploded prematurely inside a mosque
Damn rules of engagement need to be changed. Militants Terrorists know the mosques are safe havens. The mosques need to be taken down if they are harboring these slack jaws. Any mosque that can be shown to be a bomb factory needs to be taken out. The current touchy-feely ROEs don't seem to be working out that well.
Of course, if the terrorists are willing to blow themselves up we don't have to...
Notice the mix; 8 Arabs, 5 Pakis, 2 Afgans. A statement in the MSM stated there are only 100 AQ in Afghanistan. I don't believe that. If that is the case 8.0% of them got wiped out in this explosion, i.e. if you assume that AQ is primarily Arab.
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If it is being used to build bombs, it is not a mosque, it is an arsenal and it should be treated as such. The "mosque" should be razed to bare dirt.
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I think that was one of the holy armories of islam that Mo wrote about...the Sura on red and green wires...but could have lost something in the translation.
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this doesn't surprise me at all. Hell they haven't did a damn thing with theirc ocuntry for 10,000 years why should we expect them too wake up andd do something now?
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The Marines seem to have had reasonably good things to say about the ANA 203rd Corps, but they were moved elsewhere and replaced with another unit (215th), which sucks. I wonder how bad the 203rd sucked before working with the USMC for a while. And whether the 215th can be brought up to the level of semi-competence of the 203rd. It seems to me the primary mission here, as it was in Iraq, is to build competency in the local military - which is tougher than fighting the enemy on your own.
OSLO A roadside bomb hit a Norwegian convoy in Afghanistan and killed four soldiers, the military announced, in the deadliest single attack on the Scandinavian country's troops in the conflict.
"Four soldiers were killed this afternoon," military spokeswoman Heidi Langvik Hansen told AFP.
Brave men, and we thank and honor them.
"They were in their armoured vehicle when a bomb exploded on the side of the road, in the province of Faryab, in the north of the country," she said, declining to give more details until families of the dead had been notified.
Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said he was "deeply saddened" by the deaths. "Our thoughts are above all with those who were close to the victims," said General Bernt Iver Ferdinand Brovold, head of the operational chief of staff, in an army statement.
Defence Minister Grete Faremo said, "Norway has been hit hard. The loss deeply affects us all. It's hard and it reminds us of the risk we're taking."
The attack takes to nine the number of Norwegian soldiers who have lost their lives in Afghanistan, which international forces invaded in late 2001 to remove the Taliban regime. Norway has about 500 soldiers in the country, most of them stationed in the capital Kabul or in the north.
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Security forces in Bangladesh arrested more than 200 people Sunday as the first nationwide general strike since elections in 2008 was marred by violence, police said. In the capital Dhaka, security forces fired tear gas and used batons to disperse hundreds of opposition activists as they tried to hold marches along major roads, police said.
An opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) lawmaker was hurt when supporters and opponents of the strike clashed at Dhaka University, police spokesman Walid Hossain said, adding the man was rushed to hospital and later arrested.
At least 12,000 policemen and the Rapid Action Battalion were deployed in Dhaka to try to avert violence as the shutdown brought much of the capital of 13 million people and the country to a standstill.
Police said the strike had halted transport throughout the country and disrupted business operations. In Dhaka, most private offices, shops, schools and colleges were closed.
The BNP had called the strike to protest against losing everything they had before the election what it says is the Awami League government's failure to provide basic services such as power, water and gas and against "arbitrary" arrests and harassment of opposition supporters.
The Awami League swept to power in January 2009 after a landslide election victory on December 29, 2008. The BNP, which ruled the country twice after democracy was restored in 1990, was reduced to a small opposition.
Police used batons to disperse opposition activists, footage shown by private television channel Bangla Vision showed. The channel also reported that several people had been injured. At least 96 people, including two former BNP ministers, were arrested during the strike and 120 activists were taken into custody hours before it began.
Opposition activists hurled small bombs and pieces of brick at police but there were no casualties, he told AFP.
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Eleven people were killed in ongoing drug and gang violence in Chihuahua, Mexico, which included a massacre of four people doing home improvement at a residence in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, and 20 inmates at a Juarez prison injured in a brawl early Sunday morning.
Four unidentified individuals were shot to death at a residence in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Saturday afternoon, according to Mexican news reports. The massacre took place when armed suspects riding aboard a Lincoln Navigator and a Chevrolet Suburban shot at a group of five people doing masonry work. The fifth person was taken to a medical facility.
The attack took place near the intersection of las calles Pablo Meoqui and 21st in the San Rafael district.
An ice cream vendor finishing up his work day was hit by stray bullets and killed in an attack in Juarez Saturday, say Mexican news accounts. The attack took place near the intersection of Santiago Troncoso and Independencia in the Industrial Salvarcar district when an armed suspect shot at an unidentified man aboard a Ford F-150 pickup truck.
The fate of the driver of the truck is not known.
Two unidentified men were shot to death Saturday afternoon in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, according to Mexican news accounts. The attack, which took place near the intersection of calles Castaneda and 66th in the Cerro de la Cruz district, involved at least eight armed suspects. The victims were riding aboard a Chevrolet Silverado when they were attacked.
Witnesses say AR-15 rifles were used in the attack. The suspects then fled the scene towards Calle Campesina and exited the area aboard a Dodge Caravan, a Ford pickup truck and a station wagon.
At least 20 inmates at a Juarez prison were injured in an early Sunday morning brawl, say Mexican news reports. The brawl took place at the CERESO facility.
Most of the injuries to inmates were from beatings, but four inmates were knived. Reports are also extensive damage was done to the prison by the inmates from rival gangs.
Two unidentified men were found executed in a van in Juarez Sunday afternoon, say Mexican press reports. The victims were found gagged with their hands and feet bound near the intersection of calles Degollado and Sarabia del Barrio Alto aboard a Dodge Caravan.
Two unidentified people were shot to death in two separate crimes Sunday afternoon, according to the Mexican news daily La Polaka. Two men were shot near the intersection of Avenida Jilotepec and Calle Limoneros. One victim died tat the scene, while the other was listed in serious condition.
In a separate crime an unidentified woman driving a Ford pickup truck with New Mexico plates was shot to death by armed suspects. No other information is available.
Nuevo Leon: Eight Die in Monterrey
Eight individuals died in ongoing drug and gang violence in and near the city of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon Saturday night.
Two unidentified men in their 30s were shot to death in Monterrey Saturday night, according to the Mexican daily El Milenio. The attack occurred near the intersection of calles Morones Prieto and Arteaga in the Cuidad Esmeralda district.
The victims were found dead in the street next to their Dodge Stratus shot at least five times. The passenger had a Nextel radio in his hand when he died. Investigators collected spent cartridge casings at the scene, but would not release any information about the caliber of the weapons used in the murders.
A man in his early 30s was found by elements of the Mexican Army shot to death and wrapped in a blanket in his pickup truck in Monterrey early Sunday morning. Soldiers were dispatched as a result of an anonymous tip via convoy to a location near the intersection of calles Campiña and Circunvalación in the Riveras de la Silla district, where they discovered an abandoned Dodge Ram 2500 pickup with the victim is the rear of the cab.
Two unidentified men who watched the arrival of the military convoy attempted to flee the area, but they were caught and arrested. It is unknown if the pair caught by the military had anything to do with the murder.
Thee unidentified men were shot to death aboard their car south of Monterrey early Sunday morning, say Mexican news reports. The victims were found near the intersection of calles Sierra de Lampazos and Sierra Mojada in the Sierra Ventana district of Monterrey. Police found them in a Subaru sedan shot to death.
Apparently elements of the Nuevo Leon state police were forced to leave the scene when the same armed suspects riding a convoy of SUVs witnesses say shot the victims, returned to the scene and threw a hand grenade at the officers.
When elements of the Mexican Army arrived to provide support, police found blood everywhere, but no bodies.
Two suspected gang members attacked the man and beat him until he stopped moving with a brick, then they fled the scene.
An unidentified man in his 20s was found shot to death in south Monterrey early Sunday morning, say Mexican news reports. The vctim was found near the intersection of avenidas Fundadores and Lampazos in the Real San AgustÃn district at about 0515 hrs. He had been shot with a .223 weapon. Investigators found 23 spent cartridge casings near the body.
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Narco tunnel into US traced to drainage ditch in Juárez EL PASO -- Mexican authorities on Saturday found the beginning of a tunnel dug 2 1/2 feet under the Rio Grande that was used to smuggle drugs into the United States, officials said.
The tunnel, about 130 feet long and 2 feet wide and 2 feet high, was traced to a drainage ditch along a highway near the river.
"Once we discovered it, they backtracked it and that's where they found it," U.S. Border Patrol Agent Ramiro Cordero said.
The tunnel was discovered about 1:30 a.m. Friday by Border Patrol agents who heard suspicious noises.
It is the first drug tunnel found in El Paso, a discovery that surprised law enforcement officials who thought the Rio Grande would be a barrier.
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The Cartels are still threatening to harm or kill US law enforcement officers - ON US SOIL - iff they try to interfere in the Cartels' shennanigans.
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Predators would be a good start, but we need a couple of divisions of militia to back them up, plus declare that the first five miles of US territory, except in built-up areas, is a free-fire zone. It'll take awhile but the combination WILL be effective.
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The massacre took place when armed suspects riding aboard a Lincoln Navigator and a Chevrolet Suburban shot at a group of five people doing masonry work.
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Witnesses say AR-15 rifles were used in the attack.
On a more serious note, how many scared Mexicans can identify the manufacturer of an assault rifle while they are ducking for cover or running for their lives?
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On a more serious note, how many scared Mexicans can identify the manufacturer of an assault rifle while they are ducking for cover or running for their lives?
Cop ( interviewing a witness ): Was the rifle all black or did it have some wood coloring in it?
Witness: It was all black.
Cop: Did the rifle look like it had an upside down goats' horn?
Witness: No.
Did the rifle sound like a big rifle or did it make a pop sound when fired?
Filed under WOT operations because I don't trust the rooskies
The FBI has arrested 10 people for allegedly serving for years as secret agents of Russia's intelligence organ, the SVR, with the goal of penetrating U.S. government policymaking circles.
According to court papers unsealed Monday, the FBI intercepted a message from SVR headquarters, Moscow Center, to two of the defendants describing their main mission as "to search and develop ties in policymaking circles in US." Intercepted messages showed they were asked to learn about a broad swath of topics including nuclear weapons, U.S. arms control positions, Iran, White House rumors, CIA leadership turnover, the last presidential election, the Congress and political parties.
After a secret multiyear investigation, the Justice Department announced the arrests Monday in a blockbuster spy case that could rival the capture of Soviet Col. Rudolf Abel in 1957 in New York.
There was no clue in initial court papers how successful the agents had been but they were alleged to have been long-term, deep cover spies, some living as couples. These deep-cover agents are the hardest spies for the FBI to catch because they take civilian jobs with no visible connection to a foreign government, rather than operating from government jobs inside Russian embassies and military missions. Abel was just such a deep cover agent; he was ultimately swapped to the Soviet Union for downed U-2 spy pilot Francis Gary Powers in 1962.
The court papers described a new high-tech spy-to-spy communications system used by the defendants: short-range wireless communications between laptop computers -- a modern supplement for the old-style dead drop in a remote area, high-speed burst radio transmission or even the hollowed-out nickels used by Col. Abel to conceal and deliver microfilm.
Eight of 10 were arrested Sunday for allegedly carrying out long-term, deep-cover assignments in the United States on behalf of Russia. As Instapundit might say: more and faster, please
MIRANSHAH: Six Taliban were killed and another two were injured when a US drone fired two missiles at a compound in North Waziristan Agency on Sunday.
The drone struck at 3:30pm in village Tabbi Tolkhel, four kilometres north of agency headquarters Miranshah. A vehicle was also destroyed in the attack.
It is the second strike in as many days in North Waziristan.
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SRINAGAR: Another man was killed in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) on Sunday when paramilitary forces fired rubber bullets to disperse protesters who had defied a strict curfew, police said.
Sopore, 50 kilometres north of IHK's summer capital Srinagar, has been under indefinite curfew since Friday after two young men died when troops opened fire in response to anti-India protesters who attacked their vehicle.
Police clamped the curfew on the town after thousands of people poured into the streets, torched a security vehicle and attacked a police station to protest against the killing of the two men.
On Saturday, thousands of demonstrators, defying the curfew, staged noisy protests and clashed with security forces. Chanting "We want freedom!" and "Blood for blood!", hundreds of residents again defied the curfew on Sunday, prompting security forces to fire rubber bullets that killed a 24-year-old man, a police officer said.
"A rubber bullet pierced his neck. He died on the way to Srinagar's main hospital," the officer said, adding that several others were injured.
Residents said the victim was not part of the protest and was heading to a mosque when he was hit.
To get more ammo?
An illustration of the principle that innocently wandering past riots is dangerous, and therefore better avoided altogether.
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KOLKATA A joint forces trooper and a Maoist rebel were killed in a gunfight in West Bengal's West Midnapore district early on Sunday, police said.
The police claimed to have recovered the body of the Maoist cadre, who was gunned down during the fierce eight-and-a-half hour clash with the Leftwing ultras near Jitushole forest in Ghrita village under Jhargram sub-division. Police also claimed that a few more Maoists rebels were injured in the gunfight, but the Maoists were able to run away flee with their injured comrades.
The trooper, a constable in the fourth battalion of the state police's Specially Trained Armed Company (STRACO) deployed in the area to flush out the rebels, sustained a bullet injury in the shootout and succumbed to his injuries on way to the Midnapore Medical College and Hospital.
Superintendent of Police (Jhargram) Praveen Tripathi said: Acting on a tip off that a group of Maoists have assembled in the area, a large team of joint forces cordoned off the stretch and conducted raids.'
It was around 3.30am when the Maoists cadres first fired three-four rounds at the security men. Soon, the jawans also retaliated,' Tripathi said.
The gunfight continued till 12 noon, resulting in the death of one STRACO constable and three-four Maoists cadres, though we have been able to recover the body of one along with a single barrel gun,' said Tripathi.
Cheez, that read like an RAB operation ...
Operations have started in the area to find bodies of the Maoists and arms and ammunition they could have left in the forest, said Tripathi.
An officer said around 40-50 rebels divided into groups attacked the security men from different corners of the forest. Around 150 rounds of bullets were fired by the security forces.
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A marathon gun fight is when both sides run for furty two kilometers while shooting at one another
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: A U.S. helicopter shot down three gunmen who were planting an improvised explosive device (IED) southeast of Mosul city on Sunday, according to a police source in Ninewa.
Helizap!
A U.S. helicopter opened fire on three gunmen on the Mosul-Kirkuk road, southeast of Mosul. The gunmen, according to U.S. forces, were emplacing an IED on the roadside,' the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The source did not give further details.
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"Appearing soon on LiveLeak.."
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It sounds like the ROEs in Afghanistan are far more stringent than Iraq.
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: An Iraqi soldier was killed and an officer wounded while trying to defuse an improvised explosive device (IED) in western Mosul city on Sunday, a security source in Ninewa said.
Iraqi army forces received reports by a local resident about an IED in 17 Tammuz neighborhood, western Mosul. While the force was dealing with the charge, it went off, killing a soldier and injuring an officer in the rank of major,' the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The body of the soldier was removed to a morgue in the city while the wounded officer was rushed to a hospital for treatment,' he said, not giving further information about the explosion.
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A U.N. spokesman says assailants have vandalized a U.N. summer camp for children in Gaza. It's the second such attack in as many months. There was no claim of responsibility.
Did there need to be?
However, Islamic extremists have accused the main U.N. aid agency of corrupting Gaza's youth with its summer program of games, sports and human rights lessons for some 250,000 children.
That would undermine the current regime, wouldn't it ...
No worries, it's not as though the U.N. instructors would teach the children that Juices are human, too.
The U.N.'s main competitor is the Islamic militant Hamas, which operates camps for some 100,000 children and offers lessons on Islam and military-style marching.
And diving through flaming hoops. Mustn't forget that, it's very important.
Local U.N. spokesman Adnan Abu Hasna says vandals broke into a camp site in central Gaza early Monday. He says they burned down tents and damaged facilities, but gave no further details.
Palestinian protesters and Border Police officers engaged in heavy clashes on Sunday near a Jewish enclave in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, leaving dozens of Palestinians - including children and at least one pregnant woman - suffering from tear gas inhalation, Palestinian sources said. The police said six Border Police officers were hurt by stones thrown by the protesters.
It was not immediately clear if Israeli forces used live fire or assaulted Palestinian residents, as some Palestinians said. Left-wing activist Amiel Vardi said he had been told that three people had been wounded by Israeli fire.
The Jerusalem police said they were not aware of any Palestinian casualties.
The clashes began with a fracas between some 150 protesters and the settlers' security guards, according to Palestinian sources, and spiraled into an exchange of lobbing stones on the part of the demonstrators.
The Israeli forces dispersed tear gas and fired stun grenades to disperse protesters, who were throwing firebombs at an apartment building inhabited by Jews.
The confrontation took place near Beit Yonatan, a seven-story home for several Jewish families that was built illegally in a predominantly Arab neighborhood. Several other hot spots are in the same area: Beit Hadvash, another home for Jewish families in Silwan, and a Yemenite synagogue from the pre-state era where four Arab families are living.
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I like how Haaretz saves the bit about the "protesters" throwing firebombs at an apartment building occupied by jews until the end, as a sort of afterthought. And then throws another little jibe at the victims. And of course the rocks become stones so the firebombs are probably grenades or such.
GAZA - Hamas forces seized $16,000 on Sunday from a Gaza bank that had frozen the funds as part of an anti-money laundering campaign launched by the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority. A senior official at the Palestine Islamic Bank (PIB) said Hamas police took the cash from tellers at gunpoint. No one was hurt in the incident. Hamas officials had no immediate comment.
Too busy counting ...
The bank said the money was in an account of the Widows Ammunition Fund an Islamic charity frozen by the Interior Ministry and Palestine Monetary Authority (PMA), which acts as a central bank for President Mahmoud Abbas' Palestinian Authority, Hamas's rival.
So they're going to get their 'withdrawal' one way or another ...
The account was frozen after Hamas, which won a Palestinian parliamentary election in 2006 and took control of the Gaza Strip in 2007, brought in its own people to manage the charity.
It was the second time Hamas seized money from a private Palestinian bank this year. In March, its forces took $400,000 from a bank in defiance of the PMA, raising concerns among bankers over the safety of operating in Gaza.
Oh, so there are finally concerns about the safety of operating in a lawless wasteland filled with terrorists and crazy, eye-rolling religious men?
Mahmoud Al Ram'a, general manager of PIB, said owners of the frozen account had sued the bank in Gaza and the Hamas men who seized the money said they were executing a court order. Gaza courts are overseen by the enclave's Hamas-run Justice Ministry.
So it's legal to rob a bank in Gazoo if you get the minister on your side. Wonder what his cut was ...
'We are working in two different legal environments which makes our job harder. This is the main problem of the banking sector in Palestine,' Ram'a told Reuters.
He said he expected a recurrence of Sunday's incident because the West Bank-based Interior Ministry had frozen several similar accounts in the Gaza Strip since the Hamas takeover three years ago.
Around a dozen banks, Palestinian- and Arab-owned, still function in the Gaza Strip, though their headquarters are in the West Bank.
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The government is apparently still in the dark over how to handle ex-militants after they were arrested and prosecuted, analysts and former militants said.
Last Tuesday, the South Jakarta District Court sentenced Rohmat Bejo' Puji Wibowo to seven-and-a-half years in prison for his involvement in last year's attack on the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta. He had earlier served three years for his involvement in the bombing of the same JW Marriott in 2003. Presiding judge Samsudin told the trial, Bejo's previous time in prison failed to open his eyes to the dangerous nature of terrorism.'
A day later, police arrested Abdullah Sunata, one of the most-wanted terror fugitives, a year after he was released from prison for good behavior' in 2009. He had been sentenced to seven years in prison in 2006 for harboring Noordin M. Top.
Former terrorist Umar Abduh, who now works as a researcher, criticized the government's lack of attention to rehabilitation programs. The government has been too busy exchanging fire with militants and forgot to treat them as part of the family,' he told The Jakarta Post over the weekend.
Before moving into research, Umar Abduh was widely known as a member of the jihad command, which was blamed for the 1981 Garuda Airlines hijacking at Thailand's Don Muang airport. The government said it planned to set up the National Agency on the Eradication of Terrorism to take a comprehensive approach to the issue, but it remains unclear how it would work. The government's antiterror strategy is currently centered around the police's Detachment 88 counterterrorism unit, which has been lambasted for often killing cornered terror suspects.
University of Indonesia criminologist Erlangga Masdiana said that as of today, the government would take a normative approach to handling convicted terrorists. The government should be able to offer a different approach in dealing with these convicts, such as providing them time to mingle with people from different backgrounds,' he said.
Noor Huda Ismail, a journalist turned activist who assists convicted terrorists through reconciliation, concurred, saying that assisting militants in facing their everyday lives in a different environment could be meaningful. Huda said a different environment would also open these ex-terrorists to the idea that there was no such thing as ideological problems' in daily life.
I provide them enough space to reconcile their militancy and ideological thoughts by asking them to mingle with people with different religious backgrounds. As a result, they begin to see the world from a different perspective,' he said.
Through the Prasasti Perdamaian Foundation, Noor Huda now assists 10 ex-terrorists in building a new life after serving long sentences. Maybe deep down, they are still militant. But at least for now, they are keeping a distance from violence,' he said.
TEHRAN - The Iranian Red Moon-Shaped Thingy Crescent said on Sunday that in addition to restrictions imposed by Israel, Egypt had barred a Gaza-bound aid ship from entering the Suez Canal, leading to the trip being postponed.
Golly, you mean it isn't just those eeeeeeeeeebil juices? I had no idea!
"The ship's departure has been postponed because of more restrictions imposed by the Zionist Quds occupying regime on the movement of aid to Gaza and prevention of the ship from using the Suez Canal, despite coordination with international bodies," the Red Crescent said in a statement faxed to AFP.
Namely, the Israelis said that they'd consider the ship's approach to Gaza to be an act of war, and react accordingly ...
The statement said the voyage to the blockaded Gaza Strip had been put off despite the vessel being ready to set sail from the southern port of Bandar Abbas for the Palestinian territory.
But in Egypt, the Suez Canal Authority said it would allow the ship through.
"Under an international treaty, the canal is obligated to let any ship through, whether it is Iranian or not," a canal official told AFP. "We have not received any instructions to ban the Iranian aid ships from using the Suez Canal."
An Iranian official had announced on Thursday that sending the aid ship had been cancelled because of restrictions imposed by Israel.
"The trip is not going to happen," said Hossein Sheikholeslam, secretary general of the International Conference for the Support of the Palestinian Intifada, a panel set up by the Iranian parliament.
The Red Crescent had initially planned to send two aid ships to the Palestinian territory this month.
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Any ship to Gaza which refuses security check by Israel willconstitute an act of war and will be sunk.
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Egypt to Iran: "Go start trouble in your OWN back yard, why don't ya?"
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.
Kabul - Eight Arab, five Pakistani and two Afghan militants were killed when bombs they were making exploded prematurely inside a mosque in eastern Afghanistan, the Interior Ministry said Sunday. 
Security forces in Bangladesh arrested more than 200 people Sunday as the first nationwide general strike since elections in 2008 was marred by violence, police said. In the capital Dhaka, security forces fired tear gas and used batons to disperse hundreds of opposition activists as they tried to hold marches along major roads, police said.
MIRANSHAH: Six Taliban were killed and another two were injured when a US drone fired two missiles at a compound in North Waziristan Agency on Sunday.
SRINAGAR: Another man was killed in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) on Sunday when paramilitary forces fired rubber bullets to disperse protesters who had defied a strict curfew, police said.
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: A U.S. helicopter shot down three gunmen who were planting an improvised explosive device (IED) southeast of Mosul city on Sunday, according to a police source in Ninewa.
Palestinian protesters and Border Police officers engaged in heavy clashes on Sunday near a Jewish enclave in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, leaving dozens of Palestinians - including children and at least one pregnant woman - suffering from tear gas inhalation, Palestinian sources said. The police said six Border Police officers were hurt by stones thrown by the protesters.
GAZA - Hamas forces seized $16,000 on Sunday from a Gaza bank that had frozen the funds as part of an anti-money laundering campaign launched by the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority. A senior official at the Palestine Islamic Bank (PIB) said Hamas police took the cash from tellers at gunpoint. No one was hurt in the incident. Hamas officials had no immediate comment.
The government is apparently still in the dark over how to handle ex-militants after they were arrested and prosecuted, analysts and former militants said.
