DENVER (AP) - A chaplain killed in Afghanistan this week was the first Army clergyman killed in action since the Vietnam War, the military said Thursday.
Capt. Dale Goetz of the 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson, Colo., was among five soldiers killed by an improvised bomb on Monday.
Before Goetz, the last Army chaplain to die in action was Phillip Nichols, who was killed by a concealed enemy explosive in Vietnam in October of 1970, said Chaplain Carleton Birch, a spokesman for the Army chief of chaplains.
Officials said Goetz had hitched a ride on a resupply convoy when he was killed.
Birch said chaplains are considered noncombatants and don't carry weapons, but they are accompanied by a chaplain's assistant, a soldier who is armed. A chaplain's assistant, Staff Sgt. Christopher Stout of Worthville, Ky., was killed in Afghanistan in July, Birch said.
Chaplains don't go on combat patrols but do go onto battlefields to conduct services and counsel soldiers, Birch said. "Many of those places where they travel are very dangerous," he said.
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As opposed to the mullahs who sit in their madrases across the border sending the young cannon fodder out to die, but never seem to be in the front lines themselves.
"For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother;" - Henry V, Act 4, Shakespeare.
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maybe we need too hit a few of those m,adrassas
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maybe we need too hit a few all of those madrassas...
FIFY
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First, RIP.
Birch said chaplains are considered noncombatants and don't carry weapons, but they are accompanied by a chaplain's assistant, a soldier who is armed.
Learn something new every day: my high school American History teacher had been a chaplain's assistant in Viet Nam. I never bothered to learn what that entailed - now I know.
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I got to Vietnam the day after that Chaplain was killed. Lots of folks were talking about it. This is the first time I've seen it mentioned since then. Lots of good guys, chaplains. I knew two that had received Purple Hearts - one in Vietnam and one in Korea.
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In VietNam, there were three chaplains who won the Medal of Honor. All three were Catholic priets. Two of them were KIA - Vincent Capodanno and Charles Watters.
One, Angelo Liteky was a Catholic priest at the time. He later left the priesthood and married a nun. He is also the only MOH recipient who returned the medal.
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(Xinhua) -- Ten people were killed as a meeting arranged by parliamentary candidate Abdul Wahid Khurasani came under attack in northeastern Takhar province on Thursday, spokesman for provincial administration Faiz Mohammad Tawhidi said.
"The attack came when parliamentary candidate Abdul Wahid Khurasani was addressing his supporters in Kiwan village of Rustaq district at 10:00 a.m. local time, as a result 10 people were killed and five others injured including Khurasani," Tawhidi told Xinhua.
[Iran Press] Sudanese government secures the release of a female American aid worker abducted in Darfur 105 days ago, just a day after three Russians were kidnapped.
Flavia Wagner, 35, who worked for US charity Samaritan's Purse in Darfur, was kidnapped on May 18 in the village of Abu Ajura, in South Darfur state, along with two Sudanese colleagues who were freed after a week.
She was handed over to South Darfur authorities on Monday without any ransom being paid. Her kidnappers had originally demanded a ransom. She arrived the same day in Khartoum.
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Kidnapping Russians: very bad idea. Some very hard boy FSB are probably already en route. Having an ROE of "extreme prejudice with a cherry on top" is more demanding, yet far more gratifying.
(Xinhua) -- The Russian embassy in Sudanese capital Khartoum announced Wednesday that the three Russian pilots who were freed by kidnappers in Sudan's west region of Darfur had arrived in Khartoum.
"The Russian pilots will meet the Russian ambassador in Khartoum and the Administration of Badr Aviation, which will decide on the continuation of the crew in Sudan," an anonymous Russian diplomat told Xinhua.
The Sudanese government on Tuesday announced the release of three Russian pilots who were kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in Darfur on Sunday. The pilots worked for the private Sudanese Badr Aviation.
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Did members of the "unidentified armed group" start having accidents? Or did a payoff arrive?
[Pak Daily Times] The twin-pronged political and peacekeeping approach to ending almost two decades of civil war in Somalia is beginning to pay dividends, a senior United Nations official said on Thursday.
Lynn Pascoe, the UN Under Secretary General for Political Affairs, said there was growing regional and international support for Somalia's fragile government and he welcomed the recent strengthening of the African Union peacekeeping force.
He acknowledged many problems remained, including how the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) could deliver services to a nation heavily dependent on outside aid and the strengthening of al Qaeda-linked Somali rebels. "Is this a huge challenge, yes. But what strikes me is how the pieces are coming into place and the political will of the international community is strengthening," Pascoe told reporters in the Kenyan capital a day after visiting Mogadishu. "We're beginning to make some progress, but I am not saying there is a wonderful solution at hand."
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Throw this one in the bin where it belongs.
The UN has failed completely in supporting the national Transitional Federal Government (TFG). It controlled 2 blocks of Mogadishu as of last week, and probably now controls nothing. Al Shabaab are now running the show.
If the UN had a thimble-full of brains between its hundreds of overpaid bureaucrats and fat-bottomed delegates, it would have recognised the functional administrations of Somaliland and Puntland and given them the money they have instead wasted by throwing at the TFG.
The al-Shabaab are now moving north having consolidated in south Central and will progress to blowing up tourists in Kenya, Uganda and potentially further afield.
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hah tu3031 she held the presser in Kenya because that is also where all the 500+ members of the Transitional Federal Government are hiding out LOL while they pretend to rule a country they cannot even live in.
Java House Nairobi will go broke if they ever fix somalia and kick those parasites out
[Iran Press] At least 19 people have been killed in fresh fighting between forces loyal to the Western-backed government of Somalia and al-Shabab fighters in Mogadishu.
Somali government troops backed by the African Union peacekeepers came under attack from al-Shabab fighters in northern district of Hodon on Thursday. Two al-Shabab fighters and five Somali government soldiers were among the dead. A number of soldiers from both sides were also injured in the conflict, a Press TV correspondent reported.
Meanwhile, 12 people were killed and 14 others injured in heavy fighting between Somali troops and militants in other parts of Mogadishu.
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(Xinhua) -- The North African wing of Al Qaeda (AQIM) has claimed responsibility for the failed suicide bomb attack at Nema, some 1,200 km east of Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania.
Another failure for another Al Qaeda branch. They've been using an awful lot of barrel scrapings as martyrs for the cause... Perhaps they should stick to the usual activities of criminal gangs, where they're more successful: kidnapping, murder, protection rackets, multi-continent drug dealing.
The failed attack came on Aug. 25, when the Mauritanian army shot to death a suicide bomber attempting to force through the gates of an army barracks with a 4x4 vehicle full of explosives.
In a statement on an Arabic website, the terrorist organization said this failed attack was meant to be a revenge against the July 22 Franco-Mauritanian raid on an AQIM camp. Seven AQIM members lost their lives during the assault, which was reportedly launched to release a 78-year-old French hostage.
[Ennahar] The security services of Sidi Khaled, in the province of Biskra, managed the day before yesterday, to dismantle a network of support for terrorist groups, composed of five members, following information received, according to which the group provides support to terrorists in the region.
According to our sources, the network members were arrested after thorough investigations into the group in question and that in this region that experienced the horrors of terrorism in recent years in south west areas on the boundary with the province of M'sila and the regions bordering Jebel Khedou, essential transition between the provinces of Tebessa, Batna and Khenchela. This allows to deduce that terrorist groups were living in difficult conditions because of lack of supplies.
The network members must be presented in the coming hours before the public prosecutor at the court of Ouled Djellal.
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[Ennahar] The forces of the National People's Army managed to eliminate yesterday seven terrorist from the « Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat", ... now known as al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb... during an extensive search operation conducted by its units in the forest of Beni Yenni in Tizi Ouzou.
This operation, which is considered a violent and painful blow to the terrorist organization, came after information received by the security forces of the PNA on intense movements of armed groups in this region during these days.
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Seven times seventy-two is five hundred and four.....
[Ennahar] ANP forces have succeeded in the evening of Thursday, to eliminate two dangerous Boskonians between the villages of Tiza and Djerah, in the municipality of Amal in Boumerdes, bordering Lakhdaria heights in Bouira.
According to Ennahar sources, the operation led to the recovery of two Kalashnikovs weapons in addition to supplies. The security services had received information on the movements of Boskonians who were heading to Lakhdaria in the province of Bouira. The intervention resulted in the elimination of two Boskonians whose identity has not yet been revealed.
The helicopters of the army forces have carried out shots on the mountain in the same area, destroying two bunkers belonging to the terrorist groups of El Arkam phalanx.
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[Ennahar] A suicide kaboom was committed yesterday morning against a military convoy in the thriving village of Zeaâtra (3 Km from the town of Zemouri), east of Boumerdes. The attack left two people dead and over 26 maimed including civilians.
The bomber, driving a vehicle brand "Atos" packed with explosives, went at full speed against the military convoy of about 20 military trucks returning from a sweep operation in Ezzaâtra heights which extend to the heights of Boudhar in the municipality of Si Mustapha, one of the strongholds of terrorist groups in the "El Arkam phalanx.
Finding himself surrounded by the numerous military checkpoints, the bomber launched his vehicle against the convoy near the bus stop in the thriving village of Zaâtra, 3 km west of Zemouri, killing two soldiers and wounding 26 others including three civilians.
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The flash report on Thursday's 'Burg had the location of the gunfight near general Trevino, Nuevo Leon, about 40 kilometers northeast of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon.
Updated reports now say the gun battle took place at Ciudad Mier, just across the Texas border and 15 kilometers south of Falcon Lake, Texas.
Milenio just reported just after midnight EDST three Mexican soldiers were wounded in the battle.
The Mexican Secretaria Defensa Nacional reported that 27 armed suspects were killed in a ground and air assault by elements of the Mexican Army, the Mexican 7th Military Zone, against an armed group near Ciudad Mier, according to Mexican press accounts.
The battle started a little past noon when a Mexican Army combined air and ground operation commenced against an armed group news reports say were members of Los Zetas. The assault centered on an armed camp located on Rancho El Troncon.
Recon flights by an army helicopter preceded the operation. The battle started about 15 kilometers northeast of General Trevino, Nuevo Leon, roughly halfway between General Trevino and Ciudad Mier, Tamaulipas.
The area between General Trevino and Ciudad Mier have been a contested area before between Mexican law enforcement and criminal gangs since April of this year.
The casualty count includes 27 armed suspects dead. SEDENA reports three wounded soldiers. Soldiers also rescued three civilians held for ransom by the armed group.
Soldiers also seized 23 rifles, four 40mm grenades, 4,200 weapons cartridges, 532 magazines for various weapons and 19 vehicles, including a Humvee.
Reports are the camp was used as a training camp for Los Zetas members.
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I hope, quite seriously, that none of these vermin are receiving shelter in the United States, like the Taliban are receiving shelter in Pakistan. Should that happen, it will be time to do some serious reconsideration of the role of the Federal Government in border protection.
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The Zetas are being safe housed in the US by Mexican street gangs - there have already been local arrests over the same. All the Feds did was check complaints that the Mexicans were being "racially profiled" by the local cops.
Twelve individuals were murdered in northern Mexican states, victims of drug and gang related violence which included five people shot in a funeral procession in Juarez and two men abducted at gunpoint at a Chihuahua city Walmart.
A world-famous Texas scientist, who was once charged for smuggling plague bacteria into the U.S., is being questioned by authorities after a suspicious metal canister was found in his luggage at Miami International Airport on Thursday, NBC Miami reported.
The discovery in Dr. Thomas Butler's bag triggered a bomb scare, which shut down airport activity overnight. Airport screeners thought the canister resembled a pipe bomb. Security officials said. While no trace of explosives was found, the canister was still sent to an FBI lab for additional tests. He told local police the canister was used for medical testing, and the FBI confirmed it was used to transport dead bacteria samples. My question is, what was in the canister when he went to Saudi?
Butler, 70, made headlines when he was arrested in 2003 after the scientist reported 30 vials of plague were missing from his lab at Texas Tech University, according to NBC. He was accused of illegally transporting plague samples, theft, embezzlement and fraud. He was found guilty of exporting the vials, lying to federal agents and stealing research funds. He served approximately two years in jail. Later Butler was acquitted of illegally exporting the plague vials. His story later aired on CBS' 60 Minutes and was called "The Case Against Thomas Butler."
FBI Agent Michael Leverock said the suspect, who he did not identify, was being cooperative during a press conference Friday morning. "We don't even know if a crime took place," Leverock said. Sources told NBC that Butler was coming from Saudi Arabia and going home to Texas. He's apparently a professor at Ross University in the Caribbean on a teaching assignment in Saudi Arabia and has beeen released without charge.
After seven hours, the airport reopened Friday morning. The incident resulted in four of the airport's six terminals being evacuated.
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I'm concerned about a 9/11 part deux in the works. Most likely these jihadists mental cases are always gnawing away at some such plan. They have a way of returning to things.
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Why do I get the feeling that there is only one islam. There are the radical jihadists and there are the so-called "moderate" muslims biding their time and waiting for an opportune moment. Call it my morning paranoia.
The 70-year old PhD has been caught bringing through medical samples before, and was jailed for shenanigans involving plague samples at his lab at Texas Tech U. At the moment he's on staff at Alfaisal University in Saudi Arabia. It would be interesting to know what he's working on now, and what he was carrying from where.
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Won't happen. Because the first indication that some Muzzie is stirring shiat, there will be people like me running up the isle to clobber them. The lesson was learned on 9/11.
Maybe they can blow the plane up, but that's a far cry from taking control and flying the plane into a building.
Looks like more OT for the Drone Boys...
Pakistan's Taliban on Friday threatened to launch attacks in the United States and Europe "very soon" and dismissed a move by Washington to add the group to its terrorism blacklist.
"The U.S. listing of TTP as a terrorist organisation is a sign of them bring scared. It shows the U.S. and its allies are scared of us," Qari Hussain Mehsud, a senior TTP leader, told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location.
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It's well past time for an ARCLIGHT strike down through the NWFP, from Quetta to the Hindu Kush, using iron bombs, napalm, cluster weapons, and whatever other non-nuclear material we have available. No individual strikes, but a continuous KABOOM for 36-48 hours. After it's all over, we can ask the remaining talibunnies if they want some more - IF we can find them, and they can hear us.
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"It shows the U.S. and its allies are scared of us," Qari Hussain Mehsud, a senior TTP leader, told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location.
Yup - we sure are scared. We are so scared, so terrified of the brave Lions of Islam, that you have to hide.
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Did W. really tell the king of Arabia that "if another terror attack happened that Mecca would be destroyed". If he didn't, then someone needs to relay the message.
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan -- A US drone strike on Friday killed at least six militants in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt near the Afghan border, local security officials said. The strike hit a militant compound in outskirts of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan district, a renowned hub for Taliban and Al-Qaeda linked militants.
Two intelligence officials in Miranshah also confirmed the attack and the toll, saying all those killed were local militants. The area is famous as stronghold of the Al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani network, which has staged attacks on US and NATO troops fighting in Afghanistan.
One intelligence official said the house was completely destroyed. "All those killed were local militants, we have no report about the presence of any 'high-value' target," the intelligence official said. Busy day for the boys today...
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan -- Pakistani officials say the second suspected U.S. missile strike of the day has killed two people in the country's restive tribal region.
They said they believe both men slain in the vehicle in the village of Datta Khel in North Waziristan were foreign militants. "Fold up the lawn chairs, boys, our work here is done."
ISLAMABAD: In yet another sectarian assault, a suicide bomber targeted a rally of Shia Muslim minority in Pakistan's volatile south-western city of Quetta, killing 49 people and injured dozens of others. Religion of Peace...
The blast took place at about 3:00 pm when an estimated 2000 people gathered in Quetta's Meezan Chowk to mark solidarity with the Palestinian people on Al-Quds Day. The rally was organized by the Shia Imamia Students Organization. Every year, on the last Friday of the month of Ramadan, rallies take place across Pakistan, to support the Palestinian demand for a homeland. After the blast, the mourners turned violent and armed people resorted to gun sex aerial firing which continued for some two hours. The paleo 'cause' is a surprisingly big deal in Pakistan... almost like they are looking for something to divert themselves from their real problems- such as: THEMSELVES.
According to media reports, Punjab-based terrorist group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi which claimed responsibility of the Lahore attack also accepted that they carried out the Quetta blast.
(PTI) Security forces today arrested six armed Naxals at Kosekodi village in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district.
Police officials said the arrest was the result of a joint operation by BSF, district police and Special Police Officers who had received information about the movement of Naxals in the area.
The Naxals were busy in a meeting when the security forces reached the Kosekodi forest. Naxals, after spotting the security forces, opened fire at them.
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(PTI) Maoists today claimed to have killed one of the four policemen kidnapped by them from Lakhisarai district of Bihar but there was no confirmation by the police.
Avinash, who claimed to be a Maoist spokesman, telephoned PTI office here, claiming that one of the hostages had been killed after the expiry of the deadline for freeing eight ultras in jail in return for safe release of the hostages.
Director General of Bihar Police Neelmani, however, said there was no evidence of the ultras taking the extreme step.
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[Pak Daily Times] QUETTA: Two people were killed, while eight others injured when unidentified gunmen opened fire on a passenger bus carrying pilgrims in Pidrak area near Turbat on Thursday. According to reports, a passenger bus coming from Sindh was attacked near Pidrak area, a town close to Turbat city. Gunmen opened fire on the bus as a result of which two pilgrims died on the spot, while eight others sustained multiple injuries.
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(Lahore) Thirty-three people were killed and over 150 others injured in three back-to-back explosions, occurring in Lahore when processions of Yaum-e-Ali were on their way to conclude at the Karbala Gamay Shah in the city on Wednesday.
The first blast of a cracker occurred in front of the gate of Lower Mall police station, opposite Karbala Gamay Shah building, at 6:55 pm. It caused panic among the mourners, who started running towards the Bhatti Gate. Meanwhile, the second blast took place in Ghaznavi Street, Urdu Bazaar's parking area, at around 7 pm when a suicide bomber blew himself up while he was being frisked by a constable. Two persons, along with the constable, lost their lives in the blast. Other policemen standing there fled the spot.
The furious mob took the amputated legs of the suicide bomber, who had blown himself up at the Bhatti Gate, to the front gate of the Government College University and vented their anger by hitting them with shoes, sticks and bricks.
The third blast occurred at the Bhatti Chowk when another suicide bomber blew himself up about 13 minutes after the second blast. As a result, dozens of people received injuries.
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[Aswat al-Iraq] An Iraqi army force freed two persons taken hostage south of Mosul city on Thursday, according to a military source.
"A force from the Iraqi army's 2nd Division stationed in Mosul freed two kidnapped persons south of Mosul," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
"The two hostages had been kidnapped prior to their release secured by intelligence tip-offs received by the army on their whereabouts," he added.
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[Aswat al-Iraq] Police forces arrested the defense minister of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq in an operation in western Baghdad.
"The arrest took place in the Abu-Ghraib area, western Baghdad," the al-Iraqiya state-run TV station reported the event on Thursday quoting the Iraqi Interior Ministry.
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[Aswat al-Iraq] Unknown people threw an active grenade on the house of the deputy dean of the fine arts school in Basra city, causing no casualties. "The attack occurred late yesterday night in al-Jibliya area of Basra," a local security source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency on Thursday. He noted that the blast caused only damage to the house.
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Let me guess: "Someone got a grade they didn't like?"
[Iran Press] The Palestinian Hamas movement has beefed up its military prowess, unveiling reports of new missiles, capable of hitting targets deeper into Israel.
The Islamic movement said on Wednesday that it had completed the construction of a new missile with the range of 80 kilometers, Quds news agency reported.
The missile has a range of more than three times than that of the previous Palestinian missiles, and can strike deep into Herzliya and Kfar Shuba.
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"Hamas announces self-destruction counter-battery weapon". You've gotta wonder at what point they'll finally incur the hell-on-Earth they deserve from the Jooooos?
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Triple range = triple sized work accidents.
They'll be taking out whole neighborhoods instead of blocks...
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ISRAEL NN > HAMAS: 13 GROUPS JOINING US TO CARRY OUT ATTACKS [including but not limited to SUICIDE TERROPS agz Israel]; + HAMAS: ATTACKS WILL CONTINUE.
[Al Arabiya] Israeli and Palestinian leaders began their first round of direct peace negotiations in more than a year on Thursday, pledging to meet again in two weeks as part of a U.S.-brokered quest for peace.
U.S. Middle East peace envoy George Mitchell said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held productive meetings and would meet again in the region on Sept. 14-15 and every two weeks thereafter.
The direct peace negotiations came despite widespread skepticism and fresh violence in the volatile West Bank that underscored the challenges facing both leaders as they seek an agreement within a year to establish an independent Palestinian state that will exist peacefully side-by-side with Israel.
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ION ISRAEL NN > DR. KEDAR WARNS: IRAN MAY TAKE OVER PERSIAN GULF [Hezbollah may choose to COPY Iran's BUSHESHR NUCREX for Lebanon + attain NUCLEAR WEAPONS TO USE AGZ ISRAEL from same].
* Also from ISRAEL NN > BARAK: ISRAEL MAY DIVIDE JERUSALEM, "INTERNATIONLAIZE" THE HOLY BASIN.
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SAME >[MK] HOTAVELY: [Expand]ISRAEL SOVEREIGNTY TO JUDAEA + SAMARIA [Jewish settlements].
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SAME >[MK] HOTAVELY: [Expand]ISRAEL SOVEREIGNTY TO JUDAEA + SAMARIA [Jewish settlements].
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How about extending Israeli sovereignty from the Med to the Jordan River to the east, to the Litani River to the north, and to the Suez to the west? Works for me. And this time, DON'T give it back or let Arabs live there - including Bedouins.
Lot harder to hit Tel Aviv from Beirut, especially if everything between the Litani and Beirut is radioactive. Herd the "Palestinians" into Jordan, the Red Sea, Egypt, the Med, or anywhere else except Israeli territory.
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Friday, Thai police reported that one soldier was dead and two wounded in a gun battle between troops and terrorists suspected Islamic insurgents. The terrorist, a 27 year old man wanted for a previous bombing, was also killed in the 20 minute gun battle in southern Thailand.
The firefight broke out when nine soldiers tried to search a house used by terrorists suspected insurgents. The governor of the province asked local residents to watch for terrorists insurgents who could have been injured in the gun battle and report them.
In another incident, a village leader was gunned down and a security volunteer injured on Thursday night as they were on their way to guard a government building.
(Xinhua) -- Philippine security forces captured Thursday in the southern Philippines a policeman allegedly involved in the so-called Maguindanao massacre that left 57 people dead.
Arnulfo Soriano Ayunan, 40, did not resist arrest when troops stormed his hideout in the town of Kiamba, Sarangani province, according to provincial police director Senior Superintendent Florendo Quidilla.
"He (Ayunan) was seen by our informant in Kiamba. We immediately launch an operation and we arrested him," Quidilla said.
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Beruit, 3 Sept. (AKI) - A suspected Hezbollah arms depot in southern Lebanon caught fire on Friday setting off a series of explosions and injuring five people, according to the NowLebanon website. Spies, guys. Start looking for spies. They're everywhere! They could be anybody!
The three-floor building in the southern Lebanese coastal city of Chehabiyya - about 80 kilometres south of Beirut - was being used as a Hezbollah arms depot, NowLebanon reported, citing unnamed sources.
Lebanese soldiers arrived to cordon off the area and prevent access to media, according to the report.
Chehabiyya is part of a volatile border zone south of the Litani River in which Hezbollah has been banned from having weapons under a U.N. resolution that ended the 2006 war between the militant group and Israel.
It was not clear what caused Friday's blasts, but one official said it might have been triggered by an electrical short circuit setting off secret Hezbollah munitions.
An electrical short curcuit, Avi?
Sure. Why not...
UN Resolution 1701 prohibits Hezbollah from engaging in military activities in south Lebanon and forbids weapon smuggling to the group.
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Chehabiyya is part of a volatile border zone south of the Litani River in which Hezbollah has been banned from having weapons under a U.N. resolution that ended the 2006 war between the militant group and Israel.
Funny how the UN never got around to enforcing that part of the resolution.
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You know, it would seem to be an easy thing, that if such a location was suspected. First use a little W Band imagery to see if there are goodies inside, then use a laser to heat it up a little bit.
Heck, even a single incendiary round fired from a .50 cal should do the trick, if you know where to put it.
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Or a pack of cigarettes and a book of matches, especially if they are local brands. The old lit cigarette in a pack of matches fuse is a favorite among firebugs in Chicago.
[Pak Daily Times] Hardline 'thugs' surrounded the home of opposition Iranian leader Mehdi Karroubi, pelting the building with rocks to prevent the cleric from attending a rally on Friday, his website said. In the latest such incident, members of the Islamist Basij militia 'violently attacked' the building where the opposition cleric lives, the sahamnews.org website said.
The militia, "in a coordinated and pre-planned action, gathered in front of the building which houses Mehdi Karroubi," the website said. "The Basij thugs... with the support of police... disrupted public order and peace. They threw stones, sprayed the building with paint and stole security cameras of the building" in northern Tehran, the report said.
It said the Basij had been gathering outside the building every night since Sunday, and that the harassment was meant to prevent the opposition leader from attending annual nationwide rallies marking Quds Day, or Jerusalem Day. They were "intimidating and terrorising public opinion, especially to prevent Karroubi from participating in the Quds Day rally," Sahamnews said.
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