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Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Birthday/Daily Gam Shot

Phyllis Kirk aka the psychologist Major Shelton in "The Sad Sack" aka Sue Allen in "House of Wax" (Died in 2006 at age 79)


Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 09/18/2010 0:37 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Battle of Derapet footage released
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Abductions hit Afghan poll build-up
[Al Jazeera] Taliban fighters are believed to have abducted more than 20 people linked to Afghanistan's parliamentary elections, due to be held on Saturday amid tight security.

At least two candidates are among the missing, who also include election officials and campaign workers, officials said. One candidate was snatched in the eastern province of Laghman, while another has been missing for three days in western Herat province, his family have said.

Afghans are due to go to the polls on Saturday to elect 249 parliamentarians in an election opposed by the Taliban and other bad turban groups in the country. The Taliban warned on Thursday that polling centres, election workers and security forces would be targeted, and said that voters who tried to cast ballots "would get hurt".

"There certainly has been intimidation of a whole variety of people who are engaged in the political process," Andy Campbell, country director of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs - one of the organisations monitoring the Afghan elections - told Al Jazeera.

"It is not just those who are seeking to be candidates ..., also people from the independent election commission have had pressure placed upon them not to be engaged in the process in any way, shape or form."

The Taliban have grabbed credit for the kidnapping of at least one of the candidates, Abdul Rahman Hayat, and are suspected to be behind the disappearance of 18 election officials and campaign workers in the north-western Bagdhis province. Officials believe they have been taken to a Taliban stronghold in the province.
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
Yemen foils Somali pirates hijack attempt on foreign ship
(Xinhua) -- Yemen's coasties foiled an attempt by Somali pirates to take a foreign merchant cargo ship in the strategic Red Sea Strait of Bab al-Mandab, the country's Defense Ministry said on Friday.

"Four Somali pirates onboard a high-speed boat tried to seize a foreign merchant cargo ship off the Yemeni island of Meion in Bab Al-Mandab," the ministry's website said. "The Yemeni coasties, who were in charge of escorting the sailing fat merchantman when passing through the Yemeni shark-infested waters, put a few rounds across the pirates' bow and forced them to flee the scene," it added.

The ministry did not reveal when the botched hijack attempt occurred or identify the nationality of the ship.

Bab Al-Mandab Strait is located between the waters of Yemen and Somalia.

On August 29, Yemen said it raised alert level and tightened security along the country's coastline and the Gulf of Aden for fears of hijack attempts by Somali pirates or possible infiltration of Somali al-Qaida Islamic fascisti to Yemen, according to state media.

The impoverished Arab country also said it increased its coast- guard patrol boats deployed along the Yemeni coastline and the Gulf of Aden to prevent any hijacking attempts in the Yemeni waters or possible infiltration by the Somali hard boyz into the Yemeni territories.

These tighten security measures have been adopted by Sanaa government since the Somali-based al-Qaida wing Harakat al-Shabab al-Mujahideen announced its intention to support the Yemeni-based branch of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) earlier this year.
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Pirates


Arabia
Two soldiers killed in al-Qaida ambush in Yemen
(Xinhua) -- At least two soldiers were killed on Thursday when sand people fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the soldiers' patrol vehicle in Yemen's southeast province of Shabwa, a local security official told Xinhua.

"The soldiers were beyond all cares and woe after their vehicle was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade by al-Qaeda Islamic fascisti in a remote, desert road close to the area where a part of key gas pipeline was bombed earlier this week," the official said on condition of anonymity.

The bushwhack took place when the patrol was en route from Salmon area, the site of the attacked gas pipeline, to al-Houta city of Shabwa, he said.

"The Islamic fascisti were part of a large group which numbered around 500 and holed up in caves in remote mountain areas located between Shabwa and northeast Marib province," the official said, adding " among them were holy man Anwar al-Awlaki and other top al-Qaeda big turbans with their mugs on wanted posters in Yemen and the United States."

On Monday, a police officer told Xinhua that a group of al-Qaeda gunnies blew up a pipeline transferring liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Marib to the Belhaf port terminal for export in Shabwa province.

The kaboom caused a huge fire and the pipeline was badly damaged, cutting off the LNG supply. "Initial investigations proved that al-Qaeda was behind the sabotage," the official told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

On Tuesday, Yemen's Interior Ministry said it was stepping up security patrols alongside the attacked gas pipeline following the bomb attack.
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia


Bangladesh
Expat arrested on charge of link with JMB
[Bangla Daily Star] Police jugged a German expatriate for his alleged link with Islamist Islamic exemplar outfit Jamaat-e-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from village Elangi of Kotchandpur upazila on Monday.

The arrestee was identified as Faruk Ahmed Aruj, 53, son of late Abdur Shukur Biswas of Elangi. He had been staying in Germany since 1985 and working there as a manager of a fast food chain.

Faruk came to Dhaka on September 8 and went to visit his village home at Elangi on September 13.

He was produced in court on Wednesday and the court granted a three-day remand to quiz him.

Faruk's younger brother, Salim Ahmed Bablu said that their family never had any link with any political party.

Salim suspects that another German expat of Solaimanpur village under the same upazila instigated the arrest. He alleged that there was a discord between Faruk and Ali involving the post of president of a mosque committee in Germany.

Sources said, Ali Ahmed is a former upazila chairman and an accused in a murder case. He is now an active member of AL in Germany.

Contacted, Ali Ahmed received the phone call but switched it off on hearing that he was talking to a reporter.

Chairman of Elangi union parishad Abdur Razzak said Faruk is known to him for long.

"He is a good soul and helps the poor students and others in his area," he said.

Senior inspector Monaem Hossain of Kotchandpur cop shoppe said he jugged Faruk on charge of his involvement with JMB and providing funds to Islamic exemplars.
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh


Caribbean-Latin America
Tamaulipas: Shootouts Leaves at least 1 Dead in Matamoros
Google Translate from several Spanish language reports. For a map, click here.

A hat tip to El Blog del Terror for the additional details. Concurrent reports say three unconfirmed have died in shootouts in Matamoros, Tamaulipas.

Multiple shootouts between Mexican drug gangs, and gangs and elements of the Mexican military in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, have claimed at least one dead, according to Mexican and English language press and internet reports.

However, internet reports say at least three have died total.

An operation by a detachment of Mexican Marines raided a location near an international bridge leading into the US, where the brother of the Gulf Cartel chief, Ezequiel Cardenas Guillen, maintained a safe house.

Current Mexican reports say that Gullen was either arrested or wounded in the encounter, but no confirmation has been released by Mexican authorities.

The action took place at about 1430 hrs in the Las Arboledas in the Lauro Villar district by the Puente Internacional Veteranos. An earlier shootout took place at around noon in the Expo Fiesta Sur where a group of armed suspects said to be Gulf Cartel members attacked a safe house maintained by Los Zetas. No other information is available of the result of that attack.

A shootout took place near the Matamoros police station minutes later where a Gulf Cartel convoy encountered Mexican Marine convoy. Reports say the Gulf Cartel then withdrew to the Las Arboledas where the fighting intensified where a marine helicopter provided sniper support.

The shootout intensified when both criminal gangs and the military received reinforcements, and reports are at least three died, two unidentified Gulf Cartel members and one marine.

Mexican reports hint at a possible fourth battle between the Mexican Army and criminal gangs, near the intersection of Calle Jesus Guevara and Avenida Pedro Cardenas by the used car dealer El Pozo south of the city. A unidentified man was reported killed in this action.
Posted by: badanov || 09/18/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


More Mexican Mayhem
31 Die in northern Mexico

A total of 31 individuals were murdered on ongoing drug and gang related violence, including eight individuals shot to death at a Juarez nightspot early Friday morning
For a map, click here.
  • Four unidentified men were found shot to death near Parral, Chihuahua, according to Mexican press reports. The victims were found near the St Jude's chapel on the Parral-Guadalupe y Calvo highway. Reports say they were dumped at the location after they were shot.

  • An unidentified man was found executed and beheaded in Juarez Tuesday, say Mexican news reports. The victim was found in an abandoned Hyundai near the intersection of calles Municipio Libre and Juana Alvarez in the Corregidora district. A message was also found at the location. Bomb experts were called to the location as a precaution prior to opening the trunk.

  • A cab driver was ambushed in Juarez Thursday, according to Mexican press sources. Gerónimo Villa, 44, was shot by a group of armed suspects riding aboard a Toyota Tacoma pickup truck near the intersection of Calle Chinameca and Avenida Tecnologico. Several 9mm spent shells were found at the scene.

  • Three unidentified individuals were shot to death in Juarez Thursday afternoon, say Mexican news accounts. The attack took place near the intersection of calles Insurgentes and Articulo 31 in the Paula district where armed suspects riding aboard a Ford explorer attacked the trip aboard their Nissan Sentra.

  • Two news photographers for a Juarez newspaper were shot to death Thursday, according to Mexican news reports. Luis Carlos Santiago and Carlos Sanchez were shot aboard their sedan near the intersection of Paseo Triunfo and Adolfo de la Huerta near the Rio Grande shopping center. The two worked for the daily newspaper El Diario.

  • An unidentified man was found immolated Thursday evening near Juarez, according to Mexican press sources. The find was made near Kilometer 28 of the Juarez-Casa Grandes road, where the victim was found completed burned. Fuel cans and tires were used to immolate the victim.

  • Eight unidentified individuals were shot to death at a nightclub in Juarez early Friday morning, say Mexican press reports. The attack took place at the V Club on the Zona Pronaf. Reports say armed suspects shot to the group from aboard a vehicle.

  • Two men were shot to death and the two women accompanying them were wounded in an early morning attack In Chihuahua, Chihuahua, say Mexican news reports. The attack took place on Avenida Tecnologico in the Division del Norte district in front of the Hotel El Capitan, where armed suspects riding aboard a pickup truck fired on the Jeep Cherokee the victims were riding in.

  • Three men were shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua in two separate crimes, say Mexican news accounts. The first crime took place on Avenida Hidroelectrica Chicoasen in the Los Arcos district. The second crime took place near the intersection of Avenida Cantera and Periferico de la Juventud where two men were found shot to death.

  • Two unidentified individuals were shot to death in Juarez Friday, according to Mexican news reports. The attack took place near the intersection of calles Francisco Sarabia and Miguel Ahumada in the downtown area where the victim were shot to death by a group of armed suspects riding aboard a sedan. Several spent shell casings were found at the scene.

  • Two unidentified individuals were found to shot to death on a remote highway in Chihuahua near Parral. The victims were found on Kilometer 62 of the Satevo-Parral highway. Several 9mm and AK-47 spent shell casings were found at the scene.

  • An unidentified individual were shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Friday afternoon, according to Mexican news sources. The attack occurred near the intersection of calles 20 and Secretaría de Comunicaciones in the San Jorge district where the victim was fired on by armed suspects riding in vehicle. The victim attempt to flee the attack on foot.

  • An unidentified individual was shot ton death in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, say Mexican news reports. The victim was found handcuffed near the intersection of Avenida Clouthier and Calle Las Torres in the Cumbres del Valle district. Several .40 caliber spent shells were found at the scene.
Posted by: badanov || 09/18/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


News photographer killed in Juarez -- UPDATEDx3
The Mexican daily La Polaka reports that the car being used by the photographers was owned by a unidentified son of a controversial human rights lawyer, Gustavao de la Rosa. The newspaper also suggests the murder may be an mistake by organized crime. Carlos Sanchez died this morning. Carlos Sanchez did not die this morning. My mistake. Very sorry.

La Polaka reports a "narcobanner" erected this morning in which La Linea claims responsibility for the murder and threatens other Mexican Federal police commanders "if the money is not returned."

[Bangla Daily Star] Gunmen attacked two newspaper photographers Thursday in the drug war-torn border city of Ciudad Juarez, killing one and seriously wounding the other.

Luis Carlos Santiago and Carlos Sanchez, of the Diario de Juarez, were driving to lunch when gunnies in two cars intercepted them and opened fire, newspaper director Pedro Torres told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.

Santiago, 21, was killed and Sanchez was at death's door, Torres said.

Torres said he did not know why the photographers were targeted. He said Santiago had just started working for the newspaper two weeks ago, and Sanchez was an intern.

Mexican journalists are increasingly under siege from drug cartels seeking to control the flow of information.

The Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based watchdog group, said in a recent report that at least 22 Mexican journalists have been killed since December 2006, when President Felipe Calderon intensified a crackdown on drug cartels by deploying tens of thousands of troops and federal police across the country.

Gang violence has since surged, claiming more than 28,000 lives as the splintered cartels fight with each other and attack on security forces, government officials and journalists.

Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, has become one of the deadliest cities in the world amid a two-year-old turf war between the Juarez and Sinaloa cartels. More than 4,000 people have been killed in the city of 1.3 million in last two years.

In its report, the committee called for an urgent "full-scale federal response" to the dangers facing Mexican journalists, criticizing the government for failing to resolve most of the killings.

Later Thursday, Torres, too, angrily criticized the impunity during an interview with Milenio Television.
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A little background:

El Diario has been involved in a little controversy itself. Last month following a shootout that took place at a Holiday Inn just across the street on Calle Juvenal Aragon, Diario wrote a letter to the Mexican national government demanding the Mexican Federal agents boarded in the Holiday Inn be quartered elsewhere. A day later the agents were moved but the newspaper was then beseiged for s short time by protesting former workers at the Holiday Inn.

Background on the Holiday Inn shootout can be found here.

Also, the reason why the Mexican Federal agents were moved to the hotel was they were part of a rotation of 300 agents who were moved out after months of sustained attacks by criminal gangs and accusations of civil rights violations, such as extortion and robbery.

There is little in Juarez that would cause Juarez Cartel, La Linea, its armed wing and the Sinaloa Cartel to go after photojournalists.

Not accusing the government of doing anything, except that the concept of rogue elements in Mexican law enforcement is not an unknown possibility. It has happened in the recent past.
Posted by: badanov || 09/18/2010 10:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Oopsies. Forgot about the archives restrictions. article can be found Here
Posted by: badanov || 09/18/2010 10:05 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Troops deployed in troubled Kashmir
[Al Jazeera] India has deployed soldiers on the streets of Indian-administered Kashmir, as three more people were rubbed out by security forces during violent demonstrations in defiance of a curfew.

Troops were spotted on a key road in the main city of Srinagar, while residents also reported seeing soldiers in central Budgam and northern Baramulla villages.

The army was last mobilised to assist the police and paramilitary forces in July.

The latest deployment has angered separatists who resent any moves heightening the sense of occupation in the disputed Himalayan region.

"All repressive measures are being used to quell and crush the resistance movement and intimidate people for daring to raise their voice," said Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, a senior separatist and leading holy man.

The Kashmir Valley is under a strict curfew for a sixth consecutive day following several deadly clashes.

Three protesters were killed on Friday after crowds defied the curfew in several villages in the area.

In a separate incident, five fighters were also rubbed out in Pulwama district in a battle with Indian soldiers carrying out search operations.

New strategy
The latest mobilisation of troops is believed to be part of a new strategy to restore order following three months of violence.

Al Jazeera's Divya Gopalan, reporting from Srinagar, said: "The army has caused casualties, people are very angry.

"Separatist leaders are calling for people to protest against the army and the army is not reacting in any peaceful way to that.

"It is the first time the army has joined the police to try and maintain law and order. The police have previously dealt with these protests.

"This is called a new joint strategy that is supposed to maintain peace in the region. It is also supposed to be in retaliation to separatist calls for people to petition army barracks on Tuesday.

"The army has said that anyone who comes near any of their barracks are strongly warned to stay away."

A funeral was held on Friday for a young man killed in this week's protests.

Many people came out onto the streets for the funeral in defiance of the government curfew in the region.

"People are saying no matter what the Indian government doesn now it's too little, too late. So it doesn't bode well for any peace processor," Gopalan said.

Mounting casualties
On Wednesday, at least five protesters were rubbed out by police in the previously quiet town of Mendhar, a Mohammedan settlement in a Hindu-dominated area to the southwest of Kashmir, 210km from the town of Jammu.

Friday's toll brings to 30 the number of people killed since Monday in the bloodiest days of violence in three months of protests.

On Wednesday, a cross-party meeting of political leaders in New Delhi, the Indian capital, ended with no new initiatives, but a decision was made to send a fact-finding mission to "meet all sections of the people and gather all shades of opinion".

For three months young Kashmiris have thrown stones at security forces and rallied against Indian rule in the Mohammedan-majority region.

The clashes between the stone throwers and security agencies have left 93 people dead, according to a tally by the AFP news agency.
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Karachi tense after UK killing
[Al Jazeera] Karachi, Pakistain's biggest city, has been effectively shut down after a senior politician of the dominant Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) was stabbed to death in London.

Gas stations, schools and markets in Karachi were all closed on Friday and public transport was not running as news of the killing of Imran Farooq, a founding member of the MQM party, spread.

Osama Bin Javaid, a senior editor at Pakistain's Dawn News, told Al Jazeera that Karachi was in "sombre mood".

"It is a city in shock and fear right now ... there is very little traffic on the streets and the city wears a deserted look," he said.

"There have been scattered pockets of violence in several parts of the city. Shops have been burned and vehicles set alight ... It is very much waiting and bracing itself for if there will be a backlash."

It is feared that the killing could trigger more ethnic and political violence in Karachi. Revenge attacks and random acts of arson often follow high-profile murders in the southern Pakistain city.

"If this murder had happened in Karachi it would have triggered a severe reaction. Now, there is a tense calm prevailing over the city," Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder reported from Islamabad, the capital of Pakistain.
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Eighteen militants arrested in Khyber operation
[Dawn] Security forces jugged 18 snuffies and killed one on resistance during an operation in the area of Shahkus in Khyber Agency. The forces also recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition.

Meanwhile,
...back at the ranch...
an operation was also continuing in the area of Wazirdund of Jumrud. Officials had sealed the Pak-Afghan Highway in Jumrud and also clamped a curfew on Bara tehsil.
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Security forces kill 2 Taliban in Swat
[Pak Daily Times] Security forces on Thursday killed two Taliban responsible for killing civilians when the Swat district was under their control, military sources said.

Commanders Abdul Baseer and Samiul Haq were regarded as hardcore hard boyz of the Khawazakhela tehsil and their elimination was seen as a 'milestone' towards a terrorist-free Swat. "The two hard boyz were entering Khawazakhela, when forces intercepted them, and both were killed in an encounter," sources told Daily Times.
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Water dispute claims 26 more lives in Kurram
[Dawn] The ongoing water dispute in the Kurram tribal region deepened further on Friday as another 26 tribesmen were killed and 41 were injured in clashes between the two rival groups.

The dispute worsened after the involvement of Boskonians in the clashes which took place in the tribal region's Salozan and Tungi areas.

So far, 80 people have been killed, most of them jihad boys, in the past 14 days.

Kurram's political administration said it was continuing the efforts to establish peace in the region.
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What is a Boskonian? And who cares if they are killing each other and I doubt only 14 where jihadist.
Posted by: chris || 09/18/2010 10:33 Comments || Top||

#2  What is a Boskonian?

chris, Boskonians are Fred's little bit of editorial silliness. To see what the Dawn reporter originally wrote, click on the article title, which will take you to the article on the Dawn website.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/18/2010 13:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Doncha hate having to explain the punchline?
Posted by: Pappy || 09/18/2010 19:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Wait, it's a punchline? So you're telling me there _aren't_ any Boskonians in Pakistan?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 09/18/2010 19:34 Comments || Top||

#5  No, sorry.

But Pakistan is a punchline - to a very sick joke.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/18/2010 22:51 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Soldier killed, 9 wounded in western Baghdad blast
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: An Iraqi soldier was killed and five others maimed in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in al-Khadraa neighborhood, western Storied Baghdad, on Friday, a local Iraqi police source said.

"A stun charge went off near a gathering of civilians and military persons, followed by an IED blast that left a policeman killed and five military servicemen, including two officers, maimed," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

"The kaboom also left four civilians injured," the source added.
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2 killed, 9 wounded in Iraq bomb attack
(Xinhua) -- Two non-combatants were killed and nine others maimed when a bomb exploded on Friday in northern Iraq, a local police source said.

The attack occured in the city of Hawija, 200 km north of Storied Baghdad, when a cycle of violence went kaboom as a police patrol passed by, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

"Two non-combatants were killed, 8 civilians and one police were maimed in the kaboom," he added.

The police has cordoned off the area after the deadly attack, the source said, while ambulances rushed the maimed to the nearby hospital in the city.

Violence and sporadic high-profile attacks are still common in Iraqi cities as part of recent deterioration in security which shaped a setback to the efforts of the Iraqi government to restore normality in the country more than six months after violence-torn Iraq held parliamentary elections on March 7.
They'd have a better chance at that if they had an actual government.
U.S. forces formally ended combat operations September 1, cutting the U.S. military force from just under 90,000 to 50,000. However,
The infamous However...
some local analysts still worry about whether the Iraqi forces are ready to replace the American soldiers amid continued turban attacks.
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israelis whack Hamas big in West Bank
TULKARM, West Bank - Israeli soldiers shot dead a Hamas military commander in the occupied West Bank on Friday, the army and Palestinian officials said.

The Islamist Hamas group named the dead man as Iyad Shilbayeh, saying he was a number three local commander of their armed wing and vowed to carry on fighting. It accused Israeli soldiers of murdering him in “cold blood” — a charge rejected by the army.

Hamas claimed responsibility for killing four Israelis last month, ahead of the resumption of peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians, and it was not immediately clear if Shilbayeh was suspected of involvement in those deaths.
But that was different, you see, he was only killing Joooz ...
Relatives said he was shot dead in his house after troops arrived to arrest him. Soldiers knocked on his door then went inside, and Shilbayeh was heard saying “Who is there?” before three shots were heard, his brother Mohammed told Reuters.
You have to be kidding. The Israelis played the old "knock knock" joke and he fell for it? He's too dumb to live!
An Israeli spokeswoman said Shilbayeh was shot during a “routine arrest raid” in a Palestinian refugee camp near Tulkarm, a West Bank town known for its militant activity.

She said the soldiers had opened fire after Shilbayeh came towards them despite being told to halt.
In either version of the story he's too dumb to live ...
Posted by: Steve White || 09/18/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Candygram..."
Posted by: mojo || 09/18/2010 1:43 Comments || Top||

#2  well they warned them yesterday they was about too bring back assasinations of Hamas leaders for the killings of the 4 Israelis.So quit bitching
Posted by: chris || 09/18/2010 10:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Crossfire?
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 09/18/2010 11:34 Comments || Top||

#4  So the leader of a death cult was removed with extreme prejudice. I suppose his mom would be upset. It is him mom after all.
Posted by: miscellaneous || 09/18/2010 13:51 Comments || Top||

#5  She said the soldiers had opened fire after Shilbayeh came towards them despite being told to halt.

He wanted to die.

He probably thinks that he can fool God into believing that he died in in a good-faith attempt at resistance.

Little does he know.
Posted by: gorb || 09/18/2010 21:34 Comments || Top||

#6  "Too stupid to live" really should be a valid diagnosis autopsy finding....
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 09/18/2010 22:24 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Philippine military launches combat operation against rebels in south
(Xinhua) -- The Philippine military launched combat operation against members of Al-Qaida linked Islamic fascisti who killed three soldiers in a clash with government troops in the southern Philippines on Thursday.

Regional military commander Benjamin Dolorfino said Friday that soldiers were hunting down Abu Sayyaf Islamic fascisti who ambushed troops from the 32nd Infantry Battalion in the township of Tipo- Tipo in the southern Island of Basilan province. The incident left three soldiers and two Abu Sayyaf gunnies dead.

The 380-strong Abu Sayyaf group, founded in the early 1990s by Islamic turbans, is notorious for kidnappings, bombings and even beheadings in southern Philippines over the past decade.
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Abu Sayyaf


Home Front: Culture Wars
Report: Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated the U.S. government
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 09/18/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The report, prepared by teams headed by former Deputy Defense Undersecretary William Boykin and former Defense Intelligence Agency director Edward Soyster

Better late than never.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/18/2010 3:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Under President Barack Obama, the Brotherhood was believed to have gained even greater influence. The report cited White House counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan, an enthusiastic supporter of Saudi Arabia who has denied any Islamic threat and called for a U.S. dialogue with the Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah.

"Indeed, it is hard to overstate the danger associated with the president of the United States having as his top advisor in these sensitive portfolios someone so severely compromised with respect to shariah and the threat it poses," the report said.

Can you hear me now???????? Nope, they are all deaf and dumb that side of the river. Ima 'fraid it'll take an American Hiroshima to get their attention.
Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 || 09/18/2010 9:33 Comments || Top||

#3  hell the muslim brotherhood got elected president
Posted by: chris || 09/18/2010 10:34 Comments || Top||

#4  How many ways can the US "win" the WOT?

Well, we can beat them into submission. Clearly unpopular with Bambi who took office while the smack down was at its peak.

Option number two is to point the Jihadist at a different target. My vote would be Russia and China but nobody has asked. I wonder who Bambi is trying to point them at? Three guesses and the last two don't count.
Posted by: Mike Ramsey || 09/18/2010 10:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Later Al Amoudi met George W. Bush during his successful campaign for president in 2000. In 2003, Al Amoudi was arrested and prosecuted on charges that he served as a senior financier for Al Qaida.

"His arrest and conviction should have sent shockwaves through the U.S. intelligence community, particularly its counterintelligence units, since Al Amoudi's blown cover provided a reality check on the extent of shariah's stealth jihad in this country, and how badly we have been penetrated," the report said. "Here was, after all, proof that an Al Qaida and Hamas operative had enjoyed access to the most senior levels of the American government."


Prosecuted?? I'd say.

Wikipedia:

After the September 11, 2001 attacks, Al-Amoudi spoke at the Washington National Cathedral prayer service held to honor the memory of the victims.

In 2004 he pled guilty to three charges of illegal financial transactions with the Libyan government, unlawful procurement of citizenship and impeding administration of the Internal Revenue Service, as well as a role in a Libyan conspiracy to assassinate then-Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah. He agreed to cooperate in ongoing investigations in return for prosecutors dropping 31 other counts and possible reduction in a pending 23-year sentence and $750,000 in fines.[2][3] He was sentenced to 23 years in October 2004.[1]

Al-Amoudi was described as an "expert in the art of deception" in a report by Newsweek journalists Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff, for expressing moderate, pro-American sympathies in his lobbying and public relations work with Americans, but then expressing support for Hamas and Hezbollah at an Islamist rally.[4]


Posted by: KBK || 09/18/2010 16:17 Comments || Top||

#6  Here is the report (pdf - 177 pages)
Posted by: KBK || 09/18/2010 16:20 Comments || Top||

#7  "His (Abdul Rahman Al Amoudi) arrest and conviction should have sent shockwaves through the U.S. intelligence community, particularly its counterintelligence units, since Al Amoudi's blown cover provided a reality check on the extent of shariah's stealth jihad in this country, and how badly we have been penetrated," the report said. "Here was, after all, proof that an Al Qaida and Hamas operative had enjoyed access to the most senior levels of the American government."

I am surprised this didn't give the intell community apoplexy. Even more to the point, why they didn't have a freaking clue to begin with. Then there's Obama. Can we impeach him for treason yet?
Posted by: miscellaneous || 09/18/2010 16:38 Comments || Top||

#8  From the report, "Sharia, the Threat to America":

Today, the United States faces what is, if anything, an even more insidious ideological threat: the totalitarian socio-political doctrine that Islam calls shariah. Translated as “the path,” shariah is a comprehensivelega l and political framework. Though it certainly has spiritual elements, it would be a mistake to think of shariah as a “religious” code in the Western sense because it seeks to regulate all manner of behavior in the secular sphere – economic, social, military, legal and political.

Shariah is the crucial fault line of Islam’s internecine struggle. On one side of the divide are Muslim reformers and authentic moderates – figures like Abdurrahman Wahid, the late president of Indonesia and leader of the world’s largest libertarian Muslim organization, Nahdlatul Ulama – whose members embrace
the Enlightenment’s veneration of reason and, in particular, its separation of the spiritual and secular realms. On this side of the divide, shariah is a reference point for a Muslim’s personal conduct, not a corpus to be imposed on the life of a pluralistic society.

By contrast, the other side of the divide is dominated by Muslim supremacists, often called Islamists. Like erstwhile proponents of Communism and Nazism, these supremacists – some terrorists, others employing stealthier means – seek to impose a totalitarian regime: a global totalitarian system cloaked as an Islamic state and called a caliphate. On that side of the divide, which is the focus of the present study, shariah is an immutable, compulsory system that Muslims are obliged to install and the world required to adopt, the failure to do so being deemed a damnable offence against Allah. For these ideologues, shariah is not a private matter. Adherents see the West as an obstacle to be overcome, not a culture and civilization to be embraced, or at least tolerated. It is impossible, they maintain, for alternative legal systems and forms of governments peacefully to coexist with the end-state they seek.

...

Shariah is Anti-constitutional

If we are to face down shariah, we must understand what we are up against, not simply hope that dialogue and “engagement” will make the challenge go away. Those who today support shariah and the establishment of a global Islamic state (caliphate) are perforce supporting objectives that are incompatible with the U.S. Constitution, the civil rights the Constitution guarantees and the representative, accountable government it authorizes. In fact, shariah’s pursuit in the United States is tantamount to sedition.
Posted by: KBK || 09/18/2010 16:45 Comments || Top||



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