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The International Security Assistance Force confirmed the death of Noor Mohammad, A Taliban leader, during an air strike targeting a Taliban command and control center in Kajaki district, Helmand province, Nov. 20. Attack was a while ago but it took time to gather pieces & run DNA I guess.
Noor Mohammad was an improvised explosive device facilitator who planned, coordinated and executed numerous IED attacks against Afghan National Security Forces and ISAF. He was critical to the procurement of IED materials and subsequent construction of IEDs in Sangin district. He worked directly for Mullah Abdul Qayoum who was the Sangin district Taliban shadow governor with overall military command for Sangin and northern Helmand and who was also killed in the same air strike. This was an effective zap.
Multiple intelligence reports and tips from local citizens Somebody got tired of schools getting blown up and the little brats stuck in the house all day, every day.
led ISAF to a district-level Taliban command and control center that Taliban leaders operated from. Surveillance indicated the Taliban were using the location to control insurgent activities, and as a meeting site. Numerous armed insurgents were seen throughout the day coming and going from the location. ISAF assessed a meeting of several suspected Taliban leaders was in progress when it conducted the air strike. Oh, I bet the delay was so we could read their computer & cell phone records....
Twelve insurgents were killed in the air strike, including Noor Mohammad.
Initial reports indicate no civilians were harmed in the operation.
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and yet american commanders say the Brits are useless in helamnd, yeah, well, you will learn the hard way, like the brits did, over 300 dead, supporting their American 'allies'
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Same old, same old. Except for one interesting thing:
One of the Marines in the photos is from Beserkly, Caliphornia. One guy smart enough to find a way out of town!
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and yet american commanders say the Brits are useless in helamnd,
Pikestaff, the British troops were severely limited by stupid orders from the top, coupled with a distinct lack of bullets, helicopters, and pretty much everything they needed to properly fight a local war. It wasn't the fault of the troops, or the officers with them, that they were not able to be effective in Helmand Province, it was the fault of the Ministry of Defence, and ultimately of the last several Labour prime ministers, who chose to put tax funds into council housing for terrorists' families instead.
Anyone who heard about that bayonet charge in Iraq because the patrol ran out of bullets knows it isn't a question about the troops. But the MoD made sure their troops couldn't do a bloody thing in Helmand, and the American generals noticed.
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...it was the fault of the Ministry of Defence, and ultimately of the last several Labour prime ministers ...
I don't see the current Tory/LD coalition doing much to fix the problems at the MoD.
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oikestaff, go check Basra, and the British command's incompetence and borderline cowardice when ti comes to ops. Helmand is a mess because the British command screwed it up, just liek Basra. As usual, we will fix it, thanks for keeping them busy until the real professionals could show up, condolences to those brave infantry who held the line in spite of their commander's ineptitude. Note that there is nothing wrong with the British troops except British leadership and politics (past and current).
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Sadly, as you look back through history, this is ALWAYS the problem with British troops. They are brave and good soldiers, but always hampered by the Upper Class Twits of the Year. Had they had competent leaders, a lot of the world would still be part of the British Empire.
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Oh, it is past time we blew them sky high. I, respectfully, wish to say that I do not think we learn our lessons quickly enough. We've been doinking around over there for years now. This penny ante patrol crap should be replaced with precision air strikes and huge bombs, or give up the ghost and come home. I've had it.
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Had they had competent leaders, a lot of the world would still be part of the British Empire.
Including us, Silentbrick.
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Last night I posted this link as a prayer request. My girlfriend's niece is dating a Marine and is asking for everyone to say a prayer for "Darkhorse" 3rd Battalion 5th Marines and their families.They are fighting it out in Afghanistan and have lost 9 Marines in 4 days.
"Darkhorse" while in Iraq, fought in the liberation of Fallujah.
I am gratefull to the moderators for posting this story today. The above verbage regarding the 9 killed marines during the first 4 days of this mission has been spreading like wildfire as Americans are getting behind "Darkhorse".
"Darkhorse" 3rd Battalion 5th Marines, just as in Fallujah will make the adjustments and they are making the adjustments. Contrary to the British scenariou, they are the badass people who will take Hell-mond.
God Bless the Fight.
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so much for 'civil' well reasoned discourse, whisky mike, pissed on whisky?
*sigh* Why is it that people ignore the picture next to "Rantburg" at the top of the page? pikestaff, the picture is of two old-fashioned gentlemen engaging in the kind of civil, well-reasoned discourse that used to be referred to as fisticuffs. Bare knuckled. Your opening salvo was, to be blunt, pissy. Not to mention disrespectful of those troops from both Britain and America (not to mention certain other countries' troops too often left unmentioned) who have given their lives and/or limbs in the fight to keep our women out of burkahs. Whiskey Mike (at one time a well known call sign in certain military circles, I've been told) was quite restrained in his response, compared to what he is capable of. OldSpook's post (#6) is what the very experienced American military of more recent vintage think -- he, too, was quite restrained, because you are new here.
"pikestaff" doesn't sound like the nym of a Brit who wants the jihadis to win. So then if beating the jihadis is the goal, shouldn't we team up together, instead of competing against each other?
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Check Prince of the Giants3877 - All due respects to 3/5 and your honorable intention, it really isn't appropriate to post specifics about any unit.
[Al Jazeera] Barack B.O. Obama, the US president, has made a surprise visit to US troops serving in Afghanistan, but he has been criticised for cancelling a face-to-face meeting with Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai, his Afghan counterpart.
The trip to Afghanistan, Obama's second during his presidency, came as the White House prepares to release a review of strategy in the conflict against the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
The US president was met by General David Petraeus, the commander of US and Nato troops in Afghanistan, and Karl Eikenberry, the US ambassador in Kabul, as he arrived at Bagram Air Base on Friday, before heading to the hospital to meet maimed soldiers.
However, The infamous However... the trip was cut from the planned six hours to just four hours with the explanation that winds of more than 70kph and heavy clouds prevented him from taking the short helicopter ride to the presidential palace in the capital, Kabul.
Obama spoke by telephone with Karzai, after the weather also made a video conference impossible.
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You know when you're starting out and you get to be the warm up band for the main event. Then you get one big hit on the charts and you're the main event. Then your next album bombs. You then team up with someone else who can pull the crowds and attention again. I think I've seen this act before.
[The Nation (Nairobi)] Involvement of terror groups in piracy has complicated negotiations for ransom payments, a maritime official said on Friday.
The groups have infiltrated teams that negotiate for ransom, making it difficult for ship owners to know whether they are dealing with the right people or not, Mr Andrew Mwangura of East Africa Seafarers Assistance Programme said.
There are several terror groups operating in Somalia, the most ruthless being al Shabaab, which is believed to be close to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, and Hizbul Islam.
"The situation has caused confusion because some owners of hijacked vessels have claimed to have dealt with some negotiators who are not known. It is the main reason pirates are now holding ships longer than usual," he said.
The reports came as it emerged pirates had initially demanded $600,000 (Sh48 million) for the release of fishing vessel Golden Wave, which has 39 Kenyans on board, but the figure was raised to $3 million (Sh240 million) after terrorist groups demanded a bigger cut, according to Mr Mwangura.
Relatives of the Kenyan hostages met on Thursday to pray for their loved ones, and expressed concern that pirates might harm the hostages to avenge the killing of three suspects by Kenya Navy officers three weeks ago.
Mr Mwangura said the hostages had been divided into groups and were being used to aid their captors in their dangerous operations.
"Two recently hijacked vessels--one of them being Golden Wave -- are being used to launch attacks on other vessels, which exposes the hostages to great danger," he said.
At least four of the hostages are going through the ordeal for the second time. Somali pirates have recently stepped up attacks on commercial ships.
They have hijacked ships within the territory of Kenya, Tanzania, Madagascar and Seychelles, raising fears that the pirates were becoming more daring.
They are also heavily armed with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades. The International Maritime Bureau says 128 ships were hijacked in the first nine months of the year.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Three coppers were on Friday killed and another injured in two separate attacks.
In the first attack at 7:45am in Eastleigh, gunnies targetted a government vehicle held in a traffic jam.
In the second attack at about 4pm, two assailants on a cycle of violence shot two traffic officers at the Roysambu roundabout -- about 100m from Kasarani cop shoppe.
One keeled over dead while the other died on the way to hospital.
Nairobi provincial police boss Anthony Kibuchi said police pursued the two assailants and shot them. A grenade that one of the slain attackers was carrying went kaboom! killing him.
In Eastleigh, one of the officers was blown and his colleague seriously injured. The explosive was described "as being within the hand grenade range".
AP Commandant Kinuthia Mbugua described the attacks as indication of terrorist presence in the country.
Mr Mbugua said that there was an kaboom near the vehicle at about 7:45am, injuring the two APs. One was pronounced dead in hospital while the other is recovering.
The vehicle had just dropped off two other APs in Buru Buru estate and was passing through Kimathi estate into Eastleigh Section III, inhabited by several CID officers.
The officer, an escort to Embakasi DC, and the driver were held in a traffic jam at the Eastleigh First Avenue and Eighteenth Avenue junction, when an explosive believed to be a hand grenade, was allegedly thrown into the vehicle by a smartly dressed man.
A team of detectives led by the officer in charge of operations at the Criminal Investigations Unit, Mr Francis Njiru and deputy officer in charge of the Bomb Disposal Unit, Mr Eliud Langat, visited the scene and began investigations.
According to an eyewitness, Mr Salim Muyuka Sangoro, two smartly dressed men and a woman dressed in a burqa approached the vehicle then one of them threw the explosive inside and decamped.
"I had just alighted from a matatu when I saw two men and a woman throw something into the vehicle and then it went kaboom! after which decamped," the eyewitness said.
Another eyewitness, Mr Francis Mugo, said that one of the officers had tried to jump out of the vehicle but did not make it in time.
The injured driver then sped off to the nearby Eastleigh South Chief's Office where he sought help before the two were taken to Nairobi Hospital.
Mr Mbugua, who visited the scene along with his deputy Omar Shurie and officer in charge of logistics Fredrick Mulandi, asked residents to be wary of strangers.
"People should be wary of strangers because there are people who are bent on causing terror. Nobody is safe from terror activities. Bad elements appear to have infiltrated parts of the country," he said.
The Nairobi provincial CID boss Peter Muinde said that police were investigating the incidents.
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[Ennahar] A report by the U.S. Embassy in Rabat reveals the involvement of the Moroccan regime in operation of support to the activities of narcos, either by closing the eyes on the activities thereof, or by sanctioning the elements security services who fight against drug smuggling.
For the first time a U.S. official document speaks of the involvement of Morocco in matters of drug trafficking, citing officials of the Moroccan police working at Casablanca airport, who have been sanctioned in mid-August 2009 after they had jugged the son of the Senegalese president and the son of a Minister of the same country for drug possession.
According to the report, King Mohammed VI had not appreciated the arrest of president's son and a Senegalese minister's son without his knowledge and without prior consultation. The two Senegalese were released later and the coppers punished.
The report also quotes an official of the Moroccan police in Casablanca, who was mutated in the occupied city of Laayoune after he had implicitly accused the regime of being behind the drug mafia.
Another report published by Wikileaks dated 2008 talks about the corruption that plagues the Moroccan army, especially among bigwigs of the military institution. It says "the Moroccan army suffers from corruption, bureaucracy, lower educational level of officers and the continued threat of extremism of some elements." It added that "the head of the gendarmerie, General Hasni Ben Slimane "allegedly involved in corruption cases."
Corruption, the report said, plagues the top military hierarchy in Morocco and General Benani turned into "a Baron of milk." the latter, taking advantage of his position as army chief in the occupied Western Sahara, manipulated markets to supply the army in milk, thereby making a fortune in billions of dollars, in addition to his involvement with other generals in doubtful markets of fishing permits on the coast of Western Sahara. He managed well, the report said, to build a palace for his family with money of corruption.
Corruption also affects the officers who, to qualify for promotions, pay bribes to their leaders.
Morocco provided Washington with information on the Iranian nuclear program and incited them against Algeria.
Morocco promises to establish official relations with Israel.
Wikileaks report: "Algeria has not forgotten the blood of its diplomats in Iraq and demands to know the identity of the sponsors.
Wikileaks exposes the Makhzen's regime and reveals the inconsistency of its positions on Arab issues.
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Anon1, if you are still reading....I just wanted to let you know that anyone that was able to get rid of the Clintons from public office is a-okay in my book. God does work in mysterious ways. LOL!
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Operatives plotted to kill government officials and media workers by sending them poisoned perfumes, Saudi Arabia says.
You are a Saudi man of some rank at your place of employ. You receive a package from an anonymous sender. It contains a bottle with the label of a famous parfumerie. What, oh what, should you do?
[Bangla Daily Star] Three 'shootouts' between members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and criminal gangs left three offenders dead in the capital, Meherpur and Barisal districts early yesterday.
The dear departed are Abdullah Mohammad Nazimuddin alias Honda Babu, 30, of the city's Malibagh Chowdhurypara, Durjoy Babu alias Bachchu, 36, of Gangni upazila in Meherpur and Al Amin, 35, of Bakerganj upazila in Barisal.
Honda Babu was a top listed criminal while Bachchu was a regional leader of outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP Marxist-Leninist) Lal Pataka faction and Al Amin was a suspected robber, stated Rab officials. A top listed criminal, a suspected robber, and a Purbo Banglar Commie walk into a bar. Stop me if you heard this one...
Rab-3 officials said a team of the force signalled three youths on a cycle of violence to halt at a check post near Outer Circular Road in the city's Malibagh area around 4:00am. Stop in the name of the BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG...
Defying the signal, the youths opened fire on the law enforcers, compelling them to retaliate that left Babu dead on the spot. We had...no choice.
The other two, however, decamped the scene on the bike, they added.
Rab officials claimed Babu was a listed criminal of the area and also a close aide of runaway top criminal Zisan. Look what dey done to mah boy!
He was accused in several cases, including killing and extortion, filed with different cop shoppes. Several general diaries were also lodged against him. What's this lodged against him, sarge?
Hmmmmmm...looks like a diary.
Hey, here's another one.
His body was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue for his appointment with Doctor Quincy. Busy night tonight, doc. Hope you're looking for some OT.
Family members and relatives of Babu declined to make any comment on his death. A wise move.
Our correspondent from Kushtia reports, a Rab team raided a sugarcane field in Jorpukuria village of Gangni upazila in Meherpur where Bachchu and his accomplices gathered around 6:00am. Tonight's episode: Shootout in the Sugarcane.
As the Rab team approached the spot, the gang opened fire on the law enforcers, triggering a 'shootout', said Assistant Superintendent of Police Sheikh Jahidul Islam of Rab-6. We had...no choice.
Don't they ever surrender, Mr. Assistant Superintendent?
Well, they haven't yet. Maybe next time...
Bachchu was killed in the 'shootout' while his cohorts managed to flee. Well, at least they got the "regional leader". As they always seem to do...
Police recovered the bullet-hit body of the dear departed from the field and sent it to Meherpur General Hospital morgue for post-mortem examination. Two guns were also recovered from the spot.
Police said Bachchu was accused in eight cases including murder, extortion and abduction.
Our Barisal correspondent adds, a team of Rab-8 raided the west end of Payerpur bridge in Bakerganj upazila, where a gang of robbers had gathered around 4:40am. Where's the meeting?
West end of Payerpur Bridge.
Jesus, can't we meet at somebody's house for crissakes?
What time?
4:40AM.
Awwwww, c'mon...
Seeing the members of the elite force, Al Amin and his cohorts opened fire prompting the Rab personnel to hit back. We had...no choice.
At one stage of the 'shootout', Al Amin was hit by bullets and keeled over dead while his accomplices decamped. Aiiiiiiiieee! I'm bullet hit! Rosebud! The dear departed was accused in 17 cases including extortion and robbery, said Syed Rabiul Islam, officer-in-charge of Bakerganj Police Station.
One foreign-made pistol, three bullets and a sharp weapon were also recovered from the spot. I warned him not to run with scissors. But did he listen?
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Shootouts are just the gift that keeps on giving.
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A former Torreon, Coahuila police officer was shot to death by Coahuila state police agents in an encounter that turned out to be a hostage rescue Tuesday night, say Mexican news accounts.
Victor Israel Solis Vazquez, 28, was shot by a Coahuila state police patrol elements after the patrol encountered a stolen Mazda sedan. The agents apparently attempted to stop the vehicle which was traveling near the intersection of calles Gustavo A. Madero and Primera in the Primero de Mayo colony at about 0145 hrs early Tuesday morning.
Armed suspects aboard the vehicle fired on the patrol elements using .223 caliber and 9mm weapons, but return fire killed Soliz Vazquez and disabled the car. Three other suspects fled the scene.
Police found inside the car trunk an unidentified businessman in his 40s who had been kidnapped ten days before from his residence in Campestre La Rosita colony.
Fourteen individuals were murdered in northern Mexican states including two Chihuahua municipal police officers shot to death Tuesday night. For a map, click here
Two unidentified men in their 20s were found shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Tuesday night, say Mexican news accounts. The victims were found near the intersection of calles Rio Nilo and Rio Paraguay in the Riberas de Sacramento colony tortured, gagged with rags and hands bound with nylon cord. At the scene were found 12 9mm spent shell casings.
Two Chihuahua municipal police officers were shot to death and a third wounded in an attack late Tuesday in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, according to Mexican news reports. The attack took place near the intersection of calles Agustin Melgar and Tecnologico in the northern zone. Victor Ruiz Jimenez and Jesus Sifuentes Acevedo died at the scene when armed suspects riding aboard a Ford or GMC SUV open fired on the three officers who had dismounted their patrol vehicles. Several spent .223 caliber and AK-47 rounds were found at the scene.
Two unidentified women were found shot to death in Juarez Wednesday morning, say Mexican news accounts. The victim were killed near the corner of calles Hidalgo and Guadalupe Victoria in the Valles de Juarez colony, shot 14 times using assault weapons. Their bodies were dumped at the scene.
An unidentified man was shot to death late Wednesday night in Juarez, according to Mexican news accounts. The victim was found gagged and his feet bound with tape near the intersection of calles Monte Mayor and Camino Viejo. A message was left with the victim which said, "Merry Christmas, pigs."
Two unidentified men were shot to death and a thrid was wounded in an attack in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Thursday afternoon, say Mexican news accounts. The shooting took place at a used car lot near the corner of avenidas Francisco Villa and Republica de Colombia in the Panamericana colony. One of the victims died at the scene while the other died while on the way to receiving medical attention.
A former inmate at a Hermosillo, Sonora prison was shot to death only moments after his released Thursday night, say Mexican news accounts.Rafael Quijada Quijada, 37, has only driven 100 meters aboard a Volkswagen Jetta outside the gates of Centro de Readaptacion Social Numero 1 (CERESO) when armed suspects traveling aboard two SUVs shot and killed him. Reports say Quijada resisted an abduction attempt and that was why he was shot.
An unidentified man was found shot to death in Tijuana, Baja California Thursday night, say Mexican news accounts. The victim was found inside a sedan parked outside of a grocery store in Cañón K colony in the Zona Centro.
Two unidentified individuals were found shot in San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora Thursday night, say Mexican news sources. The victims were found inside a residence near the intersection of Avenida Lazaro Cárdenas and Calle 41st. Reports say several heavily armed individuals stormed the home and shot to pair to death. Reports also say the shooting was a settling of scores, although the information was not elaborated on.
A man was found shot to death in Torreon, Coahuila, say Mexican news accounts. Fausto Avalos, 46, was found in a cemetery at the Ejido Flores Magon. farm with single gunshot wound to the head and his body mutilated.
[Dawn] Cyprus police said Friday they jugged two Pak men on suspicion of links to snuffy groups, after being tipped off by foreign intelligence agencies.
"We jugged two people after receiving information concerning illegal activity linked to fundamentalism and bully boy activity," police front man Michalis Katsounotos told AFP.
The men were about 40 years old, he said without providing any other details about the information that led to their arrest.
Reports said police jugged the pair in the capital Nicosia on Wednesday during a swoop on in which they netted two laptops, several CDs and written text.
The daily Phileleftheros said the Cypriot authorities had been alerted four months ago about the suspects' links to extremism related to terror activities.
They were suspected of trying to form a terror cell on the Mediterranean island, and had been under surveillance up until they were jugged.
Police said deportation orders against the two for overstaying their visas were suspended while evidence was being examined to see if they have committed any criminal offence.
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Convention is that you sing it three times before the refrain.
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ERDOGAN + TURKISH GOVT suppor LEGAL, PRO-ISLAMIST "CREEPING SHARIA" in Vienna, ostensibly under the label of promoting TURKISH IDENTITY in Vienna = Austria - ERdogan also suppors same in GERMANY.
[Geo News] Four people including three armed assailants and a security official were killed while six others including an official were maimed in an attack on a security patrol party in Khuzdar on Friday.
According to police and security officials, three armed assailants ambushed a security party which was on a routine patrol at the National Highway near Sunny locality. As a result, one personnel of the security force was killed while six others were maimed.
All the three assailants identified as Abu Bakar, Ahmed and Nabi Bakhsh residents of district Kalat were killed when the security force retaliated firing.
The maimed security officials were admitted to Khuzdar CMH while the bodies of the assailants were kept in the morgue of Khuzdar civil hospital.
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[Dawn] The Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) claimed on Friday to have jugged five suspected forces of Evil involved in the suicide kaboom on Rescue 15 police and ISI buildings in 2009.
The attack had claimed lives of 29 people, 19 police officials and a senior officer of an intelligence agency among them, besides injuring 416 others. Several public and private buildings and vehicles were damaged in the attack that followed massive firing on May 27, 2009.
The alleged forces of Evil were identified as Sarfraz Ahmad of Chak 116, Faisalabad, Shabbir Ahmad (Chak 29, Thikriwala), Umer Hayat (Chak 423, Tandlianwala), Hafiz Mahmood (Chak 100, Karri-wala Dak Khana Khas, Faisalabad) and Abid Akram (a resident of 33/A Qazi Park, Shahdara Town, Lahore).
CCPO Aslam Tareen told the media at the Qila Gujjar Singh Police Lines that the jugged men were activists of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistain's group -- Al-Toheed Al-Jihad led by Dr Umer Kundi (who belonged to Lodhran's Kehror Pucca tehsil).
Dr Kundi was the criminal mastermind of the attack on police 15 building and was also assigned the task of generating funds through kidnap for ransom and robberies for the TTP to run its affairs.
He said Sarfraz and Shabbir had opened heavy fire on the coppers deputed at barriers/check post in front of the police 15 building seconds before the explosive-laden vehicle attack in May 2009. All of them had kidnapped and killed people in Lahore, Faisalabad, Gujranwala and Sialkot, he said.
The CIA police, he said, had jugged the suspects in Ravi Park, Shahdara, where they were planning more attacks in the scenic provincial capital. A huge cache of weapons and four suicide jackets had been recovered, he said.
"Their next target were the offices of the Lahore police, the army and other law-enforcement agencies," said Mr Tareen who added that they had finalised plots and were awaiting suicide kaboomers. The police also recovered hand-grenade pins, mortar shells and sophisticated weapons.
The CCPO said the suspects got training from North Wazoo's Dittakhel tehsil and were assigned re-organisation of the group in Punjab after the death of Dr Kundi. Abid Akram replaced Kundi for next 'assignments' in Punjab.
He said the vehicle used in the police 15 building attack was snatched from Hangu district at gunpoint and a case was registered in the Hangu cop shoppe on Feb 2, 2009, against unidentified people.
The CCPO said the cut-throats had been using Allied Hospital, Faisalabad, for secret meetings.
He said Abid Akram, Dr Babar Cheema, Babar Bajwa, Dr Sarfraz and Asif Chattha kidnapped 14-year-old Arsalan from Samundari Road, Faisalabad, and killed him after four months on not getting the ransom. They threw the boy's body in canal.
In April 2008, Abid Akram, Afzal Butt and Nadeem Butt kidnapped textile mill owner Muneer Ahmad from Khurrianwala (Faisalabad) and released him after getting a Rs100 million ransom.
Abid, Ajmal, Shoaib Ishaq, Qaisar Cheema and Asad rubbed out Mian Laeeque, a cloth trader of Faisalabad's Montgomery Road in May 2009. They had a plan to kidnap him for ransom.
The CCPO said Abid, Ajmal, Shoaib, Qamar Shah and Asad kidnapped UK-returned Mian Bashir from China Chowk, Sialkot, in August 2009. They later released him after getting Rs2.5 million ransom. The kidnappers also sold his car at a throwaway price of Rs60,000 in Mirpur, Azad Kashmire.
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[Geo News] Five suspects have been jugged which are linked to an attack on a spy agency building in Lahore last year which killed 24 people, the police chief said.
"The suspects have confessed their role in the suicide kaboom on the intelligence agency building," police chief Aslam Tareen told news hounds, adding that the group had been planning more terror attacks.
"The five were jugged a couple of days ago from Shahdara," a neighbourhood in Lahore, the country's eastern hub, Tareen told a presser.
"We are in a warlike situation and this war on terror has spread across Pakistain, but we are trying to do our best to maintain security," he said. It would take time to complete the investigation, he added.
Police said the suspects belonged to the previously unknown Al-Toheed-wa-al-Jihad faction which falls under the umbrella of jihad boy group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), and had trained in North Wazoo.
"They were activating themselves and planning terrorist activities in Lahore," Tareen said.
The group was also engaged in kidnapping for ransom, an investigator said.
"They kidnapped people for ransom in 2009 in Faisalabad and Sialkot," senior police investigator Zulfiqar Hameed told the presser.
"Their next target was some security forces buildings in Lahore," he said.
"Police have recovered four boom jackets, one rifle, 32 hand grenade pins, 13 number plates of vehicles, eight mortar shells and ammunition."
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BABEL / Aswat al-Iraq: Four rockets hit the U.S. base in north of Babel on Friday, according to a security source.
Four rockets hit the U.S. base in Mashrouaa al-Musayab region, northern Hilla, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The rockets were launched in two attacks; two rockets in every attack. A U.S. force searched the region and found two local-made pads, he said, without giving further details.
The attack is the third on the U.S. base in the past three days.
Hilla, the capital of Babel, is 100 km south of Baghdad.
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BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Chief of the Thi-Qar Intelligence survived an attempt on his life on Friday, while an army soldier was killed by a sniper in separate incidents in Baghdad, a security source said.
Brigadier Ahmad Saleh survived an attempt on his life when gunmen opened fire on him near al-Muthanna airport central Baghdad, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The officer was wounded and was carried to the hospital for treatment, he added.
A sniper killed a soldier while on duty in al-Biejiya region in al-Mansour neighborhood, western Baghdad, he said.
Unknown gunmen blew up a building under construction in al-Taji region, northern Baghdad, the source said, pointing out that the explosion caused no casualties.
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KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq: Three policemen were wounded when gunmen hurled a hand-grenade at their patrol in southern Kirkuk city on Friday, according to a senior security official.
Unidentified gunmen threw a hand-grenade at a police patrol under the 4th Bridge in southern Kirkuk, leaving three patrolmen wounded, Brig. Sarhad Qader, the director of the Kirkuk Districts Police Department (KDPD), told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The incident is the third of its kind in Kirkuk on Friday, he said.
Qader elaborated that a policeman was driving a vehicle in Nahrwan complex, al-Riad district, (45 km southwest of Kirkuk), when he came under gunmen fire, but the attack left no casualties.
In another incident, an improvised explosive device (IED) attached to a vehicle parked outside the house of a personnel working for the al-Huweija Anti-Crime Department went off in al-Askari neighborhood, Huwaija, (65 km) southwest of Kirkuk. The blast did not leave any casualties either.
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[Arab News] Leb's Hezbullies group said Friday that it discovered an Israeli device spying on its private telecommunications network.
The device went kaboom!, apparently detonated remotely by the Israelis, when it was found near the village of Majdel Silim, about 8 kilometers from the border with Israel, Hezbullies said in a statement.
The Lebanese military also reported the find and the kaboom, saying two people working in a truck nearby were maimed in the blast. It too said in a statement the device was intended to spy on the network.
A front man for the UN peacekeeping force in southern Leb had no comment, and Israeli officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
Hezbullies has its own separate network of phone lines and underground cables, believed to link its positions and command centers throughout the country. Hezbullies leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah had said the network helped his guerrillas fight Israel's army in 2006, when the two sides battled in a 34-day war that killed some 1,200 people in Leb and 160 in Israel.
Majdel Silim is south of the Litani River, the zone where Hezbullies is banned from keeping weapons under a UN
resolution that ended the 2006 war. Last year, the UN
peacekeeping force said Israel detonated two underground sensors planted by the Israelis during the fighting.
Also Friday, Lebanese judicial officials said a military court convicted a man of spying for Israel and sentenced him to 15 years in prison and hard labor.
The sentenced man, Ziad Homsi, began working with Israel in 2006 and supplied Israeli agents with pictures of an area in the eastern Bekaa Valley where three Israeli soldiers went missing in a 1982 battle during Israel's invasion of Leb, the judicial officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.
More than 100 people in Leb have been jugged since 2009 on suspicion of collaborating with Israel, with which Leb is officially at war. At least eight people have been sentenced to death for espionage.
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Whoa, an IED that also listens. I'll bet the Juices could slap together some interesting shit given half a reason.
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BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Chief of the Thi-Qar Intelligence survived an attempt on his life on Friday, while an army soldier was killed by a sniper in separate incidents in Baghdad, a security source said.
