Caution: Brave Jihadi Warriors at work.
KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban fighters used children as human shields to flee heavy fighting this week during an operation by foreign and Afghan forces to clear rebels from around a key hydro-electric dam, NATO said on Wednesday. The Taliban have used human shields before, but never children, local residents say. Jeez, what's the world's coming to when even the Taliban loses it's principles?
The fighting occurred during Operation Kryptonite on Monday, an offensive to clear insurgents from the Kajaki Dam area in southern Helmand province to allow repairs to its power plants and the installation of extra capacity.
"During this action ... Taliban extremists resorted to the use of human shields. Specifically, using local Afghan children to cover as they escaped out of the area," Colonel Tom Collins, a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), told reporters in Kabul.
The Kajaki Dam fighting was in an area where 700 mainly foreign fighters, including Chechens, Pakistanis and Uzbeks, arrived from Pakistan this week to reinforce Taliban guerrillas.
NATO also said it killed a senior local Taliban commander and several comrades in a pre-dawn air-strike on Wednesday between the dam and the rebel-held town of Musa Qala to the west, but denied residents' accounts civilians were also killed.
The leader, identified by police and tribal elders as Mullah Manan, was involved in the capture of Musa Qala 13 days ago and clashes around Kajaki.
NATO said its soldiers saw 11 bodies, all fighting-age males, dragged from the wreckage by Taliban fighters. Provincial police said Manan and at least eight more Taliban were killed and that they had no word of civilian casualties. But local residents and elders said civilians also died.
"It is a well-known enemy tactic to try to blame civilian casualties on ISAF forces," Collins said in a statement. "We continue to conduct specific shaping operations -- to go after specific Taliban extremists, the leadership who are impacting the enemy's operations," he told reporters later.
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Still, they were quite human in that sense they didn't repeatedly rape them before... so, we can't really blame them (besides, Global Warming is our fault, so, who are we to criticize?).
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I'm sure these were the local pearls borrowed for the occasion, not their own, who are safely back on the Pakistan side of the border with their multiple mommies, for those that could actually afford live mommies and offspring, rather than waiting for the paradisical (or paradoxical -- I'm having a bit of a vocabulary struggle this morning, as the the power only just came back on in my part of the world) 72 white raisins.
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"This won't end until they love their children as much as they hate us."
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They weren't using the children as human shields - they were risking their own lives to save the children from being bombed or raped by the evil infidel invaders. They were also carrying out many fluffy little ducklings.
KANDAHAR A NATO air strike early Wednesday destroyed a compound housing a Taliban leader responsible for a wave of violence across southern Afghanistan, the Western alliance said. NATO said it believed it killed a Taliban leader linked to an uprising in the nearby town of Musa Qala, which the Taliban overran on Feb. 1, and to an attack Tuesday against a dam in nearby Kajaki.
We have removed yet another Taliban enemy leader who will no longer threaten the peace and security of the Afghan people and their future, said Lt. Col. Angela Billings, a spokeswoman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force. The air strike against the compound in a small village a half hour outside Musa Qala killed 20 militants who had sought shelter there the previous night, said Wali Mohammad, a resident of Musa Qala. Neither NATO or Afghan officials could confirm that death toll.
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Thanks, Chuck. Man, Sept and Oct 2006 were busy months for our boyz (and probably Britain's and Aussies) in Afghanistan. Is there a fall "open season" on jihadis during those months like deer season here?
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Target Rich Environment. They were doing a lot of door-to-door canvasing for the dhimmicrats runnning up to the election.
Norway will send about 150 special forces troops to the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan in response to an appeal for reinforcements from the Western alliance, the foreign minister said Tuesday. The commandos will help provide security and fight terror near the Afghan capital of Kabul, Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said, stressing that they would not be involved in operations elsewhere in the country, including in the south.
NATO has been appealing for more troops, especially in the southern part of Afghanistan, to help fight Taliban forces. There are already about 550 Norwegian troops in northern Afghanistan. Norway received a specific request from NATO on Feb 5 for an additional military contribution, including transport planes, fighter aircraft and special forces, Stoere said in Parliament. The special forces contingent will be in line with NATOs wishes and will be important to defending and maintaining security in the capital, he said.
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It's a start.
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Killing them softly with Lutefisk! Good for them! The fricking Swedes would send troops but their protacal would require the Muzzies to rape them.
The Minnesota Troops Support website has a video of Norwegian troops training. For some reason it's one of the more popular videos.
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I think a few NATO countries have realized that they have an excellent opportunity in Afghanistan to both polish their halos by being a part of a multi-national, UN-approved force, and to gain valuable combat experience fighting alongside the United States military. The rest are too PC to consider either reward sufficient to cover the possible loss of any of their troops.
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Why do I've this vision of a drekar on a top of an Afghan mountain?
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Sorry Chuck. It was more of a comment on Sweden's social policies of protecting Mooslem rape gangs while sacrificing their own traditions and women.
Come to think of it Sweden rolled over and worked with the Nazis in WWII. Norway had to be taken by force. There is still a lot of bad blood in the two countries over that one.
I'll take Lefse over that shit Naan any day! Give em HELL VIKINGS!
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Icerigger,
There is nothing soft about killing then with Lutefisk!
Al
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Norway was a superb, yet un-heralded ally during WW-II. In the late 1990's, we thanked them again by cancelling a contract extention for a relatively small follow-on production order of Penguin missiles (anti-ship); a very effective and lethal little number.
Where we really have a problem a lot of the time is in how we treat our friends; over time.
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GENEVA - At least thirty Somali and Ethiopian migrants have drowned whilst crossing the Gulf of Aden in the hope of reaching Yemen, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday.
UN High Commissioner for Refugees spokesman Ron Redmond told journalists that sketchy, unconfirmed reports from the region suggested that up to 78 people may have perished when their boat capsized. Were getting different numbers from people in the region ... apparently bodies are washing ashore in various places, Redmond said. The dead are being buried near the beach, he added.
Said it before, will say it again: just what kind of hellhole must your country be when Yemen looks like the promised land?
Three other boats with some 120 people on board dropped their passengers offshore and left on Monday, with all passengers apparently making it to shore, Redmond said.
There has been a dramatic increase in people smuggling from Somalia, with over 1,600 arrivals in Yemen aboard some 20 boats in less than a month, the UNHCR said. This follows a slow January, due to a crackdown on smugglers in Somalia, recent fighting in that country, and stepped-up patrols along the Yemeni coast, it noted.
In 2006, UNHCR Yemen reported that some 27,000 people made the perilous voyage, with 330 deaths and another 300 still missing.
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I presume that if not jihadis, they support them? In that case, good riddance.
A group linked to al-Qaida staged seven near-simultaneous bomb attacks Tuesday, targeting police in several towns east of Algiers and killing six people, officials said. Al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa the new name for the Salafist Group for Call and Combat, known by its French acronym GSPC claimed responsibility for the attacks in a telephone call to the Al-Jazeera television network and in a statement on the Internet.
The seven bombings, some of them car explosions, hit the Kabylie region east of Algiers between 4 a.m. and 10 a.m. Tuesday, the state news agency said. The apparently coordinated attacks surprised the North African country, which has steadily emerged from an Islamic insurgency that killed more than 150,000 people in the 1990s. While scattered violence by the GSPC continues, such carefully planned strikes are rare in today's Algeria, an ally in the U.S.-led war against terrorism. The attackers' statement claimed casualties were much higher and accused the Interior Ministry of playing down the impact. The statement said the attacks targeted six police stations and "ended successfully."
The bombings quashed Algerian authorities' claims that the GSPC lately had grown weaker, said Mohamed Darif, a terrorism expert at Morocco's Mohammedia University. "This is to show that (the GSPC) is still capable of launching attacks in the heart of Algeria," Darif said.
The Interior Ministry said six people were killed, including two police officers, according to the state news agency. The ministry also reported 13 wounded, and said 10 of them were police. Police and hospital staff put the number of wounded at 30.
"I was wakened by a terrific crash that shattered the windows of my house," said Yassine, who lives near a police station that was targeted in the town of Boumerdes. He asked that his last name not be published because he feared for his safety. "I went outside and found the facade of the police station in ruins, with the carcass of a bombed car next to it."
The attack was not the first in Boumerdes. "The Islamists have always used this area as a hideout," Yassine said. "Lately we thought things had calmed down."
Although down to a few hundred members, the GSPC carries out regular bomb attacks in Algeria and raises funds in Europe for al-Qaida's operations in Iraq. In December, the group staged a bomb attack on buses carrying foreign workers of an affiliate of U.S. energy services giant Halliburton, killing an Algerian bus driver and wounding nine people.
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Sixteen security forces and 69 rebels have been killed over the past three days in ongoing clashes between the Yemeni army and followers of a Shiite rebel leader the northern part of the country, Yemeni military officials said Tuesday.
An army official said government forces have fired artillery bombardments over the areas where followers of Abdel-Malek al-Hawthi are believed to using as hideouts in Saada, about 112 miles north of the Yemeni capital, San'a. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. The official said along with the security forces and rebels killed, about 50 other militant rebels also have been arrested. A total of 80 rebels and 94 army and police officers have been killed in recent weeks.
The fighting comes as members of the Yemen Supreme Defense Council voiced concerns during a meeting on Tuesday, saying the Shiite rebels were receiving funds and assistance from outside countries, according to one of the council's members.
Another revised count just in: Ninety-five people have been killed in northern Yemen over the past two weeks in clashes between Shiite rebels and government troops, military officials have announced. Some 80 of those killed were followers of the rebel leader Imam Abdel Malik al-Houthi, while the remaining 15 were soldiers, the officials said. I think these officials have a future as Ohio vote counters. Yemen has recently accused Libya and Iran of aiding the rebels. Libya?
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Two Russian soldiers and four separatist rebels died in a gun fight in Chechnya on Tuesday just two days after Russia's defence minister said the conflict was over. A Russian military spokesman said the shootout happened near Gudermes, hometown of the Moscow-backed prime minister Ramzan Kadyrov. "We have identified two of the rebels and are working on the identities of the other two," the spokesman said. He said Russian soldiers attacked rebels who were hiding in a trench.
Russian leaders characterise the southern republic of Chechnya, where Russia has fought two wars since 1994, as a stable province undergoing reconstruction. Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov told a meeting of global security chiefs in Munich on Sunday that Chechnya was an example of how nation-states could defeat terrorism. "I think we have scored a success in Chechnya," Interfax news agency quoted Ivanov as saying. "The problem has been solved and it has taken five years to do this. It is a small territory compared with Afghanistan or Iraq."
But Chechen separatists, many of whom say they are fighting in the name of Islam, are able to launch attacks on Russian forces from their mountain hideouts.
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BEIJING - Now that North Korea has agreed to shut down and seal its nuclear facilities within 60 days, the hardest challenge ahead may be ridding the country of all of its nuclear weapons, several analysts said Wednesday
The accord signed Tuesday in Beijing compels North Korea to list all of its nuclear facilities, weapons and atomic fuel stockpiles but doesn't require it to hand over bombs immediately. That would come in a later phase.
"I don't see how the North Koreans would be willing to give up the weapons they've already produced," said Ruediger Frank, a scholar on North Korean issues at the East Asian Institute of the University of Vienna in Austria.
The problem, Frank said, is that nuclear monitors don't know precisely how many bombs Pyongyang has.
"If you read those CIA reports, they say `six to eight.' But which is it? Six, seven or eight?" Frank asked. "You don't really know for sure."
U.S. officials say they think that North Korea has reprocessed about 110 pounds of plutonium for use as material in nuclear bombs, but they acknowledge that the estimate is based on extrapolating from the reprocessing of fuel rods at the Yongbyon nuclear reactor, which the country now has pledged to shut down and seal.
Under the accord signed by North Korea, South Korea, China, Russia, Japan and the United States, North Korea will allow monitors from the International Atomic Energy Agency to return to the country and verify the shutdown of its nuclear facilities.
Still to be seen is how much access North Korea allows the monitors, and whether Pyongyang seeks to retain control of some weapons-grade nuclear material.
"There's going to be some inefficiencies in the reprocessing, so they could fudge it a little bit," said Daniel A. Pinkston, a Korea expert at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, Calif.
But proponents say that the nuclear accord, in which heavy fuel oil will be exchanged for North Korean actions on nuclear programs, could build momentum toward genuine progress.
Until last year, the Bush administration had said it would accept only a deal with North Korea that led to "complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement" of the country's nuclear program. That demand led to deadlock in negotiations, and the State Department later jettisoned the phrase.
The ink wasn't even dry on the accord this week, however, before critics howled that it was far from foolproof and might stir other "rogue" nations to action.
Among those to complain was John Bolton, a former Bush administration insider who left his post as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations only a few weeks ago.
"It sends exactly the wrong signal to would-be proliferators around the world, (that) if you hold out long enough and wear down the State Department negotiators, eventually you get rewarded, in this case with massive shipments of heavy fuel oil," Bolton said on CNN.
Some other North Korea-watchers agreed that the deal could encourage troublesome states to arm themselves in hopes of a big payout.
"From now on, both Pyongyang and assorted `pariah states' will know how to treat the U.S. and by extension the world community," Andrei N. Lankov, a North Korea expert teaching at Seoul's Kookmin University, said in an e-mail interview. "They will know that: A. Blackmail pays if supported by really threatening acts; B. This payment arrives very fast."
Iran, which is in a standoff with the West over its nuclear program, appears to be watching the North Korea situation closely. Some strategists fret that small nations in Central Asia and elsewhere may be tempted to seek nuclear materials unaccounted for from the former Soviet Union and follow North Korea's lead.
"What we may well see is a number of these very small countries (acting up) that have no other power than to disturb the world order by outrageous behavior," said Allan Behm, a former intelligence official in Canberra, Australia.
However, several experts said the United States and North Korea had arrived at the accord for reasons of their own that coincided only recently.
"The U.S. government just really wanted to settle this one because of the mess in the Middle East and other problems," said Gavan McCormack, an expert on Northeast Asia who's retired from the Australian National University.
North Korea, facing perennial shortages of energy, viewed U.S. preoccupation with Iraq as lessening the chances of an American pre-emptive strike on its facilities.
"If you go back a couple of years, they were very concerned about whether they were on the `hit list,' " Pinkston said. "I think it's clear in Pyongyang now that that's not the case."
China, which was angered by North Korea's Oct. 9 nuclear test, also may have leaned on Pyongyang, which gets most of its crude oil and much of its food from its neighbor. If that was the case, U.S. officials say, they don't know the details.
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Sounds like we bought ourselves maybe a years worth of lower tensions on the NE Asia front. Temporary securing of the flank so we can concentrate our resources else were. Hmmmm Chess pieces moving in directions everywere many by themselves making no sense.
Any deal with NKor has to be regarded as tenuous... If North Korea holds to the pledges it made Tuesday to fulfill its promise to abandon nuclear weapons, chief US negotiator Christopher Hill thinks he knows why.
Other attempts to stop Pyongyang going nuclear have failed. This series of six-party talks has several times seemed on the verge of collapse. But diplomacy's tentative triumph Tuesday held out the prospect of victory for a multiparty, political approach to reining in Asia's pariah states. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stated the deal should serve as a message to Iran that the global community will unite to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. After North Korea agreed to start dismantling its nuclear program in return for oil and economic aid, Mr. Hill, in Beijing, noted that "the first difference" between this deal and earlier failed efforts "is to make this really a multilateral effort."
But that optimism, analysts warn, is tempered by a history of broken promises that are driving the effort now to verify compliance. "This agreement is a good sign for nuclear disarmament," says Ryoo Gil Jae of South Korea's University of North Korean Studies, "but maybe we will have trouble in the future" when the US raises the issue of the uranium program.
Others share similar doubts. David Straub, former Korea desk chief at the State Department, warns that "a very great risk is that North Korea is using this as a way to avoid sanctions, obtain aid, and drag out the nuclear issue until the international community is accustomed to its being a declared nuclear state."
The deal, coming four months and four days after Pyongyang exploded its first nuclear device, requires North Korea to shut down and seal the nuclear facility that produces the plutonium used in its bombs within 60 days.
North Korea also agreed to provide a list of all its nuclear programs, and to allow international inspectors to monitor the closure of the nuclear plant at Yongbyon. In return, the United States and other countries involved in the negotiations will provide the struggling state with 50,000 tons of fuel oil, or its equivalent in economic aid, over the next two months.
Hill stressed that Washington does not "want anyone to think these initial actions are an end in themselves. After 60 days, we are not going to stop for a couple of years," he said. "We are going to keep right on going with the second phase," when North Korea will be required to disable all nuclear facilities in return for another 950,000 tons of oil.
Some observers suggest that this agreement could either resolve years of conflict or collapse amid more conflict, crisis, and rhetoric as has happened so often since the division of the Korean peninsula at the end of World War II. "It will be the beginning of a new era between North Korea and the United States," says Cheong Seong Chang, a noted scholar of North Korean affairs, who is optimistic about the new deal. "North Korea will be able to begin new reform and a new opening policy."
The promise of such a breakthrough distant though it may be is held in the creation of five working groups agreed to on Tuesday. Those groups will tackle issues ranging from denuclearizing the peninsula to normalizing Pyongyang's relations with Washington and Tokyo and setting up a "Northeast Asia Peace and Security Mechanism."
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US$1.0Milyuhn now, US$390-plus Milyuhn later once shutdown + nucprogs declarations are verified.
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I hope someone has a big stick to go along with all those carrots Kimmie's being offered, so that if he backs out of his promises we can whack his head when he breaks them. Carrots by themselves just won't work with this kleptomaniac.
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We should promise that if the NKor keeps its promises the US will pay for the Dixie Chicks to give an intimate live concert 4 times a year for KIjong and friends.
Milan, 14 Feb. (AKI) - Police in Milan arrested another four people on Wednesday in an anti-terror operation which led to the detention of another 15 people in northern Italy Monday charged of belonging to a leftist newtork of the Red Brigades planning deadly attacks on targets including former conservative premier Silvio Berlusconi. The four arrested Wednesday, two women and a man, belonged to a left-wing activist group in Sesto San Giovani, a working class town near Milan. They are accused of subversive propaganda in support of the Red Brigades and are believed to be linked to the other suspects.
The 15 were arrested Monday on charges of planning attacks against the Milan home of conservative opposition leader and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi, his Mediaset group, the Sky group, right-wing daily Libero, Italy's main oil company ENI and jurist Pietro Ichino, a government consultant on labour reform. Police believe ring members had been studying their targets for some time to prepare for the attacks and had been following potential victims including anti-terror magistrates.
Italy has a long history of kooky politically motivated murderous extremist groups. The most notorious was the Marxist-Leninist historic Red Brigades movement formed in the 1970s mainly by students who carried out an armed struggle against the capitalist state. The Red Brigades created such fear during the 1970s and early 1980s that the period is known in Italy as the Years of Lead, referring to the vast number of bullets fired.
The current group is believed to be a splinter of the Red Brigades, whose criminal activities included the 1978 abduction and murder of Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro. Members of the 'new Red Brigades' were found guilty of the murder of two leading jurists who served as government advisors on labour reform, Massimo D'Antona and Marco Biagi.
In 2005, a court in Bologna handed out five life sentences to as many people found guilty of murdering Biagi in 2002. The terrorists have also been linked to the murder of D'Antona in 1999. Both jurists were working on labour market changes and Biagi drafted a reform, parts of which were turned into a law by the previous Berlusconi government.
Must have caught them in between Temple burnings
PARIS French counter terrorism police arrested 11 suspects as part of efforts aimed at dismantling an alleged Al Qaeda-linked recruiting network to send radical traditional Islamic fighters to Iraq, police officials said Wednesday.
Esquimaux Liberation Front getting fiesty again?
Nine suspects were detained in and near the southern city of Toulouse before dawn Wednesday, following the arrest of two others at Orly airport in Paris who had just been sent home by Syrian authorities, police said. Two of the suspects, mostly aged in their 20s, had sought to enter Iraq through neighboring Syria, but were detained by police there and remanded into French custody, police said. An investigation was continuing.
As part of the probe, investigators turned up letters sent to supermarkets in the region near Toulouse that threatened bomb attacks, said a police official on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.
The ministry said the nine arrested in southwestern France all were from the region and were "suspected of having links with the terrorist organization Al Qaeda." Police investigators had monitored the suspects for months, according to the Interior Ministry, which first announced the arrests in a statement. Questions, will the French give them 20 or 30 days of jail time? Will they be released in time for the now traditional Islamic Paris burning festival?
Austria yesterday washed its hands of any responsibility after it was revealed that powerful sniper rifles it sold to Iran had been acquired by insurgents in Iraq. Sounds like a euphemism for the whole eu/iran nuclear situation as well...
The Daily Telegraph revealed yesterday that American troops had recovered more than 100 Steyr HS50 Mannlicher rifles, part of a consignment of 800 sold to Iran by Austria last year, during a series of raids in Iraq.
Astrid Harz, a spokesman for the Austrian foreign ministry, said yesterday that the sale had been "checked very thoroughly" and what happened to the rifles after they were delivered to Teheran ostensibly for use by border police was not the responsibility of her government. It was the responsibility of the Iranians, she said.
Technically true in a narrow sense, and the classic bureauocratic dodge: "I know nothing! Tell them Hogan!"
Nevertheless, given the recent history of the region, what did you expect the Iranians to do with the rifles: go elk hunting?
Franz Holzschuh, Steyr's chief executive, said the company had not been contacted by anyone officially to verify the serial numbers on the rifles. He said it was possibile that the weapons were copies. Yeah, them perfideous Iranians must have made identical copies of our top of the line, highly specialized and finely manufactured...
The Austrian government concluded in 2004 that the.50 rifles, capable of piercing all types of body armour, would be used to fight drug smugglers. But American and British officials had warned that the weapons would could fall into the hands of insurgents.
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It should be noted that Franz Holzschuh just recently purchased Steyr. The previous owner was Wolfgang Fuerlinger who bought the company in 2001.
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I keep hearing the old favorite "I Was Not A Nazi" polka.
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"It was the responsibility of the Iranians, she said." Well that is the truth, now what the hell is Washington going to do about it? I predict nothing, it's not their kids getting killed with them.
As far as this "Franz Holzschuh" he should be found with a 22LR hole in the base of his skull as a message to the "eurpoeans" who think they can play with the big boys that in reality they can't. It's hard to spend that money when you are dead anyway.
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Again, this is why the US has to rub Austria's face in it, like a bad dog forced to confront their own scumber on a rug, while being whacked with a rolled-up newspaper.
The way to do this is to get a sizable number of US families of US servicemen killed in Iraq with these rifles to file suit against both the manufacturer, and the government of Austria, in the EU human rights court.
The EU HRC is a weird body, that makes all sorts of bizarre judgments, and is very unpredictable. It would have Austria sweating bullets just on its own right.
And *then*, the US government could turn the trial into an exercise of demonstrating European duplicity, treachery, corruption, and political malfeasance towards Iraq and Iran, by providing these families with lots of humiliating evidence to air in court.
And *then*, because it would be ignored by the European press, they could broadcast it all over Europe on VOA, and send daily write-ups to every newspaper. As much as they loathe the US, reporters are lazy curs, and can't resist free copy.
Feeling under whelmed by the lack of business knocking at your door? Settlements down because of government regulation ? Your time on the golf course is greater than that of Tiger Woods?
Well, we have a deal for you. Yes indeed, you can get busy today by contacting the survivors of our noble fallen in Iraq by showing them today you and they can profit by the Alabama Claims precedent. Since SCOTUS Justice Kennedy has extended rights of illegal combatant into the due process of the American judicial system, our claimants should also have standing in our civil courts to punish the miscreants and recover compensation for pain and suffering of our valiant men and women. Who needs a bunch of panty waisted foreign service officers to waste our citizens valuable time and claims. So dont delay. Strike for freedom and your bottomline. Act now!
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The Daily Telegraph revealed yesterday that American troops had recovered more than 100 Steyr HS50 Mannlicher rifles, part of a consignment of 800 sold to Iran by Austria last year, during a series of raids in Iraq.
You know there is something missing from this matter-of-fact report. Hmmm what is it wait dont tell me ummm oh yeah PROOF. There is literally thousands of unaccounted Steyr HS50 on the Black Market. You know just like the ones that were recovered in the Balkans, Chech., Afg., etc, etc., etc. Most of them were rendered untraceable either through modification or re-tooling. I know its convenient for some folks to think of the Iranians as either insane or fools but the fact of the matter is theyre reeeaaallly good at this shit. Not to mention, the Iranian Mafia has some pretty good connections in the area of freelance arm shipments. So show me the money! Otherwise all your doing is barking at the moon. But heres a hint. Basic 50 cal. Ammo is available in damn near every country on the planet. There have been unconfirmed reports that the snipers in Iraq have been using high-tech stuff. That might be the trail worth sniffing.
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Astrid Harz, a spokesman for the Austrian foreign ministry, said yesterday that the sale had been "checked very thoroughly" and what happened to the rifles after they were delivered to Teheran ostensibly for use by border police was not the responsibility of her government. Like hell.
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Astrid Harz, a spokesman for the Austrian foreign ministry, said yesterday that the sale had been "checked very thoroughly" and what happened to the rifles after they were delivered to Teheran ostensibly for use by border police was not the responsibility of her government. It was the responsibility of the Iranians, she said.
The Austrian government concluded in 2004 that the.50 rifles, capable of piercing all types of body armour, would be used to fight drug smugglers. But American and British officials had warned that the weapons would could fall into the hands of insurgents.
Exactly what we said about the agricultural helicopters we sold to Saddam, and which he converted to spray WMD. so, if Americans aren't supposed to wriggle out of the moral responsiblity for what Saddam did with them, then the Austrians can't. But if the Austrians can, then the Americans should be able to also.
If we let the Austrians wriggle out of it, then they should do to Iran what we did to Iraq: suspend all weapons sales to them.
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The insurgents are so clever that they can carve a sniper rifle from a bar of unused soap.
Seriously thouugh I saw General Pace talking about this and he looked profoundly stammeringly uncomfortable doing some kind of damage control.
IIUC, his first name is Suleyman or Soleiman.
The 18-year-old gunman who killed five people in a crowded Utah shopping mall was a Bosnian Muslim refugee who was prepared to kill many more, say investigators. The trench-coated teenager wanted to "to kill a large number of people" and probably would have killed many more if not for the off-duty officer, Police Chief Chris Burbank said.
A friend said Talovic was from the war-torn country of Bosnia and that the trauma he experienced while growing up may have led to him snapping for some reason.
Talovic had a backpack full of ammunition, a shotgun and a .38-caliber pistol, police said. Investigators knew little about Talovic, except than he lived in Salt Lake City with his mother, the chief said. He was enrolled in numerous city schools before withdrawing in 2004, the school district said. Initially, police refused to release his name or any information about his background.
Talovic drove to the Trolley Square shopping center a century-old former trolley barn with winding hallways, brick floors and wrought-iron balconies, and immediately killed two people, followed by a third victim as he came through a door, Burbank said. Five other people were then shot in a gift shop, he said.
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A friend said Talovic was from the war-torn country of Bosnia and that the trauma he experienced while growing up may have led to him snapping for some reason.
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An old Irish legend is Dan married a daughter of Pharoah, and fled his wrath on Phoenician ships. The Milesians eventually settled in Ireland. If the Danites were the legendary Celtic warriors, and since most of Ireland immigrated following the Great Famine, there may well be modern day Danites may attend to this Koranimal's family!!!
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A friend said Talovic was from the war-torn country of Bosnia and that the trauma he experienced while growing up may have led to him snapping for some reason.
Maybe. Probably not, though. I suspect the "trauma" is called "radical islam". Suppose he had time to pick it up in Bosnia, or was it from the U.S.A.?
A former Houston man arrested in Kenya last month has been charged in Texas with teaming with al-Qaida to overthrow the Somali government and form an Islamic state there. Daniel Joseph Maldonado, 28, also known as Daniel Aljughaifi, was ordered held without bail Tuesday on federal charges of undergoing military training with a terrorist organization and conspiring to use a destructive device.
Maldonado was returned to the United States on Monday night and appeared Tuesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Calvin Botley, the U.S. attorney's office in Houston said. A detention hearing is set for next week. Maldonado's arrest marks the first criminal prosecution of an American suspected of joining terrorists in Somalia, Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Wainstein said in a statement.
According to the criminal complaint, Maldonado traveled from Houston to Africa in November 2005. By December 2006, the complaint says, he was in Somalia and had joined with the Islamic Courts Union and elements of al-Qaida to fight in a rebellion designed to overthrow the Somali government and install an Islamic state. The complaint says Maldonado was issued an AK-47 rifle and attended two military training camps at which members of al-Qaida were present. Maldonado was captured by the Kenyan military on Jan. 21 as he fled Ethiopian and Somali forces. He was expelled by Kenya and turned over to U.S. officials for his return to Houston.
It wasn't clear Tuesday whether Maldonado had a lawyer. The U.S. attorney's office did not immediately return a call from The Associated Press.
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Welcome home Daniel. You should probably not tell your cellmates how tough you are and brag about your AK47. Many of them know more about an AK47 than you will ever know and many of them really are tough guys.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the US government's decision to freeze the assets of an Islamic charity with alleged links to a Sudanese group that supports terrorism. The Treasury Department claims the Islamic American Relief Agency-USA is an affiliate of the Islamic African Relief Agency, a Sudan-based charity the US government accuses of financing al-Qaida and other terror organizations.
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit agreed with a lower court's 2005 decision finding that the charity is a branch of the Sudanese-based agency.
The charity did not contest the terrorist designation of the Sudanese group, but claims the organizations have independent leaders and separate bank accounts. The group was founded by a Sudanese immigrant in 1985 to raise money for humanitarian activities around the world.
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How about upholding the personnel of the "charity" an the end of a rope?
Islamabad, 14 Feb. (AKI/DAWN) - Islamabad and Tehran have decided to share each other's experiences to address their common hobbies problems like terrorism, illegal immigration, border security, drug and human smuggling, a security official told Dawn on Tuesday. This was decided during meetings between a high-powered security delegation of Iran and top security officials of the country.
Wonder if the Iranian bus booming will change their agenda?
There was a mutual understanding that increase in the exchange of information and intelligence about criminals, frequent meetings of field commanders, exchange visits and study tours will be helpful in strengthening bilateral ties, said the official.
"Register now for the workshop on the new Passport plug-in for PhotoShop"
The Iranian delegation was headed by police commander-in-chief Gen Esmaeil Mogaddam. Other members of the delegation are: Police director-general Brig-Gen Bahram Norouzi Bahri, advisor to police commander-in-chief Brig-Gen Mohsen Fathi Zadeh, operational assistant of the police commander, Brig-Gen Iskandar Momeni, head of the border police, Brig-Gen Behnam Shariati, head of the anti-narcotics police, Brig-Gen Hamid Reza Hoosein Abadi, narcotics drug expert Lt-Col Dehaki and sraff officer Maj Valiollah Vakili.
The delegation separately called on interior secretary Syed Kamal Shah, National Police Bureau DG Dr Shoaib Suddle, National Police Academy chief, some parliamentarians and other top security officials.
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Two men on a motorcycle shot dead a Shi'ite Muslim leader in a northwestern Pakistani town on Wednesday in an apparently sectarian attack. The killing of Jawad Hussain Jawadi sparked violent protests by angry Shi'ites in the town of Dera Ismail Khan 280 km southwest of the capital, Islamabad. Jawadi was leader of a Shi'ite youth group in the town and an active member of the community.
The attackers opened fire as he was walking near a town market, killing him on the spot, police said. "We have no details except that there were two attackers riding a motorbike," said senior police officer Aslam Khan.
As news of Jawadi's killing spread, several groups of protesters roamed the town, throwing stones at shops and blocking roads with burning tyres, police and witnesses said. "They're angry and chanting slogans against the government and local administration," said resident Shaukat Khan. No casualties were reported and police said the situation was under control.
Separately, authorities have identified a man killed after he launched a gun and grenade attack at Islamabad airport on Feb. 6, news reports said. Three security men were wounded in the attack. The man, initially described as a suicide bomber, was killed when one of his grenades went off. It was not clear if it went off accidently.
Authorities published a picture of the man in a newspaper on Wednesday, appealing for help in identifying him. Geo Television said the man had been identified as a resident of a central town who had links with a banned Islamist group and had disappeared from his home six months ago.
Police on Tuesday arrested four Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants from Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama and Baramulla districts. A three-member group headed by a released militant Mushtaq Ahmad Khan was apprehended in Bandipore area of Baramulla in a joint operation with the BSF, sub-divisional police officer of Bandipore, Ghulam Geelani, said. He said Khan, who was released in 2004, had recruited Arif Hussain Tali and Naseer Ahmad Tali alias Yasir from Sopore area. The group, affiliated with the LeT, was responsible for a number of blasts in Sopore last year, he said.
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SKARDU: Law enforcement agencies on Tuesday foiled a suspected terrorist attack by seizing six rockets near the site of the Sadpara Dam project, five kilometres from here.
Security officials told journalists at a press conference that they had received a tip off about the rockets, which were buried under stones near a road just 2.5 kilometres from the Sadpara Dam site. They said the foreign-made 120mm rockets, which could have caused large-scale destruction, had been defused. They said an investigation had been launched.
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Thousands of American troops in armored Stryker vehicles swarmed through three mostly Shiite neighborhoods of northeastern Baghdad today.The operation met with little resistance, but considerable skepticism from some Iraqis, who worried that the American presence would soon melt away again, leaving ruthless violence in its place.
Military commanders described the push into the neighborhoods of Shaab, Bayda and Ur, on the northern edge of Sadr City, as the first major sweep of the new security plan for Baghdad. Coming one day after the top Iraqi general claimed broad powers to search homes, detain residents and evict them from their homes, the operation was the largest of several that signaled an escalation of American and Iraqi efforts to pacify the capital.
Col. Steve Townsend, commander of the Third Stryker Brigade Combat Team, said that the timetable for the operation had been pushed forward a day at the request of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal Al-Maliki. The prime minister has endured blistering criticism over what some Shiite officials have called dangerous delays in setting the plan in motion. Today he declared that the long-awaited surge had finally begun.
Weve started a new phase today, the phase of building the state on the basis of two ideas, Mr. Maliki said at a news conference in the southern city of Karbala. Those two ideas, he said, are the basis of reconciliation to include all those who want to support the country and the basis of striking hard at those who want to rebel.
Across Baghdad in the southeastern Dora neighborhood, two air strikes killed 15 suspected insurgents today as they defended a building and tried to set roadside bombs, the United States military said in a statement. In the Sunni enclave of Adhamiya to the northeast, American troops arrested a suspected Sunni insurgent leader, and searched house to house for weapons.
Traffic was snarled more than usual throughout the city as Iraqi forces narrowed wide boulevards and bridges to a trickle, searching car trunks and climbing aboard trucks to examine their loads. The current security plan is the third major attempt to pacify Baghdad. In several of the neighborhoods that American troops have entered in the past week, residents seemed nonchalant, occasionally hopeful but also unsure of whether the addition of 17,500 American troops would bring their daily lives back to normal.
Today, as bombs, mortar fire and gunfights left at least eight people dead in various parts of the city, the troops were greeted with what has become a familiar scene: Neighborhoods where the gunmen appear to have already fled, and where the residents appreciated the American presence but questioned its long-term effectiveness.
The operation in Shaab, Ur and Bayda began at dawn today, with three battalions of American troops from the Third Stryker Brigade Combat Team, a part of the Second Infantry Division, working with a battalion from Second Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division. In all, about 2,500 American soldiers and 400 to 500 Iraqi troops were involved, according to Col. Townsend.
In Ur, troops clustered on street corners in 19-ton armored Stryker vehicles. On the border of Ur and Sadr City, resident said that American tanks sat poised to fight or to keep militants from flowing between the two areas. As the sun rose, soldiers poured out of the vehicles in Ur to knock on doors and search the two- and three-story brick homes and empty lots in the area.
Gunmen from the Mahdi Army Iraqs largest Shiite militia, loyal to the renegade anti-American cleric Moktada Al-Sadr were believed to have made the area a base of operations. But residents said most of the fighters left several days ago.
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But residents said most of the fighters left several days ago.
The prime minister has endured blistering criticism over what some Shiite officials have called dangerous delays in setting the plan in motion.
Effect meet Cause
What a joke.
Perhaps the PM needs to meet something somewhat more blistering than criticism.
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The operation met with little resistance, but considerable skepticism from some Iraqis, who worried that the American presence would soon melt away again, leaving ruthless violence in its place.
The New York Times cannot keep its talking points straight. I thought the "surge" was to be opposed at all costs and the troops re-tasked to Okinawa. But if disagreeing with the President just means generalized bitching the Gray Lady is on her game.
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" two air strikes killed 15 suspected insurgents today as they defended a building "
Who do I thank for convinceing these guys to defend the undefensible? Less complaining when we kill them, then when they are caputured.
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They need to fix up Sadr city, get some of the poor to move out to better areas where there are jobs, and otherwise pull the propoganda blanket out from beneath Sadr.
The city should also be renamed to something else, perhaps Little Shia or Shia town, to disassociate it from Sadr even further.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A Sea Knight helicopter that crashed last week northwest of Baghdad was shot down, the U.S. military said Wednesday, reversing earlier statements that it appeared to have been due to mechanical failure. The Marine CH-46 troop transport went down northwest of Baghdad on Feb. 7, killing all seven people on board, and an al-Qaida-linked Sunni group claimed responsibility and aired a video.
Military officials initially said they believed the crash was due to mechanical failure, but the military announced Wednesday that an investigation showed the crash was "the result of anti-aircraft munitions."
"Initial evidence indicated that the CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter went down as a result of mechanical failure. After further investigation using all available means, the cause of the incident has been confirmed to be hostile fire," said Maj. Jeff Pool, a spokesman for the Multi National Force West.
The statement said the pilots of an AH-1W Super Cobra helicopter escorting the Sea Knight did not witness the actual attack, but they saw the fire, descent and subsequent crash. The initial signs resembled fires that have occurred aboard CH-46s experiencing mechanical difficulties in the past, it added.
The military also said the crash site had been cleared with explosives after the remains and equipment were removed "to ensure the enemy could yield no gain from the debris."
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of these fallen service members," Pool said. "All available resources are dedicated to eliminating the threat to our aircraft so that we can continue to provide the support our ground forces."
The Islamic State in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iraqi insurgent groups that includes al-Qaida in Iraq, claimed responsibility for downing the helicopter and issued an Internet video on Feb. 9 it said was proof. The group also claimed the recent downings of two other U.S. helicopters.
The two-minute video showed a helicopter that appears to be a Sea Knight flying. An object trailing smoke is seen in the sky nearby, then the craft bursts into orange and red flames, with a spray of debris emerging from it. Sounds like an Iranian missle to me. At least that's what they want us to think.
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What more proof do we need for the WH to show the Loony Left that we really, really, REALLY need to quit fucking around and start carpet bombing the living daylights out of any area that fires more than a cigarette lighter up. Looked to me like the crew of that helo tried to find a good spot to put it down after they realized they were hit, but initially thay may have underestimated the severity of the damage.
An auto-rotation might have gotten them on the ground sooner, since it appeared in the video that the driveshaft was still intact and both heads were still in sync. If the missile hit the tailpipe, there is substantial metal between it and the hydraulic lines and flight control linkage running up the aft pylon, so there should ahve been some control authority available back there.
God rest their souls, and damn those opposed to getting this over with successfully.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr said Wednesday that the radical Shiite cleric was still in Iraq, denying a report that he fled to Iran ahead of a security crackdown targeting his militia. Oh, yeah? Then why'd he sell all his furniture?
An Iraqi government official said al-Sadr was in the Shiite holy city of Najaf Tuesday night, when he received delegates from several government departments. The denials came after a senior U.S. official said Tuesday that al-Sadr left his Baghdad stronghold some weeks ago and is believed to be in Tehran, where he has family. "And we looked around us and — pffft! — he wuz gooooooone!"
The official said fractures in al-Sadr's political and militia operations may be part of the reason for his departure. The move is not believed to be permanent, the official said. "Maw! Yez gotta put me up until da heat's off!"
"The news is not accurate because Muqtada al-Sadr is still in Iraq and he did not visit any country," Iraq's National Security Adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie al-Rubaie told The Associated Press. A close aide who meets regularly with al-Sadr said the cleric was not in Tehran, said the report probably stemmed from a campaign by al-Sadr's people to put out false information about his movements amid fears he will be detained by U.S.-led forces. The cleric also is sleeping with different men in different places each night, the aide said. "Tell Clemenza we're goin' to da mattresses!"
"Yes, Your Immensity!"
An official in al-Sadr's main office in Najaf also said the cleric had decided not to appear publicly during the current month of Muharam, one of four holy months in the Islamic calendar. "The fearless leader Muqtada al-Sadr is inside Iraq now," he said.
The black turbaned cleric rarely appears in public or announces his movements and his Mahdi Army militia has mostly been keeping a low profile ahead of the security sweep. Al-Sadr was reportedly going to make a speech on Monday in Najaf to mark the anniversary of the bombing of an important Shiite shrine north of Baghdad, but he did not do so. The anniversary fell on Monday, according to the Islamic lunar calendar. A spokesman for the Sadrist bloc said the assertion that al-Sadr had fled was part of a "psychological war" by U.S.-led forces to try to prod the cleric into the open. "The leadership of Muqtada al-Sadr is a brave one and will not leave the field," Saleh al-Ukaili said.
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The fact that a top iraqi government official is talking about mookie like he's some sort of national treasure should be a clue to the ignorant...
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Tater made a tactical advance to the rear. It is a brilliant strategy, and should be emulated by the rest of Tater's minions. Then, given the right concentration at the right time, JDAM or MOAB their sorry a$$es. Of course that should have been done long ago in Sadr City. Another lost opportunity.
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Jeez, anymouse. He has children???? Did they inherit his good looks or what?
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He checked into rehab...down the hall from Lindsey and the Mayor from SF.
He's gonna drop a few LB's, get some botox and chill until after Surgebreak 07.
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"Continue the brave jihad against the Great Satan, my brothers! While you bravely stop the oppressor's bullets, I will lead you from this secret location in the home country of our mortal ethnic enemies the Persians, where I am safe from the bullets that are bringing glorious martyrdom to you."
Oh, yeah, that'll inspire them!
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Did he use his Persian magic carpet or ride a goat?
Visions of a burka clad pussy bouncing on the back of a Nubian doe, which could have been confused as his wife, the goat that is.
Caption for the photo: "keep running from the fight and wrap the diaper really tight. Otherwise it might fall off and Allen would not be pleased."
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Is going to the mattresses to hide out, a sign of bravery? Mookie appears to be jumping from bed to bed and dodging the military, is he the Bill Clinton of Baghdad?
Anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr fled Iraq for Iran ahead of a security crackdown in Baghdad and the arrival of 21,500 U.S. troops sent by President Bush to quell sectarian violence, a senior U.S. official said Tuesday.
Al-Sadr left his Baghdad stronghold some weeks ago, the official said, and is believed to be in Tehran, where he has family. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss U.S. monitoring activities, said fractures in al-Sadr's political and militia operations may be part of the reason for his departure. The move is not believed to be permanent, the official said.
The U.S. official said it is not clear how firmly the radical Shiite cleric is controlling his organization and the associated Mahdi Army militia from exile. "The question for us is to what extent his organization is going to participate in the political process," the official said, referring to al-Sadr's on-again, off-again relationship with the fragile democratic government in Baghdad.
Al-Sadr's departure was reported by several television networks Tuesday.
Two key members of al-Sadr's political and military organization were gunned down last week, the latest of as many as seven key figures in the al-Sadr organization killed or captured in the past two months. The deaths and captures came after al-Maliki, also a Shiite, dropped his protection for the organization.
Wotta coincidence. Wonder if that's when Mookie decided to cash in his Kruggerrands and head for Teheran?
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So far, NET speculation is that Radical islam intends to wait out until after 2008 elex [POTUS Hillary]; or they know new terror agz America is about to occur, and are heading to Iran to lead the People's War.
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Let's take a minute to savor the moment - a thuggish enemy fled and gone into hiding. Tough days may be coming, so let's savor the flight of the only religious leader I've seen that always looks like he is badly constipated.
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Did the Shi'ite Iraqi government wait until this stuffed terrorist pig was back with his masters in Tehran, then 'close the border'? It doesn't matter, soon the entire Iranian régime and their overstuffed al-Sadr puppet will all be vaporized.
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Brave Sir Robin ran away - No!
Bravely ran away, away - I didn't!
When danger reared its ugly head
He bravely turned his tail and fled - No!
Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about
And gallantly he chickened out
Bravely taking to his feet
He beat a very brave retreat
Bravest of the brave, Sir Robin
He's the arab version of a pussy. What's that, a rabbit perhaps?
In any case, the arab saying goes "The world goes to the last man standing." I guess Mooktada knows he won't be standing long if he stays put. That warms my heart. Hopefully the ROEs are serious now, but that will be revealed as time goes on.
I would publicize the crap out of this in Iraq if I were the government.
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All religious leaders look like they're permanently constipated, though it's probably just the constant strain of pretending they really do believe in sky fairies.
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I wonder if he headed for Teheran, Illinois. You know for secret meetings with Obama.
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GO4819: I'm thinking that more recently, the Mad Mullahs have looked constipated because of two full CBGs being parked off-shore of their coast. From sources here, one sub alone could single-handedly turn Iran to glass if need be.
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Every year the universities in Tehran riot against the government and every year reports of 'arabs' violently putting them down come out of Iran.
What are the odds Sadr wasn't actually fleeing (he has Maliki's protection after all) but going to help the Mullahs who are growing fearful of their own population?
Iraq's government said on Tuesday it would close its borders with Syria and Iran and extend the hours of a night curfew in Baghdad under a U.S.- backed security plan to rein in violence in the capital. The measures ordered by Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki were announced on Iraqiya state television by Lieutenant General Abboud Qanbar, the Iraqi commander who is leading the U.S.-backed security offensive in Baghdad. Qanbar said the border with Iran and Syria would be closed for 72 hours. He did not say when the closures would take effect.
The measures would extend Baghdad's night vehicle curfew of 11 p.m.-6 a.m. to 8 p.m.-6 a.m. Baghdad's international airport, which has been closed down in security operations in the past, will not be affected.
U.S. officials accuse non-Arab, Shi'ite Iran of funding and training Iraqi militants attacking U.S. forces in Iraq. American and Iraqi officials have accused Syria of not doing enough to stop alleged foreign fighters from crossing into Iraq.
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I want to see..."and any IR signature in the border region is a target" in the OPORDER.
BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber driving a small truck rigged with explosives blew up near a Baghdad college on Tuesday, killing 18 people in an attack that came just a day after bomb blasts ripped apart two crowded city markets. Police said the bomber detonated in a parking lot between the College of Economic Sciences, a private university in western Baghdads residential Iskan district, and a large foodstuff warehouse belonging to the Trade Ministry.
The blast in the mainly Shia area set cars ablaze and destroyed a nearby home. Police said some members of the family were among the dead, but a witness said only one girl died. The attack, which also wounded 40 people, followed devastating bombings at two markets on Monday that killed at least 77 people and maimed scores.
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A commander in Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Wednesday that a commando unit has engraved the military organization's emblem into the side panel of an American warship stationed in the Persian Gulf.
Nur Ali Shushkari, the head of the Revolutionary Guards ground forces, told Iranian pro-government news agencies that the symbol was etched onto the ship by the crew of a submarine that had managed to reach the U.S. vessel without detection by radar.
Shushkari did not release specific details about the incident, but claimed that the operation proved that Iranian forces are following American fleet traffic in the region.
Shushkari warned the United States that if a confrontation arises, all American forces in the gulf as well as targets inside the U.S. itself would be targets for attack.
In recent months, the U.S. has increased its forces in the Persian Gulf and has carried out a number of exercise maneuvers which have been viewed by the Iranians as threatening.
Despite this, U.S. President George Bush has insisted that the American army has no plans to invade Iran.
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So they've resorted to tagging like gangbangers in the USA. Forgive me if I'm unimpressed by a military that has an opportunity and uses it to etch their logo instead of doing damage. Forgive me if I'm unimpressed by a military that lays on the bullcrap so thick even an Arab couldn't believe it.
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What would someone use to "carve" into a U.S. ship? Let's face it, they're not made of wood anymore.
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Does the IRG logo look suspiciously like "Do not paint" or "No Step", etc.?
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I am tring to think how a swimmer could exit an iranian sub, swim to an anchored greyhull and then "etch" a symbol on the hull, and then swim back an re-enter a submerged submarine.
I do not think the black hat navy has that capability.
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I do not think the black hat navy has that capability.
Do it at night from a surfaced sub. That's why they claim to have eluded radar. Those IRG guys are lucky. We only dreamed of pranks like this in high school. Watch for moustaches to show up on Bush photos at the White House web site.
Tehran, 14 Feb. (AKI) - A radical Sunni group, Jundallah (Allah's Brigade), has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack Wednesday on a bus of the Revolutionary Guard, the Pasdaran, in southeast Iran, in a statement sent to Adnkronos International (AKI). Unconfirmed reports say 11 people died in the attack in the city of Zahedan. An Iranian government spokesman said police have arrested four men suspected of carrying out the attack. The Revolutionary Guard officials on the bus were reportedly travelling to the Pasdaran military base of Martyr Mirthosseini outside the city.
"On Wednesday morning, commander Ahmad Dehmordeh of our movement, detonated a bomb as a bus carrying commanders of the Revolutionary Guards was passing by," the Jundallah statement to AKI said. "With today's action, we have meant to respond to the unjust death sentences inflicted by the regime on political militants."
Meanwhile local news agencies, citing government officials, said four people have been arrested over the attack. "The four arrested are not Iranian citizens," the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
Last week, four security officials were killed in Zahedan in an attack claimed by Jundallah.
Zahedan is in the province of Sistan-Baluchistan, close to the border with Pakistan and Afghanistan - an area at the centre of violent clashes between security officials and armed groups. The province has in particular been hit by attacks and kidnappings blamed on the radical Sunni group, which was founded two years ago by Abdolmalek Righi. Jundallah has since its creation claimed responsibility for 20 attacks and kidnappings of many Pasdaran officials.
The Iranian government, which has blamed ethnic unrest in the southeast on Britain and the United States, accuses Righi and his militants of being "hired by foreign powers" to carry out attacks, to be funded by the US and to cooperate with Pakistan's intelligence.
Additional: Last year, 22 provincial officials were shot in cold blood after their convoy was ambushed while travelling along a remote road. The government blamed the attack on groups backed by the UK and US, whom it has repeatedly accused of trying to stir ethnic unrest in Iran's border provinces. In December 2005, a member of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's security detail was killed in a clash with an armed group during an official visit to the province.
Hossein Ali Shahriyari, MP for Zahedan, said insurgents were using Pakistan a key US ally as a sanctuary from which to strike Iran and called on the authorities to confront the Islamabad government. "Why doesn't our foreign diplomatic apparatus deal with Pakistan, whose soil has turned into a safe heaven for insurgents?" he asked.
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If so, it would not be the first time the Saudi Royal Family used a series of cutouts to perform an operation : reference the Yemeni War in the 1960s.
Eighteen people were killed on Wednesday when a bomb exploded next to a bus in the southeastern city of Zahedan, the official IRNA news agency reported.
IRNA said the bomb was hidden in a car by "armed rebels and attackers" And exploded as the bus, belonging to the ground forces of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, passed by. The agency initially said the bomb was in the bus.
A bomb explosion killed at least 18 members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards in southeastern Iran, the state-run news agency reported Wednesday. A passenger car loaded with explosives stopped in front of their bus near Zahedan, the capital of Sistan-Baluchestan Province, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
The explosion occurred around 6:30 a.m. in Ahmadabad district on the outskirts of Zahedan, IRNA said. The passenger car stopped in the middle of the road, forcing the bus loaded with Guards to stop. The car's occupants fled on motorbikes seconds before it exploded, IRNA said. Zahedan and its surroundings, which lie near Iran's borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan, have been the scene of clashes between police and drug smugglers.
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...Has anyone noticed the best part: Somebody has sufficient access to the IRG to get close enough to their stuff to plant bombs. Iranian security has got to be going NUTS right about now...
Mike
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I gather that although the IRG is large, the number of "dependables" is so small that they have to be shuttled all over the country to fight fires, which is why transportation 'accidents' often take down batches of them.
Most of the IRG are draftees, who stay in their barracks and are deluged with propaganda.
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it seems the Baluchi care if they kill civilians and the iranians don't care what thier weapons are killing, as long as Westerners go with it. Who would of thought the Baluchi would be more civilized then people who have a small girl making thier WMD.
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A bomb explosion killed at least 18 members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards in southeastern Iran, the state-run news agency reported Wednesday.
Detail on yesterday's story... Bomb blasts killed three people on commuter buses Tuesday and lawmakers blamed Syria, stirring fears of clashes between Hezbollah and government supporters at a massive rally planned to mark the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister. The explosions stoked fears of more turmoil as an already tense Lebanese capital braced for Wednesday's commemoration for Rafik Hariri. A huge rally was planned at his grave just feet from ongoing opposition protests seeking to topple the government.
Lebanon has been hit by a string of bombings the past two years that many government supporters blame on Syria. Syria has denied any role in the attacks, including the suicide truck bombing that killed Hariri and 22 others on Feb. 14, 2005. After Tuesday's blasts, the pro-government majority coalition in parliament said in a statement that it holds "the Syrian regime fully responsible for this despicable crime." It accused Syria of trying to "make Lebanon another Iraq by destroying its security and stability."
The coalition also pointed a finger at Syrian-backed Hezbollah and called for beefing up security on the border with Syria "to halt the flow of arms to subversive groups directly linked to (Syria's) regime."
The bombs Tuesday ripped through two commuter buses traveling on a busy mountain highway northeast of Beirut, killing three and wounding 20, police said. Witnesses at Ein Alaq, a village in pine-wooded mountains a 30-minute drive northeast of Beirut, said the first bomb exploded in a bus around 9 a.m. As people rushed to the scene, a second explosion, about 10 minutes later, tore through a second bus that had driven up.
The buses were carrying people to work, and witnesses said they pass at 10-minute intervals, ferrying people from Christian mountain villages to the coast and Beirut while stopping along the way for whoever hails them or wants to get off. Pro-government groups said the attacks were intended to scare people away from Wednesday's rally for Hariri, who was an opponents of neighboring Syria's interference in Lebanese affairs. They were adamant the gathering would not be canceled. "We will hunt down the criminals and confront them," the U.S.-backed prime minister, Fuad Saniora, vowed in a televised speech Tuesday evening. "We will not back down in our search for truth. We will remain intent on preserving national unity."
None of the perpetrators have been caught in the string of bombings the past two years, which killed and maimed a number of anti-Syrian figures and have occasionally struck public areas.
The blasts have fueled tensions amid Lebanon's escalating political power struggle, in which the opposition, led by the Syrian- and Iranian-backed Hezbollah, has vowed to bring down Saniora's government. President Emile Lahoud, a staunch pro-Syrian who has sided with the opposition, said the bombings sought to undermine efforts to reach compromise between bitterly split Lebanese factions. "Every time the Lebanese seem close to an agreement, enemies of Lebanon commit another crime," Lahoud said in a statement.
The potential for violence was high even before the latest bombings. The army has installed a razor-wire barrier to separate the opposition's protest encampment on the main downtown Martyrs' Square from the rally next to Hariri's grave. Troops have deployed on highways to prevent friction between supporters of the two sides en route.
Last month, disturbances killed eight people and wounded dozens. A Jan. 23 strike turned into clashes with guns, clubs and stones, while an argument among students on a university campus two days later led to rioting. At the site of Tuesday's bombings, the two buses lay about 30 yards apart, the first with its roof twisted and its back shattered. The roof of the second bus was blown off, with seats thrown on the road and pools of blood around the wreckage.
Police with sniffer dogs and soldiers sifted through the debris. The area was sealed off and the highway, a usually busy road linking Christian towns in the mountains with the capital, was blocked. Security officials estimated the size of the "banana-shaped" bombs at four to seven pounds each and said the explosives were packed with metal pellets and put under seats in the buses.
"May God's wrath fall on all of them who did this," said Genevieve Hayek, in her 70s, the owner of a roadside snack bar 15 yards from the bombing scene. She had rushed along with motorists to help the victims. "What is the fault of the people just going to work?"
Katina Shibli was driving on the road ahead of the first bus when she heard the first blast. "We stopped immediately, I rushed to help," she said. "The traffic backed up quickly, when within 10 minutes, the other explosion happened."
A security official said the casualty figure could have been much higher if most passengers from the second bus had not rushed out to help those in the first.
The blasts occurred in the same Christian heartland as most of the previous explosions that have rocked Lebanon since Hariri's assassination, targeting anti-Syrian politicians, journalists and commercial and industrial centers. A U.N. investigation into Hariri's murder also is looking into the other attacks. "I believe that those who kill in Lebanon are known," Edy Abilamaa, a leading member of the Christian Lebanese Forces pro-government faction, said in a veiled allusion to Syria.
The latest violence came amid reports that Arab League chief Amr Moussa put off plans to mediate between Hezbollah and pro-government forces. League officials said Tuesday that Moussa canceled a trip to Beirut after a message from leaders of Hezbollah and Amal, the two main Shiite Muslim groups, who allegedly prefer another mediation channel.
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A Syrian organization has claimed that they are holding Guy Hever, the IDF soldier who disappeared some 10 years ago in the Golan Heights, it was reported on Tuesday evening. The organization, which calls itself "The Resistance Committees for the Release of the Golan Heights," published an announcement that read, "Don't think millions of your dollars will return the soldier who went missing in the Golan. You know very well how to get him back," according to the report on the Ynet Web site.
The group reportedly demanded the release of nine Syrian prisoners who are currently in Israeli jails in exchange for the missing soldier. Army officials told Army Radio that this was not the first time that an organization has claimed to have Hever in its custody, but nonetheless, the military was investigating the latest claim. Hever was last seen in the Golan Heights in August of 1997.
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Whatever anguish they can cause his family makes it worthwhile for korananimals.
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Joan Blondell!!! ...(whimper)... Mae West had the quips and the attitude but, Joan Blondell!!! Gotta see if I can get my hands on some DVDs of those old movies.
I knew my fellow Rantbugers would appreciate a nice collection of Old Hollywood sluts. :)
And yes, the Old Hollywood Sluts were the best. The New Hollywood version (updated in my comments section), is just so blah.
I mean Anne Heche as the modern AC/DC archetype? Blech, I can't imagine any guy wanting HER.
Cheers,
Victoria
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THE TROPHY SLUT
THE MAN-EATING SLUT
a Brassy Slut
the AC/DC Slut
the Trashy Slut,
THE GOOD-TIME GIRL SLUT
THE UPWARDLY-MOBILE SLUT
THE DREAM SLUT
THE EXHIBITIONIST SLUT
she was the human equivalent of conquering a boa constrictor.
thank you very kindly Victoria for adding to my Slut lexicon. My favorite lust organ [imagination] is charged now in anticipation...
If you ever wondered where Fred gets all of his Classic Cheesecake(TM) photos, this video has some answers.
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thank you very kindly Victoria for adding to my Slut lexicon. My favorite lust organ [imagination] is charged now in anticipation...
Men are so easy, RD. :)
Victoria, that post simply ROCKED.
If you ever wondered where Fred gets all of his Classic Cheesecake(TM) photos, this video has some answers.
Thanks so much, Mike! I've often wondered and was too shy to ask (moi?).
In fact, that Joan Blondell pic is a laugh riot -- maybe you can't see it in the smaller version, but click on it, and you'll see my attempts at Photoshopping it.
I'm such a n00b.
Cheers,
Victoria
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Excellent post, Victoria; but either Joan over Rita Hayworth? When a fem can make brushing hair stimulating, she's a world class, I hesitate to use that word. You need to watch Gilda again.
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KANDAHAR A NATO air strike early Wednesday destroyed a compound housing a Taliban leader responsible for a wave of violence across southern Afghanistan, the Western alliance said. NATO said it believed it killed a Taliban leader linked to an uprising in the nearby town of Musa Qala, which the Taliban overran on Feb. 1, and to an attack Tuesday against a dam in nearby Kajaki.
GENEVA - At least thirty Somali and Ethiopian migrants have drowned whilst crossing the Gulf of Aden in the hope of reaching Yemen, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday.
A group linked to al-Qaida staged seven near-simultaneous bomb attacks Tuesday, targeting police in several towns east of Algiers and killing six people, officials said. Al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa the new name for the Salafist Group for Call and Combat, known by its French acronym GSPC claimed responsibility for the attacks in a telephone call to the Al-Jazeera television network and in a statement on the Internet. 
Sixteen security forces and 69 rebels have been killed over the past three days in ongoing clashes between the Yemeni army and followers of a Shiite rebel leader the northern part of the country, Yemeni military officials said Tuesday. 
Two Russian soldiers and four separatist rebels died in a gun fight in Chechnya on Tuesday just two days after Russia's defence minister said the conflict was over. A Russian military spokesman said the shootout happened near Gudermes, hometown of the Moscow-backed prime minister Ramzan Kadyrov. "We have identified two of the rebels and are working on the identities of the other two," the spokesman said. He said Russian soldiers attacked rebels who were hiding in a trench.
If North Korea holds to the pledges it made Tuesday to fulfill its promise to abandon nuclear weapons, chief US negotiator Christopher Hill thinks he knows why. 
A former Houston man arrested in Kenya last month has been charged in Texas with teaming with al-Qaida to overthrow the Somali government and form an Islamic state there. 
Police on Tuesday arrested four 
Anti-American cleric 
Iraq's government said on Tuesday it would close its borders with Syria and Iran and extend the hours of a night curfew in Baghdad under a U.S.- backed security plan to rein in violence in the capital. The measures ordered by Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki were announced on Iraqiya state television by Lieutenant General Abboud Qanbar, the Iraqi commander who is leading the U.S.-backed security offensive in Baghdad. Qanbar said the border with Iran and Syria would be closed for 72 hours. He did not say when the closures would take effect.
BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber driving a small truck rigged with explosives blew up near a Baghdad college on Tuesday, killing 18 people in an attack that came just a day after bomb blasts ripped apart two crowded city markets. Police said the bomber detonated in a parking lot between the College of Economic Sciences, a private university in western Baghdads residential Iskan district, and a large foodstuff warehouse belonging to the Trade Ministry.
Bomb blasts killed three people on commuter buses Tuesday and lawmakers blamed Syria, stirring fears of clashes between Hezbollah and government supporters at a massive rally planned to mark the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister. The explosions stoked fears of more turmoil as an already tense Lebanese capital braced for Wednesday's commemoration for Rafik Hariri. A huge rally was planned at his grave just feet from ongoing opposition protests seeking to topple the government.
A Syrian organization has claimed that they are holding Guy Hever, the IDF soldier who disappeared some 10 years ago in the Golan Heights, it was reported on Tuesday evening. The organization, which calls itself "The Resistance Committees for the Release of the Golan Heights," published an announcement that read, "Don't think millions of your dollars will return the soldier who went missing in the Golan. You know very well how to get him back," according to the report on the Ynet Web site. 
