Liam Fox, the Defence Secretary, will tell MPs that British troops in Helmand province will hand over districts including Sangin, where scores of British troops have been killed.
The change will see British troops withdrawing from large parts of northern Helmand and concentrate on the central area of the province.
[Quqnoos] The Pakistani spy agency detained the leader of the Afghan Taliban insurgents, Mullah Mohammed Omar in Karachi, unconfirmed reports say
Detention of the Afghan Taliban leader is neither confirmed by Pakistani officials nor by the Pentagon.
A spokesperson for the Taliban, Qari Yusuf Ahmadi, has rejected the news of Mullah Muhammad Omar's arrest and has said that he is safe and sound and in full command of his fighters, according to the reports.
The unconfirmed report is published, while an influential US Senator, John McCain in his visit to Afghanistan called the success of the Kandahar push, success of the Afghan war.
The Kandahar operation is expected to oust the Taliban out of their southern strongholds and to establish central government control in the province.
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The ISI captured his body, but Omar captured their hearts.
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In this case, the rumor may be more important than the reality. Both al-Qaeda and the Taliban are very brittle right now, and bad news, or even rumor, could convince a lot of the rank and file to split.
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Pakistan denies arrest of Mullah Omar
Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik Wednesday denied reports that Taliban chief Mullah Omar had been arrested in the country, saying Omar was still in Afghanistan.
Mullah Omar is not in the custody of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and is still in Kandahar in Afghanistan, Xinhua quoted Malik as telling Dawn News channel.
Malik also said that Osama bin Laden was neither in Pakistan territory nor near the international border areas near Afghanistan.
This was the first official response by the Pakistani government to recent reports in the media that Mullah Omar was arrested by the ISI in Pakistan following an American blogger's claim that the Taliban chief was captured in Karachi March 27.
Mulla Omar is wanted by the US for sheltering Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda operatives prior to and after the Sep 11 attack on the World Trade Centre in New York.
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Pakistans interior minister sure seems too have alot of info abbout where Omar is and is not.
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He is in Pakistan for his annual performance eval:
Ability to evade - exceeds expectations
Goat herder - meets expectations
Strategic 'vision' - inconsistent
[Dawn] Afghanistan's national security adviser has called on the Pakistani government to "take serious measures" against militant groups launching attacks on Afghan targets from secure havens inside Pakistan.
Rangin Dadfar Spanta spoke to AFP in an interview a week after the Al-Jazeera television network said Afghan President Hamid Karzai had met the man who runs the Al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani network in talks mediated by Pakistan.
Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Taliban all deny any such meeting.
Spanta's comments signal an about-turn by the Afghan government after months of overtures to Islamabad in efforts to prompt Pakistan to deal with militant groups, including Al-Qaeda and the Taliban based along the Afghan border. Spanta told AFP on Monday that Afghanistan had "tremendous evidence" that Pakistani authorities allowed Al-Qaeda and other terror organisations to operate on the country's soil and had presented it to Islamabad "many times".
Islamabad had failed to act against the groups based in Pakistan's tribal areas on the Afghan border, he told AFP.
"My expectation is that Pakistan after nine years - because theoretically Pakistan is part of the anti-terror alliance - they have to begin to take some serious measures against terrorism," he said.
"They have to hand over the leadership of the terrorist groups, they have to give a list of the people they have arrested and are holding in the detention centres in Pakistan.
"We have evidence that the terrorists from Pakistan are involved in daily attacks against our people and international 'jihadi' groups are active here. They have their base and sanctuaries behind our border and this is a serious problem.
"We have to address the menace of terrorism," Spanta said.
Karzai had been seen as trying to reach an arrangement with Pakistan - possibly including a power-sharing deal with the Taliban - that would help bring an end to the war in Afghanistan, now in its ninth year.
This was also seen as a way of giving Pakistan a stake in Afghanistan's future, despite broad opposition among the Afghan politicians and public.
Senior Pakistani military and intelligence officials had visited Kabul in recent months on goodwill visits, Spanta said.
"I hope we can begin a constructive dialogue with a serious agenda during the next meeting in Islamabad, or in Kabul... maybe next month," he said.
Spanta said Pakistan had failed to act against Al-Qaeda, the Afghan Taliban leadership known as the Quetta Shura, the Haqqani network, the minor Hekmatyar group, Hizb-u-Tahrir, as well as "Uzbek and Chechen terrorist groups".
"It is not a particular secret that the terrorists have sanctuaries in Pakistan, that they have training centres, that they have the possibility to come to Afghanistan, attack us and go back," said Spanta.
He denied that Karzai had met Sirajuddin Haqqani, who runs the Haqqani network which often launches attacks in Afghanistan, or the Taliban, "through mediation of Pakistan forces or otherwise".
Pakistani security officials indicated last month, however, that they were planning to help broker peace efforts in Afghanistan by acting as a bridge between the Kabul government and powerful Haqqani network.
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ION TOPIX > [Brit FM Hague] NO UK TROOPS IN AFGHAN COMBAT BY 2015, nor will the UK keep a sizable mil presence in the country.
[Bangla Daily Star] Interrogators yesterday quizzed Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami about 10-truckloads of firearms and ammunition seized in Chittagong on April 2, 2004.
Nizami, the then industries minister, is being interrogated in the arms haul case as the consignment was offloaded at the jetty of Chittagong Urea Fertiliser Company Ltd, which is under the industries ministry. He had sent the then industries secretary to Chittagong before the consignment was seized.
Besides, the interrogators are quizzing Nizami and his two other top party colleagues about the attack on Prof Humayun Azad, training on small arms by Jamaat's health division members and the party's source of funds, police sources said.
Nizami along with Jamaat Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid and Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee are now on remand in two cases and being quizzed at the Detective Branch headquarters in the city.
Asked what he knows about the smuggling of the biggest consignment of arms and ammunition in Chittagong, Nizami denied having any link or previous knowledge about it, said a highly placed police officer, who is in the interrogation team.
"As we argued that he had sent then industries secretary Nurul Amin to Chittagong a couple of days before the seizure of the consignment to ensure safe passage, Nizami became very nervous and remained tight-lipped, said the official.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has already interrogated Nurul Amin in connection with the arms haul and asked the former industries secretary not to leave the country.
The official said they would also question the top three detained Jamaat leaders about the attack on prolific writer Humayun Azad as after the incident, Sayedee at a gathering hinting Azad said, "There was a Murtad (apostate). We have sent him to afterlife, where he will burn till the end of the time."
In his speech, Sayedee also said, "If needed, we will train on arms to counter armed attacks."
The DB official said they had video footage of the speech and would present it before Sayedee and others.
Police officials said during interrogation detained JMB chief Saidur Rahman, who was once the Jamaat Ameer of Habiganj district, had already said that Jamaat's health division, formerly known as Tamil Department, is still carrying out training on small arms in the hilly areas of Chittagong.
The training camp, which was earlier in the deep forest of Sylhet, has been later shifted to Chittagong.
"We will also interrogate the top Jamaat leaders about the training camps," said the official.
Meanwhile, police yesterday held 25 leaders and activists of Jamaat and Islami Chhatra Shibir when they were holding a meeting at a hotel in Chittagong city. Searching the arrestees' cellphones, police found text messages sent to certain people inviting them to join Sunday's rampage in the port city.
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The Mexican press loves to detail weapons seizures so when that information becomes available, this post will be updated
Mexican Naval Infantry rescued eight kidnap victims and arrested 18 suspects in a raid near Reynosa, Tamaulipas, which also led to the seizure of a cache of military weapons and more than seven tons of marijuana, according to US press reports.
A Mexican naval helicopter on patrol spotted a convoy of vehicles near Reynosa, when it was fired on by the occupants. Mexican naval infantry personnel were in the area and managed to stop the convoy, leading to the rescue of eight unidentified kidnap victims.
Naval personnel also arrested 15 men and seized ten assault rifles, munitions and vehicles as well as more than 15,000 pounds of marijuana.
Another operation in nearby Diaz Ordaz led to the arrest of three suspects with more than 350 packages of marijuana and a large cache of military weapons including assault rifles, munitions, hand grenades and an antitank rocket launcher.
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See also HAARETZ > MEXICO THWARTS HEZBOLLAH BID TO SET UP SOUTH AMERICAN NETWORK. Focii on MEXI NATIONALS wid ties to Lebanon.
* TOPIX > TERRORISTS POSE NEW THREATS TO US | [AFPAK] LOCAL MILITANTS NOW SHARING MANPOWER, WEAPONS, + IDEOLOGY WID AL QAEDA.
Many well-trained MilTerrs repor setting their target scopes agz CONUS = US TARGETS despite AL QAEDA"S seeming serious weakness due to the US-led battering it received in past 18 months.
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A shooting police characterized as "sustained" ended with the toll of three dead, three arrested and a number of stolen vehicles seized by police authorities, according to Mexican news reports.
The initial attack took place near the intersection of calles Wichita and 1st in the Sierra Azul district of southern Chihuahua city. Witnesses say armed suspects riding aboard a convoy of vehicles stopped at a residence and initiated a firefight inside the residence lasting ten miniutes before fleeing.
An unidentified man wearing a uniform and a tactical vest with two fragmentary hand grenades was found dead in the street lying beside an AK-47, his magazine half empty.
On calle Sierra Magisterial two more unidentified victims, a husband and wife enjoying barbeque, were found dead. Both attempted to flee the assault but were killed near their home.
At the house police found five cars four Nissans and a Plymouth they say were stolen. Police also seized a 9mm weapon.
Witnesses say the shooters rode through the area aboard a four vehicle convoy including a Jeep Liberty, Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck, a Chevrolet Blazer SUV and a Nissan Altima.
A teenage girl was shot to death in the same area last Sunday.
Ten people were killed on drug or gang related violence including two Juarez municipal police officers, a Chihuahua state police agent and a Mexican Federal agent in three separate shootings.
A husband and wife pair of Juarez police officers were shot to death Monday afternoon, say Mexican news reports. Ivonne Martinez Lopez and Francisco Javier Quintana were shot aboard their Mercury sedan near their home near the intersection of calle Mitla and Avenida Las Torres. The two had just finished their shift when they were caught by an unidentified gunman and shot.
A police agent with the Chihuahua state attorney generals office was shot to death early Tuesday morning in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, according to Mexican news accounts. Luis David Guerra Sanchez with the Chihuahua ProcuradurÃÂa General de Justicia del Estado (PGJE) was shot aboard his official Dodge Ram pickup truck near his home near the intersection of calles Franklin and O'Higgins in the Unidad Chihuahua district as he was leaving for work.
Investigators at the scene found numerous spent cartridges casings from assault weapons.
A partially identified Mexican Federal agent and his girlfriend were shot to death Tuesday morning in Juarez, say Mexican news accounts. The agent was identified only by his first name Raul had just returned from Mexico City to Juarez to visit his girlfriend, Erika Paola RenterÃÂa, 37. Ms Rentaria was just entering the agent's car when the two were struck with bullets fired by unidentified armed suspects.
Four unidentified men were shot to death in front of a bar in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, according to Mexican news reports. The shooting took place at the Blackberry bar near the intersection of calles Vallarta and Zaragoza. Witnesses say a group of armed suspects riding in a black pickup truck drove by shooting at the men using AK-47 assault rifles. The street was already crowded with business patrons on the street when the assault took place, nearby businesses including a grocery story and a movie theater.
One of the four Mexican Federal agents ambushed Sunday died on the way to the hospital. His death places the death toll at ten.
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It's getting to be safer to be an Iraqi soldier or police officer than a Mexican one. When the problems get equally as bad in the southern border area of the United States, we, the People, will have to do something about it. It's for da$$$$ sure our government can't and won't, for whatever reason.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Kurdish guerrillas attacked a military outpost in southeast Turkey overnight, triggering a clash in which 10 militants and three Turkish soldiers were killed, security sources said on Tuesday.
The assault was part of an upsurge in attacks on the armed forces since the rebels ended a 14-month ceasefire at the start of June. More than 80 soldiers have been killed so far this year, exceeding the death toll in 2009.
The increased violence has undermined an attempt by the government of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to boost Kurdish minority rights and investment in the impoverished southeast in a bid to end a 26-year separatist conflict.
Military helicopters flew in troop reinforcements to search for the remaining Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels who launched the attack in the mountainous Semdinli district of Hakkari province, near the border with Iraq.Three soldiers were also wounded in the fighting.
The army operation was focused on the area around the Iraqi border, across which the militants frequently cross from bases in northern Iraq to attack the Turkish military. In response to the upsurge in attacks, the military has carried out air strikes on rebel targets in northern Iraq, where several thousand PKK guerrillas are based.
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ION TURKEY, WAFF [paraph]> GIRLS ARE BEING SOLD "LIKE SLAVES" IN TURKEY'S SIRNAK REGION: WOMEN'S GROUP SAYS. Child, Tweens, + Teen Muslim Females being routinely + non-consenually sold as SECOND, ETC. WIVES = SLAVES-SERVANTS? to older Muslim Adult, Minor-aged Males, often in various pre-arranged marriages or as ECON BARTER FOR GOODS + $$$.
A LONGTIME associate of Osama bin Laden has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and providing material support to a terrorist organisation, at a military commission in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Sudanese national Ibrahim al Qosi, who turned 50 this month, is alleged to have been a supporter of bin Laden since meeting him in the Sudan in the early 1990s and ultimately followed the al Qaeda leader to Afghanistan.
Court documents allege that al Qosi served a number of roles for his longtime friend: from cook, to driver, to accountant and that he allegedly facilitated bin Laden's escape from Tora Bora in eastern Afghanistan in late 2001.
The court was engaged in a process known as "providence inquiry" - a lengthy question and answer session between the military judge and al Qosi.
The judge must be satisfied that al Qosi is pleading guilty freely, he understands fully the charges he is admitting to, and there is evidence to support his guilty plea.
Good luck with that, the AQ training manual tells 'em to lie all the time ...
There is the possibility that detailed information about bin Laden's escape from Tora Bora would be made public for the first time at the hearing.
Only once the judge and al Qosi run through a six-page stipulation of fact, which includes 26 separate paragraphs outlining his relationship to al Qaeda, would his pleas be accepted. Once the hearing is finished, and if the guilty pleas were accepted by the judge, it would be the first conviction of President Obama's military commissions.
It would only be the second guilty plea of the entire commission process under this administration and the previous administration.
But we can bring them to the US and try them in federal courts, honest ...
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@#1 The only problem is they aren't part of country with a standard uniform or military. They aren't really part of a military and yet aren't civilians. They are terrorists or enemy combatants. Also, I don't think they signed, recognize or give a rat's behind about the Geneva conventions. The odd thing is, they almost opposite of a UN force. After all, they are a conglomeration of many countries fighting to destroy any thing that isn't like them or adhere to their way of life. Their charter is the Qu'ran and wage jihad. They only thing I can see is to treat them as terrorists. They aren't POW's or Spies or civilians.
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The only problem is they aren't part of country with a standard uniform or military.
The Obama Campaign's official position was that these people should be accorded the same rights and priveliges that uniform-wearing POW's from a regular military have.
Well, one of those rights is, you can't be tried for being in the other army and peeling potatoes or driving someone around.
As far as I know, there is no distinct legal status for _enemy combatants_. There are simply POW's, which do have rights, and _unlawful combatants_, who have rights _until they are found guilty of being unlawful combatants in a trial_.
If you're not going to try them for being an unlawful combatant, I'm unsure there's anything you can try them for.
[Dawn] The imam entangled in the investigation into a suicide bomb plot against New York City subway stations left the US Monday, after pleading guilty to lying to the FBI. Among his final words on US soil, his lawyer says, were "God bless America."
Ahmad Wais Afzali and his wife Fatima took off on a Saudi Arabian Airlines flight to Jeddah and then will go on to Mecca, where Fatima got a job teaching English, said the lawyer, Ron Kuby. Afzali, who was born in Afghanistan but spent most of his life in Queens, isn't sure what he's going to do there, Kuby said.
Not likely he'll get hired as an imam, anyway. Has he any other useful skills, or will he have to accept employment at minimum wage as a chauffeur or gardener?
Most of his family lives in Virginia, including two children from a previous marriage.
Afzali, under the terms of his plea April 15, was sentenced to time served - four days - but ordered to leave the country in 90 days.
Authorities sought help last fall from the imam, a previously reliable police source, as they scrambled to thwart the plot by Najibullah Zazi, an airport van driver who pleaded guilty in the case.
The 38-year-old imam said he had wanted to help authorities in the investigation of the threat but lied under grilling by the FBI about his phone conversations Zazi.
Afzali lied when he said he never told Zazi that he was under surveillance in New York.
Afzali said that he never meant to aide Zazi or deceive the government.
"It was not just something he said at sentencing, he genuinely loves this country very much," Kuby said. "Unfortunately he was caught in a turf battle between the NYPD and the FBI."
And lying. And warning a suspect he was being watched. Don't let's forget that.
The electronic monitoring bracelet was removed at around 9:30 am, and then a caravan of family and two Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents traveled to John F. Kennedy International Airport. Two agents, dressed casually, accompanied Afzali and his wife to the gate and watched them board.
Afzali cannot return to the US without special permission. If he does, he is subject to additional charges and could be deported to Afghanistan.
Najibullah Zazi and two friends were arrested in September 2009 before, prosecutors said, they could carry out a trio of suicide bombings in Manhattan. Zazi and Zarein Ahmedzay have pleaded guilty and admitted planning to detonate homemade bombs on the subway during rush hour. A third man, Adis Medunjanin, awaits trial.
Zazi is cooperating with investigators, key developments that prosecutors hope will help them trace the plot back to its roots in Pakistan, where Zazi and former friends from high school allegedly traveled in 2008 to seek terror training.
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AHMED WAIS AFZALI
al-Qaeda
NAJIBULLAH ZAZI
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and then a caravan of family and two Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents traveled to John F. Kennedy International Airport. Two agents, dressed casually, accompanied Afzali and his wife to the gate and watched them board.
One down, 7 million more to go. Deportation is the key.
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We'll hear from him again, probably explosively.
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We can't shoot 'em on American soil. We have to send them somewhere else, first. Then we can shoot 'em, or have THEIR government shoot 'em. I guess it's "more sporting" that way.
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[Dawn] Pakistani forces killed 23 militants early on Tuesday in fighting that erupted after insurgents fired on troops during a search operation in the country's northwest, police and intelligence officials said.
The search was launched after a suicide bomb attack on a paramilitary fort in Lower Dir district, where troops killed hundreds of militants in an offensive last year.
"The fighting began when miscreants opened fire on troops searching the area after reports of militant movement there," Dir's top police chief, Mumtaz Zireen, told Reuters.
Zireen said 23 militants were killed in the pre-dawn exchange of fire in the Maidan area.
Independent verfication was not immediately available.
Militants often reject and dispute casualty figures issued by officials.
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[Geo News] Jamat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed, in his first ever on camera interview has said that suicide attacks in Pakistan have no moral ground and are 'illegal'. He also demanded public execution of perpetrators.
Or at least of their various bits.
He was talking exclusively to Geo News.
He was of the view that some foreign elements were trying to create religious disharmony in the country, adding that Pakistan was being forced to remain a front line state in the war against terror.
"They're holding a noose to our heads!"
Hafiz Saeed blamed India for Data Darbar attacks and challenged India to prove JuD's connection with Mmbai attacks. When US can negotiate with Taliban why not Pakistan, he questioned.
Because Pakistan doesn't have to negotiate with those they give direct orders to, Chief Saeed. Perhaps you are no longer important enough to keep in the loop, which is why you don't know that. Or perhaps you're being disingenuous. Such behaviour is fairly common in your culture, I believe.
JuD chief pointed out that there was no restriction on his party. 'Outfits involved in militancy should be banned and strict action be taken against them.'
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ISLAMABAD -- The Punjab government has banned 23 militant organisations operating under new names after having been outlawed and directed police to keep a strict vigil on 1,690 office-bearers and workers of the outfits after including them in Schedule 4.
According to the provincial home department, Jamaatud Dawa of Hafiz Saeed has not been restricted like others, but Saeed and his two associates have been barred from travelling abroad. Their accounts have been frozen and they will not be able to get arms licences.
Sipah-e-Sahaba, Jaish-e-Muhammad, Laskar-e-Taiba, Tehrik-e-Jafria, Harkatul Jihad Islami, Harkatul Mujahideen, Hizbul Tehrir, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Sipah-e-Muhammad had been banned by the Musharraf government in 2002, but most of them started their activities under new names.
It's like Pakistan has the world's largest 'Book of Synonyms' ...
Sipah-e-Sahaba was renamed as Millat-e-Islamia Pakistan, Jaish-e-Muhammad as Alfurqan and Khuddamul Islam and Tehrik-e-Jafria as Islami Tehrik Pakistan and Lashkar-e-Taiba as Jamaatud Dawa. Hizbul Tehrir did not change its name.
Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad have been active in the Indian-administered Kashmir and have also been blamed in terrorist acts inside mainland India -- Jaish-e-Mohammad in attack on the Indian parliament in December 2001and LeT in the Mumbai carnage of November 2008.
While Jaish's chief Maulana Azhar Masood has been keeping a low profile since his organisation was suspected of making an attempt on the life of former military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf in December 2003, the LeT's Hafiz Saeed continues to be very active in the guise of various outfits even after the new organisation Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) was also was banned when the United Nations Security Council declared it a terrorist organisation in 2002.
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Three protesters were killed by security forces Tuesday in one of the deadliest days of violence in mainly Muslim Indian Kashmir as stone-hurling demonstrators crowded the streets.
The killings came as protesters surged on to the streets of Srinagar, the main city of Indian Kashmir, burning tyres and shouting, “We want freedom” and “blood for blood” following a spate of killings in the Muslim-majority region.
TuesdayÂ’s shooting death of a 16-year-old teenager brought to three the number of killings of protesters in 12 hours by security forces, police said. Police said the 16-year-old youth was killed when he and other demonstrators defied a curfew and pelted stones at security forces and set fire to a police building.
After the latest killings, Kashmiris jammed mosques across Srinagar shouting: “Go, India, go back.” Loudhailers at the mosques carried the call through the streets.
Earlier on Tuesday, “a 30-year-old young man was killed when security forces opened fire at a very violent rally, and a woman was killed by firing at a different demonstration in Srinagar”, a police officer, who declined to be named, told AFP. No further details were immediately available.
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BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Eight Shiite pilgrims were wounded on Tuesday in two separate explosions in Baghdad, a police source said.
“An improvised explosive device went off in al-Fadiliya region, southeastern Baghdad, injuring five pilgrims,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
“Three more pilgrims were injured in a bomb blast in southern Baghdad,” he added.
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SALAH EL-DIN / Aswat al-Iraq: A lawmaker of the al-Iraqiya bloc, Dr. Qutiebya Ibrahim al-Juburi, survived an attempt on his life on Tuesday when his motorcade came under an armed attack in south of Tikrit while returning from Baghdad.
The lawmaker told Aswat al-Iraq news agency that four gunmen opened fire on his motorcade in north of Dejla district, south of Tikrit, noting that a clash erupted between his bodyguards and the attackers, who surrendered and were handed to the police.
Tikrit, the capital of Salah el-Din, lies 175 km north of Baghdad.
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"It's a big payoff for the Air Force to make sure the next generation of systems learns from the first generation,"
This hints at the unmentioned and enormous benefit - namely, what generation of development has any other nation attained? The IDF, perhaps, but not in this volume. The Chinese, in simulation, maybe?
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Add them all together and I doubt it equals the cost of one conventional combat aircraft crash (what's an F-22 go for?) And none of the pilots are dead or captured.
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Yep. They're working hard. I don't think manned combat aircraft could come close to this kind of record on the day-to-day stuff. At some point, the effort isn't worth the return. To be fair, I don't know if this program is at that point yet or not.
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I think the real question is what it would have cost to operate manned aircraft as opposed to drones for the number of hours flown. I suspect the arithmetic falls squarely in favor of drones from a cost standpoint. Just goes to show that for a reporter, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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HMMMM, HMMMM, well lessirree, WMF says there are 12000 Robots + 7000 UAVS of all types serving in Afghanistan = AFPAK, ergo select = nominal Math says:
To wit,
* 7000 UAVS times _% = 79 drones tote lost
* 7000 UAVS times _% = 38 drones lost in IQAF/AFRAQ [Iraq-Afghan].
* 7000 UAVS times 20,000 flying hours pm =???
* 7000 UAVS times mimima US$3.9Milyuhn = ???
versus
7000 UAVS times maxima US$5.0Milyuhn = ???
DITTO 12,000 Robos + 7000 UAVS = 19,000 Tote Robos-UVS BY ANY OF THE ABOVE + OTHER [e.g. COSTS PER HUMAN PILOT] = ????
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Joe, the 7000 number includes lots of little RPAs like Ravens and Shadows. The article was talking about MQ-1B Predators and MQ-9 Reapers. While the number deployed is classified, the Secretary of Defense has said that our objective is to field 50 MQ-1B/MQ-9 Combat Air Patrols (CAPs) by the end of 2011 and 65 CAPs by end of 2013. A CAP is defined as Predator or Reaper continuously on station.
THREE Malaysian Muslims went on trial on Tuesday for allegedly torching a church during the height of a dispute over whether non-Muslims can use the word 'Allah' to refer to God.
The firebombing of the church in this Muslim-majority country marked the start of an unprecedented string of assaults on places of worship in January following a court verdict that allowed Christians to use 'Allah' in their Malay-language publications.
The attacks abated after authorities boosted security and warned of a crackdown on any attempt to harm decades of harmonious ties between ethnic Malay Muslims, who make up nearly two-thirds of Malaysia's 28 million people, and religious minorities, mainly ethnic Chinese and Indians who practice Buddhism, Christianity or Hinduism.
Two brothers and their friend were charged earlier this year for starting a fire Jan 8 that partially gutted a Protestant church. It was the first and most serious of the attacks and vandalism on 11 churches, a Sikh temple, three mosques and two Muslim prayer rooms, most of which suffered only minor damage.
Six people testified when the trial began at a Kuala Lumpur district court on Tuesday. Two said they saw a group of young men arrive at the church in motorcycles just before the fire began.
'I heard a commotion after I heard glass break. I saw fire,' said Mohammad Tarmizi Yaakob, a security guard working at a nearby building.
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the height of a dispute over whether non-Muslims can use the word 'Allah' to refer to God.
Screw em. Who'd want to use the word Allan anyway. They'd better stop when then are ahead. There is always dickweed.
A CHINESE shopkeeper held hostage by Islamist militants for nearly 19 months in the Philippines has walked free after his abductors clashed with police, officials said on Tuesday.
Wu Xili, an illegal immigrant who also goes by the name Peter Go, was rescued after a firefight with Abu Sayyaf militants on Jolo island late on Monday, regional military chief Lieutenant-General Ben Dolorfino said.
'The rescue operation was initiated by local police in the area,' Gen Dolorfino told reporters, confirming that the 28-year-old was now in government hands and uninjured.
Police said there were no reports of casualties on either side after the 10-minute firefight. They said they recovered two rifles, a grenade, and machine-gun bullets from the scene of the clash.
Police said the Abu Sayyaf, blamed for the worst terrorist attacks in the Philippines, snatched Wu in December 2008 shortly after his family migrated to the troubled south of the country from China to set up an appliance store.
The gunmen at one point demanded 10 million pesos (S$301,399) in ransom, though it was unclear if any amount changed hands. Local authorities rarely acknowledge paying ransom, which is against government policy.
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WAFF > HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE FOR CELESTIAL PLA TO TAKE BACK OUTER MONGOLIA? | {Video] MONGOLIAN NEO NAZIS ALLEGE GROWING CHINESE POPULATION THREATENS NATIONAL, ETHNIC IDENTITY.
* ION NEWS KERALA > ARMENIA IS THE MOTHERLAND OF METALLURGY, WINES-MAKING, + HORSE-BREEDING. ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY-CIVILIZATION? as new Archaeo excavations reveal MESOPOTAMIA = "CRADLE OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION" seemingly learned or adopted these vital industry skills from ancient Armenia???
DON'T TELL CHINA > WE ARE ALL RUSSIANS + SLAVS NOW???
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WMF > JAPAN SLAPPED IN THE FACE BY RUSSIA'S ETOROFU ISLAND MILEX + CHINA'S SECOND PLAN "MIYAKO/OKINAWA" SOJOURN.
* SAME > CHINA'S TOLERANCE ENDS CIRCA 2020: YEARS 2015-2018 IS THE DESIRED BENCHMARK TIME PERIOD WHERE ALL REGIONAL, INTERNATIONAL CLAIMS AGZ CHINESE SOVEREIGNTY OVER TAIWAN, DAOYUS, SOUTH CHINA SEAS [various islands], + BORDER DISPUTES WID INDIA WILL DIPLOMATICALLY OR FORCIBLY END.
IOW, AFTER 2018 or 2020 > CHINA is more liklely to resort to UNILATERAL MILPOL BELLIGERENCY than diplomatic negotiation or the UNO???
* SAME > CANADIAN THINK TANK: CHINA'S ABILITY TO ENGAGE IN EFFECTIVE PROJECTION OF PLA MILITARY FORCES IS SERIOUSLY HAMPERED BY LACK OF LR STRATEGIC AIR TRANSPORTS, AIR REFUELING, + LR BOMBER, FIGHTER CLOSE AIR SUPPORT [CAS]. AT PRESENT CHINA CAN ONLY LIFT ONE DIVISION-SIZED LARGE UNIT.
* SAME > RUSSIA'S VLADIVOSTOK, USSURI RIVER, + SAKHALIN REGIONS HAD BEEN CHINESE TERRITORY SINCE ANCIENT TIMES. CHANGING GEOPOL DYNAMICS LED TO REPEATED FAILURES BY IMPERIAL CHINA, SUN YAT-SEN, CHIANG KAI-SHEK, + MAO ZEDONG TO RECOVER SOVEREIGN TERRITORIES LOST OR FORCIBLY TAKEN FROM CHINA BY RUSSIA. MAO'S DESIRE TO DEFEAT CHIANG KAI-SHEK, VERSUS STALIN'S FEAR OF STRONG CHINA + VICTOR MAO OR KAI-SHEK ALLOWING US-ALIED FORCES TO BE BASED INSIDE CHINA ALONG RUSSIA'S BORDERS. STALIN'S FEAR OF A STRONG CHINA + POST-1945 NUCLEAR USA LED TO SOVIET BREAKING OF TREATIES TO RETURN CHINESE TERRITORIES, SOVIET SUPPORT OF POST-WAR INDEPENDENT MONGOLIAN VOTE AGZ CHINA.
* SAME > RUSSIA'S HISTORICAL BORDER OR TERRITORIAL DISPUTES WID CHINA EXISTED LONG BEFORE THE EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT OF NORTH AMERICA + CREATION OF THE US AS A SOVEREIGN NATION. MOSCOW WILL NEVER ACCEPT CONTROL OR SUPERIORITY BY CHINA.
* SAME > A "CHINESE VLADIVOSTOK"? RUSSIAN FAR EAST + SIBERIA MAY ULTIMATELY BE DEMOGRAPHICALLY, NOT MILITARILY, LOST TO CHINA AS RUSSIA'S GOVT. ESTIMATES THE NUMBER OF THE NUMBER OF CHINESE LIVING IN RUSSIA'S FAR EAST AS APPROXIMATLEY 20.0MILYUHN, WHILE ONLY 10,000 CHINESE POSSESS THE LEGAL PERMIT RIGHTS TO LIVE + WORK THERE.
20.0M versus 10K = Thats one hell of a RUSS GOVT-AGENCY ACCOUNTING GAP.
A FULL-time national serviceman in the Singapore Armed Forces has been detained under the Internal Security Act, said a statement from the Ministry of Home Affairs on Tuesday.
Muhammad Fadil Abdul Hamid, 20, had become self-radicalised after searching the Internet for jihadist propaganda and videos.
He was influenced by the teachings of radical clerics posted online 'and became convinced that it was his religious duty to undertake armed jihad alongside fellow militants and strive for martyrdom,' said a statement from MHA.
Fadil initiated communication with radical cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki and expressed a desire to undertake militant jihad in places like Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan. He was detained on April 4.
Two other Singaporeans - Muhammad Anwar Jailani, 44, and Muhammad Thahir bin Shaik Dawood, 27 - were also placed on Restriction Orders for two years from June 23, added the MHA statement.
Separately, Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) member Ibrahim Mohd Noor was released on a Suspension Direction under the ISA on June 1.
Ibrahim, a trained operative, fled Singapore in December 2001 following the arrests of Singapore JI members in an ISD security operation, but was arrested and detained under the ISA in April 2007 in a joint operation with a regional security agency.
'He had cooperated in investigations and shown significant progress in his rehabilitation. He was assessed to no longer pose a security threat that required preventive detention,' said MHA.
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ION CHINESE MIL FORUM > [Muslim]INDONESIANS FIGHT BACK AGZ HOLY TRINITY CHRISTIAN ART | INDONESIAN ARTISTS VERSUS MUSLIM EXTREMISTS.
ARTIC = Indonesia's Muslim majority has a "MINORITY" PSY COMPLEX, i.e. fear that ISLAM + LOCAL MUSLIM CULTURE, SOCIETY is being [maliciously undermined by an INCREASINGLY LIBERAL = LIBERTARIAN/PLURALIST ENVIRONMENT = ANTI/NON-MUSLIM OR ISLAMIC FREEDOMS OF EXPRESSION. Belief in [creeping]COVERT = HIDDEN/SHADOW "CHRISTIANIZATION" OF INDONESIAN CULTURE, SOCIETY AGZ INDONESIAN MUSLIMS???
Tens of thousands of mourners gathered in south Beirut on Tuesday for the funeral of top Shiite cleric Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, seen by many as a modern face of Islam but also named on a US "terrorist" list.
Lebanon was holding an official day of mourning for the grand ayatollah, who died in hospital on Sunday at the age of 75 of internal bleeding.
Waving black flags and chanting their loyalty to the imam Hussein, the founder of Shiite Islam, Fadlallah's followers and admirers joined a funeral convoy from his home to the Hassanein mosque amid tight security.
Zahra Omeish, 65, braved the heat and crowd to pay tribute to the spiritual leader of Lebanon's Shiite community.
"He was our father, our brother, our friend," she wept, leaning on a walking cane as she inched her way along with the crowd behind Fadlallah's casket, heading to the mosque, has favourite, where he will be buried.
This article starring:
MOHAMED HUSEIN FADLALLAH
Learned Elders of Islam
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Too bad nobody thought to drop a GBU-everyone anywhere near gets killed real fast and messy..
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Tens of thousands of moderate Arabs gather for Ayatollah Fudlullah funeral
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and some shia mosques in the US will also have memorial services honoring this terrorist inspiring ayatollah
but I don't think you will see a single protest against Fadlallah by moslems (although you might hear some 'well he did a lot of charity preaching' or such
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...seen by many as a modern face of Islam but also named on a US "terrorist" list.
Oh. I get it. I'm supposed to see a contradiction there, right?
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Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah. Modern face of islam and on the terrorist watch list. Doesn't seem to me there is a contradiction there. He did say "modern" and not "moderate" right? Well there is no difference there either. Modern = moderate = radical.
Notice old Fudpucker and our president have something in common--same middle name Hussein. I see a pattern here.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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SALAH EL-DIN / Aswat al-Iraq: A lawmaker of the al-Iraqiya bloc, Dr. Qutiebya Ibrahim al-Juburi, survived an attempt on his life on Tuesday when his motorcade came under an armed attack in south of Tikrit while returning from Baghdad.
Tens of thousands of mourners gathered in south Beirut on Tuesday for the funeral of top Shiite cleric 
