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-Lurid Crime Tales-
things that cause BDS Apoplexy #768.43449
Stuk in Irak with hawt chix.
Posted by: Mike || 09/06/2007 06:57 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Where do I sign up again?
And where the hell were girls like this when I was in?!?!?!?
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/06/2007 7:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Where they were? Bathing and prettying in themselseves for the presidential visit. Want to get girls? Run for President.
Posted by: JFM || 09/06/2007 7:40 Comments || Top||

#3  That one girl is cute. But something about 2-headed chicks always freaks me out.
Posted by: Captain Lewis || 09/06/2007 8:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Captain Lewis: That one girl is cute. But something about 2-headed chicks always freaks me out

DarthVader: And where the hell were girls like this when I was in?!?!?!?,

--->HA! The rear-echelon bastids hoarded dem DarthVader!

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

l am open minded about Hawt Freaky Wimmins tho!

1) One To Four Lactating Breasts, yep Possible.

2) Two Attractive talking Heads that have the powers of speech but both have convenient off-switches, way Possible.

3) Two Heads Make Lots of Flowing Scented Hair and That's Definitely a turn on, yes Possible.

4) heh, any other Female extra parts, Possible.

~:)
Posted by: Red Dawg || 09/06/2007 9:15 Comments || Top||

#5  The man is so comfortable around troops.

Unlike his predecessor.
Posted by: lotp || 09/06/2007 9:53 Comments || Top||

#6  Unlike his predecessor.

I can read Bush's mind. He's thinking, "Bill Clinton, eat your heart out."
Posted by: Angie Schultz || 09/06/2007 10:58 Comments || Top||

#7  I got to see it once in person myself over there, and he's far more than comfortable - he's ecstatic and transformed when in contact with the troops. Understandably. I'm not very political and I'm very non-partisan, but nothing baffles me more than the refusal by so many to recognize Dubya's decency and personal connection to the people under his command who go in harm's way.

As to the hawt chix in the field, back in my little corner of the rear echelon there were quite a few - damn there IS something about a young hottie in uniform, esp. when armed of course - the handsome young Australians got their pick. There was a USAF major in our office for a while, who was stunning enough in her fatigues, but unfortunately once I ran into her in the laundry trailer, where she was wearing gym shorts and a t-shirt. OMG.
Posted by: Verlaine || 09/06/2007 11:37 Comments || Top||

#8  There is sort of a down side to this.

Some of the hot enlisted chicks make a game of seducing officers.

I'm guessing that most brigades take a don't-ask- don't-tell approach to this and usually nothing bad happens. However, sometimes the liaison goes bad and the participants don't work well together thereafter. Also sometimes the hottie gets preggers.
Posted by: mhw || 09/06/2007 12:26 Comments || Top||

#9  I should not have implied that its all the hotties fault in the posting about. Sorry.
Posted by: mhw || 09/06/2007 12:28 Comments || Top||

#10  mhw, sorry you don't understand.

Don't Ask, Don't Tell is a special double super secret program only for 'gays'. It does not apply to heterosexual behaviors. While gays caught 'dirty' are simply separated from service with a general discharge, heteros caught in adultery or fraternizing face potential courts martial and a less than desirable discharge.

You see its never been about 'equality', it's been about power.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/06/2007 13:17 Comments || Top||

#11  Procopius

Maybe when/where you served this was true.

When I served there were a bunch of hetero Off/Enl liaisons (and some Enl/Enl and Off/Off adultry and yes, one Enl/Enl gay liaison that may not have gone 'all-the-way') that were general knowledge and we did nothing official about it).

It was the cold war era however and the potential for mission damage wasn't great.
Posted by: mhw || 09/06/2007 13:39 Comments || Top||

#12  Here is my 'There I was' story:
NAS JAX about 1975-ish;
AZ3 female worked in our QA shop as document control; LT male was the QAO and a SAR pilot.
AZ3's hubby was disabled vet.
NAS ODO caught AZ3 and Lt in his Audi out behind base housing.
LT lost his QAO gig, lost his SAR pilot duties, ended up pasting base stickers on cars at Security; AZ3 got a way-quick transfer to parts unknown. hubby got deevorce and all sorts of bennies. think he got a settlement from the USN to.
as a PS to the story, the AZ3 would not even talk to an enlisted unless her job absolutely required it.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 09/06/2007 14:21 Comments || Top||

#13  USN, don't tell your story to Bill Clinton.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 09/06/2007 14:26 Comments || Top||

#14  Adultery is hard to prove but "involvement in an inappropriate relationship" is much more simple. I've conducted NJP on several of these and even put a few up (who more than deserved it) for Bn NJP and possible Court Martial. I tell my Marines if they're caught w/another Marine's spouse I'll kill them.
Posted by: Broadhead6 || 09/06/2007 15:11 Comments || Top||

#15  And if you don't someone else will; but less mercifully.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 09/06/2007 15:15 Comments || Top||

#16  EU6305; Don't worry, I wouldn't tell that lop-eared pig-phuquer anything. And that goes double for his lard ass wife.
and their kid is fugly to boot.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 09/06/2007 15:42 Comments || Top||

#17  I tell my Marines if they're caught w/another Marine's spouse I'll kill them.

And that is why we are love JarHed.
Posted by: Thomas Woof || 09/06/2007 18:22 Comments || Top||

#18  Mike, and sometimes it goes the other way. Do you remember the female BBC reporter working in Iraq a few years ago who suddenly quit her job and flew to the US with her new fiance? She was described as embedding herself with a FBI agent.
Posted by: Eric Jablow || 09/06/2007 20:23 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Reserve pilot recounts rescue of Navy SEAL
If you haven't yet read Lone Survival, you will like this story of the rescue of "The One." And if you have read Lone Survival, well, you need to read this again!
Maj. Jeff “Spanky” Peterson called his wife to tell her that he was fine. He was out and about and not with Mike, he said. The Air Force Reserve helicopter pilot, who lives in Tucson, Ariz., was calling from a remote airfield in Afghanistan, and he was badly shaken.

Penny Peterson was shopping when she got the call and was nervous. She hadn’t heard from him, but she’d heard from other wives that her husband had been tasked to do something. “Did you just do what you’ve been training 15 years to do?” she asked.

That almost sent Peterson over the edge. He had. He just couldn’t talk about it for security reasons. He had helped save the life of a Navy SEAL, a rescue described in the last chapter of The New York Times best-seller “Lone Survivor
rest at link
Posted by: Sherry || 09/06/2007 12:19 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Scores of Taliban killed in Afghanistan airstrikes
(KUNA) -- Nearly 60 Taliban insurgents have been killed in airstrikes in southern Afghanistan, the US-led coalition troops and Afghan officials claimed on Wednesday. According to the coalition troops, about 24 militants were eliminated in a ground and air offensive in Shah Wali Kot district of the country's southern province of Kandahar last night.

The fighters were killed in two separate operations by the Afghan and coalition troops supported by aircraft, said the military statement issued from the US Bagram base this morning. One coalition and an Afghan army soldier were injured in the operations, said the statement which added that civilians in the area were not affected.

Separately, 32 Taliban fighters were killed in air raids in two districts of the country's southern Ghazni province the same night. The operation was carried out in Andar Nava district of the province, located 90 miles south of Kabul. The Taliban were killed in the same area where the militants had seized and kept the 23 South Koreans, two of which were killed, for nearly six weeks.

Province police chief Brigadier General Ali Shah Ahmadzai told KUNA from Ghazni province that 12 militants were killed when a house was bombed in Andar district. He said another 20 militants were eliminated in a separate airstrike in Nava district the same night.

Taliban spokesman Qari Yousaf Ahmadi, meanwhile, refuted the claim and said that only one of their men was killed in the attack. He said the foreign troops had bombed civilian areas and killed common citizens. Ahmadi alleged the government was misleading the people to cover civilian casualties in last night's operation. The Coalition of NATO troops so far did not issue any statement on last night's operation in Ghazni province.(
Posted by: Fred || 09/06/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Yeesh. Killing them by the score now! Don't forget to mention something about how coalition soldiers are running out of bullets or passing out from lack of sleep or something so we can attract more targets.
Posted by: gorb || 09/06/2007 3:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Remember when Bill Roggio mentioned the emptying out of the talib training camps?

Now we know where the inmates went.

Note to friendly forces--Mole skin can help with those blisters on the trigger finger.
Posted by: N Guard || 09/06/2007 5:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Note to friendly forces--Mole skin can help with those blisters on the trigger finger.
Posted by: N Guard 2007-09-06 05:58


I'm sure most of our troops in Afghanistan (and in Iraq, too) have callouses, and don't rub blisters any more, NG.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 09/06/2007 13:07 Comments || Top||

#4  really. how long can the taliban keep up losing fighters like this?
Posted by: here now gone tomorrow || 09/06/2007 16:04 Comments || Top||

#5  There are 1,500,000,000 muslims in the world, give or take a few.

Estimated 10% = 150,000,000. Let's say that on average 5% of them are young males, and 10% of those males want to be jihadis. That's 7.5 million, ballpart estimate.

times 4 divide by 3, round up times airfare and daily expenses divided by Saudi and Iranian oil revenues, minus the bribes ...

For a good while, I'm guessing.
Posted by: Squinty Omese5456 || 09/06/2007 16:27 Comments || Top||

#6  sorry, that original 10% is the extremists.
Posted by: Squinty Omese5456 || 09/06/2007 16:27 Comments || Top||


Europe
Germany hunting 10 men [support cell/s] behind attack plot
German authorities are searching for 10 men they believe provided support for a foiled plot to attack US targets on German territory. German prosecutors have charged the three suspected Islamists - two Germans and Turk - with belonging to a terrorist organisation after security forces prevented what they said would have been "massive bomb attacks". Possible targets included US military bases, bars and discos frequented by Americans and Frankfurt airport.

A senior official at the Interior Ministry said the three arrested men had backers at home and abroad who were still being tracked. All three terror suspects had trained in militant camps in Pakistan before forming a domestic cell of the "Islamic Jihad Union" -- a little known al Qaeda-affiliated Sunni Muslim group with roots in Uzbekistan.
Posted by: mrp || 09/06/2007 09:07 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Europe

#1  Were those two "Germans" named Hans and Fritz? Just curious.
Posted by: treo || 09/06/2007 10:10 Comments || Top||

#2  I mean, if they were, did their daddys spank them too much or not enough or what?
Posted by: treo || 09/06/2007 10:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Close. Daniel und Fritz.

Frankfurt airport terror plan 'massive'
The three had no steady work and were drawing unemployment benefits while their main occupation was the plot, officials said.

Good little dhimmis. Pay for your own destruction.
Posted by: ed || 09/06/2007 10:18 Comments || Top||

#4  All three terror suspects had trained in militant camps in Pakistan

Common denominator worldwide!!!!
Posted by: Paul || 09/06/2007 10:46 Comments || Top||

#5  The two Germans, aged 22 and 28, were converts to Islam.

The final stage of dhimmitude.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/06/2007 12:39 Comments || Top||

#6  More key bits from ed's article:

Chancellor Angela Merkel said in an interview released today that German troops would remain in Afghanistan for several more years, despite recent setbacks in the region. "To walk away would send the wrong signal," Merkel told N-24 television.

Magnus Norell, at the Swedish Defence Research Agency, said that while Germany's mission in Afghanistan could be a motive for a terrorist attack, a flood of other factors could also play in. "It could be discontent with Germany, or even western Europe as a whole. It's really not that easy as to say that this (Afghanistan) would be the reason for it."
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/06/2007 12:43 Comments || Top||

#7  i certainly hope they had a good idea where these 10 were / are before the story broke about looknig for them; try to flush them from cover....
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 09/06/2007 14:24 Comments || Top||

#8  Wouldn't it be a good idea to halt all Western air travel to Pakistan and simply exclude from entry all Pakistani citizens or those with Pak visas? This is ridiculous.
Posted by: Zenster || 09/06/2007 16:13 Comments || Top||

#9  Right on, Zen. I'd also suggest keeping muslim prisoners in solitary confinement so they don't try to spread their disease to the other prisoners.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 09/06/2007 16:31 Comments || Top||

#10  I've long advocated solitary confinement for convicted terrorists. Definitely no prison congregations for Muslim inmates. Individual monitored talks with an approved imam, maybe.

The only effective measure involves taking out Islam's top tiers of clergy, scholars and sponsors. Nothing will change until the big turbans start dropping like flies.
Posted by: Zenster || 09/06/2007 16:35 Comments || Top||


Israel blamed for global warming in Euro Conf
......Clare Short, a member of the British Parliament... Ms. Short charged the Jewish state with the ultimate crime: Israel "undermines the international community's reaction to global warming." According to Ms. Short, the Middle East conflict distracts the world from the real problem: man-made climate change. If extreme weather will lead to the "end of the human race," as Ms. Short warned it could, add this to the list of the crimes of Israel.
Posted by: mhw || 09/06/2007 00:38 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Nurse, she's doing it again!"
Posted by: Seafarious || 09/06/2007 0:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Honest to Gawd, does no one in Britain have the courage to tell that woman to sit down and shut up?
Posted by: Steve White || 09/06/2007 1:02 Comments || Top||

#3  No. Juden Hass is alive and well.

Posted by: N Guard || 09/06/2007 6:00 Comments || Top||

#4  All the crimes in the world are the fault of the jooooooos.

We must find a Final Solution to this problem.


Clare. Fix your dress. Your swastika is showing.
Posted by: PlanetDan || 09/06/2007 6:14 Comments || Top||

#5  Vexed Jooos distracting us from our secular apocalypse!

/England
Posted by: Excalibur || 09/06/2007 8:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Didn't I say this was comming?
Posted by: gromgoru || 09/06/2007 9:06 Comments || Top||

#7  This is because we know that there is no "global warming", it is GOD. So screw you EU.
Posted by: newc || 09/06/2007 9:35 Comments || Top||

#8  Let's make a deal. All muslims convert to buddhism and the jews will call off global warming.
Posted by: ed || 09/06/2007 9:43 Comments || Top||

#9  Sounds like Claire picked up some of that Mad Cow meat on special...
Posted by: tu3031 || 09/06/2007 10:02 Comments || Top||

#10  #8 Let's make a deal. All muslims convert to buddhism and the jews will call off global warming.

ROLF!! ed won!!

/and Clare can suck on my meat Popsicle!
Posted by: Red Dawg || 09/06/2007 11:24 Comments || Top||

#11  Hilarious comments.

Unbelievable - even for 2007 - lunacy from that moron Short. Nicely ties all the delusional idiocy of some on her side together, though.

Incremental and almost certainly natural climate change is somehow a political issue, and a small beleauguered state surrounded by violent racist psychopaths is to be condemned for distracting us from that false issue by defending itself.

THIS is what our Greatest Generation sacrificed to preserve in Europe? Shouldn't have bothered.
Posted by: Verlaine || 09/06/2007 11:42 Comments || Top||

#12  If extreme weather will lead to the "end of the human race," as Ms. Short warned it could, add this to the list of the crimes of Israel.

Wasn't there once a time when people who spouted this sort of balderdash were laced up into tight fitting garments and injected with powerful anti-psychotic medications? I also seem to recall an even earlier period where such tripe volcanoes like Clare Short were dragged off into a quiet darkened corner and beaten senseless.
Posted by: Zenster || 09/06/2007 16:46 Comments || Top||

#13  Israel "undermines the international community's reaction to global warming."

Yeah - those gefelte fish are massive producers of CO2 Jews shouldn't eat so many... {Roll eyes}
Posted by: BigEd || 09/06/2007 17:26 Comments || Top||

#14 
Clare Short

Ya mean that's actually a wig covering up botched brain surgery?
Posted by: BigEd || 09/06/2007 17:29 Comments || Top||

#15  "Can blaming Israel for earthquakes and tsunamis be far behind?"


We got it from here
Posted by: Halliburton || 09/06/2007 18:24 Comments || Top||

#16  Silly me. All this time I thought it was Bush's fault.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 09/06/2007 18:41 Comments || Top||

#17  Short was at least accurately named, and I don't mean height
Posted by: Frank G || 09/06/2007 18:58 Comments || Top||

#18  LIVESCIENCE > GLOBAL WARMING MAY HAD SPURRED HUMAN EVOLUTION. Also BREITBART > BBC > New Brit Meteorological Office Report says Natural forces here on Earth presently keeping GW [Dubya?] at bay, but NOT ANYMORE after/starting circa 2009 -2014, when Warming will really Really REALLY R-E-A-L-L-Y MANIFEST. *DAY AFTER TOMMORROW > D *** ng it, thats the New York wiping out, Earth Orbit-altering asteroid's job!
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/06/2007 23:31 Comments || Top||


New Al Qaeda plot to blow up planes on September 11' smashed
Islamic terrorists planning a massacre in Germany on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks phoned British contacts as they plotted, it has emerged.
Welcome to the e-Caliphate...
They planned to strike at German airports and US bases exactly six years after hijacked planes ploughed into the World Trade Centre.
Coincidentally the anniversary of the Gates of Vienna.
The three suspects, two German converts to Islam and a Turk who had undergone military training at Taliban camps in Pakistan, were caught with 750kg of hydrogen peroxide, a chemical easily transformed into explosives.
That'll bleach a lotta hair...
Several calls to British numbers are said to been made from mobile telephones linked to two of the men being questioned in Germany. One is said to have been a "known" number.
Betcha the number belongs to a Pak...
Prosecutors and police painted a picture of a ruthless cell of Al-Qaeda-linked fanatics, willing to die in suicide attacks with bombs more powerful than those used in the July 7 attacks in London in 2005. Prosecutors said the attacks were planned at Frankfurt airport, Germany's biggest and busiest, and the Ramstein Airbase - the Pentagon's largest outside of the US. Other US bases, civilian airports, a nightclub and pub were on the terrorists' target list.
Nightclubs and pubs are places where people go to relax, enjoy themselves. They've even been know to laugh in such places.
Germany's chief prosecutor, Monika Harms, said the plan was to construct massive car bombs and cause "as much loss of life as possible".
It's a religious requirement...
"We have stopped what would certainly have been the worst terror attacks in Germany," he added. The men had been under surveillance for months from agents of the BND, Germany's MI5, and the elite GSG-9 police commandos who are trained along SAS-lines.
BND (Bundesnachrichtendeinst, give or take a spelling error or two, literally "Federal Information Office") is the analytic end. GSG-9 is the more athletic of the two.
American intelligence officials were also in on the surveillance but played no part in the arrests.
We have friendly relations with BND...
On Tuesday, authorities swooped at a hideout in the village of Oberschledorn in North Rhine-Westphalia where the "bomb factory" was located. One of the suspects broke out of a bathroom window and bolted into woodland, where he wrestled with a police officer and managed to take his gun.
That is usually not a healthy thing to do, especially if there are other coppers nearby.
A shot was fired but no one was hit. The policeman and his colleagues overpowered the suspect.
... rather than shooting him to dollrags...
All three suspects were arrested.
We're hoping it wasn't a gentle process..
Forty other homes and offices across Germany were raided at the same time. As well as the chemical mixtures, police discovered military detonators. German defence minister Franz Josef Jung said: "The attacks were planned for the near future. They presented a direct threat to life."
The turbans actually aren't very big on anniversary celebrations - they're un-Islamic - unless they're of something that happened a few hundred years ago that most of us have forgotten about. They've actually got a point; there are only 365 days in a year, and something's happened somewhere every day.
The group had been under surveillance ever since one was spotted spying the US barracks at Hanau on New Year's Eve last year. Email traffic between them and others abroad led to the authorities' action five days before the anniversary of 9/11.
Which was probably supposed to be the blowoff...
Der Spiegel, the respected German news magazine, was among media outlets which reported the terrorists were gearing up for attacks on that day.
Whoa. Took some deep thinking to come to that conclusion, didn't it?
Last night British anti-terror officers were checking for links between the men held in Germany and British-Pakistani terror suspects who may have trained with them. Officers from Scotland Yard flew to Germany to assist the investigation. They want to examine any possible links with UK terror plots. The details of the men are also to be shown to Al Qaeda supergrass Mohammad Babar, who trained with Britons at terror camps, by US officials and to extremists in British jails.

Al Qaeda and jihadi bomb makers are known to have taught Britons how to use hydrogen peroxide at camps in Pakistan attended by other Europeans. It has featured as a key component of al Qaeda-linked bombers at least twice in Britain. It was used by the four July 7 suicide bombers in the bombs that killed 52 on the London transport network. It was also to have been used two weeks later in the copycat attacks by four more Islamic fundamentalists intent on bringing slaughter to the capital's streets. But the rucksack bombs failed to go off. The plotters were jailed earlier this year.

A man identified as being the group's leader, Fritz G, 28, is from Ulm in southern Germany, where he is understood to have worked at the city's Islamic Information Centre after converting to Islam. Germany routinely does not issue the last names of criminal suspects. The other German, Daniel S, 22, is also a Muslim convert and comes from Saarbruecken on the border with France. The third man is a Turk named Adem Y, 29, who lives in Frankfurt. They were members of a group called Islamic Jihad Union. Spawned in Uzbekistan, it was described by a senior German lawman as a "franchise" of al Qaeda with close ties to Osama Bin Laden's terror corporation. The men, radicalised over what they saw as the oppression of Muslims worldwide by America and her allies, have apparently been confessing to interrogators.
This article starring:
al-Qaeda
German defence minister Franz Josef Jung
Germany's chief prosecutor, Monika Harms
MOHAMAD BABAR
MOHAMAD BABARal-Qaeda
Islamic Jihad Union
Posted by: new linker || 09/06/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Lots and lots of details. Click on the title to read the whole thing. Well done, new linker!
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/06/2007 0:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Thanks - but thank 'Drudge' ..that's where I found it...
Posted by: New Linker || 09/06/2007 0:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Nice work, New Linker, and ::looks furtively over shoulder to make sure Fred's not watching:: sometimes I'll post a link or three that I find at Drudge. When I'm not exhaustively combing Fark or Instapundit, that is. LOL.
Posted by: Seafarious || 09/06/2007 0:35 Comments || Top||

#4  Don't give away all our secrets, Sea! Next thing I know you'll be telling them how we surf Pravda and KCNA!
Posted by: Steve White || 09/06/2007 1:05 Comments || Top||

#5  All right then ... in pieces:

The arrests come a day after Danish police conducted raids and took eight young Muslims into custody whom they suspect of plotting a bomb attack and having links with al Qaeda. No direct link has yet been established between the two plots.

Let's all hope that this was a result of really uninhibited information sharing among the EU's more enlightened members.

Federal prosecutor Monika Harms said the three suspects had bought 700kg (1,500lbs) of hydrogen peroxide to make massive bombs. She said: "We have prevented what we believe would have been the worst terror attacks ever on German soil".

Ironic, that. Truly ironic, it is. How such genocidal intent could coincidentally manifest once again in Germany?

[If you've any doubt, check the link's photo of stockpiled H2O2.]
Posted by: Zenster || 09/06/2007 1:46 Comments || Top||

#6  I've mentioned it here before and others have merely corrected me by saying it's nothing special: Terrorists love to destroy traditions and happy anniversaries let alone create even more ghoulish ones.

IT NEED NOT BE MADE ANY MORE CLEAR HOW AL-QAEDA WILL TRY AND ETCH THE 9-11 ATROCITIES INTO OUR WORLD'S COLLECTIVE MEMORY

This really is all the proof we need to begin summary and extra-judicial execution of Islam's elite, be they clerical, academic or royal.
Posted by: Zenster || 09/06/2007 1:47 Comments || Top||

#7  This shit is over with. We—as free people——have the right to prevent those who would inflict such maximally traumatic wounds upon this world's collective psyche. To gouge it into our minds with a gruesome celebration of this already ghastly anniversary is a distinct degree of inhumanity that should denote prosecution with all urgency and haste.

I've had quite enough, as I'm confident the rest of you've had as well. Politicians who refuse to call a spade a spade regarding terrorism really need to be ushered off of Washington DC’s executive and legislative stage. The charade has gone on too long. This farce should already have been over and done by now. As with how there's folks that just plain need killin’, so do Islam's prime movers need to die.
Posted by: Zenster || 09/06/2007 1:54 Comments || Top||

#8  Zen... deep breath, exhale. Please keep a lid on the rhetoric.
Posted by: Seafarious || 09/06/2007 1:58 Comments || Top||

#9  We have already lost to Islam untold hundreds of thousands (lately), and truly unknown millions or billions of people over history. What more do we need to know? Political Islam must die. Our very lives are at stake. Theocracy repeatedly has proven itself unfit to rule mankind. What more evidence do we need?
Posted by: Zenster || 09/06/2007 1:59 Comments || Top||

#10  Thank you, Sea. Only a few sentences left.
Posted by: Zenster || 09/06/2007 2:00 Comments || Top||

#11  Rumsfeld expressed the same frustration in his "slog" memo (read: prophecy). In WW2, Allied air operations were conducted by Bomber Command, and the expressed target was: "built up areas" within enemy sovereignty or control. So why didn't we give the same treatment to Pashto Afghanistan after 9-11? Because the Baby Boom generation (some of us) grew up with pictures of Nazi atrocites against ethnic minorities; then there was the "civil rights" campaigns in the 'sixties; then Vietnam.
Now, if the enemy is colored, they get hearts-and-minds treatment, and restrained bombing. How many American lives would have been saved in Iraq, if we could have used noxious (less than toxic) to drive enemy troops out of private residences rather than face the risk of break-in? We don't use them because we would be subject to "chemical weapons" accusations.

If you want to see how I would run Iraq operations, see "Rescue Dawn." And I mean the bombing aspect of the movie. We bombed locals out of thousands of square miles of territory, and then napalmed Pathet Lao pockets. Few civilians starved because they went where the food was.

Who complained when Lebanon laid waste to a refugee camp, and slaughtered hundreds of terrorists and collaterals? We cannot win the GWOT until we cheapen the value of enemy life. The value of a jihadi isn't worth a clipped toenail of an American soldier.
Posted by: McZoid || 09/06/2007 4:43 Comments || Top||

#12  Zenster:

I take back the "clipped toenail" comment. I should have said: the value of a jihadi life isn't worth the grime under a clipped toenail of an American soldier.
Posted by: McZoid || 09/06/2007 4:46 Comments || Top||

#13  The peroxide wasn't for a bomb. It was to lighten the hair of all the Muslim immigrants so they would fit in better in their host country.
Posted by: Glenmore || 09/06/2007 7:16 Comments || Top||

#14  Interesting comment below the article

I don´t believe a word of it! Schäuble has had a hard time pushing his new laws. It seems quite convenient that a day or two before the next debate in parliament our highly efficient BND should arrest highly dangereous terrorists... A sensible question we should think about: who are really the bad guys?

- Barbara B., Bonn, Germany
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/06/2007 7:37 Comments || Top||

#15  Some people need to be banged on the head repeatedly until that first bit of reality can be forced through their extra thick skulls, Super Hose.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/06/2007 8:23 Comments || Top||

#16  I have been told that in a number of these busts, information from muslims who were either personal or ideological enemies of the plotters played a crucial role.
Posted by: mhw || 09/06/2007 8:33 Comments || Top||

#17  I don´t believe a word of it! Schäuble has had a hard time pushing his new laws. It seems quite convenient that a day or two before the next debate in parliament our highly efficient BND should arrest highly dangereous terrorists... A sensible question we should think about: who are really the bad guys? - Barbara B., Bonn, Germany

Good question. The answer: Traitors. Deal with them first. Deal with the horde next.
Posted by: Excalibur || 09/06/2007 9:20 Comments || Top||

#18  Barbara B. makes a good case for selling her ass to the Arabs.
Posted by: ed || 09/06/2007 9:49 Comments || Top||

#19  Barbara B REFUSES to believe it because it clashes with her faith in leftism.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/06/2007 13:13 Comments || Top||

#20  More from Pajamas Media. Hat tip Instapundit.

Authorities had been suspicious of the individuals for a long while. Fritz G., for instance, is a member of an extremist group in Ulm: German authorities already knew about this group before 9/11. Of the three, Fritz G. drew the attention of the authorities the most because he was seen driving around the US military base in Hanau a bit too often. This inspired German authorities to take a closer look at his behavior which ultimately led to today’s arrests.

The Islamic Jihad Union is a Pakistan-based terrorist organization. It operates mostly in Afghanistan. Last year, it committed a major attack in the province of Oruzgan where – among others – Dutch forces serve. Authorities suspect that the three went to Pakistan years ago for training in one of the IJU’s training camps. After they left, the three kept in touch with the leader of the IJU by telephone, which was tapped by the German police.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/06/2007 14:00 Comments || Top||

#21  Barbara B[odine] perhaps? ;)
Posted by: JSU || 09/06/2007 14:08 Comments || Top||

#22  Dear Mr. Fred,

I'm about to send a short, personal note to TW.
(Thank you for the use of your bandwidth.)

To TW:

Over the past,long hoilday weekend I got a little juiced up on a fantastic frozen margarita mix. I think made a comment or two that drew your attention. You - appropriately - chided me for being a tad bit harsh in light of the fact that there could be newbies to this site who - in their early education - might take my comments the wrong way. Fair enough...

So I was sitting at my computer the next day and I'm reading RB. I read out loud your comment directed to me and said out: "damn, was I that harsh...?"

As it so happens my daughter was walking through the room and said to me: "Dad, who are you talking to"?

I had to laugh at the time because..the truth was I was talking to myself. However...

However...I told her..."Honey, I'm talking to my Jewish mother. She just took my ass to task for something I wrote yesterday. She felt I was out of line.".

Daughter: "Dad, what'cha mean you've got a Jewish mother?"

Me: "Baby, I've got a Jewish mother.
She's just..well, you know...virtual. She's out there, somewhere, on the internet."

Daughter: (eyes rolling)..."Okay Dad, whatever. Was she right?"

Me: "Yeah, baby, she was right to get on my ass."

Daughter: "You mean like grandma used to do?"

Me: "Yeah baby, JUST like grandma."


TW: Among other institutions of higher learning, daughter has decided to apply to UC and UM (at Oxford). If accepted (and decides on either) I'll keep you posted. As I recall that puts her in your immediate neck of the woods. I'll arrange a meet. You two will get along famously.
Posted by: Mark Z || 09/06/2007 14:58 Comments || Top||

#23  The problem is Islam. The problem has always been Islam.
Posted by: Crusader || 09/06/2007 17:50 Comments || Top||

#24  "Honey, I'm talking to my Jewish mother.

*wipes tear* Mark, I would be delighted to meet a daughter of yours. U of Cincinnati is a solid school with a serious study/internship program (or work-study, I haven't paid proper attention to the nomenclature) credentials, sprawling through a historic Victorian neighborhood in the city, while Miami is viewed as our own Midwestern Ivy League, with all the benefits of Cornell and such but a much more conservative staff and student body, set in charmingly bucolic Oxford. Look for an email... and don't forget to hit Fred's tip jar. ;-)

/As soon as trailing daughter #1 helps me set up the Gmail account Free Radical sent to me, I just know I'll be having all sorts of interesting conversations!
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/06/2007 19:34 Comments || Top||


Inquiry into chem weapons use by Turkish army
Claim is they chem'd the PRK.

RTWT

The timing is interesting ... part of the jostling between Islamicists and the generals?
Posted by: lotp || 09/06/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  BS.
Posted by: Chuck Simmins || 09/06/2007 15:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Which part, Chuck - the chem allegations or the jostling?
Posted by: lotp || 09/06/2007 19:41 Comments || Top||


Great White North
Masked individuals can vote in Que. byelections
But only if they're Muslim women and can provide ID. However, they don't have to take off their masks.
Muslim women wearing niqabs or burkas covering their faces won't have to remove them to vote in three federal byelections in Quebec on Sept. 17.

An Elections Canada spokesman says the women won't have to show their faces to vote. Spokesman John Enright said Thursday women wearing niqabs or burkas can bring a piece of identification with a photo or another document proving their identity when they vote.

However, Enright says in cases where women wearing niqabs or burkas don't have any documents, they would have to show their faces to allow their identity to be confirmed. In last winter's Quebec election, the province's chief election officer said Muslim women wearing niqabs or burkas had to show their faces to vote.

The Sept. 17 byelections are in the Montreal riding of Outremont, the rural riding of St-Hyacinthe-Bagot and the Roberval-Lac-St-Jean riding north of Quebec City.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 09/06/2007 16:48 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And this prevents voter fraud exactly how?

Ummmm ... isn't demographic assault one of the prime vehicles that Islam uses to displace host populations? Wouldn't orchestrated voter fraud be a perfect way to leverage the actions of a few people into a legal attack upon the many? HAS CANADA LOST ITS FUCKING MIND?

Western society's survival depends upon standing firm against all acquiescence to and appeasement of Muslim demands. Ban the niqab and burqa altogether, not just at voting locations. Muslims have already made clear their intent to use taqiyya and kitman towards toppling Constitutional law. To facilitate and enable such treachery is criminal and should be treated as such.
Posted by: Zenster || 09/06/2007 17:14 Comments || Top||

#2  No DNA test for a substitute?
Posted by: 3dc || 09/06/2007 17:31 Comments || Top||

#3  HAS CANADA LOST ITS FUCKING MIND?

Zen, Quebec, not Canada. Of course, I woul not be surprised if Ontario followed the suit, but in other provinces, fat chance.
Posted by: twobyfour || 09/06/2007 18:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Fear not, I'm well aware of Quebec's—let us say—"unique" status in Canadian politics. However, the threat of Islam is one that must be addressed at a nation-wide level and even local attempts to appease Muslims should fall afoul of national security's overriding interests.
Posted by: Zenster || 09/06/2007 18:27 Comments || Top||

#5  The people who are allowing this are probably the same type who believe that George Bush "stole" the elections in 2000 and 2004. The difference is that they are more than willing to undermine their country by opening the door to voter fraud in the name of "diversity".
Posted by: Grumenk Philalzabod0723 || 09/06/2007 20:36 Comments || Top||

#6  dna tracking would do fine to prevent fraud ... and (privacy issues aside) might help in other ways to deter jihadism.

won't do much for dhimmitude tho.
Posted by: lotp || 09/06/2007 21:28 Comments || Top||

#7  Masked individuals can vote in Que. byelections

O'Canada
Next
O'America...

More Selective Law that WE are all Forced to submit to on a basis of race, creed, color, sex, BUT YEA Citizens, heh as long as we all lose our rights equally thats what they teach now, that passes for Canadian Law right,

Is American History and Law next? LOL, as long as we lose our Bill of Rights on an equal basis of course.. ~:)

Justice is so blind, she won't notice the tinkering and stinking corruptions in the LAW!

Sleep well folks, while the Liberal elites™ keep chipping away at our sacred Document, the US CONSTITUTION, converting it to a Suicide Pact for US Citizens, in the name of equality™, fairness™, motherhood™ and the children™.
Posted by: Red Dawg || 09/06/2007 21:41 Comments || Top||

#8  Contrary to the implication of one or two earlier comments, Quebec's unique status means it is the most likely province to tell the muslims what they can do with their burkas. This is a worrisome ruling by Elections Canada which, by the way, is a federal, not provincial, body.

And yes, Canada has lost its f*cking mind.
Posted by: Excalibur || 09/06/2007 21:44 Comments || Top||

#9  This is a worrisome ruling by Elections Canada which, by the way, is a federal, not provincial, body.

Which makes the situation a hundred times worse.
Posted by: Zenster || 09/06/2007 22:46 Comments || Top||

#10  That being my point.
Posted by: Excalibur || 09/06/2007 22:48 Comments || Top||

#11  Fear not, Excal, you were most clear. More's the pity.
Posted by: Zenster || 09/06/2007 23:11 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Militants release 16 Pakistani soldiers
GHALLANAI, Pakistan - Pakistani militants linked to Al Qaeda and the Taleban have released 16 paramilitary soldiers held captive in lawless tribal areas near the Afghan border, officials and tribal elders said on Wednesday. Nearly 240 soldiers were taken hostage by militants in South Waziristan tribal region last week.

Tribal elder Akhtar Gul Mehsud told reporters that militants had handed over six soldiers to a council of tribal elders. Earlier, the militants had released 10 soldiers captured in Mohmand tribal region on Saturday. Militants in Mohmand had demanded the release of five of their comrades and the withdrawal of troops from checkposts in the region. But, Syed Ahmed Jan, a senior government official in Ghallanai, the main town in Mohmand, said the release of the 10 was unconditional.

The military says the men are not captives but are stuck between rival tribal factions and unable to leave.
And they have their hands up. And they surrendered their weapons. But otherwise they're just stuck.
Posted by: Steve White || 09/06/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Key suspect behind Hyderabad blasts left Bangladesh for West Asia: Police
(KUNA) -- The alleged mastermind behind the August 25 twin blasts in Southern Indian city of Hyderabad -- Bilal -- is reported to have left Bangladesh for West Asia.
"Curly toed slippers with traces of powder burns and smelling faintly of TATP, don't fail me now!"
Before leaving Dhaka on August 26, Bilal spoke to one of his close associates in Hyderabad, which the city police have gathered in the course of their investigations. Bilal was accompanied by his wife, a widow from Bangladesh whom he married in recent past, India's leading English Daily 'The Times of India' reported Wednesday, quoting sources in the Hyderabad police.

The investigators have found out Southern Indian state of Karnataka was used by Bilal as a base for their terror operations. RDX was pushed into Andhra Pradesh from neighbouring Karnataka. Hyderabad is the capital of Southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The blasts had killed 44 people and injured 100. Hyderabad Police is also confident that Bilal was behind the blast in Bangalore's Indian Institute of Science which killed a professor, the Times reported. Bangalore is the capital of Karnataka.

The police said that two of the four guerrillas who carried out the twin blasts on August 25 were still in Hyderabad and plan to trigger more explosions. The 10 kg of RDX explosive that was smuggled into the city earlier in February has been distributed among terror modules for future operations. This was revealed by Syed Imran Khan, an arrested bank executive, during the truth-serum tests in Bangalore on Tuesday, the Times reported. All the four reportedly came from Pakistan to carry out the twin blasts.

The information about Imran came from another guerrilla called Sheikh Abdul Nayeem, alias Sameer. It was Sameer who smuggled RDX into the city in February this year on orders of Billal. Meanwhile, Bangladesh Wednesday denied any arrests in the country in connection with the Hyderabad blasts and said it has not received any request from India for information on the Hyderabad bombings. "Bangladesh is yet to receive any request for information in connection with the Hyderabad blasts and there have been no arrests in Bangladesh in this connection," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement at Dhaka today, news agency Press Trust of India reported.
Posted by: Fred || 09/06/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: HUJI

#1  West Asia = Pakiwakiland?
Posted by: Brett || 09/06/2007 8:15 Comments || Top||


Waziristan militants release 6 soldiers
Taliban militants have released six paramilitary soldiers held captive in South Waziristan, officials and tribal elders said on Wednesday, Reuters reported. Tribal elder Akhtar Gul Mehsud told reporters that the militants had handed over six soldiers to a tribal jirga.

Earlier, the militants had released 10 soldiers captured in Mohmand Agency on Saturday. Militants in Mohmand had demanded the release of five of their comrades and the withdrawal of troops from checkposts in the region. But, Syed Ahmed Jan, a senior government official in Ghalanai, the main town in Mohmand, said the release of the 10 was unconditional.
And if you can't take the word of Syed Ahmed Jan, a senior government official in Ghalanai, whose word can you take?
Meanwhile, two more security personnel have gone missing and another committed suicide in North Waziristan on Wednesday, Online reported.
"Mahmoud! Missing! Ahmed! Missing! I just can't take it no more!" [POW!]
A private TV channel said that the missing security personals were deployed at the Ghulam Khan checkpost near the Pak-Afghan border and it was not confirmed yet if they had been kidnapped.

Staff Report adds: Unidentified militants attacked the Bunarh police post in Mingora with hand grenades early on Wednesday, injuring a Frontier Corps soldier and damaging the checkpost, officials said. Meanwhile, a jirga of clerics will today (Thursday) negotiate with militants the weapons, money and other goods the kidnappers had robbed stolen snatched from the Mohmand Rifles soldiers who were abducted and later released, Mukarram Khan reported from Ghalanai. The jirga will also discuss with the militants the release of two government officials whom the militants kidnapped along with the 10 Mohmand Rifles troops. A clerics jirga led by Maulana Ghulam Sadiq recovered the soldiers late on Tuesday night. However, the militants did not return the weapons, salaries amounting to Rs 2.6 million and other goods that the security men possessed when they were abducted.
Posted by: Fred || 09/06/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  "two more security personnel have gone missing and another committed suicide "

At this rate there won't be any collateral to damage when we launch our air raids from Afghanistan.
Posted by: Glenmore || 09/06/2007 7:18 Comments || Top||


Investigators say Mehsuds behind Rawalpindi attacks
Preliminary investigations into Tuesday’s suicide attacks near General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi indicate that they were carried out by the Baitullah Mehsud group based in Waziristan, sources told Daily Times on Wednesday. Investigators found evidence that the bomb-hit bus belonged to the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), sources claimed. They said an investigation agency had recovered a small Russian-made device called MUV-2 from the bus. The device triggers the explosives when the suicide bomber pulls out a pin, they said.

Investigations from the Qasim Market blast scene suggest the device was not like the one used in Islamabad in July, but was similar to ones used in attacks on paramilitary forces by the Baitullah Mehsud group, the sources said.
Much that's most evil in Pakland seems to ooze out of Mehsudistan, doesn't it?
Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director General Tariq Pervez confirmed that the device was similar to the ones used in suicide attacks in Peshawar, Charsada, Dera Ismail Khan and at a Mosque in Kohat on July 19. “Yes, in my assessment, the Baitulluh Mehsud group conducted the attacks,” the FIA director general said. Intelligence agencies have not yet collected evidence from the scene of the blast at RA Bazaar, the sources said.

Agencies add: Interior ministry spokesman Brigadier Javed Cheema said the bombers had suspected links to pro-Taliban militants backed by Al Qaeda.
No! Reeeeeeally?
Investigators are focusing on Baitullah Mehsud, he said. “No one has claimed responsibility but several previous attacks were linked to Baitullah Mehsud.”

Security sources said the two attackers may have been remaining members of a seven-member team of bombers, some allegedly sent by Mehsud, that infiltrated Islamabad and Rawalpindi for Pakistan’s Independence Day celebrations. Five were arrested in recent weeks “but there is a fear that the two others may have carried out the latest attacks,” a security official said. Rebels from the tribal areas recently sent suicide bombers to Rawalpindi and Islamabad, an official said. “We got this information from some people who were caught recently, and who were from North and South Waziristan,” he added.

There were conflicting reports about the identity of the victims. Intelligence officials said the bus was carrying ISI members but Pakistan’s Interior Ministry said on Tuesday that 18 civilian and military employees died in the blast.
Posted by: Fred || 09/06/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


3, including 2 FC men, killed in Quetta
Unidentified people on Wednesday opened fire on a team of security forces in Quetta, killing three men, including two security personnel. “A security forces team was on routine patrol when armed motorcyclists opened fire on them, killing two Frontier Corps men,” Capitan Shahid, an FC spokesman, told Daily Times. He would not disclose the names of the killed FC troops.

“We are still searching for the culprits. It would be premature to nominate a particular group, but it suggests that the incident was carried out by anti-Pakistan elements,” he said. The firing incident, which took place at around 1:00pm in the Brewery Road area, also
Posted by: Fred || 09/06/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Iraq
Senior Qods Force link captured in Karbala
By Bill RoggioSeptember 6, 2007 12:38 PM

As Coalition and Iraqi forces maintain the pressure on al Qaeda's network throughout Iraq, the Shia terror organizations are also being hit hard. Over the past several days, Iraqi and Coalition forces have conducted numerous raids against the Iranian-backed Shia terror groups known as the Special Groups. On September 5, Coalition forces announced the capture of "a highly-sought individual suspected of being an Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF) affiliate" during a raid in Karbala.

The Special Groups agent, who has not been identified, is "suspected of coordinating with high-level IRGC-QF officers for the transportation of multiple Iraqis to Iran for terrorist training at IRGC-QF training camps" The suspect also serves as a logistical operative and "is closely linked to individuals at the highest levels of the IRGC-QF. Coalition forces are still assessing his possible connection to the Special Groups." Documents, photographs, communications equipment, and computers were found during the raid on his home.

Information detained from this latest raid likely will shed more light on the leadership and organization of the Special Groups, the identity of their Iranian Qods Force handlers, and their current plans in Iraq. In the past, the capture of senior Special Groups operatives has led to a wealth of information on the Iranian network. The most significant operation occurred in the spring of 2007, when the US captured Ali Mussa Daqduq.

Daqduq is a senior Hezbollah operative who was tasked by Iran to organize the Special Groups and "rogue" Mahdi Army cells along the lines of Lebanese Hezbollah. Documentation seized during Daqduq's capture, along with statements made during interrogations and information given by other captured Special Groups operatives confirmed Iran's significant role in the Shia terrorist insurgency.

Recently, Muqtada al Sadr admitted in an interview with The Independent that his Mahdi Army trained and received guidance from Hezbollah. Sadr's aide later denied the interview took place. Lebanese Hezbollah is essentially the foreign wing of Iran's Qods Force.

With the onset of Operation Phantom Strike, the Shia terror networks have been targeted with equal frequency as al Qaeda’s cells. Twenty-nine additional Shia extremists have been captured since September 1. Iraqi Special Forces and regular army units are often leading the raids against the Iranian-backed Shia terror cells.
Posted by: Sherry || 09/06/2007 13:30 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yes, American troops should be redeployed - from Iraq to Iran. Just don't try to rebuild Iran. Break it. Kill the Mad Mullahs. Secure the nuke sites. Leave it in rubble.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 09/06/2007 14:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Documents, photographs, communications equipment, and computers were found during the raid on his home.

Remember when all those Iraqi officers got cell phone calls just before the invasion?
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/06/2007 15:51 Comments || Top||


British troops 'proxy war with Iran
British forces were engaged in a "proxy war with Iran" in the south of Iraq, the officer who planned this week's withdrawal from Basra Palace said today.

Lt Colonel Patrick Sanders, commanding officer of the battlegroup which pulled out to an airbase outside the city, admitted there was still a significant threat from militias linked to Tehran. He said: "We are engaged - or we have been engaged - effectively in a proxy war with Iran and if that resumes then they will need us to help."

Lt Colonel Patrick SandersColonel Sanders dismissed as "complete nonsense" suggestions that Monday's pullout amounted to a defeat for British forces and insisted that the UK's presence in Iraq was still useful to the local authorities.
The Basra Air Base makes it easier for us to re-deploy to Okinawa the Falklands
But he suggested that the move from Basra Palace to the UK's last Iraqi stronghold at Basra Air Station marked "the beginning of the end" of Britain's four-year involvement in the country, which began with the US-led invasion in 2003. He added: "The militias, and the Jaish al-Mahdi (Mahdi Army) in particular, have thrown just about everything they have got at us.

"They have been unable to engage us in open fighting. We have been able to patrol around the city at will, on foot and in vehicles, any place or time of our choosing.
We just have decided not to choose to do it anymore.
"It's been dangerous and the level of violence that we have been engaged in and the casualties we have suffered are testament to that, but the notion that this is a defeat is nonsense."
Besides, only the trained eye can tell when we are flying our flag upside down.
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 09/06/2007 12:08 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  nice inline...
/thinking of having a good cry for Tommy.
Posted by: Red Dawg || 09/06/2007 20:38 Comments || Top||

#2  They have been unable to engage us in open fighting.

No, but they can kidnap your sailors. Is that any better?
Posted by: Gary and the Samoyeds || 09/06/2007 21:34 Comments || Top||


Troops detain 16 suspected Shia extremists
In a predawn raid on a large apartment complex in Mahmudiyah, Coalition and Iraqi troops detained 16 suspected Shia extremist members Sept. 1.

Soldiers of 2nd Battalion, 15th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), out of Fort Drum, N.Y., along with their Iraqi counterparts from 4th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, conducted the combined air assault and ground operation.

Mahmudiyah’s al-Qa Qaa apartment complex is about a square mile of three-story buildings housing thousands of residents, mainly lower-income Shia. After an Iraqi army company commander was killed by Shia extremists in Mahmudiyah Aug. 28, U.S. and Iraqi forces have worked together to bring the perpetrators to justice, raiding Shia safe houses and homes.

Soldiers in UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters landed in the darkness and quickly surrounded the target buildings, ensuring no one fled the scene. A few minutes later, U.S. and Iraqi troops arrived in Humvees and Badger armored troop carriers to search the buildings. The force swept through the buildings, and brought all military-age males down to a central point for questioning as OH-58 Kiowa helicopters circled the area.

After the males were in military control and a cursory search had been conducted, Soldiers with bomb-sniffing dogs thoroughly cleared the apartments and put evidence into plastic bags marked with the apartment’s number. Although the dogs did not sniff out any explosives, among the items confiscated were two Iraqi police pistols, 120 Iraqi-style gas masks and an AK-47 assault rifle. “It was a well-executed mission – we quickly isolated the objective and surprised our targets,” said Capt. Nick Ziemba of Battery A, 2-15 FAR. “The Iraqi soldiers have made great progress acting professionally and getting the job done.”

Ziemba, from Wilbraham, Mass., said his unit has a good rapport with the Mahmudiyah soldiers and that they are growing together as a joint force. “By operating alongside us, they pick up a lot of our tactics, while we pick up on their cultural knowledge,” he said. “They remind us that we’re not always dealing with the enemy – a lot of the people in Mahmudiyah are becoming familiar, friendly faces.”

After 16 suspected Shia extremists were identified by informants and Iraqi troops, the rest of the men were released to their apartments. “One of the guys we picked up today is wanted for multiple murders and forcing people from their homes,” said Capt. Dustin Walker, intelligence officer for 2-15 FAR. “Within two hours of the operation, I received five phone calls from Iraqis asking us not to release him. The people of Mahmudiyah do not support Shia extremists and just want to live in peace.” The 16 men detained were taken into Iraqi army custody for further questioning.
Posted by: Fred || 09/06/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Mahdi Army


Al-Qaeda leader killed, 18 suspected terrorists detained
Coalition forces killed an al-Qaeda in Iraq leader and detained 18 suspected terrorists during operations Wednesday to disrupt the al-Qaeda in Iraq network and its bombing operations in central and northern Iraq.

Coalition forces killed the al-Qaeda in Iraq emir of the Arab Jabour area, who managed all terrorist attacks in the area south of Baghdad. When Coalition forces approached the target building, they received small arms fire. Returning fire in self-defense, they killed one terrorist who was later determined to be the terrorist emir. The ground forces detained eight suspected terrorists and discovered a cache of machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. Coalition forces called in an air strike that safely destroyed the cache.

In northern Iraq, Coalition forces conducted three operations targeting al-Qaeda in Iraq leaders and their associates. The ground forces detained 10 suspected terrorists during the operations in Mosul and Bayji. One suspect is believed to be an al-Qaeda in Iraq leader in his neighborhood, and another allegedly has ties to senior al-Qaeda in Iraq leaders in northern Iraq. “Our operations are steadily and systematically chipping away at the al-Qaeda in Iraq network in Baghdad and around the country,” said Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, MNF-I spokesman. “We want to ensure the bombing network in the capital is unable to recover from the damage we’ve inflicted upon it.”
Posted by: Fred || 09/06/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq

#1  "in an air strike that safely destroyed the cache."

Destroyed the cache and the house it was cached in, I bet - I like it.
Posted by: Glenmore || 09/06/2007 7:23 Comments || Top||


16 suspected car boom cell members captured
A vehicle-borne improvised explosive device cell, with suspected links to al-Qaeda, believed to be responsible for attacks against citizens and security forces of North Babil, was the target of an early morning air assault and raid north of Diyarah Aug. 23.

Paratroopers from Company C, 3rd Battalion, 509th Airborne, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, captured 16 Sunni militants, believed to be members of al-Qaeda in Iraq during Operation Nijmegen III. “Nijmegen was a series of operations targeting a known suicide car bombing cell,” said 1st Sgt Karl Zaglauer, a native of Missoula, Mont. “This cell is most famous in our area for the checkpoint 20 bombing that destroyed a bridge.”

Operation Nijmegen III had a special significance to the Paratroopers of Company C. “Two days ago, my platoon was hit with a VBIED,” said Sgt. 1st Class David Chaney, from Columbus, Ga. “That incident has possible links to the guys we just captured.”

In addition to the extremists, the Paratroopers also captured propaganda and books on electronics and chemistry. The cell members are being held for further questioning. The propaganda and other materials were confiscated for use in the investigation.
Posted by: Fred || 09/06/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Iraqi Insurgency


Nine people killed in Sadr City explosion
(KUNA) -- Nine people were killed when an explosive devise went off in Al-Sadr City, east of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, police sources said on Wednesday. The sources told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that the blast was in a parking area in Al-Sadr City. Nine people at least were killed and 20 others were also injured and rushed to hospital, the sources added. The blast also caused damage to vehicles nearby.
Posted by: Fred || 09/06/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1  OSHA to send a team.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 09/06/2007 6:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Darn red wire!
Posted by: Chuck Simmins || 09/06/2007 15:36 Comments || Top||


Twelve people including seven policemen wounded in two separate attacks in Iraq
(KUNA) -- Seven Iraqi police officers were injured when an improvised bomb targeted their patrol in the city of Kirkuk, Iraqi police said on Wednesday. A police source told KUNA the bomb targeted a police patrol in one of Kirkuk's main streets, injuring the seven police officers. Meanwhile, Al-Bashir village, south of Kirkuk came under mortar fire by unkown groups earlier in the day during which five civilians were injured, police said.
Posted by: Fred || 09/06/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Iraqi Insurgency


Most Mahdi army's members abided by freezing of activities - MNF
(KUNA) -- Several members of the Mahdi army have abided by the freeze of task decision which was taken by Shiite leader Muqtada Al-Sadr, Multi-National Force spokesman General Kevin Bergner said Wednesday.
And others didn't.
In a joint press conference with Charlie Ries, the U.S. Embassy's Minister for Economic Affairs and Coordinator for Economic Transition in Iraq, Bergner welcomed Al-Sadr's decision to freeze the task of the Mahdi army, revealing that most of the army's followers had abided by it. He noted that the step would allow MNF troops to track on other militias such as the Omar army which is conducting several anti-MNF operations. Al-Sadr decided last Wednesday to freeze the task of the Mahdi army after the bloody incidents which occurred in Karbala city, south of Baghdad.
Posted by: Fred || 09/06/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Mahdi Army

#1 

1. For 70 years, US foreign policy officials understood the Marxist doctrine on protracted war.

2. Not one member of America's foreign policy elite, has given ANY indication that they possess even a limited ability to even discern the Islamist doctrine of protracted war. Ergo: short term, strategic halts to jihad action are treated as foundations for lasting peace.

3. When stupidity prospers, none has the intelligence to call it stupidity. Diane West nails the current dominant mentality in besieged Western Civilization in her current book.
Posted by: McZoid || 09/06/2007 1:07 Comments || Top||


Anger at terror suspects freed in Basra deal
Yet more evidence that the UK is so much more sophisticated than the US in their handling of terrorists
THE capture and internment of a leading terror suspect was the only crumb of comfort for relatives of Corporal John Johnston Cosby when he was killed in Iraq just over a year ago.

Now the devastated family has been told that Sajad Abu Aya, whose arrest cost Cosby his life, has been released as a result of a deal to free prisoners prior to the imminent British withdrawal from Basra to a desert airbase outside. Cosby, 28, described as a “monumental personality” by his men, died commanding a security cordon protecting troops who were in the process of seizing Abu Aya in a northern suburb.

Lieutenant-Colonel Toffer Beattie, commanding officer of the Devon-shire and Dorset Light Infantry, said that Cosby, an expert in covert surveillance, had been “leading from the front and he was putting the success of the mission and the safety of his men before his own”.

His death devastated his family. But it had the consolation of knowing that he had died a soldier’s death and that Abu Aya – a militia leader suspected of several murderous attacks on British forces and Iraqis – was in British hands.
more at the link.

This article starring:
Sajad Abu Aya
Posted by: lotp || 09/06/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Iraqi Insurgency


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF kills 9 in Gaza (6 IJhd/AlAqs, 2 Hamas, 1 other)
Nine militants were killed Thursday in separate clashes with the Israel Defense Forces in the Gaza Strip. On Thursday afternoon, an Israel Air Force missile killed five Palestinian militants ...
(IJ/Aks)
... who were heading toward the border security fence in central Gaza.
On Thursday morning, three Palestinian militants were killed ...
(2 hamas, 1 IJ)
... and six others wounded in an Israel Defense Forces strike in the southern Gaza Strip.
Posted by: mhw || 09/06/2007 13:49 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic Jihad

#1  Women and minorities (plus bunnies and kittens) affected most.
Posted by: Titus Hayes4699 || 09/06/2007 14:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Keep up the good work!
Posted by: Grumenk Philalzabod0723 || 09/06/2007 20:37 Comments || Top||


Three Israeli soldiers injured in Nablus explosion
(KUNA) -- Three Israeli soldiers were injured when an improvised explosive device exploded in the old town of Nablus, official sources said on Wednesday. The explosive device exploded in a military vehicle in an incursion and injured three soldiers, said the sources. Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Israeli military sources claimed an explosives factory in Balata refugee camp was discovered, in eastern Nablus specifically. Israeli forces withdrew after detaining several Palestinians and raiding charity institutions. The forces also confiscated computers and other devises and administrative documents, the sources added.

In a related development, the Israeli troops arrested eight Palestinians in different areas in the West Bank in Qabatiya district, near Jenin.
Posted by: Fred || 09/06/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Aqsa Martyrs


Southeast Asia
Double bombing injures three officers in southern Thailand
Three officers were wounded when insurgents detonated a roadside bomb in Yala province on Thursday morning.

The bomb went off when police officers and soldiers were investigating a scene on Krong Pinang - Kororaman road, where an explosive device was detonated about an hour earlier. There was no report of injuries from the first bomb. Two police officers and one soldier were wounded from the second bomb. The right leg of one of the police officers was ripped off from the blast.
Posted by: ryuge || 09/06/2007 01:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency


Imam shot dead, multiple bombings in southern Thailand
This post overlaps with yesterday's.

A Muslim religious leader was gunned down and five people were wounded in a bomb attack in the southern border provinces Wednesday.

Imam Wae-asae Madeng, 68, was shot several times while he rode his motorcycle to sell fruit at market in Narathiwat's Sungai Padi district Wednesday morning. Imam Wae-asae died immediately at the scene.

In Yala, a bomb blast wounded five people, including a 14-year-old girl and a nine-year-old boy at a grocery in the Bannang Sata district. The victims were rushed to hospital but their condition was unknown.

Three other bombs were detonated in Yala, but no one was wounded. The first exploded in a grocery opposite Yaha's municipality office, and the two other bombs were hidden under a pick-up truck and a car belonging to government officials in two separate locations in the municipality. Two of the bombs malfunctioned.

Meanwhile, about 71 schools in four Pattani districts have temporarily closed for the third consecutive day on Wednesday to facilitate officials' operations to track and arrest terrorists militants, said Saman Boonranun, Deputy director of Pattani Education Area Zone 3. Schools in the four districts are expected to remain closed this week, he added.

Also:

Thailand's Health Ministry on Wednesday warned officials working in the violence-plagued south to guard against theft of medical kits by Muslim insurgents. Dr. Prat Bunyawongwiroj, a senior ministry official, ordered security tightened at hospitals and public health clinics in the restive southern provinces after suspected terrorists insurgents broke into a health office in Yala province's Betong district and stole several bottles of medicine on Monday.

Col. Shinnawat Maendaet, the military commander in charge of Yala, said it was probable that terrorists insurgents were behind the theft because they needed medicine to treat members wounded in fighting with security forces. "Many terrorists insurgents have been wounded in clashes and we heard that they are short of medical equipment. Their wounds begin to rot and some of them are going to die," he said.
Posted by: ryuge || 09/06/2007 00:49 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency

#1  Must have been a moderate imam if he had to work at the fruit market - I figure the radical ones get enough Saudi pay to not have to moonlight.
Posted by: Glenmore || 09/06/2007 7:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Probably put the cucumbers next to the tomatoes.
Posted by: Excalibur || 09/06/2007 8:59 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syria fired on Israeli aircraft
h/t: Drudge
Syrian air defenses opened fire on Israeli aircraft that violated Syrian airspace overnight Thursday, a Syrian military spokesman said. The Israelis broke the sound barrier and "dropped ammunition" over deserted areas of northern Syria overnight, the spokesman was quoted by the official Syrian Arab News Agency. "We warn the Israeli enemy government against this flagrant aggressive act, and retain the right to respond in an appropriate way," the Syrian spokesman said.

It was not clear if Syria was accusing the Israelis of using warplanes or some type of other aircraft like drones. "The Israeli enemy aircraft infiltrated into the Arab Syrian territory through the northern border, coming from the Mediterranean heading toward the eastern region, breaking the sound barrier," the spokesman said. "Air defense units confronted them and forced them to leave after they dropped some ammunition in deserted areas without causing any human or material damage."

The IDF said that it was "not accustomed to responding to such reports." Israel acknowledges flying over Lebanon routinely, but it is unclear how often its aircraft fly over Syria, if at all.

Syrian officials, including President Bashar Assad, have repeatedly warned Israel in recent weeks that the occupation of the Golan Heights "cannot last forever."

Concerns grew over the summer that tensions along the frontier could escalate into conflict, but both Syrian and Israeli officials publicly and repeatedly said they had no interest in war.

Thursday's incident could stoke the tensions again, however. Late last month, Israeli security officials said the army had determined that war with Syria, whose military had reduced its war readiness, was unlikely and Israel began rotating forces out of the Israeli-held Golan Heights. Syria also is believed unhappy that other Arab countries are headed to a peace meeting in November at which the United States hopes for a high-profile meeting between the Palestinians and Israelis, and perhaps also with Saudi officials.

Syria has long disputed any notion that a comprehensive Arab peace deal can be reached unless it also involves some resolution of the Golan Heights, which it wants back in full.

At the beginning of last summer's war against Lebanon, Israeli warplanes buzzed the palace of Syrian President Bashar Assad in what analysts called a warning to Damascus. In June of the same year, they also flew over Assad's summer home in the coastal city of Latakia, after Syrian-backed Palestinian combatants in Gaza kidnapped IDF soldier Cpl. Gilad Schalit.
Posted by: Gary and the Samoyeds || 09/06/2007 09:18 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Looks like the Joooooooos were flying down the Syrian-Iranian border lighting up things. Bored I recon.
Posted by: Thomas Woof || 09/06/2007 18:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Syria is correct. The occupation of Golan cannot last forever. The part he forgot goes something like this...

Without taking the rest of Syria.
Posted by: Mike N. || 09/06/2007 20:48 Comments || Top||


Lebanon arrests another suspect as Germany foils massive terrorist campaign
Lebanese authorities have arrested a fourth suspect in connection with a plan to bomb two trains in Germany, and have filed preliminary charges against five Lebanese and a Syrian, judicial sources said on Saturday. Four of the Lebanese are in Lebanese custody, while one Lebanese and the Syrian are in Germany, they added. They face charges of attempted mass murder in passenger trains in Germany and attempted arson, they said. The sources named the fourth suspect as Khalil al-Bubbu but gave no details of his arrest. The others are Jihad Hamad, Khaled Kheireddin al-Hajj, Ayman Hawa, Youssef al-Hajj and Fadi al-Saleh, the Syrian. The last two are in Germany. The latest legal step falls short of the formal indictment process, which comes at a later stage, and the investigations could turn up other suspects, the sources said.

Germany Uncovers Terror Plot
Germany said Wednesday it had foiled a "massive" terrorist attack with the arrest of three Islamist extremists who were targeting airports, bars and discotheques frequented by Americans. Six other people are standing trial in Lebanon on similar charges. The men, two Germans and a Turk aged 22, 28 and 29, had amassed vast amounts of hydrogen peroxide, the same chemical used by suicide bombers in the 2005 attacks on London's transport system which killed 56 people, Harms said. The chemicals had been stockpiled in a town in the Black Forest.

Arrested on Tuesday, the men allegedly belonged to an organization with ties to Al-Qaida called Crimson Jihad Islamic Jihad Union, which German authorities have suspected for several months of planning attacks. One of the three suspects was arrested for spying on a U.S. military base in December but was released soon afterwards, federal police Chief Joerg Ziercke said. All three men had attended a training camp in Pakistan in 2006. German federal prosecutors in June charged a suspected mastermind behind a failed plot to bomb two passenger trains using bombs packed in suitcases last year which failed to explode because of faulty detonators. Six Lebanese men are currently standing trial in Lebanon over the plot, which targeted trains in western Germany.

Hard Labor in Lebanon
The Lebanese authorities arrested Ayman Hawa on Aug. 28 based on information provided by Hamad and Khaled al-Hajj. Hawa is in his 20s and from the northern town of Akkar. Hamad, a 20-year-old student, turned himself in to authorities earlier and confessed to planting a suitcase bomb. Investigations suggested he might have links with al Qaeda. Youssef al-Hajj, 21, was identified in Germany on security camera footage that appeared to show him dragging a suitcase into a train in Cologne in July. Suitcases like those in the footage were found packed with propane gas tanks and crude detonating devices on trains in Dortmund and Koblenz.

A German newspaper said on Friday the two failed attempts had originally been planned for the football World Cup. The Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung cited security sources as saying interrogation of the suspects had established that the would-be bombers had abandoned the original plan as they had considered the implications of such an attack. Under Lebanese law, the charges could carry a penalty of life imprisonment with hard labour.
This article starring:
AIMAN HAWAal-Qaeda in Europe
FADI AL SALEHal-Qaeda in Europe
federal police Chief Joerg Ziercke
JIHAD HAMADal-Qaeda in Europe
KHALED KHEIREDIN AL HAJJal-Qaeda in Europe
KHALIL AL BUBUal-Qaeda in Europe
YUSEF AL HAJJal-Qaeda in Europe
Islamic Jihad Union
Posted by: Fred || 09/06/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Europe


Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 09/06/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thanks. That's one eye, but I still need to find the other! Well, at least I still have my hands. I'll feel my way down there in a bit. If anyone sees the other, please let me know.
Posted by: gorb || 09/06/2007 3:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Ignore. Resetting cookie.
Posted by: Gary and the Samoyeds || 09/06/2007 9:18 Comments || Top||



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