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Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2008 00:09 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yes. OK to smack.
Posted by: gorb || 10/13/2008 4:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Is that a metric tape or imperial. She better hope its metric.
Posted by: Jack is Back! || 10/13/2008 8:47 Comments || Top||

#3  "Is that a metric tape or imperial?"

If he used a fisherman's tape, he would be guaranteed that she is a 'keeper.'
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 10/13/2008 9:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Does she get a better measurement by holding her arms up or down?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 10/13/2008 11:34 Comments || Top||

#5  Don't know about her, but his will improve with arms down.
Posted by: Spaish Flomble3461 || 10/13/2008 13:31 Comments || Top||

#6  As the Hippy once said, "like Man!"
Posted by: GK || 10/13/2008 15:11 Comments || Top||

#7  This picture of J. MacDonald reminded me of these definitions:
Have you ever wondered why A, B, C, D, DD, E, F, G, and H are the letters used to define bra sizes?

If you have wondered why, but couldn't figure out what the letters stood for, it is about time you became informed!

(A} Almost Boobs...
{B} Barely there.
{C} Can't Complain!
{D} Dang!
{DD} Double dang!
{E} Enormous!
{F} Fake.
{G} Get a Reduction.

{H} Help me, I've fallen and I can't get up !
Posted by: GK || 10/13/2008 16:03 Comments || Top||

#8  And here I thought it was part of the Universal Sizing Naming convention: re: batteries......
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 10/13/2008 16:17 Comments || Top||

#9  Zank Haven for leetle girlz...
Posted by: tu3031 || 10/13/2008 16:18 Comments || Top||

#10  What happened to B cells?
Posted by: no mo uro || 10/13/2008 16:48 Comments || Top||

#11  "What happened to B cells?"

Just for fun, go into your local (choose one) 7-11, Home Depot, or Lowe's and ask an 'associate for a pack of them. 9 out of 10 times you will get a straight faced answer that they are either out or 'sorry, we don't carry them.'
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 10/13/2008 17:01 Comments || Top||

#12  What happened to B cells?

Answer here.
Posted by: Mike || 10/13/2008 17:54 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Airstrikes Kill More Than 60 Taliban
More than 60 Taliban fighters were killed yesterday as hundreds of insurgents tried to launch a surprise attack on Afghan forces in Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand province. A convoy armed with mortar weapons was bombed by Nato aircraft as it began an assault on the outskirts of the city early yesterday morning.

Daud Ahmadi, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said the fighters had attacked the city of Lashkar Gah from three sides but were pushed back after a battle involving airstrikes. Rockets landed in various parts of the city but there were no civilian casualties, he said. He added that Nato reported "multiple enemy forces" killed but had had no reports of casualties for its own organisation.

The death toll yesterday - in the province which is the British troops' base in Afghanistan - could not be verified independently.

An MoD spokesman said British forces had "supported" Afghan allies in the attack but would not say if the troops had fought alongside the Afghan army. It is thought British forces could have provided intelligence on the Taliban action.

The US commander General David McKiernan, head of the Nato-led force in Afghanistan, said that hundreds of fighters had gathered for the attack. Brigadier General Richard Blanchette, spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force, said: "If the insurgents planned a spectacular attack prior to the winter, this was a spectacular failure."

Authorities recovered the bodies of 41 Taliban fighters on the city's outskirts, from where the attack began, Ahmadi said. He added that another 20 dead fighters were carried away by militants.

Taliban fighters traditionally have relied more on suicide bombings and roadside bombs in their campaign in Helmand. If yesterday's attack represented a departure from the insurgents' usual tactics it was one that had "failed miserably", the MoD spokesman commented. Afghan officials also said yesterday that troops had retaken the Nad Ali district of Helmand. Ahmadi said the three-day fight ended Saturday and that Afghan security forces were in control of the district centre.

Helmand is the largest drug-producing area in the world and the region alone accounts for more than half of Afghanistan's opium poppy production. More than 90% of the world's opium is produced in Afghanistan and up to $100m (nearly £59m) of the trade's profits are used to finance the Taliban insurgency.

Yesterday a roadside bomb reportedly struck a civilian vehicle in the Shamulzai district of Zabul, killing five people.
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 10/13/2008 04:28 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hmm. Big mistake. Shoulda sent more planes for simultaneous airstrikes.
Posted by: gorb || 10/13/2008 4:50 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: Pliny Pholunter1355 || 10/13/2008 6:14 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: Pliny Pholunter1355 || 10/13/2008 6:14 Comments || Top||

#4  KIA checked for Pak id's? Where were the effen A10's or the C147 gunships strafing these P'sOS as they were dragging away the 20 bodies? WTF! NATO - let them live to fight another day. These fucks were probably bearing small arms they carried across the mountains from Bosnia 10+ years ago.


PS It's spelled STEWPIT you fucking troll, get a job, move outta your mommies basement.
Posted by: Last Breath Farm Resident || 10/13/2008 13:20 Comments || Top||

#5  Whaddaya call 60 dead Taliban? A good start. (sorry for the reused lawyer joke).
Posted by: anymouse || 10/13/2008 13:24 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Somali pirates die in fighting with Puntland forces
MOGADISHU (AFP) — Forces from the Somali breakaway region of Puntland on Sunday attacked pirates holding a Somali cargo freighter, triggering clashes that killed two pirates and a soldier, an official said. Four others, including another Puntland soldier, were wounded when the forces attempted to rescue MV Awail, owned by a Somali trading company with a crew of 13 Syrians and two Somalis, which was seize Thursday off the region's shores.

"They surrounded the (Somali) ship this morning near Hafun area, where they exchanged fire with pirates killing two of them. One of our men also died," said Muse Gelle Yusuf, governor of Puntland's Bari region. "Three pirates and a policemen were wounded," he told AFP by phone.

"We are expecting that forces will manage to free the ship in a few hours because the pirates on board are few and they have been besieged."

Meanwhile, delicate negotiations were placed on hold earlier Sunday over a 10-million-dollar (7.5-million-euro) ransom request by pirates holding a Ukranian arms ship off the Somali coast.
Pirates had earlier agreed to free the MV Faina, hijacked late last month, but later walked out of the deal demanding Somali mediators be withdrawn.

"The talks between pirates and ship owners totally stopped yesterday (Saturday) after the pirates insisted Somali brokers be removed from the process to negotiate," said Ahmed Abshir Hasan, an elder in the Somali coastal town of Harardhere, where the MV Faina is anchored. "The commanders of the pirates on the ship reported to us that the talks totally stopped. We don't know why they refused those brokers in the last minutes after working between them for the last week," he told AFP.

The hijackers have reportedly settled for a 10-million-dollar (7.4-million-euro) ransom after initially demanding more than three times that sum, but the figure could change. "They agreed to receive 10 million dollars for the release of the ship but the talks were stopped because of the Somali brokers. They said the process will resume in four days with new brokers," said another local elder, Abdullahi Moalim Afrah.

"We were close to agreeing on a ransom (figure) but we got out of that deal because of the Somali brokers who are going between us," one of the pirates told AFP. "We don't want any Somali broker to get involved in this deal and that is why we stopped the talks," he added, who declined to give his name.

US warships and navies from other nations are shadowing MV Faina to prevent the pirates from offloading the cargo.
Posted by: Steve White || 10/13/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  so the soldiers form puntland are doing what all these other navies should do
Posted by: chris || 10/13/2008 10:37 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
Top outlaw killed in Rab 'shootout'
Rony Biswas, founder of the outlawed Communist Juddho, one of the factions of Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP-ML), was killed in a 'shootout' between Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and police and the cadres of the outfit in Chuadanga early yesterday.
Nailed a big shot Purbo!
The incident occurred at Kumari village under Alamdanga upazila in Chuadanga.
We have no idea where that is.
Rony founded the Communist Juddho, in May, 2005 and unleashed a reign of terror in 10 southwestern districts.
Makes you wonder if the Biplobis were unleashing terror in the northeast ...
One of the top outlawed figures in the region, ...
Congrats Rony on the high honor, oh, and condolences to your mother ...
... Rony fled Chuadanga soon after a state of emergency was clamped nationwide and took shelter in Savar. Sources said he worked as a salesman in a shoe shop there.
Yeah, shoe salesman, RAB will never look there ...
Police and intelligence officials learnt that he recently returned to Chuadanga and was trying to re-organise his party ahead of the upcoming parliamentary and upazila elections.
Just a 'community organizer', was he ...
Early yesterday, a team from Alamdanga police station led by Officer-In-Charge (OC) Kazi Jalal Uddin Ahmed and Rab-6, Chuadanga in-Charge Captain Faisal raided the Veterinary Training Institute (VTI) in Kumari village at around 3:30 am ...
Many thanks to Mahmoud the Weasel ...
... where Rony was holding a meeting with his men.
Couldn't find a grove of trees?
The outlawed cadres opened fire on the law enforcers ...
Using paper bullets that left no marks for ballistics ...
... prompting them to retaliate.
RAB always does ...
Rony was killed on the spot ...
"Which spot?"
"THAT spot!"
... but his accomplices managed to escape.
As if they were never there in the first place.
Police recovered two Shutter guns and 10 bullets from the scene.
TWO shutter guns? You mean there's more than one?
Rony is an accused in at least twelve systems 50 cases, including 20 for murder, filed with different police stations.
So his mother didn't love him anymore.
Posted by: Steve White || 10/13/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The incident occurred at Kumari village under Alamdanga upazila in Chuadanga.

Dr. Steve: "We have no idea where that is."

perhaps it's Shipman divided by .5MT?

or maybe its the square root of Sponge Bob...?

...YEP! ~<:)
Posted by: Red Dawg || 10/13/2008 1:40 Comments || Top||

#2  No, his mother loved him, she just didn't put any lights on their Christmas tree.

WHEW! For minute I thought somebody killed a driver from The World of Outlaws. heh
Posted by: Last Breath Farm Resident || 10/13/2008 13:40 Comments || Top||

#3  TWO shutter guns? You mean there's more than one?

Could the second one be a mock-up, used to train RAB newbies? I don't think there possibly could be TWO shutter guns, this simply doesn't make any sense at all. Typo or mock-up.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 10/13/2008 15:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Yes, Dr. Steve, I will accept that as proof positive that a second shutter gun does exist. However, I would very much appreciate if someone would post photos of the various weapons mentioned in RAB reports. I keep picturing ancient muskets liberally chased with tarnished silver, so rusted that to actually attempt to shoot the thing would result in the blinding or death of the shooter... or contrariwise a collector's piece stored wrapped in velvet, only taken out to impress the dead accused's fingerprints upon the handle that they might be legitimately added to the prosecution's file before reverently wiping the piece clean and returning it to the safe.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/13/2008 15:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Such eloquent words TW...
brought a tear to my eye, so they did.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 10/13/2008 16:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Thank you, dear USN, Ret. The prospect of two shutterguns evokes the poetical soul.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/13/2008 21:01 Comments || Top||

#7  I heard tell once of an "encounter" with three shutterguns recovered, but I don't believe it. That's the stuff of legends
Posted by: Frank G || 10/13/2008 21:10 Comments || Top||

#8  Could it be possible that they're now using the phrase to refer to something like a "zip gun," or improvised firearm?
Posted by: Tranquil Mechanical Yeti || 10/13/2008 21:20 Comments || Top||

#9  Three is not the speed of light. Google "four shutter guns"!
Posted by: Darrell || 10/13/2008 21:21 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
N Korea to resume nuclear disablement
North Korea said on Sunday it would resume taking apart its plutonium-producing nuclear plant and allow in inspectors in response to a US decision to remove it from a terrorism blacklist and salvage a faltering nuclear deal.

"As the US fulfilled its commitment to make political compensation and a fair verification procedure in line with the phase of disablement ... the DPRK (North Korea) decided to resume the disablement of nuclear facilities in Yongbyon," the North's KCNA news agency quoted a Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying.

Nuclear inspectors: The spokesman said the North would "allow the inspectors of the United States and the IAEA to perform their duties on the principle of 'action for action'," saying it will disable the nuclear plant and permit the inspectors in as others fulfil their obligations. The US decision was made after the secretive North agreed to a series of verification steps on its nuclear plant, a State Department spokesman said in Washington on Saturday.

The deal also called for resuming disablement and allowing in inspectors. Last month North Korea lashed out at not being removed by backing away from the disarmament-for-aid deal it made with China, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the United States, and took initial measures to rebuild its Soviet-era nuclear plant, which was being disabled under the pact's terms.
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Three killed in Khyber Agency
Three people were killed in separate incidents in Jamrud and Bara areas of Khyber Agency on Sunday. Unidentified men shot dead Hasnaat, resident of Khazana, Peshawar, and his friend Mumtaz, resident of Bakhshu Pul, Peshawar, and threw their bodies in a field near Takhta Baig. The Jamrud political administration sent the two bodies to their ancestral village. Separately, gunmen killed Alam Khan and dumped his body in Sapra Dam. The body has been handed over to the family.
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar-e-Islami


Four would-be suicide bombers held in Zhob
Security forces have arrested four would-be suicide bombers from a local hotel in Zhob, 320 kilometres from the provincial capital, Online reported on Sunday. Police sources told APP that law enforcement agencies raided the Gul Bahar hotel in the Zhob bus stand following a tip-off and arrested the men. The sources however refused to disclose the suspects' identity, and rejected a report that the arrested people were would-be suicide bombers and said a preliminarily report indicated that the men were terror suspects. The suspects have been moved to an undisclosed location for questioning, the sources said. Online quoted sources as saying that the would-be bombers had entered Zhob through Wana.
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan

#1  Will somebody let us know when there are more suicide bombings in Pakistan than Iraq?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 10/13/2008 16:17 Comments || Top||


FC detain 47 armed Afghan refugees
The Frontier Corps (FC) on Sunday arrested at least 47 Afghan refugees near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border area of Bramcha and seized weapons from them. Sources said that FC personnel raided Bramcha village -- about 70 kilometres from Noushki along the Pak-Afghan border -- on a tip-off and arrested the refugees for not possessing legal documents to prove their identity. The sources said that the FC personnel had also seized Kalashnikov rifles from the refugees.
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


US drones fly over North Waziristan
United States pilotless spy planes on Sunday flew over North Waziristan just hours after a missile strike killed at least four people, residents said. Two missiles from suspected US drones struck a compound just outside Miranshah. The targeted compound was the residence of Taliban Omar Daraz, a security official said. Residents said they could see three drones overhead as they sifted through the remains of the destroyed compound searching for further casualties.
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  We should release clear helium balloons with amps and speakers ballasted to ride at the same height as one of the predators and play an engine sound over and over until the battery wears down - then pop.
Posted by: 3dc || 10/13/2008 0:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Better yet add a bunch of solar panals... Even the Environmentalists should like it
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/13/2008 0:42 Comments || Top||

#3  The psy-ops/psy-war opportunities are pregnant with possibilities.....

Boo
Posted by: Red Dawg || 10/13/2008 1:06 Comments || Top||

#4  US drones fly over North Waziristan

Not to be confused with the aged model drones that fly in and around the Capital in Washington. However, both are known to be dangerous to citizens of either country, particularly when they're observed to focus and hover over pending kills taxpayers objects of interests.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/13/2008 5:21 Comments || Top||

#5  UAVs, UAVs, UAVs darken the sky with cruise missiles. They're a kind of UAV, right?
Posted by: Last Breath Farm Resident || 10/13/2008 13:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Need to get something from Rutan that flies at 80,000 feet, but big enough to be seen from the ground. Let the talibunnies and the rest of the gun-sex-crazed fools shoot at it all day. Paint the drone in shades of day-glow orange, fluorescent yellow, and deep purple, so there's no way to miss it. Let it make lazy circles over Peshawar, the entire tribal areas, even a pass over Rawalpindi/Islamabad now and then. In a month they'll either quit looking for drones, or be so muddle-headed it won't matter.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 10/13/2008 13:59 Comments || Top||


Pakistan hit 'kills 27 Taleban'
Pakistan says its security forces have killed 27 Taleban militants, including two commanders, near the Afghan border. The authorities say 12 would-be suicide bombers were also among the dead in north-western Orakzai province.
Double-plus good! If any of this is actually true ...
An offensive against the Taleban in the nearby province of Bajaur is also reportedly still ongoing.

Analysts say Taleban and al-Qaeda have been basing themselves in the lawless tribal areas along the Afghan border, where until recently they were safe from American attack. But in recent months, the US and Pakistani military have been attacking the militants' bases. Local tribal leaders have also taken up arms against the Taleban and al-Qaeda.
Posted by: Steve White || 10/13/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Paks only lament? Half of the 27 were their guys.
Posted by: Last Breath Farm Resident || 10/13/2008 13:33 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Nine killed, 13 injured in Baghdad car bombing
(Xinhua) -- Nine people were killed and 13 others injured in a car bomb explosion in a marketplace in southwestern Baghdad on Sunday, an Interior Ministry source said.

The explosion occurred at about 1:10 p.m. (1010 GMT) when a booby-trapped car parked in a popular marketplace in the mainly Shiite neighborhood of Bayaa, killing up to nine people and wounding 13 others, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. The powerful blast also set fire to some ten civilian cars and destroyed several nearby shops and stalls, the source said.

Iraqi security forces immediately sealed off the main roads leading to the scene while ambulances and civilians cars were evacuating the victims to nearby hospitals, he added.

"I heard a very loud explosion and saw a plume of black smoke rising over the market," Haitham, a shopowner in the market told Xinhua."It was so terrifying, there is blood and human flesh every where at the scene," Haitham said.

Sporadic attacks continue in Baghdad despite the U.S. and Iraqi officials' announcement of a relative lull in violence during the past few months.
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2008 00:02 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State of Iraq


Iraq pours in police to protect Christians
Iraq deployed around 1,000 police in Christian areas of Mosul and set up checkpoints at churches on Sunday, an official said, as thousands of members of the minority group fled the worst violence against them in five years.

"Two (national police) brigades were sent to Christian areas in Mosul and churches were surrounded and put under tight security," interior ministry spokesman Abdul-Karim Khalaf told AFP.

He said the reinforcements had been deployed from midnight in the restive northern city, considered by U.S. and Iraqi commanders as the last urban stronghold of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. Khalaf added that two investigation teams, one security and the other criminal, had also been deployed to probe a spate of attacks on Christians in Mosul since September 28, in which at least 11 people have been killed.

Nearly 1,000 Christian families have fled their homes in the city since Friday following the worst violence against Christians in five years, according to provincial governor Duraid Kashmula.

Mosul military command spokesman Khalid Abdul-Satar said he did not know who was behind the violence but pledged to protect the Christian community. "We told the Christians through their churches and priests that we are ready to provide security to any house or individual that needs our protection. We have enough forces to do that," Satar said.

At the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday condemned the violence against Christians in both Iraq and India. "I invite you to pray for peace and reconciliation as situations cause concern and great suffering.... I think of violence against Christians in Iraq and India," he said.

Yunadem Kanna, one of only two Christians in the national parliament, said he had held urgent talks with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on the violence. "I just met with Maliki and he promised to deliver," he said, adding that the army and not just police had to move into the area in force if the law was to be upheld.

The flight of Christians from Mosul came as Chaldean Archbishop Louis Sako last week called on the U.S. military as well as Prime Minister Maliki's government to protect Christians and other minorities in the face of a rash of deadly attacks.

In an interview with AFP, Sako called on U.S. forces to do more to protect Christians and other minorities. "We are the target of a campaign of liquidation, a campaign of violence. The objective is political," Sako said, noting that more than 200 Christians had been killed and a string of churches attacked since 2003.

There were around 800,000 Christians in Iraq at the time of the U.S.-led invasion, a number that has since shrunk by around a third as the faithful have fled the country, the archbishop said.
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State of Iraq

#1  Chaldean Archbishop Louis Sako:
"We are the target of a campaign of liquidation, a campaign of violence. The objective is political," Sako said, noting that more than 200 Christians had been killed and a string of churches attacked since 2003.

Al Qaeda: Most Holy and Brave Islamic Warriors Plot, Plan and Execute Christians...

Murder For God Is Great

allah akbar!!

*Spit*
Posted by: Red Dawg || 10/13/2008 0:52 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm glad the Moslem Iraqis have finally figured out that the Christians are their fellow-citizens, deserving of living safely in their midst. And yes, it is quite possible they've been shamed or pressured into this by the Americans, but that means they've gotten to the point where they realize they ought to respond to that pressure -- they haven't, after all, cared up till now.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/13/2008 11:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Round up all those asshole palastinians(and other assorted terrorist fucks) clinton relocated to OK City trying to wrest the Nobel POS Prize from arafart AND exchange them for these Iraqi Christians. Good deal if you ask me. WHOOOOOO brought down the Murrah Building?
Posted by: Last Breath Farm Resident || 10/13/2008 13:27 Comments || Top||

#4  A jury answered that question.
Posted by: lotp || 10/13/2008 13:38 Comments || Top||

#5  Proving that 'truthers' are found at both ends of the political spectrum.
Posted by: Milton Fandango || 10/13/2008 20:52 Comments || Top||


Turkey launches more strikes on Kurdish rebels in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Turkey launched another round of airstrikes against Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq on Sunday, an Iraqi official said. Turkish warplanes and artillery units bombed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) positions in villages near Amadi in Iraq's Duhuk Province, a provincial security official told CNN. The official said the Turkish military operation started at 5:30 p.m. and lasted an hour and a half. There were no reports of casualties.

Turkey said it was the sixth time in the past week it attacked the PKK in response to clashes that left at least 15 Turkish troops dead in the Turkey-Iraq border region last weekend. It was the second round of Turkish strikes on northern Iraq this weekend. Late Friday and early Saturday, Turkish warplanes hit 31 targets in the Hakurk region of northern Iraq before returning. They "successfully completed the operation [and] safely returned to their bases," the Turkish military said.

A spokesman for the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Security Forces said Turkish warplanes and artillery units bombed the region from around 11 p.m. Friday until 1 a.m. Saturday. The spokesman, Jabbar Yawer, said there were no reports of casualties.

Turkish artillery shells also hit border villages in the Zakho area, targeting PKK positions for about an hour on Saturday afternoon, Yawer said.

Though the Iraqi government opposes the PKK, the organization continues to operate in the Qandil Mountains in northern Iraq bordering Turkey and Iran. The separatist faction has been fighting for self-rule in southeastern Turkey.
Posted by: Steve White || 10/13/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

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Posted by: Betty Ebbart8120 || 10/13/2008 13:48 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: Betty Ebbart8120 || 10/13/2008 13:48 Comments || Top||

#3  On a separate note, TURKEY has reportedly begun deploying UN-MANNED AUTOMATED MACHINE GUNS, etc in various forward and rear areas [e.g. border positions]to protect agz the Kurds???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/13/2008 22:07 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Gazans plant anti-tank IED trap on Israeli side of border
DEBKAfile's military sources report that Israel military scouts uncovered a high-powered anti-tank IED trap near Kissufim on the Israeli side of the Gaza border Sunday, Oct. 12. It was composed of four large interlinked devices rigged to blow up in sequence.

A fifth bomb just inside Gaza was located to detonate when Israeli reinforcements and emergency teams came up to tend to the casualties from the first series of explosions.

The IDF command believes the hand behind the bomb trap was the Iranian-backed Jihad Islami. It was intended to provoke a military clash with Israel forces chasing the bombers into Gaza that would shatter the ceasefire that has been more or less in place since June 20.

According to intelligence sources, Jihad Islami has determined to torpedo the truce in order to derail the Hamas-Fatah fence-mending talks taking place in Cairo under Egypt's aegis. Jihad may even have contracted the Dorghmush clan, which is at daggers drawn with Hamas, to set up the bomb trap.

Our Middle East sources report that Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas failed Sunday to persuade Syrian president Bashar Assad to bring his influence to bear on Hamas leaders to be more accommodating in the Cairo talks. Assad shrugged off Abbas' appeal and extended a frigid welcome to his Palestinian visitor.
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#1  They must be planting what sustains them. Most regular people plant something they can eat.

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#2  Got it through a tunnel without blowing it. Need to find and kill the fuck passing out DVDs of The Great Escape.
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Seven killed in Burma bus blast
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25 killed in Sri Lankan fighting
(Xinhua) -- About 20 rebels and five soldiers were killed in the ongoing fighting between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels in northern Sri Lanka on Friday, the military officials said on Saturday.

Officials from the Defense of Ministry said the clashes erupted between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels and the government troops in Vavuniya, Kilinochchi, Mullaitihvu and Jaffna districts. Officials said 43 rebels also were injured in the confrontations. Defense officials also said a rebel sea wing deputy leader and two other rebels were killed in a claymore attack on his vehicle in the north on Friday evening. However, the LTTE is yet to confirm it.

The troops said they were well on the way to capture Kilinochchi, the LTTE's administrative headquarters in the north. The troops were around 2 km away from the rebel held town in their advance, officials said. Kilinochchi and Mullaithivu districts are the last of the rebel strongholds.
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Leb army busts 'terrorist network'
Lebanese authorities on Sunday arrested a "terrorist network" behind deadly bomb attacks in the northern city of Tripoli, the army said. "Several members of a terrorist cell involved in the recent explosions in Tripoli have been arrested," the army said in a statement carried by the official news agency NNA.

The army said an explosives belt for use in another attack was found during the arrest operation carried out by a joint unit of soldiers and internal security forces.

A search is underway for a leading member of the cell, named as Abdul Ghani Ali Jawhar, the statement said, adding that those arrested are being questioned, without saying how many are being held.

Tripoli has also since May been rocked by deadly sectarian violence between Sunni Muslim supporters of the government and their Damascus-backed rivals from the Alawite community. Four soldiers and three civilians were killed as an explosion ripped through a military bus in the port city on September 29. A similar attack in mid-August killed 14 people, including nine soldiers and a child.

Last year, the army fought a 15-week battle with the al-Qaeda inspired Fatah al-Islam militia in a Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli that killed 400 people, including 168 soldiers.

More detail, from Ya Libnan...
The Lebanese army says troops have arrested members of a terrorist group allegedly involved in recent bombings in northern Lebanon. "Several members of a terrorist cell involved in the recent explosions in Tripoli have been arrested," the army said in a statement carried by the official news agency NNA. The statement referred to Aug. 13 and Sept. 29 bombings in Tripoli. The bombings killed a total of 25 people, most of them Lebanese soldiers.

The statement did not give further details. But a security official speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press said three Palestinians were among those arrested.

The statement says an explosives belt in their possession was confiscated. It says troops were still pursuing Abdel-Ghani Jawhar, a leading member of the cell. The person who had the explosives belt is Alaa Mehrez, also known as Attiya. He was detained along with a woman in Bab el-Tebbaneh, Tripoli Sources said Mehrez was a brother-in-law of the main suspect on the run (Abdel-Ghani Jawhar).

The arrests were carried out near Baddawi, another Palestinian camp in north Lebanon. Security sources said six people were arrested , including four men from the same family: Mahmud Azzam, 80, and his three sons. The father and two of his sons were released after questioning. A fourth brother, Jihad, had been killed in last year's fighting with the army at the Nahr el Bared camp According to Almustaqbal TV the terrorist cell belongs to Fatah al Islam.
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#1  they seem too overlook the terrorist network on their southern border
Posted by: chris || 10/13/2008 10:34 Comments || Top||

#2  they seem too overlook the terrorist network on their southern border

And with what are they going to take then on with? Look up what the Leb army has for a TO&E and then research what they have for armament. They barely managed to win against Fatah al-Islam, and that took them almost four months. And you want them to take on a well-armed and organized Hesb'allah?

The reform element tried. They took on more than they could handle, got their collective backsides handed to them as a result, and the reform elements lost control of the government.
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