The senior Taliban commander in Afghanistan's lawless Helmand province has vowed to unleash a brigade of 600 suicide bombers against the British Army when it arrives in the area this summer.
Boo!
In a rare interview given at a hideout on the Pakistani border, Mullah Razayar Noorzai said the chance to take on British troops was a "great honour". Taliban commanders had already recruited hundreds of willing martyrs for suicide operations, he claimed, aiming to repeat the notorious defeats inflicted on British troops in Afghanistan during Victorian times.
Mullah Razayar Noorzai
A price of $2,000 (£1,150) has also been put on the head of any captured Westerner - a bounty that threatens a re-run of the Iraq-style kidnappings and beheadings.
"We are happy that they are coming to Helmand," said Mullah Razayar, who lost a leg while fighting the Russians in the 1980s. "It is both a trial and a great honour for all Muslims. We will now get a fair chance to kill them.
"We have already prepared 600 suicide bombers alone for the Helmand, and you'll see that we will turn it into their graveyard."
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I wish somebody, anybody, would make a sneering comment to one of these jacknapes, questioning their manhood, their bowel control, and suggesting the women of their tribe give them a spanking.
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Big difference between then and now, my dear Mullah: then the British army was at the far end of a very long supply line, burdened by women, children and other dependents, and surrounded by a united and vicious enemy. Nowadays the British troops are amongst the hardest of the hard boys (in the nicest possible way, of course), unburdened by anything nonmilitary (excepting always the occasional newsie), have supply lines measured in hours by air, and are surrounded by a population divided into enemies, allies, and those who just want to live quietly for a change. Oh, and their spokes-Mullah is hiding in the barbarous border territories, instead of comfortably ensconced in his home village amongst his wives, children, brothers, nephews and goats. You may want to take these little changes into account as you calculate your future victories, sirrah! (How many fingers and toes equals 600, anyway?)
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) Ehsar members Arifur Rahman Hasib alias Akash and Jahirul Islam alias Zahir have confessed to their involvement in bomb blasts in Gazipur on November 29 and on August 17 respectively. They gave confessional statements before First Class Magistrate Hasanul Matin in Tangail under Section 164 on Wednesday. In Sherpur, JMB district commander Mujahidul Islam Sumon was placed on three days' fresh remand when he was produce before court on Thursday on expiry of his 10-day remand.
Akash of Chackpara village in Sreepur upazila in Mirzapur district was arrested in Chittagonj. He was shown arrested in Tangail after police, acting on his confession, on February 1 arrested Jahir and JMB cadres Shahadat Hossen alias Imran from Namasola village in Kaliakair upazila in Gazipur district and Mahmudur Rahman alias Russel from Asgana village in Mirzapur upazila in Tangail and recovered two grenades along with four detonators and 33 lead splinters from a bush near Russel's house. On the same day, SI Tapash Chandra Pandit of Mirzapur police station in Tangail and SI Shakil Ahmed of Gazipur Sadar police filed two cases accusing the five militants. Akash admitted that he took part in bomb blasts at Gazipur Bar Association office on November 29.
Jahir confessed to his involvement in the August 17 serial bomb blasts at Gazipur road-intersection last year. Jahir told the court that he was recruited by Gazipur JMB commander Nizam Uddin Reza and become an Ehsar member of JMB within few days. Reza is also a charge sheeted accused in Gazipur bomb blast case.
Earlier, Imran and Russel in confessions before a magistrate court under Section 164 said they got bombs from Reza and blasted those in Gazipur on August 17. Reza is yet to be arrested. Police said they are hunting for Reza hailing fromf Mollarhat upazila in Bagerhat district. Imran and Russel said they were students of Kaliakair Senior Fazil Madrasa.
Quoting the arrested JMB cadres, sources in Gazipur and Tangail police said militants were trained in 14 dens in Tangail and Gazipur districts. These were in Asgana, Kanchanpur, Taktarchala, Kalian, Namasola, Ashulia, Bhati Khalpar, Media, Solai, Rashidpur, Mazidpur, and Telina villages in Mirzapur and Sakhipur upazilas in Tangail district and Kaliakair upazila in Gazipur. They said JMB leader Enayetullah alias Jewel, arrested from Joydevpur with a huge quantity of bomb making materials few months back, had recruited a large number of militants from the areas, staying at a rented house at Balla in Kalihati upazila in Tangail district. Jwel hailed from Kotalipara upazila in Gopalganj district.
In Sherpur, arrested Sumon told interrogators that he was an aide to JMB kingpin Abdur Rahman. He was arrested from Gourdar village in Nokla upazila in Tangail on March 12. Police said they got important information from Sumon but declined to give details for the shake of investigation.
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For all of you who are as lazy as I was until just a moment ago: an upazila is a non-urban sub-district, formerly called a thana.
Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) chief executive of an upazila (sub-district), a newly created post in accordance with a decision made by the military regime of General hussain muhammad ershad. In 1982, the Ershad government constituted a committee for administrative reorganisation and reform. One of the major recommendations of the committee was to have a representative body called upazila parishad (council) under a directly elected chairman. The government did accept this recommendation and accordingly a post, designated first as thana nirbahi officer (thana executive officer) but later renamed as upazila nirbhahi officer (UNO), was created in each of the existing thanas (later upgraded and renamed as upazila) outside the metropolitan areas. About the same time all the existing subdivisions were upgraded and converted into districts. Responsibilities for all development activities at local level were transferred to the upazila parishads. It was also decided that the UNO should continue to act as chairman of upazila parishad till such time an elected chairman takes office.
Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) personnel in border outposts and camps have been put on high alert so that the two JMB Majlish-e-Shura members still at large cannot flee across the border. The law enforcers, particularly the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), yesterday continued their hunt for the two fleeing leaders of the banned Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB)-- Khaled Saifullah and Salahuddin.
As part of the ongoing drive against the militants, police and detectives carried out a massive overnight raid on the Housing Estate in Comilla town yesterday. But it failed to arrest any member of the militant outfit or recover any explosives or firearms. During the five-hour raid in the early hours, the law enforcers picked up 33 people for quizzing. Meanwhile, interrogators continued quizzing the detained militant top brass including JMB supremo Abdur Rahman and his second-in-command Siddiqul Islam alias Bangla Bhai at the Taskforce for Interrogation (TFI) office. "Our interrogation is currently focused on potential stocks of explosives and whereabouts of the Shura members who are yet to be arrested," MA Aziz Sarkar, director general of Rab, told The Daily Star yesterday.
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Men on the run...
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One of the men accused of plotting bomb attacks in the UK discussed poisoning football fans by contaminating beer cans and burgers, a witness has said.
Mohammed Babar, 31, told an Old Bailey trial that suspect Waheed Mahmood, 34, of Crawley, West Sussex, talked of getting a job in a stadium as a vendor.
He and six other men deny charges including plotting a bombing campaign.
Pakistani-born US citizen Babar, who has turned supergrass, claims he trained with the men.
He has been given immunity from UK charges.
Babar has previously pleaded guilty in the US to terror offences.
Four of the men also deny having chemicals suitable for bomb-making. The trial is expected to last five months.
On his second day in the witness box, Babar told the jury he met Mr Mahmood at a house in Pakistan in 2003 where they talked of jihad.
"He could not understand why all these UK brothers were coming over to Pakistan. They could easily do jihad operation in England," he said.
He said Mr Mahmood had said: "You could get a job in a soccer stadium as a beer vendor.
"You just put poison in a syringe, injecting it in a can and put a sticker on it which would stop it leaking and give it out.
"Or you could get mobile vending carts - all those vans going round selling burgers. He said he had done it. I didn't believe it.
"He said you could stand on street corners selling poison burgers and then just leave the area."
Babar earlier told the court he had given three computers to Waheed Mahmood after meeting him in Pakistan because he was told they were needed by al-Qaeda.
He told the Old Bailey he initially travelled to the UK and then to Pakistan, with the intention of going to Afghanistan.
Babar told the court that he had visited the UK in late 2002 and attended a meeting where radical cleric Abu Hamza was speaking.
Another of the alleged plotters, Omar Khyam, was also there.
He said they were shown the "video wills" of two of the people who carried out the 9/11 attacks in the US.
Asked what the attitude of those at the meeting had been toward 9/11, Babar replied: "Everyone at the meeting agreed with it, everyone was in praise of those who carried it out."
In Pakistan he met a number of Britons mainly from the London and Crawley areas, he told the court.
He said he first became aware of Waheed Mahmood in late 2001, because his flatmate in Pakistan - a man named Asim - had identified him as his "contact".
Asked what he meant by contact, Babar said: "If you wanted to go somewhere or wanted something, to go to Afghanistan or to receive some sort of training, you needed to contact someone who will lead you to your goal."
He said Asim had come to Pakistan from east London, but he also had strong ties with the "Crawley group".
The two had lived together in a flat in Lahore and were joined by others from the "east London group" of which Asim was part.
Babar told the court that he first came face to face with Waheed Mahmood in April or May 2002 when he came to Babar's home in Lahore.
A man from east London had left a stash of weapons buried near the Punjab University and Mr Waheed had arrived to be shown where they were, he said.
"He left some weapons behind. I just wanted to show Waheed Mahmood where they were buried in case he ever needed these weapons.
"He knew what he was coming for," he said.
Babar listed the weapons as AK47s and their magazines, 2-3,000 rounds of ammunition and grenades.
Suspects Salahuddin Amin, 31, from Luton, and Omar Khyam, from Crawley, were alleged by the prosecution to have received training in explosives and use of the poison ricin in Pakistan.
Mr Mahmood, 34, Salahuddin Amin, 31, Jawad Akbar, 22, Omar Khyam, 24, and his brother Shujah Mahmood, 19, all of Crawley, West Sussex, Anthony Garcia - also known as Rahman Adam - 23, of Ilford, east London, and Nabeel Hussain, 20, of Horley, Surrey, deny conspiring to cause explosions.
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All this because the government passed a law making it easier for companies to lay off people, and even then the law was weak, compared to other countries.
The last few months have revealed much about france. Mostly, that they live in the past, in a state of denial, and are allowing the world to shove past them.
They denied that there was any antisemitism -- clearly the horrific death of that young Jewish boy revealed the contrary
They denied that there were any disaffected, alientated groups -- the riots in the suburbs, trashing hundreds of cars, said otherwise
They denied there was growing Muslim influence -- yet they cowered when the hijab law was passed
They believed that they could be the western friend of the arab world -- yet the terror plots detected betrayed that alliance
And now, they refuse to acknowledge the realities of the worldwide marketplace demand for competitiveness, having passed both this law and one requiring no more than 35 hours in the workweek.
As a perfect example of this incredible denial (arrogance?), my own company, a multibillion dollar, global technology company, told the french government that unless they eased up the hiring laws, they would remove the european hq from paris. the french thought we were bluffing. to make a long story short, we have but a small presence in paris, no longer the EU office.
the french are DEFINITELY living in a different era. quaint, but unsustainable.
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All this, and Jacques walked out of the EU meeting because his members and other members were speaking in English! And I'm sure it wasn't just to return home.
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Just great, now we have to send troops to Europe. I hope this doesn't turn into some kind of quagmire in which they'll be there for years and years.
Becuase during the last riots the cops that beat up some "youths" were releaved of duty suspended for abuse. So you cant really blame the cops, its a picture of what happens when your leadership is peace-love-&-happiness LLL radical panzies. Something to remember come November and all the future Novembers here in the States.
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From what I understand, police were told not to act proactively, the justification being the "Malik Houssekim" syndrome; that is the name of a muslim student (well integrated and supposedly on his way to converting to christianity btw), who died from being beaten by an elite anti-riot police unit, les PVM (dissolved because of that, despite their remarkable effectiveness against hit-and-run urban guerilla, its components were duos of a motorcycle combat driver and his stick-wielding passenger, often a close-combat instructor, who chased rioters even in narrow alleys).
This was in 1986, prime minister was then Jacques Chirac, and a new Malik is supposed to be one of his greatest fears.
That's why during the november Ramadan riots, the police forces were IIUC expressedly told NOT to react, and there were even cases of riots police being fired on without riposting or even chasing the shooter.
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See after-riot images of Marc Bloch University. Their slogans are as inane as anything our moonbats can come up with.
http://marcbloch2006.skyblog.com/index.html
Marc Bloch was a Jewish Medievalist, who fought with the Resistance until he was ratted out by two-faced frogs, and murdered by Nazi occupiers. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
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OT : Listen To Dogs, sorry to hound you (hum...), but again, did you catch my list of french sites you might like? See comment. Hope you'll find it at least marginally interesting.
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5089:
I checked some of them. I don't write off the French, because Secularism is strong there and that is the only winning weapon against the Muslim-disease. When it becomes stronger than Socialism and Dhimmism, then France will be on-line.
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A lot of those thugs in the pictures look like your regular soccer hooligan variety. The tell-tale sign is the track-suit pants. These track-suit thugs are a problem all over Europe, not just France. They're opportunists. They come out to riot on any occasion; destruction of property being their goal and anybody who happens to get in their way is beaten, robbed, etc.
I suspect the welfare state has something to do with it. /sarcasm
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There was a commercial where the moniker was "pay me now or pay me later." The same here. Either the French put a stop to it, or anarchy will reign. This country will be close to 50% Muslim in 20 years. Do the math.
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LtD: The French brand of secularism, which denies that there's anything such as right or wrong, has helped _feed_ this bullshit, to perhaps a fatal degree. All the secularism in the country hasn't helped them yet.
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A5089 - I'm not writing the French off yet either. Bring the foreign legion home for domestic policing in the immigrant ghettos. Toss any appeasement politicos. Re-establish the French ideal of internal power/justice (from a French Basque descendant, even....). Anything else is delaying the worst case
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This doesn't happen in concealed carry states.
After destroying the Buddhas of Afghanistan, burning the Churches of Kosovo, Muslims are now destroying the Christian legacy of France.
Here is a summarized translation of an article of www.chretiente.info .
Since the riots of November 2005, we know that the French government is not able to protect the French citizens. Instead of taking legal action against criminals, the government rewarded rioters.
Today (march 22, 2006) we learn that this government has let 1,000 years of cultural and religious legacy to become smoke and ashes.
Barbarians and savages entered in the library of lEcole des Chartes (100,000 books) in the Sorbonne, and destroyed writings of abbeys of Île-de-France containing all the official documents since the middle age.
Documents of more than TEN CENTURIES!
If the French populate is abandoned by its government, it will defend itself. However books and manuscripts can not defend themselves.
The state has failed in its 3 major missions:
1- To protect its territory.
2- To protect its citizens and their goods.
3- To protect and to transmit its cultural and religious heritage.
Our leaders have inherited more than 15 centuries of history, legacy and culture. They are not only denying this heritage, but they are also allowing the destruction of what our ancestors have build, written, thought century after century.
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I sense the rift in French society is nearing the tipping point. Whether or not those on the Right side are willing to fight for their ailing country remains to be seen. When folks like this guy start pointing out the irreversible damage being done to their cultural heritage, the only thing of value the French seem to recognize, perhaps that will get their attention.
If, that is, it's not already too late. Damned if I'm gonna clean up that mess.
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I missed the story on the Sorbonne library burning in the MSM - must've gotten bumped by a story on the decision to search the Aruban dunes again for Natalie Holloway.
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Barbarians and savages entered in the library of lEcole des Chartes (100,000 books) in the Sorbonne, and destroyed writings of abbeys of Île-de-France containing all the official documents since the middle age.
WTF? Chartes? damn, get the gunz. This is nutz if true. I'm off to read and waiting for 5089 and JFM to give me a clue.
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@ Churchill Parrott : apparently, this is true, I also got it on a conservative radio wednesday, though it got very little mention as far as I know.
Some documents were burned, some others were splatered around, and the show guests mentioned possible theft as well. This is the deed of leftists most probably, not muslim (though "sans papiers" illegals participated in the occupation, along with their leftist supporters).
Btw, check this France 2 (state tv) reportage http://www.dailymotion.com/visited/fdesouche/video/89590
about the demonstrations violence, there is a follow up second part on the occupation of another scientific school, the EHESS, during which the Revolutionnaries(tm) pillaged (stole computers with research data in it) and destroyed everything... leftists, I think, might also have been boyz from the hood, but the slogans written on the wall are revealing, like the evolution/revolution at the end. Note that the first graphitti shown by the director lady sez "death to democracy"... also heard on teevee that actual students of that school were told "death to culture", when they protested this occupation by outside elements....
As for the riots, I particulary like the two CNT anarchist order service swamped by 50-100 angry "youths", the mohawk punk guy evacuated with a brain damage (how could they tell?), and his keffieh wearing pal at the hospital, lol,... of course, th efun thing is, the lefties firts wished the banlieusards to join the demonstration, so they could add "muscle"... instead, they acted as yellow strike-breaker "lumpenproletariat", the gvt must be somewhat happy... cf. too the arrest of a wisigoth by police while his former victim shouts him something like "you treated me of dirty white!".
For an inside vid of an actual part of the riot, before, the "real" one, IE the clashes with police (notice the mixing of white anarchist/leftist and "youths", or the slogans shouted in addition to the insults, like "police everywhere, justice nowhere", a staple of the left), check here.
Police where very passive, as usual (Sarko told them to be "souple", soft), though they know how to crack heads quite well if they wish. No water cannon, no rubber bullets, the use of CS gas only (pepper spray would be much more effective, but I don't think it's much used in Europe)
Concern was growing Friday afternoon for the fate of between 15-20 people missing after a violent explosion shook the Chemical Superior Studies Faculty in the eastern French city of Mulhouse shortly after midday, security and radio reports said.
Rescue teams were still working frantically to dig through the rubble of the building, which caught fire after the ground-floor explosion, whose origin has not been established. One person has been confirmed dead and one injured in the blast, but around 150 others are being treated for minor injuries, "France Info" radio reported.
Earlier fire service official said they feared there would be many victims as a result of the blast. Mulhouse security services have implemented the emergency "Red Plan," which mobilizes all available medical and rescue services for the faculty blast.
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Sheriffs from the 24 U.S. counties bordering Mexico unanimously voted Friday to join forces.
The creation of the Southwest Border Sheriffs Coalition comes at the same time as increased violence along the U.S.-Mexico border. This week, a federal safety alert warned that nine illegal immigrants in the Big Bend area of Texas hired Mexican hit men to assassinate U.S. law-enforcement officers.
"The biggest thing of course is the borders are not secure," said Earl Wentworth, assistant sheriff for San Diego County. "Anybody can cross the border undetected if they want to it wouldn't be difficult for terrorists to figure it out if they know it's our Achilles' heel, they will use it against us."
The coalition will share intelligence information and create a second line of defense behind Border Patrol agents. The federal government will fund the transportation and housing of illegal immigrants.
The local law-enforcement officials won't be held responsible for determining the nationality or the legal status of persons detained, said Michael Doyle, chief deputy of Hudspeth County, Texas.
"The counties with the smaller populations, with the lower tax bases, we won't be able to accomplish what we need to do without help and federal funding," Doyle said.
Current support from congressional leaders was one of the main reasons for creating the coalition, Wentworth said.
Immigration legislation specifically H.R. 4437 proposed by Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis. is being debated on Capitol Hill. It would allocate millions of dollars in federal funding to the coalition if it passes, said Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas.
Culberson also said there is "$6.8 billion in unspent local responder money sitting in the treasury for the past three years." Those funds were designated for the Department of Homeland Security, but could be used for local law enforcement.
Cochise County, Ariz., Sheriff Larry Dever said his county is among those overwhelmed with costs attributed to the significant number of illegal immigrants passing through on their way to the U.S. interior.
Coalition members will soon start a letter-writing campaign asking local senators to push for passage of the Sensenbrenner bill, which is essential to funding more deputies and purchasing equipment, said Rick Glancey, spokesman for the Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition.
"There are no (political) parties here only red, white and blue," Culberson told the sheriffs. "This is about protecting your counties, your neighbors and your country."
The coalition's duties will be similar to what the Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition has been doing for the past year, Doyle said. Operation Linebacker, which was conceived by the Texas coalition, will be adopted by the rest of the sheriff's departments along the border.
The operation integrates law-enforcement resources along the border and increases both public and national security between points of entry, Doyle said. Actions include additional patrols in rural and remote areas. Doyle said.
"They are a great bunch of people with one concern and that is the security of our nation," said El Paso County Sheriff Leo Samaniego, who was among those who recently testified before Congress. "The coalition is a great success now all we have to do is wait and hope our senators do the right thing."
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WANTS it to continue? Hell, they've been handing out instruction books for bypassing the border patrol. We employ their citizens, give emergency medical care on our nickel, build factories in their countries. Now they're abrogating the border openly.
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$6.8 Billion unspent and left lying around? Don't let Schumer know......damn
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I hope they don't just see this as a source of cash. Do something about the problem rather than just get in front of th cameras for PR. Our San Diego Sheriff Bill Kolender is a PC-pushing ass on illegals, concealed weapons and many other issues. Ima skeptical
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Listened to Congressman Duncan Hunter hold forth on the border enforcement bill this morning. The fence and increased border surveillance are aimed at stopping rampant drug smuggling instead of illegals. Granted stopping drug smuggling needs to be done, but these guys just don't want to understand that those of us who were born in this country are just about out of patience with the blatant disregard of our laws by illegals and their enablers in the federal, state, and local governments. Patience only goes so far.
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I seem to recall reading signs warning of minefields on both sides of the hiway, when I passed between both the Chile-Peru and Ecuador-Peru frontiers. If Pepe can do it, George can too.
What's with the bite-me and sit-on-this gestures? Did someone call them "Wetbacks?"
The government has decided to resettle 4,000 Masuri and Raija Bugtis in Dera Bugti who are currently living in Multan, Dera Ghazi Khan and Rajanpur districts. Official sources said more than 100 vehicles were being arranged to take them to their homes under the supervision of the Frontier Constabulary. Nawab Muhammad Akbar Khan Bugti had expelled them from Dera Bugti in 1996. Talking to reporters on Friday, Mir Hamdan Khan Bugti, chief of his clan, said his people were leading a miserable life because allowances given by the government were too low to meet even food requirement. Sources said all the Masuris, Raija and Kalpar Bugtis would be taken to Dera Ghazi Khan Police Lines from where they would be transported to their homeland.
Mir Ahmadan Khan, also a former district council chairman, accused Nawab Akbar Bugti of playing in the hands of foreign powers who wanted to keep Pakistan undeveloped and backward. These powers are plotting to stop foreign investment in Balochistan, he said.
He said Akbar Bugti, his sons and grandsons were involved in more than 152 registered cases of murders, while he had established his own prisons and kept hundreds of innocent people in his torture cells. He accused Nawab Bugti of killing 35 member of Kalpar clan including Amir Hamza, 16 people of Rahija tribe including Sher Muhammad and seven people of Masoori tribe. He said Ata Muhammad and his son, Abdul Wahid, had been in his custody for the last nine years despite paying a ransom of Rs 2.1 million.
He said Jamaat-e-Islami Amir in Dera Bugti Amanullah Khan and his two party activists were slaughtered at Dera Bugti. An FIR was registered by Sui police because there was no permission in Dera Bugti to register a case against Nawab Akbar Bugti. Later, his father, Haibat Khan, was kidnapped and tortured. Nawab imposed a fine of Rs 800,000 for instituting a murder case against him. Mir Ahmadan alleged that Tehsildar Syed Mueenuddin Shah, Levies Hawaldar Thara Khan, a DCO office employee Ali Nawaz, Khameesa Khan and DCO driver Shah Bakhshs minor daughter were murdered by Bugtis.
Hundreds of people including government officials were humiliated by shaving off their beards, moustaches, eyebrows and heads by Bugtis. He accused Bugtis of being involved in subversive activities such as blowing up of railway tracks, oil and gas transmission lines, electricity pylons, destroying communication system, laying landmines and killing innocent people. He demanded the government take serious action against Nawab Akbar Bugti and his followers to purge Balochistan of terrorists.
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QUETTA: Suspected militants blew up two electricity transformers in New Apzoi Town, area of Zhob. Miscreants on the night between Thursday and Friday destroyed two transformers cutting power supply of more than 100 homes and rendered a loss worth Rs 0.2 million. Meanwhile, Zhob FC recovered 675 kilogrammes of hash in a truck near Sambaza check post on Friday. The truck was impounded.FC also raided a house located in the village of Kali Sherani and recovered 1422-kilogrammes of hash. A large quantity of ammunition was taken into custody by the security forces during operations near Dera Bugti on Friday. The confiscated weapons included Kalashnikovs, Rocket Launchers, Mortar Bombs and several types of bombs and grenades. These weapons were supposed to be used in terrorist activities in the area.
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Suspected militants and miscreants destroying transformers in Zhob. What is the world coming to when suspected militants are joining in the action? And when does a suspected militant become a bona-fide militant? Imr so confuzd!
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Over 18 militants and an army soldier were killed on Friday in a military operation in North Waziristan tribal agency bordering Afghanistan, launched following a militant attack on a military checkpost, officials said. Suspected Islamist militants fired dozens of rockets at a military checkpost in Data Khel area of North Waziristan agency, security officials told KUNA. They said rocket attacks killed one soldier and critically wounded five others. Officials said following rockets attack, troops with the support of a gunship helicopter launched the operation against the militants. They bombed the militants' hideouts in the surrounding mountains, officials said, adding that the operation killed at least 18 militants and wounded over a dozen others.
This operation came one day after President General Pervez Musharraf warned foreign militants in Waziristan of harsher action. The president said militants hiding there were violating the sovereignty of the country and held them responsible for spreading terrorism. "I warn them that they should quit Pakistan or we'll kill them all." The president said those supporting them would also not be allowed to live in Pakistan. "We'll eliminate terrorists and extremists."
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TORONTO -- Iraq's embassy to Canada lashed out at the Christian Peacemaker Teams Friday, calling them "phony pacifists" and "dupes" after the anti-war group responded to the rescue of three of its kidnapped activists by condemning the U.S.-led military intervention in Iraq.
In a statement obtained by the National Post, the Iraqi embassy called CPT "willfully ignorant" and "outrageous," and accused the Chicago-based group of being on the side of anti-democratic forces in Iraq.
"The Christian Peacemaker Teams practises the kind of politics that automatically nominate them as dupes for jihadism and fascism," the embassy's statement said.
"The statement shows they even share the rhetoric of the jihadists, even if they do it out of naivete. Despite their claimed affinity for 'non-violence,' this is false.
"Politically, they are on the other side of this war. Christian Peacemaker Teams are objectively on the side of the fascists, Saddam Hussein's loyalists and al-Qaida in Iraq.
"It is abundantly clear that Christian Peacemaker Teams are opposed to and, in effect, at war with Iraqi democrats, Americans, the British, and the rest of the multi-national Coalition."
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Appropiate and welcome statement from the Iraqis puts these assholes in perspective and removes any moral imprimature sought by the Islamo-remoras
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The arrogance of humility. Champions of dhimminitude.
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Hear! Hear!, for the Iraqis. It is very important that they speak out in their overseas embassies against those that oppose them. Lots of mainstream people who are dubious about their own government will actually listen when an Iraqi ambassador stands up in their country and tells them what's what.
ASAP they should open up embassy annexes in parts of the US where there are large Iraqi expat communities. Then, whenever some fifth columnist like Cindy Sheehan opens up her yap in their area, they could be johnny-on-the-spot with a rebuttal in the local area news.
These annexes would also be a great way to reconnect their expats with Iraq, which could have all sorts of positive, long-term benefits for both countries.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian terrorist and the head of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, has sharply lowered his profile in recent months, and his group claims to have submitted itself to the leadership of an Iraqi.
In postings on Web sites used by jihadi groups, Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the terrorist network's arm in Iraq, claims to have joined with five other guerrilla groups to form the Mujahedeen Shura, or Council of Holy Warriors. The new group, whose formation was announced in January, is said to be headed by an Iraqi named Abdullah Rashid al-Baghdadi. Since then, Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia has stopped issuing its own proclamations.
The Mujahedeen Shura, which continues to call for attacks against American and Iraqi forces, has stopped taking responsibility for large-scale suicide attacks against civilians, and it has toned down its fierce verbal attacks against Iraq's Shiite majority.
Mr. Zarqawi's group also appears to have stopped, at least for now, the practice of beheading its captives. Since last summer, the group has begun to carry out attacks outside Iraq.
The activities seem to follow closely the advice in a letter believed to have been written last year by Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al Qaeda's second in command.
Previously, Mr. Zarqawi's group celebrated large-scale civilian massacres, and often made videos of the attacks and of beheadings and posted the videos on jihadi Web sites. Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, which is dominated by followers of Islam's Sunni sect, also boasted of the mass killing of Shiite civilians, whom it labeled derogatorily as "converters."
While it is impossible to verify the claims on the Web sites, experts believe it significant that Mr. Zarqawi apparently feels the need to send such signals, which offer clues about what he and other senior jihadi leaders might be thinking and doing.
Since the announcement of the Mujahedeen Shura in January, Mr. Zarqawi has stayed largely out of view. His last public statement, released a few days before the announcement, ranted in typical fashion against Americans and Jews but gave no sign that changes were afoot.
American and Iraqi officials, as well as independent terrorism experts, are divided on the signals from Al Qaeda. Most believe that Mr. Zarqawi is alive, in Iraq, and still in charge of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia. They say the group remains the leading suspect in the Feb. 22 attack against the Shiite shrine in Samarra, which set off a wave of sectarian violence. No group has taken responsibility for that attack.
Sectarian attacks have helped bring Iraq to the brink of full-scale civil war. A document obtained by the Americans in January 2004, and believed to have been written by Mr. Zarqawi, calls for attacks on Shiites in order to bring about a sectarian bloodbath.
American and Iraqi officials concede that they know little about the Mujahedeen Shura or of Mr. Baghdadi or, indeed, whether they exist at all. The officials say the proclamations by Al Qaeda and the Mujahedeen Shura, as well as the claim that an Iraqi is in charge, are probably ploys to give the illusion of changes that have not taken place.
"Propaganda is a critical component of his efforts, and that's what's involved here," said an American intelligence official. "It's a shift in tactics, not a real change."
In the letter thought to have been written by Mr. Zawahiri, an Egyptian physician believed to be hiding along the mountainous border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, Mr. Zarqawi was told that he needed to cultivate local support in Iraq to ensure the survival of his movement. The letter was captured by the Americans last summer.
The letter suggested a role for a council that would unite the various insurgent groups and help lay the political groundwork for the day the Americans depart.
It also questioned Mr. Zarqawi's emphasis on killing Shiites, suggesting that such killings alienated Iraqis and detracted from the larger goal of driving out the Americans. For the same reasons, the letter said, it was not necessary to cut off the heads of captives. "We can kill the captives by bullet," the letter said.
The letter also called for Mr. Zarqawi to "extend the jihad to secular countries neighboring Iraq." In recent months, Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia has taken responsibility for a number of attacks outside the country, including the suicide bombing of three hotels in Amman, Jordan, in November, which killed more than 57 people. The group has also said it fired rockets from Lebanon into Israel last December, and a pair of missiles at American naval vessels in Aqaba, Jordan, last August.
"Zarqawi wanted to hand over Al Qaeda to the Iraqis so he could move on to the next phase of jihad," said Rita Katz, the director of the SITE Institute, which tracks violent Islamist groups. Ms. Katz recently made such an argument in an opinion article in The Boston Globe.
Bruce Hoffman, a terrorist expert at the Rand Corporation's Washington office, said he believed that the Mujahedeen Shura and Mr. Baghdadi were real, but was unconvinced that Mr. Zarqawi had ceded control of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia. Having brought the country to the brink of civil war, Mr. Zarqawi may have decided that it was a good time to step back as events in Iraq unfold, Mr. Hoffman said, "like a poker player."
There are other reasons why Mr. Zarqawi might want to take a less prominent role in Iraq. As a Jordanian, Mr. Zarqawi is a foreigner in Iraq, where family and blood lines count for a lot. In recent months, evidence has surfaced that Iraqi guerrillas resent the dominance of foreigners in the insurgency.
In addition, there have been growing indications that the large-scale suicide bombings directed at civilians were alienating Arab backers outside the country as well as ordinary Iraqis. Mr. Zarqawi is believed to depend heavily on money provided by Arabs from outside of Iraq.
The suicide attacks on the three Jordanian hotels set off a wave of popular anger so furious that Mr. Zarqawi released an audio tape to explain his actions. Mr. Zarqawi did not apologize for the attacks far from it but he was clearly stunned by the vehemence of the reaction. "As for those Muslims who were killed," Mr. Zarqawi said on the tape, "we have not thought for even one moment about targeting them, even if they are sinful people."
Ms. Katz, the director of SITE, which provided the translations of his statements, said that even if he had stepped back, Mr. Zarqawi was probably still the dominant force in Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia.
Mr. Zarqawi has long made it clear that he sees Iraq as a stepping stone to the larger goal of overthrowing what he believes to be corrupt and secular regimes across the Arab world and re-establishing the Islamic Caliphate that reigned over the Middle East for centuries.
Whatever Mr. Zarqawi is up to, the successor organization, the Mujahedeen Shura, has lost no vehemence. In one of its most recent communiqués, it celebrated an attack on an American Humvee it claimed to have carried out this week in Miqadadiya, Iraq.
"A car bomb was detonated on a Crusader support patrol, resulting in the destruction of the Humvee and all who were in it," the statement said. "Thanks unto God."
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Yah, like "Spinal Tap" chosing to play smaller and smaller arenas.
The three peace activists freed by an SAS-led coalition force after being held hostage in Iraq for four months refused to co-operate fully with an intelligence unit sent to debrief them, a security source claimed yesterday. The claim has infuriated those searching for other hostages.
Neither the men nor the Canadian group that sent them to Iraq have thanked the people who saved them in any of their public statements. One of them, Norman Kember, 74, a retired physics professor, of Pinner, north-west London, was in Kuwait last night and was expected to return to Britain today. He is understood to have given some helpful information. He provided details of the semi-rural area north-west of Baghdad where he was held and confirmed that his captors were criminals, rather than insurgents. Their motive was believed to be money.
The two Canadians kidnapped with Mr Kember - Harmeet Sooden, 32, and Jim Loney, 41 - were said to have been co-operative at first but less so on arriving at the British embassy in Baghdad after being given the opportunity to wash, eat and rest.
Gratitude faded mighty quick, didn't it. Plus it was an embassy bed, embassy bath and embassy food.
Previous hostages have been questioned on everything from what shoes their kidnappers wore to the number of mobile phones they had. The pacifist Christian Peacemaker Teams with which the men were visiting Iraq is opposed to the coalition's presence and has accused it of illegally detaining thousands of Iraqis.
Jan Benvie, 51, an Edinburgh teacher who is due to go to Iraq with the organisation this summer, said: "We make clear that if we are kidnapped we do not want there to be force or any form of violence used to release us."
It's the moral part of us that causes us to rescue hostages, something you wouldn't understand.
Although the CPTs has welcomed the men's release, it has not thanked the rescuers in any of its statements. It blamed the kidnapping on the presence of foreign troops in the country, which was "responsible for so much pain and suffering in Iraq today". When told how angry the coalition was feeling, Claire Evans, a spokesman for the CPTs in America, said: "We are extremely grateful to everybody who had a role leading to the men's release."
Then she went back to meowing.
Mr Kember, in a statement through the embassy, said: "I have had the opportunity to have a shave, relax in the bath and a good English breakfast. I am very much looking forward to getting home to British soil and to being reunited with my family." He did not publicly thank his rescuers.
Gen Sir Mike Jackson, the chief of the defence staff, told Channel 4 News: "I am slightly saddened that there does not seem to have been a note of gratitude for the soldiers who risked their lives to save those lives."
Asked if he meant that Mr Kember had not said thank you, he said: "I hope he has and I have missed it."
It emerged that about 50 soldiers, led by the SAS, including men from 1 Bn the Parachute Regiment and the Royal Marines, as well as American and Canadian special forces, entered the kidnap building at dawn.
Canadian special forces in Iraq? That twitched the surprise meter.
A deal had been struck with a man detained the previous night who was one of the leaders of the kidnappers. He was allowed a telephone call to warn his henchmen to leave the kidnap house. When the troops moved in and found the prisoners alive, they also let him go as promised.
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I'm kind of surprised they were held for four months by a criminal gang. I thought al Qaeda was in the market for Western hostages - i.e. they should have been sold a long time ago. Maybe al Qaeda is running short of cash, or it's hard to get a hold of al Qaeda middlemen these days.
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Canuck SF involved in Canuck PeaceNitWit rescue.
Send em back until they get some gratitude, or their heads handed to them.
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Assholes. They sacrificed their American cohort on the altar of Total Lunacy. For nothing. These shitheads are a total waste of skin. Take their water, Stilgar.
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the only people who will care will be the next set of hostages that don't get rescued, thanks to these pious souls.
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Too bad we can't send them back....but at least that Scottish git went on record and said he didn't want our icky military saving his sorry ass. I suggest we honor his desire if/when he becomes a guest of the local hostage takers, and concentrate on others who don't suffer from incurable rectal cranio-insertion.
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I agree - arrest them for accessory to murder. Put them in the pen right next to their hero Saddam.
I think at least an investigation is in order to see if they were 'really' kidnapped. Ask people in the neighrhood where they were found if they had been seen walking around.... partying... and carrying on with their captors.
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Hey Thinemp. Keep it quiet please. If the Canadian public becomes too aware, the Canuck bad asses may not be allowed to come out and play. They are great warriors and we need them on the team.
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50 soldiers, led by the SAS, including men from 1 Bn the Parachute Regiment and the Royal Marines, as well as American and Canadian special forces
That's one hell of a rescue squad.
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What chaps my hide is that men like Colin Powell or the recently lamented Desmond Doss are more "anti-war" than these Judas-loving filthpig Nazi supporters.
"Woe to those who call good evil, and evil good."
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Perhaps, after four months with them, their captors wanted them to be found.
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Canada has a new conservative government. Prime Minister Stephen Harper spent two days this month visiting the troops in Kandahar. So I am not surprised to hear JTF-2 is in Iraq.
Harper said Friday in an interview on CTV that it's hard for him to comprehend why some Canadians have such deep-rooted objections to the military mission in Afghanistan.
Harper was asked by an interviewer: "Do you understand the Canadians who feel passionately that they (Canadian soldiers) shouldn't be there?"
Harper paused briefly and responded, "You know, in a way, I don't. In this case, I'm not sure what the case would be for not being there."
When it was suggested that people oppose the mission because it's not Canada's war, Harper quickly interjected.
"But it is our war. The entire world signed on to this mission."
The US military said that Operation Swarmer, the largest air raid in Iraq since the war began three years ago, resulted in no casualties among the assaulting allied troops. According to the Pentagon, the US military arrested 104 suspected insurgents for questioning as the operation wrapped up on Wednesday. The operation that focused on the Iraqi city of Samarra began last week with a helicopter that transported about 1500 US and Iraqi soldiers to the area.
A US military statement said that forces moved through the area using intelligence provided mainly by Iraqi forces and faced "light resistance." Weapons caches were found, according to the Pentagon, that included shoulder-fired missiles, more than 350 mortar rounds, a variety of bomb-making materials, over 120 rockets, nearly 90 grenades and machine guns of various types. The raid, which was planned months ago according to high level US military generals, was aimed at ridding Samarra of insurgent hideouts.
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104, eh ? there's got to be something they can accomplish while awaiting trials. How about we lock them into the cars in the Paleo neighborhood to wait for the 10 day deadline ? Give them Hamas flags to wave. Tell them Allan is coming with a group of elfs.
Five Iraqis were killed and three others were wounded on Friday when militants attacked a bakery in Sayidiya, southern Baghdad. An Interior Ministry source told KUNA that four bakers and a policeman were killed in the attack, adding that the militants planted an explosive device by the bakery and were able to escape before the arrival of a patrol vehicle, following which the explosion took place. Militants had attacked tens of Baghdad bakeries in the past, killing and wounding dozens of people.
In the north of Iraq, a road-side bomb blew up in an industrial zone south of the city of Kirkuk on Friday wounding three civilians, a police source said. Separately, a military vehicle of the Iraqi Army turned over in Kirkuk killing an Iraqi soldier and wounding four others.
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A British Army bomb disposal expert who put the lives of others before his own in Iraq has been awarded the George Cross, the UK Government announced Friday. Captain Peter Norton, 43, of Gloucester, southern England, lost a leg and part of an arm while investigating a bombing which killed four US soldiers near Baghdad last July. He is among 70 members of the British Armed Forces being given medals for their role in operations around the world. The roll of honour includes men and women who served in the former Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Northern Ireland.
Captain Norton, of the Royal Logistics Corps, becomes only the 22nd British Armed Forces member to receive the award since 1945. It ranks alongside the Victoria Cross as Britain's highest medal for gallantry.
On 24 July last year, a three-vehicle US patrol was rocked by a huge blast in the Al Bayaa district near Baghdad, which killed four and injured several others. Captain Norton, a married father-of-two, who lives at the Royal Air Force base of Innsworth, in Gloucester, led a team to the scene. Despite being told about the threat of a secondary explosion, he instructed the coalition forces to stay in their vehicles and alone went forward to confirm whether a command wire was present. An explosion caused extensive injuries to his legs, arms and lower abdomen. But as he lay injured he calmly instructed the others about which areas were safe and another bomb was discovered. His commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Seddon, made that device safe and was awarded the Queen's Commendation for Bravery. He said Captain Norton's clear orders in the face of terrible injuries prevented the loss of seven more lives.
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The American Army announced on Friday start of a new wide-scale military operation west of the Iraqi capital and said the action was aimed at locating and wiping out insurgents' hideouts. The army said in a statement that the assault was spearheaded with advance of American and Iraqi troops, adding that 21 suspected terrorists were arrested and large caches of arms were seized in the operation.
In the Iraqi capital, gunmen attacked a police patrol in Al-Mansour district, killing three policemen and wounding another, a security source said. The gunmen spead off in a car. Suspects were also apprehended in a mop-up operation in regions around the northern city of Kirkuk.
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Iraqi police on Friday morning found 12 dead bodies in two eastern suburbs of Baghdad, a security source said. The source told KUNA seven unidentified bodies were found at the entrance of the Banks Quarter and five others in the Tareq quarter. The source said all found bodies were handcuffed and blindfolded, with shots in the head.
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Five worshippers were killed and 17 wounded when a bomb planted near the back door of the Saad Ben Abi Waqqas mosque in the town of Al-Khales, of the Diyalah province, northeast of Baghdad. A security source told KUNA the explosion rocked the mosque at the end of the Friday prayer and that a young boy was among the victims. In another development, police said that Multi-National Forces and Iraqi army troops and policemen, in a joint operation, arrested 30 people suspected of carrying out terror acts in the Huweija district, west of the northern city of Kirkuk.
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I'm sorry, sink trap or no I just can't help but think
"It's about damn time a bomb went off at a Mosque, More please, as many as there are Mosques."
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Unknown gunmen on Friday opened fire on Palestinian National Council Member Mohammad Abu Samra, leaving him with moderate to serious wounds. Palestinian security sources said Abu Samra, 45, who is no longer member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, was attacked while in his car east of Rafah city, southern Gaza Strip. Abu Samra, who was previously deported for several years from Gaza Strip to Lebanon by Israel, is leader of the Palestinian Islamic movement. Palestinian medical sources said Abu Samra was shot several times in the lower part of his body.
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Palestinian fighters on Friday attacked an Israeli army patrol with machine guns in northern Gaza Strip. A spokesperson for the Israeli occupation forces told the Israeli radio that none of the soldiers was wounded in the attack.
Worked well, huh?
Meanwhile, the spokesperson said the Israeli forces arrested a Palestinian citizen from Gaza Strip after infiltrating into Israel, noting that the Palestinian entered Israel by jumping over the border wall north of Gaza Strip. The source did not mention whether the Palestinian was armed or not, but said he was turned in to Israeli security authorities for interrogation.
Meanwhile, the Brigades of Al-Aqsa Martyrs, the military arm of Fateh movement, announced responsibility for firing two missiles toward Ashkelon in southern Israel on Friday. The brigades said in a statement that the missiles hit their targets accurately, noting that the attack came in response to the Israeli assassination of two members of Al-Quds Brigades on Thursday. The statement revealed that a group of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades survived an Israeli shelling attack on Friday night in northern Gaza Strip and Sifa area. The statement added that the group was attacked after firing missiles on Ashkelon from a vacant land formerly known as Dugit settlement.
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just a hunch..the paleos will soon be enjoying a rather large can of whoop ass.
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Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) Ehsar members Arifur Rahman Hasib alias Akash and Jahirul Islam alias Zahir have confessed to their involvement in bomb blasts in Gazipur on November 29 and on August 17 respectively. They gave confessional statements before First Class Magistrate Hasanul Matin in Tangail under Section 164 on Wednesday. In Sherpur, JMB district commander Mujahidul Islam Sumon was placed on three days' fresh remand when he was produce before court on Thursday on expiry of his 10-day remand. 
Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) personnel in border outposts and camps have been put on high alert so that the two JMB Majlish-e-Shura members still at large cannot flee across the border. The law enforcers, particularly the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), yesterday continued their hunt for the two fleeing leaders of the banned Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB)-- Khaled Saifullah and Salahuddin.
Sheriffs from the 24 U.S. counties bordering Mexico unanimously voted Friday to join forces.
The government has decided to resettle 4,000 Masuri and Raija Bugtis in Dera Bugti who are currently living in Multan, Dera Ghazi Khan and Rajanpur districts. Official sources said more than 100 vehicles were being arranged to take them to their homes under the supervision of the Frontier Constabulary. Nawab Muhammad Akbar Khan Bugti had expelled them from Dera Bugti in 1996. Talking to reporters on Friday, Mir Hamdan Khan Bugti, chief of his clan, said his people were leading a miserable life because allowances given by the government were too low to meet even food requirement. Sources said all the Masuris, Raija and Kalpar Bugtis would be taken to Dera Ghazi Khan Police Lines from where they would be transported to their homeland.
QUETTA: Suspected militants blew up two electricity transformers in New Apzoi Town, area of Zhob. Miscreants on the night between Thursday and Friday destroyed two transformers cutting power supply of more than 100 homes and rendered a loss worth Rs 0.2 million. Meanwhile, Zhob FC recovered 675 kilogrammes of hash in a truck near Sambaza check post on Friday. The truck was impounded.FC also raided a house located in the village of Kali Sherani and recovered 1422-kilogrammes of hash. A large quantity of ammunition was taken into custody by the security forces during operations near Dera Bugti on Friday. The confiscated weapons included Kalashnikovs, Rocket Launchers, Mortar Bombs and several types of bombs and grenades. These weapons were supposed to be used in terrorist activities in the area.
Over 18 militants and an army soldier were killed on Friday in a military operation in North Waziristan tribal agency bordering Afghanistan, launched following a militant attack on a military checkpost, officials said. Suspected Islamist militants fired dozens of rockets at a military checkpost in Data Khel area of North Waziristan agency, security officials told KUNA. They said rocket attacks killed one soldier and critically wounded five others. Officials said following rockets attack, troops with the support of a gunship helicopter launched the operation against the militants. They bombed the militants' hideouts in the surrounding mountains, officials said, adding that the operation killed at least 18 militants and wounded over a dozen others.
The three peace activists freed by an SAS-led coalition force after being held hostage in Iraq for four months refused to co-operate fully with an intelligence unit sent to debrief them, a security source claimed yesterday. The claim has infuriated those searching for other hostages.
The US military said that Operation Swarmer, the largest air raid in Iraq since the war began three years ago, resulted in no casualties among the assaulting allied troops. According to the Pentagon, the US military arrested 104 suspected insurgents for questioning as the operation wrapped up on Wednesday. The operation that focused on the Iraqi city of Samarra began last week with a helicopter that transported about 1500 US and Iraqi soldiers to the area.
Five Iraqis were killed and three others were wounded on Friday when militants attacked a bakery in Sayidiya, southern Baghdad. An Interior Ministry source told KUNA that four bakers and a policeman were killed in the attack, adding that the militants planted an explosive device by the bakery and were able to escape before the arrival of a patrol vehicle, following which the explosion took place. Militants had attacked tens of Baghdad bakeries in the past, killing and wounding dozens of people.
A British Army bomb disposal expert who put the lives of others before his own in Iraq has been awarded the George Cross, the UK Government announced Friday. Captain Peter Norton, 43, of Gloucester, southern England, lost a leg and part of an arm while investigating a bombing which killed four US soldiers near Baghdad last July. He is among 70 members of the British Armed Forces being given medals for their role in operations around the world. The roll of honour includes men and women who served in the former Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Northern Ireland.
The American Army announced on Friday start of a new wide-scale military operation west of the Iraqi capital and said the action was aimed at locating and wiping out insurgents' hideouts. The army said in a statement that the assault was spearheaded with advance of American and Iraqi troops, adding that 21 suspected terrorists were arrested and large caches of arms were seized in the operation.
Five worshippers were killed and 17 wounded when a bomb planted near the back door of the Saad Ben Abi Waqqas mosque in the town of Al-Khales, of the Diyalah province, northeast of Baghdad. A security source told KUNA the explosion rocked the mosque at the end of the Friday prayer and that a young boy was among the victims. In another development, police said that Multi-National Forces and Iraqi army troops and policemen, in a joint operation, arrested 30 people suspected of carrying out terror acts in the Huweija district, west of the northern city of Kirkuk.
Unknown gunmen on Friday opened fire on Palestinian National Council Member Mohammad Abu Samra, leaving him with moderate to serious wounds. Palestinian security sources said Abu Samra, 45, who is no longer member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, was attacked while in his car east of Rafah city, southern Gaza Strip. Abu Samra, who was previously deported for several years from Gaza Strip to Lebanon by Israel, is leader of the Palestinian Islamic movement. Palestinian medical sources said Abu Samra was shot several times in the lower part of his body.
Palestinian fighters on Friday attacked an Israeli army patrol with machine guns in northern Gaza Strip. A spokesperson for the Israeli occupation forces told the Israeli radio that none of the soldiers was wounded in the attack.
