British police charged two men and a woman on Saturday with a plot to fund terrorism and said one of them belonged to a banned Kashmiri militant group based in Pakistan. Britain's Metropolitan Police said Mohammed Ajmal Khan, 30, Frzana Khan, 41, and Palvinder Singh, 29, had all been charged with conspiracy to provide money and other property for use in terrorism. Mohammed Ajmal Khan was also charged with directing the activities of a terrorist organisation, and with membership of Lashkar-e-Taiba. The three were arrested by anti-terrorism police earlier this week in Coventry, a central English industrial city with a large south-Asian population. London's Metropolitan Police said the three suspects would appear in custody at Bow Street Magistrates Court in central London on March 7.
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The organization is Going to Conduct Numerous Massive Actions in Russia Nationwide.
After some serious thought, I decided that it probably wasn't a good idea to bury this item with half a dozen other items from Pravda (along with the tales of alien invasions and earthquake pills "the tectonic weapon") on Page 3. This is a summary of what Pravda wants the average Russian to believe about the new youth groups there.
Within several past years, it was generally believed that Russian youth was not concerned about politics and cared just about their own problems. But today it turns out this is not quite so. The Nashi (Ours) youth movement suggests forming an anti-Fascist political movement. Ideologist of the Going Together movement, Vasily Yakemenko, told reporters: "The movement and me support the natural reaction to the increasing popularity of depraver Eduard Limonov and his crazy Nazis that is now outlining among pseudo intellectuals. National Bolsheviks are waving Hitler"s national socialist flags; Khakamada"s Committee 2008, the Yabloko youth subdivision, Berezovsky, Makashov and other immoral people have gathered under the flags."
Eduard Limonov is supposedly the head of the National Bolshevik party. He's been jailed for illegal weapons possession, and when his sentence was cut short for good behavior, "The court also took into account positive references and petitions for his release from State Duma members including Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Alexei Mitrofanov and Vasily Shandybin."
- Why do you insist the movement is anti-Fascist?
We see the ugly flowers of the smashed ideology are emerging here and there in the society that beat Fascism 60 years ago. Liberals join hands with national Bolsheviks and skinheads; the democratic processes so much resemble the Fascist ideology. This is particularly dangerous. Second, there are some other lines of the movement in addition to its anti-Fascist line.
Notice how everything gets lumped together; "liberals," "national Bolsheviks," and skinheads... "democratic processes" and fascist ideology.
- Mass media do believe that Nashi is the Kremlin's response to establishing the Going Without Putin movement. Is this so?
This is not true. Going Without Putin is a soap bubble widely advertised by mass media. The organization has just three people in St.Petersburg and the same number of members in Moscow; nobody knows about it in other Russian cities. Compare this with Going Together that conducted large-scale actions, the population knows this movement.
- What about Moscow's Pora movement? Is it a phantom like Going Without Putin?
Sure. This is just another creation of Boris Berezovsky and George Soros who is rather active in Georgia and Ukraine now. In Ukraine, the Pora movement actually exists, while it is a phantom in Russia. We will understand it as soon as we ask the movement to reveal themselves.
I suspect he's trying to say that noone is dissatisfied with Putin except for half a dozen people paid by George Soros to be dissatisfied.
- What are your plans for the future?
The movement is going to severely fight skinheads and anti-Semite organizations. We feel deeply injured with the public appearance and impunity of those who spread Fascism, the plaque that killed twenty millions of people last century. We are going to put an end to the unnatural union of oligarchs and anti-Semites, Nazis and liberals. The organization is going to conduct numerous massive actions in Russia nationwide and in Baltic republics as well.
Another couple interesting links can be found here and ESPECIALLY here.
There's a quote attributed in several forms to Huey P. Long, to the effect of when fascism finally comes to the United States it'll be called antifascism.
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So some COMMUNIST Fascists wanna beat up some Fascist COMMUNISTS - well, I 'm convinced of theirs and the Clintons' sincerity, isn't everybody???
France and Spain are working towards removing Hamas from the European Union's list of terror organizations, the London based newspaper Asharq al-Awsat quoted Palestinian sources as saying Sunday. According to reports, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos has appointed envoys to look into the possibility of removing the organization from the list. The report added that removal of Hamas from the list would be subject to a Hamas commitment to end suicide bombings and attacks on Israeli citizens.
Spanish foreign ministry representatives were holding talks on the matter with Hamas representatives in Beirut and Damascus, the report said. According to the report, France and Spain are seeking to remove Hamas from the list of terror organizations ahead of Palestinian Authority general elections, scheduled to be held June, in which Hamas is expected to score high marks. Senior Spanish and French officials are working towards convincing European governments to bring about a change regarding Hamas, claiming it is unwise to boycott a movement with such a dominant presence on the Palestinian street.
France and Spain also noted the social role Hamas fills in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. The newspaper source reported that representatives from the Spanish foreign office began talks with Hamas after the return of the socialists to power last March and Moratinos' appointment as foreign minister. Hamas was added to the list of terror organizations after the military arm carried out a terror attack in Jerusalem more than two years ago. Hamas representatives confirmed talks are being held with European representatives on the matter.
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claiming it is unwise to boycott a movement with such a dominant presence on the [Palestinian] street.
Didn't Chamberlain say the same thing about Hitler with his 'peace in our time!' pronouncement.
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The Old World Europeans (especially the French) are willing to kiss the Palestinians' behinds in order to gain favor in the rest of the Islamic world. They certainly won't be able to sell much to the impoverished Palestinians, but they gain favor with the Saudis, the Syrians, the Iranians, etc. And also with their own Muslim minorities. Once again Old Europe is willing to exterminate Jews for personal gain. It's disgusting.
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at least we know where they stand - in the gutter. This is shaping up a lot like WWII.
Excerpt Islamic terror groups are becoming increasingly active in Germany and coordinating with militants across Europe to recruit fighters to join the insurgency in Iraq, equipping them with fake passports, money and medical supplies, security officials say. One of the best examples of the cross-continent cooperation involves an Algerian man arrested in Germany and now on trial in Italy for allegedly helping Muslims from Somalia, Egypt, Iraq and Morocco recruit some 200 militants from around Europe to fight in Iraq.
European anti-terrorist officials have estimated that perhaps a few hundred militants have gone to Iraq as a result of recruiting efforts on the continent, mostly Muslims whose families immigrated from the Middle East or North Africa. Authorities alleged the network raised an unspecified amount of money, produced fake passports and recruited people for jihad. "Germany is not the main target of militant Islamist operations — today's line goes from Germany or other European countries to Iraq," said Rolf Tophoven, an expert at the Essen-based Institute for Terrorism Research and Security Issues. "They try to recruit and bring potential suiciders — potential terrorists — together and they will send them from Germany to Iraq to fight against the allied forces under the leadership of the United States."
There's only sketchy evidence that any of the recruited radicals have returned to Europe from fighting in Iraq, but that remains a top fear, Tophoven said. "The big threat is that they will eventually come back to European countries and they will come back with an image, with a reputation as heroes who fought the unbelievers, as it was in the war against the former Soviet Union in Afghanistan," he said. "If they do, they come back from Iraq trained, they know how to fight, they know how to do an ambush, how to make a bomb, and so on, and intelligence is afraid of these developments."
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Thereâs only sketchy evidence that any of the recruited radicals have returned to Europe from fighting in Iraq, but that remains a top fear, Tophoven said.
Most of them are dead c/o the Coalition forces. Its the Mexican approach to their internal problem, help those who would be trouble at home to move on to be other peoples' problem. So don't expect this part of the WOT to be worked too hard by the European nations. Wonder how many recruits would be available if the European MSM actually reported how effective the Coalition and Iraqi forces have become in insuring these jihadist never returned and that they are hated by most Iraqis?
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I've seen some interview notes with some of the captured recruits, and they express disgust and shock at how they were lied to, the rosy picture of driving Americans before them like sheep, etc. The reality of getting severely s-kicked, after the commanders have bugged out and left them to their fates, is apparently not what they signed on for.
Reminds me of a great song by deceased Cdn. singer Stan Rogers, "Halifax Pier," in which a wannabe "privateer" teenager is lamenting the loss of his youth and legs after taking on an American gold freighter in a rattletrap pirate ship. If you can find an MP3 or whatever, have a listen. Or email me and I'll send it.
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They're chaining boomers to the vehicle, these days. That pretty much sums it up.
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It will be vitally important that the Lebanese get support and that the story stays in the forefront of the world stage. The Syrians are on the defensive, which is not a good place to be. An aquiescing Syrian govt is also perceived as weak, to the Syrian people, and Kurds in the neighborhood, which may bring change in Syria.
The fly in the ointment is Hezb'Allah, which has everything to lose by losing its base of operations. They will not be pushed out of the area without a fight. This is where they need a leadership decapitation, figuratively speaking, of course.
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Lebanon's Hizbollah group will not lay down its weapons despite international pressure, because Lebanese still needed its guerrillas as a defense against Israel, the group's chief said Sunday. "The resistance will not give up its arms... because Lebanon needs the resistance to defend it," Hizbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah told reporters.
Fox News says that Hezbollah's going to hold pro-Syrian demonstrations. Yesterday pro-Syrian "demonstrators" shot up Beirut's Christian sector, and I imagine we'll see more of this, so that Syria will be obliged to remain to "maintain order." Iran — not so much Syria — isn't going to want to give up its foothold in Lebanon, and they're going to fight us tooth and nail. The difference between this and the Orange and Rose revolutions is that the Ukes and the Georgians didn't want to shoot up their own people. Hezbollah doesn't regard non-Hezbollah as being their own.
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Hizbollah is in a pickle.
They need Syria to deliver their munitions and to provide some technical assistance to keep some of their armed positions functional.
Hizbollah's pro Syrian moves are quickly losing them friends in the Amal faction and making them increasingly unpopular among the Sunnis.
BEIRUT: Lebanese army troops backed by several armoured vehicles took up positions near the Syrian intelligence headquarters in a Beirut suburb on Saturday. It was not immediately clear what prompted the deployment of the approximately 50 troops, three armoured personnel carriers and several trucks. The deployment, about 150 meters (yards) from the Beau Rivage Hotel where the main Syrian intelligence units for the Beirut area are located, comes a few hours before Syrian President Bashar Assad was expected to announce a withdrawal from Syrian forces from Lebanon.
Meanwhile, US President George W Bush said on Saturday that Syria is an obstacle to securing peace across the Middle East, making a new demand that Syria withdraw its troops from Lebanon. The US leader said however that anti-Syrian demonstration by thousands of people in Lebanon was one of the "remarkable" new signs of democracy sweeping the region. "For years, the Lebanese people have suffered from the aftermath of a horrific civil war and occupation by Syria," Bush said in his weekly radio address. "Lebanese citizens who have watched free elections in Iraq are now demanding the right to decide their own destiny, free of Syrian control and domination. "Syria has been an occupying force in Lebanon for nearly three decades, and Syria's support for terrorism remains a key obstacle to peace in the broader Middle East."
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Who do the Lebanese troops represent? The people or the opposition?
that Syria is an obstacle to securing peace across the Middle East There are no quotes, but I don't think Bush could be any more clear.
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Photoshop'd picture? Why would the Lebaness be parading an English language sign? Maybe because they want someone's attention? Couldn't be the French.
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I've seen "SYRIA'L KILLER" in the newspapers, and just because they're Lebanese doesn't mean they're not English literate or not intending it for our consumption ...
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The question is: at what the Lebanese troops are pointing their weapons? At the headquarters or away from it to protect the Syrians from Lebanese mobs?
Israel has agreed to hand over the first West Bank city to Palestinian control on Tuesday, a senior Palestinian security official said. The official told Reuters "we will assume our security responsibilities in (the West Bank town of) Tulkarm on Tuesday." Israeli security sources confirmed that such a hand over was being discussed but a Defense Ministry official said no date would be set until an upcoming meeting of Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Israel had agreed last month to hand over five cities in the West Bank which its troops had reoccupied during a more than four-year uprising that erupted after peace talks failed. Israel then delayed carrying out the pledge it made on the eve of a Feb. 8 summit in Egypt after a suicide bombing killed five Israelis in Tel Aviv nine days ago. But the sides resumed security talks over handing over the cities on Sunday. A military source said Israel's top West Bank commander had met with a top Palestinian commander on the issue and that more meetings would be held this week.
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Four Iraqis, including one woman, were wounded when a motorcycle rigged with explosives blew up in the Baghdad Sunni neighborhood of Adhamiyah, police said.
Oh, how will we ever end these Cycles of Violence?
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A Sunni neighborhood? Premature detonation. Adjust the timing by rotating the distributor...
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ah great, every time a cycle boomer goes up we get to see that fantastic picture of Achmed on his cycle of violence,superb, keep up the good work guys cya :)
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Shep I belive that is courtesy of your countryman Howard.
Southern Sudanese rebels said militia fighters allied to the northern Khartoum government had attacked them despite a peace deal supposed to end Africa's longest war. The attacks over the last three weeks on positions held by the Sudan People's Liberation Army in the southeastern area of Acobo could undermine the peace agreement, SPLA chief commander Salva Kiir Mayardit told Reuters late on Friday.
The Khartoum government and the SPLA signed a comprehensive peace deal in Kenya in January to end two decades of civil war. "We know it (the militia attacks) is the program of the government of Sudan because... They are getting logistics from the government of Sudan," he said. "The SPLA is fighting in self-defense. They are very serious and that can undermine the peace agreement itself because you cannot talk about peace when you are fighting on the other side." Militias were also preparing to attack other SPLA positions in the southeast, Kiir said. He urged the government to take control of the militias and stop their activities.
The southern civil war pitted the Islamist government against the mainly pagan and Christian south, complicated by issues of oil ethnicity and ideology. It claimed more than 2 million lives and forced more than 4 million from their homes. The SPLA's humanitarian commissioner Elijah Malok said the recent fighting had displaced 250,000 people, though international aid officials said that figure appeared high. Kiir urged donors to come forward with pledges and said the international community was not moving quickly enough to support civilians returning to the south. "We are not satisfied with the way things are moving. There is looming disaster in southern Sudan — they (the international community) — are not moving fast enough." "There are not really preparations that have been made by the UN ... because the donors have not released the new money," said the ethnic Dinka commander.
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are not really preparations that have been made by the UN ... because the donors have not released the new money,
Sorry, but Kofi's got's lawyers fees to pay and you don't have enough 5 star restaraunts to rate even the pretense of "intervention".
Authorities will seize heavy weapons belonging to tribesmen near the Afghan border if they are not surrendered in a government buy-back program meant to disarm militants in the region, a security official said today. The government wants to purchase anti-aircraft guns, missiles, mortars, rocket launchers, landmines, hand-grenades, light machineguns and assault rifles from tribesmen, Brigadier Mehmood Shah, security chief of tribal areas, told AFP. "We are waiting a response from tribesmen and if no one comes up to sell these weapons then we will work out a strategy to confiscate them," Shah said. "A committee has been set up in each tribal region to execute the government's policy on keeping such lethal arms away from the people," he said. Tribesmen, however, could keep some small arms for personal protection, he said.
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I always thought these buy back programs were a joke. They must work - cause they keep doing them. Maybe the people who turn them in are they type of people that - when in need of money - would be just as happy to sell them to criminals as to sell them to the police. In that light, you'd put a crimp in the supply.
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What do the governments do with them when they buy them at coercive prices? Melt them down? right. I suspect they give them to friends, resell them at a profit or if they do melt them down, they get a rebate from the gun manufacturers association.
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In a dramatic move, a team of Criminal Investigation Department from Pune, arrested yesterday evening four Bombay police encounter specialists on charges of murdering Khawaja Yunus, in January 2003. The arrests of the top notch encounter specialists Police Inspector Prafull Bhosale, Assistant Inspectors Hemant Desai, V.N. Mane and Nitin Hemane by the CID has caused jitters in the police ranks of Bombay. Another Assistant Inspector Sachin Vaze, had been arrested last year in this connection and is under suspension. The arrested cops were detained at the local office of the state CID at Sewree and will be produced before the court this morning, said a source from the CID in Pune.
Khawaja Yunus was arrested in December 2002 and accused of planting bombs in a local municipal bus which exploded in the busy Ghatkopar suburb in Bombay, which killed two people, an injured several others. Suspended Assistant Inspector Sachin Vaze, who took Khawaja Yunus for investigations to Aurangabad in January 2003, had then stated that the alleged accused had escaped from custody, when the police jeep in which Khwaja and the police team were traveling, overturned near Parner in Ahmednagar, and alleged that the accused had escaped taking advantage of the accident. But the parents of Yunus cried foul and said that their son had not escaped but had been murdered by Vaze and his team. Another accused Dr. Abdul Mateen Basit, a lecturer, who was also accused in the bomb blast, told the CID team that during interrogation in the police custody, he saw the deceased Yunus vomiting lot of blood and also heard his cries when being beaten and tortured.
I think they need some pointers from the Banglas. They simply don't do the escape-crossfire thing well at all.
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A gunbattle between US-led coalition forces and Pakistanis militants in eastern Afghanistan left three Pakistanis militants and two civilians dead, the US military said on Saturday. Two coalition soldiers and three civilians were also wounded in the clash on Wednesday, which began when Pakistanis militants fired on the coalition forces. A statement issued by the US military in Afghanistan did not say where the incident occurred, other than that it was in the east of the country really close to Pakistan.
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Just think, a coupla years ago they had gunbattles lasting hours - with no casualties. Some lethality has rubbed off, it seems. And I'll bet they save a ton on ammo, too.
Unknown miscreants blew up a portion of Quetta-Zahedan rail track connecting the provincial capitals of Balochistan in Pakistan and Sistan-Baluchestan in Iran, press reports said on Friday.
"Take that, you heathen Persian sons of monkeys and pigs!"
The Thursday blast was the third such attack in a month on this route, the Daily Times reported. A delayed fortnightly train between the two cities of Quetta and Zahedan left early Thursday after engineers worked overnight to repair the track. Meanwhile, unidentified criminals blew up a Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited microwave transmission tower in Balochistan province. No one has taken blame for these incidents so far.
It was ruffians. Miscreants are assigned to transportation, ruffians handle communications.
A series of attacks on gas pipelines, power-lines and rail tracks have been reported in the province in recent months.
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What do the brigands do over there, Seafarious?
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AP, brigands are obsolete. They have been replaced by deviants.
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Ohhhh Noooo! Word has it on on the streets of Quetta that soon the Miscreants will deploy a battalion of bastards, blackguards, frauds, heels, lowlifes, rapscallions, reprobates, rogues, scallywags, scamps, scoundrels, swindlers, villains and left leaning loons!
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Best beware, all. Janos has a dictionary, and he knows how to use it! ;-)
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British police charged two men and a woman on Saturday with a plot to fund terrorism and said one of them belonged to a banned Kashmiri militant group based in Pakistan. Britain's Metropolitan Police said 
France and Spain are working towards removing Hamas from the European Union's list of terror organizations, the London based newspaper Asharq al-Awsat quoted Palestinian sources as saying Sunday. According to reports, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos has appointed envoys to look into the possibility of removing the organization from the list. The report added that removal of Hamas from the list would be subject to a Hamas commitment to end suicide bombings and attacks on Israeli citizens. 
Islamic terror groups are becoming increasingly active in Germany and coordinating with militants across Europe to recruit fighters to join the insurgency in Iraq, equipping them with fake passports, money and medical supplies, security officials say. One of the best examples of the cross-continent cooperation involves an Algerian man arrested in Germany and now on trial in Italy for allegedly helping Muslims from Somalia, Egypt, Iraq and Morocco recruit some 200 militants from around Europe to fight in Iraq. 
Lebanon's 
BEIRUT: Lebanese army troops backed by several armoured vehicles took up positions near the Syrian intelligence headquarters in a Beirut suburb on Saturday. It was not immediately clear what prompted the deployment of the approximately 50 troops, three armoured personnel carriers and several trucks. The deployment, about 150 meters (yards) from the Beau Rivage Hotel where the main Syrian intelligence units for the Beirut area are located, comes a few hours before Syrian President Bashar Assad was expected to announce a withdrawal from Syrian forces from Lebanon. 
Israel has agreed to hand over the first West Bank city to Palestinian control on Tuesday, a senior Palestinian security official said. The official told Reuters "we will assume our security responsibilities in (the West Bank town of) Tulkarm on Tuesday." Israeli security sources confirmed that such a hand over was being discussed but a Defense Ministry official said no date would be set until an upcoming meeting of Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. 
Four Iraqis, including one woman, were wounded when a motorcycle rigged with explosives blew up in the Baghdad Sunni neighborhood of 
Southern Sudanese rebels said militia fighters allied to the northern Khartoum government had attacked them despite a peace deal supposed to end Africa's longest war. The attacks over the last three weeks on positions held by the 
Authorities will seize heavy weapons belonging to tribesmen near the Afghan border if they are not surrendered in a government buy-back program meant to disarm militants in the region, a security official said today. The government wants to purchase anti-aircraft guns, missiles, mortars, rocket launchers, landmines, hand-grenades, light machineguns and assault rifles from tribesmen, Brigadier Mehmood Shah, security chief of tribal areas, told AFP. "We are waiting a response from tribesmen and if no one comes up to sell these weapons then we will work out a strategy to confiscate them," Shah said. "A committee has been set up in each tribal region to execute the government's policy on keeping such lethal arms away from the people," he said. Tribesmen, however, could keep some small arms for personal protection, he said.
In a dramatic move, a team of Criminal Investigation Department from Pune, arrested yesterday evening four Bombay police encounter specialists on charges of murdering 
A gunbattle between US-led coalition forces and 
