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Sorry for the delay. No RDS&TP to attach post to last night. Off scraping the ball around the course this morning but still no published edition. Finally got back but had to endure a wine nap attack before posting. Gomenasai, GB
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A roadside bomb struck a bus in western Afghanistan, killing at least 1 civilian and wounding 10 others, the govt said. The bomb went off as the civilian bus drove over the device in the Pushtrod district of Farah province on Saturday morning, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
"The mine was planted by the enemies of Afghanistan on a public road," the statement said, without identifying a specific group.
No group, including the Taliban, has claimed responsibility for the attack in the remote Afghan province, bordering Iran.
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MARINES have disarmed 12 Somali pirates who mistakenly attacked a Dutch warship thinking it was a merchant vessel.
The Dutch frigate Hr Ms Tromp, responding to a sighting from a German patrol plane, encountered the pirates' "mother boat" and two smaller motorised attack boats off the Somali coast.
"When the Tromp came within eight nautical miles of the pirates, two attack boats stormed the Tromp on the assumption that the frigate was a merchant vessel," said statement from the Dutch Government.
"When they realised they were trying to storm a warship, they abandoned the attack and made haste trying to get away", throwing overboard a number of weapons and ladders normally used for boarding hijacked vessels.
Warning shots fired from the frigate forced the three pirate boats to come to a halt, and marines found 12 people on board, the statement said.
"The marine frigate destroyed the two attack boats, and all the pirates were put on board the mother boat with sufficient food, water and fuel and sent back to Somalia."
The marines did not arrest the group because of a lack of physical evidence.
"After they threw overboard the weapons and ladders, they could not be linked to a specific pirate attack," the Dutch Government said.
The Tromp has found and disarmed 32 pirates in the past week. In total, it has disarmed 44 pirates while participating in a European Union anti-piracy mission in the lawless waters off the Horn of Africa nation.
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An eight man Boarding Party could handle the execution and disposal of all the Pirates with no further assistance. You board their largest Vessel( assuming the "Mother ship" to be that vessel.) You bring your Pirates aboard and bind them. Nylon tie-ties will be adequate ( in lieu of handcuffs ) and maybe a little communications wire. Blindfold them and gather them in one place.
Take them one at a time down below deck where the work can be most conveniently done. Someplace where you can close the metal door and make things relatively quiet.
then...."A shochet( the senior NCO) uses a chalef knife ( no nicks in the blade, clean it in a bucket of water after each job and resharpen the edge on a barber's strap ) to cut the throat.
A chalet is not a big knife, its about the size of an average File, superior steel very like a straight razor but with no sharp knife tip, very like a straight Razor, as I say....Rinse it in the bucket after each use, strop it a couple of turns on the Barbers belt and then bring down the next man.
Get two NCOs to hold the Pirate ( detail two men with JUST bringing the men down..keep their shoes clean that way, no stains) and make each Pirate bend the knee. He's blindfolded, he wont have any warning at all except if he smells the volume of blood and recognized the smell.But chances are he wont recognize the smell and you arent going to give him any "long moment".
Do the work quickly. Drag the body aft and secure the hatch.
Everyone doesnt want to actually DO killing. You all seem to want to "distance" yourself from the actual getting the job done. Take their boat away from them ( yeah?)...let the Sea do the work? Comfy with that, are we?
You dont have to watch their bowels relax and actually handle them while the body does a post death sweat?( ever wonder why a corpse just killed is so wet?) Of course you dont. Put a Limpet mine and let that do the work... you wont even have to watch.
Then too, maybe there isnt a single man on board your "warship" who CAN slit a throat. That's very likely. Do you know how hard it is to get good killers? Even the Marine Corp doesnt have all that many. Button pushers and good little boys are far more common. But "nasty" stuff...stuff that has a unique smell to it....men who CAN... and look you right in the eye on Tuesday...that's more rare.
It HARD to kill people. Most individuals have a natural aversion to it. No one finds it polite to be THAT guy. Everybody is ASHAMED to be regarded as that "dirty" individual who actually doesnt find it all that difficult.
There is always that one man ( you just have to find him is all) who smiles and knows EXACTLY how to make the slice and then rinse the knife and nod. "Bring the next one down."
Sink the boat after the pirates are all ...done up... and the hatch secured when you blow a hole in the hull. Do it after dark and dont explain it to the rest of the warship's crew. Tell the rest of the crew you left them with enough fuel and rations to reach the coast. Sink the "Mother Ship" with a timed charge...nothing big...just adequate. Set it to detonate after you are over the Horizon. Nobody will know.
I certainly wont tell.
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A shochet? We're going to make this a matter for a trained kosher butcher then, are we?
Personally, I have no problem with summary execution, so long as there are witnesses to the actual attack who are willing to swear that those executed were attempting piracy. It's rather silly to say, "We saw them use the tools, we saw them throw the tools overboard, but now that they don't have the tools in their possession we cannot prove they weren't simply, unarmed pleasure cruisers all along."
I don't personally care what method is used -- rope from the yardarm, shochet's knife, firing squad, or a single bullet behind the ear, just so long as it's not drawn out. Nor dwellt on, either. Piracy is supposed to be a risky business, not a protected one.
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I take it this means none of the Pirate Boyz noticed the ship's weapons = big ship thingys that go boom-boom, etc. before they launched their attack???
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I'm not sure who the goat is here - the pirates for not being able to tell a frigate from a freighter or the Dutch for having a warship that could be mistaken for a merchant.
Crew on board a ship belonging to Israeli shipping company ZIM foiled an attempted hijacking off Somalia on Saturday, Israel Radio reported.
The ship Africa Star was on route from Mombasa in Kenya to Djibouti when pirates attacked as it sailed close to the Somali coast. Two boats approached the ship and opened fire but were driven off following a gun battle with Israel security guards.
This is the second time the Africa Star has been attacked in a week. On Wednesday the ship was attacked close to the site of Saturday's incident, but then too pirates were prevented from boarding the vessel.
Earlier this week pirates stormed a ship carrying Israeli cargo from the Ashdod to Thailand in the Indian Ocean. No Israelis on board the MV Frigia, which was sailing under a Maltese flag. The Turkish-owned vessel was carrying between 20,000 to 40,000 tons of potash for Israeli chemicals producer ICL - valued at some $11 million - when it was seized.
In recent weeks, NATO and EU naval forces have prevented 17 pirate attacks in the area off the coast of Somalia
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Did the author of this crap article suck Israeli cock for living? Or the owner of this crappy blog with no readers think that Israel ass kissing bring him American sympathy?
Sorry dude but you are senile and need to see a doctor
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"The ship Africa Star was on route from Mombasa in Kenya to Djibouti when pirates attacked as it sailed close to the Somali coast. Two boats approached the ship and opened fire but were driven off following a gun battle with Israel security guards. "
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If it happens again, it would make me wonder if the Israelis are running a deliberate pirate hunting operation, using willing merchant vessels. It would be a great way to do a little power projection, with built-in deniability.
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Oh, Eric. I saw what you did, and you're buying the next round at the O Club. I'll have a club soda with lime -- I have a sponge cake to bake and matzah balls to mix up yet tonight, not to mention roasting a couple of eggs and chicken leg bones.
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It's made from seltzer, a little bit of milk, and chocolate syrup, usually Fox's. Popular in NY delis for a long time.
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What, no eggs, Eric?
That's certainly misleading....
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It's an old puzzle: why don't egg creams have any egg? I don't know why not. But they don't.
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What a gyp. ;-p
I lived in Manhattan for several year after I got out of high school, but never tried one. I wasn't an adventurous eater then.
(Did like Orange Julius, though - but that's not very adventurous.)
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I'm sure it's delicious, Eric, but sounds like one of those things one must grow up with to appreciate, like tuna fish salad sandwiches. I grew up at the other end of the state. I'll stick with my club soda.
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The story behind the story is that since Little Rock got a weak kneed, squishy liberal mayor, the place has turned into a shooting gallery. And all the mayor does is stand around, wringing his hands and whining about "Why can't we all just get along?"
Which, of course, is interpreted in the bad part of town as open season for drug dealing and homicide. For their part, the police are more than happy to see thugs for the most part kill other thugs.
Every now and then, I get clippings of local news from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, one of the last good, privately owned, classic style newspapers left in the US. Little Rocks bad men are bad.
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Little Rock has been a shooting gallery for quite some time now. HBO did a special called Bangin in Little Rock about 20 years ago talking about all the gangs there.
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Not a federal case, not terror related? Sounds like denial, cover-up of the circumstances by the feds (Holder?).
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"Being gunned down in uniform by a self-described Islamic warrior obviously does not rise to the level of a terrorist act as far as I can tell under this administration," the retired Marine officer said. "... The failure to include the death of a serving U.S. soldier and the wounding of another outside an Army office in America's heartland as a terrorist act by a home-grown jihadist who has ties to Yemen himself is beyond me."
It wouldn't be beyond you if you took Obama's basic nature into account.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized almost 3,000 rounds of ammunition, several ammunition clips and arrested a Matamoros man, authorities said.
Julio Salazar Galan, 19, was arrested Wednesday noon at the B&M International Bridge after CBP officers found the 2,880 rounds of ammunition and six ammunition clips for assault rifles hidden in the spare tire of his vehicle, said a criminal complaint filed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He was charged with importation of ammunition without proper documentation.
On Thursday morning, Salazar went before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ronald Morgan who ordered he be held without bond until a detention hearing next week and remanded him to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service.
The seizure took place when Salazar drove a 2003 Chevrolet TrailBlazer on the southbound lane of the bridge by CBP officers at a checkpoint, who referred him to a secondary inspection area, said a CBP press release.
Inside the spare tire of the SUV, CBP officers discovered 18 plastic bags containing the ammunition.
In total, CBP seized 13 armor piercing rounds, 650 rounds of M-30 caliber ammunition, 1,827 rounds of .223 caliber ammunition and 390 rounds of 9mm ammunition, the release said. Officers also recovered five ammunition clips for .223 caliber rounds and one clip for 7.62mm rounds.
Once in custody, Galan told special agents with ICE that on March 15 he had been approached at a bus stop in Brownsville by an unidentified man who asked him if he wanted to make some quick money by taking "tiros" into Mexico, records show.
On Wednesday, Salazar met with the man who took him to an undisclosed location where they loaded the tire under the SUV. Salazar was supposed to cross the bridge and wait for some men to flag him down on the other side where he would turn over the tire and get paid $500, ICE said.
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13 armor piercing rounds?
13 is not many but still a concern. What kind of armor do they pierce and what caliber?
Many of the MSM believe that any firearm or round is scary. Naively, they want a world without firearms; but mostly they want to disarm the legally armed who they perceive as a threat. Legally armed citizens as a group are one of the most law-abiding despite these left-wing perceptions. Nearly every country that disarmed its citizens was well on the road to central control of its citizens and tyranny. This resulted in the deaths of millions.
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$500 to transport that fairly small amount of ammo? Seems like a lot to pay when you could probably get the same, less the AP, for about $.50 legally here and that's before you start scrounging the guns shows and such.
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make that 50 cents per round. or $1500. Then again if you stole it from an armory in Mexico or a Police station and just needed some shmuck to transport it to a buyer....
[Dawn] Pakistani air strikes Saturday killed at least 11 militants in a new offensive against foreign fighters in the restive northwest tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, officials said.
A paramilitary spokesman told AFP the 11 militants were killed in attacks on three places in Orakzai district and a local tribal administration official confirmed the death toll.
It was not immediately clear if there were any foreign militants among the dead, but Pakistan said Friday that 32 militants and five soldiers were killed in the heaviest battle against Arab, Afghan and Uzbek fighters.
Troops on Wednesday expanded their campaign against Taliban militants believed to have fled a major offensive in South Waziristan last year by launching an assault to eradicate them from neighbouring Orakzai.
In a separate incident, militants early Saturday blew up a boys middle school in Alingarh village of Mohmand tribal district, where troops are also hunting Taliban rebels, local administration chief Amjad Ali Khan said.
"The school was destroyed in the bombing, but there were no casualties," Khan told AFP.
Militants blew up another boys primary school early Saturday in Khyber, a lawless tribal district bordering Afghanistan, local administration chief Shafeerullah Wazir told AFP, but there were no casualties.
Ay Pee notes that more than 100 have been killed in this week's military offensive in Orakzai.
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Why are they blowing up boys schools? Students trying to get out of exams?
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Agreed, Mike R. Usually they blow up girls' schools. Perhaps there aren't any in Orakzai district anymore -- the Taliban have been busy there, preparing the ground so to speak.
[Dawn] Fierce gun battles between Indian soldiers and separatist rebels Saturday in the region of Indian-administered Kashmir killed nine insurgents, the army said.
"Five rebels who crossed over to the Indian-administered portion of Kashmir from the Pakistani side were killed in a shootout in the Keran area," said Lt. Col. J.S. Brar, an Indian army spokesman. Four more militants were killed in two other gun battles in the region, said Lt. Col. Biplab Nath, another spokesman.
Brar said three more rebels were killed in the mountains near Keran over the past three days. Both officers said the army did not suffer any casualties in the fighting.
There were no independent reports of gun battles in the region and no rebel groups released statements about clashes.
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The Indian Federal Police have also bagged about 20 maoists
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[Dawn] Police on Saturday found the bodies of six truck drivers who were kidnapped a few days ago in a restive northwestern town, officials said. The drivers were shot dead and their bodies were found in Thal district, local police official Abdul Rehman told AFP.
"A letter found in the pocket of one dead truck driver said that if anyone supplied goods to the Parachinar Shia community, he will be treated like this," Rehman said.
Parachinar, the main town of Kurram tribal district, is a sectarian flashpoint where activists from the rival Shia and Sunni Muslim sects have clashed in the past. A police spokesman confirmed the incident, but did not identify the suspects, saying an investigation was in progress.
Shias account for about 20 per cent of Pakistan's Sunni-dominated population. The two communities usually coexist peacefully, but more than 4,000 people have died in outbreaks of sectarian violence since the late 1980s. Attacks by extremists, meanwhile, have killed more than 3,100 people since July 2007. Most attacks are blamed on the Pakistani Taliban.
Separately, militants early Saturday blew up a boys' middle school in Alingarh village of Mohmand tribal district, where troops are hunting Taliban militants, local administration chief Amjad Ali Khan said.
"The school was destroyed in the bombing, but there were no casualties," Khan told AFP.
Taliban militants have destroyed 36 government school buildings in Mohmand since 2009.
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Four people have been killed in the latest US drone attack on local tribesmen in Pakistan's northwestern area near the border with Afghanistan.
A US drone fired two missiles into the compounds belonging to what Washington calls suspected militant hideouts in the suburbs of Mir Ali, a town in North Waziristan.
The missiles targeted "two compounds owned by local tribesmen," AFP quoted a local security official who spoke on condition of anonymity as saying.
"We have confirmation of four people killed and more than five injured," said another Pakistani security official.
The identities of the victims were not immediately revealed.
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Militants have killed at least six truck divers who were trying to supply goods to the besieged Shia Muslims in Pakistan's northwestern town of Parachinar.
Pakistani police found the dead bodies on Saturday in the nearby restive northwestern Thal district.
"A letter found in the pocket of one dead truck driver said that if anyone supplied goods to the Parachinar Shia community, he will be treated like this," local police official Abdul Rehman told AFP.
The drivers were kidnapped a few days ago on their way to Parachinar, the main town of Kurram tribal district.
Shia Muslims in Pakistan's Kurram Agency have been facing a serious humanitarian crisis since November 2007, when pro-Taliban militants cut off the area from the rest of the country.
They have imposed a crippling blockade on the Shia communities in the region since then.
Local sources say more than 2,000 Shia Muslims have been killed in the region since the extremists launched a bloody campaign against them two years ago.
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The Pentagon said Saturday that Salomi was back under U.S. military control but gave no details on his disappearance or return. The family says he is expected to arrive at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio within a week.
Asaib Ahl al-Haq, known in English as the League of the Righteous, said the four were freed "in response to our demands following the capture of the American officer" a reference to Salomi, who was not identified by name. The statement's authenticity could not be verified but it was posted on a Web site commonly used by the group.
Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said Sunday he had "no information that anyone was released in return" for Salomi.
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Several bombs exploded Sunday near a house linked to a prominent Sunni figure who ran in this month's parliamentary elections in Iraq, killing five people and wounding 26 others, a police official said. The official said the house belongs to a brother of Sheik Murdhi Muhammad al-Mahalawi, a Sunni candidate who ran on the Iraqiya list led by former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, the top vote-getter in the March 7 balloting.
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BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Two civilians have been injured when an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated near a movie theater in the capital Baghdad, a local police source said on Saturday.
The device went off near Baghdad Movie Theater in al-Allawi area, downtown Baghdad, wounding two civilians who were taken to a nearby hospital,' the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The blast caused damage to the building as well as nearby stores, the source pointed out.
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Several Israeli armoured vehicles including bulldozers entered Gaza on Sunday apparently to destroy tunnels near the site of deadly weekend clashes, according to witnesses.
The forces moved around 500 metres (yards) inside Gaza, dug large trenches and fired warning shots to keep farmers away, they said. There were no reports of anyone wounded or killed. An Israeli military spokesman said forces operating "near the fence" discovered a dead body and an explosive device which was later blown up in a controlled manner, without providing further details.
Sunday's incursion in the southern Khan Yunis area was near the site where Israeli tanks, bulldozers and jeeps backed by helicopters late Friday conducted an operation in which a Palestinian militant was killed, seven people were wounded and two houses damaged.
That operation was launched after a firefight in which two Israeli soldiers were killed and two others wounded, one of them seriously. The weekend fighting was the heaviest since the 22-day Gaza war ended in January 2009.
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The Rachael Corrie Dozer Brigade.
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Tunnel digging isn't easy, and depends on solid ground. So it seems to me that the Israelis should invent a portable, high speed, tube drilling auger, that would quickly bore a hole in the ground 100' deep. Then insert a device like a Bangalore torpedo into the hole, whose purpose is to shatter rock.
Creating a pattern of such bore holes would take a few hours, but when all the charges were popped, tunneling over a 100-200' distance would be like trying to tunnel through sand. Any existing tunnels in the area would be collapsed. Surface damage would be minimal.
Something like this was done in WWI by the British and the Germans, who would dig long tunnels, then fill up caverns with ammonium nitrate and fuel oil, creating immense explosions underneath their enemy.
The British didn't care for that, so invented "counter-mining" against the German tunnels.
"A notable example was the Battle of Messines, when 450 tonnes of high explosive were placed in 21 mines after about two years of sapping. Approximately 10,000 German troops were killed when 19 of the mines were simultaneously detonated. One of the explosive caches exploded years later. The 21st cache was never found and there are still several tonnes of high explosive buried somewhere in the Belgian countryside."
But the task for the Israelis would be somewhat simpler, in that the Egyptian-Gaza border is only about 8 miles long.
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So it seems to me that the Israelis should invent a portable, high speed, tube drilling auger, that would quickly bore a hole in the ground 100' deep. Then insert a device like a Bangalore torpedo into the hole, whose purpose is to shatter rock.
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My thoughts too, Besoeker. Petersburg, Va. it was. I lived right out side of there in the 1990's. Union miners dug a big mine and blew it up under the Confederates. As I remember from the tour of the battleground, something went amiss and after the explosion the Union troops were confused and more of them got killed than the Southern army troops. Believe it or not, the crater still exist today, that's how big the explosion was back 1864. And if memory serves, the battle for Petersburg was the last big battle before Lee surrendered at Appomattox a few weeks later.
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Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah continued to bicker over the weekend over which party was responsible for killing two IDF soldiers near Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday. Each group issued a statement taking credit for the clash, triggering tensions between their armed wings and supporters. They have also accused each other of lying about this matter.
Hamas leaders, meanwhile, have taken precautions in anticipation of Israeli reprisal. Some are said to have gone into hiding, while many Hamas-run institutions have been evacuated for fear of being targeted by the IAF.
The first to claim responsibility was Hamas's armed wing, Izzadin Kassam, which said its surveillance unit' spotted an IDF unit that had infiltrated the Gaza Strip and was surrounding gunmen belonging to Islamic Jihad's armed wing, the Quds Battalions. According to the Hamas group, its snipers opened fire at the Golani Brigade infantrymen as soon as they entered the Strip and surrounded the Islamic Jihad cell. Hamas militiamen later took to the streets of Khan Yunis and Gaza City to celebrate the killing of the soldiers, eyewitnesses said.
Hamas political leaders also rushed to claim responsibility, saying the group maintained the right to prevent the IDF from invading the Gaza Strip. They said the operation was also a gift' to slain Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, whom the movement claims was assassinated by Israeli agents in Dubai on January 19.
Sami Abu Zuhri, a spokesman for Hamas, said the Khan Yunis incident was a natural response' to daily Israeli aggression on our lands and people, as well as an expression of solidarity with Jerusalem and the Aksa Mosque.' Hamas, he added, won't sit quiet as Israel continues with its attempts to Judaize Jerusalem.'
Fatah's armed wing, the Aksa Martyrs Brigades, also rushed to take credit for killing the soldiers. A leaflet distributed by the group in the Gaza Strip claimed that its gunmen opened fire at the IDF unit after they found themselves ambushed. However, journalists in the Strip said Fatah's claim was not being taken seriously by many Palestinians.
The main dispute over the attack is now between Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which continues to insist that its men killed the soldiers. According to Islamic Jihad, its men were planting bombs near the border with Israel when they were intercepted by the soldiers. The Golani patrol tried to kill the Islamic Jihad men, but came under fire from nearby, the group said in a statement.
Islamic Jihad said that the IDF's version regarding the clash corroborates its claim that the soldiers were killed by gunfire and explosions from close range and not from a distance. Hamas snipers would have had to fire at the soldiers from at least 250 meters away, but even the Zionist enemy' has admitted that the soldiers were not killed by sniper fire, Islamic Jihad spokesmen explained.
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Hamas leaders, meanwhile, have taken precautions in anticipation of Israeli reprisal. Some are said to have gone into hiding, while many Hamas-run institutions have been evacuated for fear of being targeted by the IAF.
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A roadside bomb struck a bus in western Afghanistan, killing at least 1 civilian and wounding 10 others, the govt said. The bomb went off as the civilian bus drove over the device in the Pushtrod district of Farah province on Saturday morning, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. 
Crew on board a ship belonging to Israeli shipping company ZIM foiled an attempted hijacking off Somalia on Saturday, Israel Radio reported. 
Four people have been killed in the latest US drone attack on local tribesmen in Pakistan's northwestern area near the border with Afghanistan. 
Militants have killed at least six truck divers who were trying to supply goods to the besieged Shia Muslims in Pakistan's northwestern town of Parachinar. 
Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah continued to bicker over the weekend over which party was responsible for killing two IDF soldiers near Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday. Each group issued a statement taking credit for the clash, triggering tensions between their armed wings and supporters. They have also accused each other of lying about this matter.
