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Afghanistan
Roadside bomb kills 12 Afghans in minibus
Pointing up the dangers faced by Afghan civilians as insurgents take aim at Western troops, a minibus in eastern Afghanistan hit a roadside bomb Wednesday, killing 12 passengers, provincial officials said.

Wednesday's explosion took place in the Tani district in Khowst province, near the Pakistan frontier. The Pakistan-based Haqqani network is the most active insurgent group there, staging frequent attacks on American troops. But no group took immediate responsibility for the blast.

Mobariz Zadran, a provincial spokesman, said that in addition to the dozen fatalities, four people aboard the van were injured. Zadran said women and children were believed to be among the dead, but the bodies were so badly mutilated by the powerful blast that a precise breakdown could not immediately be provided.

The explosion came as Kabul, the capital, was on high security alert during a military parade marking the 18th anniversary of the toppling of a Soviet-installed government by mujahedin who drove the Red Army out of Afghanistan.

Two years ago, the Taliban attacked the anniversary observances in a bid to assassinate President Hamid Karzai. Karzai was not present for this year's parade; he was at a regional conference in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan.

Other top officials were present, including his two vice presidents. Checkpoints dotted the capital, because any large public gathering is seen as vulnerable to insurgent attacks. Many foreign aid workers and expatriates were under lockdown for the duration of the celebrations.
Posted by: Steve White || 04/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Horn
EU Naval Task Force Pirate News Roundup
Rewritten news releases from the EU Naval Task Force operating off the coast of Somalia
EU Naval task force reports two pirate forces attacked, and two hijacked vessels spotted off the coast of Somalia.

On Saturday, April 24th Dutch warship HNLMS Johan de Witt reported intercepting a pirate force trying to leave Somalian waters. Spokesman Major Theo Mestrini said the Dutch warship approached the Somali vessel, known as a "whaler", and noted it was equipped for piracy.

According to the Major, the suspected Somali pirates were surprised to be approached. The whaler was seized and hoisted aboard the warship. Five suspected pirates were returned to Somalia. The is the second time in four days a pirate force was intercepted by the HNLMS Johan de Witt.

The HNLMS Johan de Witt is a Rotterdam class amphibious frigate, not normally used in its current role interdicting boats close to shore.

In other action, Spanish Santa Maria class frigate Victoria intercepted a pirate force 40 miles ( 64 km ) off the coast of Somalia northeast of the Seychelles. The force consisted of a mother ship, a whaler and two skiffs.

A helo crew from the Victoria which spotted the force noted the mother vessel was not equipped for fishing, but had a large number of barrels and an amount of equipment used for piracy, such as ladders and presumably grappling hooks.

The Victoria closed the group's position. The suspect vessels were boarded without opposition from the crew. After confirming the intent of the group, the Somali sailors were placed aboard one of the skiffs, and given enough materiel to return to Somalia. The ship then proceeded to destroy the seized vessels.

In other EU NAVFOR news:
  • The M/V VOC DAISY, which was reported hijacked April 21st, arrived off the coast of Somalia in the vicinity of Garacad.

  • Three Thai fishing vessels ( MV PRANTALAY 11, (26 Thai crew) MV PRANTALAY 12 (25 Thai crew) and MV PRANTALAY 14 (26 Thai crew) ) hijacked April 18th some 1200 nautical miles east of Somalia arrived off the coast of Somalia, also in the vicinity of Garacad.
Posted by: badanov || 04/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is it too much to look forward to the day when the RAB forms a Maritime Division?
Other than having to report the time of the wild gunfire as 0300 rather than 3A.M., I think the rest would pretty much remain the same. Except for a decrease in prisoners, they would undoubtedly drown whilst trying to escape.....
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 04/29/2010 0:53 Comments || Top||

#2  I think they're somewhat backwards, sink the pirates and return the ship, then when other pirates use the ship again, the transponder you put in the ship sends a "come get me signal" repeat as needed.

Think of it as chumming.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 04/29/2010 1:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Oh my. This may even be better than my idea of flamethrowers at the waterline!
Posted by: gorb || 04/29/2010 1:10 Comments || Top||


Africa North
26 in Egypt Are Convicted in Terror Plot
CAIRO — An Egyptian court on Wednesday convicted 26 men of belonging to a Hezbollah cell that was charged with planning to attack Israeli tourists in the Sinai Peninsula, fire on ships passing through the Suez Canal and smuggle weapons, supplies and people through tunnels to the Gaza Strip.

The men's sentences ranged from life in prison to six months in jail. Prosecutors had asked for the death penalty for several defendants, including Muhammad Youssef Mansour, also known as Sami Shehab, who had been sent by Hezbollah to set up the cell in Egypt.

The decision not to issue death sentences was seen as a calculated effort by Egypt to avoid inflaming relations with Syria, a prime sponsor of Hezbollah, a militant, social and political organization in Lebanon, regional experts said. Egypt and Syria have been at odds for several years over the handling of the Palestinian crisis and over Syria's relations with Iran.

“This is a sign of an Egypt that is interested in de-escalating and finding moderate solutions for an issue that loomed very big in the background in its relations with Syria and Lebanon,' said Amr Hamzawy, regional director for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Beirut.

As the verdict was read in a packed Egyptian courtroom, 22 defendants sat behind bars in the prison dock. They shouted “Allahu Akbar,' or God is great, when the verdicts were read.

The other four defendants, including the leader of the cell, Mohammed Qublan, were tried in absentia. Mr. Qublan and two others who were on the run were given life sentences.

The case against the group arose as relations between Egypt and the Hezbollah chief, Hassan Nasrallah, grew extremely heated. Mr. Nasrallah had publicly criticized President Hosni Mubarak, saying that Egypt was not doing enough to aid the Palestinians during the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip in late 2008. Mr. Nasrallah effectively called for a popular uprising against the president, while Egypt accused Hezbollah of being a proxy for Iran.

Mr. Nasrallah acknowledged setting up the group in Egypt but insisted that it was organized only to help the Palestinians, not to conduct terrorist attacks on Egyptian soil. Mr. Mansour's lawyers had said that their client had proposed attacks in Egypt but that Mr. Nasrallah had rejected that plan.

In court on Wednesday, the judge, Adel Abdul Salam Gomaa, dismissed the defense's claim.

“Is targeting ships in the canal support for the Palestinian cause?' the judge asked as he read the verdict. “Is preparing explosives and targeting tourist resorts support for the Palestinians?'
Posted by: Steve White || 04/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Bangladesh
Top outlaw arrested
Police arrested a 'regional leader' of outlawed Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) Janajudhha faction from a remote village of Atghoria upazila early yesterday.
An honest to goodness Purba Banglar commie, and not just a Biplobi commie?
Arrestee Md Rajai,35, is son of Mozammel Haque of village Sujapur in the upazila.

Officer-in-charge (OC) of Atghoria police station Md Enamul Karim said, following a tip-off a team from Atghoria and Chatmohar police stations raided Sujapur village at about 3:30 am. They arrested the outlaw from a house of the village moments after he held a secret meeting there.

The arrestee is a 'regional leader' of outlawed PBCP Janajudhha faction and accused in twelve systems 8 cases including 6 for murder. He would produce him to court on Thursday, the OC said.
Assuming he hasn't encountered a cross-fire by then ...
Posted by: Steve White || 04/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So is "Md" an abbreviation of "Muhhammad"?
So you can't even write it anymore?
Posted by: tu3031 || 04/29/2010 19:05 Comments || Top||

#2  md = "Mad Dog".

Think "outraged Jack Russell Terrier"
Posted by: Frank G || 04/29/2010 19:08 Comments || Top||

#3  When a third of the country's males have Muhammed in their names, it becomes a bit tiresome writing out all the letters, tu3031. Or perhaps the gentleman's first name is Maryland.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/29/2010 23:52 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Black Wednesday in Juarez: 20 Executions in One Day
This is beyond bad. This semi-opinion piece in El Tiempo updates Juarez murders with 12 more execution-style killings, the dead including four students and a man in a wheelchair...
The Mexican newspaper El Tiempo is now calling Wednesday April 28th Black Wednesday with a total of 20 murders in one day, including the eight young men found at the bar Aristos early Wednesday morning.

Nineteen of the victims:
  • A couple in their early 30s were found Wednesday morning in their 1996 Cadillac near the intersection of Oro and Maria Martinez in Juarez.

  • A 23 year old wheelchair-bound man was found murdered later that morning in the township of The Towers.

  • Four young male students, two preparatory and two university, were found dead in the parking lot of the bar Super Rapidito´s BipBip at the intersection of Our Centuries and Arizona.

  • Another dead body was found in a house garage at the intersection of Anastasio Pantoja and Agustín Castro of the colony Oasis Revolution.

  • Three dead were found at a location near the intersection of Ignacio Saragossa and Francisco Villa in Saragossa.
Posted by: badanov || 04/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hey, chicago got over gangster activity. Uh, did they?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/29/2010 0:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Just one black day after another. Wondering when/if this will spill over into US territory, it seems inevitable. I had a similar feeling about Benazir Bhutto before she was assassinated.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/29/2010 0:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Bloody freakin' animals.
Posted by: WolfDog || 04/29/2010 11:06 Comments || Top||

#4  Wondering when/if this will spill over into US territory

But Arizona is "racist" if they try to keep that from happening.
Posted by: Frozen Al || 04/29/2010 11:24 Comments || Top||


Eight Massacred at Juarez Bar
Link is to the El Paso Times, but other information comes from two other Spanish language papers as well.

More Mexican mayhem...

Eight young men were found shot in the back of the head in the parking lot of a Juarez bar early Wednesday morning, Chihuahua state police say.

All but one of the victims were said to be under the age of 25. They were lined up and shot in a dirt parking lot at the bar Aristos, near the intersection of Vicente Guerrero and Honduras, according to authorities and news reports.

According to news reports, the area is not known for violence. Police discovered the murder scene about 0430 hrs.

Mexican authorities say the victims were all shot more than 50 times with various heavy caliber weapons.
Posted by: badanov || 04/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Nobody saw nuttin'"
Posted by: mojo || 04/29/2010 11:04 Comments || Top||


Five Men Placed in Preventative Detention in Chihuahua
It is unclear from the translation, but from two source I gathered five men were arrested and were said to have knowledge of the massacre of the six Mexican law enforcement officers last weekend
Five men who are suspected with having knowledge of the murder of Mexican federal agents last weekend were arrested by elements of the Mexican military and were ordered placed in 40 days preventative detention.

Officals say four of the men have suspected ties with La Línea, the Juarez based drug gang known for its brutality.

Also seized in the raid were two older model sports utility vehicles, and a quantity of munitions, including a Chinese made AK47, a TEC9 submachinegun, a Winchester 12 gauge shotgun, a Ruger Mini-14, a Remington 12 gauge pump action shotgun, and about 43 shells of various calibers.
Posted by: badanov || 04/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Mexico: Today's Gunplay Results; Some Hostages Freed
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: WoT
Jihad Jane trial could be postponed
Two women accused of aiding terrorists abroad are requesting more time to prepare their case, and a pre-trial conference is scheduled for May 3 in federal court in Philadelphia.

Attorneys for Colleen R. LaRose, a.k.a "Jihad Jane," and Jamie Paulin Ramirez filed a motion to have the case designated "complex," and if Judge Petrese B. Tucker grants the motion it would give both sides more time to prepare for trial.
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#1  Complex? Well not really, take a running knot round the standing part of the rope so that pulling on the knot side ...
Posted by: Steven || 04/29/2010 16:43 Comments || Top||


US reportedly offered 5-year deal in Khadr case
U.S. military prosecutors offered a plea bargain of five years in prison to a Canadian at Guantanamo who is charged with killing an American soldier in Afghanistan, a newspaper in his home country reported Wednesday. The Toronto Star, citing anonymous sources, said that 23-year-old Omar Khadr rejected the offer that could have spared him a possible life sentence.
Good. I would try and put him before a firing squad for murdering a US citizen while an unlawful combatant. Too bad the elites running the US government value the lives of those who would mass murder Americans more than the lives of Americans (themselves excepted).
Posted by: ed || 04/29/2010 00:39 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Death Penalty to Be Sought in Fort Hood Case
Military prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist charged with shooting 13 people to death at Fort Hood.

His lawyer, John Galligan, said he received notice Wednesday outlining an aggravating factor: that more than one person was killed in the same occurrence. Experts in military law say that is the Army's way of saying it plans to seek the death penalty.
Posted by: Steve White || 04/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Pity he wasn't a terrorist or he would just get life in Guantanamo surrounded by his buddies.
Posted by: gorb || 04/29/2010 0:06 Comments || Top||

#2  If / when he gets the long drop at Leavenworth, make everybody who signed off / covered for him over the years be there to watch...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/29/2010 0:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Also make sure they show up in civvies, as they were ALL cashiered over this.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 04/29/2010 1:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Wednesday outlining an aggravating factor?

Would that be jumping up on a table, shouting Allahu Akbar and blowing innocent soldier's brains out?
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/29/2010 2:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Hang him. Chair and all.
Posted by: tu3031 || 04/29/2010 9:35 Comments || Top||

#6  Then feed his worthless carcass to the pigs if they will have him.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/29/2010 9:40 Comments || Top||

#7  If / when he gets the long drop at Leavenworth, make everybody who signed off / covered for him over the years be there to watch join him...

FTFY.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/29/2010 10:29 Comments || Top||

#8  Will be interesting to see what punishments his clinical and educational supervisors get , also his programme director and whoever else is accountable for this . Theres no way that this chap could have made it through training without many many performance triggers not being investigated fully .

There is a hell of a lot of accountability to be investigated long after this chimp hangs

The Shipman enquiry over here highlighted and introduced wide ranging reform to medical practice training
Posted by: Oscar || 04/29/2010 10:51 Comments || Top||

#9  For once I hope the Army does not get the death penalty, because the Army almost never executes anyone. Instead, they should only put him in Leavenworth for four years, then turn him over for trial in Texas.

And the Texans would be more than happy to execute him with minimal delay.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 04/29/2010 14:53 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Britain to withdraw Musharraf's security
London: The British government has decided to withdraw the security and other facilities of former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf after a UN report on former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's murder revealed her security was insufficient during his reign.

The British government has decided to withdraw all the facilities, including security, provided to Musharraf, the Online news agency reported on Monday.

Musharraf was given a special vehicle for his security and was guarded by Scotland Yard personnel.

The government has also refused to extend the visas of his security guards, retired Pakistani SSG commandos, who accompanied him to Britain.
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#1  What goes around comes around. Shoe on the right foot. ba-bye
Posted by: Swanimote || 04/29/2010 16:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Ah, but will Britain send President General Dr. Musharraf, ret'd back to Pakistan to stand trial? That's really all he cares about. I'm sure his SSG commandos can handle a few jihadi murder attempts.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/29/2010 16:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Bunch of bull if you ask me.

IF they think he's guilty, try him. If they don't think he's guilty, don't screw around with him. Trying to split the difference like this is IMHO chicken####.

And I say this as someone who doesn't _like_ him or his country.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 04/29/2010 18:06 Comments || Top||

#4  The only way to tell that they truly want him either assassinated or gone will be if he hires private British security personnel, and the government revokes their ability to carry weapons. At that point, he had better get out of Britain before the government starts arming jihadis to kill him.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 04/29/2010 19:01 Comments || Top||


He's Back! Pakistan Taliban Chief Now Believed Alive
I know we're all disappointed but this is the 3rd duplicate today. Hakimullah may live. Someone call a drone ...
ISLAMABAD -- Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud is now believed to have survived a U.S. missile strike earlier this year, but has lost clout within the militant network, a senior intelligence official said Thursday.

The revelation contradicts initial confidence among U.S. and Pakistani intelligence officials that the brash militant leader had been killed in a mid-January missile attack in the Waziristan stretch of the northwest tribal belt bordering Afghanistan.

The Taliban consistently denied Mehsud was killed, but declined to offer evidence he was alive, saying it would compromise his safety.

The latest independent investigations and reports from multiple sources in the field led Pakistani intelligence to conclude Mehsud had indeed survived, though with some slight injuries, the official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the topic's sensitivity.

But Mehsud's power has lessened, and other Taliban commanders, such as Waliur Rehman, are now overshadowing him, the official said.

Two other intelligence officials in the northwest told The Associated Press over the past several days that they had determined that Mehsud was alive. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to media on the record.

The officials were vague about the evidence they had now that made them doubt earlier conclusions that Mehsud was dead. At the time, officials also did not elaborate on why they believed the militant had been killed.

Getting accurate, verifiable information independently from Pakistan's tribal regions is very difficult. The area is remote, dangerous, and there are legal restrictions on who can visit.

The Pakistani Taliban have been under assault by army ground troops in their main stronghold, the South Waziristan tribal region, since October, and many of the network's leaders are believed to have shifted to North Waziristan.

The U.S. stepped up missile strikes in Pakistan's tribal belt after Mehsud appeared in a video with a Jordanian suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees in late December in eastern Afghanistan.

Nearly all the strikes have hit North Waziristan since the start of the year, though it's unclear whether they've been targeting al-Qaida, Afghan Taliban commanders or Pakistani Taliban leaders.

The Pakistani Taliban have carried out numerous suicide and other attacks in the country in recent years.

They have been known to deny militant leaders' deaths even when true. They waited for some three weeks to confirm that Mehsud's predecessor, Baitullah Mehsud, had been killed in an August strike as they squabbled over who would be his heir.

This time, however, the militants never changed their stance that Hakimullah Mehsud had survived, though they would not let any reporters interview him. There was never a martyrdom video or official announcement of his death posted on jihadi websites, either, adding credence to the notion he was still alive.

If he is alive, it won't be the first time the 20-something Hakimullah has defied reports of his death.

After his predecessor died, Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik was among those who claimed Hakimullah was killed in a succession struggle. But the militant met with reporters, on camera, in the weeks afterward and went on to lead a surge of bomb attacks across the country that left more than 600 people dead in the last three months of 2009.
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Top Taliban leader among six set free by Pakistan
ISI gave them new suits, spending money and an escort back to Wazoo.
LAHORE: When Pakistani security forces, aided by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) captured the Taliban's second-in-command, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, in February, US officials hailed it as a "turning point" in the war against the Taliban. His arrest was followed quickly by the nabbing of some 10 or more Taliban leaders, though their detention was never officially announced. But the biggest catch among these most recent detainees -- Abdul Qayum Zakir -- has been released, according to an article published in Newsweek magazine.
Perhaps he was getting bored lounging beside the hotel pool ...
Zakir was Baradar's top military commander and one of Mullah Omar's most effective and most feared commanders during the Taliban's fight to defeat the resisting Northern Alliance 10 years ago. The Washington Post recently reported that US officials believe at least two of the arrested Taliban were recently released. And reliable Taliban sources told Newsweek that at least six of those captured leaders were quietly released, Zakir among them.

Several other Taliban sources from different regions whom Newsweek interviewed separately confirmed that Zakir had been detained and released. Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told Newsweek he has no information about the arrest and release of these leaders.
"I know nothing! Nothing!"
A US government official, who declined to be identified because he is not authorised to speak on the record, confirmed to Newsweek that some of the Taliban leaders had been released, but added that it was not surprising, according to Newsweek.

"It's not a surprise that in a country where politics is often messy, competing interests are carefully balanced, and relationships are complex, some of those people have been let go," the official says. "We know they don't have a consistent policy that they apply consistently, but that doesn't mean we can't work with them. Quite frankly, we have to," he added.

According to the Taliban sources, those who have been freed besides Zakir include Maulvi Abdul Kabir -- who heads the insurgency in eastern Afghanistan from his perch near Peshawar -- three of Kabir's top deputies, and Latif Mansoor -- a senior commander in three eastern Afghanistan provinces.
Not a single one of them was ground up in the land campaign in Wazoo ...
But several other Taliban sources believed Zakir's arrest and release was more likely a determined effort by Pakistan to once again emphasise Islamabad's influence over and importance to the insurgency that still relies on Pakistani sanctuaries and supply lines, Newsweek reported.
Then again, it might be that the Paks are tired of them and just want us to drone-zap them all ...
Posted by: Steve White || 04/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Prety well proves the point of Kill, not Capture then our "Friends" Can't let them go.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 04/29/2010 0:41 Comments || Top||

#2  They were captured just before a decision to approve $1.5 billion US taxpayer dollars to Pakistan. The six have served their purchase until next year's tranche is due.
Posted by: ed || 04/29/2010 1:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Maybe the CIA outsmarted the ISI and clandestinely implanted GPS trackers on them? Wishful thinking, but discovering the nest for a future drone zap would be nice so we could wrap this up.
Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 || 04/29/2010 9:19 Comments || Top||

#4  That's pretty much it, Ed, though the ISI may be tired of them. The bar tab at the Lehore Hilton is only so big.

While they're free they're eligible to be drone zapped.
Posted by: Steve White || 04/29/2010 9:29 Comments || Top||


Christian dies in Quetta target killing
QUETTA: A Christian man was shot dead by unidentified persons at Brewery Road in the provincial capital on Wednesday.

According to officials, Zulfiqar Gulzar, a Christian employee of the Communication and Works Department, was cleaning his car outside his house in the A-one city area on Brewery Road when unidentified assailants opened fire at him. Gulzar passed way instantly, while the assailants managed to flee the scene.

Officials have termed the incident a case of target killing.
Holmes! How do you do it?
Posted by: Steve White || 04/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Top terrorist arrested in Karachi
KARACHI: The Anti-Extremist Cell (AEC) of Sindh police's Crime Investigation Department (CID) claimed to have arrested a top terrorist of the Harkatul Mujahideen from Karachi on Wednesday.

According to details, Ahsanullah alias Ahsan Bhai, 42, son of Najeebullah, was arrested from a slum in New Karachi during a raid.He is accused of involvement in several terrorist activities, and was also included in the CID's Red Book of wanted terrorists and had a head money of Rs 500,000.

As per the Red Book, the terrorist was a resident of Ziaul Haq Colony in Orangi Town and was last seen at a religious gathering in Orangi seven years ago. The book said he was responsible for smuggling weapons for his organisation.
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#1  To be released next week?
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 04/29/2010 14:25 Comments || Top||


Four policemen killed in Pir Bala suicide attack
PESHAWAR: At least four policemen were killed and 15 others wounded as a suicide car bomber attacked a checkpost in the Pir Bala area on the outskirts of the city, police said on Wednesday.

“The vehicle was coming from a tribal area into Peshawar city. It was full of explosives,' AFP quoted CCPO Liaquat Ali as saying. “Two policemen are in a critical condition,' he said.

He said the attacker apparently wanted to enter the city, but detonated the explosives when stopped at the checkpost, adding he might have targeted a high-profile location in the city.

“I was returning from the mosque after dawn prayers when I saw a vehicle speed towards the police post,' Saadat Ali, a 21-year-old university student with steel pellet injuries in his shoulder told AFP from hospital. “Police officials from the post opened fire and then I heard a huge blast. There was thick smoke and I passed out,' he added.

According to the bomb disposal squad, 180 kilogrammes of explosive material was used in the blast that also damaged a mosque and seven houses nearby.
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19 Taliban killed in North Waziristan, Orakzai, Swat
MIRANSHAH/MIR ALI/PARACHINAR/MINGORA: Security forces killed four Taliban in North Waziristan Agency on Wednesday, as four others, including a close aide of Swat Taliban chief Fazlullah, were killed in clashes with the forces in Swat and Buner districts. Eleven suspected Taliban were also killed in clashes in Orakzai Agency.

Taliban attacked the Esa security checkpost, 10 kilometres east of Miranshah on the Bannu-Miranshah road, around 4am. Four Taliban were killed and two security personnel seriously injured in the gunfight that followed. Official sources confirmed the attack.

However, AP reported that one soldier was injured when the Taliban attacked the Esa village checkpost with guns and rockets but the forces repelled them. The suspected Taliban's identities were not immediately known.

Meanwhile, security officials said four Taliban, including a close aide of Swat Taliban chief Fazlullah, were killed in clashes with the forces in Swat and Buner districts. They told Daily Times that security forces imposed a curfew in Dokada area in Buner and killed three Taliban during an operation.

The close aide of Fazlullah was identified as Irfan Tarabi.

Around 10 Taliban surrendered to the forces at Koza Bandai in Kabal tehsil. Officials said the forces also arrested five Taliban, including two Taliban commanders, at Koza Bandai. Separately, local official Jahanzeb Khan said security forces killed 11 suspected Taliban in Orakzai.

He said seven suspects were killed as the forces pounded suspected Taliban hideouts in the Bagram area of Lower Orakzai.
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Hakeemullah Mehsud is alive?
LAHORE: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Hakeemullah Mehsud has survived an American drone strike in January and is alive, The Guardian reported on Wednesday.
We'll just have to try again ...
A senior official with the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) told the paper that he had seen video footage of the missile attack on Hakeemullah, but other intelligence had since confirmed that the Taliban leader had survived. He declined to elaborate further.

“He is alive,' the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, was quoted as saying. “He had some wounds but he is basically OK.'

Mehsud was reported to have died in a drone strike in South Waziristan in January, but although Interior Minister Rehman Malik claimed he had been killed, the death was never confirmed by either US or Pakistani intelligence agencies.

The revelation comes in the background of a notification issued by the Punjab Home Department two weeks ago, wherein it warned the Punjab inspector general of police and all departments concerned about Hakeemullah's plans of hijacking civilian aircraft.

The notification could be a confirmation of Hakeemullah's survival and a blow to the CIA, which intensified efforts to kill the flamboyant young Taliban leader early this year after he appeared in a video alongside an al Qaeda operative who killed seven American spies at a base in southern Afghanistan in late December.
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Indian intelligence agencies grilling 'spy' diplomat
NEW DELHI: As Indian intelligence agencies continue to grill 53-year-old diplomat Madhuri Gupta for allegedly spying for Pakistan, officials on Wednesday expressed confidence that there was remote possibility of her passing any defence documents to her handlers.

"She may have been passing some sensitive information, but there is hardly any chance of her passing any super-sensitive information keeping in view the nature and stature of her job in the Indian High Commission in Islamabad," a senior official told Daily Times.

She was arrested six days ago after being called back from Islamabad where she was posted as the second secretary.

Security agencies were also investigating the role of a Kashmiri couple residing in the border district of Rajouri, who was in regular contact with Gupta through e-mail and telephone. A special cell team has been dispatched to Rajouri for investigations. Two officers of the army and those of external intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing have also come under the scanner as they had been visiting the couple frequently.

Gupta is said to have been under surveillance of the Indian security agencies for about four months before it was decided that she should be arrested.

Security agencies briefed senior officials of the Ministry of External Affairs about her alleged activities in Pakistan. They said that the information she had been sharing with a man called 'Rana' related to policy matters and movement of Indian officials.
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Iraq
2 car bombs kill 5, injure 17 in Baghdad
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Five persons were killed and 17 others were wounded in two car bombs explosions in southern Baghdad, a police source said.

“Two car bombs went off simultaneously on Wednesday evening (April 28) in Abu Dashier region, killing five persons, including two policemen, and injuring 17, including five policemen, and damaging nearby buildings,' the source, who asked for anonymity, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

He did not give further details.
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Army finds U.S. unmanned aircraft in Mosul
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: Military forces found on Wednesday a U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle in a depot in western Mosul, according to an army source.

“A force from the 3rd division of the Iraqi army found on Wednesday (April 28) a U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle in a stockpile of weapons and explosives in al-Yarmouk neighborhood in western Mosul,' the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

“The operation was launched in light of intelligence information,' he noted. “The depot contains a number of bombs and light weapons."
Posted by: Steve White || 04/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I have an unmanned aerial vehicle in my closet. Made of balsa wood and tissue paper and powered by a rubber band.
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/29/2010 8:18 Comments || Top||

#2  I also had one, about 4 foot wingspan, balsa wood and tissue paper, a superb glider vanished on it's first and only flight I watched it go up into a fairly high cloud still accellerating/climbing, and never saw it again, I was 14 at the time
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 04/29/2010 14:29 Comments || Top||

#3  RJ, I bet it was yours they found in Iraq!
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/29/2010 22:33 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas slams Egypt for tunnel deaths
The Hamas movement has criticised Egyptian security forces after four Palestinians were killed when a smuggling tunnel from the country's Sinai desert region into the Gaza Strip was destroyed.

Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin said Egyptian authorities had warned the Palestinians that the tunnel would be destroyed, before using gas canisters and dynamite to blow it up on Wednesday.

"Every few weeks, every few months, there are these incidents where the Egyptian authorities drop gas canisters followed by dynamite or explosives into the tunnels in trying to collapse them," he said.

"The Egyptians often warn the Palestinians [before the attacks]. Whether or not that warning is heeded though is really dependent on who is there at the specific time.

He said that the tunnels are poorly constructed.

"Many of them collapse. In fact, more than 45 Palestinians have died in cave-ins. More than 40 has died as a result of direct attacks by the Egyptians in these attempts to stop [smuggling].

Vital supplies

The 1.5 million population of Gaza has relied on the vast network of tunnels from Egypt for vital supplies since Israel put the territory under siege after Hamas came to power there in June 2007.

The interior ministry of the Hamas government said the tunnel workers had been killed by toxic gas pumped into the tunnel.

"The interior ministry confirms that the citizens' cause of death was the Egyptian security forces spraying poison gasses into one of the tunnels," it said in a statement.

A Palestinian police official said three people died of smoke inhalation and a fourth from flying debris caused by explosives being detonated in the tunnel.

Another three tunnel workers were admitted with injuries to a hospital in the Egyptian town of Rafah, he said.

Medics said as many as 10 people had been injured when the tunnel collapsed.

A Hamas official demanded an explanation for the incident.

"This is a terrible crime committed by Egyptian security against simple Palestinian workers who were trying to earn their daily bread," Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman, told The Associated Press.

"We demand that Egypt explain its position about what is happening and investigate the circumstances of this terrible crime and show the truth to the entire world and hold those responsible accountable," he said.

'Too many tunnels'

Egyptian security officials admitted that they had destroyed four tunnels north of the Rafah border crossing with Gaza on Wednesday.

Al Jazeera's Amr El-Kahky, reporting from Cairo, said the Egyptians said they had done what they should be doing by notifying the Palestinians that the tunnel were the casualties occurred was going to be demolished.

"The Egyptians say that there are too many tunnels on the 15km long border. There are about 1,300 to 1,500 tunnels in that area," he said.

"Most of these tunnels are dug with the approval by Hamas on the other side. They are not all operated by people who are pro-Hamas ... They are also operated by outlaws on both sides of the border and that's why it is very difficult to keep controlling what goes in and what goes out.

"Egypt thinks a lot of things come from Gaza, including people that could destabilise the security situation in Sinai."

The United States and Israel have been pushing Egypt to do more to close the tunnels, which which they say are used to arm Palestinian fighters.

Israeli aircraft have bombed the tunnels in the past, particularly during the country's three-week assault on Gaza, which ended in January last year.

Palestinian officials in Rafah say Egypt has stepped up a crackdown on smuggling in recent months, blowing up numerous tunnel entrances on its side of the border, setting up checkpoints in the area and confiscating contraband.

Since December, Egypt has also been building an underground steel wall to block the tunnels.
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Southeast Asia
Indonesia: Thousands of enraged Muslims attack Christian center, destroy cars, burn buildings
from JihadWatch
Posted by: ed || 04/29/2010 01:19 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thousands of Muslim extremists attacked a Christian educational center in Bogor regency, West Java province, Indonesia.

Thousands of extremists? Or thousands of run-of-the-mill muslims? If they were extremists, they must have had to bus them in from hundreds of miles around because surely that many couldn't have walked in.
Posted by: gorb || 04/29/2010 1:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Just guessing, but the population in the area is probably about 15% fundamentalist Islamists -- with quite a number of those willing to be extremist, and I'd wager about 15% Christian -- wanting to not be targeted (a much higher percentage of the population than the government cares to admit). The other some 70% are virtually all nominal Muslim (and a sliver of other religions), not wanting to take sides, but wanting the extremists to somehow stop misbehaving. The central government is pretty active hunting down terrorists, but has been lax about interfering in "local" bullying and intimidation of Christians.
Posted by: cingold || 04/29/2010 1:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Muslim extremism, is that something like aquatic Bluegill?
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/29/2010 1:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Residents set fire to at least two cars and six buildings under construction. Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) Cisarua branch head Rahmatulloh said:

"We’ve asked the regent of Bogor to close down this place but he has not given us an answer. We just can’t hold back our anger anymore."

Posted by: Classer || 04/29/2010 6:48 Comments || Top||

#5 
Barbarians.
Posted by: Parabellum || 04/29/2010 7:51 Comments || Top||

#6  Islam... the religion of peace.

NOT
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/29/2010 7:53 Comments || Top||

#7  You know how to tell if a Muslim is enraged?

All the dead Christians around him.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/29/2010 10:27 Comments || Top||

#8  Oh the irony. Wiki says one of Bogor's "sister cities" is St. Louis!

Anyone know if a muslim "representative" has yet requested that St. Louis be renamed?

Then again, Louis ultimately lost his campaign along the Nile, paid his ransom, and returned home, so perhaps he needn't be further reduced.
Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division || 04/29/2010 12:14 Comments || Top||

#9 
Posted by: tu3031 || 04/29/2010 12:56 Comments || Top||

#10  Angry gorilla
Posted by: Willy || 04/29/2010 13:35 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
Analysis of Abdulmutallab tape shows not all footage is new
The new al Qaeda video of accused bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab at a desert training camp included footage that had been released previously, in January, 2009, according to a frame by frame analysis by terrorism expert Evan Kohlman of Flashpoint Global Partners. The al Qaeda propaganda video was provided to a Yemeni journalist working for ABC News earlier in the week.

While the scenes of Abdulmutallab holding a weapon and speaking had not been previously made public, the footage of a al Qaeda fighters firing weapons at targets including a Jewish star and the British Union Jack were included in an al Qaeda propaganda tape made public in January, 2009, according to Kohlman's analysis. Kohlman found a "precisely matching pattern of bullet holes" in the targets.

Al Qaeda frequently mixes and matches old and new videos in its propaganda releases, according to western counter-terrorism officials. "The release of the video by al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula may be an attempt to demonstrate to their followers and potential recruits that they are still strong despite Yemeni government raids and US bombing," said Richard Clarke, an ABC News consultant and former White House counter-terrorism official.

US officials say the most significant parts of the tape are what appear to be the newly released scenes of Abdulmutallab with a weapon in his hand and his martyrdom statement in which he provides justification for jihad against the United States and "the Jews and the Christians and their agents."

Kohlman said the video of he accused bomber is "definitely new (and authentic)" and wonders whether the attempt to splice in the earlier camp footage was an effort "to thrown off investigators" who are studying the tape. "Either that or Abdulmutallab was an AQAP operative for much longer than anyone thought," Kohlman said in an e-mail message to ABC News.

Attorney General Eric Holder said yesterday he and other Justice Department officials had seen the video of Abdulmutallab. Asked for his comment, Eric said only, "I have seen it."

Kohlman's said that other footage showing al Qaeda fighters shooting at what appeared to be an unmanned surveillance aircraft seemed familiar but that he had not yet found a match to any previously propaganda tapes. "They show them apparently firing on the US predator, when in fact the US drones have done significant damage to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula," said ABC News consultant Clarke.
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Al-Qaida considered a 'joke' to jihadists
Not only was al-Qaida clueless about how hard the U.S would retaliate after the Sept. 11 attacks, but a former associate of Osama bin Laden tells WTOP al-Qaida was not respected by its peers when it was planning the attacks.

"Al-Qaida at that time, for all the people and not just for me, was just a joke," says Noman Benotman, who was leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) during the Soviet war in Afghanistan. "The LIFG, during the war against the Soviet Union until 1992, used to run like five main spots on the frontline." The war was almost over before al-Qaida appeared on the scene in August 1988, Benotman says.

Benotman says not only were al-Qaida's leaders in the dark about America's response to an attack, but "they didn't even understand the meaning of 'jihad.'" He says the group only saw the religious element of jihad and did not prepare a military strategy to go with it.

Benotman did not just become a lightning rod with his harsh criticism when he left the LIFG, he confronted al-Qaida's leaders personally. During a large gathering of jihadist leaders in 2000, he said al-Qaida's ideology was a "total failure." A shocked Ayman al Zawahiri took him aside and tried to persuade him to change his tune. According to Benotman, "He {Zawahiri} said, 'It's a bit harsh, that word {failure} -- and can you use a more soft word or term to describe the outcome?'" Benotman says he told Zawahiri, "Whatever you like, but at the end of the day, strategically it's a total failure. It's still there because you've achieved nothing."

Benotman was able to speak with such guile because he'd earned his stripes in the Soviet-Afghan war. "Every day, 24/7, we engaged with the enemy with anything you would imagine." He says that's something no al-Qaida leader could claim.

Mike Scheuer, former CIA chief of the Osama Bin Laden unit, doesn't believe Benotman's statements are his own. "I think Benotman is probably in the employ of the Libyan government. I think he's a free man because he's agreed to speak out against the people he used to be associated with."

During his 20-year association with jihadist militants, some of whom were terrorists, Benotman's group fought against the government of Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi seeking to convert Libya into an Islamic state. Scheuer, suggesting that Qaddafi would retaliate if Benotman stopped bashing bin Laden, says Benotman is a free man because "he's agreed to speak out against the people he used to be associated with, which makes Qaddafi look like he's against terrorism."

During the 1980s Qaddafi's intelligence operatives proved formidable to those who challenged him. Fred Burton, a former State Department counterterrorism agent who spent years investigating Qaddafi-sanctioned terror attacks on Americans, says Qaddafi's agents were "cunning and brutal." Burton investigated the terror attacks on Americans in the 1980s in Sanaa, Yemen; in Khartoum, Sudan; and the Pan AM 103 bombing.

"The Libyan intelligence service used the diplomatic pouch to ship weapons, identify documents and explosives in support of operations. They also used Libyan diplomatic missions as safe houses for terrorists. The Libyan government used the power of a nation-state in support of terrorism because they knew that doing so could tactically and operationally be overwhelming for counterterrorism authorities," Burton says.

In the late 1990s, Qaddafi made an about-face to escape crippling sanctions on Libya, according to United Nations documentation. However, Scheuer believes Qaddafi is still a threat to Benotman. But a former CIA officer, who was active in the fight against al-Qaida and who requested anonymity, says Benotman is not making it up and says he's "the real McCoy."

"I've heard from other Muslim fundamentalists as well, who say al-Qaida was not taken seriously at the time, because they were not the real heroes in Afghanistan. It was those Muslims from around the world who went to Afghanistan on their own and fought and later disbanded or declined to pledge allegiance to Bin Laden," the officer says. "In Afghanistan, bin Laden really was a joke," the officer adds.
Posted by: ryuge || 04/29/2010 09:07 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Binny may have been a joke, but ignoring or dissing a threat makes them only more determined to "have the last laugh". I suspect he learned from 9-11, too, and is patiently awaiting WMD's before proceeding with his grand finale.
Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 || 04/29/2010 9:34 Comments || Top||

#2  ...who say al-Qaida was not taken seriously at the time, because they were not the real heroes in Afghanistan...In Afghanistan, bin Laden really was a joke.

That was before 9/11, now almost a decade in the past. Are al-Qaida and bin Laden still a joke to the jihadis now? That is the question the reporter and those he quotes do not even approach addressing.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/29/2010 16:29 Comments || Top||


Good morning
Posted by: Steve White || 04/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Happy Birthday

Celeste Holm aka Anne Dettrey in "Gentleman's Agreement" Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (93)

Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 04/29/2010 5:35 Comments || Top||

#2  GB....pretty scary
Posted by: armyguy || 04/29/2010 7:17 Comments || Top||

#3  That's not safe for anywhere. :-)
Posted by: gorb || 04/29/2010 9:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Now THAT needed a warning!!!!
Posted by: 49 Pan || 04/29/2010 10:16 Comments || Top||

#5  I dunno, guys - for 93 she looks pretty good, don't you think?
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/29/2010 10:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Celeste also played Adieu Annie in the original Oklahoma...i.e, "I can't say no."

She was an Olympic swimmer who got bounced off the team on its voyage to Germany for sipping champagne one night.
Posted by: James Carville || 04/29/2010 11:01 Comments || Top||

#7  Agree with Glenmore.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 04/29/2010 11:18 Comments || Top||

#8  You guys just wait until you get to be that old and then see how you look.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 04/29/2010 12:27 Comments || Top||

#9  Personally, I will be thankful to GET that old! The GOOD LORD only guarantees three score and 10 - 70 years. I haven't been good enough to guarantee any more than that.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 04/29/2010 15:46 Comments || Top||

#10  Hopefully GB reached his intended target.
Posted by: Skunky Glins**** || 04/29/2010 17:03 Comments || Top||

#11  My favorite song by Bernadette Peters is "Only you can make love to you the way you do." T'was a SNL sketch.
Posted by: Flapper Scourge of the Algonquins4926 || 04/29/2010 19:54 Comments || Top||

#12  Wow, Flapper.

So Bernadette sang Bambi's theme song?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 04/29/2010 21:18 Comments || Top||



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