A third incident in the country's east an explosion in the courtyard of a religious school and mosque killed three people and wounded at least seven Tuesday in what appeared to have been a premature bomb detonation, officials said.
The blast apparently occurred as explosives were being attached to a motorcycle in preparation for an attack elsewhere, said Abdul Wakil Kamyab, the province's deputy police chief.
The leader of the mosque was taken into custody after the explosion in the Khogyani district of Ghazni province, about 70 miles southwest of Kabul, Interior Ministry spokesman Yousuf Stanezai said.
Islamabad, 6 June (AKI/Asian Age) - Allied US and Afghan forces on Tuesday started surveillance of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border near Chaman on a massive scale. Spin Boldak commissioner Toran Abdul Khalique said the allied army in Afghanistan has posted securitymen alongside the long Pakistan-Afghanistan border. He said that the US Army at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border last week frisked every passer-by and checked Pakistani vehicles after sealing the roads through Babe-Dosti gate twice.
On the other hand, Afghan officials said that the allied forces have launched a comprehensive operation for tackling the volatile situation prevalent here besides completely sealing the non-traditional routes in the 400-km area adjacent to the Pakistan border, located in the provinces of Helmand, Zabul and Kandhar, while the US Army's B-52 bombers were constantly on surveillance flights.
Seething from US Air Force in 5..4..3..
Afghan officials said that one more US base camp has been set up in Afghan territory five km from the Dobandi area of Chaman.
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the allied army in Afghanistan has posted securitymen alongside the long Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
About damn time sez I! Squeeze this tissue freaks!
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Did they finally repeal the treaty of Key West? I always felt partial to Fort Rucker.
A SUSPECTED suicide car bomb struck a convoy of US-led coalition troops in eastern Afghanistan today, wounding a number of soldiers, the coalition said.
The blast occurred in eastern Khost province on the border with Pakistan, coalition spokeswoman Lieutenant Tamara Lawrence told AFP.
"There are no reports of coalition fatalities. However, there are some coalition wounded," she said.
There are regular suicide attacks in Afghanistan carried out by Taliban insurgents trying to regain power after being ousted from government by a US-led coalition in late 2001.
The most recent was on Sunday and aimed at Canadian troops driving in convoy through the centre of Afghanistan's main city in the south, Kandahar.
Five Afghan police shot dead seven fellow officers as they slept, before defecting to join Taliban guerrillas fighting in southern Afghanistan, a provincial official said on Monday. Sunday night's incident outside Qalat, the provincial capital of southern province of Zabul, comes amid the bloodiest period in an insurgency raging since US-backed forces toppled the militants' government in 2001. "The seven policemen were asleep when the other five jumped, killed them, took their arms and joined the Taliban," provincial spokesman, Gulab Shah Alikhail, said. He said provincial officials were hunting the five policemen and had "intelligence" that they had joined the Taliban.
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Islamic militia vowed to turn Somalia into a religious state on Tuesday, pushing north to take more territory after winning a three-month battle for Mogadishu. But thousands of Mogadishu residents protested against the takeover and defeated warlords said they would fight back. Clan elders warned the Islamic side against more advances.
Fighters loyal to sharia courts seized the lawless capital on Monday from a self-styled anti-terrorism coalition of warlords widely believed to be backed by Washington.
"Until we get the Islamic state, we will continue with the Islamic struggle in Somalia," Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, chairman of Mogadishu Islamic courts, told a rally of hundreds. "This is a long Islamic struggle and it will continue until the whole country comes under sharia law," Fuad Ahmed, a militiaman loyal to the Islamic side, told Reuters. "We are ready to shed our blood in order for that struggle to succeed."
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Sounds like there is a job for an A-team and an AC-130 to do.
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Besides which, if the Islamists push the warlords completely out of the Greater Mogadishu Zone, and try to hit Puntland and/or Somaliland, they will be destroyed. The Puntis and Somalilanders are not about to be forced back into the failed Somali state. We might even see Ethiopian troops doing medium-scale motorized raids into the Islamist sectors.
Mogadishu, 6 June (AKI) - After Islamists won on Monday the decisive clash for the control of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, the Somali Islamic Courts Union has started preparing the unification of Mogadishu under a single administration, satellite TV channel Al-Jazeera reported on Tuesday. This will be the first time that Mogadishu will be controlled by a single group since the collapse of dictator Siad Barre's regime 16 years ago. The Islamic Courts Union chairman, Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, told a local radio on Tuesday that Islamists "won the final battle against the enemies of Islam and now Mogadishu is completely controlled by our sons."
'One Turban to rule them all.
One Turban to find them,
One Turban to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mogadishu where the Shadows lie.'
Sheik Ahmed also asked the capital's poplulation to cooperate with the Islamist forces in the administration of the city.
"or else"
However, public opinion seems to be divided about the new power gained by the Islamic Courts Union.
On the one hand, some fear that the Islamist militia might decide to march on Baidoa, some 250 Kilometers from Mogadishu, where the Somali transitional government has its headquarters. Many think that might spread further chaos and political instability.
Getting them strung out on a lonely desert road has possibilities
On the other hand, a large part of Mogadishu's population believe that the Islamic Court Union's administration "will quickly bring peace and stability," according to Al-Jazeera's online service. Many hope that the Islamists will be able to provide the country with stability, following the example of the Talibans in Afghanistan.
Bwahahahahaaa!!!
Tribal leaders interviewed by Al-Jazeera said they hope that the heads of the Islamic Courts Union, after the creation of a provisional body for the administration of Mogadishu, will re-open the harbour and the airport, granting new impulse to local economy.
Part of the population particularly welcomed the Islamists' victory because they are seen as the only ones who will be able to stop kidnappings, rapes and robberies which have characterised the last 10 years in Mogadishu.
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Unify it in the population's hatred of the Turbans...
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In places as bad as Somalia, I think the Islamistists might actually represent an improvement. Or they would if they didn't roll out the welcome mat when (rich) Arab terrorists come knocking. Is this crazy? Totally off-base?
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In places as bad as Somalia and post-Soviet Afghanistan, the Islamists appear to be an improvement. But then they turn out to be Muttawa bullies destroying in the name of religion all the good that had yet remained... and welcoming Al Qaeda with eager arms. Fascists don't change their behaviour, only their label.
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Actually, this could be the best thing to happen to Somalia. Let the Islamists loose on the Mogadishu population for a year or two, and they will be more than happy to rat them out at every turn to any intelligence agency that can get personnel into the area. Plus, they will welcome back to power any group that can break the back of the Islamic Courts. Sometimes, you have to let them drop into Hell, so that they can appreciate the relatively good life.
MOGADISHU Hundreds gathered Tuesday in northern Mogadishu to protest an Islamic militia's takeover of the city after weeks of bloody fighting with secular warlords allegedly backed by the United States.
Members of the militia, which has alleged links to al-Qaeda, kept defensive positions about two kilometres from the protest, but did not move in to stop it.
On Monday, the militia became the first group to consolidate control over all of Mogadishu's neighbourhoods since the last government collapsed in 1991 and warlords took over, dividing the impoverished country of eight million people into a patchwork of rival fiefdoms.
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the extremists are using the people's weariness of violence, rape and civil war to gain support for a government based on Islamic law.
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I wonder if Mogadishu will become the next roach motel to attract bad boyz from around the world? If so, it might prove to be a pattern of how we can finally purge the world of some of its perpetual trouble spots.
First you let in Taliban-like Moslem brutalitarians, to utterly destroy whatever order is left and bitterly oppress everyone, and then you sweep it clean with the locals convinced that maybe responsible government isn't such a bad idea after all.
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Except, Somalia has been a sinkhole of despair and death for the better part of 2 decades now, and the people don't seem to care enough to do something about it. And those that did splintered off into Puntland and Somaliland. The Greater Mogadishu Area is the main source of trouble and instability in that "country". Unless and until Al-Q or one of its allies takes over that zone and starts setting up the kind of bases that we saw in Afghanistan, why should any Westerner give a damn what happens to that third world hellhole? Remember what happened the last time we went in to help : Blackhawk Down?
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From what I've been told, Shieldwolf, our guys were winning prior to the Blackhawk Down incident, and were wiping the floor with the warlords when the then-President panicked and pulled everyone out.
After months of fierce fighting, Islamic militias declared Monday that they had taken control of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, defeating the warlords widely believed to be backed by the United States and raising questions about whether the country would head down an extremist path.
The battle for Mogadishu has been a proxy war, of sorts, in the Bush administration's campaign against terrorism, with the warlords echoing Washington's goal of rooting out radical Islam and the presence of Al Qaeda in the region.
But as the warlords who have ruled over Mogadishu for the last 15 years went on the run on Monday, it appeared that Washington had backed the losing side, presenting the administration with a major setback at a time of continued sectarian violence in Iraq and the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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...a major setback...
Typical NYT hyperbole. I'm not losing any sleep over the previous tenants, and I doubt if GWB is either. In fact, now that AQ types are in control I hope he feels free to send 'em a JDAM or Hellfire postcard from time to time...
what we more do we know about these islamic courts guys?
1. Are they salafists? where on the Sunni spectrum do they fall?
2. what links to AQ are there? Do all of them have said links, or just a faction?
3. What are there plans for Sharia? garden variety family law, of cutting off hands, state imposed veils, etc, etc
In other words, apart from the parallels in how theyve come to power, how much like the Taliban are they really?
MOGADISHU, Somalia -- An Islamic militia said today it has seized Somalia's capital after weeks of bloody fighting and 15 years of anarchy in this Horn of Africa nation, raising fears that the nation could fall under the sway of al Qaeda. The militia appeared in control of Mogadishu. Most of the leaders of a secular alliance that opposed them -- with cooperation from the United States -- appeared to have fled the city by this afternoon.
"We want to restore peace and stability to Mogadishu. We are ready to meet and talk to anybody and any group for the interest of the people," Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, chairman of the Islamic Courts Union, said on a radio broadcast.
U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, said recently that three al Qaeda leaders indicted in the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania are being sheltered by Islamic leaders in Mogadishu. The same al Qaeda cell is believed responsible for the 2002 suicide bombing of an Israeli-owned hotel in Kenya that killed 15 people and a simultaneous attempt to shoot down an Israeli airliner.
The Islamic militants are the first group to consolidate control over all of Mogadishu's clan-divided neighborhoods since then, giving them enormous political and economic power in Somalia.
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In the 1920s they had opium dens -- sweet, smokey rooms full of glamorously languid people. Now we have qat gatheringings, where peasant men from the old country chew masses of greenery in overfull mouths, dribbling constantly down their shirtfronts, and incapable of stringing together a single coherent thought over the course of the day. Ick!
The Islamic courts' union has today officially declared an Islamic court in Daynile district in southwest of the capital where anti terror alliance was formed on February 2006 day after the sucked [sic] minister of national security Mohamed Qanyare Afrah withdrew his base Daynile and escape to Jowhar town of middle Shabelle region.
The announcement of the Islamic court in Daynile came after district officials and Islamic courts union agreed on forming an Islamic court in the area. The commander of the new Islamic court in Daynile Sheik Abdulahi Moalim Nahar Abu-Uteyba told the media the capture of Daynile came after Mohamed Qanyare himself grasped that it had better to hand over his base to his Murarsade clan to avoid more bloodshed. After talks, militia officers of the former national security Mohamed Qanyare agreed to hand over their battlewagons of 25 vehicles to Islamic courts officials.
The situation of Daynile district is now stable and fully controlled by Islamic courts union after three months of heavy clashes in which more than 300 people mostly civilians were killed and hundreds more injured and also thousands more displaced. Earlier Somali government announced that it sucked [sic] Qanyare and three ministers from the cabinet overnight after they were accused of breaking the interim charter and involved in bloody clashes with Islamic courts in Somali capital Mogadishu.
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June 6, 2006: The Saudi religious police (officially, the "Authority for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vices"), not known for the liberality of their views, are being employed against radical Islamists. Apparently there are sufficient differences of opinion as to what constitutes "genuine" fundamentalism to allow the "Religious Police" to be used against the more extreme elements, particularly since one of their missions is the security of the already very conservative Wahabbi Saudi regime. The religious police are typically recruited from among poorly educated, strongly religious and self-righteous men who have few other employment prospects. Sort of a patronage job.
The religious police are generally hated by most Saudis, but so are Islamic terrorists. This is especially the case since al Qaeda began setting off bombs in Saudi Arabia three years ago. In response to that, the government, which pays the generous salaries of most clerics in the kingdom, demanded that a sound theological case be made against al Qaeda. That wasn't terribly hard to do, since nearly all competent Islamic clerics admit that al Qaedas violence, especially when directed at fellow Moslems, is expressly forbidden by Islamic scripture.
So the Saudi government, which has been trying to placate both the clergy (who rather like the religious police) and most Saudis (who hate these "lifestyle cops"), has come up with a rather neat solution. Sic the religious cops after the murderous heretics (al Qaeda), and make everyone (except the terrorists) happy.
Thug vs thug bloodshed always makes me happy
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Going by the Paleo model, half of this "religious police" are Al Qaeda.
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So, the muttawwa (I like mutts better) go after AQ, and get Darwined down. The surviving mutts train up and gear up, eventually whittle down AQ and get stronger. I assume (with no basis in actual, pesky facts) that there are likely more mutt candidates than AQ candidates. The state-sanctioned mutts come out of this with AQ kills to their credit, maybe some public gratitude, and now are a formidable para-military force. The Saudi powers that be may have an eventual winner here.
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The mutts are pusillanimous bully boys, AQ are stone cold killaz, now with Iraq, Sudan, and Somali combat experience. It won't even be close.
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I dunno, I read the headline and figured they were being sent as reinforcements, or as a second wave.
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I thought most of the Saudi AQ boys still in Saudi Arabia were dreamers and plotters in it for the glamour of it all, that those seriously set on jihad had mostly gone to Iraq and gotten themselves killed. No?
An ethnic Uighur man held by Chinese authorities for more than two months on conspiracy charges has been tortured and denied food while in detention, a rights group said Tuesday.
Tudahun Hoshun, a trader, has been held at a detention center in Shuiding, a town in China's northwestern Muslim region of Xinjiang, since March 22 on suspicion of "conspiracy to split the state," the Washington-based Uyghur American Association said in a statement.
It said Hoshun, 31, has been suspended from the ceiling, beaten and denied food for three days, as punishment for not memorizing the center's regulations in Chinese, a language he does not speak.
Uighurs are Turkic-speaking Muslims whose culture is distinct from the rest of China.
Beijing blames Uighur separatists for sporadic bombings and other violence in Xinjiang, which the Uighurs refer to as "East Turkestan."
An official at the Shuiding town government office, who refused to give his name, declined to confirm the detention Tuesday. No number was listed for Kosheriq Detention Center, where the group said Hoshun was being held.
"We are extremely concerned about Tudahun," Alim Seytoff, a spokesman for the rights group, was quoted as saying in the statement. "We hope by going public with this information we can at least ensure the abuse stops."
Last week, the group said China detained three adult children of U.S.-based Muslim activist Rediya Kadeer, who is also the association's newly elected president.
The move was apparently to keep Kadeer's family from talking to a U.S. congressional team that was visiting Xinjiang, the group said.
I don't recall seeing this story, guess the cover-up is working
June 04, 2006: THE United Nations has ordered staff in East Timor not to co-operate with Australian Federal Police investigating the massacre of 12 unarmed Timorese officers by renegade soldiers, prompting allegations of a cover-up.
An email from the UN's deputy representative in Timor, Pakistani General Anis Bajwa, had been circulated to all staff, including employees evacuated to Australia, directing them not to assist AFP detectives investigating the worst atrocity since the violence of 1999. A copy of the email had been passed to Australia's Embassy in Dili, outraged diplomats and AFP sources confirmed to AAP.
Lots of attention has shifted to the UK and Canada due to recent arrests, but the "youths" in France continue their intifada against the French government and French culture.
- Three police officers and two emergency workers were hurt in clashes with scores of youth in a southern Paris suburb late Monday, a police source said.
Molotov cocktails and stones were thrown at the police who responded with teargas and disabling flash-balls during the unrest involving 50-100 youths at the Grande Borne housing estate in the town of Grigny.
The violence lasted some 45 minutes as masked youths set one car ablaze and destroyed phone boxes and bus shelters.
No one was arrested in the violence and the injuries were said to be light.
The unrest follows similar clashes in two northern Paris suburbs last week and raises fears of a repeat of last November's nationwide riots.
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My father was a policeman for 32 years, after he got out of the Marine Corps. He told me a long time ago of the surest way to stop riots. If there are 100 rioters, send in 200 riot police in the robocop type gear and stomp the sh*t out of them. When they get the stitches removed from their heads they may think twice about doing that again.
ANKARA - Military personnel Murat E., Yasin Y. and Erkut T. as well as businessman Yunis A. were arrested on Saturday (within the scope of Eryaman operation) on charges of setting up organization to destroy unity of country and having explosive materials.
Interrogation of 7 people was completed at Ankara Court yesterday, and military personnel and the businessman were arrested. Other 3 civilians were released.
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Murat E? ....hmmmmm
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I wonder if they consider comments to be explosive materials?
Rome, 6 June (AKI) - Expressing solidarity to the armed forces after an Italian soldier was killed on Monday night in a bomb attack near the Iraqi city of Nassiriya, Italy's Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema said soldiers in Iraq were on a "peace mission." "I express pain, solidarity and closeness to the Italian armed forces once again hard hit as they were fulfilling their duty in a mission of peace," said D'Alema, who also serves as deputy premier in the new centre-left government of Romano Prodi. After his government was sworn in last month, Prodi called the war in Iraq a "grave error" and vowed that Italy's 2,600-strong contingent would be withdrawn soon.
D'Alema's left-wing allies in the cabinet coalition have repeatedly challenged the claim of the previous conservative government that Italy was on a peace mission in Iraq, calling for the immediate pullout of Italian troops after the centre-left won a general election in April. However, Italian troops will reportedly not be pulled before the autumn, sometime between September and December, and D'Alema has said he will agree on a timeframe for the withdrawal with the Iraqi government and the US. The foreign minister is scheduled to travel to Iraq this week and meet US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on 12 June.
An Italian soldier, 25-year-old Alessandro Pibiri, was killed and four others were wounded on Monday night when a bomb blew up the vehicle they were travelling in about 100 km from their base in Nassiriya in southern Iraq.
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TORONTO - The young men charged with plotting terrorist attacks against Canadian targets were allegedly planning two separate strikes one to detonate a truck bomb to destroy a significant building and the other to open fire on a crowd in a public place, the National Post has learned. The alleged conspirators were concentrating their efforts on their assigned missions and were in an advanced state of planning when authorities arrested them last weekend.
The national security component of the huge investigation was code-named Operation Claymore by Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Canada's spy agency, which was on specific alert as their office at the base of the CN Tower was among the list of prime targets by the alleged conspirators. The Toronto Stock Exchange was another of the plotters' prime targets for a massive bomb attack, according to law-enforcement sources. Both attacks would have devastated Toronto and, if carried out during business hours, would have resulted in significant casualties.
Sources also told the National Post that the commandos of Joint Task Force-2 (JTF-2), Canada's elite special forces unit, were put on standby a short flight away from where suspected terrorists were conducting ''training camps'' at an isolated site north of Toronto. A ''troop'' of about 25 of the unit's highly trained assaulters, part of JTF-2's counter-terrorism unit, were at a nearby military base with their helicopters ready to swoop down should police decide they were needed, said a military source. ''They were within a few minutes flying time of this training camp,'' said the source, who is familiar with JTF-2's operations. ''Basically they were on standby in case things got out of hand and the police couldn't handle it.''
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Lawyers for a number of the accused men complained that the clients' family members were not allowed to see their relatives since their arrest.
Same lawyer is also complaining that his clients religious rights are being abused because the group isn't being allowed to pray together. It's the together that irks him. They are not being denied prayer time.
One of the suspects in an alleged bomb plot in Ontario is accused of wanting to storm Parliament, behead the prime minister and attack a number of sites, including the CBC building in Toronto, his lawyer says. Lawyer Gary Batasar, who represents Steven Chand, made the comments after a court appearance in Brampton, Ont., on Tuesday for 15 of 17 suspects arrested under Canada's Anti-terrorism Act in a series of raids on the weekend. "The allegations are quite serious, including storming and bombing of various buildings," Batasar said. "There's an allegation that my client personally indicated that he wanted to behead the prime minister of Canada."
Batasar said he was given an eight-page synopsis of the allegations, including storming Parliament, blowing up some of the buildings and taking politicians hostage to demand the withdrawal of Canadian troops in Afghanistan. If the demands were not met, it is alleged, Chand wanted to behead Stephen Harper. He said his client is also accused of being part of a plan to take over the CBC building in Toronto. This is shocking. Taking over the CBC building would be the last straw.
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One of the suspects in an alleged bomb plot in Ontario is accused of wanting to storm Parliament, behead the prime minister and attack a number of sites . . .
Oh, come now! He's just trying to get a head in the world.
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The twelve men arrested Friday and charged as adults in connection with alleged terrorist acts are linked together in six categories of charges, court documents reveal.
Documents filed at the Brampton courthouse indicate that the charges range from conspiracy to carry out a terrorist activity, to training for terrorist purposes, to bomb making and illegally importing guns and ammunition.
All twelve are charged with knowingly participating in a terrorist group for the purpose of carrying out terrorist activity in Mississauga, Toronto, Fort Erie, the Township of Ramara and elsewhere in Ontario, between March 1, 2005 and June 2, 2006.
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while critics said lax immigration laws have made Canada a haven for terrorists.
for example?
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So, who are these guys ? Are they Catholics ?
No no no no. Well then, are they Mormons ?
No no no no. Then, are they Baptists ?
No no no no. Are they Quakers ?
No no no no. Are they Hindus ?
No no no no. Are they Lutherans ?
No no no no. Well who the hell are they ?
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Episcopalians. You just can't trust those rascals.
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Beyond the denial that these guys are muslims, what really makes me grin is the commentators that admit, "well OK, these guys are Islamic terrorists," but then claim that they aren't Al Qaeda or are only AQ imitators. I guess that's why the investigation is expanding to seven countries. Denial is always so fascinating in a sick sort of way.
The imams are the recruiters and turn these kids over to the training, logistical, and operational networks. If you don't have informers and agents in the mosques, these kinds of incidents are going to continue to pop up.
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Raf: Anyone arriving in Canada, even with forged documents, can immediately apply for refugee status. That starts a multi-month (years in many cases) process wherein the person can just move and effectively disappear from the system. There are thousands of "refugees" who fail to show up to their hearings and melt away into whatever cultural enclave they want to.
The system is about as good at finding them as the US is at finding illegals. Basically, they don't even try.
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If my mother-in-law's family tree is typical of her compatriots, the requirements for Quebecois are that they all came over to Canada together from the same few villages in France, where they had been intermarrying since the Dark Ages, and proceeded to live next door to one another on this side of the ocean, never marrying our of the neighborhood -- except for the occasional Indian wife, of course.
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LOL, tw. I didn't know that, but it could explain some things now that I think about it.
Don't know why but I'm reminded of my favourite mother-in-law joke (translated). What's the definition of sorrow and pity? Sorrow is when your mother-in-law falls into a well, pity is when a crane pulls her out.
Or is it the other way around.
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The trailing daughters had to trace their family tree for a history class project. My darling mother-in-law's line was practically braided. ;-)
High-profile sites such as the Peace Tower in Parliament and the CN Tower complex were among targets identified by a group of home-grown terror suspects arrested at the weekend, media said on Monday. Canada's spy agency said the anti-terror sweep meant there was no longer an "imminent threat." But police said they could not rule out further arrests in what is already the country's largest counter-terrorism operation.
The group -- 17 people have been arrested so far -- had the "intent and capability" to launch attacks, Mike McDonell, assistant commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, told CBC Radio on Monday. "There is a chance we could be arresting more people. We are following up every lead to the nth degree, and any person that has aided, facilitated or participated in this threat will be arrested."
The men and youths were arrested on Friday and Saturday in an operation that involved some 400 police officers in and around Toronto, Canada's largest city and its economic powerhouse. All those arrested were residents of Canada, and most were Canadian citizens, prompting parallels to be drawn with the London bombings of a year ago, when young British suicide bombers killed 52 people and wounded 700 by setting off bombs on the city's transit system.
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If the Islamonazis hit parliament it's really going to bring some grief to their community and may even arouse the condemnation of the MSM. Why not do as they did in the UK - hit the mass transit systems and seemingly no one will give a f*ck - the MSM will carry on thinking muslims are a great bunch and that they pose no threat and should be cosseted and pampered like before. Then they can hit us again with something much nastier.
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It's called drop trousers, grab ankles.
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Charges against 12 alleged al Qaeda sympathizers arrested at the weekend range from training terrorists to plotting to cause a fatal explosion, according to court documents filed today.
Police said they could not rule out additional arrests in what is already Canada's largest anti-terrorist operation.
"There is a chance we could be arresting more people. We are following up every lead to the Nth degree, and any person that has aided, facilitated or participated in this threat will be arrested," Mike McDonell, assistant commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, told CBC Radio.
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LUCIANNE.com quotes an article from CBSNEWS.com that US offics believe another attack against America is likely, and in fact may occur as soon as by the end of 2006.
TORONTO -- They came to Canada as children when their homeland Somalia fell into war and chaos. They now stand accused of taking part in a terrorist plot against the country that gave them refuge. Two of the 17 Toronto men charged with terrorism-related offences over the weekend, Yasin Abdi Mohamed, 24, and Ali Mohamed Dirie, 22, are Somali refugees who came to Canada with their families in the early 1990s.
"Forget about me, my children! Take Dondi and flee to the Great White North! There are those there who will care for you until you can... you can... avenge me! [RATTLE!]"
"Father! Oh, father! I swear by Allen, I will have Dire Revenge for the slights done to you! Come, Ali! Bring Dondi! Let us flee!"
Both men are scheduled to appear in court north of Toronto on Wednesday to face charges related to an RCMP investigation into a terrorist bombing plot in southern Ontario. The two friends, college students who made money selling jeans to friends, have led remarkably similar lives marked by war, migration and now alleged involvement in terrorism.
"Please, sir? Buy my jeans?"
Mohammed was five when his family arrived from the Somali capital Mogadishu via Italy. "We were pretty much raised here," said Mohamed's brother Abdul, standing in the doorway of the small apartment they shared in Toronto.
"It's been a good life. Canada is just like home. Except for the warfare. And the snow. And the Lutherans. And the Esquimeaux..."
"Yasin (is) very religious. Every day he prays," his mother, Asha Muhayadin, said, pointing to the holy book she said her son read every morning. Mohamed would admonish his siblings for not praying more often, she recalled. "He told his brothers, `You wake up, you never say thanks to God. Are you animals?"'
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tear jerker, brings tears to the Captain's eyes. Can't we just surrender Canada to the lads?
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I had forgotten "Dondi"
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I guess that whole "We're nice and tolerant here in Canada, not like those eeeeevvviillll Yankees to the South!" thing isn't working.
It's our bad, really. All those damn Americans pretending to be Canadians when they travel overseas, and then acting like schmucks....
AN INTERNET trail left by a British computer expert has led investigators to an intricate terror network spreading from the backstreets of Baghdad through cells of young militants living in European capitals to Islamic extremists plotting car-bomb attacks in North America.
For nine months police and intelligence agents in eight countries have patiently worked through a forest of e-mails and intercepted telephone calls that have so far led to the arrest of up to 30 men.
Most of these suspects have never met. They had no need. They were recruited, groomed by skilled propagandists and schooled in bombmaking via the internet.
A senior security source told The Times that there is a far greater number of terror networks operating in Britain than had been thought, all using the internet to plot attacks here and abroad.
A series of criminal trials in Britain, the US, Canada and Bosnia over the coming months will determine whether the much maligned Western security agencies have successfully disrupted a dangerous ring of al-Qaeda sympathisers or been duped by faulty intelligence.
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Great news. I can guarantee the TSM (terrorist supporting media)will not cover this. Dhimmitude at its finest.
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For nine months police and intelligence agents in eight countries have patiently worked through a forest of e-mails and intercepted telephone calls that have so far led to the arrest of up to 30 men.
Thanks Captain..too bad there ain't a large legal hole we could throw this bunch of MSM stringers into and leave em there forever.
The Indian army says it has killed eight suspected militants who tried to cross the Line of Control into Indian-administered Kashmir. An army spokesman said the clash took place shortly before dawn in Kupwara district, to the north-west of the state's summer capital, Srinagar. "We had reports that there would be infiltration attempts by militants," the spokesman, Col VK Batra, said. There has been a rise in attacks in Kashmir recently after relative peace.
Last week, more than 30 Indian tourists were injured after a grenade attack on the bus that was carrying them in Indian-administered Kashmir. Four tourists had earlier been killed in a similar attack.
India alleges that militants cross into Indian-administered Kashmir in the summer, when the snow on high mountain passes melts. Delhi also says there are militant training camps across the Line of Control in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, a charge that Islamabad denies.
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Here's an email we received from a U.S. military officer who asks us to withhold his name:
I am currently stationed here in Iraq and have been here for the past 11 months; I am an adviser to the Iraqis and meet them on a daily basis. I have been in many locations in the country and am involved on a daily basis together with the Iraqis fighting the insurgency.
The media manipulation by the insurgents is brilliant and extremely effective. The press has become a puppet for the insurgents; the insurgents know exactly what they are doing with these "massacres" (quoted here because the investigation has not been completed, nor have any charges been filed) and the political nightmare they will cause the current administration. Bodies are produced for film, and there is zero fact-checking by the media--the media eat up this "news" like there is no tomorrow. A couple of hundred bucks paid by the insurgents to a few guys/ladies in the town where this "massacre" occurred to make up some bad news and pine for the BBC's or CBS's or whoever's cameras is a nice month's salary for many and money well spent by the insurgency.
All the Arabs (Sunni and Shia), Kurds and Chaldeans I have come to know well here will tell you that Arabs are emotional people who tend to exaggerate. A lot. Experience has shown that "50 insurgents hiding out in XX location" is five, at most 10. "Three hundred dead" at the morgue is at most 40. "A huge cache with WMD" is 45-50 weapons. It is a cultural norm and is accepted over here as a norm. It is reported in the West as fact. With no fact-checking.
When we convoy, all in the town/village know when and where there is a bomb/IED/VBIED that is targeting coalition forces. This is not so true in Baghdad, but in the outlying towns all know. What is the culpability for those people in the village/town? Would the Marines be guilty in the U.S. under the same circumstances?
I do not know whether or not the Marines are guilty. A Marine's job is to "close with and destroy the enemy by fire and maneuver," and I can guarantee its effectiveness. But the insurgents have the ear of the press. Hopefully the politics will be put aside for the investigation and the facts will be told, whatever they may be.
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This fellow is naive. The media is not being manipulated. They are Durantys. The MSM is actively and intentionally working for the defeat of the U. S. military and the Bush administration, in that order. They con't care who wins as long as the U, S. loses. They are part of the enemy.
"Because of the defiant, irrational and immoral refusal of Western political, cultural and media elites to acknowledge the threat that internal and external jihadist forces manifest to the very notion of human freedom, they make it impossible for their societies to take measures to protect themselves."
I think we have a simple choice: either we lose the war against totalitarian Islam, or we somehow get these "elites" the hell out of the way so we can fight it.
One or the other.
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More and more I see a civil war coming.
DV: just for clarification: do you mean in Iraq or here?
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Well Dave, if they'd have acknowledged the danger in the past they'd have had to admit that it existed before the evil conservatives had a chance to create it. Now that said pesky condition no longer exists I expect we'll see full-on reporting of the dangers here soon enough ... complete with the requisite "This is all Bush's fault! They didn't hate us before!"
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THe GWOT > hyperpower democapitalist America must be placed under JUSTIFIED Anti-American American National Socialism and ditto Socialist OWG, whether VOLUNTARILY = FORCIBLY, UNILATERALLY = BY NECESSITY, etc. ONCE AMERICA GOES UNDER, THE WEST AND LATER THE NON-SOCIALIST-COMMUNIST WORLD WILL FOLLOW. THe Failed Left, Anti-American, and OWG agendists, etal. cannot be blamed for conspiracy becuz its "justified" - OOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPSSSSSS, THE BLAMELESS LEFT REMAINS BLAMELESS, ONCE BEFORE AND FOREVER. HOw does Britney keep getting herself into these things!?
NINE severed heads were found today in the latest atrocity in a volatile area north of Baghdad, police said, as Iraqi leaders faced a crisis over filling key security jobs critical to ending rampant bloodshed.
Police in the city of Baquba, 65km north of the capital, said the heads were discovered in plastic bags in its northern al-Hadid district. No other details were immediately available.
It was the second such gruesome discovery in or near Baquba in the last few days. On Saturday, police said they found the cut-off heads of seven cousins and an Sunni Arab Imam by the side of the road outside Baquba.
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Right on Frank G. They kill people, civilians (take them off buses and seperate them), leave thier heads to be found, and we need to leave the war cause of something a few (operative word-few)marines may or may not have done. I suppose we should wait to see how the investigation by the insurgents comes out on these heads before judgement as well. How about we issue our finding the same time they issue thiers.
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"[T]hey had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wire from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam. ..."
John F'ng Kerry (circa 1973), a man ahead of his time
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Iraqi security forces carried out four simultaneous raids, killing an alleged insurgent financier and capturing two cell leaders, U.S. Central Command reported.
The raids occurred June 1 and resulted in the death of a "financier responsible for bankrolling insurgent activities in at least three of the city districts," U.S. Central Command announced Monday.
Iraqi army forces, assisted by U.S. military advisers, also captured two insurgent cell leaders believed responsible for attacks on Iraqis in al Ghazaliyah and al Doura, two of Baghdad's most violent neighborhoods.
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You can bet your ass if the IP or ING drill some civilians, there will not be anyone to say boo to them about it. Thats just the way things are done over there.
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It's time to go door to door. Let's see what these scum have hanging in their closets and under the beds. The attic, the cellar, burried in the yard. The whole neighborhood can help dig.
U.S. forces killed an alleged al-Qaida terrorist, Hasayn Ali Muzabir, during a raid June 2 near Balad, Iraq, U.S. Central Command announced Monday.
Hasayn Ali Muzabir was a former Iraqi Intelligence officer under the Saddam Hussein regime, but more recently operated as a so-called al-Qaida military emir in the vicinity of Samarra, according to CENTCOM.
Muzabir facilitated Iraqi and foreign terrorists, and managed and provided funds for kidnapping, assassinations and bombings against Iraqi citizens and Iraqi and coalition forces.
During a June 2 attempt to apprehend him he was killed and another was detained. A third man, unrelated to the terrorists, was injured during the detention and medically evacuated, CENTCOM said.
U.S. and Iraqi forces have killed or captured several men believed to be associated with al-Qaida in Iraq in the area of Samarra, the city where the Golden Mosque was bombed in February, which set off a spate of ethnic violence. Among them was Hamadi Tahki, the so-called Emir of Samarra, who was killed April 28. Muzabir may have replaced Tahki, CENTCOM speculated.
A military official in Samarra told UPI Saturday security has improved in the city in the last month with the latest captures and kills of suspected al Qaida leaders. No U.S. soldiers assigned to the brigade in that area were killed in action in May, the official said.
Whether that translates to a real improvement is difficult to discern, he said.
"It's tough to gauge what's actually going on in these towns though, Samarra in particular. Is the violence due to tribal infighting, is one tribe giving us information to use against another in order to gain a local advantage, is it about getting on our good side to get lucrative contracts, or are they sincerely fed up with the (anti-Iraqi forces) killing their people and preventing progress? It's difficult to discern. Suffice to say that when working with any of the Iraqis we always suspect there's some angle that we don't understand right away," the official said.
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Three suspects in the kidnap and murder of Iraqi-British aid worker Margaret Hassan in 2004 were going on trial in Baghdad on Monday, a British official said. Iraqi judicial officials were not immediately available for comment on what was believed to be one of the first, if not the very first, known trial for the abduction or killing of a foreign-born civilian in Iraq.
Hassan, an Iraqi-British national who had lived in Iraq for more than three decades after marrying an Iraqi engineer, was head of the Iraqi operation of the CARE International charity. She was abducted while traveling to work in Baghdad in October 2004, and was killed about a month later after appealing in video messages made by her abductors for British forces to withdraw from Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the abduction or the killing, and her body has not been found.
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Gunmen in police uniforms abducted up to 50 employees of various Baghdad transport companies on Monday, police and Interior Ministry sources said. They carried out what appeared to be a coordinated operation along a Baghdad street that is home to several companies offering transport to Syria and Jordan, police said.
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Masked gunmen stopped two minivans carrying students north of Baghdad, ordered the passengers off, separated Shiites from Sunni Arabs, and killed the 21 Shiites "in the name of Islam," a witness said. In predominantly Shiite southern Basra, police hunting for militants stormed a Sunni Arab mosque early Sunday, just hours after a car bombing. The ensuing fire fight killed nine.
The two attacks Sunday dealt a blow to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's pledge to curb sectarian violence. He again failed to reach consensus Sunday among Iraq's ethnic and sectarian parties on candidates for interior and defense minister posts he must fill to implement his ambitious plan to take control of Iraq's security from U.S.-led forces within 18 months.
Sectarian tensions have run particularly high in Baghdad, Basra and Diyala province, a mixed Sunni Arab-Shiite region. And Sunday's attacks came just days after terrorist mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi renewed his call for Sunni Arabs to take up arms against Shiites, whom he often vilifies as infidels.
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God what a demented shithole of insanity. Two herds of sheep, two packs of wolves, no dogs, no farmers, no quarter, no logic. Centuries of the same endless mindless slaughter.
GAZA CITY - Five Palestinians were wounded on Tuesday in an anti-tank rocket attack against the Gaza City headquarters of a Fatah-dominated Palestinian security service, medical sources said. Two of the wounded were members of the preventive security service whose downtown Gaza headquarters came under attack, medical sources said. The other three were cleaners working in the compound, security sources said.
Three RPG (rocket-propelled grenades) were fired from the roof of a house at the preventive security building, a security source said.
"Woooooossssh...KABOOM..KABOOM..KABOOM!"
A witness heard a loud explosion and saw smoke spew out of the building, before security officers opened fire toward the source of the RPG fire. Security sources had initially said an explosive device was planted near the preventive security headquarters, wounding at least two of its personnel.
A power struggle between the Fatah-controlled security services and Hamas-led government has seen the Gaza Strip bogged down in deadly feuding in which at least 16 people have been killed since early May. Tuesdays explosion came as Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas was expected to call a snap referendum on a statehood plan, which implicitly recognises Israel, despite the protests of Hamas.
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It's a bummer when there are no Jews around to stop you killing each other. See, it's all the Jews fault.
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Actually, on some scorecards the Jews actually will be listed as "at fault" because anti-Israel columnists like to compare numbers of Israelis killed versus the higher number of Palestinians killed. This makes no moral sense even in cases of direct fire because if Israeli security kills a bomber before he is able to complete his 'mission' of killing 20 school children, then the scorecard method implies the Israelis are morally at fault. But organizations compiling the stats often further skew things by throwing in deaths like these that are straight Palestinian versus Palestinian situations. Bias is not a pretty thing.
JOLO, Philippines (AP) The leader of an al-Qaida-linked militant group and two Indonesians suspected in the deadly 2002 Bali bombings may be plotting to attack U.S. and Philippine troops on a southern island, military officials said Monday.
The militants were seen recently on Jolo island but could not launch their attacks because of problems caused by U.S.-backed offensives, two Philippine military officials told reporters on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
Khadaffy Janjalani and the two Indonesians Dulmatin, who goes by one name, and Umar Patek also have run low on weapons and ammunition, one of the officials said.
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REBEL soldiers in East Timor had 48 hours to hand in their weapons, the head of the country's Parliament said today.
"For those who left their barracks, they must hand in all the guns they have within 48 hours," Fransisco Guterres, who holds a post similar to parliamentary speaker, said in the legislature.
However, an assistant to Foreign Minister Jose Ramos Horta, who assumed the defence portfolio last Friday, said he had not heard of the time limit.
Mr Ramos Horta had been seeking to meet the rebel soldiers but ministry spokesman Chris Santos would not give details of developments, citing the sensitive nature of discussions.
"He is meeting with everybody as the days go by," Santos said.
East Timor plunged into chaos when Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri in April fired 600 soldiers, nearly half the tiny nation's army, after they complained of discrimination because they came from the west of the country.
Twenty-one people died last month as sporadic battles between rival soldiers descended into gang clashes and led the government to appeal for foreign help.
More than 2000 combat-ready foreign peacekeepers, chiefly from Australia, have deployed in Dili.
Major Alfredo Reinado, who says he is in command of the 600 sacked soldiers, is holed up in the mountain town of Maubisse. He could not be immediately reached for comment.
Some police also joined Major Reinado, who has said he remains loyal to President Xanana Gusmao but wants Mr Alkatiri to resign.
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan troops killed two Tamil Tiger guerrillas Monday after the militants detonated a mine targeting a group of soldiers in eastern Sri Lanka, a military official said. The soldiers suffered no casualties in the blast in Valaichchenai, 200 kilometres east of the capital Colombo, an official at the army media unit said on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to reporters.
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Hi there! This is [DJ One]... ...and [DJ Two]! And tomorrow, we're going to Hell!
There's going to call up Hell, Michigan and talk to some guy who owns -- er, something...hotel I think -- and ask him what's going on there. I bet they ask him if Hell has frozen over.
I wondered what the hell that was about. Now I the hell know.
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Damn, can't make it to either Michigan or Norway. I'll just have to settle for some devils' food cake, and freaking out the neighbors with my little demon horns from my Halloween costume.
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I once went to Time, Pennsylvania, with a couple of buddies on a train-photographing expedition. It was the place in Pennsylvania where time stood still.
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I've driven through George, Washington.
Speaking of towns named Hell, think High Plains Drifter.
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If you're born today and your parents named you Damien, you have my sympathies.
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So, 6, you've been to Two Egg?
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The flap over today's date would be funny if it didn't remind me just how scripturally illiterate America has become. The number of the beast is a sign, not a date; it has nothing to do with the calendar.
The years in the Gregorian Calendar are based on a medieval ecclesiastic's miscalculation of the year of Christ's birth. Going by history, including the death of Herod the Great, the calendar is off by at least six years. And when Pope Gregory did get the calendar in order, he didn't use Arabic numerals!
Today is worth remembering for a different reason: DDay, 62nd anniversary. My son, who sometimes posts here as Korora, and #3 daughter mark Memorial Day every year by watching The Longest Day.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A third incident in the country's east an explosion in the courtyard of a religious school and mosque killed three people and wounded at least seven Tuesday in what appeared to have been a premature bomb detonation, officials said.
Five Afghan police shot dead seven fellow officers as they slept, before defecting to join Taliban guerrillas fighting in southern Afghanistan, a provincial official said on Monday. Sunday night's incident outside Qalat, the provincial capital of southern province of Zabul, comes amid the bloodiest period in an insurgency raging since US-backed forces toppled the militants' government in 2001. "The seven policemen were asleep when the other five jumped, killed them, took their arms and joined the Taliban," provincial spokesman, Gulab Shah Alikhail, said. He said provincial officials were hunting the five policemen and had "intelligence" that they had joined the Taliban.
MOGADISHU, Somalia -- An Islamic militia said today it has seized Somalia's capital after weeks of bloody fighting and 15 years of anarchy in this Horn of Africa nation, raising fears that the nation could fall under the sway of al Qaeda. The militia appeared in control of Mogadishu. Most of the leaders of a secular alliance that opposed them -- with cooperation from the United States -- appeared to have fled the city by this afternoon. 
The Islamic courts' union has today officially declared an Islamic court in Daynile district in southwest of the capital where anti terror alliance was formed on February 2006 day after the sucked [sic] minister of national security 
TORONTO -- They came to Canada as children when their homeland Somalia fell into war and chaos. They now stand accused of taking part in a terrorist plot against the country that gave them refuge. Two of the 17 Toronto men charged with terrorism-related offences over the weekend, 
The Indian army says it has killed eight suspected militants who tried to cross the Line of Control into Indian-administered Kashmir. An army spokesman said the clash took place shortly before dawn in Kupwara district, to the north-west of the state's summer capital, Srinagar. "We had reports that there would be infiltration attempts by militants," the spokesman, Col VK Batra, said. There has been a rise in attacks in Kashmir recently after relative peace. 
Three suspects in the kidnap and murder of Iraqi-British aid worker Margaret Hassan in 2004 were going on trial in Baghdad on Monday, a British official said. Iraqi judicial officials were not immediately available for comment on what was believed to be one of the first, if not the very first, known trial for the abduction or killing of a foreign-born civilian in Iraq.
Masked gunmen stopped two minivans carrying students north of Baghdad, ordered the passengers off, separated Shiites from Sunni Arabs, and killed the 21 Shiites "in the name of Islam," a witness said. In predominantly Shiite southern Basra, police hunting for militants stormed a Sunni Arab mosque early Sunday, just hours after a car bombing. The ensuing fire fight killed nine.
GAZA CITY - Five Palestinians were wounded on Tuesday in an anti-tank rocket attack against the Gaza City headquarters of a Fatah-dominated Palestinian security service, medical sources said. Two of the wounded were members of the preventive security service whose downtown Gaza headquarters came under attack, medical sources said. The other three were cleaners working in the compound, security sources said.
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan troops killed two Tamil Tiger guerrillas Monday after the militants detonated a mine targeting a group of soldiers in eastern Sri Lanka, a military official said. The soldiers suffered no casualties in the blast in Valaichchenai, 200 kilometres east of the capital Colombo, an official at the army media unit said on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to reporters.
