Afghan security forces clashed with Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan, leaving nine militants dead, while a subsequent roadside blast targeting a police vehicle killed five officers, an official said yesterday. Afghan police and army soldiers battled militants Sunday in Kandahar province's Shohrawak district, said provincial police chief Sayed Agha Saqib.
The joint Afghan forces thwarted a planned militant ambush at the district chief's compound, and the ensuing clash left nine militants dead, Saqib said. Authorities recovered the militants' bodies and weapons, he said. During a cleanup operation after the battle, a roadside bomb hit a police vehicle in the same district, killing five officers and wounding two others, Saqib said.
Violence in Afghanistan has risen sharply during the last two months. More than 3,700 people, mostly militants, have been killed in insurgency-related violence this year, according to an Associated Press tally of casualty figures provided by Western and Afghan officials. Most of the violence has occurred in former Taliban strongholds in the south.
In the northeastern province of Badakhshan, police arrested a man with a suicide vest on Monday who said he was from Kazakhstan, said Shamsul Rahman, the deputy governor. The man said other suicide bombers were in Badakhshan, Rahman said, prompting police to launch a search operation.
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(SomaliNet) Iraq-style roadside explosion and gunfire killed two soldiers and nine civilians, and wounded eighteen others in north of the Somalia capital Mogadishu on Monday afternoon, residents said. It is the bloodiest event seen in Mogadishu over the past weeks.
Local insurgents have carried the roadside bomb targeting a government vehicle passing Suuqa Xoolaha environ of Huriwa district in north of the city killing two soldiers. The Ethiopian forces who were taking water from a well nearby the area of the blast opened fire indiscriminately killing nine civilians. Six of the victims were traveling on a bus that was heading to the central regions of Somalia. This brings to seventeen to the people killed in Mogadishu today alone as the wounded surpasses sixteen. Some reports say after the explosion the government exchanged gunfire with the local insurgents.
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Fresh violence! Got ya fresh violence right here!
Fresh violence! Get it while it's hot!
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The Ethiopian forces who were taking water from a well nearby the area of the blast opened fire indiscriminately killing nine civilians.
I call BS on this one. Many more here are more in the Know about the Ethiopians, but supposedly they're some of the best trained soldiers in Africa. I'ma bettin' that these weren't your run-o-the-mill "civilians" (or that the Sudanese troops actually did the shootin')
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(SomaliNet) Two soldiers were wounded when the local insurgents attacked the police station in Howlwadag district, south of the Somalia capital Mogadishu last night, security official said on Monday. The head of the police communication office Abdiwahid Mohamed Hussein told Somalinet that insurgents carried out hit and run attack on the Howlwadag police station around 12:35pm mid night wounding two policemen. Residents said the militants using automatic machine-guns and rocket propelled and hand grenades ambushed the station as the police forces returned heavy gunfire. There is no independent source confirming the police casualty.
Last night's attack on the police station was part of the insurgent campaign against the interim government and its Ethiopian forces. On Friday, the leader of the Islamic Courts Union Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed urged the insurgents to sacrifice their lives to liberate the country from the occupation.
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(SomaliNet) A roadside bomb which exploded on a passengers bus in the Somalia capital killed two civilians and wounded four others on Monday ? as the opposition group continue their hit and run attacks on the government positions. The latest explosion that took place near KM-4 roundabout in south of Mogadishu aimed to destroy a pickup truck carrying soldiers but missed the target. The blast caught one of the public minibuses, which was driving next to the government vehicle that passed speedily. When the explosion happened, the security forces reached the area arresting dozens of nearby people. No one has claimed the responsibility of the latest bombing.
Elsewhere, another roadside explosion targeting government soldiers happened today near SOS mother and child hospital, north of the capital. There is immediate casualty on soldiers but sources confirmed that the bomb killed two civilians and injured four others. For past few days, SOS area was a scene of frequent attacks on the government troops.
Meanwhile, two police officers were injured when the local insurgents attacked the Howlwadag district police station overnight, security official said on Monday.
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RABAT (AFP) - An attempted suicide bomb attack in Morocco missed its intended target, a bus-load of foreign tourists, but seriously wounded the suspected bomber, a Moroccan security chief told AFP. The explosion, which occurred in the former imperial town of Meknes in a central square popular with foreign visitors, ripped off the arm of the 30-year-old Moroccan man who was carrying the gas cylinder.
None of the tourists in the bus, who included French, Italians and Americans, was hurt. The blast happened at 11:30 am (GMT). "He tried to get in the bus where tourists of several nationalities were staying, but the driver had the presence of mind to close the door in his face," said the security expert.
The bomber, Hicham Dokkali, was an engineer who worked in the tax office in Meknes, he added. Witnesses had seen the bomber talking to two other people shortly before the attack, he added. Police said they were searching for the two other men seen with him.
The state-run MAP news agency reported earlier that the alleged attacker "headed towards the bus but was unable to reach it because of the driver's vigilance."
Good job, Mr. Driver!
The state agency described the incident as "an isolated and desperate attempt." The suspect was in the town's military hospital in a critical condition.
Shrapnel in the gut? Shrapnel in the brain? Maybe burns. Ouch. And he'll be known as 'Lefty' to his comrades in prison.
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SplodyDope fumbles, misses and blows off his own arm tyring to kill unarmed touristas.
The Begot Of Islam
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On the one hand , I'd let him go, untreated as an example, on the other hand, hold him long enough for sepsis to set in them release him.
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an engineer who worked in the tax office in Meknes??
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It's because he's poor, oppressed and humiliated that he was forced to incinerate a bus full of infidels. Just ask the world renowned expert, Nancy "Hijab" Pelosi.
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The bomber, Hicham "Shakes" Dokkali, was an engineer...
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"On the one hand , I'd let him go, untreated as an example, on the other hand..." redneck Jim, that is really extremely cruel. It is perfectly clear from the article that Engineer Hicham ain't got but one hand (now)....HAHAHAHAHAH
A Russian express train heading from Moscow to St Petersburg was derailed late on Monday after the driver heard a loud bang under the wheels, overturning carriages and wounding dozens of passengers. The derailment occurred in the Novgorod region, about 500 km (300 miles) north of Moscow, near the village of Malaya Vishera. The line between Moscow and Russia's second city of St Petersburg is among the country's busiest.
Russian Railways said in a statement it was the result of "unauthorised interference in the functioning of the train". One eyewitness said the derailment was preceded by two explosions. "There was a bang under the train. Unfortunately that is the only way we can describe it until investigators and the FSB (state security service) ... reach their own conclusions," Sergei Mikhailov, an aide to Russian Railways chief Vladimir Yakunin, told Vesti-24 television station.
The train derailed just after crossing a bridge over a road, said a Reuters photographer at the scene.
A conductor on the train showed Reuters a video he recorded on his mobile telephone of a crater about 2 metres (6 ft) across that could be seen on the bridge, where the rails should have been. "We heard two explosions, then the train put on the brakes suddenly," one conductor, who did not want to be identified, told Reuters. "The train shook. A panic started," he said. "We smashed out the glass and helped the passengers out ... The worst damage was in the restaurant car. That is where most of the casualties were."
Viktor Beltsov, a spokesman for Russia's Emergencies Ministry, said 27 injured people were admitted to hospital. "Three are in a serious condition," he said. No one was killed. Russian news agencies said 60 people were hurt but most did not need hospital treatment. The Reuters photographer said nearly all of the carriages and the locomotive were off their tracks, while at least three carriages were tipped onto their side. Powerful lights had been set up at the trackside as FSB investigators inspected the site and railway workers with cutting equipment removed damaged rails.
"As a result of an explosion at 21:38 (1738 GMT) ... several carriages of passenger train No. 166 from Moscow to St Petersburg were derailed," Russian Railways said in an initial statement. Later statements removed mention of an explosion.
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A bang on the track could've been a broken rail - either under the train, or before it got there. Broken rails do not usually leave craters, though.
But if you wanna blow up a train, you do it just before the bridge, not right after it!
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well you can expect too much commn sense form the militants fighting in the Caucasus
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a crater about 2 metres (6 ft) across that could be seen on the bridge, where the rails should have been.
Perhaps the miscreants expected the bridge to collapse onto the road below, dumping the overturned train into oncoming traffic? Are there many cars on the roads 300 miles north of Moscow, nowadays?
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Sorta what I meant, TW. Either you blow the bridge, which is sometimes difficult, unless you're in Minnesota, or you derail the train before the bridge, so when it goes off the track, it tears down the bridge.
But after the bridge could be splodeydope logic.
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Who knew the Amish were so active in Russia?
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Well if the train would have been coming from the other direction the explosion would have been on the right side to cause the destruction that you talk about. Maybe they just got their timing of the train schedules off... instead of the south bound train they got the north bound train...
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From the overhead power lines in the derailment pictures, it looks like that line had a single track, so the bombers were hoping to catch a train going onto the bridge (60 foot dropoff). The train was traveling at 118 mph.
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KOMMERSANT > PUTIN to personally supervise investigation and kept informed, + FSB to tighten security all over Russia. *Iff this were the Cold War I'd say Putin wants evidence and is getting ready to blame the USA, andor NATO = USA by extens.
An uncomfortable fact of modern security is that too many people go through transit hubs and to public events for all of them to be screened both efficiently and thoroughly. As a result, there has been a lot of attention focused on producing automated systems that screen crowds without the need for human intervention. Automated biometric scans have serious limits, however, in that they can only identify people who have already been classified as threats. The Department of Homeland Security is hoping to overcome that limitation by automating the identification of individuals whose behavior suggests they pose a threat via a program dubbed "Hostile Intent."
The program has a foundation in both real science and prior experience. The human brain is constantly balancing input from both conscious decisions and reflexive actions. When the two conflict, this debate can produce subtle alterations in the timing and appearance of conscious actions, as well as in physiological responses. Trained individuals can read those cues to identify aberrant behavior; a report on the Hostile Intent program in the New Scientist indicates that the DHS has already deployed such individual examiners in airports, where they've apprehended a number of drug smugglers and money launderers.
The big leap will be shifting that sort of expertise to an automated system. At least in the case of facial expressions, a significant amount of work has already been done. Researchers located in the Netherlands have already demonstrated a system that recognizes and rates facial expressions. This system appears to be capable of working in real time, as demonstrated by videos the researchers made of a mood-based Pong game.
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Trained individuals can read those cues to identify aberrant behavior
Yes, thay can, using the human brain and lots of experience. Put it in a computer? Don't make me laugh. Guaranteed to have a world-record setting level of false positives.
Two civilians were killed and 14 others hurt on Monday in a grenade blast at a busy Kashmir market place in violence linked to India's upcoming Independence Day, police said. The attack was launched by suspected militants in Bandipora, about 60 kilometres north of Srinagar, police officer Imtiaz Ahmed said. "At least 16 people were initially hurt," with two dying on the way to the hospital, he added. Kashmiri militants and separatists observe India's Independence as a "black day" and often launch attacks aimed at disrupting official celebrations.
Twenty five people including, 10 soldiers and 13 firefighters, are missing two days after a large fire broke out in an Indian army ammunition depot in Kashmir, a senior army official said on Monday. The fire, which started on Saturday morning, is now under control, Lieutenant General HS Panag told a news conference, but he was worried that ammunition scattered around the area by the fire could explode. The army would not speculate on the fate of the 25 people missing inside the building. Four bodies have already been recovered and the blaze has also injured more than 40 others.
Massive explosions triggered by the fire sent shells and shrapnel ripping through dozens of nearby villages. Thousands of villagers have since been moved to safety as bomb disposal teams head to the area. The army was still investigating the cause of the fire, but dismissed claims from two Muslim militant groups that they had launched a rocket attack on the depot, one of the area's largest. "Terrorist action or sabotage is categorically ruled out," an army statement said.
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Security agencies have foiled a suicide-bombing attempt at an Independence Day public gathering to be held at Lal Haveli, which is the residence of Federal Railways Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad. Sources said that security agencies had sped up their search for suicide bombers, and on Monday they arrested two alleged suicide bombers and recovered suicide jackets and explosive from them. The suicide bombers told police that they were a group of five. On the information grilled from them, police conducted a raid at Dhok Khabba but could not arrest any other alleged suicide bomber.
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A flight attendant was arrested at the Jinnah International Airport on Monday as she tried to board a Gwadar-bound flight with a loaded pistol in her purse, an airport security official said. "Our security officials found a pistol loaded with four bullets on air hostess Irum Ara Shaikh during checking through scanning machines," the official, asking not to be named, told AFP. Police said she may have been carrying the pistol by mistake. "In preliminary investigations she told us that she had carried it a day earlier while outside in the city and forgot to return it to her father, who is a policeman," said Mohammad Ali, a local police official. PIA spokesman Nasir Jamal confirmed the incident, but did not give more details. "The matter is still under investigation," he told Reuters.
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My hat is off to that young lady! Quite effective method to defer FMG as well as the occasional purse snatcher I'd say. Have her bring me a fresh G&T, I'm in seat 3A.
Local Taliban handed over control of Darra Adam Khel to the government after a jirga assured them that there would be no more criminal and 'un-Islamic' activities in the area.
"The Taliban have given up control of Darra Adam Khel after the jirga assured them that it would take action against anti-social elements and un-Islamic activities in the area," Senator Abdur Raziq from Darra told Daily Times on Monday. He said that according to the agreement, the Taliban would retake control of Darra Adam Khel if the jirga or the local administration failed to fulfill their promise.
The jirga consisting of Kohat District Coordination Officer (DCO) Shahbullah, Kohat Assistant Political Agent Tariq, Darra MNA Dr Nasim, clerics and elders of the Zargunkhel, Akhurwal, Bost-e-Khel, Torchapar and Sherki tribes also assured the Taliban that they would not let anyone from criminals' families occupy their destroyed houses for five years.
Raziq said the local administration and the Kohat DCO supported the jirga and said that they may use force against criminals if needed. He added that the jirga had released nine criminals who had been 'arrested' by masked Taliban during their weeklong 'anti-criminal' campaign in Darra Adam Khel.
He said the Taliban had also given control of the Indus Highway and Charganu village to the khasadar force. The Taliban had occupied Charganu village after killing four alleged criminals, recovering four kidnapped persons and 18 stolen vehicles and destroying eight houses.
The senator denied that the Taliban had banned girls' education in the area. "The Taliban have only banned music, video centres and other un-Islamic activities," he added.
Haji Khan Gul of Darra Adam Khel said that following the Taliban's warning, several car-lifters had taken out stolen cars from their hideouts. "People have stopped preparing fake degrees and other documents, vehicles' number plates and passports due to the fear of the Taliban," he added.
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"The Taliban have only banned music, video centres and other un-Islamic activities,"
Just what is left to control if the Taliban defines "un-Islamic" activities. A partial list of activities considered "un-Islamic" by the Taliban when they controlled Afghanistan:
- celebrating the traditional new year on March 21.
- celebrating Labor Day (May 1st), because it is deemed a "communist" holiday.
- non-Islamic names. People had to change them to Islamic ones.
- long hair.
- wearing "un-Islamic" clothes.
- shaving or trimming beards.
- not attending prayers in mosques five times daily.
- keeping of pigeons.
- kite flying.
- carrying objectionable literature. Penalty death.
- converting from Islam to any other religion. Penalty death.
- Boys not wearing headdress: "No turban, no education".
- use of the internet by both ordinary Afghans and foreigners.
AND Non-Muslim minorities had to wear a distinct badge or stitch a yellow cloth onto their dress to be differentiated from the majority Muslim population. Just like what did Nazis with Jews.
This list doesn't even address the un-Godly restrictions on women...
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This is what is called "cenophobia" or a fear of new things and new ideas. You live in the stone age pre-civilizaiton and you fear what is coming, or in the case of the taliban, what has come and what you want to die now. They have no morals regardless of what they think and subrogate. What they have is fear and only fear. I think the way to kill them off is PsyOps - by blaring rock music continuously up into the hindu kush and showing nude films by projecting against the sky at night:)
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I've been saying that from the beginning. Load up a bunch of C-130's with every pr0n mag you can buy up and fly back and forth over the Wazoos tossing them out the backdoor while you watch the heads explode down on the deck. I'll bet it'd be pretty at night...
Its the most popular form of relaxation in Afghanistan. Can't have people relaxing when they should be praying 5 times a day and in mosque listening to jihadi ranting.
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Thanks, Jack. Silly me. I should have known that anything that was any fun at all would be unIslamic especially if it keeps people from banging their heads on the floor of some damn mosque.
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Actually, kite flying Afghan-style is a bit of a blood sport. The kites are flown in combat with one another, with the object being to sever your opponent's kite string. To this end, the kite 'string' has become kite cable, coated with broken glass and other nasties. Lots o' folk get hurt and a few get dead in kite flying season.
At least three militants were killed and five security personnel injured in separate incidents in Waziristan on Monday, as five people were killed and as many injured in a bomb blast in a tourist area in Swat. Three militants attacked Dargai check post, some 20 kilometres north of Wana, at around 10:00pm on Sunday night. The shootout in which heavy weapons were used continued till 10:00am on Monday and left three attackers dead.
Militants also attacked two security check posts in North Waziristan, injuring two security personnel. They also attacked Ghulam Khan check post, 15km north of Miranshah. No casualties were reported. Militants also attacked a military camp in the Shawal area, two kilometres west of Miranshah, injuring two security personnel.
At around 2:55pm on Monday, a military convoy going to Miranshah from Bannu was attacked with a remote-controlled bomb, about 18km east of Miranshah on the Main Miranshah-Bannu road in the Karam Kot area, leaving three army personnel injured.
The blast that targeted a jeep at a forest in the Kalam police precincts killed Dr Samiullah, Rafiullah, Muhammad Shahzad, Ali Muhammad Umerzai and Bakht-e-Afsar. Ali Bahadur, Fazal Rashid, Kashi, Ajmal Khan and Shahbaz were injured and rushed to the Kalam Hospital. Swat District Police Officer Mohammad Iqbal told Daily Times that nobody had been arrested and that police were investigating the matter.
In Shangla district, police set off a time bomb by firing shots at it. The resultant blast damaged the main gate of the Shangla district courts in Alpuri.
NNI adds: An allied forces aircraft intrude in Pakistan's territory in Kurram Agency. Pakistan has lodged a protest against the violation of its airspace, while the allied forces spokesman has regretted the action.
Inter Service Public Relations Director General Maj Gen Waheed Arshad told a TV channel the aircraft accidentally entered Pakistani airspace. Meanwhile, the Wana-Tank road has been closed for traffic because of clashes between militants and security forces in the region.
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United States troops in Iraq launched a major assault against al-Qaeda-linked militants and alleged Iranian-aided extremist groups on Monday as a Sunni leader accused Iran of plotting genocide against his people.
Operation Phantom Strike, the military announced, was being waged nationwide to disrupt Shi'ite extremist networks and insurgents affiliated to al-Qaeda, which the Americans blame for most of the violence besieging the country.
"It consists of simultaneous operations throughout Iraq focused on pursuing remaining AQI [al-Qaeda in Iraq] terrorists and Iranian-supported extremist elements," the military said.
"My intent is to continue to pressure AQI and other extremist elements throughout Iraq to reduce their capabilities," said Lieutenant General Ray Odierno, the number two commander of US forces in Iraq.
The US military declined to elaborate, citing "security concerns".
"But I can say this effort will be a top priority for combat units operating in Iraq for this period leading up to Ramadan," a spokesperson said, referring to the Muslim month of fasting due to begin in the second week of September.
US authorities regularly accuse Iranian elements, including Tehran's elite Quds Force, of arming, funding and training Iraqi extremist groups to carry out attacks on its troops in Iraq -- charges denied by Tehran.
The US military also announced the arrests of a top "financier" of Iraqi extremist groups believed to be supported by the Quds Force, and a medical doctor it accused of harbouring and supplying al-Qaeda affiliates in Baghdad.
Adnan al-Dulaimi, who heads a party in the main Sunni bloc that resigned from Iraq's fraying coalition government two weeks ago, meanwhile, launched a vitriolic verbal attack on Iran, accusing it of supporting genocide in Iraq.
In an open letter written in the name of Sunni Arabs, Dulaimi's office appealed to the wider Arab world to intervene.
"Your brothers in Baghdad are facing an unprecedented campaign of genocide carried out by militias and death squads under Iranian direction, planning, support and weaponry," said the statement, obtained by Agence France-Presse on Monday.
"By God, it is a war that started in Baghdad and will not stop there. It will engulf any place where Arabic is spoken.
"Use all means to stand up to Iran, as you are its next target. It is trying to occupy your Iraq, the Gulf and all your countries," it added.
The Sunni bloc, the National Concord Front to which Dulaimi belongs, walked out of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government on August 1, effectively ending any pretence by the Shi'ite-dominated coalition to national unity.
The bloc has accused the government of failing to rein in Shi'ite militias responsible for killing Sunnis in the brutal Iraqi sectarian strife.
Maliki, a Shi'ite, last week held two days of talks in largely Shi'ite Iran, where he received a warm welcome and where he was quoted by Iranian state media as praising Iran's "constructive" role in "fighting terrorism in Iraq."
US President George Bush took issue with that statement and Washington has warned Iraq's leaders to work harder on unity, concerned that political impasse could undermine the efforts of 155 000 US troops to end the conflict.
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"Your brothers in Baghdad are facing an unprecedented campaign of genocide carried out by militias and death squads under Iranian direction, planning, support and weaponry," said the statement, obtained by Agence France-Presse on Monday.
"By God, it is a war that started in Baghdad and will not stop there. It will engulf any place where Arabic is spoken.
"Use all means to stand up to Iran, as you are its next target. It is trying to occupy your Iraq, the Gulf and all your countries," it added.
Vitriolic? Mayhaps in the eye of beholder... but essentially, he nailed it down, except the pesky detail that Iran is funding sunni AQ too, as long as it serves its purposes.
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do we know where there is a subsyantial amount of these Quds forces being barracked at? if so why not take all inscriptions off one of our cruise missilles so they can't be identified and hit the place. that way they can't show parts of the missile on al jizz and really knopw that it was us who did the bombing and we can say it must have been a work accident
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Or do the cruise missile thing accompanied by red, white and blue fireworks. "The world" will blame America and the Jews no matter what happens. If they will not love they might as well fear.
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Maliki is becoming more and more of a problem. His patronizing of SHia is more important to him than the pacification and unification of Iraq.
I suggest we present Mr Maliki with gun-site photos of him, his wife, his adult children and his extended family. Just a little reminder to him that he has far more skin in this game than he believes he does.
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About Maliki, just remember that most of what we hear about him has been filtered and spun by the MSM. This doesn't mean that there isn't any truth there, just that we should be cautious.
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Ah, the dreaded approachment of Ramadan. We, of course, in the interests of projecting our humanity and consideration to France and Germany and Italy, we will observe Ramadan by withholding further military operations as will our Iraqi compatriots. But AQI and the thuggish insurgents will not observe but will be honored with fake but accurate stories of thier revolution and bravery by the French, the Germans and the Italians.
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Coalition Forces captured a key financier of Special Groups terrorists during a pre-dawn raid Monday in Western Baghdad. The detained individual is believed to be a Special Groups leader for the Bayaa province in Western Baghdad.
No shots were fired when Coalition Forces conducted a ground assault to capture or kill a suspected key financier of the "Special Groups" that are believed to have direct ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps ? Quds Force (IRGC-QF). These Special Groups terrorists are suspected of killing Iraqi citizens, directing attacks against Coalition Forces, and promoting sectarian violence.
Coalition Forces confiscated a vehicle, two computers, photographs and various documents that may lead to future operations targeting Special Groups. "Coalition Forces and their Iraqi interagency partners continue to build on a series of successful, integrated operations," said Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, MNF-I spokesperson. "Breaking the financial support chain of the Special Groups is an integral part of dismantling terror networks that seek to kill innocent Iraqis and Coalition Forces. We will continue to pursue these Special Groups in order to promote peace and stability in Iraq."
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He may have swallowed his flash drive. Better give him an enema to make sure he didn't.
Multi-National Division ? Baghdad Soldiers uncovered two weapon caches in the western Baghdad neighborhoods of Adl and Khadra Aug. 10. Acting on tips, Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment "Desert Rogues," attached to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, raided a home in the Adl neighborhood and discovered the first of two cache sites. The abandoned home contained 51 artillery rounds and 30 pounds of homemade explosive material.
The second cache site, located in Khadra, consisted of 27 pounds of homemade explosive material and a pre-fabricated improvised explosive device. An assortment of other bomb-making materials was also found at the second abandoned home.
An explosive ordnance disposal team destroyed the caches with controlled detonations. Fifty-one artillery rounds are lined up for inventory and destruction in a controlled detonation by an explosive ordnance disposal team Aug. 10. The artillery rounds were found in an abandoned house in the western Baghdad Adl neighborhood following a targeted raid by Coalition troops. This munitions cache discovery was the first of two caches uncovered by the "Desert Rogues" from the 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment.
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More rogues ? They must of had a sale on Hawaiian shirts.
Multi-National Division ? Baghdad troops discovered a vehicleborne improvised explosive device Aug. 12 in the eastern portion of the Rashid District of the Iraqi capital. Soldiers of Company B, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment "Tomahawks," attached to the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division operating in southern Baghdad, found a white sedan rigged with a 107mm projectile. A Coalition explosive ordnance disposal team was dispatched to detonate the device. There were no civilian casualties or damage from the controlled detonation.
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The vehicle belonging to one Abu Knevil was said to be other than a car bomb. Abu is said to be working on a homemade jumping device.
Multi-National Division ? Baghdad troops detained three suspected insurgents during raids in the Rashid District Aug. 12. In the early morning hours, Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 77th Armor Regiment, Task Force 1-18, attached to the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, detained a suspected insurgent based on tips from concerned Iraqis. Two residents signed sworn statements regarding the suspect's activities. Later in the day, "Tomahawks" of the 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, detained two individuals suspected of ties to the emplacement of improvised explosive devices. All three suspects are being held for further questioning.
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A silent, invisible battle is being fought against roadside bombs in Iraq. Though the military doesn't like to advertise their use, electronic jamming systems are playing a key role in neutralizing the threat. I'm sure they don't. Thanks for bringing everyone's attention to it. Any editors on duty there at CNN?
Yes, and intel-leaking is the only reason the story went to press. I snipped the rest of the article because it was so very badly written, and because our 'secret jamming technology' has been in use since 2003, and because I'm pissed that so many fine Coalition troops, support crews, contractors, and Iraqi citizens have died from these evil tools.
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why not put lie detector test on all persons who work with any type of cllassified materal and see who the leaks are. this would do considerable harm too all this type of "reporting"t for folks such as nyt
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I hope the flip-flops bag some CNN "reporters" with their next IED. Throw some AFP, BBC and al-Reuters in there too.
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These traitors certainly show a lot of concern for all the work-arounds our enemies are confronted with. Someone needs to "work" their heads over around with some lengthy parking lot therapy.
The number of truck bombs and other large al-Qaeda-style attacks in Iraq have declined nearly 50% since the United States started increasing troop levels in Iraq about six months ago, according to the U.S. military command in Iraq. The high-profile attacks generally large bombs hitting markets, mosques or other "soft" targets that produce mass casualties have dropped to about 70 in July from a high during the past year of about 130 in March, according to the Multi-National Force Iraq. Surge won't work. Never happen. Nope, it's a failure - Dems
The U.S. military began a major offensive across Iraq Monday, to crack down on extremist militants. A military statement says Operation Phantom Strike "consists of simultaneous operations throughout Iraq focused on pursuing...al-Qaida terrorists and Iranian-supported" extremists.
Earlier, officials said coalition forces had killed several militants and captured 13 alleged Iranian-linked arms smugglers in a pre-dawn raid Sunday on Baghdad's Shi'ite Sadr City district. The military statement said coalition forces also destroyed a truck during the raid, "killing an estimated three to five" suspected terrorists. I love the smell of burning Tater Tots in the morning!
On Sunday, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki called for a meeting of Iraqi political leaders to try to resolve divisions that have deadlocked the government. He said the leaders of Iraq's sectarian factions could begin meeting late Monday or Tuesday.
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Maliki is part of the problem not the solution. Bush has done a lot of stupid things (one putting loyality above success) and not hoisting Maliki by his necktie and reading him the riot act is one of them. Also, not dealing with tater early on was a huge error. Feeling sorry for the Shias is another one. Now its up to Patreaus to put Humpty back together again.
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Abu Sayyaf leader Umbra Jumdail alias Dr. Abu Pula was trying to retrieve the remains of his right-hand man Edimar Salip in the middle of a gunbattle with soldiers from the 33rd Infantry Battalion in barangay Tambaking, Maimbung, Jolo when wounded. Dr. Abu Pula fell on several occasions but managed to escape minus his right-hand man, Col. Antonio Mark Supnet, commander of the 104th Army Brigade, said. Later found in Salips possession was a Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) identification card.
The US government is offering a P5-million reward to anyone who can provide information that will lead to the arrest or death of Jumdail. [He is] a paramedic expert and one of two senior Abu Sayyaf leaders. The other is Radulan Sahiron. Jumdails son Masdal was killed in the Thursday encounter which left 25 soldiers and 32 Moro rebels killed and several others wounded. Masdal was an aide of Abu Sayyaf commander Albader Parad.
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Who would have thought that an Abu Sayyaf terrorist kingpin would have been carrying a MNLF identification card? The Moros have been assuring anyone who will listen, that they have nothing to do with the more fanatical, radical, alqaeda linked, Abu Sayyaf.
Troops killed three Tamil Tiger rebels in a gunfight and sank a rebel boat in a separate sea battle as fighting flared in Sri Lanka's northeast, the military said Monday.
The fighting started late Sunday when the Sri Lankan navy found two clusters of Tamil Tiger boats - about a dozen in all - moving toward the Pulmoddai area on the northeast coast, said military spokesman Brig. Prasad Samarasinghe. When the naval boats went to investigate, the rebel craft attacked, sparking a three-hour sea battle, the military said.
It said one Tiger boat was sunk and several others were seriously damaged. The fighting killed "probably around 10 cadres ... 10 to 12," said Samarasinghe. There was no independent confirmation of the casualties. An hour after the sea battle began, the army launched an attack on a group of rebels in the Pulmoddai area who it believed were waiting to be picked up by the boats, Samarasinghe said. The ensuing gunfight killed three rebels and a soldier, he said. In further fighting, the air force bombed a suspected Tiger training base and mortar position Monday morning in the area of northern Sri Lanka that the rebels run as a de facto state, Samarasinghe said.
Rebel spokesman Rasiah Ilanthirayan could not immediately be reached for comment on the violence. The fighting late Sunday came after four soldiers were killed when a bomb, attached to a bicycle parked by the side of the road, exploded as a military truck passed by in government-controlled Jaffna peninsula in northern Sri Lanka. The military blamed the Tigers for the attack.
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anyone have a gueestimate on how many of these tamil tiger militants they have in their ranks. Th ey must be getting close too killing a vast element of these terrorist
Posted by: Jesus saves ||
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Police arrested members of a dormant cell for the notorious Fatah al-Islam terrorist network in the southern provincial capital of Sidon and confiscated weapons, computers and a list of targets, a security source told Naharnet on Monday. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said four Palestinian members of the dormant cell were arrested in two separate busts and a manhunt was launched for the fifth.
Two of the suspects, identified as brothers Younis and Youssef Shibli, were rounded up from the family's flat in Taamir Harert Saida district, east of the port city. Two other suspects, Ismail al-Sayyad and Mahmoud Shaaban, were rounded up from the city of Sidon in a night time raid Sunday, the sources said. A ranking source said a fifth suspect, whom he refused to identify, remains at large and a man hunt was launched to arrest him. The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said: "we might end up with more than just five members. This is an ongoing operation."
The raids were carried out by the Data Branch, an anti-terrorism police force headed by Lt. Col. Wissam al-Hassan. The Data Branch brought in reinforcements from Beirut and carried out the raids Sunday based on information obtained by investigators from a Palestinian suspect who goes by the name of Jamal Malas. Malas was arrested after an exchange of fire with police in the northern town of Tripoli on July 31. Fatah al-Islam's military commander Shehab al-Qadour, who goes by the code name of Abu Huerira, was killed in the clash.
Members of the Sidon Fatah al-Islam cell were affiliated with Qadour, who had been based at the city's Ein el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp before moving to north Lebanon's Nahr al-Bared camp, where Fatah al-Islam terrorists have been fighting the Lebanese army since May 20. Police had confiscated 30.000 dollars from the Malas Residence near Tripoli, and the source said the Shibli brothers "testified that they had sent the money to finance Qadour's operations in the north."
The four detained suspects also testified to police investigators that they had carried out three bombing attacks in the Christian villages of Roum and Kfar Falous, east of Sidon, earlier this year. Fatah al-Islam has repeatedly threatened to carry out attacks in other provinces than north Lebanon.
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Not so dormant that they aren't actively bombing Christians.
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08/14/2007 16:15 Comments ||
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Fred, I submitted the article Islam: What the West Needs to Know About Islam twice to Opinions and it did not show up. I copy/pasted the first 3 Q&As. Any idea why it disappeared? Thanks.
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Fred, I submitted the article Islam: What the West Needs to Know About Islam twice to Opinions and it did not show up. I copy/pasted the first 3 Q&As. Any idea why it disappeared? Thanks.
When it happens to me, it's usually the Dreaded Words Filter; is there a very brief blank page with only one word (that is, the forbidden word) that appears when you try to post? If so, try putting an asterisk or something like that in the middle of the said word.
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By the way, having articles disappears in the Nameless Void because of just a word (sometimes even not a real one, just one "recognized" in the middle of a name or something like that) is very frustrating... but I'm used to that, since my life is an endless, constant stream of soul-crushing frustrations, with inept failures now and then to break up the monotony.
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I'm crawling the code right now, but I believe the only time a submission disappears entirely is when there's not a title. There's a reason for that.
I just forget what it is.
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the word be sh*ip
You mean the word be sh*ipman is no longer valid!?!
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Afghan security forces clashed with Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan, leaving nine militants dead, while a subsequent roadside blast targeting a police vehicle killed five officers, an official said yesterday. Afghan police and army soldiers battled militants Sunday in Kandahar province's Shohrawak district, said provincial police chief Sayed Agha Saqib.
RABAT (AFP) - An attempted suicide bomb attack in Morocco missed its intended target, a bus-load of foreign tourists, but seriously wounded the suspected bomber, a Moroccan security chief told AFP. The explosion, which occurred in the former imperial town of Meknes in a central square popular with foreign visitors, ripped off the arm of the 30-year-old Moroccan man who was carrying the gas cylinder.
An uncomfortable fact of modern security is that too many people go through transit hubs and to public events for all of them to be screened both efficiently and thoroughly. As a result, there has been a lot of attention focused on producing automated systems that screen crowds without the need for human intervention. Automated biometric scans have serious limits, however, in that they can only identify people who have already been classified as threats. The Department of Homeland Security is hoping to overcome that limitation by automating the identification of individuals whose behavior suggests they pose a threat via a program dubbed "Hostile Intent." 
At least three militants were killed and five security personnel injured in separate incidents in Waziristan on Monday, as five people were killed and as many injured in a bomb blast in a tourist area in Swat. Three militants attacked Dargai check post, some 20 kilometres north of Wana, at around 10:00pm on Sunday night. The shootout in which heavy weapons were used continued till 10:00am on Monday and left three attackers dead.
Coalition Forces captured a key financier of Special Groups terrorists during a pre-dawn raid Monday in Western Baghdad. The detained individual is believed to be a Special Groups leader for the Bayaa province in Western Baghdad.
The number of truck bombs and other large al-Qaeda-style attacks in Iraq have declined nearly 50% since the United States started increasing troop levels in Iraq about six months ago, according to the U.S. military command in Iraq. The high-profile attacks generally large bombs hitting markets, mosques or other "soft" targets that produce mass casualties have dropped to about 70 in July from a high during the past year of about 130 in March, according to the Multi-National Force Iraq. 
The U.S. military began a major offensive across Iraq Monday, to crack down on extremist militants. A military statement says Operation Phantom Strike "consists of simultaneous operations throughout Iraq focused on pursuing...al-Qaida terrorists and Iranian-supported" extremists.
Troops killed three Tamil Tiger rebels in a gunfight and sank a rebel boat in a separate sea battle as fighting flared in Sri Lanka's northeast, the military said Monday. 
