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Afghanistan
Afghans agree on power-sharing deal at Bonn
  • Afghan groups at talks in Germany had agreed on a UN-brokered power-sharing deal and would sign it on Tuesday, a Northern Alliance source at the talks said. The source said that the royalists would head the interim administration for six months while the other groups negotiating, including the Northern Alliance and the Cyprus and Peshawar groups, would have the other ministries.
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    Kabulis can bathe, go to cockfights
  • In another step back toward civilization, Kabulis are allowed to bathe again. Forbidden by the Taliban, community baths are once again open in Afghanistan’s capital. Once they're all clean and pretty, they can go to the cock fights. What could be better?
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    Talibs negotiating Kandahar surrender
  • Amid reports that some Taliban leaders were negotiating a surrender of Kandahar, American bombers kept up a steady pounding of Taliban and al-Qaida hideouts in eastern Afghanistan. Abdul Khaliq, one of four Pashtun leaders heading the tribal struggle against the Taliban, said Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, the Taliban hardliner who banned education for women and forced them to wear head-to-toe veils, was leading a group of 20 senior Taliban government and military officials negotiating the city's surrender.
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    Mullah Omar buys camels
  • Taliban Governor of Kandahar Mulla Hasan Rehmani said Potentate-for-Life Mulla Mohammad Omar himself is leading Taliban forces in Kandahar to fight against the Americans and their agents. NNI news agency quoted Mulla Rehmani as saying Mulla Omar is safe and sound and is in the outskirts of Kandahar. "We will defend our stronghold till last," the governor said. He said Kandahar has been under heaviest bombardment for several days, which has caused a large number of civilian casualties and destruction of houses and shops. Fighters loyal to Gul Agha said they fought their way into the airport compound, but were pushed back by Taliban defenders. Mullah Omar is reported to be using a bicycle or motorcycle to avoid detection from the air and has ordered his men to buy camels, raising speculations that he is preparing to beat it when things hit bottom, rather than going out in a blaze of glory.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 12/03/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Abu Ghaith "seriously wounded"
  • Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, the Kuwaiti spokesman for al-Qaeda, was "seriously wounded" in the eastern Afghan city of Kandahar, and could even now be cavorting with his 72 virgins, according to Pakistani security sources citing Kuwaiti gunslingers who have since fled by sea to the United Arab Emirates.
    We hope it was very painful.
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    US commandos in Jalalabad
  • 60 US commandos have landed in four helicopters at Jalalabad airport. Pakistan's "The News" reported that the commandos were tipped by the commander of the eastern Shura Hazrat Ali that Osama bin Laden is very definitely in the Tora Bora mountains.
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    Northern Alliance has two more American Taliban
  • Two more American Taliban are under the control of the Northern Alliance. There are no details as yet on these two traitors, whose identities have not been established and whose physical condition could not be determined.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 12/03/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Home Front
    Kensington has 75 Santas, bullhorn smashed
  • Kensington had at least 75 Santa Clauses at its tree-lighting ceremony. Hundreds of people gathered at the town's armory, some chanting "No Santa, No Peace." Others held signs that read, "Yes Kensington, There is a Santa Claus." The event had all the traditional elements of Holiday Festivities, to include a couple fist fights and a ceremonial bullhorn smashing. A wonderful time was had by all.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 12/03/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    International
    Sammy offers asylum to Binny, Omar
  • The Weekly Standard passes on a report from a Pakistani daily that Saddam Hussein has offered asylum to Osama bin Laden and Mullah Mohammed Omar. The paper claims that a senior Iraqi diplomat, Taha Husseyn, met in Kandahar with the Taliban's Maulana Jalal ud-Din Haqqani. Saddam allegedly offered not only sanctuary, but military and financial support as well.
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    Middle East
    Bush demands Yasser break up Hamas, Islamic Jihad
  • President Bush demanded that Yasir Arafat break up Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the groups that train and breed the kinds of suicide bombers who killed at least 25 people in terrorist bombings over the weekend. Hamas supporters called for more suicide attacks against Israel during a funeral procession in the Gaza Strip. Some 1,000 supporters gathered despite a ban by the Palestinian Authority on public meetings by militant groups. "Forward with martyrdom attacks!" the crowd chanted at the funeral of a Hamas gunman killed by Israeli soldiers after he shot dead an Israeli motorist in Gaza.
    Fat chance of that happening. More likely they'll break up Yasser.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 12/03/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Sharon declares War on Terror. Terror fights back.
  • Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared a "war on terror" and said Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was directly responsible for attacks on Israel over the weekend. "We are in a war - it's either Israel or Arafat," Sharon told The New York Post before boarding a plane back to Jerusalem from New York. Israeli Air Force attack helicopters fired at least 14 air-to-surface missiles at Palestinian Authority targets in the Gaza Strip. The IAF helicopters directed heavy machine gun fire at the PA air force facility. Missiles hit two of Arafat's four personal helicopters on a landing pad and buildings in a compound that houses offices of the elite Force 17 presidential guard and other Palestinian security units. Palestinian security personnel ran away from the area under attack as eight helicopters hovered over the city. PA forces directed anti-aircraft fire at the IAF helicopters but none were hit. Al-Jazeera reports Arafat's personal residence was also hit in the strike. However an Israeli spokesman said Arafat's home was not targeted in the strike. IAF also hit targets in the West Bank city of Jenin. Palestinian Authority officials have asked the United States to halt the Israeli strikes, or else PA security forces will release all militant extremists they have arrested in the past day or so. Arafat called for Qatar to convene an urgent summit of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference which it chairs, following the Israeli raids. Arafat briefed Qatar's emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, on the "Israeli aggression against the Israeli territories", and asked that his fat be hauled from the fire.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 12/03/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Arafat buddy iced in Bethlehem
  • A close associate of Arafat was fatally wounded in a blast in his four-story Bethlehem home. He was evacuated to King Hussein Hospital in nearby Beit Jala. Doctors there say he is clinically dead. Three Fatah members were reportedly wounded in the blast, one seriously and two moderately. It is not clear if the dead man was included in this accounting.
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    Kofi sez suicide bombings were terrorism
  • UN Secretary General Kofi Annan condemned weekend suicide bombings in Israel as acts of "terrorism" and demanded immediate and decisive action from Yasser Arafat to bring the perpetrators to justice.
    He noticed! Dang.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 12/03/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Terror Networks
    Chechens bump off prosecutor
  • Lieutenant Colonel Roman Grigorian, deputy military prosecutor for the northern Caucasus region of southern Russia died when assailants opened fire on his car in Argun, Chechnya. Grigorian died instantly, and his driver was rushed to hospital seriously wounded. Earlier Sunday, Chechen rebels said eight Russian soldiers had been killed and another 17 injured in a series of hit-and-run guerrilla attacks in Grozny. A spokesman for Chechen leader Aslan Maskhadov said three Russian soldiers were killed and another four injured when their armoured personnel carrier hit a remote-controlled mine.
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    Five get the high jump in Jordan - four in absentia
  • A Jordanian military court condemned five men to death, including the notorious Abu Nidal, for the 1994 assassination of a Jordanian diplomat. Four of the five convicted killers, including Abu Nidal, were sentenced in absentia. Only Yasser Mohammed Abu Shinar, a Palestinian, stood before the State Security Court in Amman. They were found guilty of killing Naeb Imran Maaytah, first secretary at the Jordanian Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. He was shot to death while sitting in his car in front of the embassy on Jan. 29, 1994.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 12/03/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Moroccan suspected gunny arrested in Germany
  • Mounir El Motassadeq, a Moroccan man arrested in Germany last week on suspicion he assisted the Sept. 11 hijackers worked for more than a year as a cleaner at Hamburg airport. Motassadeq, a student at Hamburg's Technical University -- the school attended by suicide hijacker Mohamed Atta -- cleaned aircraft and secure areas.
    We are so surprised. Really.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 12/03/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    94 Egyptian thugs in the dock
  • An Egyptian military court heard allegations that 94 suspected Muslim militants planned to assassinate a host of Egyptians and Americans, including Egypt's president and a woman film director. "They planned to assassinate a senior official in the state while he was passing over a bridge,'' a state security officer told the court. Court sources said he was referring to President Hosni Mubarak. If convicted, the 94 men, seven of whom are being tried in absentia, will not have the right to appeal. Since the Sept. 11 attacks on U.S. cities, Egypt has referred several hundred suspected Muslim militants to military jurisdiction.
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    Yemen agrees to arrest two al-Qaeda
  • Sanaa and Washington have agreed on the arrest of at least two people in Yemen suspected of belonging to al-Qaeda, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was quoted as saying. "There are suspicions around some people whose names have come up, and they are two or three people currently being followed by security services," Saleh said in an interview. "They will be arrested." Saleh however denied that the suspects had links with the suicide bomb attack on the USS Cole warship in Yemen in October 2000 which left 17 US sailors dead. Saleh had told a Kuwaiti newspaper last week that some 25 people had been arrested in connection with the USS Cole attack. Saleh said in the Asharq al-Awsat interview that Yemen had delayed the suspects' trials, so as not to hinder the US investigation into the attack, whose primary suspect is Saudi-born Osama.
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    The Alliance
    US has evidence Saudi finance terror
  • The US is planning to confront Saudi Arabia with evidence that funds are flowing to terrorist organisations. Despite pressure from the US, the Saudi Government has done little to stanch the flow of funds to al-Qaeda. US diplomat Bill Burns will soon go to Saudi Arabia taking with him intelligence data linking some of the kingdom's leading money-men and charities to Osama bin Laden. Maybe he could even point out that it used to be "Arabia," rather than "Saudi Arabia."
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    Pakland will crack down on extremists. Really.
  • Armed with a new anti-terrorism law and support from the West, Pakistan plans to crack down on Islamic and ethnic extremist groups responsible for killing hundreds of people here every year.
    Yup. Should be starting any time now...
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    Two weeks of WOT
    Mon 2001-12-03
      Afghans agree on power-sharing deal at Bonn
    Sun 2001-12-02
      Gul Agha battles for airport
    Sat 2001-12-01
      American among Qali-i-Jhangi survivors
    Fri 2001-11-30
      Gul Agha takes Jugnari district, east of Kandahar
    Thu 2001-11-29
      CIA confirms one of its own dead
    Wed 2001-11-28
      Mullah Omar sez for Talibs not to yield
    Tue 2001-11-27
      Prison revolt over. Bad Guys dead.
    Mon 2001-11-26
      Delegation goes to Kandahar to chat with Mullah Omar
    Sun 2001-11-25
      Konduz has fallen
    Sat 2001-11-24
      Malays nab Nur Misuari
    Fri 2001-11-23
      Binny's moved to Tora Bora
    Thu 2001-11-22
      Konduz commander sez he's ready to surrender
    Wed 2001-11-21
      Taliban has until Thursday to surrender Konduz
    Tue 2001-11-20
      MNLF abandons peace agreement
    Mon 2001-11-19
      Paks no longer recognize Taliban government

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