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Afghanistan
Paks and Taliban commanders head to court in Kabul
  • About 30 Pakistani and 10 Afghan Taliban members captured in Kunduz two months ago are to go on trial soon in Kabul. They are among 300 Taliban fighters moved to Kabul last week from Kunduz. The majority of the Afghans will be freed under an amnesty granted to Taliban members. Their leaders - about 10 of them - will go on trial. All the Pakistanis are to go to court, which will decide what charges the prisoners will face, to include charges of murder.
    It ain't like the good old days, when they could beat women in the streets and slap men around because their beards were too short. My sympathy meter's still reading zero.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/23/2002 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Allies disarm some Haji Bashir forces
  • In Helmand province, anti-Taliban fighters and U.S. special forces searched house-to-house in four villages looking for al-Qaida and Taliban renegades, including the deposed Islamic militia's supreme leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar. The search turned up no trace of Omar. However, special forces and their Afghan allies confiscated about 2,000 weapons ranging from small arms to heavy artillery. The weapons were taken without incident from Haji Bashar, a local warlord in Helmand province, as part of a campaign to bolster security in the region.
    There are probably plenty more guns where those came from, but it's a start, however small.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/23/2002 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Karzai to address UN
  • Afghanistan's interim leader Hamid Karzai will address the U.N. Security Council during his first visit to the United States next week.
    Pretty good for a guy Mullah Omar claimed to have hanged.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/23/2002 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    India-Pakistan
    Pak wants No-War Pact with India
  • Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf said he was prepared to accept denuclearization of South Asia and sign a no war pact with India.
    Having stepped to the brink, it makes sense to back away from it. It makes even more sense not to make the trip again.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/23/2002 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    India charges six with murder in Calcutta
  • India charged six people with murder for the attack in Calcutta outside the American Cultural Center that killed four police officers. The six included three teachers of an Islamic school and three Bangladeshis. In addition, 55 people, mostly Muslims, were detained for questioning in the eastern metropolis, drawing flak from Muslim community leaders who called the exercise a pogrom. Indian officials backed down from their earlier statements that the attack, which wounded 30 other people, was the work of terrorists, and said it was too early to know.
    Make up your damned minds. Is it terrorism or not? (Well, we're sure it's murder, anyway.)
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/23/2002 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    International
    US, Brits attack Iraqi anti-aircraft site
  • U.S. and British warplanes attacked anti-aircraft batteries in southern Iraq, the second raid on the site this week. The planes struck near Tallil, about 170 miles southeast of Baghdad. On Monday, allied aircraft fired on the same site after being threatened by ground fire from Iraqi air defenses.
    This is just "maintaining a presence" in Sammy's domain. It shows we're still awake and gives his guys an excuse to wave their guns and holler. When something of significance happens, it'll come from a different direction entirely.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/23/2002 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Middle East
    Hezbollah attacks Israeli army positions
  • Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas pounded Israeli army positions in the disputed Shebaa Farms for the first time in months, prompting Israeli retaliation with warplanes and artillery. Israeli fighter-bombers fired two missiles on Hezbollah-controlled hilltops near Kfarshuba. Israeli artillery also fired about 30 shells on valleys near Kfarshuba. Hezbollah fired dozens of Katyusha rockets, and fired mortars.
    From the report, it doesn't look like there was any military objective, just a harrassing attack. Hezbollah gunnies haven't been getting their heroism dosage lately.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/23/2002 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Israel bumps off four Hamas
  • Israeli troops killed four Palestinian snuffies when they stormed an apartment building in a sweep in Nablus. The army said it killed four members of the Hamas in a gunbattle, but a Palestinian official said troops killed the men "in cold blood". The army said it found a bomb laboratory during the raid. But a Hamas leader called it a "dangerous escalation" and said the movement should reconsider its freeze on attacks in Israel. "I think it is time for a real evaluation in order to convince the occupier that such a crime will not pass without punishment," said Mahmoud al-Zahar, a senior Hamas political leader in the Gaza Strip.
    Lemme get this straight: They shoot up your bomb laboratory and you call it a dangerous escalation? So you're gonna unfreeze your attacks on Israel, that you've been carrying out anyway? What're we missing?
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/23/2002 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Palestinians threaten all-out war
  • Islamic militants threatened "all-out war" to avenge the killing of a Hamas commander in the West Bank, and Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority said it can no longer be expected to enforce a truce with Israel. With tensions and violence rising, Secretary of State Colin Powell telephoned Arafat to urge him to curb attacks on Israel. The U.S. ambassador to Israel called on Israelis and Palestinians to urge their governments to work for peace.
    Yeah, that's absolutely the best thing for the Palestinians. Keep shooting guns and firing rockets and all that stuff. Then, in about six months or so, when you're sitting around in Tunisia or someplace, you can complain about how persecuted you are.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/23/2002 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Arafat's problems...
  • According to an AP article: "Arafat's confinement has further complicated his efforts to run the chaotic, impoverished Palestinian territories in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and the confrontation with his longtime rival, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, shows no signs of easing."
    It seems pretty obvious that if Arafat would hang up his shootin' iron (he still wears it) and actually try running a government instead of a High Command, and the hard boys went to school or got jobs instead of spending all their waking hours on jihad, then the Palestinian territories wouldn't be quite so "chaotic" and "impoverished." It really is terrible, just terrible, but it has nothing to do with us. If Albert shoots himself in the foot, Bob has no reason to say, "Ow," does he?
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/23/2002 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Terror Networks
    61 detained in American Center shoot-up
  • Three Bangladeshi nationals and the brother of the man accused in the abduction of a shoe baron were among 61 people detained in connection with the terrorist attack on the American Center. Police recovered a motorcycle from the border area after its rider gave a slip and entered Bangladesh. Vital clues were found following examination of the video footage of the closed circuit TV at the American Center. The faces of the attackers as well as the number plate of their motorcycle were visible in the video footage.
    Oooh. Good planning. Shoot up the American Center on a motorcycle while a vid camera tapes your faces and license number. Make an anonymous phone call to somebody with caller ID to gloat. This is obviously the work of the Moriarty Gang.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/23/2002 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Indo cops foil bomb attack on calaboose
  • An attempt by suspected Kashmiri militants to blow up a jail and the administrative block of Ranchi College has been foiled. Following a tip off that suspected militants riding two two-wheelers with a plan to blow up Birsa Munda Central Jail and the administrative block of the college had left for their destinations, police rushed to the jail where they found an abandoned scooter outside the premises. 22 gelatin sticks, 10 detonators and 20 metres of fuse wire were recovered. The owner of the scooter, Mohammed Imtiaz, has been arrested and is being interrogated. Police suspect that some Kashmir-based militant outfit might have planned the attacks in protest against the incarceration of over a dozen foreign mercenaries at Hazaribagh Central Jail.
    "G'bye, Mom! I'm off the bomb the jail!"
    "Did you remember your hat, Mohammed? And where are your gelatin sticks, young man?"
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/23/2002 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Poonch killer was bumped off for besmirching gunnies' reputation
  • Nazim Khan, the man who slaughtered 11 people in Poonch, including a six-month old boy, had been sacked from the police force in 2001 over his links with local militants in Kashmir. Police believe the man was killed - painfully - by local militants for having besmirched their reputation in carrying out the massacre for personal vengeance. Police had initially blamed militants for the massacre, but Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah, was later quoted as saying that it was the result of a family feud.
    Takes a lot to besmirch the reputation of bloodthirsty crazed killers, but he managed to do it.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/23/2002 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    "Asif Reza Commando Force" made up of junior jihadis
  • The Asif Reza Commando Force - one of the two groups that claimed responsibility for the strike at the American Center in Kolkata - was formed sometime in the third week of December at a village populated by illegal migrants from Bangladesh along the Indo-Bangladesh border. The Force is an adjunct of the Harkat-ul Jehadi-e-Islami. The HuJI has also claimed responsibility for the attack. HuJI leaders sneaked into India through Bangladesh and met with mullahs and fundamentalist activists of the banned Students' Islamic Movement of India.
    It's so romantic to call yourself a "commando." It makes people think you're competent. Riding bikes and shooting guns is lots more fun than going to school or making a contribution to society.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/23/2002 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Afghanistan could repatriate Chinese al-Qaeda snuffies
  • Foreign Minister Abdullah, accompanying Afghanistan's interim leader Hamid Karzai on a visit to Beijing, did not rule out the possibility that his government might repatriate any captured suspected Chinese terrorists to face justice at home. "There is no doubt about it. People, terrorist groups from Xinjiang province, were operating in Afghanistan under the command of al-Qaida, in close collaboration with al-Qaida networks," Abdullah said.
    That'll make an interesting contrast: the gunnies at Guantanamo getting bagels and cream cheese and a sign saying which way is Mecca, and the Chinese guys getting the one-round splitting headache and a box in the ground. Wonder if The Mirror will have one of its guys try and duplicate that experience?
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/23/2002 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Leader of Free Aceh Movement is killed
  • Indonesian troops shot and killed the military commander of the separatist Free Aceh Movement in a raid on his jungle base. Abdullah Syafei was shot in the head and chest during fierce fighting in the north of the Aceh region in northwestern Indonesia. The death of the charismatic Syafei would deal a serious blow to the pro-independence movement, which has been under severe military pressure since President Megawati Sukarnoputri ordered a crackdown shortly after assuming office in July. Syafei's wife was also killed along with five other rebels.
    So one little corner of Indonesia can now quiet down. Time to do the same in Sulawesi.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/23/2002 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    "Nope, not me," sez Indonesian mullah
  • An Indonesian Muslim cleric accused by Malaysia of having links to al-Qaida denied he had connections with international terrorism. Abu Bakar Bashir heads the Indonesian Mujahidin Council, which campaigns for the imposition of Islamic law in Indonesia. "It is not true," Bashir, who returned to Indonesia from Malaysia, said on the eve of being questioned by police over the allegations. He said he would show up for questioning at police headquarters to protect himself from the "lies" that had been spread about him.
    Now, why would those terrible people in Afghanistan tells such low-down lies about a humble Indonesian mullah? Curse those lying hard drives!
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/23/2002 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Indonesia blew al-Qaeda trap
  • Five suspected members of al-Qaida arrived in Indonesia from Yemen last July with a plan to blow up the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, a high-ranking U.S. official has revealed. But Indonesian authorities balked at taking action, allowing the men to slip out of the country after they realized they had been discovered. U.S. diplomats surmised that authorities had intentionally scared the team away so as not to have to confront them. The five men had based themselves at a religious institution run by Arab Indonesians in eastern Java.
    How convenient they should get away. That avoided any confrontation between the government and the fundos, and also between the government and rogue elements of the military - the ones funding Lashkar Jihad to the tune of $9.3 million skimmed from the operations budget. Musharraf learned in Pakland. Maybe the Indonesians will learn, too. If not, someone will steal their country out from under them.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/23/2002 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Two Abu Sayyaf snuffies buy farms
  • Two Muslim rebels were killed in fighting on a southern Philippine island, a week before the start of joint exercises in the area between local troops and U.S. special forces. A military spokesman said one Filipino soldier was wounded in the clash with members of the Abu Sayyaf group.
    G'bye boys. Enjoy the 72-year-old virgin.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/23/2002 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


    Flights to Guantanamo paused
  • The military suspended flights of Afghan war captives to a U.S. base in Cuba to expand jail facilities there and prepare to question the prisoners in the fight against terrorism.
    At least the lads will be spared the rigors of the brutal Cuban winter.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/23/2002 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    The Alliance
    German ships join US off coast of Africa
  • Seven German warships joining the U.S.-led war on terrorism will gather intelligence off the Horn of Africa. Patrolling the area would put the ships in position to watch Yemen and Somalia, two nations where Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network is believed to have connections.
    And Sudan. Don't forget Sudan. And Saudi Arabia, if they want to. Intelligence is what will eventually win the war for us.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/23/2002 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:



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