Two more North Korean women slipped past heavy Chinese security and got into the South Korean Embassy, joining 21 other asylum-seekers in Seoul's diplomatic offices in Beijing. The two women, aged 27 and 30, entered the embassy Friday night. He would not say how they got past Chinese security, which includes barbed wire and armed guards around the embassy. They were the first North Koreans to enter the embassy. Other asylum-seekers are in a South Korean visa office a few blocks away, which some entered by showing guards fake Chinese identity cards. Talks with China were still going on. At least 38 North Koreans fleeing famine and repression in their isolated communist nation have been allowed by China to leave for the South after seeking refuge in other foreign embassies or consulates. Dunno what they're complaining about with all that beer and fried chicken available...
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a fresh warning, particularly to fuel depots and Jewish community, that terrorists might use fuel tankers to attack targets in the US and American interests overseas. The warning issued does not mention any specific threat and is said to be based on uncorroborated information. FBI agents "received uncorroborated information that terrorists may be interested in using fuel tanker trucks for attacks against US interests in the United States or overseas, notably against Jewish schools and synagogues," media reports today quoted FBI spokesman Paul Bresson as saying. The advisory was sent out to some 18,000 law enforcement agencies across the country urging them to caution the Jewish community leaders and fuel depots. Some of the information is based on information provided by the detainees at Guantanamo Bay US naval base in Cuba, a US official was quoted as saying. It shows that we're still new at this antiterrorism thing, reacting to every threat, real or imagined, spending millions to achieve a level of security we're never going to see. Having terrorists is like having roaches: you can put out Roach Motels and capture the little bastards and you can kill them with sprays and such. But the only thing that really works is to exterminate them.
Speaking of roaches and warnings specifically directed toward the Jewish community, what we're fighting against is what racism really looks like. The Bad Guys exhibit blatant hatred of the Jews in particular, and infidels in general, and want to kill them and enslave their women. I consider this to be much more of a threat than not wanting someone in the country club because he's "pushy," or even not wanting to live next to someone because, well, you know what their kids are like. The one is Evil, the other is (small b) bad. So why are all our domesticexperts in fighting racism, skilled at finding the most subtle manifestations of same, lining up on the other side?
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06/22/2002 08:39 am ||
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Two brothers were found guilty Friday of running a cigarette smuggling operation that sent some of its profits to Hizbullah. Heh heh. Bad domestic policy feeding international terrorism...
A jury convicted Mohamad Hammoud, 28, and his 37-year-old brother Shawki in a scheme that involved buying cigarettes in North Carolina and resold them in Michigan without paying Michigan's [much] higher taxes. Mohamad Hammoud admitted the scheme on the witness stand, while his brother's lawyer claimed Shawki Hammoud had no role in the operation. But the smuggling was only half of the story. The smuggling ring, jurors concluded, was operating as a support cell for Hezbollah. The Lebanon-born brothers were found guilty of membership in the cell, and Mohamad Hammoud, who prosecutors accused of being the cell's leader, was found guilty of providing material support to Hizbullah. Not a good time to be doing that. An even worse time to be doing that in North Carolina, unless it's Chapel Hill.
Mohamad Hammoud faces up to 155 years in prison, and that maximum could be increased if U.S. District Court Judge Graham Mullen finds that Hammoud lied when he took the stand in his own defense. His brother, Shawki faces up to 70 years. Prosecutors said that the brothers gained permanent resident status in the U.S. through shammarriages and after arrival set up the smuggling ring, which operated out of Charlotte. Evidence linking the brothers to Hizbullah included propaganda found in their homes and wiretapped conversations. I hope this is only one of many similar cases winding their way through the courts. Most of them only show up in local papers, if that.
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Two co-defendants in the kidnap-murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl claimed Saturday they were framed by the FBI and tortured by Pakistani police into making confessions. "All the witnesses in this case are either policemen or their agents, and the entire case is a fabrication of the police ... working under FBI instructions," said Salman Saqil, one of four defendants in the case. "We know that justice will not be done to us." The claims by Saqil and co-defendant Fahad Naseem came a day after chief defendant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh accused Pakistani authorities of fabricating the case against him. That's right. The Merkins put those e-mails on his computer...
Reporters are banned from attending the trial, which started April 22, but defense and prosecution teams regularly brief them on developments. Saqib and Naseem, speaking through defense attorney Rai Bashir, said their February confessions were made under torture, and promised evidence to prove their innocence. The trial was adjourned until Thursday, when the defense team will continue presenting evidence. The chief prosecutor is then to make a closing argument. The judge's delivery of a verdict could take weeks. I really like the trapeze artists in this trial, but the clowns are good, too...
Another defendant, former policeman Sheikh Muhammad Adeel, also gave a brief statement to the court Saturday, claiming he was framed by senior police officers because he was trying to report high-level police corruption. Boy, ain't that a new story...!
U.S. investigators were called in to help Pakistan after Pearl disappeared on Jan. 23. Shortly afterward, e-mails with photos of the journalist were sent to foreign and local news publications. They were signed by a previously unknown group demanding better treatment for the suspected Taliban and al-Qaida men being held in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. The FBI traced the e-mails to Naseem, who then identified Saeed as the mastermind, police said. Saqib and Adeel were accused as accomplices. Saeed told the court Friday that police manipulated evidence and illegally detained him. All four defendants refused to take an oath for their statements, saying they had no respect for the courts modeled on the British judicial system. Since the statement was not made under oath, prosecutors were unable to cross-examine the defendants. Besides, which, there was always that little fear that God would strike them dead on the spot.
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Sheikh Jamilur Rehman, Secretary General of Muttahida Jehad Council, an umbrella of 15 Jehadi organisations fighting Indian rule in occupied Kashmir, on Friday ruled out any cease-fire with India and vowed to continue their armed struggle in occupied Kashmir. If you're not going to have Armed Struggle®, then you've got no reason to have a United Jihad Council, and Jamilur's out of a job. He'd have to go back to work sweeping floors at Fazlur Rehman's mosque...
In a statement, Sheikh Jamilur Rehman, who is also chief of Tehrik ul Mujahideen, expressed his wonder over the remarks by Chairman All Parties Hurriyet Conference in which he asked Indian government to allow Hurriyet leaders to visit Azad Jammu Kashmir to broker a cease-fire with Jehadi outfits. He made it clear that in the presence of brutal Indian forces in occupied Kashmir, Jehad Council could not think about unilateral cease-fire. Sheikh Jamilur Rehman observed that sacrifices were the part of any struggle and if APHC leadership wants to escape from arrests and other sacrifices then they should keep in mind that they were betraying with the blood of Kashmiris. Cannon fodder The Faithful are made for sacrifice...
He urged the separatist leaders to adopt realistic stance on Kashmir in order to remove doubts among the Kashmiris. Realistically, if you go against the United Jihad Council, someone will kill you.
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06/22/2002 11:32 am ||
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A countrywide protest day was observed by religious parties against recently approved Madrassa ordinance by federal government. The protest day call was given by Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal. Religious scholars during the Jummah prayers strongly denounced the government policies regarding religious institutions. They warned government to work under the limitations given to it by Supreme Court and refrain from meddling with religious affairs. They were of the view that President Musharraf had no authority to interfere in the religious matters vowing that Ulema of the country would not tolerate any change in religious institutions on the behest of United States. Malik Azim, Secretary Information of MMA said military regime should learn a lesson from the today's protest and withdraw its controversial ordinance. Yes, let that be a lesson to them. Actually cutting Pak madrassahs off from Saudi money would be a killing blow, at least until the maulanas learned how to funnel the money to themselves before dumping it into training jihadis. Even then, it'll put a dent in things as more and more of the money sticks to holy fingers.
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A self-styled district commander of Tehrik-ul-Mujahideen, Bashir Ahmad Mir codenamed Mubashir was zapped Saturday in an encounter with security forces at Kakroosa forests in frontier district of Kupwara.
Two foreign mercenaries identified as Usama Jangi, resident of Hazara and Abu Rehman of Rawalpindi were killed in another encounter at Devar-Lolab area. Three AK rifles, a wireless set, six hand grenades and some rounds were recovered.
Two more Pakistani thugs were iced in a gun-fight with joint troops of police and security forces at Chambalvas-Banihal in Doda district of Jammu yesterday. A pistol, six grenades, 18 meters of cordex wire and two kgs of explosive were recovered from the slain militants.
Bad Guys kidnapped a cobbler and looted Rs 70,000 from a house.
A possible tragedy was averted on Saturday with timely detection of a time bomb planted by militants in a residential area of Kupwara district.
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Another seizure of Rs 1,290,000 was made from the Doda residence of arrested Hizbul Mujahideen finance chief Mohammad Ramzan Bhat, a spokesman said on Saturday. Bhat was arrested on June 19 and nearly Rs 700,000 in cash, besides documents and diaries containing details about hawala transactions to Hizbul cadres. The latest recovery was made on Friday following disclosures made by Bhat during interrogation. Bhat was working as a teacher in a private school of former Jamaat-i-Islami leader and chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Freedom Movement, Said-ullah Tantray, who has been jailed under Public Safety Act. He was also involved in sending youths for arms training across the border, payments to the families of slain militants and issuing fake identity cards, police said. A number of fake stamps of government authorities and certificates of various organisations was also recovered from Bhat. Nice snag for the Indos. Ain't it a coincidence that this goober was a "teacher" in a madrassah run by a JI Big? That seems to tie JI to Hizb, which we knew, and to the J&K Freedumb Movement front organization.
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Pakistan has intensified crackdown on extremist groups after last week's car-bomb blast outside the US Consulate in Karachi, arresting dozens of suspected militants and placing police on the 'highest alert' for further assaults. Security sources said that a series of arrests of people with suspected links to the banned militant groups were made in Sindh and Punjab. Around 700 suspected extremists had already been detained following a grenade attack in March on a church in Islamabad's diplomatic enclave that killed five persons. The crackdown continued after a car-bombing outside Karachi's Sheraton hotel in May which killed 14 persons. However, the progress has been slow in identifying the people behind the attacks, and there have been no arrests of people believed to have directly participated in them. Seems Perv has noticed, finally, that the jihadis have declared war on him...
In the latest round-up, police arrested suspected hardcore members of Lashkar-i-Jhangvi and Jaish-i-Mohammad, the sources said. "We are picking up all those elements who provide shelter and support to the outsiders who have infiltrated into Pakistan and want to destabilise the government of President Musharraf," a senior security official said. Security officials say the al-Qaeda and Taliban fugitives from Afghanistan have teamed up with sympathisers and banned extremist groups in Pakistan to carry out terrorist attacks. The terrorists, they say, have been able to gain support to form the alliances because of Islamabad's backing to the US-led war on terror and Musharraf's domestic crackdown on the militants. Since December, Pakistan has arrested over 300 al-Qaeda and Taliban infiltrators, around 40 of them from rented houses in Faisalabad and Lahore. They've been able to gain support because the three men behind the war against Musharraf haven't been touched. The Unholy Trinity of mullahs — Qazi, Fazl and Sami — have to be silenced and their organizations broken up. That's not something Perv is strong enough to do right now, and if they get their way, he never will.
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06/22/2002 08:13 pm ||
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A CID team accompanied by the FBI agents on Friday raided the offices and religious institutions being run in Peshawar by two Middle East-based relief organizations. CID-FBI personnel raided the Kuwait-funded NGO, Lajnat Al-Dawa Al-Islamiah and the Qatar-based relief organization, Qatar Charity Association, and seized records. An employee of Lajnat Al-Dawa Al-Islamiah said: "The officials inquired about some senior officials of the organization". Most of the staff was not present because of summer vacation, he added. The Qatar Charity Association closed down its offices in Islamabad and Peshawar this week, and abandoned its projects in the refugee camps. Meaning they'd both had been tipped in advance by Mahmud the Weasel, down at the cop shop...
Many Arab nationals Peshawar have gone underground following a crackdown the security agencies launched on the relief agencies' offices in Islamabad and other parts of the country. Telephone lines and cell phones of various Arab relief workers in the city have been disconnected and state agencies have been keeping on their movement under observation. A worker attached with one of the Kuwait-based NGOs told Dawn that their Arab colleagues had been in hiding for the last many days. "We don't know the reasons of their absence and are not aware of their whereabouts," he said. The watchmen of the Saudi-based Islamic Relief Agency also confirmed that Arabs had gone into hiding for unknown reasons. We could probably make a pretty good guess what the reasons are, though. Most are probably back in Soddy Arabia by now.
Official sources said that two Palestinians, who had been arrested at Tehsil Bara in Khyber Agency on Thursday, were handed over to the Joint Interrogation Team in Peshawar on Friday. The officials said that the Arabs had sneaked into the tribal agency to avoid their arrest. Tough luck for them, huh?
NGO workers said that because of the arrests Muslim relief agencies were likely to close down their activities in the Afghan refugee camps and other localities. An official of the Afghan Support Committee (ASC) told Dawn that a meeting of the Middle East-based relief agencies was likely to be held in Saudi Arabia or Kuwait next week to take a decision whether to continue their operation in Pakistan. "Arab NGOs may possibly stop the relief work and close down seminaries and other projects in Pakistan," the official said, adding that it was very difficult to continue service under the circumstances. Can't keep up relief operations if you can't get ammunition and if they keep arresting your best executionerskillers people...
He said the ASC management was yet to learn about the whereabouts of Hussain Khalil, the committee's senior official who was arrested in a crackdown in Peshawar last month. A total of 14 relief workers from different Arab countries were arrested in the crackdown for their suspected links with Al Qaeda. I'm actually surprised. This means the Paks are actually trying to make a break with the Arabs driving the terror machinery. Looks like Perv must have decided if he was gonna have a burger, he might as well get the whole Happy Meal. Cheesing off the Arab money guys probably increases the chance of a coup against him by several hundred percent.
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06/22/2002 08:38 pm ||
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Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has flayed the presidential ordinance for Madaris, stating that his party would oppose the new laws and ban on foreign donations to religious institutions. In a press release issued Friday, he said the government had formed a Madrassah Board to end the autonomy of the religious institutions, but his party would never recognise the board. No surprises there. Without Soddy money, the madrassahs will wither on the vine, and the jihadi movement with them.
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06/22/2002 08:50 pm ||
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A car bomb - the fifth explosion in two days - blew up in the northern city of Santander on Saturday, two hours after a package bomb went off on the southern coast. The two attacks coincided with the closing of the European Union summit in Seville and were the work of Basque separatist. No injuries were reported in the latest blast in Santander. Earlier in the day, a package bomb exploded in a hotel parking lot in Malaga. No one was injured in that blast. Police in Santander received a telephone warning that a car would explode in 30 minutes, as they had in previous explosions. A spokesman said police had time to evacuate the area even though the bomb exploded five minutes before the ETA caller said it would.
At the start of the European Union summit on Friday, three car bombs rocked the southern cities of Marbella and Fuengirola and the northeast city of Zaragoza. Those explosions also were claimed by ETA, or Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, which stands for Basque Homeland and Freedom. Now, don't go being all "simplistic" about those bastards, guys. Really, the Basques have been groaning under oppressive occupation for many, many years, occupied by the Spaniards, and before them by the Arabs, and before them by the Vandals, and before them by the Romans, and before them by the Carthaginians, and before them by Neolithic people with clubs, and before them by Cro-Magnons. All they want is their land back, so they can set up a Neanderthal state. We should send them money, by gosh.
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06/22/2002 08:09 am ||
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Canadian anti-terrorism police have arrested a man suspected of helping militants who were planning to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Paris. Adel Tobbichi, 34, was arrested Friday in Montreal as the result of an extradition request from Holland. Tobbichi, of Algerian origin, is alleged by Dutch police to have altered passports and other documents and provided them to militants planning to bomb the embassy. Police were tipped off by another man who is currently being detained in Belgium. Tobbichi's residence was also searched. The arrest was made by the Integrated National Security Enforcement Team, which was set up in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Heh heh. Y'gotta watch those guys in the Great White North. Sometimes they only seem like they're hibernating.
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06/22/2002 08:45 am ||
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Israeli troops arrested a senior member of Fatah on Saturday. Mohammad Lutfi, also known as Abu Lutfi, was taken from his home in Beitunia. Lutfi is a member of Fatah's revolutionary council, as well as secretary general of the group's West Bank operations and director of the Palestinian interior ministry. Is the Director subordinate to the Minister? Yehiyeh was appointed interior minister last week — Yasser told us, and if Yasser says it, it must be so. Or is the Director the guy who directs the Minister? I'm so confused...
"As part of its offensive against the political and secular leaders of Fatah and its plots aimed at ending the noble Palestinian intifada, the Israeli occupation forces abducted Abu Lutfi," the Paleostinian Authority statement said. Fatah denounced the arrest and called for Abu Lutfi's "immediate release", warning Israel of harming him. "We warn Israel against any harm to his life or the lives of any of the prisoners in its jails, and we confirm that the (Fatah) movement will continue to resist to occupation, until liberation and independence," it said. Yeah, yeah. We know. You'll take revenge. You're always taking revenge for something or other.
Abu Lutfi is the second senior Fatah official held by Israel, following the arrest earlier this year of Marwan Barghuti. Not just another mid-level cog. That's a good thing.
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06/22/2002 08:39 am ||
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Israel admitted yesterday that it had made a mistake when it fired tank shells toward a group of Palestinians in the West Bank town of Jenin, killing three children and a teacher. The three children killed were ages 6 to 12, and the teacher was said to be in his 50s or 60s. Dozens of other people were wounded.
The Israeli military said in a statement that an initial inquiry showed its forces had acted in error. Israeli troops using loudspeakers had announced a curfew in Jenin. But people went to the market yesterday, mistakenly believing the curfew had been lifted for a short time so they could buy food and supplies, said Kadoura Moussa, the local leader of Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat's Fatah political movement. "It's unimaginable what happened," said Moussa, talking on his cellular phone in front of a shop that he said was demolished in the military operation. "It's like another Nero burning Rome. They are destroying everything alive in Jenin."
The Palestinian deaths came just a day after an Israeli family, including three children, was killed by a Palestinian attacker who had infiltrated the West Bank settlement of Itamar. The IDF killed the kids by accident â they admit it was a mistake. The Paleostinians planned and executed the killing of the Shabos as though it was a military operation. That's the difference between the two sides. I just hope the Israelis never forget it and that someday the Paleostinians realize it.
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Jewish settlers trudged through the smoldering remains of the Shabo home yesterday, gasping at shrapnel holes in the bedroom walls, then converged on a hillside for the burial of Rachel Shabo and three of her children. The settlers demanded revenge for the family members, killed the night before when a Palestinian gunman slipped over the settlement's fence and burst into their home. A neighbor who headed the community's emergency-response security detail was killed when he rushed to save the Shabos. What the hell did you expect their reaction to be? "Oh, well?"
It was the second deadly attack here in three weeks, and the settlers were angry and eager to fight the Palestinians who claim the same rocky hills and valleys of the West Bank. "With God's help, the blood spilled here will be soaked in the land of Samaria and will nourish the olive trees, and with God's help, we will have revenge," Natan Chay, the settlement's rabbi, preached before hundreds who came to bury the Shabos. Oh, shut up, Rabbi. You sound like a Paleostinian.
Later, some of the settlers leaving the funeral reportedly rampaged through the nearby Palestinian village of Hawara, shot to death a young Palestinian man, and burned cars and a house. And your congregation acted like Paleostinians. The difference between Israelis and Paleostinians is that Israelis are civilized. There is no "seething Israeli street" because Jews have thought processes.
FOLLOWUP: Ha'aretz reports that
Police arrested a 27-year-old Israeli resident of a West Bank settlement Saturday, on suspicion of shooting dead a Palestinian man in the village of Burin on Friday. The incident allegedly occurred after funerals were held for five residents of the West Bank settlement of Itamar who were killed Thursday night by Palestinian gunmen. Army Radio quoted Palestinian sources as saying that the Palestinian youth was killed by Israelis who entered the village. The sources also said that the Israelis set fire to several houses in the village. Individual Israelis may sometimes become like Paleostinians, but the Israeli government isn't the PA. No candy was handed out to the kiddies, and there was no dancing in the streets. The perp was simply arrested, and it's doubtful his buds are going to bust him out.
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According to The Straits Times newspaper, Hezbollah started its activities in Singapore in the 1990s with a few Hizbullah operatives recruiting a group of Muslims through religious classes. Five Singaporeans were selected for special classes, according to the newspaper. Then they met a teacher, known as Ustaz Bandei, who was wanted by Indonesian authorities for the 1985 bombing of the Borobudur temple in Indonesia. Borobadur is an Indonesian â and specifically Javanese â national treasure. It's a temple built under the pre-Muslim Buddhist/Brahmin kings of Java, and it's every bit as important as a work of art as Angkor Vat. Trying to bomb it puts the perps in the same category of the Neanderthals who destroyed the Bamian Buddhas.
Through him, they got to know an Iranian who made them pledge to follow his instructions. The five men were also asked to take photographs of the US and Israeli embassies. But they did not do it as they did not want to get involved or were afraid of the consequences. They left the group but the Hizbullah operatives continued to carry out surveillance of the Singapore coastline in 1995. They went to a seafood restaurant in Pasir Gudang in Malaysia and shot videos of the coastline. Ustaz Bandei and three other operatives were still active in 1998. They took a boat from Johor to Batam and sailed to Singapore, stopping by an island close to Singapore, which they had planned to use as a launch pad for their attacks. However, nothing came of their plans in the end. Doesn't sound like they had the infrastructure in place to bring it off, and the Singaporeans are a no-nonsense folk, especially after noticing that they were targeted to become part of the khalifate.
This is not the first time that Singapore is mentioned in relation to possible attacks on American targets. During December 2001, the Singaporean authorities declared that they foiled a plot to attack the US Embassy and other US targets there. At least 15 suspects, allegedly belonging to Al-Jamaa al-Islamiya, were arrested late last year in connection to this plot. Doesn't say if this bunch of thugs is connected to the Jemaah thugs, though. It looks to me like it's a different chain of command...
For its part, Hizbullah denied the Singaporean reports. The group called the charges, both "absurd" and "without foundation." The Lebanese group said in a statement the allegations were part of an "organized campaign of lies by the US intelligence services with the cooperation of international intelligence services in ... their campaign against Hizbullah, which they accuse of terrorism." Their lips were moving when they said that, so it means they're probably lying.
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The escaped leader of the Pentagon kidnapping gang told a radio station in Cotabato City on Thursday that he was considering returning to abducting people for money when the pursuit against him had cooled down. Faisal Marohombsar called up the dxMS radio station in the southern city just a day after he escaped from prison. "I mean, I used to be a mechanic, but then they got those new-fangled electronic ignition systems and the fuel injectors and stuff, and who the hell understands them? Now, kidnapping people and cutting their heads off, that everybody understands..."
"I escaped ... because the guards were sleeping. I rushed to the airport to catch the early morning flight to Davao City," he said. He denied that his guards colluded in his escape but later remarked, "Let the police investigate. You know how money works." Somehow we guessed that...
An Inquirer report said Marohombsar told the radio station that he bolted jail because a ranking police officer was forcing him to convert to Christianity. It said he told the dxMS that a certain Captain Jimenez had resorted to torture to get him and other inmates to join the Jesus Christ Family Crusade born-again Christian sect. "We were being forced to join and become members of a born-again (Christian) group inside the prison cell. That is against my religion," said Marohombsar, a 45-year-old Muslim of the Maranao tribe in Mindanao. "I mean, Christianity, that's such a whimpy religion. Cut somebody's head off and you'd think a guy'd done something awful..."
"I was ready to face all the charges against me but when they started forcing us, physically and mentally, to join the religious group operating inside the center, I decided to plan my escape," he said. I've been to the Philippines a couple times. I didn't like it. People seemed to spend all their time kidnapping each other and torturing them to make them convert to different religions and marrying women they haven't been introduced to by mistake. Except for the gunfire and the artillery strikes, I liked Vietnam better.
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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
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