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VodkaXML...
I just ... duh! ... noticed that VodkaPundit also has an XML feed. I've added him to the What They're Saying page, which has been working reliably for me for the past week or so. I'm thinking of moving the XML feed pages off the blogroll, which'll make room for a few more deserving newer blogs, which generally aren't on Movable Type.
Cheers of approval? Screams of distress? Strong feelings of apathy? I think the XML feeds are First Class Neato. If you blog, and you don't have one, you should get one...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/27/2002 07:36 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I agree totally.

Actually, I've been thinking of offering multiple feeds, one for each of my major category. As one of the users of my feeds, I'd be interested in whether that'd be useful to you or if you'd just keep using the main, whole-site feed.
Posted by: Mac || 09/27/2002 21:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Fred,

Great idea to have a feeds page. I might try something similar in the future. I also discovered an error in my file -- the British pound sign doesn't work in the &; format -- and now have fixed it.

Can you, if you wanted, mix them together and show all of them ordered by date and time?
Posted by: Robert Prather || 09/28/2002 23:06 Comments || Top||


Our friends the Portuguese...
Joe Katzman points to two AFP stories on Portugal and its unreasonable unwillingness to subvert its own interests in the name of buying Euro. Not only that, but
Portuguese Defense Minister Paulo Portas told European Union defense officials that the E.U. has little right to criticize U.S. unilateralism in world affairs if Europe continues to spend less than Washington on defense, Agence France-Presse reports.
Da noive o' dem guyz...!
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/27/2002 08:29 pm || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Afghanistan
Taliban, tribal leaders awaiting order to retake Afghanistan. You betcha.
Sana News, Translated by Jihad Unspun
Unemployed Potentate Taliban Supreme Commander and Ruler Mullah Omar’s spokesman Syed Mohammad Tayab Agha said that they have completed plans to end the American influenced government in Afghanistan and are awaiting Mullah Mohammad Omar’s orders. He expressed these thoughts during a special interview to Sana News, conducted recently at an unknown location. Syed Agha said that they gave up Kandahar along with several other cities as a deliberate strategy and that Taliban leaders took into confidence all tribal leaders. He said that Taliban suffered losses in the beginning but had now regrouped and recovered.
That "deliberate strategy" had something to do with keeping somebody's hide unperforated and his neck its normal length...
Syed Mohammad Agha said that apart from Kabul they have total internal control of 80% of the region. He went on to say that a delegation of Taliban leaders visited all areas of Afghanistan where they met with Afghanistan’s tribal leaders and informed them of the Taliban’s future plans. All the elders and leaders of the tribes welcomed this delegation and ensured them of their unconditional support.
That's 'cuz they loo-o-o-o-o-ove those Talibs...
Mohammad Agha said that a proper coalition has not been formed between Taliban and Hizb-e-Islami and that they were attacking American force bases independently from time to time. He also made clear that Mullah Mohammad Omar did not leave Afghanistan during the American attack but has been changing location from time to time. He said 800 Taliban members are assigned to protect Mullah Omer. Agha said he met Mullah Omar about a month ago and that Omar is in constant touch with Taliban commanders. Agha went on to say that Osama is also in contact with Mullah Omar. He said several of Osama’s aides are still with him and they are in contact with several others.
More puffing and blowing from the Unemployed Potentate. I don't think the Merkins should pack up and leave yet. Wonder if Hek and Mullah Omar have actually had a falling out or if this is just the usual lying for the sake of lying?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/27/2002 08:45 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  800 Talibs protecting the grand Mullah and changing location frequently? lets see 800/4 = 200 or so Toyota Land Cruisers...shouldn't be too hard to spot that crowd moving around!
Posted by: John || 09/27/2002 12:25 Comments || Top||

#2  To which we might add:
800 x $3.95 for breakfast Egg McMuffins = $3160
800 x $3.95 for lunchtime Happy Meals = $3160
800 x $4.95 for dinnertime Quarter Pounders = $3960
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$10,280 per day to feed the bloodthirsty little bougers...
Posted by: Fred || 09/27/2002 12:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Still, it would make my day to hear that ol' one-eye caught a dirtnap one of these days...preferrably soon
Posted by: Frank G || 09/27/2002 14:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Mullah Omar is just gathering up a posse, to look for his glass eye.
Posted by: Allah the Dog Faced God || 09/27/2002 14:16 Comments || Top||

#5  I have gotten a little worried about the state that Afghanistan is in; our boys over there are getting a few too many bullets and rockets shot at them, and some of the towns are getting blown up on occasion. I'd really like some good news about pacifying the countryside... or am I worried over nothing?
Posted by: Just John || 09/27/2002 22:09 Comments || Top||

#6  Except for the political fallout, we could probably leave Afghanistan today. The Taliban is actually broken in little pieces and al-Qaeda is much worse than decimated - an overused term meaning to kill a measly one in ten. The government has been restored to a condition better than it was in before the Talibs took over, awful as that might be. Anything they want to do from last June forward is really up to them; as I keep saying, it's not our country, and it's their right and duty to screw it up any way they want.

That being said, the emerging danger is Hekmatyar, who was the emerging danger back in 1994, is again the emerging danger. If we want to do things right, we shouldn't leave until he's a corpse and the next emerging danger is settling in among the Pashtuns.

The Pashtuns are always going to be a problem in Afghanistan and in Pakistan. There's nothing we can do about it: we can't stop them from being ignorant, we can't stop them from being xenophobes, and we can't stop them from inbreeding. It's really too bad, because Afghanistan briefly had a chance to become a real country.
Posted by: Fred || 09/28/2002 7:41 Comments || Top||


Axis of Evil
Iran: Camp? What camp?
Iran has reacted angrily to US claims that it is hosting an Al-Qaeda training camp. "Such a camp does not exist anywhere in Iran," foreign ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi told Agence France-Presse (AFP), emphasizing the "disagreements that Iran has had from the very beginning with the Taliban and Al-Qaeda."
And Hekmatyar... Uh, no. Not him... But he wouldn't do anything like that...
"Such accusations are part of a psychological war," the spokesman said, complaining that "neither the U.S. government nor any other government has given Iran any proof or documents to back up such accusations. As Iran has asserted on numerous occasions, these accusations are totally baseless."
"Those pictures lie, I tell ya! Lie!"
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/27/2002 07:49 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I hope that Hek annoys the USAF as much as he annoys me.
Posted by: Allah the Dog Faced God || 09/27/2002 23:26 Comments || Top||


Japan's PM meets families of kidnapped
Japanese Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, has told the relatives of 13 Japanese citizens kidnapped by North Korea that the issue remains his top priority in dealings with Pyongyang. The Japanese leader met the family members before a government team left on Friday for the North Korean capital, where it will investigate the kidnappings. Pyongyang says only five of those kidnapped are still alive, but the relatives told Mr Koizumi they wanted to see proof of the deaths and also demanded the rapid return of the survivors.
It'll be interesting to see what they died from, and what measures the NKors actually took against those responsible for the kidnappings and deaths...
The relations of those confirmed still alive have refused a government proposal that they visit the kidnapped in North Korea, insisting that they should instead by returned to Japan within a month. Pyongyang says they are free to leave.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/27/2002 07:49 am || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Ukraine responds to 'Iraqi sales' claim
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Anatoly Zlenko is to hold urgent talks in the United Nations, following allegations that Kiev approved the sale of advanced radar systems to Iraq. Foreign Ministry spokesman Serhiy Borodenkov said Mr Zlenko had broken off a trip to the Dominican Republic to meet UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in New York. He is also expected to meet the Chairman of the UN Security Council's Iraqi sanctions committee, Ole Peter Kolby. The visits comes after Nato Secretary-General George Robertson said "very serious questions" needed to be answered about evidence emerging of the alleged deal. Earlier, the United States announced it was suspending more than $50m in aid to Ukraine and launching a policy review of its relations with the country.
The Great American Poop List seems to be getting longer. Saddam isn't the only dictator we'd like to see go away, and as long as Leonard's presenting his chin...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/27/2002 08:20 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The UN runs the Iraq food for oil program. As pointed out in the WSJ this week, the Uke sale would of had to be run through the UN offices. I guess they would be a touch excited/embarassed.
Posted by: John || 09/27/2002 12:29 Comments || Top||

#2  My sources tell me the oil-for-food program is going to go Enron in a few weeks.
Posted by: PJ || 09/28/2002 3:30 Comments || Top||


Caucasus
Russers chasing Chechen rebels...
The Russian military says it is still pursuing Chechen rebels who fought a fierce battle with Russian forces on Thursday in the southern republic of Ingushetia. "All possible paths they could use have been blocked," said the republic's deputy Interior Minister, Khamatkhan Albakov.
That's what they always say. Then they use an impossible path and get away somehow...
Russian officers say dozens of rebels died in the clashes near the village of Galashki on Thursday, and helicopters and artillery were in action overnight. "Helicopters located camp fires where the fighters were warming themselves. These were immediately bombed," the Interfax news agency quoted an official as saying.
Did they actually count bodies? Or did they count the number of campfires?
Russia's NTV television said the rebels had unsuccessfully tried to cross into Chechnya during the night.
From Ingushetia, I guess...
It is reported that they had previously been hiding in the Pankisi Gorge in northern Georgia, until Georgian forces began an operation to flush them out.
"Hi. We're from the Georgian army. Would you guys mind moving on, so the Russers don't come in an conquer us? Thanks."

The fix may be in for the Russers to have a free hand with regard to Pankisi and Georgia, but, in common with several recent commenters here, I'm not sure they're capable of doing anything of substance with it. They're supposedly in charge in Ingushetia, yet the Chechens seem to spend a lot of time waltzing in and out of the region and shooting people up and helicopters down.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/27/2002 08:10 am || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah. The question was raised yesterday on this blog about whatever happened to Spetsnaz, the Russian special forces, who presumably ought to be taking the lead in Chechnya. I haven't been following the Chechnya war as closely as I might have, to be sure, but I do know that back in '94, Russia had all it could do to scrape up enough formations actually capable of fighting to go in and try to put down the original rebellion. Improved economy or not, I don't know that the state of Russia's army has improved much since then, if at all. It's possible that there may not really be _enough_ of Spetsnaz left to risk committing to Chechnya; the Kremlin may be keeping whatever is still combat-capable in reserve for really major emergencies.

I don't know about the rest of you, but in light of the current world situation, and as someone who used to spend a lot of time wargaming NATO-vs-Warsaw Pact back in the 1970's and early 1980's when the Red Army actually amounted, or purported to amount, to something, I find all this rather worrisome.
Posted by: Joe || 09/27/2002 17:20 Comments || Top||

#2  I find it worrisome, too, though if you'd told me in 1982 that I'd find the weakness of spetsnaz worrisome today I'd have laughed for a week.
Posted by: Fred || 09/28/2002 7:43 Comments || Top||


Toldja there was a deal on Georgia...
Foreign policy analysts said Moscow could still try to strike some kind of informal deal under which it would limit its opposition to U.S. action against Iraq if Washington did the same over Russia's threat to strike bases used by Chechen rebels inside the former Soviet republic of Georgia. "If the United States presses on, it is in Russia's interests to keep action against Iraq to a minimum. But Russia wants no open confrontation with the United States," said Viktor Kremenyuk, deputy head of Russia's prestigious USA-Canada Institute. "Russian policy is in two tiers — a visible one and a hidden one. The discussions in Moscow could well include a deal on the (Georgia) issue."
Steve adds: "You think? Me too!"
The Russers need the Georgia problem cleared up because it's a prop to the more serious Chechen problem — the issue's not the Georgian government policies, but its incompetence and fear of the inhabitants of Pankisi. The problem with Chechnya has been that there's a certain level of sympathy in some very influential circles in the USA, like the Washington Post, where the rebels are viewed as heroic freedumb fighters against the brutish Russers. (That must be a piece the Vast Jewish Conspriracy™ that controls the Merkin corridors of power missed...) I think Bush is coming around, hopefully has come around, but I also think the Post and the NY Times are going to bitch and moan about it. Luckily, the Merkin public could care less what happens in the North Caucasus because move people have never heard of it, and even the ones who've heard of it don't have any feel for it. Shevardnadze is probably feeling a bit naked right now...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/27/2002 10:47 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If Putin and Ivanov don't go in now, then they'll never go in.
Posted by: Charles Tupper Jr. || 09/27/2002 14:24 Comments || Top||


East/Subsaharan Africa
LRA destroys Uganda radio station...
Rebels of the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) have destroyed a radio station in the north of Uganda. Just before dawn on Friday morning about 20 rebels of the Lords Resistance Army, LRA attacked the catholic owned station, Radio Wa, eight kilometres north of Lira town. According to eyewitnesses the rebels used axes to break their way in before exploding several grenades inside the buildings. They then burnt the station to the ground. Managers of the radio station said they had recently appealed to the authorities to provide extra security and on the night of the attack 12 government troops were guarding the area. However eyewitnesses reported that 11 of those troops fled when the rebels arrived.
The LRA's a problem that's not going to go away for Uganda and Sudan — but that's only because of the incompetence of the armies that are chasing them.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/27/2002 07:59 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Frenchies continue evacuating Ivory Coast town...
French troops have resumed the evacuation of foreigners from the the Ivory Coast city of Bouake, after heavy fighting there between government and rebel forces. More than 1,000 mainly French citizens have already left, and an army spokesman told AFP news agency they expect to complete the operation by 1200 GMT. The French have brought out all but about 200 of those who wanted to escape the fighting in Ivory Coast's second city, including all 11 British nationals who were trapped. The rebels, who seized Bouake as part of an uprising last week, said they would allow the evacuation to proceed and agreed to a 48-hour ceasefire while it was carried out.
More action on "Islam's bloody border..."
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/27/2002 08:02 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front
500+ anarchokiddies arrested in D.C...
The radio sez DC police have rounded up over 500 anarchokiddies protesting the existence of the World Bank and the IMF. Charges include marching without a permit and property damage. Some of those arrested have been complaining that the coppers haven't been according them kid gloves treatment — the sound bite said Poopsie had been sitting in handcuffs for over two hours and hadn't been allowed to go potty...
Pity the poor anarchokiddies, who have nothing more important to do with their tiny, pointless lives...
UPI's caption to the foto:

D.C. police surround and arrest a group protestors in downtown Washington on Sept. 27, 2002. Demonstrators chained themselves together, set tires on fire, broke windows and harassed police with false 911 calls in an effort to shut down the nation's capital as financial ministers from around the world began a weekend meeting at the World Bank. Approximently 300 out of an estimated 500 protestors where arrested early in the day. Chris Corder/UPI
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/27/2002 11:11 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oh gee. It is just so tough to be a lefty today! Fox said that the police arrested the leaders thus eliminating the effectiveness of the anarchists- think about that, leaderless anarchists are ineffective. Hmmmm, ain't anarchists supposed to just BE so without leaders. To belabor the point, having leaders is somewhat oxymoronic for anarchists, no? Well, then again, these are lefties, so reason does not count at all.
Posted by: craig || 09/27/2002 15:46 Comments || Top||

#2  One of the planned demonstrations of The People's Anger (tm) for today was to parade a caravan down I-495 (the Beltway) at or below the speed limit, in the middle of the morning rush hour.

Way to go, kiddies. Brilliant way to rally the oppressed proletariat of the D.C. suburbs to your cause.

NOT!!!!!!!

My own commute doesn't take me anywhere near the Beltway, but I had a couple of entertainingly bloody fantasies today about provoked-beyond-the-edge commuters doing a mass road-rage incident on the Anarchist Kiddies...
Posted by: Joe || 09/27/2002 17:24 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Karachi killings spark new fears
The killing of seven workers of a Christian charity, Idara Amn-o-Insaf, yesterday has sent a fresh wave of shock through Karachites, who consider the incident the beginning of a new tool of terror in the city. "It’s a new phenomenon as far as Karachi is concerned," said social scientist Prof S Haroon Ahmed.
What's different? Seems like people are getting bumped off in Karachi at an alarming rate. Certainly greasing Christians isn't anything out of the ordinary by now...
Prof Ahmed said the killing of Christians had nothing to do with what was happening in Karachi already. "It’s something new in the city, which was in fact a melting pot as far as minorities went," he said. "It (the killings) has a different character. Though I don’t know the exact reason or reason behind it, these killings have instilled in people a new kind of fear."
This being a family blog, I won't comment on what he's full of...
The Citizens Police Liaison Committee also views the killings as a new form of violence in a city that has seen bloodshed over several years. "It’s definitely something new to Karachi," said Sharfuddin Memon, deputy chief of CPLC. He said the carnage could qualify as motivated killings but he would not comment on the possible reasons "because the police is investigating."
"Y'see, this is different because, ummm... well... uhhh..."
The assailants had the audacity to tie all the victims to chairs before shooting them in the head, in the 12-storey building in the heart of city. And they fled, as usually happens in the city of 14 million, without being challenged by anyone. "The gunmen first tied all the people inside the room, then taped their mouths," a police officer was quoted by the press as saying.
"Yeah! That's it! That's why it's different! They tied 'em to chairs and taped their mouths. Lashkar e-Jhangvi doesn't do that. They like to hear 'em scream and plead for mercy..."
According to some reports carried in an evening newspaper, a man from the office ran outside telling people of other offices that armed men were inside the NGO’s office and had tied the legs and hands of his colleagues. A doctor in the next-door office said he had seen two gunmen. "They were wearing shirts and trousers and were clean shaven," he was quoted as saying.
Good description. The coppers oughta be able to pick 'em out in no time, since most of the people living in Karachi wear tank tops and kilts and sport Van Dykes...
Analysts say Wednesday’s brutal killings will force Karachites to look back with horror at the civil-war like situation of the mid-nineties when 334 people were killed in politico-ethnic violence in June 1995 alone, after a record 278 political deaths the previous December.
Ten a day? And they say this is different?
Some analysts speculate that ‘the establishment’ could have a hand in these killings. They say that since this ghastly act has taken place when the elections are hardly two weeks away, they could be targeted to keep people away from polling stations or providing the government an excuse to postpone the elections on law and order grounds should the situation get worse.
And no doubt "some analysts" are gonna try and pin it on the Indians, like they always do. And the bad guys are probably going to turn out to be the usual low-IQ Lashkar e-Jhangvi or similar thugs, killing Christians because they're Christians...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/27/2002 08:33 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Paks say it was India's fault...
India today rejected Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's charge that RAW could be involved in the killing of seven Christians in Karachi recently, saying such statements were replete with "falsehood." "Every statement (from Islamabad) is replete with falsehood from the beginning to end", an External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson told reporters here when asked about Musharraf's charge. She said nobody attached any credibility to what Pakistan was saying on the attacks on churches in that country.
Toldja so. Somebody tell 'em this sort of charge is getting boring...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/27/2002 08:48 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Temple snuffies were Paks...
Yet another from Steve...
Indian investigators Friday said the two gunmen who killed 30 worshipers at a Hindu temple earlier this week were Pakistani nationals. The Press Trust of India quoted police sources as saying one of the men was identified as Mohammed Amjad Bhai of Lahore, Pakistan, and the other as Hafiz Yasir of Attock, near Islamabad.
Cheeze, the Paks are stoopid. The couldn't even recruit a Palestinian or two, or some Afghans, not even Kashmiris...
Police detained the driver and the owner of the car in that they said the militants drove up to the Swaminarayan temple in Gandhinagar town of western Gujarat state on Tuesday. The driver of the hired car, Raju, who was identified by one name, said the attackers had arrived in Ahmedabad city the same day by train and asked to go to the famous Swaminarayan temple. He said he didn't know he was carrying two gunmen in his car.
So Raju's just a taxi driver. The car itself had no significance...
Armed with AK-47s, the two men raided the temple packed with worshipers, killed 30 people and wounded 50 others. Indian commandoes killed the two attackers after a nightlong chase in the 25-acre temple complex.
Where'd they have their guns during the ride to the temple from the train station, Raju? In their luggage?
Indian Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishan Advani earlier hinted that Pakistan was behind the attack, a charge Islamabad denied. Pakistan condemned the attack.
Then they claimed the Indos were behind their own attack, in Karachi...
The attackers were carrying leaflets of "Tehrik-e-Kasas," or Movement for Revenge, an outfit formed to avenge the killings of more than 1,000 Muslims in religious clashes earlier this year.
Jamaat ad-Dawa harps on the Gujarat violence continuously and stridently, trying to keep the yokels inflamed against the Heathen Hindoo. The Jamaat is to Lashkar e-Taiba as Sipah e-Sahaba is to Lashkar e-Jhangvi: the "legit" front organization for the Krazed Killer Korps. Of course, Jamaat ad-Dawa's not the only bunch screeching, of course, but they popped to mind first.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/27/2002 10:45 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Middle East
Rantissi: ''Violence! More violence!''
Dr. Abdul Aziz Ranteesi, one of the prominent Hamas Movement leaders in the Gaza Strip, has urged military wings of all resistance factions to strike the Zionist enemy anywhere and at any time without inhibition. Ranteesi, speaking at an urgent rally held by the Islamic bloc in the Islamic University in Gaza yesterday to protest the Zionist massacre in Shuja'iah and Zaitun suburbs, advocated the severest retaliation as punishment to the bloodbath that left nine Palestinians killed and 50 others wounded four of whom in serious condition. The Hamas leader said, "We must strike in Tel Aviv, Yaffa, Haifa ... martyrdom operations should target all cities in occupied Palestine to inflict the biggest number of casualties possible in lines of the enemy and to force it leave our lands". He stressed that his Movement would chase Zionist killers everywhere, underlining that there was no other alternative to mindless violence resistance.
Are they sure it was him and not a recording? Doesn't he ever say anything different?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/27/2002 07:49 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Deif still kicking...
An Israeli missile attack in the Gaza Strip failed to kill a senior leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, an Israeli cabinet minister has said. Science Minister Matan Vilnai told Israel army radio that Mohammad Deif - who heads the military wing of Hamas - was not seriously wounded in the attack, contradicting earlier claims. The strike on a crowded area killed two of Mr Deif's bodyguards and wounded about 40 others, drawing criticism from United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
If you're gonna take the Fearless Fosdick approach to banging the Bad Guys, at least make sure you get the Bad Guy in the process...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/27/2002 08:14 am || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm sure that poor Dief's in great pain. Maybe his doctor can write a prescription for some strong painkillers: "lead, .50 cal. capsule, 100 rnds topically applied; repeat as necessary."
Posted by: Mike Morley || 09/27/2002 13:41 Comments || Top||


Purges of anti-Yasser forces?
And another, courtesy of Steve...
The Sept. 20 political coup attempt against Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat led by Palestine Liberation Organization executive committee member Abu Mazen threatens to unleash a small-scale civil war among Palestinians. After death threats from the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Fatah's heavy mob, Abu Mazen himself has fled his home outside Ramallah and is now in Jordan, apparently planning an extended "working tour" to Egypt and Russia.
Looks like he tried to move too fast...
Over the last two days, Arafat's Al Aqsa enforcers have launched armed attacks on the homes of two more of the anti-Arafat plotters, former Cabinet minister Nabil Amir and West Bank security chief Zuhair Manasrah.
The coppers revolted when Manasrah was named. Since this is apparently their first opportunity to ditch him, it looks like they're taking the direct route...
Amir, one of Arafat's sternest critics who mourns the loss of "a historic opportunity" at President Bill Clinton's Camp David talks two years ago, was unhurt when his house in Ramallah's al-Tira suburb was raked by automatic fire. Manasrah's house got the same treatment Thursday. Palestinians say these were warning shots, rather than assassination attempts.
I love it when Paleostinians are subtle...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/27/2002 11:02 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ah Sharon, the evil genius! Reduce Yasser to a little box of baby wipes and suddenly the Paleos start to blow up each other, instead of Israelis. Brilliant!
Posted by: John || 09/27/2002 12:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Just saw a promo for this Sundays (29th) 60 Minutes. Lesley Stahl is in Isreal going through the boxes of documents the IDF grabbed the first time they raided Arafat's HQ. Gee, maybe CBS will do a honest report, wait, I forgot, it's part of the Zionist plot to discredit Yasser.
Posted by: Steve || 09/28/2002 8:00 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Malaysia arrests 'key' Islamic militant
Another one from Steve's collection...
Malaysian police say they have arrested a leading Muslim militant. Wan Min Wan Mat is accused of being a prominent member of the Malaysian Militant Group (KMM) which is said to have close links with the regional Islamic militant organisation Jemaah Islamiah (JI). National police chief Norian Mai said the 42-year-old former university lecturer had been arrested in the northern state of Kelantan on Friday morning. The arrest was the latest in a string of detentions of alleged Muslim militants by Malaysian and Singapore authorities, who have alleged that groups like Jemaah Islamiah are trying to destabilise both governments and introduce Islamic rule to Malaysia.
Unlike Indonesia, the Malays are actually trying to clean up the mess, despite their occasional lip service to "Muslim solidarity" and the efforts of their internal front organizations to turn the country into an Islamic paradise.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/27/2002 07:49 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Abu Sayyaf blames Manila for deaths
The Abu Sayyaf Muslim rebel group has accused the Philippines' government of sacrificing the lives of two hostages in an attempt to justify its part in the US war on terrorism. In the first public pronouncement by the Abu Sayyaf for several months, their leader, Khadafi Janjalani, made a statement broadcast on a local radio station in the southern Philippines. Mr Janjalani blamed the government for the killing in June of two hostages being held by the Abu Sayyaf. One was Martin Burnham, an American Christian missionary. The other was Ediborah Yap, a Filipino nurse.
"We have no control over our own actions. Everything we do is in response to something someone else does. If we kidnap somebody and kill them, that's somebody else's fault. If we kidnap them and they get killed when the government tries to rescue them, that's not our fault, either.
The Abu Sayyaf leader said the two would still be alive if the government had accepted what he called a negotiated settlement, which presumably means if the government had paid a ransom.
"Just do what we tell you, and nobody gets hurt... Well, not too many people..."
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/27/2002 07:54 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:



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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 dominated Mexico for six years.
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Two weeks of WOT
Fri 2002-09-27
  Deif still kicking...
Thu 2002-09-26
  Explosives found on Morocco jet
Wed 2002-09-25
  Commandos kill gunmen in Hindu temple after 30 die in raid
Tue 2002-09-24
  Blair Releases "Proof" For War On Iraq
Mon 2002-09-23
  Bomb explodes near McDonald's in Lebanon
Sun 2002-09-22
  Iraq: Inspectors can't look in Sammy's houses...
Sat 2002-09-21
  Yasser's house to go ''boom''?
Fri 2002-09-20
  IDF wrecks Yasser's compound...
Thu 2002-09-19
  Bus bastard booms five, wounds 40 in Tel Aviv
Wed 2002-09-18
  US Consulate bomb suspect arrested
Tue 2002-09-17
  North Korea admits stealing Japanese children
Mon 2002-09-16
  Rantissi: Gaza is the Zionists' graveyard
Sun 2002-09-15
  Another princeling bites the dust
Sat 2002-09-14
  It's Ramzi
Fri 2002-09-13
  Ramzi bin al-Shibh in custody?

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