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Sunday, August 8th, 2004
After all where was Mr. Atta from? Egypt! As is al-Qa'ida's number two top terrorist.
CAIRO — A massive supply of explosives stolen from Egyptian warehouses last week could have found its way to either Al Qaida or Palestinian terrorists.
Egyptian security sources confirmed that a large amount of explosives was stolen from a warehouse of an oil company in the Western Desert near the Mediterranean coast. The sources said authorities have conducted an intensive investigation and detained hundreds of employees and guards of the company.
The Egyptian government has not announced the theft.
The sources said authorities were concerned that the explosives were stolen to fulfill an order by Islamic or Palestinian insurgents. They did not rule out that some of the explosives could be headed for the Gaza Strip.
Another scenario was that the explosives would be used for a major Al Qaida-inspired attack in either Egypt or another North African ally of the United States. Over the last year, Egypt has arrested hundreds of Islamic suspects connected to the Muslim Brotherhood or Al Qaida-inspired groups.
On Aug. 4, the opposition Egyptian Al Ahali daily quoted a security source as saying that 1,062 pieces of explosives went missing from an unidentified foreign oil exploration company in Marsa Matrouh northeast of Cairo. The newspaper said the explosives could be detonated by remote control, So far, 1,000 people, including guards and employees of the company as well as local residents, were arrested, Al Ahali reported.
Later, security sources confirmed some details of the Al Ahali report. But they said about half of the amount reported by Al Ahali was stolen. They also said the explosives were owned by Al Salam Petrol Services in Marsa Matrouh, about 500 kilometers northwest of Cairo.
About 100 pieces of explosives were found, the sources said. So far, none of the thieves were captured, they said.
Egypt has been cited as a leading source of weapons and explosives to the Palestinian insurgency in the Gaza Strip. Western diplomatic sources said a large amount of Cobra rocket-propelled grenade launchers was stolen from Egypt's state-owned defense industry and smuggled to the Gaza Strip.
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Egypt has been cited as a leading source of weapons and explosives to the Palestinian insurgency in the Gaza Strip. Western diplomatic sources said a large amount of Cobra rocket-propelled grenade launchers was stolen from Egyptâs state-owned defense industry and smuggled to the Gaza Strip.
It wasn't delivered directly from Army stocks. The IDF has followed Gaza tunnels that go under the border and come up in the middle of Egyptian Army bases.
After all where was Mr. Atta from? The Islamic Brotherhood in Egypt was the original Islamist terror group -- its been actively working toward the Caliphate since the 1950's, I believe, and counts its biggest success as the assassination of Anwar Saddat.
Yemeni troops completed major operations in an offensive to end the rebellion of a rebel preacher in northern mountains, but were still trying to catch him as sporadic resistance continued.
Surrounded him Soddy-style, did they?
Army soldiers were facing "small pockets of resistance" in a number of villages in the rugged Marran mountains which were overrun by regular military forces since the onslaught started four days ago, military sources said. The offensive has left a total of at least 83 dead, including 41 soldiers and 42 militants, and about 95 wounded as the military battled through Hussein Badruddin Al-Houthi's stronghold, military and medics said. On Friday, army units combed the mountainous region in search of the rebel preacher and his followers in house-to-house search operations, they said. Skirmishes could also be heard in the northeastern suburbs of the main northern town of Saada, where government forces accused Houthi rebels of ambushing police and army troops. In one incident, four Houthi followers were killed and four others detained as they attacked police patrols, security sources said.
"Yarrr! Take that, coppers!... Owwww! I quit!"
On Friday, Army Chief of Staff Brig. Gen. Mohammad Al-Qassimi vowed that the army forces would end the rebellion within 12 hours and catch the outlawed preacher. Qassimi also said government forces were distributing food and medical supplies to residents of the villages which had been under virtual siege since the preacher launched his rebellion on June 18.
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Saudi security forces have detained a man suspected of links with a key terrorists of the Al-Qaeda terror network captured two days ago in Abha, Al-Watan daily reported. "Police in the (southwestern) Asir region arrested at dawn on Friday a 29-year-old person, who had sexual direct contact with Faris Al-Zahrani, in an apartment in the district of Uhd Rufaida," the paper said. "He was arrested without putting up any resistance. A loaded pistol, a computer and CDs of material supporting the ideas of Zahrani were found in his apartment," the daily said.
Is this more fallout from Computer Boy getting jugged in Pakland? Will he be given a good talking-to and told not to do it again?
It said the detained man, whose identity has not been disclosed, was believed to be the editor and distributor of Zahrani's articles published on the Internet.
Late Thursday, Zahrani, an ideologue of Al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia, was detained together with another unidentified suspect in the resort city of Abha, capital of the Asir region. Zahrani was No. 11 on a list of 26 most-wanted suspected terrorists issued by the Inerior Ministry last December. Al-Watan daily also reported that Zahrani had made plans to flee Saudi Arabia to a neighboring country, presumably Yemen. "That was the reason why he came to Abha, in order to move to Jizan and then flee the country," it said.
Sneaking across the border in the dead of night, heavily cloaked, a man of mystery on a white camel...
Prince Faisal ibn Khaled, deputy governor of the Asir region, yesterday described Zahrani's arrest a major security achievement and a big blow to militants. "Probably, he was planning to carry out more terrorist attacks," he added.
Thank you for today's statement of the obvious, Prince...
Although the Interior Ministry did not disclose information about the exact location of Zahrani's arrest, Al-Watan said he was arrested in a public park in Abha. "He was taken by surprise when he found security men surrounding him. He had thought those around him were tourists walking in the park," said the paper.
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Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs Dr Abdullah Al-Ma'atouq has warned imams of mosques not to preach radicalism during Friday sermons, reports Al-Seyassah daily. The minister said strict action will be taken against imams who spread radical ideas. He also threatened the imams with dismissal from mosques. On his return from a tour of Central Asia, Al-Ma'atouq told mediamen a probe panel will be formed to interrogate preachers who have violated the rules and regulations. He also reiterated Kuwaiti charity committees and societies are cleared of any suspicious activities. Meanwhile, the dean of the Faculty of Sharia and Islamic Studies Dr Mohammad Al-Tabtabaei denied press reports which said a professor at the Faculty was involved in financing and luring youth to fight jihad in Iraq.
About 12 Kuwaiti detainees accused of recruiting teenagers to fight US-led coalition forces in Iraq began a hunger strike Saturday to protest alleged torture from security officers, according to a lawyer for some of the men. The lawyer, Abdul-Rahman Al-Rashidi, also said the men, mostly Islamists who are being held at Kuwait City's Central Jail, want to meet with the state's Prime Minister, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, to inform him about the alleged mistreatment, which includes being coerced physically and verbally into making forced confessions. "They will not eat or drink until they die or their demands are met," Al-Rashidi told The Associated Press, adding the men want "the world to know they were tortured and humiliated by State Security officers." Interior Ministry officials could not be reached to confirm the food strike or comment on the torture allegations.
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Several hundred supporters of detained radical imam Abu Hamza al-Masri on Friday disrupted the reopening of the Finsbury Park mosque in London, closed last year after an anti-terrorist raid. The supporters of Hamza, who is wanted by the United States on terrorism charges and has been in jail since May, tried to stop the mosque from holding Friday prayers — but it was not known if they succeeded. A large police contingent was on hand outside the mosque, in a working class neighbourhood in northwest London to "prevent breaches to peace," a police statement said.
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He's got some major boogers going, y'know...
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Why, pray tell, would anyone be so idiotic as to approve re-opening this nest of vipers?
I'd turn it into a museum for pink tanks, giant puppets, and jihadi videos. Oh, and prosthetic devices.
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It would be nice if British law enforcement sprouted a set and began to detain all of Hamza's co-conspirators supporters. Those who support Hamza likewise advocate violent jihad. They are prime candidates for terrorist activity and should be monitored. When Britain finally purchases a clue regarding this, they will have begun the long journey out of darkness.
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You don't learn much from guys sitting in the jug, unless they're a "mastermind". Better intel if they run around "free", with watchdogs on them. They're not going anywhere. It is an island, after all, even with the chunnel.
As for the mosque, it's got to have SOME non-radical attendees. Good PR to let it re-open.
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maybe so, but I'd prefer a statement to PR - burn the den of sickness to the ground, salt the ground. They'd understand that. Good thing for these a-holes that I'm not King Frank...things would be a little bit unpleasant for them
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You don't learn much from guys sitting in the jug, unless they're a "mastermind". Better intel if they run around "free", with watchdogs on them. They're not going anywhere. It is an island, after all, even with the chunnel.
I'm not saying they should be jailed. I'm advocating that all of these "supporters" be indentified, photographed and fingerprinted. These aren't butterfly collectors, they are adherents of violent jihad.
Having these b@stards cataloged and indexed would assist terror investigations and doing so would certainly give these sh!ts pause before they act upon their vile intentions.
I'll also go with KingFrank and say that Finsbury Park mosque should have been condemned and razed after its initial closure. There needs to be a strong message sent about the unacceptability of preaching violent jihad. Razing mosques where this filth is spewed fills the bill quite nicely. Preach violent jihad and you better be ready to apply for a new building permit.
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As for the mosque, it's got to have SOME non-radical attendees.
That has to be the most optimistic statements I've heard this year. Thanks for the laugh!
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bet you could count them on one hand, er..hook
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The BEEB said that the radicals had to be protected from the "moderates" who banned the radicals from attending the mosque which upsets them. The radicals tried to disrupt the friday prayers and the pealers had to step in.
Citizenship records have turned up a match but authorities skeptical
JANICE TIBBETTS
CanWest News Service
August 8th, 2004
The Canadian government is investigating a report that a man of Pakistani origin who was arrested for his role in an extensive Al-Qa'ida terrorist plot might be a Canadian citizen.
The mid-July detention in Pakistan of a young computer engineer, Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan, triggered a chain reaction of arrests of high-profile Al-Qa'ida operatives and unearthed information that U.S. officials say prompted them to raise their terror alert last week.
Foreign Affairs spokesperson Reynald Doiron said yesterday that the federal department has contacted its counterparts in Pakistan.
The department wanted to confirm a Times of London newspaper report, quoting a Pakistani official as saying Khan, 25, is a Canadian.
Canada's high commissioner in Islamabad has requested that Pakistani officials supply a date of birth, place of birth and photo of Khan to compare with Canadian records.
Foreign Affairs has checked citizenship records and come up with a name match, but Doiron cautioned against reading too much into this because of spelling variations of Khan's given names and the fact he has a common surname.
The Times of London, Reuters and the Associated Press, citing sources, have all reported Pakistani intelligence authorities forced Khan to take part in a "sting" operation that has led to the arrest of some of Osama bin Laden's most dangerous agents.
Khan e-mailed Al-Qa'ida comrades while in custody in Pakistan and some of them responded, but the operation might have been compromised after Khan's name appeared in U.S. newspapers.
Khan, in his e-mails, advised his contacts in Britain and the U.S. that there were new orders from Al-Qa'ida's high command.
Experts in Islamabad, meanwhile, examined Khan's cache of computer discs that contained extensive plans of possible attack targets in Britain and the U.S., including a meticulous surveillance of Heathrow airport in London.
Khan, who speaks flawless English, can travel relatively easily from east to west because of his Canadian citizenship, Pakistani sources told the Times.
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I seem to recall that in the past being Pakistani AL Qaeda terrorists wasn't deemed reason enough to revoke Canandian citizenship from the father and 5(?) sons who wanted to return to their Toronto home... and I don't believe their English was flawless, so why the fuss this time? I mean, its not like Khan blew anybody up, or anything.
From The Washington Post
... a New Jersey man is under investigation for having helped a British computer specialist, also arrested in London this week, allegedly solicit funds for a terrorist group by creating and operating an exact replica of the British man's Web site. Mazen Mokhtar, an Egyptian-born imam and political activist, operated a Web site identified in an affidavit unsealed Friday by the U.S. attorney's office in Connecticut. The Web site solicited funds for the Taliban and Chechen mujaheddin, according to the affidavit. It is an exact replica of Web sites operated by Babar Ahmad, who was arrested in England on a U.S. extradition warrant this week. The affidavit said the New Jersey home of the mirror Web site operator, identified on a Web site as Mokhtar, was searched in the recent past and that copies of Azzam Publications sites, operated by Ahmad, were found on Mokhtar's computer's hard drive and files. ....
Ahmad possessed three-year-old classified routes of a U.S. naval battle group and is believed to be part of a branch of al Qaeda linked to Khalid Sheik Mohammed that authorities on three continents have been working to capture in recent weeks. He allegedly operated two U.S.-based Web sites, one in Connecticut and one in Nevada. Ahmad, a British subject of Pakistani descent, faces four charges of involvement with terrorism. His attorney, appearing in a British court Friday, denied Ahmad was involved in terrorism.
"No, no! Certainly not!"
According to the affidavit, Ahmad "worked in concert" with the New Jersey-based operator of www.minna.com, who is identified on the site as Mokhtar. Mokhtar is described in news reports as a U.S. citizen in his mid-thirties and an outspoken advocate of Palestinian causes. There was no answer at a phone listed at Mokhtar's home Friday or Saturday. News accounts of rallies where Mokhtar has spoken have also described him as an imam, or spiritual leader, at the Masjid al-Huda mosque in New Brunswick, N.J. He was scheduled to speak later this month in Pennsylvania at a summer camp run by Young Muslims, at a seminar titled "A Few Good Turbans Men."
On the subject of peace and understanding, no doubt...
Ahmad is also the cousin of Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, who was arrested last month in Pakistan. Khan's computers carried detailed surveillance of five financial buildings in New York, Newark and Washington and prompted the Department of Homeland Security to elevate the threat alert level to orange.
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Next al-Qa'ida's legal team of radicals will inform us that in every mosque they have weekly 'We love America rallies'.
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A Tunisian detainee testified Saturday before a U.S. military review hearing that he was abused while in captivity in Afghanistan before being brought to the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, a military official said.
"It was terrible! I suffered so!"
The 35-year-old Tunisian told the review panel he was held in the dark and without sufficient drinking water for more than two months in Afghanistan, said a military officer who served as the tribunal recorder and whose identity was barred from being disclosed. Military officials said the detainee was captured by the Northern Alliance before being turned over to U.S. troops.
So don't bitch to us...
The man didn't specify which force was holding him at the time of the alleged mistreatment, but he told the panel the experience led him to falsely confess to training with militants, the tribunal official said.
Northern Alliance was kinda prone to nastiness with prisoners who recently had been shooting at them, weren't they.
The Tunisian told the panel he made the false confessions due to the ``mistreatment he had received in Afghanistan, or as he phrased it, torture,'' the officer said. As recently as March 2003, he allegedly told interrogators he had received paramilitary training. But on Saturday he denied having received the training, saying ``he's been treated well'' during two and a half years at Guantanamo and ``felt there wasn't going to be any retribution'' if he told the truth, the officer said.
Yeah, yeah. We know. He was going charity work. And somebody left the explosives where he happened to be having lunch after rescuing some puppies and kittens...
Unless someone corroborates his story, though, he's not going anywhere.
Gunmen have killed a retired police officer in Songkla province in Thailand's Muslim-majority south. Pichet Inthajan is the second retired policeman to be gunned down, on friday another was killed in a neighbouring province.
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This has been RUMINT for weeks in my circles: THe locals now that they have an Iraqi (non-US) in charge are getting busy chewing up "foreigners", especially non-Arab "Persians" (Iranians and Afghanis) and "Africans" (Egyptians, Algerians, etc).
This is one place where Iraqi "Arab Pride" works to the advantage of the Iraqis.
KARACHI, Pakistan - Two bombs ripped through an Islamic school Sunday in Pakistan, killing eight and injuring 42 in the latest outbreak of violence gripping the southern port city of Karachi. The blasts went off near a restaurant close to Jamia Binoria in western Karachi, a Sunni Muslim school where thousands study, said Fayyaz Leghari, a senior Karachi police official. There was no claim of responsibility.
Eight people died and 42 others were injured, Leghari said. Some were Jamia Binoria students, but no casualty breakdown was available. One of the dead was a child who'd been passing by with his parents, said Iqrar Abbasi, a doctor at Civil Hospital Karachi. A spokesman for the seminary, Ghulam Rabbani, said there were two explosions the first apparently intended to draw a crowd. Hallmark of a professional terror job. Lure in some gawkers and bat cleanup on the rescuers.
"The first one was smaller. When people got to the site there was another explosion," he said. Officials earlier reported the explosion was near Jamia Islamia Binori Town, a prominent seminary that had links with the Taliban in Afghanistan. But Jamia Binoria, where two explosions occurred, is a different school located near an industrial area in Karachi. More than 100 police and paramilitary troops blocked off streets in the blast area Sunday night. Explosive experts defused another bomb hidden in a plastic shopping bag near the scene of Sunday night's blasts, Leghari said. Ah yes, the old "Shopping Bag of Doom."
President Gen. Pervez Musharraf condemned the attack and expressed grief over the killings, state-run Pakistan Television reported. Musharraf appealed for people to help keep peace in Karachi, PTV reported. Violence in revenge for attacks is common in the city. The explosion shattered windows at the restaurant and other nearby buildings. The burned wreckage of the motorcycle of doom in which one of the bombs was planted lay with glass and other pieces of rubble strewn around on the street.
"We were drinking tea in the restaurant when the first bomb exploded. We rushed outside" said Hayaullah Khan, 20, a student at the school, with tea spilled over his traditional white shalwar kameez outfit. Meanwhile, police stepped up patrols and vehicle checks for bombs and weapons in the capital, Islamabad, said Sultan Azam Temuri, a police official there. "Got any bombs or weapons?"
"Sure, right here!"
"All right, you may pass."
Temuri said that the Karachi blasts were "in our mind," but that there was no specific threat of an attack in Islamabad. Karachi is Pakistan's main port city and commercial center, and is believed to be a hide-out for Islamic militants, some with suspected al-Qaida links.
In recent months the city has been the scene of bomb explosions and attacks targeting security forces and Westerners, including an assassination attempt against a senior general in June. The general survived, but 10 other people died. Much of the violence in the city of about 14 million people is blamed on Islamic hard-liners who are angered by Musharraf's decision to ally with the U.S.-led war campaign against terrorism. On Saturday, a bomb killed two people outside a Karachi car dealership in part of the city where Pakistani police had arrested al-Qaida operative Ramzi Binalshibh after a shootout in September 2002.
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In related news the U.N. announced that a clear sky is, indeed, blue in color and the ocean (contrary to previous U.N. resolutions....) is indeed 'wet' .......
Two bombs ripped through an Islamic school Sunday in Pakistan, killing seven and injuring 25 in the latest outbreak of violence gripping the southern port city of Karachi. The blasts went off near a restaurant close to Jamia Binoria in western Karachi, a Sunni Muslim school where thousands study, said Fayyaz Leghari, a senior Karachi police official. There was no claim of responsibility.
Don't look at me! I was doing pork chops on the grill!
Seven people died and 25 others were injured. The death toll increased after a child who was passing by with his parents died at Civil Hospital Karachi, said Iqrar Abbasi a doctor at the hospital. A spokesman for the seminary, Ghulam Rabbani, said there were two explosions - the first apparently intended to draw a crowd. ``The first one was smaller. When people got to the site there was another explosion,'' he said.
Did they cheese off the Shiites? The MQM? Is Sami booming Qazi? Was the chicken underdone?
Officials earlier reported the explosion was near Jamia Islamia Binori Town, a prominent seminary that had links with the Taliban in Afghanistan. But Jamia Binoria, where two explosions occurred, is a different school located near an industrial area in Karachi.
That's too bad...
More than 100 police and paramilitary troops blocked off streets around the school following the explosion. The explosion shattered windows at the restaurant and other nearby buildings. The burned wreckage of the motorcycle in which one of the bombs was planted lay with glass and other pieces of rubble strewn around on the street. ``We were drinking tea in the restaurant when the first bomb exploded. We rushed outside'' said Hayaullah Khan, 20, a student at the school, with tea spilled over his traditional white shalwar kameez outfit.
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Charles Johnson notes this passage in the Rooters version of the story:
More than 5,000 students from at least 50 countries study at the religious school called Jamia Binori â considered a moderate institution as it also gives modern education along with Islamic teachings.
Tariq Madani, an employee at the school, said his institution was considered a non-controversial one and kept itself away from extremism. âBut even we have been targeted. It is a shame.â
Iraq has issued an arrest warrant for Ahmad Chalabi, a former governing council member, on counterfeiting charges and another for Salem Chalabi, the head of Iraq's special tribunal, on murder charges, Iraq's chief investigating judge said Sunday.
more at the link
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From Associated Press / Yahoo News
The torrent of intelligence that led to dozens of arrests in Pakistan and Britain and a terror warning in the United States began with a hunt for those behind an audacious ambush in June on a Pakistani commander as his motorcade tried to cross Karachi's Clifton Bridge. ... The gunmen escaped after the June 10 attack on Ahsan Saleem Hayat, Karachi's top general, but police traced them through a stolen van found abandoned and bloodstained later that day. The general escaped unharmed; 10 other people died in the attack.
The van's owner gave police a description of the men who had stolen it, and that led them to a militant hideout in Karachi where on June 12 they arrested nine people, including alleged ringleader Atta-ur Rahman and another man, a young Pakistani named Shahzad Bajwa. The men, part of a previously unknown group called Jundallah, or Allah's Brigade, are also believed to have been involved in recent attacks on Shiite Muslim mosques in Karachi. Both Rahman and Bajwa received training in October and November of 2003 in South Waziristan at an alleged al-Qaida facility and shooting range on the property of tribal leader Eda Khan.
The camp near Shakai, a town of mud-brick compounds surrounded by mountains and forests, was overrun by the army in June following the arrests in Karachi. Eda Khan surrendered and is in custody. On June 12, police and intelligence agents in Karachi also arrested Masrab Arochi, a nephew of al-Qaida's former No. 3 Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and a suspected terror operative himself, [Interior Minister Faisal Saleh] Hayyat told the AP. Hayyat said Arochi, Rahman and Bajwa had all been to Shakai, which he described as "a major transit point" for al-Qaida figures. .... Pakistani intelligence officials say the CIA cooperated in the Arochi arrest, as well as those that followed.
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Kuwaiti employer of the three Indian hostages in Iraq has on Sunday night pulled out of negotiations after their captors made fresh "last minute" demands giving a setback to prospects of their release but the Government urged the negotiators to "remain engaged". "Till last night, everything was going fine. We were expecting to receive the hostages but the abductors changed their mind at the last minute and put in a new demand," Rana Abu-Zaineh, spokesperson of Kuwait and Gulf Link Transport Company told PTI over phone from Kuwait. She, however, declined to spell out the demands but said they did not concern the company. Zaineh was quoted by AP late tonight as announcing that the company has "pulled out of the negotiations" to end the 19-day hostage crisis.
Emerging from a marathon meeting of the Crisis Management Group, External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh said "from a TV interview given a short while ago, we understand that Sheikh Hisham al-Dulaimi (negotiator for the abductors) and the Kuwait and Gulf Link Transport Company are still awaiting a response from the hostage-takers. "This may take some time. We must be patient. We continue to encourage both Sheikh Dulaimi and the company to stay engaged and bring this ordeal for the hostages and their anxious families to an early and happy conclusion," Singh told reporters. Asked about reports that KGL has pulled out of the talks, Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed said "I don't have that information".
A seven-year-old Iraqi child was killed and three others injured when they were caught in a roadside bombing today. The children, aged five to 10, were on their way to a playground next to their home in the centre of Kirkuk when they accidentally stepped on a roadside bomb, said Colonel Sirhat Qadir of Iraqi police in the city.
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I'm curious what spin the media will give this story (if they cover it at all).
I predict that they will blame Bush If we just were not in there there wouldn't be any roadside bombs.
Of course the bombs would in here in the US (or UK) but they dont care about american/british children -- and according to the DNC logic the american/british children would deserve it anyway...
From The Los Angeles Times, crediting The Portland Oregonian
Oregon National Guard soldiers tried to stop Iraqi jailers from abusing dozens of prisoners, but were ordered to return the prisoners to their abusers and leave, according to an article published in the Oregonian, which had a writer with the unit. A soldier with the 2nd Battalion, 162nd Infantry, spotted a man beating a prisoner June 29 — Iraq's first official day as a sovereign country — in a courtyard near the Interior Ministry, the newspaper reported in Sunday's edition. Members of the unit later saw other prisoners who appeared to have been beaten, and items such as metal rods and rubber hoses that could have been used to torture them. Capt. Jarrell Southall gave the newspaper a written account of the incident and other guardsmen, speaking on condition of anonymity, echoed his account, the newspaper said. ....
The incident reportedly occurred after Iraqi officials announced a crackdown on crime and police and security forces arrested about 150 people in a Baghdad neighborhood. They were taken to the grounds of the Interior Ministry. The Oregon soldiers who were on a routine neighborhood patrol alerted headquarters. The battalion commander, Lt. Col. Daniel Hendrickson, led a group of soldiers to the compound and entered the detention yard unchallenged, according to the account by Southall, of Newark, Calif., who serves with the Oregon Guard. The guardsmen separated the prisoners from the Iraqi police and gave the prisoners water and administered first aid. "Many of these prisoners had bruises and cuts and belt or hose marks all over," Southall said. "I witnessed prisoners who were barely able to walk." After Hendrickson radioed the Army's 1st Cavalry for instructions, he was told to return the prisoners to the Iraqi authorities and leave the detention yard.
Caption on one of the photos at the Oregonian: The prisoners, many whom appeared to be non-Arab immigrants ...
Immigrants? Is that the latest PC word? Kee-rist, them boys are jihadis. NOW I know why the Iraqi police were thumping them, and why the Guard were ordered away.
"Tyrone! Step back and let Ahmed do his job."
"Yessir, LT. Mr. Ahmed, sorry, and here's your truncheon."
"Thank you, American soldier. Now please stand back, it's a number four."
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Here are some photographs of the prisoners at the site.
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My Mom served over-cooked peas, and my Dad insisted I eat them. Ever since then, my heart has bled for abused prisoners who might be innocent of any wrong-doing.
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spotted a man beating a prisoner June 29 â Iraqâs first official day as a sovereign country
In other words, some of our soldiers saw agents of a sovereign nation doing something we didn't like, and were reminded that Iraq is, in fact, a sovereign nation.
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Beating prisoners is bad, I agree. But what, exactly, did the Oregonian WANT them to do about it do now that Iraq was sovereign? Beat them if they didn't stop?
Funny, the LA times, Oregonian, CNN CBS/NBC/ABC etc. never had their panties knotted when Sadaam or Iran or any other Muslim country was busy torturing their citizens, but when an American soldier witnesses the bruises (not the event itself) somehow GW is to blame.
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MS: Ever since then, my heart has bled for abused prisoners who might be innocent of any wrong-doing.
I know - better that a whole country revert to Saddam than one innocent jihadi get beaten up.
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RC brings up a good point here. Iraq is a Sovereign nation right now, but the moonbats who called for Iraqi Sovereignty/No US Imperialism are going to be the same who call on us to stop this.
So what's it going to be: Play the "role" of Imperialistic overlords or allow "innocent" Jihadi's to be beaten for information?
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Mike---all we are saying, is give peas a chance.
More than 200 members of a rebel group fighting Sudanese government forces in the war-torn Darfur region surrendered to the authorities, official media outlets reported on Saturday. According to the state-run Omdurman radio and several governmental newspapers, 10 field commanders and 200 men of the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) announced in the border town of Tina they were defecting and joining government forces. Reports quoted the commanders as declaring at a ceremony held there for the occasion that their defection was prompted by the "unacceptable" treatment inflicted on them by rebel leaders.
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Iraqi authorities on suspicion of spying have arrested four Iranian intelligence officers and carrying out acts of sabotage in the country, a spokesman for the interior ministry confirmed on Saturday.
Is this the same bunch as the "diplomats" that were "kidnapped"? Or a different bunch? I'm so confused...
"The investigation is still continuing. We will announce all the developments," Sabah Kadhim said. Earlier, the Azzaman newspaper reported that four Iranian intelligence officers, led by a senior official, Taimouri Mohammed Mahdi, had been detained on suspicion of operating spy and sabotage operations out of a Baghdad house. Forged documents, Iranian intelligence and Iraqi ID cards were confiscated during the arrests; Azzaman quoted an anonymous source as saying. In Cairo, an Egyptian daily reported interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi as advising Iran not to interfere in his country's affairs amid a growing war of words between Baghdad and Tehran.
Defence Minister Hazem al-Shaalan told the Washington Post last week that he had seen "clear interference in Iraqi issues by Iran" and accused Tehran of working "to kill democracy" in his country. Nevertheless, Allawi said that Iraq maintained "friendly relations" with Iran and stressed it was "in the interest of Iraq and Iran that bilateral relations be balanced, healthy and positive".
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The mullas in Iran don't even coontrol their own country. There are at least 3 seperate groups in Iraq with their own agendas. All of them evil. They need to hold a quick public trial of these "spies" and take them out back and shoot them. Perhaps Iran will get a clue.
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Allawi said that Iraq maintained "friendly relations" with Iran and stressed it was "in the interest of Iraq and Iran that bilateral relations be balanced, healthy and positive".
Meanwhile, the former spies are delivered to the Iranian border in bags. Message sent.
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Meanwhile, the former spies are delivered to the Iranian border in bags. Message sent.
Several dozen zipperlock bags.
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Send their dead butts home to Iraq sewn into a mattress cover with a dead hog. Iraq has plenty of Christians who would be happy to render such a service to their country I am sure.
Gunfights between suspected militants and security forces in Held Kashmir left at least 12 people dead, officials said on Saturday. Two suspected militants were killed in a gun battle with Indian soldiers in Konibal village, about 20 kilometres south of Srinagar. Two soldiers and two policemen also died and two other soldiers were wounded. Indian soldiers spotted a small band of guerrillas as they tried to sneak into Konibal on Friday night, carrying ammunition and supplies, an army official said on condition of anonymity. When "challenged by the troops", the militants fired back, setting off a nightlong gunfight. The army soon cordoned off the area, but at least four militants managed to escape, the officer said. At least seven houses in the village were damaged in the clash, he said. In a separate gunfight, six people were killed in the Goripara village, about 40 kilometres northeast of Srinagar, said police officer Mohammad Amin. The dead included three suspected militants, two soldiers and a civilian woman who was killed in the crossfire.
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Just another average day in the earthly Islamic paradise.
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Iraqi security forces mounted an unsuccessful raid Saturday to seize rebel cleric Muqtada Sadr .... Members of the Iraqi National Guard and police tried to arrest him at his home in Najaf near the Imam Ali shrine .... But the militant leader was not at home. ....
"Is Tater here?"
"Whaddya want with him?"
"We're here to arrest him!"
"He ain't here! Come back later!"
Even as Iraqi forces made their move against Sadr, interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said at a news conference in Baghdad that the government had received "positive messages" from the cleric and concluded that, in effect, he was not to blame for the violence. These are bandits and gangs trying to hide behind Muqtada Sadr," Allawi said of the insurgents. "We don't think those are his people. There is no statement from him committing himself to themâŠ. That's why I say it's not him." ...
"He's a good boy, really. Misunderstood, y'know? Why, with the love of a good woman... uhhh... boy... uhhh... watermelon, he could go far!"
"We surrounded the house, but he was not at home," said Gen. Ghalib Hadi Jazaery, Najaf's chief of police.
Did the Soddies show you how to surround a place?
Jazaery said his officers were serving an arrest warrant issued last year against Sadr in the killing of a rival cleric. U.S. troops tried to serve the warrant in April, igniting an uprising among his followers that lasted two months and left hundreds of Iraqis dead before ending in an uneasy cease-fire. "We want to clean up this city from this devil," Jazaery said.
"... even if he is just misunderstood."
There was confusion over who ordered Saturday's arrest attempt. U.S. officials said they were not involved in the raid. One Iraqi national guard commander, Lt. Col. Aqeel Khalil, accused Jazaery of grabbing 130 of his men for the raid without authorization. He said a guardsman was killed and nine were injured in the raid, and 17 were missing. "They've become shaken and scared," Khalil said. "They're in low spirits."
That might be because they're not sure who's in charge or what they're trying to do...
The move against Sadr came two hours before the expiration of a 6 p.m. deadline set by Najaf Gov. Adnan Zurfi for all militants hailing from outside Najaf to quit the city.
"Tough guys who live in Najaf can stay..."
Prime Minister Allawi, at his Baghdad news conference, said that of the 1,000 militants U.S. and Iraqi forces say they have captured, many have dissociated themselves from Sadr during questioning.
"No, no! Never liked him, never joined the party! Can I go home now?"
"Yeah, get outta here!"
"Can I have my rocket launcher back?"
He reiterated allegations by Iraqi officials that most of the fighters had come to Najaf from other cities or countries, particularly Iran, or were criminals out to wreak havoc. The seeming contradiction between the attempt to seize Sadr and Allawi's conciliatory statements may be part of a delicate political balancing act.
"Reeeeaaaalllly? Y'think?
The transitional government is keen to stamp out the lawlessness and violence that have angered Iraqis since the U.S.-led invasion last year, but officials also desperately want to avoid setting off a rebellion among Iraq's long-suppressed majority Shiites. The prime minister is a Shiite. ....
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These are bandits and gangs trying to hide behind Muqtada Sadr," Allawi said of the insurgents. "We donât think those are his people ... The prime minister is a Shiite.
Until Allawi decouples his religious and political obligations, the man's ability to faithfully execute his duties is compromised. Any inability to denouce the radicalism and lawlessness that Sadr continually engenders merely means more dead Iraqis at the hands of Mehdi thugs.
Allawi's inaction smacks of inbred theocratic comingling between legal and religious stations. This is harmful to the Iraqi people and also constitutes a needless increase of the danger Coalition troops face when top Iraq's prime minister lends the least credibility to a theocratic thug like Sadr.
Can Allawi allow himself to be seen as a pawn of the Amis? No....
Plus which: given that Tater is way unpopular among Shi'ites, doesn't it make sense to call his bluff and ask him to make a stand at the ballot box? A decisive defeat there would be the fat man's coup de grace, would it not?
From The New York Times
Marine commanders battling Moktada al-Sadr's rebel militiamen in this Shiite holy city said Saturday that the fighting had cleared the rebels from the ancient cemetery in the heart of the old city, but that more fighting lay ahead in the streets and alleyways nearby as an American-led offensive moved to the end of its third day. .... The marines described engaging in hand-to-hand fighting in the vast cemetery, which lies adjacent to the ancient Imam Ali mosque ... The 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which returned to Iraq recently after taking part in the American-led invasion last year, had endured the fiercest battle of all its engagements in Iraq, the commanders said. "The engagements in the cemetery were done on foot, encountering numerous fighters at a range when you can smell a man, and it's hand-to-hand combat," said Col. John Mayer, who leads the battalion that took part in the fighting. ....
Reports from Najaf told of a city now largely deserted, especially in the area of the old city where the fighting has been concentrated. Shops and other businesses remained closed. ... All power, water and telephone lines were cut. ....
... there was little sign a cease-fire would be accepted by the Iraqi government and American commanders. Instead, the indications at nightfall were that the American and Iraqi units intended to press the battle, in the hope of breaking the back of Mr. Sadr's force in Najaf. The Iraqi police commander in the city, Gen. Galib Hadi al-Jazaery, told reporters at the Marine base that Iraqi police officers and guardsmen had surrounded and attacked a house that Mr. Sadr has used as a headquarters in recent months. But the force did not find the cleric. "We want to rid the city of this devil," General Jazaery said. Lt. Col. Aqil Khalil of the Iraqi national guard said the attack on the house was botched, and that the guard and police did not work effectively together. The Iraqis are struggling to prove themselves in battle. ....
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... there was little sign a cease-fire would be accepted by the Iraqi government and American commanders.
Oh-oh. Bad news for Tater and his boys. No hudna this time.
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Lt. Col. Aqil Khalil of the Iraqi national guard said the attack on the house was botched, and that the guard and police did not work effectively together.
Step 1: Describe the problem accurately.
The bigest step. Good luck Aqil.
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Wow - and no blame issued - that is, indeed, an excellent and incredibly un-Arab step toward professionalism. That is not an oncoming train if there are more like these Iraqi commanders.
Good hunting and good luck to the Jarines & Iraqi forces.
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08/08/2004 10:51 Comments ||
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Hand to hand.
Guess they are getting a first hand lesson in that the Marines are trained in Marine Corps Martial Arts.
That also means bayonets.
Madhi Army, welcome to the pointy end of cold steel, wielded by professional. Parry, Thrust, twist. No "wounded in action" coming out of that. Just dead wogs.
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I expect this 11th Marine group have been training for just this type of operation while they have been on their states side rotation. My son in law seperated just before they went over the first time. They know how to get along in the desert or jungle. My bet is they learned how to get along in the streets on their last trip home.
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Pendleton Marines have been training in urban settings for some time now. I'm sure LeJeune is the same...kick ass boyz!
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General Lessel said there was no immediate expectation of a cease-fire. "Weâre going to continue operations," he said. "We are not negotiating at this point."
Best news in a long, long time. I still say we encircle the mosque and hit it with sleep gas or some inert gas that will suffocate them where they lie. Until we flush out that toilet mosque, the trouble will never end.
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It would be interesting if a lot of Sadr's boys lost their left hand (I think the left hand is the hand cut off for theft) but otherwise survived the combat. That would send a powerful message as they eat and wipe with the same hand.
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FoxNews TV reported some hours ago that the area with the Tater Tots is surrounded, water & power cut, and effectively sealed off - nothing in, nothing out. Mebbe the Saudis (read: Nayef & Co) are watching and will discover what "surrounded" really means...
A woman was arrested with a gun at a walima reception attended by Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and prime minister-in-waiting Shaukat Aziz in Islamabad on Saturday, witnesses and police told Daily Times. Tehseen Gul Agha, 65, was among the guests at the walima reception of Central Board of Revenue Chairman Abdullah Yousaf's son at the Marriott Hotel. Security officials whisked the woman away and found a revolver on her, police said.
"Put the roscoe down and step away witcher hands up, lady!"
The woman, her husband Ghazanfar Agha, 70, and daughter Farhana, 30, were taken to the Secretariat Police Station for questioning.
"So what's with the rod, lady?"
"Go screw, flatfoot, I ain't talkin' 'til me moutpiece gets here!"
Police said a case was registered against the woman while her daughter and husband were allowed to go. The woman was later shifted to the women's police station in Islamabad. The family is reported to be from Murree. Security around politicians and government officials has been tightened recently following attempted assassinations of senior figures.
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Two people died and three others were injured when a bomb exploded in Defence Housing Society on Saturday morning, police said. All victims worked at a car rental company. The explosion occurred at about 6:00am outside Rehmat Tours on 9 Commercial Street in Defence Commercial Area Phase II. Police said that the bomb was planted on a footpath and went off when a car parked over it. Muhamad Nazir and Rehmat, both drivers and standing nearby, died instantly. The explosion completely destroyed the car, which flew into the air and caused a two-feet deep crater in the pavement and damaged two other cars. The injured were identified as Munawar, Nazim and Aman, the son of the company's owner. Munawar's condition was reported to be critical. Officials said the car was hired by Dewan Sugar Mills of Thatta and was to be retuned on Saturday morning. Unconfirmed reports said the car was hired by a politician for use in the by-polls campaign in Thar.
Police officer Manzoor Mughal said the bomb was locally built and weighed around three kilogrammes. Sources in the police said it was a timed device and preliminary investigations indicated a business rivalry could be the motive. "We don't think it was an act of terrorism," city police chief Fayaz Leghari said. Sources said the company's owner was a close friend of a mafia don.
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Militants in Iraq say they have taken a top Iranian diplomat hostage. Video shown on the Arab-language Al-Arabiya television station shows a bearded man speaking to the camera, though his voice wasn't audible. It showed nine forms of his identification, as well as his passport and a business card identifying him as the "consul for the Islamic Republic of Iran in Karbala." The kidnappers call themselves the Islamic Army in Iraq. According to Al-Arabiya, they accuse the diplomat of provoking sectarian war in Iraq and they warned Iran not to interfere in Iraq's affairs...
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to bad they do say the tape showed him getting the crap beat out of him. I have no doubt he was doing exactly what they say. Iran does not want a stable and democratic Iraq. These vermin are all over Iraq formenting trouble. I bet more than a few of the bad boyz KIAs are actually revolutionay guards or INI members.
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The article says the 'nappers made no demands (except to tell Iran to stay out of Iraq). This is an interesting story. Are the 'nappers really the bad guyz, or just pretending to be? What have the real bad guyz to lose if Iran continues to stir up trouble in Iraq? I'm missing something. Anybody...?
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The puppet show continues Maulana Abdul Jabbar, chief of the banned militant organisation Khudam-ul-Furqan, has been released by security agencies after a long detention for the suicide attack on President Pervez Musharraf.
Spilled some beans, did he? Had something to trade?
"The security agencies after the completion of investigations released Mr Jabbar last week but restricted his movements throughout the country," sources told Daily Times on Friday. Jabbar was detained for the suicide attack on the president because the suicide bomber, Mohammad Jamil, had worked under his command when he was in the banned militant organisation Jaish e-Muhammad. Jabbar was arrested from Sargodha. He had been detained in Lahore before he was taken to Islamabad for further investigation. He had earlier been detained for attacking churches in Taxila and Murree.
Jabbar also served second-in-command to Maulana Masood Azhar in the Jaish e-Muhammad. He set up his own militant organisation after he developed differences with Azhar. He is the second prominent militant leader who has been released by the security agencies. Earlier, the security agencies had released Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiri, chief of the Muzaffarabad-based Harkatul Jihad-e-Islami.
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Pakistani intelligence agencies have captured a top Pakistani militant, Qari Saifullah Akhtar from Dubai, sources told Daily Times on Saturday. Qari Saifullah, the head of Harkat Jihad-e-Islami Al Alami is believed to be a close aide of Osama Bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar. He was the operational head of Al Qaeda in Pakistan and the suspected mastermind of the recent attacks on President General Pervez Musharraf, Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz and the Karachi corps commander. According to sources, the government had asked the United Arab Emirates for his arrest. Pakistan learnt about Qari Saifullah's whereabouts from a militant they recently arrested in Karachi. "Qari Saifullah was picked up on Friday night in Dubai and brought to Pakistan on Saturday morning," said the sources. "His arrest will help Pakistan break the terrorist network," said a security official.
They've already broken it twice, keep in mind...
Unlike Humpty Dumpty, it keeps getting put back together.
Amjad Hussain Farooqui, another militant said to be involved in the attacks on General Musharraf and other government officials, was acting under orders from Qari Saifullah, sources said. Back in 1995 Qari Saifullah had been arrested for his involvement in the Major General Zaheer Abbasi conspiracy case. However, Saifullah was said to be with Mullah Omer when the US forces invaded Afghanistan.
That would seem to imply he'd been let out of jug, wouldn't it?
He escaped from Kandahar and went to Saudi Arabia.
Where else?
However, he did not stay there for long and took shelter in Dubai from where he was captured. "Maulana Fazlur Rehman Khalil, head of the banned militant organisation, Jamiatul Ansar was also picked up in Islamabad on Friday night. Sources have told Daily Times that more jihadi leaders will also be picked up in the next 24 hours.
The question is, how long will he be held? Khalil, remember, is one of the signatories of Binny's declaration of war on us infidels...
Security agencies took Qari Saifullah into custody to gather information about militants who have worked in his organisation. "Security agencies believe that most militants involved in terrorism in Pakistan have worked in his organisation," sources said. His detention would help law-enforcement agencies gather information about militants who had worked under his command before they established Harkat-ul-Mujahidin Al Alami, which was involved in the car bombing outside the US consulate in Karachi.
Have they thought about jugging him and throwing away the key?
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Or shooting him and throwing away the shell casings...
On another note, is it just my senile self, or are any of you having a hard time keeping straight all these Muslim terrorist names? Like Maulana Fazlur Rehman Khalil,Amjad Hussain Farooqui,Quari Saifullah...these are mouthfuls. Maybe the US Defense Dept. should just use numeric and geographic designations like Terrorist #102,658 from Iran and #56,437 from Pakistan have been killed or apprehended. These 46 letter names boggle the mind.
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Thanks, Rex. Frankly, I'd rather change all of their names to "Awaiting Sentencing."
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Back in 1995 Qari Saifullah had been arrested for his involvement in the Major General Zaheer Abbasi conspiracy case.
He never went to prison, supposedly because he turned states evidence against the coup plotters.
It looks like we are seeing the annual 'crackdown' on the Jihadis, although actually arresting Akhtar in Dubai is a pretty big step. Still, I would be suprised if anything comes from it unless he really was involved in the assasination attempts.
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#2 Rex: I don't have a problem remembering the names per se, but what is confusing is the fact that the same names are used so frequently (Hussein, Mohammed, Ahmed, Aziz, etc.) That seems to be a problem in many countries. When I lived in Colombia I noticed very little variation in people's names. Everyone had the same name. There were like fifty names and that was it, and they were mostly biblical names. I knew like ten Ana's, ten Maria's, ten Luz's, ten Carlos's, ten Miguel's, etc. That's one thing I love about America; I love our variance in names. Black people take it too far, though. They make up some crazy names. If I had the start up cash I'd start selling those baby-naming books that we Americans have overseas. We'd get rich. I can just imagine a platoon sized force of terrorists, involved in a pitched battle...and somebody shouts "Duck Mohammed!" I bet everyone ducks...
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I use to know a young Black man whose name was Avon,A retired Secret service agent named Duck(always imagined him being on a case when some shouts"Duck"and him popping he's head up at the wrong time),and a Somoan named Melderic Fuckalota(that big ole boy could drink some serious,mass quaintiies of beer).
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A little respect there, Rex! I prefer "the late"...
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I'd rather change all of their names to "Awaiting Sentencing."
"Deceased", or "Former" also have a nice ring to them. Or we could make up something totally Islamic, such as "Virginized".
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OP -
How about we take your ideas one step further:
Former/Deceased/Viginized = DFV'd
..and I think DFV'd is a nice, succinct and direct acronym. Besides, with that 'F' in there it lends itself to something obscene.
Mike
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I think something bigger than an annual crackdown is going on.
None of it means sh!t until Pakistan starts registering closing the Madrasas. Until then, these arrests merely represent a revolving door for the thousands of new recruits being churned out. Sure, it's nice that they're getting the top dogs, but with dozens clamoring to take their place, no substantial change is being made.
Many thousands of copies of a professionally produced CD-rom are being circulated in Iraq and Kuwait on behalf of al Qaeda's man in Iraq, the Jordanian terror master Abu Musab Zarqawi. For instance: the major blast on August 19, 2003 at UN headquarters in Baghdad that killed 22 people including the UN Iraq envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello and caused the world organization to quit Baghdad was the work of an Egyptian called Abu Farida Masri. To prove this contention, Zarqawi for the first time lists names of terrorists and their nationality, accompanied by photos and unpublished particulars of the attacks they carried out.
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Well, that will be a nice start for Zenster's data base! I wonder if the investigators got any DNA from the site?
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This doesn't make any sense...Zarqawi recently released a dvd to TIME magazine which chronicles the exploits of his group, with footage of actual attacks taken by terrorist cameramen, including the UN HQ blast! There is also behind the scenes footage of the group with send offs of suicide bombers, etc. This new cd-rom is just his attempt at feeble misinformation...waste the enemy's anaylsis resources, etc. But I would like to see both productions. If anyone can get their hands on the Time video (full length or segments) or this new one, please email me.
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Nevermind...The way this is worded it sounded like Zarqawi was trying to say his group didn't pull off the U.N. bombing. He did dispatch the bomber...I misunderstood for a second. Sorry. But I do want to see this "movie."
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bet its selling like the Micky Moore videos, cant we cut off the net in the middle east, give them no internet at all,might not do alot but it'd amuse me greatly :)
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A series of witnesses place six top al-Qaida fugitives in Africa buying up diamonds in the run-up to the Sept. 11 attacks, according to a confidential report by U.N.-backed prosecutors obtained by The Associated Press. The first-person accounts detailed by the prosecutors add to long-standing claims that al-Qaida laundered millions of dollars in terror funds through African diamonds before launching its deadliest offensive. Al-Qaida figures, including some already wanted in pre-Sept. 11 attacks on U.S. targets, dealt directly with then-President Charles Taylor and other leaders and warlords in the West African country of Liberia from 1999 onwards, according to the accounts. The witnesses told of meetings and sightings in the seedy hotels and safehouses of Monrovia, the blighted capital of what was then a rogue nation. Al Qaida's alleged aim: snapping up diamonds in order to have easily convertible, untraceable resources after the first U.S.-led moves freezing al-Qaida bank accounts and other conventional assets worldwide in 1999.
Claims of al-Qaida's Africa diamond links remain one of the most unsettled areas in international investigations into the terror group, splitting U.S. officials and the intelligence community on the quantity and quality of the evidence. The dossier, apparently prepared by U.N.-backed investigators for presentation recently to the Sept. 11 commission and other officials in Washington, moves the matter forward. It shows that sources interviewed by prosecutors are corroborating in detail accounts of links between al-Qaida and West Africa that news media and independent watchdog groups have previously reported.
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Gunmen ambushed a convoy carrying election workers into a remote Taliban stronghold, killing two of them, officials said Saturday, bringing to a dozen the number of people slain so far while preparing for the landmark presidential vote. At least 30 militants shot at the jeeps from the joint Afghan-U.N. electoral body on Friday as they passed through Char Cheno, a district of central Uruzgan province, Gov. Jan Mohammed Khan told The Associated Press. Khan said two members of the voter registration team were killed and all four vehicles were destroyed by fire after being strafed with assault-rifle and machine-gun fire. The United Nations identified the victims as Mohammed Hashim, a training officer, and driver Mohammed Hussein. A third worker was missing, it said. The world body "condemns in the strongest terms the murderous attack," spokesman Manoel de Almeida e Silva said.
That'll do it.
Khan said guards in the convoy returned fire before the assailants ran away retreated. One Taliban fighter was captured, he said. Uruzgan and neighboring Zabul have been the scene of some of the worst fighting in recent months, and attacks have increased as the nation gears up for its first post-Taliban election on Oct. 9.
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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.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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