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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Al Qaeda sighted at a Nantucket airport this week
Law enforcement authorities declined to disclose details of the possible sighting of Amer el-Maati, who allegedly has talked about hijacking a plane in Canada and flying it into a building in the United States. The State Police went to the Nantucket Memorial Airport at noon Thursday after the possible sighting was reported, according to Phillip Parent of the Steamship Authority, which runs ferries to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. Later on Thursday, the FBI distributed photographs of Amer el-Maati to airline and ferry employees, as well as island law enforcement officials. The photographs were not released to the media, but an FBI official confirmed the sighting report. A flier with the photo describes Maati as "armed and dangerous" and says he "is being sought for possible terrorist threats in the United States," said Parent, the Steamship Authority's human resources director...

Maati, also known as Amro Badr Eldin Abou, says he has Egyptian and Syrian roots, but was born in Kuwait in 1966. Maati has Canadian citizenship and is a licensed pilot, the FBI has said. For at least three years, law enforcement authorities in Canada and elsewhere have been trying to track down Maati, but no one had reported any additional sightings by late yesterday afternoon, said an FBI spokewoman and a State Police spokesman.
No source on this...
Posted by: B || 08/22/2004 8:19:57 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It was always obvious to me at least.
Posted by: Shipman || 08/22/2004 11:14 Comments || Top||

#2  I thought Ted was back in Washington. Wasn't that what all the "no-fly list" nonsense was about - being denied passage to Washington? Besides, while I quite agree that he's virulently anti-Constitution, and in many ways anti-American, I don't think he's al-Qaida yet - not unless they've opened a drinking wing.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 08/22/2004 14:45 Comments || Top||

#3  There was a jihadi from Nantucket ...
Posted by: Zenster || 08/22/2004 16:58 Comments || Top||

#4  LOL OP! The Drinking Wing... hee hee.
Posted by: Shipman || 08/22/2004 17:45 Comments || Top||


Europe
Islamic Group Claims Arson Of Paris Jewish Centre
A previously unknown group has claimed responsibility for an arson attack on a Jewish centre in Paris in a statement posted on an Islamist website Sunday. "A group of young mujahedeen (fighters) ... have torched the Jewish temple in Paris at 4:00 am Paris time," said the Arabic statement posted in the name of the Jamaat Ansar Al-Jihad al-Islamiya (Group of the Holy Islamic War Supporters) at http://www.islamic-minbar.com/forum/viewtopic.php. The claim could not be independently verified. The group said the attack was "in response to racist acts by Jews in France against Islam and the Muslims and the desecration of Muslim cemeteries by Jews. It is also meant ... as a simple response to the racist and savage acts by Jews in Muslim countries like Palestine and other Muslim and Arab countries." It said such "acts are carried out by the descendents of monkeys and pigs, with the help of the French government which stands idle before the Jews at the expense of the Muslims in France." The centre, situated in central Paris, was gutted by the fire early Sunday. Police found swastikas daubed in red ink on two fridges inside and poorly spelled anti-Semitic slogans.
Posted by: TS(vice girl) || 08/22/2004 5:04:00 PM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well "if" it's true it just renforced my opinion that all Jews should leave France for the US or Isreal as soon as they can. The government of France is complicit in this. The claims that "jews" are attacking muslim instutions and cemetaries is a laugh. Most odf the french "jews" I have seen appear to be the types folk who just don't go in for that kind of crap.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 08/23/2004 0:17 Comments || Top||


Jewish-run soup kitchen burned in Paris
French President Jacques Chirac has condemned an attack on a Jewish-run soup kitchen in Paris. Swastikas were daubed on the walls of the kitchen which was then set alight in the early hours of Sunday morning. It was the latest in a string of similar attacks against the Jewish community that has been denounced by the French government.

The soup kitchen, which provided food for the capital's needy and homeless, was gutted in the fire. In a statement, Mr Chirac underlined "the absolute determination of the state to find the perpetrators of these unacceptable acts". Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin visited the centre to examine the damage and promised to punish those responsible. A representative for the Jewish representative council in France told the AFP news agency that those who had defaced and damaged the centre had been motivated by Jewish hatred.

The BBC's Allan Little in Paris says the reaction of two senior government figures is a measure of the level of concern about a rise in anti-Semitic actions and sentiment in the country. France is home to the largest Jewish community in Europe with some 800,000 people. According to figures from the interior ministry, the number of racist and anti-Semitic attacks soared in the first half of 2004. More than 300 graves have been defaced in the east of the country since April and in August vandals desecrated 60 graves at a Jewish cemetery in the city of Lyon.
Posted by: Bulldog || 08/22/2004 12:09:37 PM || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I guess no matzas today
Posted by: dacau || 08/22/2004 16:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Meanwhile, French broadcast regulators vigorously denied that the new spate of anti-Semitism sweeping their nation had anything to do with al-Manar's broadcasting a thinly veiled rehash of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion," a 29-part series artfully retitled "Al-Shatat" ("The Diaspora").

"More recently, they watched uneasily as Hezbollah's television station, Al-Manar, broadcast the Syrian-produced series "Al-Shatat," ("The Diaspora"), a recounting of Jewish history from 1812 to 1948 in which sinister radical Zionists plot to bake matzo with the blood of Christian children. Everyone from newspaper pundits to the French Broadcasting Authority to the American Embassy in Lebanon voiced their disgust. Meanwhile, Lebanese publishers have issued new editions of "Mein Kampf" and "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," both widely recognized as anti-Jewish propaganda."
EMPHASIS ADDED

In other news: French inaction has been seen as a victory for anti-Semitic factions throughout the Middle East and will probably be responsible for a 10% reduction in the number of lashes or amputations imposed in this Gallic nation once Sharia law is instituted.

Hezbollah TV Scores Legal Win in France

PARIS, August 21 (IslamOnline.net) - The ruling of the State Council, France's highest administrative tribunal, to grant the pro-Lebanese Hezbollah Movement Al-Manar channel a two-month respite to prove its non anti-Semitic attitude, was considered a virtual dismissal of the lawsuit filed against the channel, according to the Head of Arab Human Rights Commission in Paris.Haitham Manna' Saturday, August 21, described the ruling as a "triumph" over the pressures practiced by the "Zionist Lobby" against the Arab channel.
Posted by: Zenster || 08/22/2004 17:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Hey!
What's the big deal? It's not like they're really French...... most jews have been gone for 60 years.

Oooooopsss.
Apologies to the 183 million French who fought in the Underground.
Posted by: Shipman || 08/22/2004 17:59 Comments || Top||

#4  This one hits home. My Grandfather was volunteering in a soup kitchen in Vienna at the time of the anschluss of Austria. A Nazi told him, "I will make sure you will sample you own soup" and then used the butt of a rifle to break his teeth.
Posted by: mhw || 08/22/2004 21:06 Comments || Top||

#5  [Off-topic or abusive comments deleted]
Posted by: dacau forever TROLL || 08/23/2004 3:34 Comments || Top||

#6  C'est la triangulation. France is as much a US ally as Clinton was a republican.
Posted by: lex || 09/01/2004 13:35 Comments || Top||

#7  they ..THE NAZI should have done that to that scum of ysrael prime minister
Posted by: dacau forever || 08/23/2004 3:34 Comments || Top||


Two blasts follow ETA warning
Two small bombs exploded Saturday in northwestern Spain slightly injuring four people after warning calls were made in the name of the Basque separatist group ETA, an interior ministry spokeswoman told CNN. The bombs exploded in the village ports of San Xenxo and Baiona in Pontevedra Province. It is the third weekend of explosions on Spain's northern Atlantic coast, which is generally crowded with tourists during the August vacation season. In the town of San Xenxo, two Portuguese and two Spaniards were treated for injuries, the central government's interior ministry spokeswoman in the province said. One suffered injuries to the shoulder and the other injured an ear. The spokeswoman said the two bombs were apparently in trash bins. Only minor property damage occurred in the town of Baiona. Two warning calls were made ahead of the blasts -- one to the Basque newspaper, Gara, which frequently receives warning calls in the name of ETA. And a second call came to Faro De Vigo, a newspaper, which publishes in the area of Pontevedra where the bombs went off, the government spokeswoman said from Pontevedra.
Just a reminder that you don't need a turban to be a bloodthirsty bastard...
Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2004 1:17:53 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A tug on the Zapetero's choke-chain.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/22/2004 1:50 Comments || Top||

#2  The Basques have only to increase the size of these bombs, forego the warning call, and massacre several dozen Spanish citizens to realize most of their nationalist dreams. I'm rather surprised that they've taken this long to to (since March) to pop up.
Posted by: Robjack || 08/22/2004 15:29 Comments || Top||

#3  ETA is still hamstrung by neos.
Posted by: Shipman || 08/22/2004 18:01 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Funeral Held For Beheaded American
Family and friends of an American contractor kidnapped and beheaded in Saudi Arabia gathered for a funeral Saturday, more than two months after the engineer disappeared. About 100 people attended services for Paul M. Johnson Jr., who once lived in Florida and had worked in Saudi Arabia for Lockheed Martin for more than a decade. Johnson was kidnapped June 12 by militants in Riyadh who demanded the release of al-Qaida prisoners in exchange for the 49-year-old's life. Photographs and a video of the beheading were later posted on the Internet. Hours later, Saudi security forces shot and killed Abdulaziz al-Moqrin, alleged mastermind of Johnson's kidnapping and murder. Not all of Johnson's remains were recovered, but the family thought it was time for a funeral. "This is not a full closure, but it is some closure," said Johnson's son, Paul M. Johnson III. Johnson's remains will be cremated and sent to Thailand. His widow is a native of Thailand, and the couple had planned to move there after Johnson's contract expired. Johnson's casket, draped with an American flag, was carried into a church by an Air Force honor guard, which also fired a gun salute.
Posted by: TS(vice girl) || 08/22/2004 9:57:21 PM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


FBI Fumbled on Terror Financing, 9/11 Panel Says
The FBI knew about specific suspected al Qaeda fundraisers before the Sept. 11 attacks but failed to tackle the problem, the Sept. 11 Commission said in a staff report released on Saturday.
On the other hand, if they had, they'd have been hit with more lawsuits than you can shake a stick at. They'd have been accused of profiling, of racial, religious, and cultural discriminaiton. There would have been a blood purge at FBI headquarters, with the politically insensitive taken out and... well, maybe not shot, but reassigned. The Nome field office would have been overstaffed for years, with not a single promotion to be found.
In a broad critique of the government's surveillance of terrorist financing, the report said "gaps appear to remain in the intelligence community's understanding of the issue."
Possibly. But I think it was politically impossible to do at the time, as well.
The report said the government should resist creating "a terrorist financing czar" or some other specialized entity to focus on the problem. Instead, it backed an existing interagency committee led by the National Security Council.
How about a single person within the NSC who's responsible for tracking terror financing? How about a single person somewhere to be in charge? We're still living in a world of committees and roundtable discussions when we need action — something the first paragraph was pointing out didn't occur.

"The total elimination of money flowing to al Qaeda ... is virtually impossible," the report said.
Maybe we can't get it all, but I'll bet we've gotten a bunch since 9-11, and assuming the breaks continue to fall our way we'll get more — as long as there's somebody with an impressive job title and and a Theory X personality to drive the effort.
But it added that efforts to detect and disrupt terrorist money flows are important to limiting "al Qaeda's ability to plan and mount significant mass casualty attacks."
Thank you for today's Statement of the Obvious™.
Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2004 1:03:28 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Thank you for today's Statement of the Obvious™."

And heeeeeeeere he is!

Posted by: .com || 08/22/2004 1:46 Comments || Top||

#2  When do we get the BGO™ (Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious)?
Posted by: Zenster || 08/22/2004 3:39 Comments || Top||

#3  With what I had to work with, this is the best I can offer for a first pass. Critique, suggestions, raspberries, welcome, heh.

Posted by: .com || 08/22/2004 5:43 Comments || Top||

#4  It reminds me of looking in the mirror after finals week at UC Berkeley.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 08/22/2004 12:03 Comments || Top||

#5  Like, wow, man...
Posted by: Like, Fred || 08/22/2004 12:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Me too! I want to be like Fred!
Posted by: Shipman || 08/22/2004 18:07 Comments || Top||

#7  Fer sure, man, fer sure.
Posted by: .com || 08/22/2004 18:46 Comments || Top||

#8  Here's attempt #2 - much better IMHO. BTW, you're welcome, Zen, not that you've said anything like "Thanks" so far, lol! You can bet there won't be a next time, at this rate! I'm now running on my own steam and, thus, this will be it.


Posted by: .com || 08/22/2004 20:27 Comments || Top||

#9  Well, I lied - one more. That's it.

Posted by: .com || 08/22/2004 20:33 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Communications workers ambushed and killed in Iraq
An Indonesian engineer and two Iraqis have been killed, and a Filipino engineer wounded, after their convoy was ambushed in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. The foreigners were employed by German company, Siemens, and were working on setting up a local mobile telephone network. Siemens won a $US8.6 million contract earlier this year to provide equipment to mobile operator, Asia Cell, to develop the GSM network in northern Iraq. In June, the company withdrew all its German employees from Iraq for security reasons.
Posted by: TS(vice girl) || 08/22/2004 9:55:07 PM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Zarqawi's site hacked
Posted by: crazyhorse || 08/22/2004 1:11:04 PM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  * H A X 0 R D *
Posted by: ninjase || 08/22/2004 14:37 Comments || Top||

#2  P W N 3 D
Posted by: OldSpook || 08/22/2004 15:31 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Bombs Shake Thailand's Muslim South
Three bombs have exploded in Thailand's troubled south Saturday, injuring at least 11 people. The blasts shook bars and a hotel parking lot late Saturday in the capital of Yala province.
Posted by: TS(vice girl) || 08/22/2004 2:53:32 PM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Iraq-Jordan
Islamic group posts alleged pictures of Nepalese abducted in Iraq
An Islamic militant group published on a website the alleged pictures of twelve Nepalese citizens whom it said it had abducted for cooperating with US forces in Iraq. "Here are the pictures of the Nepalese hostages," said the Army of Ansar al-Sunna at http://ansar-alsonnah.8k.com. "We are showing (the pictures) as an example for whoever combats Islam and the Muslims, and supports and assists the Crusader occupation forces in Iraq," said the group. The website showed 12 individual pictures of apparently Asian men holding identification documents, standing in front of a black banner reading in Arabic: "The Army of Ansar al-Sunna, the Ali bin Abi Taleb Brigade." A group picture of nine hostages, also holding identity documents and one of them raising an American flag, was also posted on the website. Nepal's government said Saturday it was checking labour records for information on 12 of its citizens reportedly abducted in Iraq, where the Himalayan kingdom has no diplomatic representation. On Friday, the Army of Ansar al-Sunna said in a statement that they had taken captive 12 "infidels" who were "affiliated with a Nepalese company." It said the 12 had been helping "US crusader forces to fight Islam" and that their pictures would be published soon. Nepal, whose army is battling a bloody Maoist uprising, declined US requests to send troops to Iraq, although Nepalese Gurkhas serving with the British armed forces have been posted in the Middle Eastern country. Kathmandu had also advised its nationals not to go to Iraq, but media reports said employment agencies had recruited Nepalese residents in neighbouring India.
Posted by: TS(vice girl) || 08/22/2004 9:59:59 PM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  this group sucks, those mother fuckers should be killed the same way. imma nepalese and i feel so fuckin angry now.
Posted by: Anonymous6232 || 09/01/2004 1:20 Comments || Top||

#2  A6232 - Staying angry is hard, but necessary against such a foe who will see you, or your children, or your grandchildren as his cattle. These people have been at it for 1400 yrs - and they'll keep at for 1400 more if people like you and me don't stay mad, and stop them. Condolences to you and your countrymen. Enlist your friends to stand against this insanity. Peace to you - none for them.
Posted by: .com || 09/01/2004 1:24 Comments || Top||

#3  The Nepalese are stupid to be angry at the Iraqi's. The Iraqi's are being murdered and killed and are fighting for thier freedoms. I would behead you also if you stood in the way of my freedom.
Posted by: Anonymous6233 || 09/01/2004 3:41 Comments || Top||

#4  To anonymous6233,
What the fuck do you know about the situation? NOTHING abviously reading your pathetic comment. "I would behead you also if you stood in the way of my freedom", now can you state whose freedom the nepali's were trying stand in the way of. The damn iraqi's are being murdered and killed bcoz THEY murder and kill! God forbid that you will see a person you know or country you belong to being abused and treated in such barbaric ways as those innocent nepali's were. May you get professional help for your dimented head!
Posted by: cs || 09/01/2004 9:03 Comments || Top||

#5  To anaonymous 6233:

Your ignorance is a shining example of the attitude that some people have taken in this matter. You suggest that the savage beheading of civilian workers is justified because you think they are standing in the way of Iraqi freedom. Do you think the Iraqis were free under Sadaam Hussein's murderous rule? Regardless of your opinion on that, it's not as if these extremists are fighting the armies that have entered their country. They are not engaging in war, but instead are using cowardly tactics to try to scare governments into complying with their demands. Well, it's not going to work. I hope these people are hunted down and killed like the pigs that they are.

Posted by: Anonymous6241 || 09/01/2004 11:04 Comments || Top||

#6  6233 is the type of person who would threaten to behead a person only as an annonynous submission because in real life he wouldn't have the balls to do anything.
Posted by: Anonymous6241 || 09/01/2004 11:07 Comments || Top||

#7  Hello,I AM A MUSLIM.AND AS A MUSLIM IN OUR RELIGION IT ITS 100% WRONG TO DEAL WITH HOSTAGES THIS WAY..OUR PROPHET USE TO FEED AND TAKE CARE OF HOSTAGES LIKE ANY OTHER MUSLIM AND BASED ON THAT U SHOULD NEGOIATE..THIS IS WRONG THESE PPL ARE DAMGING THE IMAGE OF ISLAM.THIS IS NOT ISLAM.ISLAM IS MERCY IS FORGIVNESS AND IS PATIENCE.THESE PPL ARE NARROW MINDED AND IM SORRY TO THE FAMILIES OF THE NEPALESE HOSTAGES.
Posted by: Anonymous6244 || 09/01/2004 11:19 Comments || Top||

#8  A6244, PERHAPS IT'S TIME TO THINK ABOUT CONVERTING TO A RELIGION THAT DOESN'T TAKE HOSTAGES, REGARDLES OF HOW THEY ARE TREATED. DO THIS BEFOR THE NEPALIS FIND YOUR MOSK.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis || 09/01/2004 11:26 Comments || Top||

#9  You mother fucker terrorist, you have no rights to punish innocents. Have you ever gone through "holy Kuran" what it says?
Posted by: Anonymous6247 || 09/01/2004 11:41 Comments || Top||

#10  Hey u mother fucker,without getting into what the fuck happenned,without knowing the core of the MURDER,u wanna give ur opinion ?first of all u r the Basterd and try knowing whether they fought for the god damn FREEDOM or feared they would Decieve their ALLAH....what kind of religion is that The god Asks his fellows to kill people from the other religion.....this is really weird and u better erase this POSTING not only from the Internet Screen but also from ur "DUNG" mind...
Posted by: Anonymous6248 || 09/01/2004 13:21 Comments || Top||

#11  Shut the fuck of BITCH...
Posted by: Anonymous6248 || 09/01/2004 13:31 Comments || Top||

#12  something is worng with the world today. 12 nepalese were murdered by animals in iraq. as i am a nepali i am shock by what i have heard and seen. man those murders. what worng these nepalese have done just went to iraq to earn money to feed their families here in nepal.
they even dont know about buddha. they told buddha send them to iraq to fight. they should read about buddha which might change them.

riots broke out in kathmandu because of this news. what should nepales do now, murders?should they kill muslims now ?
what they know about nepal muslism buddish hindu and other religions are living in peace here in nepal. they will be suprise if they saw mosque and temple in same location in kathmandu. they even haven't have knowledge that families of those people also pray with their god ALLAH to release their love ones.
they are trying to dig a big gap between muslims and other religion in name of ALLAH. i dont think they are true muslims too.
condolences to families who have lost their loved ones.
Posted by: Anonymous6254 || 09/01/2004 15:06 Comments || Top||

#13  they should read about buddha which might change them. riots broke out in kathmandu because of this news. what should nepales do now

Confess your sins.
Give your heart to Jesus.
You will then enter a better world all without losing your life.
Try it sometime.
Posted by: badanov || 09/01/2004 15:09 Comments || Top||

#14  Anon6254-May the families of the murdered Nepalese workers be comforted. We are outraged, too.
Posted by: jules 187 || 09/01/2004 15:11 Comments || Top||

#15  you fucking muslims. You all are the same. you killed those innocent nepalese. You fucking cowards. If you were so brave enough to behead someone and post it on the internet for the world to see it, Why don't you fucking take your wood off and show us your face you fucking coward.I know why you hide behind those hoods because you fuckers your mothers are fucked by God knows how many men before you shit head come out and not knowing who you father is you go mad and take your frustrations out on other innocent people.I know the day will come when every single one of will be wiped out from the face of the earth for good.
Posted by: Anonymous6319 || 09/04/2004 23:22 Comments || Top||

#16  such bastard killers are to be hanged in public places or be left with their hand slayed in the streets. They are further foes of all the humanity and for all the people of all religious beliefs.
Posted by: Ghimire || 09/07/2004 6:55 Comments || Top||

#17  The only way these barbarians will submit, is by a global united anti-Muslim crusade - relentless in it's pursuit to hunt and abolish these fucking exremists wherever they cower, preach, pray and practice their hate towards everything other than Muslim. We must realize that if we had done nothing during the Hitler era many of us wouldn't be around to witness toady's attrocities against children and helpless citizens of this potentially peaceful world.
Posted by: Anonymous6552 || 09/19/2004 20:14 Comments || Top||

#18  Death to the radical Muslim extremist...Now or NEVER!
Posted by: Anonymous6552 || 09/19/2004 20:16 Comments || Top||

#19  Hmmmmmmm a lot of Anon posts in the same thread - methinks I detect multiple personalties having fun
Posted by: Frank G || 09/19/2004 20:55 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan/South Asia
Plot foiled to blow up parliament, US embassy
ISLAMABAD: Law enforcement agencies have arrested six Al Qaeda-linked terror suspects who had plotted to blow up key sites including President's House, military headquarters, the US embassy and parliament, Information Minister Sheikh Rashid told a press conference on Saturday.

Sheikh Rashid said the attacks had been planned for earlier in August and Prime Minister's House, the office of the Punjab chief minister and the National Convention Centre were also on the hit list of the terrorists. Sheikh Rashid said the plot if successful could have killed hundreds of people. "These people were planning to carry out destructive and bloody terrorist attacks during a weeklong time starting from August 13," he said. He would not identify who the militants were, but said the police were looking for three or four more suspects in connection with the plot. The information minister said that the police also confiscated sophisticated rifles, rocket launchers, grenades and other explosives.

Sheikh Rashid said that the arrested men had identified two Egyptians Qari Ismail and Sheikh Essa as masterminds of the plot. He said the two Egyptians were still at large but said law enforcement agencies were closing in on them. The information minister said that the arrested men had links with Ghazi Abdul Rasheed, the in-charge of Jamia Faridia and Javed Ibrahim Piracha, former MNA, and that the police were trying to arrest them too. Sheikh Rashid said that Farooq Usman, who was arrested a few days ago, was found in possession of three cellphone connections and Ghazi Abdul Rasheed's vehicle. He said that militants had split into small groups to execute their plan.

Agencies add: Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat on Saturday told a private TV channel that "eight to 10" people had been arrested and the plot bore the hallmarks of Osama Bin Laden's Al Qaeda network. "We have obtained valuable information from the foreigners ... we have unearthed a big and sinister plan," he said.

"The most dangerous aspect was that their targets included army headquarters, the parliament building, Prime Minister's house and important people," he said. "This kind of terrorism can only be done by terrorist outfits like Al Qaeda."

Earlier Mr Hayat said the arrested men included locals and foreigners. The arrests were made around Independence Day amid tight security. Hayat named two of the Pakistanis arrested as Javed Ibrahim Piracha, whom he called the main local element of the conspiracy, and Farooq Usman. Some of the attacks were to be launched during the Independence Day celebrations while the others were planned for other days, Hayat said.

"We have arrested close to a dozen militants including some foreigners and have aborted their plot to create widespread mayhem in the country," he said.
Posted by: tipper || 08/22/2004 3:40:25 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So they can't pull off a caper in Pakland. Makes me wonder if they've shot their wad.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis || 08/22/2004 12:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Seems like they always have another wad, though...
Posted by: Like, Fred || 08/22/2004 13:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Pakland? Shooting wads?!? Hey, it's LIMERICK TIME!!

There once was a Mullah from Lahore
Who called every woman a whore
To keep his wife placid
He doused her in acid
But 'twas pearly-eyed boys he adored!

My apologies to Mrs. D. I usually don't talk like that in mixed company.
Posted by: Another Dan || 08/22/2004 15:10 Comments || Top||

#4  AD you are a genius, Shakesphere would have been jealous. Now can you do one about the Terrorist in Nantucket?
Posted by: Ol_Dirty_American || 08/22/2004 17:05 Comments || Top||

#5  Rburg needs a magnificent poetry and song corner.
Posted by: Shipman || 08/22/2004 17:46 Comments || Top||

#6  Now can you do one about the Terrorist in Nantucket?


A jihadi who came from Nantucket
wanted Jews blood by the bucket
a bomb vest he put on
IDF's bead was drawn
they blew his @ss farther than Phuket
Posted by: Zenster || 08/22/2004 22:52 Comments || Top||

#7  They don't call you Zenster for nothing. Fine Limmeriking.
Posted by: Ol_Dirty_American || 08/22/2004 23:58 Comments || Top||

#8  ODA, to quote a certain well satisfied terrorist.

"Thank ewe."
Posted by: Zenster || 08/23/2004 1:24 Comments || Top||


Military steps up offensive against militants in Shakai
The military stepped up operations in South Waziristan on Saturday as helicopter gunships and bombers were called out to flush militants from hideouts near the Shakai valley. Bombers pounded targets in the Slair area south west of Shakai, where militants put up stiff resistance, tribal sources told Daily Times. Helicopter gunships then cleared the area for soldiers. "There were loud explosions. The bombing started at 9:00am and continued for some time. There must have been casualties," a resident of Shakai told Daily Times.
We certainly hope so...
Artillery also pounded militant targets from the Tiarzah and Zarinoor bases, residents close to the two bases said. Military spokesman Major Gen Shaukat Sultan said "a few" foreign militants had been killed and wounded, but there were no troop casualties. In a statement, the spokesman said the military launched an air and ground offensive in parts of the Shakai valley, NNI reported. "Several miscreants were killed and a few others injured when the troops launched a counter offensive in the Santoi Mantoi area north of Shakai," he said. "We have recovered the body of one suspect, who is a foreigner," he said. He did not disclose his nationality, but he is believed to be an Uzbek. "We have also recovered a machinegun, Klashnikov, hand grenade and some other weapons." He said the fresh military action had been provoked by attacks on the security forces in the last two days. The spokesman said that airplanes and gunship helicopters monitoring the activities of militants and specific targets. He added that the planes and gunship helicopters were trying to avoid civilian causalities.
Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2004 10:45:23 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Iraq-Jordan
Looks Like Tater's Goons Got Their Wish
Ok, this is like the 4th time. Maybe we can finish it now...
Heavy shooting and mortar fire erupted near the Imam Ali shrine in the holy city of Najaf, as Shiite Muslim militiamen clashed with US troops, an AFP correspondent witnessed. Mehdi Army fighters, loyal to radical cleric Moqtada Sadr, launched multiple attacks on US tanks, parked around 300 metres (yards) away from the shrine, one of Shiite Islam's holiest. US tanks fired back, as the reverberations of gunfire and mortar bombs could be heard from inside the mosque compound. Overnight, US warplanes pounded the central holy city between 2:30 and 3:00 am, causing three large explosions near the Mehdi Army's mausoleum headquarters. A US military spokesman confirmed earlier that military operations were continuing at the request of the Iraqi government and an AFP correspondent said the clashes were more intense than on Saturday. US troops backing Iraqi forces in Najaf had scaled back their deployment and Saturday was mostly calm despite sporadic exchanges of fire.
Posted by: Ol_Dirty_American || 08/22/2004 9:04:03 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mehdi Army's mausoleum headquarters.

Nothing better than a well turned phrase, except maybe a well turned turtle.
Posted by: Shipman || 08/22/2004 11:24 Comments || Top||


Fighting resumes around Najaf shrine
Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2004 01:21 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Coulda written that headline myself, without even looking...
Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2004 1:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Totally Somewhat off topic...where is Zarqawi and why haven't we heard anything about him lately? No big bombs, some disruption of oil production, but overall, he's kinda off the map right now. Should we be worried?
Posted by: Seafarious || 08/22/2004 1:30 Comments || Top||

#3  He's probably in Iran, planning the next campaign. He may even be waiting to see how Tater makes out.

The question is whether the next campaign is in Iraq, or if it's in Europe. I suspect it might be in Europe.
Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2004 1:34 Comments || Top||

#4  And the oil pipeline bombs are in the South and attributed to Tater's Tots-in-waiting - on the Mad Mullah payroll, but not serving with the Great One.

I echo your wonder regards Zarqi's whereabouts. I guess he 'n Tater decided to coordinate on headlines.

Fred - the hash has been re-hashed so many times it's starting to look like mess hall chow...
Posted by: .com || 08/22/2004 1:36 Comments || Top||

#5  "An al-Sadr aide denied there were any weapons inside the mosque, insisting they would never bring them inside because that would be against Islam."

To paraphrase someone (Heinlein?), these people use logic the way some folks use crack.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/22/2004 1:48 Comments || Top||

#6  Fred, please elaborate!
You're such a tease... in an apocalyptic kinda way!
Posted by: GreatestJeneration || 08/22/2004 1:48 Comments || Top||

#7  "An al-Sadr aide denied there were any weapons inside the mosque, insisting they would never bring them inside because that would be against Islam."

Lie to the apostates and infidels. Tater has chapter and verse in the manual giving him permission to do so.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 08/22/2004 2:17 Comments || Top||

#8  During the hot afternoon, no weapons were visible as several hundred men, along with several women and at least one child, slept or cleaned inside the mosque courtyard in preparation to turn over control to Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.

Doesn't look like they did all that well in the recruiting human shields department.
Posted by: B || 08/22/2004 6:10 Comments || Top||

#9  A. I'm not Fred, but in response to #2's question
where is Zarqawi and why haven't we heard anything about him lately? No big bombs, some disruption of oil production, but overall, he's kinda off the map right now. Should we be worried?

Here's the dish from OBL's body guard, for what it's worth. The good news is that Zarqawi is not a major player in Iraq these days. The bad news is that Iraq has enough of its own "resistence" leaders to do damage to our GI's.
Al-Qa'ida Activity in Iraq and Abu Mus'ab Al-Zarkawi

"A large number of Al-Qa'ida operatives have entered Iraq and they are currently fighting in the ranks of the Iraqi resistance… The problem is that today Al-Qa'ida is not an organization in the true sense of the word but only an idea that has become a faith.

"Many among the youth have begun to believe in Al-Qa'ida's views and beliefs regarding the struggle against America. Abu Mus'ab Al-Zarkawi was in Afghanistan and in Kabul. He met with Osama bin Laden a great many times, but I do not believe that he is number one in the Al-Qa'ida organization, since Al-Qa'ida has Iraqi leaders present on the ground in Iraq and they are not in need of Al-Zarkawi."

http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD76704

B. In reply to #4's question:
I echo your wonder regards Zarqi's whereabouts.

My guess is that Zarqawi is probably co-ordinating the next AQ to be staged in our backyard:
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-terror-latin-america,0,4982342.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines
"Al-Qaida Said to Recruit in Latin America" 8/22/04 article originally posted yesterday and "lost" to readers
...In South America, U.S. officials have long suspected Paraguay’s border with Brazil and Argentina as an area for Islamic terrorist fund-raising. Much of the focus has fallen on the Muslim community that sprouted during the 1970s, and authorities believe as much as $100 million a year flows out of the region, with large portions diverted to Islamic militants linked to Hezbollah and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

The more immediate concern is Mexico, which shares a porous, 2,000-mile border with the United States and is the home to widespread organized crime.

In December, Mexican officials canceled two Aeromexico flights from Mexico City to Los Angeles, and a third was forced to turn around after takeoff because of terrorism concerns.

At the time, the United States, Canada and Interpol told Mexico that officials suspected terrorists might be using Mexican soil to plan an attack, Vasconcelos said...


Posted by: rex || 08/22/2004 6:54 Comments || Top||

#10  Zarqawi has ties to cells in Europe.Fred may be right.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 08/22/2004 10:40 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan/South Asia
Pakistan Says It Has Foiled Terror Plots
Pakistan has arrested at least five al-Qaida-linked terrorists who were plotting suicide attacks on government leaders and the U.S. Embassy, officials announced Saturday. Security forces captured five or six suspects — one Egyptian, the others Pakistani — in the past week across the country, and seized some weapons, Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told reporters. He said authorities were hunting for four to five other suspects, and that those already detained had "wanted to kill hundreds of innocent people" and cause unrest in Pakistan. Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayyat told The Associated Press, however, that a "gang" of a dozen suspects was captured.
"A half dozen, a dozen... It was a bunch."
He said the group been planning suicide attacks on "important personalities," and that it wanted to hit the official residence of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Parliament and the U.S. Embassy in the capital, Islamabad, as well as Army House in the neighboring city of Rawalpindi. They also wanted to target some government ministers, he said. "This is a gang of suicide bombers, and our security agencies have done a remarkable job by foiling this plot," Hayyat said, adding that those captured were "definitely they are linked to al-Qaida."
My guess is that they're cannon fodder, not worth much, except maybe for the Egyptian. Just take them out in the middle of a vacant lot and explode them...
In the past five weeks, Pakistan has captured more than 60 terror suspects, including some key al-Qaida operatives, officials have said. Days ago, authorities said they'd foiled a plot by terrorists to sabotage last weekend's Independence Day celebrations in Islamabad, making at least two arrests. Hayyat said that some of the suspects arrested in the past week had links with Abdul Rashid Ghazi, a senior cleric and head of a religious school in Islamabad. He said security agencies seized missiles, rockets, detonators, electronic surveillance equipment and other ammunition planned for use in attacks — including on Independence Day.
The usual sacred paraphernalia found in a madrassah...
The officials confirmed the identity of only one of the suspects: a Pakistani, Farrukh Usman, arrested at the religious school in the capital.
Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2004 12:59:54 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Iraq-Jordan
Al-Anbar police chief jugged
Also Saturday, coalition forces arrested Maj. Gen. Jaadan Mohammed al-Alwan, the police chief of volatile Anbar province, accusing him of corruption and criminal activity, including extortion, embezzlement and accepting bribes, the U.S. military said in a statement. Al-Alwan also has possible connections with kidnapping and murder, the military said. Al-Alwan's arrest was authorized by the Iraqi government, and he is to be replaced by an interim chief to be appointed by the governor, the statement said.
Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2004 12:56:29 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Militants Hold Najaf Shrine; Bombing Heard
Militants loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr kept their hold on a revered shrine, and clashes flared in Najaf on Saturday, raising fears that a resolution to the crisis in the holy city could collapse amid bickering between Shiite leaders. An unofficial mediator pleaded with al-Sadr to disarm his militants, pull them out of the shrine and disband his militia immediately. "We are in a race with time," said Hussein al-Sadr, a distant relative of the cleric.
Tater thinks he's got all the time in the world. He's not dead, and he just keeps yassering away, with agreement after agreement...
Early Sunday, U.S. warplanes bombed Najaf's Old City, the scene of much of the fighting, and the sounds of shelling could be heard in the streets, witnesses said. The U.S. military could not confirm the bombing, but said operations in Najaf were ongoing.
Is it necessary to confirm the bombing? It's kind of hard to mistake it for something else. Or maybe that's what we're going to do: flatten the mosque and claim it was a really bad thunderstorm or something...
On Saturday, clashes between U.S. troops and al-Sadr fighters were brief but heavy, punctuated by gunfire and explosions, with one blast hitting the street 50 yards from the Imam Ali Shrine at the center of the standoff.
Tough nails for the revered shrine...
Marine Capt. Carrie Batson said U.S. troops came under mortar attack in the Old City and destroyed two militant mortar positions with gunfire and an Apache helicopter attack. The fighting died down after about 45 minutes, returning the city to the relative calm that it has seen. Still, the flare-up reflected the danger that peace efforts could fall apart once again, mired in last-minute delays. Al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia still held the Imam Ali Shrine, their stronghold throughout this month's fighting, and while it has agreed to hand it over to Shiite religious authorities, the two sides were squabbling over the price how to do so.
Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2004 12:51:19 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Buildings can be rebuilt. Flatten them.
Posted by: PBMcL || 08/22/2004 1:03 Comments || Top||

#2  We need to get some serious quantities of ethylene oxide (dangerous as it is) and fill the underground passages and catacombs under the shrine. Then light 'er off.

KABOOM!!!!!

Just like taking gophers out underground with calcium carbide, water, and your friendly match or lighting device.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 08/22/2004 2:23 Comments || Top||

#3  My suggestion would be; to have the military 'pothole' bunkerbust a circle around the Imam Ali. This tactic would of course use more bombs than a direct hit, but it would prevent the rats from 'jumping ship'! Thus, a man made moat!
Posted by: smn || 08/22/2004 2:56 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: .com || 08/22/2004 6:13 Comments || Top||

#5  LOL DC. But the bold font is about 4 pts. too large.....
Posted by: Shipman || 08/22/2004 11:27 Comments || Top||

#6  Just like taking gophers out underground with calcium carbide, water, and your friendly match or lighting device.

AP - is your real name Carl Spackler?
Posted by: Raj || 08/22/2004 13:26 Comments || Top||


U.S. Forces Keep Sh'ite Militants Guessing
U.S. forces appeared to keep Sh'ite militants guessing in the city of Najaf overnight, firing off sporadic rounds as a military aircraft flew overhead. A fire that had raged after blasts and shooting died down but a skirmish then began in the north side of Najaf, a sacred Sh'ite city turned battle zone. It was not clear what caused the fire which appeared to be on the south side of the city where militants loyal to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr are holed up in the Imam Ali shrine and under siege by U.S. forces. Thursday, U.S. AC-130 gunships pounded positions held by militants loyal to Sadr and smoke was still rising Saturday from a building militants said was hit in those strikes. An AC-130 could be heard circling overhead early Sunday but it was holding back on firing its howitzer, cannon and machinegun fire. Sadr fighters had clashed sporadically with U.S. forces earlier after talks with religious authorities to end a siege at Najaf's holiest shrine ran into difficulties.
Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2004 12:50:43 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I wonder what the games are doing to the nerves of the percentage of Mahdi who are heroin-heads.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/22/2004 1:53 Comments || Top||

#2  I wonder what the games are doing to the nerves of the percentage of Mahdi who are heroin-heads.

Nah ... you don't suppose they'd be having withdrawals, do you?
Posted by: Zenster || 08/22/2004 2:09 Comments || Top||

#3  I've had my doubts about the AC-130 usefullness and survivability.... wrong again.
Posted by: Shipman || 08/22/2004 10:03 Comments || Top||


French reporters vanish in Iraq
Two veteran French journalists have gone missing in Iraq as concern mounts over the fate of an Italian reporter. George Malbrunot of Le Figaro newspaper and Christian Chesnot of French radio have not been heard of since Thursday, the French foreign ministry said. The two men have often worked together and published a book on Iraq last year. An interpreter working for missing Italian reporter Enzo Baldoni has been found dead, raising fears that the journalist has been kidnapped. The editor-in-chief of Mr Baldoni's magazine, Diario, said the interpreter's body was found near Najaf, where militants have been battling US-led forces for weeks. The last contact with Mr Baldoni had been on Thursday. "One increasingly fears a kidnapping," Enrico Deaglio told Italian news agency Ansa.
...more...

It would help the asshats if the various expats would wear some sort of identifier, perhaps gaily colored jerseys, so they'll know who to kidnap and who to give a pass. What we have now is so confusing for the poor thugs, murders, and, well, kidnappers. It's so messy - gives my left brain nightmares.
Posted by: .com || 08/22/2004 12:36:36 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  .com, what if there was a system of pullover pennies like thy wear in bike races. You could even include a suggested ranson and a record of protection money paid to which organizations.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/22/2004 19:20 Comments || Top||



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