PBCP cadre lynched, wounded man dies
A cadre of outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party's (PBCP) Janajuddha faction was lynched and another injured in a mob beating Friday died at a hospital Saturday. A mob caught Shaheen Sheikh, 35, son of Abdul Khaleque of Chandmari Bazar under Kotwali thana, near the police box of Rupsha Ferry Ghat at 8:45pm. The mob beat up the PBCP cadre, who was distributing party leaflets, to death on the spot. Shaheen was a listed criminal and accused of two murders and other criminal charges. Earlier on Friday, a mob beat up Sirajul Islam Dhali, 35, on Rupsha Bridge by-pass road around midnight. He was admitted to Khulna Medical College and Hospital under police custody and died Saturday. Son of Surman Dhali of Maheshwaripur union in Koira upazila of Khulna, Sirajul was accused in two criminal cases filed with Batiaghata Police Station.
Alleged extortionist beaten to death in Khulna
Dec 26: An alleged extortionist was beaten to death by a mob near Khulna New Market of the city tonight. The dead was identified as Parvez, 23, said to be a cadre of the outlawed Janajuddha group. According to police, Parvez went to a restaurant near Khulna New Market at about 8-40 pm to collect toll from its owners. The people caught and beat him black and blue. On receipt of information about the beating incident, police went to the spot, rescued him in a critical condition and took him to Khulna Medical College Hospital where the attending doctors declared him dead. When contacted, assistant commissioner of police (south) Anisur Rahman could not immediately provide further information about the dead extortionist.
JCD men held while trying to kidnap bride
A mob Saturday caught two cadres of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) with a gun as they made an attempt to abduct a bride in Islampur in the city. They are Akhter and Malek, cadres of a faction of Upashahar unit JCD. An armed group stormed the house of Ataur Rahman and tried to pick up his daughter, whose marriage was scheduled for yesterday, at 10:00pm. Hearing cries from the house, locals rushed to the scene, foiled the attempt and held the two with an SBBL gun with bullets. Witnesses could not say how many criminals came but confirmed at least one managed to escape. The mob beat up the cadres of the JCD, student wing of ruling BNP, and handed them over to police. The cadres were accused of extortion and other criminal charges in the area.
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"Come out with yer hands up and your towels down!"
Marxist rebels have abducted up to ten holidaymakers celebrating Christmas at a lakeside spa in north-western Colombia, officials said. Fighters of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, raided a cluster of bungalows near San Rafael, 140 miles north-west of Bogotä, and herded between eight to ten Colombians into vehicles. The holidaymakers were kidnapped on Friday, but reports of their abduction did not emerge until late on Saturday night. Jorge Mejia, the deputy governor of Antioquia state, said: "Unfortunately, witnesses did not report the kidnapping to authorities until late today, so the guerrillas have had plenty of time to reach their hide-outs deep in the mountains." He said army troops and counter-insurgency police forces, supported by helicopters, have launched a large-scale search and rescue operation. "This is a criminal action, in no way justifiable. The victims were middle-class families enjoying a Christmas break," Mr Mejia said.
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Sheesh. Marxist Rebels - Ooooooh, how romantic. Thugs who kidnap for fun and profit. Nope doesn't have quite the same ring to it. I'd wanna have my favorite kiss-ass reporter say I'm a Marxist Rebel, too. I give exclusive interviews to well-behaved reporters. I shoot the others. Cuz I'm a Marxist Rebel!
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GT - Oh, no, can't call themselves that after the end of the Cold War (no one wants to associate with a loser, y'know.)
So now they're Marxists, socialists, and even anarchists with web sites detailing 21 pages of rules on how to be an anarchist. (No lie on that one....we had a group of "anarchists" throwing your general college age temper tantrum a year before 9-11 downtown. I checked out their website for the hell of it....obviously these clowns skipped political science the day the professor introduced the concept. I don't think the Democrats and Republicans combined had as many bylaws as this group did. Meanwhile out on the street, they were busy with the usual old tired commie crap......but they wouldn't admit it.)
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Back in my day we had real anarchists. My band got booked to play a "May Day" rally for the local anarchists league, but in the true spirit of anarchist organization, they couldn't get it together until 5/12. No threat to anybody but Daddy's bank account, that crowd.
The Terrorist at City Hall
by Todd Bensman Mufid Abdulqader was a popular civil engineer. But he sang in a band that called for the destruction of Israel, and the government believes he has secret ties to terrorists. Last summer, his two worlds collided. ...His fellow engineers also appreciated how Mufid could liven up a roomful of technocrats with backslapping, disarming goofiness. Thickening a bit at the age of 45, Mufid wore his graying black beard heavy on his cheeks, as is customary for many pious Middle Eastern men... Some colleagues noted a nasty temper that flared up from time to time, but who didn't get frustrated when dealing with contractors?
Mufid loved the spotlight, relishing any excuse to speak in front of a crowd. A Palestinian who grew up in Kuwait and a proud father of three U.S.-born daughters, he never turned down an invitation to lecture high school students about the struggles he endured as an immigrant searching for a better life in America. Yet he remained proud of his background. Mufid and a couple of other Muslim engineers prayed five times a day, even if that meant breaking up a business meeting. He could often be spotted toting his prayer mat down the hall to an office conference room....What his co-workers didn't know was that Mufid led a secret life, one that seemed almost impossible to reconcile with the affable person they had all liked. But Mufid's two worlds collided on the morning of July 27, 2004, when he failed to show up for work. Instead, representatives of the Dallas FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force came to the office to explain why he had been thrown in jail.
Mufid had been named with six other men in a 42-count indictment for helping to fund Hamas, a terrorist organization... Mufid's band often appeared at fundraisers for Hamas. In one song, he sang, "We won't fear a Jew. Oh, Hamas, respond to them with force. ... Death is right for the Jews. It is right!" But Mufid had yet another secret. His half brother is the notorious Khaled Mishaal, the current leader of Hamas...
[he also failed to keep up his PE license and signed engineering plans illegally which is explained a little in the article]
It's just a shock to everyone," says Henry Nguyen, Mufid's former supervisor. "It's hard to believe you work with someone a long time and there's a possibility that someone would be involved in that. [Actually its not hard to believe if you have even a rudimentary understand of the concepts of Jihad and Dhimmitude and Taqiyya]
It makes you feel like you can never know anybody."
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Assailants simultaneously attacked two churches in the town of Palu, Central Sulawesi, during church services on Sunday night, injuring at least three people. A bomb exploded at Emanuel church in downtown Palu in the early evening. At the same time, gunmen opened fire on the congregation of Anugerah church in the south of the city. Government officials immediately ordered tighter security during the Christmas season for churches in at-risk areas, while criticizing local police for not doing their job. Drive-by killers have murdered at least five Christians and wounded several others in Central Sulawesi this year. To date, police have failed to apprehend anyone responsible for the attacks.
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Interesting debate. Not to offend Western sensibilities which presume everyone is just like them, but Christians living in Islamic lands need to Buy a Clue. Doesn't matter if this little bit of reality causes a touch of cognitive dissonance and a light-headed feeling... that will pass. This won't. It just tis so.
An Islamic extremist group led by elderly cleric Abu Bakar Baasyir, currently standing trial in Jakarta on terror charges, has established dozens of new branches in at least eight provinces across Indonesia. The Indonesian Mujahidin Council (MMI) central executive board said on Saturday it has branched out to at least 53 regencies and mayoralties in eight provinces in a bid to push for its campaign for Islamic sharia law. More branches of the organization would be set up in all cities and towns throughout the predominantly Muslim country of some 215 million people, senior MMI executive Irfan S. Awas said. "Our target is that the organization can exist in all corners throughout the country for the sake of sharia's implementation," he said.
Irfan made the announcement in a speech at the inauguration ceremony of the new MMI executive board for Langkat regency, North Sumatra, at Amaliyah Mosque in Stabat town, some 120 kilometers from the provincial capital of Medan on Saturday. In his 30-minute speech, he encouraged all MMI executives to promote Islamic sharia whatever risks they would face, as experienced by their top leader, Ba'asyir. Many suspect that MMI was linked to the regional JI terror network, but authorities could not find legal evidence in this case and Ba'asyir has repeatedly and strongly denied all the charges against him and his organization. Ba'asyir founded MMI in 1999 after returning home from Malaysia, a year after former president Soeharto's downfall. The MMI central headquarters is located in Surakarta, Central Java, which is also home to his Al-Mukmin Islamic boarding school in Ngruki.
Irfan also criticized national leaders, including President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and top military chief Gen. Endriartono Sutarto as well as most Muslims, for having no courage to enforce sharia in the country. Most Indonesian Muslims have opposed to the campaigned enforcement of sharia in the secular country. Support for the opposition comes from the two nation's largest Islamic organizations, Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah. Present at Saturday's event was MMI central board leader Muhammad Tholib and chairman of the organization's North Sumatra office Heriansyah, as well as their local followers and sympathizers. Ahead of the inauguration ceremony, MMI Langkat office held a discussion on Ba'asyir's book at the North Sumatra Cultural Park in Medan.
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Maybe any disaster aid we send to Indonesia needs to be personally distributed by some of our own Green Berets relief workers. In the mean time, their "managers" could request some face time with Ba'asyir himself. We might be able to tie up a lot of loose ends all at once.
Drat. I was hoping the floods would short out the starters on the Cycles of Violence (TM).
Suspected rebels ambushed a police patrol Monday, killing three officers and injuring another in southern Thailand. Three gunmen on a motorcycle ambushed the border patrol officers while they were sweeping an area of Songkhla province, police spokesman Col. Krachang Suwannarat said. Police blamed the attack on Muslim insurgents. In an attack on Sunday, two gunmen wearing long, white Muslim dress, fired at villagers working as security staff for local authorities who was drinking at a tea shop in Yala province, police said.
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QUETTA: A Frontier Corps (FC) soldier was injured when unidentified people fired a rocket at an FC checkpoint on Sariab Road late on Monday night. Police said the rocket was fired from five to six km away and hit a wall near the checkpoint. Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Pervez Rafi Bhatti said another explosion was heard from the same area at the same time, but there were no reports of any damage.
Meanwhile, a bomb exploded on Adalat Road on Monday evening, but caused no damage to life or property. The CCPO said police had arrested about 35 suspects in connection with the Meezan Chowk blast that killed 11 people including two soldiers. He said 30 of them were released and five were still being interrogated. He said one suspect was arrested from the house of an influential tribal chief. About the arrests and continuing bomb blasts, he said the explosions could be in retaliation of the arrests. He said police had arrested several important people and their cohorts could have accelerated their activities to pressure the government.
Dire Revenge: It's not just for personal disputes.
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When U.S. servicemen and insurgents die in Fallujah, the bodies are brought back to camp and laid on a concrete floor under a tent hidden behind blast walls topped with concertina wire. The sign outside says: "Do Not Enter." Five men check the corpses and put them in refrigerators. Within 72 hours, the slain American will arrive at Delaware's Dover Air Force Base in a flag-draped coffin, while the Iraqi will be buried in a plot outside Fallujah facing Mecca. This is the work of Mortuary Affairs, the Marine unit that catalogues the remains of American servicemen who die in combat, referred to as angels, as well as the Iraqi guerrillas they fight and civilian victims. These Marines must cope with one of the most psychologically punishing but unavoidable tasks of war.
They are shunned by their peers because of a superstition that contact with them brings bad luck. Yet some don't want to go home and leave their fellow Marines who are among the few who have witnessed the same horrors. They must try to stay sane even as they are confronted with the effects of gruesome killings by the shrapnel-filled roadside bombs set by insurgents and terrible U.S. firepower. "Some of the guys, when it gets dark, don't want to go out by themselves. Sometimes they feel like somebody's watching them when they know there isn't," said Lance Cpl. Boyce Kerns, a 24-year-old from Greenville, S.C. "Some of the stuff we've seen you wouldn't see in the worst horror movies and it leaves a little imprint."
It may be unsettling for soldiers and Marines to pass the Mortuary Affairs compound as they prepare to go out into Fallujah's dangerous streets. But the unit's presence here reflects a change in thinking meant to cut down on missing in action and get the dead sent home as quickly as possible. Instead of working hundreds of miles from the battlefield, Mortuary Affairs units operate just minutes from it, sometimes processing a Marine's corpse just hours after he dies. In this area west of Baghdad, the unit has 15-20 servicemen at three camps: Taqaddum, Al Asad and Fallujah. "What was happening was a lot of bodies didn't have positive IDs," said Gunnery Sgt. Byron Bess, 37, from Washington. "By the time they got to the area, they were unidentified and you couldn't get in touch with the units because they'd pushed forward." Bess said the change is one reason there is only one American serviceman currently listed as missing in action in Iraq, Army Spc. Keith M. Maupin, of Batavia, Ohio.
Since Oct. 7, Mortuary Affairs has processed 84 Americans along with 26 Iraqi soldiers and 525 insurgents. During the worst of the Fallujah fighting, which began Nov. 8 and lasted a week, the unit handled up to about 10 Marines a day and many more insurgents. The unit is still pulling Iraqi bodies from the city. On a recent day, four sets of Iraqi remains arrived — one, just a pile of bones and rags, another a man clad in black and wearing running shoes, had been on the street for days.
Many in the Mortuary Affairs unit at Camp Fallujah are reservists, former cooks and supply clerks from a unit in Washington. On a recent day, their routine was perfectly normal. Several sat around a television watching "Saving Private Ryan," others laughed and teased each other, while some were about to leave to play video games. Some, like Kerns, volunteered for the work because they just wanted to join the Iraq fight no matter what. Others decided to do it so their colleagues wouldn't have to, and some were assigned. They were sent to a two-week training course that included a stop at the Baltimore morgue to get accustomed to the sight and smell of death. Many among them had never seen a human corpse before. "As for seeing the insurgents dead, I know that these guys were out there killing Marines, they were given a choice whether to surrender or not, so seeing their corpses mangled up doesn't bother you," said Cpl. Jeffrey Keating, a 26-year-old from Queens, N.Y. "But seeing the Marines dead, that hurts a little bit more. But you just got to see it as a job."
The 16 Marines who process the dead, working eight at a time in 24-hour shifts, follow the same routine. When a body arrives, it is brought inside the tent and placed on a concrete floor. Two men are the "dirty hands" who inspect the body, catalogue wounds and check for unexploded weapons. One sorts through the slain person's belongings. Two more are the "clean hands," writing down what the others find. The dead American's name, social security numbers and place of death are written into a hardcover lime-green log book. The body is given an evacuation number and then placed in a body bag — a stack of unused bags labeled "pouch, human remains w/6 handles" sits to the side of the tent.
Iraqi dead go to a white refrigerator while American dead go to one of two camouflage refrigerators on the other side of the tent. The entire process usually takes about 15 minutes. American bodies are then sent to a U.S. base in Doha, Qatar and on to Dover, while Iraqi bodies are buried in a plot outside Fallujah marked with coordinates from a global positioning system so relatives can identify the remains later. "We take a picture, make sure there's no unexploded ordnance or personal effects, and look for identification," said Marine Cpl. John Belizario, 23, of Washington. "We bury them in a plot — four rows of 10, all facing Mecca as a sign of respect, basically."
When the work is finished, the Marines clean up and go to chow hall. Anyone who knows who they are stays away or barely acknowledges them because talking to them is considered bad luck. "When the day is done, we're by ourselves," Kerns said. "We've tried to have interaction with the other units, but when they find out what we do, that's about the end of that."
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I was going to say this is just another MSM pee on the military story, but that last graf about the isolation at chow makes me sad. Hope these guys have a real good sense of humor.
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..while the Iraqi will be buried in a plot outside Fallujah facing Mecca.
Remember, this is being done to the bodies of terrorists, IMO undeserving of any respect in death as well as in life. Will the Muslim world notice this? Probably not.
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A little perspective wouldn't hurt here. First off, has anyone seen corpses resulting from traffic accidents? House fires? From jumping out of WTC Towers?
The whole Middle East isn't worth one dead Marine, but at least they have passed away performing in the noblest of causes.
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The 16 Marines who process the dead, working eight at a time in 24-hour shifts
I think the US should have enough money to have more of these Mortuary Soldiers and send them home after a 15 days shift. I have seen dead people in a conflict. It's not a pretty site. I admire these 20-23 years old who do that job.
The Army today claimed to have eliminated the deputy chief and divisional commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) at Hapatnar in Ganderbal area of Srinagar district. Also, an area commander of the Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami (HUJI) was killed in a feud between Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militants and foreign mercenaries in Dool area of Doda district.
In the same district, two militants were eliminated when security forces opened retaliatory fire. An Army spokesperson said that reacting to information provided by local contacts, troops of the Rashtriya Rifles carried out a swift operation at Hapatnar Chont Wali War in Ganderbal area early today morning. The spokesperson said the troops asked the militants to lay down their arms. They retaliated, resulting in an encounter which lasted for a couple of hours with two foreign militants being killed. The slain militants, according to the spokesperson, were later identified as Abu Abdullah alias Saddam alias Muslim, divisional commander of the Lashkar, and Abu Hataf, alias M2 alias Lala, the deputy and financial chief of the same outfit.
I'm glad he's dead. I wanted to use the alias "Lala" and I was really cheesed to find it was already taken...
The Army later recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition from the encounter site, including two AK rifles, a satellite phone and some money. The spokesperson said troops also recovered a substantial quantity of war-like stores from the slain militants. The spokesperson termed the killings of the two commanders a setback for the outfit and said it showed the resentment of the locals, who have started providing information to the troops, against the militants. However, police said both the slain militants were associated with the Jammu and Kashmir Freedom Force (JKFF).
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I remember him when LaLa was a british female singer....oh wait, that was Lulu
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I remember her. She sang "To Sahib, with love"...
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I remember buying huge quantities of war like stores. My favorite being the way used OD wool blankets.
Danwakote (rajouri), December 27: Piqued over the peace prayers at the local Jamia Masjid in non-descript hamlet of Danwakote in Rajouri district, militants last night abducted and slit the throat of the Imam of the mosque, sparking off a huge protest demonstration in the area. Sources said today morning, hundreds of villagers from Danwakote and its adjoining areas came out on the streets to protest the killing of Moulvi Mohammad Bashir, the head priest of the Jamia Masjid mosque. This is for the first time in the area that a religious preacher has been killed by militants.
Normally the religious preachers are the militants
According to villagers, at 8:30 pm last night, some unidentified gunmen barged into the house of Bashir and abducted him and another villager Khalil Ahmad at gunpoint. After taking them a kilometer away, militants released Ahmad, but slit throat of Bashir, whose body was spotted by villagers. Demanding visit of human rights organisation to the area, protesters said, "The killing of Imam has exposed the militants' claim of carrying out jehad and their so-called sympathy with Muslims of the area."
Oh, but they are carrying out Jihad. It's just that your Imam was the wrong kind of muslim, calling for peace and all. Can't have that.
S.A. Mujtaba, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Rajouri, pacified the agitated villagers.
Khalil Ahmad was in a state of shock. He said from the dress and the chaste Punjabi language that gunmen spoke, it seemed that they were from Pakistan.
Pakistani hard boyz sent to deliver a message
Meanwhile, Imam was laid to rest with full religious honours in the evening.
I think maybe it's time for a little Dire Revenge
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My forehead has keybord-shaped dents in it again. RoPMA.
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So was this The Moderate Muslim⢠so many have blathered about with wild-eyed unsubstantiated guesses of 60%, 80%, whatever pulled out-of-their-asses because it sounds reasonable to Western minds?
Reality's a bitch.
The vast majority of Muslims are merely untapped resources... waiting to be called upon for whatever is needed, fodder, support, logistics, etc. when Joe Jihadi has need of them. It won't matter if he's a Wahhabi and they're of some "peaceful" sect - they'll give total cooperation or perish - like a lamb. Prove me wrong by pointing out the vicious hand-to-hand combat waged by, otherwise, peaceful Muslims against the Caliphatists. I'm dying to hear the details.
"The 4th Armored Moderate Muslim⢠Brigade defeated the Al Fuqoff Brigades of the Lions of Martyrdom Between the Rivers of Holy Blood this morning in what can only be described as a bloody but brilliant maneuver..."
Show me the headline. Show me the slightest indication that they aren't cattle to be used by the hard-core. Just one bona-fide example. Love to see it. 99.999% of the Muslim-on-Muslim violence I've seen is either Joe Jihadi whacking cattle (such as the Anti Iraqi election campaign) or Sunni vs Shi'a (My Allah can beat up Your Allah) or Power Games (PakiWakiLand - 'nuff said). I am thoroughly convinced by actual events that my view is correct. I await proof to the contrary.
Much has been made of the "You're either with us or against us." statement by Dubya. This is the Muslim version and they've been saying it, just like this, for 1400 yrs. Every Muslim knows it so none need say it for the benefit of other Muslims. But WE need to hear it so WE understand who and what we face.
In a nutshell for the particularly and willfully dense, this is why there are no Moderate Muslims⢠- merely untapped resources awaiting their Jihadi Master's call.
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Moderate Muslimadj/noun def: 1. a muslim who has run out of bullets; 2. a dead person of the muslim faith; 3. a legend, referring to a western, idealized, nonexistent people, the idea of which can be traced to the International Solidarity Movement and CAIR.
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Looks like a great start for a non-PC dictionary, PlanetDan!
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Prove me wrong by pointing out the vicious hand-to-hand combat waged by, otherwise, peaceful Muslims against the Caliphatists. I'm dying to hear the details.
I'll freely admit that this is a major sticking point for myself as well. As I've asked since my arrival here; Why aren't moderate imams flocking to the militant regions and gloriously martyring themselves as they valiantly spread their doctrine of tolerance and coexistence to their Islamist brethern?
In fact, sticking point my @ss. It's a downright dealbreaker.
Bush and everybody else needs to place the burden of reform directly upon the shoulders of Islam itself. Why should we be forced to go in and mop up their own rampaging fanatics?
This will be the gold standard. Either Islam cheerfully does its chores or gets dismantled. No options.
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Somebody has got to write a book entitled "The Myth of Moderate Islam".
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read the last couple from Oriana Fallaci - she said as much...
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.com Eventually, we will wear them out. They can send the uneducated out to kill us, but they will run out of people. Question is, can we wait that long? Not sure. Of course we can kill thier "fodder". and hope we get enough. Hope so.
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.com Eventually, we will wear them out. They can send the uneducated out to kill us, but they will run out of people. Question is, can we wait that long? Not sure. Of course we can kill thier "fodder". and hope we get enough. Hope so.
Iraqi authorities have released 160 of about 1,500 jailed Iranian pilgrims to Shiite holy sites and will free the rest gradually, Iran's Foreign Ministry said Monday. The number represented a slight increase from the 142 that a senior Iranian Foreign Ministry official, Masoud Khaleghi, reported freed earlier this month. Iran said last week that 1,500 of its nationals had been jailed in neighboring Iraq after ignoring an official ban on pilgrimages to Shiite holy sites there, particularly in Najaf and Karbala, which host the holiest Shiite sites. "(The) order for releasing some 1,500 jailed Iranian nationals has been issued by the Iraqi authorities and they are being released more and more," Iran's Foreign Ministry said.
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How about giving each of them five lashes, just to prove that the local authorities are serious about foreigners respecting the law?
Jordan's military court acquitted 13 Muslim militants, including three Saudi fugitives, of conspiring to commit terror attacks against U.S. targets here, but sentenced 11 of them Monday to prison terms of up to 15 years for possessing explosives.
Two defendants Jordanian Saud al-Khalayleh and Isam al-Barqawi were acquitted for lack of evidence on charges of possessing explosives and plotting terror attacks.
Prosecutors claimed they targeted the U.S. Embassy and other American interests in Jordan. The prosecution charged the 13-member cell, including three Saudi fugitives and 10 Jordanians in police custody, of possessing and intending to use explosive material and conspiring to carry out terror attacks. The prosecution charged the 13 men with targeting the U.S. Embassy in Amman and Jordanian military bases near the eastern Iraqi border, where the militants believed American troops were stationed.
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BANNU: One person was killed and eight others were injured when a bomb ripped through a shop in the Mandan Gate bazaar here on Saturday. The explosion, which occured at around 12.30pm, killed the shop owner, Haroon, on the spot. DSP Sikandar Khan, while speaking to journalists at a news briefing, said the blast was so powerful that the victim's body was found about 100 feet away from the shop where the blast took place.
That ought to be good for a bronze medal at least ...
He said the victim had links with the banned organization, Jaish-i-Muhammad.
Those links are now severed, along with his lower body...
The DSP said that a special team had been constituted to investigate the incident. The injured, who were either passers-by or vendors, were taken to the DHQ hospital. The condition of three of them was stated to be critical. A large number of people gathered at the site soon after the explosion and started rescue work.
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Any idea what'll be replacing Ye Olde Bomb Shoppe at the Mandan Gate bazzaar?
A suicide bomber detonated his car on Monday at the gate of the home of the leader of Iraq's biggest political party, killing nine people and injuring 39, police said. The cleric was unharmed. Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq - the country's most powerful Shiite political group - was in his residence in Baghdad's Jadiriyah district when the attack occurred, said his spokesperson, Haitham al-Husseini. "It was a suicide attack near the gate leading to the office," al-Husseini said. "Several of the guards were killed and wounded."
Hakim also heads the candidate list of the 228-member United Iraqi Alliance coalition, which is expected to dominate Iraq's new constitutional assembly following the first free elections on January 30. The coalition is supported by Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. Al-Hakim's son, Ammar, accused Saddam Hussein's followers and their allies of being behind the suicide attack. "They are the remains of the dead regime and their allies who carried out similar criminal acts in the past," he said, adding many of the victims were innocent civilians who happened to be on the street when the explosion occurred. The residence, where Hakim has his home and offices, was previously the house of Tariq Aziz, a jailed former senior aide to Saddam Hussein who has been in prison since April last year. In August 2003, a suicide bomber killed Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, elder brother of Abdul Aziz and former leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq.
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For its part, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, Quds Brigades, declared responsibility for launching two Quds-1 missiles at the settlement of Elie Sinai to the north of the Gaza Strip at 09.45 am today. The same military wing said that it fired two other missiles of the same make at the settlement of Neveh Dekhalim to the south of the Strip last night. Both military wings vowed to continue along the road of Jihad and resistance till defeat of Zionist occupiers and affirmed that the enemy's incursions and massacres would never terrorize the Mujahideen.
Israeli Negev kibbutz Nir Am home damaged by falling Qassam missile from Gaza Strip early Sunday after turbulent 48 hours in which 23 missiles and mortar shells struck Israeli civilian and military locations and patrols inside territory. No one hurt. Also Sunday, Israeli troops shot dead two armed Palestinians stealing towards Israeli border fence.
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By Hassan Hanizadeh As Iraq's January 30 general election approaches, the Jordanian government is expanding its disinformation campaign against the Iraqi majority. The remarks of Jordanian King Abdullah II and Foreign Minister Hani al-Mulqi claiming that Iran is making efforts to establish a Shia arc in the region are part of the psychological operations against the Iraqi nation. Now the question arises: What does Jordan want from Iraq?
My guess would be for the Medes and the Persians to remain in their own back yard and leave places like Jordan to go to hell in their own way...
During the 25-year Baathist regime of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, Jordan, which is a poor country, received billions of dollars from Iraq, both in the form of free oil and financial assistance. The country lost its only big source of revenue with the collapse of Saddam's government. Furthermore, Jordan was allied with Saddam's regime during the 1980-1988 Iraqi imposed war against Iran as well as during Iraq's occupation of Kuwait. It also directly participated in the massacres of Shias in southern Iraq in 1991.
Did it really? I hadn't heard about that part.
After the overthrow of Saddam, officials of the small country of Jordan sent Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to Iraq to carry out destabilization activities, and this terrorist criminal bombed several places in the Shia-majority Iraqi cities of Najaf and Karbala. These bombings, besides killing ordinary people, also martyred the eminent Shia cleric Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Baqer al-Hakim, the leader of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution of Iraq (SCIRI) at the time.
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No, No, No....
You got it all wrong.
The original Mossad plot was to settle 5 million "palestinian exiles" on Mars (the original location is kept secret).
That's why the Joooos funded Nasa and had the Neocons send up Spirit and Opportunity in order
to spy the lay of the land.
Roumors abound that the next stage of this
very dangerous and highly diabolical Jewish/Mossad/ American plot is to invade Iran and to exile 60 million "Iranian exiles" on Titan
(Saturn's largest Moon), that's why we sent the Huyghens Probe of the Cassini Mission.
As Titan's atmosphere is largely composed of Nitrogen with a small percentage of Methane and some more complex organic smog, this indicates
the Satanic dimensions of the plotters, as the plans calls for sending all the 60M Iranians to the surface of Titan with only their Burkas and Turbans and a single copy of the Kuran per person.
This news was directly relayed to you from the
Tehran Times reporters in the Asteroid Belt.
Allah-Hu-Akbar.
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The Jews are being manipulated by the Puppet Masters who live on Titan to send the Iranians there for Daibolical Purposes. The Head Puppet Master is really a Jew. Robert Heinlein spilled the beans a long time ago in his novel but nobody listened.
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Ssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...
You guys want to keep it down please?
Thank you.
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Six Iraqis and a Turkish truck driver have been killed in ambushes while seven others have lost their lives near Karbala. With regard to the Karbala deaths, Aljazeera has learned that in addition to the fatalities, a women and her child were injured in Sunday's incident, which involved an explosion in a house in the western al-Askari suburb. A police source said the blast was most likely caused by an explosive device blowing up while being prepared for a sabotage operation. In Baghdad, politician Abd al-Hussain, of the Democratic Party of the Iraqi Nation, died instantly when three masked armed men opened fire as he left his home on Sunday, party leader Mithal Alussi said. He blamed the Baath party of ousted president Saddam Hussein and intelligence agents of neighbouring Syria for the killing. The Democratic Party of the Iraqi Nation was recently expelled from a wider coalition after Alussi made a trip to Israel.
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"The Democratic Party of the Iraqi Nation was recently expelled from a wider coalition after Alussi made a trip to Israel."
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Despite a year of ferocious combat, mounting casualties and frequent deployments, support for the war in Iraq remains very high among the active-duty military, according to a Military Times Poll.
Sixty-three percent of respondents approve of the way President Bush is handling the war, and 60% remain convinced it is a war worth fighting. Support for the war is even greater among those who have served longest in the combat zone: Two-thirds of combat vets say the war is worth fighting.
But the men and women in uniform are under no illusions about how long they will be fighting in Iraq; nearly half say they expect to be there more than five years.
In addition, 87%% say they're satisfied with their jobs and, if given the choice today, only 25% say they'd leave the service.
Compared with last year, the percentages for support for the war and job satisfaction remain essentially unchanged.
the MSM won't understand this at all:
"Why don't you people listen? Quagmire, quagmire, quagmire!"
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I thought we had the ONLY poll that mattered on November 2? Wasn't a week after that, when a poll claimed that MOST americans think the country is going the WRONG way. Now if MOST people think the country is on the WRONG track wouldn't that showed in the polls? Or are the majority of unhappy also not registered to vote? We need less polling and more work!
Gunmen shot dead a respected professor of medicine in Iraq on Saturday, the latest victim of postwar violence that has forced thousands of professionals to flee the country. Hassan al-Rubaiei, 45, was driving along the western bank of the Tigris when gunmen pulled alongside and sprayed his car with automatic gunfire. His wife was in the passenger seat and escaped unhurt. "He died from two bullets to the head," Dr Saeed Hassan of the Yarmouk hospital said. Police had earlier identified Rubaiei as the dean of the school of dentistry, but his colleagues said he was a member of the faculty of medicine. He had been instrumental in maintaining academic standards, they said.
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Attaboys! Pissed off at occupation and foreign troops in your country? Kill one of your own countrymen!
Assailants wearing masks attacked the office of an aid group in a rugged Pakistani town, killing two people and setting five vehicles on fire at the compound before fleeing, police said Sunday. The shooting at the office of Aga Khan Foundation occurred late Saturday in Chitral, an isolated town about 250 kilometers northwest of the capital Islamabad. Four men, whose faces were covered, opened fire with assault rifles on the network's office, killing two of its workers - a security guard and a driver, who both were locals. Before disappearing into the darkness, the attackers torched five pickup trucks in the compound, he said. No one claimed responsibility and the police official said authorities were investigating a motive for the attack. The office in Chitral of the Aga Khan Foundation, an internationally known aid group ran by the spiritual head of Ismaili Muslims in Pakistan, supervised health clinics that it operated in Chitral, which is also name of the mountainous district. Chitral is located along the border with Afghanistan where Pakistani officials have denied that Osama bin Laden is hiding.
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The Army today claimed to have eliminated the deputy chief and divisional commander of the 
Jordan's military court acquitted 13 Muslim militants, including three Saudi fugitives, of conspiring to commit terror attacks against U.S. targets here, but sentenced 11 of them Monday to prison terms of up to 15 years for possessing explosives.
BANNU: One person was killed and eight others were injured when a bomb ripped through a shop in the Mandan Gate bazaar here on Saturday. The explosion, which occured at around 12.30pm, killed the shop owner, Haroon, on the spot. DSP Sikandar Khan, while speaking to journalists at a news briefing, said the blast was so powerful that the victim's body was found about 100 feet away from the shop where the blast took place. 
A suicide bomber detonated his car on Monday at the gate of the home of the leader of Iraq's biggest political party, killing nine people and injuring 39, police said. The cleric was unharmed. Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq - the country's most powerful Shiite political group - was in his residence in Baghdad's Jadiriyah district when the attack occurred, said his spokesperson, Haitham al-Husseini. "It was a suicide attack near the gate leading to the office," al-Husseini said. "Several of the guards were killed and wounded."
The Qassam Mujahideen today fired five Qassam missiles and five mortar shells at the Zionist settlement of 
As Iraq's January 30 general election approaches, the Jordanian government is expanding its disinformation campaign against the Iraqi majority. The remarks of Jordanian 
Assailants wearing masks attacked the office of an aid group in a rugged Pakistani town, killing two people and setting five vehicles on fire at the compound before fleeing, police said Sunday. The shooting at the office of 
