A suicide attacker tried to drive his bomb-laden car into the Interior Ministry complex, and militants set off another bomb and exchanged fire with police late Wednesday in Riyadh, capital of a kingdom at war with Muslim extremists. The first explosion at about 8:35 p.m. shattered windows and sent smoke and flames rising into the nighttime sky near the ministry in central Riyadh. Police officials said a suicide car bomber had tried to storm the ministry, but failed and instead exploded his car just outside. A number of policemen were injured, a ministry official said, without elaborating. The ministry, which is in charge of Saudi security forces, is key to leading the crackdown that Saudi Arabia has led against Islamic militants this year.
About a half hour after the ministry bombing, a second explosion went off five miles away at a center for recruiting emergency troops, police said. Al-Arabiya television reported the second explosion was part of a failed attempt to storm the recruiting center. There was no immediate word on casualties. At about the same time, a police official said, Saudi security forces clashed with militants who fired small arms and threw grenades. The gunmen later holed up in a building surrounded by police while armored cars sealed off the area, the official said. After the ministry blast, smoke was seen rising from a traffic tunnel nearby, and Al-Arabiya reported that shooting was heard from the tunnel. Three helicopters hovered overhead as the sirens of ambulances and police cars were heard in the area. Police sealed off nearby roads. The blast shattered windows at the ministry and started a fire, a ministry official told The Associated Press. In addition to the Interior Ministry, the Civil Service Ministry, a post office and a luxury hotel are in the area, known as al-Murabaa. UPDATE:
Seven militants were killed in the gunbattle with police in a northern district of Riyadh, Al-Arabiya television reported.
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The terrorist enemy is once again focusing on the one nation in the Gulf which can hurt us & the world in economic terms, Arabia.
That's why the Battle of Iraq is so important in the total war on terror, and why it is critical to maximize Iraqi oil exports. Mark Espinola, among others, will know whether Iraq will soon become capable of nearly matching Saudi exports.... which would prevent world economic meltdown while the next major phase of the war is fought over who controls Saudi reserves. So long as the "militants" don't control that asset, they are perforce limited in their ability to do harm. Iraqi WMD was the short-term concern, not to mention a convenient first battle; preventing those already at war with the free world from obtaining a source of nearly unlimited funding, as well as an economic blackmail tool is the next major battle. Hearts and minds will only come after they have no hope of either easily killing us all, or easily forcing us to their will.
No, it isn't all about OOOOiiiiilllll. But oil is one of the weapons.
Saudi security forces shot dead a gunman in Riyadh early on Wednesday in a fresh shootout as they combed the district where a terror suspect and a civilian were killed in a clash the previous night, the interior ministry said. The gunman opened fire from the car he was driving and hurled a bomb at security men, slightly injuring four of them, said a ministry statement reported by official media.
"Take that, coppers!"
"Security forces at the scene chased the car and encircled it, trading fire with the driver, who was killed on the spot," the statement said.
Switched from surrounding people to encircling them. Seems to work.
The incident occurred as security forces were combing the scene of Tuesday evening's clash in the Saudi capital in which a suspected militant and a civilian were killed, the ministry said. Security forces also arrested "a suspected member of the deviant group" in the Red Sea city of Jeddah Wednesday, the ministry added, using the official term for suspected Al Qaeda militants.
Alk runner? Methodist?
The man was wounded "while resisting security forces and attempting to flee," the ministry said, promising to release more details later.
Not that we're going to hold our breath waiting
Earlier Wednesday, the interior ministry said a suspected terrorist and a civilian were killed during a shootout between Saudi security forces and armed men in Riyadh Tuesday evening. "Security forces chased a car carrying two members of the deviant group," the ministry said. "The car stopped near a gas station inside a residential district of Riyadh. When security forces approached the vehicle, those inside it opened fire," a ministry official said, quoted by the state SPA news agency. The security forces returned fire, killing one of the gunmen and wounding the other, the official said. A gas station attendant was also killed, and a security man slightly injured, he said. Security forces seized automatic weapons, ammunition, bombs, explosives, forged documents and an unspecified amount of money in the car, the official added. He did not disclose the identity of the two members of the "deviant group."
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More sons of favored tribes caught playing "Jihadis and Infidels."
North Korea's Kim Jong Il has purged some of his closest relatives, accusing them of trying to seize power, reports in Beijing and Seoul said.
Fred always sez he loves a good purge.
The purge began some months ago when Kim Jong Il put his brother-in-law, Chang Song-taek, under house arrest along with 80 other officials and their family members. Many have reportedly been sent to North Korea's Gulag in the largest purge in a decade.
No kimchee for you!
Some diplomats believe the power struggles may be connected the pace and scope of economic reforms. Kim Jong Il is reportedly preparing to announce new changes to the political and economic system in late February when the country celebrates his birthday. Kim Jong Il took over from his father 10 years ago and managed to hold on to power as the economy collapsed and an estimated three million perished from hunger and disease.
He's no Great Leader, that's for true.
The regime is being supported largely with aid from China and South Korea as Kim has tried to trade his nuclear weapons programme with sweeping security guarantees from Washington. But with the re-election of George W Bush,
Bwahahahaha!
Kim Jong Il has little realistic chance of realising his hopes, and there are growing signs that even China is beginning to lose patience with him. Beijing has moved some 60,000 troops from the Shenyang garrison to the border in case it needs to intervene.
Chicoms can play "juche juche coup" better'n anyone.
A trickle of reports coming out of North Korea paint a picture of a regime in its dying days, with leading members of the ruling family at each other's throats. Government sources in Seoul said Austrian intelligence was reported to have foiled an attempt last month to assassinate Kim Jong-nam, the eldest son of Kim Jong Il, when he was visiting the country. Austria's Foreign Ministry has denied the story.
"Ve vill say no more."
Another report circulating in Seoul says that in September Kim Jong Il's sister, Kim Kyong-hee, was seriously injured in a traffic accident, which is assumed to have been an attempt on her life. In North Korea all members of the dynasty are considered to have the status of gods but Kim Kyong-hee and her husband, Chang Song-taek, were the most powerful couple after Kim Jong Il.
... which still leaves them a pretty remote second...
Kim Jong Il, who is 62 and known to be suffering from a liver disorder from years of heavy drinking, has been under pressure to name an heir. In the world's only hereditary Communist dictatorship, his eldest son, Kim Jong-nam, would normally be named the crown prince in keeping with the country's Confucian traditions. Kim Jong-nam was primarily educated at a private boarding school in Geneva. A spoilt overweight figure who drinks heavily, he had earlier worked in the propaganda department and has taken a leading part in purges as a senior member of the North Korean equivalent to the KGB.
Like to pull the arms off lackeys and running dogs, does he?
He was born in 1979 or 1980 to Kim Jong Il's secret mistress, who died in Moscow a few years ago while suffering from depression.
"I'm so depressed! I could just go to Moscow and die!"
Every dictator needs a favored secret mistress or three...
Kim Jong-nam often travelled abroad, but in 2001 he was deported from Japan. He was pictured being led, like a prisoner, to a plane at Narita airport after he and his entourage were found carrying passports issued by the Dominican Republic. His father was furious and this seemed to have ruined his chances of being named as his successor, creating intense rivalry as different factions pushed their own candidates. It seems that Chang Song-taek and his wife put forward their eldest son as the best candidate while others supported the two sons of another of Kim Jong Il's wives, the actress and singer Ko Yong-hee. Before her death last August aged 51, Ko is rumoured to have had Kim Jong Il promise her that one of her two sons would be named as the heir apparent and, although this has not happened, a vicious power struggle seems under way.
"Kim! Call Heroic Bowstring Factory #32 and order another gross!"
"Yes, Fearless Leader!"
Not long after the purge, Kim Jong Il paid an official visit to China and, around the time of his return, there was a huge train explosion at Ryonchon, close to the Chinese border. Official reports said it was an accident and that Kim's train had passed through hours before, but there are persistent rumours that he escaped by only 20 minutes.
Singed his pompadour, did they?
Whatever the truth, diplomatic sources say Kim has been treating the train explosion as an attempt to kill him. He has dismissed senior officials responsible for his safety, including the interior minister in charge of internal security, and ordered the confiscation of all mobile phones in May this year. A mobile phone is thought to have been used to set off the explosion.
A South Korean man who had worked for the U.S. military has defected to North Korea, the North's official news agency claimed Wednesday. Kim Ki-ho, 59, left to the North because he could no longer stand South Korean society where national dignity and human rights are infringed on by the United States, the North's Korean Central News Agency said. Kim "is now spending happy days amid the hospitality of people in the north," KCNA said without providing details on when Kim went to the North.
The report said Kim was a native of the industrial town of Gumi, and had once worked as an inspector at the 6th Ordnance Battalion, at the U.S. 8th Army Headquarters in South Korea. The U.S. military couldn't immediately confirm if any person by that name had worked for them. Although thousands of North Koreans have defected to the South, including more than 1,850 this year, defections of South Koreans to the North are rare.
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"no longer stand South Korean society where national dignity and human rights are infringed on by the United States"
Boy is he in for a rude surprise.
Asia's top terror suspect, the al-Qaida linked Islamic militant Hambali, was put on trial in absentia Tuesday along with other suspects on charges of attempted murder in an alleged plot to bomb targets in Cambodia. Hambali is in U.S. custody at an undisclosed location after his arrest in Thailand in August. Two other foreigners, identified only as Rousha Yasser and Ibrahim, were also being tried in absentia while four suspects were in court Tuesday. The four suspects in court Esam Mohammed Khidr Ali of Egypt, Abdul Azi Haji Chiming and Muhammad Yalaludin Mading of Thailand, and Cambodian national Sman Ismael were arrested in May and June 2003 for alleged links with Jemaah Islamiyah, al-Qaida's Southeast Asian arm. The charges of attempted murder and terrorism carry a maximum sentence of life in prison. The four denied the charges Tuesday and said they were doing charity work in Cambodia.
"Nope. Nope. Wudn't us. We wuz doin' charity work."
Police accused the four of using a Saudi-funded school outside the capital Phnom Penh as a cover for a terrorist training operation, where they allegedly plotted attacks against the U.S. and British embassies in Cambodia.
Wow, that was quick: A Cambodian court sentenced two Thai Muslims and a Cambodian linked to Southeast Asian militant group Jemaah Islamiah to life in jail Wednesday for plotting to bomb the U.S. and British embassies in Phnom Penh. But it found Egyptian Esam Mohamid Khidr Ali, the director of an Islamic school, not guilty and set him free. It also sentenced Hambali, the suspected JI mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombings which killed 202 people and captured in Thailand last year, to life in absentia. The Thais, Chiming Abdul Azi and Muhammadyalludin Mading, and Cambodian Sman Esma El were found guilty of colluding with Hambali, who was handed over to the United States after his capture, to attack the two missions. All three worked for Islamic schools in Cambodia and were arrested in May 2002 ahead of Secretary of State Colin Powell to Cambodia for a regional security meeting. They had pleaded not guilty.
Life in a Cambodian jail, that sounds so...short
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We'll give HamBall back when we're done. In a bag.
A powerful explosion in a house in west Baghdad killed at least 29 people and wounded 18, police said Wednesday. They described the blast as an ambush staged by insurgents. Police were en route to a raid in Baghdad's Ghazaliya neighborhood late Tuesday after an anonymous call tipped them about a suspected militant hideout in the neighborhood, an official in Ghazaliya police station said. As they were about to enter the house, an explosion erupted from inside, he added. At least 29 people were killed, including 7 policemen, and 18 others were injured. Six houses collapsed in the blast and several people are believed to be still trapped underneath the rubble. The police official said the attack was "evidently an ambush" and that "massive amounts of explosives" were used.
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saw it on Fox - bad news - they said 1400# of explosives..
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About 10 Israeli tanks moved into the Khan Younis refugee camp early Thursday, and two Palestinian gunmen were killed by tank fire, residents said. Military officials said the incursion was aimed at stopping the firing of rockets and mortars by Palestinian militants at nearby Jewish settlements and Israeli army bases.
Cause -> effect. It's such a subtle concept...
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the officials said the air force fired a missile at militants planting explosives, hitting at least one. It was the third such raid in the last two weeks. In the previous ones, Israeli forces knocked down structures Israel said were used by militants as cover for firing rockets and mortars.
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I wonder if somebody still has the link to the video "Rifle vs. Tank", out of Fallujah.
A shootout in a bus between Indian soldiers and a suspected rebel left three passengers, one solider and the attacker dead in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir on Wednesday, police said. The bus shooting started when soldiers at a checkpoint were searching the vehicle for weapons and explosives, said police officer Sheikh Mehmood. He said a suspected rebel in the bus opened fire, and the soldiers retaliated.
"Have at you, Indian dogs! Ooof! Rosebud!"
The shooting left three passengers dead as well as the attacker and a soldier, Mehmood said. The incident took place near Lalgam, about 55 kilometers south of Srinagar, from where the bus had started.
U.S. forces have captured a man described as a senior commander of a militant group linked to al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Iraqi government said on Wednesday. It said in a statement the 33-year-old Iraqi, whom it named only as Abu Marwan, was a leader of the hitherto unknown Abu Talha group, affiliated to the Jordanian militant whom Osama bin Laden this week endorsed as his lieutenant in Iraq.
Zarqawi's Al Qaeda Organization in Iraq has claimed responsibility for some of bloodiest suicide bombings and beheadings of foreign hostages in Iraq this year. A separate but possibly allied group, Ansar al-Sunna, said it was behind last week's suicide bombing of a U.S. mess tent in Mosul, which killed 18 Americans and three Iraqis. The government statement did not say whether Abu Marwan was connected to that suicide bombing.
"Abu Marwan was responsible for conducting and commanding terrorist operations in Mosul, purchasing weapons for Talha's terrorist group, and coordinating the training of terrorist cells within the Abu Talha terrorist group," it said.
It said Abu Marwan had been detained six days ago after a tip-off from local residents.
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If we were able to capture Zarqawi only a few days after the Bin Laden endorsement, it would be sooo coool.
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Yes, intelligence from locals will win this war. The main thing holding them back from helping the US more is fear that the US will withdraw from Iraq. They get the impression this might happen from the MSM and statements by people like JFK.
LONDON, Dec 28 (IranMania) - Iraqi Human Rights Minister Bakhtiyar Amin announced that 40 Iranians are in the custody of US in Iraq, an Arabic-language daily reported. Amin also told the UAE-based Al-Bayan on Sunday that 7,256 prisoners are held in Iraq.
"The inmates are from Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Jordan, Iran, Tunisia, Yemen, Morocco, Algeria, United Arab Emirates, Palestine, Libya, Kuwait, Turkey, France, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon, Bosnia, Russia and UK," he said.
A regular United Nation, ain't it?
Actually, those are the current members of the UN Committee of Human Rights...
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Until the jihad exporting dictatorship in Tehran is overthrown the situation in Iraq shall remain in limbo. Syria-Lebanon will be on its own once ally in terror, Iran, is removed as a central Islamic terrorist player.
"They are coming to take us away"
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The unltimate safety of the world means the elimination of ALL barbarian Salafist/Wahhabi clerics, which means the "hell spawn in Saudi" must also be removed. Since they are NOT YET going nuclear, elimination of the clerical turban wearers can proceed to completion first in Iran.
There is NO CHOICE. Civilization WILL NOT survive, if the demonic controlled Mullahs or the Wahhabis survive. That also means that all Wahhabi teaching in the U.S. MUST BE STOPPED.
December 29, 2004: Shotguns have been a popular American weapon in Iraq, mainly because there is a new, and much better, military shotgun available. In 2000, the U.S. Department of Defense adopted the Benelli 12 gauge shotgun as the M1014 "Joint Service Combat Shotgun." The 40 inch long, 8.5 pound Benelli design had a pistol grip, a collapsible stock and a tube magazine holding up to seven rounds. The new weapon replaced over half a dozen other models used by the different services. The M1014 has an effective range of 40 meters with buckshot, and 125 meters when using a rifled slug. The weapon is modular, allowing use without the pistol grip, and with optical and electronic sights. The urban combat in Iraq has made the shotgun a popular weapon, especially the special round for blowing off locks. The M1014 also turned out to be a very reliable and durable weapon. All the dust and, in season, mud, have failed to shut down the M1014. A civilian version is available for about $1,500.
Just in case anyone is still shopping for a gift for me
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an optical or electronic sight for a 12 Ga?
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Chop the barrel, and you don't need no sights...
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optical or electronic sight for the first round, mostly to help in target ID. However, mounting a flashlight works so well that it's outlawed for hunting. Now all them fellas need is a baited field.
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If the Marines want to borrow it, I've got a great anti-personnel weapon - a 10-gauge double-barrel. Hard to find shells, but the effective range is about a quarter-mile from the left (full choke) barrel, and half that for the right (half-choke). Kicks worse than a mule, but it's effective. Kinda unwieldy with the huge 36-inch barrels, but I'm sure there's a Marine out there big enough...
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Masked gunmen killed an ethnic Pashtun politician known as a close friend of Afghan President Hamid Karzai in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border on Wednesday, officials said. Shah Alam Khan was traveling in a vehicle when two armed men riding in another car opened fire and seriously wounded him in Wana, the main town of Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal region. "He succumbed to his injuries on his way to hospital," a local government official said. Khan, a local leader of the Pashtun-nationalist Pukhtunkhuwa Milli Awami Party, was considered a close friend of Karzai and met him several times in visits to Afghanistan. South Waziristan, about 400 km (250 miles) southwest of capital Islamabad, has long been a hideout for al Qaeda-linked militants and officials said they were investigating whether they were involved in the killing.
Well, duh!
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With car bombs, assassinations, ambushes and raids on police stations, insurgents killed at least 54 people, including Iraqi policemen and a deputy governor, across the volatile Sunni Triangle on Tuesday, and a militant group claimed it executed eight Iraqi employees of an American security company.
The string of attacks - including one in which 12 policemen's throats were slit in their station - were the latest by the insurgency targeting Iraqis working with the American military or the U.S.-backed government ahead of the Jan. 30 national elections.
Late Tuesday, insurgents lured police to a house in west Baghdad with an anonymous tip about a rebel hideout, then set off explosives, killing at least 29 people and wounding 18, police said. Seven policemen were among the dead.
The explosion erupted from inside the house as police were about to enter, an official in Ghazaliya police station said Wednesday. Six houses collapsed in the blast and several people are believed to be still trapped underneath the rubble.
The police official said the attack was "evidently an ambush" and that "massive amounts of explosives" were used.
Brig. Gen. Jeffery Hammond, assistant brigade commander in the 1st Cavalry Division that controls Baghdad, said attacks by insurgents are expected to escalate further in the run-up to the ballot.
"We anticipate that the enemy will (continue with) attacks, intimidation, assassinations and other messages designed to destroy life in Baghdad," Hammond said, adding that Iraqi security forces will bear the brunt of providing security for the elections and that U.S. troops will back them up only if needed.
Iraqi leaders said the guerrillas - who are mostly Sunni Muslims and have been blamed for attacks against Iraq's Shiites - are bent on triggering ethnic strife before next month's poll.
"The terrorists intend to destroy Iraq's national unity," a statement issued by the Interim National Assembly said. "Their intentions are to harm this country which faces crucial challenges amid a very difficult period."
Shiite Muslims, who make up around 60 percent of Iraq's people, have been strong supporters of the elections, which they expect to reverse the longtime domination of Iraq's Sunni minority. The insurgency is believed to draw most of its support from Sunnis, who provided much of Saddam Hussein's former Baath Party membership.
Earlier Tuesday, gunmen attacked a police station near Saddam's hometown of Tikrit, overwhelmed 12 Iraqi policemen there, slit their throats and then blew up the building, said Lt. Col. Saad Hmoud, a local police official.
The deputy governor of the restive Anbar province, Moayyad Hardan al-Issawi, was assassinated near Ramadi, east of Baghdad, police official Abdel Qader al-Kubeisy said.
Gunmen who shot him left a statement next to his body: "This is the fate of everyone who deals with the American troops." The statement was signed by the group Mujahedeen al-Anbar, or "holy warriors of Anbar."
Such flagrant attacks appear designed to cause panic among Iraqi officials and security forces and to provoke a sectarian conflict between Shiites and Sunnis.
Militants released a videotape Tuesday, saying they have executed eight and released two Iraqis who were employed by Sandi Group, an American security company, and had been held hostage since Dec. 13. The claim could not be independently verified.
The insurgents claiming to represent three Iraqi militant groups - the Mujahedeen Army, the Black Banner Brigade and the Mutassim Bellah Brigade - said in the tape obtained by APTN that "the eight have been executed because it was proven that they were supporting the occupational army." The other two will be released for the lack of evidence, a statement read by one of the militants.
In other strikes Tuesday, a car bomb killed five Iraqi National Guardsmen and injured 26 near Baqouba, a town 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, after the paramilitary troops cordoned off an area in order to disarm a roadside bomb, said U.S. Maj. Neal O'Brien.
In Baqouba itself, unidentified gunmen assassinated Capt. Na'em Muhanad Abdullah, a local police commander, and wounded three other men, a spokesman said.
Elsewhere Tuesday, a car bomb exploded in the village of Muradiya, about 20 miles northeast of Baghdad, killing five civilians and wounding dozens, said Ahmed Fouad, a doctor in the Baqouba General Hospital.
In Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, a gunman attacked a police station in the northeastern Hadbaa district, killing one policeman, said police Capt. Ahmed Khalil.
In the central city of Samarra a suicide attacker detonated his car in the city center wounding 10 people, including three children, police Maj. Saadoun Ahmed Matroud.
Shortly after the explosion, people were told through mosques loud speakers to stay indoor because of a curfew, and U.S. and Iraq troops set up roadblocks, witnesses said.
In Babil province south of Baghdad, police said they arrested 10 armed men in a raid in the area of Jbila after intelligence indicated the suspects were allegedly plotting to attack a police station there, Capt. Hady Hatif said.
At Samarra, U.S. troops killed three rebels when they attacked an American post with small-arms and rocket propelled grenades, the U.S. military said. There were no injuries to U.S. soldiers or damage to equipment.
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This type of attack is a real waste. It accomplishes little, there is no "money" in it, and it is expensive in resources. It's primary purpose is to try and 'clear' an area of police authority, so that it can then be used as a base for a criminal gang. The defense is to attrit the bad guys--to keep sending in new police--and to actively pursue them out of their 'hood, where they become strangers without support.
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`moose, If what you say is true, then I'm even happier about the F-ville party. It means the enemy is realy hurting, and is trying hard to create a base.
Attrition works if you have a wealthy society (relatively speaking)to replace the losses, and a rugged enough political system to put up with the losses.
We can afford it, If we can keep the Iraquis glued together. as for us, remember, it took the NVA 10 years to chase us out of South Vietnam. and we had a bunch of incompetents running the show. We've been at this global war against Islamthe moon godcrazed turbans terrorism for only 3 years. With a much better command team.
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The U.N. World Food Program suspended food convoys to the Darfur region in western Sudan after rebel forces attacked the market town of Ghubaysh and the government retaliated, U.N. humanitarian officials said. The relief agency halted three convoys of 70 trucks carrying more than 1,300 million tons of food destined for El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, and Nyala, the capital of South Darfur state, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Tuesday.
The attack Monday on Ghubaysh in West Kordofan follows weeks of insecurity in Darfur in which both rebel and government-backed forces have attacked each other. It was the second attack by the rebel Sudan Liberation Army since Dec. 19 when the Sudanese government agreed to an immediate cessation of hostilities, U.N. officials said. The recent insecurity has effectively blocked overland access from central Sudan to the Darfur region for U.N. and other relief agencies, the U.N. Humanitarian office known as OCHA said. As a result, some 260,000 people will miss their December rations in South Darfur as well as eastern parts of West Darfur, it said.
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Hmmm, 1,300 million tons of food for 260,000 people. Wow, thatâs 5,000 tons per person. And I thought Americans ate a lot.
BAGHDAD: At least 43 people were killed in a string of attacks on Iraqi security forces and other targets on Tuesday after Osama Bin Laden declared fugitive Jordanian Islamist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi his "emir" in the country. In one of a series of apparently coordinated strikes in Sunni Muslim strongholds north of Baghdad, insurgents stormed a police station in Dijla between Tikrit and Samarra and gunned down 12 policemen, police said. "Armed men took control of the police station and executed 12 policemen, three of them officers," one police source said. Another four policeman and a national guard were shot dead at a police station in Ishaki, south of the restive town of Samarra. Three guardsmen and three civilians were killed in a car bomb attack targeting a US-Iraq military convoy in Samarra, hospital sources said.
The US military confirmed a car bombing near a tank but said it had no record of the deaths and that there were no US casualties. In Baquba, 50 kilometres northeast of the capital, six national guardsmen were killed in a suicide car bomb attack. At Al-Shurqat, 180 kilometres north of Samarra, two policeman were killed in an attack on their post, an officer said. In Baghdad, a suicide bomber was killed and six people wounded in an attack against the convoy of an Iraqi national guard general Modher Abud as he was leaving his home, the interior ministry said. Another policeman was killed in Balad when insurgents opened fire on security forces guarding a voter registration centre.
The latest bloodshed brought to at least 74 the number of people killed in attacks throughout the country since Sunday evening, including two US soldiers. Islamic militants announced on Tuesday that they had executed eight Iraqi employees of an American security and reconstruction company, saying that the victims had supported the US-led occupation. Two were set free. The 10 employees of the Sandi Group were believed to have been kidnapped on Dec 13 by gunmen claiming to belong to the Mujahideen Army, The Black Banner Brigade, and the Mutassim Bellah Brigade. The body of a senior Iraqi provincial official was found riddled with bullets in the rebel bastion of Ramadi on Tuesday hours after his kidnapping by unknown gunmen, a police source said.
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Police said on Tuesday they had arrested two militants in connection with the weekend killing of two employees of Aga Khan Health Services. Masked gunmen on Sunday stormed the office of the aid agency in Chitral, killing a security guard and a driver and setting fire to several vehicles. Gul Mohammad Khan, a police officer in Chitral, said two activists of a banned Sunni Muslim group Harkat-ul Mujahideen had been detained on suspicion of involvement in the attack. The Aga Khan's aid network runs health services in Chitral and other parts of northern Pakistan.
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PESHAWAR: Security forces searched a seminary once run by the former Taliban defence minister Maulana Jalaluddin Haqqani in North Waziristan for suspected militants on Tuesday, a senior administration official told Daily Times. However, the official said no suspected militants or banned material was found during a two-hour search of the madrassa, which is just outside Miranshah, the agency headquarters of North Waziristan. Tribal leaders were informed in advance and they accompanied administration officials during the search, said the official on condition of anonymity.
Riaz Mehsud, the assistant political officer of Miranshah, told a tribal jirga before the start of the operation that the security forces suspected militants were hiding in the seminary. A military source in Peshawar told Daily Times that the search operation at the seminary was a routine measure the civil administration was taking to purge the area of suspected Qaeda militants.
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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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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