Kuwaiti authorities have detained a journalist working for Al Arabiya television for reporting a shootout between police and militants which was later denied by the Gulf state, the TV channel said Friday. Correspondent Adil Aidan was held after Kuwait said his report on Al Arabiya Wednesday that police arrested two gunmen after they fired on security forces was baseless. Defense attorney Nawaf al-Mutairi said the case will be sent to the public prosecutor Saturday and that Aidan could be charged with spreading information harmful to national interests. "Aidan had no bad intentions, and we hope that will be proved tomorrow," Mutairi told Reuters.
The satellite channel protested the detention, saying it had reported the Kuwaiti denial. In New York, the Committee to Protect Journalists also criticized the detention. "Arresting journalists for their work is a deplorable practice, and all the more troubling for Kuwait, which has prided itself on the relative freedom its press enjoys," said CPJ Executive Director Ann Cooper in a statement. "We call on Kuwaiti officials to immediately release Adil Aidan." Kuwaiti officials were not immediately available to comment.
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They should of just kidnapped him. We already know that's ok with them.
Kuwait's armed forces have charged two of its soldiers with planning an attack on US troops in the emirate, the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) reported Thursday. The accused soldiers will appear before a military court, armed forces public relations chief Brigadier Yousef al-Mulla told KUNA late Wednesday.
"You boys are in a heap of trouble now."
Kuwaiti army intelligence interrogated at least five Kuwaiti soldiers vigorously after the discovery of an alleged plot to attack allied troops stationed in the emirate, the armed forces public relations office announced January 3. Several soldiers were later released. Kuwaiti Defence Minister Sheikh Jaber al-Mubarak al-Sabah told reporters Tuesday that media reports linking the arrested soldiers to the Al Qaeda terrorist network were false.
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An Australian terror suspect detained in Pakistan after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks alleges he was transferred by U.S. authorities to Egypt, where he says he was tortured with beatings, electric shocks and nearly drowned while being interrogated. Mamdouh Habib, who is being held prisoner by the United States in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, made the allegations of mistreatment in court papers filed by his lawyers, who are seeking to prevent the U.S. government from sending him back to Egypt. Habib, a 48-year-old Egyptian-born father of four from Sydney, was arrested near the Afghanistan border three weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. His attorneys alleged that the United States had asked Pakistan to send Habib to Egypt, knowing he was likely to be tortured. The affidavit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in November and made public on Wednesday, alleges Habib was subjected to routine beatings and torture while in Egyptian custody and coerced into making confessions that were not true. The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Want to be that like most of these dummys he was glad to spill his guts to fellow muslims and his words are now coming back to haunt him? On top of that I bet he didn't get a prayer mat, koran and directions to mecca from his egyptian jailers. Th real reason he doesn't want to return.
A notorious ETA killer who was condemned to 3,000 years in jail will be released next month after serving 18 years behind bars. Ignacio de Juana Chaos, a former member of ETA's 'Madrid commando' who was convicted of killing 12 police officers, is to be freed, according to judicial sources. The Guardia Civil officers were killed in a single bomb attack in 1986 in Madrid.
Last I heard, they were still dead.
De Juana Chaos was jailed in 1989 for his part in up to 20 attacks. His sentence was reduced by 20 days for each year after supposedly enrolling in a training course. But in reality, he did not enrol in the course, sources claimed. De Juana Choas was convicted of taking part in 11 bomb attacks which killed 20 people. In 1998, after the murder of a council official in Seville by ETA, he wrote from jail: "I love to see the twisted faces of the relatives at the funerals. Here in prison, their tears are our smiles." The car bomb attack in 1986 killed 12 police officers in the plaza de la Republica Dominicana de Madrid. In 1989, De Juana Chaos was jailed for up to 3,000 years — the highest sentence ever imposed in Spain.
Sigh
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Sounds to me like those guys are trying to make appeasement a way of life. Unfortunately, that way to peace is paved with dead bodies, and the terrorists are driving the steamroller.
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Sounds to me like those guys are trying to make appeasement a way of life.
We let out a whole heap of N Irish nationalist and loyalist murderers to keep things sweet a few years ago, so Britain is guilty of a similar case of contempt for their victims. Our terrorists don't try to shoot people or blow them up as often as they used to, though. They're more interested in robbing banks. Ah, the romance of thuggery.
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Problem was that the post-Franco Spanish Constitution was adopted at a time of intense political correctness. It marks that the only goal of the penal system is to reinsert the criminal . Not a word about deterrence. Not a word about caring for the sufferings of the victims and their relatives who see the criminal walk free while their grief will haunt them for life. And not a word about preventing further crimes by reincident criminals (ie don't release "multi-shot" criminals ).
So the constitution tells nobody can be kept for more than thirty years. No matter if you are a multi-reincident child-raper and killer a la Marc Dutroux. And some a..le has added a provision that the simple fact of enrolling a professional course (even if you don't take a single class let alone succeed at the exam) is enough for getting a reduced sentence (why they didn't deduct iut from its 3000 years?) because /sarcasm_on like we all know it is poorness who causes crime and terrorism /sarcasm_off.
A few years ago, ETA placed a bomb in the houses of Guardia Civil. One of the victims was a six month girl. None of the perpetrators was taken alive. Pity they didn't do the same thing with this scumbag.
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine police said on Friday they had foiled a suicide attack on a crowded Roman Catholic festival by arresting 16 suspected Muslim militants and seizing three homemade bombs. "We received intelligence reports of the suspects' plan to mount a suicide attack in Quiapo at the Feast of the Black Nazarene," Senior Superintendent Rodolfo Mendoza told reporters.
As every year, tens of thousands of the faithful -- many barefoot in maroon tunics -- are due to flock to a Catholic church in Quiapo, a Manila suburb, on Sunday to try to touch a centuries-old wooden statue of Christ with a cross in the belief it has miraculous powers. Police said the suspects, all Filipinos, were also being questioned about a potential role in the bombing of a ferry in February 2004 by homegrown Abu Sayyaf rebels that killed more than 100 people.
Vice President Noli de Castro usually attends the colorful, raucous Feast of the Black Nazarene, held every year on Jan. 9 and again just before Easter.
The vast majority of the 84 million Filipinos are Catholics, with a small minority of Muslims concentrated in the south. Security forces are battling long-running Muslim and communist insurgencies that have hurt foreign investment and stunted rural development
The largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front or MILF, is on cease-fire with peace talks due to resume in February. But the bombing of the Superferry 14 in Manila Bay last year signaled a more destructive path for Abu Sayyaf, a group of several hundred guerrillas linked to the regional militant network Jemaah Islamiah.
Police said the suspects -- 13 men and three women -- had been arrested after a raid on an office building in Manila that housed an Islamic information center. "We are looking into their involvement in the Superferry bombing and the foiled bombing plot on a G-Liner bus on Christmas Eve," Senior Superintendent Federico Laciste said. The explosives seized included TNT and C-4, with electronic components that could be put inside mobile phones to trigger an explosion, police said. "Aside from the explosives, we also found pistols and revolvers, and a submachine gun with a silencer," said Nelson Yabut, a national police intelligence colonel.
The usual holy relics of Islam
"The silencer can be used to fire at someone from a high-rise building when the procession passes it." The same kind of electronic parts were used in the ferry attack and the foiled bombing on the bus, they added. The 13 men did not talk to reporters but the three women strongly denied taking part in any plot. They were being questioned at police intelligence headquarters in Manila.
Metro Manila police chief Avelino Razon vowed extra-tight security at Sunday's event, when the statue is carried through the crowd on a litter as people reach through holes in the plastic case to touch the cross or Christ's heel.
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The religion of peace at work again.
Some of these guys were useful tools "converts."
U.S. troops have set up a base on Baghdad's notorious Haifa Street hoping to pacify insurgency in one of the capital's most dangerous central districts, the military said Friday. Paratroopers from Company B of the 82nd Airborne Division's 3rd Battalion and soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division's 1st Battalion seized and secured one of the street's vacant buildings last month during an operation dubbed "Field of Dreams," the military said. "The purpose of the operation was to fortify the palace so it can be used as a base from which to conduct aggressive operations against the insurgents," said Sgt. Michael Cooper.
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during an operation dubbed "Field of Dreams,"
Field of Dreams is one of the most underrated sports movies of all time. It's been released on DVD; I recommend it highly.
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And for a real underrated sports movie, I also recommend that 1999 classic "For the Love of the Game". It was so underrated, no one ever saw it. Get it on DVD and see what everybody missed out on.
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Do you make these pictures up or do they exist really? LOL or ROFLMOA (I'm learning acronyms)
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Pakistani security forces arrested three suspected al Qaeda-linked militants, including a Yemeni national, in a raid outside the southern port city of Karachi on Friday, intelligence officials said. The Yemeni, identified as Sheikh Yousuf, and two Pakistanis were arrested more than 60 km (40 miles) north of Karachi, an official said. Security forces seized documents, a satellite telephone and some weapons, the official said, declining to be identified. No other details were immediately available.
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A YOUNG British Muslim arrested in Iraq by US Marines was caught red-handed running guns in one of the most violent cities in the country, the US military said yesterday. He was identified by the US marines as Mobeen Muneef, 25, born in London but with Pakistani nationality. He had been held at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad, but has since been transferred to the Bucca Detention Facility in the Iraqi capital.
The US military insisted that he was part of a group of foreign fighters "participating in suspicious activities" when he was apprehended by a patrol. The Times revealed on Thursday that two British citizens are currently being held in Iraq on suspicion of helping the insurgency. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has confirmed their detention.
One, a dual British-Iraqi national, was captured by British troops in November in southern Iraq and is being held in a detention centre at the main Shaibah military base on suspicion of involvement in terrorism. Mr Muneef, the second man, was captured by a US Marines patrol on December 7 in Ramadi, one of the main centres for the insurgency against the US-backed Iraqi Government. "The gentleman was detained after Marines spotted men passing a weapon over a wall in Ramadi," Captain Brad Gordon, of the US Marines in area, said. "When Marines approached the house, two men began to flee the house and were subsequently detained when they were found hiding in a shack near by. "According to one report, in their possession was an Iraqi pistol and four AK-47s. When he was detained he was found to have an Iraqi ID card which he admitted was fake.
"When questioned about his reason for being with other foreign fighters, he stated he was there to assist a humanitarian relief organisation. He had no other identification at the time of his detention and could not produce any credentials belonging to or the name of the relief organisation. "He was given a gun-powder residue test. He tested positive for gun powder residue, further indicating that he did have a weapon in his possession."
Captain Gordon told The Times that Mr Muneef should have the opportunity to contact his family from the Bucca Detention Facility. He added that the suspect would be questioned again about his reasons for being in Iraq and how he entered the country. Hundreds of suspected fighters were captured during November's assault on the city of Fallujah and the processing of the backlog of detainees is taking about 90 days.
The US military in Iraq says that it is currently holding about 325 foreign prisoners, who are treated exactly the same as Iraqi detainees. Most are volunteer mujahidin from neighbouring Arab countries, but Muslims from Western countries have also been captured and killed. At least two British volunteer fighters joined Shia Muslim militants in August to fight American forces in the holy city of Najaf.
The fate of Mr Muneef in Baghdad should be resolved in the next two months. When the investigation is complete his file will be put before a six-man Combined Review and Release Board. The three Iraqi officials and three officers from the multinational forces in Iraq will then decide whether he should be freed or remain in custody. However, it is possible that his detention and those of other prisoners will be prolonged. In the current atmosphere, detainees arrested in places such as Ramadi are unlikely to be set free any time soon.
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Police on Friday said militants stormed a government building in Indian-controlled Kashmir, setting it on fire with 70 employees still trapped inside. Three people were killed in the fighting, an official said. Three militants made their way into a government tax building, hurling a hand grenade that set off a blaze, a police officer said on condition of anonymity. Government forces surrounded the building, said K. Srinivasan, Deputy Inspector General of the Border Security Force. Gunfire was exchanged between the militants and soldiers outside. "We are trying to storm the building from two sides with two objectives - one to put out fire and second to evacuate civilians safely," the security force inspector said. One paramilitary soldier, one civilian and one militant had been killed, he said. It was not immediately clear if any of the 70 employees had been hurt or killed.
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The killer lives in shadows, a phantom menace whose whereabouts are known only to a few trusted deputies. He exhorts followers to seek martyrdom in suicidal assaults against U.S. soldiers, Iraqi policemen and Christian churchgoers even as he remains perpetually on the run, seeming to abandon hideouts just as his pursuers arrive. Intelligence analysts say that before U.S. forces chased Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi out of the city of Fallujah, he would call lieutenants from a cell phone and then trash the SIM card after a single use to avoid giving himself away. So obscure is his identity, so ghostly his purported lifestyle, that even some who have joined al-Zarqawi's campaign against U.S. troops and their Iraqi allies question whether his accomplishments are mostly myth. "We have not felt the existence of al-Zarqawi," says insurgent leader Abu Lina, a top nationalist commander. "We haven't known him or understood him." But to a devoted few, his word is absolute. "Some just have to sit and listen to him," a senior insurgent leader in Fallujah told TIME, "and they walk away committed."
In the past year, that commitment has helped produce an almost daily horror show of suicide bombings, kidnappings, mass executions and televised beheadings. The atrocities have killed or maimed thousands, jeopardized next month's elections, dragged Iraq to the brink of civil conflict and drawn U.S. troops deeper into a war whose costs seem increasingly unbearable. Ascribing the mayhem in Iraq entirely to al-Zarqawi and his minions would overlook both U.S. miscalculations and the scope of the insurgency, which may command the support of as many as 20,000 Sunnis. But through his capacity for self-promotion and the sheer ruthlessness of his methods, al-Zarqawi, 38, has become the face of an insurgency fueled as much by religious zealotry as by nationalist resistance. He has catapulted himself from a fringe player on the global terrorist stage to its most potent operative, a villain judged by U.S. intelligence to be so dangerous that the bounty on his head now matches Osama bin Laden's.
Al-Zarqawi's aims seem clear: in messages intercepted by the U.S. military and in public statements posted on websites associated with his organization, formerly known as al-Tawhid and Jihad, al-Zarqawi has voiced his contempt for Iraq's majority Shi'ites and his desire to provoke a civil war by slaughtering those perceived to be collaborating with the U.S. or the fledgling Iraqi authorities. In a July al-Tawhid document obtained by TIME, al-Zarqawi's former deputy, Abu Anas al-Shami, refers to the group's assassination of Ayatullah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, one of the most prominent Shi'ite leaders in Iraq, in an August 2003 bombing in Najaf. Al-Zarqawi has lured hundreds of zealots, foreign and homegrown, to join him by portraying Iraq as the new arena of global jihad, the proving ground for an epic war against the infidel. He pledged his allegiance to bin Laden in October in a Web announcement but has cultivated a global profile of his own, forging links with terrorist cells across Europe and the Middle East. An audiotape made in the summer and given to TIME records al-Shami saying the group's goal is to turn Iraq into a fundamentalist state modeled on the Taliban's rule, whose primeval strictures for Afghanistan al-Zarqawi has admired. (Al-Shami was killed in September in a U.S. bomb attack.)
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He exhorts followers to seek martyrdom in suicidal assaults against U.S. soldiers, Iraqi policemen and Christian churchgoers even as he remains perpetually on the run, . . .
He's the Leona Helmsley of islamofascism: "Martyrdom is for little people."
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If you're looking for a progress report best to check the milblogs of the boots on the ground in country. You certainly aren't going to get it from MSM.
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So, I guess he's not captured, then
Actually, I'm very heartened by this. I joked that we will know he's been captured when the MSM begins to downplay his importance.
So obscure is his identity, so ghostly his purported lifestyle, that even some who have joined al-Zarqawiâs campaign against U.S. troops and their Iraqi allies question whether his accomplishments are mostly myth. "We have not felt the existence of al-Zarqawi," says insurgent leader Abu Lina, a top nationalist commander. "We havenât known him or understood him." But to a devoted few, his word is absolute. "Some just have to sit and listen to him," a senior insurgent leader in Fallujah told TIME, "and they walk away committed."
Wishful thinking, perhaps on my part but this seems to be the research and testing of the Zarqawi is not so important meme, with the added meme of and if we hadn't gone to Iraq he wouldn't have been able to galvanize the minions and even if the elections do go off, we're screwed anyway because now we've whipped the little brown folk into a religious frenzy and they will just take their revolution elsewhere.
but... "Ascribing the mayhem in Iraq entirely to al-Zarqawi and his minions would overlook both U.S. miscalculations and the scope of the insurgency, which may command the support of as many as 20,000."
I don't have time to really fisk this, but yes, I'm heartened.
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Kuwait's armed forces have charged two of its soldiers with planning an attack on US troops in the emirate, the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) reported Thursday. The accused soldiers will appear before a military court, armed forces public relations chief Brigadier Yousef al-Mulla told KUNA late Wednesday.
An Australian terror suspect detained in Pakistan after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks alleges he was transferred by U.S. authorities to Egypt, where he says he was tortured with beatings, electric shocks and nearly drowned while being interrogated. 
A notorious ETA killer who was condemned to 3,000 years in jail will be released next month after serving 18 years behind bars. 
"We received intelligence reports of the suspects' plan to mount a suicide attack in Quiapo at the Feast of the Black Nazarene," Senior Superintendent Rodolfo Mendoza told reporters. 
Pakistani security forces arrested three suspected 
Police on Friday said militants stormed a government building in Indian-controlled Kashmir, setting it on fire with 70 employees still trapped inside. Three people were killed in the fighting, an official said. Three militants made their way into a government tax building, hurling a hand grenade that set off a blaze, a police officer said on condition of anonymity. Government forces surrounded the building, said K. Srinivasan, Deputy Inspector General of the Border Security Force. Gunfire was exchanged between the militants and soldiers outside. "We are trying to storm the building from two sides with two objectives - one to put out fire and second to evacuate civilians safely," the security force inspector said. One paramilitary soldier, one civilian and one militant had been killed, he said. It was not immediately clear if any of the 70 employees had been hurt or killed.
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