Looks like all the bodies are cold from the recent shootouts...
Kuwait's high court yesterday upheld a ruling that the country's judiciary cannot look into the case of a suspected Al-Qaeda fugitive charged with funding the 2000 bombing of a US warship in Yemen, judicial sources said. They said a lower court in 2003 sentenced Mohsen Al-Fadli and three other men to five years in jail in the case but an appeals court struck down that sentence last year, ruling that the case does not fall under the jurisdiction of Kuwaiti courts.
The prosecution, which had charged the four with being Al-Qaeda members and financing the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, had appealed the decision to the Court of Cassation but lost when Kuwait's highest judicial body backed the appeals court ruling. The bombing of the US warship, which killed 17 US sailors, was blamed on Al-Qaeda. Fadli, a Kuwaiti, is being sought by security forces on suspicion of involvement in other Islamic militant activities, including a number of clashes between police and militants in January in Kuwait. "The high court did not declare the four suspects innocent, but its decision effectively means they are no longer wanted here in connection with this particular case," one source said. Last month, an appeals court cleared Fadli of charges of funding attacks in Iraq, one day after the United States added his name to its list of financiers of terrorism. The court upheld a November ruling that found him innocent of funding attacks on US-led forces in Iraq.
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al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
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Kuwait's Prosecutor-General Hamed Al-Othman Monday received attorney Mubarak Al-Mutawa, lawyer for Sheikh Hamid Al-Ali, former preacher of the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs and former Secretary-General of the Salafi Movement, who is in State Security custody since Saturday. During the meeting, Al-Mutawa requested the Prosecutor-General to allow Sheikh Hamid's lawyers to appear with him before the prosecution. He also requested Al-Othman to release Sheikh Hamid on any guarantee because he is a Kuwaiti and his home address is known to the authorities.
Al-Mutawa also told the Prosecutor-General the case against his client is a human rights issue. He added what Sheikh Hamid had said could have been misunderstood by some youths who behaved irresponsibly and Sheikh Hamed cannot be held responsible for their behaviour. Al-Mutawa asked Al-Othman not to ask for a 21 days detention for Sheikh Hamid because he is ready to appear before the prosecution whenever summoned. He added the case against Hamid is relevant to human rights and "we do not want someone to say that human rights are violated in the State of Kuwait," said the lawyer.
Al-Mutawa added some lawyers had volunteered to defend Sheikh Hamid and the defence team had agreed to meet later to coordinate their efforts. Two MPs, Dr Waleed Al-Tabtabaei and Abdullah Akash, also visited the Prosecutor-General for the same reason. However, they discussed the matter with Al-Othman from a national point of view since they are members of Parliament and Sheikh Hamid is a well-known personality whose detention could cause frustration among his followers.
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SHEIKH HAMID AL ALI
Learned Elders of Islam
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Saudi police exchanged fire with gunmen in the northern town of Buraida on Monday, witnesses said, one day after a clash in the Red Sea city of Jeddah. The shooting took place in the Khalidiya district of Buraida, 340 km (210 miles) northwest of Riyadh, around midday on Monday, the witnesses said. It was not clear if there were any casualties from the clash, and officials were not immediately available to comment.
On Sunday, Saudi security forces shot dead one man and arrested three others after a fierce shootout when they raided a suspected militants flat in the Red Sea city of Jeddah. Thirteen members of the security forces were injured and a bystander was killed.
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The Irish Republican Army is among the most sophisticated organised crime gangs in the world, a former Northern Ireland Security Minister has told the BBC. The group had forged an alliance with a network of criminal gangs - links made while IRA members were locked up for long periods in high-security jails in Britain - and was involved in large-scale cigarette and fuel smuggling rackets, Ian Pearson told the File on Four investigative program, which was to be broadcast last night. The activities centred on the laundering of hundreds of millions of pounds, some of which was reinvested in elaborate schemes to bring illicit fuel and tobacco into Britain, Mr Pearson said.
The IRA was now "perhaps the most sophisticated organised criminal grouping to be found anywhere in Europe, possibly anywhere in the world", he said. The report also quoted police and customs sources on both sides of the Irish border as saying that the IRA was involved in a "significant percentage" of cigarette and fuel smuggling in Britain. Expert techniques were applied to "launder" fuel on an industrial scale, removing the marker dyes from low-tax diesel intended for agricultural or central heating use in order to allow it to be used illicitly by road vehicles. Meanwhile, a small bureau de change allegedly controlled by the IRA near the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland had banked $US475 million ($A603 million) in cash, some of which was used as "venture capital" to fund criminal activities.
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Motor fuel has a much higher tax than farm fuel. Like smuggling cigs or whiskey to avoid the high taxes. Good profits. The IRA had drug rackets in Belfast going for many years.
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The IRA is the Mafia with a Gaelic brouge. They need to be hunted to extinction.
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The IRA was now "perhaps the most sophisticated organised criminal grouping to be found anywhere in Europe, possibly anywhere in the world",
$100 says Whitey Bulger's a 'consultant' to the IRA.
U.S. authorities charged 18 people in an alleged scheme to smuggle grenade launchers, shoulder-fired missiles and other Russian military weapons into the United States, officials announced Tuesday. The arrests resulted from a yearlong investigation in which an FBI informant posed as an arms buyer with ties to al Qaeda. The case, which took investigators to South Africa, Armenia and the Republic of Georgia, also included wiretaps on seven phones and intercepts of more than 15,000 calls, according to prosecutors, the FBI and police.
The informant, an explosives expert, contacted the FBI after he was approached by a man who said he had access to weapons from the former Soviet Union and believed the informant could find a willing buyer, federal prosecutors said. Using a digital camera, members of the ring, which included Armenians and South Africans, provided pictures of the weapons they said they had available for sale, prosecutors said. The pictures, apparently taken somewhere in Armenia, showed antitank missiles, a Russian missile launcher and an antitank rifle, among other weapons, officials said. Seventeen of the 18 people charged were in custody Tuesday, arrested in New York, Los Angeles or Florida, authorities said. Prosecutors alleged that the defendants were preparing to import the weapons, including antitank missile systems, into the country from Eastern Europe. The FBI is working with Armenian and Russian authorities to secure the weapons, authorities said.
A criminal complaint unsealed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan charged five men with conspiring to transport destructive devices and 13 others with weapons trafficking for their alleged roles in supplying machine guns and other assault weapons destined to be sold to the informant. According to the complaint, the informant met two of the defendants, Artur Solomonyan and Christiaan Dewet Spies, on several occasions in New York to discuss the weapons deals. Solomonyan, an Armenian citizen who lives in New York and Los Angeles, and Spies, a South African citizen who lives in New York, were arrested Monday night at a Manhattan hotel after meeting one last time with the informant to finalize their plans before leaving the country to obtain the weapons, prosecutors alleged. If convicted, each would face a prison term of up to 30 years.
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What would the guys in Sing Sing think about terrorists? Prolly 30 years of hard time or .... ?
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Def'nitely OR. They may be criminals over there in Sing Sing, but by Gawd they're American criminals!
Based on the subversive documents that government troops recovered from a seized New People's Army (NPA) camp in Siaton town, Negros Oriental on March 8, the communist insurgents planned to launch tactical offensives against military detachments and a geothermal power plant. Lieutenant Colonel Rey Leonardo Guerrero, 61st Infantry Battalion commander, disclosed Tuesday that the rebels, encountered by guerillas of the breakaway Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade (RPA-ABB), planned to attack the Cafgu detachments in Calagao, Zamboangita town and Napakao in Siaton.
The NPA red fighters, believed to be security forces of priest-turned-rebel leader Frank "Ka Frank" Fernandez, also planned of waging atrocities at the Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC), in the municipality of Valencia. All of the NPAs' identified targets are in Negros Oriental. "We are on high level of alert for any possibility," Guerrero said of the 303rd Infantry Brigade troopers who were met by Army commanding general, Lieutenant General Generoso Senga Tuesday. Troopers were also detailed to secure the PNOC. Guerrero revealed before the March 8 clash, they had received intelligence reports of the presence of about a hundred NPA rebels in Guihulngan town, Negros Oriental. The stronghold of the Fernandez-led Komiteng Rehiyonal-Negros is believed to be in the uplands of Oriental.
Senga advised all battalion commanders in Negros island to be cautious and vigilant. "I believe that our units in the 303rd Infantry Brigade are very much prepared for any possibilities," he said. Guerrero said government troopers are conducting mopping operations in the encounter site and in the other adjacent places. In their March 9 clearing operations, Army personnel recovered two M-16 armalite rifles, live ammunition, and several subversive documents. Guerrero said the two rifles were found inside a sack beside the creek near the house the rebels occupied. Carapali Lualhati, national commander of the RPA-ABB, earlier confirmed the merger between two NPA factions in Negros Island--that of Fernandez in the Occidental and of "Ka Drilon" in the Oriental. Lualhati added some red fighters of the NPA from Bohol, Cebu and Leyte are in the island to reinforce their comrades. "We are intensifying our intelligence operations to preempt possible tactical offensives by the NPAs," vowed Guerrero.
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Snif You rarely hear about proleatrian armies anymore, seemer like just yesterday they were all the rage.
BANGKOK: A bomb killed one policeman and wounded three state employees on Tuesday in Thailand's restive, Muslim-majority south, where more than 600 people have died in a year, officials said. "The bomb was placed in a booth near a rail track in Yala and exploded around 9:30 this morning and wounded two policemen and two state rail officials," Police Colonel Ekapop Prasitwattanachai told Reuters by telephone from the scene. An official at the hospital in Yala city said one of the two police officers died on the way to the hospital. The blast was the latest incident in the renewed spate of separatist violence in the three southernmost provinces near the Malaysian border, where Muslim separatists fought low key insurgencies in the 1970s and 1980s. Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who has sent thousands of soldiers to fight the separatists, has put the southern violence as his top security agenda after winning re-election in a landslide last month.
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A UN fact-finding team finished its probe into the killing of Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on Tuesday and would report its findings to Secretary-General Kofi Annan soon, Lebanon said. A statement from the presidential palace said the head of the team, Irish Deputy Police Commissioner Peter Fitzgerald, told President Emile Lahoud at a meeting that his job was completed.
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A UN fact-finding team finished its probe into the killing of Lebanonâs former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on Tuesday and would report its findings to Secretary-General Kofi Annan soon, Lebanon said.
And just what purpose is served by doing this, other than to make Goo-fi feel important?
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Naive, naive Mojo. It should be clear even to a child, at least a child trained in correct ideology, that Hariri is a victim of international neocon zionism.
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This is just one of those times that I have to say, "God, I'm glad we have the UN." And with Kofi's tireless leadership in the last few years I'm sure that this murder suicide will be solved soon.
The United Nations has withdrawn all international staff in parts of the western Darfur region to a regional capital after Arab militias said they would target foreigners and U.N. convoys in the area, the top U.N. envoy in Sudan said on Wednesday. Jan Pronk told Reuters in an interview that the government had made small steps to disarm the militia, known locally as Janjaweed, in West Darfur state, but more had to be done. The Janjaweed stand accused of a campaign of rape, killing, looting and burning non-Arab villages. "The Janjaweed militia have said that they will now target all foreigners and all U.N. humanitarian convoys so we have withdrawn all people to El-Geneina," he said. The militias gave the warning to the drivers of seized U.N. trucks, he added. All aid agency staff in the area -- West Darfur state on the Chad border -- have also pulled back to El-Geneina, which is the state capital, he said. In total, 44 staff were relocated. Pronk said the threats probably arose because the governor of West Darfur state had demanded that all cars the government had given to the militia in the past be returned. U.N. security officials were assessing the threat.
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Two separate landmine blasts in western Afghanistan killed a US soldier and at least five civilians, a day before US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was due to visit. The explosions were both near the major US base at Shindand, an old Russian airport littered with landmines from the previous 25 years of war, although officials did not rule out the possibility that militants planted the devices.
Four other US soldiers from a military police unit were also wounded in the first blast early Wednesday and six Afghan civilians were hurt when the second explosion tore through a minibus hours later, officials said Wednesday. One US soldier sustained a severe back injury, one is currently in stable condition and two were treated and returned to duty, a US military statement said. US military spokesman Major Steve Wollman told AFP that both explosions went off in quick succession early on Wednesday although an earlier statement said the first blast had occurred Tuesday. "We are still trying to determine whether it was an old mine or one that was recently placed," Wollman said, referring to the blast that killed the soldier. Three US soldiers have now been killed in Afghanistan this year, with the previous two dying in combat. At least 29 US soldiers were killed in combat in the war-torn country in 2004.
The Afghan victims were travelling in a minibus when the landmine detonated near Shindand airfield, Mohammadullah Afzali, spokesman for the provincial governor of Herat told AFP. "Five Afghans were killed and six others wounded. Coalition forces evacuated three wounded to a coalition base in Kandahar," Wollman said, adding that the others were taken to a local hospital. Shindand is located near the Iranian border, some 120 kilometers (74 miles) south of the main western city of Herat. Afzali did not rule out the possibility that the blast was the result of a recently laid mine. "It could have been planted by the enemies of Afghanistan," he added.
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American and British warships in the Persian Gulf have, so far this year, seized 14 small ships (wooden dhows), and 125 people on these ships, for suspected terrorist activity. Many of the boats were found carrying weapons, cash and documents indicating terrorist activities. The Arab nations along the west coast of the Persian Gulf have been increasingly successful at preventing al Qaeda terrorist attacks in their countries. Saudi Arabia, where many of the organizers, money, and troops, for al Qaeda come from, has seen terrorist operations declining in the last year.
In the last two years, some 500 people (police, civilians, terrorists) have been killed or wounded in Saudi Arabia as a result of al Qaeda attacks, or police operations against the terrorists. Because Islamic conservatism is popular in all the Arab Gulf states, there are potential al Qaeda members everywhere. But except for a few violent encounters in Kuwait, most of the other Gulf states have just quietly arrested the known terrorist wannabes. The presence of non-Moslem troops in Iraq, and Iraqi Sunni Arabs willing to provide help in carrying out attacks, has drawn hundreds, if not thousands, of Gulf Arabs north. Local police and border guards have made it increasingly difficult to just drive north, and into Iraq. So many aspiring terrorists have taken to the sea, employing the many seagoing smugglers that work the Gulf waters. While the smugglers have been eluding naval patrols for thousands of years, they have never encountered anything as formidable as the American and British warships. Using radar, other sensors, helicopters and UAVs, the warships have made it extremely difficult for the smugglers to get people, and stuff, into Iraq. As a result, the smugglers have raised their fees. The evidence collected from the seized ships indicates that the terrorists, at least some of them, are running short of money, weapons and people.
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Lol, poor smugglers / jihadis. Must really suck to have a critical part of their world stuck in another millenia. They've become so spoiled by cell phones and such, lol.
Should we tell them about the Halliburton Mark V Transporter and Transmutator? Lead to gold? No Sweat. In Yemen and wanna be a jihadi in Iraq? No problem. Wanna just disappear from the face of the planet? Can do. Oh, and it's much cheaper than the dhow boys charge. Sign here. Line up over there. The smiling people in the white lab coats are your new friends. They're, uh, um, travel agents. Yeah, that's it. Queue up and be nice.
RAB arrests two top terrorists
SYLHET, Mar 15: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members arrested two top terrorists from Malaitila in Sadar upazila Sunday night. Members of the elite force raided a house at 11pm and caught Molon, brother of an ex-UP chairman, and 'gal kata' Foyez from there. They were wanted in a number of cases including robbery and land dispute.— UNB.
"Bangladeshi Idol" bombs
Four of a family were injured in an explosion at village Haidebpur under Shripur upazila in Gazipur early Sunday. Hearing the sound of the explosion, locals rushed to the spot and rescued the injured. Some splinters were found at the place of explosion, witnesses said. According to the family sources, Azibar collected a heavy object considering it to be a precious idol from a marshland beside the residence. The object exploded as he was heating it with fire, they added.
"Holy high explosives, Batman!"
Zionist forces masterminded recent violence: Nizami The industry minister and amir of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, Matiur Rahman Nizami, said the recent violence in the country was part of international terrorism sponsored by Zionist forces. 'As part of the conspiracy being hatched by the Zionist forces against Islam and the Muslim nations, an identified quarter here has been trying to label the country a haven of the fundamentalist forces,' he said while addressing a rally at Paltan Maidan on Tuesday.
And doing a bang-up job of it too, I might add
The vested quarter is trying to brand the Islamic clerics of the country as terrorists and thereby hampering smooth progress of the country so that their conspiracy against the Muslims could be implemented, he said. Nizami said the conspiracy to brand Bangladesh as the shelter for fundamentalist forces began during the immediate-past Awami League regime. 'The AL government tried to prove the existence of fanatic and fundamental forces in Bangladesh through writing books in English and Arabic languages. The Zionist forces have given birth to the so-called fanatic organisations in the country to root out Islam. There is no link of the so-called fanatic organisations with Islamic parties in the country,' he said.
"The witnesses are all dead, the Jooooos killed them as well.."
Terming the country a non-communal one, he said the present four-party alliance government had tried utmost to uphold the spirit of non-communalism. The city unit of Jamaat-e-Islami, a component of the BNP-led ruling coalition, organised the rally to protest what they said against conspiracies by the external forces and their local agents in the country. Nizami also urged all the components of the ruling coalition not to be misled by the Awami League propaganda to split the ruling alliance. 'The Awami League has been hatching conspiracy sensing that the unity of the alliance is unbreakable,' he said. Regarding the caretaker government, he said there would be no amendment to the provision as it was adopted through consensus among all the political parties.
Aminul Islam laments
Aminul Islam, arrested accused in Dr Nazneen and her maid Parul murder case made confessional statement before the magistrate and said he himself killed them. He gave details of the brutal murders. Aminul stated that on March 7 he slaughtered Dr Nazneen and Parul with a 'bati' and escaped. On March 13 police nabbed him and brought him at Dhaka. Aminul confessed that due to his illicit relation with Parul Dr Nazneen rebuked him, roughed him up and beat him with broom.
Doing the dirty deed with the maid, got whipped by the lady doc
Nazneen also rebuked Aminul for his negligence of study. Aminul was shocked and planned to retaliate at 8:00 pm. Aminul at first slaughtered Nazneen. Parul witnessed the murder. In a sequel Parul was also slaughtered with the same 'bati' by Aminul.
I guess love only goes so far
Subsequently Aminul went to Bogra. He took away Nazneen's mobile phone and with bloodstained cloths he went to Faridpur from Bogra. He passed night near Rathkhola market, Faridpur. In the morning he stood as a day labourer in front of the market. Monwar Fakir, of Chunaghat Beribadh area, Faridpur hired him as a labour. The mobile in the hand of a day labourer aroused suspicion among the local people. Detective Branch of police caught him later. On making the statement he began lamenting.
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The RAB has got them some perps. Stand by for a Crossfireâ¢
Yup all kinds of Zionists hanging out in Bangaldesh plotting againt all the hardcore allenists.
A suicide car bomber has attacked an Iraqi Army checkpoint in Baquba north-east of Baghdad, killing at least three Iraqi soldiers. Police say five soldiers and three civilians have been wounded. The soldiers have been taken to a US base for treatment. Insurgents trying to overthrow Iraq's Government are increasingly targeting checkpoints, often with suicide attacks. US and Iraqi officers say this shows progress in the battle against the insurgency, because guerrillas are finding it harder to attack other targets.
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The checkpoints are working. We will take care of the wounded, Army pensions will support the families of the dead. And more Iraqis will turn their hate on the "insurgents", and join the fight against them, and remember the dead as heroes of Iraq. Which is as it should be.
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The problem is that the publicity and actual experience of soldiers when mistakes or accidents or misunderstandings result in civilians getting shot at checkpoints has actually lead to a scaling back of their use. But they are the most effective way of plucking terrorists out of the crowd, of blocking their free movement, and of preventing VBIED attacks. So distasteful as they are, they should continue.
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It is the one terrorist organization whose operations India wants to nip for good. The recent busting of several purported attacks by the separatist terrorist group the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) with active links with al-Qaeda has prompted the Indian government to approach the United Nations to blacklist the outfit. A UN ban translates into an automatic worldwide clampdown on financial assets and the freezing of bank accounts by member countries of any organization that fronts for the LeT, which has already been banned by the United States, Canada and some European countries.
The LeT has a history of orchestrating attacks in India and its cadres are well networked, as well as very savvy with computers, gadgets and gizmos, making them very difficult to track. Some of its bold attacks include an attempt to storm the Indian parliament on December 13, 2001, which triggered a military standoff with Pakistan and brought the neighbors close to a fourth war; India also holds the LeT responsible for the killing of 37 and injuring more than 80 Hindu devotees assembled for prayer at the Akshardham temple in September 2002 in the state of Gujarat. The attacks were seen as revenge killings for the communal riots in the state earlier in the same year in which more than 2,000 Muslims were feared killed. Like al-Qaeda, LeT cadres are generally not mercenaries out to make a fast buck from the cash-laden terror industry, but indoctrinated youths driven by the desire to kill in the name of a distorted jihad.
In the past couple of weeks, Indian police have defeated quite a few LeT plans, revealing a plot to create mayhem in the country, which is what has prompted the request by the Indian Home Ministry to the UN. Police in New Delhi who killed three LeT terrorists recently have said that evidence has been recovered to show that a plan was being hatched to attack the top software offices in the country located at Bangalore, as well as the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun that trains young army officers. Attacking software offices hits at one of the most international symbols of Indian success and could set off a wave of panic from potential foreign investors, as well as multinationals, that could hobble the rapid pace of India's economic progress. With India pushing for the case of a global ban on the LeT, the "war against terror" continues to rage in the country, as in the rest of the world.
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JAMMU: Suspected militants hurled a grenade at troops guarding a bank in Held Kashmir and injured 11 civilians, said police on Tuesday. The attack took place late on Monday night in Poonch town, 250 kilometres north of Jammu. "The target was security force personnel guarding the bank but militants missed them and the grenade exploded among civilians," said a police spokesman, adding the militants fled after the attack. Two of the wounded were in critical condition.
"Mukkerjee, I suspect those were militants!"
"How can you tell, sir?"
"They threw a grenade at us and injured them. Only in Kashmir do militants — and no one else, I might add — manage to do that with clockwork regularity!"
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ISLAMABAD: A bomb that had been planted near Yadgar Chowk, F-10, was defused by bomb disposal squad on Tuesday. The missile was discovered when CDA employees were digging near Yadgar Chowk.
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The Anti-Terrorist Squad has arrested five activists of banned organisation Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, including Imran, alias Bobby, the alleged mastermind of the Sialkot mosque and Mochi Gate suicide bombings, intelligence sources told Daily Times on Tuesday.
Bobby? How the hell can you be a evil "mastermind" when everyone still calls you Bobby?
Sources said that following a tip off, the anti-terrorism force arrested Bobby in Lahore during Muharram and later his four accomplices in Jhang. "Bobby and his accomplices had planned terrorism activities in Lahore and Jhang during Muharram," sources said. Sources said that Bobby identified himself as the mastermind of the suicide bombings at the Sialkot mosque during Friday prayers and a Mochi Gate mosque. On October 1, 2004, a suicide bomber blew himself up during Friday prayers in Mistri Abdullah Mosque near the Sialkot Railway Station, killing over three dozen people. On October 9, another bomber blew himself up at Jamia Kashmirian, inside Mochi Gate, killing four people. Both the attacks were carried out a few days after the death of Amjad Hussain Farooqi, a big shot of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, who was killed in a shootout with law enforcement agencies in Nawabshah in September 2004.
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IMRAN, ALIAS BOBY
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
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NAIROBI: At least 30 people were killed during a village raid by militiamen on Tuesday in one of the deadliest such attacks in northeastern Kenya, police said. Police said most of the 22 villagers killed in the early morning attack on Elgolicha village near Mandera on the Somali border were women and children. Eight militiamen were also killed. "Thirty people have been killed so far, 22 are the victims of the attack who are mostly women and children and eight of the attackers have been shot down by security forces and they are still pursuing them," police spokesman Jasper Ombati said.
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I think it's worth a lot - works for me. Any troop concentration, any location where the Nazi Arab Leadership is known to be or hang out, and any place or thing they seem to value could be added to the list, as well. Old-fashioned iron-bombs will do - no need to expend the low-collateral / no-collateral damage goodies. Put it on the mission sheet for Noob Bombadiers. Everybody's gotta start somewhere - this would be a good place to earn live-drop experience.
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Where is the outcry from Jessie Jackson and Chuck Rangel? Didn't we push for the fluf moops at the UN to determine this to be Genocide so we could take some decisive action. Liberia has 3 million and Sudan has 40 million. Sudan - hot bed of islamofacists and potentially oil production - Liberia has? let's see oh yes ah um wait a minute! blood diamonds! that's the ticket. Way to pick your battles you sorry excuse for African Americans. What the Sudanese are from the wrong coast?
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Liberia's diamonds are mostly from Sierra Leone, of course. What else does Liberia have? Clear-cut tropical hardwood, going largely to France... Rubber production is pretty well stopped, iron ore production is stopped; but they have lots of ransacked scrap, and a really handy ship registry for firms that don't want to be bothered with safety inspections. There's some commonality among the exports here somewhere . ..
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Just found an old JNC, whipped out my nice global mission calculator, and should be finished with mission planning in fifteen minutes. Who's going to come by and pick it up? Since the "G" and "H" models can only carry 72 and 68 Mark 82's (500lb) respectively, we'll need eleven flights of three, plus Navy ECM and fighter escort near the drop zone. Recommend staging from Diego Garcia - that cuts it down to two refuelings, one before ingress, one on egress, and minimum time over land. Mission time, 7hr22 minutes, altitude, 42,000ft, airspeed 380kt. I've designated seven boxes, four with revisits. Awaiting the green.
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Over 180,000 Hunger Deaths Reported in Darfur in 18 Months
But I thought discussion and consensus was the answer to suffering and untimely death? While these 180,000 died, all the sophisticated, educated and worldly members of the international community were agreeing that it was horrible, just horrible, and that it must not happen. Then they adjourned the meeting and all these people died because the IC would not ACT to stop it.
The leaders in the international community pose as altruists but live like sociopaths.
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And delivered with all the disinterest of a fat pasha trying to decide between jasmine rice and rice pilaf.
Oh, I don't know should I have this (genocide) or have that (saving the lives of thousands of human beings)? You just wonder if "dead" means anything anymore to anyone. I guess the pile of bodies would be about 1/3 the size of the pro-Lebanon demonstration? Just so our sophisticated friends get a nuanced picture-all those corpses are the price of "international consensus".
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OP,
It has been SO long since I built an 82 - please let me help? I can do high/low drag fins, fore/aft fuzing, even the belly bands for B-52 use. Gimme a call, and I am so THERE.
Mike
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Hey! HEY! They can't have a humanitarian disaster of epic proportions until our military unilaterally commits acts of unprovoked aggression against their peace-loving government! I mean, that's what Michael Moore sez!
What's the matter with them?
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Iraqi police said yesterday they have arrested the man responsible for the August 2003 killing of Shiite leader Ayatollah Mohammad Baqer Al-Hakim, as he prepared to attack another Shiite leader. The suspect, a Kurd from the northern city of Mosul known only as Hashim, was arrested 10 days ago as he walked in the central shrine city of Najaf, said the city's police chief, Maj. Gen. Ghaleb Al-Jazairi. Two others who were with Hashim managed to escape, he said. "He was planning other attacks against the people of Najaf and Grand Ayatollah (Ali) Al-Sistani," said Jazairi referring to the spiritual leader of the country's majority Shiite community.
He said the plot against the 73-year-old Sistani, who rarely ventures out of his Najaf compound, involved booby trapped briefcases containing cash from zakah (alms) given by the faithful and brought to his office. Hashim also planned to carry out suicide attacks near the mausoleum of Imam Ali, the city's most important shrine, said Jazairi. Four others, including an Afghan national, took part in the Aug. 29, 2003, car bombing outside the shrine in which, besides Hakim, over 80 died after the senior cleric delivered his weekly sermon, said Jazairi.
Hakim was killed months after returning to Iraq in the aftermath of the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in April 2003 after 23 years in exile in Iran. He was head of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq , the leading religious Shiite party in Iraq. The party is led now by the late ayatollah's brother, Abdul Aziz, and is a major component of the United Iraqi Alliance which swept January's legislative elections.
Meanwhile, the family of a Jordanian man linked to a massive suicide bombing in Iraq last month denied in Amman yesterday that his son was responsible for the attack as authorities investigated a newspaper report implicating him. "My son had nothing to do with the Hilla bombing. He died in Mosul and was buried there," Mansur Al-Banna told AFP, adding he learned of his son's death from an unidentified caller who told him he died a "martyr" in Iraq.
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âMy son had nothing to do with the Hilla bombing."Then why did you celebrate and "Honor"his death as a martyr?
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