Saudi authorities Friday beheaded three terrorists convicted of several crimes, including killing, kidnapping, stealing and arms smuggling. An Interior Ministry statement said the three Saudis convicts fought in Afghanistan, then set up a criminal gang after returning home two years ago. They were convicted of killing four people, including a soldier, a police officer, a senior official and a judge in the province of Jouf in northwest Saudi Arabia. It marked the first terrorist executions in Saudi Arabia, officials said in statement.
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WTF? Hokay, now when a cleric gets it I'll be impressed
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Show us the bodies. I don't believe it.
They wouldn't kill "holy warriors." They would pardon them and send them to Iraq.
A Kuwaiti judge has renewed the detention of prominent Sunni Muslim cleric Sheikh Hamed Al-Ali for another 15 days for allegedly inciting terror, one of his lawyers was quoted as saying yesterday. Mubarak Al-Mutawa told Al-Anbaa daily that the public prosecutor has charged the sheikh with inciting suspected militants who fought gun battles with security forces in January. The cleric was also charged with assisting the militants, Al-Mutawa said.
He was arrested on March 12 and remanded in custody for 21 days pending investigations. He has denied both charges saying his speeches were only an expression of his opinion and never meant to be used by the militants. Local reports said that the militants used his anti-US sermons as a justification for fighting against Kuwaiti security forces. Last August, the cleric was questioned by the public prosecutor on charges that he had called for jihad against US forces in Iraq. He was freed without bail. In June, he was handed a two-year suspended jail sentence for publicly opposing Kuwait's support for the US-led war on Iraq in March 2003 which toppled President Saddam Hussein. The government blocked the cleric's website last month as part of a crackdown on activities viewed as linked to terror.
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saying his speeches were only an expression of his opinion and never meant to be used by the militants
Sheikh Hamed Al-Ali has been watching too many American films. He seems to have forgotten that his country does not enforce laws protecting his freedom of speech.
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Clashes between security forces and supporters of a slain rebel preacher community continued in Yemen yesterday, taking to 65 the toll since fighting began earlier this week, tribal sources said. Twenty-seven members of the Faithful Youth organization, which was headed by Hussein Badruddin Al-Houthi until he was killed by the army last year, have been killed in Saada province since Wednesday, the sources said.
Security forces, who have been bombing the rebels' mountain strongholds in Nushur, Al-Shafia and Razamat, lost five reconnaissance and military intelligence personnel in an ambush laid by the militants, the sources said. Dozens have been wounded on both sides. Thirty-three people, including 10 members of the army and security forces, were earlier killed. The fighting erupted on Monday in the most serious upsurge of violence between the two sides since the army announced Al-Houthi's killing last September.
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Edited for brevity. A Russian official says Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov was killed by his own men at his request rather than be taken alive by Russian security forces. "You'll never take me alive, coppers!"
Interfax news agency quotes the Russian deputy prosecutor general Nikolai Shepel as saying: "Maskhadov had an agreement with his accomplices that if he was threatened with capture they would shoot him." Mr Maskhadov, elected president of Chechnya during a three-year period in the late 1990s when it enjoyed de facto independence, was killed on March 8 in a special security operation in a village north of the regional capital Grozny. "He had a 'suicide belt' on him at the time but he did not want to explode it because he wanted his accomplices to live, so he asked them to shoot him," Mr Shepel said. If that ain't professional courtesy, I don't know what is!
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Dear Chechen terrorists, by all means please take yourself out today in order never to be captured in future.
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So Basayev's lovingly crafted belt for M wasn't working? OR Was M having second thoughts about the fatwa saying a suicide bombing was not actually suicide thereby qualifying him for the 72 virgins? OR Was M just having a bad beard hair day and twitched the wrong way while going for his attitude adjuster? Too many questions and too few answers!
MADRID—A man believed to be the Al Qaeda spokesman in Europe was expected to be extradited to arrive in Madrid after being extradited from Belgium. A Belgian court rejected an appeal from Moroccan-born Youssef Belhadj earlier this month. Federal magistrate Eric Vander Sijp has now indicated his extradition is imminent. Belhadj, 28, is suspected by the Madrid authorities of being the Al Qaeda spokesman who claimed responsibility for the atrocity in a videotape message. The bomb attacks, at the height of the city's morning rush hour last March, killed 191 people. Belhadj was first arrested in March 2004 because he was believed to be a member of the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group, but he was released due to lack of evidence.
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MADRID- Spanish police have arrested 12 people in connection with Islamic extremists and those who carried out the Madrid train bombings last year, the interior ministry announced. The ministry said four of those arrested had close links to Youssef Belhadj, believed to be Al-Qaeda's spokesman in Europe and who arrived in Madrid earlier Friday after being extradited from Belgium on suspicion of involvement in the 11 March attacks, in which 191 people were killed. The ministry added that six of those detained were Moroccans. Three were Syrians, one an Egyptian, another a Palestinian and one an Algerian, the ministry said. Details of the arrests were still scant.
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Good news from Spain. Turns out they have 50 more of these rag head killers on the watch list. Time to round em up.
Spain arrests 12 Muslimes Madrid train bombings terrorist
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MADRID, Spain — At least 12 camel fuck Mudslums terrorist were arrested Friday in connection with the train bombings in Madrid.
The Interior Ministry said the pIslamics were six Moroccans, three Syrians, one Egyptian, one Palestinian and one Algerian were arrested in raids in and around the city.
Four of the Allah fuckers, Moroccans are brothers linked to another Moroccan, Youssef Belhadj, suspected of being the al Qaeda figure in whose name the pIslamic terrorist attacks were claimed. Belhadj was extradited Friday from Belgium to Spain.
A police spokesman said the Muslim brothers, whose family name is Haddad, put Belhadj up in Madrid during a visit in 2003.
The spokesman said the 12 Muslimes were suspected of being involved in preparations for the attacks, rather than in carrying out the bombings. That makes them murders for Allah.
Among the terrorist detained is 33-year-old Mahamad Tiazounie, of Muslim Syrian origin, who is considered the personal assistant of a Muslime terrorist Tunisian named Serhane Ben Abdelmajid Fakhet, one of seven key suspects who killed themselves in a cowardly suicide blast on April 3 as police moved in to arrest them.
About 150 police agents took part in the raids. Police said there could be more arrests.
More than twenty Muslimes, most of them Moroccan, have been jailed on provisional charges in connection with the Madrid bombings. More than 50 other Muslimes are considered suspect terrorist but are not detained.
The March 11, 2004, pIslamic terrorist bombings on four commuter trains slaughtered 191 people and wounded more than 1,500.
Syria has dismantled two terrorist cells affiliated with the al-Qaida network since the beginning of the year, reports said Wednesday. The London-based Saudi daily al-Hayat quoted Western diplomatic sources in London as saying that two cells led by Muslim clerics were uncovered, one in the city of Homs in central Syria and the other in Aleppo in the north. The cells were discovered when a member of al-Qaida killed a policeman in a mosque then admitted the crime to his father, saying he had secured his place in heaven by eliminating an atheist. The father was upset and eventually put police on the trail of the gangs.However, several members of the two cells were able to flee Syria and take refuge in a rugged and mountainous region of north Lebanon, the report said.
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Miss the one in Damascus? You know, at the Palace?
Lebanon's pro-Syrian Prime Minister-designate Omar Karami confirmed yesterday he would abandon his attempt to forge a national unity government, but stopped short of formally tendering his resignation. The government crisis set off by the February 14 assassination of Karami's predecessor Rafik Hariri has dimmed prospects that elections can be completed on schedule by the end of May.
The anti-Syrian opposition had always rejected the idea of a unity government. Karami's doomed effort to form one, and his slow-motion resignation, have fuelled opposition suspicions that the authorities are manoeuvring to postpone the polls. "Since the beginning, the government was trying to delay the elections," Christian former President Ameen Gemayel said. "We are pushing to have the elections on schedule." Syria's allies in Lebanon, led by the Shiite Hezbollah group, staged a noisy but peaceful rally outside the US embassy north of Beirut, where several thousand protesters waved Lebanese flags and shouted anti-American slogans. Karami met President Emile Lahoud to tell him he planned to step down. The Sunni premier said afterwards he would submit his resignation only after meeting his loyalist bloc. "The goal is not just forming a government, but salvation, and we don't see salvation without a unity government," he said. Pro-Syrian political sources said the loyalists would meet tomorrow evening and even then might ask Karami to stay on.
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A former Taleban commander has surrendered to the Afghan government, one of the most high-profile figures to do so since the regime was toppled more than three years ago, officials said yesterday. Three mid-level Taleban commanders have also been arrested without a fight in an operation by US and Afghan troops in central Afghanistan, officials said. Ex-commander Abdul Waheed handed himself over to the authorities in southeastern Helmand province to take advantage of a planned amnesty announced by Kabul early this year, provincial intelligence chief Dad Mohammad Khan said. US-backed President Hamid Karzai's administration has been in talks with a number of former Taleban leaders in recent months but has not announced the final details of the amnesty scheme. Waheed has now moved to the Afghan capital Kabul where he is expected to meet Karzai. "He was a key Taleban commander. His surrender will help bring other Taleban in," Khan told AFP by telephone.
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Everyone except Biker Omar and Hek the Hurler
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A Palestinian security chief resigned on Thursday, complaining to President Mahmoud Abbas that too little was being done to halt lawlessness in the West Bank and Gaza, officials said. "I cannot work under these conditions," Tawfik Tirawi, head of Palestinian Intelligence in the West Bank, wrote in a letter of resignation that he gave Abbas after a meeting of security commanders at the president's headquarters, the officials said.
Tirawi, the most senior security official to resign since Abbas's election in January, quit a day after half a dozen gunmen from the ruling Fatah faction fired at the presidential Muqata compound in Ramallah and then rampaged through the city. There was no immediate word if Abbas, who officials said gets along well with Tirawi, would ask him to reconsider. The officials said Tirawi complained that other heads of Palestinian security organizations had not done enough to impose the rule of law Abbas had promised after taking over from the late Yasser Arafat.
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If he quits, will anyone be able to tell? "Ineffective" does him too much justice
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"I cannot work under these conditions..."
and haven't all of us been there at one time or another?
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The officials said Tirawi complained that other heads of Palestinian security organizations had not done enough to impose the rule of law Abbas had promised after taking over from the late Yasser Arafat.
The blame for all this lies at the feet of Mazen. He's supposed to be the top hombre, and if he can't/won't do anything to get his underlings under control, then he's useless, and the notion that he's the head of a Paleo "government" is laughable at best.
Today's Iraq Corpse 'n' Carnage report, brought to you by the Associated Press...
By Antonio Castaneda
The Associated Press Influential Sunni scholars encouraged Iraqis to join the country's security forces and protect the country, issuing an edict today that departed sharply from earlier warnings against participating in the fledgling police and army.
"Don't go joinin' no infidel-dominated national forces... No, wait! We meant join! Yes, join up! Do it now!"
Also today, an explosion damaged a ninth-century, spiral minaret that is one of Iraq's most recognized landmarks. The blast in the central city of Samarra blew a large hole in the structure, police Lt. Qasim Mohammed said. Witnesses said two men climbed the 170-foot-tall minaret, then returned to the ground before the explosion occurred. The minaret is a symbol of Samarra's past glory, the only remains of a mosque dating back from the Abbasid Islamic dynasty. It is featured on Iraq's 250-dinar bill. It was unclear why the minaret was targeted. U.S. troops have used its top as a sniper position, and last year, the Islamic extremist group linked to Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi flew a flag from its peak. Sgt. Brian Thomas, a spokesman for the 42nd Infantry Division, said coalition forces no longer used the minaret. He said Iraqi police were investigating the explosion.
Today's edict, endorsed by a group of 64 Sunni clerics and scholars, instructed enlistees to refrain from helping foreign troops against their own countrymen. But Ahmed Abdul Ghafour al-Samarrai, a cleric in the influential Association of Muslim Scholars who read the edict during a sermon at a major Sunni mosque, said joining the Iraqi security forces was now necessary to prevent the country from falling into "the hands of those who have caused chaos, destruction and violated the sanctities." If heeded, the announcement could strengthen Iraqi security forces, who are trying to take over the fight against the Sunni-led insurgency. It came as Ukraine and Italy gave timelines to pull troops from Iraq later this year, further dwindling the number of U.S.-led coalition forces.
In ongoing violence against Iraq's faithful, a bomb near a Sunni mosque in Kirkuk killed one civilian heading to Friday prayers, said police official Sarhat Qadir. Three others were also injured. In the holy city of Karbala, Shiite pilgrims began leaving after sleeping on city streets because they feared traveling at night after a string of attacks on pilgrims. Bus stations were packed with faithful heading home after a Shiite religious holiday marking the end of a 40-day mourning period for Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad and one of Shiites' most important saints. Fighters from the Sunni Muslim-led insurgency staged several deadly attacks on Shiite pilgrims in the days leading up to the religious festival. Security measures remained in place today, with policemen keeping watch from building rooftops and patrolling the streets.
Also today, witnesses said a car bomb exploded outside a U.S. base in Ramadi, near a convoy at the base's gate. The U.S. military and Iraqi police did not immediately have information on the blast. In the eastern city of Balad Ruz, gunmen killed police chief Col. Hatim Rashid and another officer at a police station, police Col. Mudhafar al-Jubouri said.
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Do these guys have any city which is not "holy"? or for that matter any day which is not a religious HOLY day?
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Much like their holy places, their holy days are ranked. Today, for example, is their 55th holiest day of the year. Tomorrow is the 363rd holiest day.
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1) What's [sic] about the "spokesman" - that he was a Sgt., or his identification with the 42nd Infantry Division? The 42nd seems to be in Iraq right now, and would seem to be based in Samarah.
2) Samarah is "holy" in sort of the same way that Kamakura is "holy" - more in the sense of having a lot of historical and religious architecture. The damaged minaret being a fairly important example thereof, which leads us to...
3) What the ever-living fuck were we doing using a historical and religious monument as a sodding SNIPER POST?!? We made enough righteous noise about the terrorist insurgency's habit of using mosques as bunkers and minarets as pillboxes back during the bad old Fallujah days - how the hell is it that some dipshit thought it was a good idea to *emulate* said behavior?
I mean, good goddamnit!
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I expect it was because of the view. Once a religious site is used in warfare it's vaneer of sanctity disappears. Another way to look at it is... who the shit cares? But that's just me.
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For example the allenists made good use of the Bereiut Holiday Inn which was a citadel of capitalism... and yet I don't blame them, it was the high ground.
The leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah militant groups met Friday in Beirut and signed a statement declaring their armed resistance against Israel legitimate. Following a meeting with Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Hezbollah, Hamas political chief Khaled Mashaal said his group would not disarm. The joint Hamas-Hezbollah statement said both sides underlined the legitimacy of their resistance activities against Israel. Hamas stressed that the continuation of the current cease-fire in the Palestinian territories depended on an end to Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people and the release of all prisoners. The statement said, "Hamas will not be committed to remain calm if Israel fails to meet its demands."
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Too bad the Israelis don't use hanging against these bad boys. The British used it to such effect in their time that many nations still get the heebie-jeebies thinking about it. Works great for pirates, too.
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"Hamas will not be committed to remain calm if Israel fails to meet its demands."
translated as " we at the Hamas-Hezbollah conference will remain commited to voilence even if Israel meets our demands , which are the total withdrawal of Joo's from the Arab continent"
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Israel and the U.S. should detach themselves from any idea of a peace process or any "road map" for now. Until these Muslim terrorist groups are snuffed out, they'll be forever issuing demands.
Businesses have closed in a number of Pakistani cities following a strike called in protest against the influence of the Punjab in national life. Riot police moved in to disperse protesters throwing stones in Peshawar in North-West Frontier Province. Nationalists demanding greater political and economic rights also took to the streets in the restive south-west province of Balochistan.
Supporters of the Pakistan Oppressed Nations Movement (PONM) disrupted normal life in Balochistan, Sindh and North-West Frontier Province. The shutdown was most effective in Peshawar and in Quetta, capital of Balochistan. Hundreds of supporters of the regional and nationalist groups stayed on the streets of cities in Balochistan during the day to ensure a shutdown. Reports from the interior of Sindh said businesses in most of the cities there were also closed and there was also a partial strike in Karachi, with shops shut in the suburbs and most public transport off the roads. A government official said transport companies pulled buses off the roads because of overnight violence during which several vehicles were set on fire. Three more buses were torched on Thursday morning. In Peshawar, PONM supporters took to the streets on Thursday morning, throwing stones at passing vehicles and shops that had opened. Outlets of the Subway food chain and Honda cars were damaged. There were also reports of sporadic clashes in some parts of Balochistan, but officials say by and large the situation remained under control.
PONM is an alliance of several groups that aspire for greater rights for smaller provinces. The alliance accuses the bigger province, Punjab, which has largely ignored the strike call, and the federal government of denying people rights in other areas. They say that people in smaller provinces are not given their due share of jobs. Its main demand is for a new national constitution to ensure equal rights. The BBC's Zaffar Abbas in Islamabad says that recently the alliance has been rallying around armed Baloch nationalists, who in their campaign for greater rights have started what is effectively a mini-insurgency by targeting government installations in Balochistan.
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When I got a visa to go to India there was a huge rally outside the consolute in San Francisco. Free Kalistan. I asked a few Indian coworkers and found that Kalistan is another term for the Punjab. It is also the name of the death god worshipped by the Thuggee cult (Gunga Din, Temple of Doom).
Be that as it may, if Pakistan busts into pieces I think the Punjab/Kalistan is going to be the most succesful piece. They are just too crazy in the Northwest Province and Balochistan.
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Actually, Khalistan is the name given to a hypothetical Sikh free state. The godess in question is Kali and unrelated to Khalistan. Wasn't much of a strike here in Karachi, although the strike today (saturday) promises to be more troublesome as it has been called by the Mad Mullahs Association.
Four foreigners were arrested here late on Wednesday night for their alleged links with Al Qaeda, well-placed sources said on Thursday. The arrests were made when an intelligence agency team, with the help of the crime investigation department, raided the house of one Abdul Aziz in the Azamabad area of Pawaki. Mr Aziz belongs to Afghanistan's Kunduz province. Those arrested are Abdul Aziz; Mustafa, Turk; Sulaiman, Spaniard; and Tulan, Russian Muslim. Sources said that the intelligence personnel seized passports of the suspects, two computers, a PCO phone set, a plastic coating machine and a cellular phone. The sources said that the foreigners were arrested on the charge of having links with Al Qaeda.
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Insecurity in Somalia's south-central town of Baidoa, one of the two proposed seats of the transitional government, has prevented a ministerial delegation visiting the town, sources told IRIN on Tuesday. The group of five ministers and two Members of Parliament instead went to Huddur, a town 100 km further north, after fighting erupted in Baidoa at the weekend. They had been sent by Somalia's transitional federal government (TFG) to assess the security situation in Baidoa. The fighting involved militiamen loyal to two rival leaders of the Rahanweyn Resistance Army faction - Mohamed Ibrahim Habsade and Hassan Mohammed Nur Shatigudud - both members of the recently created TFG. Shatigudud, a minister in the TFG, was in the group that went to Huddur. Clashes first erupted on 24 March, but the violence later died down - only to flare up again on 26 March. Several people were killed, dozens wounded and scores fled their homes. Reportedly, the fighting was sparked by a demonstration organised by supporters of Shatigudud, who backed the Somali cabinet's recent decision to temporarily relocate from its current base in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, to Baidoa and Jowhar. Habsade had reportedly opposed the move to relocate the new government. Militiamen from both sides shot at each other during the demonstration and later engaged in full-scale warfare. They used rocket-propelled grenades, heavy artillery and assault rifles to pound each other's positions, according to residents contacted by telephone. According to sources in Huddur, the TFG delegation was consulting with local elders on how to resolve the conflict in Baidoa.
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Living in a part of London with a large Somali community I'm amazed they ever had a government. The ones I know can't even catch a bus without getting in a fight.
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US forces in Iraq are holding a senior operative of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi who holds joint American-Jordanian citizenship, defense officials said on Thursday. The man was captured in a raid by US-led coalition forces in Iraq late in 2004, said Matthew Waxman, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs.
Maybe a rat caught up in the Fallujah net?
"Weapons and bomb-making materials were in his residence at the time he was captured," Waxman said. Waxman described the man as a personal associate of Zarqawi and an emissary to insurgent groups in several cities in Iraq. Defense officials also believe the captured American helped coordinate the movement of insurgents and money into Iraq, Waxman said. The officials said the man holds joint US-Jordanian citizenship but declined to provide his hometown or otherwise identify him.
"You may call him Abu X."
After his capture, a panel of three US officers determined he was an enemy combatant and not entitled to prisoner-of-war status under the Geneva Convention, Waxman said. He is still being held as a security threat but has been visited by representatives of the International Committee of the Red Thingy Cross. He is the first American known to be captured fighting for the insurgency in Iraq, Waxman said, and officials are considering options how to proceed with his case.
Hint: Enthusiastically. Remember Nick Berg!
His capture represents a thorny legal issue for the military. It is uncertain whether he will be turned over to the Justice Department for investigation, or to Iraq's new legal system, which has handled the prosecution of other foreign fighters who came to Iraq to fight the US-led occupation and new Iraqi government.
Didn't expect to find a domestic housefly in the Iraqi flypaper....
Details on the man's American citizenship were sketchy, but Waxman said he believed the man was born overseas but moved to the United States later. It was unclear when he left.
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1) Hold a military tribunal to establish his guilt for waging non-Geneva Convention war against the U.S.A.
2) Revoke his American citizenship because he swore fealty under false pretenses.
3) Either send him to Gitmo or turn him over to the Iraqis, depending on the value of the information in his head.
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4) Pump him dry, send him to a SuperMax facility so that he can get pumped, then dangle him out the door of an C-17 at 1000 ft by his feet and drop him over the desert while flying at max throttle . . . should spread little bits of Abu X all over.
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Suck him dry is right. Then spread rumors about how he exposed, revealed his fellow killers. Then popcorn time for Rantburgers
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Suck him dry, release him, and then publicly announce that he defected and we set him free as a reward for being so helpful and cooperative.
Then make the popcorn.
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Then make the fat-free, low carb popcorn. At times it looks like Binny-s diabolic plan is to kill us through overweight and cardio-vascular diseases due to popcorn.
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"The man was captured in a raid by US-led coalition forces in Iraq late in 2004"
This is something many RB'ers where speculating on when so many other Top Zarq aids started being captured about this time as well. As to what to do with him? Some sick part of me would like to see him tried in the US Judicial System as it would be a total circus that would bring all the internal enemies out of hiding. Could be a great internal intel gathering opportunity. It would also put out in front for Americans to see what raving lunatics these guys really are.
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TomAnon, You're sick. I like the way you think.
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I'm looking fwd to the days when our technology can actually suck his brain dry of intel - preferably via a 3/8" drill bit
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I oppose a US trial, as a top-notch attorney can often find a way to turn the proceedings into a joke, especially if a sympathetic Clinton-apointee judge is selected to hear the case.
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you know - there have been so many stories stating that senior aids or senior Lt's have been captured that I don't even pay attention to stories like this. I mean really, how many Sr "abc's" can this guy have???
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1. Suck him dry of intel.
2. Give him to the Iraqis with an axe to grind (heh).
3. Keep anyone out of the US judicial system like Abu X until the black robed rats are cleaned out, as well as traitorous lawyuhs.
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Suck him dry, then send him to Singapore as an indentured day laborer. Have THEM transfer him to northern Thailand, and tell everybody he's an American spy for the Drug Enforcement Agency. THEN pop the popcorn. We have "plausibile deniability", he gets what he richly deserves, and the Thais get some fun.
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All of the above....then apply the Scrotum Inflation Kit to the FrankG administered 3/8" cranial port!!!
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Whew!
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Mother McCree! We need therapy.
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PESHAWAR: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has accused US officials of deliberately hitting the party's Frontier leader Pir Sabir Shah's car in a road incident on March 26. Rehmat Salam, PML-N provincial leader, told a news conference on Thursday that Pir Sabir Shah was surprised when the US Embassy in Islamabad issued a statement claiming that the American convoy had nothing to do with the road incident involving Shah. "Pir Sabir Shah's car was overtaking the American convoy when his driver entered the convoy to avoid a head-on collision with a vehicle coming from the opposite direction. Shah's car was deliberately hit from behind by the Americans, injuring Shah, his driver, and his bodyguard," said Salam.
He alleged that US Special Forces personnel also aimed their guns at Shah. Salam rejected the US Embassy statement that the injured PML-N leader and his companions were provided medical treatment by the US officials. "We know how much the Americans take care of people. The treatment of suspects in Guantanamo Bay speaks volumes of their compassion.
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'Cause we got a mighty convoy
Rockin' through the night
Yeah, we got a mighty convoy
Ain't she a beautiful sight
C'mon and join our Convoy
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
'Cross the USA
Convoy
Convoy
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Too bad we didn't do it. Sounds like a spiffy idea - except for the part about where he's allowed back in line and survives, of course.
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Given the locals fondness for car bombs, he's lucky they didn't turn his car into a convertible.
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Shah?
I used to work with a guy named Shah whose family was supposedly big in the Frontier areas.
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I thought it was an interesting article because I wasn't aware that Special Forces was in the habit of moving around in convoys in Pakiland.
Posted by: Fred ||
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well if we aren't, we should be, BY GAWD!
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04/01/2005 10:14 Comments ||
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If I read this correctly, Shah's car is hauling ass and attemting to pass the convoy when oncoming traffic forces him back into the lane the convoy is occupying. This caused a collision and probably looked to the soldiers in the convoy like some kind of assault so they got their weapons ready, but analized the situtation and didn't shoot up Shah's car.
Pay your damn car repair and hospital bills and shut up Shah. Your driver was driving like a third world maniac around armed troops. You are lucky to be alive.
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Pay your damn car repair and hospital bills and shut up Shah. Your driver was driving like a third world maniac around armed troops. You are lucky to be alive.
LOL , indeed .. anyway i thought you drive on the shady side of the road in 3rd world .. keeps ya cool when ya driving is manic
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I understand that American convoys in Iraq consider a car trying to butt into a convoy a potential IED. So this overtaking car could have been seen as a potential boom threat.
The guy's lucky he's still around to complain.
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Iraq has quietly expanded its security responsibility to the worst areas of the Sunni Triangle. Iraqi officials said army and police forces have been given a larger role in operations in the Anbar province near the Syrian border. Al Anbar has been deemed the largest stronghold of the Sunni insurgency. "Hopefully, within 18 months at the most we will be capable of securing Iraq," Iraqi Interior Minister Falah Naqib said on Monday. "We hope that next summer, there will be a huge reduction in the numbers of multinational patrols. In some cities, there will be no foreign troops at all." Over the last week, Iraqi and U.S. forces have captured two Sunni insurgency bases around Baghdad. More than 85 insurgents were killed and about 100 others were captured.
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If effective and they remain uncompromised, I'm thinking about the usual Arab custom of baksheesh to look the other way, then bravo!
Time will tell. 18 months might be a realistic timeframe. Cautiously optimistic, expecting setbacks now and then...
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas ordered yesterday a crackdown on wayward militants after gunmen opened fire at his West Bank headquarters in another sign of the chaos dogging the occupied territories. Gunmen from a radical group loosely affiliated to the ruling Fatah party fired a volley of bullets into the air inside the courtyard of the Palestinian leadership compound known as the Muqata in Ramallah after being ordered off the premises.
"Beat it! Out! All of you! And take your artillery with you!"
Furious at being ejected from the compound where they had been living for months, the militants ran riot through the streets, firing bursts of automatic weapon fire and damaging several restaurants, forcing a shopping center to close.
"Dey can't do dat to us!"
"Yeah! Let's go bust somethin'!"
A spokesman for the gunmen said Abbas expelled a group of militants from his West Bank headquarters who had been given refuge by Yasser Arafat. Abbas ordered the 26 out after half a dozen of the gunmen — from his ruling Fatah faction — fired at his Muqata compound overnight while he was inside and then rampaged through the city, damaging shops. No casualties were reported. The 26, on an Israeli wanted list of 70 members of the Fatah-affiliated Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, had defied his demands to lay down their arms under peace moves he had agreed with Israel. The flare-up in North Mogadishu Ramallah began after security commanders met representatives of the 70 earlier in the week to press them to put aside their weapons. Abbas had allowed the 26 to stay at his headquarters after Arafat's death in November despite Israeli criticism. The spokesman said all the gunmen had left the compound on Abbas' orders and had gone to hiding places in Ramallah, the West Bank's political and commercial hub. It was not immediately clear if they took their weapons with them.
Sounds like they did. What do you think?
Faced with yet another embarrassing sign of the rampant unrest in the occupied territories, the Palestinian Authority denounced the group for "sabotaging and attacking security".
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Lie down with dogs, wake up with automatic weapons shrapnel in your ceiling...
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas ordered yesterday a crackdown on wayward militants after gunmen opened fire at his West Bank headquarters in another sign of the chaos dogging the occupied territories.
Why crack down when Mazen could just "negotiate" with terrori.....er, "militants" instead?
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How many 'crackdowns' is this now ? I am sure the number is in double figures since he took leadership of the biggest bunch of morons this planet has ever produced .
Expect to hear about more crackdowns which dont do anything :P
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Looks like Abbas kicked out some of Yassir Arafat's butt buddies, welfare bums and parasites. No way were these morons paying their way. Plus some are prolly on Israel's list of arrest_on_sight_
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Interesting he "cracks down" when HIS ass is ready to be turned into swiss cheese, and NOT before.
Proves:
agreements = nothing and bullets are the only things paleos respond to. Isn't that what Israel has been saying all along?
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Well, they reasoned together and that did not work. So Abbas will have to crack down or be ousted (or offed). I will have some popcorn, Ptah. Thank you.
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I hope "arrest_on_sight" is P.C.-speak for "ventilate_skull".
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A tank driver lost Pakistan the war
Daily Khabrain quoted from the memoir of PMLN leader Javed Hashmi Han main Baghi Hun to say that Pakistan lost the 1965 war because a Pakistani tank driver pushed the clutch and allowed his tank to break the bridge at Khem Karan. That gave India the opportunity to breach the canal and flood the plain where the Pakistani tanks got bogged down.
South Waziristan was bribed by Al Qaeda
According to daily Pakistan the Wazir and Mehsud tribes of South Waziristan were fighting against Pakistan army after being paid by Al Qaeda. When the rebels decided to make a peace deal with the Pakistan army they brought up the problem of the money taken from Al Qaeda which now had to be paid back. Five warriors who laid down arms wanted Rs 17 crore but the government finally gave them Rs 15 crore to repay Al Qaeda. One out of the five who could not get anything was still on the warpath. Baitullah Mehsud was also said to have received money from the government.
Khair Baksh Marri and BLA
According to Nawa-e-Waqt DIG Quetta held a press conference saying that the police had arrested one Hassan Marri and caught him with 120 kg of explosive powder. He also had a bank account with Rs 3.5 crore in it. His bag contained letters written to and for Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA). The man was one of the bodyguards of Nawab Khair Baksh Marri and had many photographs snapped with the Nawab. The DIG said that the BLA was no bigger than a couple of dozen men who were being organised internally and helped by a power outside which could not yet be named. Hassan Marri was caught inside Marri territory living in a castle-like house.
Pakistan fascinated by its own faeces?
Humourist Ataul Haq Qasimi narrated in Jang a hikayat from Maulana Rum about a horse that was well-bred, fast and good to look at, but had the blemish of stopping and smelling its own shit. While galloping in the most attractive style it would stop, relieve itself and then become fascinated by the results. The owner hired another man to ride behind him and whip the horse whenever it stopped to admire his own shit. This worked for some time but once the extra rider went away, the horse looked back and finding no one there resumed the practice of shitting and smelling the results. The columnist came to the conclusion that Rumi's parable was about Pakistan which behaved well only temporarily but once the back-rider with a whip was removed it went back to defecating and being fascinated by its own shit.
What Balochistan gets
Columnist Irshad Haqqani quoted an ex-commissioner Sibi in Jang saying that Balochistan received Rs 5 billion as royalty for gas which went straight into the Provincial Consolidated Fund and did not go to any tribe or sardar. On the other hand, the gas company PPL was paying for the use of the land where it had its machine and pipes spread around in hundreds of kilometres. Dera Bugti had the following areas covered by the PPL assets: Uchch, Pirkoh and Loi. The Bugti tribes who received this rental annually were: Raeja, Pirozani, Chandarani, Notani, etc. (Nawab Akbar Bugti belongs to the Raeja sub-tribe.) When the money reached the ordinary tribal it was not very much.
Filmstar Mira in 'trubbel'
Reported by Jang, Pakistan's foremost film star actress Mira was receiving death threats from various quarters for acting in a 'shameless' manner in an Indian film. She was acting in Mahesh Bhatt's film titled Nazar and had to dance around with a Hindu actor named Patel. While dancing she was also shown becoming quite intimate with the Hindu actor. The threats to her were based on Islamic objections. Mira requested Bhatt to cut out the intimate scenes but he refused. Mira does routine intimate scenes with Muslim actors. According to Khabrain, dancer Nargis failed to appear in a court in Gujranwala to hear charges of fahashi (obscenity) and was issued warrants for arrest by the magistrate. Nawa-e-Waqt wrote that Mira doing compromising scenes with Patel had married twice while her mother was about to announce her fifth marriage. Mira had divorced twice but pretended to be a virgin.
Bharat and America versus Gwadar
Writing in Jang, Javed Qureshi stated that Gwadar was being built in Pakistan by the Chinese. For their own reasons, India and America did not want the port to be built. Both feared that China's influence in Balochistan would increase as a result. America had also started another campaign in tandem with this: it had accused AQ Khan of more illegal contacts among the Arab states.
Say no to Iranian pipeline!
Daily Nawa-e-Waqt editorialised that the people of Pakistan were greatly incensed at the project of Iranian gas pipeline transiting through Pakistan to India. The paper said it was folly on the part of the petroleum minister Jadoon to welcome the Indian request to discuss the pipeline for increasing its diameter from 20 inches to 40 inches. The editorial said that Pakistan should not betray its Kashmir policy for the sale of $500 million that it expected to get from the transit pipeline. Pakistan should think of Kashmir which the Indians were unwilling to discuss and the dams they were building to make Pakistan go dry. The pipeline would allow India to become prosperous while Pakistan would get only $500 million.
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Humourist Ataul Haq Qasimi
I guess he loses something in the translation
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"A Bugti, a Marri and a duck walk into a mosque, and the imam sez..."
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas ordered yesterday a crackdown on wayward militants after gunmen opened fire at his West Bank headquarters in another sign of the chaos dogging the occupied territories. Gunmen from a radical group loosely affiliated to the ruling Fatah party fired a volley of bullets into the air inside the courtyard of the Palestinian leadership compound known as the Muqata in Ramallah after being ordered off the premises.
A tank driver lost Pakistan the war
