Saudi security forces have exchanged fire with members of an armed group they had attempted to arrest, resulting in at least four deaths and many more wounded. Aljazeera has learned that at least one Saudi police officer was shot dead on Sunday and another 15 had been wounded by midday. Saudi Arabia's Al-Ekhbariya television broadcast Prince Faisal bin Bandar bin Abd al-Aziz confirming that three suspected rebels had been shot dead. "They were asked to surrender, but those people are known not to listen," Faisal told the television station. He described the gunmen as "terrorists" but did not say which organisation they belonged to.
"Youse in there! Throw down yer shootin' irons and come out witcher hands up!"
"You'll never take us alive, coppers!"
"Hokay. Mahmoud, kill them all. I'm going to lunch."
The firefight erupted about 8am in the city of al-Ras in al-Qasim region, 355km northwest of the capital, Riyadh, after security forces surrounded several wanted men in a neighbourhood called al-Jawazat, a security source in Riyadh said. The gun battles began early on Sunday morning and dragged on into the night, Reuters quoted a security source as saying. An Interior Ministry source said the suspects hurled grenades during the battle. Several security vehicles were damaged. Another security source earlier said that the clash took place as security forces raided a house where "suspected members of the deviant group (official terminology for suspected al-Qaida sympathisers) were believed to be hiding". Witnesses said they saw at least three people being carried away from the house on Sunday morning, but it was not clear whether they were wounded or dead.
"Owowowowowow..."
"Is he wounded or dead, sergeant?"
"Owowowowow [Snap!]... Aaaaaiiiiieeeeee! Rosebud!"
"Dead, sir!"
The incident came less than a month after a suspected al-Qaida member was arrested along with two of his companions, after a heavy gun battle on 13 March in the Red Sea city of Jedda.
UPDATE:Gunmen still resisting in north Saudi
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, April 4 (UPI) -- Security forces and gunmen entrenched inside a building traded gunfire Monday in northern Saudi Arabia. Witnesses in the city of Ras in the province of al-Kassim, 400 kilometers (250 miles) north of Riyadh, said the clashes, which began Sunday, were intermittent. There was no official casualty count but security sources who requested anonymity told UPI a number of security forces -- some 25 -- had been injured, mainly from shrapnel. The governor of al-Kassim, Prince Faisal bin Bandar bin Abdul Aziz, said three gunmen were killed in the confrontation. He said two police were seriously injured and underwent surgery while the rest suffered superficial injuries.
Prince Faisal said security forces managed to rout gunmen from several hideouts, but unconfirmed reports said as many as 21 gunmen, including several terror suspects, were still entrenched inside a building and resisting. Abdullah al-Rashoud, who figures on an official list of 26 most wanted terrorists in Saudi Arabia, is believed to be among the resisting gunmen.
This article starring:
ABDULLAH AL RASHUD
al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
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My view... Picture Nayef as The PuppetMaster and the guys getting caught in shootouts mainly as stray bin Laden-believers - basically free-lancers and unconnected hotheads who got caught up in some hardcore imam's bin Laden cult.
If ya wanna pack heat in the World's Largest Ashtray, and maintain 98.6, ya gotta have a Princely sponsor - one that's connected. The bin Laden Caliphate Boyz have accomplished nothing other than drive out the families of expats by bravely murdering unarmed civilians. I dunno how many there are, but they don't have the resources Nayef commands - so they're toast.
Now the funny thing is that old Nayef is definitely playing the other side, too, in a slow-burn Clan war with Abdullah. I think the paltry number of captures (that live very long) after fairly successful attacks (those requiring planning and resources and escape routes, hint, hint) sort of makes this case. Those that take direction well (are smart enough to attack only whom they're told, when they're told) live a little longer - until he needs to show some bodies for political cover. The dumbest ones get served up on the evening news at the first opportunity. The pattern of surrounded guys getting away, wounded captives dying before anyone else (other than Nayef's State Police) can question them, etc. makes it as clear as it ever gets in Arab internecine affairs. That's my take, anyway.
The police chief of the northern Yemeni province of Saada, where armed forces are hunting down rebels, was injured in an ambush yesterday, security officials said. Brig. Gen. Muhammad Saleh Turaiq was wounded when armed men, believed to be loyalists to the slain cleric Hussein Badruddin Al-Houthi, opened fire on his convoy. Eyewitnesses said that at least three of the attackers were killed in a clash with Turaiq's bodyguards. Turaiq and an injured bodyguard were rushed to the Al-Salam hospital in Saada for treatment, the officials told Arab News. In a separate attack, Saada Deputy Governor Hassan Manaa was ambushed by suspected Al-Houthi supporters, who are battling government forces in the mountainous areas of the province. Security sources said Manaa escaped the ambush unharmed.
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I know this is a silly question but, truly and without sarcasm, what exactly is the job of a Yemeni police chief?
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In straight talk, I'd say:
To execute the law as dispensed by the Tribal Sheikh(s) who rule over the area containing (or contained by) his jurisdiction.
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tw - Well - that would be up to the Sheikh, no? I would say that the loyalty of the Police Chief would, indeed, be - first and foremost - to the Sheikh. He's real. He's local. And his people are in the Chief's face (or behind his back) every day. The National Govt probably doesn't have diddley-squat to do with the Chief's daily life - and he only hears from them when he's screwed up. If it's a beef between the Sheikh and the National Govt, I'd wager the Cheif would like to make himself scarce - he can't win, he can only lose.
French police are questioning several people after seizing 100kg (220lb) of Semtex explosive hidden in a lorry in the northern town of Hazebrouck. The operation on Saturday was part of an investigation into organised crime. The plastic explosive was allegedly bound for Paris. Hazebrouck lies 30km (20 miles) from the Channel port of Calais and is also near the Belgian border. Semtex - a Czech-made explosive - has been used by various terrorist groups. The French prosecutor's office said it believed the Semtex seized on Saturday was to be divided up and sold to criminal gangs, rather than to terrorists, Reuters reported.
"Nothing to see here, move along"
No details about the suspects were released. Observers say Semtex can be hard to detect and as little as 250g can bring down an airliner.
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It must have been a "parked" lorry since no lorries (semis to us) are even allowed on the national highways of France on the weekend. But it was also a lucky find since lorry traffic between northern Europe and the channel ports makes the New Jersey Turnpike look like an empty race track. I'll bet this was set up by tip at the buying end.
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I guess they aren't so different from Iran!
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Maybe it was earmarked for illegal Bastille Day fireworks displays?
Iran allocated $2.5 billion to obtain three nuclear warheads in 2005, according to a report cited by an opposition official.
The Iranian opposition said the Islamic leadership in Teheran approved a project to procure nuclear warheads meant to be deployed on Shihab-class intermediate-range missiles produced by Iran. The opposition said that nearly a year ago Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei ordered Defense Minister Ali Shamkhani to procure the warheads, Middle East Newsline reported.
"In mid-2004, Khamenei allocated $2.5 billion to obtain three nuclear warheads by their own means [production] or buy them abroad," National Council of Resistance of Iran foreign affairs committee chairman Mohammad Mohaddessin told a news conference in Paris on Thursday.
Mohaddessin did not say whether the money has already been spent, but stressed that Teheran wanted to acquire the warheads in 2005. He said he received this report hours earlier and had no further information on the project.
Last month, Ukraine acknowledged that 12 Soviet-origin cruise missiles meant to deliver nuclear weapons were sold to Iran in 2001. The Kiev government said the X-55 missiles were sold by criminal elements and delivered to Iran without full systems and instructions.
In 2002, the National Council of Resistance of Iran disclosed the existence of two major nuclear facilities — Arak and Natanz — concealed from the International Atomic Energy Agency. Since then, the opposition group reported on other secret nuclear facilities later confirmed by the IAEA.
At the news conference, Mohaddessin disclosed an Iranian project to develop a nuclear reactor at Arak, about 240 kilometers south of Teheran. He said the reactor would be able to produce 10 kilograms of plutonium, sufficient for an atomic bomb, by 2007.
"The regime told the International Atomic Energy Agency the reactor would be operational in 2014," Mohaddessin said. "But in reality, they want to start it in 2006 or 2007."
Commercial satellite images released by a U.S. institute in February pointed to the near completion of a heavy water plant at Arak. The Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security said the plant would contain a nuclear reactor that could eventually produce plutonium for one atomic bomb per year.
Later, institute president David Albright said the satellite images indicate that Iran has been testing the Arak plant. He said the images showed steam coming out of the facility.
On Thursday, the institute released a report that asserted that Iran has established a facility to manufacture gas centrifuges, required for uranium enrichment. The report said the facility, termed Kalaye Electric, was established in 1995 and inspected by the IAEA in 2003.
The Iranian opposition said Teheran's nuclear program has been kept secret from much of the government and parliament. Mohaddessin quoted from what he termed a classified report by parliament in February 2004 that complained of a lack of government information on Arak as well as the uranium enrichment plant at Natanz.
"The legislative branch does not clearly know where the budget for these two projects is coming from," the parliamentary report was quoted as saying. "It neither knows how the project was started and how it was put into place."
In Washington, a leading U.S. expert said Iran appears to be developing what he termed "latent" nuclear weapons capability. The expert said Iran has not yet assembled complete bombs or openly violated the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
"They absolutely want to stay within the existing rules of the NPT and regime and they will do everything they can to play by the rules," Carnegie Endowment for International Peace vice president George Perkovich said. "The rules allow you — and in their argument give you the right, which I dispute — to acquire a capability to enrich uranium or to separate plutonium."
Perkovich said Iran has sought to follow the Japanese model. He said Japan maintains large stockpiles of plutonium without international recrimination.
"What we have learned is that some technologies, in particular uranium enrichment and plutonium separation technology, are just too inherently dual use, they have too many inherent weapons applications to be allowed to proliferate to new countries," Perkovich said.
Lebanese police on Saturday chased and detained two Syrian policemen said to be close to the son of a former Syrian security chief in Lebanon, according to reports Sunday. The Mansourieh police mounted the chase as a dark blue Mitsubishi four-wheel-drive vehicle with smoked windows sped across the roundabout of Mkalles before dawn, stopping it at Beirut's Cola residential district. Tinted car glass has been prohibited by the Lebanese authorities since the Syrian military and intelligence evacuation of Lebanon got underway three weeks ago. Such cars were mainly used by Syrian intelligence officers in Beirut and the rest of Lebanon.
The two occupants of the four-wheel-drive were identified as Yasser Ibrahim Mansour, a Syrian policeman from the northern Syrian town of Tartous and policeman Mohammed Izzidine from Aleppo. The four-wheel-drive belonged to the Lebanese Army, according to a security source. The two detainees were handed to Ramlet al-Baida Lebanese police station and were then transferred to the Jdeideh police station, An-Nahar said, without mentioning the names of the former Syrian security chief or that of his son to whom the detained Syrians are said to be close.
So, how do those oats feel, guys?
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Syria has commited to withdraw its remaining troops and intelligence units from Lebanon by April 30. The announcement was made by UN envoy Terje Roed-Larsen following a meeting with Syrian President Assad and the country's foreign minister Farouq Sharaa in Damascus. Larsen said: "Foreign Minister Sharaa informed me that all Syrian troops, military assets and the intelligence apparatus will have been withdrawn fully and completely latest by April 30, 2005." He added: "The government of Syria has agreed with me that, subject to acceptance by the Lebanese authorities, a verification team will be dispatched in order to verify the full Syrian withdrawal."
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A prominent Lebanese legislator and his wife were killed late on Sunday when their car skidded into the central barrier of a highway in heavy rain, police said. Ali Youssef Khalil, who was in his 70s, was chairman of the parliament's foreign affairs committee and represented Lebanon's southern province. A former Cabinet minister, Khalil supported the government during the current crisis over Syria's troops in Lebanon and the investigation of former prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri's assassination. Khalil's son and driver survived the crash on the coastal highway near Khalde, south of Beirut. A police officer said the driver apparently lost control on the wet road and skidded into the concrete and steel barrier dividing the two sides of the highway. The car was wrecked.
I think I saw that scene in a movie once... Or twice...
A Shia Muslim, Khalil belonged to the parliamentary bloc of Speaker Nabih Berri. He served many terms in parliament, having first been elected before Lebanon's civil war of 1975-90.
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heh. I spent some time up there last year. Was working for KBR, based at the Mosul airfield, or FOB Diamondback if you prefer.
This is funny. When I left I thought the Strykers were more uptight then the previous troopers, who were the 101st.
Seems that over time the veterans throw out what doesnt work very quickly. These 11th guys are probably new. Justice will be putting them under a fresh unit when they have been on point for a while. they will then know how the Strykers feel.
I was impressed by those vehicles though. They seem to have been made for something other then urban warfare, but they seem to be performing very well.
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tu3031 has it right. This is classic REMF vs Grunt inteneccine warfare. The only thing lacking is what the SPC said to the SGT and how much trouble he got into for saying it. Or doing it, since it probably involved his boot and the SGT's ass . . .
If it gets out of hand, though, it can lead to serious morale problems as the MAJ should now be a CPT for his ND and it probably got swept under the rug (WPPA).
Note to Jimbo19 . . . the Stryker is not a bad combat vehicle. Overall it will perform the basic duties it was designed for. Now if they would just scrap it and make the vehicle that they said they were going to. The one that can make a 180 dgr turn within its own length on a city street, or be air transportable without 3 days of workup time at the far end. We could make the exceptional vehicle that was envision for the Stryker program. But instead we made a bad version of a 30 y/o design with lots of electronic goodies inside. It would have been better to field a modified M113 (which can be air dropped) for the interim AFV and then make a really good design . . . but too many CongressCritters had their fingers in the $ pie and so we got . . . the Stryker.
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"It is a great sign of how well our Army is doing that we're able to take the time out to flagellate ourselves over trivial stuff like this."
Flagellate, eh? Are we getting into "Don't ask, don't tell" territory here?
RE the Stryker design: many moons ago there was a made-for-HBO movie about the Bradley and how it went from a big jeep to a mini-tank. Quite funny and not completely untrue.
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A unit prepared for parade inspection is not ready for combat. A unit ready for combat is not ready for parade inspection.
GARET TROOPER sung by SGT. Barry Sadler
This is dedicated to the parade field trooper
Who never leaves the garrison and looks real pretty.
Now in the war torn Jungles of Vietnam,
You'll find a special kind of man, you'll see him everywhere.
He's a trooper, a garet trooper
Yeah, he's five-foot four, 228 pounds of blubber.
Got himself a nickel plated .45 tied down real low.
Two bandoleers of brasso'ed ammmo,
Yeah, he's a trooper, a garet trooper
He's fought from Saigon to Nha Trang, in every bar that is,then only with the girls, he ain't won one yet.
But he's a trooper, a garet trooper
He's got a hip knife, a side knife, a shoulder knife and a little 'bitty one. It's a combination dinner knife, flare gun and genuine police whistle.
But he's a trooper, a garet trooper
Now I ran into one the other day, he told me a story.
Said he'd just come back from a 15 day running fight with the Cong. Said he'd captured a lot of loot...
Know what I saw when I looked down? ...a spit-shined boot.
Yeah, he's a trooper, a garet trooper.
Now a poor old pilot came back today, half his crew was killed, aircraft shot to hell, but he don't say much.
He's not a trooper, a garet trooper
And out in the hills in the jungles and the swamps,
living like a bunch of dogs, are a bunch of men wearing funny little green hats.
They stay out and fight for months on end.
They don't say much 'cause 'cause they're not troopers,
garet troopers
And I'll bet when I leave this war torn land,
They last thing I'll see will be,
Though I may be in a drunken stooper,
I'll bet it'll be a garet trooper
Yeah, they're all over the place.
Ain't hardly worth goin' to war no more.
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I can't find the Willie and Joe cartoon about Garritroopers (garrison troopers, apparently). The gist of it is, Willie and Joe comment on a tough looking character brandishing a whiskey bottle. I won't get the caption quite right, but here goes:
"We calls 'em garritroopers cuz they're too close to the front to stay clean and too far back t' git shot at."
Another features our heroes staring at the medals on an MP's chest. The MP says, "Th' yellow one's fer national defense, the red one wit' white stripes is for good conduct, and the real purty one wit' all th' colors is fer bein' in thistheater of operations."
BAGHDAD - Iraq's central criminal court has sentenced five foreign nationals to between two years and life imprisonment for joining the insurgency, the Iraqi government said in a statement on Monday. Syrian Anas Mohamed Khaled was sentenced to life in prison after being arrested in the former rebel bastion of Fallujah and being convicted of planning to lead "terrorist" operations against security forces. Another man captured in Fallujah, Saudi Abdel al-Majid Fayad al-Nizza was also given a life term on charges of crossing into Iraq from Syria to wage holy war (jihad) against the Iraqi government. Syrian citizen Issam Anas Mahmud received a six-year jail sentences for entering Iraq illegally with the aim of joining terrorist organisations.
A Libyan, Fathallah Abdel Aati Al-Rabati, also arrested in Fallujah, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for entering Iraq illegally from Syria and having conducted "terrorist actions" against Iraqi security forces. Egyptian Mohamed Hassan Abdul Aal was sentenced to two years imprisonment for having an expired entry visa after he was found with three suspected insurgents in a house with weapons and ammunition.
Iraqi and US security officials concede that the foreign fighter component of the insurgency, while significant is far smaller than the home-grown element sprung from Sunni Muslim grievances, radical Islam, nationalism, loyalty to Saddam Hussein and criminality. The central criminal court was established under the US occupation to try major criminal and security cases. Many of the defendants who come before the court are held in US custody.
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ABDEL AL MAJID FAIAD AL NIZZA
al-Qaeda in Iraq
ANAS MOHAMED KHALED
al-Qaeda in Iraq
FATHALLAH ABDEL AATI AL RABATI
al-Qaeda in Iraq
ISAM ANAS MAHMUD
al-Qaeda in Iraq
MOHAMED HASAN ABDUL AAL
al-Qaeda in Iraq
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after he was found with three suspected insurgents in a house with weapons and ammunition.
It's the Arab equivalent of finding me in my house with a couch and a TV.
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upside? The Saudis are providing the prison bedding
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The reason for the life sentences over the death penalty is a political one. Any prior death penalty law isn't "clean." They want one created by the new government under the new Iraqi constitution. Expect top see death sentences under a new law.
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Executing them is what they want. It makes them martyrs. Putting them in a dingy hellhole for the next 40 years is a much more attractive situation.
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Make them martyars, not living problems. The damm fools don't make the right kind of martyrs if they don't blow themselves up or go out in a hail of gunfire. In prison they will just recruit the guards too.
Workers Party leader dies in hospital after 'Rab torture'
General Secretary of Bangladesh Workers Party Chuadanga unit Shyamal Sarker died at the Jessore General Hospital Saturday night allegedly in torture in Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) custody. Sarker's family members said Rab men arrested him from his village home at Ibrahimpur under Damurhuda upazila of the district on December 9 last year. The family members alleged that the Rab tortured him severely in their custody and then kept Sarker in the district jail untreated. Earlier, the Rab sources had said they nabbed Sarker from the residence of an outlawed outfit member Siddiq along with the outlaw operative, and recovered firearms and ammunition. Sarker's family, however, contradicted on the recovery of arms from his possession at the time of arrest. Lt Col Farhad Ahmed, commanding officer of Rab-6 (Khulna), denying the allegation of torture said, "It is an absurd allegation that Sarker died from torture after four months of his arrest."
"Normally they die while we're recovering their hidden guns"
Sarker was being taken to Jessore Central Jail on March 31 when his condition deteriorated. He was then admitted to Jessore General Hospital, instead of jail hospital, where he died at 11:30pm on Saturday. Workers Party President Rashed Khan Menon, General Secretary Bimal Biswas condoled the death of Sarker. The leaders blamed the Rab torture and negligence of the jail authorities for Sarker's death. They also demanded investigation into the matter and punishment of the persons responsible.
Pirates injure 10, 8 missing
Eight people were missing and ten others injured as armed pirates looted a passenger trawler in the Meghna estuary in offshore Kalatola-Telirchar area in Manpura upazila in Bhola district Saturday afternoon.
"Yar! We be dreaded Beangladeshi pirates! Yar!"
"Good night, Mahmoud. I'll probably kill you in the morning."
The injured are being treated at Manpura hospital. Police said the pirates beat the passengers on board Monpura bound trawler ML Seven Star from Ramgati and looted about Tk two lakh in cash and valuables. The eight are missing as they jumped into the rough river from the trawler.
Camp Besieged Protesting Arrest on False Charge
All the 17 policemen of Dhamura outpost in Wazirpur upazila in Barisal district were transferred and two others closed on Saturday following demonstrations by people after arrest of a doctor on a fake allegation of arms recovery on Thursday. Abdur Rob, officer-in-charge of Wazirpur police station, said Subedar Shah Alam, in-charge of the outpost and Nayek Abdul Khaleque have been closed.
Dayum. Sounds pretty drastic. What in blazes happened?
Sources said Nayek Abdul Khalek had arrested Chunnu, a rural medical practitioner (RMP) and medicine shop owner from the house of his father-in-law at Baherghat village on the night of March 30. Police at first claimed that a revolver was recovered from his possession. Later they claimed that it was recovered from near his house.
"It was stashed behind a dumpster in a alley down the street, so it had to be his"
Arrested Chunnu was sent to jail hajat under Section 54 of CrPC on Thursday. But local people claimed that the allegation against Chunnu was false and the incident of arms recovery was preplanned.
"Lies, all lies!"
They laid a siege to Dhamura police camp and put up demonstrations in the area on Thursday and Friday demanding his release and punishment of the corrupt cops.
"[Rhubarb! Rhubarb! Rhubarb!] Throw the bums out! [Rhubarb! Rhubarb! Rhubarb!] Get a rope! [Rhubarb! Rhubarb! Rhubarb!]"
They claimed that Chunnu was arrested following a family dispute over marriage of his sister-in-law Daisy Akter.
Ahah! Cherchez la femme! I knew it all along!
Who the hell in Pakistan names their daughter "Daisy"? Does she have a sister, "Fannie Mae"?
This is Bagladesh, somedays they make the Paks seem sane.
The whole incident was masterminded by one Gias Sarder, who wanted to marry Daisy.
"She will be mine. Mine, I tell you! Bwahahaha!"
"Chunnu! We must save Daisy! She faces a fate worse than death!"
"Where is she, Mahmoud?"
"Down at the old saw mill! Gias Sarder has done made off with her!"
"We must call the police!"
"Too late! Gias Sarder's already called them on you! You been framed!"
"But that can't be! I — duck!"
"Chunnu! Calm down! You not duck!... Ow!"
Caterer of dead fowl remanded
A Dhaka court yesterday placed Jahanara Begum, operator of a mess who was arrested with 21 dead chickens on Saturday, on one-day remand. Sutrapur police produced Jahanara before the Court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Dhaka seeking remand for three days. The investigation officer of the case told the court the woman was running illegal and unhygienic business as she used to feed her customers dead chickens. She should be interrogated to know from where she had collected the dead birds, he added.
Todays lunch special - Road Kill Chicken
Police on March 28 arrested a man in Mirpur with 53 dead chickens, which he was going to supply to local restaurants.
Ah, that explains the fuss. They're not just dead chickens, they're chickens who died under mysterious circumstances.
Frank Perdue just turned over in his freshly dug grave...
JCD, Shibir activists clash at Dhaka Alia Madrasa
At least 12 leaders and activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) and Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) were injured, five of them critically, when student wings of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami clashed at Allama Kashgari Hall of Dhaka Alia Madrasa in the small hours of yesterday. Of the injured, eight were admitted to the emergency wards of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) while the rest to a local clinic at Bakshi Bazar. According to some sources, the clash between JCD and Shibir broke out at about 1am yesterday following previous enmity over establishing supremacy in Allama Kashgari Hall of the madrasa. At least 12 activists of the both the student organisations were injured in the one-and-a-half-hour clash during which iron rods, hockey and bamboo sticks were freely used.
And a fun time was had by all
Other sources said, the clash centered on alleged theft of a mobile set of a Shibir activist. According to the injured Shibir activist who lost his set, he went to the JCD activists who, he alleged, had stolen it. As soon as he entered the room of the JCD activists than he was assaulted, he said.
"Hey, where's my phone.........(WACK)..Ouch!"
This led to yesterday's clash, sources said. A JCD activist complained that they were attacked by ICS activists following previous enmity.
"Waaaaa! They're picking on us! Mommie!"
A large contingent of police was deployed at the hall following the incident.
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"Half were on one side of the room; the other half on the other side. It was, apparently, a pre-arranged cross-fire."
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Taleban militants stormed a government building in southern Afghanistan and killed up to nine Afghan policemen in a two-hour gunbattle before fleeing, officials said yesterday. "A group of Taleban attacked the district headquarters of Deshu on Saturday morning and in the exchange of fire nine Afghan policemen were killed and three were injured," district commissioner Haji Mohamed Rahim told AFP. "Taleban were in control of the district (headquarters) for two hours and then we managed to force them out." There was no word on the militants' casualties. The battle took place in Helmand province's Deshu district, 700 kilometers south of the capital, Kabul. Provincial intelligence chief Dad Mohammad Khan told AFP that only four policemen were killed during the gunbattle on Saturday.
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Pakistani police arrested five suspected militants and seized a huge cache of arms and ammunitions here yesterday and averted a major sectarian attack, sources said. The militants were allegedly involved in the killing of 25 people in sectarian violence in the port city of Karachi. Raja Omar Khitab, deputy superintendent of police in Karachi, said the men allegedly belonged to little known group called Baqiyatullah. The group was described as a youth wing of the outlawed Shiite group, Tehrik-e-Jafferia Pakistan (TJP).
Another high-ranking police official Dost Ali Baloch confirmed the arrests and identified the militants as Muzaffar Ali, Azhar Hussain, Shujaat Ali, Raza Ali and Mustafa Kirmani were arrested in two raids in the city. A large quantity of arms and ammunition including 40 hand grenades, five Russian-made bombs, 10 RPG rifles, eight AK-47 rifles and 1,500 rounds of ammunition were discovered, Baloch said. "They were planning some big sectarian attack somewhere in the country," Baloch said.
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Al Qaida-aligned operatives have launched a campaign to assassinate Shi'ite leaders. Iraqi officials said operatives linked to Abu Mussib Al Zarqawi, head of Al Qaida in Iraq, have been recruiting and planning strikes on Shi'ite leaders and mosques. They said Al Qaida has sought to foment a sectarian war in Iraq that would lead to the early exit of the U.S.-led coalition. "We know for certain that Zarqawi is involved and perhaps even a leader in the effort," an Iraqi official said. "What we don't know is whether he is operating on his own or on behalf of the former regime [of Saddam Hussein]." On March 17, Iraqi authorities announced the capture of an Islamic operative ordered to kill Shi'ite spiritual leader Ali Sistani. The operative was identified as a Kurd from Mosul and directed by Ansar Al Islam, a group controlled by Al Zarqawi.
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GILGIT: Law enforcement agencies have arrested about 18 people and seized about 225 weapons (licensed and unlicensed) in a disarmament drive in Gilgit city, Northern Areas (NAs) Home Secretary Hafeezur Rehman told Daily Times on Sunday. Except for the NAs chief secretary's office, all telephone lines in the city had been cut on Friday.
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A Swat Scout's soldier was shot dead in South Waziristan Agency's Makeen area on Sunday, which prompted security forces to seal the area and look for the perpetrator, a government official told Daily Times. Wahab was killed when he stopped a tribesman at a checkpoint and asked him to give in his Kalashnikov before entering Laddah sub-division's Makeen bazaar, the official added. The tribesman fled, hid in a shop and shot and killed Wahab, he said. "The attacker has been identified and military officials are holding a jirga with local tribal elders to arrest the attacker," he added.
All tribesmen entering Makeen bazaar have to deposit their weapons at the checkpoint and are given back their weapons once they leave. Local Makeen Peace Committee members met senior Swat Scouts officials and condemned the incident.
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Seven militants and a political party member were killed in Kashmir at the weekend in the latest violence ahead of the launch of an historic bus service across the divided state, a police spokesman said on Sunday. Security forces killed two militants in Baramulla district near the northern cease-fire border, known as the Line-of-Control, the spokesman said, adding five other militants were killed in Pulwama district just south of Srinagar on Sunday. "Two of the slain militants were from the hardline Jaish-e-Mohammed militant group," the spokesman said. In another incident, suspected militants on Saturday shot dead Zahoor Ahmed, an official from the state's ruling Peoples Democratic Party, in Tailbal, on the outskirts of Srinagar, he said. None of the one dozen militant groups fighting Indian rule in Kashmir claimed responsibility for the killing.
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Saudi security forces have exchanged fire with members of an armed group they had attempted to arrest, resulting in at least four deaths and many more wounded. Aljazeera has learned that at least one Saudi police officer was shot dead on Sunday and another 15 had been wounded by midday. Saudi Arabia's Al-Ekhbariya television broadcast Prince 
The police chief of the northern Yemeni province of Saada, where armed forces are hunting down rebels, was injured in an ambush yesterday, security officials said. Brig. Gen. Muhammad Saleh Turaiq was wounded when armed men, believed to be loyalists to the slain cleric Hussein Badruddin Al-Houthi, opened fire on his convoy. Eyewitnesses said that at least three of the attackers were killed in a clash with Turaiq's bodyguards. Turaiq and an injured bodyguard were rushed to the Al-Salam hospital in Saada for treatment, the officials told Arab News. In a separate attack, Saada Deputy Governor Hassan Manaa was ambushed by suspected Al-Houthi supporters, who are battling government forces in the mountainous areas of the province. Security sources said Manaa escaped the ambush unharmed.
French police are questioning several people after seizing 100kg (220lb) of Semtex explosive hidden in a lorry in the northern town of Hazebrouck. The operation on Saturday was part of an investigation into organised crime. The plastic explosive was allegedly bound for Paris. Hazebrouck lies 30km (20 miles) from the Channel port of Calais and is also near the Belgian border. Semtex - a Czech-made explosive - has been used by various terrorist groups. The French prosecutor's office said it believed the Semtex seized on Saturday was to be divided up and sold to criminal gangs, rather than to terrorists, Reuters reported. 
Lebanese police on Saturday chased and detained two Syrian policemen said to be close to the son of a former Syrian security chief in Lebanon, according to reports Sunday. The Mansourieh police mounted the chase as a dark blue Mitsubishi four-wheel-drive vehicle with smoked windows sped across the roundabout of Mkalles before dawn, stopping it at Beirut's Cola residential district. Tinted car glass has been prohibited by the Lebanese authorities since the Syrian military and intelligence evacuation of Lebanon got underway three weeks ago. Such cars were mainly used by Syrian intelligence officers in Beirut and the rest of Lebanon.
Syria has commited to withdraw its remaining troops and intelligence units from Lebanon by April 30. The announcement was made by UN envoy Terje Roed-Larsen following a meeting with Syrian President Assad and the country's foreign minister Farouq Sharaa in Damascus. Larsen said: "Foreign Minister Sharaa informed me that all Syrian troops, military assets and the intelligence apparatus will have been withdrawn fully and completely latest by April 30, 2005." He added: "The government of Syria has agreed with me that, subject to acceptance by the Lebanese authorities, a verification team will be dispatched in order to verify the full Syrian withdrawal."
Taleban militants stormed a government building in southern Afghanistan and killed up to nine Afghan policemen in a two-hour gunbattle before fleeing, officials said yesterday. "A group of Taleban attacked the district headquarters of Deshu on Saturday morning and in the exchange of fire nine Afghan policemen were killed and three were injured," district commissioner Haji Mohamed Rahim told AFP. "Taleban were in control of the district (headquarters) for two hours and then we managed to force them out." There was no word on the militants' casualties. The battle took place in Helmand province's Deshu district, 700 kilometers south of the capital, Kabul. Provincial intelligence chief Dad Mohammad Khan told AFP that only four policemen were killed during the gunbattle on Saturday.
Pakistani police arrested five suspected militants and seized a huge cache of arms and ammunitions here yesterday and averted a major sectarian attack, sources said. The militants were allegedly involved in the killing of 25 people in sectarian violence in the port city of Karachi. Raja Omar Khitab, deputy superintendent of police in Karachi, said the men allegedly belonged to little known group called 
Al Qaida-aligned operatives have launched a campaign to assassinate Shi'ite leaders. Iraqi officials said operatives linked to Abu Mussib Al Zarqawi, head of Al Qaida in Iraq, have been recruiting and planning strikes on Shi'ite leaders and mosques. They said Al Qaida has sought to foment a sectarian war in Iraq that would lead to the early exit of the U.S.-led coalition. "We know for certain that Zarqawi is involved and perhaps even a leader in the effort," an Iraqi official said. "What we don't know is whether he is operating on his own or on behalf of the former regime [of Saddam Hussein]." On March 17, Iraqi authorities announced the capture of an Islamic operative ordered to kill Shi'ite spiritual leader Ali Sistani. The operative was identified as a Kurd from Mosul and directed by 
GILGIT: Law enforcement agencies have arrested about 18 people and seized about 225 weapons (licensed and unlicensed) in a disarmament drive in Gilgit city, Northern Areas (NAs) Home Secretary Hafeezur Rehman told Daily Times on Sunday. Except for the NAs chief secretary's office, all telephone lines in the city had been cut on Friday.
A Swat Scout's soldier was shot dead in 
