In a posting on an al-Qaeda affiliated message board, a member, incensed by the costs the Kuwaiti Ministry of Defense has undertaken to construct an American military base in Arifjan, south Kuwait "from which their convoys attack our brothers in Iraq" and providing services to American officers, advocates the assassination of Emir (Prince) Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah, and welcomes jihad in Kuwait.
Expressing incredulity of the costs of the American base in Arifjan at "650 million Kuwait dinars" and the "sum of one and a half million dinars for services to the American army," the message vigorously asks "Allah to hit Sabah, the idiot, with 650 9mm bullets to his head."
This particular message concluded with a prayer to "make me a martyr in the island of your Prophet," but in a reply to the posting, another member provides a map depicting "expressways which connect the different bases in order not to delay sending convoys to disgrace the Muslims of Iraq," seemingly advocating the jihad.
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Illegal armed units cannot change the Chechen situation, First Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov told Interfax. "If this summer is hot, we will go on vacation to Sochi. There is nothing that can influence the situation in Chechnya," he said. "The Chechen president's security service and law enforcement departments have nearly caught Shamil Basayev. We have his personal weapon and the German-made prosthetic appliance he left behind in his escape. We have given his prosthetic appliance to a handicapped man," Kadyrov said.
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When I saw the headline, I was thinkin' Scrappleface for sure...
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Everybody in Chechnya's a comedian and thug it seems. I'd love to see crazed Ramzan's pack catch Basayev by his only remaining bigt toe! Maybe they could get him to sign over the royalties from Basayev's latest tome "The Book of a Mujhadid(sp)".
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Don't forget the mother of all beards sea cruise. Every houselion lapcat of all-uhh keeps a beard becoming their sense of self-importance. How else could you sort the players from the holiday jihaadeze?
TURKISH troops have killed 21 Kurdish rebels in the biggest clash since the fighters declared a unilateral truce more than five years ago. The Turks suffered three losses during the fighting near the south-eastern town of Pervari, in Siirt province, the governor's office in Sirnak province said. The private CNN-Turk television said earlier that Turkish soldiers had been pursuing rebels believed to have infiltrated into Turkey from neighbouring Iraq during the past week, and that the clash erupted overnight. The Turkish troops killed were a lieutenant and two sergeants, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported. The rebels belong to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, which has been seeking autonomy in Turkey's southeast and has battled government forces since 1984. The conflict has killed more than 37,000 people. The PKK has called for a full amnesty for all 5,000 or so of its fighters, as well as for its remaining leaders, who are hiding in the mountains of northern Iraq, which is under Kurdish control.
"Get out. Stay out. No seething. No whinging. Don't darken my doorway again."
Berlin's state constitutional court on Thursday rejected an appeal by the former imam of the local Mevlana Mosque against his expulsion from Germany on grounds of incitement.
[Ed. note: go read the Mevlana Mosque link for an interesting history of mosque building in Germany.]
The 59-year-old Turkish man, whose identity is not given in German judicial proceedings, was ordered to be expelled by Berlin's office dealing with foreigners in late 2004. The authorities cited a speech he had given at a rally of the extreme nationalist Milli Gorus organisation in which he had praised the suicide attackers in Jerusalem and Iraq as martyrs. The imam had also been shown to use insulting language in his sermons about the Germans, calling them "infidels" and saying that they "stank" and were of "no use to Moslems". Authorities cited the remarks, which were tape-recorded, as evidence that the man was inciting hatred against Americans and Jews and endangering the peace in the local German community. The expulsion order was previously upheld by the Berlin civil court. The Turkish man, who has been living in Germany since 1971 and is one of the founders of the Mevlana Mosque in Berlin's Kreuzberg district, then appealed against the expulsion on to the state constitutional court.
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The man has been inciting against Amis and Jews for years. But saying that Germans stink, now that's beyond the pale.
Switzerland's supreme court has ruled a suspected Islamic extremist wanted for allegedly leading a plot to bomb Spain's supreme court can be extradited. The Federal Tribunal rejected an appeal by the suspect, Mohamed Achraf, who was arrested in Switzerland last October when Spanish authorities alleged he was plotting an attack on Spain's highest criminal court. Spanish authorities believe the suspect, who is Algerian, was a member of a terror group. The Swiss government decided in January to accept the extradition request, but Achraf's lawyers had appealed to the court, arguing that he might be tortured in Spain.
"Also their falafel is just dreadful."
The Federal Tribunal ruled that Spain had ratified international conventions against torture and rejected claims that abuse was systematic in the country's jails. It also found that the charges levelled against Achraf by Spanish authorities did warrant legal action in Switzerland, a key condition for extradition. Achraf was detained in September 2004 in Zurich on unrelated immigration charges after going underground about a year earlier following a failed asylum bid, according to Swiss authorities. He was known to have been using several different identities, according to police sources.
"Just call me Achmed the Untraceable."
This article starring:
MOHAMED ACHRAF
al-Qaeda in Europe
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Spanish authorities have charged 11 Pakistani nationals over suspected links with Al-Qaeda sympathisers who carried out the Madrid train bombings a year ago. One of those charged, Shahzad Ali Gujar, is suspected of having transferred funds to members of Al-Qaeda, including Amjad Farooki, who Pakistani security forces killed last September and who was implicated in the murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl. Farooki is widely believed to have been an Al-Qaeda recruiter. In all, investigators believe Al-Qaeda members in Pakistan received some EUR 800,000 in funds from Spain.
Mohamed Afzaal, believed to have headed the Pakistani cell in question, is suspected of sending money last September to Rabei Ousman Sayed Ahmed, alias ' Mohammed the Egyptian ', who is currently in custody on suspicion of involvement in the train bombings which killed 191 people. Two other suspects, Shahzad Ali Gujar and Adnan Aslam, are thought to have met 'Mohammed the Egyptian' in Brescia, Italy, in May 2003.
Shahzad Ali Gujar is suspected of meeting Othman el Gnaout, another 11 March suspect, three days before Spain's worst ever terrorist attack, while he is additionally suspected of meeting Saed el Harrak, also in Spanish detention, the day after the blasts. The judge overseeing the case says that "a group was constituted in Barcelona with a view to supporting global jihad from Spanish territory [via] the financing of concrete terrorist acts and people recruited to carry them out". The judge considers there is hard evidence to suggest that Mohamed Afzaal travelled to Dubai in early 2004, where Al-Qaeda operatives instructed him to create terrorist cells in Spain, Norway and Denmark to finance the terrorist network's activities. The Pakistanis are further charged with preparing an attack in Barcelona, having been found to be in possession of films and detailed maps of several major buildings in the eastern Spanish metropolis. One of the maps depicted a shopping mall in the city's port area. Spanish authorities named the 11-strong group as: Mohamed Afzaal, Shahzad Ali Gujar, Nasser Ahmad Khan, Masoud Akhtar, Shafqat Ali, Mahmoud Anwar, Adnan Aslam, Farhat Iqbat, Irfan Khan, Zaman Qamar Uz and Mohamed Choudhry Aslam.
Is it possible they rolled up an entire cell?
This article starring:
ADNAN ASLAM
al-Qaeda
AMJAD FARUKI
al-Qaeda
Daniel Pearl
FARHAT IQBAT
al-Qaeda
IRFAN KHAN
al-Qaeda
MAHMUD ANWAR
al-Qaeda
MASUD AKHTAR
al-Qaeda
MOHAMED AFZAAL
al-Qaeda
MOHAMED CHUDHRY ASLAM
al-Qaeda
MOHAMED THE EGYPTIAN
al-Qaeda
NASER AHMED KHAN
al-Qaeda
OTHMAN EL GNAUT
al-Qaeda
RABEI USMAN SAIED AHMED
al-Qaeda
SAED EL HARRAK
al-Qaeda
SHAFQAT ALI
al-Qaeda
SHAHZAD ALI GUJAR
al-Qaeda
ZAMAN QAMAR UZ
al-Qaeda
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Best of luck with convicting them Garzon your countrymen lack your courage and will to stamp out this problem. I wish you well.
Police on Thursday arrested seven Islamic extremists and raided 31 mosques, homes and offices in this year's third crackdown in Germany on fund-raising for terrorism. In months of surveillance, police discovered that two Munich-based activists had raised EUR 1 million between them to finance Islamist groups abroad. They are likely to be charged with money laundering and tax evasion.
Follow the money.
Hundreds of police fanned out at dawn in six states and the Belgian capital Brussels to search premises of everyone who had been in recent contact with the 43-year-old Tunisian and the 47-year-old Egyptian. "Each of them had raised about half a million euros, and we can't rule out that it was even more," said a Munich police official.
Bingo night at the masjid.
A spokeswoman for Munich police said 12 premises, including two mosques, were searched in Munich alone, with the rest of the sites checked being located in other Bavarian towns and the states of Berlin, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Bremen, Lower Saxony and Hamburg. The sites checked in Brussels were publishers' offices.
Two for the price of one...frying the money men and the propaganda honchos.
"We looked at the homes and offices of anyone who had any sort of contact to these two suspects," she said. Police took away tax records, other business documents, desktop computers, cash and a small quantity of banned drugs. The two men are likely to face charges under German laws that require tax audits of charities and notification to statistical authorities of major foreign exchange transactions. Police did not say what the other five men were accused of. The state of Bavaria also spearheaded this year's two earlier nationwide sweeps of Islamist fund-raisers. "We'll step up the pressure on Islamist extremists even more and use every possible provision of immigration law to deport as fast as possible those who threaten us or preach hatred," said the Bavarian interior minister, Guenther Beckstein. Police said the two main suspects had valid immigration permits.
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at least the moskkks arn't off limits any more
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Someone should start the rumor that all the confiscated money is being used to rebuild synagogues in Germany, to repay the Joos for crimes against them by the Moslems.
Lebanese authorities captured two dogs that crossed the border from Israel and were checking whether they were booby-trapped or carried electronic implants that could be used for spying, Lebanese security officials said Friday.
"Khalil, let's check them zionist dogs if they carry zionist mind ray generators!"
The two dogs "infiltrated" Lebanon on Thursday through an opening in the barbed wire fence that separates the Kfar Kila village in southern Lebanon from the northern Israeli town of Metulla.
The dogs wore collars with Hebrew writing on them, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity "...undoubtedly something insidious written on them, maybe 'Shem Ham Forash'! They may be canine form of Golem!" . They were being kept at a local police station while authorities figure out what to do with them.
The incident underlines the deep mistrust between the two countries. Hiz-boys sending UAVs over the border is okay, though, it's an international confidence building measure.
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finally - an action to which they were capable. Couldn't stop being Sodomized by Syria, Iran/Hezbollah, or the Paleos in Ein-el-hellhole, but they caught two stray yiddish dogs...Woo hoo LOSERS
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Cramming a week's worth of crossfire goodness into one pithy post.
RAB delegation leaves for training in Kuala Lumpur
A batch of the Rapid Action Battalion left for Kuala Lumpur Monday night on a three-week training beginning on April 13. The 32-member team will stay in the Malaysian capital till May 7 and take part in a management training programme at the Royal Malaysia Police College, Kuala Lumpur. It was the second batch of the battalion taking part in the programme since its formation on March 26, 2004.
Course material: "How to differentiate between a cadre and a cohort," and "Setting the scene--out by the docks or down by the trainyard at 4:40 am?"
Gono Bahini cadre killed in 'crossfire'
1. Arrest.
2. Interrogation.
3. Confession.
4. Off to find the arms cache in the village at 3:30am.
5. Crossfire.
6."He's dead, Jim."
Rabiul Islam dies in 'crossfire'
1. Arrest.
2. Interrogation.
3. Confession.
4. Off to find the arms cache in the village at 4:00am.
5. Crossfire.
6."He's dead, Jim."
Three errant policemen beat up, then sent to jail
Three policemen who were caught and beaten by a mob during a suspected incident of extortion at Shyampur in Dhaka Monday night were sent to jail on Tuesday. The police produced the policemen — nayek Nooruddin Reza and constables Rafiqul Islam and Motiar Rahman — in the chief metropolitan magistrates court, which sent them to jail. The policemen, in plainclothes, of the Janatabagh camp on Monday went to an autorickshaw garage, owned by one Billal Hossain at Rayerbagh at about 7:00pm, and allegedly demanded Tk 4,000 from him. The owner raised the alarm and the local people encircled the garage and caught all the three. The people assaulted them and handed them over to the Shyampur police with which the garage owner filed a case under the speedy trial act. The policemen said they had gone to the place chasing a criminal, but the people, instigated by the criminal, caught them as 'extortionists.'
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A batch of the Rapid Action Battalion I know that I am a mere civilian, but I must ask: is this a normal unit designation, or is some Bengali boy getting creative again?
Seafarious, wonderfully pithy, indeed! A nice way to greet this Friday morning.
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Move over, Stevie. I hold the trademark on the Crossfire Gazette, if there are any royalities to be had they're mine! This will come out of your weekly check, Sea.
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The RAB isn't very active only 2 Crossfire⢠incidents in one week? Are they sleeping on the job?
Algerian Islamic militants killed five people, including three security force members, and injured eight others in attacks ahead of an expected general amnesty, newspapers said on Thursday.
Three guards were killed when a bomb exploded on Wednesday in Tebessa province, 390 miles east of the capital Algiers, the Liberte newspaper said, citing sources.
Three paramilitary policemen were seriously wounded in simultaneous explosions of two bombs in the same area two hours later, the daily said.
In another attack on Wednesday, two civilians were shot dead and five more wounded in a rebel ambush in a forest near Relizane, 280 miles west of Algiers, newspapers said.
Authorities were not immediately available for comment.
Government troops have been carrying out a large offensive on Islamic strongholds in eastern and western Algeria.
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A landmine blew up a jeep in the tribal area near the Afghan border on Thursday, killing one person and injuring three others, officials said. The device exploded on a road near Mir Ali Bazaar in the North Waziristan region, leaving a passenger dead and three others hurt, a local administration official told AFP on condition of anonymity. Another mine lying nearby was defused before it could explode, security officials said. It was not clear who planted the landmines. In a separate incident an Afghan refugee boy's hand was blown off when an explosive device lying in a heap of scrap metal went off in Miramshah, they said.
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In our wardroom, we had a photo of an unlucky South Korean minesweeper. If you looked close, you could see a figure flying through the air, about sixty feet above the explosion. Real sobering reminder.
A pair of car bombs exploded near the Iraqi interior minister's offices in Baghdad yesterday, killing 18 people and wounding three dozen others.
Al Qaeda in Iraq claimed responsibility for the blasts, the latest in several weeks of stepped-up attacks that followed a relative lull in violence in mid-March.
In a statement posted on the internet, al Qaeda in Iraq, headed by Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the Jordanian militant, said the bombings targeted police guarding the offices of Falah al Naqib, the interior minister, who is in charge of the nation's police. The claim was not independently verified.
Al Naqib was in his office at the time of the attacks, but he left to examine the damage and announced that he was fine. The explosions did not damage the building where he works.
The blasts sent plumes of smoke rising over the city and threw passers-by to the ground.
Ali Ahmed, 28, said he was selling ice cream from his stall when he heard an explosion, followed by gunfire and another explosion.
"My stall was partially destroyed because of this terrorist act," he said.
"Some people have lost their lives. As for me, I have now lost my source of income."
The blasts blew out the windows of nearby restaurants in the upscale neighbourhood of the capital, near the heavily fortified Green Zone.
After clearing the area, US forces set off a third car bomb that apparently failed to explode earlier.
Captain Ahmed Ismael, an Interior Ministry official, said the first two blasts killed 18 and wounded 36. One government worker said five garbage collectors he had been supervising were among the dead.
Insurgents kept up attacks yesterday against Iraq's security forces. Gunmen hit police patrolling near the central city of Baquba, killing one officer and wounding three others.
In the capital, attackers shot and killed a soldier as he made his way to work at Iraq's intelligence service.
Seven gunmen riding in two vehicles fired on the police station just south of Kirkuk, killing five police officers and one civilian.
Militant group Ansar al Sunnah claimed responsibility for the attack, saying in an internet posting that its "knights of Islam" had attacked "renegade policemen doing their morning training". The claim could not be verified.
In Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's home town 80 miles north of Baghdad, a car bomb exploded outside a US military installation, injuring one American and two Iraqi soldiers as well as nine civilians, and setting nearby houses ablaze.
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In Tikrit, Saddam Husseinâs home town 80 miles north of Baghdad, a car bomb exploded outside a US military installation, injuring one American and two Iraqi soldiers as well as nine civilians, and setting nearby houses ablaze.
I imagine the cousins are really pleased with that outcome. I wonder how many more al-Tikritis will be suddenly arrested in the near future.
A Sudanese court sentenced 23 mostly military personnel to between five and 15 years in prison for attempting a coup, the attorney general said yesterday. "The court issued judgments on 23 people for between five to 15 years" Mohamed Farid told Reuters. He said two-thirds of the accused were from Hassan Al-Turabi's opposition Popular Congress Party. One was a policeman, two were retired police and security officials and the rest were from the army, Farid said. The 23 were convicted of violating the constitution and waging war on the state, charges for which the maximum punishment is death. Turabi is still in jail held under emergency law but no charges have been brought against him. He was arrested after the March 2004 coup attempt. State officials have said Turabi was linked to a similar coup attempt in September 2004.
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Gunga Din really hasn't aged well at all. Ya hate to see that with a big star...
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Illegal armed units cannot change the Chechen situation, First Deputy Prime Minister 
TURKISH troops have killed 21 Kurdish rebels in the biggest clash since the fighters declared a unilateral truce more than five years ago. The Turks suffered three losses during the fighting near the south-eastern town of Pervari, in Siirt province, the governor's office in Sirnak province said. The private CNN-Turk television said earlier that Turkish soldiers had been pursuing rebels believed to have infiltrated into Turkey from neighbouring Iraq during the past week, and that the clash erupted overnight. The Turkish troops killed were a lieutenant and two sergeants, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported. The rebels belong to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, which has been seeking autonomy in Turkey's southeast and has battled government forces since 1984. The conflict has killed more than 37,000 people. The PKK has called for a full amnesty for all 5,000 or so of its fighters, as well as for its remaining leaders, who are hiding in the mountains of northern Iraq, which is under Kurdish control.
Switzerland's supreme court has ruled a suspected Islamic extremist wanted for allegedly leading a plot to bomb Spain's supreme court can be extradited. The Federal Tribunal rejected an appeal by the suspect, 
Spanish authorities have 
Police on Thursday arrested seven Islamic extremists and raided 31 mosques, homes and offices in this year's third crackdown in Germany on fund-raising for terrorism. In months of surveillance, police discovered that two Munich-based activists had raised EUR 1 million between them to finance Islamist groups abroad. They are likely to be charged with money laundering and tax evasion. 
A landmine blew up a jeep in the tribal area near the Afghan border on Thursday, killing one person and injuring three others, officials said. The device exploded on a road near Mir Ali Bazaar in the North Waziristan region, leaving a passenger dead and three others hurt, a local administration official told AFP on condition of anonymity. Another mine lying nearby was defused before it could explode, security officials said. It was not clear who planted the landmines. In a separate incident an Afghan refugee boy's hand was blown off when an explosive device lying in a heap of scrap metal went off in Miramshah, they said.
A Sudanese court sentenced 23 mostly military personnel to between five and 15 years in prison for attempting a coup, the attorney general said yesterday. "The court issued judgments on 23 people for between five to 15 years" Mohamed Farid told Reuters. He said two-thirds of the accused were from 
