Russia's Federal Security service said Thursday it foiled planned terror attacks ahead of Victory in Europe celebrations, discovering a truck packed with more than a ton of explosives and a cache of poisons allegedly intended for chemical attacks. VE Day blasts are a Chechen/Wahabi tradition. Last year the Chechen president and 25 others were killed during VE day celebrations. In 2002, 40-some people were killed in Kaspiisk, Daghestan when a remote controlled bomb exploded during a VE day parade.
The truck was found near the Chechen capital of Grozny, said Maj. Gen. Ilya Shabalkin, chief spokesman for the federal forces in the North Caucasus region. Its frame and chassis were outfitted with about 2,600 pounds of explosives Looking to up the ante by two orders of magnitude.
for an attack allegedly planned by Chechen rebel leaders Shamil Basayev, Doku Umarov and Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev the successor to slain rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov. The truck was discovered on a road Thursday morning, Shabalkin said.
Security services have been on watch for major terrorist attacks around Monday's holiday, which this year marks the 60th anniversary of the Allied victory over the Nazis in Europe. It is one of the biggest holidays on the Russian calendar. Militants have struck twice in the past on the holiday, killing Kremlin-backed Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov [sic: they mean Kadyrov, but this is written by AP and all those Russer names sound alike] and up to 24 others attending a Grozny parade last year, and killing 43 people by bombing a parade in the southern Russian town of Kaspiisk in 2002. "The truck was fully prepared for a blast, the only thing left to do was to put a suicide-bomber behind the wheel and turn on the electric detonator," Shabalkin was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency. He said two men who drove the truck were detained and were being interrogated.
The Federal Security Service also said rebel leaders planned to use poisons and toxic substances for attacks in the capitals of the North Caucasus region and several large regional centers elsewhere in Russia. A cache containing a cyanide-based substance was discovered during combat in an unnamed settlement on the Chechen-Ingush border, said a statement from the Federal Security Service's press service. The components, which are not produced in Russia or elsewhere in the former Soviet Union, were brought in from abroad possibly an Arab state, the service said. "Experts have concluded that the application of these strong-acting poisons in minimal doses in crowded places, in vital enterprises and water reservoirs could produce numerous victims," the security service said. It said less than an ounce of the poison could kill about 100 people.
The security service said a militant group operating in the Russian republic of Ingushetia, which borders Chechnya, was involved in the planned chemical attacks. The main organizer was a Jordanian named Abu Majahid, who arrived in Chechnya in 1992 and served as an emissary of al-Qaida, it said. The attack was to have been carried out by the so-called Amanat (Silence) jamaat, a group of adherents to the extremist Wahhabi branch of Islam, the security service said. The group is headed by Alash Daudov, a former police official accused of complicity in the 2002 Chechen rebel seizure of a Moscow theater that left 129 hostages dead, attacks on police in Grozny and Nazran in neighboring Ingushetia in summer 2004 and the rebels' seizure of more than 1,200 people in a southern Russia school in September, it said. The security service alleged that Daudov received the poisons from an Arab state, through Abu Mujahid.
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Col. David H. Hackworth, the United States Army's legendary, highly decorated guerrilla fighter and lifelong champion of the doughboy and dogface, groundpounder and grunt, died Wednesday in Mexico. He was 74 years old. The cause of death was a form of cancer now appearing with increasing frequency among Vietnam veterans exposed to the defoliants called Agents Orange and Blue... Bladder cancer.
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Most folks have heard about Agent Orange, but one of the things that struck me most when visiting the ''American War Crimes Museum'' in Hanoi was a display showing the various defoliants used. It was a literal rainbow of ''Agents'' from blue, to red, to white, and many more, along with familiar ol' Orange. The wall of deformed fetuses in formaldehyde jars, blamed on the various chemicals sprayed during the war, also made quite an impression!
Two small makeshift grenades exploded outside the British Consulate early Thursday, Election Day in England, causing slight damage to the building but injuring no one, officials said.
The blasts happened at 3:50 a.m.
The grenades had been placed inside a cement flower box outside the front door of the midtown Manhattan building that houses the consulate, police spokesman Noel Waters said.
After piecing together the shrapnel, police determined the devices were toy grenades that had been filled with gunpowder. Officers estimated that one was the size of a pineapple; the other the size of a lemon.
The blasts shattered a panel of glass in the building's front door and ripped a one-foot chunk from the planter. The department's bomb squad was at the scene and streets were closed in the area.
In London, Britain's Foreign Office (search) said there were no provisions for Britons to vote at overseas consulates. No further information was immediately available, the spokesman said. Calls to the British Embassy in Washington went unanswered early Thursday morning.
Britain's national elections have been dominated by anger with Prime Minister Tony Blair's (search) support for the Iraq war.
They're bringing it home here, folks ... and it's not clear to me whether this came from the jihadis or the LLL.
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Don't forget the IRA!
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Aye, the Provos are getting their shorts knotted because the govt had the audacity to charge someone over the Omagh atrocity and cos the Yanks aren't paying up any more... Doubtful. I'll go lone nutter for ten.
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My fellow Rantburgers
Do not assume it's Jihadis, Do not assume its LLLs. For all we know, it could be a nut like Eric Rudolph. We should all condemn it no matter who did it.
We do know 2 things: Wackos on the left will find a way to blame Bush, and it will only be a matter of time before someone will blame the Joooos.
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My money is on the LLL. If it were the IRA or anyone else, they wouldn't have used such a primitive device or set ti to explode when no one was around. LLL just testing the waters of what they can get away with. Perhaps hoping we knee-jerk blame the Al-Quacker people.
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My money is on LLL who are pissed off about the last election here (how could Bush WIN? We had hitler puppets!) and are now looking to take their anger out on Blair because the election is an easy excuse to play with the toys they've been given by their aging hippie parents.
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Reuters: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Thursday police had no indication who was responsible for two blasts at the British Consulate that came on the same day as a general election in Britain.
''It is true the British Consulate is in that building but I don't think anybody should jump to conclusions,'' Bloomberg told reporters at the scene in midtown Manhattan.
''We do not at this point have any idea who did it or a motive,'' Bloomberg said, adding that there had been no warning call before the blast or any call claiming responsibility.
True enough.
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Pretty close to the U.N. also.
Kofi needs some newsworthy distraction and it seems to me that considering this was ''amatuerish'' type IED this sort of fits with him working late on his alibi and walking past an obvious target (British flower pot).
Nothing that comes out of this will surprise me!
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This doesn't appear to be a Muslim terror attack - it was carried out in the small hours of the morning, when no one was around. If the attacker had wanted to hurt people, he would have put these items in brown paper bags (like the ones held by tens of thousands of coffee drinkers) and inserted them in the garbage cans at Grand Central Station.
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I'm with Howard, but by the time the MSM gets doen with it, it'll be an extreme right wing graduate of Columbine High with ties to Timothy McVeigh and the Aryan Nation.
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I'm guessing LLL. The jihadis would have taken down the building. There's something impotent and symbolic about filling a toy grenade with powder. The LLL is all about impotent symbolism. They probably used a toy grenade to make a statement about how we treat war like a game, or how we indoctrinate our kids to be warriors, or some other faggy half-ass rationale.
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What the explosions lacked in yield, the MSM made up with hype. The MSM is the best friend these amateur nutjobs have. Without the MSM, the leetle nutjobs would have nuhtink, and this would not be a story.
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It's not necessarily the Brits this person was after; that building does have other foreign offices. However, I do imagine it's some nutter who wanted to make a ''statement'' about the election.
That said, that entire neighborhood is littered with embassies, consulates, foreign dignitaries, etc. Many years ago I worked in a building a couple blocks south of where this happened. My company shared half a floor with some Middle Eastern embassy group, and the building itself had many foreign groups. Bomb threats were a common occurence. This was before 9/11, and they were not really taken seriously. Since then, security in those sorts of buildings has been tightened incredibly. I wouldn't worry too much about this event.
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S: OTOH 9/11 was hours before the main mass of folks showed up.
Most of Wall Street is in by 8 a.m. The reason more did not die is because the high floors were hit, and most of the second building was evacuated after the first was hit. The other thing is that terrorists don't control airline schedules or the location of takeoffs and departures. They went with a place where they could get through security easily. The timetable for the attacks flowed from there. If they had buzzed NYC waiting for the buildings to fill up completely, someone might have gotten suspicious, meaning that NORAD might have had a chance at shooting them down. The other thing is that loitering around reduces the amount of gas in the planes, meaning that there's less propellant left to fuel the fire.
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FBI and police were questioning a United Nations employee today after two makeshift grenades exploded outside a building housing the British Consulate. The FBI and police were questioning a United Nations employee from the Netherlands who was found loitering near the building shortly after the explosion, law enforcement sources said. The sources would not say whether or not the man was a suspect.
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Sounds like the Kofi theory was closer than we thought.
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Curious. From the Fox story:
The man, Eric Van Schijndel, is a low-level employee at the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission. Police said, however, that the man was not considered a suspect.
Someone involved in UNMOVIC?
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Police were examining videotape from security cameras that appeared to show a cyclist lighting and then throwing the grenades toward the building before fleeing the scene, law enforcement sources said.
Riding a Cycle Of Violence, how environmentally correct of them.
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Fox: Eric Van Schijndel, is a low-level employee at the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission and is said to have been lingering near the building after the blasts. It's unclear whether Van Schijndel is a suspect.
The man -- who lives near the building -- was detained after he refused police orders to leave the crime scene, law enforcement officials told the AP
BEIRUT: Syrian-backed Palestinian guerrillas fired shots into the air on Wednesday after banning a United Nations team from entering a base in eastern Lebanon, Lebanese security sources said. The UN verification team was visiting former Syrian military and intelligence posts in the Bekaa Valley to check whether Syria had completely withdrawn its forces from Lebanon. While making its inspections, it drove towards a post for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC). "One man was standing at the entrance of the camp and would not allow the team to enter, and told them that it is a Palestinian camp not a Syrian post," a security source said. The PFLP-GC said the team was not allowed into the base because the guerrillas were not expecting them and were not sure of their identity. "It was a misunderstanding. Our people were not expecting them and they were taken by surprise," a PFLP-GC official said. "The fired shots were not directed at the UN team."
"They wuz just havin' a little gun sex. To relieve the tension, y'know?"
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Run away, run away, brave UN inspectors.
Useless UN inspectors. Run away.
Hizbul Mujahideen today confirmed the death of fourteen of its militants in the 50-hour-long gunbattle at Lawaypora in Bandipore area of Baramulla district. Meanwhile, three more militants, three civilians and a soldier have died in different incidents of violence in Kashmir valley since last evening whereas four civilians have been left wounded in a grenade blast in Sopore town.
Hizbul Mujahideen spokesman Junaid-ul-Islam told the local newsagency KNS this evening over telephone that fourteen Kashmiri militants of his organisation got killed in Army's operation at Lawaypora in Bandipore area. He said that the slain militants included a number of "battalion commanders" and "company commanders" of the organisation. According to him, the militants were in a meeting when Army swooped on the village and a fierce gunbattle was triggered off. He said that Hizbul Mujahideen's "Chief Operational Commander" Gazi Misbah-ud-din paid rich tributes to the slain militants and called upon the Imams of mosques to pray for the 'martyrs' and observe May 6th as 'yaum-e-shuhada-e-Bandipora'.
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SRINAGAR, April 10: Two civilians died and 20 were injured when terrorists hurled a hand grenade at a security patrol. It missed the target and exploded among pedestrians in the southern township of Shopian, 50 kilometers from Srinagar, a police spokesman said.
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6 houses destroyed, 4 bodies recovered
18 terrorists believed dead in Bandipore
Sources said that the terrorists trapped and killed at Lawaypora were part of a 40-member strong group of the infiltrators who had managed to cross in from Lipa valley. Possibility of a bigger operation in search of other terrorists of the group was not ruled out by senior officials.
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Blast at Kashmir Hindu wedding kills 2, wounds 17
05 May 2005 09:15:47 GMT
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JAMMU, India, May 5 (Reuters) - Two teenage girls were killed and 17 people were wounded in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir when a bomb planted by Muslim terrorists went off at a Hindu wedding, police said on Thursday.
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wow - busy string of successes for the Religion of Peaceâ¢
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We are dizzy with success.
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So, I read the whole thing and came upon this very detailed ''oh by the way'' from CNN.com:
Other tenants in the 15-story building include The Conference Board, [...] The company's executive vice president and chief economist, Gail Fosler, was the target of an April 14 demonstration by activists against earth-moving equipment maker Caterpillar. Fosler is a Caterpillar board member.
During the protest, demonstrators held signs outside the building claiming that Caterpillar is supporting human rights abuses in the Middle East by supplying equipment used to destroy Palestinian homes.
Something which the writers felt compelled to mention because they claim it, too? Just asking.
The protest was part of the International Day of Action Against Caterpillar, organized in the United States by the group Jewish Voice for Peace.
What? No link? No address where the reader can send them money? (/sarcasm)
EFL: ISLAMABAD - Pakistani security officials said Thursday they hoped the capture of a Libyan accused of being Al-Qaeda's number three and of planning to kill President Pervez Musharraf could lead them to Osama bin Laden. Intelligence agents said they had separately recaptured an air force officer who escaped jail late last year after being sentenced to death in one of the assassination plots masterminded by top terror suspect Abu Faraj al-Libbi. In another apparent coup, officials said a second militant seized on Monday with al-Libbi, who has a five-million-dollar US bounty on his head, was himself a key Al-Qaeda figure with a reward tag of four million dollars. However they would not name the other terror suspect, saying it could harm efforts by Pakistani interrogators to extract information from al-Libbi about bin Laden.
So, who's the 4 million dollar man? I'll have to go digging in the wanted posters.
"The man arrested with al-Libbi is an important Al-Qaeda operative, but we cannot disclose his name. We understand the bounty on his head is four million dollars," a senior government official told AFP on condition of anonymity. The official declined to give any other details.
"I can say no more!"
Junior air force official Mushtaq Ahmed, 26, was sentenced to death in November for his role in the bombing of a bridge which collapsed moments after Musharraf's convoy had passed through in December 2003. He escaped jail soon afterwards but was arrested last week on a bus near Islamabad on a tip off despite having changed his appearance by shaving off his beard, a security official told AFP. Officials said they were not aware of any link between Ahmed's recapture and the arrest of al-Libbi.
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On the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists site we have the following people with a $5 million dollar bounty on their heads:
Abdelkarim Hussein Mohamed Al-Nasser - Al-Nasser is the alleged leader of the terrorist organization, Saudi Hizballah. He is thought to be in Iran, Syria, or Lebanon.
Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah - Abdullah fled Nairobi, Kenya, on August 6, 1998, and went to Karachi, Pakistan. He is believed to currently be in Afghanistan. He may wear a moustache.
Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah - Atwah is believed to currently be in Afghanistan.
Ali Atwa - Atwa is an alleged member of the terrorist organization, Lebanese Hizballah. He is thought to be in Lebanon.
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed
Hasan Izz-Al-Din - Izz-Al-Din is an alleged member of the terrorist organization, Lebanese Hizballah. He is thought to be in Lebanon.
Ahmed Mohammed Hamed Ali - Ali may have formal training in agriculture and may have worked in this field. He lived in Kenya until fleeing that country on August 2, 1998, to Karachi, Pakistan. He is believed to currently be in Afghanistan.
Imad Fayez Mugniyah - Mugniyah is the alleged head of the security apparatus for the terrorist organization, Lebanese Hizballah. He is thought to be in Lebanon.
Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan - Swedan sometimes wears a light beard or moustache and has, in the past, managed a trucking business in Kenya.
Abdul Rahman Yasin - Yasin is an epileptic. He is believed to be in Iraq.
Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam - Msalam sometimes wears a light beard or moustache and has, in the past, worked as a clothing vendor.
Ahmad Ibrahim Al-Mughassil - El-Hoorie is an alleged member of the terrorist organization, Saudi Hizballah. He is thought to be in Iran, Syria, or Lebanon.
Ali Saed Bin Ali El-Hoorie - El-Hoorie is an alleged member of the terrorist organization, Saudi Hizballah. He is thought to be in Iran, Syria, or Lebanon.
Saif Al-Adel - Al-Adel is thought to be affiliated with the Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), and is believed to be a high-ranking member of the Al-Qaeda organization, currently in Afghanistan
Ibrahim Salih Mohammed Al-Yacoub - Al-Yacoub is an alleged member of the terrorist organization, Saudi Hizballah. He is thought to be in Iran, Syria, or Lebanon.
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Intelligence agents said they had separately recaptured an air force officer who escaped jail late last year after being sentenced to death in one of the assassination plots masterminded by top terror suspect Abu Faraj al-Libbi.
This ain't California. Since it's already been a year since being sentenced, what are they waiting for? The guy wouldn't have escaped had they carried out the sentence promptly.
Alleged dacoit killed in shootout
An alleged dacoit was killed in a shootout between the police and a gang of dacoits at Keraniganj in the outskirts of the capital in the small hours of Wednesday. Sources said Md. Ashraf (27), son of Mokhter Hossain of Laxmipura at Arai hazar in Naraynaganj district received fatal injuries during a deadly gun battle between the police and his accomplices at Nazirabag under Keraniganj police station at about 2:45 am.
Taking a page from the RAB manual, I see.
He was rushed to the hospital in a critical condition where the doctors declared him dead.
"He's dead.....wait a minute, you ain't Jim." "He's off today."
A special team of Keraniganj police station arrested Ashraf from Hotel Hilton near Joykali Mandir road in the capital at about 9:30 pm on Tuesday. Police also recovered some looted goods from his possession raiding the hotel room. Later, according to his confessional statement, a team of police along with Ashraf went to Nazirabag area to recover the rest of the looted goods and arrest his accomplices.
Page twenty seven in your "Crossfire for Dummies" manual
But, the dacoits opened fire on the law-enforcers when the team of police reached Nazirabag area at about 2:45 am.
Just like clockwork
Police replied with the gunshots, which erupted a deadly gun battle between the police and the dacoits. Both the sides traded at least fifty rounds of bullet during the gunfight that continued for about half an hour. Police recovered firearms and ammunition from the spot.
BCL leader arrested
The Rapid Action Battalion arrested Ashraful Islam, organising secretary of the Bangladesh Chhatra League, Khulna district unit, from his village Paipara under Phultala upazila of Khulna district early Tuesday. Officials of the Khulna RAB said they arrested Ashraful, 23, with a fire arm and two rounds of bullets acting on a tipoff.
That gun turns up a lot
Ashraful is an accused in 2 murder cases and many allegations against him are in files with the police.
We'll keep an eye open for Ashraful, he may turn up in the morgue latwer.
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Are dacoits like Daeliks?
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Fifty rounds of bullets from both sides over the course of half an hour? That's about one round per minute per side. What the heck are they armed with, muzzle-loader muskets? A 9mm pistol can crank out seventeen shots in about ten seconds, assuming you have a seventeen shot magazine in it...
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14-17 shot magazines are standard on 9mm handguns. Only since the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban has magazine capacity been limitted to 10. Older high capacity magazines were grandfathered in. I believe when the Assault Weapons Ban expired last year, the magazine capacity limit also expired.
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Per Instapundit.
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Wonder how the Islamist feel about the possibility of being killed or caputered by a women? Might make them wonder if they want 72 virgins if even one was like these lady's.
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What strikes me about this story is that it hasn't raised much heat here at RB and in most other places.
Within 5 years, our soldiers and marines will have a whole slew of smart weapons. In less than 10 that will include an exoskeleton that is flexible, strong and can do things like stop bleeding until a medic arrives.
All of these things make the strength / build differences between men and women, and among men, less important. Smarts, courage and ability to absorb and act on info quickly will be key.
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The United Nations expressed concern ... We're the UN and we're here to express concern. We're going to organize a conference in Nice to express our deep concern.
... Thursday about the treatment of women in Afghanistan, citing the killings of three women whose bodies were found dumped on a roadside with a note ... Where do the killers think their are, the Netherlands?
... warning against working for foreign relief groups. One of the women worked for a Bangladeshi relief group. Can't have the Banglas stealing our wimmen. It's unislamic.
"They ain't as Islamic as us!"
Officials and doctors said the women, whose bodies were found Sunday in the northern province of Baghlan, had been raped and then hanged. Oops, must be in Islamoland. Nevermind.
But were they Islamically raped and hung?
It was the second brutal slaying involving Afghan women to become public in recent weeks, underlining how little women's rights have progressed since the Taliban's ouster in late 2001. Last month, a woman was killed for committing adultery, a punishment permitted under Islamic law. "In a context where violence against women remains too often unprosecuted and unpunished, it is particularly important that the authorities spare no effort to bring swiftly the perpetrator of this crime to justice," U.N. spokeswoman Ariane Quentier said. Police said they had arrested a woman and two men for the latest killings. Despite the fall of the Taliban's religiously hard-line regime, Quentier said Afghanistan's conservative traditions and the breakdown of law and order leave women and girls at the mercy of warlords and male-dominated tribal councils. "It was much better when the gubmint was doing the rapin' and hangin'.", said Quentier
"Sure, the Taliban had their rough edges, but at least they ddin't allow others to rape and hang people, that they did themselves," she added.
"We are very concerned about the way in certain instances women are being discriminated against or treated in this country," she said. Quentier also said "Did I mention I was concerned?"
They're always concerned, especially when lunch is late.
U.N. officials' worries over the latest deaths were deepened by the fact that a note left with the bodies said the three women were killed for working for international aid groups. "While there is no confirmation that this was the case or the actual motive of the killing, this could constitute a threat to women working for non-governmental organizations, which (the United Nations) strongly condemns," Quentier said. Afghan officials said one of the women worked for a Bangladeshi relief group, but the group's managers denied having links with any of the three victims. Officials said the note also accused the women of prostitution. Whores. All of them. Working outside the home, trying to feed their kiddies. Why I almost saw an ankle once and just had to shoot off.
The case comes just a few weeks after the killing of a woman in northwestern Afghanistan for adultery. But in that case, Afghan officials complained more about the lack of a proper trial being held for the woman than the fact that she was killed. Officials said Mohammed Aslam, a resident of a remote village in Badakhshan province, which never came under Taliban control, killed his daughter, Amina, after she was caught in the house of a man who was not her husband. Authorities said 13 people have been arrested in that case, including a mullah who allegedly sanctioned the slaying.
You knew there was a holy man involved, didn't you.
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We the UN will move forcefully against this since it raises concern. We will issue a resolution.
The United Nations expressed concern ... about the treatment of women in Afghanistan, citing the killings of three women
Why?
Because that's 3 fewer women they'll get to rape if they ever get to take over Afghanistan?
:-(
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Barbara, you should be ashamed. You know damned well UN ''Peacekeepers'' aren't interested in mature women!
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LOL RC! And unfortunately very true :(
So where was the UN's 'deep' concern when women were having their heads blown off in soccer stadiums and being raped nad murdered as a matter of 'honor'?
May 5, 2005: U.S. Army infantry divisions and armored cavalry regiments are equipped with mobile anti-aircraft vehicles called Avengers. They have not got any use in Iraq until recently, until eight of them were recently converted to operate as gun trucks. The Avengers are hummers with a turret mounted on the back. The turret contains two missile pods (each containing four Stringer anti-aircraft missiles). Under one pod there is an M3P .50 caliber machine gun. The weapons operator has use of a FLIR (night vision device) and a laser range finder. The machine-gun, however, can't fire, at ground targets, towards the front of the vehicle.
The 3rd Cavalry Regiment has eight Avengers, and they persuaded the army to send six engineers to Kuwait, where the regiment was preparing to move into Iraq, to modify the Avengers for use as gun trucks. In two days, the engineers removed the right missile pod, and moved the machine-gun up to where the pod was. Some changes were made in the fire control software. All this allowed the machine-gun to fire in any direction, at any elevation. The ammo capacity of the machine-gun was also increased from 250 rounds to 600 rounds. The missiles were removed from the other pod. The two man crew of the Avenger was now ready to use their FLIR and laser range finder to provide accurate long range .50 caliber machine-gun fire day or night. The Avengers were expected to be particularly useful at night.
Converting anti-aircraft guns into deadly ground warfare weapons is nothing new. During World War II, the German 88mm anti-aircraft gun became a very effective anti-tank gun early in the war. Later on, the American anti-aircraft halftrack, mounting quad .50 caliber machine-guns, became much more useful for ground combat, and continued in service into the 1950s. Any light, self-propelled anti-aircraft gun system has the potential to become a weapon useful against ground targets. However, many current systems include short-range anti-aircraft missiles, and often are put together so that the gun barrels cannot be depressed enough to hit targets on the ground.
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100 rounds per second of 20mm goodness.
Please, please send a human wave attack.
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Short-range AAA is designed to put lots of flying (and explosive, if >20mm) pieces of metal out in a hurry. Of course it works well against ground troops.
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Using a Vulcan or a Dillon mini-gun on ground targets sends a whole lot of lead down range, but is not that effective (except for supression) unless the weapon is remotely operated. While it sounds good and there is a lot of flame and smoke, you can drop more enemy using a 7.62mm on burst.
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Now remove the Left missile pod and replace it with either a 25mm chain gun (if the vehicle can handle it), the 40MM automatic gernade launcher or a GE 7.62MM mini-gun so they can reach ot and touch some one
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All good suggestions, but I wouldn't want to be out front of that fifty when it starts unloading 600 rounds. Hope someone is wise enough not to dismantle all the air defense capablity just in case the Mad Mullahs do something crazier.
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Do not displease the mighty Vulcan. I saw a demo at Ft Lewis of one of those sumbitches. Sitting on bleachers 30 ft behind the thing, those bleachers were rattling. Hard. Allegedly they used them in an anti-pers role once or twice in Vietnam against human wave attacks, but discontinued it as not being ''polite''. I can dig it. Some weapons just ain't nice.
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I have to agree, Chuck. My personal philosophy involves a few ashes floating in the wind. Under certain circumstances politeness is counterproductive. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately, given what my eyesight can be corrected to... and my tendency toward nightmares when I hurt someone accidentally), nobody will let me play with such toys... or anything else that causes mayhem.
EFL: Pakistani agents wearing burqas seized al-Qaeda suspect Abu Faraj al-Libbi by ambushing his motorbike in a rural town, police told the BBC. The man alleged to be a top al-Qaeda organiser was riding pillion and managed to run into a house where agents flushed him out with tear gas. He has been held at an undisclosed location since his capture at Mardan, 60km (37 miles) from Peshawar. Pakistani officials have ruled out his immediate extradition to the US. They said he would not be handed over before being exhaustively questioned by local authorities.
"Mahamoud, my number 7 truncheon, please!"
"Of course, sir!"
"And my moustachio wax, if you please!"
Amanullah Khan, deputy superintendent of police in Mardan, told the BBC the capture on Monday was purely the work of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence service (ISI). "This was all an ISI show," he said. "We got to the place after hearing a few gunshots."
OK, that pegged my surprise meter.
He said he had recognised Libbi from photographs in newspapers. Agents, some of whom had been wearing the all-encompassing robe worn by women in conservative Islamic families, stopped the motorbike and overpowered the driver, then fired some shots when Libbi ran away. The suspect later emerged from the house where he had sought shelter unarmed and with his "hands up and head slightly bowed", the policeman said. He was frisked and only a mobile phone was found. ISI agents bundled him into a vehicle and whisked him away before police could speak to him, he added. Pakistani Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said security agents had already gathered "a lot of tips" from the arrest, which meant they were "on the right track" to eventually capturing the al-Qaeda leader.
This article starring:
ABU FARAJ AL LIBI
al-Qaeda
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only a mobile phone was found.
that would account for some of the ''tips'' even if hes not singing yet.
A US marine filmed shooting an injured Iraqi in Falluja acted in self-defence and will not face a court martial, a Marine Corps investigation has found.
The five-month investigation found that the shooting had been "pretty much consistent with the established rules of engagement", a spokesman said.
Just like we thought.
Video of the killing last November, which was taken by a US cameraman, was flashed around the world. It came during a bloody operation to recapture the rebel-held city.
In sworn statements, the unnamed marine corporal said he had shot three insurgents in self-defence in the mosque on 13 November, believing they posed a threat to him and his fellow marines. Cameraman Kevin Sites said in his weblog account of the shooting that the marine could have legitimately believed the man posed a danger but he asked whether standards had been lowered.
Nah, we did the same during Vietnam, Korea, WWII, WWI, etc. Hell, I'm sure a Centurion would have put a spear into a wounded Carthaginian he thought was hiding a dagger.
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We need to take another look at the whole embedded reporter thing. A soldier or marine distracted about what an embedded reporter is doing could be a fatal distraction in a combat situation. The mission comes first. In WW2, embedded reporters and combat cameramen were made part of the ranks, IIRC. That means that they were subject to the same rules as the military they were covering.
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The U.S. military is examining reports that insurgent leader Abu Musab Zarqawi was present last week at a hospital in Anbar province and the possibility that he may be ill or wounded, officials said Wednesday.
U.S. officials gave no details as to why they believe Zarqawi may be sick or injured. But U.S. military authorities were quoted this month as saying that Zarqawi had left medical information about himself on a laptop computer that was seized Feb. 20 in his closest known call with American pursuers. When his car was pulled over at a checkpoint outside Ramadi, Zarqawi fled on foot, leaving behind the laptop, photos of himself and contacts, officials said.
It was not clear whether suspicions about his health were linked to the seizure of the computer or grew directly out of Zarqawi's reported presence last week at a hospital in Ramadi, the capital of restive Anbar province. Zarqawi's group asserted in a written statement posted at two mosques, one of them in Ramadi, that the Jordanian-born militant was at the hospital last Thursday during a raid by U.S. forces but that the Americans missed him.
A U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, Lt. Col. Steven Boylan, confirmed Wednesday that officials had "received a tip that there were terrorists in and around the hospital in Ramadi."
U.S. and Iraqi forces "did go to the hospital to act upon the information," Boylan said. He did not confirm that Zarqawi was the target of the raid. The forces left without detaining anyone but were reviewing information from the operation, Boylan said.
Zarqawi is the most-wanted man in Iraq, and the United States has offered a $25 million reward for information leading to his death or capture. Zarqawi is believed by U.S. officials to lead a network of insurgent cells that has been behind many violent attacks in Iraq. American officials say Zarqawi is linked to some of last year's hostage beheadings and such attacks as the military-style assault last month on U.S. Marines at Abu Ghraib prison.
Known sightings of Zarqawi in recent months have all been in Anbar province. The district's tens of thousands of square miles are largely guarded by a scaled-back American force, with few Iraqi troops stationed outside Ramadi. Wide-open spaces and a generally porous border with Syria give militants room to roam and hide.
Military officials said this week that reported sightings of Zarqawi include one several weeks or months ago in the small town of Haqlaniyah, where he was believed to have given a sermon at a blue-domed hilltop mosque.
There were reports that Zarqawi was at the main hospital in Ramadi both on Wednesday and Thursday of last week. The Wednesday sighting was reported by Islamic newspapers. Separately, several people at the hospital said they had seen a group of armed men arrive at the hospital Thursday, followed by the Americans. "They searched us one by one, and they checked our IDs," said Saad Safi, a patient at the hospital at the time of the U.S. raid. "The occupation forces searched the whole hospital but did not find anything. We hadn't expected them to come search for Zarqawi."
In a written statement Friday, Zarqawi's al Qaeda in Iraq group said Americans searched all the rooms down to the air-conditioning ducts but "were not able to find Sheik Abu Musab Zarqawi, even though he was inside the hospital."
The statement did not say why Zarqawi would have been at the hospital. He has not been known to have health problems or to have been injured. An Islamic Web site reportedly made a point of saying this year that Zarqawi was in good health.
Riyadh Abu Dhiba, an insurgent in an Iraqi militant group, said Thursday that Zarqawi had been visiting his top aide, who was hurt in an unspecified clash. Abu Dhiba, who belongs to a group called Mohammeds Army, said the Zarqawi aide is a foreigner.
The insurgent said Zarqawi at times has brought doctors to his hiding places to care for the injured. "Zarqawi is not ill at all," Abu Dhiba said.
Iraqi authorities say a suspected top lieutenant of Zarqawi's, Talib Mikhlif Arsan Walman Dulaymi, was captured in February. The government said Dulaymi moved money and equipment around the country for Zarqawi and arranged for safe houses.
Zarqawi's reported near-capture in February raised hope among U.S. military officials of apprehending him. Zarqawi is believed to move frequently to evade American forces. U.S. military officials said capturing Zarqawi would not end the insurgency. Some say that eliminating the lieutenants who carry out operations for him is more important. But removing Zarqawi from the scene would be seen as a setback to insurgents in general, they said.
This article starring:
ABU MUSAB ZARQAWI
al-Qaeda in Iraq
Lt. Col. Steven Boylan
RIYADH ABU DHIBA
Iraqi Insurgency
RIYADH ABU DHIBA
Mohammeds Army
Saad Safi
TALIB MIKHLIF ARSAN WALMAN DULAIMI
Mohammeds Army
Mohammeds Army
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He's made some pretty nifty getaways for an ill man with one leg.
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The question is, was that laptop planted as disinformation?
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Is Z man a peg-leg like Basayev? Maybe he was the ADA hire for the Thugadeen between two open sewers. Hopefully somebody can do stump revision surgery somewhere near his neck next time he comes to the hospital! With the bounty on Z's skull, the doctor wouldn't have to worry about having his professional bill paid.
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Howard I've been to Ilkeston for the 91 RWC. Satyed 10 days in your lovely town. I came over with the Cruise-a-matics.
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Howard, they are well financed.
Posted by: too true ||
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iola - God, you're a brave man! Hope they got a few pints of ale down you! What are the cruise-a-matics??
Posted by: Howard UK ||
05/05/2005 8:21 Comments ||
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It is a rugby club from Columbus, GA. What the name means I have no idea.
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Scrum down! Used to play myself - flanker moved to the wings and ended up as full back - I got taller and thinner! Hope they made you welcome - can be a bit of an intimidating town - here's a good site for pics to remind you... anyway back to Zarq I guess... yup they're obviously well financed I guess, and there is something that doesn't quite add up about the bridge nr Ramadi incident. The powers that be are certainly crowing long and loud tho'
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http://www.ilkcam.com/
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BH - beautiful countryside but former mining/steel community.. say no more.
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Chupame los sobacos, Zarqawi. Everyone else, Happy Cinco de Mayo! Drink some habenero beer!
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Howard UK, Interesting how you got taller as a fullback I went the other way and it had the opposite effect for me. I used be 6' until they moved me from Inside Center to Hooker now I'm a paltry 5'9''. Lot's of Ale in Providence RI although never heard of the Cruise a matics. Back to Zarq - Kurds might know a thing or two. I have a feeling we've held that river back way too long.
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Colllect three dozen Shia and Kurdish women. Priority goes to those in their 50s who have lost their husband and/or their remaining offspring the Zarqawi and his ilk. The Kurds have many recent deaths due to the Ansar al Islam crowd, give them priority too.
Strip him naked, dump him in the town square in the blazing heat, surrounded by them.
Pick up whatever scraps are left when they're done.
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"The 'Merkins celebrate because the French lost..."
Well, now, wait a minute. We can't celebrate every French defeat. If we did that, we'd have 4 holidays a week and our productivity would be no better than EUrope's.
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Yah, but Cinco de mayo is a fine excuse to go out for Margaritas! Or at least for fajitas! Plenty of us who are not at all Mexican, who celebrate Cinco de Mayo after a fashion :)
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The 5th of May is pretty much a big deal in this part of California we were only part of Mexico/Spain for easily 2X as long as we have been part of the Union.
Who wouldn't party over kicking the French Foreign Legions ass any how.
I am praying for some creeping massive infection of his stump.
We have ''The Holidays'' ''The Holidays'' is our way of celebrating without acknowledging there is anything to celebrate; you go to a party, but it is considered bad form to mention why there is a party.
Me, I just stay home.
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Not from the Southwest are ya, Bomb-a-rama?
I am, but I tend to steer clear of that sort of thing. I used to patronize the festivities regularly until I started to notice the subtle and sometimes not-so-subtle racism in a lot of Latino behavior.
When I talk about ''we'', I mean us as Americans. When most Latinos talk about ''we'', they're likely to mean just their ethnic group, or ''Hispanics'' in general. I dunno, that just rubs me the wrong way I guess. (Btw, I'm not white, just to be clear on that)
WASHINGTON - The remains of a US pilot, who had crashed in Iraq, have been found, the Pentagon said on Wednesday. Search teams located the body of the second F/A-18 fighter aircraft pilot but determined that there was "no initial indication of hostile fire in the area", the Pentagon said. However, the May 3 incident, which left two US Marine Corps pilots dead and their planes destroyed, is being investigated.
The F/A-18s were based on the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier.
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Rest in Peace, my friend. From a humble and Greatful Country.
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I'm sad to hear that two good Marines died ... and thank the search teams for the closure. For the crew of the USS Carl Vinson, for their families, for their fellow Marines and lastly for us.
Rest in peace. :)
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Terrorist organisations have acquired police uniforms to make it easier for themselves to access foreign missions to fulfil their nefarious designs. This was revealed in a report submitted by intelligence agencies to the Interior Ministry. The report maintains that this action was taken by terrorist organisations, including Al-Qaeda, as part of a plan to target diplomats and missions of those foreign countries whose forces were fighting in Iraq.
Terrorist organisations are collecting information about police officials deployed for the protection of foreign dignities and are especially interested in officials who are on leave, the report said. It added that the terrorist organisations were paying dishonest police officials to provide them with the required information. According to the report, terrorists might plant members in police uniforms outside foreign missions in place of those police officials who were on leave so that they could target the diplomats easily. Keeping in view such reports, the Interior Ministry directed home secretaries of the four provinces, chief secretaries of Azad Kashmir and the Northern Areas and the chief commissioner of the federal capital to take preventive measures in this regard, sources said.
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Yes, but did they pick up the new official ISI burqas?
The special prosecutor of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Sindh, Amanullah Khan, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen riding on a motorcycle near his home off Korangi Road on Wednesday morning. According to a spokesman for NAB, just as Amanullah Khan left his home in Darul Salam Society in his car for the Sindh High Court, two motorcyclists intercepted the car near his home and one of them fired multiple gunshots which broke the windscreen and hit Khan, killing him on the spot. The body was taken to the Jinnah Hospital. The Korangi police have registered a murder case against the assailants on the complaint of the deceased's brother, Ethesham Advocate. Town Investigation Officer (TIO) Aslam Javed has been appointed investigation officer of the murder case. It is also learnt that the sketches of the assailants have been prepared.
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Security forces have arrested an Uzbek militant suspected of links with Al Qaeda, three Afghans and as many local tribesmen during a raid in Bajaur Agency. A security official told Daily Times that an Uzbek was among seven arrested during Wednesday's raid by Special Services Group (SSG) personnel near the Afghan border. The local administration also participated in the operation, he added. "Intelligence agencies tipped us off and we raided the place. The operation was not linked to the arrest of senior Al Qaeda operative Abu Farraj al-Libbi, wanted for two assassination attempts on President Pervez Musharraf in December 2003," he said.
The house of Maulvi Faqir, leader of banned TNSM, was raided and the seven people were arrested from there, the official said, adding, "Nobody resisted and all suspects were flown to an undisclosed location." Maulvi Faqir later confirmed the raid, claiming that except for one guest called Abu Hazifa, all the arrested people were members of his family. The arrested included Maulvi Faqir's brother and several relatives. A source in Khar, Bajaur Agency's regional headquarters, told Daily Times that Maulvi Faqir escaped arrest because he left his house before the raid.
"Hello? Maulvi? Lissen, dis is Mahmoud the Weasel! Cheese it! I can say no more!"
One of Maulvi Faqir's relatives, Karim, was arrested two months ago for alleged links to Al Qaeda. Bajaur Agency Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Wahid Gul "condemned the raid" and demanded the immediate release of all arrested people.
About 20 suspected insurgents and one Afghan policeman were killed in a bloody battle in the mountains of southeastern Afghanistan, the US military said on Wednesday. Six American soldiers were wounded. Tuesday's clash, one of the deadliest in recent months, occurred in Dehchopan district of Zabul province, the US military said in a statement. It said helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft joined the fight against a group of about 25 insurgents. The statement said that the casualty figures were still preliminary. It reported five Afghan police officers were also wounded. Six insurgents were "detained and questioned". It said the wounded American soldiers were in stable condition, and two had returned to duty. The four others were to be flown to a US military hospital in Germany for treatment.
The statement said the fighting began when gunmen fired on a group of US soldiers and Afghan police investigating a reported beating of an Afghan man. "The police and troops cordoned off the insurgent forces by use of small-arms fire and support from coalition fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft," the statement said. "Initial reports indicate approximately 20 insurgents were killed and one wounded."
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What these boyz were figuring on, my guess, was that they could get a bunch of policemen to respond to a public disturbance, then slaughter them. That's a tactic that can sometimes work, once.
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''ain't that just like a Taliban, bringing a knife AK47 to an air-strike and artillery fight''
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LOL, Frank! I love it! I'm lookin' forward to many more reports like this after al-Libbi's capture yesterday. I heard late yesterday they'd already captured 11 or so more connected to al-Libbi after his capture...he must be singing like a catbird.
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Interesting theory Anonymoose. Unfortunately for recently deceased group, I think the US and Afghan forces were already alerted by their previous antics. I can't imagine the US military responding to a civilian fight.
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New count in, up to 64 deaders: Fierce battles between U.S.-led coalition forces and Taliban-led militants have left about 64 rebels dead, the U.S. military said Thursday, the bloodiest fighting in Afghanistan in nine months. Nine Afghan troops and a policeman were also killed. Seven U.S. soldiers were wounded in the fighting, which began Tuesday. American warplanes and helicopters pounded bands of militants in clashes in Zabul and Kandahar, two restive provinces in the south of the country.
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This battle killed 44 Pakistanis, Arabs, Uzbeks Taliban and one policeman. A second ambush near Kandahar killed 9 Afghan soldiers and at least 20 Taliban.
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Russia's Federal Security service said Thursday it foiled planned terror attacks ahead of Victory in Europe celebrations, discovering a truck packed with more than a ton of explosives and a cache of poisons allegedly intended for chemical attacks.
BEIRUT: Syrian-backed Palestinian guerrillas fired shots into the air on Wednesday after banning a United Nations team from entering a base in eastern Lebanon, Lebanese security sources said. The UN verification team was visiting former Syrian military and intelligence posts in the 
ISLAMABAD - Pakistani security officials said Thursday they hoped the capture of a Libyan accused of being Al-Qaeda's number three and of planning to kill President 
Alleged dacoit killed in shootout
Terrorist organisations have acquired police uniforms to make it easier for themselves to access foreign missions to fulfil their nefarious designs. This was revealed in a report submitted by intelligence agencies to the Interior Ministry. The report maintains that this action was taken by terrorist organisations, including Al-Qaeda, as part of a plan to target diplomats and missions of those foreign countries whose forces were fighting in Iraq.
The special prosecutor of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Sindh, Amanullah Khan, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen riding on a motorcycle near his home off Korangi Road on Wednesday morning. According to a spokesman for NAB, just as Amanullah Khan left his home in Darul Salam Society in his car for the Sindh High Court, two motorcyclists intercepted the car near his home and one of them fired multiple gunshots which broke the windscreen and hit Khan, killing him on the spot. The body was taken to the Jinnah Hospital. The Korangi police have registered a murder case against the assailants on the complaint of the deceased's brother, Ethesham Advocate. Town Investigation Officer (TIO) Aslam Javed has been appointed investigation officer of the murder case. It is also learnt that the sketches of the assailants have been prepared.
About 20 suspected insurgents and one Afghan policeman were killed in a bloody battle in the mountains of southeastern Afghanistan, the US military said on Wednesday. Six American soldiers were wounded. Tuesday's clash, one of the deadliest in recent months, occurred in Dehchopan district of 
