The suspicious thing about this bombing is that there were no post-attack video testimonials with the bombers talking about their voluntary commitment to blow themselves up. What if they had thought they were simply emulating the Madrid attacks?
There is also speculation the four bombers were DUPED into carrying their bombs without realising they would explode while still in their possession. Sir Ian admitted it was âpuzzlingâ that the gang were carrying personal identity documents.
The bombers had also bought a pay-and-display ticket for their hire car at Luton Railway Station.
One security source said: âIt is odd that they bought that parking ticket â not what you would do if you knew you were about to die.
âThere is a slim possibility they were set up â the bombs primed to go off earlier than they expected.â
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"It is odd that they bought that parking ticket â not what you would do if you knew you were about to die"
Idiot security officer that's completely dumb mistake, looking this situation trough western eyes
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Yeah, this was all over the papers here this morning. Apparently they bought return tickets as well - apparently.
Only two things to note;
1) It was a suicide attack, and they were very careful about not getting found out to the extent that they behaved as though they were going back to Luton. In that case, rot in Hell.
2) They were duped - there is some credence to this in that the shite on the bus was 'very agitated' with his bag - perhaps he started to figure it out. In that case, I can only hope that in the last split-second before their eyes were pushed out the backs of their heads, they realised they'd been lied to. And they can still rot in Hell.
Also check out this thread on Samizdata about the possible alliance of 'rightwing extremists' and 'football hooligans' (scare quotes because this is coming from Al Gaurdian) to have 'high-profile anti-muslim' events in the capital. The comments are the most interesting. People are getting very fed up of all the multi-culti bullshit we've had thrown at us.
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These are indeed puzzling signs. The lack of martyr-wills is a big one. The similarity to the Madrid attack is another one. The easily tracked trail left behind, too.
HOWEVER, it is difficult to imagine that the timing of the explosions could have been so perfect. British trains are very often delayed, hence they could easily have been sitting in one carriage stuck in the countryside when their bombs exploded. It's also bizarre that the fourth bomber, who very probably wanted to take the Northern Line which happened to experience delays, would not explode on time but much later and in a bus.
The majority of the evidence still points to suicide bombings.
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I wouldn't be suprized it this turns out to be true, it sounds like the kind of thing their handlers might do. But we will never know unless one left a diary and, the peelers and UK government let us see it. In any case rot in Hell you pig feces.
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For them to have been duped about when the explosions would take place, it's too much of a coincidence that the bus-bomber would not explode at the same time as the others, isn't it?
Maybe they thought they were on a Madrid-style mission. Or the one on the bus had "mis-programmed" the bombs of the other three. It'd be interesting to know if he was seen fidgeting with his bag earlier than in the bus.
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Yday on the news, they kept mentioning that leading upto the attack, many cctvs failed to be working , so how did they manage to trace the boys every moves in a report on timesonline.co.uk ? baffling if u ask me. It seems to point towards an inside job if you ask me.hmmmm....
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Simple. Two timer circuits, or the second one wasn't connected to anything.... The "real" timer was set by the 'mastermind' before. The fourth guy figgered it out and was trying to disconnect it when it went off.
Or, (and this is REALLY great!) we will start broadcasting to Muslim tools that their leaders will think nothing of killing them, too. Might cut down on 'volunteers".
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If the 4th terrorist had figured out something was not going as planned, why not ditch the bag? staying with it doesn't make sense, unless he WANTED to die in an explosion.
The double timers could be it. It would mean AQ is having a hard time finding volunteers to die for Islamofascism?
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This is interesting. If the presence of parking tickets is disinformation from the Brits it is may make a potential bomb carrier think twice. If it is true it may make the potential bomb carrier think twice.
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no "wills videos" if you've got nothing to will except the lingering body odor and debts to society....worthless cysts on civilization
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They don't now.
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Simple. Two timer circuits, or the second one wasn't connected to anything.... The "real" timer was set by the 'mastermind' before. The fourth guy figgered it out and was trying to disconnect it when it went off.
Or, (and this is REALLY great!) we will start broadcasting to Muslim tools that their leaders will think nothing of killing them, too. Might cut down on 'volunteers".
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The British government said Friday it has been granted more time to decide whether to extradite a British man facing terrorism charges in the United States. A judge ruled May 17 that Babar Ahmad could be sent to the United States to face charges of supporting terrorism, conspiring to kill Americans and running a Web site used to fund terrorists.
Home Secretary Charles Clarke, the top British official in charge of law and order, had 60 days to decide whether Ahmad would be extradited. That period expires Friday, but the Home Office said Clarke had obtained an extension from the courts until Sept. 16. In May, a judge allowed extradition after receiving assurances from U.S. authorities that they would not seek the death penalty or declare Ahmad an "enemy combatant," a category applied to detainees at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that affords fewer legal protections. British law forbids the extradition of suspects who could face capital punishment. The 31-year-old computer specialist has been in custody since his arrest last August on a U.S. extradition warrant. He is accused of running several Web sites, including Azzam.com, which investigators say was used to recruit members for the al-Qaida network, Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime and Chechen rebels and to outfit them with gas masks, night-vision goggles and camouflage gear.
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In case of Baku's consent to the accommodation of American military bases in the republic, Iran plans to deliver a preventive missile strike on the territory of Azerbaijan, Jelal Muhammedi, a confidant of the new Iranian leader, said in his interview to the Azerbaijan newspaper, Mirror...
It is highly probable that after Ahmadinejad's election, Muhammedi may become one of the key figures in formulating Tehran's policy towards Azerbaijan. Muhammedi claims that a sharp deterioration of Iran-Azerbaijan attitudes may occur in the near future for two reasons: accommodation of the US military bases in Azerbaijan and support by Baku of separatist moods in Iranian Azerbaijan.
Muhammedi emphasized that in both cases Tehran is capable of taking not only adequate reciprocal measures, but also may be drawn to actions of a preventive character.
What might be the Iranian reaction to Ilham Aliev's consent to place a US military contingent in the republic was mentioned above. Speaking about the destructive consequences of a missile blow, Muhammedi suggested imagining "how Baku will look after two missiles strike the area". He has no doubt that the missiles will reach their target in case of the conflict, and such confidence is not baseless at all. Tehran's military is much stronger then Baku's on each and every parameter. An extensive missile arsenal and several hundreds of warplanes allow Iran to deal a blazing air blow on the large cities of Azerbaijan.
A common border, and the complete lack of any efficient system of antimissile and antiaircraft defense of the Azerbaijan army eases this task substantially. Moreover, judging by the equipment, staff, and level of preparation, the Air Forces of the Azeri republic are incapable of withstanding the Iranians. The common 611 km long border, allows Iran to subject the southern areas of Azerbaijan to massive artillery bombardments.
In case of escalation of the conflict up to ground forces collisions, Baku also has no chance to resist. By the numbers, the Iranian Army and Pasdaran (not even counting the National Guard - Basij Resistance Forces) considerably surpass the Azerbaijanian armed forces (more than 900 thousand Iranian soldiers against 72 thousand Azeri). Also, Iranians are equipped much better technically then Azerbaijanians. The supreme command structure of the Iranian Army and Pasdaran has a rich operative experience acquired in the war with Iraq. As for Azerbaijanian officers, they proved themselves inadequate during the conflict with Armenia at the beginning of the nineties.
The strategic arrangement of forces in the Southern Caucasus and around the Caspian Sea also is adverse for Baku. Aliev has no close ally with appreciable military potential in the region. But Tehran holds close relations with Armenia. In case the conflict breaks out, Tehran can be expected to grip Azerbaijan in a "vise " from the Southeastern, Southwestern and Western directions. Yerevan does not have to conduct any military actions; it is enough to increase the concentration of its armies on the Azerbaijan border.
Counting upon the above listed strategic factors, experts on the Caucasus consider that given several days, the Iranians would manage not only to suppress the resistance of the Azerbaijan army completely, but also reach the capital of the republic. However, any such scenarios are purely theoretical. Baku, certainly, concedes to Tehran on every issue and parameter, but is protected by Ankara and Washington. Even if Iran would decide to strike Azerbaijan (which is improbable) the Americans would instantly interfere in the course of events. Though the leadership of the Azeri republic constantly increases its military expenditure (by the official data from about $74 million in 1997 up to $300 million in 2005) the true and only guarantor of Baku's security and safety is the United States. Accordingly, any "preventive measures" by Tehran may only provoke the Iranian-American conflict, which in turn is fraught with the most unpredictable consequences, not only for its participants, but also for the countries of the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Middle East.
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"How to Win Friends and Influence People, Mad Mullah Style"
Is this where someone sez, "Go ahead, make my day..."?
I'll wager this incessant and incredibly arrogant MM bluff and bluster is wearing very thin with everyone who figures they're in range and wearing a target. Hell, is there anyone they haven't threatened? I'll also wager that we would be happy to assist Azerbaijan with some appropriate materiel. Further, any one of these spear-rattling tantrums could get out of hand...
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Coincidentally I wrote a (unpublished) novel located in this area with a scenario not too different to this. This is the key phrase - support by Baku of separatist moods in Iranian Azerbaijan. You can divide the border into 4 sections going from East to West. A narrow lowland strip only a few Ks wide suitable for large scale troop movements, then impassible mountains, then semidesert with a large river on the border and difficult to access from both sides, then an Armenian controlled Western section. The reality is that the narrow strip of lowland is a chokepoint where aircraft/missiles could take out bridges over the rivers that run west to east.
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Some more geopolitical titbits for you. While a large slice of Northern Iran is Azeri populated, perhaps as many 25 milion. The southern section of that narrow lowland strip has a large ethnic Persian (farsi speaking) population - probably a majority. The ajacent Caspian Sea is disputed and is believed to contain very large amounts of oil.
The Iranians aint stupid. They would advance 50 to 100 Ks and stop and then try to annex the area, through a referendum or similar. The Armenian defacto annexation of western Azerbaijan, which the world has done nothing about is the example the Iranians will follow.
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When your army fights Iraq to a draw after 8 long years, I'd be disinclined to engage in such chest thumping. Then again, I'm in relatively better control of my faculties then these assclowns seem to be.
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Actually, a lot of their bravado, I think, can be traced to back in the days of the Shah, when the US tried to boost their morale as the first line of defense against the Soviet Union. Combine that with their own home-grown desire for "a place in the sun", like Japan had, prior to WWII, and their egos start writing checks their military can't cash.
The Sharia Jamaat on July 12 officially confirmed the death of its leader Rasul Makasharipov. "Praise Allah, on July 6 in the city of Shamilkal (formerly Makhachkala), during the defense of a mujahideen base in the course of a violent battle, the Emir of the Islamic Jamaat of Dagestan âSharia' Rasul Makasharipov (call sign âMuslim'), Shamil Korodinsky (call sign âVakkas') and Zeid Korodinsky became shahids [martyrs-CW]," the group said in a statement posted on the separatist Kavkazcenter website. "The two remaining mujahideen broke the encirclement by the infidels and are alive and unharmed and are safely located at an operational base. No one was taken prisoner. During the course of the battle four infidels were annihilated and three wounded. Allahu Akbar!"
The statement said that prior to his death, Makasharipov, "in accordance with the opinion of the Shura of the Islamic Jamaat âSharia'," had designated Shamil Kulinsky to succeed him as the group's "emir" in the event of his death. The group also vowed to continue its "jihad." It accused the "infidels" and "traitors" â meaning the Russian forces and their local allies, respectively â of assaulting "our dwellings" and doing so while "our children and women were located in them," and in particular of killing one man and his 18-year-old nephew while abducting the man's wife. Given these actions, the group said it would "with all available means and powers" carry out the assaults on "the dwelling of the infidels and traitors despite the fact that their children and wives may be in them," "annihilate adult relatives of the infidels" and "capture the wives and daughters of the infidels." It cited Koranic verses putatively justifying such actions.
Referring to the Sharia Jamaat, Dagestani Interior Minister Adilgerei Magomedtagirov said on July 11 that "the entire group, Makasharipov's group, is over and done with," NTV reported. That same say, the Dagestani Interior Ministry announced that it had captured Gandzhimurad Gasanov, an "active participant" in Makasharipov's unit, RIA Novosti reported. Meanwhile, two policemen in Dagestan's Khasavyurt district were murdered over the course of 24 hours. A police major with the Khasavyurt district police department was killed in his home in the village of Porkovskoe in the early hours of July 12. Interfax quoted police sources as saying that the home of the victim â identified as "Major Azadov," an aide to the head of the Khasavyurt police - had been attacked by unidentified assailants several days earlier. In the early hours of July 13, a police sergeant was shot to death in his home in Khasavyurt. "Two unknown people in masks shot a staff sergeant who was on vacation and in his garden," polit.ru quoted police sources as saying.
The Sharia Jamaat and its predecessor, Jennet, are believed responsible for the assassination of dozens of Dagestani policemen over the last several years. Whether or not the Sharia Jamaat carried out the latest murders of policemen, some observers predicted that the death of the group's leader would do little to impede the wave of violence against law-enforcement and other security personnel in the republic. Nezavisimaya gazeta on July 7 quoted Aleksei Malashenko of the Moscow Carnegie Center as saying that while Makasharipov was widely "hyped," he was "just one leader of one jamaat." "And in Dagestan now there are not two or three jamaats, but allegedly twelve," Malashenko told the newspaper. National Strategy Institute director Stanislav Belkovsky also played down the significance of Makasharipov's elimination. "The Kremlin has virtually no control over the situation in the North Caucasus and all three precision strikes against people whose influence on events is unknown to anyone are ineffective," he told Nezavisimaya gazeta. "As in the case of Maskhadov, who was not a key figure at the time he was eliminatedâŠThe success in Makhachkala will not last long since the instability is not going anywhere but will, on the contrary, mount. Another Makasharipov will appear. And he will not be alone."
Likewise, Kavkazky Uzel on July 11 quoted an anonymous Dagestani Interior Ministry officer involved in anti-terrorism as saying that his superiors were disseminating "disinformation for the population" and that "everything is much more complex and worse." The situation in the republic "is literally deteriorating by the day," he said, adding that there are "several Wahhabi cells" active in Dagestan, particularly in Makhachkala. "They do not have a joint center of command," he said. "Therefore, it is simply irresponsible to blame everything on one person, be it Rappani Khalilov or Makasharipov."
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Senior Chechen field commander Doku Umarov told RFE/RL that he can see no alternative to armed struggle with Russia. Umarov, who is also vice president of the rebel forces fighting against Russia, spoke to RFE/RL Russian Service correspondent Andrei Babitskii at a mountain camp in Chechnya. He insisted too that despite losses among the Chechen leadership, there was a constant supply of younger men ready to take their place.
A cluster of sodden tents at the foot of a vertical cliff face -- base camp for the commander of the Chechen rebel forces' western front.
Two weeks of incessant rain had done nothing, it seems, to dampen Doku Umarov's spirits. Despite a slight limp -- the recent result of treading on a land mine -- he was busy organizing the logistics for his next military foray, gathering food, medicine, and ammunition.
Umarov has only just turned 40 but a bullet wound to the face and a decade of partisan warfare have taken their toll. He looks far older than his years.
Umarov is today one of the most hunted men in Russia, wanted for a series of actions against Russian armed forces. But he shows little sign of weariness. Armed struggle has become a way of life.
"Until we are freed from beneath the Russian jackboot, I can see no alternative, because there are no other possibilities left to us at the moment, particularly in view of what Russia and the so-called Russian Army has done here in the last six years. In my opinion, no honest patriot or citizen of Chechnya can see any other way," Umarov told RFE/RL.
Like most of the current rebel leadership, Umarov maintains that dialogue with Russian President Vladimir Putin is impossible. But he says he believes the armed resistance will outlive the present Russian leadership.
"Until change brings more reasonable people to power [in Russia], of course there can be no hope the war will end," he said. "But the situation isn't hopeless. Things aren't going so badly for us. They would have been bad had this been 2000 and the start of the Putin era, but I think times are changing. His time is coming to an end and reasonable people will come to power."
Umarov speaks of a war of attrition that will grind the Russians down and force them, in the end, to back down. But how much more are ordinary Chechens still able to endure after a decade of uninterrupted violence? Even Umarov concedes that many are succumbing to the fear and hopelessness that pervades daily life, including, he says, some people who supported the first war.
"Today, they are in some way broken by the fear produced by the FSB [Federal Security Service] and other government structures. Everything they do in Chechnya they do to break people's spirit and break their sense of human worth. And they've achieved real success because they do terrible things to people," Umarov said.
While fear eats the soul of popular resistance, state propaganda, he says, is nurturing the idea that the Chechen resistance is dominated by Islamic extremists. Radical Muslim fighters have their place, he says, but no longer form separate units. Today, they fight alongside traditional Chechen Muslims and secular patriots. He describes himself as a traditionalist.
"Before the start of the first war in 1994 when the occupation began and I understood that war was inevitable, I came here as a patriot. I'm not even sure I knew how to pray properly then. I can't remember. It's ridiculous to say I'm a Wahhabist or a radical Muslim," Umarov said.
Despite the all-pervasive fear, Umarov describes a rebel force that has no trouble replenishing its ranks. In fact, the biggest problem, he says, is turning recruits away. He concedes, though, that the Russians have killed many experienced field commanders.
"That's life. Perhaps I won't be around tomorrow. We're not immortal. We're not gods. Life continues," Umarov said. "We're old already and have to give up our places. See how many young people are queuing up to take our places. There is no such thing as war without losses. [Slain leader Aslan] Maskhadov and many others have departed on the road to Allah. Maskhadov has become a shahid [Arabic term for holy martyr] and his place has been taken by Saidullaev, who is 38 years old, young, bright, well-educated, and full of energy. The loss of Maskhadov was a heavy blow, but when we lose a commander his place is taken by younger, more energetic men and his death is quickly overcome."
As night fell, Umarov's little encampment came to life. It's too dangerous to move during the day, but in the dark, in the forest, he says, the Russians and their Chechen proxies prefer to leave them alone.
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Umarov has only just turned 40 but a bullet wound to the face and a decade of partisan warfare have taken their toll. He looks far older than his years.
The dark side of the force'll do that to you.
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Looks pretty rough to me - somewhat like Castro.
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PRIME Minister John Howard today said no evidence had been found to support claims that Australians David Hicks and Mamdouh Habib had been abused in US detention at Guantanamo Bay.
Mr Howard said the Australian Government had received written advice from the United States Department of Defence that there was no evidence to back claims they had been mistreated at the US military prison in Cuba.
"I can inform you, and will provide you with a letter later, that we have received written advice from the Defence Department that after a very thorough investigation of the allegations of Hicks and Habib about mistreatment whilst they were in American custody, no evidence has been found to support those allegations," Mr Howard told reporters.
A MAN whose 13-year-old stepdaughter was killed in the Madrid train bombings has been jailed on suspicion of helping the mastermind of the atrocity to flee the country.
Abdeneri Essebar spent March 11 last year â the day that bombs exploded on four commuter trains during the morning rush hour â with his wife, Jamila, searching for her daughter, Sanae ben Salah, among Madridâs hospitals.
But more than a year after 191 people were murdered and 1,900 injured, he has been arrested and jailed on a preliminary charge of membership of a terrorist organisation and accused of helping at least one of the bombing team to flee Spain.
The accused manâs step- daughter was on her way to school when she died in one of the trains, which departed for Madrid from Alcalá de Henares. Her mother had married Señor Essebar in 2002 shortly after meeting him in the pair met in Tangiers, Morocco.
Police sources told a Spanish newspaper that Señor Essebar helped Mohammed Afalah, one of the alleged masterminds of the Madrid massacre, to escape from Spain shortly after the attacks.
Señor Essebar was also an associate of another prime suspect, Larbi ben Sellam, who had for years been encouraging a jihad on Spain, an âapostate nationâ because of its overthrow of the ruling Muslims 700 years ago.
El Mundo, the newspaper that broke the story yesterday, said that Señor Essebarâs was âa journey so cruel to the darkest depths of human evil that it is almost impossible to assimilateâ.
But Señor Essebarâs wife has stood by him since his arrest during a raid on their house a month ago. She refuses to believe that her husband, who was working in a transport company in Morocco when they met, was involved with the extremists. âItâs impossible, how would he do something which cost the life of one of his family?â she told the newspaper. âHe wasnât her father but he loved her. He treated her like a daughter. It would amaze me that my husband did something against her like that.â
Jamila, an observant Muslim, denied that her husband was an extremist.
âIt was me who tried to get him to follow the religion,â she said, adding that he drank alcohol, which is forbidden by the Islamic faith. âIf I had the slightest doubt about him do you think that I would be visiting him in prison?â
Afalah, who made his way to Iraq from Spain via Belgium and Syria after the Madrid massacre, is believed to have carried out a suicide attack against United States troops two months ago.
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pathetic.
Any bets on whether he beats her as well?
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that's just great, just when you can't think of anything worse than a terrorist, you realize that there are drunk terrorists out there
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All those fairy stories about the the dangerous things that happen to step children were based on the reality that it is more dangerous to have a step-parent than two birth parents. That isn't to say that there aren't lots of wonderful, better-than-the-original step-parents out there, but this particular gentleman has lived out the stereotype. And may the devils of Hell fill his belly with burning coals and sulfur for it.
Inmates on Friday beat up a suspected al-Qaida cell leader jailed on charges he helped plot the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, breaking his jaw, nose and a tooth and injuring one of his eyes, Spanish officials said. Imad Yarkas, 42, a Syrian-born Spaniard, was set upon by other prisoners in the dining hall of a prison in the eastern city of Castellon, said officials at the Interior Ministry department that oversees Spain's prisons. Spanish government press officials did not give their names.
An investigation has been opened because Yarkas, who is being held in solitary confinement, normally takes his meals alone, after other inmates have left the mess hall. One official said some inmates apparently finished breakfast later than usual, and Yarkas began eating before they had left. Some began yelling at him, and when officers started to remove Yarkas from the room for his own safety another group of inmates pounced and punched the alleged al-Qaida member, the official said.
"He sez he doesn't like you! I don't like you, either!"
"You best be careful! I have the death sentence on twelve systems!"
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Guys in the jug are frequently very opinionated about who gets to breathe their air. And some of them have poor impulse control.
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What suprises me is,this guy is accussed of complicity in 9/11 and is beat-up in a Spainish prision by Spainiards...I'm wondering why?I din't think America had that kind of support in Spain,much less a Spainish prision.Anybody have any insights to this question?
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Some began yelling at him, and when officers started to remove Yarkas from the room for his own safety another group of inmates pounced and punched the alleged al-Qaida member
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The real reason he is in a Spanish prison, Spain will not send him here or anywhere else. He might get the death sentence or a real life sentence. Weak, limp wristed, socalist asstards. Screw them, when they are done with him he will get time served because he got beat up by some boys with no problem defending their own culture and territory, but poor decision making skills and impulse control, thats why they are locked up after all. Unlike he who is simply a radical religious assclown of the cult of death.
Yea, when is his "shower." a few socks with bars of soap ought to finish the job.
The other possibility is a contract has been put out on him so he doesn't spill his guts. A Guard could be interested in the money, or might be a loyal allenist, so a series of "errors" might be made leading to his death.
Ottawa â Canada's elite JTF2 soldiers are heading to Afghanistan as part of a 2,000-troop deployment that will target the "detestable murderers and scumbags" behind the rise in international terrorism, General Rick Hillier said yesterday.
In a blunt briefing that signalled a new aggressiveness at the top of the Canadian Forces, the Chief of the Defence Staff said the impending operations are risky but necessary in light of last week's bombings in the British public-transit system. "The London attack actually tells us once more: We can't let up," Gen. Hillier told reporters.
He said terrorists are ready to target Canada as much as any other Western country and that Canadians have to be aware that their soldiers are in for some "risky business" as they head out to Afghanistan.
It was the first time Gen. Hillier has confirmed that members of the Joint Task Force 2 -- the country's secretive commando team -- will be involved in combat missions against the remnants of the former Taliban regime and supporters of al-Qaeda. "These are detestable murderers and scumbags, I'll tell you that right up front. They detest our freedoms, they detest our society, they detest our liberties," Gen. Hillier said.
He stressed the new face of the Canadian Forces, which he said are now focused on the first job at hand: protecting Canadian interests at home and abroad. "We're not the public service of Canada, we're not just another department. We are the Canadian Forces, and our job is to be able to kill people."
I like this guy.
Previous Canadian missions in Afghanistan have provided security in Kabul, the capital. But the next three missions, involving 2,000 troops, will be heavily centred in the southern mountains, where soldiers will be called upon to hunt down and fight the insurgents.
Gen. Hillier said Canada is already in the crosshairs of the terrorists, and he does not believe it becomes a bigger target by participating in military operations that give hope to the Afghans. "We're not going to let those radical murderers and killers rob from others and certainly we're not going to let them rob from Canada," he said.
He pointed out that during the Second World War, Canadian soldiers did not shy away from fighting the Nazis. "Did they say, 'No we might be attacked over here if we actually stand up against those despicable murderers and bastards?' No, they did not," Gen. Hillier said.
Correct analogy and one that GWB should use at every opportunity.
The native of Newfoundland has been the top soldier in Canada for five months. Bolstered by a growing budget, he is promising a "radical transformation" of the forces to make them more effective in their daily operations. With his straight-talking style, Gen. Hillier has already effected a major change at the top of the military hierarchy in comparison with his blander predecessor, General Ray Henault.
He would not speak about the number of potential casualties among Canadian troops in Afghanistan, while stating there is no such thing as a safe mission. "You can't reduce the risk to zero," he said.
The recent Canadian rotations in Afghanistan have been centred at Camp Julien in Kabul. Gen. Hillier said that the coming missions will "shift the centre of gravity to Kandahar," the area of southern Afghanistan that saw the rise of the Taliban. The goal is to bring stability and democracy to the area, he said, adding that this is "the exact opposite of what people like Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar and those others want."
Later this month, 250 Edmonton-based soldiers will head out to southern Afghanistan to form what is known as a Provincial Reconstruction Team. The soldiers will be accompanied by officials from the RCMP and the Canadian International Development Agency, the federal aid agency, to develop ties with local officials and help with the reconstruction of the war-torn area.
In addition, 700 soldiers from Petawawa, Ont., are heading to Kabul to help the Afghan authority conduct a general election, planned for September. After the vote, a large portion of the forces will move down south to join the PRT and prepare for the arrival of the biggest deployment in Kandahar.
In February of next year, about 1,100 soldiers will set up a new camp in the area, heading up a new multinational brigade that will eventually operate under the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, alongside American troops already in the area.
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Good! I pray they have the fortitude to stay the course.
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Regardless of the "governments" Tranzi inclinations the armed forces of Canada know how to fight and who the real enemy is. Good hunting to them and may they all make it back home safe and good health.
One of the bombers in last week's attacks made a direct phone call to a suspected recruiter for an extremist group in New York.
Authorities told ABC News that records show Mohammed Sidique Khan, the eldest of the bombers now believed to be the field commander of the attacks, had called a person who is associated with the Islamic Center, a mosque in Queens, N.Y. Yet, a member of that mosque claimed they had no knowledge of the phone call.
In addition to Khan, two other men linked to the London bombings also had direct ties with the United States.
"Whilst we are watching the ports and the airports trying to prevent people from coming in," said M.J. Gohel, a terrorism analyst at the Asia-Pacific Foundation, "al Qaeda and its global jihadi friends are a step ahead. They have already penetrated into the West and are recruiting Western born Muslims to join terrorism."
Lindsay Germaine, one of the four dead bombers and a Jamaican who left behind a pregnant wife, had recently traveled to see relatives in Ohio.
Furthermore, Magdy El Nashar, 33, who was captured last night at his family's home outside of Cairo and then questioned by British agents, studied at North Carolina State University. Police believe he helped the bombers build their explosive devices. Now they want to know if there are more bombs and would-be bombers.
"It is possible there will be more attempts," admitted Sir Ian Blair, commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. "It is our job to stop them in every way we possibly can. It is more likely now than it was before."
Police said El Nashar, who denied any involvement in the bombings, left England shortly after he rented the house in Leeds, where they discovered a so-called bomb factory. Neighbors in the Cairo suburb told ABC News he arrived there about 10 days before the bombings. They also said they had trouble believing El Nashar could have participated in the attacks.
Now the search continues for another man, whom police believe to be the al Qaeda mastermind of the plot. Authorities said he was on a secondary watch list and believe he crossed the channel by ferry last month in order to elude detection. Hours after the attacks, the man left again by ferry and is thought to be returning to Pakistan, where al Qaeda is known to have bases.
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"..the field commander of the attacks, had called a person who is associated with the Islamic Center, a mosque in Queens, N.Y. Yet, a member of that mosque claimed they had no knowledge of the phone call.."
Oops, sorry wrong number.
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Iran has said more than 1,000 members of al-Qaeda have been apprehended in the country since the Taleban regime collapsed in Afghanistan in 2001.
Intelligence Minister Ali Younessi says most had been jailed or deported. Some 200 suspects remained in custody.
Iran has always denied US allegations of harbouring senior al-Qaeda members, but it has also been reluctant to give details of arrests in the past.
This is the highest number of suspects Iran has said have been on its soil.
The announcement came before talks with an Iraqi delegation expected to cover security along the Iran-Iraq border.
Mr Younessi said the suspects had come into Iran in five waves, the most recent being last week.
He also said the Iranian authorities had found al-Qaeda terrorist cells in the east of the country in recent days with the help of Sunni clergymen.
Last month, a senior cleric said Iran had arrested and deported nearly 500 al-Qaeda members who had been hiding in the country over the last three years.
Mr Younessi, quoted by the AFP news agency, said Iran was first subjected to an influx of "several thousand Afghans and other nationals" who came into the country illegally after the fall of the Taleban regime, and who were later sent back out.
Then, some al-Qaeda operatives who had taken refuge in Iranian cities were arrested "because they intended to use Iranian territory to launch terrorist strikes on other countries," he said.
"The third wave of al-Qaeda was operating mainly under the cover of Ansar al-Islam, which is based in Iraq. We arrested and tried a number of this group's militants, who are still in prison," he said.
Al-Qaeda members were then linked to a criminal and drug-trafficking gang planning attacks in Tehran and other large cities, he said.
"These elements were also arrested and imprisoned," he said, adding that their chief was still at large.
"Some of the cells we identified act autonomously without being linked to a central command because today al-Qaeda is disorganised," he said.
A suicide bomber is believed to have triggered a blast which ripped through a minibus in a western Turkish resort on Saturday, killing four people and injuring 14, officials and news reports said. There were no immediate claims of responsibility.
Television footage of the scene showed the top of the minibus had been blown off by the force of the blast, which occurred around 10:30 a.m. (0730 GMT) as the vehicle traveled past a square in the town of Kusadasi on the way to a beach, local officials said. Kusadasi, some 70 km (45 miles) from the port city of Izmir, is popular with Turkish and foreign tourists, and officials said foreign nationals may have been on the bus.
The NTV news channel said authorities believed a female suicide bomber was killed in the attack and police suspected plastic explosives were used. "There is no clear information at the moment but we are considering all possibilities," local administrator Ali Baris told Reuters when asked whether a suicide bomber had caused the explosion. Four people were killed and 14 were injured in the blast, Baris said.
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Fightin fools against the islamist gov of Turkey? I don't get it, then again there is lots I don't understand about the muzzie mindset.
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A female boomer at a tourist resort is probably a Kurd or Communist, that's their MO
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Ya see, they're not Islamist enough ...
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I beg to differ, but this is NOT the MO of a Kurdish woman. While I am aware the Kurds have a very difficult time in Turkey, they do not blow up themselves.
Most Kurds do not approve of the PKK, and want them to stop. It only makes life harder for them. See?
I don't who did what, but I am going to wait until we get more news. No sense fighting over what we know not. lol.
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While I am aware the Kurds have a very difficult time in Turkey, they do not blow up themselves.
Actually they (or specifically the PKK) do, and female suicide bombers are used more ferquently than males.
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"And, oh yeah, this bombing was in response to Turkey's support of the infidel Americans in the Iraq war. Wait, oh yeah, we didn't let 'em use us, did we? Allah akbhar baby!"
A recent posting on the Syrian mujahid site Minbar Suria al-Islami [www.nnuu.org] gives an insight both into the self-confidence of the Iraqi mujahideen, and the caution to be taken while in Syria. The participant counsels against the further influx of hopeful youths for jihad ("with nothing more than their enthusiasm to offer") and gives detailed advice for those more qualified mujahideen who do choose to get to Iraq via Syria.
Given the interesting insight such a posting gives to the internal workings of the mujahid âroad to Iraq' and the conditions facing the volunteers while in Syria, the posted comment is quoted here at length.
âAdvice to Brothers Seeking Jihad in Iraq'
"First of all the brothers should know that the situation of the mujahideen in Iraq is entirely stable, and that they are not suffering at all from any shortfall in mujahideen. After more than two years the mujahideen have passed the preparatory phase and consequently they no longer need more numbers, rather they are in need of clearly defined specializations that will be of use to them ⊠and does not constitute a burden upon them. So what is required at present is above all material support, and high military and jihadist expertise. Very young [volunteers] who have no significant material resources are an additional burden on the mujahideen and present good fodder for the Tyrants, either as victims or as prisoners. It is a great regret that many sad incidents have befallen enthusiastic brothers who have fallen into the hands of the Tyrants before entering Iraq, or have been killed in entire groups trying to make entry, without [having the chance of] presenting any danger to the American forces."
"So we advise all brothers to keep to the Truth and prepare themselves psychologically and physically for the coming phases of the Crusader enemy agenda against Islam, since the battle is long, and it is not important that you fight but more important that you know how and when [to fight]. For the Islamic Nation has suffered grievous defeats and this time it must triumph since it appears to be entering on to the final campaign whose results will embrace the future of all humanity. It is not a question of enthusiasm, or impetuousness or love of martyrdom ⊠any losses that befall Islam and its people in these times is a decisive loss, particularly when this loss is of the cream of Islam's youth which the Nation will lose without their having been able to shore up its position against her enemies. Therefore we see that now is not the time for enthusiastic youths â with nothing more than their enthusiasm to offer â to go [to Iraq]."
Having said what he can to dissuade the youthful mujahideen, the participant now turns to those who have experience and who choose to get to Iraq through Syrian territory. He warns these not to be misled by superficial media reports, and to be aware that the Alawi regime is "one of the most Tyrannical regimes against anything connected with Islam, as any mujahid brother who has fallen into their hands has found out. Syria is not the safest route to Iraq, and even if it presents a supportive environment for the mujahideen this does not go beyond the popular level, through its Sunni majority [identity] acting in support of fellow Sunni mujahideen in Iraq."
"Consequently any activity in this arena must be conducted in a framework of total secrecy, and you should be aware that any one or any organization that does not observe this level of secrecy ⊠you can be sure is connected to the Tyrants' security services, and is nothing other than a trap for the mujahideen."
The participant then warns particularly against using the Internet for communications, "and this forum, like the others, is under Alawi surveillance; any information is obviously not secret, so any individuals you meet and correspond with on the forums cannot be trusted at all, since bona fide [mujahid] groups would not conduct their affairs on the Internet. You can be sure that they are agents."
Aleppo: the staging-ground of choice for Iraq
If the volunteer persists in traveling via Syria, the participant advises him to establish himself first in Aleppo "the country's Sunni stronghold", and a city whose northern location [respective to Damascus] makes for easier access to the Iraqi border. Aleppo, with its Sunni mosques "is the point of departure for all Islamist and jihadist activity," although he warns that "the imams of the mosques are perforce as detached as far as can be from this activity for no other reason than that they are under intense surveillance and forced to co-operate with the security forces."
The mention of Aleppo is significant in that it has long been the centre of Muslim activism in Syria. The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928, founded its first foreign branch in Aleppo in 1935, and the city later became the HQ of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria. Following the appointment of Hafez al-Assad, an Alawite, to the Syrian presidency in 1971, the Brotherhood launched the opening salvo of rebellion in 1979 when they killed 83 Alawite cadets in a military school in the city. Aleppo retains its position of Sunni opposition to the regime and appears to act as a staging point for mujahideen.
Most importantly, anyone seeking to cross into Iraq "must do so via groups related to the mujahideen in Iraq. There is no possibility for entering the country on an individual or haphazard basis." Getting into contact with these groups is no easy matter, the participant explains, "but it is possible since the old Aleppo mosques (Suq al-Madina, hard by the Castle, and others) house a number of them in their vicinity. So you will have to frequent these mosques for what may be a lengthy period until you find what you are looking for, on condition that it is not done in a blunt and direct manner. The process relies on mutual trust, so you must not place confidence in anyone who advertises this matter openly, since he will certainly be an infiltrator. You have to do things quietly and evaluate individuals."
"If you don't manage to do this" the participant concludes, "then you must give up the idea altogether and refrain from searching out any alternative way." [www.nnuu.org]
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The British newspapers also cited this location as the hub for incoming Jihadists.
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Actually sounds like disinformation to me. First of all, field commanders who are indifferent to their cannon fodder *never* refuse more hot bodies. If nothing else, they can tell them to take to the streets and fend for themselves. Second of all, while there is a suggestion that they want more "material support", such people are always starved for money and constantly scream about sending more. In a hostile country they have to pay a premium for everything, and payment has to be both up front and with a good currency, or gold. Lastly, calling for "high military and jihadist expertise", is calling for them to send their best and brightest into the death trap. Killing a "brain man" is 100 times better than killing some enthusiastic dumbass. And by depleting other countries' supplies of brain men in Iraq just helps preclude having to do it in other countries.
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"..prepare themselves psychologically and physically for the coming phases of the Crusader enemy agenda against Islam.."
Yeah I agree with Sock POD, let's just be safe, very safe.
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let's identify more of these gathering areas
heh heh
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It strikes me that Bashir Assad could have solved a lot of his problems by converting to the Sunni denomination. Of course, the Alawite security structure supporting him would probably have promptly killed him and stood somebody else in his place.
Indian forces said they killed 15 terrorists who were trying to cross the LoC from Pakistan on Saturday, the latest of a series of clashes on the disputed frontier in less than a week.
India says growing incursions by militants from across the border could undermine a 20-month-old peace process with Pakistan. Islamabad denies any involvement in the armed rebellion.
Soldiers shot dead nine militants who were trying to breach the military control line dividing Kashmir in the Sumawal area, near the popular Kashmir ski resort of Gulmarg, an army spokesman said.
Militants have tended to favour more isolated areas for incursions, and have rarely used the more crowded Gulmarg sector since the revolt against Indian rule in the Himalayan territory began in 1989, Lieutenant-Colonel V.K. Batra said.
In another clash, two infiltrators were killed in the Sunderbani area of Rajouri south of Srinagar, while another four were killed in the Kern sector, northwest of Srinagar, the spokesman said.
The number of infiltrations by rebels into Indian Kashmir from the Pakistani side declined during the winter but has gained momentum since the onset of summer when snow blocking Himalayan passes melts, allowing them easier access.
More than 45,000 people have been killed in Jammu and Kashmir since the insurgency started.
Indian soldiers were also combing snow-covered mountains and forests in the Gurez area of Kashmir on Saturday where a clash with guerrillas earlier in the week left at least 11 rebels dead.
Pakistan has reportedly detained four suspects related to the London blasts case, including a top cleric, following a list of suspects handed to it by Britain.
The Times of London said that following Pakistan President General Musharraf's countrywide crackdown on jihadis, authorities in Pakistan arrested the head of an Islamic religious school, believed to have been the madrassa, where suicide bomber Shehzad Tanweer first made contact with Al Qaeda militants.
Pakistani intelligence officials also said that British police had provided them with a list of names in the wake of the London bombings attacks, adding that Pakistan was checking the linkages.
"They provided us with names of certain individuals for information following the London bombing. We are checking the linkages here," the Daily Times quoted a senior security official as saying.
Police officials in Faisalabad also confirmed of four people being picked up by security agencies.
"The security agencies have picked up four people. They were taken to an undisclosed location, but we were not involved in this operation," a Faisalabad police official said.
A Pakistani intelligence official further said that they were also pursuing information on Shehzad Tanweer, one of the suicide bombers, who had reportedly studied at a religious school in Pakistan last year, and had two years back, in Faisalabad, met a groups of militants linked to the Al Qaeda.
Pakistani authorities are also investigating whether Tanweer had links to two militant groups, understood to be Jaish Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba. Both are known to have ties with the Al Qaeda network. Jaish is loosely linked with the Jamia Manzoorul Islamia seminary in Lahore, which denied British press reports that Tanweer had studied there.
Israeli troops arrested dozens of Palestinian militants across the West Bank on Saturday as Egyptian officials prepared to head to the Gaza Strip for talks aimed at ending a wave of violence that has left a Mideast truce in tatters.
Israeli troops continued massing Saturday outside Gaza as Hamas militants in the volatile coastal strip launched volleys of mortar shells and homemade rockets at Israeli targets for a third straight day despite promises by Palestinian security officials to end the attacks.
Meanwhile, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, speaking in an address on Palestinian television Saturday, appealed to militant groups to halt attacks on Israel and to return to the five-month-old ceasefire deal.
Abbas called on the militants to respect their previous agreement to honour the truce, but blamed Israel for the recent outbreak of attacks.
"We hold the Israeli government fully responsible for the consequences of its policy, which reflects a step backward from what we had achieved . . . and sabotaged any chance to maintain the truce," he said. "No one could expect the continuation of the truce from one side."
An Israeli raid into Gaza would make it far more difficult to re-establish the truce and could lead to a breakdown in co-ordination between the two sides just a month before Israel begins its planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
"The Israeli tanks around Gaza are very, very dangerous. I am afraid that this will create serious problems," Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia said.
In response to the growing violence, Egypt will send Mustafa Behairy, a deputy to Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, to Gaza on Sunday to meet with Abbas and Hamas leaders in an effort to restore calm, according to Egyptian officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has also changed her schedule to include a last-minute trip to the region expected next week.
As part of its new crackdown on violent groups, Israel arrested more than 30 wanted men in early morning operations Saturday in the West Bank cities of Hebron, Bethlehem, Nablus and Tulkarem, the army said. Israel also maintained a closure on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, preventing Palestinians from crossing into Israel.
"Israel will not forfeit its basic right to self-defence, especially in the face of a continued and persistent Palestinian refusal to prevent terrorist attacks against Israel," said David Baker, an official in Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's office.
Militants launched new mortar and rocket barrages at Gaza settlements and nearby communities in Israel on Saturday, slightly injuring two people when two rockets hit a house in the northern Gaza settlement of Nissanit, officials said.
Sderot, an Israeli town outside Gaza, was also hit repeatedly.
"It looks like a war here," Sderot Mayor Eli Moyal told Israel Radio. "It is impossible to continue living this way. This is unbearable."
"If this is what happens before disengagement, God knows what will be here next month," he said.
Palestinian officials said they would prevent attacks against Israeli forces by militants - eager to prove they are pushing Israel out of Gaza - during the pullout scheduled for mid-August. But their failure to stop the mortar and rocket attacks raised questions about their ability to follow through on that promise.
Israel stepped up raids on Palestinian militants after an Islamic Jihad suicide bombing Tuesday killed five Israelis and a rocket attack on an Israeli town killed a 22-year-old woman Thursday night.
On Friday, Israel resumed targeted killings of militants, which had been suspended under the truce, killing seven Hamas militants in air strikes and a follow-up raid in Gaza and the West Bank. Another Palestinian was shot and killed by soldiers after he threw stones at them, hospital officials said.
Israel defended the targeted killings, saying they were intended to prevent imminent attacks.
"Israel's policy is not to allow 'ticking bombs' to reach their targets," Amos Gilad, a top Defence Department official, told Israel Radio on Saturday. "Every pinpoint attack saves lives."
Hamas said the rocket attacks were in retaliation for violence earlier this week, but the barrages also appeared aimed at sending a message to Palestinian leader Abbas, underscoring their demands to share power in Gaza after Israel withdraws.
Abbas had resisted U.S. and Israeli demands to crack down on the militants, preferring instead to persuade them to voluntarily end attacks on Israel. But under strong pressure to stop the violence he changed tack Friday.
Palestinian police, trying to stop the rocket firing, waged a gunbattle with Hamas militants in the streets of Gaza City on Friday that killed at least two people.
Ismail Haniyeh, a Hamas leader, blamed the Palestinian Authority for the fighting.
"We didn't start this. We didn't raise our weapons against Palestinians," he said Saturday. "The resistance can't be arrested, and fighters will not be jailed."
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I can't view this video (WMV with unusual codec), but the blurb attached seems like it's a real 'keeper'!.
Via email: "The video tape was taken from captured terrorist scum in Iraq - you've got to watch it. The footage was recorded by a terrorist sniper team (who were later captured by coalition forces, hence, we have the tape). It just came out of a briefing in Iraq in the last few days. In it, a Soldier takes a hit from a sniper square the chest - it knocks him right on his back, but the guy gets right back up again, aiming his rifle. It's amazing how fast he is back up on his feet; looking for a target. The best part is to hear the terrorists' voices in the clip. It's such a riot to listen to them chanting "Allah Akbar! Allah Akbar!" and then when the kid gets back up again, they're like '...huh? WTF just happened?!'" UPDATE: Original post pointing here comes from my main blog JACK ARMY
Terrific news that the soldier is ok!
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Managed to d/l it - it's a good one!
Also,
The story continues: The soldier located the source of fire about 75 meters to his 1200. A silver van was being used as a mobile sniper position. The interior was lined with mattresses to muffle the shots. It was occupied by the sniper, a spotter, and a driver. When the location was ID'd, the squad opened up on it wounding the sniper and spotter who fled on foot leaving a trail of blood. The driver was detained. Following the trail of blood, the sniper was found cowering in a private courtyard. The targeted soldier secured the prisoner before administering first aid. Damned Americans and their Nazi, gulag, Pol Pot tactics!How dare we treat terrorist prisoners better than the terrorists treat their own mothers.
Oh man - can you imagine what the sniper thought when the guy he'd supposedly killed turned out to be his nemesis! :)
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The old joke goes something like this (sergeant speaking to recruit):
"First you gouge him in the eyes with your thumbs. Then you hit him in the stomach with your fist. Then you kick him in the crotch as hard as you can. And if that sumbitch gets up, you better take off like a stripe-assed ape."
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"Yeah, but how can we Abu Ghraihbify this? Oh,we can't? Just ignore it then."
Miranshah, Pakistan. -- U.S. forces based in Afghanistan killed 24 suspected Islamist militants inside Pakistan after coming under rocket fire from across the border in which an Afghan soldier was killed, officials said yesterday.
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Hey! That's no fair! We had sanctuary!
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Oh, was *that* the border? So sorry. All these mountains look alike. Next time we'll have to bring some batteries for the GPS.
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...Remembering the scene in Star Wars after Han Solo has zapped Greedo in the Cantina, and he walks out after throwing the bartender a coin and saying, "Sorry about the damage."
Mike
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Welcome back Kotter, though I doubt it's really you. Next thing you know, we'll be hearing from the Greek Army.
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I think it's obvious whose blood "Allah" spilled...
Death to you, Dead Ender Islamonutters!
God blesses America because we bless Him and has turned His face from the apostate Mooslimbs, worshippers of a false prophet.
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Well said Mrs. Taliaferro, well said. Murat, you are a fool, and so are any other worshipers of Allah, the god of hate. I pray that the One True God will forgive you.
I'm ashamed to admit it, but... *hangs head in shame* I actually like Brussels sprouts. Tasty, tiny little cabbages of joy, all slathered in butter, piping hot...
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I like to cut them in half and then dip the slice in butter.... yummm....
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BOT: Where is Miranshah? Since it (at least appeared) the southern border areas had been cleaned up and the announcement of Perv's boys heading to the northern areas...where are we talking about? Anyone know if this is near the area where our SEAL died?
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BA,Miranshah is about 20 miles south of Khowst, Afghanistan and near Isha, Pakistan. It's the little red star on the linked map. Unless you know where the SEALS were this may not help.
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Murderers!!! Allah will spill their blood, and that of every American pig!!!!!! DEATH TO AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!
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Well said Mrs. Taliaferro, well said. Murat, you are a fool, and so are any other worshipers of Allah, the god of hate. I pray that the One True God will forgive you.
Taliban guerrillas hanged a pro-government tribal chief in the troubled southern Afghan province of Zabul, accusing him of being an American spy, officials said on Saturday. Malik Agha's killing was the fifth in the past six weeks and came as violence mounts in the run up to the Sept. 18 parliamentary elections that the Taliban have vowed to disrupt. Agha was kidnapped on Friday by Taliban remnants as he came out of a mosque in Atghar district of Zabul and was hanged in a tree, district chief Gul Habib said. Agha was the chief of a powerful tribe in Zabul near the border with Pakistan, he said.
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I'd like to see the ISI try and stop daisy cuttering of their escape routes
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So when is the MSM going to step on and denounce this terrible abuse of the chieftan's rights? I bet the did not hang him in an air-conditioned room either - probably didn't even feed him at all....
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Not a chance. The syntax is US, mebbe UK or Canadian, but I'm betting an IP check will show it's in the US. It's one of the other pathetic cretins that haunt the shadows of reality praying for release from their pain. Mebbe the little pud-puller from Sam Bose. Mebbe a new one.
I invoke RC's Good News Law. This is a refugee from Rovian Reality. Burn, baby, burn.
Iraq's foreign minister, Hoshier Zibari, has said Iraqi authorities have hundreds of documents that confirm Syria is helping "terrorists" enter Iraq. Zibari made the announcement in an interview to Saudi newspaper "Al-Watan" He also said he was disappointed by a Syrian government delegation which, on a recent visit to Baghdad, claimed Iraq had no proof on the matter.
Zibari also mentioned other issues straining Baghdad's relations with Damascus, including what he said was the unresolved issue of bank accounts Saddam Hussein's regime had in Syria. The foreign minister however declared himself in favour of reopening diplomatic relations with Syria.
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I will never understand the mindset of the ME, when they know who is killing their citizens yet they want diplomatic relations. It reminds of our State Dept., which I believe should have been shut down a long time ago. lol. Good article. Keep up the good work.
OT: I also have a new site, Love America First. We have 16 writers at the moment. Stop by. If you like it, maybe you could copy and paste some articles? Thanks.
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Good morning,Rose.
Are you new to the Burg?Just curious,as I don't recognize your name.If you are new grab a cup of coffee,pull-up a chair and sit a spell.
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The ME attitude is that no matter what happens, even war, your neighbors will continue to be your neighbors, and there's nothing you can do about it. Everything short of war is just an "incident", and positive and negative incidents happen all the time, so why let it get in the way of business? As far as Foggy Bottom goes, I see their function as a cross between that of the Pentagon, the Department of Commerce, and the CIA. That is, remembering the saying that "diplomacy is war by other means", their function is really to accomplish what the US wants through haggling, guile, and deceit, instead of brute force. While never attractive, it can be effective, much like the process for making sausage. The very best they can do is reach agreement with other nations. But everything else is below that: calculated deals that are unfairly balanced in our favor, coerced policies through market pressure, interfering with friendly relations between two or more competitors, and restrictions and embargoes against our enemies. None of this is pretty. And a lot leaves a bad taste in the mouth, a dirty stickyness on the hands and a mild nausea in the stomach. But it is quite necessary for us to maintain our position in the world, keep peace, and protect some degree of free trade.
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Nice blog, Rosemary (could you make the fonts a little larger?).
Welcome to the 'Burg. Comments are welcome as is a link to your blog in the line that Fred has in the Poster for that. If you want to post an article, please make sure that it is a news item and not something from your (or another) blog. Opinion pieces go into the Opinion section. The other sections are self-explanatory.
So if you like a big piece o' snark with your WoT news, you've come to the right place :-)
Steve (co-moderator) (one of the Army of Steve)
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Something about pissing off a country who's armed forces are being trained by the best armies in the world doesn't make good sense in the long run. Ah, come on, all that Soviet equipment and training is going to do the Syrians about as much good against the revived Iraq Army as it was against the Israelis. Dumb and dumber in charge in Damascus?
The alleged bomb-maker in the July 7 London terror attacks has been arrested in Cairo, where he is being interrogated, Egyptian officials said yesterday.
They named the man as 33-year-old Magdy El Nashar and said he had been arrested âseveral days agoâ.
The did not give any further details. British police said yesterday they were âawareâ of an arrest in Egypt in connection with the investigation into last weekâs London bombings.
âWe are aware of an arrest made in Cairo but are not prepared to discuss if we may or may not wish to interview (the person) in connection with this investigation,â a spokeswoman for Londonâs Metropolitan Police said.
The US network ABC News reported the arrest earlier yesterday, saying Nashar is the alleged bomb-maker behind the attacks on three Underground trains and a double-decker bus that killed at least 54 people and injured some 700.
Citing sources including the FBI, ABC said the detained man helped set up the attackersâ bomb factory and left Britain two weeks before the blasts.
Previous reports in Britain said police were seeking a man with a similar name who had been studying for a doctorate in chemistry at Leeds University, in the same city where three of the suspected bombers lived.
A British grant-awarding group said yesterday it had given the man financial support to pursue research which had an industrial application.
The Times of London said El Nashar was thought to have rented one of the homes police searched in Leeds in a series of raids on Tuesday. Neighbours reported El Nashar recently left Britain, saying he had a visa problem, the newspaper said.
Leeds University said El Nashar arrived in October 2000 to do biochemical research, sponsored by the National Research Centre in Cairo, Egypt. It said he earned a doctorate on May 6 El Nashar left Egypt in late 1999 for the United States, where he spent a semester at North Carolina State as a graduate student in chemical engineering for a semester beginning in January 2000.
Meanwhile, Pakistani security forces investigating connections with the London blasts detained four suspects in Faisalabad yesterday.
An intelligence official in Pakistan earlier revealed one of the suicide bombers, Shehzad Tanweer, met two years ago in Faisalabad with a member of Al Qaeda, now in custody for bombing a church in Islamabad in 2002.
âThe security agencies have picked up four people. They were taken to an undisclosed location, but we were not involved in this operation,â a Faisalabad police official said.
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A team of intelligence agencies and police on Friday arrested four suspects from eastern Pakistani city of Faisalabad in connection with London bombings probe and released them after interrogation, a police official told KUNA on condition of anonymity. The official said the suspects were picked today from Usman road in the city for their possible links with London bombings. Without giving further details, the official said, authorities interrogated them at some unknown location and released after few hours. Meanwhile, another source in Faisalabad said the a team of intelligence agency, ISI, along with photo of Shehzad Tanwer is conducting raids on different Madrassahas in the city, to establish his links with terrorist groups.
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Unknown gunmen attacked two US military patrols in Samara city, north of Baghdad, an official of the Multi-National Forces (MNF) said here on Friday. The official affirmed at a news conference that the gunmen opened fire on the US patrols on Al-Motasim road in Samara city, located in Tikrit constituency north of the Iraqi capital. The official said the US patrols counter-attacked prompting the gunmen to flee the scene, affirming that no human casualty was reported.
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ISRAEL has killed six Hamas gunmen in response to a deadly Palestinian rocket barrage and resumed its assassination policy against militants.
The Islamic group Hamas, sworn to Israel's destruction, said back-to-back missile strikes in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that killed five of the gunmen would "open the doors of hell" on Israel.
It also said it was reconsidering its commitment to a five-month-old ceasefire between the two sides.
Palestinian gunmen have in the past few days bombarded Israelis in and around Gaza with rockets and mortar bombs, in what they said were responses to Israeli killings of militants.
An Israeli air strike killed a Hamas gunman in the West Bank and another killed four militants in a car in Gaza City, which Hamas officials said carried makeshift rockets. A third strike wounded a gunman from the group in southern Gaza.
Hours later, Israeli troops shot dead a Hamas gunman during a clash in the West Bank, a Palestinian security source said.
The Israel army said it targeted "wanted terrorists" in the West Bank and the Hamas men hit in Gaza intended to carry out rocket attacks.
The flare-up, one of the worst since Israel and the Palestinian Authority declared an end to hostilities in February, raised the prospect of disruption to Israel's planned pullout of settlers from occupied Gaza next month.
Hours after the strikes, Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz met security officials to discuss Israel's plan of action regarding recent rocket barrages.
The Palestinian Authority said air raids would serve only to escalate the violence.
Israeli television later showed military vehicles massing around Gaza. News reports quoted security sources as saying Israel might raid militant strongholds in the area in the coming days to try to stop rocket launchers. The army had no comment.
The surge in bloodshed could also complicate Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw all Jewish settlers from Gaza starting in mid-August, a move international mediators see as a possible springboard to new peace talks.
Mr Sharon said Israel would strike against militants, including those from Islamic Jihad, the group behind a suicide bombing that killed five Israelis on earlier this week.
Israeli defence officials have vowed not to allow gunmen to disrupt the withdrawal.
"The pullout cannot commence under fire," Mr Sharon told Israel's Channel 2 television. "We will take all steps against Islamic Jihad without any limitations. The response to terror acts will be strong and harsh."
He added: "There is no chance to reach a peace agreement as long as terror occurs."
Israel had reaffirmed its intention to resume what it calls "targeted killings" of top militants following the suicide bombing. It had suspended the internationally condemned policy under the truce.
The Israeli strikes followed the killing of a young Israeli woman in a rocket attack that sparked the fiercest internal fighting in years between militants and Palestinian police, who confronted them to try to stop further salvoes.
Two bystanders were killed and 26 people wounded in the gunbattles, which raised Palestinian fears of civil war, and the Palestinian Authority declared a state of emergency in Gaza.
President Mahmoud Abbas, struggling to salvage the truce and keep control in the face of a growing Hamas challenge, ordered police to act amid Israeli threats of harsh reprisals.
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No mention of Ham-ass'es 'target killing' of innocent men, women, and children at that mall and simular incidents. And I guess those rockets were really 'Palistinian sex toys' right?
Oh sorry... these were jews being killed so it doesn't matter... my bad!
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Two bystanders were killed and 26 people wounded in the gunbattles Oh, those Lions of Islam! They have a long gun battle and the only casualties are bystanders? Punk-ass paleos .... wotta bunch of losers.
It reminds of when a reporter asked Moshe Dayan why he was a successful General and he responded "Well, I fight arabs". Wotta put-down.
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What I'm wondering is why the Israelis insist on being so "touchy-feely" about their targeted assassinations. That is, with these hits they took down 6 Hamas. Why didn't they do a 'night of the long knives' and take down 60? It's not that they don't know where they live. Many of these birds have even done time in Israeli prison, and they probably keep an eye on them after they are "swapped". Imagine the effect if after a month of planning, MOSSAD took out 200 of the top Hamas, Al-Asqa, and even Hizbullah operating in the region: ALL AT ONCE. Just before they moved the settlers out.
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You know, in order for the jihadi's to do real serious damage, they'd have to manage a sustained barrage...and that's just not going to happen against Israeli counter battery fire.
Fifty MPs have bogus degrees
According to the daily Pakistan, 50 members of parliament in Pakistan submitted bogus degrees to meet the legal requirement of literacy before fighting the 2002 election. These degrees are advertised on the internet by fly-by-night universities in the West. After receiving fees in dollars these universities send all kinds of degrees to prove that the politicians are educated up to BA, which is the requirement.
The Muslimâs only weapon
Columnist Abdul Qadir Hassan wrote in the Jang that he could not make out why the clerics under the leadership of Mufti Munib had to issue a fatwa that Muslims cannot be suicide-bombers. He said Muslims had only one weapon and that was their lives now, against which all modern weapons of the West were useless.
Why the rulers are âzalimâ
Ex-ISI chief General (Retd) Javed Nasir wrote in the Nawa-e-Waqt that Allah had imposed zalim (cruel) rulers on the Muslims. He said that most of the Muslims had turned away from the teaching of the Quran, hadith and directions of the saints of Islam. The only road to success in earthly life was a return to Quran and hadith. The Muslims should do tauba (expiation) and return to religion. The great spiritual leader of Islam, Abdul Qadir Jilani, was actually a Hanbali saint whose actual writings should be read.
America and âmixed marathonâ
Writing in the Jang, Abdul Qadir Hassan wrote that a mixed marathon in Lahore was first disallowed by the Punjab government because its ruling family was not in favour of men and women running together on the roads of the city. But those who were leading the mixed marathon were stronger than the government because of their connection with the US. And America was interested in getting the American type of women (amiriki qamash ki) to run in front of the people of Lahore. A telephone call came from Islamabad and the Punjab government had to let the mixed marathon be staged. America was spending a lot of money on the NGOs (dalar pani ki tarha baha raha hai) and people who were once with the Soviet Union are now with America.
We will stop the mixed marathon!
Quoted in the daily Pakistan, Jamaat Islami youth organisation Shabab Milli said that it would stop the mixed marathon of Asma Jahangir, who was in fact an American agent. It said the youth of Jamaat Islami did not believe in section 144 imposed by the Punjab government. The youth of Shabab Milli will risk their lives (jaan hatheli par rakh kar) and prevent the marathon.
Running not good for women!
Speaking in a discussion at the Khabrain, clerics Dr Sarfraz Naeemi, Maulana Saifullah Saif and Allama Ibtisam Elahi Zaheer said that there was no scope for a mixed marathon in Islam. Women could have entertainment but it had to be within the four walls of the home. They said that running was not good for women as that became problematic in child birth, which was their foremost duty.
The army tried to kill Musharraf!
Quoted in the Khabrain, state minister for religion Dr Amir Liaquat Hussain said that army personnel had tried to kill Musharraf twice and they could launch a third attack on him any time. Qazi Hussain Ahmad continued to say that he would oust Musharraf from the army. This meant that he had supporters inside the army. Musharraf himself had said that Pakistan was threatened internally. Dr Amir Liaquat Hussain was called to London by his leader and he might have to resign from his ministerial post.
Newspapers cause heart attacks
Sarerahe stated in the Nawa-e-Waqt that PML president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain told an ailing Jamaat leader Farid Paracha that he should stop reading the newspapers as they caused heart attacks. Yet, the newspapers kept the politicians alive by publishing their statements. The statements in turn caused heart attacks.
Mullah Umarâs man escapes
According to the Nawa-e-Waqt, one Abdul Rehman Wazir who enabled Mullah Umar to escape on a motorbike in Qandahar in 2001, was about to be captured in Multan in the hideout of a banned jihadi organisation when he was alerted and escaped. His hideout was attacked by the authorities after his cell phone was traced. He had earlier escaped from Qandahar to North Waziristan to create new outfits with Al Qaedaâs Abu Harith and Abu Khalid. After the death of Abu Khalid and Abu Harith he fled to South Punjab but here too he was made to flee because of the information revealed by Al Qaedaâs Abu Faraj captured earlier. Abdul Rehman Wazir was close to Al Zawahiri and Osama bin Laden.
High Court and jihad
Writing in the daily Pakistan, Tanvir Qaiser Shahid stated that a Lahore lawyer MD Tahir had made a petition at the Lahore High Court that since the United States had desecrated the Quran, the honourable court should declare that jihad had now become compulsory for every Pakistani and that he should make ready under the obligation of jihad to attack the United States. On the other hand, the Muslim Conference leader of Azad Kashmir, Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan gave an interview to a weekly saying that jihad had become business and that jihad in Kashmir had harmed the Pakistani cause. Sardar Qayyum also said that jihad-advocating people like ex-ISI chief General (Retd) Hamid Gul were sheikh chilli (slaves of fantasy).
Pakistanis most deported category
According to the daily Pakistan, the most deported category in the world were Pakistanis at 42,000. Out of this number over 10,000 were deported from Arab states, while Europe and the US accounted for the rest. Pakistanis pleaded financial pressure and unemployment as reasons for trying to leave Pakistan illegally.
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It's just not Saturday without some fresh hot steaming Nuggets®. Fortunately I'm able to read them whilst safely locked away within the four walls of my home!
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Em with any kinda luck at all yur hurricane will turn out to be a major baddie and the name will be retired so you won't have to deal with this every 12 years or so. Course that might mean killin a few people
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What a place pakiwakistan is! - 50 MPs (that we know of) are illiterate (or at the least, bloody liars), women can only enjoy themselves within the four walls of their homes (plasma screens showing 24/7 'Sex in the City' maybe?), marathons are a death sentence and reading a newspaper can kill you!
So they try and escape this madhouse and end up as the most deported people in the world...back to pakiwakistan, ready for more fatwa fun!
Seems like Allen has a sense of humour...
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Since the PakiWakis have passed their "Talibanisation" law, lol, deporting them from the West back to their newly excavated and deepened home shithole just got a whole lot sweeter.
I'll wager there will be more than a few who really really live to regret it, lol!
SRINAGAR, India - Indian troops Friday recovered the bodies of two more Islamic terrorists militants in the Kashmiri Himalayas, taking to nine the number of terrorists rebels killed in clashes there, the army said.
Separately, the regionâs police chief Gopal Sharma said 11 terrorists militants from the dominant rebel group in southern Indian Kashmir, the Hizbul Mujahedin, had been arrested over a series of high-profile killings and grenade attacks.
Terrorists Rebels and troops first clashed with each other in the snowbound Gurez area of Indian-administered Kashmir on Tuesday evening after terrorists rebels were sighted inside the Indian zone of the divided region. Sporadic firefights occurred throughout Wednesday but ended during the night, allowing soldiers Thursday to close in on the positions from where the terrorists rebels had been firing, the army said. âWe recovered seven bodies of terrorists militants on Thursday and two more on Friday,â Indian army spokesman Vijay Batra told AFP.
He said âextensive searchesâ in the area were continuing Friday to flush out any terrorists militants still hiding.
Police chief Sharma meanwhile said the 11 Hizbul terrorists militants had been arrested in southern Anantnag district in coordinated raids over the past few days. He claimed the 11 formed an important Hizbul unit and were involved in the murders of the brother of Kashmir home minister A.R. Veeri and the nephew of the regionâs Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed. âThey were also involved in grenade attacks in busy market areas and a failed attack on the home minister,â he said.
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QUETTA: Two unidentified motorcyclists opened fire at Professor Dr Nadir Khan, a professor of medicine at Bolan Medical Complex, and injured him when he was on his way to a hospital on Friday morning. He was rushed to Karachi after initial treatment at Quetta Civil Hospital. Police said that the professor had no personal enmity with anyone and sectarian violence could not be ruled out. Police said Dr Nadir belonged to a Shia sect and had a clinic in a private hospital.
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Sure it wasn't a little accident from a customer testfiring the local products.
GAZA - Israel killed five Hamas gunmen in air strikes on Friday in retaliation for a deadly Palestinian rocket barrage, resuming its assassination policy against militants as a five-month-old truce appeared to be unravelling. Hamas said the back-to-back missile strikes in the West Bank and Gaza Strip would âopen the doors of hellâ on Israel, and said it was reconsidering its commitment to the ceasefire.
The flare-up of violence, one of the worst since Israel and the Palestinian Authority declared an end to hostilities in February, raised the prospect of disruptions to Israelâs planned pullout of settlers from occupied Gaza next month.
The Israeli strikes followed the killing of a young Israeli woman in a rocket attack on Thursday that sparked the fiercest internal fighting in years between militants and Palestinian police, who confronted them trying to stop further salvoes.
Of course it's the Jooos' fault.
Two bystanders were killed and 26 people wounded in the gunbattles, which raised Palestinian fears of civil war, and the Palestinian Authority declared a state of emergency in Gaza. President Mahmoud Abbas, struggling to salvage the truce and keep control in the face of a growing Hamas challenge, ordered police to act amid Israeli threats of harsh reprisals.
Israel launched a series of air raids against Hamas targets in Gaza before dawn on Friday, causing no casualties. Hours later, one terrorist militant was killed in a helicopter strike on a mountain hideout near the Jewish settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian security sources said. They originally reported three Hamas terrorists men were killed but later said the other two were either wounded or had escaped.
Within minutes, helicopters over Gaza launched a missile into a car, tearing it apart and killing four terrorists militants inside, hospital officials said. Hamas officials said the car was carrying a cache of makeshift Qassam rockets. The Israel army said it targeted âwanted terroristsâ in the West Bank strike and that the Hamas cell hit in Gaza was on the way to carry out rocket attacks.
Israel resumes whack terrorists assassination policy
Israel had reaffirmed its intention to resume what it calls âtargeted killingsâ of top terrorists militants following an Islamic Jihad suicide bombing that killed five Israelis on Tuesday. It had suspended the internationally condemned policy under the truce.
Defying Israelâs army and Palestinian police, Hamas kept up rocket volleys into southern Israel and mortar fire on Gaza settlements, causing damage but no casualties. Hamas, sworn to Israelâs destruction, wants to give the impression the Israelis are being chased out. âThe calm is blowing away in the wind, and the Zionist enemy is responsible for that,â Hamas spokesman Mushir Al-Masri said.
But Israeli army chief Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz said Hamas had âremoved itself from maintaining the rules of the ceasefire.â
Start looking up, boys.
Palestinian officials and Hamas leaders exchanged recriminations over the internal strife but also began talks. The police action suggested a possible shift in policy by Abbas, who until now had been reluctant to crack down on militants despite demands from Israel and the United States. Hamas militants fought Palestinian police who raided rocket launching sites trying to stop further attacks.
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Five gunmen who attacked a disputed religious site in northern India were Islamic militants who came from Pakistan, police said on Friday, adding that three gun-runners linked to the assault have been arrested in Kashmir. The five were all members of the Lashkar-e-Taiba guerrilla force, which India blames for an attack on its parliament in December 2001 and on a Hindu temple in western Gujarat state in 2002, a police chief said.
The militants were gunned down by Indian troops when they blasted their way into a heavily-guarded religious complex claimed by both Hindus and Muslims in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya on July 5. A sixth person who has not been identified was also killed. âThe militants crossed over into India from Pakistan in August 2004 and began their plans to attack the shrine,â said Yashpal Singh, chief of the police force of Uttar Pradesh state where Ayodhya is located. âThey were all foreign nationals,â Singh told reporters in Lucknow, without elaborating. None of Kashmirâs two dozen Islamic separatist groups have so far claimed responsibility.
Police chief Singh said three gun-runners linked to the assault were arrested in Kashmir and had provided vital information on the modus operandi of the attackers. Two of the slain guerrillas had been identified, he said, adding that the five lived in a New Delhi rented house before travelling to Ayodhya. âThey had made New Delhi their base and were working under Mohammad Kari, an area commander of the Lashkar in Kashmir,â he said.
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Pakistani security forces investigating connections with last weekâs suicide bombings in London detained four suspects in Faisalabad on Friday. An intelligence official in Pakistan earlier revealed one of the suicide bombers, Shehzad Tanweer, met two years ago in Faisalabad with a member of a militant group linked to Al Qaeda, now in custody for bombing a church in Islamabad in 2002. âThe security agencies have picked up four people. They were taken to an undisclosed location, but we were not involved in this operation,â a Faisalabad police official said.
Meanwhile, British police have given Pakistan a list of terror suspects with possible links to the London attacks, officials said on Friday, as two religious schools denied they had hosted one of the bombers. Authorities are pursuing information on Shehzad Tanweer, who reportedly studied at a religious school in Pakistan last year, according to security officials. âThey provided us with names of certain individuals for information following the London bombing. We are checking the linkages here,â a senior security official said. Pakistani authorities are also investigating whether Tanweer had links to two militant groups, understood to be Jaish Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba. Both are known to have ties with the Al Qaeda network. Jaish is loosely linked with the Jamia Manzoorul Islamia seminary in Lahore, which denied British press reports that Tanweer had studied there.
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The leader of Iraq's most feared terror group fled Baghdad about two weeks ago because a U.S.-Iraqi military operation in the capital was threatening his al-Qaida movement, Iraq's interior minister said in a television interview aired Friday. Bayan Jabr told the U.S.-owned Al Hurra television that the Jordanian-born Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and many of his al-Qaida in Iraq followers fled Baghdad because of the success of Operation Lightning, launched May 28.
Despite claims that the operation was successful, at least 30 people were killed in a wave of car-bombings and roadside explosions in the capital Friday. Jabr said "the terrorists" often have more weapons than the police. He nonetheless claimed many al-Qaida members had left the capital "because they have lost the battle." Al-Zarqawi fled Baghdad 12 days ago after several car-rigging factories were discovered in a security operation, he said. "Al-Zarqawi is in his last months," Jabr added. In the past, Iraqi officials have variously placed al-Zarqawi in the Fallujah area west of Baghdad and in eastern Iraq. Some accounts claimed he had even been wounded and had fled to Iran, a charge the Iranians deny.
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He'll be gone when I see with my own eyes his dead, cold body! I want that bast*** dead. No shame, here. This is war. DIE Zarqawi, DIE.
Ain-Al-Yaqeen stated on July 1st that: 'The right hand man of Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is thought to have died in the same U.S. raid, on the town of al-Qaim near the Syrian border, in which the wanted Saudi Abdullah Rushud lost his life. Abu al-Ghadiya al-Suri's death was also reported by the Arab newspaper Al-Hayat, which cited a source close to al-Qaida as confirming that al-Suri was killed several days ago, around the time Rushud's death was announced in a statement attributed to al-Zarqawi. Abu al-Ghadiya al-Suri is considered one of the leading members of the Jund al-Sham organization, founded with al-Zarqawi in 1999 in Herat. He is considered the brains behind al-Zarqawi's group.' (Ain-al-Yaqeen, Saudi Arabia, 7/1/05)
I'm trying to figure just how many organizations Zark controls. There's Jund al-Shams, al-Tawhid, Ansar al-Islam, the Omar Brigade, and al-Qaeda in Iraq, just off the top of my head.
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Does it really matter that they claim to have so many groups? They are just street punks that use gangster mentality.
Like I mentioned before, I will believe it when I see the cold, dead bodies. Until then, it's as usual. We are still at war. I know some want to forget that fact, but I cannot. Thanks. Keep up the good work.
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The British government said Friday it has been granted more time to decide whether to extradite a British man facing terrorism charges in the United States. A judge ruled May 17 that 
Senior Chechen field commander Doku Umarov told RFE/RL that he can see no alternative to armed struggle with Russia. Umarov, who is also vice president of the rebel forces fighting against Russia, spoke to RFE/RL Russian Service correspondent Andrei Babitskii at a mountain camp in Chechnya. He insisted too that despite losses among the Chechen leadership, there was a constant supply of younger men ready to take their place.
Inmates on Friday beat up a suspected al-Qaida cell leader jailed on charges he helped plot the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, breaking his jaw, nose and a tooth and injuring one of his eyes, Spanish officials said. 
Miranshah, Pakistan. -- U.S. forces based in Afghanistan killed 24 suspected Islamist militants inside Pakistan after coming under rocket fire from across the border in which an Afghan soldier was killed, officials said yesterday.
A team of intelligence agencies and police on Friday arrested four suspects from eastern Pakistani city of Faisalabad in connection with London bombings probe and released them after interrogation, a police official told KUNA on condition of anonymity. The official said the suspects were picked today from Usman road in the city for their possible links with London bombings. Without giving further details, the official said, authorities interrogated them at some unknown location and released after few hours. Meanwhile, another source in Faisalabad said the a team of intelligence agency, ISI, along with photo of Shehzad Tanwer is conducting raids on different Madrassahas in the city, to establish his links with terrorist groups.
Fifty MPs have bogus degrees
SRINAGAR, India - Indian troops Friday recovered the bodies of two more Islamic 
QUETTA: Two unidentified motorcyclists opened fire at Professor Dr Nadir Khan, a professor of medicine at Bolan Medical Complex, and injured him when he was on his way to a hospital on Friday morning. He was rushed to Karachi after initial treatment at Quetta Civil Hospital. Police said that the professor had no personal enmity with anyone and sectarian violence could not be ruled out. Police said Dr Nadir belonged to a Shia sect and had a clinic in a private hospital.
Within minutes, helicopters over Gaza launched a missile into a car, tearing it apart and killing four 
Five gunmen who attacked a disputed religious site in northern India were Islamic militants who came from Pakistan, police said on Friday, adding that three gun-runners linked to the assault have been arrested in Kashmir. The five were all members of the Lashkar-e-Taiba guerrilla force, which India blames for an attack on its parliament in December 2001 and on a Hindu temple in western Gujarat state in 2002, a police chief said. 
Pakistani security forces investigating connections with last weekâs suicide bombings in London detained four suspects in Faisalabad on Friday. An intelligence official in Pakistan earlier revealed one of the suicide bombers, Shehzad Tanweer, met two years ago in Faisalabad with a member of a militant group linked to Al Qaeda, now in custody for bombing a church in Islamabad in 2002. âThe security agencies have picked up four people. They were taken to an undisclosed location, but we were not involved in this operation,â a Faisalabad police official said.
The leader of Iraq's most feared terror group fled Baghdad about two weeks ago because a U.S.-Iraqi military operation in the capital was threatening his al-Qaida movement, Iraq's interior minister said in a television interview aired Friday. Bayan Jabr told the U.S.-owned Al Hurra television that the Jordanian-born Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and many of his al-Qaida in Iraq followers fled Baghdad because of the success of Operation Lightning, launched May 28.
