All four failed London bomb suspects are reported to be in custody following armed raids in the UK capital and Rome. Two London arrests are thought to be the men wanted for the 21 July Oval Tube and No 26 bus attacks. A third bomb suspect was already being held. The fourth suspect, wanted for the attempted Shepherd's Bush Tube attack, has been arrested in Rome and named as Somali-born UK citizen Osman Hussain.
Police arrested three people in raids in Notting Hill and north Kensington. Officers have also arrested two women at Liverpool Street station. Police are still questioning Yasin Hassan Omar, wanted over the Warren Street Tube attempted attack, who was arrested in Birmingham on Wednesday.
SUSPECTED BOMBERS ARRESTED
Muktar Said Ibrahim, 27, from Eritrea, suspected of leaving an explosive at the back of a bus in Hackney
Yasin Hassan Omar, 24, suspected of trying to bomb a Tube near Warren Street. Arrested in Birmingham on Wednesday
Third man, so far unnamed, wanted over attempt to bomb a Tube train between Stockwell and Oval tube stations
Osman Hussain, believed to be a naturalised British citizen born in Somalia, arrested by police in Rome
BBC crime correspondent Neil Bennett said he had been told that two of the men arrested in Friday's raids were believed to be wanted in connection with the failed bomb attacks. They are Muktar Said Ibrahim - suspected of trying to bomb a bus in Shoreditch - and a man, who police have not yet named, wanted over the attempted Oval Tube bombing. Scotland Yard said they believed the arrests to be highly significant and described Friday as their "best day yet" since 21 July.
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Good work and the first part of the job done in little over one week. Impressive. Almost spewed my coffee on reading the verbal exchange prior to the arrest of the one boomer. Poor bugger was afraid they'd just whack him when he stepped into the daylight! Too much. Mayhaps these failed boomers might be a little talky as well as twitchy. They surely don't play the jihadi martyr role all too well. Hope the PO's and MI5 can get the info needed to finish making the connections to drag in all members of the supporting cast who haven't yet been visited.
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This is interesting: In addition, a witness told The Associated Press that a man wearing what appeared to be a bus driver's uniform was led away by police in handcuffs. The witness, Osama Ahmed Ali, saw a Somali man whom he recognized as a bus driver.
"He was in a purple-and-yellow bus driver uniform," said Ali, 16. "I've been on a bus with him a couple of times."
Kind of hard to keep the boomers off the bus when one of their own is driving.
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EFL:Two of the men wanted by police investigating the attempted bombings of July 21 were today arrested in west London. The man who is sought in connection with the attack at Oval tube station, who has not been named, was arrested at Dalgarno Gardens in Ladbroke Grove in west London, security sources told Guardian Unlimited. Muktar Said-Ibrahim, who police believe attempted to blow up a No 26 bus in Shoreditch, was arrested less than a mile away at Tavistock Road, the sources said. There are at least two scenes of police activity in the Ladbroke Grove area of the capital, one at a block of flats at Dalgarno Gardens, close to Wormwood Scrubs prison. In addition, two women were arrested at Liverpool Street station.
At around 10am police raided a block of flats at Dalgarno Gardens, close to Wormwood Scrubs prison, which reportedly developed into an armed siege. It was unclear if the siege was over or ongoing; a large police presence was still in the area. At around 2.30pm a man was seen being led away from the flats by two officers, his identity obscured by a white forensic suit.
There were at least two scenes of police activity in the Ladbroke Grove area of the capital, including the one at the block of flats. Less than a mile away, cordons had been established at a second site and streets including Tavistock Road, close to the A40 Westway, had been closed off.
Sources said that at least one property had been under surveillance overnight.
At around 11.30am police sealed off Tavistock Road and an adjoining crescent. Tavistock Road, near Notting Hill's Portobello Road, runs close to Westbourne Park tube station where the man who attempted to blow himself up on a train near Shepherd's Bush on July 21 got on to the network. Large numbers of armed police were on the streets and residents across a wide area were ordered to stay indoors. "We can confirm that an armed operation is currently in progress in the W10 area in connection with ongoing enquiries into the incidents on July 21," Scotland Yard said in a statement shortly before 1pm. "This operation is in its very early stages. Cordons are in place as a precaution."
Dalgarno Gardens is a block of flats owned by the Peabody Trust, one of London's oldest housing associations. Residents on the 350-property estate, which was built around 80 years ago, were told to stay indoors.
One of the four main July 21 bomb suspects, Yasin Hassan Omar, was arrested during an operation in Birmingham on Wednesday morning. Police have published images of the four main suspects but have said it is possible that there may be a fifth bomber.
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Gotta catch 'em all!
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Fox and CNN are now reporting that the 4th suspect has been captured in Rome. Perhaps he was trying to make good on the "Italy and Denmark are next" threat.
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Good Job police! Now, to apply some electricity and lemon juice.....
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All four failed London bomb suspects are reported to be in custody following armed raids in the UK capital and Rome. Two London arrests are thought to be the men wanted for the 21 July Oval Tube and No 26 bus attacks. A third bomb suspect was already being held.
The fourth suspect, wanted for the attempted Shepherd's Bush Tube attack, has been arrested in Rome and was named as Somali national Osman Hussein. Police arrested three people in raids in Notting Hill and north Kensington. Officers have also arrested two women at Liverpool Street station.
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At around 10am police raided a block of flats at Dalgarno Gardens, close to Wormwood Scrubs prison, which reportedly developed into an armed siege.
Those gun crazy Brits should put some strict anti-gun measures on the books. Uh yeah, never mind...
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Tibor on # 4:
Excellent point! Now the Italians have to resort to some old familiar tactics (see Romans, Fascist Black Shirts) and shut down the network in Rome. I recommend the blowtorch and penile slicer.
Armed police arrested two women at Liverpool Street station and evacuated the area, officers said.
"Stick 'em up, girlies!"
"You'll never take us alive, coppers!"
The suspects were pinned to the ground in a dramatic swoop on the central London station, witnesses said.
"Hey! Get off!"
One woman is thought to have been in a queue for the Stansted Express when she was pushed to the ground by police.
"Get her, Nigel!"
British Transport Police said the operation was carried out by Scotland Yard officers and confirmed that the site was being searched. Both the mainline station and the Underground station were evacuated.
"Out! Everybody out!... Damn! That was quick!"
A BTP spokesman said: "The two women were arrested at around 1.54pm and the station is now closed, the Tube is passing through on a non-stop basis. "Police are now looking at a number of suspect packages and searching the station."
"Here, Nigel! See wot's in this one!"
"You open it, Percy!"
"No, you! I gotta... ummm... go to the bathroom."
A witness told BBC News 24 that plainclothes police "suddenly burst into the main centre of the station and arrested two women. "They pinned them down on the floor, put their hands behind their backs, put handcuffs on them and took them away," he said. All the station staff arrived and started evacuating the station. They've now evacuated the whole of Liverpool Street station and some of the streets nearby. There are now hundreds of people surrounding the station who were trying to catch a train and can't get in."
"Y'might want to take other transportation today, ladies and gents!"
"Hokay. Sounds good to us! Taxi!"
He said: "One witness said one of the women was queuing at the Stansted Express ticket office and another said they saw a rucksack nearby on the floor, but I didn't see that." He said he saw plainclothes officers "wearing caps which indicated they were police. I was getting off one train, and probably about 20 yards away from one of the those women when she was arrested. Initially there was obviously a bit of chaos. They tried to push people away and tried to stop people taking pictures with their mobile telephones. They were gradually pushing people further and further back."
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A British man in custody in Zambia in connection with the July 7 London bombings was once a body guard for al Qaida chief Osama bin Laden, Zambian security officials said. The security officials said Haroon Rashid Aswat, 31, revealed during questioning that he had once been a personal guard for bin Laden.
Isn't that special, they'll have to use the good truncheons then
Aswat was detained in Lusaka after he entered the country from Botswana, the Zambian officials said. Scotland Yard has declined to comment on Aswat's arrest in Zambia.
That's one of the things I like about Scotland Yard, they don't have a lot of people blabbing to the press.
The Zambian officials said investigators were particularly interested in talking to Aswat about 20 phone calls allegedly made from his phone to some of the men thought to have set off bombs July 7 on London's underground and a bus. The bombings killed 56 people, including the four suicide bombers.
"Hey, Asswat! These guys want to talk to you!"
"Those... those are pliers?"
"Uhuh."
"Electric pliers?"
"Naw. They're diesel powered!"
Aswat entered Zambia last week from Botswana and intelligence agents trailed him to a safe house in Lusaka where he was arrested, the Zambian officials said. Prior to his arrival in Zambia, the sources said Aswat had lived in South Africa and frequently travelled to Mozambique and Botswana. One official said Zambia informed British High Commission officials as soon as they made the arrest, but the British said they believed Aswat had been detained in Pakistan.
Turned out to be someone else named Aswat wearing a suicide belt.
That's his cousin, Herb Asswat.
He said the British have since requested co-operation and access to Aswat. He said South Africa has also expressed interest in Aswat and want to find out what he was doing in South Africa. The British Foreign Office has said it was seeking access to a Briton reportedly detained in Zambia but would not identify him.
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Everybody wants a piece of ol' Aswat.
So draw and quarter him, and send out the pieces.
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John Loftus said last night that there's a chance that Asshat, I mean Aswat, was working for the CIA or MI6 or both at some point, and the two agencies are pointing fingers at each other. May be interesting in the next few months.
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Like how MI5 was trying to "recruit" Binny's ambassador Abu Qatada to keep stuff from blowing up in the UK?
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Turned out to be someone else named Aswat wearing a suicide belt.
I was going to ask "How many Asshats can there be there?" but then realized that was a silly question.
Edited for new developments: Armed police investigating the 21 July attempted bombings have made a number of arrests and surrounded flats in west London in "significant" operations. At least two properties are believed to have been raided, in Notting Hill and North Kensington, and residents moved. Eyewitnesses say they heard three shots and a large explosion as officers wearing gas masks entered one property. Police seeking three men over the failed bomb attacks have also made two arrests at Liverpool Street station. The properties raided are in Dalgarno Gardens, North Kensington and the Tavistock Road area of Notting Hill, less than a mile away. In Dalgarno Gardens officers are continually shouting at someone in a flat to come out. They are addressing him as "Muhammad".
The police are asking him: "What is the problem? Why can't you come out? "Take your clothes off. Exit the building. Do you understand?"
Officers are telling other residents on the 350-property estate to "get inside now". Scotland Yard say they are not aware of firearms having been used.
In an separate raid in Notting Hill one eyewitness says a man dressed in a white forensic overall was taken away in an unmarked police car.
Another has spoken of seeing three other people being taken away in a police van. UPDATE: LONDON (AP) - Heavily armed police wearing gas masks and reportedly using stun grenades raided two west London apartment blocks Friday, and officials said they arrested three people connected to the failed July 21 transit bombings. British media reports said three of the four men suspected of trying to detonate the bombs are now in custody, but police would not confirm that. One of the four, Yasin Hassan Omar, was arrested Wednesday in Birmingham in central England.
Police said they raided two residences Friday in west London and arrested two men at one address and one at another, a Metropolitan Police spokesman said on customary condition of anonymity. Police were ``securing the area and treating it as a crime scene.''
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...a man dressed in a white forensic overall....
Finally, a reliable way to identify all suicide bombers - they all wear white forensic overalls. I am going to stake out my local Metra station. No cotton pickin' white forensic overalled jihadi is gettin' by me by gosh. Sleep well tonight my friends. I have found my special purpose.
first, make sure the guy isn't carrying explosives on him
second, retain all trace chemicals, loose hairs etc. on him in a form that will stand up to court later, lessening the ability of defense attorneys to claim he was contaminated by others or by the environment.
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Parade them inhospital gowns, with the back untied.
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Doh. Gee whiz Jack. Thanks for ruining My War on Terror. I can't be expected to simultaneously stand guard and fight off ACLU lawsuits can I? Oh well, back to lip biting and hand wringing in silence.
Armed police investigating the 21 July attempted bombings have surrounded two properties in a block of flats in west London in a major operation. Eye witnesses say they heard three shots and a large explosion as officers wearing gas marks entered the property. The area, around Basing Street, near Notting Hill, has been cordoned off, and the area has been evacuated. One eye witness says a man dressed in a white forsenic suit has been taken away in an unmarked police car. Breaking / EFL
UPDATE: The area, around Dalgarno Gardens, North Kensington, has been cordoned off, and the area has been evacuated. Police are seeking three men in connection with the attempted bomb attacks on 21 July in London Police are continually shouting at someone in the flat to come out. They are addressing him as "Muhammad". The police are asking him: "What is the problem? Why can't you come out? "Take your clothes off. Exit the building. Do you understand?"
Officers are telling other residents on the 350-property estate to "get inside now". Scotland Yard say they are not aware of firearms having been used. One eyewitness says a man dressed in a white forensic overall has been taken away in an unmarked police car. Another has spoken of seeing three other people being taken away in a police van. Chris Stokes told BBC News: "We got told to move out of the way by armed police and within about five minutes we heard three gunshots go off behind the block of flats at Tavistock Crescent." Allan Sneddon, who lives nearby, told BBC News: "There was this almighty bang... big enough to shake the ground."
BBC Correspondent Jane Hughes said: "Police are regarding this as a very significant event - a very significant piece of police activity. " She said loud noises heard by witnesses may have been explosives used to blow in the door to a property and CS gas may have been used to subdue people.
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Suspect arrested, that makes a total of three 7/21 suspects in custody, two of them today, Sky reports. TV shows them leading one off in the paper coveralls, they take their clothes to the lab to look for evidence.
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Speculation it's the Oval bomber. (Oval as in tube station, not shape)
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Actually, the police make the Haji strip before coming out to make sure he isn't wearing a bomb belt. They then give him paper coveralls to wear on the way to pergatory. No virgins for you Omar.
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One resident from nearby told BBC News 24 she had heard police shouting warnings at a flat.
They are addressing him as "Muhammad". The police are asking him: "What is the problem? Why can't you come out? "Take your clothes off. Exit the building. Do you understand?"
She said: "We were aware of somebody answering, saying, 'I have rights'.
British police interrogated their first captured London bombing suspect and arrested nine more men in pre-dawn raids on Thursday, as chilling details emerged of a large-scale terrorist battle plan. Somali-born Yasin Hassan Omar was zapped with a stun gun as police raided his hideout on Wednesday in the central England city of Birmingham, the first major breakthrough in the massive investigation into the July 21 bomb attacks here. The 24-year-old man is suspected of an attempted suicide attack on a London Underground train near Central London's Warren Street train station, one of four failed bombings on the city's transport system that day.
His three alleged accomplices remain at large, police said, as hundreds of officers descended into the Underground in the largest security operation of its kind. Police were hoping that the captured bomb suspect, who was being questioned at London's high-security Paddington Green station, would provide pivotal information about the other three bombers and terror cells possibly dormant in Britain. The July 21 attacks injured no one as the bombs apparently failed to go off properly, frustrating an attempt to repeat the carnage of July 7 when 56 people including the four bombers - three Pakistani-born Britons and a Jamaican Islamic convert - were killed.
An hour before dawn on Thursday police swooped on two properties in South London and arrested nine men in connection with the investigation into the July 21 botched bombings, although none was believed to be an actual bomber. London transport police spokesman Simon Lubin said that officers also had flooded the Underground system. "The state of alert hasn't changed. The operational deployment is to get as many people out there as possible," he said. London's top police officer, Sir Ian Blair, renewed a warning that as long as the other three suspected bombers remained on the loose, their potential to cause death and mayhem was undiminished. "We are in a somber moment and it does remain possible that those at large will strike again," he told a meeting of the Metropolitan Police Authority. Attacks could come not just from the three fugitives but also from other terror cells lying in wait and under the radar of the authorities, he said.
Peter Clarke, the London Metropolitan Police's anti-terror chief, was equally blunt. "I must emphasize that until these men are arrested they remain a threat," he said. Only one of the other fugitives has been named: 27-year-old Muktar Said Ibrahim, also known as Muktar Mohammed Said, who migrated to England from Eritrea as a child.
Police released security camera pictures of the other two suspects on Wednesday, including a fresh image of the man accused of trying to detonate a bomb on a train in West London. The man, who had a shaved head and short beard, was pictured traveling on a bus to South London after the bungled attacks.
British newspapers splashed their front pages with pictures of terrorist nail bombs found in a car linked to one of the July 7 suicide bombers. The car abandoned at a railway station in Luton, north of the British capital, was packed with up to 16 homemade bombs, raising fears of a massive terror campaign, according to media reports. Police refused to comment on the X-ray photographs of the bottle-shaped, nail-studded bombs, which greeted the millions of London commuters as they braved the Underground again on Thursday morning. "How big was the terror plot?" asked the left leaning Independent newspaper next to a large picture of the device.
The Times newspaper said that the bombs used by the first suicide squad appeared to have been manufactured by the same person who made those used on July 21. "The nature and number of bombs points to the existence of a large and well-equipped terrorist cell intent on a sustained campaign of attacks," it said. A total of 17 people have been arrested in relation to the July 21 plot, including three women accused of "harboring offenders", police said.
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Take him to the tower. Let him spend the night alone with it's keepers. In the AM he will be ready to talk. if he is not take him to the "shed out back" and shoot him.
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There was an interview with one of the new 'terrorism experts' that have been spawned since 9/11 on BBC2 the other night. Apparently he will be treated with dignity, given his 8 hours sleep and be allowed to pray to Allan 5 times a day. I must admit I like the thought of, sjamboks, car batteries, 20mg hypnoval and half a bottle of Jacky D. Before gouging out his eyes King Lear style.
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There was a bunch on Fox this morning whinning about the police using a taser on him. The poor would-be murderer! I guess they would have been even more pissed off if the police had just shot him.
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Right! If that's the way you want it -- Cardinal! Poke him with the soft cushions!
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Were tweezers, potato peelers and car batteries involved? I'm not even sure how they would be, I just like the idea of it.
Two rats and a basket of figs.
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LOL! Robert.
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Wrap him in bacon and cook him over a slow fire.
Police in Daghestan say five policemen received slight concussions after an explosion struck their patrol late yesterday near the capital, Makhachkala.
The attack on a road leading to the Makhachkala airport came hours after Russian law enforcement agencies said they
have dismantled a large militant network in the north Caucasus republic that had been planning an attack in Moscow.
Deputy Interior Minister Andrei Novikov said some 150 people were arrested.
Also yesterday, police stormed a suspected militant base in Makhachkala, killing three people. The operation also
left one police officer dead.
Daghestan, which neighbors war-ravaged Chechnya, has been hit by increasing violence believed to be linked to insurgents and criminal gangs.
Earlier this week, Daghestan's interior minister, Adilgerei Magomedtagirov, said attacks had left 32 policemen dead and another 50 wounded since the beginning of this year.
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The French interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, has announced that a dozen Islamic extremists will be expelled from France by the end of August. "As early as next week an Algerian known for his hostile position towards our country, the brother of a man who is in prison in France, will be expelled," the minister said in an interview published by the Le Parisien newspaper on Friday.
"Aaaaar! Death to the infidels! Death to France! Death to...!"
"Shuddup. Put him on the bus, Jean-Pierre!"
Sarkozy also reiterated his intention to introduce procedures for stripping French Islamic radicals of their nationality. "The inquiries will be based on the dossiers of individuals who travel to countries like Pakistan, Syria and Afghanistan, which are all risky destinations and possible through-routes to Iraq," the minister explained. Sarkozy confirmed that "at least seven people from France have died in Iraq fighting for al-Qaeda." Of these, some lost their lives in suicide attacks. Another dozen Islamic fundamentalists from France are still in Iraq, he said.
"Boy, Mahmoud! I can't want until my hitch is up, so I can go back to Gay Paree!"
"I got some bad news for you, Ahmed."
"What's that?"
"We're goin' back to Gay Nouakchott."
"Where's my boom belt?"
Referring to the anti-terrorism operations carried out in Paris, the minister announced that from now on "several police units" will be armed with Tasers, the electronic stun guns which allow a suspect to be immobilised for several seconds. Police in Birmingham used Taser guns this week to arrest a suspect who later turned out to be one of the failed bombers who tried to attack an underground train in London on July 21.
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Died for al-Qaeda
Bury 'em under a cross or mogen david
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It looks like a contest to see who can expell the most, soonest. The politician who does nothing will be blamed the next time something goes boom. But those who've been busy will be able to claim that at least they were working on the problem. Ladies and gents, the next election is at stake!
Turkey could come under attack again from Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network in the next few months, a senior police official said in an interview published on Friday. A local cell of al Qaeda claimed responsibility for a string of devastating bomb attacks on Jewish and British targets in Istanbul in November 2003 when more than 60 people were killed.
Groups linked to the militants have also claimed responsibility for bombings this month in London and in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
"It seems the wave of terror is spreading from west to east after the bombings in London and Egypt. I expect an attack in Turkey by November," Sammaz Demirtas, deputy chief of the Istanbul police, told the Vatan newspaper.
Demirtas, who heads his force's intelligence operations, said the police were closely monitoring 1,000 people believed to have links with al Qaeda in Istanbul, Turkey's biggest city.
"We follow their trips, changes of addresses or work, who they meet, their every move. Following them is important so we can take immediate action when they connect with their organisation," he said.
In Turkey, 80 percent of intelligence work conducted by the police involves religious-based organisations, Demirtas said.
Muslim Turkey has a strictly secular political system, and has long tried to keep tight control of religious organisations.
Demirtas said he did not believe al Qaeda would target ordinary citizens, for example by attacking buses or the metro system, noting that previous attacks by the group in Turkey had focused on specific targets.
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Fourteen Muslim imams have been deported from the southern German state of Bavaria since November last year. The latest imam to be sent out of the country is an Egyptian who was sent home by the Bavarian authorities July 26. Bavarian Interior Minister Guenther Beckstein claimed the imam was deported after he was proved to be inciting hatred and violence in his religious sermons in the Islamic center in the city of Nuremberg.
He only "claimed" it after it was proven...
The imam was placed aboard a plane to Cairo at Munich airport Monday, July 25, Beckstein said in a statement.
"Und dön't cöme bäck!"
He claimed that the deportation of the imam, who was pending arrest since July 15, was a success to the security authorities in dealing with what he termed "hatred-inciting preachers". The deportation was the latest step of measures taken by the European countries against what they term "inciting preachers" following the London terrorist attacks, which left 56 people killed and more than 700 wounded.
So, what do you guys at Islam OnLine term them?
The Bavarian interior minister also maintained that there are new 19 deportation orders being prepared against what he termed "extremist Islamists".
"Dön't schtartzen äny löng cöpies von dem Köran!"
The southern state of Bavaria has been the scene of crackdown measures against Muslims due to policies adopted by Beckstein, known for his anti-Muslim stances, according to IslamOnline.net correspondent. Following the London bombings, Beckstein had called for drawing up a "double strategy" to tighten up monitoring what he termed "extremists". He had also proposed planting spies inside mosques, censoring sermons and monitoring Muslim organizations using tiny cameras. Since a new immigration law was put into force in January, the deportation drive has been given an impetus, primarily targeting tens of Muslims. Days after the law went into effect, German states hurriedly prepared lists of thousands of Muslim immigrants -- whom the German authorities dubbed as suspects -- for immediate deportation.
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Uh oh. Sounds like Germany is on the Jihadi's naughty list. Maybe the German constitution needs a new amendment...allowing Germany to take the fight to the jihadis. They might have to do it soon.
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The funny thing is...everyone seems to forget European history. Especially the jihidis! Make them mad and it's go time, concentration camps and all. I love how they act like nothing happened there the last 100 years. Yeah, we've forgotten about the "camps"...the ones put up by Germany, and the ones put up in the 90's by the Serbs....you are such a peaceful continent..
Federal investigators expect to be on the scene by midday today to begin a probe into Thursday's explosion at BP's Texas City plant, the second such incident this year.
Smoke and flames again erupted there early Thursday evening, shaking windows and testing nerves still raw from an explosion four months ago that ranked as one of the deadliest refinery accidents in U.S. history.
No injuries were reported in Thursday's blast, which occurred about 6 p.m. in a part of the sprawling 1,200-acre complex far removed from the unit that exploded in March. BP spokesman Neil Geary said there was no connection between the two incidents.
"It's nowhere near as bad as the one a few months ago," said lifelong Texas City resident Mike Martin, who stepped outside of his house to see smoke.
The company would not speculate about the cause of the explosion Thursday night.
The U.S. Chemical Safety & Hazard Investigation Board is sending a two-man team to study the damage. Investigators Giby Joseph and Francisco Altamirano, will meet with plant officials to get more details about the accident..
All fires stemming from the explosion Thursday evening at BP's Texas City plant were extinguished early this morning, and all employees are accounted for, officials said today.
Air monitoring in the area continues, but authorities said this morning no harmful substances have been detected as a result of the explosion, and a precautionary "shelter in place" request issued after the blast Thursday was lifted overnight.
Gloria Randle, who lives near 6th Avenue North and 9th Street South, said she was cleaning her fingernails and waiting for Wheel of Fortune to come on television when she heard the blast, which some residents said sounded like thunder.
"All of a sudden, I heard a boom. A real big boom," said Randle, a Texas City native who estimates she lives less than a mile from the BP plant. "I thought al-Qaida was here. I did, I'm not going to lie."
Her son Nathan Randle, who was working about five blocks away from the plant, said, "I was like, here it goes again."
Nearly two hours after the blast, the wind shifted, prompting BP and Texas City officials to recommend that residents living nearby remain indoors, close all windows and turn off air-conditioning units. That recommendation was lifted earlier this morning.
Although monitoring conducted by the company and the city's hazardous materials team detected no pollution past the company's fences, the company said there was a risk of hydrogen sulfide gas in the smoke and haze.
The gas, which smells of rotten eggs, can cause headaches, fatigue and eye irritation when people are exposed at low doses, according to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
Don Thompson, regional director for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, said that from what he saw on television, pollution did not appear to be a problem.
"You have white steam," he said. "White steam means it's clean."
Despite the assurances, Ruby Luna, who lives less than a quarter mile from the facility, said she experienced symptoms from some kind of chemical.
"We've started getting real strong headaches, because of the smell," she said. "It's bad. It's gassy, and there are a lot of chemicals."
BP emergency response crews, assisted by the Texas City Fire Department, Chocolate Bayou Emergency Response Team and personnel from the nearby Valero and Marathon plants, said they had the fire contained to the unit and under control an hour after the blast. But it was still burning at 11 p.m., and BP officials said they expected the blaze to be snuffed by midnight.
Earlier in the night, Texas City Fire Chief Gerald Grimm said pipes containing fuel were rupturing and feeding the fire.
"We now believe we have additional fuel being provided to the fire," Grimm said.
BP reported that all of the plant's estimated 1800 workers had been accounted for.
"Whenever you have something happen at one of your facilities, you don't want to see it happen. It's something you feel bad about," said Hugh Depland, a BP spokesman.
The latest incident comes as BP faces scrutiny for its environmental and safety record. The company leads the nation in refinery deaths during the last 10 years, with 22 since 1995. In 2003 and 2004, its Texas City refinery â built in 1934 and the third largest in the U.S.â had more than 100 accidental releases of air pollution, the most of any facility in the Houston area.
The company's internal investigation into the March explosion, which killed 15 people and injured about 170, found that workers had made "surprising and deeply disturbing" mistakes during the startup of an octane-enhancing unit and that on numerous occasions the company failed to replace an antiquated piece of equipment that vented emissions into the atmosphere.
BP is still facing litigation brought by injured workers and families of the dead, which could cost the company as much as $700 million .
Ed Hartman, 66, who has lived in Texas City for 40 years, said he'd like to see the company improve its performance.
"There's something going on out there that they can't put their finger on," he said.
Lucy Sullivan, who lives about two miles from BP's complex, said, "If you live in the area, you just sort of take it in stride. ... If there's not a big flame, you just go about your business." She said she felt her dining room floor shake.
When fully operational, the Texas City plant processes 3 percent of the nation's crude oil supply. Each day its towers, tanks and pipes convert 460,000 barrels of oil.
The explosion occurred along a hydrogen line in a part of the refinery called the Resid Hydrotreating Unit, which removes sulfur from heavy crude oil.
The unit â one of 30 at the 1,200 acre site â was completed in 1984, after the refinery's previous owner, Amoco, conducted years of study into how to get the most oil out of a barrel. It processes 60,000 barrels of oil per day and allows BP to convert 75 percent of a barrel of oil into useful products, according to a 1992 article in the Chicago Tribune.
It's also responsible for a fair share of the company's profits. In 1991, according to the Tribune report, the Texas City refinery made $75 million with high sulfur crude, out of a company total of $1.4 billion in profits.
Earlier this year, the unit was shut down for 12 days of maintenance.
And according to a press release, PROGNOST Systems Inc. was recently hired by BP to install a system in the hydrotreating unit that would "provide early warning of mechanical problems or changes in performance."
It was unclear if these upgrades had any role in the explosion
UPDATE from the London Telegraph: A BP spokesman said the accident happened at "a residual hydrofiner treater". He added: "This is the bit that takes the sludgy bit at the bottom and upgrades it to a more valuable product".
He would not say what caused the fire and said the company was investigating. "It was operating normally when it happened. It was not undergoing maintenance or coming back on line," he said.
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Hard to tell what to make of this-- could be an equipment malfunction, which all too frequently happens at refineries, or it could be sabotage.
Can't tell much from this news item.
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It being summer also probably has a lot to do with it. When it's 80 degrees out, the temperature in confined spaces can be 110. When it's 110 out, it gets really dang hot in there. Mix in some volatile fumes and a bit of oxygen, and you have a recipe.
However, the blast at a British company in Bush's home state -- then 2nd in a handful of months -- understandably has some people nervous. And the feds investigating, just to be sure.
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I was in Bush's home state in the late 1990's near Galveston in the sunshine when lightening came from a cloud three miles away and struck a barge offloading nasty chemicals. Started a nice fire with lots of lovely black smoke. Strangest thing *I* ever saw!
Ahh, but that was before 9/11.
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That means, stuff happens.
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Texas City makes the international news every half century.
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When I lived down in Houston, the BP plants were always blowing up. I would suspect this is just business as usual.
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Does this sound new to anybody? Who didn't know Wakiland was helping? If you didn't know just raise your hand and I'll come around and hit you in the head with a tack hammer, because you havent been paying attention.
Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf said all the estimated 1,400 foreign nationals studying in the country's madrassas would have to leave the Islamic seminaries. "All foreigners are to be removed" from Pakistan's more than 10,000 madrassas, Musharraf told reporters, and no new visas would be issued to non-Pakistanis wishing to study in the seminaries and Islamic prayer schools. The ban would also apply to holders of dual nationality. "An explosive ordinance to this effect will be delivered adopted in the next coming days," General Musharraf said. He also reiterated that all Islamic prayer schools in the country would have to register with the government by the end of the year.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has urged Pakistan to move against extremists and radical madrassas following news that some of the London July 7 bombers had recently visited the South Asian country. Musharraf last week ordered a crackdown on extremists. By Friday security forces had rounded up more than 600 suspected militants and Islamic clerics. No one connected to the London attacks had been arrested, they said.
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The Paks only want home-grown jihadis in their madrassas.
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trying to protect domestic nut production
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Yeah, go back to your own countries and start your own madrassas! Sell crazy somewhere else! We're all sold out here!
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"All foreigners are to be removed" from Pakistan's more than 10,000 madrassas, Musharraf told reporters.." They're off to London to apply for asylum and free housing.
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"Magic bus ... magic bus ... I want to ride my magic bus, ooowww wahh, Magic bus!"
Ummm, okay, so 1,400 fuzzy foreigners are going to be expelled "...over the mountains and through the woods, to grandmother's place we go ..."
But what of the "educational" materials like books, audio tapes, video tapes, pamphlets, bombs, from foreign places like Soddy Arabia? And what of the imams and teachers terrorists from Soddy Arabia? Are they to be expelled?
One man has been killed and four people arrested in a clash between soldiers and gunmen near a religious school in Pakistan's Afghan border region. Thursday night's incident took place in Dargai Mandi, just north of the main town in North Waziristan, Miran Shah. Police, acting on a tip-off about the presence of foreign militants, said they found explosives in the madrassa.
Just the normal holy relics
"Hey! Give that back! It's a family heirloom! My grandaddy gimme that dynamite!"
Pakistani security forces believe that hundreds of Taleban and al-Qaeda-linked militants are in the tribal region. A number of government and military targets have come under rocket attack in the past few days. Military spokesman Maj Gen Shaukat Sultan said a large amount of explosives had been found in the madrassa. "Children's toys fitted with explosives and booby traps were also recovered," he said.
Part of their "TNT for Tots" program
Just little Islamic elves...
Gen Sultan said one of the captured men was an Afghan and two others local tribesmen. Pakistan has about 70,000 troops in the tribal region tackling militants with suspected al-Qaeda and Taleban links.
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Geddoutahere! It seems like they're trying to cover Waziristan with 70 guys!
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News in the UK that all foreign students to be expelled from Pakistani madrassas.
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Pakistani security forces believe that hundreds of Taleban and al-Qaeda-linked militants are in the tribal region.
Huh. How could they have gotten that idea?
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News in the UK that all foreign students to be expelled from Pakistani madrassas.
That solves, what, a quarter of the problem?
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"Police, acting on a tip-off about the presence of foreign militants, said they found explosives in the madrassa. The explosives were found to be of insufficient quality for blowing up infidels, and the militants were arrested on charges of apostasy."
Suspected Muslim militants have raided a village in Indian-administered Kashmir, slitting the throats of five Hindus, police have said. The attackers entered Dhoob village, 200km (125 miles) north-west of Jammu and segregated Muslims from Hindus before the killings, the police said. No group has yet said it carried out Thursday night's attack.
There are a number of Muslim militant groups in the region which have been fighting Indian rule since 1989.
Deputy inspector general of police for the remote and mountainous Rajouri district, VK Singh, told the BBC the dead men were aged between 40 and 60. They were forced to stand in separate lines before the Hindus were taken a few metres away and killed. Mr Singh said senior police officers had been sent to begin an investigation.
He said: "Killings such as these, by slitting throats, have increased for two reasons - they want to create terror and their supply lines of guns from across the border are coming under pressure from us." About 40,000 people have been killed in fighting between Indian security forces and militants in the region since 1989.
Violence has escalated after a period of relative calm following peace moves between India and Pakistan. The peace moves are aimed at ending decades of dispute over Kashmir - a region both countries claim in its entirety. India accuses Pakistan of sponsoring a violent uprising in Kashmir, a charge Islamabad denies. Pakistan says it has only given diplomatic support to militant groups in the past and has now taken steps to ensure they no longer have bases in the country.
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Wonder if India has access to cluster bombs. They'll go nicely with the F-16/F-18 deal. Throw in a few to sweeten the deal. Then throw in some more. That new wind-corrected number might be just the trick.
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I'd give them a few air fuel munitions just for a free trial. Nothing sends quite the same sort of "hi there" as baking and obliterating at the same time.
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This just shows the true stupidity of the Islamists. How many Hindus are right across the border? Do you freaks really want to piss all 400 million of them off? Can you understand the concept of revenge? Because I guarantee you the Hindus do.
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Every murder, every atrocity adds to the growing well of implible hatred of islam.
The butcher's bill is coming due and when it does it won't be very pretty.
And the funny part is the muslims will have no idea why.
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Wonder if India has access to cluster bombs. They'll go nicely with the F-16/F-18 deal. Throw in a few to sweeten the deal. Then throw in some more. That new wind-corrected number might be just the trick.
I'd give them a few air fuel munitions just for a free trial. Nothing sends quite the same sort of "hi there" as baking and obliterating at the same time.
The Indians are pretty bright people themselves. After all they have built their own satilites and launched them. I think they can or have figured out how to build cluster bombs. Much less Fuel-Air Explosives. I still think if and when a nuclear exchange between nation states takes place it will be on the Sub-Continent. And the Pakistanis will be gutted with a lot of spill over into certain other less than savory nations
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I wuz just be neighborly CH. :) Just cause you can bake your own apple pie don't mean it's not a thoughtful gift to receive. I want to help stock India's pantry.
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It is doubtful the Indian government will do anything.
After all, the jihadists terrorized the hindu population of Kashmir and caused three hundred thousand of them to flee. Many still live in refugee camps, one of the largest internally displaced populations in the world.
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Islam is intent on pissing off the whole world. The world is just now realizing that we are in the middle of a pan-islamic uprising, and the world does not like it. Islam is becoming a nuisance that we can live without. I think in the very near future this little revolt of theirs will be quelled out for good and all.
A suicide bomber blew himself up among a group of Iraqi army recruits in northern Iraq on Friday, killing 25 people and wounding 35, police said. They said the attack occurred outside a municipal building in Rabia, a town 80 km (50 miles) northwest of Mosul, close to the Syrian border. No other details were immediately available.
Police and army recruits are frequently targeted by insurgents. In recent months, attacks by suicide bombers strapped with explosives -- as opposed to driving explosives- laden cars -- have become more common. U.S. forces believe insurgents have been flowing into Iraq across the border from Syria. Rabia is less than 10 km from the Syrian border. Tal Afar, another town in the area, has been a stronghold of rebels for several months.
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Saddam Hussein was called to a hearing where he was questioned about repression of the Shiite uprising in 1991, which erupted after U.S.-led forces drove the Iraqi army out of Kuwait, the chief investigative judge said Friday.
In ongoing violence, two Marines were killed by insurgent gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades in western Iraq, prompting U.S. jets to pound insurgent positions with high-tech bombs, officials said Friday. The deaths brought to 10 the number of U.S. troop fatalities in Iraq this week.
Elsewhere, a suicide attacker detonated an explosives belt in a crowd of Iraqi army recruits in the town of Rabiah near the Syrian border, killing at least 25 and wounding 35, a police general said.
Officials said the attack occurred in the midst of recruits who were training in a security-controlled area and that some of the guards may have knowingly allowed the attacker to enter. The United States has placed new urgency on training Iraqi soldiers and police to assume greater security responsibilities so U.S. and other foreign troops can begin going home next year.
Saddam was summoned Thursday, and answered questions alone during the 45-minute hearing, said Judge Raid Juhi of the Iraqi Special Tribunal, set up to try the former dictator.
Juhi said he expects to conclude the criminal investigation into Saddam's alleged crackdown against Shiites in southern Iraq, as well as his campaign in the late 1980s to force Iraqi Kurds from wide areas of the north. A trial date for the former dictator will be announced in the coming days, Juhi said.
Saddam is expected to stand trial in September for his alleged role in the 1982 massacre of Shiite Muslims in Dujail north of Baghdad. It will be the first of what are expected to be about a dozen trials involving Saddam and his key henchmen.
In Baghdad, a car bomb exploded near a joint U.S.-Iraqi patrol in the dangerous Dora neighborhood, police reported. At least three civilians were wounded but casualty reports were incomplete, police Lt. Thaer Mahmoud said.
A U.S. military statement said the two Marines killed belonged to Regimental Combat Team-2 of the 2nd Marine Division and were killed Thursday by small arms and rocket-propelled grenade fire in a village west of Haditha about 170 miles west of Baghdad.
The Marines reported killing nine insurgents, five believed to be Syrians, during an engagement Thursday in the same small village.
Jets from the 2nd Marine Air Wing dropped three laser-guided bombs and one global positioning system guided bomb on three buildings used by the insurgents as firing positions, destroying all three of them, the statement added.
Following a rash of attacks and abductions of diplomats in Iraq, the Philippine Embassy in Baghdad has relocated its employees to Amman, Jordan, Philippine Foreign Undersecretary Jose Brillantes said.
"We continue to maintain our diplomatic ties with Iraq," Brillantes said. "The embassy in Baghdad remains open and the diplomats in Baghdad are in Amman for security reasons occasioned by the recent kidnappings of diplomats."
He said the Filipino diplomats will be in Amman "for an indefinite period of time." It was not clear if all of the embassy's Filipino staff have relocated.
Iraqi militants last month freed Filipino accountant Robert Tarongoy after almost eight months in captivity.
Tarongoy, 31, was the second Filipino known to have been taken hostage in Iraq. Truck driver Angelo de la Cruz was freed last year after the Philippine government granted the militants' demand for the early withdrawal of its small peacekeeping contingent from Iraq â a decision strongly criticized by Washington and other allies, but applauded at home.
On Thursday, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq said the military is considering offering protection to foreign diplomats in Baghdad after al Qaeda agents killed three Arab envoys this month.
"Coalition forces ... are planning to look at this problem and see what could be done to fix the security for the diplomats," Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said.
He spoke a day after al Qaeda in Iraq announced it had killed two Algerian diplomats â including the country's chief envoy in Iraq â because of their government's ties to the United States and its crackdown on Islamic extremists.
Chief envoy Ali Belaroussi and diplomat Azzedine Belkadi were kidnapped outside their embassy in Baghdad. Al Qaeda in Iraq claimed responsibility.
The group also claimed responsibility for the kidnap-slaying of Egypt's top envoy and the attempted abduction of two other Muslim diplomats in a campaign to undercut support for the new Iraqi government within the Arab and Muslim world.
The United States is gambling that political progress will help curb the insurgency by luring away Sunni Arabs, who account for most of the rebels. Key to the strategy is preparation of a new constitution which must be approved by parliament by Aug. 15 and submitted to the voters in a referendum two months later.
On Friday, key members of the committee writing the charter said they have almost finished the draft and expect to submit it to parliament by the end of the month.
The committee did not meet Friday â the Muslim holy day â but discussions will resume Saturday, the members said.
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US and Afghan troops killed six suspected militants in the latest spate of growing violence by Taliban insurgents ahead of parliamentary polls, the U.S. military said on Friday. There were no casualties among Afghan or U.S. soldiers during the clashes in the Shinkai district of restive Zabul province near the border with Pakistan, a statement said. Ten suspected militant fighters were captured during the incident, it said, without releasing their identities. The militants were killed after "attacking Afghan and U.S. forces in the region where they were conducting security and stability operations," it added.
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Sounds more like 'growing violence AGAINST Taliban insurgents', rather than 'BY' them: 6 dead, 10 captured with no casualties among US & Afghan soldiers.
US troops said they had captured a cell leader of the al-Qaeda in Iraq terror organisation. Ammar Abu Bara, alias Amar Hussein Hasan, was arrested on Wednesday in Mosul, Iraq's third largest city, by troops of the Army's 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, a US statement said. The statement said Abu Bara was taken into custody during a cordon and search operation in a neighbourhood in northern Mosul.
Is that part of Operation Rat Gnaw? Or is this a different operation?
Abu Bara replaced Abu Talha, former terror cell leader for the Mosul area who was arrested last month, the statement added.
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Police in Afghanistan said the U.S. military has handed over a group of Afghans detained following a 26 July protest outside the main U.S. base at Bagram in Parwan Province, north of Kabul... At least 1,000 Afghans demonstrated to demand the release of the locals, whom the U.S. military said were arrested in an anti-insurgency operation. The U.S. military claimed that improvised bombs of the sort used by Taliban and allied Islamist insurgents against U.S. and government forces were discovered during the raids.
Parwan police chief Abdul Rahman Sayyedkhayl said all of the detained men were handed over to Afghan police custody, while U.S. authorities promised not to search houses without government approval. According to initial reports, Afghan forces accompanied their U.S. counterparts during the arrests, which included a local commander formerly associated with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's radical Hizb-e Islami.
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You knew it had to be Hek's boyz cousins. Even their protests end up in fratricide. No more 3 hots and a cot and Britney Spears for Cousin Ahkmed. Now it's an unventilated shipping container and Shebergan. Good throw boys.
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From Jihad Unspun, an article by Muhammad Abu Nasr, Free Arab Voice .... US and stooge forces had begun a massive and unprecedented deployment in Mosul ....
"Mahmoud! Infidels!"
"It's a massive and unprecedented deployment!"
The Americans and the Iraqi puppet forces backed up by US military vehicles set up numerous checkpoints at the ends of bridges and major roads in the city, essentially making it impossible for people on one side of the city to get to the other side.
"But I gotta go see Grandmaw!"
"Why? She's outta ammunition?"
The situation forced Iraqi puppet police to transport women in their police cars from one side of the city to the other just to enable them to get home.
Gad! How ruthless can you get? Giving women rides home?
... the intense security followed a visit by the puppet so-called âIraqi interior ministerâ Bayan Jabr to the city several days ago. According to highly-placed sources in Ninwa Province, ... Jabr held meetings with local puppet security officials in the city and ordered them to impose a new security plan aimed at ridding Mosul of Resistance fighters. Jabr reportedly ordered additional puppet forces, including the notorious âWolf Brigadeâ into the city to take part in the new crackdown. The Wolf Brigade of the puppet so-called âinterior forcesâ is made up of members of the Shiâi Badr Brigade militia that invaded Iraq along with US forces in spring 2003.
"It the Wolf Brigade, Mahmoud!... Mahmoud?"
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the Shiâi Badr Brigade militia that invaded Iraq along with US forces in spring 2003.
Now that IS news!
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Iraqi puppet forces? Are they giant puppets? Or do they arrest people with giant puppets? We could use some here at the next Workers World Party ANSWER rally.
The Americans and the Iraqi puppet forces backed up by US military vehicles set up numerous checkpoints at the ends of bridges and major roads in the city, essentially making it impossible for people on one side of the city to get to the other side.
Therefore no chicken, or jihadi, for that matter, will cross the road 'cause there is no way to get to the other side!
See, you let the Army and Marines handle S**T, and it gets done...
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That dude should watch what he says about the Wolf Brigade, and the Stooges. Freedom of the press is still just a concept over there and I wouldn't doubt it a bit if they wouldn't come a knockin on his door one night after the coalition leaves town.
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Honestly, although I'm fairly new to RB, it is obvious to me that this individual is a horse's ass of the first water. What is worse, is that this article is of the worst form of pravda-drivel, or the NorK school of journalism. It reminds me of all the famous "running-dog capitalist lackey" soubriquets the chinese and vietnamese twits used in the 50's and 60's.
MS, get better stuff, it's harder to hate a complete clown, instead of opening a righteous can of whop-ass, my gag reflex kicks in for crap like this....
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From Jihad Unspun, a statement titled "Al-Qaida Responds To The Misguided Parties Condemnation Of The Verdict Of Allah For The Crime Of Apostacy," issued by the Media Division of Al-Qaida in the Land of the Two Rivers on July 28th 2005
.... The ineffectual UN Thousands of perverted Nations has some general language prohibited bombs dropped on Iraq and Pakistan targeting jihadis and boomers women, children and unarmed people, yet, no condemnation for these unlawful crimes! Thousand of Muslims have been detained, had panties put on their heads tortured and put to Club Gitmo prisons around the world, with tribunals but with out legal bases or trials since you don't deserve them. Their only guilt yes, guilty, guilty, GUILTY was that they were Islamofascist boomers and nutters Muslims, yet, no condemnations for these righteous unjustness and removal of the scum of the earth crimes! .....
And when two diplomats apostates are killed who are Algerian diplomats American accomplices, helping the Americans crusaders and the decent people around the world Zionist Jews and recognizing the very few sensible 'moderate' Muslims (Al-Alquamiyeen) who supports the Zionists and crusaders, we hear a lot of justified condemnations from righteous radical decent people non-believers who speak change the truth and tip the scale towards separating Islamofascists from their lives unjustness. We know this is a carefully conceived plan conspiracy planed in the White House Situation Room darkness, giving the Americans crusaders an excuse to kill fight Islamofascists, terrorists and jihadis Muslims and establish democracy them selves in the Middle East land of the two rivers.
We say to those; Oh Shit! Silence! You cry of evil committed by people like Zarq, your hands are bloody with Islamofascists and jihadis innocent honorable people. Please don't kill me too! Silence! Americans, Aussies and Brits Tyrants, infidels and unjust people. Just look to the balance of western justice you have brought with you, tilted to personal liberty evil. You deserve applause hell by Allah grace.
The carriage on its way and the hunting dogs left behind barking. The truth is clear it sure is. We donât care about your condemnation but we're terrified by your snipers. We are getting closer to Himmler Allah and are bound by panties and duct tape His borders and comply with Gitmo Al-Hanifa rules. Our faith dictates on us to skulk around kill the disbelievers and try not to get ourselves killed even though we proclaim a wish for 72 virgins the apostates.
The US Marines spear of the truth will destroy the Islamofascists evil. This is the destiny of all fools, rubes and cannon fodder conspirators with Zionist Jews and crusaders; his fate is their fate; let them say that they will protect the diplomats, but the Land of the Two Rivers in not a safe heaven for al-Qaeda and the Ba'athists the enemy of Allah. The glory of JDAM Jihad has lightened the horizon only for a moment, after which it's dark and quiet and cleared the way for the people with good deeds meaning the decent Iraqis once you rubes are gone.
O Allah! Make the Marines Mujahideens shots hit their intended targets which, since they're Marines, they always do ...
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Is Allah supposed to be all-powerful?
I understand that it is a sin called "shirk" to assign partners to Allah.
If 1 is true, and the second statement is also true, why is it necessary for him to use a bunch of Arabs to kill "disbelievers?"
I think we have the real apostates posting at Jihad Unspun.
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Thousand of Muslims have been detained, tortured and put to prisons around the world, with out legal bases or trials. At least Mikey seems to be getting a clue and highlighting what we need to do.
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Did somebody say apostates?! Let me get my ak, digividcam and sword. I'll be there in a half hour. Don't bother sorting them out from the innocents, I got a fatwa on that one. We're good to go. You need a ride Mikey? Watch out for that single bullet thingy if you ride in the back. We got a caravan good buddy. Dawgs can follow in back with the lemming ummah.
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Yipper! The good old perverted Nations... there is something that many would agree with. I seem to rarecall that there were demonstrations with peoples in the street voicing their outrage and more than one nation's representatives voicing disagreement on the floor of the UN on actions taken for the Global War on Terrorism (Epic Struggle against Violent Extremism).
I also witnessed the outrage of the muderous and insane actions resulting from the fatwa against anything non-Islamic concocted by boyfriend & girlfriend Usama bin Mohammed Ladin and Zawahiri. The only true victims are the innocent creations of the one true God. Their only guilt are that they were not evil-doers and agents of Satan. Everyone condemns the governments of East and West for troubles and tribulations. True... there must always be governments held accountable.
A Caliphate state will never be held accountable because by its very nature it is a dictatorship of the weak and helpless. It is sheepherders equipped not with a hook pole to protect the lambs but a sword to dole out butchery at every whim and wish. This murderous sheepherder elevates himself to the level of the one true God to become his equal. This is a blasphemous existance and path to follow. Satan awaits the greedy and evil-hearted to guide along on this path with the aim of devilish goals to impose control on God's creations by upsurping his devine plans and position as the one true God.
The ranks of the innocent cross all faiths, races, cultures, genders and geographic association. One must adhere to their faith, and obey the one true God.. but to pervert and twist that faith into a harvesting machine for Satan with it's backside showing to God is blasphemy. God knows who the evil doers are and what the strive for. Like a drying pond in the heat of summer, these evil doers will be exposed to the sun and heat and unable to hide in the murky darkness they shroud themselves in. They will be exposed for all their nastiness laying in the mud flip flopping over and over gasping and choking in all their evil. There is no pleasure in this picture, there is no happiness or joy to see this outcome.
It will be God's will to deliver the final blow to those who seek the deep recesses and bowels of the earth to try and escape from the eyes of God and the light of truth seen through the eyes of the innocent. Guilt has nothing to do with a religion one was born into or converted to. It has to do with the facts and the facts are that God knows evil from good and instills in his creations the choice to determine what is inherently evil and what is heartfelt goodness. For the innocent that are terrorized, tortured, killed, maimed, oppressed, shocked, and tramautized there can be no justification when the evil doers get off easily and run away to play another day.
God has a plan for all things great and small, God's will cannot be questioned or judged. Who are you or I to question God or elevate ourselves to what we perceive as his level? Stop the whinning and crying and submit to God and then perhaps the light will begin to show the darkness in men's hearts the way out. Then the dogs of Satan will be heard whimpering while they run away with their tails between their legs.
Murder is murder and no matter how you slice an oninon it remains an oninon. If the murdered diplomats were guilty of something it was to assist in helping the ummah of Iraq through their employer in the Algerian and Egyptian governments. If there was the blood of the innocents upon their hands, then God knows and sees all. Sharia is no substitute for God. Sharia is man-made and reputed to be inspired by God's law as interpreted through his prophet and handed down through the ages. God knows what is wrong and what is right... Blind rage and murder with a vengeful heart in the control of Satan certainly defy anything other than humanistic weakness in the hands of Satan. It is this blindness and vengeful rage with Satan's endorsement that guide the hands and split hooves of the militant forces wrecking the efforts of the poor Iraqi trying to rebuild the nation. It has nothing to do with religion and has more to do with a thirst for enpowerment of an envisioned Caliphate state of selfish pursuits.
The use of the word crusader has no mental anguish or ill feeling for non-muslims. In fact, it is inspiring many to read about the crusades and find out what they were really about. There are many who have returned to the church and the one true God to renew their faith with a better understanding now that Satan has raised an army to challange the so-called crusaders and cross worshippers. It is no surprise to be labled as something, especially if one is to be blindly judged as an enemy and to ralley the masses to battle with a unifying cry like God is Great! or something like that. call me a crusader or cross worshipper or anything, but never call me as stooping to the level of ignorant selfishness I witness under the banner of Islam. Shame on you and the others for perverting the words of Mohammed, a prophet for the Muslim pursuasion, and the words of the one true God... you might remember him as the creater of all things and all things belong to him.
May a thousand smelly old shoes and boots worn by hog farmers be slapped in your faces and the faces of your offspring and the fathers of your fathers and all the moon-worshipping imams employed by Satan. May bacon slices be slowly dragged across your mouths and eyes and stuffed into your mouths and opened chests with a Hindu and Jew holding your hands while blessing you with soothing words from Buddah. Now tell me... doesn't that sound stupid and child-like? Doesn't that stem from unpure thoughts that speak of vengence, hatred, ignorance, spitefulness, self-love, and compatability with Satan's drive to distract us from God's will and plans? It would be more ignorant to justify and rationalize it by saying that my faith requires it and my faith requires that I drop dead pigs on top of praying children.It is so stupid beyond belief. They are words of Satan's agents slithering about on earth. You justify murder by saying it is your faith and I call you a liar and evil doer. If that is all you can interpret of the Koran then I feel sorry for you. God will have his way with you when Satan finishes up.
I wish peace for the Iraqis who are true to the one true God, peace to their children, and pray that God's plan to shine his light into the darkened minds, hearts and lives of the followers of Satan's agents happens soon.
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Seem that joining the jihadist is like declaring yourself to be no more than an animal.
There are not too many trials of animals. More typical is the local humane society just putting them down if no adoptees.
Now in DuPage County, if you are a cat it is even worse. Seems that the animal control department has realized it can make good money selling cats for scientific research. They, also, realized that cats are easy to catch. Esp the ones with collars...
The jihadists are proceeding down a very slippery slope. Very slippery.
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This J.U. piece brings to mind an exchange that supposedly took place with General Schwartzkopf:
In an....interview, General Norman Schwartzkopf was asked if he didn't think there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harbored and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America. .... He said, "I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting."
BTW, #5 was a nice rant T.G.
#11
It might have been Mike Sylwester, hisveryownself, Shipman. Let's wait and see what he has to say. More than a few current Rantburgers came here knowing it all, stubbed up hard against those who know just as much or more and aren't necessarily kind in explaining errors of fact and/or interpretation, and became valued members of the community. I would love to see Mike make that transition -- I may be naive, but I think he could bring much to the table if only he would give up that destructive attitude.
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Re #11 (trailing wife): It might have been Mike Sylwester ... Let's wait and see what he has to say.
The article I posted was interesting and worthwhile. In order to please the Rantburg rabble, though, a "moderator" has vandalized it so that nobody can read it.
This place is like a mosque.
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In what specific way was this interesting and worthwhile, Mike? Looks to me like the usual empty rhetoric that the jihadis post every time they have their asses handed to them.
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The article I posted was interesting and worthwhile.
How was it interesting? What made it worthwhile?
If it doesn't stand on its own merits, you should have at least tried to explain what makes it interesting.
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Mike - I haven't heard anything about Tiger Pits, Hellicoptor interrogation, innovative uses for supped up cattle prods, Shah style bed frames, bamboo under fingernails, water torture, lime on wounds, staking out in the desert wrapped in wet leather and covered in honey. Nothing that looks like real torture.
Nothing
So Mike, WHERE IS THE BEEF er HOG?
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Mike, once upon a time I worked for a large corporation. The large corporation had two rules with regard to written communication:
1) Keep it brief.
2) The first sentence tells why the reader should read what follows.
Now the managers at the large corporation were very busy and important people, quite unlike me then as now, and any piece of paper crossing their desks which didn't meet these two criteria was sent back to the writer unread.
I assume you are a busy person. So are many of Rantburg's readers. Don't add snarky commentary if you wish, perhaps like me you aren't clever in that way. But at least state clearly why you think something is important enough to post.
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Re #11 (trailing wife): More than a few current Rantburgers ... stubbed up hard against those who know just as much or more and aren't necessarily kind in explaining errors of fact and/or interpretation
This is Rantburg discussion:
Mikey - you are as much a liar as Joe Wilson .... you are aiding and abetting political hacks by deliberately spreading disinfomation .... It marks you as a liar, and as the sort of scum who should be jailed.
I do NOT welcome MS back. I hope he will leave again ...
Ignore the lying UN-defender. Moral equivalence with terror makes him as big a scumbag as the asshats he droolingly defends. Go back to your hole MS, cretin
Mikey's a lying sack o' crap.
I called you an "attention whore" too, MS. But what you really should be called is a "SINK-TRAPPED TROLL".
I just don't think Mikey-the bandwidth-hog needs to post a whole series of these "debate" articles about Moslems abusing Christians
you merely have an amazing capacity for self-delusion -- it would be too unkind to say it is simply 100% USDA apologist dementia. You carry more water for the defunct and corrupt UN, aka The League of Thieves, and for the State Dept's private agenda segment, aka The Saudi Retirement Plan Wannabees (I'll bet your boyz already miss Princey Bandar, lol), than anyone else I've encountered. You're consistent, though I attach no credit to that attribute since you're consistently alone and embattled by the facts and, thus, reduced to spinning and hair-splitting and picking of ze nits - as #4 clearly shows. The Tranzi Moonbat Don Quixote of our time.
Why is MS always running interference for Annan and Wilson?
kofi's butt boy returns, unawakened, unashamed, unable to detect a hostile room.
Yet more MS BS, wait for the apologista.
Maybe if you if you get enough points, you can be invited to visit your Russian counterparts at Moving Together and they will let you ride on their vespas.
Boy we do need a housecleaning of linguistholes at State ... MS...what's the matter, don't know the answer to the questions regarding the facts? You don't know squat about this but you are ready to jump up and down like a monkey over it.
No basement-dweller would have as strong a love of the UN. I mean, c'mon, he said the money for the Oil-For-Kofi's-Retirement-And-Terrorists investigation should come from Iraqi funds!
he's always on right on point to parrot the pre-ordained daily DU and Moveon.org. talking points. I think he's trying to get points to win a trip to the summer-camp of Nashi. Hey Mike, have you gotten enough points to win your brown shirt with a Move on logo yet?
Just curious, Mike, whose your team leader? Doesn't it bother you just a little bit that you are the same sort of loser-sap that Putin looks for?
Mike Sylwester - a known liar and apologist for tyrants and thieves - quotes the NYT - guilty of the same - loser and scum.
MS - How's that oil for "food" thing going? Still Kofi's buttboy? Or just pretending that whole sordid affair and your unending lip service to defend those corrupt assholes ...never happened? Why are you here, when you have zero credibility or admirers?
Will someone please make Mikey go away? If I wanted to read his site, I would -- he doesn't need to post this crap here.
Reassignment by Move On to this site. Maybe he failed miserably at his last assignment and so they sent him back as punishment or they discovered he hadn't done the job here he had claimed. Or maybe it was State.
Mikey's a good little Nashi youth. Heil!
I must admit it might get you points from your team leader to apply towards your new Vespa. At the very least it should get you enough points for your new brown shirt with a Moveon logo. ....
how did Sylwester miss this chance to throw sand in the gears and get an attaboy from his masters?
Mikey's from the quantity = quality School of Trollery. Sure, just posting the links with a selected point for emphasis, like a normal non-idiotarian would do, would've been just as effective - especially given his *ahem* august sources, lol - but Mikey's still trying to define some bizarre Buchanian / Deanian / State Dept Wannabee / LLL / BDS / Rummy-Hate position..... He's had a woodie for many things during the time he's haunted RB. ....
Oh crap, you want to be an Attention Whore again. Can't afford a shrink?
you are so Kool Aid addled and obsessive that you accumulated an unusual day's posts into a single post - a magnificent strawman - par excellence. It was, waaay back then, and still is, a singular example of just how egregious a troll and remarkably fucked up you actually are.
Your weakass defense of corrupt kleptocrats entitles me to say - I just don't like you, your positions, and your coterie of heroes
MS is near the edge. I call 1 week until total Ape Shittery per last time. Keep yur links close at hands boys MS is back with the BS posse.
what ever happened to the secret f-11 and f-12 recon planes. Was it the Cubans or Mao? First one off Okinawa gets a cigar.
Well, Mike, are you a guard at Gitmo or not?? And the Dhimms are obsessed with bringing down someone, anyone in the Bush Administration .... You and your friends on the Left think Rummy's a liar and that our military are "baby killers in the manner of Jhenghis Khan."
Hey Mike, yeah you, Mike Sylwester: If thats your real name. I'll use you, an illiberal shill, schttupping for the enemy. How is it you guys kill 40 million human lives, and our military, thanks to you tranzi tape recorders, is supposed to be the "baby killers" here?
Got an answer for that one? I mean one that doesn't involve all 26 volumes?
Mikey Sybil'ter's WOT = 0
Mikey Sybil'ter's army = one [himself]
Mikey Sybil'ter's effectiveness = 0
Look at you mikey, you're full of shit, and you blather on forever..
Mike? Speechless? Well I do declare! No Washboard, nor slimes, nor Old Gray Whore rwetorts? You rwetard! No appending the omissions at these fine, venerable institutions? No addendums showing the selective omissions of agitprop?
Mikey = zzzzzzzzzz
Say what you will about the Japanese Imperial Soldier, but he put the Jihadi scum you and your ilk mollycoddle to shame. I mean to utter shame: the jihadi is a drug addicted agent, posing as a "insurrgent", operating on behalf of your average everyday Albanian Mafia.
I had nothing to do with this! Just ask Sike!
A prime example of a topic unceremoniously dropped from the Mikey agenda.
Oil for food was part of my cover. Paid for my trip to the gassy knoll.
Gassy Knoll -- isn't that where Mike lives?
Start checking for accounts under names like Senon Bevan. And what was the aunt's name?
Martha Sylwester
Lol! Right across the bow!
more lies - thanks MS, apologist to the Ummah
More MS BS--Big Time! Here's Mike: Hey, don't go after my IslamoNazi pals, the Syrians! They're really trying, see?
It must really suck to be Mike.
Sounds like Marxist claptrap in the service of Islamofascism. How's Kofi -- still in charge of the United Thugs?
NMM / AgentPoseur is a case in point.
personal abuse = identifying sympathizers with death for UN $ Oil for food defenders. You apologize for killers you become their acolytes, especially Jihad Unspun publicist
And some folks, circling the bowl of a tormented private event horizon, seek it out, secretly revel in it, and beg for the kill shot. The Rantburg Red-Headed Stepchild Syndrome.
take comfort where you can, OFF/UN apologist
Where's Kofi's kid? Find the account numbrs yet? The food ripped off stays ripped off. The children starved, stay starved. Only Mike S returns untarnished....not.
A REAL MEA CULPA would cause a lot (at least of mine) of accusations of toadying to nefarious purposes and fealty to the the UN/NGO's above American security/patriotism, but I won't be holding my breath or fire, MS
personal abuse = identifying sympathizers with death for UN $ Oil for food defenders. You apologize for killers you become their acolytes, especially Jihad Unspun publicist
You really do hate the U.S. military, don't you?
Either MS doesn't understand what enemy propaganda is, or he eagerly repeats it.
Mike Sylwester - rolling in sick fantasies of dead Americans.
It's anger, anger at being put aside way before due, anger at the goings on in Dallas, the Martian coverup, the lack of a decent retirement plant. DAMMIT PAY ATTENTION TO ME I SHOULD HAVE BEEN A
Only one continuous thread runs throughout Mikey's posts: they all share a strong element of "the US is to blame for [insert favorite dementia here]".
MS, .... We can see your bias a mile away. ... Perhaps you'd be more comfortable posting with your little friends over at DU and not here.
Mike you can't be that fucking dense.
Operation "Waste Bandwidth" was re-launched by the Jihad Unspun Brigades together with their puppet "Mikey" .... It is now recognized as part of the larger "Look at Meee!" campaign
MS: Stay off that black acid - you'll fry yer brain, son.
Mike, .... what is with the Left and their denial that people with real talent exist?
Someone who spent years (literally) defending Kofi and Friends just let it slide away when proof that he was defending criminals, thieves and liars who assisted a tyrant in killing his own people was finally brought out. No apologies, no I see the light", just slithered away....Now, he's back. I have no respect for him, and his persistence in pushing JU 2-3 times a day makes me dislike his motives and methods even less.
Youâre an insecure loser, trying to feel big.
Mr. Sylwester, your post reveals a very childish nastiness, or the cavalier attitude of a psychopath, to whom others exist only for his amusement. .... Get over yourself and grow up. Or, please, go to hell.
Your view is the Leftist/Old Media/MSM view, which is based on half-truths and out-right lies. .... Trying to browbeat us into seeing the "beauty" of your Leftist position or worse, to make a personal appeal because you want some sympathy is completely misplaced and should be more cause for censure than for pity.
In this war that we fight, the Democrats and Liberals (almost all of whom hold views that are strongly Leftist like Hillary, Howard Dean, Al Gore, Kerry, etc.) have joined common cause with Islamist terrorists. If some us see you as one of the bad guys, well...so be it.
Gotta wonder when Mikey's going to go into full-froth mode.
It's all about MEEEEEEE!!!
Mike and Arianna -- a match made in heaven.
Yes, we will ban regulars if sufficiently abusive/foul. Ask Aris for details -- oh right, you can't, we banned him :-)
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I - relatively new to the RB horde - may not have learned all the protocols, but I remember several being quite hard on Mike; saying if he was going to post JU for 'fun' he should add snarky comments.
Now he has, and folks still aren't happy with the comments.
Did Mikey pee in somebody's Post Toasties a while back, and I missed it?
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Yes.
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One of the moderators added the snark, after the article was posted (see comment #13).
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I have never fisked any articles, and I have posted probably hundreds of them.
This is a fake issue. A few people here are enraged that I voice moderate opinions about treatment of captives and about the UN.
That's all there is to this.
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Oh no it's not.
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Mike - I have voice moderate opinions, here - from time to time - and cringed for fear of the backlash. There ARE some tough customers here - no doubt about it!
And I wasn't quite sure how to take Jihad Unspun - I was worried when I read it and my kid was in Al Anbar province with the Marines. But now I take it like Tokoyo Rose.
But Mike - the U.N.
Mike? Really? I think the last good thing they did was in 1950. Great idea, the United Nations. Execution leaves a bit to be desired, I think....
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Actually, that is not all MS. You know better. Don't be shy. Drop the pretense and spell it out. It won't hurt that bad. What's the worst that might happen?
#26
The problem I have with the Jihad Unspun posts on a repeated basis is that Mike seems to ignore the total lack of evidence for them.
Face it -- if there were HALF or even a QUARTER as many US fatalities as they claim, it would be obvious here. It's just not happening the way that site claims.
Once or twice a JU post is an interesting example of what goes out over the airwaves in the Arab world. But day after day ... posted without comments or acknowledgement of its absurdity ...
Come on Mike, I think you're smarter than that.
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This is Rantburg discussion:
Then why are you here? If it pisses you off so much, don't come around. Most especially, don't post meaningless crap.
I mean, Christ, Mikey, trailing wife and I offered some constructive criticism up above and your response is to cut-and-paste a "THEY SAID MEAN THINGS ABOUT ME!!!!" file?
A few people here are enraged that I voice moderate opinions about treatment of captives and about the UN.
Moderate?
You refused to accept that UN officials were involved in taking bribes from Saddam Hussein and pocketing billions in cash that should have been used for helping the Iraqi people. You stated repeatedly that the Iraqi people should also have to pay for the investigation of their own robbery.
When the evidence became overwhelming, you slunk away, only to return with a storm of Jihad Unspun posts -- posts that are neither enlightening nor amusing, merely pointless and irritating.
And now you're stomping your feet because someone with authority turned a worthless post into an amusing one, and because other people remember what a git you are and have no problem stating it.
Are you ever going to bother explaining why you posted this article? In what way was it enlightening? Amusing?
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This is a fake issue. A few people here are enraged that I voice moderate opinions about treatment of captives and about the UN.
And you certainly have been bloody 'adult' in your responses.
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Bye Mike, sleep peacefully. No doubt you'll inflict another set of "interesting JU" articles later, though perhaps you should think before you post. If nothing else, you've shown a petty and disingenuous face Mike. (I didn't know you were a moderate and I surely didn't know your views on "captives" or the "UN" ... either way it matters little) You can't take it personally if folks just don't feel inclined to agree with you. "That's all there is to this."
Egyptian authorities said yesterday they have arrested some Bedouins suspected in smuggling explosives used in carrying out the series of blasts that rocked the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh that claimed the lives of 88 people. âWe are quite sure that they helped the bombers by smuggling the explosives through the mountains of Taba and this is progress in our investigations and will lead us to the main perpetrators,â a security source told Arab News.
Police confirmed that the suicide bomber who blew up the Ghazala Gardens Hotel in Naama Bay was named Moussa Badran. Umm Hashem, the mother-in-law of Badran who lives in a small Bedouin flat in Sheikh Zawaid , a town near Al-Arish in northern Sinai, told Arab News that 22-year-old Badran used to work as a farmer in a nearby farm and he never went to university. âThe last time I saw him was 9 months ago and before that he had become religious, but that does not mean he was radical,â said Umm Hashem. âHis two brothers were also arrested after the Taba attacks last October and the youngest who is 18-years-old, is still in custody.â Umm Hashem added that Badranâs father has gone through the DNA test and he was told that they matched the remains of the body found at Ghazala Gardens Hotel.
Badranâs cousin said that Badranâs older brother, Youssef, is also being hunted by police. âBut before police started looking for him, he disappeared on the second day of the bombings,â said Eid Badran. âBut I donât think he took part in the attacks since I saw him a couple of hours after the news of accident was announced on TV,â he added.
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I guess the Arab and Bedouin tradition of holding guests sacred and protecting them from harm has become null and void?
Saddam Hussein is awaiting trial for war crimes. But six of his nephews continue the struggle to restore Baathist rule over Iraq.
Yep. That's gonna happen...
The United States said six sons of Saddam's half brother have been leading suppliers of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq. Officials said the sons of Sabawi Ibrahim Hasan Al Tikriti have facilitated the flow of funding, weapons and insurgents from Syria to Iraq. Al Tikriti was captured by the U.S.-led coalition in 2005. On July 21, the Treasury Department decided to freeze U.S. assets of Al Tikriti's sons. They were identified as Yasir, Omar, Ayman, Ibrahim, Bashar and Saad. Officials said they doubted Saddam's nephews have property in the United States. They said they could not estimate of the total value of their assets.
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continue the struggle to restore Baathist rule
haha, good luck with that. It will be restored around the same time that the British reestablish rule in America.
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Nice. If disinformation, I doubt their hands are clean in any case. Six targets identified. Acquire and engage.
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If the story was true, back in 2003, I wonder where is the money taken from the Iraqi central bank and who took it. That could fund a lot of terrorist gangs.
DUBAI - The group of Al Qaedaâs Iraq frontman Abu Musab Al Zarqawi on Thursday vowed to target more foreign envoys and denounced âinfidelâ leaders who condemned the execution of two Algerian diplomats, an Internet statement said. âWe are approaching God Almighty with the sanctions (executions) and by implementing the Sharia (Islamic law)... Our religion orders us to kill the apostates and the infidels,â said the group in a statement whose authenticity could not be verified.
At some point foreign countries are going to understand just what it means to be passive in the face of terrorist scumbags killing their diplomats. But we haven't reached that point, have we.
âThe bullets of right do not stop at anything wrong, but pierce it and kill it, and this is the fate of anyone who follows the Jews and the Christians.â
Zarqawiâs group said in an Internet statement on Wednesday that it had executed the head of Algiersâ diplomatic mission in Baghdad, Ali Belaroussi, 47, and attache Azzedine Belkadi, 47, who were kidnapped last week. Without mentioning him by name, the group particularly lashed out at Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika who had condemned the murders of his two diplomats. âShut up you evil-sayer who has blood, a blood that is pure, on your hands,â said the statement, in an apparent reference to a crackdown on Islamists by Algerian authorities.
I think this is all Bouteflika needs to cancel the ceasefire with the GPSC. And buy some good US/UK arms on good terms. And use them against the terrorists in Algeria.
The statement said âthousands of bombs prohibited by the charter of the infidel United Nations are falling on Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan... and we never heard the denunciations of Algeria, the Arab tyrants or the atheist United Nations.â
The group also blasted Iraqi authorities for pledging to protect foreign diplomats in the troubled country. âThe one who is saying that he will protect the diplomats is a liar because in the Land of the Two Rivers (Iraq) there is no security for the enemies of God,â it said.
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And these "people" should have full rights and protection under the Geneva convention? Maybe Senators Durbin and Kennedy would volunteer as US envoys to Iraq.
KABUL - US and Afghan troops killed three terrorists militants and arrested 15 after they came under attack in south-central Afghanistan on Thursday, the US military said. Two Afghan National Army soldiers were treated for minor wounds after the clash in the Taleban stronghold of Uruzgan, which was the scene of heavy fighting earlier this week.
âAfghan and US forces killed three and captured 15 while conducting operations west of Tarin Kowt in Uruzgan province today,â the US military said in a statement. âCoalition attack aircraft responded to the scene and provided close air support.â
Afghan authorities earlier this week said up to 50 terrorists militants were killed in a battle in Uruzgan province when US and Afghan forces destroyed a major Taleban base. Thursdayâs incident âoccurred in the same area where we are presently building a road for the Afghan people, a road that will become an artery for commerce,â said US military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Jerry OâHara. âThis enemy is only concerned about killing and has no concern for the well-being of the Afghan people.â
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Allahu Akbar!
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An explosion on a train in northern India has killed seven people and injured 38 others. The blast took place on a moving train near the town of Jaunpur in the state of Uttar Pradesh. The cause of the explosion was not immediately known. "So far, seven people have died and 38 have been injured in the explosion," Uttar Pradesh police chief Yashpal Singh said.
He said the injured, some of them in serious condition, were admitted to nearby hospitals. "We still can't say if it was a bomb that exploded in the toilet of an unreserved coach," Singh said. "It could be that somebody was carrying an explosive." Railways Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav earlier told reporters in the eastern city of Patna it was unclear whether the explosion was caused by a bomb or by the gas cylinder of a cooking stove, sometimes carried by villagers on trains in India. "There was a blast on an unreserved coach, but it wasn't a very big explosion," Rajendra Singh, a senior railways official, said in Lucknow.
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"We still can't say if it was a bomb that exploded in the toilet of an unreserved coach," Singh said. "It could be that somebody was carrying an explosive."
Anyone else having problems making sense of this quote?
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Indian bomb disposal experts have found traces of a high explosive in a passenger train which was rocked by a blast on Thursday, officials say. At least 10 people were killed and more than 50 others injured in the explosion on the Shramjivi Express in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Traces of the high explosive RDX have been found in the compartment where the blast occurred. A senior Jaunpur police official Devraj Nagar told Reuters they were investigating whether the blast was the work of militants. "The nature of the blasts suggests the use of RDX explosive. A terrorist hand cannot be ruled out," he said.
A BBC correspondent in India says police are also investigating the possibility of any connection with an attack on the disputed religious site in the northern town of Ayodhya earlier this month. The police say similar explosives were used in the Ayodhya attack, which was blamed on Muslim militants.
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We still can't say if it was a bomb that exploded in the toilet of an unreserved coach," Singh said. "It could be that somebody was carrying an explosive.
hidden bomb left in toilet vs. suicide belt???
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"Honey, you're not gonna wear that explosive belt to Uncle Mahendra's party are you?"
"I was gonna..."
"It just doesn't match your shoes! Wear this one!"
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What group? India has so many to choose from. I am hoping that the Jihadi get India in a fully pissed off mode. That will put more pressure on Pakistan to clean up it's act of harboring and fostering terrorist jihadi who have a goal of claiming all of India for the "Caliphate" just like the "good old days." The alternative for Pakistan is total annihilation.
Fighters have blown up an oil train in Baghdad and US warplanes have bombarded an Iraqi village near the Syrian border. Thursday's hit on the train carrying petroleum products was the first such attack in Iraq, railway spokesman Jawad al-Kharsan said. The explosion ignited a massive blaze extending down the railway line in southern Baghdad and killed an Iraqi soldier. Four others, including a civilian, were injured in the blast. The five-man train crew, however, escaped unhurt, railway officials said.
The seven-tanker convoy was attacked less than a kilometre away from the Dura oil refinery. An Interior Ministry official said the train struck a bomb on the line, but railway workers said the explosion could also have been caused by a rocket-propelled grenade.
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A Palestinian armed group has seized a Palestinian military intelligence officer in the central Gaza Strip, Aljazeera has learned. Some Palestinian mediators were making contacts to free the officer, Aljazeera's correspondent added. Colonel Jihad Abed was abducted on the street by a group who bundled him into a car in the Bureij refugee camp, witnesses and officials said on Thursday. "We are dealing with a kidnap incident but we do not know the reasons behind the abduction," a Palestinian Interior Ministry spokesman said. "We have launched an investigation and are conducting a search operation."
Witnesses said the abductors were from the Jenin Martyrs' Brigades, whose members are mainly former members of the mainstream Fatah movement. The same organisation was behind the abduction of then Palestinian police chief Ghazi Jabali in July last year in Gaza.
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the popcorn just got extra delicious
"Palestinians kidnap 2 UN contractors in Gaza Strip
By Arnon Regular, Haaretz Correspondent and The Associated Press
Palestinian gunmen abducted two United Nations contractors in the Gaza Strip on Friday, including an Australian woman, in an attempt to put pressure on the Palestinian Authority to release a relative seized by a rival family.
The two workers were not believed to be in any immediate danger, and Palestinian security officials said they were trying to secure their release.
United Nations Development Program officials identified the employees as Steve Sabila, a Palestinian photographer, and Zoe Constantine, a freelance writer from Australia. Both were working as consultants for the agency when they were seized Friday afternoon.
UNDP officials declined further comment, saying the situation was too sensitive.
A group identified with the family of Jihad Abed, a Palestinian intelligence officer abducted Thursday in the Gaza Strip, told Haaretz they are resposible for the abductions.
The abductors threatend to harm the two should the PA fail to act within three hours to secure Abed's release.
Gen. Ala Hosni, the Palestinian police commander in Gaza, pledged to free the captives.
"We are not going to allow this incident to continue, and the kidnappers should release the hostages immediately," he said. "Our troops moved to the place where we believe the hostages are held, and they are working to guarantee their safety."
Abed was snatched from his car in Gaza City Thursday by members of the Jenin Martyrs Brigades and taken to an undisclosed location in a Palestinian refugee camp.
The motive for kidnapping Abed was not immediately known, as the Jenin Martyrs Brigade refused to comment.
One of Abed's family members, Abu Haled, said that the family insists that the PA is not doing enough to bring back their relative. He also said that the two international representatives are in danger of being harmed if the PA does not arrest Mahmoud Nashbat, a gunman from the Jenin Martyrs Brigades.
Abu Haled also said that the Nashbat is being aided by PA members that benefit from Abed's abduction.
The group responsible for the latest abductions says that they spoke with PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Interior Minister Nasser Yousef following their relative's seizure but the PA has done nothing thus far.
They refuse to identify the kidnappers or to allow them to be interviewed.
The Jenin Martyrs Brigades last year briefly kidnapped
then-Gaza police chief Ghazi al-Jabali, accusing him of graft. He was freed unharmed.
SHARM EL SHEIKH â Egyptian police have taken DNA samples from four Sinai families as they search for the bombers who killed at least 64 people in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh, security sources said yesterday.
"You have to do a brain what to get my DNA?"
"Shut up and stop squirming!"
Police are trying to match the DNA from the families with the DNA from remains found at the bomb site, on the assumption that some of the bombers were killed.
"Here, Sam! See if it matches this lip!"
The families all live in or around the north Sinai town of El Arish, reflecting the investigationâs focus on a possible link between the Sharm El Sheikh bombings and similar attacks on resorts frequented by Israelis last October. The group that bombed the Taba Hilton and two other resorts in October was based in El Arish on the Mediterranean coast â a small town with a mixed population of settled Bedouin, immigrants from the Nile Valley and Palestinian refugees.
"Legume, I think the two bombings might be related!"
"Inspector! How do you do it?"
The security sources named the four men whose families gave DNA samples as Moussa Badran, Ihab Mohamed Rabia, Osama Al Nakhlawi and Khaled Musaid, all of Bedouin origin. Police already have DNA from another prime suspect â Mohamed Fulayfel, the brother of one of two bombers who died by mistake at the Taba Hilton. Fulayfel is on trial in absentia for his role in the bombings last October.
"Mohamed Felafel"? That's gotta be an assumed name...
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Some days I don't understand why they just don't keep Claude Raines on retainer.
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The Palestinian Authority does not have security forces capable of imposing order in the Gaza Strip, a report said.
"For that matter, we're not even sure what it is..."
The Washington-based Strategic Assessments Initiative said PA police and security forces remain in disarray and lack weapons, ammunition and basic equipment.
I have a hard time with that one. Everybody else seems to have weapons and equipment. Any time somebody gets bumped off, there's always a nice parade with lots of guys waving their manhood around, maybe even hauling a few rockets through the streets while being cheered by adoring crowds. You we're supposed to believe the coppers are unarmed? Or running around with antique blunderbusses? As the emiment Cuban philosopher R. Ricardo once said, "I dun thin' so."
The independent group, in a report financed by Canada and the Netherlands, said Palestinian insurgency groups have been better armed than PA forces.
"Their guns are much shinier than ours!"
"They lacked the capacity and capability to fulfil core functions," the 83-page report, entitled "Palestinian Security Assessment," said.
I don't think Canada and the Netherlands got their money's worth out of that report...
The report, conducted in cooperation with U.S. security envoy Gen. William Ward, said the 13 Palestinian security agencies have been riddled by inefficiency and corruption. Despite a steady growth in manpower, police and security forces were also said to have been undermined by rivalry between commanders. In all, PA security forces number 58,000.
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If you have an AK47 ot AK74 you have all the "firepower you need to do law enforcement in that environment. All they lack is the will and spine. That's mostly having to do with the fact the Cops are the bad guys! Hell they also lack the balls to attack anyone but women, children, the unarmed and weak.
Canada and the Netherlands will believe the report and "send money." Fools.
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Arm the coppers with bomb vests. There are certainly enough of them floating around. That'll take care of two problems. Three, if you count the death of the pali cop, too.
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Given the number of PA "police" who are also members of terr organizations, how did they distinguish between the police force's weapons and the terrs weapons?
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SPoD: I'm almost positive that we shipped a shitload of M16s to the PA back during Oslo days. If the coppers are armed, they're packing Armalite. Wonder what happened to all of those shooting irons? I'm guessing in the hands of AAMB yahoos, if there are any left who haven't gone over to Hamas.
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All four failed London bomb suspects are reported to be in custody following armed raids in the UK capital and Rome. Two London arrests are thought to be the men wanted for the 21 July Oval Tube and No 26 bus attacks. A third bomb suspect was already being held. The fourth suspect, wanted for the attempted Shepherd's Bush Tube attack, has been arrested in Rome and named as Somali-born UK citizen 
Armed police arrested two women at Liverpool Street station and evacuated the area, officers said. 
Armed police investigating the 21 July attempted bombings have surrounded two properties in a block of flats in west London in a major operation. Eye witnesses say they heard three shots and a large explosion as officers wearing gas marks entered the property. The area, around Basing Street, near Notting Hill, has been cordoned off, and the area has been evacuated. One eye witness says a man dressed in a white forsenic suit has been taken away in an unmarked police car. 
British police interrogated their first captured London bombing suspect and arrested nine more men in pre-dawn raids on Thursday, as chilling details emerged of a large-scale terrorist battle plan. Somali-born Yasin Hassan Omar was zapped with a stun gun as police raided his hideout on Wednesday in the central England city of Birmingham, the first major breakthrough in the massive investigation into the July 21 bomb attacks here. The 24-year-old man is suspected of an attempted suicide attack on a London Underground train near Central London's Warren Street train station, one of four failed bombings on the city's transport system that day. 
The French interior minister, 
ourteen Muslim imams have been deported from the southern German state of Bavaria since November last year. The latest imam to be sent out of the country is an Egyptian who was sent home by the Bavarian authorities July 26. Bavarian Interior Minister Guenther Beckstein claimed the imam was deported after he was proved to be inciting hatred and violence in his religious sermons in the Islamic center in the city of Nuremberg.
Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf said all the estimated 1,400 foreign nationals studying in the country's madrassas would have to leave the Islamic seminaries. "All foreigners are to be removed" from Pakistan's more than 10,000 madrassas, Musharraf told reporters, and no new visas would be issued to non-Pakistanis wishing to study in the seminaries and Islamic prayer schools. The ban would also apply to holders of dual nationality. "An 
One man has been killed and four people arrested in a clash between soldiers and gunmen near a religious school in Pakistan's Afghan border region. Thursday night's incident took place in Dargai Mandi, just north of the main town in North Waziristan, 
A suicide bomber blew himself up among a group of Iraqi army recruits in northern Iraq on Friday, killing 25 people and wounding 35, police said. They said the attack occurred outside a municipal building in Rabia, a town 80 km (50 miles) northwest of Mosul, close to the Syrian border. No other details were immediately available.
US and Afghan troops killed six suspected militants in the latest spate of growing violence by Taliban insurgents ahead of parliamentary polls, the U.S. military said on Friday. There were no casualties among Afghan or U.S. soldiers during the clashes in the Shinkai district of restive Zabul province near the border with Pakistan, a statement said. Ten suspected militant fighters were captured during the incident, it said, without releasing their identities. The militants were killed after "attacking Afghan and U.S. forces in the region where they were conducting security and stability operations," it added.
US troops said they had captured a cell leader of the al-Qaeda in Iraq terror organisation. 
.... US and stooge forces had begun a massive and unprecedented deployment in Mosul .... 
Saddam Hussein is awaiting trial for war crimes. But six of his nephews continue the struggle to restore Baathist rule over Iraq. 
KABUL - US and Afghan troops killed three 
An explosion on a train in northern India has killed seven people and injured 38 others. The blast took place on a moving train near the town of Jaunpur in the state of Uttar Pradesh. The cause of the explosion was not immediately known. "So far, seven people have died and 38 have been injured in the explosion," Uttar Pradesh police chief Yashpal Singh said. 
A Palestinian armed group has seized a Palestinian military intelligence officer in the central Gaza Strip, Aljazeera has learned. Some Palestinian mediators were making contacts to free the officer, Aljazeera's correspondent added. Colonel Jihad Abed was abducted on the street by a group who bundled him into a car in the Bureij refugee camp, witnesses and officials said on Thursday. "We are dealing with a kidnap incident but we do not know the reasons behind the abduction," a Palestinian Interior Ministry spokesman said. "We have launched an investigation and are conducting a search operation." 
SHARM EL SHEIKH â Egyptian police have taken DNA samples from four Sinai families as they search for the bombers who killed at least 64 people in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh, security sources said yesterday.
The Palestinian Authority does not have security forces capable of imposing order in the Gaza Strip, a report said.
