One of two terrorists killed in clashes with Saudi police last week was a national karate champion who trained al-Qaida members. A security source quoted Monday in the Saudi daily newspaper al-Watan said Mohammed Abdullah Awida, who was killed in Medina in western Saudi Arabia along with Saleh al-Oufi, al-Qaida's main operative in the kingdom, had turned his apartment into a training center for al-Qaida affiliates. Abu Baker Jabrati, a former karate colleague of Awida's, said the latter was kind and sweet when he met him at the time they were both training for the Saudi national championship back in 1992. But Awida changed personality and mentality later on and became a Muslim extremist in 1999, using his art in support of extremism, Jabrati said.
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DepotGuy: That Soddy Cat was fast as lightening.
And now, for a walk down memory lane:
Everybody was kung-fu fighting
Those cats were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightning
But they fought with expert timing
They were funky China men from funky Chinatown
They were chopping them up and they were chopping them down
It's an ancient Chineese art and everybody knew their part
From a feint into a slip, and kicking from the hip
Everybody was kung-fu fighting
Those cats were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightning
But they fought with expert timing
There was funky Billy Chin and little Sammy Chung
He said here comes the big boss, lets get it on
We took a bow and made a stand, started swinging with the hand
The sudden motion made me skip now we're into a brand knew trip
Everybody was kung-fu fighting
Those cats were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightning
But they did it with expert timing
(repeat)..make sure you have expert timing
Kung-fu fighting, had to be fast as lightning
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My daughter got one of those "Kung fu Hamster" toys for Christmas a couple of years ago. Nearly drove me insane before I found the right wire to cut...
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A blast claimed two lives in the south Russian republic of Ingushetia bordering the restive province of Chechnya on Monday, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported. The explosion occurred near the central hospital in Nazran, the republican Interior Ministry reported. Two people were killed and several others suffered injuries, the report said. Investigators are examining the scene. Preliminary reports said the bomb, which hit a minibus, had been planted under a gas main. Local emergency officials, however, told RIA that the blast killed one and injured three other people.
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Officials say Chechnya's law-enforcement bodies have killed the self-designated "emir" of the Urus-Martan Raion, Ruslan Vakhayev. The Interior Ministry's press center in the North Caucasus said Vakhayev was responsible for an attack on the village of Roshni-Chu earlier this month, killing the commander of Urus-Martan, Colonel Aleksandr Kayak.
Meanwhile, in southern Chechnya, a local official, Ramzan Tasukhanov, said a gun battle has wounded five paramilitary soldiers and a local resident. Pro-Moscow security forces were searching for gunmen in the Shali area when the firing erupted outside a house yesterday evening.
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SEOUL (Yonhap)-A North Korean navy boat briefly crossed into South Korean waters in the West Sea to seize a Chinese boat before returning to the North, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said on Sunday. It is unusual for North Korean naval vessels to cross into South Korean waters to nab foreign fishing boats. "A patrol boat from North Korea sailed into Korean waters about one mile off from the Northern Limit Line (NLL) in the seas off Paengnyong Island at 1:36 p.m. on Sunday,ââ the JCS said. The NLL marks the de facto maritime border between the two Koreas on the West Sea.
The North Korean Navy patrol ship communicated to South Korean vessels in the area over a shared radio frequency of their intentions of grabbing the Chinese fishing boat before crossing the border, the JCS said. Warnings issued by the South Korean Navy went unheeded and the North Korean vessel returned to its own waters 25 minutes after first committing the violation, it said. "There is the possibility they crossed the border unintentionally in their efforts to crack down on the illegal fishing boats,ââ a JCS official said. Over 50 Chinese boats were reportedly fishing in the area at the time the North Korean patrol ship made the violation. Previously, North Korean patrol ships made maritime intrusions on May 13 and June 17.
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Yeah, with the Norks warning the Sorks that they were intentions before hand, they made a serious incident alot less likely. As much as I hate to admit it, apparently someone in the Nork Navy has brain cells.
I'm sure common sense carries the death penalty in Norkville.
FORMER Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib has been stabbed near his Sydney home. Mr Habib was walking home with his wife Maha at Guildford in the early hours of yesterday morning when he was bashed on the head from behind and stabbed in the stomach, Channel 7 reported tonight. Mr Habib, who was not seriously injured, believed he had been targeted. Lifting his top to show a 6cm cut over his stomach, Mr Habib said he thought a man had come at him from the front with a knife.
"An' then this guy, he comes at me with a knife!"
"He tried to stab me so many times and he keep going ... he got me in my left side," he told Seven.
"Wanna see my bloody shirt?"
Mrs Habib believed her husband had been attacked by three men dressed in black with hoods covering their heads.
Ahah! Mysterious hooded attackers, falling upon their prey in a dark alley... Legume! My saxophone!
"They said something like `Ah, that should keep you quiet'," she said. "What's meant by that?"
"Muggsy, Mamdouh knows too much! Get some o' da boyz to conk him on da nut in a dark alley an' bloody his shirt!"
"Uhhhh... Hokay, boss. But why not just shoot him?"
"That's be too easy!"
Mr Habib told Seven the men could have murdered him but he believed they wanted only to menace him.
"They hit me in my head from the back. If you want to kill me you can hit me from the back with knife, hit me in my kidney with knife and that's it, finish," he said.
"Yeah! These guys wuz amateurs! I coulda cut myself worse... ummm... than that..."
Without naming Mr Habib, police released a statement today saying they were seeking public help following the stabbing. Police said a 50-year-old man and his wife were walking in a park beside Guildford Road when they were confronted by two or three men wearing hats and hooded jackets. "The man was allegedly stabbed and hit on the back of the head by the men," the statement said. "The alleged attackers were last seen by the man and his wife running west into Eve Street. "The victim's wife contacted police who conducted a lengthy search for the alleged offenders. "A police dog was also utilised without success."
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Amnesty International is en route to interview him.
Two Bulgarian boys, aged 11 and 12, are behind an Internet "Al-Qaeda" statement, which threatened to strike the capital Sofia and wipe it out, police said. The statement was posted August 18 on the site of Sofia municipality. "Sofia will be blown into pieces by bombs and shootings on Spetember 11," read the statement, which claimed to have been signed by Al-Qaeda terror group and Osama bin Laden. Police found out the statement was posted from an internet club in the small town of Dupnitsa, near Sofia. Police interrogated the boys in the presence of their parents. The mischievous boys said they did it for fun.
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"Police interrogated the boys in the presence of their parents."
The stroy left this part out. Righteous ass beatings ensued as soon as the police seemed out of ear shot.
A new magazine titled Kaide -- Turkish for al Qaeda -- praises terror mastermind Osama bin Laden, glamorizes the July 7 bombings in London and vividly illustrates that extremism lurks in this secular nation where Islam is tightly regulated. Edited in Turkey's most cosmopolitan city, Istanbul, and available on newsstands everywhere, the magazine veers between the laughable and the horrible. Headlines such as "The Taliban have killed 600 GIs" jostle for space with proud revelations of yet another jihadist decapitation in Iraq. The main editorial sets "domination" as its goal and "Christian-Jewish-Western imperialism" as its main object of hate.
With investigations continuing into a Turkish group that took responsibility for four suicide bombings in Istanbul in November 2003 that killed 62 persons, the magazine underscores the continuing appeal of militant Islam in a nation that seeks to join the European Union. "Our souls are tied with al Qaeda," Kaide editor Ali Osman Zor told the secular weekly Tempo at his magazine's office in Kasimpasa, a poor Istanbul district in which Turkey's prime minister grew up. "We are honored to have this tie."
Asked to explain the magazine's cover headline -- "Al-Qaeda is liberating the world" -- he described recent bomb attacks on London and the Egyptian resort of Sharm el Sheik as "payback" for the "100,000 Iraqi civilians ... killed in the name of what [President] Bush calls 'liberating Iraq'... I do not consider those killed in the London attacks as innocent because [they] paid taxes to the English government ... which is responsible for the killing of thousands of Muslims."
Barely two years ago, Mr. Zor and his editorial colleagues seemed likely to spend most of the rest of their lives in jail. A former spokesman for the Great East Islamic Raiders Front or IBDA-C -- an extremist Salafist group set up in the late 1970s -- Mr. Zor was imprisoned in 1999 for "attempting to overthrow Turkey's secular state by force." The group's leader, Salih Izzet Erdis, is still in solitary confinement, but many of his followers were pardoned last year. It is a decision the government may have regretted when IBDA-C took responsibility later last year for the four Istanbul bombings -- a claim met with skepticism within the Turkish intelligence community.
Like another newsletter the group publishes, Aylik, the main aim of Kaide appears to be to broaden support, but it is difficult to tell whether it will succeed. Support for Islamic extremism in Turkey always has been limited and appears to be diminishing. Seven percent of Turkish respondents to a Pew poll released last month expressed "some confidence" that bin Laden would "do the right thing regarding world affairs."
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Oh I'm sure there's a place in the big happy EU family tent for these folks too.
A suspect has been killed and two policemen injured in clashes in northeastern Turkey as police tried to track down three suspects following a tip-off. The semi-official Anatolia news agency said on Monday that police surrounded a supermarket after a tip-off that three suspects were inside, touching off a clash in which one policeman was injured. The three managed to flee but were cornered several hours later when a new clash killed one suspect and left a second policeman injured. A second suspect was captured and the third escaped, the agency said. The report identified the victim only as a "terrorist", the term officials use to refer to rebels from the main Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) or leftist extremists, although Kurdish rebels are not generally active in the northeast of the country.
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Dozens of suspected gangsters, many of them from China, arrived for a wedding in New Jersey only to discover that the bride and groom were FBI agents and that they were under arrest. Gold-embossed invitations had promised guests free hotel rooms and transport to a reception on a yacht called Royal Charm in Atlantic City harbour.
Complimentary limousines were waiting but only to take the guests, in all their wedding finery, to holding cells. The operation led by the FBI and the Canadian Mounties netted around 100 people across the United States, 57 in New Jersey.
Other arrests were made in Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Las Vegas, New York, Newark, Philadelphia and San Diego. Those held have been charged with smuggling vast quantities of arms, counterfeit Viagra, ecstasy and forged dollar bills into America.
The undercover FBI agents, who posed as business partners keen on distributing smuggled goods, spent years cultivating Asian-based mobsters. The "couple" decided that a lavish wedding was the best way to lure the smugglers into the US.
Christopher Christie, a federal lawyer, said: "Invitations were sent out, a date was given and RSVPs were received from different points around the world." "One guest even brought a pair of gold presidential Rolex watches," said Leslie Wiser, an FBI agent.
Another guest asked if the wedding was still on even after he had handcuffs put on him.
Mr Wiser said: "Told there was no wedding, he expressed concern for the happy couple."
Surprised court officials in the town of Camden, New Jersey, said that, after their arrest on Sunday, several of the guests were brought before judges still dressed for the wedding and asking each other: "What happened?"
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Someone should invite Osama and Zarq to a wedding in Detroit.
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""One guest even brought a pair of gold presidential Rolex watches," said Leslie Wiser, an FBI agent."
Hillary: "If you know what's good for you, you'll save one of watches for me. Don't forget I'll Pres. soon and trust me I know how to put up walls between you and your career."
Not strictly WoT, but he's a terrorist all the same.
ATLANTA (Georgia) â Atlanta Olympics bomber Eric Rudolph was sentenced to life in prison yesterday for the 1996 attack that killed one woman and injured more than 100 people.
Rudolph was also sentenced for the 1997 bombings of an abortion clinic and a gay nightclub in the Georgia city, in which a total of 11 people were wounded. He received two life sentences last month for killing a police officer and seriously wounding a nurse when he bombed an abortion clinic in Alabama in 1998. Rudolph pleaded guilty to the crimes in April. As part of a plea agreement, he does not face execution.
Pity. I'd like to see if the ACLU would march to save him. I'd have no problem seeing this guy get the needle.
He bombed an event at the summer Olympics in Atlanta on July 27, 1996, killing one woman and wounding 111 people. He was unrepentant at the sentencing in July, declaring that he had bombed the Alabama clinic because he opposes abortion, which is legal but controversial in the United States.
Yesterday, he appeared more âhumble,â according to Fallon Stubbs, 23, whose mother, Alice Hawthorne, was killed in the attack. âItâs not enough,â she added. But John Hawthorne, who would have celebrated his 18th wedding anniversary with Alice Hawthorne Monday, felt differently.
âI sincerely hoped to achieve my objective without harming civilians,â Rudolph said yesterday of the abortion clinic bombing. He also apologised for the Olympics bombing. âI realize it will be no consolation, but I would do anything to take that night back,â he said.
âI just feel justice wasnât done,â said Mary Agnes Lee, a groundskeeper at Olympic Park whose life was saved by a decision not to pick up the backpack laden with explosives. She has been unable to work since due to anxiety, she said. âI wished for the death penalty for him, I wish he was dead,â she said.
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From Christianity Today:
"They have been so nice, I would hate to break it to them that I really prefer Nietzsche to the Bible."
Convicted murderer Eric Rudolph, sometimes called a "Christian terrorist" for his attacks on two abortion clinics, a gay nightclub, and the 1996 Summer Olympics, on "good people ⦠mostly born-again Christians looking to save my soul."
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A lethal mix of militant groups is emerging in the southern Philippines, a senior police intelligence official said, warning of attacks as foreign and local jihadists share resources, talents and capabilities.
The intelligence official, who declined to be identified, said foreign Islamic militants, mostly Indonesians, were building alliances with several homegrown Muslim rebels to survive government offensives on the southern island of Mindanao.
Since July, Philippine troops backed by U.S. aerial surveillance vehicles have been combing coastal and mountain villages in Maguindanao province for about 30 rebels from the al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group, who are thought to be operating with a handful of Indonesian militants.
"These militants are now crossing organisational lines to exchange and share manpower, expertise and resources," the intelligence official told Reuters late on Sunday.
"If governments in the region are cooperating to eliminate these threats, we are now seeing that terrorists are also sharing their 'best practices' to fight back".
A senior U.S. diplomat in Manila drew an angry reaction from government leaders earlier this year when he said Mindanao risked turning into "an Afghanistan situation".
The Philippine official said there were intelligence reports that Rajah Solaiman Revolutionary Movement, a group of radical Muslim converts, had merged with the Abu Sayyaf group led by Khaddafy Janjalani.
This, he said, had increased the threat of attacks in Manila because most of the converts were based around the capital.
Janjalani, long the subject of manhunt operations on Mindanao, is also thought to have developed close links with Indonesian militants belonging to different jihadist groups, including Jemaah Islamiah (JI).
A classified security report shown to Reuters said JI instructors had taught about 60 of Janjalani's followers how to handle crude bombs fashioned out of unexploded mortar rounds.
Philippine officials said foreign militants were forced to seek out other Muslim groups in Mindanao because the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the country's largest Muslim rebel group, which is in talks with the government, started pushing them to leave.
But they said rogue MILF elements continued to protect the foreign militants, allowing them to hide in a marshy area in Maguindanao province.
"We always believed the leadership of MILF is determined to cut its ties with these militants," said Rodolfo Garcia, a member of the government's peace panel negotiating with the MILF.
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the can of worms just got a little wormier
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The military has intensified its operations to determine and locate the presence of Jemaah Islamiya (JI) terrorists and continue pursuit operations against the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) in Mindanao.
Brigadier General Mohammad Ben Dolorfino, Philippine Marines 2nd Brigade commanding officer told Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro yesterday the Philippine Army's 6th Infantry Division, is continuing its operations in Maguindanao against the group of Abu Sayyaf headed by Khadaffy Janjalani, Isnilon Hapilon and Jainal Sali.
General Dolorfino is chairman of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP)-Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace panel Joint Monitoring Action Center (JMAC).
The military operations in Guindolongan and Talayan, South Upi, which started since July 1, this year resulted in the killing of Omar Patik and a certain Uztadz Idris both suspected ASG members, Dolorfino said.
Meanwhile the military has a list of 31 suspected JI terrorist reportedly in Mindanao to conduct bombings in major cities, Dolorfino said.
The Philippine Army's 4th Infantry Division spokesman Alexis Bravo, confirmed National Security Adviser Secretary Norberto Gonzales' statement that "there is an effort (by the JI) to acquire materials and position its personnel in Mindanao."
"The JI members, some suspected to be in Mindanao, dressed like ordinary Filipino muslims, are roaming and gathering information at the same time acquiring explosives" Bravo revealed.
Meanwhile, the GRP-MILF panels and the AdHoc Joint Action Group (AHJAG), through the Joint Monitoring Assistance Center (JMAC) and the Bantay Ceasefire are coordinating with the military to facilitate operations in order to prevent further misencounters between government troops and 400 members of the MILF's Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces in Maguindanao, particularly in MILF Camp Bader.
Markers made of bamboo poles with flags were established at the perimeter of MILF Camp Bader to prevent misencounters between the MILF and the military.
The groups are also assisting 1,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Guindolongan and Talayan who are affected by the on-going military operations.
MILF spokesman Mohaqer Iqbal said the IDPs can return to their places of origin as soon as the military operation is terminated to stop the practice of being dependent on "dole-outs".
In Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental, Iligan City and Lanao del Norte, the military and police have heightened alert in its checkpoint operations amid threats of bombings and the presence of terrorist members.
Cagayan de Oro City Mayor Vicente Emano tightened security measures at City Hall as intelligence reports show that the said building is one of the targets of the planned bombings.
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PENANG, Aug 22 (Bernama) -- A salesman from Medan, Indonesia was brought to two Magistrates Courts here for sending false short messaging service (SMS) about a bomb, causing fear among the public, two weeks ago.
At Magistrate Court 1, Kurniawan, 23, pleaded guilty to a charge of spreading a message through the SMS, causing public fear.
The SMS said: "Hello, I'm the one of al qaeda member. I want to tell u, about Libenny. He is on the way to go to Penang International Airport. He want to put the bomb at there and want to hijack the lion airlines. Dun thanks for me, bcos I don want see any accident or incident in Malaysia. I love Malaysia."
He was alleged to have committed the offence at the Penang Police Contingent Headquarters Operations Room at about 10.09am on Aug 10. Magistrate Priscila H.N. Rajan fixed Oct 5 for facts and sentence.
In Magistrate Court 2, Kurniawan also pleaded guilty to making a statement which caused public betrayal through the SMS that a bomb had been placed at the Komtar, Burma House and Gurney Drive. He was alleged to have committed the offence at the same place at about 8.06pm on Aug 9.
Magistrate Ainul Shahrin Mohamad fixed Oct 5 for facts and sentence and ordered that Kurniawan's passport be held until further proceedings.
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The guy will be punished harshly.
It's a bad fault, for a muslim, to send FALSE bomb messages.
He must have been already tortured: WHY THERE WAS NO BOMB THERE ? ARE YOU A FRIEND OF THE INFIDELS ? WHY HAVEN'T YOU BOMBED ANY DISCO OR PIZZERIA THIS MONTH ?
A bomb has exploded in a Christian area north of Beirut on Monday, wounding at least four people. The device, placed in a plastic bag just outside a commercial centre in the Zalka area, blew out the walls of the building, strewing the area with rubble, twisted metal and glass. "We were sitting in this cafe when suddenly the glass shattered all over us," said Georges Yazbeck, a witness. "We didn't know what had happened."
A series of bombings has hit Lebanon since the February assassination of former prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri, which some Lebanese blamed on Syria. Damascus denies any role. It was not clear who was targeted by the latest explosion.
Aid workers picked through the rubble of the commercial centre which includes a hotel, cafes and shops. They treated at least four people on site, the Red Cross said. The device weighed no more than five kg (11 pounds), the security source said, but it caused panic among residents. "The sound was terrifying, very strong, I was astonished when I went down and learned that no was killed, thank God" Ani Nahabidia a resident in Zalqa told Aljazeera.net. "I was sitting on the balcony with my children when we saw a flash and heard a loud noise," said Fadi Yacoub. "The kids fell about screaming. We were all covered with dust and broken glass."
Fox News says the Lebs have two people in custody. It'll be interesting to see who they are. More as info becomes available...
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"Following nerve wrecking investigations of five days by this correspondent, a senior source at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad has finally confirmed that one of their junior research fellows was the âjullietâ behind the clumsy affair causing the British Military Attache to Islamabad lose his job and the grace of the prestigious service of Royal British Army.
Brigadier Andrew was removed from Islamabad in Jan this year as a result of internal investigations which concluded that the Brig had lost the confidence of the High Commission. The British Defence Ministry had announced that, âthe decision was taken after Brigadier Andrew Durcan formed an âinappropriate relationshipâ with a suspected female Pakistani spyâ. Durcan, 56, was living in Pakistan as single and according to reports was tricked into a close friendship by the arractive woman described as defence academic who is also believed to be undercover agent.
Pakistanâs capital has been in the grip of wild speculations about the identity of the âdefence academicâ and fingers were pointed towards some of respected and senior defence academics. "
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Damage control from the Madam in charge of ISSI
She accused the British government of âdefamingâ the ISS because of articles she wrote criticising London for the recent laws it announced to curb extremism. âIn the story the correspondent named the ISS and maligned an innocent young researcher here, with no grounding in reality,â Dr Mazari said.
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A section of the press had already vaguely reported about identity of the lady involved in the alleged platonic relationship with the British Brigadier. In fact, Dr Mazari should be thankful to the reporter, who, by pinpointing a particular lady, who may not necessarily be the person concerned, has put an end to wild guesses being made in the city about some of the known media-related female academics, including Dr Mazari herself, for being the lady in question.
While the DG ISS has every right to condemn or criticize the report, she has no right to cast aspersion on the integrity of a newspaper, whose commitment to Pakistanâs national interest has remained the only constant during its entire history of publication. Let us humbly state that, in our career as a publisher and editor, we have always upheld the national interest of Pakistan in highest esteem. We dare to claim that, barring any inadvertent lapse, we know better than Dr Mazari as to what the national interest of Pakistan means, and we do not need any sermon from Dr Sahiba in this regard.
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thanks John for background.
What's your take...Was âjullietâ[Maria Kiani] was an ISSI agent from the getgo, missioned to honey up Brigadier Andrew, or did the ISSI discover that the Brigadier had fallen into the pot with a Paki female academic and then recruit her to work for the Institute.
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Four days after rockets were fired from Aqaba at US ships, a Jordanian base and Eilat, Tuesday, Aug. 23, Jordan said its security forces had bagged the attackâs ringleader, Muhammed al Sihili, a Syrian national who lives with his family in Amman, and uncovered the lead to al Qaedaâs Iraq commander Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Sihiliâs two sons are also among those in custody and an Iraqi called Abu Hamid, who liaised between the Jordanian network and Iraq. A Zarqawi Internet communique issued Tuesday claims responsiblity for the attacks and stresses Eilat was targeted as well as US warships in Aqaba.
DEBKAfileâs sources reveal the short cut the Jordanian pursuit and identification of the terrorists obtained from the US Navyâs hidden video-cameras.
It now transpires that the terrorists first tried to stage their attack three days earlier, last Tuesday, August 16, the day the USS Ashland and USS Kearsarge put into Aqaba port. They drove up to the quayâs entrance in two cars with their rocket launchers primed to fire at the vessels at point blank range and sink them with the hundreds of Marines and sailors aboard. All Qaeda meant this to be a suicide operation. However the US Navy, having drawn its lesson from the al Qaeda speedboat attack that crippled the USS Cole in Aden five years ago, now keeps each warship protected by a well-guarded âsterileâ ring. Security cameras record every movement near the ships on shore and in the water. The terrorists disguised as âport personnelâ were turned away at the protected zones. They gave up and tried again the following Friday. Then too they missed the US warships, killed one Jordanian soldier and fired a rocket that fell short of Eilat air port. By then, film of their first try was available and handed to Jordanian intelligence, enabling the pursuit to lay hands quickly on the al Qaeda terrorist team.
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When the original report of the attack came out, there was discussion here about the uselessness of the attempt. Do you experts still hold by that opinion, now that DEBKA says the bad guys tried to fire the rockets from the quay?
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Leftists are literally right when they say that security cameras don't generally prevent terrorism. But they can help identify the perpetrators, their appearance, equipment, etc.
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I don't believe there is a rocket small enough to hide in a car that can sink a Navy ship. Slight damage, but probably not very much.
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especially if you shoot like Hek's boyz throw....like a little girl. An amphib is BIG - like a small carrier. Nice shooting, Dead-eye
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Leftists are literally right when they say that security cameras don't generally prevent terrorism. But they can help identify the perpetrators, their appearance, equipment, etc.
But only after the deed was done and casualties incurred. The idea is to prevent the perpetrators from carrying out their deadly task, and what's key here was the establishment of a buffer zone around the ships.
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What the hell were they doing with the video between the time when the guys tried the first time and the time they actually got to launch their rockets?
Was their approach not suspicious enough, just some dudes in a car, if so how do they know they had the missiles ready to launch the first time, and why didn't they do anything until so long after the first attempt?
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Army Lt. Col. Erik Kurilla arrived at Madigan Army Medical Center late Monday for treatment of wounds he suffered Friday in a firefight in Mosul, Iraq.
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We seem to be missing the main point of the article:
How did the bombers get red hands?
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I have seen news pix of Paleos lauching single Katyushas off a metal rail propped up on cinder blocks. Not exactly conducive to accuracy but fine for trying to maybe hit a city.
That Black Rock thing looks like fun. Mmmm, rocketry!
Pakistani terrorists in Ayodhia
The daily Nawa-e-Waqt reported that the Indian police had charged that Pakistani terrorists had attacked the temple at Ayodhia and they were recognised because they spoke Sindhi and Balochi. The conspiracy was prepared in Poonch in Held Kashmir and the training was imparted by Pakistan. Khabrain editorialised that India was once again levelling false charges of terrorism against Pakistan to benefit from the pressure being put on Pakistan after 7/7. Pakistan too had handed over proof of Indian terrorism in Pakistan. Everyone knew that India did terrorism in Pakistan through Afghanistan.
7/7 done by Jews!
Quoted in the daily Pakistan, MMA leaders said in a meeting in Lahore that the 7/7 bombings in London were organised by the Jews just like the bombings of 9/11 in America. JUP leader Mufti Hidayatullah said that Pakistan was being run by the slaves of America and Britain. Jamaatâs Lahore leader Hafiz Salman Butt said that the West had put the label of Islam on terrorism.
Hasba Bill is good!
Talking to Khabrain, Maulana Ajmal Qadiri of his own JUI faction said that the Hasba Bill was necessary because the 1973 Constitution was strangled by Mr Bhutto. He said he did not have contacts with Mullah Umar and thought that he was an emotional (jazbati) man. He said Qazi Hussain Ahmad and Maulana Fazlur Rehman were against each other. MMA was not terrorist but the Jamaat was responsible for violence. He said that the JUI was a natural ally of the PPP. He said instead of China, trade relations should be strengthened with India. He believed that if the NWFP government was removed, the federal government would fall too.
Qadianis not allowed, please!
As reported in the Jang, chief election commissioner Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar announced that all candidates standing for local elections would have to submit affidavits of Khatm-e-Nabuwwat so that no Qadiani could avail the right of standing for elections under otherwise joint electorates. Non-Muslims are allowed but not Qadianis. The affidavit denounces the apostatised sect.
Girls beat boys again!
Reported in Khabrain, matriculation results in the Lahore, Multan and Gujranwala divisions of the Punjab showed that girls had taken the top three positions and that girls had passed in larger numbers while 50 per cent of the boys had failed the exam for 2005. State-owned schools did not perform well. No distinction was won by their students. The English-medium private school students protested that their answer sheets were checked by Urdu-medium teachers.
9/11 was never resolved
According to Khabrain, the head of the journalism department in the University of the Punjab, Dr Mughisuddin, said that new terrorism was being spread in the name of ending terrorism. He said it was never found out as to who was responsible for the 9/11 act of terrorism in the United States.
Qadianis have joined the Jews
Reported in the Nawa-e-Waqt, a Khatm-e-Nabuwwat gathering in Muzaffarabad came to the conclusion that the Qadianis were becoming active in Kotli and Muzaffarabad and were building their places of worship that looked alarmingly like mosques. They accused the prime minister of Azad Kashmir of being Qadiani-Nawaz (favouring Qadianis) and said that the Qadianis had joined the Jews to start a conspiracy to divide Kashmir forever.
7/7 was done by Qadianis and Jews!
Quoted in the daily Pakistan, Jamiat Ulema Pakistan (JUP) leader Qari Zawwar Bahadur said in Lahore that the London bombings were done by the Qadianis and the Jews as a conspiracy against Islam. He said the Qadianis and the Jews had finally come together as enemies of Islam and their plan is to victimise the Muslims of the world. He said the breakaway factions of his JUP would soon be reunited to face the government on local elections. It was reported that after the death of the JUP founder Maulana Shah Ahmad Noorani, the Lahore faction of the Noorani faction led by Shah Faridul Haq and General (Retd) KM Azhar rebelled against the family of Maulana Noorani now headed by son Anas Noorani and formed a new faction.
Village council gets boy sodomised
According to Khabrain, in Dera Ismail Khan (NWFP) a village council (jirga) decided that a large number of men should take 17-year old Habib into the fields and sodomise him. Dozens of men complied and raped the boy, but after the act was completed, the ulema appeared on the scene and ruled that their nikah (contract) with their wives had become null and void. After this all the men of the village who had sodomised the boy arranged for remarriage to the wives they had lost because of sodomy. The men of the village had relied on a five-man jirga which was now in jail.
Blair did 7/7!
Speaking to the Nawa-e-Waqt, a group of great Islamic scholars of Lahore, including Sarfraz Naeemi of Jamia Naimiyya, Maulana Abdur Rehman Makki of Jamaat Dawa, Pir Saifullah, Maulana Nusrat Ali Shahani, Maulana Abdul Malik and others, said that Tony Blairâs popularity was failing, and therefore he arranged the 7/7 London bombings to unite his voters. They said that 9/11 too was a plan to grab the Muslim states; and Musharraf was committing a blunder by supporting Bush.
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but after the act was completed, the ulema appeared on the scene and ruled that their nikah (contract) with their wives had become null and void.
Well, ain't that a bitch.
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If anyone wants to know why we call them Pakiwakis, just read these nuggets. The "Jews did it" stuff is standard, but the "boy gets sodomized" bit is just too bizarre. There's no hope for the place.
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The founder of the Qadianis sect declared himself a mujaddid (a renewer of faith) in 1882 and set about spreading his message. In 1889, he announced he had received divine revelation authorizing him to accept the baya, the allegiance of the faithful. Then in 1891 he declared himself the Mahdi, the promised Messiah (masih) of Islam, and the last avatara of Vishnu. He ruled out jihad against the kuffar who occupied the Islamic lands.
And thus his followers were forever screwed in Pakistan. But not as screwed as that poor kid Habib. What in the hell do you do to get sentenced to death by buga-buga in NWFP? Or am I thinking it through too hard?
Pakistani security forces apprehended 10 suspected terrorists and recovered huge cache of arms and ammunitions in continued hunt for terrorists at various parts of North Waziristan tribal agency during the last 24 hours. The security forces on a tip off by locals busted a deserted compound apparently portraying as a religious school at Dandi Kuch area located some 11 kilometers northwest of Spinwam, but it was actually being used as a terrorist den, said an military press release issued on Monday.
The locals informed that a number of suspected persons visited the compound and used it for launching rocket attacks on military installations and civilian population in the area. Security forces carried out a thorough search of the compound and recovered heavy weapons including grenades, fuzes, machine guns, binoculars bayonets, daggers, bandolier, commando uniform, ladies costumes, wigs and a large quantity of rounds of various caliber. A sports medal with Persian inscription was also recovered from the spot. Surprisingly, the school had been established at an absolutely unpopulated location and is an attempt on the part of terrorists to use the cover of religious place for sabotage activities, said the press release.
In a related development, the forces arrested seven suspected terrorists from Mera Din area of Shawal Valley and three others from various places close to the Pak-Afghan border between 18 to 25 years of age. Their identity could not be immediately established. The arrested persons have been handed over to the intelligence agencies for further interrogations.
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How fast can 3 turbans run down hill in 8 seconds?
Despite repeated offensives US troops still do not control of parts of northwestern Iraq and militants all but govern some towns, dispensing summary justice with public executions, residents say.
âThere are no US forces, no Iraqi army or police,â said an Iraqi reporter who works for Reuters in the region. He visited the town of Haditha some days after a US operation this month and did not want to be named for fear of reprisals.
âThree days ago, three people were executed on Haqlaniya bridge after being accused of spies,â he said, citing residents of Haditha with whom he keeps in contact and referring to a bridge that connects the town with another across a river.
The Euphrates Valley area, a conduit for small numbers of foreign radicals entering Iraq from Syria, is effectively closed to outside observers by threats of violence and local journalists also work in fear of intimidation and worse. However, a reporter for Reuters and other Iraqi correspondents in Anbar province, which covers much of western Iraq, provided accounts similar to a detailed report on conditions in Haditha in Britainâs Guardian newspaper yesterday by a journalist who spent time there.
The US military, which has conducted several offensives against insurgents near Haditha, most recently Operation Quick Strike which ended on Augsut 10, said it was working with Iraqi security forces to try to bring stability to whole of Anbar.
âAs the number of Iraqi army forces continues to grow, operations where we enter a city and assist them in establishing a permanent presence will be the norm versus the exception,â said Captain Jeffrey Pool of the US Marines, mentioning the success of such an operation in the town of Hit.
He did not refer directly to the situation in Haditha or Qaim.
Local people said substantial parts of a 120-km stretch between the towns of Haditha and Qaim on the Euphrates are now run by fighters loyal to Jordanian Al Qaeda figure Abu Musab Al Zarqawi and other groups fighting US forces.
In Haditha, a town of about 90,000, and Qaim, a smaller town close to the Syrian border, forms of Islamic court have been set up and guerrillas mete out punishments such as execution or beating with cables, residents said.
âSome people who are brought here we treat for torture wounds,â said a doctor at Hadithaâs hospital who spoke on condition of anonymity, fearing reprisals.
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This area is dotted with small towns that under normal circumstances would only need one or two policemen to manage. So the bad boyz play nice whenever the government comes to town, then quickly come out to threaten, harass and steal as soon as they leave. If police do arrive, if they are few, the thugs try to assassinate them. So, what must be done is larger groups of police and army have to enter some tiny town, *and* convince the locals that if they give up the bad boyz they won't get punished, *and* leave a larger than needed contingent in town for a long time. This is a time consuming and manpower expensive process.
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"In Haditha, a town of about 90,000, and Qaim, a smaller town close to the Syrian border, forms of Islamic court have been set up and guerrillas mete out punishments such as execution or beating with cables, residents said.
âSome people who are brought here we treat for torture wounds,â said a doctor at Hadithaâs hospital who spoke on condition of anonymity, fearing reprisals."
Wait long enough and the locals will be begging for someone to kick the Jihadis out.
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Let the cockroaches proliferate, give two-day notice, and then carpet bomb
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Executing hicks in the desert is alot safer than fighting Marines. Maybe if the residents told our troops about the insurgents they could do something. Oh, I forgot, can't rat on a fellow muslim.
The executions are carried out at dawn on Haqlania bridge, the entrance to Haditha. A small crowd usually turns up to watch even though the killings are recorded and distributed on DVD in the market the same afternoon. With so many purported US agents dying there, the bridge was renamed Agents' Bridge. Then a local wag dubbed it Agents' Fridge, evoking a mortuary. The name has stuck. A visit by a Guardian reporter established what neither the Iraqi Government nor the US military has admitted: Haditha, a farming town of 90,000 people on the Euphrates river, is an insurgent citadel. That Islamist guerillas were active in the area was no secret but only now has the extent of their control been revealed. They are the sole authority, running the town's security, administration and communications. Only 200 kilometres north-west of Baghdad, under the nose of an American base, it is a miniature Taliban-like state.
Within minutes of driving into town the reporter was stopped by a group of men and informed about rule number one: announce yourself. The mujahideen, as they are known locally, must know who comes and goes. The reporter, who for security reasons has not used his real name, did not say he worked for a British newspaper. The police station and municipal offices were destroyed last year and US marines make only fleeting visits every few months. Two groups share power. Ansar al-Sunna is a largely home-grown organisation, though its leader in Haditha is said to be foreign. Al-Qaeda in Iraq, known locally by its old name, Tawhid al-Jihad, is led by the Jordanian-born Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. There was a rumour that Zarqawi, Washington's most wanted militant after Osama bin Laden, visited early last week.
A year ago Haditha was just another sleepy town in Anbar province, deep in the Sunni triangle and suspicious of the Shiite-led Government in Baghdad. It was no insurgent hotbed. Then, say residents, a heavy-handed Shiite police force arrived. "That's how it began," said one man. Attacks against the police escalated until they fled, creating a vacuum now filled by insurgents. Alcohol and music deemed un-Islamic were banned, women told to wear headscarves and relations between the sexes were closely monitored. The mobile phone network was shut down but insurgents retained their walkie-talkies and satellite phones. In Haditha, hospital staff and teachers are allowed to collect government salaries in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar, but other civil servants have had to quit. Last year the US trumpeted its rehabilitation of a nearby power plant: "The incredible progress at Haditha is just one example of the huge strides made by the US Army corps of engineers." Now insurgents earn praise from residents for allegedly pressuring managers to supply electricity almost 24 hours a day, a luxury denied the rest of Iraq.
The court caters solely for divorces and marriages. Alleged criminals are punished in the market. Our reporter witnessed a headmaster accused of adultery whipped 190 times with cables. Children laughed as he sobbed and his robe turned crimson. DVDs of beheadings on the bridge are distributed free in the souk. Children prefer them to cartoons. "They should not watch such things," said one grandfather, but the parents appeared not to object. Twice in recent months marines backed by aircraft swept into Haditha to flush out the rebels. In a pattern repeated across Anbar, there were skirmishes, a few suspects killed or detained, and success was declared. Residents said the insurgents withdrew for a few days and returned when the Americans left. They have learned from last November's battle in Falluja, when hundreds died fighting the marines and still lost the city. Now their strategy appears to be to wait out the Americans, calculating they will leave within a few years, and then escalate what some consider the real war against a Government led by the Shiite majority. Any political engagement is deemed collaboration punishable by death. The task now is to bleed the Americans and destabilise the Government. Some call that nihilism. Haditha calls it the future.
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So whats up with this? Sounds like al-Guardian hired a stringer from Jihad Unspun to me. Someone verify this is a realistic picture?
If it is true sounds like it's not worth saving. Let the Iraqi Army take Artillery practice on it.
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So the Crips and the Bloods run certain blocks in LA. The point is? If in a stable environment, in a prosperous economy, and with substantial police force and governmental structures in place, this can happen, WTF do they expect in small vill Iraq? Oh, its such a quagmire.
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The future? Tell that to the Shiites. More Al Guardian bile.
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Hate to say this...But it's true. I've got a son fighting in Anbar. His base is like Fort Apache. Everything outside is owned by the Boogeyman.
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Fort Apache is appropriate. It takes time to do this, but as the first Fort Apache showed, it can be done. With the crowd today however, I suspect the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, Arizona and New Mexico would still be Indian Territory.
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Send him our love, Marine Dad. And our thanks! They'll get it all straightened out there, I'm sure, now that they've started paying more attention to that part of the country.
Seafarious made me a hat like that for the last Rantapalooza. Every once in awhile I put it on. The Little Woman rolls her eyes and the cat avoids me.
QUETTA: Four rockets were fired in Kohlu district on Monday, coinciding with the arrival of Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Muhammad Yousaf. FC troops retaliated by firing rockets at the assailants in Kohlu, some 350 kilometres east of Quetta. A Frontier Corp (FC) spokesman underplayed the attack as a âroutine matterâ, and dismissed claims they were related to the chief ministerâs visit. Unconfirmed reports alleged that the rockets landed near the helipad where the chief ministerâs helicopter was scheduled to land. Meanwhile, a man, calling himself Azad Baloch,
"Free Baluch"? If that's not an alias it should be...
claimed responsibility for the attack on behalf of the Balochistan Liberation Army and the Baloch Peopleâs Liberation Front Azad Baloch said that the rockets had been fired specifically in view of the chief ministerâs visit.
Meanwhile in separate incidents, three rockets were fired and two bombs exploded in Kohlu early Monday morning. The bombs went off near a doctorâs clinic. Local government elections are scheduled to be held in Kohlu on August 25. Baloch nationalist forces accuse the chief minister of conducting the election campaign for Pakistan Muslim League (PML) candidates in violation of Election Commission regulations. Observers believe that the chief ministerâs visit to Kohlu was aimed for the PML-backed candidatesâ election campaign.
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The hat would be ideal RantBurg merchandise. For mutual recognition in airports and football games it would be much better than the secret handshake.
LORALAI: At least three rockets were fired at a Frontier Corps (FC) check post near the Lora Lai-Bar Khan area on Monday. Unidentified assailants fired at least three 107 mm rockets of foreign make at the FC check post in Hostry, but missed the target. The assailants fled the scene when the FC responded with fire. No loss of life was reported. The local administration has initiated an investigation.
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Lot o' red meat in this article, if any of it is credible...
Investigators are trying to decipher a telephone conversation in Arabic mixed with Bangla tapped Saturday to check if there is any clue to the August 17 countrywide terror bombings that still remain a mystery. Meanwhile, quizzing of 14 arrestees at the Joint Interrogation Cell (JIC) in Dhaka continued for the second consecutive day yesterday, with six more brought in to join their ranks. Some of the new arrestees confessed to their involvement in the attack and also disclosed names of some people, who had trained them on how to operate the bombs before August 17, said a JIC source.
"We'll talk! And no, we don't want to go for a little stroll by the meat packing warehouse!"
"Although the bombs were handed over to us on August 17, some people showed us where the switches and batteries were and how to operate the bombs about three days before the attacks," the source quoted an arrestee as saying.
"Just some guys. They said their names were Mahmoud, Mahmoud, and Mahmoud."
Earlier, two detainees from Satkhira and one from Kushtia identified themselves to the cell as operatives of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and admitted to their participation in carrying out the bombings. Yesterday another Kushtia arrestee confessed the same.
"We dunnit, and we're glad!"
According to their confessions, the bombers were trained at a rented house at each of the district headquarters, said the investigator seeking anonymity. Primary investigations suggest three to four people were assigned to each district to distribute the bombs among the planters, he added. Law enforcers and intelligence agencies have already started searching for the rented training houses in the district towns based on the detainees' statements.
"Nope. No training center here. Nope. Nope. Not over there either. Now scram."
The investigator also said some of the arrestees identified themselves as members of either JMB or Ahle Hadith Andolan, Bangladesh (Ahab). Some of them also received training on armed combat in various places in the country. Sources said 20 people were being quizzed at the JIC until late last night.
Doesn't RAB usually work the late shift?
They do the field work; JIC does the 'skull sessions'.
Some of the detainees might be returned to their district today if the check clears investigators become sure they had no involvement in the bombings. They said fresh arrestees from across the country will be brought in and interrogated at the JIC and the process will be on.
"Hi Mahmoud, we're from the JIC and we're here to put on the 'process'."
On the telephone conversation, an intelligence source said they had wiretapped it Saturday, where "two men were talking in Arabic interspersed with Bangla, which seems pretty suspicious to us." The source did not give any further details about the phone call for the sake of investigation and said they are working to interpret the conversation to find whether it contains anything suspicious or any clue to the blasts. Intelligence agencies have been tapping phone calls since Wednesday's countrywide blasts. The source said, "Even if we don't get any clue from this conversation, we'll continue tapping phone calls."
I take the Bangla Civil Liberties Union isn't a real strong organization.
Meantime, State Minister for Home Lutfozzaman Babar yesterday directed the law enforcement agencies to step up security measures across the country to avert any further bomb attacks. "The minister has instructed us to keep tight vigilance in the city," Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner SM Mizanur Rahman said.
The ministry in a letter signed by Joint Secretary (Political) Md Abdul Haq also directed the district-level officials to hold regular meetings on law and order situation.
Our Khulna correspondent reports: Law enforcers yesterday continued a manhunt for Sheikh Rafiqul Islam, a lecturer of Islamic studies at Paikgachha College, suspecting his involvement in Wednesday's bombings. Rafiqul, who hails from Ghorahati village of Satkhira, has been on the run since Wednesday's blasts.
Lecturer? I guess he's not going to be promoted to a tenure track anytime soon .com, that's an academic joke ...
Member of Ahab, he is a close relative of Ahab chief Asadullah Al Galib, detectives said. "We have evidence that he was involved in the planning of Wednesday's serial bomb blasts," said a Detective Branch official.
15 Pakistani prisoners released by Afghan authorities were being held in Landi Kotal Jail for debriefing, official sources told Daily Times. The prisoners, handed over to Pakistani authorities on Saturday night at the Torkham border from the Afghan Pull Charkhi Jail, were shifted to Peshawar Central Jail from various jails in the Khyber Agency. Officials said the prisoners would be released following the debriefing process. Interrogation of the prisoners might reveal more information regarding the whereabouts of various extremist and terrorist organisations in the country, sources said.
These prisoners had moved to Afghanistan in 2001 to fight alongside the Taliban against US-led allied forces, but were eventually captured by the American and Northern Alliance forces in Afghanistan. The prisoners belong to different districts of Punjab, Sindh and NWFP. Seven of them are from the Malakand Division, two from Karachi and one each from Sargodha, Khanewal, Mandi Bahauddin, and Islamabad.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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One of two terrorists killed in clashes with Saudi police last week was a national karate champion who trained al-Qaida members. A security source quoted Monday in the Saudi daily newspaper al-Watan said 
A blast claimed two lives in the south Russian republic of Ingushetia bordering the restive province of Chechnya on Monday, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported. The explosion occurred near the central hospital in Nazran, the republican Interior Ministry reported. Two people were killed and several others suffered injuries, the report said. Investigators are examining the scene. Preliminary reports said the bomb, which hit a minibus, had been planted under a gas main. Local emergency officials, however, told RIA that the blast killed one and injured three other people.
It is unusual for North Korean naval vessels to cross into South Korean waters to nab foreign fishing boats. "A patrol boat from North Korea sailed into Korean waters about one mile off from the Northern Limit Line (NLL) in the seas off Paengnyong Island at 1:36 p.m. on Sunday,ââ the JCS said. The NLL marks the de facto maritime border between the two Koreas on the West Sea.
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Two Bulgarian boys, aged 11 and 12, are behind an Internet "Al-Qaeda" statement, which threatened to strike the capital Sofia and wipe it out, police said. The statement was posted August 18 on the site of Sofia municipality. "Sofia will be blown into pieces by bombs and shootings on Spetember 11," read the statement, which claimed to have been signed by Al-Qaeda terror group and Osama bin Laden. Police found out the statement was posted from an internet club in the small town of Dupnitsa, near Sofia. Police interrogated the boys in the presence of their parents. The mischievous boys said they did it for fun.
A suspect has been killed and two policemen injured in clashes in northeastern Turkey as police tried to track down three suspects following a tip-off. The semi-official Anatolia news agency said on Monday that police surrounded a supermarket after a tip-off that three suspects were inside, touching off a clash in which one policeman was injured. The three managed to flee but were cornered several hours later when a new clash killed one suspect and left a second policeman injured. A second suspect was captured and the third escaped, the agency said. The report identified the victim only as a "terrorist", the term officials use to refer to rebels from the main Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) or leftist extremists, although Kurdish rebels are not generally active in the northeast of the country.
"Following nerve wrecking investigations of five days by this correspondent, a senior source at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad has finally confirmed that one of their junior research fellows was the âjullietâ behind the clumsy affair causing the British Military Attache to Islamabad lose his job and the grace of the prestigious service of Royal British Army.
Sihiliâs two sons are also among those in custody and an Iraqi called 
Pakistani terrorists in Ayodhia 
Pakistani security forces apprehended 10 suspected terrorists and recovered huge cache of arms and ammunitions in continued hunt for terrorists at various parts of North Waziristan tribal agency during the last 24 hours. The security forces on a tip off by locals busted a deserted compound apparently portraying as a religious school at Dandi Kuch area located some 11 kilometers northwest of Spinwam, but it was actually being used as a terrorist den, said an military press release issued on Monday.
LORALAI: At least three rockets were fired at a Frontier Corps (FC) check post near the Lora Lai-Bar Khan area on Monday. Unidentified assailants fired at least three 107 mm rockets of foreign make at the FC check post in Hostry, but missed the target. The assailants fled the scene when the FC responded with fire. No loss of life was reported. The local administration has initiated an investigation.
15 Pakistani prisoners released by Afghan authorities were being held in Landi Kotal Jail for debriefing, official sources told Daily Times. The prisoners, handed over to Pakistani authorities on Saturday night at the Torkham border from the Afghan Pull Charkhi Jail, were shifted to Peshawar Central Jail from various jails in the Khyber Agency. Officials said the prisoners would be released following the debriefing process. Interrogation of the prisoners might reveal more information regarding the whereabouts of various extremist and terrorist organisations in the country, sources said.
