An Islamic fundamentalist residing in West London spoke, on Sunday, of his fears at being forcibly returned to Egypt along with two other associates in a secret agreement between Cairo and London. Dr. Hani al Sibai, the Director of al Maqrizi Center in Hammersmith in London, told Asharq al Awsat he had credible information the British ambassador to Egypt had held discussions with the National Council for Human Rights in Cairo to try and reach an agreement to extradite him and other Islamists currently residing in Britain, including a high-ranking official in the banned Gamaa Islamiya. He indicated the British government had repeatedly tried between 1998 and 1999 to strike a deal that would see him handed over to Egypt, the details of which have appeared in British newspapers.
Al Sibai was convicted in absentia and sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labor in âthe returnees from Albaniaâ case as one of the leading suspects. He had come to London with his family in 1994 and sought asylum. In 1998, the Egyptian Islamist was detained during Operation Challenge involving the Metropolitan police anti terrorist branch, Special Branch and MI5 targeting the leadership of âIslamic Jihadâ, in the wake of US embassy bombings in Africa.
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Ship him back as an object lesson to all those other raghead sons of whores who think bringing jihad to the West is a good idea. Would that we'd been smart enough to listen to the Able Danger boys and done that to Atta.
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Little known facts: The guy on the left is McCauley Caulkin before he got small. The guy on the right is Cosmo Topper...
Interpol would start issuing a new type of international alert notice to help police intercept people with alleged terrorist links who appear on a United Nations sanctions list, a top official said overnight. Ulrich Kersten, the world police body's special representative at the United Nations, said the new alert would make it easier to detect suspects, for example when trying to cross international borders. He said it would not automatically oblige authorities to arrest a listed person, but it could prompt them to refuse entry to a country and seize weapons or cash. "If a (listed) person is found to have $US20,000 in their luggage, checks can then be made to see if this can be seized on the basis of court orders," he said.
A total of 328 individuals and 119 entities are currently named on the UN sanctions list as participating in financing, planning, facilitating or carrying out activities linked to al-Qaeda or the Afghan Taliban. Under a UN resolution passed in July, countries are now obliged to provide detailed information on suspects to Interpol when they submit names to be added to the list.
But not to kill them...
Interpol had raised concerns in the past that it was hampered in its investigations because it was not receiving this data. The 184-nation police body has its own database of about 8000 terrorist suspects, including details such as passport numbers, credit card details and phone numbers. UN official Guillermo Kendall said more than $US90 million worth of assets had so far been seized from individuals appearing on the UN sanctions list.
Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) members kidnapped Tuesday the mayor of the Turkish town of Catalca, Abdulkerim Kilic, in the Hakkari regions, southeast Turkey. This kidnap is the third incident of its kind after terrorists kidnapped a Municipality chief and two soldiers two months ago. All captives were later released without injury. An official statement in Hakkari today said the mayor was kidnapped from his home this morning by the separatist labor party, adding that Turkish authorities have embarked on an investigation and a wide spread search to find the governor.
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Egyptian activist Mohammad Zaki Mahjoub arrested in Canada in 2000 and detained ever since, said that the Canadian Court of Appeals will, in a matter of days, decide on his request that his deportation to Egypt be stopped: he fears for his life if deported as he is ranked number 20 among those accused of religious violence in Egypt.
And we should care that his life is in danger... why?
He's not even a number 3 ...
Mahjoub (a leader in organizing the Egyptian Islamic group Talaa I Al-Fateh) told Asharq Al-Awsat that he had worked with Osama Bin Laden for a period of one year and 3 months as supervisor of his agricultural projects in Sudan between years 1992-1993.
"I am but a simple peasant, sirrah!"
However, Mahjoub had differed over his salary that had reached a monthly sum of 1500 US dollars at the time. He emphasized that other Islamists were receiving higher salaries from Bin Laden even though they were not actually producing any work while he was working in a field he specialized in and he was content with that job.
Yeah, Binny's a cheap bastard, alright...
He added that despite of his being detained before the attacks in September 2001, the security guards at the Toronto Detention Center call him 'Osama'. Additionally he stated that his life in the Federal prison after September turned into what he described as 'hellish'. He also said that the guards encouraged other prisoners to assault him and sometimes they would call him 'the terrorist'. He stated that he is satisfied in solitary confident where he was placed after the September attacks because he feared for his life from guards who had previously threatened to kill him.
Since he's ranked number 20 among those accused of religious violence in Egypt, I wonder if the dead guys he's responsible for ever feared for their lives?
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"Business bad? f*** you, pay me. Oh, you had a fire? f*** you, pay me. Place got hit by lightning, huh? f*** you, pay me!"
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It always cracks me up that all these "fundementalists" and "activists" who hate us so much fight tooth and nail to stay here rather then return to the tender mercies of whatever Islamic republic shithole they consider their homeland.
Defense Department lawyers have blocked members of a data-mining intelligence team from testifying Wednesday before a congressional committee probing their claims that they identified the ringleaders of the Sept. 11 hijackers more than a year before the attacks.
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary sought testimony from several members of the team -- code-named Able Danger -- as part of their investigation into claims that the project identified Mohamed Atta and three of the other 18 hijackers as linked to al-Qaida in early 2000, according to Senate staffers.
Mark Zaid, an attorney representing a liaison to the team, Army reserve Col. Tony Shaffer, told United Press International that a letter to his client gave no reasons for blocking the testimony.
The letter was signed by the principle deputy general counsel for the Defense Intelligence Agency, Robert Berry.
Zaid said the team members "were told verbally that they would not be allowed to testify," and that he had requested the decision about his client be put in writing.
He said that the team leader, Navy Capt. Scott Philpott, a civilian analyst named James Smith and other members of the team had all been denied permission to testify.
No one at the Department of Defense or the Defense Intelligence Agency returned calls for comment Tuesday.
Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Penn., who first put members of the Able Danger team in contact with the news media, was said by staff to be concerned about the move.
"It is unfortunate that we're trying to get answers ... and the people who could help us get them are not going to testify," said Russ Caso, the congressman's chief of staff.
The Able Danger team will not be the only witnesses missing from Wednesday's hearing. No one from the Sept. 11 commission will be present either, despite the fact that Weldon has publicly blamed them for -- in his words -- "ignoring" evidence about the project.
Commission staffers say that after Shaffer told them about the project in 2003 they requested documents about it from the Defense Department, but found nothing to support claims that the team had nailed Atta.
Former GOP Sen. Slade Gorton of Washington told United Press International that he had volunteered to testify, and had been invited to do so, but had to cancel at the last minute owing to an unexpected conflict. He said that he would be submitting a letter in place of his testimony, which would "answer, in detail, all the questions" that the committee had.
Judiciary aides said Shaffer, Philpott and other Able Danger team members had been interviewed by committee staff, seeking information about a chart generated using Able Danger's computer software, and listing the names and connections of about 60 individuals thought linked to the al-Qaida network.
Able Danger used data-mining on massive amounts of "open source" information: culled from the internet, purchased from credit rating bureaus or other data brokers or -- like phone and travel records -- obtained in some cases by means that are still classified. This is, if not the only reason for the gag, a legitimate concern. Congress leaks like a sieve when given classified info and would surely do so on a politically hot issue.
According to Philpott, that chart -- produced in January or February 2000 -- bore the name and likeness of Mohamed Atta, and linked him to a mosque in Brooklyn which has been a center of Islamic extremism for more than 20 years.
The Pentagon said earlier this month that three more people who worked on the project now corroborate Philpott and Shaffer's claims about the chart -- but that defense officials destroyed documents the project generated.
Pat Downs a senior policy analyst in the office of Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Steven Cambone, told reporters at a Pentagon briefing on Sept. 1, that a search of "hundreds of thousands, probably" of documents and electronic files related to the project -- including those held by contractors who worked on the project -- had found no copies of the chart, and no documents referring to it.
But she acknowledged that the chart could have been among documents from the project that were -- in accordance with regulations designed to prevent U.S. intelligence agencies spying on citizens -- destroyed.
"There are strict regulations about collection, dissemination and destruction procedures for this type of information," she told a briefing for reporters at the Pentagon, "and we know that that did happen in the case of Able Danger documentation."
She said that the regulations had been "very strictly interpreted pre-Sept. 11."
"In a major data mining effort like this," she said, "you're reaching out to a lot of open sources and within that there could be a lot of more information on U.S. persons.
"We're not allowed to collect that type of information."
Weldon said that a defense contractor who would testify Wednesday planned to tell the committee that he was ordered to destroy data from the project.
Weldon told UPI earlier this month that he does not believe the military's account of how the results of the project's work came to be destroyed.
"I seriously have my doubts that it was routine," he said, adding that he had asked the Pentagon for the certificates of destruction military officials must complete when classified data is destroyed.
He said that there had been "a second elimination of data in 2003," in addition to the destruction acknowledged last week.
"For some reason, the bureaucracy in the Pentagon -- I mean the civilian bureaucracy -- didn't want this to get out," he said.
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Congress has the authority to issue warrants and compel testimony. An officer's oath is to obey lawful orders. Lawful is the operable word. If the powers to be at the Pentagon are engaged in a coverup, then such orders are unlawful. 'Secret' and 'Classified' have far too often been used to cover bad behavior and incompetence and not real national security. Ever hear of a senior officer ever fired or disciplined for over classifying? If the Dem's ever wanted Rummey's head, this could be the opportunity.
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"Defense Department lawyers have blocked members of a data-mining intelligence team from testifying Wednesday before a congressional committee probing their claims that they identified the ringleaders of the Sept. 11 hijackers more than a year before the attacks."
It's a cover-up I tells ya! The media must be up in arms demanding to know why... oh, never mind...
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In his statement this morning before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Congressman Curt Weldon said:
âI have never alleged any wrong doing, conspiracy or cover-up. However, I have been bewildered by the response to Able Danger â both by the 9-11 Commission and the Pentagon.â
âFundamental questions need to be answered: Why was Able Danger a historically insignificant event even thought we knew that Al Qaeda was responsible for the1993 Bombing on World Trade Center, the Khobar Towers, the Embassy Bombings in Africa, the USS Cole? Who ordered the destruction of 2.5 terabytes of data about Al Qaeda and why? And why wasnât the customer at SOCOM ever consulted or briefed? Who stopped the meetings between the FBI and Able Danger personnel in September 2000 and why? What was the extent of the 3-hour brief provided to General Shelton in January 2001 regarding Able Danger? Why did the 9/11 Commission change their response several times when queried about Able Danger and attempt to spin Able Danger based on misinformation? Why have threats been made to Able Danger witnesses who were simply telling their stories?â
âAs it stands now, the 9/11 story has not been fully examined and told. The families of the victims and the American people deserve answers and we must not stop until we get them.â
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According to Philpott, that chart -- produced in January or February 2000 -- bore the name and likeness of Mohamed Atta, and linked him to a mosque in Brooklyn which has been a center of Islamic extremism for more than 20 years.
See if the NYPD's intelligence unit has anything on Maggot boy hooking up with a Brooklyn mosque prior to 2000. I figure after the first WTC bombing they might've been real interested in what and was happening and who was showing up at the local mosques.
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I don't blame the Pentagon for not trusting Specter & Co. to run public hearings on intelligence. Remember, leaky Leahy is the minority leader on the Senate Judical Committee.
Still, the 9/11 Committee should rightfully be castigated for their arrogant denial.
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At this point I trust the Pentagon more than I do some congress critter or Senator.
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At this point I trust Congress more. Why would the Republicans block Able Danger whose origins were under the Clintonistas? Now this is a real conspiracy theory requiring answers. HMMMM!
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I don't buy this, I just don't. When Atta first became known to be the ring leader Able Danger would have come out then, or in intel sessions following up, or any number or cases which tracked the where-abouts of any of the hijackers. That this is coming out now is too suspicious.
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Ever had a security clearance? One you sorta wanted to keep, not to mention stay out prison?
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If Atta had sold hashpipes we would have taken concerted action. What is happening now is that we will never know the truth only coverups of coverups.
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Channels. Gotta play it by the rules - or get burned. Guessing at a scenario that fits the facts...
I'd wager that, after the 9/11 Circus, some of these guys did the "WTF?" email routine. That takes time. At some point, some agreed that it should be publicized that not everyone is a sucker and that 9/11 was a partisan joke - but they had a new punchline. Col Shaffer started up the chain with a request to come out of the closet. Somewhere upstream, someone who thought he could and should, said "Yes - go public... but don't expect 'official' Pentagon backing." The proviso added for political reasons. And so it began. One by one they came out - if they thought they could weather the storm and the MSM BS. Then, some legal beagles said, "Whoa, hold on there! This involves domestic turf, methods, sources - we have a lot of vulnerability, political sniping and potential losses with little upside, here. We don't need this shit. Where's the payoff, other than tweaking the noses of that coven of circus clowns? There isn't one - not worth it. Second-check that everything has been deleted / shredded. We're outta this. Let 'em squeal... no proof." And cold feet set in, from top to bottom.
Who knows, but that makes a helluvalot more sense than calling an Army Colonel and a Navy Captain liars.
Lawyers for Australian terror suspect David Hicks AKA Mohammed Dawood said they were shocked at the Pentagon's decision to push ahead with his trial.
His defence team was caught by surprise at the decision to hold another hearing at Guantanamo Bay within 30 days.
US Marine Corps Major Michael Mori said his client was to be "the guinea pig for this unfair and rigged show trial".
Major Michael Mori also challenged claims the defence team was prepared to proceed with the trial, saying the defence office was severely undermanned.
His view was repeated by Mr Hicks' father, who said the procedure was "a sham".
"This is going to be another case of moving too fast ... the defence isn't ready yet," Terry Hicks said.
"David's being used one again as a political football. Bring him home. Let's get him back here."
John Altenburg, the appointing authority for the US military commissions set up to hear cases, lifted the stay on Mr Hicks' trial this morning.
He directed the presiding officer to hold a hearing within 30 days to resolve preliminary issues, the Pentagon said.
A second session would be convened a short time after to pick other commission members and to resolve any other outstanding motions.
"This decision clears the way for the Hicks trial by military commission to resume at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in the near future," the Pentagon said.
The ruling was attacked by Mr Hick's Adelaide-based lawyer, who said his client's defence team had no chance of being ready to proceed with the case.
"I can only assume that it has come as a result of pressure from the Australian Government," said David McLeod.
Mr McLeod was highly critical that Mr Hicks' defence team learnt of the development through the media.
"Nobody has spoken to the defence, it's disappointing and outrageous," he said.
"It wouldn't happen anywhere in the world, and therefore doesn't happen in any criminal jurisdiction."
He said his client would be unaware of the latest development.
"He obviously wants to be put before a fair tribunal - he doesn't care where, as long as it complies with accepted standards of justice."
No trial date was set in the Hicks case, but the action in effect opened a window from October 3 through October 20 during which the case might be heard, officials said.
The action follows a federal appeals court ruling in July that reaffirmed President George W. Bush's authority to order trials of war-on-terror detainees by special military commissions in the case of Salim Ahmed Hamdan.
Lawyers are appealing that case to the Supreme Court, but Pentagon officials said they had decided to proceed with the Hicks case anyway.
"The Australians have indicated their desire to see the Hicks case move forward as expeditiously as possible, but at the same time we are cautious to ensure that he receives a full and fair trial," a Pentagon official said.
Adelaide-born Hicks is charged with conspiracy, attempted murder and aiding the enemy.
The 29-year-old Muslim convert has been detained by the US military since he was captured allegedly fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan in December, 2001.
The US alleges he had links to the terrorist group al-Qaeda.
Major Mori said today: "Mr Hicks is the only one facing a commission.
"The lifting of the abeyance in the case of David Hicks makes clear that David Hicks will be the guinea pig for this unfair and rigged show trial ... and the test case for the commission process.
"The military commission system will not provide a full and fair trial, whether it starts today, in a month or in three months.
"The rules are constantly changing.
"The system is controlled by those who have already condemned Mr Hicks."
He said it had taken seven months to get a second military lawyer to assist in representing Hicks and the one eventually assigned already held a full-time position in Germany.
"The prosecution has been provided seven different counsels to work on the Hicks case over the past two years with four still currently assigned," he said.
"The staffing of the appointing authority's office is at 18 personnel, the prosecution's office at 25 personnel and the defence at five personnel."
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Oh Danno I need backup ... bring Kono ASAP and tell the badman to give us a continuance of at least 150 days! If you make a thing complicated well then complicated it will be. Depending on who you ask, 30 days is plenty of time and a trial sooner is a trial better! (are these not the same folks bemoaning Hicks' detention?!) It's not like he was arrested, arraigned, prelim'd, and scheduled for trial in the last month is it. So they talk to their client and he tells them his innocent path from home to a battlefield abroad. Pretty simple matter to sort if it's the truth. They'd do well to stick to the truth and the basics as the rest easily takes care of itself. Now, if the truth is ugly then I suppose you've got to prepare an act for each ring of the circus and throw them out there in an attempt to please the audience or at least make them impossibly confused about which way is up and which hand is the right. When you can't deal in the truth things do indeed become complicated and require alot of time and lawyers to "prepare."
1 The 29-year-old Muslim convert has been detained by the US military since he was captured allegedly fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan in December, 2001.
2 Adelaide-born Hicks is charged with conspiracy, attempted murder and aiding the enemy.
3 "This is going to be another case of moving too fast ... the defence isn't ready yet," Terry Hicks said.
(From Dec 2001 to September 2005 is 45 months)
GTMO COMMANDANT
"Do we still have the MARK 24 Portable Gallows in Stores?"
AIDE
"Yes Sir"
COMMANDANT
"Assemble it."
AIDE
"Sir, Yes Sir."
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Jim, I'd rather invoke the Infield Fly rule: no matter what, the batter is still out.
Protest to the ump all you want, Davy, you're still history.
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British officers say a good analogy in UK terms would be handing responsibility for the maintenance of law and order in Belfast to the Provisional IRA.
I see things will have to change in Basra.. God the beeb have wanked themselves nigh unconscious over this..
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"Intelligence sources say the tit-for-tat capture of two British Special Reconnaissance Regiment soldiers on Monday..."
By the way...what is "tat"...and how can I trade it for the other thing.
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Our problem is that we allow our policies to be emasculated by the idiot denizens of the State Department (or Foreign Office for Brits) and the fear of being ranted at by the left. Each incident of Iranian shenanigans should be answered with a stealth bomb run over Tehran targeting leadership. That is how the game ought to be played.
In Iraq, a UH-60 pilot (Chief Warrant Officer Randy Kirgiss), and his crew chief (Specialist Ben Knoepke) decided to bring the para-bears (or âteddy-troopersâ) to the their neighborhood. Since last April, about a thousand bears have been dropped (in rural areas, doing it in a city risks having kids running into traffic to grab a bear). The largest drop was on May 21st, when 200 were dropped. The bears, and the material for the parachutes (or sometimes assembled parachutes) are all donated. If you want to help out, email rmk@rmkonline.com for more info. Again, as in Bosnia, there is no hard evidence that the para-bear effort has had a major effect on the war. But the helicopter pilots can see smiles on the faces of kids catching the bears, and troops moving report seeing happy kids, clutching teddy bears, and maybe a little less violence from the local armed adults.
Iraqi authorities arrested Tuesday 52 insurgents in various parts of the country and detained manager of oil-products in Peji, said the Iraqi Defense Ministry. A statement issued by the ministry said that five insurgents were detained in Salahuddin governorate, and a dozen others were arrested in Addajeel area for being suspects of carrying out bomb explosions that killed several citizens in a gas-station in the area.
In the governorate of Anbar, Iraqi authorities discovered an arms-stock in Fallujah and arrested three insurgents. The statement said that the Iraqi army also detained six insurgents in Aziziah of Waset province for attacking civilians. The army also detained 10 suspects of being involved in bombing two booby trapped cars that targeted a checkpoint in Latifiah, of southern Baghdad, and killed two army members.
In the meantime, a source of the joint coordination center in Salahuddin province said that the army stormed Peji refinery and arrested its manager of oil-products Ibraheem Mutlaq, without announcing that motives behind the detention. The same source said that a couple of unidentified dead bodies were found on the Tigris.
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Five US soldiers were killed on Tuesday by insurgents, statements by the Multi National Forces said. Four soldiers assigned to the 2nd Marine Division and to the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), were killed in action by improvised explosive devices during two separate incidents while conducting combat operations yesterday in al-Ramadi, west of here. Meanwhile an 18th Military Police Brigade Soldier was killed 75 miles north of Baghdad when his vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device.
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Multi National Forces revealed today that coalition forces recently captured two key terrorist medical doctors, dealing a serious blow to al-Qaeda in Iraq which attempts to establish treatment facilities for terrorists. On last August 29 and 30, Coalition forces, acting on multiple intelligence sources and tips from concerned citizens, raided two suspected terrorist locations in the Baghdad and Baqouba areas to capture known terrorists operating there. Captured during those raids was Anas Abdulrazaq Muhammad who is an admitted terrorist and senior member of al Qaeda in Baghdad. Coalition forces also captured Mazen Mahdi Khudhayer who is an admitted senior terrorist, weapons dealer and medical doctor who worked for someone called Wamed, the military Emir of al-Qaeda in Baghdad.
"Dr. Giggles, yer coming with us. Step this way. You too, Nurse Ratched."
Khudhayer has admitted to visiting neighboring countries to buy weapons and explosives and then smuggling them back into Iraq, where he would sell them to his terrorist connections in Baghdad. One such purchase was to provide arms to a terrorist assassination platoon, according to documents recovered by Coalition forces. Dr Anas Muhammad, an important Qaeda operative, was one of the organization's key physicians. He received a Doctor of Pharmacy from the Pharmaceutical College in Baghdad, ...
Oh. So he's like a Cuban doctor, in several ways ...
... but he was also acting as an unaccredited medical doctor, treating wounded terrorists in and around the Baghdad area. He prescribed and provided drugs and medication and was actively involved in the treatment of terrorists wounds. Additionally, Wamed and other senior members of the al-Qaeda terrorist network in Baghdad commissioned Dr Khudhayer and another doctor called Dr Laith to open a clinic to treat wounded terrorists in the area. They met on numerous occasions to discuss the endeavor and were in the process of selecting a suitable location and obtaining additional assistance when they were captured. This is the second known instance of terrorists attempting to open such a facility in the Baghdad area.
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Ahhh, a Pharm.D. Knows the cure, but not necessarily the disease. They seem to be scraping the bottom of the barrel over there.
Iraqi Police arrested Monday night one of the Iraqi National Dialogue Council (NDC) members from his home in Baghdad. An NDC statement said Tuesday that a force from the Ministry of Interior broke into Dr. Mahmoud Al-Mishhadani in Al-Ghazaliyah town, west Baghdad and arrested Dr. Al-Mishhadani and his son Abdulbasit Al-Mishhadani. It added that the Ministry of Interior and the Iraqi government are responsible for the incident that was described as 'a crime.' The National Dialogue Council is one of the bodies representing Iraq's Arab Sunnis in both the elections and the process of drafting the Iraqi permanent Constitution.
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BASRA, Iraq - Iraq denounced British forces on Tuesday over the dramatic rescue of two undercover soldiers that could stoke hostility to the army in increasingly volatile southern Iraq.
British troops used an armoured vehicle on Monday to burst into an Iraqi jail to rescue two soldiers held by police in Basra. âIt is a very unfortunate development that the British forces should try to release their forces the way it happened,â Haider Al Ebadi, an adviser to Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari, told a news conference in Baghdad.
The operation followed rioting that began, according to police and local officials, when the two men fired on a police patrol. At least two Iraqis were killed in the violence.
Residents of Basra, in a region with Iraqâs biggest oil reserves, called on British troops to leave the country. âIt is inappropriate for any Iraqi to be insulted by a British or an American or any other occupier, we reject the occupying forces,â said Abbas Jassim.
Curiously, he doesn't object to Iranians.
British forces said their soldiers were in danger. âFrom an early stage I had good reason to believe the lives of the two soldiers were at risk,â Brigadier John Lorimer, the British commander in Basra, said in a statement.
Ebadi said Iraqi security forces were justified in detaining the pair. âThey were acting very suspiciously like they were watching something and collecting information in civilian clothes in these tense times,â he said. âWhat the two Britons did was literally international terrorism,â Ali Al Yassiri, an aide to Sadr, told Reuters.
Keeping eyeballs on Sadr, were they?
âIf the British had condemned this, it would have calmed the situation but instead they came and demanded them back which sets a dangerous precedent.â
âFour tanks invaded the area. A tank cannon struck a room where a policeman was praying "please don't kill me!",â said policeman Abbas Hassan, standing next to mangled cars outside the police station and jail that he said were crushed by British military vehicles. âThis is terrorism. All we had was rifles.â
You might want to remember how out-gunned you were next time you pinch a Brit.
British Defence Secretary John Reid said the two soldiers were freed when negotiations appeared blocked. âWhat happened yesterday was that two of our servicemen were arrested by Iraqi police and under the law as it stands they should have been handed back to the military authorities.â
Reid said the Iraqi Interior Ministry and local judges had asked the police to follow that procedure. âBut in the course of the day we became increasingly worried that those people in there to negotiate with the police seemed to be having no success in getting our men out.â
However, Ebadi appeared to question the British assertion that the Interior Ministry had been involved. âTo my knowledge it was not dealt with centrally from Baghdad,â he said.
Reid said it was not clear whether the Iraqi police were under threat themselves or colluding with local militia.
Lorimer said troops had been sent to the police station where the two men had been detained to help ensure their safety. âAs shown on television, these troops were attacked with firebombs and rockets by a violent and determined crowd.â Furious crowds pelted British armoured vehicles with rocks and petrol bombs after the incident in which the British undercover soldiers were said to have fired on Iraqi police.
Why, it's almost as if they knew what was going to happen.
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You f*ck with the bull, you get the horns.
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They should have shot the crowd down.
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wonder how they liked it when saddam had their family members in jail>?
Abu Mazenâs Palestinian Authority purchased some of the banned weapons smuggled into Gaza from Sinai in the last nine days - Israeli defense minister Shaul Mofaz to Knesset committee. The disclosure means the Palestinian Authority has not only dishonored all the accords reached for Israel`s Gaza withdrawal, but actually instigated and funded Palestinian gun-running, at least in part.
Comes as a surprise, dunnit? My breath is fair taken away...
In his briefing to the Knesset foreign affairs and security committee Tuesday, Sept 21, Mofaz gave no indication of how Israel meant to handle these violations. He said only that Israel takes an extremely grave view of Egyptian-Palestinian dereliction in curbing the flow of illegal weapons from Sinai into the Gaza Strip.
Extremely grave views often seem to involve helicopters, for some reason...
The minister had hoped not to appear before the parliamentary panel session.
"Sweetheart, we're all packed and ready to go to Disneyland!"
"Bad news, honey. I have to appear before a parliamentary panel session."
He only presented himself when the lawmakers insisted on a full briefing from a member of the government to clear up the vague assertion by AMAN military intelligence officer. Brig. Yossi Kupwasser assured the panel that the Palestinians had not acquired âequalizer-breakerâ weapons in the early days of Israelâs withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
But they will, as soon as the suppliers get done filing the serial numbers off...
DEBKAfileâs military experts conclude that the officerâs use of the term âequalizer breakerâ evaded the real issue. Terrorists do not need tanks to kill large numbers of civilians â whether in Israel or Iraq â but bombs, explosives and Qassam missiles; or an air force to shoot down an El Al passenger plane and restrict the maneuverability of Israelâs reconnaissance drones and helicopters. All the Palestinians need are Strela anti-air missiles. In the last nine days, they have used the open Sinai-Gaza crossing to abundantly restock with upgraded Qassam missiles, smuggled in banned Strela and anti-tank Sagger missiles, and piled up a mountain of explosives and ammunition.
The secondary explosions should be spectacular
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I am sure that the Paleos are getting weapons like there is no tomorrow. However, it is a very good question indeed whether or not those weapons will be useful at all killing Israelis, or else are just destined to kill Paleos.
Once again, the important issue is to have anti-rocket/missile lasers emplaced to prevent attack, and the ability to repair any sections of the wall that are significantly damaged. They do not even have to repair the wall quickly, just cover any holes with heavy weapons fire until they are patched.
Other than mortars and rockets, what the heck can the Paleos do? Hold their breaths until they turn blue? Take each other hostage?
Not even other Paleos are going to have any reason at all to live there once their civil war breaks out. Nothing but gunmen living in bloody anarchy like Beirut, until all are used up. Rats fighting over a toxic waste dump.
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"He said only that Israel takes an extremely grave view of Egyptian-Palestinian dereliction in curbing the flow of illegal weapons from Sinai into the Gaza Strip.
Sounds almost like he's accusing them of being "unhelpful".
Writer of English translated Awkward to his Headline.
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I kinda liked it the other way ...
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Syrian national Muhammad Hasan Abdullah al-Sahli, the principal defendant in the case of the al-Aqaba's terrorist bombings, has admitted that the operation targeted the US Embassy before the plan was changed to attack two US destroyers in the city's port. The investigations that the concerned Jordanian security authorities carried out with Al-Sahli reveled that one of Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi's aides visited him three times, was his guest in his house in Amman's Nazzal neighborhood, and went out all day to meet other people but did not tell Al-Sahli about his meetings and contacts but only slept in his house. He added that the last time he was his guest was two months before Al-Aqaba bombings.
Al-Sahli also confessed that the US Embassy in Amman was the target of the operation and that the plan involved positioning four rockets on a hill opposite the US Embassy from the Marj al-Hamam direction. He added that preparations were underway to carry out the plan but a major change happened when "Al-Qaeda" organization was informed that two US destroyers had arrived at Jordan's Al-Aqaba Port and would unload their cargo of weapons and military equipment in the port for transporting to Iraq overland to be used in the fight against the insurgents in western Iraq.
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"Al-Qaeda" organization was informed that two US destroyers had arrived at Jordan's Al-Aqaba Port and would unload their cargo of weapons and military equipment...
Ah. Every warship a 'destroyer' now. It used to be 'battleship'.
The shoooters were prepped before hand. They were either waiting for a target of oppportunity based on previous port visits/s.o.p. for berthing USN ships, or more likely somebody tipped them off about this visit.
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Writer of English translated Awkward to his Headline.
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"Oh. Almost forgot. One more thing, effendi. I can't believe it slipped my mind..."
The Jordanian security services revealed they wanted to question a leading official from the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria to obtain information on Mohammad Hassann Abdallah al Sahli, the leading suspect in the Aqaba bombings last August as part of the ongoing investigation. Asharq al Awsat has learned a high-ranking official in the Muslim Brotherhood had emphasized to the Jordanian authorities the group's desire to maintain its good relations with the regime and ensure the host country remains safe and secure. For their part, the authorities had sought guarantees the Islamic group would not plan or carry out attacks from inside its territories that will weaken the Syrian regime or engage in any political or media activity, which the Brotherhood agreed to abide by.
Meanwhile, a member of the Syrian Brotherhood confirmed al Sahli was a member but added that the suspect had not attended any leadership meetings for a several years and was focusing on his commercial activities. He emphasized the group condemned all acts of violence as it focused on religious teaching and a rejection of violence. In the wake of the bombing in the Jordanian port, in which a soldier, Ahmad al Najdawi died, the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood in Syria had publicly denounced the attack and expressed its disappointment one of its own had carried out the attack, emphasizing the man was no longer an active member.
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Two marines seized by villagers in Thailand's troubled south in response to a shooting incident have been knifed and beaten to death.
The men were seized after a drive-by attack on the village of Tanyong Limo, in which at least one person died. Some villagers said the marines were involved in the attack and were members a government-backed death squad. But Thai authorities denied the claim, saying the men were seized as a result of mistaken identity.
Thailand's largely Muslim southern provinces have been hit by a wave of violence for more than a year and a half, leaving more than 900 people dead. The government has blamed Muslim separatists, while local people have been angered by the security forces' often brutal suppression of the violence. Correspondents say this incident is the latest sign of an increasing mistrust between southern villagers and the Thai authorities.
The two marines, named as Sub-Lieutenant Vinai Nabut and Petty Officer Khamthon Thongeiat, were taken from their car on Tuesday night after villagers accused them of firing shots in connection with an attack on a local teashop. The pair were in civilian clothes and driving an unmarked car. "It is a misunderstanding by the villagers. It was a coincidence that the two marines came when the shooting happened," Defence Minister Thammarak Isarangura told reporters.
Huummmmm
After taking the two men hostage - reportedly when their car broke down - local youths left them bound and blindfolded in a nearby school. The villagers then prevented security forces from entering the area, blocking the main road with a log.
Hundreds of women gathered at the scene, holding placards denouncing the government and security forces. According to a BBC correspondent in Thailand, Jonathan Head, attempts to negotiate the men's release made little headway. Villagers demanded a withdrawal of security personnel from the area, and called for journalists from nearby Malaysia to come and report on the incident, since they did not trust the Thai media.
But before the journalists could arrive, the two marines were bludgeoned and stabbed to death, after a rumour spread that the villagers were about to be attacked by troops.
Gee, I wonder who would spread such a rumor?
Waehamae Baga, a government negotiator who visited the scene, told Thai media the two marines "were tied together by rope, and they were apparently hit on the head with hard objects before being stabbed." The bodies of the two men have now been recovered by the Thai military.
Despite strong government denials, many people in southern Thailand are convinced that the police and military are operating death squads which are targeting Islamic leaders and terrorists human rights activists. The government must now decide how to respond to the killing of the marines, our correspondent says.
Oh, I'm sure they will
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra told reporters in Bangkok that justice would be done. "The authorities tried to negotiate with [the villagers] and were extremely patient, but these people came back with inhuman cruelty and torture," he said. "What happened shows that these people want violence and not peace."
Sounds like a response to me
But before now, the harsh reaction of the security forces to the ongoing insurgency has done little to reduce the levels of violence, and the authorities will be under pressure to make sure they do not inflame the situation still further.
I don't think you've seen "harsh reactions", yet
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Sounds like both sides have blood on their hands.
A parcel bomb exploded in the Kuwaiti Embassy's information office on Monday, wounding two people, Lebanese security officials said. It was the second blast in the Lebanese capital in four days. The bomb exploded when Hussam al-Jamal, a Kuwaiti, tried to open a parcel at the information office in Sanayeh district, the officials said, according to a report of the Associated Press. Al-Jamal was wounded in his face and was rushed to the American University of Beirut Hospital, the officials said. Another man, Ayyas al-Alayli, who was standing next to al-Jamal when the blast occurred, was also wounded and taken to hospital, the officials added. Late Friday, a bomb exploded in the Beirut neighborhood of Ashrafiya, killing one person and wounding 23 others.
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Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani has warned that Tehran could quit the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty if it is subjected to the language of force. He said Iran would link its oil trade and other economic business with individual countries based on their support for Tehran in the international standoff over its nuclear activities. "We don't want the path to become more difficult. But if you want to use the language of force, Iran will be left with no choice, in order to preserve its technical achievements, to get out of the framework of the NPT and out of the framework of the additional protocol, and resume enrichment," Larijani said on Tuesday.
He was speaking at a news conference in Tehran that coincided with efforts by Britain, France and Germany to bring Iran before the UN Security Council over "breaches" of international atomic safeguards. "If, in the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), they want to talk to us in the language of humiliation, threat or introduce the so-called trigger mechanism or take it to the UN Security Council, we will revise our stance on the additional protocol (to the NPT) and enrichment," Larijani said.
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Mullahspeak, Clintonspeak, and Leftspeak for "I DEMAND THE USA ATTACK AND INVADE ME - VOTE FOR HILLARY AND SOCIALISM = CAPITALISM"!?
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Ah yes, here it is... page 598 of the paperback version of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich:
For two whole days I sat with my Government and waited to see whether it was convenient for the Polish Goverment to send a plenipotentiary or not... But I am wrongly judged if my love of peace and my patience are mistaken for weakness or even cowardice... I can no longer find any willingness on the part of the Polish Government to conduct serious negotiations with us... I have therefore resolved to speak to Poland with the same language that Poland for months past has used towards us...
They say Mein Kampf is widely read in Dar al Islam.
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Wanna pull out of the NPT, Iran? No sweatskis, go ahead. Simplifies negotiations, even with the EUniks. Everyone with a brain knows where you stand, even the EUniks. And how they deal with you and you linkage with other countries to OIIIIIILLLL will let us know how they stand with you AND with us.
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Pose by Ali Larijani usually proceeded by a doctor saying, "turn your head to the side and cough." Or, "how's it hangin?"
Moreover, Iran quit NPT about the tine they started secret nuke programs (circa 1980s)
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I hope we've got Tehran, Qom, Bushehr, Tabriz, Khorramshahr and any nuke sites we or the Israelis know of already pre-targeted with MIRVed nukes. We're eventually going to need them and it will probably be sooner rather than later. I suspect that it will only take one Axis of Evil country being burned down to nuclear bedrock for the rest of the world to learn that threatening Israel or America with nukes isn't such a good idea. My vote is for Iran, but NKor is awfully tempting as well.
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Keep dreaming mac, its a sweet dream for sure, but a dream none the less.
I've long been convinced that the resolve required to do such a thing just doesn't exist in this country. We'll need to lose a city to an Iranian nuke first before it does and then there will still be the lunatic left and MSM there to undermine any defense efforts. Get used to a nuclear armed Iran.
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We'll need to lose a city to an Iranian nuke first before it does
That won't be enough.
By reacting so slowly and timidly to the anthrax attacks, we've announced to the world that our deterrence threats are empty. We no longer have the guts to defend ourselves, and the world knows it.
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We don't want the path to become more difficult either, but if you keep talking about disrupting the
world oil market we may just set your ass on fire.
These sandy assholes need a major attitude adjustment, we have let them talk shit for about 3 years now and I think it is high time to put a stop to it. They are the new bully on the block, problem is they don't have the ass to back it up, so the puff up and play tough. When, I say when are we going to show some balls and make a move that scares the shit out of them and makes them straighten up?
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Funny you should use mein kampf. I thought about the chamberlain/hitler negotiations when I saw the NKOR thing yesterday. About how Hitler would make a concession, then a demand (sudetenland came to mind)
Interesting negotiating tactic. We are gonna let the NKOR's starve a while so they can think about it.
Iran should quit the NPT. The Afgans want us out anyway, so we need something for idle hands to do...
A man who opened fire at the Charge d'affaires at the UAE embassy in Damascus earlier on Monday was arrested. The Charge d'affaires Hamad Al-Juneibi who reported the news to KUNA said that security authorities started questioning of the assailant.
Al-Juneibi confirmed earlier reported that he escaped unscathed and that only his car was damaged in the shooting. He said the motives of the attack were still unknown. Asked about rumors that the attacker was a Syrian national and that the shooting was in protest to a previous decision by UAE authorities to deport him from the Gulf state, the Charge D'affaires said this is indeed the result of initial investigations but added "this is has not been confirmed yet."
Losing a bit of iron-fisted control, is Baby Assad?
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The banned Jamaatul Mujahedin Bangladesh (JMB) militants held a secret meeting at a mosque in Azampur in city's Uttara thana a day after the deadly series of bomb explosion in the country, reports BDNews.
With drinks all around, no doubt...
Meanwhile, BDNEWS Kishoreganj correspondent said that Lance Nayek Harun-ur-Rashid, who was arrested from capital's Mirpur area Tuesday, was taken on a seven-day remand for interrogation. The DGFI officials were quizzing him, Kishoreganj police said. Lance Nayek Harun hails from Kutubpur village in Bajitpur upazila in the district.
"Lance"? What the hell kind of jihadi name is "Lance"? Does he hang around with Bruce ul-Islam?
In Dhaka, arrested Masud confessed that, the JMB also held a three-day workshop on 'theoretical arms training and Islami Jihad' in Narayanganj district. Military chief of JMB Ataur Rahman, who is the younger brother of top JMB leader Shaekh Abdur Rahman, along with two other top militants, conducted the training where a good number of apprentice militants took part. "The JMB top leaders trained us sketching the pictures of deadly weapons on the wall board," grilled JMB member Abdur Rahman alias Masud, 18, disclosed this to the members of the Detective Branch (DB) of police Wednesday.
He was brought in the capital from Tangail. "I, along with Abdullah, another JMB member, held a meeting in a mosque at Moinartek in Azampur in Uttara to frame out the attack and to examine our preparation. JMB member Zahid also took part in the meeting and conducted a short briefing about the bomb explosion," Masud confessed. "After the briefing, Zahid gave me a packet containing bombs. On September 17, I planted the bomb in front of Rajuk Trade Centre at Khilkhet which was exploded at around 10-55 am," the young militant narrated.
Masud hails from village Uttarpara in Kaliakoir upazila under Gazipur district and is a second year student of Alim department in Gazipur Millat Madrasa. His (Masud) father Mohammad Aftab Uddin is a teacher of a local madrasa. Masud was arrested from his village home following the confessional statement of his grilled cousin - Mamunur Rashid - another JMB member. Earlier, Rashid was nabbed by intelligence officials from Tangail. Masud told the reporters that after the explosion he left the city and went to Gazipur where he stayed for a few days. "My parents do not know about my involvement with the JMB," Masud claimed. Masud also confessed that he was introduced with Junaied, another JMB member, in 2002.
"Mom's gonna kill me when she finds out!"
"Junaied influenced me about Jihad. He (Junaied) also asked me work with JMB," Masud claimed. BDNEWS Madaripur correspondent adds: DB police arrested two members of banned Harkatul Jihad from Madaripur town. The arrested were identified as Ismail Khan, 36, and Abbas Ali, 34. They hail from village Char Uttar Vuterdia under Babuganj upazila under Barisal district.
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September 21, 2005: Al Qaeda's man in Iraq, Abu Musab al Zarqawi, appears to be headed for a falling-out with his nominal boss, Osama bin Ladin. Although bin Laden is anti-Shia, he has been careful not to antagonize Iran, the largest Shia nation in the world, too much. There were practical reasons for this, as Iran is the only "Islamic Republic" on the planet, and has plenty of oil. Iran and al Qaeda both want to see the United States, Israel, and the West in general, destroyed. Bin Laden has long had a hard time keeping Iran friendly towards al Qaeda. That's because the Islamic conservatives, who are the core of al Qaeda support, believe that Shia Moslems are heretics, and should be forced, under threat of death, to practice the mainline Sunni form of Islam. But at least bin Laden tried. Zarqawi is another matter.
Zarqawi's refocusing of operations in Iraq against Shia civilians, particularly during the holy month of Ramadan (October), may antagonize Iran so much that it decides to support, at least covertly, American efforts against al Qaeda in Iraq. This would, in turn, give the U.S. (and the Shia) a major victory over the Sunni-led al Qaeda Jihad. At the moment, Iran is caught between a rock and a hard place. While Iran backs Islamic radicals, it also portrays itself as the defender of Shia Moslems. When the Taliban and al Qaeda were running Afghanistan, Iran was quite hostile to the atrocious treatment given to Afghan Shia. But once the Taliban were out of power, some Iranian Islamic hardliners were willing to help al Qaeda members get away from Afghans and Americans pursuing them.
Iraqi Shia leaders are already quietly pressuring Iran for some help against Zarqawi's murderous al Qaeda terrorists. If Iran doesn't do something, these complaints could turn public, which would be very embarrassing for Iranian Islamic conservatives.
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Nope, Zarq and Tater (Iran friendly) cut a deal yesterday which counters this theory.
Nothing mitigates the ernswhile drive to kill infidels, particulary US infidels on mooselimb land.
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Iran's hate of the US trumps all this. AQ is active and gets state support from Iran IMHO.
"What did [the Americans] accomplish in Afghanistan? They removed the Taliban government from Kabul, and it settled in the villages and mountains, where the real power of Afghanistan lies. Northern Afghanistan and Kabul have become a scene of chaos, pillaging, looting, defiling [women's] honor, and drug dealing, which have flourished under the American occupation. Then they held elections, which resembled a masquerade more than anything, since the country's periphery is controlled by highway
bandits and warlords, because the international committees monitoring the elections - or rather, those who bear false witness - could not cover more than 10 voting districts, even if they wanted to.
"Transferring the ballot boxes takes 15 days, under the control of the warlords and highway bandits, and then under the control of the occupation forces, and since any resistance, or anything resembling resistance or opposition, is met with bombardment, missiles, the burning of villages, and the killing of hundreds. After all this, they obtained the false testimony of the UN, which had seen nothing about which it could bear witness - except for several theatrics in a few voting districts in the cities. This is one example of the hypocrisy of the UN, which they claim to be the symbol of their international legitimacy.
"While the UN rejects the elections held in Zimbabwe, for example, because the time dedicated to voting was insufficient, it is silent as a graveyard about the elections in Afghanistan, which were held under the terrorism of the warlords. For fifteen days, the ballot boxes were passed around among the highway bandits and the American collaborators, and no one knows what
happened to them before they appeared at the ballot-counting centers. While the UN whines about those killed in Darfur and establishes an international tribunal for the war crimes committed there, it was as silent as a graveyard about the tragedy of one million Iraqi children, who died as a result of the siege on Iraq - the same siege that profited UN officials and the son of Kofi Annan, as the UN itself admits. The UN was recently forced to reveal a part of this scandal, the stench of which spreads far and wide.
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"The blessed London raid is one of the raids that the Qaedat Al-Jihad organization had the honor of carrying out against British Crusader arrogance, as well as the British Crusader aggression towards the Muslim nation over more than 100 years, against Britain's historic crime of establishing Israel, and against the ongoing crimes of the English perpetrated against Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq.
"The last wills of the heroic brothers, the knights of monotheism in the London raids - may Allah have mercy upon them, may He place them in Paradise, and may He accept their good deeds... In these wills there are important lessons for the Muslim nation in general, and especially for Muslims in Pakistan and the West, about renouncing tyrants and exposing the lies of the scholars of evil, who conceal much of the Shari'a, referring
fleeting things of this life.
"This blessed raid and its sister raids have revealed the true, hypocritical face of Western culture, which praises human rights and liberties, as long as these praises serve its interests and benefit it. After the London raid, the British government started legislating a number of new laws that reveal Britain's despicable imperialistic face. They revealed that British freedom is, in fact, the freedom to be hostile to Islam. British freedom was broad enough to include Salman Rushdie, who recently published an article in The Times in which he calls upon Muslims to reach harmony with Western culture, casts doubt upon the divine entity and the Koran, and calls upon Muslims to accept Western values like homosexuality. However, its freedom was not broad enough to include Sheikh Abu Qatada, whom it arrested that same day, along with nine others, after signing extradition treaties with Jordan and Pakistan, knowing full well that members of the Muslim factions extradited to these countries
would be subject to torture and even death.
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"Reform can only take place through Jihad for the sake of Allah, and any call for reform that is not through Jihad is doomed to death and failure. We must understand the nature of the battle and conflict. Our enemies will not grant us our rights without Jihad. No one should be deceived by what happened in Georgia, the Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, and so on, because those were changes that America wanted and encouraged. It allowed them to happen, and prevented the Russians from interfering. The Americans will not allow any Islamic regime to assume rule in the heart of the Islamic world, unless it collaborates with them, as is happening now in Iraq.
"Isn't America sending prisoners from Guantanamo and Bagram to Egypt and Jordan, where they are tortured by the very regimes which America insists should respect human rights? Brother Ibn Al-Sheikh Al-Liby was taken in a coffin and was transferred from Bagram to the National Security Department in Cairo, where he was severely tortured and held for one year, after which he was returned to Bagram. This is one of thousands of examples."
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Nutshell version:
1. Yoube infidels
2. We kill infidels
3. Don't believe Afgan elect, and
3. I'm wearin fashionable black turbin today
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Thursday's dispatch will focus on the following:
1. You ain't wid us then we kill you now
2. You wid us and shia then we kill you later
3. You wid us then we kill you maybe, but that's OK
4. "Hang in there kitty" posters will be given to all except infidel crusaders and their lackies
5. Did I tell you the arrogant British crusaders made Israel?
6. We care alot about the Paleos, we really do.
Three small explosions rocked Pakistani Southwestern city of Baluchistan province on Tuesday evening simultaneously but no casualty was reported, said police.
"Hey, Mahmoud! Let's blow up some garbage cans! Huh huh!"
Three home-made bombs went off in Podgali Chowk, Killi Qamprani and Railway housing scheme areas in the provincial capital of Quetta, 400 kilometers Southwest of Islamabad, few minutes apart, a local police official Jalal-ud-Din, told KUNA.
"Goddammit! Look at that mess! My patio's ruined!"
He said there was no human loss but caused damage to nearby buildings. Authorities did not say who carried out the attacks but suspected nationalist elements behind them.
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I hate "housing schemes", too. And I'm kinda "nationalist", come to think of it. Okay, I did it.
Two roadside bomb explosions Tuesday killed a Pakistan army soldier and a tribal elder and wounded eight others in the South Waziristan tribal agency, bordering Afghanistan, said security officials. A military vehicle on way to Wana, main headquarters of South Waziristan agency, hit a roadside bomb near Shakai town, 30 kilometers from Wana, officials told KUNA. Explosion killed a soldier and wounded five others, said the official, adding, it completely damaged the vehicle.
In a related incident a pro-government tribal elder and chief of tribal Lashkar (force) was killed in remote-controlled device explosion near Shakai market, officials said further. They said two tribal elders and a security guard were also wounded. It was not immediate clear who had planted the bomb but Islamic militants have been blamed for targeting security forces, government officials and tribal elders believed to be cooperating with authorities in the hunt for militants in the region bordering Afghanistan. Security officials have said Arab, Central Asian and Afghan militants are in the area.
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MULTAN: Police arrested two suspected militants carrying explosives and bomb-making manuals on a bus near Faisalabad, and one of the bearded men was wearing a burqa to disguise himself as a woman, an official said on Tuesday. The arrests were made late on Monday at a roadblock near Faisalabad set up by police after a tip-off, police official Rai Amir Mushtaq said. The suspects, Ahmed Saeed and Mukhtar Ahmed, are believed to be members of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, he said.
Which one's the bearded lady?
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Which one's the bearded lady?
Chuckle. That would be Ahmed, Fred.
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any devices in her his shoes. Good to know that they are checking everyone.
cop a feel and find a bomb.
Maybe there's more to these women hiding weapons than meets the eye, when americans go on the raids. No wonder they don't want their women messed with...
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What a drag
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That's why our Marines like having women in their patrols -- they can check such things without giving offence... except the anger when Mahmoud-in-drag gets caught. But that is a separate issue. ;-)
SARAI ALAMGIR: Turkish border security forces killed three Pakistanis and arrested 29 others at the Turkish border on Tuesday. Abdul Jabbar, Mirza Tahir and an unidentified man from Kharian were shot dead by the Turkish security personnel for trespassing into the country illegally. They arrested 29 others. Relatives of the victims have started contacting the Turkish forces to bring their bodies to Pakistan.
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They're now using standard Indian border guard operating procedures?
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Gul Andama, who was picked up by a security agency along with her son Bilal and two Baloch sisters on charges of plotting suicide attacks, was released on September 17, her son said on Tuesday. âMy mother told me that Bilal and the two sisters â Arifa and Saba Baloch â are still under the agencyâs custody but are in good health,â Mohammad Rafiq told Daily Times. He said his mother told family members that the agency had arranged her meeting with her son Asif once a week. âMy mother was allowed to stay with Saba, who gave birth to a baby boy hours before her arrest,â Rafiq added.
A PHC division bench on August 22 disposed of a habeas corpus petition about the whereabouts of Gul Andama, her son Bilal and two Baloch sisters after Deputy Attorney General Salahuddin, counsel for the Interior Ministry, told the court that the government and security agencies did not know their whereabouts. Barrister Masood Kauser told Daily Times that it was unfortunate that whenever such cases came to the court, 99 percent of them were disposed of due to âthe unprofessional attitudeâ of government lawyers. Andamaâs husband Hameed Khan, 75, in his petition said that the security agencies had picked up his son Bilal, wife Gul Andama and the two sisters. He said that Bilal had married Arifa and the agencies arrested them when they were returning from a hospital in Swat district where Saba had given birth to a baby boy.
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KANDAHAR: Seven people were killed Tuesday in two separate ambushes in southern Afghanistan in the wake of parliamentary polls, officials said. The first attack was at 10am in the Gizab district when Taliban rebels attacked the district police chief Haji Said, wounding him and killing his three colleagues. Three police and one Taliban were also killed in the fighting. Three Taliban were killed after a group of rebels attacked a police patrol in neighbouring Zabul province's Mizan district on Tuesday.
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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
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
An Islamic fundamentalist residing in West London spoke, on Sunday, of his fears at being forcibly returned to Egypt along with two other associates in a secret agreement between Cairo and London. Dr. 
Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) members kidnapped Tuesday the mayor of the Turkish town of Catalca, Abdulkerim Kilic, in the Hakkari regions, southeast Turkey. This kidnap is the third incident of its kind after terrorists kidnapped a Municipality chief and two soldiers two months ago. All captives were later released without injury. An official statement in Hakkari today said the mayor was kidnapped from his home this morning by the separatist labor party, adding that Turkish authorities have embarked on an investigation and a wide spread search to find the governor.
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Iraqi authorities arrested Tuesday 52 insurgents in various parts of the country and detained manager of oil-products in Peji, said the Iraqi Defense Ministry. A statement issued by the ministry said that five insurgents were detained in Salahuddin governorate, and a dozen others were arrested in Addajeel area for being suspects of carrying out bomb explosions that killed several citizens in a gas-station in the area.
Five US soldiers were killed on Tuesday by insurgents, statements by the Multi National Forces said. Four soldiers assigned to the 2nd Marine Division and to the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), were killed in action by improvised explosive devices during two separate incidents while conducting combat operations yesterday in al-Ramadi, west of here. Meanwhile an 18th Military Police Brigade Soldier was killed 75 miles north of Baghdad when his vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device.
Multi National Forces revealed today that coalition forces recently captured two key terrorist medical doctors, dealing a serious blow to al-Qaeda in Iraq which attempts to establish treatment facilities for terrorists. On last August 29 and 30, Coalition forces, acting on multiple intelligence sources and tips from concerned citizens, raided two suspected terrorist locations in the Baghdad and Baqouba areas to capture known terrorists operating there. Captured during those raids was 
Iraqi Police arrested Monday night one of the Iraqi National Dialogue Council (NDC) members from his home in Baghdad. An NDC statement said Tuesday that a force from the Ministry of Interior broke into Dr. Mahmoud Al-Mishhadani in Al-Ghazaliyah town, west Baghdad and arrested Dr. Al-Mishhadani and his son Abdulbasit Al-Mishhadani. It added that the Ministry of Interior and the Iraqi government are responsible for the incident that was described as 'a crime.' The National Dialogue Council is one of the bodies representing Iraq's Arab Sunnis in both the elections and the process of drafting the Iraqi permanent Constitution.
BASRA, Iraq - Iraq denounced British forces on Tuesday over the dramatic rescue of two undercover soldiers that could stoke hostility to the army in increasingly volatile southern Iraq.
Abu Mazenâs Palestinian Authority purchased some of the banned weapons smuggled into Gaza from Sinai in the last nine days - Israeli defense minister Shaul Mofaz to Knesset committee. The disclosure means the Palestinian Authority has not only dishonored all the accords reached for Israel`s Gaza withdrawal, but actually instigated and funded Palestinian gun-running, at least in part. 
A parcel bomb exploded in the Kuwaiti Embassy's information office on Monday, wounding two people, Lebanese security officials said. It was the second blast in the Lebanese capital in four days. The bomb exploded when Hussam al-Jamal, a Kuwaiti, tried to open a parcel at the information office in Sanayeh district, the officials said, according to a report of the Associated Press. Al-Jamal was wounded in his face and was rushed to the American University of Beirut Hospital, the officials said. Another man, Ayyas al-Alayli, who was standing next to al-Jamal when the blast occurred, was also wounded and taken to hospital, the officials added. Late Friday, a bomb exploded in the Beirut neighborhood of Ashrafiya, killing one person and wounding 23 others.
Ali Larijani has warned that Tehran could quit the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty if it is subjected to the language of force. He said Iran would link its oil trade and other economic business with individual countries based on their support for Tehran in the international standoff over its nuclear activities. "We don't want the path to become more difficult. But if you want to use the language of force, Iran will be left with no choice, in order to preserve its technical achievements, to get out of the framework of the NPT and out of the framework of the additional protocol, and resume enrichment," Larijani said on Tuesday. 
A man who opened fire at the Charge d'affaires at the UAE embassy in Damascus earlier on Monday was arrested. The Charge d'affaires Hamad Al-Juneibi who reported the news to KUNA said that security authorities started questioning of the assailant.
The banned Jamaatul Mujahedin Bangladesh (JMB) militants held a secret meeting at a mosque in Azampur in city's Uttara thana a day after the deadly series of bomb explosion in the country, reports BDNews.
September 21, 2005: Al Qaeda's man in Iraq, Abu Musab al Zarqawi, appears to be headed for a falling-out with his nominal boss, Osama bin Ladin. Although bin Laden is anti-Shia, he has been careful not to antagonize Iran, the largest Shia nation in the world, too much. There were practical reasons for this, as Iran is the only "Islamic Republic" on the planet, and has plenty of oil. Iran and al Qaeda both want to see the United States, Israel, and the West in general, destroyed. Bin Laden has long had a hard time keeping Iran friendly towards al Qaeda. That's because the Islamic conservatives, who are the core of al Qaeda support, believe that Shia Moslems are heretics, and should be forced, under threat of death, to practice the mainline Sunni form of Islam. But at least bin Laden tried. Zarqawi is another matter. 
Three small explosions rocked Pakistani Southwestern city of Baluchistan province on Tuesday evening simultaneously but no casualty was reported, said police. 
Two roadside bomb explosions Tuesday killed a Pakistan army soldier and a tribal elder and wounded eight others in the South Waziristan tribal agency, bordering Afghanistan, said security officials. A military vehicle on way to Wana, main headquarters of South Waziristan agency, hit a roadside bomb near Shakai town, 30 kilometers from Wana, officials told KUNA. Explosion killed a soldier and wounded five others, said the official, adding, it completely damaged the vehicle.
MULTAN: Police arrested two suspected militants carrying explosives and bomb-making manuals on a bus near Faisalabad, and one of the bearded men was wearing a burqa to disguise himself as a woman, an official said on Tuesday. The arrests were made late on Monday at a roadblock near Faisalabad set up by police after a tip-off, police official Rai Amir Mushtaq said. The suspects, 
SARAI ALAMGIR: Turkish border security forces killed three Pakistanis and arrested 29 others at the Turkish border on Tuesday. Abdul Jabbar, Mirza Tahir and an unidentified man from Kharian were shot dead by the Turkish security personnel for trespassing into the country illegally. They arrested 29 others. Relatives of the victims have started contacting the Turkish forces to bring their bodies to Pakistan.
Gul Andama, who was picked up by a security agency along with her son Bilal and two Baloch sisters on charges of plotting suicide attacks, was released on September 17, her son said on Tuesday. âMy mother told me that Bilal and the two sisters â Arifa and Saba Baloch â are still under the agencyâs custody but are in good health,â Mohammad Rafiq told Daily Times. He said his mother told family members that the agency had arranged her meeting with her son Asif once a week. âMy mother was allowed to stay with Saba, who gave birth to a baby boy hours before her arrest,â Rafiq added. 
KANDAHAR: Seven people were killed Tuesday in two separate ambushes in southern Afghanistan in the wake of parliamentary polls, officials said. The first attack was at 10am in the Gizab district when Taliban rebels attacked the district police chief Haji Said, wounding him and killing his three colleagues. Three police and one Taliban were also killed in the fighting. Three Taliban were killed after a group of rebels attacked a police patrol in neighbouring Zabul province's Mizan district on Tuesday.
