RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (UPI) -- A Saudi youth was deported from Syria after being caught trying to cross into Iraq to join the insurgency, reports said Monday. The Saudi daily al-Watan quoted what it called a 'special source' as saying Syrian security authorities had sent the young man`s passport to the Saudi Embassy in Damascus, then handed him over to diplomats at the airport to be sent home. The man in his 20s, whose name was not disclosed, was accompanied back home by his father. He had been arrested near the Iraqi border, which he was trying to cross clandestinely.
Also Monday, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiar Zibari was quoted as saying that more than 100 Saudis involved in terrorist operations had been arrested in Iraq. 'Those Saudi youths who are linked to the al-Qaida network have been misled and lured to take part in terrorist activities against Iraq and its people by targeting civilians and institutions,' Zibari told the Saudi daily al-Madina. 'A large number of these Saudis are detained in Iraq,' he said, stressing the need to step up security cooperation and coordination between Iraq and Saudi Arabia, including the exchange of intelligence information, 'because these zealous youth are not only dangerous for Iraq but also for Saudi Arabia.'
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wrong, wrong, wrong. You go after one or two of the high ranking mullahs and one or two of the bankers...............follow the money...........They are all in S.Arabia.
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How humiliating for that poor Saudi lad! There he was in his mid-20's, fancying himself a Man on his way to great deeds, and now Daddy came to get him and escort him home. How he must be seething.
Five foreign men were today facing expulsion from Britain after being detained in the latest operation aimed at people deemed to be a threat to national security. The men were held in dawn raids led by the Immigration Service and backed by police this morning in London, the West Midlands and south Wales. They are being held under the home secretary's powers, under the Immigration Act 1971, to deport individuals whose presence in the UK is not "conducive to the public good".
The latest operation brings the total number of men who have been detained under the act in recent months to 30. Seven men were detained under the same powers on September 15 and another 10 were detained on August 11. The home secretary, Charles Clark, has said that he will use his powers to expel foreign-born "preachers of hate" and other individuals considered dangerous to national security.
Hopefully, there will be a few "preachers" in this lot
The operations are part of a government crackdown on extremists following the July 7 bombings in London by Islamist militants, which killed 56 people. Some human rights lawyers have expressed fears that some of the men face being deported to countries with poor human rights records. The government says it is working on securing memorandums of understanding with countries where the men are from so that they can be returned safely.
After today's raids, the Home Office refused to disclose the names of the men who were held. A Home Office spokesman said: "The Immigration Act 1971 gives powers to deport individuals, and to detain them pending deportation. The Immigration Service has detained the five foreign nationals on this basis." The spokesman said the men would be held in secure prison service accommodation.
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now, now. don't go jumping to conclusions. it doesn't actually say these "five foreign men" were muslims. Just says their presence is not "conducive to the public good."
A federal soldier was killed and another two wounded in the latest rebel attacks in Chechnya, officials said on Sunday.
In one attack on Saturday in the southern Shatoi region, rebels blew up a federal armored vehicle with a radio-controlled land mine. Two servicemen were badly wounded, and one later died in a hospital, the regional branch of Russiaâs Interior Ministry said in a statement
It also said that in a separate attack on Saturday, a group of Russian soldiers was ambushed by rebels near the village of Avtury. One Russian serviceman was wounded in the skirmish, while the rebels fled.
In another southern region, Vedeno, a federal soldier has been missing since Friday, and in Chechnyaâs provincial capital, Grozny, an officer of the local police force and a regional administration worker have been missing since Thursday, the local police said.
Rebels frequently kill or kidnap local residents who work for the Moscow-backed Chechen administration.
Separately, in the restive neighboring province of Dagestan, police killed two suspected militants who resisted arrest in the Khasavyurt region near Chechnya.
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French authorities reportedly arrested several suspected Islamists Monday, a week after a similar sweep. Police made arrests in two regions of Montargis in north-central France, according to Le NouvelObs.com and other news media. Police said two converted Muslims, aged 25 and 30 years, were "the two principal targets." The suspects apparently had links with another Islamist radical, Safe Bourrada who was among nine people arrested in a separate sweep last week. According to news reports, at least one of the suspects arrested confessed to a plot by the group to target a Paris-area airport and other sensitive targets in a terrorist attack.
French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy told RTL radio Monday the latest arrests were part of "pursuing the same inquiry," into the Bourrada group. "It's part of the same cell," he added.
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So Jacques, how's that whole dhimmitude thing working?
Iraq's Shiite and Kurdish leaders quietly adopted new rules over the weekend that will make it virtually impossible for the constitution to fail in the upcoming national referendum, prompting Sunni Arabs and a range of independent political figures to complain that the vote was being fixed.
Some Sunni leaders who have been organizing a campaign to vote down the document said today that they might now boycott the Oct. 15 referendum, because the rule change made their efforts futile. Other political leaders also reacted angrily, saying the change would seriously damage the vote's credibility in Iraq and abroad.
Under the new rules, the constitution will fail only if two-thirds of all registered voters - rather than two-thirds of all those actually casting ballots - reject it in at least 3 of Iraq's 18 provinces.
The change, adopted during an unannounced vote in Parliament on Sunday afternoon, effectively raises the bar for those who oppose the constitution. Given that fewer than 60 percent of registered Iraqis voted in the January elections, the chances that two-thirds would both show up at the polls and vote against the document in three provinces would appear to be close to nil.
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Nice move. I guess the point is that the only way it can be defeated, is for it to be soundly defeated democratically. Don't vote? You don't count. Boycott ... oh please do!
I sereously doubt that the Sunni could have gotten up enough numbers to challenge the Constitution and the Sunni leaders seeing they must try would have been at odds with the Radicals. Now the regular sunni wont be able to vote without openly putting his life on the line as a sell out. Before he could at least said he was going to stop the constitution then when he got in the booth he would have been able to participate. Either way this dont look well towards "free democracy". I dont really think a failed constitution would have been so bad.
On the other hand our new allies in this thing are the Kurds and the Shia's the Sunni's are going to be blood enemies for a long time.
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I wonder what the real Sunni vote will reflect come the elections. That is, most of their "leaders" are self-appointed. I suspect that when their parlimentary votes are counted, there will be several surprises.
First of all, I bet the secularists will whup the religious parties. Of the secularists, there will probably be a big showing among the socialists--Baathism without the Baathists. They will use a platform of liberal secularism that will be very attractive to many Sunnis.
Things that Sunnis will want will be redistribution of Iraq's wealth, since they are in a poorer region; secularism as a defense against the Shiites; that the bureaucracy be merit-based, so Sunnis can move up in it; and strict nationalism for the military and the police.
However, given their track record for shooting themselves in the foot...
The U.S. military said on Sunday there was no indication to suggest that two Marines had been seized by militants in western Iraq, as earlier claimed by a militant group, but said checks were being made.
"There are no indications that Al Qaeda claims of having kidnapped two Marines in western Iraq are true," Major Neil Murphy said in a statement.
"Multi-National Force West is conducting checks to verify all Marines are accounted for," he said.
Earlier, in a statement posted on an Islamic website, al Qaeda in Iraq claimed to have seized two Marines in western Iraq, where U.S. forces are conducting an operation against suspected insurgents hiding out near the Syrian border.
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The U.S. military said on Sunday there was no indication to suggest that two Marines had been seized by militants in western Iraq, as earlier claimed by a militant group, but said checks were being made.
this news ought to depress the moonbats. blubbering, wailing and knashing of teeth alert.
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*The following inspired by a classic Sid Caesar routine*
"...Yes America, you must believe us for we have your Marine's identification papers taken from his very pockets! So we tell you one last time - free our beloved women prisoners or we will severely punish Private Juicyfruit!!"
Mike
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Dan Rather reports proof that US Marines have been taken hostage.
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Not again. Cody's got the unluckiest 11" tall soldier I've ever seen.
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Damn, they kilt Cody agin! Bastages. Good thing AQ's rant is for the regional audience where the standards for truth and accountability are, em, a little less stringent.
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GI Joe retired. That is why al Q kidnapped Cody. Fake but accurate, DD, LOL!
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As this thread illustrates, we've got one weapons that drives the jihadis nuts - a sense of humor. We're way funnier than they are. Zark can't hold a candle to Leno. We should be using this more often to our advantage - would truly drive them nuts to have them realize just how ridiculous they really are.
QAIM, Iraq â U.S. troops battled insurgents holed up in houses and driving explosives-laden vehicles in a second town near the Syrian border Sunday, killing 28 in an expansion of their two-day-old offensive chasing Al Qaeda fighters along the Euphrates River valley, the military said. Al Qaeda in Iraq claimed to have taken two Marines captive during the fighting and threatened to kill them within 24 hours unless all female Sunni detainees are released from U.S. and Iraqi prisons in the country. The U.S. military said the claim appeared false. "There are no indications that the Al Qaeda claims ... are true," Multinational Force West, the command in the region said. It said it was conducting checks "to verify that all Marines are accounted for."
Even as the fighting continued, political differences among Iraqi leaders deepened ahead of the crucial Oct. 15 national vote on a new constitution. Iraq's Kurdish president, Jalal Talabani, called on the Shiite prime minister to step down over accusations he is monopolizing power in the government and ignoring his Kurdish coalition partners' demands, a spokesman for Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan said. The U.S. military says Al Qaeda in Iraq, the country's most fearsome insurgent group, has turned the area near the border into a "sanctuary" and a way-station for foreign fighters entering from Syria.
In Karabilah, Marines clashed with insurgents who opened fire from a building on Sunday in a firefight that killed eight militants, the military said. The move into Karabilah widened the sweep launched a day earlier by 1,000 Marines, soldiers and sailors, starting with nearby Sadah â a tiny village about eight miles from the Syrian border. Most of the militants appeared to have slipped out of Sadah before the force moved in, and hundreds of the village's residents fled into Syria ahead of the assault. There was "virtually no opposition" in Sadah, the Marine commander in western Anbar province, Col. Stephen W. Davis, told The Associated Press.
At least 28 militants were killed in fighting Sunday, Davis said, bringing the two-day toll among insurgents to 36. There have been no serious U.S. casualties in the operation, he said. U.S forces are aiming to clamp down on insurgents ahead of the Oct. 15 vote. Al Qaeda in Iraq and other groups in the Sunni-led insurgency have launched a wave of violence to wreck the vote, killing more than 200 people over the past week. The U.S. operation in the Syrian border region is the fourth since May, but U.S. troops are too scattered and Iraqi forces too few to impose permanent control in the area the size of West Virginia. Militants have fled past assaults only to move back in once the bulk of U.S. forces leave.
Davis said the latest offensive would at least dislodge militants enough to allow residents of the region to vote on Oct. 15 â and could strike a heavy blow to Al Qaeda in Iraq. "There's only so many of them out there," Davis said of the insurgents. "The enemy has a problem out here â every time he shows up he gets bombs dropped on his head ... What you're seeing now is the dissolution of their network."
In Karabilah, militants forced their way into a building and began firing on Marines, and a U.S. tank fired a round into the building, wounding five civilians, the military said. Marines treated four of them for minor injuries and evacuated the fifth for treatment, it said. Marine aircraft struck a group of seven insurgents between Karabilah and Sadah, killing four. The others ran into a nearby building, joining other fighters who opened fire on Marines. Warplanes then hit the building with six precision-guided bombs, the military said. In the same area, a suicide car bomber approached a Marine position but detonated 200 yards away, it said.
Elsewhere, Shiite militiamen freed the brother of Iraq's interior minister from kidnappers who snatched him from his car a day earlier, the freed man, Abdul-Jabbar Jabr, told Associated Press Television News.
Sunni Arab leaders, meanwhile, cried foul when the Shiite-dominated parliament passed new rulings on the upcoming referendum that will make it more difficult for Sunnis to defeat the constitution at the polls. The parliament's move could undermine U.S. efforts to garner Sunni Arab support for the constitution. It could further alienate moderate Sunnis who say they want to participate in the political process but reject the draft constitution, which they contend will fragment Iraq among majority Shiites, the Kurds and Sunni Arabs. Previous rules stated that the constitution is defeated if two-thirds of voters in three provinces reject it, a threshold that the Sunnis are capable of meeting. The parliament's decision, however, raised the bar â saying two-thirds of registered voters must reject it, rather than two-thirds of those who actually cast ballots. "The fraud has begun right from now," said Saleh al-Mutlaq, a leading Sunni politician.
The wrangling among Iraq's leaders, meanwhile, threatened to increase the political turmoil. Talabani, who called for Shiite Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari's resignation, has previously accused Jaafari's Shiite bloc of monopolizing power in the government and refusing to move ahead on a key issue for Kurds, the resettlement of Kurds in the northern city of Kirkuk. He has made indirect threats to withdraw from the coalition if Kurdish demands are not met â a step that could bring down the government. Jawad al-Maliki, a Shiite legislator and a leader in al-Jaafari's Dawaa party, denounced the call. "They should have asked us for that in a legal way, and then we will have discussions," he said. "It is not beneficial for Iraq, especially during this period of time because the country is heading to a referendum and elections."
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Keep on fisting.
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I suspect that the sneaky Marines are probably going to move a major rear-eschelon of Iraqis into those five towns. Then the Marines move forward as a shield to a large area of the border while they are setting up. Very slowly, then they'll let villagers back in to find three Iraqi police and soldiers on every small street.
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This is becoming more absurd than the border problem in Arizona and California. Until we go into Syria and nip this in the bud once and for all there will be monthly "Iron Fists" until the cows come home. Geez, "when will they ever learn"?
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What will they use to train the new Iraqi troops when the border towns are pacified?;-)
Al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden, is headed for Iraq to boost his network's standing as it embarks on an "offensive whose scale and importance rival September 9/11," a media report said.
Uhuh. Right. This is Debka, filtered through India Daily. I'm not sure I have enough salt in the house to cover that...
Coded electronic signals intercepted in recent days among Al-Qaeda's Middle Eastern elements across secret Internet sites carry the message that the terror network's supreme leader has come out of his hiding in Afghanistan and has set out, or is about to set out, for Iraq, Debkafile, a weekly, known for investigative journalism reported.
Toldja so. They're also known for often being wildly wrong.
Some of the signals schedule his date of arrival as the second half of September when Ramadan is estimated to begin, it said.
It's now the beginning of October, so he's presumably there...
The signals cap a secret exchange of messages in recent weeks in which the organisation's Iraq commander, Abu Musab al Zarqawi, attempted to persuade Bin Laden to leave Afghanistan and take command of the Ramadan offensive in Iraq.
There are dozens of intel analysts and targetting people at CENTCOM reading this, saying "Please, God, let it be true!"
According to Debkafile's exclusive counter-terror sources, Zarqawi is said to have argued that Bin Laden's presence in Iraq would boost Al-Qaeda's standing before setting on an "offensive whose scale and importance rival the September 2001 operation" and goes well with his own safety.
Put him up in Qaim, which will then become a large hole in the ground. Put him up in Ramadi, which will then become the place Ramadi used to be. Pick a place, and as soon as somebody can hang a "probable" on it, it's a crater.
The secret contents of the messages, which the weekly claimed to have been authenticated by its experts, have begun to leak out and set up a huge flap in Al-Qaeda networks, cells and affiliates in many countries and talk of "a new jihad to honour the leader", the report said. Among the possible routes that the terror chief can take is the long way round through Pakistani and Iranian Baluchistan and across the border into Iraq, it said.
I'm sure both the Shia and the Kurds would be happy to make him welcome...
Another alternative route, which he might find easier because of the organisation's established marine network through Pakistan, is the sea route. The weekly had earlier reported that Al-Qaeda has established a new marine base in the remote Gawatar Bay, a Persian Gulf inlet down the middle of which runs the Pakistani-Iranian border. Its operatives are said to be active on both shores, on the Pakistani side, using the Baluchi villages strung along the River Dasht which empties into the divided bay as sanctuaries. On the Iranian side, they move around the Baluchi port of Chah-Bahar (Bandar Beheshti). The global terror network has for months been running a sea corridor of smugglers'' vessels into the southern Iraqi port of Basra from both these places, the report said. If these signals are a true representation of Bin Laden's plans and not a red herring, what is planned is a dramatic landmark battle in the global war on terror and the Iraqi conflict.
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Yep, Radical Islamies demand that Hillary become POTUS, and its only gonna cost the Democratic Party and America a yet unknown quantity of expendable Clintonian national economic units, aka innocent human /American lives, to make it so. Good Clintonians of Sozilist Amerika's, the USSA and USR, sacred Commie-Socie Midwest or mainstream will gladly and unconditionally sacrifice and give their lives so that Amerika will be ruled from places in the earth they've never been to, don't wanna move to, andor live in.
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I wonder if there is any way we can get Geraldo embedded with UBL during his pilgrimage? I mean, think about it, every night we can get live reports where we can track his journey on free maps given out by Fox News.
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boy, Jack, I've heard of nasty psyops but that takes the cake ... OBL will be a basket case within a week of Geraldo's companionship. LOL
The Samaria military court on Sunday sentenced Mohammed Mustafa Dara, 23, of Kakilya, to life plus an additional 10 years for his involvement in the murder of seven-year-old Noam Leibovtich on June 17, 2003. Noam was traveling with her parents along the Trans-Israel highway when Palestinian gunmen opened fire, killing her and wounding several other family members.
The Leibovitch family was on their way home to the Yemin Orde educational community on Mount Carmel, south of Haifa, on the night of the attack. Noam's father, Shlomo, who was driving, had decided to take a shortcut along the Trans Israel Highway. They had just reached the intersection near Kibbutz Eyal, and were preparing to leave the highway so they could take Noam's grandparents to Netanya, when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire from close range on the vehicle. The bullets riddled the car and shattered the windows, killing Noam, seriously wounding her younger sister Shiva, aged three, and lightly wounding her elder brother and her grandfather, Shmuel Aviad. Aviad and his grandson were treated at the scene and then taken to hospital along with Shira. Efforts to resuscitate Noam were made in vain, and she was pronounced dead at the scene.
Shin Bet agents, aided by IDF troops, later captured three members of the Islamic Jihad cell, which carried out the attack. The terrorist cell used a cafe and mosque in Kalkilya to plan the attack and distribute weapons and money funneled from abroad, security sources said.
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So how long before our Pali friends demand that this "freedom fighter" be released?
Breaking:
Palestinian police officers have broken into the parliament in Gaza to demand a crackdown on the militant group Hamas. The demonstration comes a day after fierce clashes between police and Hamas gunmen in which a police commander and two civilians were killed. "Yesterday, we did not have enough bullets," one of the protesting policemen was quoted as saying. Not usually a Paleo problem...
... but it sounds like their hearts are in the right place.
The clashes were the worst of their kind for years and came as police tried to enforce a ban on carrying arms.
Popcorn alert.
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Oh goody, goody, goody. I LOVE popcorn!!
Gee, the bad guys don't have as many bullets as the really bad guys. Now, I wonder why that is?
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why are we JUST starting to hear of these antagonistic relationships? why has the media till now not uncovered the raging hostility amongst the various factions? why haven't they explored the relationship between hamas and the pa?
why have they made it sound like they all sang kumbayah and that Israel was the only bad guy (well, till they started shooting at each other, that is)?
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Tell them to transfer some of their off duty ammo stockpile to their on duty ammo stockpile. Does somebody else have to figure out everything for these people?
One policeman and two civilians were killed and at least 50 people were wounded during clashes between the Palestinian police and Hamas members in the Gaza Strip on Sunday.
In a separate incident, a driver was killed after he attacked a Palestinian policeman during a violent demonstration in Gaza City. The demonstration was called by Hamas to protest soaring gas prices.
The main clashes, which also took place in Gaza City, erupted when a police patrol operating in the Sheikh Redwan neighborhood stopped a car containing four armed Hamas operatives and tried to confiscate their weapons.
"Hokay boys, hand over yer guns!"
"You ain't taking our shootin' rods from us! Reach for the sky!"
According to Palestinian sources, one of the four men was Mohammed Rantisi, the son of former Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi, who was helizapped assassinated by Israel.
The Hamas men opened fire, and the ensuing confrontation sparked festivities gun battles all over the neighborhood between Hamas operatives and policemen, with armed Fatah operatives joining in on the side of the police. According to Palestinian sources, the Hamas men employed not only light arms, but also automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades, which were hurled, among other targets, at the Sheikh Redwan police station.
Pro'ly best not to leave one brick standing atop another in Gaza ...
Later, the battle spread to Shati refugee camp west of Gaza, which, according to police sources, is where the policeman was killed. Hamas operatives also torched the Shati police station and several cars belonging to the Palestinian police.
The wounded, who by some counts numbered as many as 27 people, included policemen, Hamas operatives and passersby. But according to Gaza's Shifa Hospital, most of the injuries were light to moderate.
'cause none of these guys ever completed Gunnery Sergeant Johnson's course.
Palestinian policemen described the incident as the worst outbreak of festivities factional fighting since Israeli troops withdrew from Gaza last month. However, the tension between Hamas and the Palestinian police has risen steadily over the past four days, due to the Palestinian Authority's declaration that it will no longer allow arms to be carried in the streets. Hamas promptly announced that it had no intention of abiding by this order, and its leaders even accused the PA of trying to liquidate the organization.
A senior Hamas official living in Damascus, Mohammed Nazel, reiterated this charge Sunday and threatened civil war in response. "There is a faction of the Palestinian Authority that is trying to eradicate the Hamas movement and plans a widespread conflict in the West Bank," Nazel said. "The hands of this faction, which is backed by Washington and London, are stained with Palestinian blood, and Hamas will confront it, even at the price of civil war."
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Pass out the long knives. This isn't a bug it's a feature.
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Ah, yes! The Pregame Warmup Showâ¢. All rightie, then. Pass the popcorn, please. By the way, would anyone like a tasty smoked salmon strip, Doc Harris style?
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Luv the Deluxe Apathy Meter.
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would anyone like a tasty smoked salmon strip, Doc Harris style?
I might do, AP, I love salmon. How does Doc Harris make his?
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"...rocket-propelled grenades, which were hurled,..."
Ok,this statment leads me to conclude they forgot thier RPG launchers or the rocket-propelled grenades gave them indigestion.
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tw---the late Doc Harris from a fish camp, near Kotzeube used to make smoked salmon in narrow strips with the skin still on. There are individual recipes for the sauce. Smoke over alder wood.
I was looking at the nearby article (salted to taste) concerning Al Q in the Sinai. It is a perfect time to infiltrate, all right. I see two things:
1. Israel must be tough with Gaza. Al Q and the rest (Hamas and Co) will try to make use of "Useful Idiots" for cover. They expand their ops to cranking up the propaganda war.
2. Egypt will soon have to deal with an infestation of Al Q, or that disease will mestasticise and devour the host. Can't have it both ways.
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I feel so left out when the popcorn talk starts. I only buy Pepsi or Cocola brand cola soft drinks at the movies. I carry in the rum, beef jerky, ruffles, carrots, wings and the odd slice of cold pizza.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas agreed to meet in the near future amid a surge in inter-Palestinian fighting that has left one policemen dead. Abbas called Sharon with greetings for the Jewish New Year, which starts at sundown today. Sharon expressed best wishes for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, starting this week. A statement from Sharon's office said they "agreed to tighten cooperation between them and to work together to advance the process. They also agreed to meet soon in order to advance various issues that are on the agenda. "Both leaders expressed hope that the new year would be more successful, a year of peace and hope," it said. Israeli and Palestinian officials said no date had been set for a summit.
Hours after his conversation with Sharon, Abbas faced new conflict on the home front, where Palestinian police traded fire with Hamas militants in Gaza City, killing one and wounding 27 other people, among them three policemen, medics and witnesses said. Both police and militants accused the other of sparking the confrontation which began with a dispute that escalated into a gun battle that spread to two Hamas strongholds in and near Gaza City. Police sources said the policeman was killed after militants fired rocket-propelled grenades and tried to storm a police station in Shati refugee camp. But Hamas claimed the clashes erupted after police attempted to arrest the son of Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi, a former Hamas leader who was slain in an Israeli air strike last year. Hamas said the police stopped Mohammad Rantissi's car, but he refused to hand himself over. The police began shooting after an angry crowd gathered around them, sparking a gun battle, Hamas said. Rantissi was not injured, said Mushir al-Masri, a Hamas spokesman.
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The Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas held the PA security responsible for the latest incidents in Gaza and accused the PA interior ministry of provoking discord in the Palestinian arena.
"Yeah! It wuz them! It wudn't us!"
According to Hamas, PA police tried to arrest Muhammad al-Rantisi, the son of late Abdel-Aziz al-Rantisi, people tried to prevent the police from arresting him and the police started firing at his car and at the people who gathered to prevent the arrest wounding many residents. Angered by police action the people attacked the police and stormed a number of police stations.
"Hrarrrr! Kill them oppressors!"
According to the PA interior ministry spokesman, the police arrived at the scene to resolve a dispute between two people who quarrelled over the use of a cash machine at the Palestine Bank.
"That's my dough!"
"Is not! I just took it out!"
"But I got a gun and you don't!"
A Hamas member called other Hamas activists over the phone who clashed with the police using hand grenades an RPGâs killing one police officer and wounding 20 bystanders. The Qassam Brigades alleged in its statement on the events that there was a current [within the PA] that is trying to isolate Hamas and was pushing towards confrontations, but the statement hastened to add that the Qassam Brigades will remain faithful to the blood of martyrs and will not be drawn into internal conflict with the PA and that its weapons will always be pointed at the Zionist enemy.
"But there ain't nobody screws with us! 'Cuz we got turbans and guns!"
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The way I heard it, Junior Rantissi didn't want to wait his turn at an ATM. Started waving a gun, and the coppers got involved.
Investigators hunting for the masterminds of three suicide bombings on the popular resort island of Bali hoped to quickly identify the bombers Monday, with Indonesia's newspapers publishing photographs of their severed heads. I think I recognize that ear.
Police also sought three accomplices believed to still be on the resort island, and enlisted a former operative of Southeast Asia's top terrorist group to help track down the plotters of Saturday's attack, which killed at least 22 people, including the bombers, and wounded 104. The bombers in the near-simultaneous blasts at three crowded restaurants were believed to have used explosive vests loaded with ball bearings to maximize the damage. Their torsos were blown apart, but their heads were intact â swollen and bruised but remarkably well-preserved, said Indonesian anti-terror official Maj. Gen. Ansyaad Mbai.
In addition, a chilling video capturing a suspected bomber strolling past diners at one of the cafes moments before it was blown up could provide a tremendous boost to the investigation. Police think at least three other people were involved in the attacks and probably were still at large on Bali, Mbai said, adding that results could come within days.
Nobody has claimed responsibility for the attacks at two seafood cafes on Jimbaran beach and a restaurant in the bustling tourist center of Kuta, all packed with diners on the busiest night of the week. Well, it certainly couldn't have been anyone of the Religion of Peace™.
Mbai said the alleged masterminds of the blasts were Malaysian fugitives Azahari bin Husin and Noordin Mohamed Top â who have also been blamed for the 2002 Bali bombings. They have eluded authorities for years, several times slipping through the fingers of Indonesian police who earlier offered a $100,000 reward for information leading to their arrest. Azahari and Noordin are alleged to be associated with Jemaah Islamiyah, whose members were convicted in attacks on two crowded nightclubs on Bali three years ago that killed 202 people, and two other deadly terrorist attacks in the world's most populous Muslim country in 2003 and 2004, both in Jakarta.
Authorities have enlisted the help of a former Jemaah Islamiyah operative to help track down the masterminds in Saturday's bombings. Nasir Abbas, who has testified against former colleagues in trials, arrived on Bali two hours after the blasts, working as an informant for police. "Police are using him to help find which group is behind this operation. Former terrorists can help give details," Mbai said.
Southeast Asian intelligence officials have repeatedly warned that the group could attempt a major terrorist attack in the region and, fearing more strikes, were clamping down.
Though Jemaah Islamiyah members have said their goal was to punish the United States and its allies for killing Muslim civilians â in Iraq and elsewhere â most of the victims in Saturday's blast were Indonesians. In one neighborhood in Bali, residents erected a banner reading: "What has my Bali done to deserve this?" You let moslems on your island.
Drink vendor Carsen was among many Balinese residents whose shock has started turning to anger after the tropical resort island, which relies heavily on tourism, again became a target. "When we catch these guys, there's no point providing them with defense lawyers, just string them up and let us punish them," said Carsen, who goes by one name.
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Ok, Indonesia - are we ready to start shooting Islamists yet? Or are you going to pat them on their pointy heads once again and send them merrily off to boom more civs?
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How many more times does Indonesia intend to revisit the issue of sociopathic murderers before they can begin to make judgments about the scum behind such act and begin to confront the problem head on in a serious manner? Perhaps they are truly incapable of it. PS I was thinking bacon wrap.
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Douse the heads in pig pheremones, then video the result as a horny pig is let loose on them. Then hack the Al-Jazeera satellite feeds during primetime and splice in the pig-on-head party fun, complete with an Arabic rap song explaining how to avoid such things in future. (For the kids.)
IF the latest Bali atrocities turn out to be the handiwork of Jemaah Islamiah - which at this stage appears to be the most likely suspect - then they prove a powerful point.
It is far too early to write off JI or to assert, as former foreign minister and president of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group Gareth Evans did just six days ago, that the organisation has been "effectively smashed" and no longer poses a serious threat to Australia or Australian interests.
In the three years since the October 2002 Bali bombings, JI's activities have been severely disrupted by the investigations mounted by the Indonesian police, ably assisted by the Australian Federal Police. The group's infrastructure, leadership, command hierarchy and freedom to meet and plan operations have been curtailed.
JI probably no longer functions as the sophisticated and highly regimented organisation it once was. However it still retains a deadly capacity to kill and maim, thanks to a number of factors. These are the haphazard nature of the crackdown in Indonesia; the fact that key individuals involved in planning and executing bombings are still at large; the long and rich history of the Indonesian Islamist movement that spawned JI; and its proven ability to continue its training, find new recruits and draw on a wide network of like-minded groups and individuals.
Disturbingly, JI has still not been outlawed in Indonesia and even the country's highly regarded president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, continues to maintain the nonsensical fiction that there is no such thing as JI. "Actually there is no formal organisation called JI in Indonesia," the president recently asserted. "We cannot dismiss an organisation that does not exist formally."
Despite the lack of will to take on JI politically, the police investigation into the bombings it has perpetrated has been resolute, resulting in well over 200 arrests and dozens of convictions. However the number arrested represents only a small proportion of JI's known membership. The best estimate I have seen of this is contained in an internal JI document from about 1999, which stated that at that time the group had "more than 2000 members and 5000 trainees".
For all its successes, the police investigation has also been marred by tragic blunders. On three separate occasions the Indonesian police have narrowly failed to capture JI's bomb-master Azahari bin Husin, the Australian-educated PhD professor who built the bombs that destroyed the Sari Club and Paddy's bar in 2002 and damaged the Marriott Hotel and Australian embassy in Jakarta. On one occasion police arrested a JI suspect driving a motorbike, but let his pillion passenger go -- only to learn later that the passenger had been Azahari. Another time the police were about to raid a house in the city of Bandung where Azahari was staying; the raid was inexplicably delayed while news was leaked to the media. By the time the police arrived Azahari had fled. On the most recent occasion, Azahari was fleeing in the aftermath of the embassy bombing when he was stopped by a traffic policeman in Jakarta; he reportedly paid off the cop and was allowed to leave.
Azahari and his right-hand man Noordin Mohammed Top, were last sighted in Jakarta in the wake of the embassy bombing, when they told a group of their helpers "God willing, we still have other targets in Jakarta."
In June this year Indonesian intelligence advised the Australian embassy it that had uncovered a new plan to bomb Western hotels in the capital, prompting a new travel advisory from DFAT: "We continue to receive a stream of credible reporting suggesting that terrorists are in the very advanced stages of planning attacks."
Other equally dangerous JI commanders and operatives are still at large. Among them is the al-Qai'da-trained bomb specialist Dulmatin, who helped Azahari in Bali in October 2002. Another is the Afghanistan veteran, Zulkarnaen, who heads JI's military wing and established a new JI special squad in 2003 to carry out bombings in Jakarta.
At last report, Dulmatin was on the run in the southern Philippines, providing training and assistance to the country's Abu Sayyaf rebels. According to Australian intelligence, JI and the Abu Sayyaf have forged a new strategic alliance, under which the Abu Sayyaf provides protection and assistance for JI in its Philippines stronghold. In return JI supplies bomb-making expertise and training.
JI has unquestionably retained its ability to train its fighters, recruit new foot soldiers and tap into a wide range of fellow jihadist groups that share its beliefs and aspirations.
JI currently conducts its training at a camp called Jabal Qubah on the southern Philippines island of Mindanao, where it provides a variety of training programs including an "officer training course", which runs over 18 months and takes 15 to 20 trainees at a time.
A JI instructor named Rohmat, who was arrested in March 2005, told Philippines authorities he had just graduated 23 recruits from one of these courses. A senior Australian counter-terrorism official told me in July this year that the JI training program now includes a specific course in suicide bombing, including driving skills and bomb detonation.
Despite assurances to the contrary, JI has also continued training in Indonesia. The group that helped Azahari and Top to bomb the Australian embassy held training camps in West Java in 2003 and 2004. According to a key operative named Rois, who was recently sentenced to death for the embassy bombing, one purpose of this training was to "select martyrs" for suicide bombing operations.
Indonesia's extreme Islamic schools continue to provide a fertile recruiting ground for JI. Approximately 20 to 30 such schools espouse the same virulent anti-Western ideology propounded by JI. The largest of these is the JI leader's Abu Bakar Bashir's Ngruki school in Solo. At last report, 2000 students were being indoctrinated there in Bashir's rigid and hate-filled views. The school is currently run by Bashir's son, Abdul Rohim, who was identified by the Australian JI member Jack Roche as a "go-between between al-Qai'da and JI". Abdul Rohim previously headed a Karachi-based JI cell known as Al Ghuraba, meaning "the foreigners", which was set up to groom and train a new generation of JI leaders.
Another key factor behind JI's resilience is its long and rich history, which dates back to an Islamic rebellion that grew up in Indonesia in the 1940s under the banner of Darul Islam, or "Abode of Islam". The rebellion achieved victory in 1949, when its leader declared his own Islamic State of Indonesia, centred on West Java. This self-proclaimed state survived for 13 years with a 12,000-man army and its own police, tax collectors and civil administration. The rebellion spread to Aceh, south Sulawesi and central Jakarta, provoking violent conflict in which 20,000 people died.
The rebellion was finally crushed in 1962 when its leader was captured and executed. But the dream of restoring Indonesia's short-lived Islamic state has lived on among the adherents of Darul Islam and its offshoot, JI.
The Darul Islam movement has flourished ever since, spawning numerous other jihadist groups, including JI. Many of the men arrested in Indonesia in the past three years have been the sons and grandsons of Darul Islam veterans, whose fathers and grandfathers fought and died for the cause.
It's a time-honoured and glorious tradition -- and a long-term proposition. A cache of JI documents seized in the aftermath of the first Bali bombings included a 25-year plan for the future of JI. In the three years since Bali, JI has evolved from a sophisticated, highly disciplined organisation into what one veteran intelligence analyst in Canberra describes as a "network of networks", able to tap into and a draw on a wealth of support from sympathetic individuals and groups. Its evolution has replicated that of its mentor organisation, al-Qa'ida, which -- after the destruction of its bases in Afghanistan after 9/11 -- decentralised and globalised, making it even harder to pin down and defeat.
According one senior intelligence analyst who specialises in Indonesia, "the fact that JI has been able to replace senior commanders suggests its organisation heart is still intact." Australian intelligence knows that JI still manages to hold meetings, to source explosives, to find people to provide shelter and financial support. In the words of another top counter-terrorism official, it still constitutes "a formidable enemy".
I recently asked two terrorism experts how they believed JI would rate its own success. "JI is adapting to changing circumstances," one said. "There's no evidence they're giving up. They've settled in for the long haul on this. If they only perpetrate one outrage every two years then they believe they're winning".
The senior counter-terrorism official concurred: "JI would consider its relationship with al-Qa'ida and its role in the global jihad and would gauge its success as fairly high. They believe it's just the very first stage in a decades-long global struggle. They're quite prepared to be doing this for years - they expect their great, great grandchildren to still be fighting this fight."
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the raid was inexplicably delayed while news was leaked to the media
Hmmm dictionary definition : Difficult or impossible to explain or account for
FOR MONTHS intelligence officials had received information about a terrorist attack like the latest Bali bombing--but the plot's details were not uncovered in time to thwart it, Philippine security officials said Sunday.
Ric Blancaflor, executive director of a Philippine anti-terrorism task force, said Southeast Asia's intelligence community was aware that the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah group was orchestrating a major strike, possibly in the Philippines or Indonesia.
"The fact that there's going to be an attack was known to the intelligence community," Blancaflor said. "The problem always is how to get the exact details, like where."
A police intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of his work, said Indonesia was warned by Western security officials of a possible attack before Saturday's deadly bombings. He didn't elaborate.
The official also said Jemaah Islamiyah has been trying to solicit funds from the Middle East to finance a major strike in the Philippines.
"The threat has not diminished," said Blancaflor.
Philippine security officials warned last month that at least two Jemaah Islamiyah would-be suicide bombers may have already slipped into the country to carry out an attack with the help of Abu Sayyaf Muslim militants.
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo urged the public to help thwart attacks. "The new Bali attacks after the London attacks show the resiliency of terrorists to strike targets when our guard is down," she said in a statement.
National police Director General Arturo Lomibao placed the 115,000-strong police force on "heightened alert," requiring at least half of the force to be on stand-by in camps, following the latest Bali attacks.
Intelligence gathering would be intensified and security in resorts frequented by foreigners would be further strengthened as a precaution, he said.
The Philippines has been regarded as a terrorist breeding ground. Western nations have expressed concern over the presence of Jemaah Islamiyah training camps in the country's south, fearing they could produce militants who could strike anywhere.
Officials, however, say that troops have overrun those camps and were pursuing Indonesian militants and Abu Sayyaf guerrillas fleeing from a months-long offensive.
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Intelligence services remind me of cops in a car chase. They always call it off right before the guy they're chasing hits a tree or some poor sap on his way home from work.
A leading counter-terrorism expert on Sunday urged the Indonesian government to declare the Jemaah Islamiyah an illegal or terrorist organization and to strengthen its counter-terrorism legislation as part of efforts to prevent further terror attacks.
According to Channel NewsAsia reports on Sunday night, Dr Rohan Gunaratna, who is based in Singapore, said he believed that Al-Qaeda's regional arm, the Jemaah Islamiyah, is the only one with the capability to launch terrorist attacks like the ones in the Indonesian resort island of Bali, and the threat by the group is far from over.
He insisted that the group's capabilities have been disrupted in the wake of Sept. 11, but their intention to attack has not.
Stressing the need for the Indonesian government to do more, he said that the Indonesian government has not proscribed or designated JI as a terrorist group, and the key is not only to remain on high alert but to pro-actively hunt and target and dismantle JI.
Meanwhile, the expert said the group's threat to the city state was always there but the Singapore government was doing all the right things. Singapore has condemned the Bali bombings, and so far it has no confirmed reports of any Singaporean casualty.
On Monday, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is scheduled to meet Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in Bali for informal talks which will focus on bilateral and regional issues, including the fight against terrorism and ways to strengthen security cooperation.
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In the first 24 hours after a series of bombs killed 22 people in a restaurant on a busy street and in two beachfront restaurants five miles away, investigators in Bali made rapid progress on Sunday, in part owing to a macabre bit of luck. As they sifted through bodies and body parts, they say, they found the heads of three men and three sets of legs, with no middles, the forensic signature of suicide bombings. One head was more than 75 feet from the rest of the body.
The blasts on Saturday evening did not obliterate the faces, so the police were able to display vivid, gruesome photographs of them at a news conference here on Sunday evening, and the photographs were shown on television and in Monday newspapers. The likelihood of identifications from the public seemed high.
The Bali police chief, Made Pastika, revised the death toll downward from an estimate of 25, saying that the three bombers had killed themselves and 19 other people - 14 Indonesians and 5 foreigners. Of the more than 90 wounded, nearly all were Indonesian, he said.
At least seven of the wounded were Americans, all from one San Francisco family eating in Raja's, a restaurant in Kuta, when a bomb went off there. The seven were expected to be released from a hospital here later Monday.
Mr. Pastika said that the police were searching for three other men believed to be involved in the bombings, and that a faction of the militant group Jemaah Islamiyah might be responsible.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono warned that terrorists could be planning more strikes, and police commanders in Jakarta, the capital, ordered two-thirds of their forces to remain on standby. "The terrorists are still looking for soft targets," the president said Sunday after touring the bombing scenes in Bali.
Mr. Pastika presented a video, taken by a visiting family, that showed a man with a backpack walking into Raja's and then the giant flash of an explosion. Each of the three bombs, he said, held as much as 22 pounds of dynamite, and they might have been carried in backpacks or in suicide vests. It was not known if they were detonated remotely or by triggers set off by the suicide bombers.
Mr. Pastika said the investigators had not concluded who was responsible, but he noted the similarity to two bombings seconds apart at nightclubs here in October 2002 that killed 202 people. Those attacks were the work of Jemaah Islamiyah, Indonesian and American officials have said. The group is considered the Southeast Asia surrogate for Al Qaeda. But Mr. Pastika said there was no evidence of Qaeda involvement in the bombings on Saturday.
In the past few years, the Indonesian police have arrested scores of Jemaah Islamiyah's most militant members, and the arrests severely weakened the group, according to Sidney Jones, the pre-eminent expert on the group and, more broadly, terrorism in Southeast Asia.
While the group's mainstream members have forsaken terrorism, she said, a breakaway faction remains committed to terrorist acts against the West, and the United States in particular.
That faction is headed by Azhari Husin, a Malaysian educated in Britain, and Muhammad Noordin Top, also a Malaysian, who is thought to have been the mastermind behind the deadly attack on the JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta in August 2003, she said. The two men, who have become the most-wanted fugitives in Southeast Asia, are also believed to have been behind an attack on the Australian Embassy in September 2004.
Mr. Pastika said they were possibly behind the attacks on Saturday.
As frequently happens in cases of terrorist attacks, rumor and contradictory reports colored the day on Sunday. Besides revising the death toll, Mr. Pastika denied a report that three unexploded devices had been found in Jimbaran, where two bombs had detonated in beach restaurants.
The wounded were being treated at the Sanglah hospital. In one room was the Ly family of San Francisco. The Lys had relatively slight injuries, mostly cuts to their legs.
Soviana Suprato Ly, 38, an Indonesian who became an American citizen in 1988, said they were on a homecoming visit and came to Bali on Friday after 10 days in Jakarta.
On Saturday, the Lys went on a sightseeing tour, then ended the day at the popular beach resort of Kuta.
"We wanted to see the beautiful sunset at Kuta," Ms. Ly said, sitting with her 16-year-old son, Sean. Then, she said, they began looking for a place to eat. "Father wanted noodles, and the children wanted spaghetti and burgers."
They spotted Raja's.
The family sat down on the first floor of Raja's, a three-story building, and heard a "big explosion" on the second floor, Ms. Ly said.
"We got scared; we saw everything dark," she said. "I saw my dad under all the stones and tables."
"Why did they do this to us?" she cried.
Around her in the same hospital room, the other family members lay on beds. In one, her father, 70-year-old Jusof, nursed his wounds. Sean was connected to an intravenous tube, and her youngest son, Jeremy, 4, had a patch on his head.
The attacks came as Bali, a Hindu enclave in an overwhelmingly Muslim nation, was steadily recovering from the slump in tourism that followed the 2002 bombings. Tourism is the main source of income for Bali.
On Sunday afternoon, 60 Hindu monks, dressed in flowing white, performed a ceremony in front of Raja's, which is wedged between a McDonald's and a Kentucky Fried Chicken. They offered food to the spirits of the dead.
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As they sifted through bodies and body parts, they say, they found the heads of three men and three sets of legs, with no middles, the forensic signature of suicide bombings. One head was more than 75 feet from the rest of the body.
If you lack imagination, here is a graphic example.
talked to a Sri Lankan [Buddhist] friend today he said this about Indonesian Muslims killers. "They wave and greet you in the morning but they smile when they kill you at night."
btw the whole family are proven friends, an inspiration for me.
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RD: If you lack imagination, here is a graphic example.
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If only the smell could be also presented, no one would ever forget - nor forgive these animals.
Bashir the simpering JI Spiritual Leader should die this way, burned from the toes up, inch by inch, self-cauterizing, excessively slowly - so he can know the smell intimately before he dies.
An Australian tourist who filmed an explosion in a Bali restaurant only realised he had footage of a suicide bomber when he rewatched his tape, he said today.
Garry Shaw, from Bateman's Bay on the NSW south coast, was walking past busy Raja's Restaurant in Kuta Square with his family at the time of the blast. Mr Shaw's footage shows a man with a white top, dark jeans and a backpack over his shoulder rushing into the restaurant seconds before a big bang.
An emotional Mr Shaw said he had set his camera on the restaurant after his daughter made an jokey comment about one of the diners. "As we do on every other family holiday, we (were) just videoing the family walking along the street and for some reason my daughter made a comment on somebody in the restaurant looking like Cleopatra," Mr Shaw told Channel Ten.
"So I've turned the camera to my left as I've walked (and) I've just kept it going left right through the whole restaurant."
The family video captured the explosion but didn't realise they also had images of the suspected suicide bomber until later, he said. "We realised when we got home and watched it back that we got the whole lot on (the) footage," said Mr Shaw, who suffered minor injuries from flying metal. "At the time we didn't realise what had happened, the explosion was all we realised, until we watched it a few times over ... ."
Mr Shaw's videotape is one of at least two being studied by Balinese investigators following the near simultaneous blasts at three busy Bali restaurants.
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Got it. Not that illustrative. You do see the filthy terrorist, but he walks off camera several seconds before the blast. No detail; just him walking across the room. You do see the orange blast a bit, but again with no detail. Not worth the download, IMOH.
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A GLOBAL hunt was last night under way for the two terrorist masterminds behind the latest Bali bombings, one of them a British-educated bomb-maker who may already have been involved with extremists when he studied at a UK university.
They were identified as Azahari bin Husin, a former student at Reading University, and Noordin Mohamed Top - nicknamed Demolition Man and Money Man respectively in Indonesia because of their "skills".
As the death toll of Saturday's blasts was revised to 22, including the three suicide bombers, world leaders condemned the attacks and pledged their support for Indonesia's fight against terrorism.
However, the Foreign Office was also facing questions about how much information it had passed on to British travellers about risks in South-east Asia during "bombing season".
With ten dead bodies unidentified, British diplomats in Indonesia conceded it could not be said with "absolute certainty" that none was British. More than 100 people were injured in the attacks, at least two of them British. Of those, 17 were said to be in a serious condition.
Grim forensic evidence and chilling CCTV and amateur video footage appeared to confirm that the blasts, in three restaurants in the resorts of Jimbayan Beach and Kuta, were set off by terrorists carrying explosives on their bodies.
With the main culprits dead, decapitated by their explosions, the search has turned to the militant leaders who inspired and equipped the bombers.
All evidence suggests the Jemaah Islamiyah group (JI), an affiliate of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network, carried out the Bali outrage.
Despite arrests and other operations that have left JI "fragmented", its key figures, Husin and Top, remain at large, high on the watch-lists of security services.
Malaysia-born Husin is described by the US State Department as one of "the most wanted men in South-east Asia" and is said to be an expert in the preparation of explosives and identifying targets.
After a mechanical engineering degree in Australia, Husin came to Britain in the late 1980s and in 1990 received a PhD from Reading University. The college yesterday confirmed Husin had written a thesis on property prices in Malaysia. "It is not thought he maintained any contact with the university once he had completed his thesis," a statement said. "When Azahari Husin was at Reading, he appeared to be a completely normal student."
Despite that assurance, there is a possibility that Husin had already begun the so-called "radicalisation" process when he came to Britain. According to reports in Malaysia, he first met Abu Bakar Bashir, the spiritual leader of JI, in the 1980s and fell under his sway at that time.
Husin and Top, also Malaysian, have been on the run since fleeing their home country in 2001, and are wanted in connection with a string of attacks on Western targets in Indonesia. The Malaysian foreign minister, Syed Hamid Albar, said: "These people may be Malaysian by citizenship but they are not with us. I hope they [Indonesians] are successful in investigating and catching these two men."
Tony Blair said that Britain would "stand by Indonesia at this very difficult time". "I offer our full support to the people of Bali as they recover from another atrocity so soon after the 2002 attack," he said. "The British government stands ready to help in any way we can."
The US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, said that the United States "stands with the people and government of Indonesia as they work to bring to justice those responsible for these acts."
British travel firms estimated that about 1,000 UK nationals were at present in Bali on holiday. Last night, however, there was little sign of many seeking to return home in the wake of the attacks.
"It's not the impression we've had, that people are trying to leave the country," said Charles Humphrey, the British ambassador to Jakarta. "There have been some people leaving but it's not been a panic exodus."
While Australian officials passed on an Indonesian government warning that September and October were "bombing season", the Foreign Office did not update its travel advice until yesterday morning.
And even after the attacks, the Foreign Office still does not advise against travel to Bali, though it does for other parts of Indonesia, like war-torn Aceh province.
"People still intending in the immediate future to travel to Bali should review thoroughly information on the local situation, and ensure they are taking full precautions and following local advice," said the Foreign Office in advice updated yesterday. By contrast, the Australian government has advised against all but essential travel to Bali since the 2002 attacks.
David Ritchie, the Australian ambassador to Indonesia, yesterday confirmed that his government regarded this autumn as a particularly sensitive period.
"This is a time of year that makes us very nervous," said Mr Ritchie, who is now in Bali. "August, September, October have been something of a bombing season in Indonesia."
On 29 August, the Indonesian government issued a warning that the following two months were very likely to see terrorist attacks linked to JI and al-Qaeda.
Australian relayed that warning to its citizens via its formal travel advice; the Foreign Office made no mention of it.
Regional experts said that there had been a high degree of ambient noise or "chatter" among suspected extremist sympathisers, often a sign that a terrorist operation is imminent.
"The fact that there's going to be an attack was known to the intelligence community," said Ric Blancaflor, a senior Philippines counter-terrorism official.
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The coordinated blasts in Bali that killed 25 people were likely set off by bombers who died in the explosions, a senior Indonesian counter-terrorism official says. On Saturday, three bombs tore through restaurants packed with evening diners, two at outdoor seafood restaurants on Jimbaran beach and one at a steak bar at Kuta beach in an area surrounded by shops and jammed with pedestrians, including children, police said. At least 107 people were wounded. Indonesia's health minister said 25 people died in the blasts. Fifteen bodies have been identified - 12 Indonesians including a six-year-old boy, two Australians and a Japanese. The wounded included 68 Indonesians, 20 Australians, six South Koreans, four Americans and four Japanese, with other nationalities unknown.
Asked whether the blasts on the resort island were bombings in which the attackers killed themselves, the head of the counter-terrorism desk at the office of the chief security minister said: "Indications lead that way. We found heads detached from their bodies and all of them were around the area of the blasts." Ansyaad Mbai said he did not know whether the bombers wore explosive vests or carried the devices. An Indonesian security source told Aljazeera's correspondent in Indonesia that the blasts were carried out by bombers who died in the explosions. Security experts said the strikes bore the hallmarks of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), a network seen as the regional arm of al-Qaida. However, the correspondent quoted other Indonesian sources as rejecting any linking of Saturday's blasts to Muslim groups.
They always reject any linking of booms to Muslim groups. It's part of the routine. And years from now, they'll be claiming it's not proven that it was Muslims. Instead, it was...
They believe the incident was a challenge by organised crime groups that sought to stop the Indonesian president's attempts to fight corruption, Aljazeera's Suhaib Jasim said.
... or maybe it was alk runners. And if it wasn't them, it had to be some sort of Zionist conspiracy, 'cuz everybody knows Muslims don't do such things...
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DHAKA - Simultaneous bomb explosions rocked three Bangladesh towns on Monday, killing at least two people and wounding 10, less than two months after hundreds of blasts went off across the country on a single day. Police said the bombs rocked courtrooms -- one in the town of Chandpur, 170 km (106 miles) southeast of the capital, Dhaka, another in nearby Laxmipur town and one or two more in the port city of Chittagong. Local reporters said suspects detained following the blasts admitted they were members of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, a banned Islamic militant group blamed for Augustâs attacks.
Police superintendant B.M. Harunur Rashid said by telephone that one man died in the attack on the courthouse in Chandpur, three people --- including a lawyer -- were wounded, and two people suspected of carrying the bomb were detained. One man was killed and six were wounded in Laxmipur, and one man was hurt in Chittagong. Police said they had also recovered a live bomb outside a school in the northern town of Mymensingh, not far from the district magistrateâs court.
Mondayâs attacks came a day after police filed criminal charges against 28 Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen activists in a court in northwestern Jaipurhat district. The attacks also followed Saturdayâs arrest of Mufti Abdul Hannan, accused of leading the Bangladesh chapter of the Islamist militant group Harkatul Jihad and described by police as among the âtop terroristsâ they had been seeking for years.
âTodayâs bombing is the continuation of the previous blasts. They have targeted democratic institutions like courts to show they are still active,â said retired Brigadier-General Shahedul Anam Khan, a defence analyst. âHowever, the positive sign is that people have become aware ... and are helping law-enforcing agencies to capture them (the militants),â he said.
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October 2, 2005: The war in Darfur has spilled over into Chad with bloody consequences. It began last week, when a group of Sudanese gunmen raided a Chad cattle herding operation, killing 36 civilians, and making off with the livestock.
"Luke, git yur shooting iron. They got Bessie!"
The army was alerted, and caught up with the cattle rustlers, killing seven and capturing eight. Two soldiers died in the battle, and five were wounded. The government blamed the violence on the Sudanese Arab tribal militias backed by the Sudanese government. These groups have been allowed to plunder the black African Sudanese tribes freely. The raid into Chad may have been a navigation error, as the Chadian herders on the border often belong to the same ethnic group that lives on the other side, in Sudan.
Chad's own internal disorder has been on very low simmer for the last year. The new oil pumping operation promises some prosperity to Chadians, and the remaining rebels in the north have been bought, or scared, off for the moment.
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Raiders from Chad routinely go into Darfur to raid cattle and to take slaves...yes, take slaves. They victimize the same people as the Khartoum-supported Janjaweed. Chadian raids often go much farther South all the way to the Bar el Gazal...I have personally interviewed people raided by these scum. Hope they kill each other off.
The emphatic advisory to Israeli travelers to stay clear of their favorite Sinai resorts for this yearâs High Holidays reflects incoming intelligence on the broadening threat posed by al Qaeda today. Since the Taba attacks exactly a year ago, the Islamist terrorist organization has planted a daunting infrastructure amid the inaccessible peaks of the strategic desert peninsula. Egyptian attempts to access their strongholds have been thrown back. DEBKAfileâs intelligence sources report the following developments.
Al Qaeda has established local terror networks in northern Sinai â centering on el Arish, as well as strongholds in the inaccessible central mountains of the peninsula around Jebel Hillal. In all, the jihadists control roughly one-fifth of Sinai total area (61,000sq. km or 23,500sq. miles). Egyptian forces of law and order have learned not to venture into these bastions or into the areas commanded by age-old smuggler clans who currently collaborate with al Qaeda. This leaves about half of the forbidding desert peninsula inaccessible to Egyptian security forces. Today, they can only claim to control the main roads routes fringing the vast desert expanse: from Ras Sudeir down to Sharm el Sheikh along the Suez Canal and Suez Gulf shores; from the Suez Canal east to El Arish along the Mediterranean shore and from the Sharm el-Sheikh resort center north along the Gulf of Aqaba to Taba and the Israeli port of Eilat.
The spectacular, biblical landscape conceals terrorist bomb traps and roadside devices. Gunmen armed with RPG and anti-tank weapons lurk behind huge rocks in wait for any Egyptian police or security unit daring to step off a main road into one of the dry valleys dissecting the forbidding peaks. The danger increases with the altitude. Al Qaeda has joined up with rebellious Bedouin and Palestinians to recreate the Tora Bora of Afghanistan, where Osama bin Ladenâs fighters fought US and Afghan forces in November 2001.
...where they got pounded into dust
DEBKAfileâs counter-terror sources describe al Qaedaâs Sinai 2005 bastion as better fortified than the original Tora Bora. It is peopled with more fighters and is even more impregnable. The paths leading up to peaks â some as tall as 7,500 ft - are barricaded by huge rocks under which explosive snares are concealed. Attempts to move the rocks would set off explosions and start an avalanche. Interspersed among the natural barriers are bomb traps and anti-personnel and anti-tank mines. The caves perforating the slopes are firing positions - some armed with mortars and heavy machine guns.
The Egyptian have tried large-scale assaults on the al Qaeda mountain fastnesses and failed. They were forced to retreat with heavy casualties. According to DEBKAfileâs military experts, the only way for Egypt to wrest mastery of the Sinai heartland from the terrorists is by a combined aerial bombardment coupled with helicopter landings of at least two special forces brigades. This in present circumstances is not feasible because -
1. The 1979 Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty demilitarizing Sinai precludes Egyptian air force operations. In theory, Cairo can approach Jerusalem for permission, but in practice this would expose the Mubarak government to widespread Muslim opprobrium for collaborating with the Jewish state in the war against Islamic terror.
2. Egyptian intelligence does not have an exact count of the anti-air missiles in al Qaedaâs hands. The passage of a quantity of these weapons from Sinai to the Gaza Strip leads Egyptian intelligence to deduce a fairly sizeable number â enough to cause havoc with a helicopter commando drop.
3. Al Qaedaâs smuggling routes crisscross Sinai day and night, freely plied by fighters, weapons, explosives and food. These routes exploit the peninsulaâs exceptional geography to run between Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq and of late the Gaza Strip. The Egyptians despite every effort have not been able to close down a single smuggling route. This fact ties in with the kidnap alert for Israeli travelers.
Should al Qaeda succeed in abducting an Israeli, it has the organization to conceal its victim for a long period in its Sinai mountain bastion or transport him or her to another Arab country, including Iraq.
4. That al Qaeda has established a presence in the Gaza Strip is no longer a matter of speculation. Today, Israeli military intelligence AMAN and the Shin Beit are taking the new manifestation of Al Qaeda-Palestine as an offshoot of Al Qaeda-Sinai with the utmost seriousness. Foreign terrorists have been detected entering the Gaza Strip, welcomed and integrated in to the logistical infrastructures of Hizballah, Hamas, Jihad Islami and the Popular Fronts.
This is not a one-way road. Elements of Hizballah, Hamas and Jihad Islami have been heading out of Gaza into Sinai and given the use of al Qaedaâs logistical facilities to strike unprotected Israeli holidaymakers at the Sinai resorts.
The DEBKAfile Exclusive Map attached to this article (first displaced in DEBKA-Net-Weekly) illustrates the broad strategic thinking behind al Qaedaâs Sinai deployment. It is not just there to nab Israeli vacationers refusing to heed warnings; its terrorist units are within striking distance of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the Gulf of Aqaba, the Suez Canal and the Egyptian heartland, as well providing terrorist depth for wars in Iraq and Israel.
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I will repeat nyself: For starters: nothing like getting rid of one or two mullahs and one or two bankers in S. Arabia.
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The blame is squarely on the UN for turning a blind eye to the mounting terrorist infrastructure in that area. They basically made this crap acceptable -- to the world -- by being paleo apologists/supporters/enablers and whoring themselves to the opec crowd and US/Israel bashers.
Of course, any attacks on Israel will be met with swiftly and decisively. Now, however, Egypt and Jordan will have to contend with them as well. More muslim on muslim killing.
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The paths leading up to peaks â some as tall as 7,500 ft - are barricaded by huge rocks under which explosive snares are concealed.
If Al Qeda can keep people from going up, why can't Egypt keep them from coming down, or up to feed them or supply them.
We need to make the people who let them live with them pay a price for this stupidity.
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Keep in mind that Al Qaeda was formed in part out of the more radical wing of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood.
Zarq wants Jordan downed; others want the same for Egypt. And, to quote Tom Lehrer's satirical song National Brotherhood Week, "everybody hates the Jews".
Oh what the heck, here are the full lyrics with his spoken intro:
One week of every year is designated National Brotherhood Week. This is just one of many such weeks honoring various worthy causes. One of my favorites is National Make-fun-of-the-handicapped Week which Frank Fontaine and Jerry Lewis are in charge of as you know. During National Brotherhood Week various special events are arranged to drive home the message of brotherhood. This year, for example, on the first day of the week Malcolm X was killed which gives you an idea of how effective the whole thing is. I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another and I know there are people in the world that do not love their fellow human beings and I hate people like that. Here's a song about National Brotherhood Week.
Oh, the white folks hate the black folks,
And the black folks hate the white folks.
To hate all but the right folks
Is an old established rule.
But during National Brotherhood Week, National Brotherhood Week,
Lena Horne and Sheriff Clarke are dancing cheek to cheek.
It's fun to eulogize
The people you despise,
As long as you don't let 'em in your school.
Oh, the poor folks hate the rich folks,
And the rich folks hate the poor folks.
All of my folks hate all of your folks,
It's American as apple pie.
But during National Brotherhood Week, National Brotherhood Week,
New Yorkers love the Puerto Ricans 'cause it's very chic.
Step up and shake the hand
Of someone you can't stand.
You can tolerate him if you try.
Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics,
And the Catholics hate the Protestants,
And the Hindus hate the Moslems,
And everybody hates the Jews.
But during National Brotherhood Week, National Brotherhood Week,
It's National Everyone-smile-at-one-another-hood Week.
Be nice to people who
Are inferior to you.
It's only for a week, so have no fear.
Be grateful that it doesn't last all year!
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Does anyone know when Debka File has ever proven to be right? I mean, it always sounds so damn thorough and inside but I can't ever remember when one of their little G2 nuggets ever turned out to be true or even close to relevant.
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Daniel 11:42-45 He will extend his power over many countries; Egypt will not escape. He will gain control of the treasures of gold and silver and all the riches of Egypt, with the Libyans and Nubians in submission. But reports from the east and the north will alarm him, and he will set out in a great rage to destroy and annihilate many. He will pitch his royal tents between the seas at (or and) the beautiful holy mountain. Yet he will come to his end, and no one will help him.
I'm not sure who 'He' is, but I hope we have some satellites over this area between the Eastern and Western seas, as we have been forewarned!
At least 31 suspected Taleban militants have been killed in clashes with government troops in south-east Afghanistan, officials say.
Defence Ministry spokesman Gen Mohammed Zaher Azimi said fighting erupted after insurgents attacked an Afghan army post near Angore Adda in Paktika province. At least four government troops were injured in the battle near the Pakistan border, which lasted over four hours. It was the heaviest reported fighting since elections two weeks ago.
Gen Azimi said 28 militants had been killed in fighting on Sunday night. Three others were killed in a separate clash in the province earlier in the day. "As a result of our counter-attack, 28 enemy bodies have been recovered," he told Reuters news agency. The US military, which has a base in the area, said US troops had not been involved in the fighting.
Nice to see the locals stepping up to the plate
More than 1,000 people have been killed in violence linked to militancy in Afghanistan this year.
Most of those killed have been suspected militants, but about 50 US troops and a number of civilians and election candidates and workers have also died. The bloodshed has predominantly been in southern and eastern areas near Pakistan - prompting accusations from Kabul that Islamabad is failing to curb cross-border militant incursions. Islamabad denies the claims and points to the thousands of troops it has sent to unruly tribal areas on its side of the mountainous border area.
Afghanistan's parliamentary and provincial elections on 18 September were hailed as a landmark in the process to bring democracy after years of war. The counting of votes is still continuing.
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And another hungry platoon of Taliban-brigands meets its bitter end. Based on that estimate of 600 in the region, they are now down to 570.
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I would like to think that killing 30 Taliban reduces the Taliban by 30. Unfortunately, the Taliban recruit constantly (and I suppose people leave the Taliban sometimes also).
This has consequences for the ultimate length of the operation there.
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Look numbnuts, the Piggy Allah Towel Head Taliban are so reduced in number that they are kidnapping children to replace their goat buggering numbers. Praise the Pagan Moon Pig Goddess Allah!
ALGIERS â Algerian terrorists militants have killed three civilians in separate attacks only days after a peace offer to end a long-running conflict was approved in a referendum, national newspapers reported yesterday.
Two civilians died and three others were injured on Saturday when their car drove over a bomb planted by terrorists rebels in the southwestern province of Medea, 120km from the capital Algiers, El Khabar said.
In a separate attack on Saturday, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) decapitated a 62-year-old animal breeder in the MâSila province southwest of Algiers. Authorities were not immediately available for comment.
In a September 29 referendum, Algerians approved a government offer of partial amnesty for terrorists rebels, in a drive to end more than a decade of civil war that has killed more than 150,000 people. The GSPC, Algeriaâs largest outlawed terrorist militant movement, has rejected the offer, according to an Internet statement.
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Algeria hopes its amnesty offer would lead to the surrender of an estimated 1,000 Islamic insurgents.
I hope to spend a night of depraved carnal whoopie with Patti Anne Browne at the Motel 6, too...
An amnesty plan for insurgents was approved by 97 percent in a referendum held on Sept. 20. Under the plan, amnesty would not be offered to those accused of rape, murder or bombings. Algerian officials said between 800 and 1,000 insurgents remain active in the North African state. They said most of the insurgents have worked for the Salafist Brigade for Combat and Call, regarded as the leading contractor of Al Qaida. On Saturday, the Salafist Brigade rejected the Algerian amnesty offer and pledged to continue war against the regime. It was the first time the group publicly discussed the amnesty.
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How's the pension plan for a retired insurgent? Do they have 401K's?
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Tell me about it, Motel 6 is like, ummm, well it's like what you hear, if you can hear. Frankly I can smell it from several miles away. It's a gift.
Assailants on Sunday rained rockets on an army base, killing four, and assassinated the son of a tribal elder who has helped track down militants, said intelligence officials in the tribal areas. Two suspected militants were killed at a checkpoint, a security official said. On a road in South Waziristan Agency, masked gunmen killed the 20-year-old son of Malik Khadin, the prominent elder who led a tribal militia in a search for militants last year, an intelligence official said on condition of anonymity. The elder Khadin survived an assassination attempt in August, but four people riding with him in a car were killed.
In North Waziristan Agency, 20 rockets were fired before dawn on a base in Mir Ali, a town east of Miranshah, said another intelligence official. A soldier and three government employees died sleeping in their barracks, and four others were injured, the official said. Five other rockets landed in two villages nearby, damaging some homes, he said. At a roadblock east of Miranshah, security forces fatally shot two local tribesmen who would not give up their AK-47 rifles while their pickup truck was searched, a security official in Miranshah said on condition of anonymity. Two other men, one of whom was injured in the shooting, were arrested, the official said. Meanwhile, troops supported by helicopter gunships continued their search for militants in Khati Kalla village near the Afghan border, residents said.
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Indian troops claimed to have killed a senior Kashmiri Muslim rebel commander on Sunday, calling it a âmajor successâ in the fight against insurgency in the valley. Abdul Rashid Gujjar, a commander of the Hizbul Mujahedin, was shot dead on Saturday in a battle with Indian troops in the southern district of Pulwama, according to a statement by Indiaâs Border Security Force (BSF). âHe has been active since 1994 and was involved in more than 100 killings of security personnel and political workers,â the statement said. âGujjarâs elimination is a major success against militants this year.â The BSF said that Gujjar was also involved in two car-bomb explosions in the past two years which killed 22 soldiers.
According to the statement, an accomplice, Mushtaq Ahmed, was also captured. Meanwhile, police said that three Lashkar-e-Taiba militants were killed in an encounter with security forces and police at Kral Mohalla, Kokernag in Anantnag district. Police added that two civilians were also killed in this encounter. They were identified as Ama Kumhar and Noori, both residents of Nowbugh. According to a local news agency, Kumhar was killed in the cross fire, while Noori died of a heart attack. The news agency identified one of the slain militants as Mohammad Ashraf Koka of Wadwan. Police stated that three other people were also injured in this encounter and that three automatic rifles, six magazines, 80 rounds, two hand grenades and a wireless set were recovered from the slain militants.
Police said that in another encounter at Wangam, a Hizbul Mujahideen militant, identified as Rafiq Wagay of Gudwail-Kokernag was killed. A pistol, a wireless set, a hand grenade and eight rounds were recovered from his person. Police said that another militant was killed in an encounter with the police, as well as security forces, at Alipora village in district Budgam. A pistol, a magazine, a hand grenade, a mobile phone and eight rounds were recovered from the slain militant.
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LAHORE: Special police teams arrested four activists of a banned militant organisation from various areas here on Sunday, said sources. Police sources said the accused were taken for interrogation. They said the men were arrested as part of a campaign against expected terrorism during Ramazan, adding that the teams arrested the activists from Wadat Colony, Township, Hanjerwal and Sabzazar. Meanwhile, a Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) team also raided several guesthouses and hotels to check the suspects' records. Several parties were formed to raid hideouts of suspects involved in sectarianism. Security has also been tightened to monitor the activities of such organisations, said a senior police officer.
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The body of former Taliban Intelligence deputy director general Maulvi Muhammad Yasin was found in Bara, near Peshawar, on Saturday, Afghan sources said on Sunday. Unidentified men had kidnapped the intelligence officer and his brother some time ago from Peshawar.
Tragic. Simply tragic. He will be missed. By his Mom. Maybe.
Naah.
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Maulvi Muhammad Yasin, a true professional man, died amongst his peers, torturers.
Security forces in Bangladesh have arrested Mufti Abdul Hannan, the alleged leader of the Bangladesh chapter of the Islamist militant group Harkatul Jihad, at a hideout in the capital Dhaka, police said on Sunday. They said Hannan had been in hiding since police found a powerful bomb, believed to be planted by Harkatul Jihad activists in July 2000, near a rally that former prime minister Sheikh Hasina addressed in the western Kotalipara area. Police recovered the remote-controlled bomb before it could be detonated and Hasina was not hurt.
Gotta find that plump lady graphic for events like this...
On Saturday night, members of elite Rapid Action battalion arrested Hannan at a house in Dhakaâs Madhya Badda area and also seized explosives and bomb-making materials. âHannan is being interrogated,â a senior police officer said, but would provide no further details.
You don't want to know. Don't look, Ethel...
Police told reporters that Hannan, Harkatulâs operation commander in Bangladesh, was among the countryâs âtop terroristsâ they had been looking for years, but were not immediately sure if he or his men were involved in the Aug 17 countrywide serial bombings of this year.
Lemme guess...
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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.
Five foreign men were today facing expulsion from Britain after being detained in the latest operation aimed at people deemed to be a threat to national security. The men were held in dawn raids led by the Immigration Service and backed by police this morning in London, the West Midlands and south Wales. They are being held under the home secretary's powers, under the Immigration Act 1971, to deport individuals whose presence in the UK is not "conducive to the public good".
QAIM, Iraq â U.S. troops battled insurgents holed up in houses and driving explosives-laden vehicles in a second town near the Syrian border Sunday, killing 28 in an expansion of their two-day-old offensive chasing Al Qaeda fighters along the Euphrates River valley, the military said. Al Qaeda in Iraq claimed to have taken two Marines captive during the fighting and threatened to kill them within 24 hours unless all female Sunni detainees are released from U.S. and Iraqi prisons in the country. The U.S. military said the claim appeared false. "There are no indications that the Al Qaeda claims ... are true," Multinational Force West, the command in the region said. It said it was conducting checks "to verify that all Marines are accounted for."
Al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden, is headed for Iraq to boost his network's standing as it embarks on an "offensive whose scale and importance rival September 9/11," a media report said. 
The Samaria military court on Sunday sentenced Mohammed Mustafa Dara, 23, of Kakilya, to life plus an additional 10 years for his involvement in the murder of seven-year-old Noam Leibovtich on June 17, 2003. Noam was traveling with her parents along the Trans-Israel highway when Palestinian gunmen opened fire, killing her and wounding several other family members. 
One policeman and two civilians were killed and at least 50 people were wounded during clashes between the Palestinian police and Hamas members in the Gaza Strip on Sunday.
Hours after his conversation with Sharon, Abbas faced new conflict on the home front, where Palestinian police traded fire with Hamas militants in Gaza City, killing one and wounding 27 other people, among them three policemen, medics and witnesses said. Both police and militants accused the other of sparking the confrontation which began with a dispute that escalated into a gun battle that spread to two Hamas strongholds in and near Gaza City. Police sources said the policeman was killed after militants fired rocket-propelled grenades and tried to storm a police station in Shati refugee camp. But Hamas claimed the clashes erupted after police attempted to arrest the son of Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi, a former Hamas leader who was slain in an Israeli air strike last year. Hamas said the police stopped Mohammad Rantissi's car, but he refused to hand himself over. The police began shooting after an angry crowd gathered around them, sparking a gun battle, Hamas said. Rantissi was not injured, said Mushir al-Masri, a Hamas spokesman.
The Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of 
The coordinated blasts in Bali that killed 25 people were likely set off by bombers who died in the explosions, a senior Indonesian counter-terrorism official says. On Saturday, three bombs tore through restaurants packed with evening diners, two at outdoor seafood restaurants on Jimbaran beach and one at a steak bar at Kuta beach in an area surrounded by shops and jammed with pedestrians, including children, police said. At least 107 people were wounded. Indonesia's health minister said 25 people died in the blasts. Fifteen bodies have been identified - 12 Indonesians including a six-year-old boy, two Australians and a Japanese. The wounded included 68 Indonesians, 20 Australians, six South Koreans, four Americans and four Japanese, with other nationalities unknown. 
At least 31 suspected Taleban militants have been killed in clashes with government troops in south-east Afghanistan, officials say. 
ALGIERS â Algerian 
Algeria hopes its amnesty offer would lead to the surrender of an estimated 1,000 Islamic insurgents.
Assailants on Sunday rained rockets on an army base, killing four, and assassinated the son of a tribal elder who has helped track down militants, said intelligence officials in the tribal areas. Two suspected militants were killed at a checkpoint, a security official said. On a road in South Waziristan Agency, masked gunmen killed the 20-year-old son of Malik Khadin, the prominent elder who led a tribal militia in a search for militants last year, an intelligence official said on condition of anonymity. The elder Khadin survived an assassination attempt in August, but four people riding with him in a car were killed.
LAHORE: Special police teams arrested four activists of a banned militant organisation from various areas here on Sunday, said sources. Police sources said the accused were taken for interrogation. They said the men were arrested as part of a campaign against expected terrorism during Ramazan, adding that the teams arrested the activists from Wadat Colony, Township, Hanjerwal and Sabzazar. Meanwhile, a Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) team also raided several guesthouses and hotels to check the suspects' records. Several parties were formed to raid hideouts of suspects involved in sectarianism. Security has also been tightened to monitor the activities of such organisations, said a senior police officer.
The body of former Taliban Intelligence deputy director general 
Security forces in Bangladesh have arrested 
