Yemen is holding two men for allegedly trying to assassinate the US ambassador to the Arab country a year ago, a government-run website has reported. The main suspect had tried to throw a hand grenade at the ambassador at a shopping centre in the capital Sanaa, said the website of the September 26 newspaper, which is published by Yemen's armed forces. The two suspects were being questioned and could be brought to trial soon, it said.
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Is it too cynical to think that in a couple of months I'll be reading about these turds on RB next to the revolving door graphic?
In the latest developments over August 17 blasts, Shaekh Abdur Rahman and Bangla Bhai were charge-sheeted Thursday in Kushtia while seven more suspected extremists were arrested from Meherpur, Jhenidah and Netrokona. The CID submitted a chargesheet accusing 12 JMB (Jaamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh) members, including its top leader Rahman and JMJB (Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh) chief Bangla Bhai on charge of planting bombs in seven points in Kushtia on August 17.
Charge sheet all you want, but until you catch 'em you got nuttin'...
BDNEWS Kushtia correspondent reports: Senior ASP of CID Munshi Atiqur Rahman in the chargesheet commented that the Janajuddha faction of outlawed Purba Bangla Communist Party helped the JMB planting the bombs. Of those chargesheeted, Shamsul Islam and Akbar Ali have been in custody. The other accused are JMB chief Shaekh Abdur Rahman, JMJB top leader Siddiqul Islam alias Bangla Bhai, Ataur Rahman alias Sunny, Nizamul, Siddiqur Rahman-2, Habibur Rahman, Lutfur, Mashiur, Enam and Shahadat. Police nabbed Kawsar Alam alias Sumonâregional commander of JMBâfrom village Duligati in the Sadar upazila of Netrakona early Thursday. Later, Sumon was taken on a seven-day remand for interrogation. Son of Abdur Rezzak, Sumon in a student of Mymensingh Anandamohan University. Earlier on August 10, police apprehended Sumonâs younger sister Beauty Akter, 16, suspecting her as a member of JMB.
Meanwhile, Law-enforcers arrested six persons suspecting them to be members of the outlawed Islamic outfit JMB from Jhenidah and Meherpur districts on Wednesday, as hunt for bombers continued across the country. Four of them denied their involvement with JMB (Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh), but they reportedly confessed to their being members of a different Islamic organisation styled " Talemar Jamaat". Professor Abdul Majid of Charfassion in Bhola is the chief of this new groupâone of a good many already discovered in the current crackdown, prompted by recent serial bombings. Sources said Saiful Islam alias Tara, Azahar Uddin, Abu Sayeed and Firuzor Rahman alias Firoz were arrested in Jhenidah, while Milon Hossain alias Salam and Samad were run in from Meherpur.
In Jhenidah: Members of the eliteforce RAB with the help of Kotchandpur and Kaliganj police conducted a drive at village Dudshawra under Kotchandpur upazila early Wednesday, rounding up the four suspects. Police said Saiful rented the house of Abdus Samad in village Dudshawra on October 10. Firoz, Azahar and Sayeed went to visit Saifulâs house on Tuesday night. The operation was launched on receipt of secret information about the movements and motives of the self-confessed Talemar Jamaat members. In Meherpur, Milon, a trader, and Samad, a peasant, were arrested from their houses at village Kolaidanga.
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Patuakhali district Jubo Dal president Mashiur Rahman Khan who escaped the wrath of RAB was found moving out of the town early today with Commerce Minister Altaf Hossain Chowdhury.
Merely reading that sentence takes my breath away...
Mashiur, a close associate of Chowdhury, was wanted for extortion and criminal activities. RAB raided his home on Oct 8 and 9 and arrested nine of his associates when Mashiur managed to escape.
"Feet, don't fail me now!"
"It's the RAB! Don't kill us, please!"
He stayed in hideout until the Commerce Minister arrived in the town on Wednesday, informed sources said.
"Sit tight, Muggsy! Don't go outside! I'll see what I can do!"
Mashiur told reporters on cell phone that there was no case against him.
"The witnesses are all dead!"
As district Jubo Dal president he has the right to move with a minister in connection with organisational programmes. He said RAB raided his home in the town on the basis of wrong information given by his political foes.
"Yeah! It wuz a frameup, see? Tell 'em, Mr. Commerce Minister!"
RAB-8 commander Major Mamun said nine associates of Mashiur were arrested from his home when he (Mashiur) remained absconding. The arrested persons were sent to prison when produced before the court. Commerce Minister was not available for comment as he left Patuakhali early today.
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Slaughtered body of an activist of Purba Banglar Communist Party (ML} was recovered from a field at Debottarpara village in Ataikula Upazila today (Wednesday). The dead was identified as Tutul, 40, son of Mahram Pramanik of Alokdia village in Santhia Upazila. Police and family sources said some armed men picked up Tutul from his residence Tuesday midnight. They took him to the area and slaughtered him. In the morning, local people found the body of Tutul and informed Santhia police. Police later recovered the body and sent it to Pabna General Hospital morgue for autopsy. Police said Tutul, earlier expelled from the party, was wanted in a number of criminal cases. Reason behind the killing could not be known immediately.
My guess is that somebody didn't like him...
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Lawyers for an Algerian man, wanted in connection with a series of Paris train bombings in 1995, say new moves to extradite him are "legally flawed". Rachid Ramda, the UK's longest-serving extradition prisoner, is challenging a Home Office ruling he must be removed. Mr Ramda is accused of conspiring in an explosion at Paris Metro station which killed eight people and of organising and financing several other bombings. The 10-year extradition battle has caused anger in France.
Mr Ramda, 35, faces 23 charges of financing and organising a bombing campaign in France between August and November 1995. On a separate extradition request, he is accused of being a conspirator in the bombing of the Saint Michel Metro station on 25 July 1995, in which eight people were killed and 87 injured. He is also believed to be a financier of Algeria's outlawed Armed Islamic Group (GIA). The GIA, which fights the government in Algeria, is thought to be responsible for the 1995 bombing campaign.
In April, Home Secretary Charles Clarke made a fresh extradition order on the basis that Mr Ramda, who is being held at London's Belmarsh prison, would receive a fair trial. But on Friday, Mr Ramda's QC Edward Fitzgerald told two High Court judges Mr Clarke's decision was "legally flawed" and that "bad faith" had been shown by the French government.
In 2002, two High Court judges quashed an extradition order, signed by the then Home Secretary David Blunkett, and ordered the case be reconsidered. Then the judges had expressed concern that evidence against Mr Ramda came from co-defendant Boualem Bensaid, said by his lawyers to have been tortured during interrogation while in French custody.
In the latest hearing, Mr Fitzgerald told Lord Justice Keen and Mr Justice Poole they should quash the new extradition order because Mr Clarke was wrong to conclude the defendant could raise the issue of Bensaid's treatment in his own trial. The lawyer also said Mr Clarke had failed to consider whether there was a real risk Mr Ramda himself would suffer inhuman treatment if extradited, which would be in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights.
In all, there have been nine separate legal proceedings to extradite Mr Ramda. A woman who was seriously injured in the French bombings has spoken of her frustration at the delay. Francoise Rudetzki contrasted the case with the UK request for the extradition of 21 July London bombing suspect Hussain Osman who was returned from Italy at the end of September. "What would the British think 10 years from now if he was still in Italy?" she asked recently.
Supporters of a campaign to block Mr Ramda's extradition say he could eventually deported from France to Algeria where, they claim, he could face execution.
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"Supporters of a campaign to block Mr Ramda's extradition say he could eventually deported from France to Algeria where, they claim, he could face execution."
Vivid account of yesterday's battle from a local journalist. (Yes, there's lots of "insurgents" and "militants," but that linguistic battle's probably lost.) Not very long. Read it all.
All seven militants who left the city of Nalchik this morning in a minibus have been killed and their hostages rescued, a spokesperson for the republic of Kabardino-Balkariya's Interior Ministry said Friday.
A duty officer had said earlier that the militants, who attacked the North Caucasus city on Thursday morning, had left the Interior Ministry building in a minibus, but he refused to give nay details.
However, an Interior Ministry spokesperson later said that all seven militants who had taken hostages in a ministry building had been killed and the hostages were unharmed.
"The terrorists tried to break out of the Interior Ministry building in a Gazel [minibus], but their driver lost control and the vehicle hit a post," the spokesperson said. "All the militants were killed in an operation."
An operation is currently under way to identify the militants' accomplices.
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A minibus? Where were they planning to go, Woodstock?
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Russian security forces were surrounding Chechen fighters holed up with hostages in a town in the Caucasus on Friday, officials said, a day after a brazen rebel raid that killed dozens.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who came to power in 2000 by talking tough on Chechnya, ordered his security forces to cordon off the southern town of Nalchik after Thursday's attack and kill any gunmen who put up resistance.
The authorities' rapid response to the crisis was in contrast to last year's deadly attack by Chechen militants on a school in the town of Beslan, when the Russian leader was widely criticized for staying silent for too long.
But it remained unclear whether it would deflect public criticism over another failure by security services to prevent a rebel assault in the turbulent region.
The closely coordinated attack on police, army and Federal Security Service (FSB) points in the garrison town marked the first major rebel operation since Abdul-Khalid Sadulayev took over as leader of the Chechen separatists in March.
It made good his threat to broaden the war for independence against Russian troops in Chechnya to encompass the whole of the mainly Muslim north Caucasus region.
As evening fell, Nalchik residents stood behind trees and walls, nervous that the gunfire might start again, and its usually bustling streets were deserted.
Officials said two small groups of fighters were holed up in a police station and in a shop and were holding small numbers of hostages.
"There is no more resistance in the town now. There are two locations where bandits are holed up and now we are handling this issue," said local Interior Minister Khachim Shogenov, speaking in a ministry building scarred with bullet holes.
Police said 61 rebels had died in the raid, in the main city of the Muslim Kabardino-Balkaria region near rebel Chechnya, while 17 had been captured.
Several corpses lay in the streets in pools of blood and covered over with blankets during the attack, which wound down by around midday.
But Russian officials said the security forces had re-established firm control of the town.
"Our main task is to find the bandits in the city," said Russia's Deputy Interior Minister Alexander Chekalin.
"Not one car, not one train, not one bus will go past without being closely checked."
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Whether out of necessity or design the Chechen resistance movement has again been exposed as an Islamist revolution complete with all the usual terrorist tactics. Likewise the Russian army has again been proven incapable of controlling a comparatively small territorial conflict. Needless to say, surviving a full-scale Islamist insurrection in Central Asia would be utterly beyond its strength. Like it or not Russia is central to the future of the 'coalition against terrorism'. And it should be clear by now that Russia needs help in this region. First, the West must cease its public denunciations of Russian tactics in Chechnya as âheavy handedâ. Second, it may be time for the US to reshape its strategies for control over the Caucasus and oil supplies from the Caspian Sea. Finally, military cooperation between Russia and the West should be enhanced to defeat our immediate and common enemy. Itâs time to acknowledge the Chechen resistance is not a national movement against Russian imperialism but a part of a much larger international Islamist terrorist syndicate.
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well i did see films from the fight and it was obvious that there were alot of dark araab sodliers among the dead chetchen so this is another ecample of arab/muslim terrorism spreading out
Chechen Society newspaper, that carried news on Chechen warlord Shamil Basayevâs death in Nalchik earlier on Thursday evening, citing its FSB sources, later retracted the announcement, calling it âwishful thinkingâ on the Russian authoritiesâ part.
Around 06:17PM local time on Thursday, October 13th, a source in the FSB headquaters in Nalchik told the newspaper, that both Doku Umarov and Shamil Basayev â two of Russiaâs most influential adversaries in Checnya, â had been killed during the terrorist raid on Nalchik, the Kabarda and Balkaria capital, which left dozens dead.
According to same sources, even Checnya president Alou Alkhanov was then prepared to break the news on Basayevâs liquidation. But subsequent check revealed no proof of their validity, and further it became clear, that none of the two warlord commanders were actually killed during the attack on Nalchik. According to the FSB source, that originally notified the Chechen Society newspaper of Basayevâs demise, those news were obviously âwishful thinkingâ on behalf of his colleagues.
Chechen Society newspaper is published independently by the Timur Aliev Institute NGO, and is available online at www.chechensociety.net
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That is very disappointing. Good call Gromky & CIA.
I was happy, thinking that Basayev and Umarov were saying hello to Himmler and Heydrich.
Well, here's to hoping that their demise comes soon and painfully!
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Old Nasty Pegleg's demise is reported every eight months or so from one regional source or another. Personally, he's become very careful since Khattab (hairy emir of all foreign sociopathic murderers in chechnya) got a special gift (fatal type) from the Russians awhile back. No more constant cameo appearances in the region and none of the penchant for posting constant updated images of himself in action with fairly detailed accounts of his activities in areas of chechnya. He's getting a little lonely and scared it seems.
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We knew about the Miracle Mets too. No way the Cubs hold on. For a trained analyst it was clear. Course we couldn't tell 'ya then. It was secret you see.
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Well, I don't mean that I "called it"...anyone could have done that. I meant that I used the exact same phrase "wishful thinking". :P
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You have potential gr***y, have your considerd a life of grinding poverty interwoven with despair? If so, there's a phone box 1919 metres north of your abode.
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Islamic militants staged coordinated attacks on police and government buildings in Russia's North Caucasus region Thursday in a new wave of violence spilling over from war-torn Chechnya that killed more than 80 people.
Authorities said 12 police officers, 12 civilians and more than 50 guerrillas died in the day's fighting in Nalchik, capital of the predominantly Muslim republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. Seven more guerrillas were reported killed in an outlying district and 17 were captured.
Militants held several people hostage in a Nalchik police station into the evening, authorities said. Russian President Vladimir V. Putin ordered that the guerrilla uprising be crushed.
The fighting marked the continued spread through the region of the violence that started in the 1990s with a bid for independence by Chechen separatists.
"People have been talking for a long time now about the metastasis of the Chechen conflict throughout the North Caucasus, and this is one of the manifestations," said Nikolai Silayev, a Caucasus analyst at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations. "The situation in the North Caucasus is clearly not quieting down."
In September 2004, militants seized a school in the town of Beslan, about 60 miles southeast of Nalchik, and more than 300 hostages, police officers and rebels died in explosions and a shootout.
Russian First Deputy Interior Minister Alexander Chekalin estimated the number of militants involved in the attacks at 100, but other officials said as many as 300 could be involved. Putin ordered cordon around the city of 235,000 to prevent militants from escaping during the night.
"The president gave an instruction that not one gunman should be allowed to leave the town, and those who are armed and putting up resistance must be wiped out," Chekalin said in televised remarks after meeting Putin.
Mohammed Samukov, an aide to Nalchik's mayor, said in a telephone interview that fighting in the city began about 9 a.m., with attacks on three police buildings, a state security office, an anti-organized crime unit and a border guard detachment. The gunmen also tried to seize the city's airport, but failed, other authorities said.
"They've made some noise, caused some mayhem and now are going to be trying to get out," Samukov said. "They have not made any demands. For now, they are only speaking the language of weapons."
A doctor at City Hospital No. 2, who was willing to give only her first name, Galina, said that fighting had occurred near the hospital at midday. "A group of several people was firing at our police, and they were warding off the attackers," she said. "The din was really something. There were explosions, but the hospital wasn't damaged."
Arsen Kanokov, president of Kabardino-Balkaria, said Thursday evening that the situation was under control.
"There is absolutely no panic. The entire state infrastructure is working and all of the city's exit routes have been sealed off," he said.
Chekalin said security forces were conducting systematic searches for remaining militants.
"It is very important for us now, first of all, to find the bandits, the rebels in town, including the wounded and those in hiding," he said in televised remarks. "The task is not to let a single rebel slip through. And if a rebel is armed, shoot-to-kill orders are to be followed without hesitation."
Alexei Malashenko, a Caucasus expert at the Carnegie Moscow Center, linked the incident to the military and political struggle in Chechnya between pro-Moscow and separatist forces, and to broad tensions between authorities and Islamists in the North Caucasus region.
In recent years, he said, authorities in Kabardino-Balkaria have sought to repress the expression of Islam outside officially approved channels, and this appears to have produced a backlash.
"Relations between officials and believers deteriorated," Malashenko said.
The attacks appeared to be an effort by Islamic militants "to show everybody, including the Kremlin administration, that they are very strong and can do whatever they like, even in a big city like Nalchik," he said. "This was a kind of demonstration of their capacities. It is at the same time a certain revenge."
The attacks could also be a show of strength linked to a scheduled Nov. 27 parliamentary election in Chechnya, he said.
Authorities blamed the attack on a group called Yarmuk, which they said was linked to Islamic extremists and Chechen rebels led by Shamil Basayev and Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev.
Federal Deputy Prosecutor General Vladimir Kolesnikov told reporters in Nalchik that some of the captured militants had begun to talk. He said the attack was led by Islamic radicals Anzor Astemirov and Iless Gorchkhanov. They previously were identified as leaders of Yarmuk and are suspected of masterminding an attack on the Nalchik drug control office in December.
"Unfortunately, the aim of the bandit attack is to destabilize the situation and demonstrate their organizational, resource and other capabilities, and to try to show that the authorities are helpless when it comes to protecting public order and protecting citizens," Kolesnikov said.
A statement posted on the rebel-linked website Kavkaz Center also credited Yarmuk with the Thursday's attacks.
Mindful of the Beslan attack, for which Basayev claimed responsibility, authorities in Nalchik said they evacuated children from schools.
If one goal of the Nalchik assaults was to provoke shock at the rebels' capabilities, they seemed to have that effect in some quarters.
"We have plenty of forces," Mikhail Zalikhanov, a member of the lower house of parliament from Kabardino-Balkaria, said in televised remarks. "There are 13,000 police officers alone [in the republic]. With such resources, not to mention the other law-enforcement agencies, how could it be possible, in the heart of our republic, in broad daylight, for bandits to prance around like this?"
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Considering there are 100+ heavily armed rebels on the street, Putin's lock down seems to be working. Delayed action or unclear objectives could of made this alot worse.
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Considering there are 100+ heavily armed rebels on the street, Putin's lock down seems to be working. Delayed action or unclear objectives could of made this alot worse.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Authorities detained seven suspects in an anti-terrorism operation Friday in three Dutch cities, including the capital, officials said. The suspects, ranging from 18- to 30-years-old, were detained in The Hague, Amsterdam and Almere. They will be brought before an investigating judge Monday.
The chief suspect in the raids was Samir Azzouz, a 19-year-old Dutch national of Moroccan descent who was acquitted of terrorism charges earlier this year. Azzouz was in the process of purchasing automatic weapons and explosives "probably to carry out an attack with others on several politicians and a government building," a prosecution statement said.
As part of a security operation, about two dozen officers in riot gear closed entrances leading to both houses of parliament and the government's information service. The weekly Cabinet meeting, however, went ahead as scheduled.
Police declined to confirm media reports of gunfire in The Hague's largely immigrant Schilderswijk neighborhood, where a hand grenade exploded during the arrest of two terrorist suspects last year, following van Gogh's murder.
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Wonder if the Justice system will let them walk.
Joint Iraqi and U.S. security forces foiled an attempt by terrorists to ambush a truck delivering ballots to the nearby city of Muqtadiya yesterday, one in a series of attacks ahead of tomorrow's vote on a permanent constitution.
A decoy convoy -- disguised to look like it was carrying ballots from the Iraqi Electoral Commission and heavily armed with Iraqi forces -- drew fire from terrorists hiding in a palm grove outside of Baqouba at midday.
Unknown to the enemy, three ordinary pickup trucks carrying the real ballots already were delivering the precious cargo to the city of Muqtadiya, an hour's drive away.
Thirty Iraqi soldiers, accompanied by a reporter-photographer for The Washington Times, were assigned to the dummy convoy. It was an all-Iraqi operation. No U.S. soldiers were present.
The Iraqis were ready for a fight.
"By the name of Allah, the most merciful," said Iraqi army Lt. Hayder, who, like other Iraqi soldiers, goes only by one name to protect his family from being targeted by terrorists.
"This mission is dangerous. Any civilian car moving between our cars should be seen as a threat," Lt. Hayder said before the mission got under way.
The attack began with the bone-jarring explosion of a roadside bomb followed by a barrage of rocket-propelled grenades and rifle fire.
Within seconds, Iraqi soldiers responded with a wall of automatic-weapons fire. The terrorists ran.
Later, U.S. Kiowa helicopters arrived to escort the convoy to Muqtadiya.
Back at Forward Operating Base Normandy in Muqtadiya, which U.S. Army Task Force 1-30 shares with an Iraqi unit nicknamed "Tiger Battalion." Lt. Col. Roger Cloutier reflected on the day's events.
"These [Iraqi soldiers] are ordinary guys that rose to the occasion. In their lifetime, they have never experienced freedom, and now they're defending it with their lives," said Col. Cloutier, commander of the task force.
"At the end of the day, everyone was alive, and the ballots are under Iraqi control."
One Iraqi soldier and two Iraqi election workers were wounded in the attack. All are expected to recover.
With the operation's success, about 166,000 ballots await voters in Muqtadiya, a city about 50 miles northeast of Baghdad.
Throughout Iraq yesterday, thousands of other Iraqi soldiers, police and election workers risked their lives to prepare for tomorrow's vote.
Interior Minister Bayan Jabr told reporters in Baghdad that all major cities would be cordoned off and Iraq's borders would be closed as of today.
Tomorrow, on the day of the vote, only official vehicles will be allowed on the roads.
Thousands of Iraqi detainees and hospital patients began casting their ballots yesterday, said Adil Al-Lami, chief officer of the Iraqi Electoral Commission.
Election officials began setting up polling stations, located mostly in local schools and mosques. And the violent Sunni triangle, which stretches from Baqouba and Muqtadiya northeast of Baghdad to the Syrian border, was no exception.
The region includes Anbar Province, where U.S. and Iraqi forces have led large sweeps near the Syrian border in recent days to flush out insurgents and terrorists.
In Baghdad yesterday, the few people out on the streets were busy buying food and supplies before the 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew that has been imposed across the country for four days.
All airline flights in and out of the country have been canceled, and multiple checkpoints and closed roads have made driving more challenging than usual.
Iraqi forces found and defused numerous vehicles wired to explode and kill or frighten Iraqis from casting votes,
Aside from the armed conflict, a U.S.-brokered deal to defuse Sunni political opposition achieved at least a split in the "no" camp by winning endorsements for the charter from some -- in return for a pledge to consider amendments after the vote.
At least eight persons, among them three police officers and a U.S. soldier, were killed in attacks across the country, Reuters news agency reported, but tight security may be working. A U.S. general said daily attacks were down by about 40 percent compared with January's election campaign.
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No doubt the press is scandalized by the idea of using a fake convoy.
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With any non-military vehicle on the street to be fired upon, about all that is left to the bastards are individual suicide bombers. And I have a feeling that they are in somewhat short supply.
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It was a Washington Times reporter, not one of the wire services. And I don't think a traitor would have felt safe in an all-Iraqi unit without any Coalition troops to protect him from his own folly. (Well done, gentlemen! Congratulations!)
Iraqi police commandos have aborted a 'terror campaign' planned by Al-Qaeda in Iraq to disrupt the constitutional referendum in two days' time, a senior officer said.
'In all, 17 car bombs have been found, 17 members of the network killed and 65 others arrested,' Colonel Ali Abu al-Hassan of the controversial Wolf Brigade told media following an offensive on the southern outskirts of Baghdad.
'During the operation, which was launched following tips from intelligence sources and which ended this morning, terrorist hideouts were surrounded in the Sayafia and Arab Jubur neighborhoods,' the police officer added.
'The cell's aim was to strike Baghdad on referendum day,' when 15.5 million Iraqis are to vote on a proposed constitution for the post-Saddam Hussein era.
Firefights between the troops and suspected rebels lasted 48 hours.
Sixty-five blindfolded suspects were presented to reporters at the brigade's headquarters at the interior ministry.
The Wolf Brigade has spearheaded Iraqi offensives against insurgents, but has also been accused of brutality and of airing suspects on television before they faced trial.
Colonel Hassan displayed a portrait of one of the cell's suspected leaders, Abu Aws, and urged the population to look out for him and report any sightings to his unit.
Iraqi authorities have begun a security clampdown ahead of the nationwide vote Saturday, setting up extra checkpoints and preparing to enforce a curfew and partially closed international and internal borders.
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This is good news, unless. Unless they still have dozen's of carbombs and suicide bomers go off. Than that just means we slowed down a bigger problem than we thought we had.
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Plainslow, I doubt that people are underestimating the size of the problem. I think you're setting up false expectations in a way that the left loves to do. (not saying you are)
Expect perfection than bitch when it doesn't happen. I think that Iraqi TV should have shows like we do in the US where they publish the name and face of a criminal/terroris with "Have you seen this dude? Call this number....." Get the whole country involved.
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Sorry. But the press has convinced me they really don't care about the facts. They have "stringers" working with the terrorists to feed them the video they want; they can take a single attack and turn it into the Tet Offensive. They'll do anything they want, anytime, because they have the megaphone and we don't.
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mhw: Forbes calls the Wolf Brigade controversial.
Hah! these boyos appear to following the method my GreatGreat Grandfather used when he was a sheriff in Waco, Texas (a story passed down from generation to generation).
According to the story, when he retired (unusual, since Sheriffs tended to die in office...of "lead poisoning") he said: My method for rounding up bad guys was simple: SHOOT them...THEN arrest them!
The wolf brigade does have a show or two. They are the most popular shows in Iraq. I hear they let them watch it in detainment centers as well, like COPS in prisons here, and they love that shit.
When the Wolf Brigade commandos aren't kicking the shit out of jihadis, they are parading them in front of the camera and forcing them to admit their terrorist actions against Islam and Iraq.
I want to see this freakin show so badly, with English subtitles hopefully. Someone has to have a line on where we can get this. .com, moose, RC, Mrs. D, Fred, somebody knows where to find this show I hope.
If so tell us all, and provide a link!!
I want to see Jihadi Joe admitting his crack smoking and ass hopping gay jihadi love fests with that fear of God and the Wolf Brigade ass whipping he knows is still coming in his eyes. I would find immense entertainment value in such a show, better than reruns of ER even.
They also have Iraq's most wanted themed shows in some large towns too, my friends in theatre said that they worked really well for them in Kirkuk.Anonymous hotlines and all.
Anyway, its all going on, our consultants to the Iraqis know their shit.
Iraq prepared to seal itself off from the outside world and clamp down on movement around the country to ward off threats from insurgents bent on wrecking a referendum on a new constitution. Iraqi detainees and hospital patients began to cast their ballots, two days before the rest of 15.5 million people get their say on the proposed charter for post-Saddam Iraq.
Announcing the nationwide lockdown, Interior Minister Bayan Jabr said frontiers would be closed from midnight until Sunday. Businesses were closed for a four-day public holiday and private vehicles will be banned starting midnight tonight. Aside from the armed conflict, a U.S.-brokered deal to defuse Sunni political opposition achieved at least a split in the "No" camp by winning endorsements for the charter from some - in return for a pledge to consider amendments after the vote.
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Does this lockdown also include a comprehensive car-ban?
Indonesian police had evidence suggesting militants might resort to smaller suicide attacks rather than powerful truck bombs before the deadly Bali bombings on October 1, a US terrorism expert claims.
Jemaah Islamiah, believed to be the al Qaeda network's main ally in south-east Asia, has been blamed for the attacks on three packed restaurants on the Indonesian resort island, which killed three bombers and 20 other people, and wounded more than 100.
In an anti-terror operation in June and July, Indonesian police arrested 17 suspected militants and found, in rebel safe houses, bomb materials similar to those used in the October 1 attacks â including TNT powder, detonating cords and ball bearings, said Zachary Abuza, a terrorism expert and senior fellow of the US Institute of Peace said, adding: "There were plenty of clues as early as June and July to suggest that JI was going to shift to smaller suicide bombers, rather than truck bombs."
Abuza said Indonesian authorities believed militants would not hit Bali a second time, or other tourism hubs, but would focus on targeting "other pillars of the Indonesian economy", citing a report which believed the next target would be a Western mining concern.
While Indonesian police have not said the October 1 suicide bombers trained in the southern Philippines, Abuza has raised concerns over reports of terror training in the southern region of Mindanao.
A terror cell suspected in the latest Bali attacks had sent members to the southern Philippines for training, he said.
"The weak link in the war on terror in south-east Asia continues to be the Philippines," Abuza added.
Philippine officials have rejected such criticism, saying crackdowns had led to the arrests of several Jemaah Islamiah members, prevented attacks, disrupted terror training and kept a small group of Indonesian militants on the run in Mindanao.
A confidential report by the Philippines' National Security Council in August, said Jemaah Islamiah training courses, which started in mid-1998, had been disrupted by military offensives.
However, it went on to say they could be resumed because of the presence of about 25 members of the group in the southern Philippines.
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Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk Sharaa erred twice in his eulogy of Interior Minister Ghazi Kanaan calling the suicide an "assassination," said an-Nahar.
Maybe he knows something we don't?
The public attorney who superintended an autopsy made the same mistake during a televised news conference.
Uh huh, whole lot of "mistakes" going around
"The 'tongue lapses' buttressed a worldwide conviction that Gen. Kanaan was 'willfully eliminated' to cover up a high-level involvement of the Assad regime in Lebanon's ex-Premier Rafik Hariri's assassination, refuting the official Syrian claim that the 63-year-old general had committed suicide," reported Beirut's an-Nahar newspaper, on its Internet Web site.
Sharaa held the Lebanese media and leakages by the U.N. commission responsible for Kanaan's 'assassination' in a televised statement at his funeral on Thursday. He did not correct the first 'slip of the tongue.' Later in the statement Sharaa again called Kanaan's death an 'assassination' with an instant correction of 'pardon, suicide.'
"Oops, sorry, don't know what I was thinking"
Chief public attorney Muhammad al-Louji told a televised news conference in Damascus Thursday that Kanaan shot himself with a .38 caliber Smith & Wesson revolver. Al-Louji said an examination of the body and interviews with witnesses showed "Kanaan placed the tip of the revolver in his mouth and fired it." "The act of killing, pardon, assassination, occurred at his office in the Interior Ministry at 9:15 a.m. Wednesday. He had left 45 minutes earlier, got into his car and drove home. He spent a little time there before returning to the office," al-Louji said.
They better hope there's not any spare rounds left in that gun.
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"Is this mike on?"
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At the Syrian Secret Police, the new password is cough**assasination**cough. Counter sign, pardon, suicide.
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Sounds like an Al Freudian slip to me. Ima not a psychologist, but Ima married to one.......
Kanaan should have gotten out of Dodge, but I have a feeling that the Baathist Boyz were watching him, so he may not have gotten the chance to R-U-N-N-O-F-T.
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Makes me wonder what the Dems will say for Dubya and the GOP iff any new 9-11's occur, ala BILL MAHER and how Liberals always "had told the truth". I believe that the cricisms of Dubya ala KATRINA/RITA-GATE was intended in part to foster such hatred of Dubya and alleged Bush-GOP "Fascism" that he and they would be attacked and harmed/killed - its no accident that the Demmies are escalating their legal investigations into Bush, GOP and Admin dealings at the same time Radical Islam threatens to new attacks ags the US or US interests. Interesting that Bill Clinton admits to being POTUS by fraud yet he's NOT the target or focii of any Demmie investigation -just DUBYA AND ONLY DUBYA, FEDERALISM AND ONLY FEDERALISM, THE FED AND ONLY THE FED!?
DEBKAfile Exclusive: Syrian military and security forces are on the highest alert in the mountain strongholds of the ruling Alawi clans east of Latakia. They are braced for a vendetta within the Alawi community of which President Bashar Assad and his supporters are leading members. They fear that at least two clans may reject the official claim that interior minister Ghazi Kenaan died by his own hand Wednesday and seek revenge.
It's time for Syrian Family Feud!
Assad had thought to appoint Kenaanâs successor - most likely a former interior minister Hassan Harabe â without delay. He was deterred by a warning that he could no longer rely on the loyalty of the security and intelligence services ruled by the dead minister.
"Baby Assad dun had da boss wacked!"
This assumes that he ever once trusted the security and intel services.
There has been speculation in Washington and Damascus that the Assad may have made former Lebanon strongman and pillar of his regime the scapegoat should the UN Hariri investigators point the finger at top Syrian circles when their report comes out on Oct. 21.
"Nothing personal, Ghazi. Just business"
DEBKAfileâs Syria observers report that the last high Syrian military alert occurred in 2000 towards the end of Basharâs father president Hafez Assad term when prime minister Mahmoud Zouaby, a Sunni, was whacked killed himself after he was imprisoned on corruption charges. The only time before that was in 1968 when Syrian military intelligence chief Gen. Abndel Karim al Jundi, an Ismaili, also was whacked committed suicide.
Seems to be a pattern there.
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All those suicides . . . must be pining for the Golan Heights.
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The Alawi sect, which integrates doctrines from other religions -- in particular from Christianity -- arose from a split within the Ismailite sect. The Alawis appear to be descendants of people who lived in this region at the time of Alexander the Great. When Christianity flourished in the Fertile Crescent, the Alawis, isolated in their little communities, clung to their own preIslamic religion. After hundreds of years of Ismaili influence, the Alawis moved closer to Islam. However, contacts with the Byzantines and the Crusaders added Christian elements to the Alawis' new creeds and practices. For example, Alawis celebrate Christmas, Easter, and Epiphany.
Split by sectional rivalries, the Alawis have no single, powerful ruling family, but since independence many individual Alawis have attained power and prestige as military officers. Although they are settled cultivators, Alawis gather into kin groups much like those of pastoral nomads. The four Alawi confederations, each divided into tribes, are Kalbiyah, Khaiyatin, Haddadin, and Matawirah.
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the allawis were parias under the Ottomans, who were Sunnis. Some Sunnis dont even consider the Allawis muslims. They survived in the mountains, like other minorities in the region. Excluded from most other avenues to mobility, they gravitated to the military, where alawis helped other alawis.
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latakia is the biarritz of syria--its where the theiving allawis have their mansions that drug money and official corruption have built--if they have to protect the mountain passes than methinks there are serious problems--w should unleash some subs to create an artificial tsunami and let the survivors swim to monaco
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The Taleban have appointed three new spokesmen following the arrest of their former media link, Latifullah Hakimi, in Quetta, Pakistan, last week. Abdul Hai Mutmain, culture and information chief for Kandahar during the Taleban regime, told the BBC he had been named head of the media section. The others were named as Qari Yousuf and a man called Dr Hanif. The arrest of Mr Hakimi was seen as a blow to the Taleban as he was regarded by many as the voice of the group.
Mr Mutmain said he had been appointed by Mullah Mohammad Omar, the leader of the Taleban. Mr Mutmain said Mr Yousuf and Dr Hanif would provide information on militant activities in different parts of Afghanistan. They would speak on military matters only, he said, adding that he would be the spokesman on political issues.
Analysts say the new appointments are an attempt to revive the militants' media profile. For a few days after Mr Hakimi's arrest there was no Taleban spokesman. Mr Hakimi's exact ties to the Taleban were never verified, but according to Afghan and US officials he was believed to represent factions within the rebel group. He was a key contact for journalists seeking to establish whether or not the Taleban had carried out particular attacks in Afghanistan. He usually spoke by satellite phone, occasionally switching to mobile phones registered in Afghanistan or Pakistan.
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Damn i'm unemployed and wanted that job so badly :)
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Naw Shep, your lips are too firmly attached. :)
A Pakistani doctor who once treated Osama bin Laden is among hundreds of volunteers from an Islamic group who are participating in relief work in quake-hit areas of northwest Pakistan and Kashmir. "We have sent 50 trucks carrying relief goods to Kashmir and those areas of northwestern Pakistan where the quake killed thousands of people," said Yahya Mujahid, spokesperson for Jamat-e-Dawad group, which describes itself as a charity.
On Thursday, Mujaid said Jamat-e-Dawad had set up a field hospital in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan's part of Kashmir, where the 7.6-magnitude quake caused massive casualties and damage. "Our people are also helping those affected by Saturday's earthquake in Indian-held Kashmir," he said. "It is also jihad (holy war, or struggle) to help calamity-stricken people."
"We gotta patch up our holy warriors and get them back to booming!" he added.
He said the group's main field hospital in Muzaffarabad is being run by Amer Aziz, a British-trained orthopaedic surgeon who was detained after the 9/11 attacks in the United States. He was suspected of links to militants, but was later tagged and freed.
Aziz has acknowledged in an interview with The Associated Press that he saw bin Laden after the 9/11 attacks and that the al-Qaeda leader was in good shape at the time.
Mujahid said Aziz immediately accepted his group's request when it asked him to be in charge of the field hospital. "Doctors and surgeons headed by Amer Aziz so far have treated 600 patients," Mujahid said. "Right now our priority is to save people and bury dead."
However, he did not say whether fighters belonging to Lashkar-e-Tayyaba were also helping them, although residents in Kashmir and Pakistan say initial help came from militants.
The terrorists will stand around and watch. This sort of work is beneath them.
A statement by Jamat-e-Dawad in Islamabad said it was using 100 mules to provide food, tents medicines and other relief goods to quake victims in several inaccessible areas of Kashmir. It said volunteers were also using motorboats to supply aid to people living near the Neelum River.
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wonder if binnys now earth worm developments now after the 'quake'. I'm sat here waiting for the influx of pakis to arrive - 2 million homeless - i bet a good few hundred thousand head to England.
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What I'm wondering is how much of this aid is U.S. in origin.
Someone should seize this Aziz guy, bring him back to Gitmo, and extract Binny's location from him.
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Binny's prob dead, but just in case... extract the good doctor's toenails and fingernails from him and beat his ass to a pulp. That's when the fun begins!
He'll tell us things he didn't even know he knew.
Oh, is that aginst the Geneva? Fuzzy legalities, formalities as it were.
Well just hire some contractors to do the job in Pakiwakiland, I could suggest a few.
Then RFID his monkey ass and see what kind of hole he crawls back into and JDAM that Mofo.
Sounds like a nice weekend out for some Blackwater boyz to me.
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I'd suspect that ObL wouldn't want the good doctor anywhere near him, now that everybody knows there was a connection. There's a-lways the chance that one of the doc's neighbors is a little low on cash, and is keeping an eye on where he goes.
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For those who were keeping score, Attiyat Allah was the real head of al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia. If he was indeed Omar Hadid (Zark's Darth Vader), that means kiling him when we cleaned out Fallujah was an even bigger catch than we'd thought. Some of the most infamous contributors to extremist internet chartrooms, known for their support of al Qaeda and attacks on those intellectuals and politicians who disagree with fundamentalist Islamic ideology are not Saudi citizens, according to exclusive information obtained by Asharq al Awsat, but most readers were.
An informed source, which has monitored these forums for some time and analyzed the aliases of a number of writers, cited the Arab arena forum (muntadah al sahah al arabiyah), based in the Untied Arab Emirates, and writers for the voice of jihad (sawt al jihad) and al Battar, two online newsletters which represent al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia as examples.
Umm Osama (the mother of Osama), better known as al Khansa writes for al Qaedaâs bulletins and, in an interview with Asharq al Awsat on 12 March 2003, she indicated she headed the womenâs wing of al Qaeda inside the Kingdom.
Known as Fatah al adghal (youth of the jungle), a writer for al Sahah is in fact a Pakistani national who moved to Saudi Arabia with his family aged 3. It is difficult for the untrained eye to see that he is not Saudi especially given his local focus and fluency in the local dialect. Thought to be around 20, the writer received his religious education in the Kingdom and has visited Pakistan several times throughout his life.
According to the source, âFatah al Adghalâs writings can be divided into two periods. In his first âconfusedâ phase, he supported al Qaeda. After the terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia and his arrest, he distanced himself from the extremist group which he accused of a lack of jurisprudence but continued to criticize and attacks several Saudi writers, intellectuals, and journalists.â
Another previous notorious contributor was Louis Atiyatallah, who had an article s published by a London-based Arab newspaper and a book issued in the British capital. âWe are aware he received support from a certain government and had his writings corrected by Saudis,â the source said.
Hidden behind the alias was âan Iraqi man named Omar Hadid, who also called himself Adnan or Marwan Hadid, after the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood leader Marwan Hadid who repeatedly clashed with the Assad regime and was later arrested and died in 1975â, the source added.
Confusion surrounding the identity of the writer was compounded when a third person named Marwan Hadid, a Syria who woks in the Saudi city of al Taif , was discovered. Nevertheless, it is the Iraqi Omar Hadid who wrote under the alias Louis Atiyatallah and was killed in Iraq . His penname survived his death and has been used by others who share his ideology and views if not the distinctive writing style. âIt is not unusual in some cases for nicknames to be used by others with access to restricted areas on internet forums,â the source said. For example, in the case of al Mutawathib, three different individuals were known to use the name and write in support of al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia and publish its statements on al sahah.
It transpired that the real Umm Osama was an Egyptian woman in her mid-twenties living in Medina who was interested in communicating with extremists. She was arrested and released after it was discovered that she was using internet message boards to fill time.
Dr. Habibi al Luwayhiq al Mutayri, of the Saudi Human Rights Association, was accused by some of being Fatah al adgal but he denied this in an article published on al sahah using his real name.
Fatah al adghal had co-written an article entitled personal memories with âBashir al Najdiâ and âThe brother who obeyed God (Akhu man taâ Allahâ) who was arrested during a confrontation with the security services in al Rawabi, east of Riyadh, last May. The Ministry of Interior later indicated that his real name was
Abdul Aziz al Tuwayli al Anzi, according to the Ministry of Interior; he also wrote under the pseudonym Abdullah bin Nasser al Rashid and Farhan bin Mashur al Ruwaili in sawt al jihad on the internet.
In the article, Fatah al Adghal remembered his discussions with âAkhu man taâ Allahâ and regretted the latterâs decision to join al Qaeda. âHe supported me against my adversaries and defended me. He was shy at the beginning but quickly grew in confidence. His talent soon started to shine through and he developed a unique styleâ, he said.
He also reminisced how the two men rejoiced at the September 11 attacks and cheered the 199 hijackers, writing, âI recall our admiration for Louis Atiyatallah, who held an important position in an internet forum. The Kuwaiti Muhammad al Mulayfi and the writer al Zawwaq al Twwaq were also part of our circle. They wrote about the war in Afghanistan and celebrated the attack on New York City.â
The close friendship did not last very long as Fatah al adghal refused to support the terrorist bombings that took place in Saudi Arabia in 2003 and remembered being âsuspicious of an article defending the attacksâ written by âAkhu man taâ Allahââ.
Fatahâs own recollections received mixed reviews in internet chat rooms with one member Sindibad criticizing the article in the Saudi Dar al Nadwah forum for being a preemptive attempt to deflect attention from its authorâs activities and prevent any action by the security services.
In one of his latest articles, Fatah al adghal criticized the Saudi writer Abdullah bin Bajad al Utaybi for supervising a television series aired on MBC during Ramadan analyzing the phenomenon of terrorism.
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Dan D. For those who were keeping score, Attiyat Allah...
...uummm..where's my good-news-dead-asshat-file.
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Very interesting, but I also would like to see confirmation - Attiyah seemed like more of a propagandist than an on the ground Jihadi like Omar Hadid
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Dan, you should change your Nomme de Blog to "Dan The Man!"
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Dan is pawn of global neo-con cabal trying to make Philly caterers look like wankers. He's good at it too.
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She was arrested and released after it was discovered that she was using internet message boards to fill time.
Whoa, this is starting to hit close to home...
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"..celebrated the attack on NYC": whom won't celebrate, iff they get to live and lead, and are still living asof 2005, while the others died as of 2001 and Mahdi Osama hasn't resurrected them yet.
A Muslim woman died on Thursday when a crude bomb she was carrying exploded in quake-hit Indian Held Kashmir, where five more people died in violence, a police spokesman said. A militant group, Jaish-e-Mohammed, said the woman was a suicide bomber who blew up an army vehicle, killing or injuring six Indian soldiers in the first such attack by the group. âThe woman, Hafsa, was from our womenâs wing,â a Jaish spokesman told local news agency Current News Service.
However police said the woman was travelling to a major highway connecting Srinagar to the city of Jammu to plant the improvised explosive device when it exploded. âThere were no other casualties,â at the site in Awantipora, 30 kilometres south of Srinagar, the spokesman said, adding that no army vehicle was travelling past the site of the blast, 20 metres short of the highway. Militants use women members for transporting arms and explosives in Kashmir, but have never used them as suicide bombers.
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Rawalpindi police have arrested two members of the banned militant organisation Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, who they say were close to the alleged mastermind of the assassination attempts on President Musharraf in 2003. The two men - Syed Hameed ud Din and Israar ud Din - were arrested at Committee Chowk in Rawalpindi on Thursday evening, said Saud Aziz, the Rawalpindi district police officer (DPO).
Aziz said that sources had tipped off the police about the two menâs presence in the area, upon which the authorities took prompt action and made the arrests. Two hand-grenades and other weapons were recovered from the men, along with maps of âsensitive placesâ, the Rawalpindi DPO said. Aziz said that the two men were waiting to meet with another man at Committee Chowk, and had planned to proceed to Islamabad together. He said that the men were being interrogated by intelligence agencies at an undisclosed location. Aziz said that the two men were close allies of Amjad Farooqi, the alleged architect of the assassination attempts on the president on December 14 and 25, 2003. Farooqi was subsequently killed in a police encounter in May, 2004.
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PESHAWAR: A judicial magistrate on Thursday adjourned hearing of the case of Zeeshan Siddiqui, a suspect in the July 7 London bombings, after the defence counsel requested for more time to produce Siddiquiâs travelling documents in court. The court had earlier fixed October 13 to frame charges against Siddiqui, a British national. When the trial started on Thursday, Mussarat Hilali, Siddiquiâs counsel, said that her client was residing in Pakistan on valid visa documents but had lost them in a mishap. She requested the court to be granted more time to produce the documents in court before charges were framed against Siddiqui.
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BAGH: Pakistan-based Islamic militants fighting Indian rule in Kashmir have announced a new jihad to help victims of the massive earthquake which struck on the weekend, killing dozens of their comrades. Volunteers from the Jamaatud Dawa, formerly the outlawed jihadi group Lashkar-e-Taiba, were the first group to offer aid in this badly-hit Kashmiri town after Saturdayâs catastrophic quake. About a dozen young militants brought food, medicine, blankets and drinking water for shell-shocked locals, arriving days ahead of government relief teams and even the Pakistan Army, witnesses said.
The worst earthquake in Pakistanâs history killed more than 23,000 people and made 2.5 million homeless. Azad Kashmir, a stronghold of support for Jamaatud Dawa, was the hardest-hit area. The militants claimed they could reach remote villages which the Pakistan Army and international rescue teams had struggled to get to. Party officials said the group, despite suffering severe losses of its own, was now carrying out relief work throughout Azad Kashmir. Humanitairan operations were also under way near the Line of Control that divides Kashmir between Pakistan and India, they said.
âIt is a jihad to help people overcome their miseries,â a Jamaat activist who identified himself only as Saad told AFP. Holding a satellite telephone and swearing a commando jacket, the youth in his early 20s was leading a group of volunteers who approached their task with solemn determination. âI have a wife and three children - two daughters and one son. But I donât know where they are,â Saad said. âI havenât seen them for three years. They donât know my whereabouts.â
Jamaatud Dawa spokesman Yahya Mujahid said the group had mobilised around 2,500 volunteers for relief work in Pakistan and Kashmir. âThere is no other activity at the moment except relief activities,â Mujahid told AFP. âWe have launched massive relief work in Muzaffarabad, Rawlakot, Abbotabad, Balakot, Bagh and other areas,â he added. âSo far we have provided 1,500 tents ... We are trying to provide one tent for each family so the women can hide themselves.â
Maulana Abdul Aziz Alvi, a leader of the underground outfit, told AFP the group had taken a severe blow after about 70 of its fighters were killed in the quake. Group members who survived were attending funerals every two to three hours, he said. Jamaatâs religious schools and mosques had been razed by the trembling earth. More than a dozen members died when the roof of the party office collapsed during a meeting, the party official said. A Jamaat spokesman in Lahore said party chief Hafiz Saeed was alive and well. âItâs time to do jihad of a different nature, by helping people in this hour of need and Jamaat teams are working day and night,â he said.
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So what are they doing? Shooting the "not muslim enough" survivors?
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i feel the earth move under my feet--carol king for jihadis--i thought that the moolahs prayed for this to happen to da infidels---that allan is such a kidder
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MULTAN: Two people were arrested for interrogation when a special team of intelligence agencies raided a village near Faisalabad on Wednesday. The individuals were suspected of being involved in the attack on an Ahmedi worship place in Madi Bahauddin on October 7. Eight people were killed and 14 injured in what was dubbed a âterrorist attackâ. According to family sources, law enforcement agents in plain clothes took Muhammad Ashfaq and Muhammad Basharat into custody and shifted them to an undisclosed location. The men were formerly activists of the banned militant organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba. Sources said that the men had been taken to Islamabad for interrogation.
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GILGIT: At least two Pakistan Rangers personnel and three civilians were killed and 15 injured in fresh violence in the city on Thursday, after which a curfew was imposed in the area with soldiers patrolling the roads. Shia students gathered in front of High School No 1 at about 9:00am and demanded the Rangers release a student, Mansoor Changezi, who they had arrested on Tuesday for allegedly shooting at security personnel. The protestors said they had had no news about Changezi since he had been arrested and feared he was dead. The Rangers baton charged the protestors and shot in the air. At the same time, someone shot at the mob and Rangers after which a shootout ensued. Two Rangers personnel and three Shias, identified as Saleem Raza, Wahid Hussain and Tarim Bhatool, were killed. Three Rangers personnel, three women and three others were injured.
The protests follow a van shooting on Tuesday in which two Shias were killed. There were protests outside the hospital in which the alleged attacker was being treated. There were also reports of a peaceful protest by about 400 Shia women at Khomer Chowk in Gilgit demanding army officials replace the Rangers in the city.
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Latest intelligence reports, collated almost a week after the killer earthquake hit Pakistan, hold that as many as 1,500 cadres of militant outfits in Pakistan perished in the disaster. Though most militant outfits like Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) , Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) , Al-Badr and Tehrik-e-Mujahideen took a hit, Hizbul Mujahideen alone lost around 400 men. At least a third of the 1,500 killed were hardcore jehadis, say intelligence officials, basing their assessment on a combination of human and electronic intelligence obtained from across the border.
Apart from the fact that Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir was virtually the epicentre of the quake, one major factor which hit outfits was that they had recently relocated many of their ''makeshift'' camps from jungles to villages. "Our reports show militant outfits had requisitioned three to four corner houses in many villages for their cadres in areas like Rawalkot, Manshera, Nikial, Kotli, Bagh, Palandri, Dudhnial, Deolian, Kalighati and, of course, Muzaffarabad, which were flattened by the quake," said an official. "Moreover, many of their launch pads and communication centres were also hit by the quake. This has thrown the command and control of the outfits slightly out of gear. We are picking up a lot of radio chatter about this," he added. But all this will not "affect" cross-border terrorism in any major way since most of those killed were "lower-level" cadres used as "cannon-fodder" by top militant leadership and "their Pakistani controllers".
"They can be replaced by other brain-washed individuals in the jehadi factory run by Pakistan's ISI," said the official. The assessment is that while infiltration may show a slight decline, violence levels will be kept up in Jammu & Kashmir in the days to come to show militancy in the state is "home-grown" and not fuelled from across the border.
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Osama gloriously fails the MAHDI test, again -just not a dedicated or strong enough MADONNA fan, are we, Usef!? If you can't do a simple thing like forecast an earthquake, or stop one, for your men, how are you going to stop the Devil per se, Nostradamus "hideous beast", or as I tease him the titanic, human/soul-eating, "Godzilla's a Wuss" VelociRaptor of the Apocalypse!?
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Joe made no sense, but he was entertaining as all hell.
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How is the Mahdi, the Muslim messiah, to be recognized? By what signs and portents, by his lineage, by what accomplishments? We know how to recognize the Jewish Messiah, and by the different signs that reveal the Christian Messiah returned, how how to differentiate between those who claim to be Mahdi and the real thing?
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Perhaps try the "Do they bleed and die?" test? Shoot 'em between the eyes. If you encounter one who is unhurt, you got yerself a Mahdi - buy him a beer!
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Latest intelligence reports, collated almost a week after the killer earthquake hit Pakistan, hold that as many as 1,500 cadres of militant outfits in Pakistan perished in the disaster.
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there is nothing in the Koran about the Mahdi except very indirect references (e.g., verse 25-13)
There are numerous Hadiths and the like which have ambiguous and contradictory things to say (many of these don't even make grammatical or logical sense but probably have nice rhyme and meter in arabic)
Some of the followers of Ahmadi, who founded the sect known as the Ahmadiya, thought he himself was the Mahdi based on some previous prophesy about a lunar eclipse.
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" We know how to recognize the Jewish Messiah,"
Do we?
Youve heard that the NYPD has set up a patrol around the grave of R. Menachem Mendel Schneerson, late rebbe of Chabad? The reason? There have been death threats ;)
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I hadn't heard that, liberalhawk. Although it seems a little late for death threats, as the good Rebbe is already dead. (Yes, I know some of his followers are waiting for him to return from the grave to finally tell them he is indeed the Messiah, but as he died deep in the throes of senility, I don't see how returning from death would improve matters much. I've always been silly that way...(L'Shana Tovah!!))
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I was under the impression that the Madhi was not the Messiah per se, but a prophet who would be the herald of the second coming of Mohammed or something like that. Following an analagous role to John the Baptist, as it were, rather than the Messiah. (Which they don't call as such. Using that terminology is apparently offensive, so they refer to prophets that fulfill the exact same function. Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, etc. Of course, there's also variation between the many different Christian and Jewish concepts of what the Messiah _is_, so naturally your mileage may vary as well).
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The only term I can think of to explain Joe's rants are staccato. Always a treat Joe, but quite cryptic.
Mahdi: "Youse 1500 will not git raisins, I'ma sending you straight to the Titanic, Human Soul-Eating [Godzilla's a Wuss] VelociRaptor of the Apocalypse" [has a ring to it lol]
Ship../Joe 2008
I gotta 4000+ lbs. of 304 stainless steel, I'll makeup the fliers.
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" I hadn't heard that, liberalhawk"
Im sorry, was it not clear that was a joke? at the expense of certain chabadniks of the "rebbe will come back" variety.
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"Well we know the Jewish messiah will be Orthodox and glatt kosher otherwise some Jews won't be able to eat at his house."
You think THAT will solve the problem?
So, the Satmar rebbe dies. He goes to heaven, naturally. He is informed by an archangel that, since such an esteemed personage is entering heaven, there will be a feast in his honor.
"Who is the mashgiach?" the rebbe asks, ever concerned about the reliability of the kashrut supervision.
"Why, rebbe, in your honor, the kaddish barchu (G-d) himself will be the mashgiach"
To which the rebbe replied "er, I'll have the fish"
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Youve heard that the NYPD has set up a patrol around the grave
That was the bit I hadn't heard, lh. My attempted joke in response obviously fell in a deep hole. ;-) And you and mwh can set up as a comedy team -- I hadn't heard any of those, and I fell off my chair.
Lexicon for the rest of us (tentative, my family wasn't that strict): glatt kosher -- certified by one set of rabbinic inspectors that the raw materials, preparation, and equipment all follow the rules of kosher (items so certified are granted the stamp of a circle K or circle U). mashgiach -- a rabbi trained and certified to do such inspections. There are rival schools of inspectors, for some reason... perhaps Ashkenazi and Sepharidi, or Russian and German, or just because why have one when two can argue with one another). kashrut -- the rules of kosher. The basic laws are in the Torah, things like no pork or shellfish, fairly simple and straightforward. The rules, now, well that has taken the better part of two millenia for whole schools of rabbis to decide upon, and apparently they don't always agree. And I guess these people can't eat at one another's houses.
And that is why St. Paul decided that Gentiles didn't have to convert to Judaism before being baptised as Christians.
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