CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- An Afghan warlord wanted by the United States said in a videotape broadcast Thursday that he and his followers want to support Osama bin Laden in battle. "We hope to participate with them in a battle that they lead. They hold the banner and we stand alongside them as supporters," Gulbuddin Hekmatyar said in the tape broadcast by the Al-Jazeera satellite network.
Hek, how ya doing? We've missed you
The tape appeared less than two weeks after top Islamist militants, including bin Laden, issued messages in quick succession. Bin Laden, his No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri and the head of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, weighed in on the so-called war on Islam and the political and security situations in Iraq.
Must be sweeps week
Al-Jazeera did not say how it received the tape.
Hekmatyar wore a black turban and eyeglasses, and sported a long grayish-white beard. A rifle was propped up against the wall behind him.
Hopefully Hek will be propped against a wall real soon
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Old news. Wikepedia: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar On December 25 of 2002, the news broke that American spy organizations had discovered Hekmatyar attempting to become a member of al-Qaeda. According to the news, he had said that he was available to aid them. However, in a video released by Hekmatyar September 1, 2003, he denied forming alliances with the Taliban or al-Qaeda but praised attacks against U.S. and international forces.
Too bad the Predator got his entourage, but missed him.
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Taliban militants and their allies have launched an intensified insurgent campaign against thousands of NATO troops deploying to southern Afghanistan, where the multinational force is taking over from U.S. soldiers.
Whether ambushing Afghan police from mountain passes or detonating bombs on lonely highways, remnants of the ousted Islamic regime have stepped up attacks, causing havoc and insecurity across a cluster of provinces the size of Britain.
Military officials and analysts said Wednesday that the Taliban threat is the No. 1 challenge facing more than 7,000 U.S., Canadian, British and Dutch troops that by September will be fighting under the NATO flag in four volatile southern provinces.
"This is counterinsurgency warfare (and) there will be casualties on both sides," said British Col. Chris Vernon, chief of staff for NATO forces operating in southern Afghanistan. "This is a counterinsurgency war zone."
Taliban chiefs like Mullah Omar hail from southern Afghanistan. Its deserts and mountain ranges provide good cover for militants hiding or planning for attacks. Protecting opium poppy fields -- and the illicit funds they earn -- is another reason to fight.
Mountains running through the northern districts of the neighboring Helmand and Kandahar provinces, and Zabul and Uruzgan to the north offer sanctuaries for militants, Vernon said. The porous Pakistani border runs along the southern and eastern edge of the provinces, providing another base where militants replenish funds and weapons before sneaking back in to launch attacks.
Ordinary Afghans and foreign analysts are critical that militants can still pose such a threat, more than four years after the late 2001 U.S.-led invasion that ousted the Taliban government for harboring Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda terrorists, blamed for the September 11 attacks.
"The situation would have been a lot easier if we got troops down there four years ago," said Joanna Nathan, the Kabul-based senior analyst for the International Crisis Group. "Security has gotten much worse. Four years ago they would have been welcomed, but things have been allowed to fester."
NATO officials believe the militancy will subside in regions like Helmand, Kandahar and Uruzgan once foreign forces consolidate their presence. Just 1,000 British troops are in Helmand, where no coalition forces have been before, but that number will rise to 2,500 by July.
Another 1,500 Dutch troops are due to boost security in Uruzgan by August or September. They are part of an expansion of a NATO-led security force, which is gradually assuming command of all foreign troops in Afghanistan.
"Helmand has been a free zone for the Taliban and the narco-traffickers, but now as coalition-UK capability moves in there, things will improve," Vernon said. "But it is going to take a good year or so to get that sorted."
Extremists are also launching attacks to protect their massive opium poppy plantations from coalition and government efforts to eradicate the crops, which produce 90 percent of the world's opium and heroin.
Tribal disputes, criminal rivalries and anti-Western militants crossing from sanctuaries in Pakistan are also fanning the violence.
Afghanistan has 27,000 new soldiers and another 60,000 lesser equipped police, many of whom are based in the south. But they still are not enough to counter strengthening Taliban forces and the more violent tactics, like suicide attackers and roadside bombs.
"We are afraid when we increase our security presence in the community we become targets for these terrorists," a Kandahar-based Afghan army commander said on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
Despite the brazen nature of the Taliban attacks, many of the reported casualties have been on the militant side.
At least 30 militants died in a bold attack in late March on a remote coalition forward operating base in Kandahar. One Canadian soldier was also killed.
Canadian forces over the past weekend killed 20 militants planning an ambush in Helmand province's Sangin district. Four Taliban militants were killed Wednesday by police in another foiled Helmand ambush.
But Taliban militants have still been able to inflict casualties, killing four Canadian soldiers April 22 in a village north of Kandahar city. Militants also kidnapped and beheaded an Indian engineer this week in Zabul province, where some 1,500 U.S. soldiers are based.
"We are seeing small cells of never more than 15 to 20 fighting men, occasionally up to 30, operating with local leaders dispersed across the south without great coherence," said Vernon. "This makes them difficult to track."
Key to NATO efforts is its three-pronged approach to supporting security, reconstruction and improved governance.
"If we can get these three lines together, eventually the people will say that they would rather have us than the Taliban," he said.
Kandahar clothing shopkeeper Haji Din Mohammed, 45, said Afghans are desperate for increased coalition support to confront the growing Taliban influence in southern villages and towns. Militants demand housekeepers provide them shelter and food at night.
"Outside of the city, everywhere you can easily find the Taliban," Mohammed said. "The government and coalition forces promised us security and an improved economy, but instead the security is bad. I can't go to my nearby village after 5 p.m."
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"...kidnapped and beheaded an Indian engineer this week in Zabul province...demand housekeepers provide them shelter and food at night"
And why didn't the US DOS designate the Taliban as a terrorist org.? Oh that's right, they're just "an insurgent organization that will periodically use terrorism to carry out its operations."
You know, just like that Mullah Omar really is just a grouchy old man set in his ways.
Taliban militants and their allies have launched an intensified campaign against thousands of NATO troops deploying to southern Afghanistan, where the multinational force is taking over from U.S. soldiers.
Whether ambushing Afghan police from mountain passes or detonating bombs on lonely highways, remnants of the ousted Islamic regime have stepped up attacks, causing havoc and insecurity across a cluster of provinces.
Military officials and analysts said yesterday the Taliban threat is the No. 1 challenge facing more than 7,000 U.S., Canadian, British and Dutch troops who by September will be fighting under the NATO flag in four southern provinces.
"This is counterinsurgency warfare (and) there will be casualties on both sides," said British Col. Chris Vernon, chief of staff for NATO forces operating in southern Afghanistan. "This is not the north or west of the country. This is a counterinsurgency war zone."
Taliban chiefs like Mullah Omar hail from southern Afghanistan. Its deserts and mountain ranges provide good cover for militants hiding or planning for attacks. Protecting opium poppy fields -- and the illicit funds they earn -- is another reason to fight.
Mountains running through the northern districts of neighboring Helmand and Kandahar provinces, and Zabul and Uruzgan to the north offer sanctuaries for militants, Vernon said. The porous Pakistani border runs along the southern and eastern edge of the provinces, providing another base where militants replenish funds and weapons before sneaking back in to launch attacks.
Ordinary Afghans and foreign analysts are critical that militants can still pose such a threat, more than four years after the late-2001 U.S.-led invasion that ousted the Taliban government for harboring Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda terrorists, blamed for the Sept. 11 attacks.
"The situation would have been a lot easier if we got troops down there four years ago," said Joanna Nathan, the Kabul-based senior analyst for the International Crisis Group. "Security has gotten much worse. Four years ago they would have been welcomed, but things have been allowed to fester."
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Same old, same old. Every spring, the press likes to trumpet the next Retreat From Kabul, and by fall the minority of Taliban still alive high tail back to Pakistan.
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How could you tell the difference between the level of attacks from the 'good old days' of common banditry? Its not like Afghanistan's history is one of peace and prosperity.
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They haven't quite figured out how to blame Bush for what happened in the centuries before he was born. But stay tuned... it will probably involve Space Aliens, wormholes, time travel and Halliburton...
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This could have a major economic impact on U.S. economy!!!
This morning, from a cave in north central Pakistan....
near Pastungettih, the Taliban Minister of Migration,
Mohammed Sharref Omar, warned the United States
that if military action against Iraq continues, Taliban
authorities will cut off America's supply of
convenience store managers.
If this action does not yield sufficient results, cab drivers will be
next......to be followed by motel operators.
Hooded men on a motorcycle assassinated deputy chief of a provincial court in the comparatively calm western parts of Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday. The judge named Sheikh Ahmad was shot dead while he was coming back home after evening prayer in the provincial capital of the Farah province last night. Governor Eizatullah Wasefi said the attackers, who managed to flee the scene after committing the crime, had covered their faces. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. In a suicide attack that rocked the central capital Kabul on Tuesday, two people, including the attacker, were killed and two other suffered injuries.
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An Afghan provincial governor said a blast at his office on Wednesday was an assassination attempt. A bomb planted in a police vehicle exploded inside the compound of the governor of the eastern province of Nangarhar. It caused no casualties but smashed office windows and damaged the car the governor had just arrived in. "It was an assassination attempt ... their plan was to kill me," the governor, Gul Agha Sherzai, told a news conference in the provincial capital, Jalalabad. He said those responsible were terrorists and three suspects had been arrested.
In Gul Agha's case I'm sorry they missed.
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In another development, Egypt has asked Yemen to hand over "terrorist Salafi clerics" who had been granted Yemeni citizenship for interrogation in connection with the Dahab bombings in Sinai.
Yemeni weekly al-Wasat said Wednesday the request was made by Egyptian Intelligence Chief Omar Suleiman during a meeting with President Ali Abdullah Saleh last week.
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Oh. I looked too fast. I thought they had a shortage...
Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has said she expects India to nab militants who have fled the country because of Dhaka's drive against terrorism.
She said her government had sent a list of the terrorists to the Indian authorities. The Indian government had assured her that it would take action against them, the Daily Star newspaper reported.
But the issue of bringing back the terrorists remained undecided as no extradition treaty exists between the two countries, she told the Jatiyo Sangsad (parliament). She added that there were no confirmed links between Bangladesh militants and international groups.
Answering a question, the prime minister asserted that many terrorists took shelter in neighbouring India due to the firm anti-terrorism stance of her government.
Zia said there was no confirmation about the country's Islamist militants having international links. When they are established, she would tell the world.
"It is yet to be confirmed whether any international group is involved ..., as the probe is still going on," Zia said, replying to supplementary questions in parliament.
Bangladesh is on the US' watch list for Islamist militancy. Investigations and media reports at home, in India and in the West have carried detailed reports of militant organisations in Bangladesh having links with Pakistan's ISI and with Al Qaeda of Osama bin Laden.
The prime minister claimed that the network of the militants had been broken. "They will not be given any chance to achieve their goals even if they have any link with international group," she asserted.
Khaleda said all members of the Majlish-e-Shura of the Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) had already been arrested.
When Jatiya Party lawmaker Hafizuddin Ahmed asked about the steps the government had taken in curbing terrorism, robbery and mugging on the roads, the prime minister claimed that "the country is now free of terrorism".
Although the main opposition Awami League was present in the house, its members did not take part in the prime minister's question-answer session.
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ASIO has identified restaurants and hotels in Australia as "potential primary targets" for a terrorist attack similar to the deadly bombings at Bali resorts last year. The director-general of the nation's intelligence agency, Paul O'Sullivan, this week warned restaurant and hotel managers that their businesses could be targeted. He also stressed there had been at least one terrorist attack planned against Australian interests a year for the past six years.
Addressing the National Food Chain Safety and Security Strategy Conference, Mr O'Sullivan said Australian interests were "potential primary targets". "Explosives-based attacks against crowded venues have been conducted overseas, including against food service venues such as restaurants and hotels," he said.
He cited last year's second Bali bombing as a recent example of such targeting. "Such tactics could be applied to food service venues in Australia to significant effect," he said.
Mr O'Sullivan said there was also potential for terrorists to use food contamination as a weapon. He said the case of Masterfoods having to withdraw its Mars and Snickers bars from shelves at a cost of $10 million and the Arnotts biscuits scare, which cost the company $22 million, showed how damaging an attack could be. "These events can have a wider impact on the community and, in extreme cases, have the potential to undermine the community's confidence in the safety and integrity of the food supply," Mr O'Sullivan said.
"It would not be surprising, therefore, if such an impact might hold appeal for a potential terrorist.
"One might hypothesise that crude contamination of foods might represent one of the simplest means to conduct an attack and even a limited attack would likely cause considerable community anxiety."
Mr O'Sullivan called on the food sector to take precautions and work with government to develop risk management plans. He said ASIO was working on sector-specific threat assessments, each of which took the agency about a year to develop. The spy agency had also set up a business unit to provide advice to corporate security managers on planning their response to terrorism.
Mr O'Sullivan said the terrorist threat was not going away. "Although current activity by intelligence, law enforcement and other agencies may have disrupted some terrorist planning, there is no indication that the threat is abating," he said.
WASHINGTON A dozen young terrorists have departed Afghanistan, bound first for Iran and then Europe, where their mission will be to hunt down the Danish cartoonists responsible for drawing anti-Muhammad sketches, according to a report in Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. The report was passed on by Hamid Mir, the Pakistani journalist who has interviewed al-Qaida leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri and who just visited the no-man's land along the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
While there, he was told by Taliban sources in south Waziristan that 12 young men nine Afghans and three Pakistanis are on their way to Europe to kill the Danish cartoonists. While some carry Afghan passports and others carry Iranian passports, all will travel through Iran on their way to Europe, he reports. All 12 have recorded the video messages that will be aired publicly if they hit their targets.
In his most recent audio communiqué, aired on Al-Jazeera last week, Osama bin Laden called for a global Muslim boycott of American goods similar to the recent boycott of Danish products after the publication there of caricatures of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. He also said the artists who drew those offending cartoons should be handed over to him for trial and punishment. Days before that television broadcast, Mir predicted an imminent communiqué from bin Laden to be released on the Arab television network.
Aftenposten: Twelve terrorists are headed to Denmark to assassinate the artists behind the controversial caricatures of the prophet Mohammed published in newspaper Jyllands-Posten. This claim stems from Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir, newspaper Politiken reports on its web site, citing discussion of the case in Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
According to Danish terrorism expert Lars Erslev Andersen, it is highly unlikely that the terrorists, if they are en route, will ever arrive in Denmark, though he conceded that the threat is certainly unpleasant for those concerned. Denmark's intelligence service PET said that they were constantly monitoring the threat situation in regard to the artists.
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Osama bin Laden called for a global Muslim boycott of American goods similar to the recent boycott of Danish products after the publication there of caricatures of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad
Tell your boy Zarko to get the damn infidel sneakers off his oh-so-holy feet. Maybe he should buy a pair made in Paleostine.
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All 12 have recorded the video messages that will be aired publicly if they hit their targets.
reat time to make that point that for every terror attack Iran will lose what ? one city, one ship, one nuclear installation. They have set themselves up as the state sponsor of jihad. We need top show them it isn't all tea and dead jews.
Three men have been charged with planning a terror attack against preacher Ulf Ekman's Word of Life (Livets Ord) evangelical church in Uppsala. The case is the first ever prosecution for terrorist offences planned to take place on Swedish soil, and only the second case ever under Swedish terror laws.
The alleged plot was unveiled during the investigation into last year's failed firebomb attack against an Iraqi polling place in Stockholm. Police found references to plans to attack the church in a computer belonging to a 22-year old man of Iranian origin referred to as Mehdi.
The Swedish security police, Säpo, found information in the computer allegedly linking two other men to the plans. They were identified as Milan, a 19-year old of Bosnian origin from Trelleborg in Skåne, and Johan, the 25-year old son of Swedish professionals from Kramfors in northern Sweden.
The three men met on Terrorist Media, a website that promotes political violence. Medhi had also established his own Internet forum, Mujahedon.net. The strongest evidence against the men comes from Internet chatroom conversations and questioning.
"These men and their intentions must be taken seriously, but it is hard to say how serious their crimes are according to terrorism laws," said chief prosecutor Tomas Lindstrand, who said that the case was unusual and the law complicated.
Among the evidence presented by Lindstrand were pictures of the Livets Ord headquarters and a film showing two of the men studying the organization's website. In another film, Milan "warns the European people," which prosecutors interpret as expressing sympathy for Jihad.
"The motive for the plan is rooted in the fact that Livets Ord is pro-Israeli," said Lindstrand.
The controversial Christian movement, which has famous adherents including pop singer Carola, has expressed strong support for Israel, and actively encourages Russian Jews to move there.
The men had not decided when the attack would take place, and Lindstrand says he believes that it was prevented by the police's intervention.
Dagens Nyheter reports that Medhi had twice been convicted of smuggling a doping preparation and was sentenced in 2005 to four years in jail. He is also reported to have an interest in militant Islam.
He is charged with terrorism for carrying out the attack on the polling place in Kista, a Stockholm suburb, and for planning terrorist offences in relation to the alleged plot against the Word of Life.
He has admitted the attack in Kista, but has played down his role, claiming he was asked to sabotage the vote by an election official. He says he and two accomplices were payed 10,000 kronor. He is still being held by police, while his alleged accomplices have been released.
Milan is suspected of instigating terrorism, meaning he is suspected of encouraging others to commit terrorist acts. He refers to himself as a faithful Muslim, but speaking to DN he distanced himself from militancy or terrorism.
Johan, it is reported, stayed for three days at Mehdi's home in the Stockholm suburb of Vårby, after developing an interest in Islam. He denied to DN that he had converted. He is charged with assisting in an attempted terrorist crime and for conspiracy to commit terrorist offences. He has said in questioning that it was unlikely that he would have actually carried out the attack.
The three men have each given different information in police questioning, and have tried to blame each other. Johan has said that they had talked about different ways to set fire to Livets Ord's headquarters by alternatively drenching it in petrol then setting light to it with fireworks, or by smashing a window and throwing a petrol bomb through it.
"Given that the men are claiming innocence, we don't really know if they genuinely intended to carry out the plans," said Lindstrand.
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Looks like time for Lutherans to get offended and burn korans and masjids.
I'm not sure that would do anything but make the muzzies angrier. I'd rather see them burn imams and prayer leaders on old, rickety boats in the Baltic - sometime between January and March.
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Twelve Turkish soldiers were injured Wednesday in southeast Turkey when their bus hit a landmine. The Anatolia News Agency said five of those injured are in very critical condition, adding that the blast took place when the soldiers were carrying out a routine combing campaign at the Hakari neighborhood close to the Turkey-Iraq-Iran border triangle.
This blast coincides with the massing of more Turkish troops at the mostly resided Kurdish south eastern areas in preparation for launching a wide scale offensive against the separatist Kurdish Labor Party members. Earlier, Turkey announced that 3,500 Kurdish separatists are taking positions in north Iraqi mountainous areas and setting the stage for launching terrorist attacks inside Turkey.
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Well, if you weren't repressing the hell out of the Kurds, shit like this wouldn't happen.
Poo on you.
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Does calling this an 'accident' imply the mine was placed by Turkish army? It would seem to be more of an 'on purpose' if it was placed by Kurdish terrorists.
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And if you guys wheren't repressing Al Qaeda something wouldn't have happened too, poo on you!
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2500 US soldiers killen in Iraq, how comes? Poo on you
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40,000 killed in Kurdish rebellion. In your own country. Admit it, you are in a hopeless quagmire. Withdraw back to Turkestan.
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Dear Fuckwad - repressing Al-Q is a necessity for the future of civilisation on the planet. The Turks repressing Kurds - now that's just a domestic squabble.
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I think someone confused incident with accident, because if it was an accident, it would mean the Turks are planting mines on their own territory which would be an astonishing admssion, but it wouldn't surprise me. The Turks are panicking big time about Kurdish autonomy/independence. It shocks the hell out of them that the Kurds in Northern Iraq can run a stable prosperous ministate. Blows their racial predujices out the window and gives them the prospect of a state encompassing all Kurds that is bigger and much more successful than Turkey.
Your "boys" have lost more men boys to the Kurds/shia/Israeli than all of our war dead in the middle east since Jefferson sent marines to kick your ass off the shores of tripoli. You are all pathetic. We will take you on, anytime, anywhere and send you to hell in a pig skin where you belong.
I'm tired of PC bullshit!!
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just like a herpes outbreak, he boils to the surface - our very own little ugly eruption.
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marine kick your ass blah blah blah, the marines are only good for some defenseless women, even Mogadishu warlords kicked your marine arse fair and square, bunch of squirrels.
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troll cleanup!
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Murat's learning more here than he ever did in school, he just can't stay away.
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"Poo on you"?
Will that get him sinktrapped or will the stifled laughter of those present at the extremely lame attempt at a putdown suffice?
Although he's probably in a pretty good mood today. Big Armenian plane crash yesterday...
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The rangers in Mogadishu took down 200+ enemy with 18 losses. Pretty damn good. Thanks to Clinton, who is good for only going after defenseless women and is a squirrel, (ed - fluffy tails are cute!) it looked like the US ran. I'll trade you all of our spineless politicians for your democracy loving people. Deal?
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More like 1000+ skinnies dead. Somali medical personnel claimed the death toll was as high as 3000. 160 US vs. militia of thousands with heavy weapons.
PS. Don't forget the Malaysian who died in the relief column.
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I have no sympathy for the PKK. They should be taken out. That said, the Turks have treated the Kurds badly.
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In the interest of time, I'll only repeat the punchline of an ancient slop chute story;
"Murat returned to the top of the ridge and faced the commander of what was left of his once proud Division, filthy, bleeding, uniform torn to shreds. "It's a trap, General!! he gasped, there are TWO Marines!!!"
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - U.S. Judge Leonie Brinkema sent Zacarias Moussaoui to prison for life Thursday, to "die with a whimper," for his role in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He declared: "God save Osama bin Laden you will never get him."
Brinkema and the unrepentant Moussaoui capped the two-month trial with an intense exchange that will mark the defendant's last public words before his incarceration in a maximum security prison in Colorado.
A day earlier, a jury rejected the government's case to have Moussaoui executed, deciding instead to send him to prison for life without a chance of parole. Not all jurors were convinced that Moussaoui, who was in jail on immigration charges Sept. 11, had a significant part in the attacks, despite his boastful claims that he did.
Brinkema firmly refused to be interrupted by the 37-year-old defendant as she disputed his claim that his life sentence meant America had lost and he had won. "Mr. Moussaoui, when this proceeding is over, everyone else in this room will leave to see the sun ... hear the birds ... and they can associate with whomever they want," she said. She went on: "You will spend the rest of your life in a supermax prison. It's absolutely clear who won."
And she said it was proper he will be kept away from outsiders, unable to speak publicly again. Damn! No "exclusive interviews"! The media will probably go into mourning over that..
"Mr. Moussaoui, you came here to be a martyr in a great big bang of glory," she said, "but to paraphrase the poet T.S. Eliot, instead you will die with a whimper." At that point, Moussaoui tried again to interrupt her, but she raised her voice and spoke over him. "You will never get a chance to speak again and that's an appropriate ending." Brinkema sentenced Moussaoui to six life terms without the chance of parole. So long, Zack. Enjoy Florence.
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Put him in the cell block where the air conditioning fails every time the temp gets above 80 - which it does frequently! There are no windows in SuperMax - just tiny slits with 2" thick fused quartz that sometimes let in a little light. It's in the middle of a desert basin, and you can see for miles in all directions. There are mountains on the horizon, but 20 miles of cactus and coyotes between SuperMax and any true green. Enjoy, Moussaoui - you'll have lots of time to pray and ask the REAL God for forgiveness.
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Asta la vista, Zach! Nuttin' but love for ya.....
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I hope that when he gets to his cell the cell door slams exceptionally loudly. I'd like that to reverberate in his head and his memory for a good long time.
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I got 20 that says before 5yrs we will see Moussaoui letters, Art, writings. I will bet someone will do a interview via mail and did I mention he will be paid for such. And of course we all know how he will donate his money earned.
I am going to take the counter EXCUSES one by one:
We have to show them we are better than they are
Simply right now Bin Laden and crew just got proof positive of the power of Allah is on his sets side. I can here the words now from Bin Laden My brothers in arms praise be Allah for he has protected our brother Moussaoui. Moussaoui was captured in heart of the Big Satan striking a blow for Allah. Brother Moussaoui kept heart and did not allow himself to be fooled and tricked by the infidels allowing his fellow brothers to complete their mission praise be Allah. Moussaoui was put up for death and surely would have been killed but praise be Allah, Allah came down and in the heart of the beast itself protected brother Moussaoui putting the shield of Allah over him so he could not die at the hands of the evil infidels praise be Allah. This shows not only the power of Allah but proves the fact that Allah sees and supports our cause praise be Allah. I call on all Muhajadin brothers to join us and bask in the protection of Allah praise be Allah.
He wanted to die why give him what he wants
Very simply I dont give a flying terd what Moussaoui wants. But I do know one thing for sure Dead is Dead that means once executed he cant ever again harm anyone guards/inmates property whatever, I do know that he will never ever do a interview or sell art or have freekin fan mail club from the grave, I do know the other Jihadis who consider helping the next wave of terrorist will fully understand they are signing their own death warrant with such action, I do know that dog, cat, human, rich man, poor man, whatever everyone values their life and will fight AKA feel pain anger when they cross over, I also know that in hell purgetude whatever he truly will suffer.
He will suffer more in jail than dead
This is freeking retarded. For one this is a pansies way of excusing their weakness by looking strong. Another if true lets meet in the middle and take hot knives and slowly keeping him alive and awake cut him into pieces until he dies hell of a lot more suffering their and we get death after a couple of weeks as the finally, hell maybe even some bonus Intel. But seriously in Federal Prison he will have internet access, 3 hot meals better than what he got in the French gutter he crawled out of (even religiously sensitive), he will get better medical care than I get, he will get a email/mail fan club, he will get money from the interviews and art of killing Americans he will sell, he will get to brush up on his Imam studies so when he does go he will have religious authority ranking, he will hell maybe even get to pass on some love to some protégées forming a new set to help in the war against the infidel (Zarkawi did it in Egyptian prison he formed a off shoot of the Muslim Brotherhood and got cred at the same time).
French authorities said Thursday they may eventually press the United States to have Moussaoui serve his life sentence in France under two conventions on the transfer of convicts. They were waiting to hear the conditions of his sentencing.
This part here is a real jewel. Guess that interview aint so far off ehhh.
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C-Low,there's never bn a murderer I did'nt want executed in my life...not one.And my heart tells me we should kill this bastard and be done with it.But my head says there's no doubt that is exactly what he wanted and for the first time I think life in prison is the most just sentence we could give...the judge said it best..."he will die with a whimper."
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I didn't see, is he getting solitary or general population? if GP then i expect a work accident or terminal soap slippage before too long. there is after all a code of honor even behind the walls.
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I have to admit...I was not impressed with Brinkema until this moment. Her comment to Moussaoui is quite similar to the slapdown given to Richard Reid by the Boston judge...no link handy but should be quite accessible by google.
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There is NO "General Population" in the Florence, CO SuperMAX. He will be in his cell 23 hours a day. The one hour he will be out of his cell, will be in an enclosed area open to the sky.
He will not be able to see any terrain or the horizon. The cells are sound proof, and he will be
in solitary. The only interaction he will have with humans will be with the correctional staff.
Possibly, but highly unlikely, he may catch a glimpse now and then of another inmate.
The rest of his life will be one miserable existance.
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They need to conveniently leave a belt in his cell after about 6 months. Then he'll hang himself. No martyr there, just another coward taking the coward's way out.
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Also at that link is a link to info re; Florence, Colorado prison.
Sounds like they need to reform the prison, and disagree with C-Low only on an extended point that as Americans we need to "walk the talk" in terms of integrity and culture, at all levels.
Sure, Moussaoui goes to prison, but the excuse that he and other terrorist/criminals "have got it comin' " and that anything goes, is really repulsive. Judge Brinkema sentenced him to prison, not the be the plaything of psychopathic, sadistic "guards" looking for an excuse to act out.
Justice is diminished with this outcome, only because of the problems at that prison, and sadly, I would hope we ARE better than that. Now, I'm not sure.
"Routinely, guards would drop handcuffed inmates face-first on concrete floors, and would then kick them repeatedly in the ribs, kidneys and testicles. Flaming papers were thrown into cells as a pretext for spraying men with fire extinguishers. Meals were served with feces and urine in the food trays. Faces were smashed into concrete walls. Handcuffs were clamped so tight that wrists and ankles were left lacerated and bruised. Leg shackles cut flesh to the bone when men were forced to run, and when they fell to the ground, they would be kicked, hit and slammed more.
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Whoa major error. I just reread this and I guess my spell check or maybe human error dorpped part of the sentence.
3rd sentence should read "Another if true it is sadistic so I say lets meet in the middle """""""""
My appologies if this caused a problem no I do not advocate hot knife cutting was just trying to make a point that this excuse is not proper or humane or even a real excuse even thou I often see it used on both sides of the isle. Again my appologies.
He will suffer more in jail than dead
This is freeking retarded. For one this is a pansies way of excusing their weakness by looking strong. Another if true lets meet in the middle and take hot knives and slowly keeping him alive and awake cut him into pieces until he dies hell of a lot more suffering their and we get death after a couple of weeks as the finally, hell maybe even some bonus Intel. But seriously in Federal Prison he will have internet access, 3 hot meals better than what he got in the French gutter he crawled out of (even religiously sensitive), he will get better medical care than I get, he will get a email/mail fan club, he will get money from the interviews and art of killing Americans he will sell, he will get to brush up on his Imam studies so when he does go he will have religious authority ranking, he will hell maybe even get to pass on some love to some protégées forming a new set to help in the war against the infidel (Zarkawi did it in Egyptian prison he formed a off shoot of the Muslim Brotherhood and got cred at the same time).
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ex-lib
I wouldnt worry to much about those claims. Most of those are probably ripped from suits that the inmates have filed. Those guys have access to books and plenty of time resulting in a lot of jail house lawyers who have no qualms about wasting time on baseless accusations on the prison.
I would imagine when the prisoners buck on a officer they get a pretty ruff response after all these are the most dangerous prisoners held at these locals (they earned that rep usually). But as far as Florence or any prison for that matter just being a new century torture house of horrors I doubt.
Very simply these prisoners have families and would if as bad as some are trying to claim it would only take one guard and it would be all over.
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In a final statement to the court in Virginia, the al-Qaeda plotter declared: "God curse America, God save Osama Bin Laden. You'll never get him."
"I will be free and my liberation will be the proof that we are the soldiers of God and you are the army of Satan."
"I will be free. Before the end of George Bush I will get out."
I would like to see an interview with him in say, ten years.
After ten years of this really hard time, ten years of isolation, when the realization that he will die in that concrete box, that he has lost.
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Moussey at Penn State was a former US servicemember and Fed undercover but you don't see any of that in his "official bio" - basically, and pragmatically, whether the Judge knows it or not, all the Court did was provide a PC/PDeniable alibi for a Fed undercover operative to be a Fed undercover again except now in prison. This is what Moussey indir means by "I won" comment - going all the way back to OKC and before, the question of whether Moussey, etal. and his group/network were complicit in 9-11, or a reaction or tangent to 9-11, has NOT been clearly answered. The GWOT for enemies and haters of America > forcing, inducing, saving, empowering, and entrenching Socialism and Socialist OWG-World Order upon America and later on the World, by any and all means necessary, and unfortunately is inclusive of anti-American Americans. Osama's hatred for America, for me, stems from he believed to to had been events of betrayal in combat by US officers during the anti-Soviet war in Afghanistan, the reasons or rationales, i.e. "the Big Picture", for said events or incidents still not understood. As soldiers whom do not make the final political or bureaucratic decisions or policies, espec within the great game of geopolitics, our gener role on the battlefields of war/geopolitics is "to Do andor Die, NOT ask Why"!?
KARACHI - Pakistani police have arrested two people over a deadly suicide bombing at the US consulate in the southern city of Karachi in March, a provincial governor said. The blast on March 2 killed five people including an American diplomat a day before US President George W. Bush visited the country, a key ally in Washingtons war on terror.
We have got two people in custody in connection with the attack, Ishratul Ibad, the governor of Sindh province told AFP in an interview late Wednesday at his official residence in Karachi. He said they were being questioned about their links to the bombing, but did not elaborate on their identities or on any group that they might be affiliated with. The bomber had not yet been identified, he added.
The governor said Pakistani authorities were still investigating a recent statement purportedly by Al-Qaeda that claimed responsibility for the attack, but said the claim was questionable. That needs to be carefully checked. There is one common sense reason that claim is questionable because it is a long time after the attack, Ibad said. We have kept all options open.
The Internet statement, signed Al Qaeda, of the Afghanistan Jihad (holy war), also promised a summer of hell for US troops in Afghanistan. Dozens of suicide operations have been carried out in Pakistan and Afghanistan within the large Al-Qaeda campaign against Zionists and Crusaders, including the attack against the US consulate in Karachi a day before the arrival of the biggest Crusader (Bush), it said. Karachi police chief Niaz Siddiqui said earlier this week that he seriously doubted the authenticity of the claim.
No organisation had previously claimed responsibility for the blast, the latest in a series of attacks on the US consulate. A suicide car bomb outside the building in June 2002 killed 12 Pakistanis.
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BANGKOK, May 4, 2006 (AFP) - Myanmar's military rulers stepped up the pressure on political rivals and rebels Thursday, making new accusations of "terrorist" plots by pro-democracy dissidents and insurgents. Official media accused what it termed an alliance of ethnic rebels, former student leaders and exiled dissidents of sending more than 20 bombers into the country with plans to blow up targets in Yangon, the central city of Mandalay and the eastern town of Mawlamyine.
"The bombers are planning to commit terrorist acts in harmony with the above-ground politicians," the official New Light of Myanmar said. Junta leaders often refer to the pro-democracy National League for Democracy, led by detained Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, as "above-ground politicians".
As opposed to the ones taking a dirt nap
"Terrorists are commiting destructive acts in various means with the sinister intention of disturbing peace and stability of the nation and the rule of law, inflicting death and injury to innocent people," the paper added. The official newspaper published names and descriptions of 22 people accused of plotting the attacks, claiming they belonged to an exiled group of student leaders and pro-democracy dissidents, as well as ethnic Karen and Shan rebels.
The latest claims came one week after the junta said it had compiled evidence linking Aung San Suu Kyi's party to terrorist groups, and as the military pursued a months-long offensive against Karen rebels in the east. Colonel Nerdah Mya, a leader of the Karen National Union, said Myanmar forces had advanced to within one kilometer (half-mile) from one of their bases near the Thai border, just across from the Mae La refugee camp.
Some 1,000 people had arrived at the border, but Nerdah Mya estimated that 2,000 more are displaced inside the country. Other groups have estimated the number of displaced as high as 10,000. More than 140,000 refugees live in nine refugee camps on the Thai side of the border, set up since Myanmar's troops overran most traditional ethnic minority lands in the eastern mountainous region in the 1980s.
The KNU, which is waging one of the world's longest-running insurgencies, called for ceasefire talks on Wednesday. Nerdah Mya said that officially, both sides are open for talks, but the junta has made no moves to resume ceasefire negotiations that fell apart two years ago. "The door on both sides is open, but no body answers. You can't really count on a ceasefire agreement," he told AFP by telephone.
Aung Naing Oo, an exiled Myanmar observer in Thailand, said the fighting and the latest terrorist claims were part of a broad crackdown by the military on all of its rivals. "The military thinks it's strong and that it can get all these groups," he told AFP in Bangkok. "We can see the whole pattern, covering not only armed opposition groups, but also NLD. It's more a general crackdown."
The NLD on Tuesday accused the junta of trying to intimidate dozens of its members into resigning. The NLD, which denounces violence, won a landslide victory in elections in 1990 but the military-led government has never allowed it to govern. Aung San Suu Kyi has been under house arrest for more than 10 of the last 17 years.
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Waiting breathlessly for M. George Clooney's pontifications.
Pakistan has announced an end to investigations surrounding the leaking of nuclear secrets by the disgraced nuclear scientist, Abdul Qadeer Khan. It says that the release of a key suspect linked to Dr Khan's network means that the inquiry into his operations has come to a close.
Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tasnim Aslam said that inquiries into Dr Khan's proliferation network began more than two years ago. She said the investigation into the sale of nuclear information and material to other countries had been "thorough".
Responding to questions, Ms Aslam said that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and key countries including the US had been kept informed of the progress of the investigation during the entire process. She said that both the IAEA and the US were fully satisfied with Pakistan's handling of the issue. However, she said at no stage were officials and organisations - including those from concerned countries - allowed direct access to Dr Khan.
Ms Aslam confirmed that Dr Farooq was the last of Dr Khan's team members to be freed from detention. And on a specific question about the state of investigations, the foreign office spokesperson said that it could be "presumed" that Dr Farooq's release meant that the investigations would be drawn to a close.
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Nothing to see here folks. Move along.
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Three Pakistani policemen were killed in a suspected Taliban attack on a checkpoint near the Afghan border in the latest violent response to government efforts to rid the region of militants.
Militants attacked a checkpost about 2 miles from the Afghan border on Wednesday night, in the Bajaur tribal region opposite Afghanistan's Kunar province where U.S. forces are battling militants. "An exchange of fire continued for more than half an hour which left three policemen dead," said a government official who declined to be identified.
No one claimed responsibility but residents said they suspected Taliban militants were behind it. An intelligence official said one of the attackers was captured but it was still unclear who was responsible.
"Legume! Bring me the Book of Common Wisdom!"
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BAGHDAD, Iraq The U.S. military command Thursday released previously unseen images of a video purportedly posted by Al Qaeda in Iraq's leader, showing him decked out in American tennis shoes and unable to operate his machine gun.
Authorities also said 31 "foreign fighters" had been killed since April and 161 Al Qaeda in Iraq leaders were killed or captured since January, seriously undercutting the group's logistical abilities.
The video, discovered in a series of raids in April on purported Al Qaeda in Iraq safe houses in the Youssifiyah area, 12 miles southwest of Baghdad, gave a view of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi that the Jordanian-born militant chose not to show the world, said Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, spokesman for the U.S. command. Al-Zarqawi is "very proud of the fact that he can operate this machine gun, and he proclaims that, and all of his close associates are very proud of what Zarqawi does," Lynch said in a briefing in which he played a snippet from the video posted by militants on April 25.
But as the previously unseen video was shown, Lynch mocked al-Zarqawi, suggesting his weapon jammed and he was unable to fix it. "It's supposed to be automatic fire, he's shooting single shots. Something is wrong with his machine gun, he looks down, can't figure out, calls his friend to come unblock the stoppage and get the weapon firing again," Lynch said.
"This piece you all see as he walks away, he's wearing his black uniform and his New Balance tennis shoes as he moves to this white pickup. And, his close associates around him ... do things like grab the hot barrel of the machine gun and burn themselves," the military spokesman added.
That'll leave a mark
In the version that appeared on the Internet, al-Zarqawi swore allegiance to Usama bin Laden and said any government formed in Iraq would merely be a "stooge." He also mocked the U.S. military in Iraq for what he described as suicides, drug use and mutinies, and warned of worse attacks to come.
Lynch, who described the earlier video as "an act of desperation," declined to specify exactly where or when the unedited material was found. But he said it was discovered during a number of raids on insurgent safe houses in the Youssifiyah area beginning April 8, and which also stretched slightly north of Baghdad. Those raids led to the deaths of 31 suspected foreign fighters a group which accounts for 90 percent of the suicide bombers used by Al Qaeda in Iraq.
Lynch said that U.S. operations against al-Zarqawi had dramatically cut the number of suicide attacks in the country from an average of 75 per month to fewer than 25 per month now. "We believe that he is getting facilitation for foreign fighters and funds out of Syria" and that his focus of operations is currently in the Baghdad area, Lynch said. "He is focusing his efforts inside of Baghdad. Baghdad is his center of gravity," Lynch said.
That belief was supported by a series of planning documents also seized in the raids in the Youssifiyah area raids, which was used as a staging area for the suicide attacks, he said. The documents spelled out al-Zarqawi's strategy in Iraq focusing on the Baghdad area and targeting the Shiite majority while reducing the number of attacks in Sunni Arab areas. "He is clearly trying to drive a wedge between the sectarian population here inside of Iraq, and he is focused on the Shiite community," said Lynch, referring to one document. "He says that the Shia population in Baghdad is his primary target."
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LMAO! He doesnt even know how to handle squad level weapons. He's just a thug.
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the headline is we obviously got into a place where he was, and he didnt have time to clean up (Surely if hed had time,he wouldnt have left something this embarrassing lying around) hes on the run, and we're close.
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nice PR campaign - ridicule is one thing the Islamists and mater race can't stand. Cartoon?
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Must have him relatively surrounded to release something as "humilitating" as these out-takes. Should be able to pinpoint him through the wailing and gnashing of teeth this will cause.
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In addition to not understanding how the weapon worked, Zark is extremely undisciplined with the muzzle. I cringed when he waved it in the face of his underling. Gun sex and gun safety don't seem compatible.
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Agreed - even iff he is unfamiliar or has no experience wid the SAW, his post-shoot handling of the weapon shows he may be as much a danger to himself as to those loyalists around him.
*COLBERT REPORT > "WARNING - METAL BOOM-BOOM THINGY HOT. DO NOT USE AROUND WOMEN OR LOYAL CAMELS".
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JAB, actually that doesn't surprise me because that's typical of the 'insh'allah culture over there.......if they negligently whack themselves or somebody else it was God's Will vice their own laziness/stupidity. I first witnessed this while training w/Turks about 8 years ago - and they're one of the better trained mil's. We've almost had to literally beat proper weapons handling into ISF recruits.
RAMADI, Iraq, May 4 (Reuters) - At least five people were killed in the Iraqi city of Ramadi on Thursday in what witnesses and police said was a U.S. air strike on a house. The U.S. military said it was not aware of any air strike on a house in Ramadi but was checking the reports.
One police official said up to 13 people may have been killed. Hospital officials said five people were killed and 15 wounded.
The western city of Ramadi is a stronghold of Sunni Muslim insurgents waging a campaign of bombings and shootings aimed at toppling the Shi'ite-led government and driving out U.S. forces.
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RAMADI, Iraq, May 4 (Reuters) - At least five people were killed in the Iraqi city of Ramadi on Thursday in what witnesses and police said was a U.S. air strike on a baby milk factory house.
Coalition Forces killed eight insurgents when they responded to an insurgent attack in central Ramadi May 4.
Marines from 2/28 Brigade Combat Team were attacked multiple times with rocket-propelled grenades, medium machinegun fire and small arms fire from a building near the Ramadi Government Center.
Coalition Forces responded with small arms fire, heavy machinegun fire, grenades and ground launched precision-guided munitions.
There were no Coalition or civilian casualties as a result of the incident.
In the series of martyr biographies distributed amongst jihadist forums, akin in detail and structure to those distributed by al-Qaeda in Iraq, and now the Mujahideen Shura Council, is recounted the story of the revolutionary, Abu Asil al-Gazaeri. The biographer stresses Abu Asils experiences in administration and military action, and the assistance he provided to the mujahideen in managing their affairs as a member an al-Qaeda in Iraq cell in al-Qaim. The mujahid would recite speeches of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Emir of al-Qaeda in Iraq, verbatim, and use the words to motivate the mujahideen in battles in al-Karama and Haseiba. In several occasions when he was fired upon by Crusader snipers, the biography states: Allah saved him and gave him more time to live.
Abu Asil al-Gazaeri is described as being pugnacious in attending to the affairs of the mujahideen, working while suffering from injury. He was ultimately killed when a rocket was fired at his house in Haseiba, in al-Qaim, while he was in prayer. The story concludes with the discovery of his body: The brothers found him smiling and his body smelled good. He was buried in the martyr cemetery in al-Qaim.
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Rather long ago to be posting bios - weren't we in Qaim late 05? Always nice to know Allan can't do jack about a direct hit from a hellfire.
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They were SMELLING his body??Sick BASTARDS!! GROOOOS!!!(wonder how many peices they found)
The Multi National Force (MNF) troops on Wednesday killed ten terrorists, three of them wearing explosives-laden belts, and injured another during a search mission for Al-Qaeda members in Iraq. An MNF statement said the forces engaged the terrorists during a mission to search for Al-Qaeda members. Ten terrorists, including three wearing explosive belts, were killed and one was injured. After the mission, the MNF troops found weapons caches in the terrorists' hideout and some 1,000 US dollars. The injured terrorist was transported to a nearby hospital, according to the MNF statement.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide bomber blew himself up while standing in a line of recruits outside Fallujahs police headquarters on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people and wounding 30, in an attack aimed at discouraging Sunni Arabs from joining the force, police said. Thirteen of the dead were recruits and two policemen, said police 1st Lt. Omar Ahmed.
The attack in Fallujah, a former insurgent stronghold 65 kilometers (40 miles) west of Baghdad, was part of an insurgent campaign against US efforts to bring more Sunnis into the police and army.
The bomber, dressed in civilian clothes, struck outside the entrance of the police building, police said. His hidden bomb exploded several minutes after he joined the crowd of recruits waiting to enter the building and apply for jobs, Ahmed said.
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Anyone over there ever heard of "Take a number."?
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Two German engineers held hostage in Iraq for 99 days have returned to Berlin, one day after being released from captivity. Rene Braeunlich and Thomas Nitzschke arrived at Tegel military airport early Wednesday afternoon.
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Enjoy your freedom. Remember always the price that was paid. Not the money for you, but for all the Germans now in danger of the same fate. Such a lucrative game, kidnapping Germans - expect a sharp rise. And at some point, the money is going to run out, just like the integrity already has.
Ramallah: Hamas has asked Palestinian monetary authorities for an emergency $100 million loan to help ease the government's growing funding crisis.Huh? Whats this collateral thing you speak of?
George el-Abed, head of the Palestine Monetary Authority, said that his organisation was looking into the request.
As he struggled to keep a straight face he said "We're studying this issue. We have not made a decision yet," he added.
However the authority, which is the watchdog for banks in the West Bank and Gaza, may not have enough money, with officials at the organisation estimating its reserves at $41 million, with $26 million on hand in cash.Hmmm Im no banker but that might just nix the whole deal.
Abed added that the refusal of local and regional banks to deal with the Hamas-led government had increased the financial crisis. "Hey...don't point that thing this direction...it might go off. Ohh yeah right...Uhem...Of course it's really the Evil Zionist-Crusader plot to starve the children that's to blame".
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Give them $100,000,000.00 for 1 million ton's of weapon's. They will be saving becasue they won't have to spend money on keeping the weapons in working order. Should'nt be a problem. ( I say 1 million, but I might be low or high here, but I'm sure someone smarter than I could come up with a good number, that will put a dent in rocket firing's and sucidide bombing's?
The Jordan Bar Association (JBA) on Wednesday informed the State Security Court (SSC) that appointing a lawyer for Sajida Rishawi, the would-be suicide bomber in the Amman terror attacks, was the courts jurisdiction. The JBA statement was in response to a request made by the SSC on April 24 asking the association to appoint a lawyer for Rishawi. The JBA referred to Article 208 of the Law on Criminal Procedures, which stipulates that the SSC president or his deputy are entitled to appoint a lawyer for any defendant who is financially incapable of appointing one. The defendant should have had access to legal representation during the interrogation..., the JBA said in a statement that was made available to the press on Wednesday.
By law, the SSC is authorised to appoint a lawyer for any defendant for whom the charges are punishable by death if they cannot afford a lawyer. During her opening trial on April 24, Rishawi informed the court that she could not afford a lawyer, adding: I only have God to defend me.
Rishawi, the first woman to stand trial at the SSC on terror-related charges, is accused of possessing explosives with illicit intent and plotting subversive acts that led to death and destruction and is eligible for the death penalty if convicted. Meanwhile, Rishawis trial will resume Monday when the court is expected to appoint a lawyer for the defendant, a senior judicial source told The Jordan Times. There is no problem about who appoints the lawyer. Both the JBA and the SSC are entitled to appoint a lawyer, he added.
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whatever - she needs a severe makeover and shaving that unibrow before trial
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Suspected militants killed four Muslim villagers, including two local government officials, in separate attacks in the South, police said Thursday.
Deputy village head Marawsadee Yair was shot dead at his home in Pattani's Saiburi district on Wednesday evening, while his neighbour, Malae Wang, was killed at about the same time.
In Yala, villager Saha Daeso, was shot dead while he was on his way home. Huma Uno, a local official who supervises police in the same province, was later shot at his house.
The two attacks in Yala occurred at almost simultaneously on Wednesday night and were committed by suspected Islamic militants, police said.
COLOMBO - Two policemen were killed on Thursday in a grenade attack in northern Sri Lanka where a Claymore fragmentation mine also exploded but caused no casualties, officials said. The attack added to the some 200 people killed in the bloodiest month since a 2002 truce took effect between Tamil Tiger rebels and the government.
The policemen died in Vavuniya district where a mine blast was also reported, police officials in the region, 260 kilometres (160 miles) north of here, said by telephone. The latest violence came two days after gunmen stormed the offices of the Uthayan newspaper in Jaffna, further north of Vavuniya, and killed a manager and another employee.
Six people arrested in connection with the attack were freed on bail Wednesday.
I guess the people they killed got better
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TEHERAN - Iranian armed forces have arrested four Sunni Muslim rebels near its borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan and three Kurdish rebels close to the frontier with Iraq, a government newspaper said on Thursday. The rebels from Sistan-Baluchestan, an unruly area and major thoroughfare for drugs smuggled from Pakistan and Afghanistan, were identified as members of Jundallah (Army of God) -- a hardline Sunni militant group opposed to Irans Shiite clerical regime. The Iran newspaper also said a large weapons cache was found.
Sunnis form the majority in Baluchestan, although Shiite Islam is Irans official religion. In mid-March members of Jundallah allegedly entered Iran and killed 22 people, and shortly afterwards Iranian troops said they had killed eight rebels. On April 9, press reports said rebels -- although they were not identified as Jundallah fighters -- had killed two Iranian army officers and seriously wounded a senior religious official in Sistan-Baluchestan province.
On Irans western borders, security forces also reportedly detained three ethnic Kurdish rebels from the Pejak group -- which Iran alleges is also linked to the Iraq-based Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which is fighting the Turkish government. The paper said the arrests took place between the Iranian towns of Baneh and Saghez, situated close to the border with Iraqs mainly-Kurdish Sulaimaniyah province.
On Sunday, Iraqs defense ministry said Iranian forces had entered Iraqi territory and shelled PKK positions over a period of 24 hours. Iran has refused to confirm or deny its troops had crossed into Iraqi soil.
Iran is bound by a treaty with Turkey to fight the outlawed PKK, which has waged a two-decade insurgency against Ankara for self-rule in Turkeys mainly Kurdish southeast. In return, Turkey has pledged to fight the Iranian armed opposition group, the Iraq-based Peoples Mujahedeen.
Iranian officials have also accused London and Washington of supporting ethnic minority rebels operating within the Islamic republics sensitive border areas, amid a worsening stand-off over Irans nuclear ambitions.
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This seems surreal>>> I searched for Sistani's biography and found his WEBSITE. In ENGLISH! (www.sistani.org) I've got to file this under YJCMTSU
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Go and read some the crazy shit fatwas and such on that site.
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totally irrelevant to the question of Iran. Sistani is an Iraqi, and doesnt seem to want Iranians dominance in Iraq (despite - or because of- his previous residence in Iran)
A fatwa is just a religious law opinion - like those issued by rabbis, or Catholic cannon law authorities.
IRAN'S top army brass today retracted a threat made earlier this week that the Islamic republic would target Israel if it came under US attack over its nuclear program.
According to General Alireza Afshar, a deputy chief of general staff in charge of propaganda, the warning made last week by a lower-ranking spokesman carries "no value in the eyes of the Iranian armed forces".
On Tuesday a spokesman for Iranian war games held in April, Rear Admiral Mohammad Ebrahim Dehqani, told the ISNA news agency that "if America gets up to mischief, Israel will be our first target to hit".
But Afshar said "his comments only represent his personal point of view."
Tehran has been under international pressure to suspend its nuclear activities, which it insists are for civilian energy purposes but which some Western countries fear are aimed at manufacturing an atomic bomb.
US and European officials are pushing for a tough, binding UN resolution for Iran to suspend uranium enrichment, which makes the fuel for civilian reactors but what can also be the explosive core of bombs.
Amid the stand-off, Iran has also upped its anti-Israel rhetoric, with hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad notably declaring last October that the Jewish state should be "wiped off the map".
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Even Saddam couldn't resist the temptation of lobbing missiles into Israel, as she sat back and watched the Gulf War take shape; what makes the mad mullahs think they couldn't get away with the Use It Or Lose It parting shots at Israel also?
They meant what they said, bottom line!
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According to General Alireza Afshar, a deputy chief of general staff in charge of propaganda, the warning made last week by a lower-ranking spokesman carries "no value in the eyes of the Iranian armed forces".
Yeeesh, more similarities with Hitler and the Germans in WWII. I'd almost be willing to bomb 'em just because they have a deputy chief of general staff in charge of PROPOGANDA. That alone lets me know this guy doesn't mean the retraction.
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