I WAS BORN IN THE WEST AND I FUCKING HATE IT, ALL IT HAS EVER DONE FOR ME IS CAUSE ME PROBLEMS
Yet billions of people live quite contentedly in the West. Does that imply there's something wrong with them? Or something wrong with you?
AND THE SOONER THAT I SEE THE END OF THE WEST AND THE WAY THAT IT OPERATES THE BETTER,
You're implying that the way things operate in other places is better, when they're demonstrably not.
THE PEOPLE ARE SO REPUGNANT AND VILE,
That'd be me, of course. I'm too fat, too.
EVERY CITY IS FULL OF CRIME, PROSTITUION, DRUGS, RAPE, MURDER, INCEST,
They're definitely inferior to centers of real civilization like Karachi or Multan or Khartoum, aren't they?
AND I CANT WAIT TO MOVE AWAY FROM IT ALL,
If you move away from the West you'll be in the East, where they cut your head off when you get out of line.
AND WHEN I DO MOVE I WILL BE TAKING MANY OF THE SCUMBAGS WITH ME.
You're going to move away and take your neighbors with you? Or your family? Or were you considering exploding? That's a nice Islamic thing to do.
Here's something for you to think about, you half-witted asswipe:
That's always assuming you're capable of thought, of course. The screed you posted wouldn't do justice to a nudibranch, but we'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
You're making the assumption that "different" is better. Because the folk in the Mysterious East or Darkest Africa or the Frozen North aren't like us they're more virtuous, more noble, more whatever. This is the same mistake the French guy made in the late 1700s, listening to Rousseau prattling on about the Noble Savages. He bought the story so thoroughly he went off to the New World to live among them, because they were obviously Closer to Nature and therefore better than the dissolute Frenchies of the age. He survived the experience, barely, and went back to La Belle France with a freshly-acquired bald spot. He never thought much of the savages after that. I don't think he thought much of Rousseau, either.
"Noble" doesn't necessarily equate to "savage." Even if it did, the "savage" part takes precedence.
You don't like the West? Go live in the East, where eveything that isn't required is forbidden.
There are some ancient and beautiful civilizations in the East, but none of their societies was founded on or evolved to principles of individual liberty. The pyramids were built by corvee labor. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were built by conscripted labor. The irrigation ditches that made Khmer civilization possible were built by a peasantry that was required to get out and work. And Chinese civilization consisted of a bureaucracy that was supported by millions of peasants. If you didn't do what you were required to do you could be dispatched without a second thought.
Crime, Prostitution, Drugs, Rape, Murder, Incest? Don't make me laugh. They're found in every human civilization, even the primitive ones. Especially in the primitive ones. It wasn't the Westerners who ate the pygmies a couple years ago. Read the Bangla papers for a daily dose of dacoity. Check out the holy whorehouses of Iran. Drugs come from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Burma, where the poppies grow. Read the Pak papers for daily accounts of abductions and rape, usually followed by murder. Incest? Pick a place full of ignorants and it'll happen. Go to the Land of the Pure or Soddy Arabia and you'll be expected to marry your first cousin, who's genetically your sister.
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Fuck the East. The American taxpeyer spends BILLIONS every year to help the Middle East and in return we get nothing but vitriol and dead innocent people who did nothing to the Middle East other than give them money.
You morons can't even do so much as feed yourselves. Starve you fuckin losers.
If you read up on your human history you may learn that the East had a considerable head start on the west and now we dominate the world while you fucks are still using you hands to dig holes to shit in. Fuckin losers.
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I recall the very old story about the wise old man sitting at the city gates.
A traveler asks him how are the people in the city, as he's looking for a place to live.
The sage asks "What were the people like where you came from?"
And the traveler replied "Oh they were fine folks, always willing to help, polite, friendly and generous." the wise man said "Enter, you will find people here are just like where you came from."
The traveler thanked the wise man and entered the city.
A bit later another man again asked the Wise Man, "What are people like here, I'm looking for a nice place to live."
And again the wise man asked "What were people like where you came from?"
The man replied "Oh they were awful, gossips, thieves, never a friendly face, nobody would lend a hand, just Rotten folks."
And the Wise Man replied, "I'm afraid the folks in this town are just like the folks where you came from." and the traveler thanked him and said "I'll be sure to avoid this town, I don't want to have the same kind of neighbors I had before."
Moral?
You'll find whatever you're looking for.
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BTW - I don't know about any other whites, but being called a Cracker just made me laugh...
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Redneck Jim, you're right on the money, but also the moral is that wherever YOU go, there YOU are. I suppose the dumbass that wrote the screed above hasn't figured out that he is the reason that he is so miserable. Oh I suppose you could blame the M Mullahs and allan for helping him to be such a sorry ass.
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Another charming rendition from one of our esteemed muslim brothers .. Hurray for education !
I can only read so much of your stupid ass bull shit before I lose all faith in the future of humanity and start sorting my guns by barrel flavour. Reading your tripe only confirms the Muslim world is full of stupid people with stupid ideas. If good ideas were beers I wouldn't have enough from Islam to get a buzz.
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This is spam, it is an ad for the French Connection UK clothing line.
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Reminds me of the end scene from LAW AND ORDER last nite, where McCoy's boss reminds everyone > "DEMOCRACY IS THE HARDEST/WORST FORM OF GOVERNMENT THERE IS, EXCEPT FOR EVERYTHING ELSE"!?
True to the MSM and RINO CINO Dems, however, McCoy & Company were now generally characterized as "Conservative(s)" whom had to depend on LIBERAL BLOGS for detailed evidencias to solve and win their case. Former Liberal Dem McCoy is now Conservative, while former Rightist Conservative Internet is now "[Left?]Liberal"!?
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan - Afghan police killed three Taleban insurgents who ambushed a patrol in a southern province where British troops are overseeing security, a provincial official said on Wednesday.
The rebels ambushed a police patrol in the Sangin district of Helmand province on Tuesday, a provincial spokesman said. There were no casualties among police either in the ambush or during the clash that followed, Mahaiuddin, who uses only one name, said. Foreign troops were not involved, he said.
Britain has started deploying troops in Helmand as part of plans for the expansion of a NATO-led peacekeeping mission that will see 3,300 troops in the Afghan south. Canada has 2,200 troops in the region and the Netherlands is soon sending up to 1,600.
Taleban attacks are aimed at undermining domestic support for the deployments, military officials say. The NATO reinforcements will allow the United States to cut its troop numbers in Afghanistan from more than 19,000 to about 16,500.
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Gunmen on motorbikes opened fire on Tuesday on a car taking Women Ministry employees home from a seminar in southern Afghanistan, killing the driver who was an accountant for the ministry, officials said.
I guess a carload of women was an irresistable target.
The two men fired on the car in Lashkar Gah city, capital of troubled Helmand province where there have been several deadly attacks on Afghan and foreign security forces blamed on Taliban-linked militants. The accountant had been driving the car because the regular drivers had left after threats from militants who said they should not work for the women's department, the provincial head of the ministry, Fauzia Ulomi, said.
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I guess a carload of women was an irresistable target.
Carload of women. School full of children. No one has ever accused the brave Lions of Islam (may their flea bites itch forever) of fighting above their weight class.
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Just read a posting from Michael Yon saying that Afghanistan is heading down the tubes. This was in addition to an editorial in the WSJ today.
We need to sit on Pakistan hard or just ignore them and start hitting Taliban locations in the Paki frontier provinces. So they will seethe, BFD.
We also need to scorch (napalm) the poppy fields in Afghanistan. We know where they are because we can see them on sattelite. Why this hasn't been done is mind boggling. The opium trade funds our enemy. It it well past time to get on the stick.
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re #2. "Why this hasn't been done is mind boggling"
I think that it hasn't is because 2 reasons, the greens and the left,
First, the greens will argue about killing innocent plants and ruining Gaia.
Second,the left will holler cause the heroin users will have thier supply cut, and then they would lose thier voting base once everyone came out of the fog.
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Islamic militiamen and secular fighters battled Wednesday for control of Somalias capital despite promises of a cease-fire, as the death toll rose to at least 90, with nearly 200 others wounded. The sounds of heavy weapons echoed through the city, but the fighting was not as intense as it had been in the previous three days. The battle between the Islamic Court Union and the Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counterterrorism has centered on the northern neighborhood of Sii-Sii, with neither side gaining an advantage.
Despite the Islamic courts unilateral cease fire, there are no traces of an end to the hostilities, said Abdi Kariin, a foreign exchange dealer.
Islamic Court Union chairman Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed said Tuesday that his group would observe a cease-fire from late Tuesday. His rivals, however, were suspicious of the plan and leaders only said that they would discuss the cease-fire offer. The Islamists have ran out of ammunition, so they want to get breathing space for mobilization and rearming their militia, Hussein Gutaale, spokesman of the secular militias, said Tuesday.
That's what a hudna is for
Somalia has had no effective central government since 1991, when warlords ousted longtime dictator Mohamed Siad Barre and then turned on each other _ carving this nation of an estimated 8 million people into a patchwork of anarchic, clan-based fiefdoms. A U.N.-backed transitional government has based itself in the central city of Baidoa, but has so far failed to assert itself elsewhere.
Islamic fundamentalists have portrayed themselves as an alternative capable of bringing order and peace, but they have not hesitated to use force and have allegedly linked up with al-Qaida terrorists. The secular Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counterterrorism militia and the Islamic Court Union militia have been squaring off for several weeks to stake out strategic positions in preparation for a larger battle for control of Mogadishu. Most of the victims in the most recent fighting were civilians caught in the crossfire.
Overnight, victims continued to pour into the capitals hospitals. Referring to the information I receive from the main hospitals in Mogadishu this morning, at least 90 people were killed and nearly 200 others wounded since the fighting flared up on Sunday said Dr. Mohamed Hassan of Ayaan Hospital.
Noncombatants said they distrust both sides in the fighting. This is the third time they have fought in a civilian area since April this year, said Abdullahi Fiidow, a former military colonel. Ahmed Moalin, a former school teacher whose house was destroyed by a mortar round, said both sides have been resupplying and fortifying their positions as the fighting has continued. The fighting has had a very negative impact on poor people like me. My six children and my wife have slept outdoors for a third night, he said.
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Send more ammo. Don't pick sides just send lost of ammo to both sides and let them fight it out until both sides no longer exist. Then and only then will there be peace.
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Expect any day now George Clooney and the collective Left to demand deployment of US troops under the command of Blue Helmets.
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Unfortunately, you are right, 49 Pan. Some people (entirely too many Yugoslavians, for instance, and pretty much all the Palestinians who haven't left yet) have to be left alone to kill and be killed until they've totally exhausted themselves, and the only ones left still living are ready to give up and make peace.
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"have to be left alone to kill and be killed until they've totally exhausted themselves, and the only ones left still living are ready to give up and make peace."
I can see your point TW but that allows the victor to acumulate strength and become more of a problem and say that their ideology is superior over all others.
Isolationism is no longer a valid response when a splodeydope can get on a plane in a capital in the mid east and be in washington by lunchtime.
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I know, pihkalbadger. It's just that I'm in a mood right now, and Mr. Wife is on the wrong continent for another week, darn him! So I'm a little short of patience -- I do apologize.
I've always wondered what it would be like to simultaneously pass a kidney stone and bear a litter of kittens while typing. Thanks for the demonstration.
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Always glad to be of service, Angavick Phineling5389 . "simultaneously pass a kidney stone and bear a litter of kittens" The kidney stone is the easy part, in case you'd wondered; kittens are furry! ;-)
Union of Islamic Courts in Mogadishu has today officially announced unilateral ceasefire unconditionally in the flare up of heavy fighting for the third day in the capital with militia of anti-terror alliance of warlords who are unwilling to the truce. Reports say.
At least 58 people were know have been killed and more than 150 others wounded, mostly civilians in the latest series of fighting for the third day in Mogadishu. Sources on both sides said on Tuesday.
"Following requests from traditional elders and activists and growing concern from the general public, we have decided to cease fighting," Sheik Sharif Ahmed, chairman of the Mogadishu Islamic Courts, told reporters in the coastal city, after deadly clashes which left more 15 people and dozens more injured and also caused more displaced people on Tuesday.
He said the ceasefire came after meeting with some parts of civil society in Mogadishu on Tuesday, asking the courts to stop the fire and they accepted, saying, The other part are needed to do the same and cease the fire. We will not hold our hands up if anti terror militia open fire on us Sheikh Sharif said.
Meanwhile the spokesman of the Alliance for Restoration of Peace and Counter Terrorism (ARPCT) Hussein Gutale Rage paid no attention to announce ceasefire on their part, describing the truce by Islamic courts as the bullets they were fighting with run out short.
The clashes started on Sunday in the SiiSii area of north Mogadishu, when armed groups loyal to Mogadishu militia leader Nur Daqli attacked militia led by the chairman of the Islamic courts, Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed.
Daqli and Ahmed both belong to the Agoon Yar subclan of the Abgal community. What started, as an internal feud soon became a battle between the Islamic courts and the newly created Alliance for Peace and counter terrorism of warlords in Mogadishu.
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Union of Islamic Courts in Mogadishu has today officially announced unilateral ceasefire unconditionally is Somali for "We are getting our asses slaughtered."
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Meanwhile the spokesman of the Alliance for Restoration of Peace and Counter Terrorism (ARPCT) Hussein Gutale Rage paid no attention to announce ceasefire on their part, describing the truce by Islamic courts as the bullets they were fighting with run out short.
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I think that the BOOK says that you're supposed to cower in submission and ask for peace until you secretly reload; then you're supposed to shoot the infidel in the back as he walks away.
Islamic militia and a self-styled anti-terrorism alliance of warlords in Somalia's capital declared an apparent truce on Tuesday after fighting that has killed around 60 people, both sides said.
The battle is the third this year between the two sides. They have been among the most furious fights in the lawless capital, Mogadishu, in years.
At least 103 people, mostly civilians, were wounded in the latest clash, which took place in the run-down Siisii area.
"Following requests from traditional elders and activists and growing concern from the general public we have decided to cease fighting," Sheik Sharif Ahmed, chairperson of the Mogadishu Islamic Courts, told reporters in the coastal city.
The warlords said they would stop the fighting, which has raged since Sunday, as long as the Islamic militia did.
"If they have stopped fighting, then on our side it is also over," Hussein Gutale Rage, a warlord coalition spokesperson, told reporters.
Many diplomats believe the clashes have been fuelled by US support for the warlords, who are unpopular among many citizens because their militias have victimised them or extorted money from them at checkpoints for years.
But this year's fighting in Mogadishu, a city awash with AK-47s and heavy military hardware, has been the worst for years. Two battles in February and March killed 90 people.
Witnesses said dozens had been killed.
"Nearly 60 have died so far since the battle began on Sunday," Abdifatah Abdikadir, a resident living near the Kilometre 4 area of Mogadishu, told reporters by telephone.
"Most parts of the capital are burning," Abubakar Hassan said.
The violence is a setback to plans by an interim Somali government - the 14th attempt to restore central rule in 15 years - to move from its provincial base Baidoa to the capital.
It is also impeding relief efforts in a nation where nearly two million people rely on emergency food aid. Around Mogadishu, thousands of internal refugees live in squalor in the war-scarred shells of former government buildings.
Fighters on the Islamic militia side are linked to Mogadishu's powerful sharia courts and funded by local businessmen. Coalition leaders and diplomats say they include some al-Qaeda-trained fighters.
Washington has long viewed mainly Muslim Somalia as a potential haven for Islamic militants, and it is thought by many both inside and outside the nation to be sending money to the Mogadishu warlords as part of its counter-terrorism strategy.
Even Somalia's interim President Abdullahi Yusuf said last week Washington was backing the warlords, whose new coalition dubs itself the "Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism".
US officials have mainly avoided comment.
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Rival militias using rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and assault rifles battled for control of a part of the Somali capital for a third day running yesterday in fighting that has killed more than 60 people and wounded nearly 100 since Sunday.
The clashes between radical Islamic militiamen and secular rivals mark a sharp escalation among combatants who usually do not fight after dusk. Witnesses and hospital officials said the fighting had killed nine people overnight, 35 on Monday and 18 on Sunday.
One witness, Sheik Abdulahi Ali Guled, said a mortar shell had landed on a home containing seven members of a family, killing six people overnight. Another mortar round had killed an Islamic cleric and two other people, said Tahliil Olad, who witnessed the incident.
On Monday, the dead included a 6-month-old baby and three family members who were killed by a mortar. The secular Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counterterrorism militia and the Islamic Court Union militia have been squaring off for several weeks to stake out strategic positions in preparation for a larger battle for control of Mogadishu.
The alliance accuses the rival Islamic militia of sheltering foreign Al-Qaeda leaders, and the courts accuse the alliance of being pawns of the United States.
Somalia has had no effective central government since 1991, when warlords ousted longtime dictator Mohamed Siad Barre and then turned on each other - carving the nation of about eight million people into a patchwork of anarchic, clan-based fiefdoms. A UN-backed transitional government has based itself in the central city of Baidoa, but has so far failed to assert itself elsewhere in the country.
Witnesses said the latest fighting had begun when gunmen working for a militia commander linked to the alliance had opened fire on a gun truck carrying the bodyguards of Islamic Court Union Chairman Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed.
Members of the alliance, however, said they had only been defending themselves from an attack by radical militiamen.
Ahmed vowed in a radio interview that Islamic militias would continue fighting until they got the upper hand over their rivals.
Before the start of the latest fighting, at least 120 people had been killed and 70 more wounded since March in similar clashes between the alliance and the Islamic courts. Traditional elders and local chiefs have tried unsuccessfully to organise peaceful negotiations.
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Witnesses said the latest fighting had begun when gunmen working for a militia commander linked to the alliance had opened fire on a gun truck carrying the bodyguards of Islamic Court Union Chairman Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed.
"Truce? What Truce? That's not a truce, kuffir. It's a HUDNA."
MOGADISHU: The latest flare-up in fighting between Islamic militia and a self-styled "anti-terrorism" alliance of warlords in Somalia's capital Mogadishu has killed at least 35 people, sources on both sides said on Tuesday. Fighting, which many believe is being fuelled by US support for the warlords, continued for a third day on Tuesday in the run-down Siisii area of the lawless coastal city. "By yesterday, 35 people have died from both sides, including civilians, and over 70 are wounded," Ali Nur, an alliance militia member, told Reuters by telephone, adding that he was on his way to the battle zone.
I dunno about you, but I'm hoping for frightfully high casualties on both sides.
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One day after police killed a man described as the engineer of an attack last month at the Egyptian seaside town of Dahab, authorities claimed to have all but broken up a group that bombed several Red Sea resorts.
Police and the suspect, Nasser Khamis el-Mallahi, fought a half-hour gun battle in an olive grove south of the Mediterranean coastal city of Arish on the Sinai Peninsula. Mallahi was the seventh person killed since police and soldiers fanned across the Sinai to hunt down suspects in the April 24 Dahab bombings. Mallahi was also involved in the effort to blow up international peacekeepers and Egyptian police at Gorah in the Sinai shortly after the Dahab blasts, Egyptian officials said.
"This is a major blow to the terrorist group," Essam el-Sheik, a police commander in the Sinai, told reporters. The Interior Ministry said in a statement that "the mastermind and leader of the group that carried out the Dahab and Gorah explosions" was dead.
"You tourists can come back now. Please?"
Arish was the home of suspects in two previous bombings: an October 2004 attack in Taba and one last July in Sharm el-Sheikh. After those incidents, the government carried out raids in mountainous regions of the Sinai, killed about a dozen suspects and declared victory over the bombers. But the bombings in Dahab, though not as deadly as the previous two, displayed the underground group's resilience. Police say they were carried out by suicide bombers; they targeted a restaurant, a pedestrian bridge and a cluster of three shops owned by Egyptian Christians.
Egyptian authorities say that all the Sinai bombings have been the work of a single organization with no connections abroad, and no link to al-Qaeda.
Dissatisfaction among residents in parts of Sinai plays a role in feeding violence there, Egyptian officials say. Bedouins who inhabit the northern Sinai say they have been neglected by the central government in favor of the south, where the main resorts are located. They also express resentment at construction of a gas pipeline through the region to Israel, which they criticize for its treatment of the Palestinians. Mallahi was married to a Palestinian. Nonetheless, the Egyptians acknowledge, Mallahi's group takes its inspiration from al-Qaeda and is known as Monotheism and Jihad -- the name once used by the Iraqi insurgent network now known as al-Qaeda in Iraq.
"But there's no connection. Honest. We asked."
Egyptian officials told reporters that Bedouin trackers led police to Mallahi's hideout, and a suspect captured during Monday's shootout with Mallahi is a relative of Mosaed's.
Although the Egyptians continue to regard the Sinai bombings as a local matter, the attacks have stirred alarm in Israel because Sinai shares a long border with the Jewish state and is popular with Israeli tourists. On Monday, Israeli officials warned its citizens in Sinai to return home.
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European intelligence services have warned Morocco that terrorists are planning attacks on political, business and tourist targets in the north African country, the Al Ahdath Al Maghribia newspaper said Tuesday. "Moroccan security authorities received a message from their European counterparts warning of (potential) attacks targeting administrative, financial and tourist spots, as well as certain embassies and foreign interests in Morocco," the newspaper said, quoting "well-informed sources". It said the groups, which were unnamed in the report, were plotting bomb attacks and assassinations.
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Egyptian police have killed the leader of an Islamist militant group blamed for several attacks on tourist towns last month, the Egyptian television reported. The television quoted security officials as saying Nasr Khamis Al-Mallahi was killed in a firefight near the North Sinai town of El-Arish and that one of his accomplices was captured. Police say el-Mallahi headed Tawhid wal Jihad, which has been blamed for a series of attacks against tourist resorts in the Sinai since 2004. The attacks have killed at least 117 people.
They've killed the mastermind after each of the attacks, haven't they?
Perhaps they might try killing the mastermind *before* the attack next time...
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"Perhaps they might try killing the mastermind *before* the attack next time..."
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Anyone knows whether they got the people responsible for the Luxor massacre
Partially. Yes, since Mustafa Hamza (head of GAI) was arrested in Iran (the great Afghanistan bugout after 911) and sent to Egypt. No, since bin Laden and Zawahiri were the money men behind it.
The Hamza connection
Hani El-Sibaai, director of the London-based Al-Maqrizi Centre for Historical Studies, first revealed the news of Hamza's extradition on 4 December 2004. Citing reliable sources in Al- Gamaa Al-Islamiya, he said that Iran had decided to hand over the 48-year-old Hamza, who is married with children, as part of a deal struck with Cairo. In exchange for Hamza's extradition, Tehran would be permitted to set up cultural centres in Egypt and receive intelligence on the Iranian opposition group, Mujhadi Khalq, members of which reside in Egypt. Egypt also promised to use its diplomatic channels with the US to improve Tehran's image in Washington. However, both Cairo and Tehran persisted in denying this report, the release of which coincided with news of an espionage scandal in which an Egyptian citizen and an Iranian diplomat were alleged to have been spying in Egypt on behalf of Tehran.
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Prime accused in journalist Harun-or-Rashid murder case and a regional leader of outlawed PBCP (Janajuddho) Rafiqul Islam Baby was killed in an 'encounter' between members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and his accomplices at around 3:30am yesterday at Madhya-danga in Daulatpur of Khulna city.
"They killed Baby!"
Baby, 38, was arrested on Monday evening at Jugnipasha village under Phultala upazila of Khulna district.
Hummmm, arrested on Monday, dead on Tuesday in an 'encounter'. Time sure flies when you're having your fingernails pulled out.
Two Rab men sustained bullet injury during the 15-minute encounter,
"Ouch, dammit Raj! Watch where those hot shell casings eject, you just hit me and Officer Bob."
..a Rab press release said, adding that a pipe gun, a six-shooter gun, five bullets and two shells of used bullets were seized from the spot.
Those would be the two bullets in Baby's head
Baby, who had been absconding for long, was one of the three charge-sheeted accused in the murder case of Shaikh Harun-or-Rashid, a reporter of the Dainik Purbanchal, who was gunned down on March 2 in 2002 at Mujgunni in Khalishpur under Khulna city.
Gunning down reporters is one reason this is an 'encounter', not a 'execution'.
The slain outlaw was also wanted in 15 criminal cases including those for murders and extortion recorded with Daula-tpur Police Station since 1992.
The judge of Khulna Divi-sional Special Trial Tribunal acquitted the three accused in journalist Harun murder case on February 7 this year.
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Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday arrested a union parishad member of Sajek in Khagrachhari and seized two remote controlled bombs and a China-made rifle at his house. Rab 7 of Chittagong went to the house, about 100 kilometres away from Khagrachhari town, of Althanga Pankhoa in the guise of arms traders and arrested him.
Rab 7 troops, led by Lieutenant Colonel Hasinur Rahman, took Althanga to Chittagong and they are quizzing him to learn more about his involvement with smuggling.
Next comes the 2AM road trip to pick up his 'arms cache'
The arrestee had been reportedly smuggling and selling arms to the former guerillas of the Shanti Bahini.
If they're buying arms, I'd say they aren't 'former' guerillas
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Clean your weapons, there's a crossfire tonight.
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Clean your weapons, there's a crossfire tonight.
Purdy good name for a song.
Subtitled, Don't come home from the Upazilla smellin of Jinn with Musti Monga on thy mind.
LONDON - Radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada, once described as Osama bin Ladens right-hand man in Europe, has no grounds to stay in Britain and should be deported to his native Jordan, a court heard on Tuesday.
Qatada, who began an appeal Tuesday against a British government decision to return him to Jordan, is said to have widespread connections to Al Qaeda and other extremist Islamist groups and people in Algeria, Egypt and Pakistan. Britain claims the 44-year-old, who was born Omar Mahmud Mohammed Othman, is a risk to national security and his continuing presence is not conducive to the public good.
"And he's ucky."
But he claims that to return him to the Middle East kingdom, where he has been convicted in his absence of terrorist-related offences, would breach his human rights because he could be ill-treated or tortured. He also claims he would not face a fair trial and could face the death penalty.
He'd be no worse off than any other scum-sucking, murderous hard boy in a Jordanian prison and court. What's the problem?
But lawyer Ian Burnett, representing the British government, told the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC), in central London, that the Amman government had given crystal clear assurances he would not be at risk.
They won't use anything bigger than a #4 truncheon.
The two countries signed a so-called memorandum of understanding (MoU) last year in which Jordan guaranteed to respect his human rights. Setting out the governments case to dismiss the appeal, Burnett argued that those assurances were sufficient to allow his return and Qatada had not proved his case that he was at real risk of personal harm.
Burnett admitted that the memorandum, which has been criticised as incompatible with international human rights law, was not, strictly speaking, a document that is legally binding in international law. But he insisted its letter and its spirit will be given effect, saying it would be extraordinary if the Jordanian government did not keep its pledge to uphold Qatadas human rights.
It's an agreement between two governments. The Jordanians promise not to execute him or thump him too hard. How is that incompatible with human rights law?
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg had also never, in principle, rejected the assurances made in such a document when considering similar deportation cases, he added. The appellant (Qatada) has produced no evidence that the government of Jordan signed the MoU in bad faith or that it no longer wishes to honour the undertakings contained in it, the lawyer said.
Amman also confirmed Qatada would not face the death penalty if convicted at any retrial, which would be fair, he added.
The hearing was told that Qatada, who was not present, had long-established connections with Al Qaedas spiritual head Osama bin Laden, its number two, Ayman Al Zawarhiri, and Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, the networks leader in Iraq. Videos of Qatadas sermons were also found in the Hamburg flat of Mohammed Atta, the presumed ringleader of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
He was also said to be involved in fundraising and providing spiritual advice and religious legitimacy for terrorist activity by individuals and terrorist groups both in Britain and abroad.
Lawyer Edward Fitzgerald, for Qatada, argued it was strongly suspected that evidence the government relied upon was extracted under torture.
Strongly suspected by who?
One of those said to have been tortured for information about Qatada was Jamil el-Banna, a British resident who has been held in US custody Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, since 2002.
Said by him, of course, and we all know Jamil wouldn't lie 'bout nuttin'.
Qatada has been in custody since August last year as part of a crackdown by the British government on hardline Islamists in the wake of the July 7 attacks on London that killed 56, including the four Islamic extremist suicide bombers.
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Any Brits see the South-East Today prog where they got this guy outside his house [post 9/11] and asked him some searching questions about his stay in the UK - he went absolutely box-of-frogs mental and threatened to murder all present and chased one reporter down the street whilst screaming Allan Akbar... Islamonazis do make great TV.
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he went absolutely box-of-frogs mental
heh heh, that's a keeper.
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" would breach his human rights because he could be ill-treated or tortured. He also claims he would not face a fair trial and could face the death penalty."
Ironic how the usual piss and moan rhetoric about their adopted country is suddenly shelved and replaced by a plead for human rights when faced with the prospect of going back to their native country.
Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, raised the spectre of the Cold War yesterday, likening the United States to a voracious wolf and declaring that the arms race was not yet over.
With relations between Moscow and Washington at their most strained in many years, Mr Putin used his annual state of the nation speech to revive Russia's military rivalry with the United States.
"It is premature to speak of the end of the arms race," he said in his televised address to the Russian people. "Moreover, it is going faster today. It is rising to a new technological level."
Seeking to portray the United States as Russia's main adversary, Mr Putin pointed out that Moscow's military budget was 25 times lower than Washington's. He said that would have to change if foreign attempts to interfere in Russian policy were to be warded off.
"We must always be ready to counter any attempts to pressure Russia," he said.
"The stronger our military is, the less temptation there will be to exert such pressure on us."
Spending is to increase on both conventional forces and the so-called nuclear triad of land, sea and air-based strategic weapons, he said.
Two new nuclear-powered submarines armed with Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missiles would soon go into service, the first to be built since 1990, Mr Putin noted as one example.
Meanwhile the mostly conscript-based army must fill two thirds of its ranks with professionals by 2008. Russia's military will reportedly receive £12.3 billion this year, £2 billion more than in 2005.
Mr Putin's annual address is always meticulously dissected by Kremlinologists seeking clues for Russia's direction over the coming 12 months. This year's speech comes just six days after Dick Cheney, the US vice-president, accused the Kremlin of backsliding on democracy and blackmailing its neighbours in one of the most scathing attacks on Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The Russian press compared Mr Cheney's criticisms to Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech in 1946 and said it heralded the dawn of a new Cold War.
Mr Putin's trenchant remarks went down badly in Washington, where officials also expressed their concern with Moscow's stance over Iran's nuclear program.
Russia, backed by China, is blocking any chance of agreement on a resolution on Iran, arguing that a text proposed by western powers could be interpreted as the first step towards military action.
American officials were bridling over the uncompromising attitude of Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, at Monday night's critical and unsuccessful talks in New York between Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, and the foreign ministers of Germany, France, Britain, Russia and China.
In a sign of the rising political pressure over Russia, Senator John McCain, the Republican front-runner to succeed George W Bush in the White House, launched a broadside against the Kremlin.
"There has been a steady retrogression and a sort of an effort to restore the old Soviet Empire," he told CBS television.
The Russian leader accused the Bush administration of sacrificing the democratic ideals it claimed to cherish when they conflicted with national self-interest.
"Where is all this pathos about protecting human rights and democracy when it comes to the need to pursue their own interests? Here, it seems, everything is allowed and there are no restrictions whatsoever.
"We are aware of what is going on in the world. Comrade Wolf knows whom to eat, he eats without listening and he's clearly not going to listen to anyone."
But he stressed that Russia's foreign policy was based on "pragmatism, predictability and observance of international law".
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Lovely plans... pretty, glittering plans. But where is the money to come from that will pay for it all? Even if the Mafiya is that profitable, surely they don't share much with the government.
He has thousands of nukes, threatens cold war and is ignored because everybody is worried about a guy with no nukes who is threatening world war. A regular Rodney Dangerfield he is.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, not Russia and Putin - why it was only just several hours ago/last night that PRAVDA had yet another anti-US article, i.e. THE DESTRUCTION AND IMMINENT DEMISE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Putin and Russia's Air Force wants to buy one new fighter plane a year for ten years - God help us all, its a mighty arms race you betcha!?
A HIGH School teacher has been charged after four bombs, including one packed with nails and razor blades, were found at a home in Brisbane's north. Police won't rule out the possibility that the bombs and 10 detonators found at the property were being stockpiled for a terrorist attack.
Detective Chief Superintendent Paul Wilson said the detonators, which were not yet attached to the bombs, would have allowed the devices to be set off remotely.
About 30 houses have been evacuated after police found the bombs while executing a search warrant on the home in Windrest Avenue, Aspley, before 7pm (AEST) yesterday.
Detective Chief Superintendent Paul Wilson said the man was employed as a schoolteacher at Ferny Grove State High School, in Brisbane's north-west. The school was searched using bomb sniffer dogs as a precaution last night, and was evacuated and searched again this morning. Supt Wilson said the 40-year-old teacher had been charged with fraudulently obtaining 53kg of an explosive known as powergel, of which about a fifth had been converted into bombs.
The man will face court later today, where it will be alleged he was involved in a "forgery" to obtain the powergel. Queensland police, working with federal authorities, are profiling the teacher. "We have not ruled out any type of investigation concerning this particular incident," Supt Wilson told reporters.
"At this stage we are profiling the person, the background, the explosive devices, the creation of those devices, and we are working with our other state and federal agencies, both law enforcement and explosives experts, in relation to what we have discovered.
"At this stage inquiries are continuing."
Supt Wilson said powergel could not be bought without going through a "process" and the search was sparked following a joint investigation with the Department of Mines and Energy. "As a result of the intelligence obtained from that, we discovered there was a forgery (which enabled him to buy the powergel), it will be alleged," Supt Wilson said.
Powergel is described on internet websites as specifically designed for use in "wet blasthole conditions". It is a particularly stable explosive, often used in deep mining.
An elderly woman, believed to be the man's mother, was in the home at the time of the police raid. Neighbour and mother-of-four Sharyn Sneddon said she and her husband had grown suspicious of the man. She alleged she saw him transport five large plastic barrels in his car about eight weeks ago. "We saw them in the back of his car ... 30 litre plastic barrels with the lids on them," she said. "(He was a hoarder) all the time - the car was always chock-a-block."
Lilly Boccalatte, who lives across the road from the house, said her husband saw the man walking down the street with rubber gloves on at the weekend "but didn't take much notice of it". "He lived with his elderly mum and his mum seemed harmless enough," she said. Supt Wilson said all the devices had been made safe, but an extensive room-by-room search of the house, vehicles, a shed and the yard was being made. No mention of his name, so he's either a muslim or a nut.
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Mr Amundsen told the court he had no affiliation to any violent terrorist organisation and had a high-level security clearance.
"Your honour, prior to the current charges I've worked for three years in public relations at the (Brisbane) airport and have a red ASIO security clearance," Mr Amundsen told Magistrate Lindy Bradford-Morgan.
"I don't have any affiliation to any violent organisation.
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Civilians caught making bombs and explosives on this scale without proper permits and training and with no legitimate justification for doing so ought to hung in public. Bombs of this type are the choice of cowards.
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Chemistry teachers are always making bombs
My chemistry teacher told me of one of his universitry mates who enjoyed putting a drop of nytroglycerin in keyholes to give a big surprise to the nest person opening the door.
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55kg of commercial blastng materials obtained by deception. That is someone up to no good. I would bet they were quite improperly stored as well. Mad just mad.
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Police allege he fraudulently obtained explosive material and detonators. The prosecutor, senior sergeant Mark Lingwood, asked for an adjournment to allow Admundson time to seek legal advice, which was granted. Admundson then asked to make a statement, telling the court he previously worked at the Brisbane airport and had ASIO security clearance, was cooperative with police, had no affiliation with any violent group and had the explosives for a television shoot.
Istanbul, 10 May (AKI) - A suspected al-Qaeda cell has been broken up and its members arrested in Turkey. Among those detained was Abdolhalim Sad, an Iranian, who the Turkish authorities believe is the new leader of the global terror network in Turkey. The cell was dismantled by the Turkish security forces who had been put on the trail by the American secret service, the CIA. The operation dates to two weeks ago but the news of the arrrest of Abdolhalim Sad and other members emerged only on Tuesday.
Turkish Truncheon Team has been working on him for two weeks, sounds...painful
Turkish intelligence services say that the militants were preparing an attack against the military base at Incirlik which is home to divisions of the US airforce.
That's the target the last group was supposed to hit. They decided it was too hard and killed a bunch of civilians instead.
The other three arrested were Turkish citizens; Mehmet Yilmaz, Mehmet Belut and Murat Estenleg, who according to Turkish media reports had attended a military camp run by al-Qaeda in Iran, near the border with Iraqi Kurdistan.
Murat? We've missed you.
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Iranian in al-Qaeda? Who wouldahave ever known?
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There it is I have long missed that graphic. A picture says a thousand words.
Strict security measures were in place Tuesday at the start of a trail in Düsseldorf against two alleged terrorists of the al-Qaeda network. A third man is accused of supporting the terrorist organization.
The primary defendant is 30-year-old Ibrahim Mohamed K., who is apparently from Syria. German prosecutors said he was involved in the command of al Qaeda and that he had contact with the organization's leader, Osama bin Laden.
Ibrahim Mohamed K. came to Germany as an asylum-seeker. He began working in Germany in 2002, raising money and providing "logistical support" for al Qaeda, officials said. With German travel documents, he was able to move freely around Europe. He apparently sought to obtain nuclear materials, but was unsuccessful. Police arrested him in Mainz in January 2005.
In 2004, Mohamed recruited the students Yasser Abu S. and Ismail Abu S., who are brothers, to be a member of the organization and a supporter, respectively. Yasser Abu S. was apparently scheduled to perform a suicide bombing in Iraq.
The suspects allegedly earned money through insurance fraud to support international terrorism. Officials said Mohamed and Yasser attempted to raise money by taking out an 800,000 euro ($1 million) life insurance policy on Yasser, who intended to fake a fatal traffic accident and use the money for terrorist purposes.
The trio is accused of 10 counts of fraud and 23 counts of attempted fraud. According to the courts, none of the suspects has confessed.
Judge Ottmar Breidling will preside over the trial at the Higher Regional Court in Düsseldorf. Breidling has already convicted several other members of the al-Tawhid terrorist group, which has ties to al Qaeda.
The criminal division in Düsseldorf has scheduled the trial to be heard over the course of 52 days.
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Three men have gone on trial in Germany charged with being members of Al Qaeda or financially supporting Osama bin Laden's network. The most serious charges are against Ibrahim Mohamed K, 30, a Syrian student whom prosecutors believe was a mid-ranking official in the terror group with direct links to bin Laden.
He came to Germany as an asylum seeker, but was arrested in the western city of Mainz in January last year. Prosecutors say he recruited two Palestinian brothers, Yasser Abu S, 32, and Ismail Abu S, 29, to work for Al Qaeda.
The elder brother became a member of the organisation and had allegedly been due to carry out a suicide bombing mission in Iraq which was thwarted by his arrest, prosecutors say. The younger man worked to raise funds for Al Qaeda, cooperating with the other accused to run a life insurance scam. The two brothers were arrested in Germany. All three men deny all the charges.
The trial is taking place amid high security in the western city of Duesseldorf.
The presiding judge, Ottmar Breidling, took charge of the trials of other Islamic extremists, including Metin Kaplan, also known as the "Caliph of Cologne", who was extradited from Germany in October 2004 after a long court battle.
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Pakistan did not supply Stinger missiles to Iran and only 35 missiles reached Iran that too by mistake, said Lieutenant General (r) Hameed Gul, the former director general of the Inter-Services Intelligence. Talking to a private TV channel, Gul said the Inter-Services Intelligence had supplied 50 to 70 Stinger missiles to former Afghanistan prime minister Gulbadin Hekamtyar. He said most of the missiles should have been exhausted because of redundancy in their batteries, and only few of them might still be operational. The number of attacks on United States aircraft in Afghanistan by the Taliban shows the militants might have acquired anti-aircraft missiles from elsewhere, he said.
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Mistake, hell.
What he means is it was a mistake they got caught.
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What the general meant to say was that it was a mistake that the Stingers were shipped, that shipment was supposed to be nuclear warhead components.
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I think we can arrange to mistakenly drop 35 2,000 pounders over Pakistan, don't you? I think key ISI facilities would be appropriate. Oh, and Gul's various homes would be fine, as well. S'only fair.
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The number of attacks on United States aircraft in Afghanistan by the Taliban shows the militants might have acquired anti-aircraft missiles from elsewhere, he said.
Arrogant bastard. "from elsewhere"
Since the article doesn't reference an exact timeline, this statement seems more like a bankshot?
According to Michael Yon things are 'hotting' up in a big way in Southern Afghanistan/Balochi/Waziri areas again, He believes this is no time for the US to be turning over control to the Euros/Canada and that we should be leading instead.
MUMBAI - Indian police have arrested three men and seized a cache of weapons and explosives destined for the insurgency-hit region of Kashmir, Mumbais police chief said on Wednesday. The men were arrested and 10 assault rifles, 30 kilograms (66 pounds) of explosives and ammunition were seized at Aurangabad in the western state of Maharashtra, said police commissioner A.N. Roy.
At this stage were not linking them to a particular (militant) organisation, said Roy. He said police had received a tip-off and had been working for some time on the operation. According to the indications we have received from these three arrested people, it (the cache) was supposed to be taken to Kashmir.
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Senior Pakistani intelligence sources tell ABC News that they have been able to trace the terrorist attack against an employee of the U.S. consulate in Karachi back to senior al Qaeda operatives. According to the same sources, the operation was ordered and prepared by al Qaeda officials in North Waziristan and carried out by local militant networks. There are "strong suspicions" that the key operative in this operation is a 29-year-old militant named Matiur Rehman, already identified by ABC News as a "key interface" between Al Qaeda's senior leadership and the Pakistani terrorist underworld, which Pakistani sources confirm is increasingly providing the "muscle" behind al Qaeda operations.
The powerful car bomb attack occurred in March of this year just one day before President Bush arrived in the country for a diplomatic visit. At least 4 people were killed and more than a dozen were injured. The dead American, 52 year-old David Foy from North Carolina, had worked at the consulate since September.
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LAHORE: Jamiat Ittehadul Ulema (JIU) on Tuesday announced that it would organise clerics' conventions across Pakistan to tell the public about "America's anti-Islamic policies". Addressing a press conference, JIU President Maulana Abdul Maalik said the first convention would be held in Lahore on May 15 in which notable clerics and scholars would highlight the anti-Islamic agenda of European countries and the US. Maalik urged President Pervez Musharraf to abandon the American lobby or the religious forces would "force" him to quit President's House.
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Weren't these guys the losers in the Radio City tryouts?
KHAR: Unknown militants fired rockets on two levies check posts at Salarzia in the Bajaur Agency, 15 kilometres east of the agency's headquarters, Khar. Security forces returned fire, but the attackers, managed to escape. Although both installations sustained considerable damage, no casualties were reported from either side. It is the fourth such attack on levies check posts in the area during the last week.
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The word Levies is not in the Oxford concise dictionary, but I believe the origin of the term is a levy (in the sense of a tax) on a group, exacted as providing men for military service. Hence the men who serve are called 'levies'.
QUETTA: Unidentified tribal militants continued missile and rocket attacks on security forces on Tuesday. They fired three missiles from Sui Neelakh mountain at security forces in the Sangsela, Chashma and Gory Nullah areas of Dera Bugti. Also, seven rockets were fired at Pathar Nullah Check Post in Pir Koh. However, no loss of life or property was reported.
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Somalia Summary: Forty two incidents have been reported since March 15 2005.
Recently reported incidents
May 05 2006 at 0345 LT at Chittagong anchorage B, Bangladesh. Two unlit boats approached a container ship. One boat with 10 persons armed with long knives came close and one robber boarded using grappling hook. Alert crew raised alarm and the robber escaped.
May 04 2006 at 0120 LT in posn 01:23.5N - 104:27.0E, off Horsburgh lighthouse, Singapore straits. A speedboat with five pirates on board fired upon a bulk carrier underway. Deck Officer raised alarm; crew mustered, switched on deck lights and secured doors. Four heavily armed pirates boarded, broke open bridge door and tied up the crew and threatened to kill them. Pirates stole ships cash, equipment and valuables and cash from crew and escaped.
May 02 2006 at 1030 LT in position 09:13.1N - 014:06.2W, off Conakry, Guinea. A chemical tanker drifting 25 nm off the port received a VHF call by someone claiming to be from Conakry Port. Caller asked the ship to rig the pilot ladder as the pilot was on the way. Soon after Deck Officer noticed a grey boat with five persons being launched by a mother fishing vessel nearby. Persons in the boat were armed with automatic weapons and wore life jackets. They pretended to be officials and demanded pilot ladder to be lowered. As the ship was not expecting to berth until following day, Master raised alarm and crew activated fire hoses. After following for some time boat returned to the mother ship. Master reported the incident to port authorities.
May 01 2006 at 1140 UTC in position: 03:13N - 108:45E, Kumpulan Natuna islands, Indonesia. Persons in several unlit boats followed a tanker underway and came close to her stern. Crew mustered, switched on deck lights and activated fire hoses. Boats aborted chase and moved away.
And from the Better Late Than Never Desk...
April 28 2006 around noon at Islas de Piritu anchorage, off Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela. Five armed robbers boarded a sailing yacht and shot the only sailor onboard. He was injured in his stomach but escaped in a dinghy. He was operated in a hospital and one of his kidneys needed removal.
April 27 2006, off Barawe, SW of Mogadishu, Somalia. Pirates hijacked a UAE flagged ship underway. They took hostage all crewmembers and forced her to sail to Harardhere. Pirates shot dead one crewmember and two others were seriously injured. The ship was released after a ransom was paid.
April 22 2006 en route from Belawan port to Batu Licin, Banjarmasin, Indonesia. A tug towing an empty barge departed Belawan on April 13 2006. Last known position on April 22 2006 was 02:07S - 108:47E. The tug/barge and 12 crewmembers are still missing and they are believed to be hijacked.
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Why do the ship's crews always "Start Firehoses and muster?" don't they have any guns?
or are any weapons prohibited?
Masters fear their own crew more than any pirates?
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Five people escaped from a U.S. detention center in northern Iraq, the U.S. command said Wednesday. The detainees escaped early Tuesday from the Fort Suse Theater internment facility near Sulaimaniyah, 160 miles northeast of Baghdad, said Spc. Stacy Sanning, a spokesman for the U.S. command in Baghdad. U.S. soldiers and Iraqi forces were searching for them, he said.
Sanning did not identify the escapees, saying the incident was being investigated, but Col. David Gray, commander of the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, said three were Arabs and a fourth was an Iraqi Kurd. The nationality of the fifth was not immediately known. Photographs of the escapees were distributed to U.S. and Iraqi search teams and local authorities, Sanning said. Checkpoints were set up on major roads, and surrounding land owners were notified about the search, he said.
Originally, U.S. forces operated three main detention centers in Iraq: Abu Ghraib, Camp Bucca and Camp Cropper. Fort Suse then was built to accommodate a prisoner population that expanded rapidly as more suspected insurgents were captured. Fort Suse is on the site of a Russian-built former Iraqi military barracks.
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Way to go guys. Are you trying to get the Dims a majority in D.C.?
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Ummm, this is a good argument for a policy of "no quarter." Goes with the territory, and if we're to be culturally sensitive, then not taking prisoners is in keeping with prevailing regional traditions.
In April 2006, credible representatives of mujahideen fighting in Iraq released a new audiotape recorded by an individual identifying himself as Abu Anas al-Maqdisi (likely of Palestinian origin). According to the tape, this production took place somewhere inside Iraq after overcoming tight security measures We were able to meet with dear brother Abu Ali al-Sharqi and brother Abu Abdullah al-Shamali who agreed to give us this rare opportunity to talk to them, because they are very busy in conducting and overseeing the different military operations executed against the enemies of Allah. Abu Ali al-Sharqi is further identified as the commander of a fighting unit based in the Iraqi city of Al-Qaim and, furthermore, a co-founder of Al-Qaidas notorious Omar Corps which, according to the tape, was responsible for destroying the [Shiite] Badr Corps in Baghdad and assassinating its leaders.
Some highlights from the interview:
- "The death [of Saudi Al-Qaida leader Abdallah al-Rashood] is a major loss for us. I remember that that day was when the American forces initiated a massive attack in the Karabilah area... In the morning after the attack, we were informed that Abdallah al-Rashood, Abu al-Ghadiyah al-Suri [from Syria], and Abu al-Laith were killed in the bombing. When we reached the area, we saw Abdallah al-Rashood smiling with his index finger pointing and the scent of musk in the air..."
- "We get nervous when we use modern advanced weapons and we feel much more confident using old shotguns and RPG launchers... Every time we were faced with hard times in one city, we were counting successes in other places. When we had hard times in Al-Qaim, then in Baghdad or Samarra things would be working to our benefit, praise be to Allah for his blessing. Your al-Tawheed brothers are spread out everywhere, and we should not forget to mention our Ansar brothers [native Iraqi recruits] who assisted us and have led some of the major operations... Those who failed to adopt this path are the biggest losers. Before I joined the path of jihad, I used to care about driving the nicest cars and wearing the most beautiful clothingbut now, you see your fighting brothers caring less about such things. They care about having their weapons ready, praying, serving each other (both locals and foreigners), and purchasing big trucks (common among the martyr brothers). Our most precious possession is our weapon. Our intention is to obey Allah and attack the enemies of Allah. Our wish is to die in the cause of Allah when the time comes without any hesitation.
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Our wish is to die in the cause of Allah when the time comes without any hesitation.
I guess they are comparing themselves to the various national armies in the region, whose officers stay at the back and beat the troops (who, reasonably enough under the circumstance, have no desire to fight) to make them move forward. Compared to such, these are warriors indeed.
Unfortunately, they are fighting modern soldiers (whoops! I think I mean troops, so as not to exclude the other guys -- I'm not really up on the technical vocabulary), who are trained to achieve objectives effectively -- and are eager to do so, preferably without being killed themselves, as they properly appreciate their value as both human beings and valuable investments (I hope that last bit didn't sound cold -- it wasn't meant to be calculating but appreciative.) Compared to the Coalition troops, the jihadis are so many vicious children, fit only to be captured or killed.
Not that this is a revelation to anyone here; I just needed to clarify it for myself. ;-)
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The alarming part is that in the ME, we may never run out of replacement lunatics ready to die for jihad. I guess when you live in a desert with sand storms, it's normal to imagine a life of value and important deeds, without actually ever accomplishing anything. That about describs Arab life.
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It's the same kind of nihilism and gangsta culture we see in the worst inner-city areas in this country. You can't do much with that kind of mentality, here or there.
Insurgents bombed an Iraqi oil pipeline south of Baghdad. The bombing of the pipeline occurred late Sunday near Mussayab city, about 30 miles south of Baghdad, sending up a large plume of black smoke. The pipeline carries oil from Dora refinery in Baghdad to Mussayab power station, and police Col. Ahmed Mijwal said the attack had closed the station.
A car bomb and a shooting in the capital killed two Iraqi policemen and the driver of bus carrying government employees to work on Monday, police said. In western Baghdad, suspected insurgents stopped a bus carrying Higher Education Ministry employees to work, fatally shooting the driver and wounding a policeman who was working on the bus as a guard, said police Capt. Jamil Hussein. In Baghdad, a car bomb exploded near a police patrol on Palestine street in eastern Baghdad on Monday morning, killing two policemen and wounding 12 Iraqis: five policemen and seven civilians, said police Lt. Ahmed Qassim.
New information also emerged about a bomb-making factory hidden in the basement of a religious school near a major Sunni shrine in Baghdad that had exploded on Sunday, killing one insurgent and wounding two, police said. On Sunday the U.S. military reported that one suspected insurgent was killed and one wounded that day when their bomb-making factory exploded in the basement of one of Baghdad's two more important Sunni Arab shrines. But the U.S. command and Iraqi forces said Monday that their investigation found one insurgent died and two were wounded in the basement of the partially built al-Qadiriya religious school next door to the shrine when the roadside bombs they were making exploded.
Meanwhile, Australia, a member of the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq, announced that it will send additional soldiers to southern Iraq to replace forces protecting a Japanese military reconstruction team in the region.
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Nine dead bodies were found in southern Baghdad, including the bodies of three policemen and that of a child, police said Tuesday. The police also said that unknown gunmen killed member of the Islamic Party Mohammad Al-Duleimi, who is a mosque imam, noting that the number of imams assassinated since the US invasion in 2003 has reached 150. An Iraqi soldier was killed and two others were wounded on a highway linking Tikrit and Kirkuk in northern Baghdad.
Meanwhile, eyewitnesses said two US soldiers were wounded when their Humvee car was attacked by unidentified gunmen in the southern City of Kout. In the northern City of Mosul, gunmen killed a pharmacist and wounded two other civilians. Two other civilians were wounded in Mosul as a result of the explosion of three roadside bombs. In Huweijah, west of Kirkuk, two civilians were killed and five injured when Multi-National Forces opened fire in the wake of a bomb explosion. An Iraqi soldier was killed and two others were wounded in an armed attack in the same area.
Amid these developments, South Korean troops started withdrawal from the northern City of Irbil. A Korean source told KUNA the total number of withdrawn soldiers reached 1000 out of 3600 deployed in 2004.
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noting that the number of imams assassinated since the US invasion
Men who became imams in order to swan around the mosque are suddenly finding the cost is very high. I suspect there will be a lot fewer imams in the near future, which can only improve things over there, with much less whipping up of anger and hatred at Friday prayers.
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The title of this article is totally misleading. There is nothing mentioned about civilians being killed in Hewlêr, only that some Koreans are leaving Hewlêr.
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A bomber has blown up his pick-up truck in a crowded Tal Afar market, killing at least 17 people and wounding 35 in a city the US president had cited as a success story in the battle against Iraqi fighters. The bomber struck about 8.30pm as shoppers were making last-minute purchases before closing time, according to police Colonel Abdul-Karim Mohammed, who gave the casualty figures. The director of the city hospital, Saleh Qado, said 20 people were killed and 70 injured and that US Army medics were providing emergency treatment at the scene. Lieutenant-Colonel Ali Rasheed of Iraq's interior ministry, said the target may have been a police station within the market area of the majority Turkmen city.
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AMMAN - Jordan said on Wednesday it had arrested 20 Hamas activists in an alleged plot last month to stage attacks on its soil and was searching for new arms caches after it found armaments that included Iranian rocket launchers.
Government spokesperson Nasser Joudeh told reporters latest interrogations of the Palestinian groups members revealed the militant organisation had sought to recruit activists in Jordan for military training in Syria and Iran.
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look at the map. If theres a pal civil war, west bank is seperated from Gaza by Israel. If Hamas wins in Gaza, and Fatah wins in West Bank, all the Hamas guys in the WB are vulnerable. Only way to smuggle weapons in is through Jordan. But Jordan doesnt seem to be playing along.
Good thing Israel is at peace with Jordan, and maintains good relations with them. Good thing the US keeps up good relations with Jordan, and doesnt ignore the need to keep ties to moderates in the muslim world.
It is fortunate they have the loyalty of the army (I think largely because of tribal fiefdom management) because most of the population is of the 'antiAmerican-kill-thezionists-yes-to honor-murder' way of thinking.
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i would love to see Jordan controlling the WBank.
Jordan DID control the West Bank from 1948 to 1967. They did very little with the territory other than keep the seething down and ignoring the whole area. During the same period, Egypt controlled the Gaza Strip. There is no "Palestinian" people, only Arabs living in what was mandated as Palestine by the British, and occupied from 1924 to 1948. When Israel declared its independence, Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, among others, declared war against it, and managed to capture the West Bank and Gaza. That was considered "occupied" Palestine until the 1967 war (both Egypt and Jordan issued postage stamps for this "occupied" territory).
Frankly, I think the Israelis should re-conquer both territories, kick out ALL the Arabs, and tell their Arab neighbors to either assimilate them or kill them, but they're not coming back to Israel. At least there would be fewer places for Israel to be attacked from.
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A Palestinian group claiming links to al-Qaeda today published a flier threatening suicide attacks against "American and Zionist" targets.
The group, Al-Quds Islamic Army, in the statement said that it will act under orders from Osama bin Laden or Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaeda head in Iraq.
"The organisation would target every enemy of Islam and Muslims, and we would strike with an iron fist all the crusader, American and Zionist campaigns and we would blow up our bodies in their positions," the statement said.
It also warned that it will follow up all "the collaborators and traitors." "We would broadcast the footages of our fighting groups to make the enemy know that we are serious and we won't yield or kneel to anyone except God," the statement said.
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas had recently said there were indications that the al-Qaeda was operating in the Palestinian territories.
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Al-Qud takes it orders from Binny and Zarkey but is one of those which Iran professes to support - gee whiz whillickers, Beaver Mary Anne and Dobie Gillis, just whom does the USA get to blame???
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Binny and Zark havent exactly been having a good last couple of years. In fact anyone who has anything to do with them seems to get bombed out of existence. Do you really want these guys making your descisions for you? You may be able to do a lot better on your own. Just one guy talking here, but I know what I see.
A hitherto unknown Palestinian militant group announced Tuesday it was an off-shoot of the terror network al-Qaeda.
In leaflets telefaxed to reporters and pasted on street corners in Gaza City, the 'al-Quds (Jerusalem) Islamic Army' said that, like its parent organization, it would target 'the crusaders and every enemy of Islam and Muslims and their collaborators.'
'We will blow up our bodies in their positions' and 'strike with an iron fist at all the crusader, American and Zionist campaigns,' said the statement, adding the group adhered to the principles of al-Qaeda leaders Sheikh Osama Bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahri and Musab al-Zarqawi.
The authenticity of the statement was hard to verify, but it bore the signature of al-Qaeda.
It was the first such leaflet signed by al-Qaeda in Gaza and openly announcing the formation of an al-Qaeda wing in the Palestinian territories.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had earlier this year warned there were 'signs' al-Qaeda had established a foothold in the area.
Such a development could have dire consequences for the Middle East, Abbas warned in a March 2 interview with the London-based al-Hayat daily.
Tuesday's leaflet said the al-Qaeda Palestine off-shoot would soon release a video, showing Palestinian al-Qaeda members training.
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Three bystanders have been wounded in fresh clashes between followers of Fatah and Hamas during funerals for two of the victims of yesterday's violence in the southern Gaza Strip. Hospital officials said the three unarmed people were not seriously hurt on Tuesday. The funeral was for a Fatah member killed in a clash with Hamas on Monday.
Fatah officials and witnesses said Hamas set off two bombs and opened fire on the procession, setting off a firefight between the two sides. Earlier on Tuesday, 10 people were wounded in a gun battle between Fatah and Hamas fighters in Gaza, a day after three were killed in clashes there.
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Would you like butter with that pop corn?
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sigh. if ONLY they had their own country, free of zionist oppression, they'd be in paradise.
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When UFF terrorist Micheal Stone went on a box of frogs mental :) at an IRA funeral he managed to kill three and wound about sixty, with a pistol and two grenades, you get the impression the safest place to be in gaza is in the middle of a gunfight between Hamas and Fatah.
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- A bomb exploded at a tea shop Wednesday near a busy market in violence-plagued southern Thailand, killing at least three people and injuring more than a dozen, police said. The bomb was attached to a parked motorcycle and triggered by a mobile phone when a military truck pulled up to the tea shop in the municipal township of Pattani, said police Col. Prasert Chansawang of Pattani province. Police believe soldiers were the target of the explosion, which occurred near an outdoor market that is popular with military stationed in the area, Prasert said.
One soldier was killed and three were among the 16 people injured. Two female Buddhist teachers, one of whom was pregnant, were also killed, police said. The women were seated at the cafe when the bomb exploded.
Suspected Muslim separatists in Thailand's deep south have frequently used mobile phones to detonate explosives. The government has ordered all mobile phones in affected provinces to be registered and has sought cooperation from neighboring Malaysia to bar roaming cross-border phone signals.
Violence occurs almost daily in Pattani, Narathiwat and Yala - the only Muslim-majority provinces in Thailand, which is mostly Buddhist. The violence has left more than 1,300 dead since a Muslim insurgency flared in January 2004.
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I recently heard firsthand how the muslims in Thailand claim they are an innocent peaceful people, ruthlessly terrorised by violent Federal Thai police forces.
They said Komoni Pael, also known by his nom de guerre, Abu Bara, was nabbed in the remote village of Kumalarang, Isabela City, on Monday after civilians reported his presence to the military. Authorities have implicated Pael in the 2001 kidnappings of more than a dozen farmers, many beheaded on the island, said Brig. Gen. Raymundo Ferrer, commander of military forces in Basilan. Pael is a notorious Abu Sayyaf member who was behind many kidnappings and killings in Basilan. There is an ongoing operation to track down other members of the terrorist group, Ferrer said. He said Pael is also facing a string of criminal charges in Basilan.
Last month, Ferrers group captured another Abu Sayyaf militant, Abdusalih Dimah, in Kapayawan Village, Isabela City, after weeks of surveillance by soldiers. Dimah was implicated in the 2001 kidnapping of 20 holiday-makers, including three US citizensthe Kansas missionary couple Martin and Gracia Burnham and the Californian Guillermo Soberoin the posh Dos Palmas resort in Palawan.
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Four suspected Islamic militants went on trial yesterday for their alleged role in last year's suicide bombings on the Indonesian island of Bali.
The triple bombings killed 20 people and were blamed on Jemaah Islamiah, an al Qaeda-linked terror group. It is blamed for several strikes since 2000 in Indonesia, including the 2002 nightclub blasts in Bali that killed 202 people.
Prosecutors read a videotaped statement of responsibility for the blasts by Noordin Top, the alleged ringleader.
"We declare our enemies are those that help the American alliance kill Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan," it said. "This was revenge for that."
The four are accused of making, supplying and transporting the explosives, and sheltering Noordin. If convicted, they could face the death penalty.
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Seven suspected Islamic terrorists have confessed to beheading three Christian schoolgirls on Indonesia's Sulawesi Island, police said Wednesday.
The seven detained suspects confessed under questioning that they planned and carried out the Oct. 29 beheadings in the Sulawesi town of Poso, police chief Lt. Col. Rudi Sufahriadi told The Associated Press.
Another girl was wounded but spared by the assailants, he said.
Two of the suspects also say they have ties to Noordin Top, regarded as a key leader of the al Qaeda-linked group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), according to Central Sulawesi police chief Brig. Gen. Oegroseno.
Four suspected Islamic militants accused in the October 2005 Bali restaurant bombings appeared in court in Denpasar on Tuesday, accused of supplying and transporting explosives to be used in blasts.
Poso, a coastal town, is some 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) northeast of Jakarta. It was the scene of clashes between Muslims and Christians in 1999-2002 that claimed more than 1,000 lives.
Sporadic bombings and attacks, mostly targeting the Christian community, have continued and police suspect Jemaah Islamiyah involvement.
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Any bets being taken on when the follow up story will appear, with the obligatory revolving door graphic? If the perps were not islamonutz, you can bet they would be very dead, very soon.
Tehran, 10 April (AKI) - by Ahmad Rafat - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has failed to convince George W. Bush of his willingness to resolve the international crisis over Tehran's nuclear programme. Bush will not answer Ahmadinejad's 18-page letter sent through the Swiss embassy in Tehran - the first letter from an Iranian leader to a US president since the 1979 Iranian revolution. Iranian conservative MPs told Adnkronos International (AKI) they weren't surprised there would be no reply, given the harsh tones of the missive, and admitted their disappointment at a missed opportunity to find a solution.
In the letter, Ahmadinejad offers advice to the US president on a number of issues but doesn't suggest any solution to end three decades of tensions between the two countries. Ahmadinejad also repeatedly criticises Bush. He accuses the US president of being responsible of evils ranging from terrorism to the violation of human rights, the war on Iraq and famine in Africa.
Iran's president also talks about the need to cancel Israel whose existance is a "historic injustice" and casts once again doubts on the Holocaust. He also announces the end of liberalism and democracy. Finally, he invites Bush to rediscover his religious faith and follow the example of the prophets. There are no proposals however on the nuclear issue - something which has deeply disappointed many Iranian politicians, even conservatives supporting the president.
"A letter with such tones, at a moment like this when tension is very high, could not produce anything exceptional," said Hossein Mozaffer, a conservative member of Parliament. "If president Ahmadinejad thought that by inviting Bush to follow the principles of Christianity he could solve problems that have influenced relations between the two countries for decades, then it is legitimate to accuse him of naivete." "The problems between our country and the United States are such that it is unthinkable to solve them with a letter," said Mehdi Falahatpishe, a member of Parliament's foreign and national security commission. Mahmoud Mohammadi, another commission member and a conservative, described as "childish" the idea that Ahmadinejad could solve such delicate problems with such a letter.
Now, the meat of the article...
Indeed, according to a leading Iranian political analyst, Ahmadinejad seeks to convey a messianic image of himself to the international community rather than seeking a solution to the crisis.
"He's a legend in his own mind"
"Once again Ahmadinejad has sought to stress his faith, taking as example for his letter to Bush the one written by the Prophet Mohammed to the emperors of Persia, Rome and to the Egyptian Pharaoh," said Ahmad Zeidabadi. Ahmadinejad tells Bush to return and "pursue the straight path" as the Prophet wrote in his letter more than a thousand years ago.
"President Ahmadinejad doesn't appear to want to present himself as a head of state worried about a crisis pitting his country against the international community, but as a man above such pettiness who has the mission of saving humanity," said the analyst. The role of world saviour or guide which Ahmadinejad appears to pursue in the letter to Bush is worrying the Iranian clergy.
He seems to think he's holier than the clergy who put him in power
The grand ayatollahs of Tehran and Qom are seriously concerned by the president's attitude - and not just because the president is attempting to reduce the power of the clergy and strengthen the role of the army in the country's management.
He's got the Black Turbans worried, which could be hazardous to his continued health
Many Iranian clerics judge a first step towards heresy Ahmadinejad's non-stop references to the Mahdi, the twelfth Shiite imam whose expected reappearance on earth should bring justice to the world. The Iranian president - who claimed he was surrounded by an aura of light during a speech last Septmebr at the UN's headquarters in New York - recently said his frequent absences from government meetings are due to "the need to exchange ideas with the Mahdi on current events in the country and the world."
A new version of the Imams myth is now shown by Ahamadinejad. The president of the IRI, who has an infamous record for his role in the firing squads, torture, terrorism and all kinds Islamist and extreme right tendencies, is now engaged in many bizarre stories and rumors circulating about his relations with the Hidden Imam.
As for the Hidden Imam, it seems he will not be quite as hidden as might be. The new IRIs president believes that he has been assigned to pave the way for the reappearance of the Imam in two years. The president has even during his recent controversial speech at the UN, where he was allegedly surrounded and protected by a divine light, called for the Imams reappearance.
Through these allegations, he is not only trying to gain a holy status among those who do not attribute him a charismatic personality, but is also likely trying to prepare some conditions for his divine mission. The next two years will be probably marked by increasing tensions between the devoted followers of the Hidden Imam following controversial views about the Imams reappearance.
The president is in an effort of giving himself an important impression. He presents himself as reincarnation of legendary hero from religious fiction. He dreams of being assigned an enlightened or saint, someone who is protected by divine light for divine missions, a gift to the Islamic world. In the most hypocritical manner, he wears and acts as an example of a non-corrupt Islamic leader. Apparently, he seems to be holding back enough to be quite busy with other ambition -- he may ultimately play the role of the Hidden Imam himself, if the promised Imam does not physically reappear in two years. What he needs is a plan of preparation and manipulation of the signs indicating the Imams reappearance.
The president, who is known for his personality disorder, boasts of being assigned to prepare all conditions for the Imams return, which will be according to the Shiite sect after the following signs:
- Before the Imams appearance, the people will be reprimanded for their acts of disobedience by a fire that will appear in the sky and a redness that will cover the sky. It will swallow up both Baghdad and Kufa. Peoples blood will cover their destryed houses . Death will occur amid their people and a fear will come over the people of Iraq from which they will have no rest--a reason for the IRIs nuclear programme to blow in jets of fire and plumes of smoke.
- There will be an insurgence by the Sufyani, a descendent of Abu Sufyan, who was one of the Muhammads enemy, along with his son, Muawiya and his Muawiya's son,Yazid, which starts from Palestine and jordan, and his reign of tyranny will span the Middle East from Iraq to egypt.
- A loud call from the sky should announce the Hidden Imams reappearance.
In such an apocalyptic world, since the main principle of the Mahdi is that he is absolutely guided by God, the IRI, as a part of the divine guidance, has nothing of a normal state, it is a Gods handpicked guidance for the mankind, and its acts are in complete accordance to God's will.The IRI, which already established a Gods state, now at the best, prefers to have the Hidden Imam embodied by one of its members. Since the Mahdi is for Islam as well as for islamisation of the world, the amount of crimes can bloodily exceed many times than that of the old scores of the IRI; especial groups of elite jihadists can appear throughout the world to convert or massively kill non-believers.
More at the link. Question, do the Iranian clerics still have enough pull to bring down Ahamadinejad politically if they think he's going too far or do they have to have him wacked and try to blame it on the US?
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I'm telling ya, he thinks he's the 12th Imam...
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I suspect that his attack on "democracy" is going to be as unnerving to the Mullahs as anything else.
While their idea of democracy is far worse than old-style Chicago machine politics, it is still how *they* came to power--"the people's revolution."
The Pres, however, seems to think of himself more as a Shah. And even the Mullahs might get a little itchy at the thought of a return to power of a self-appointed king.
Hopefully, if they do decide to terminate his contract, they will also exterminate all of his drinking buddies, level his guru's mosque, and fill its well with concrete.
It still won't solve the nuclear problem, however.
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And just how long will the Custodian of the Two Mosques tolerate a heathen Shia nutbar prancing around like a Caliph? The Bejewelled Turban of Power is destined to be worn only by the true Sunni sons of Mecca and Medina. Allan said so. You could look it up. In Arabic, not Farsi.
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Wow, this guy is even more whacked than I originally thought. Let's make a deal with the mullahs: Let us give him a one-way ticket to Allah and you can give him a martyr's funeral. Then elect somebody else and we can get on with hating each other without all this 12th imam nonsense.
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Good Lord, they elected the Iranian Tim LeHaye!
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The Wall Street Journal has the original memo from Amaddinnerjacket. Look at the font. It is the same typewriter that was used by the Texas Air National Guard to type Bush's efficiency reports. Note that the th's are not superscripted, because that cannot be done without a word processor. Seventh century philosophy from nineteenth century technology.
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The grand ayatollahs of Tehran and Qom are seriously concerned by the president's attitude -and not just because the president is attempting to reduce the power of the clergy
That's the way this should read!
Funny how these dictators always follow exactly the same sequence when they rise to power. He's at the I think I'm God phase which means that he'll begin to eliminate in earnest those who helped him rise to power.
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The president is in an effort of giving himself an important impression. He presents himself as reincarnation of legendary hero from religious fiction. He dreams of being assigned an enlightened or saint, someone who is protected by divine light for divine missions, a gift to the Islamic world.
And the Dems think Bush has too much faith.
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I'm with Robert Spencer on this one. The Islamic criticism for Osama after 9/11 was not that he made Islam look bad by killing 3000 people, but that he made Islam look bad because he did not give the victims a chance to convert to Islam first.
By not responding to the letter, all acts of terrorism against the US and Americans around the world are justified since we spurned their gracious offer to convert.
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Adriane - dignifying the letter with a response won't stop a f*&king thing. Spit on it and send it back , asking for a DNA sample so we can identify the "12th monkey" imam
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An interview conducted by Tora Bora Magazine dated November 2005 with Abu Yehia al-Libi, who escaped from the U.S. prison in Bagram, Afghanistan, the main prison for Taliban and al-Qaeda suspects in Afghanistan, in July 2005 with three other detainees, was recently distributed to jihadist forums. The interrogatory primarily concerns the treatment of prisoners in Crusader jails, in this case Bagram, and other prisons of which Abu Yehia purports to have knowledge. In addition, questions are asked regarding the capture and flight of his companions, Abu Maaz AKA Abu Abdullah al-Shami, Omar al-Farouq al-Iraqi and Abu Nasser al-Qahtani, that Abu Yehia discusses and offers his commentary.
Prison conditions, implementations of torture and specific examples of alleged abuse are elaborated upon by Abu Yehia al-Libi, as he declares that the American forces have not demonstrated respect for human rights, nor animal rights. Much of the information provided by Abu Yehia in his answers to the interviewer corroborates with statements made by Omar al-Farouq al-Iraqi in his interview with as-Sahab, issued in March 2006, concerning the Prison of Darkness and the use of music as means of torture. He also describes the treatment of a female prisoner at Bagram, noting that it is a very sensitive subject for Muslims, and states that her abuse is but a microcosm of the larger picture.
Questioned about his opinion of the position of the mujahideen in Afghanistan, Abu Yehia states that there is notable development in their operations, noting that they are no longer limited ot the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, but hit the depth of Afghanistan and the critical center of the Americans and converters. He then explains that he has been in Afghanistan for sixteen years, and was a prisoner at Bagram for three years. To those Muslims who remain incarcerated in Crusader prisons, Abu Yehia al-Libi advises patience for the mujahideen will not leave them and will do whatever they can to this end.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan - Afghan police killed three Taleban insurgents who ambushed a patrol in a southern province where British troops are overseeing security, a provincial official said on Wednesday.
Gunmen on motorbikes opened fire on Tuesday on a car taking Women Ministry employees home from a seminar in southern Afghanistan, killing the driver who was an accountant for the ministry, officials said. 
MOGADISHU: The latest flare-up in fighting between Islamic militia and a self-styled "anti-terrorism" alliance of warlords in Somalia's capital Mogadishu has killed at least 35 people, sources on both sides said on Tuesday. Fighting, which many believe is being fuelled by US support for the warlords, continued for a third day on Tuesday in the run-down Siisii area of the lawless coastal city. "By yesterday, 35 people have died from both sides, including civilians, and over 70 are wounded," Ali Nur, an alliance militia member, told Reuters by telephone, adding that he was on his way to the battle zone. 
One day after police killed a man described as the engineer of an attack last month at the Egyptian seaside town of Dahab, authorities claimed to have all but broken up a group that bombed several Red Sea resorts.
European intelligence services have warned Morocco that terrorists are planning attacks on political, business and tourist targets in the north African country, the Al Ahdath Al Maghribia newspaper said Tuesday. "Moroccan security authorities received a message from their European counterparts warning of (potential) attacks targeting administrative, financial and tourist spots, as well as certain embassies and foreign interests in Morocco," the newspaper said, quoting "well-informed sources". It said the groups, which were unnamed in the report, were plotting bomb attacks and assassinations.
Egyptian police have killed the leader of an Islamist militant group blamed for several attacks on tourist towns last month, the Egyptian television reported. The television quoted security officials as saying 
Accused killed in Rab 'encounter'
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday arrested a union parishad member of Sajek in Khagrachhari and seized two remote controlled bombs and a China-made rifle at his house. Rab 7 of Chittagong went to the house, about 100 kilometres away from Khagrachhari town, of Althanga Pankhoa in the guise of arms traders and arrested him.
LONDON - Radical Muslim cleric 
A HIGH School teacher has been charged after four bombs, including one packed with nails and razor blades, were found at a home in Brisbane's north. Police won't rule out the possibility that the bombs and 10 detonators found at the property were being stockpiled for a terrorist attack.
Istanbul, 10 May (AKI) - A suspected 
Senior Pakistani intelligence sources tell ABC News that they have been able to trace the terrorist attack against an employee of the U.S. consulate in Karachi back to senior al Qaeda operatives. According to the same sources, the operation was ordered and prepared by al Qaeda officials in 
LAHORE: 
KHAR: Unknown militants fired rockets on two levies check posts at Salarzia in the Bajaur Agency, 15 kilometres east of the agency's headquarters, Khar. Security forces returned fire, but the attackers, managed to escape. Although both installations sustained considerable damage, no casualties were reported from either side. It is the fourth such attack on levies check posts in the area during the last week.
QUETTA: Unidentified tribal militants continued missile and rocket attacks on security forces on Tuesday. They fired three missiles from Sui Neelakh mountain at security forces in the Sangsela, Chashma and Gory Nullah areas of Dera Bugti. Also, seven rockets were fired at Pathar Nullah Check Post in Pir Koh. However, no loss of life or property was reported.
Somalia Summary: Forty two incidents have been reported since March 15 2005. 
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Five people escaped from a U.S. detention center in northern Iraq, the U.S. command said Wednesday. The detainees escaped early Tuesday from the Fort Suse Theater internment facility near Sulaimaniyah, 160 miles northeast of Baghdad, said Spc. Stacy Sanning, a spokesman for the U.S. command in Baghdad. U.S. soldiers and Iraqi forces were searching for them, he said.
Insurgents bombed an Iraqi oil pipeline south of Baghdad. The bombing of the pipeline occurred late Sunday near Mussayab city, about 30 miles south of Baghdad, sending up a large plume of black smoke. The pipeline carries oil from Dora refinery in Baghdad to Mussayab power station, and police Col. Ahmed Mijwal said the attack had closed the station.
Nine dead bodies were found in southern Baghdad, including the bodies of three policemen and that of a child, police said Tuesday. The police also said that unknown gunmen killed member of the Islamic Party Mohammad Al-Duleimi, who is a mosque imam, noting that the number of imams assassinated since the US invasion in 2003 has reached 150. An Iraqi soldier was killed and two others were wounded on a highway linking Tikrit and Kirkuk in northern Baghdad.
A bomber has blown up his pick-up truck in a crowded Tal Afar market, killing at least 17 people and wounding 35 in a city the US president had cited as a success story in the battle against Iraqi fighters. The bomber struck about 8.30pm as shoppers were making last-minute purchases before closing time, according to police Colonel Abdul-Karim Mohammed, who gave the casualty figures. The director of the city hospital, Saleh Qado, said 20 people were killed and 70 injured and that US Army medics were providing emergency treatment at the scene. Lieutenant-Colonel Ali Rasheed of Iraq's interior ministry, said the target may have been a police station within the market area of the majority Turkmen city.
Three bystanders have been wounded in fresh clashes between followers of Fatah and Hamas during funerals for two of the victims of yesterday's violence in the southern Gaza Strip. Hospital officials said the three unarmed people were not seriously hurt on Tuesday. The funeral was for a Fatah member killed in a clash with Hamas on Monday. 
They said 
Tehran, 10 April (AKI) - by Ahmad Rafat - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has failed to convince George W. Bush of his willingness to resolve the international crisis over Tehran's nuclear programme. Bush will not answer Ahmadinejad's 18-page letter sent through the Swiss embassy in Tehran - the first letter from an Iranian leader to a US president since the 1979 Iranian revolution. Iranian conservative MPs told Adnkronos International (AKI) they weren't surprised there would be no reply, given the harsh tones of the missive, and admitted their disappointment at a missed opportunity to find a solution.
