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Afghanistan
Taliban try to close the schools, but fail
Why We Fight: a continuing series.

Summer vacation has only begun, but as far as 12-year-old Nooria is concerned, the best thing is knowing she has a school to go back to in the fall. She couldn't be sure the place would stay open four months ago, after the Taliban tried to burn it down. Late one February night, more than a dozen masked gunmen burst into the 10-room girls' school in Nooria's village, Mandrawar, about 100 miles east of Kabul. They tied up and beat the night watchman, soaked the principal's office and the library with gasoline, set it on fire and escaped into the darkness. The townspeople, who doused the blaze before it could spread, later found written messages from the gunmen promising to cut off the nose and ears of any teacher or student who dared to return. The threats didn't work. Within days, most of the school's 650 pupils were back to their studies. Classes were held under a grove of trees in the courtyard for several weeks, despite the winter chill, until repairs inside the one-story structure were complete. Nearby schools replaced at least some of the library's books. But the hate mail kept coming, with threats to shave the teachers' heads as well as mutilate their faces. Earlier this month, Newsweek visited and talked to students and faculty on the last day of classes. Nooria, who dreams of becoming a teacher herself, expressed her determination to finish school. "I'm not afraid of getting my nose and ears cut off," she said, all dressed up in a long purple dress and headscarf. "I want to keep studying."
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#1  The brave lions of Islam strike again.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/21/2006 18:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Civilians who will do that are brave lions. And that is what it will take to win.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 06/21/2006 21:00 Comments || Top||


Roadside bomb wounds four Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -Four Canadian soldiers were wounded, one of them seriously, when an improvised bomb struck their armoured vehicle in southern Afghanistan early Wednesday, the military said. The light armoured vehicle was hit by the device near a Canadian camp in an area of southern Kandahar province that has seen several attacks on Canadian forces, spokesman Major Mario Couture said. “One soldier is in a serious condition and the others are in good condition. Three of them have been evacuated by air to Kandahar airfield and one by road,” he told AFP.

The attack was about eight kilometres (five miles) south of a platoon camp at the village of Gumbad, about 60 kilometres east of Kandahar city.

Canada has some 2,300 troops in Afghanistan, mostly in the south. Sixteen Canadian soldiers and one diplomat have died in the region since 2001 when US-led forces toppled the hard-line Taliban regime.
Posted by: Steve || 06/21/2006 08:47 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


'Twenty' Taleban killed in clash
Twenty suspected Taleban militants have been killed in a clash with US-led coalition and Afghan forces in the south, an Afghan general says. One Afghan soldier was wounded in the clash in the restive Helmand province, General Rahamatullah Raufi says. He said the forces attacked a Taleban meeting in the Musa Qala district, triggering off a three hour fighting. Fighting has intensified in Afghanistan in recent months. Hundreds of suspected Taleban militants have been killed.

"Twenty Taliban were killed in the operation. Their bodies with their weapons were left at the site," Gen Raufi, who commands Afghan forces in the south, told the AFP news agency.

Last week, US-led coalition forces said they had killed about 40 Taleban fighters in an attack on a compound in southern Uruzgan province.
Posted by: Steve || 06/21/2006 08:19 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  let the animals have em...buzzards and ravens have to eat too...
Posted by: Frank G || 06/21/2006 8:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Must be thinning them out.
A week ago they were bagging 40 at a time.
Ironic, isn't it, that you have to travel to the most remote and hard to reach places on earth to find and kill the great LIONS OF ISLAM(TM).
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 06/21/2006 10:15 Comments || Top||

#3  I say take them back to the Pakistani border and dump there bodies along the rat lines.
Posted by: anymouse || 06/21/2006 21:20 Comments || Top||


Brits finding more Taleban than expected
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan - There are greater numbers of Taleban rebels putting up a fight in southern Afghanistan than expected by the newly-deployed British military, a senior commander said. British troops are however still more than a match for the militants as seen in clashes earlier this month, the commander told reporters at a British base in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital of Helmand province.

The British commander, speaking late Tuesday on condition of anonymity, said the military had underestimated the strength of the hardline Islamic Taleban when it drew up plans to deploy in the restive southern region 16 months ago. Now that 3,300 soldiers are assembling in Helmand, where they are taking over control of security from the US military, they are beginning to see a different picture. “I suppose the most significant difference has been the extent to which the Taleban have had some successes this year and are probably in slightly greater numbers then we might have expected after the excellent work done by our American predecessors,” the commander said.

Quizzed on what he meant by the larger presence, the commander said he was talking about hundreds not thousands of rebels.
All with, as it turns out, Pakistani papers ...
Also they had shown their determination with a series of suicide bombings over the winter months -- a period when militants normally go to ground. “It is an indication of the boldness and the resilience of the organisation because ... they will stay and fight,” he said.
Yeah, yeah, okay, enough hand wringing, the BBC is happy. Now go get the Taleban.
The commander noted, however, that the level of Taleban activity was only the same as for the latter half of last year. They “haven’t come out hugely more than they were last year and they haven’t come out 10 foot tall either,” he said.

The Taleban has a hard core of “hundreds not thousands” of members, with other factions also taking part in the fight, according to the commander. “What we have detected and read about is over time these people are going to make a decision about which they think is going to be the winning side,” he said, insisting that it would be the Afghan government supported by NATO.

British troops, under the umbrella of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, are due to take over control of security in the whole of Helmand by the end of July. They have already pushed faster and deeper than expected into the north of the province since the start of June. In that time, the force has had three significant clashes with militants, losing one British soldier with dozens of rebels killed.
Which is the important point.
“Our recent events here have demonstrated how, with the right sort of focus, we can definitely overmatch the Taleban and we can do it in a clever and surgical way,” the commander said.

Turning to the long-term view of the mission to put Afghanistan back on its feet, through development programmes, good governance and security, the commander indicated that it may take at least 20 years. “If you were to talk about the totality of the effort to produce a self reliant Afghanistan you could be talking a couple of decades plus,” he said.

NATO forces, however, would likely stop taking the lead on security much sooner, the commander said. The goal is to build up the Afghan army and police to take over from the foreign troops in the way the US-led coalition is attempting to hand back control of security to their Iraqi counterparts. “We will achieve a similar sort of inversion, I would suggest, some time in the next four to five years give or take,” said the commander.
Posted by: Steve White || 06/21/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Simply put: need some more bullets
Posted by: Captain America || 06/21/2006 0:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Good for them. I worry though, that they might have a Custer(TM) moment:
"I say, where did all those indians talibans come from?"

Still, I wish them good hunting.
Posted by: N guard || 06/21/2006 1:11 Comments || Top||

#3  One Word:

Gurkha.

Posted by: Oldspook || 06/21/2006 1:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Re. #2
It's too bad Custer didn't have air support.
Posted by: Chuck || 06/21/2006 1:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Target rich environment. That's all I have to say.
Posted by: twobyfour || 06/21/2006 2:25 Comments || Top||

#6  Custer's men died because they were effectively outnumber about 10-1, they had single shot Trapdoor Springfields and a large number of the Indians had repeating rifles, and Custer both left his Gatling guns behind and split his forces. I don't see the Brits doing anything that harebrained in Afghanistan. Plus, the Brits can call on Apache helicopters, F-15, F-16, FA-18, Harrier, A-10, and AC-130U gunship air support; and the simply marvelous light artillery pieces that the British Army was smart enough to buy in 1980s and 90s. And the SA-80 for all of its faults is a true assault rifle, and British troops are issued plenty of ammo, and have effective marksmen training; plus they have excellent LMGs with plenty of ammo.
Posted by: Shieldwolf || 06/21/2006 2:37 Comments || Top||

#7  I don't understand: AFAIK the Union cavalry had repeating rifles well before the end of the Civil war (example: in the battle where Jeb Stuart was killed).

Why was Custer's regiment using single shots over a decade later?
Posted by: JFM || 06/21/2006 3:47 Comments || Top||

#8  Because the politicians and stick-in-the-mud generals in Washington DC decided that repeating rifles would "encourage the waste of ammunition" by the troops. So the cavalry got issued Colt and Remington pistols with the new cylinders for brass cased ammo, and single shot breechloaders like the Trapdoor Springfield. This happened almost immediately after the Civil War. The only advancement that the assorted morons permitted was brass cased ammo, since that was a much better all-weather approach and helped standardize each shot's powder use and range. The repeaters were sold off as surplus, and many wound up in the hands of the Indians -- who used them on the 7th Cavalry.
Posted by: Shieldwolf || 06/21/2006 4:08 Comments || Top||

#9  Infra-red detectors, long-range sniper rifles, and frisk-'em-all tactics should be doing the job. However, from what I heard this action is only an offensive spike, and will dissipate until the Pakistan mosques get a new dose of venom.
Posted by: Shurt Angaimble9728 || 06/21/2006 4:17 Comments || Top||

#10  The British Army should remember their Little Big Horn: Isandlwana.
Posted by: doc || 06/21/2006 7:05 Comments || Top||

#11  All with, as it turns out, Pakistani papers ...

But surely those are the classic Pakistani forgeries!
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/21/2006 7:13 Comments || Top||

#12  Also they had shown their determination with a series of suicide bombings over the winter months -- a period when militants normally go to ground.
Were they showing their determination or their ethnicity? I thought Afganis looked down on suicide bombings.
Posted by: Chinter Flarong9283 || 06/21/2006 8:06 Comments || Top||

#13  Remember, from the other day, Brig. Butler said that there was no Taliban offensive. No wonder they're surprised.
Posted by: Chuck Simmins || 06/21/2006 8:19 Comments || Top||

#14  Was is their business, and business is good!
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/21/2006 8:26 Comments || Top||

#15  The British Army should remember their Little Big Horn: Isandlwana.

At Issanwhana the Briotish had single shot Martini Henrys (for God's sake that was thirty years after American Civil war, why they were still equipped Martiny Henrys).

Aklso your link is the typical PC thrash like mass produced by the Ward Churchills who thrive in American univeristies: notice the pro-Zulu tone and how the Zulu casualties are grossly minimized: Victor Davis Hanson places them at about 3 times more and I have trouble believing that the Zulus lost barely more men that the British knowing the high standards for marskmanship who have been a constant in the British army
Posted by: JFM || 06/21/2006 8:30 Comments || Top||

#16  Were they showing their determination or their ethnicity? I thought Afganis looked down on suicide bombings.

And they do. Winners don't suicide: be it the Japanese before the Turkey shot or Pashtuns basking in their (usually short-lived) XIXth century victories over the British. Chechens don't suicide either.

Only losers, people who think they don't stand a chance at trading shots with the ennemy, will resort to suicide warfare. That is why Arabs resort to it. Now could be that the daisy cutters have convinced Pashtun that they can't win normally but I still think most suiciders are Arabs.
Posted by: JFM || 06/21/2006 8:38 Comments || Top||

#17  doc - I think we're focussing on the 90th anniversary of the Somme at the moment - but Isandlwana is certainly up there - along with our previous foray into Afghanistan. Caution be thy watchword...
Posted by: Howard UK || 06/21/2006 9:29 Comments || Top||

#18  Comparing the Talevan to the Zulu is an insult Howard. Come on mate!
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/21/2006 9:31 Comments || Top||

#19  the brits won plenty of battles with Martini Henry's which were an advanced general infantry breech loader at the time. The lost at Isandlwana cause they split a small force, and didnt dig in. Of course the Zulus took big casualties, but that was their strategy, they had a much larger and more poorly equipped force.
Posted by: liberalhawk || 06/21/2006 9:37 Comments || Top||

#20  True.
Posted by: Howard UK || 06/21/2006 9:37 Comments || Top||

#21  wetwork against the appropriate Pakland madrassah leaders is called for....
Posted by: Frank G || 06/21/2006 10:08 Comments || Top||

#22  I think you are right on the money Frank G.
They can produce them almost as fast as we can shoot them.
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 06/21/2006 10:48 Comments || Top||

#23  The British commander, speaking late Tuesday on condition of anonymity,

Bet you won't be gtting any more comments from the British Commander, you blew the "Anonymity" bit in the first sentence.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 06/21/2006 15:07 Comments || Top||

#24  So many talis, so little ammo.
Posted by: mcsegeek1 || 06/21/2006 16:07 Comments || Top||

#25  ...and British troops are issued plenty of ammo, and have effective marksmen training; plus they have excellent LMGs with plenty of ammo.

Not to mention their expertise with the bayonet.
Posted by: mrp || 06/21/2006 19:52 Comments || Top||


Taliban captures headquarters of Dad Muhammad Khan
(AIP): Taliban on Monday captured the headquarters of Wolesi Jirga member, Dad Muhammad Khan, in Sangeen bazaar. Taliban also killed atleast 32 supporters including the brothers and son of Dad Muhammad Khan during a clash in Sangeen district of Helmand province yesterday. A resident of the area told Afghan Islamic Press that without any fear Taliban captured the headquarters of Dad Muhammad Khan while his supporters fled to district headquarters today’s (Monday) morning. He said, “Situation in the district is tense as former police chief, Matiullah has been besieged by Taliban and it seems that he will be freed tonight after surrendering arms to Taliban.”
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#1  Dad, I'm home
Posted by: Captain America || 06/21/2006 0:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Tribal BS, with each side calling the other "Taliban"???
Posted by: Chuck Simmins || 06/21/2006 8:20 Comments || Top||


14 Taliban killed in separate clashes in Paktika
(AIP): As many as 14 Taliban were killed in separate clashes with Afghan forces in Paktika province last night, Afghan army reports Tuesday. A high-ranking official of 203 army corps Gardez, Colonel Muhammad Gul, while giving details to Afghan Islamic Press said, “Taliban attacked Nika Post in Urgon district of Paktika province last night. Seven Taliban were killed and police seized some their arms in the clash.”

In another incident last night, a Talib fighter attacked a soldier of Afghan national Army in Lwara area of Paktika province in which the attacker killed and the soldier was wounded, he added. Meanwhile, Governor of Paktika Muhammad Akram Khpalwak told Afghan Islamic Press that six Taliban fighters were killed and 15 wounded when they attacked Khoshamand district of Paktika province last night. He said a policeman was also injured in the clash while government forces seized some arms. There was no word from Taliban in this regards.
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Coalition airstrike kills five Taliban in Helmand
(AIP): US aircraft pounded Taliban positions last night in Helmand province, killing five Taliban and injuring eight others, officials said Tuesday. While giving details to Afghan Islamic Press spokesman of governor Helmand, Mohiuddin said, “Taliban attacked Baghran district last night but the attack was repulsed.” He said later coalition aircraft pounded Taliban positions in which five Taliban fighters were killed and eight wounded. There was no word from Taliban about this claim of government.
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Turkish engineer among four killed in Farah
(AIP): Four people including a Turkish engineer and three Afghans were killed and five wounded as they were ambushed in Farah province last night, Interior Ministry said Tuesday. Spokesman of Interior Ministry, Muhammad Yousaf Stanezai told Afghan Islamic Press by phone that the Turkish engineer was carrying road construction material in a heavy vehicle when they were ambushed in Karwangah area between Chakao and Toot in Farah Rod. During a fierce fighting Turkish engineer, his three Afghan guards were killed and five others injured, he added. He said operation was started in the area to arrest the attackers. Such attacks was also carried out by Taliban in this section of the road during the past days in which Afghan and foreign nationals were killed. There was no claim of responsibility from Taliban about this attack.
Posted by: Fred || 06/21/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  May they find Paradise to be all they had hoped.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/21/2006 7:15 Comments || Top||


Five more Taliban insurgents killed, reports Coalition
(AIP): Afghan and Coalition forces continued their assault on insurgents in northern Helmand Province on June 19, killing five insurgents and a possible Taliban leader as part of Operation Mountain Thrust, says a press release issued on Tuesday. It said Afghan and Coalition forces received information about a known Taliban safe-house located in the village of Emam Rabat , Musa Qaleh District, where the Coalition engaged and killed the five extremists while they met near a river in the village. No injuries to civilians, Afghan or Coalition members were reported during the operation. One of the insurgents killed is believed to be responsible for conducting attacks against Afghan and Coalition forces in the Musa Qaleh District as well as involvement in weapons and narcotics trafficking, the press release said.
Posted by: Fred || 06/21/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Horn
Somalia: ICU to attack Baidoa town, TFG says
(SomaliNet) The Islamic gunmen are planning to launch huge attack on Baidoa town which is the seat of transitional federal government to capture there, as Iranian radio broadcasted on Tuesday quoting government spokesman Abdirahman Dinari. Dinari said in Baidoa he is very much concerned over possible attack by Islamists on Baidoa. "We expect the Islamic courts to battle with government troops on Wednesday if the Islamic men changed their schedule," he said adding "the government had already gotten prepared to prevent against any attack from ICU."
Meaning their getaway cars are all gassed up and ready to go?
... their technicals have four gears, all reverse ...
They're driving Citroens?
No way you mount an MG on a Citroen, it'd tip over ...
He stressed currently there are no warlords in Somalia but their fugitives are trying to enforce the Islamic militiamen who want to storm in Baidoa which is 250km southwest of the capital. Mr. Dinari also said Somali’s interim government is ready to enter talks with Islamic courts’ officials in Yemen.
Ready to throw in the towel, he means...
Earlier Sanaa government appealed head of Islamic courts to comply with president Yusuf’s conditions including lying down weapons and working with the government but Sheikh Sharif dismissed the conditions set by Yusuf. The TFG will negotiate with the leader of ICU Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed how he would join the government, Dinari said adding that it wouldn’t be problem if he holds a post in the government.
Posted by: Fred || 06/21/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Carpet bomb the place. Strafe anything that still moves.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 06/21/2006 2:18 Comments || Top||

#2  read the other day that some of the ICU militia types used to be warlord militiamen, just taking a different paycheck now. Doesnt sound like the ICU leadership is united either, some are hardline taliban style, some arent. As in Afghanistan when the taliban took over, there are also warlord types who are going with the winner.

Posted by: liberalhawk || 06/21/2006 9:22 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Blast wounds two policemen in Boumerdes, Algeria
(KUNA) -- Two policemen were wounded when an explosive device went off Tuesday morning in a popular market in central Boumerdes, 45 km east of Algiers. Algeria Press Service quoted a security source as saying that the bomb was placed in a popular market nearby the main passenger station, leaving two policemen dead and minimal property damages. Two weeks ago, two similar blasts occurred in Boumerdes, the first was nearby a railway station, while the second took place nearby an entertainment park.
Posted by: Fred || 06/21/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Bangladesh
Tales from the Crossfire Gazette
Ripped from the pages of the RAB Public Affairs Office creative writing guide.
TITLE:

Robber killed in 'crossfire'
SYNOPSIS:
A robber was killed in an encounter between his accomplices and the members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) near Bhagutia Baniabaha Bridge under Jhenidah Sadar upazila early yesterday.
STEP ONE
Acting on a tip-off, Rab-6 members arrested Mohammad Aslam Biswas, 35, son of Afzal Biswas of village Armukhi under the upazila, near Bhagutia Baniabaha Bridge at midnight on Monday
STEP TWO
and took him to Rab office for quizzing.
STEP THREE
On his confessional statement,
STEP FOUR
the Rab men along with Aslam set out for Bhagutia Baniabaha area
STEP FIVE
at about 3:00am
STEP SIX
to arrest Aslam's cohorts and recover firearms.
STEP SEVEN
When they reached near the Bridge, Aslam's accomplices opened fire on the members of the elite force,
STEP EIGHT
prompting them to retaliate.
STEP NINE
According to a Rab press release, Aslam received bullets during the "shootout" that continued for 15 minutes
STEP TEN
and died instantly.
STEP ELEVEN
A shutter gun, five bullets and an axe were recovered from the spot.
Posted by: Steve || 06/21/2006 09:17 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  15 minute shootout? "Dance Aslam, dance!"
Posted by: Inspector Clueso || 06/21/2006 11:57 Comments || Top||

#2  And a backup shuttergun, woohoo!
Posted by: Omirong Snumble8439 || 06/21/2006 12:10 Comments || Top||

#3  The axe is a nice low-tech touch, I think.

I like that kind of swiss clockwork regularity... normalcy in all its routine glory.
It's very comforting to know that somewhere in Bengladesh, right now, the RAB is waiting, yes, patiently waiting for the tip-off that will start the whole sequence once again, and help it fills its monthly quota of Disposed Dacoits.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 06/21/2006 18:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Indeed, 5089, the most soothing death squad around.
Posted by: 6 || 06/21/2006 20:23 Comments || Top||


Britain
Ten quizzed over foiled gun plot in Ulster
(KUNA) -- Ten people were being questioned in Northern Ireland Tuesday after police foiled a suspected international gun smuggling plot by dissident Irish republican terrorists, police in the Province announced. One of those detained was also being questioned about the Omagh bombing in 1998 in which 29 people were slaughtered and hundreds more injured, police said.

The arrests were made during raids across Northern Ireland by 200 police officers backed by soldiers. Eight premises were searched in parts of Counties Armagh and Fermanagh as police looked for possible arms dumps belonging to the renegade "Real IRA", which carried out the Omagh bombing. The investigation was carried out by the Police Service of Northern Ireland's Crime Operations branch and British security services.
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Caribbean-Latin America
Four Beheaded In Tijuana
The four individuals went missing Tuesday night and on Wednesday morning their bodies were found wrapped in blankets in the Pacific coast city of Rosarito and their heads in bags in Tijuana, said Rosarito police chief Valente Montijo.

He identified the dead as police officers Ismael Arellano Torres, Jesus Hernandez and Adrian Ventura, and civilian Fernando Aguilar, a Mexican-American resident of Arizona.
According to Montijo, the cops and the other man - who was a friend of one of the officers - went missing after the three police answered a call about an attempted kidnapping in the Huahuatay district of eastern Rosarito.

The Rosarito police chief said that on Tuesday he received a report of an operation in the city by some 100 agents of the AFI - Mexico's FBI. Those individuals, who were identified by the credentials and uniforms this group typically uses, were - according to witnesses - the ones who abducted and killed the police officers.

The Baja California Norte state prosecutor's office and federal authorities were investigating the case.

Rosarito is located some 25 kilometers (15 miles) southwest of the border city of Tijuana, where the Tijuana cartel headed by members of the Arellano Felix cartel operates.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 06/21/2006 21:02 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I was wondering where I put those....Rosarito's a fairly nice beach town between Tijuana and Ensenada. I've had many a beverage at the Rosarita Hotel bar. Just a little further south is Puerto Nuevo with the lobster cafes...


Sounds like drugs, man. Dealing with the wrong parties and their competitors don't like it
Posted by: Frank G || 06/21/2006 21:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Sounds like drugs, man. Dealing with the wrong parties and their competitors don't like it.

That's the first thing I thought, too. From what I understand, jihadis got nothing on Mexican gangs in the brutality dept.
Posted by: xbalanke || 06/21/2006 21:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Gotta wonder if the beheaded were honest or dishonest cops.
Posted by: Robert Crawford || 06/21/2006 21:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Arellano Felix family (many in jail right now) and the new competitors have been fighting it out in Tijuana. Wouldn't surprise me if these were Felix guys
Posted by: Frank G || 06/21/2006 21:36 Comments || Top||

#5  dirty...they wouldn't disrespect honest cops like this, just kill them
Posted by: Frank G || 06/21/2006 21:38 Comments || Top||

#6  Four Beheaded In TijuanaPrizzi's

Felix's Honor

NSFW
Posted by: RD || 06/21/2006 23:42 Comments || Top||


Europe
Mercs go free as Judge denounces Chirac
COVERT attempts by President Chirac to exert influence over Africa were exposed by a French court yesterday, when it denounced his secret services for conniving with a band of mercenaries in a coup in the tiny Comoros Islands. In a damning ruling, the Paris Criminal Tribunal said that the French authorities had given at least tacit approval to the 1995 coup led by Bob Denard, the best-known French soldier of fortune.

The judgment came as Denard, now 77, and 26 other defendants were found guilty of criminal association in connection with a military operation to oust Said Mohamed Djohar, the Comoros President, 11 years ago. The court refused a prosecution demand to jail the plotters and instead handed out suspended sentences after hearing them claim that they were acting with the backing of M Chirac’s Government.
"Let loose the Dogs of War!"
Although France has long been accused of secret operations to maintain its influence in Africa, the ruling constituted an unprecedented, public condemnation of these practices. It was particularly embarrassing for M Chirac, who has sought to portray himself as one of the Third World’s greatest advocates in the West.

“It is clear that the French secret services knew of the plan for a coup d’état conceived by Robert Denard, both its preparation and execution,” the court said. “It is also evident that at the very least they did nothing to hinder it and that they therefore allowed it to reach its conclusion. As a consequence, that means political leaders must also have wanted it.”

Denard led 30 mercenaries who landed on the Indian Ocean islands in rubber dinghies on September 27, 1995, and captured M Djohar in his palace. A week later M Chirac sent a 600-man force that put down the putsch but did not restore M Djohar to power.

Denard has Alzheimer’s disease and attended only the first day of the three-week trial in February. But in testimony read to the court, he said that he “never for one moment believed he was acting against the interests of my country — quite the contrary.”Maître Elie Hatem, Denard’s lawyer, said that the coup — codenamed “Eskazi” — was “controlled by French politicians. It was a pretext for France to intervene and get rid of a president.”

Denard, one of France’s most colourful figures, spent 30 years in Africa’s battlefields, where he was often suspected of acting on behalf of the French authorities. He was involved in a total of four coups or attempted coups in Comoros Islands after they won independence from France in 1975. In that year he helped to overthrow Ahmed Abdallah, the country’s first president, before restoring him to power in 1978.

In 1989 M Abdallah was assassinated in suspicious circumstances. Denard was tried for the murder in France ten years later but acquitted for lack of evidence. Denard, who was born Gilbert Bourgeaud, married seven times and fathered eight children.

Among the 26 others who were convicted yesterday were his long-serving lieutenants, Jean-Paul Guerrier, 55, also known as Captain Slam, and Dominique Malcrino, 54, or Commandant Marques. Four were exempted from any sentence and the rest given suspended jail terms of up to four years. Maître Said Larifou, the lawyer representing M Djohar’s family, said that the Comoran people would feel insulted by the failure to imprison any of the defendants.

In the 30 years since independence the Comoros islands have endured 19 coups or attempted coups. Colonel Bob Denard, a French mercenary whose real name is Gilbert Bourgeaud, was behind four of the most significant:

1960-75 Denard gains a fearsome reputation as a soldier of fortune, fighting in the Belgian Congo, North Yemen, Biafra and Angola

August 1975 Deposes Ahmed Abdallah, President of newly independent Comoros. Installs Prince Said Mohamed Jaffar

1976 Jaffar toppled by Ali Soilih, a secular socialist

1978 Denard leads second coup, against Soilih, returning Abdallah to power but with Denard as de facto ruler. Soilih is killed in the coup

1989 After Denard’s mercenaries are asked to leave, Abdallah is assassinated. Denard is forced to leave the islands

1995 Denard organises fourth coup, but is arrested by French military
Posted by: Steve || 06/21/2006 09:34 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Chirac indicted by the Belgians in 3,2,1.
Posted by: ed || 06/21/2006 10:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Chuck Taylor or Jacques? Your choice, Ms. del Ponte.
Posted by: Seafarious || 06/21/2006 10:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Listen, there are other, more pressing problems, such as France's failure to beat Switzerland or South Korea in the World Cup. And 1 goal over 3 matches! Quel horreur!
Posted by: Perfesser || 06/21/2006 11:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Whoops, I meant 2 matches!
Posted by: Perfesser || 06/21/2006 11:26 Comments || Top||

#5  I think the comment should read - Let loose the Poodles of War.
Posted by: phil_b || 06/21/2006 12:22 Comments || Top||

#6  Bob: Congrats on your suspended sentence. Drop on over for a bring & brai, we'll uncork a few Castles and throw on some lovely prawns. There's much werk to be done in up in Rhodesia you know.
Die uwe, Mike
Posted by: Mike Hoare || 06/21/2006 12:54 Comments || Top||

#7  Let loose the Poodles of War. LOL!
Posted by: 2b || 06/21/2006 15:44 Comments || Top||

#8  Mike
Denard has Alzheimer’s disease and attended only the first day of the three-week trial in February.

/Boot's off after all.

Posted by: 6 || 06/21/2006 15:44 Comments || Top||

#9  Poodles can be very vicious.
Posted by: mcsegeek1 || 06/21/2006 16:27 Comments || Top||

#10  If I recall correctly, poodles were originally bred to be hunting dogs. Water birds and such, I think. They have been overbred in the last century, though. What a comedown -- from hunting companion to fashion accessory.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/21/2006 17:10 Comments || Top||

#11  They have been overbred in the last century .. from hunting companion to fashion accessory.

Just like the French! :-)
Posted by: 2b || 06/21/2006 17:26 Comments || Top||

#12 
"They have been overbred in the last century, though."

Somewhat. But you can still find reputable breeders producing Standard Poodles. They're big dogs, and they love to hunt.

-M
Posted by: Manolo || 06/21/2006 18:16 Comments || Top||

#13  Poodles are very nice dogs. The breed has gotten a bad rep because of their inbred cousins the toy poodles, which are brain damaged. But full-sized poodles are intelligent, friendly, disciplined, and just generally very nice dogs.

And one demonstration of that is that they don't kill their owners if the owner gives them a poofy hair cut.

--Steve Den Beste
Posted by: Mike || 06/21/2006 18:23 Comments || Top||

#14  A standard poodle in big hair is something to see. Swim like a fish, bite like a croc and beat the hell out of the shelties in chess.
Posted by: 6 || 06/21/2006 20:28 Comments || Top||

#15  can they cook?
Posted by: Frank G || 06/21/2006 20:49 Comments || Top||

#16  They are French, Frank dear. If they cannot themselves cook, they'll certainly appreciate one who can. And I'm glad the breed is still used as working dogs, out of the limelight.

I wouldn't have thought shelties were good at chess though, 6 -- one of the smartest breeds, but surely too high-energy to sit still for long?
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/21/2006 22:20 Comments || Top||


French Islamic leader arrested in terrorist funds probe
PARIS - The leader of a national Islamic group in France has been arrested on suspicion of money laundering activities linked to extremist Muslims, police said Tuesday. Dhaou Meskine, the secretary general of the Council of Imams of France, was apprehended Monday with 20 members of his family and aides as part of a swoop ordered by Paris prosecutors.
Leader of a national Islamic group involved in money laundering? Golly, that's never happened before.
Many of the arrests took place in the northwest Seine-Maritime region, where Meskine and his family have bought property with the aim of building a leisure park, officers said.
IslamWorld! Just imagine the attractions ...
Meskine, of Tunisian background, helped start inter-religious dialogue in France between Christians, Jews and Muslims.

Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy consulted him several times in his dealings with France’s Muslim community, which is western Europe’s largest with an estimated five million members. In 2001, Meskine founded France’s first private Muslim high school, which is located in the northern Paris suburb of Aubervilliers.
The guy sounds neck-deep in all sorts of Islamic doings. Prob'ly knows all sorts of interesting people. Wonder if the French are ripping his background apart piece by piece?
Posted by: Steve White || 06/21/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Question him thoroughly. Return to Tunisia,airdrop from 15,000. No chute.
Posted by: SOP35/Rat || 06/21/2006 1:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Wow! He was a heavy hitter. In some way or another, all Muslim leaders in the West support jihad terror. What I can't see is why there is no consensus to do something about it. Ban the Koran sounds good to me.
Posted by: Shurt Angaimble9728 || 06/21/2006 4:11 Comments || Top||

#3  IslamWorld! Just imagine the attractions ...
Try the 72 Virgins ride - you'll just die!
Posted by: Spot || 06/21/2006 8:16 Comments || Top||

#4  Can Islam World have a big cannon ride that shoots your worthless ass back to Tunisia? I'd give my $20 for that.
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 06/21/2006 10:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Is money laundering addressed in the holy Koran?
Posted by: Captain America || 06/21/2006 17:26 Comments || Top||

#6  Is money laundering addressed in the holy Koran?

Somewhere in the back.
Posted by: Zenster || 06/21/2006 21:22 Comments || Top||


German court tries Iraqis for plotting to kill PM
STUTTGART: Three Iraqis went on trial in Germany on Tuesday charged with plotting to kill Iraq’s prime minister and belonging to a terrorist group. Prosecutors say Ata Abdoulaziz Rashid, Mazen Ali Hussein and Rafik Mohamad Yousef are members of Ansar al-Islam, an Iraqi insurgent group which the United States has linked to Al Qaeda, and that they conspired to assassinate then-premier Iyad Allawi when he visited Berlin in December 2004. They were arrested on the basis of intercepted phone calls in which Yousef was alleged to have sought the go-ahead to kill Allawi. When the others agreed, he drove through central Berlin to spy out a Deutsche Bank building where the Iraqi leader was due to hold a meeting the next day, according to the charges. Police arrested all three that night.
"Schtick 'em up! Sie sind unter arrest!"
Rashid and Hussein are also accused of collecting and transferring funds to Iraq and Iran on behalf of Ansar al-Islam, and Rashid is described by prosecutors as a ringleader for the network in Germany. The trial opened in a Stuttgart courtroom specially built in the 1970s for high-security trials of members of Germany’s militant left-wing Red Army Faction.

In a separate case, two other Iraqi men went on trial in Munich on Tuesday accused of providing logistical and financial support for Ansar al-Islam. The cases are part of a series of investigations into alleged links between European-based Islamists and insurgents trying to bring down the Baghdad government and drive US and coalition forces out of Iraq.
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Home Front: WoT
UNC Terr to Cop Plea
The man accused of driving a rented SUV onto the UNC campus in March and striking nine people told a judge he plans to plead guilty to the charges against him. Mohammed Taheri-Azar entered the courtroom this morning to ask that he be allowed to represent himself. A judge had ordered the public defender's office to work with him while it was determined whether he was competent.

But after being told he would have to submit to a psychiatric evaluation in order to do that, the 23-year-old said he would rather keep his court-appointed lawyer. Taheri-Azar told Superior Court Judge Carl Fox he had met a few times with the psychiatrist and psychologist and "they don't appear to be very good psychologists and psychiatrists in my oinion."

Taheri-Azar has said in letters and in a 911 call that he wanted to kill people to avenge Muslim deaths around the world when he drove a rented SUV through The Pit, the main gathering spot on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, March 3. Nine people were hit; all survived. Taheri-Azar is charged with nine counts of attempted murder and nine counts of felonious assault. He has been in Raleigh's Central Prison in lieu of $5.5 million bail.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 06/21/2006 13:50 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hope he's not too short for prison...nine consecutive life sentences with no chance for parole or ramadan pardons should be adequate.
Posted by: Inspector Clueso || 06/21/2006 15:23 Comments || Top||

#2  I hope his cellmate is a very lonely man.
Posted by: Mike || 06/21/2006 18:21 Comments || Top||

#3  A very large, tattoed, muscular and testosterone-filled man, with large hands and assorted anatomical particularities.
At least, this way, some other punk will be spared. Hope Mo' is not a bleeder, though.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 06/21/2006 18:36 Comments || Top||


Man Accused of Killing Pakistanis Arrested
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) -- Police on Wednesday arrested a high-ranking member of an al-Qaida-linked extremist group suspected of orchestrating attacks that have killed more than 150 mostly Shiite Muslim Pakistanis, an official said. Usman Kurd, a member of the outlawed Sunni Muslim group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, was arrested after trading gunfire with police in the southern port city of Karachi, said Fayyaz Khan, a senior police officer.

Police acting on a tip cornered Kurd in a western Karachi neighborhood and ordered him to surrender, Khan said. Kurd fired a pistol as he walked toward the security forces, who returned fire and overpowered him. Nobody was wounded in the exchange. Kurd also was carrying a hand grenade, police said.

Kurd was accused of heading Lashkar-e-Jhangvi's operations in the restive southwestern Baluchistan province, where he faced 25 charges of murder and other violent acts, Khan said. Kurd, in his mid-30s, had trained in Afghanistan before its ruling Taliban militia was toppled by a U.S.-led invasion in late 2001, Khan said. Crimes he has been accused of organizing include a March 2004 attack on a Shiite mourning procession in Quetta that killed more than 40 people. He was also linked to the June 2003 shootings of 12 Shiite police trainees in Quetta. There was a $33,000 bounty on his head.
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India-Pakistan
Grenade targets Kashmir pilgrims
Five Hindu pilgrims have been injured in Indian-administered Kashmir after suspected militants threw a grenade at their bus. The attack took place just outside the state's summer capital, Srinagar.

"We were chanting prayers when a loud explosion shook us," Mahinder Kapur, one of the passengers, is quoted as saying by the Reuters news agency. The pilgrims were returning from a visit to a holy Hindu shrine located in a cave in the Himalayas. The injured have been taken to a hospital in Srinagar, reports say.

Security has been tightened along the route to the holy Amarnath cave, which is visited by hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims annually. They make the trek to a cave temple situated 4,267 metres (14,000 feet) above sea level which contains an ice stalagmite which devotees believe represents the Hindu god, Shiva. The two-month-long pilgrimage has been targeted by militants in the past.
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Oil tanker explodes near Pak-Afghan border
PESHAWAR: A mysterious explosion in an oil tanker near Torkhum at the Pak-Afghan border resulted in a fire that burnt three other oil tankers and five trucks on Tuesday. The explosion took place some 200 yards from the international border. Fire fighters rushed to the site and were still battling the blaze at the time this report was filed. It was not immediately clear if there were any casualties. Atlas Khan, an eyewitness, told Daily Times it was a bomb explosion targeting an oil tanker in the middle of a convoy heading towards Afghanistan. He said that a total of nine vehicles were burnt including three oil tankers and five heavy vehicles loaded with goods being transported to Afghanistan.
Posted by: Fred || 06/21/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  My first thoughts were:

Damn! They're good to get a tanker (ship) that far inland considering there are no real waterways in the region.
Posted by: Oldspook || 06/21/2006 0:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Heh, hit with a long-range Bangalore Torpedo.
Posted by: 6 || 06/21/2006 6:32 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Iraqi colleagues killed U.S. soldiers, military says
Posted by: Oztralian || 06/21/2006 21:12 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If true, hunt them down, find them, try them and kill them.
Posted by: anymouse || 06/21/2006 21:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Interesting that it took almost 2 years [june 2004] even though Americans witnessed the deed to investigate and notify the the families of this particular treachery, yet it only took our military less than 2 months to bring our troops up for murder.

Soldiers who witnessed the attack have told Nadia McCaffrey two Iraqi patrolmen opened fire on her son's unit. The witnesses also said a third gunman simultaneously drove up to the American unit in a van, climbed onto the vehicle and fired at the Americans, she said.

Iraqi forces who had trained with the Americans had fired at them twice before the incident that killed Patrick McCaffrey, and he had reported it to his superiors, Nadia McCaffrey said.


Isn't this the same MO reportedly used by Iraqi soldiers in the latest murder of 3 of our NG soldiers in the so called triangle of death?

I'm starting to burn....
Posted by: RD || 06/21/2006 23:28 Comments || Top||


IED Interruptus
Terrorists whacked in the act:

Posted by: DanNY || 06/21/2006 20:27 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This needs to run on Iraq TV during prime time.
Posted by: Iblis || 06/21/2006 20:47 Comments || Top||

#2  This is IR, so the white pieces you see falling after the explosion are body parts.
Posted by: phil_b || 06/21/2006 21:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Catch !

* Looks like one of the ragheads heard the aircraft and desperately tried to run away, but was eventually separated from himself !
Posted by: Oztralian || 06/21/2006 21:16 Comments || Top||

#4  I have more sympathy for the cockroaches I step on.
Posted by: anymouse || 06/21/2006 21:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Da vurgins won't even recognize the boyx
Posted by: Captain America || 06/21/2006 21:49 Comments || Top||


Another Saddam Lawyer goes Toes Up
BAGHDAD — One of Saddam Hussein’s main lawyers was shot dead yesterday after men in police uniforms took him from his home, police and relatives said, the third defence attorney to be killed since the trial opened in October.

The killing of Khamis Al Obaidi was a new setback for the US-backed court. It fuelled complaints that sectarian violence, some by Shiite militias within the police, against Saddam’s once-dominant Sunni Arab minority, is crippling a fair trial.
The lead defence lawyer called for the case to be suspended and the defendants taken abroad after the death of his deputy.

Continued on Page 49
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Diggers gun down Iraqi ministers bodyguard
AUSTRALIAN soldiers have gunned down an Iraqi minister's bodyguard in an embarrassing mistake that could now threaten trade links.

The Vice Chief of the Australian Defence Force, Lieutenant General Ken Gillespie, today confirmed members of Defence's security detachment had been involved in the shooting, which witnesses said left at least one person dead and five wounded.
"The security detachment was conducting routine security duties when this incident occurred," a statement said.

"The ADF deeply regrets the injuries and loss of life that has occurred."

Iraqi Trade Minister Abdel Falah al-Sudani has already lashed out at Australia over the incident.

Iraqi sources said the Australians shot dead one of his guards and wounded others as an Australian trade delegation left his offices.

Other reports today said a civilian had also been killed in the shooting.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra said the incident was under investigation, and the ADF said this morning it would also be launching an investigation.

The shooting took place outside Mr Sudani's office in the capital's west.

Full details are still emerging, but Salim al-Bahadiry, a bodyguard for the trade minister, said: "The (Australian) convoy left the ministry.

"Our convoy followed them. They thought the driver was trying to pass and they shot and killed him and wounded three guards and two civilians."

Television footage showed the Iraqi bodyguards' sports utility vehicle crashed into a pole, its windscreen peppered with bullet holes.

An interior ministry source said gunmen with the Australian delegation had opened fire at plainclothes bodyguards they encountered as they left the minister's compound.

"They thought the bodyguards had nothing to do with the Iraqi police forces guarding the compound," the source said.

Other Iraqi police and Interior Ministry sources who confirmed the shooting also said it appeared the Australians had mistaken the bodyguards, who were dressed in civilian clothes and armed with AK-47 rifles, for insurgents.

Mr Sudani, a member of Parliament's dominant Shiite bloc, was furious at the incident and reportedly called today for Iraq to end trade with Australia.
"They are trampling on the dignity and sovereignty of Iraqis," he said after the death.

"We demand an explanation from the Australian Government for this intentional and unwarranted criminal aggression against members of our protection force.

"It should also compensate the family of the martyr and the wounded."

In Canberra, Foreign Affairs and Trade Ministry spokesman Matt Adamson said: "We are aware of an incident in Baghdad and it is currently being investigated."

He did not say why the delegation was in Baghdad, but Australia has been working hard to win back one of its most important wheat markets after the AWB kickback scandal saw Iraq suspend dealings with monopoly exporter AWB Ltd in February.
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Seven marines, Corpsman Charged with Murder
The Marine Corps on Wednesday announced that seven Marines and a sailor had been charged with murder in the April death of an Iraqi civilian. All eight also were charged with kidnapping, according to a Marine statement issued at Camp Pendleton, Calif. Other charges include conspiracy and providing false official statements.

The allegation is that Marines pulled an unarmed Iraqi man from his home on April 26 and shot him to death without provocation. Seven Marines and one Navy corpsman from the Pendleton-based 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment were taken out of Iraq and put in the brig pending the filing of charges.

The Marine Corps identified the eight as: Marine Sgt. Lawrence G. Hutchins III, Marine Cpl. Trent D. Thomas, Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Melson J. Bacos, Marine Lance Cpl. Tyler A. Jackson, Marine Pfc. John J. Jackson, Marine Lance Cpl. Jerry E. Shumate Jr., Marine Lance Cpl. Robert B. Pennington, and Marine Cpl. Marshall L. Magincalda.
Posted by: Steve White || 06/21/2006 17:19 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why in the world would 7 military men that "were" proudly serving the Navy/Marines waste their respective future just to kill one "innocent civilian".....remember there are no uniformed enemy. I feel these members of our US Military are being literally railroaded into a scapegoat that the Commadant of the Marine Corps should think twice before pressing charges and spewing his allegiance to responsibility and punishment......when was the last time that hodad was in a firefight?
Posted by: Hupaise Throck9004 || 06/21/2006 18:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Have to agree Hupaise Throck9004.

Unless there is an obvious instance of overt wanton thrill killing discovered in that hell hole called Iraq I would be loathe to accuse any soldier or Marine [youngsters btw] of murder.

These guys could be entirely innocent but their case will be added to the litany of agitprop lies used by our enemies, Lefties in Eurabia, Muslimes throughout the world and demoCraps here at home.

remember that brave CO who slapped a jehadi and fired his .45 [or 9mm] into the air to get information to save his men about 2 years ago?

well He was court marshaled and quit the service!

Posted by: RD || 06/21/2006 23:06 Comments || Top||


Bodies of G.I.'s Show Signs of Torture, Iraqi General Says
The American military said today that it had found the remains of what appears to be the two American soldiers captured by insurgents last week in an ambush south of the capital, and a senior Iraqi military official said the two men had been "brutally tortured."

An American military official in Baghdad, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that both bodies showed evidence of "severe trauma" and that they could not be conclusively identified. Insurgents had planted "numerous" bombs along the road leading to the bodies, and around the bodies themselves, the official said, slowing the retrieval of the Americans by 12 hours.

Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, the American military spokesman, said "the remains" of what are believed to be the two Americans were found near a power plant in the vicinity of Yusefiya, about three miles from the site were they had been captured by insurgents.

General Caldwell declined to speak in detail about the physical condition of those who had been found, but said that the cause of death could not be determined. He said the remains of the men would be sent to the United States for DNA testing to determine definitively their identities. That seemed to suggest that the two Americans had been wounded or mutilated beyond recognition. "We couldn't identify them," the American military official in Baghdad said.

Maj. Gen. Abdul Azziz Mohammed Jassim, the chief of operations of the Ministry of Defense, said that he had seen an official report and that he could confirm the two Americans had been "killed in a very brutal way and tortured."

"There were traces of torture on their bodies, very clear traces," General Jassim said. "It was a brutal torture. The torture was something unnatural." The general said that he was unable to provide any more details.

The American military official said it took American soldiers more than 12 hours to recover the bodies because bombs had been planted on the road leading up to the bodies and all around them. All of the bombs, which the official described as "numerous," had to be defused. One of the bombs exploded when it was struck by an American vehicle, the official said. "They were intentionally targeting the recover force," the American official said.
Rest at link.
Posted by: ed || 06/21/2006 09:08 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If we're going to have a clash of civilizations, doesn't there need to be someone civilized on the other side?
Posted by: Cherong Glish7834 || 06/21/2006 9:41 Comments || Top||

#2  No doubt Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch will be expressing their outrage over this. Waiting patiently....
Posted by: SteveS || 06/21/2006 9:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Indeed...non-stop news coverage is beginning to overwhelm me.
Posted by: kelly || 06/21/2006 10:10 Comments || Top||

#4  If I had my way we would have dumped the entire lot at Gitmo, in a similar state, on the doorsteps of AI a long time ago.
Posted by: Cleamble Ebbomose9105 || 06/21/2006 10:11 Comments || Top||

#5  We've been through this before.American Indians used to scalp and desecrate the bodies of our soldiers. The Japanese frequently tortured and mutilated our troops. We then got fairly cruel with the Indians. As for Japanese, we stopped taking prisoners. Ever.
Posted by: SOP35/Rat || 06/21/2006 11:40 Comments || Top||

#6  Yep, the VC/NVA we're no picnic either in that respect. The only difference is that now we give combatants out of uniform Geneva conventions they don't rate. We could summarily execute them but then that complicates intel gathering efforts (hajji thinks he's gonna get whacked so he fights to the death or clams up because either way it don't matter - he's dead). I tend to like one of Rommel's maxims (paraphrased): to the surrendering soldier - give them all courtesies due a respected opponent, to the guerilla - no quarter.
Posted by: Broadhead6 || 06/21/2006 12:40 Comments || Top||

#7  Captive incidents like this make me fear that US Army uniforms, weapons and kit will be worn by clean shaven bad guys to infiltrate restricted areas and cause havoc.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/21/2006 12:46 Comments || Top||

#8  P*n*s Durbin from Illinois, otherwise known as Dick "The Turban", was flatuating again. Heard what he said on Laura Ingraham a couple of hours ago. The only withdrwal that should of happened was by his father, 9 months before Dick was born, but alas, that is water under the bridge, isn't it?
Posted by: Tell D Truth || 06/21/2006 12:47 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: Old Patriot || 06/21/2006 15:37 Comments || Top||

#10  Time to load israeli bullets and make it known.
Posted by: anonymous2u || 06/21/2006 15:39 Comments || Top||

#11  Yep, nothing new, move on, be careful and kill first.
Posted by: 6 || 06/21/2006 15:48 Comments || Top||

#12  How bout loading Israeli bullets, dipped in pig blood? Just sayin'...
Posted by: mcsegeek1 || 06/21/2006 16:04 Comments || Top||

#13  That would offend the pigs.

Pig poop now.....
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/21/2006 16:31 Comments || Top||

#14  We need to understand that to win, we need the attitude, and we need to be vicious, decisive, and overwhelming. Also, the president needs to lead, especially in deed. The MSM hands the public defeatest blather 24/7, but I do not hear much about this barbarity issue from the President or the Secretary of Defense.
Posted by: Alaska Paul in Nikolaevsk, Alaska || 06/21/2006 16:50 Comments || Top||

#15  Moonbats blaming this all on Abu Ghraib/Gitmo in 5....4....3....
Posted by: Desert Blondie || 06/21/2006 17:26 Comments || Top||

#16  "The torture was something unnatural."

"Unnatural"? What the hell does that mean???

Sometimes-- like right now-- I think this war may not be over until Arabic is spoken only in Hell...

Posted by: Dave D. || 06/21/2006 17:45 Comments || Top||

#17  When these bastards arrive in their own particular corner of Hell, they are going to find that their propaganda was right and Satan is Jewish and that their suffering and humiliation will be for all eternity. I am in favor of drowning al Q members in pig offal.
Posted by: RWV || 06/21/2006 20:29 Comments || Top||

#18  RE: Dick Durban.
There's always time for a post-partum abortion with this useless piece of #^@$&%#&.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 06/21/2006 15:37 Comments || Top||


Iraqi forces capture top rebel in Baghdad’s Shia district
The good news is just rolling in today ...
BAGHDAD - A leading insurgent was captured Wednesday by Iraqi soldiers in Baghdad’s mainly Shia Kadhimiyah district in a raid during the ongoing security clampdown in the capital, the US military said.

Nuri Abu Haider Al Oqabi, an alleged “leader of an assassination cell in Baghdad”, was captured from the district’s Shuala neighborhood, the military said. Oqabi “recently became the head of a punishment committee that executes judgement on perceived enemies of his organisation,” the military said. The military said he was responsible for the kidnapping and murder of 14 Iraqi army soldiers last month, plus many other such abductions and murders. Another person was also detained during the early morning raid.

Tens of thousands of Iraqi and US troops are patrolling the streets of Baghdad as part of the new security plan ordered by Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki to restore stability in the violent Iraqi capital. Despite the massive security crackdown, dozens of people have been killed in a series of insurgent attacks in Baghdad since the start of the operation on June 14.
Posted by: Steve || 06/21/2006 08:32 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Damn, I hate articles that leave out relevant detail. The guy is tagged in a Shia area, implying he's Shia, yet his people are killing Iraqi soldiers, a primarily Sunni hobby.

So, is he a Shia gang-leader / thug - primarily a criminal type since the Shia are running the show? Or a classic Sunni "Ba'athist" or "insurgent" type?
Posted by: Ulusing Cleash5738 || 06/21/2006 9:58 Comments || Top||

#2  First turnover caused by the fullcourt press?
Posted by: 6 || 06/21/2006 10:00 Comments || Top||

#3  When this story gets to the AP,MSN,Yahoo news it will read;

IRAQI FORCES CAPTURE TOP REBEL IN BAGHDAD'S SHIA DISTRICT, BUT...
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 06/21/2006 10:18 Comments || Top||


US arrest of Karbala leader as “terrorism”
BAGHDAD - Shiite cleric Muqtada Al Sadr charged Wednesday that US forces’ arrest of the president of the Karbala Governate Council last week was “terrorism” and a violation of Iraqi national sovereignty. Al Sadr, in comments to Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa, said “the occupation forces’ act of storming the Karbala Governorate Council represents a direct breach of Iraq’s independence and a violation of its national sovereignty.” He was referring to the US forces seizure of Uqail Al Zebeidy in a raid at his home in Karbala, some 110 kilometres south of Baghdad, on June 15.

“We must confront such acts, since they are acts of terrorism - assaulting an elected government is an act of terrorism,” Al Sadr said. He expressed concern that similar acts may be perpetrated against other elected officials in other governorates.
Like you, perhaps?
The media spokesman for the Karbala Governorate Council had told DPA that Al Zebeidy had been taken to an undisclosed location. The spokesman added that a number of Al Zebeidy’s personal belongings were confiscated, including his personal computer. The spokesman also said that US armed forces beat Al Zebeidy’s personal bodyguards before storming his home.
I certainly hope so

A US military spokesman said that Al Zebeidy was arrested on charges of organizing and assisting armed groups in conducting assassination operations in Karbala. The US spokesman added that intelligence information revealed that Al Zebeidy was storing weapons and ammunition in his home.
Posted by: Steve || 06/21/2006 08:26 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  bad precedent for Tater
Posted by: Frank G || 06/21/2006 8:45 Comments || Top||

#2  "We must confront such acts, since they are acts of terrorism - assaulting an elected government is an act of terrorism,” Al Sadr said. He expressed concern that similar acts may be perpetrated against other elected officials in other governorates. Like you, perhaps? "

No we wont arrest Sadr himself any time soon, I think. What we MAY do, I hope, is take out key supporters whove infiltrated the Iraqi governance structure, and who have made parts of southern Iraq a hell, and interfered with the advance of the political process. I presume we are starting with those who are most politically vulnerable, and whom it would be hardest (politically) for Tater to go to the mattresses over.
Posted by: liberalhawk || 06/21/2006 9:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Except it was probably Iraqi forces that did the arresting and are holding him. Mookie can go suck a rock. Any order to arrest that guy would have come from the Iraqi government, not us.
Posted by: crosspatch || 06/21/2006 12:50 Comments || Top||

#4  This latest surge of arrests indicate that we have a big monkey and he is talking rather than have dental work done. If that is so, then this is the beginning of the end.
The democrats can change their strategy from CUT AND RUN to SNEEK OUT IN THE NIGHT AND DECLARE VICTORY.
Posted by: wxjames || 06/21/2006 13:17 Comments || Top||

#5  I guess we know now which faction ol' Zeebeedee was workin' for, huh?

Target lock?
Posted by: mojo || 06/21/2006 14:10 Comments || Top||


Iraq Militant Group Says It Has Decided to Killed Russian Hostages
A militant group led by al Qaeda in Iraq said on Wednesday that it has decided to kill four Russian hostages after Moscow failed to meet demands that it to withdraw from Chechnya and free Muslim prisoners, according to an Internet statement quoted by Reuters. “After granting the Russian government 48 hours to meet our demands and their failure to do so ... the Islamic court of the Mujahideen Shura Council ruled to kill them (hostages),” said the statement posted on a website often used by militants.

The Russian diplomats were abducted on June 3, when unidentified gunmen attacked their vehicle in the upscale Baghdad neighbourhood of Mansour. One Russian diplomat was killed in the attack and the other four were abducted.

UPDATE: Also Wednesday, a group linked to al Qaeda in Iraq claimed it has killed four Russian diplomats, according to a statement posted on a Web site. The hostages were killed, the statement said, after Moscow did not meet demands to withdraw troops from Chechnya and "release all our brothers and sisters" from prison within 48 hours. The Russian Foreign Ministry urged the insurgents "not to take an irreparable step and preserve the lives of our men."

The Mujahedeen Shura Council had said in a Monday statement that it was holding four diplomats hostage. But, the Wednesday posting said, "this government didn't care about the diplomats and didn't give their lives any value." Instead, it said, the government merely asked for the release of the hostages "while continuing their fight against Islam and its people."

The Shura Council decided to kill the hostages, the statement said, adding that blood was on the Russian government's hands "and there will be an example for others after them." CNN cannot independently verify the authenticity of the statement, but it was posted on a Web site that frequently has carried messages from insurgent groups.

A Russian Foreign Ministry statement said the diplomats "are representatives of the Russian people, which has never and nowhere waged a war against Islam.
"Russia is a multireligious country, where representatives of its two greatest creeds, the Russian Orthodoxy and Islam, have been living in peace and harmony for centuries," the statement said. One of the abducted diplomats is also a Muslim, the ministry said. "Those who have undertaken this action must also listen to numerous calls of the world's leading Islamic figures demanding the speedy release of the Russian citizens."

The hostages were taken June 3, when a car belonging to the Russian Embassy in Iraq came under fire. Embassy official Vitaly Titov was killed in the attack, and diplomats Fyodor Zaitsev, Rinat Agliugin, Anatoly Smirnov and Oleg Fedoseyev were kidnapped.
Posted by: Steve || 06/21/2006 08:23 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not a good move!
These terrorists obviously want they and their families to the 3rd degree removed from the gene pool.
Posted by: 3dc || 06/21/2006 8:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Oh, dear, oh dear... Darwin Awards nominee, Middle Eastern Division?
Don't they remember what happened when a Russian diplomat (IIRC) was kidnapped in Lebanon in the mid 1980ies? I may be a little hazy on the precise details, but I think separation of certian body parts belonging to some close family connection of the kidnappers was involved.
Terribly crude... but terribly effective. Americans got kidnapped right and left, but everyone left the Russians very strictly alone.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom || 06/21/2006 9:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Russian diplomat (IIRC) was kidnapped in Lebanon in the mid 1980ies?


Good memory you have Sgt Mom. Yes, they KGB kidnapped a local fellow (suspect) and when his wife begged for his return, he showed up in a bag on her door step... in itsy bitsy pieces. The Russian embassy had no problems following this fellow's return home.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/21/2006 9:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Difficult to procreate without certain body parts--seems like a two-fer to me.
Posted by: John || 06/21/2006 9:27 Comments || Top||

#5  The body part was returned ... in his mouth.
Posted by: ed || 06/21/2006 9:32 Comments || Top||

#6  "Good memory you have Sgt Mom. Yes, they KGB kidnapped a local fellow (suspect) and when his wife begged for his return, he showed up in a bag on her door step... in itsy bitsy pieces. The Russian embassy had no problems following this fellow's return home.
"
I'm sure if they do this again, the MSM and Amesty International would be all over this. Probally blame it on us.
Posted by: plainslow || 06/21/2006 11:30 Comments || Top||

#7  I'd wager the kidnappers realized that picking up any sort of cash drop involved instant death and chose to just dispose of the bodies "evidence".
Posted by: Zenster || 06/21/2006 13:29 Comments || Top||

#8  How do you say "You won't LIKE me when I'm angry." in Russian?
Posted by: AlanC || 06/21/2006 14:05 Comments || Top||

#9  Вы НЕ ПОЛЮБИТЕ меня когда я сердит.
Posted by: twobyfour || 06/21/2006 18:58 Comments || Top||

#10  !
Posted by: 6 || 06/21/2006 20:31 Comments || Top||

#11  half my spam starts out that way.....
Posted by: Frank G || 06/21/2006 20:44 Comments || Top||

#12  My first thought on reading that Russian diplos had been killed track with those of Sgt. Mom above. But then I recalled that the old Russian Bear has yet to extract a pound of flesh for the murder of 150+ children in Beslan. The Russian Bear that some of us remember (are old enough to remember) no longer exists. The old Russian Bear can still double cross the USA with impunity, but it most certainly no longer inspires fear in the hearts and minds of the new age jihadi. Putin is a fool not to recognize the threat to Russia from Islam. He should have cast his lot with Bush in 2001. He didn't and Russia will pay dearly in due course.
Posted by: Mark Z || 06/21/2006 22:46 Comments || Top||

#13  I don't think the Rooshins have the "moxy" they had back in the Good Old Days anymore....but then again, have things really changed over in Mockba?
Posted by: Janos Hunyadi || 06/21/2006 23:06 Comments || Top||


Macedonia Renews Support in Iraq
CAMP TAJI, Iraq, June 19, 2006 — Macedonia recently renewed its support in the fight against terrorists in Iraq as the Macedonian Ranger Platoon transferred authority to the Macedonian “Wolves” Special Forces Platoon in a ceremony June 7.

The Macedonian Ranger Platoon leaves Iraq after completing 270 combat patrols, conducting two medical operations, saving the lives of numerous local nationals and capturing terrorist weapons and weapons systems.

“The outgoing Macedonian Ranger Platoon has shown superb professionalism, tactical experience and have proven to be masters of non-lethal operations,” said U.S. Army Maj. Jessie Robinson, executive officer, 1st Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division. “Through leader engagements and winning the trust of the people they are always prepared to win any fight. The contribution that Macedonia has made to the war is immeasurable.”

Italian army Brig. Gen. Pier Paolo Lunelli, Multinational Forces–Iraq deputy chief of staff for Coalition operations, attended the ceremony and thanked the Macedonians for their service while welcoming the new unit to Iraq.

The Wolves will face many challenges here, said Robinson. “To the incoming platoon, we will require a lot of you,” he said. “The enemy will challenge you, but through your professionalism and leadership within your organization, you will strip away (the terrorists’) support, engage, capture or kill any terrorists operating within your area of operation and continue to earn the trust and confidence of the people.”

Macedonian Capt. Dragan Maksimovski, outgoing executive officer, Macedonian Ranger Platoon, worked with the incoming unit and wishes them well. “They looked good,” he said. “They will do just as well if not better than us.”

Remember those who support us.
Posted by: Bobby || 06/21/2006 06:40 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Kewl!
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/21/2006 7:29 Comments || Top||

#2  don't forget, alexander the great was from macedonia and he conquered this whole area back in the day
Posted by: rich || 06/21/2006 7:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Ah good news indeed. That would be Macedonia? Republic of? Not some weird name like that area north of Greece that we can't name because we'll go into a tizzy?

Macedonia! Macedonia! Macedonia!
Posted by: 6 || 06/21/2006 10:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Macedonia! Macedonia! Macedonia!

Be careful. We don't want to wake "He who must not be named".
Posted by: Steve || 06/21/2006 12:46 Comments || Top||

#5  cue the Twilight Zone theme...
Posted by: Ichabod Ukraine || 06/21/2006 12:53 Comments || Top||


Lawyer Representing Saddam Hussein Killed
One of Saddam Hussein's lawyers was shot to death Wednesday after he was abducted from his home by men wearing police uniforms in Baghdad, court and police officials said. Khamis al-Obeidi, who represented Saddam and his half brother Barzan Ibrahim in their eight-month-old trial, was abducted from his house at 7 a.m., said Saddam's top lawyer, Khalil al-Dulaimi. His body was found shot to death on a street near the Shiite slum of Sadr City, police Lt. Thaer Mahmoud said.

Chief prosecutor Jaafar al-Moussawi confirmed that al-Obeidi had been killed, although he did not provide any details.

Unlike al-Dulaimi, who shuttles between Amman, Jordan, and the Iraqi capital, al-Obeidi chose to continue to living in Baghdad during the trial despite the capital's tenuous security and the killing of two members of the defense team last year.

Al-Dulaimi blamed the Interior Ministry, which Sunnis have alleged is infiltrated by so-called Shiite death squads, for the killing. "We strongly condemn this act and we condemn the killings done by the Interior Ministry forces against Iraqis," he said, adding that U.S.-led forces also bore responsibility because the war had allowed Shiite militias to gain influence in Iraq.

A dozen masked gunmen abducted defense lawyer Saadoun al-Janabi from his Baghdad office the day after the trial's opening session in October. His body was found the next day with two bullets in his head. Nearly three weeks later, defense lawyer Adel al-Zubeidi was assassinated in a brazen daylight ambush in Baghdad. A colleague who was wounded fled the country.

The defense has asked Iraqi authorities for increased protection and threatened to boycott the trial unless this was provided.
Posted by: ryuge || 06/21/2006 06:14 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wonder when the ACLU goes too far and this sport is picked up here? I'd say about the time people figure out that, by their own actions, the ACLU gets the Constitution declared unconstitutional with some chum judge.
Posted by: Cravish Grolunter8216 || 06/21/2006 9:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Sounds like Jabr's "police" are still in place.
Posted by: Ulusing Cleash5738 || 06/21/2006 9:14 Comments || Top||

#3 
"Wonder when the ACLU goes too far and this sport is picked up here?"

The ACLU has already gone too far, IMHO! I'm surprised that there has not been any whacking of ACLU lawyers already.

I guess the pot still boils, and the pressure builds.

-M
Posted by: Manolo || 06/21/2006 9:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Not a bad fate for lawers anywhere if you ask me.
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 06/21/2006 10:51 Comments || Top||

#5  I was sooooo hoping it was Chomskey, but no not today.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge || 06/21/2006 11:07 Comments || Top||

#6  Or our old pal Ramsey Clark, perhaps?
Posted by: Ulusing Cleash5738 || 06/21/2006 11:15 Comments || Top||

#7  My bad I meant Clark.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge || 06/21/2006 11:45 Comments || Top||

#8  Lol - Hold on there, Cyber Sarge, I'm kinda groovin' on the visual of Chomsky gettin' splashed. :)~
Posted by: Omirong Snumble8439 || 06/21/2006 12:01 Comments || Top||

#9  C'mon folks, we do not wish lawyers death (I can't believe I'm writing this as a doc). In a civil society, every defendant gets a lawyer. That way civil society has to follow its procedures and make sure the evidence is proper.

And then you hang Saddam.

I don't want his lawyers killed, because that makes forming a civil society in Iraq that much more difficult.
Posted by: Steve White || 06/21/2006 18:13 Comments || Top||

#10  The lawyer lost the case. I'd be looking to Sadaam loyalists as my first suspects.
Posted by: 2b || 06/21/2006 18:26 Comments || Top||

#11  If you have suffered wrongful personal injury, medical malpractice, or illegal democratic overthrow, the firm of al-Obeidi, al-Janabi, Zubeidi, and Schmitt stand ready to assit your professional legal needs. We're on the web and in the Yellow Book, give us a call.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/21/2006 18:28 Comments || Top||

#12  Saddam's own may have done it to get the verdict delayed.... I just wish they'd hit Clark - no apologies, SW. How many dead has he defiled by his actions? Justice? No, they are seeking technicalities/straw men to avoid justice
Posted by: Frank G || 06/21/2006 20:41 Comments || Top||

#13  The Defense rests........ in peace.
Posted by: tipper || 06/21/2006 21:01 Comments || Top||


US military says it killed Zarqawi’s “right-hand man"
The US military says it has killed the "right-hand man" of slain Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Major General William Caldwell says Iraqi Mansur Suleiman al-Mashhadani was killed on Friday by US forces in Yusifiyah, south of Baghdad. "We do know that Sheikh Mansur was a key leader in Al Qaeda in Iraq with excellent religious, military and leadership credentials within that organisation," General Caldwell said.
Oh, u-lu-lu-lu-lu-lu-lu-lu!!!!
He describes him as Zarqawi's right-hand man and a liaison between Al Qaeda and tribes in the restive area south of Baghdad. The Mashhadani are a major tribe of Sunni Arabs. "He was tied to the senior leadership, including having relationships with both Zarqawi and al-Masri," General Caldwell said, referring to Abu Ayub al-Masri, whom the US military claim to be Zarqawi's successor. "We do think that his death will significantly continue to impact on the ability of this organisation to regenerate and organise itself."

General Caldwell says Sheikh Mansur was "multifunctional" with responsibilities including spiritual advice, recruitment, leadership and media operations.

A large framed picture showing Sheikh Mansur before and after he was killed has been displayed by General Caldwell in the same manner as a picture of Zarqawi's dead face after he was killed in a US air strike on June 7 near the restive city of Baquba.
Soon to be on coffee mugs and baseball cards ...
One part of the composite picture showed him clean shaven with a thin moustache and wearing a black T-shirt, while the other showed a dust covered, bruised and blood-stained face.

Describing his killing, General Caldwell says US troops had attempted to stop the vehicle in which Sheikh Mansur was travelling with two others. He says when they kept driving they decided to fire at them from a helicopter that had been backing up soldiers on the ground.
Helizap!
General Caldwell says coalition forces were "following and tracking him for sometime as the intent was to capture him". "When that proved something that was not able to be achieved by forces involved in that operation, they went ahead and used air assets to engage and destroy that vehicle," he said.
In celebration, the traditional Rantburg joke:

"Hokay, Mansur, drop da heat and open da car door slowly!"
"Aaaahh, you'll never take me alive, infidels!"
"Hokay! [Red One you are weapons-free, say again, weapons-free]"
[boom!]
The General says the two others who died with Sheikh Mansur were "foreign fighters, with one Abu Tareq being a cell leader".
And now he's a cell leader in Hell.
Posted by: Steve White || 06/21/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Pix.
Posted by: Seafarious || 06/21/2006 0:36 Comments || Top||

#2  I like the "after" shot
Posted by: Captain America || 06/21/2006 1:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Caught him 'thinking about the situation'! Now a 500lb on the safehouse of the beheaders will wrap this puppy up! Take your time...get um!
Posted by: smn || 06/21/2006 3:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Booby trap the body and give it back to the family.
Posted by: Howard UK || 06/21/2006 5:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Heh, Howard - you've got a real mean side, lol.
Posted by: Ulusing Cleash5738 || 06/21/2006 7:03 Comments || Top||

#6  I find it increasingly hard not to advocate coming down to the level of the animals we are fighting against in Iraq. Deep breaths.
Posted by: Howard UK || 06/21/2006 7:40 Comments || Top||

#7  Truth be told, you're on the right track, Howard. There's something quite sad, really, about those who believe this war isn't to the death, for everything, and can be played at like a game, all gentlemanly-like and high-road and all that rot. They've never been there, so they can't really conceive it, wrap their minds around it, I guess. But we will go there, all of us, eventually - or we will lose.
Posted by: Ulusing Cleash5738 || 06/21/2006 7:57 Comments || Top||

#8  Let's go after the left hand now--whoever that is--and then the rest of the scum sucking pukes. Take off the gloves and unleash the dogs of war. Show the SOBs what it is all about.
Posted by: P*ssed || 06/21/2006 8:44 Comments || Top||

#9  The only hope of Islamofascists is that the West will self-destroy.

The only way we can self-destroy is if we continue to allow Marxists, multi-culturalist moonbays, and Democrats to control the media and academia.

The only way we can stop anti-enlightenment forces in the West is if we get rid of them, over the next 150 years (after they all die of natural causes while cultural and medical improvements slowly take place) or over the next 10-20 years (very violently, if they openly target our love of freedom and commitment to win WW IV, or if the Islamofascists launch all-out "civil" wars and nukes in/against most Western countries).

My current estimate is that it won't take 150 years. Are you prepared for the next 10 years?
Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever) || 06/21/2006 12:04 Comments || Top||

#10  And thus the demise of Colonel Sebastian Moran.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 06/21/2006 13:00 Comments || Top||

#11 
Mansur Suleiman al-Mashhadani = dead winky
Posted by: RD || 06/21/2006 13:37 Comments || Top||

#12  Oh no, not another framed picture! I remember a whiny MSM writer opining that it was in bad form for us to matt and frame the death mask of Zarkie. Oh woe is we, I fear another bashing of us warmongers is to come.
Posted by: Whinemp Unogum4891 || 06/21/2006 14:27 Comments || Top||

#13  Idly wondering if ol' Zark had a "left-hand man"...
Posted by: Seafarious || 06/21/2006 14:28 Comments || Top||

#14  The biggest threat we face is the threat from within.
Posted by: 2b || 06/21/2006 15:46 Comments || Top||

#15  bet he smelled bad, Sea
Posted by: Frank G || 06/21/2006 15:55 Comments || Top||


Qaeda claims new Mr. Big killed GI's
DUBAI - The new leader of al Qaeda in Iraq “slit the throats” of two US soldiers whose bodies were found in Baghdad, according to a statement posted on the Internet on Tuesday. “God Almighty has graced the leader Abu Hamza Al Muhajir ... with the implementation of the sentence,” said a statement from the al Qaeda-led Mujahideen Shura Council. It said the two had been killed by having their throats slit.
They're lying of course, but it does give us extra added incentive to find and kill this mook.
The statement could not be authenticated. It was posted on one Web forum used by Islamists, but not on the main site used by Iraqi insurgent groups. The same group had said in a statement on Monday, a few hours before the bodies were found, that it had abducted them and would provide more details in the coming days.
Posted by: Steve White || 06/21/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Be funny if they claim it and it turns out to be the guy we just bagged.
Posted by: Oldspook || 06/21/2006 0:47 Comments || Top||

#2  I hate to say this, but its a sad reality: our troops must never allow themselves to be captured by these animals. Under no circumstances must they surrender, b/c they must know they will be tortured and horrible things will happen. It is better to go out fighting than to die that way. I truly lament the deaths of these two US soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice. Its very upsetting but all we can do is pray for their families.
Posted by: bgrebel || 06/21/2006 3:01 Comments || Top||

#3  I think the troops already know this, bgrebel. Last year there was a post on Rantburg from a US soldier who said that every fight was to the death. These guys might have been knocked out when the humvee crashed.
Posted by: Apostate || 06/21/2006 7:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Brave Lions of I-slam killing wounded captured men.

They are just pathetic, and they know it.

Anyone with a brian can see that I-slam is evil. This will be I-slams last century.

I wonder do the slammers really know how little effort (compared to WW2) we are using to completely destroy them? Do they not realise the west is many times wealthier than in WW2? Do they not realise how vastly more violent and indiscriminate we could be?

Islam is a death cult, and I can only conclude they want us to end it for them.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/21/2006 7:30 Comments || Top||

#5  they did this to make civilians suffer, that's obvious. it will make the checkpoints that much tougher on civilians. there's no way those GI's were just grabbed like a baghdad thief. those scumbags don't have the fortitude to pull that off, not on trained US soldiers. you can bet the terrorists approached pretending to be civilians, asking questions.
Posted by: rich || 06/21/2006 7:39 Comments || Top||

#6  Slay them ALL! Burn the tentage, rations, blow the bridges, cut down the trees, kill the livestock, spoil the wells with chemical agents, and fly out never to return.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/21/2006 8:30 Comments || Top||

#7  Fred, have you read the NY Post Editorial this morning called: BARBARIANS? It's worth the read. It sums up what many of us are really thinking.
BTW... long time no type. Missed you, but I had family issues. I'm looking to import my Mary Lu's Blog Du Jour posts to Wordpress. Got any ideas? Mary Lu
Posted by: Mary Lu || 06/21/2006 8:44 Comments || Top||

#8  I we were to play by their "rules of war", there wouldnt be a muslim alive today.
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 06/21/2006 10:54 Comments || Top||

#9  Big Jim,

There wouldn't be any sign the cancer of i-slam ever existed.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/21/2006 11:52 Comments || Top||

#10  Most of the fighting isn't about Islam, but about power. AQ isn't about islam, but power. Most of the ba'athists aren't in it for islam, but personal power. Even the funding of wahabbism by saudis isn't about islam, but power. The same is true of Iran and its mad mullahs. We need to exercise some major power, so these dumbsh$$$ will know we've been very gentle with them. If we were to truly crush Iran with all the power and might we have, it would send a clear message to not only the Middle East, but to Russia and China as well that we're tired of playing games, and we're angry enough to do some serious a$$kicking. That message needs to be delivered immediately if not last year.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 06/21/2006 16:42 Comments || Top||

#11  Oh that's "Operation Disneyland Parking Lot."
Posted by: Mary Lu || 06/21/2006 18:32 Comments || Top||


7 Iraqis killed, 20 wounded in car blast in Baghdad market
(KUNA) -- Seven Iraqis were killed, 20 others were wounded, on Tuesday when an explosive-laden car went off in a large commercial market in Alwa Jamilah in Baghdad. Iraqi Police Captain Mohammad Kadhem told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that the car was parked in the middle of a food market and was detonated by remote control, noting that most of the victims were workers in commercial stores. Iraqi Interior Ministry sources said the blast damaged nearby stores and left a huge mess at the site, noting that the Iraqi police sealed off the area, while volunteers rushed to transport the wounded to the nearest hospital. Earlier today, a booby-trapped car parked on the side of the road blew up at 11 a.m. in Saydiya area, wounding three people and damaging nearby stores and buildings.

The Iraqi police also said that an explosive device exploded targeting an Iraqi police patrol nearby an oil marketing company, while no damage or human losses were reported in the attack. According to preliminary tolls, the suicide attack on a senior citizens' house in Basra killed two women and wounded a score of people. The violent acts coincided with an Iraqi government plan to reinforce security and control in Baghdad, Basra, and Ramadi as part of a security plan dubbed "together ahead".
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US troops conduct massive raid northeastern Baghdad
(KUNA) -- US forces killed 15 gunmen in raids north of Baghdad on Tuesday, the US military said. "The raids were targeting individuals linked with a suspected Al-Qaeda leader who was targeted in previous coalition operations," a US military statement said. The statement added that soldiers came under small arms fire from the roof of a house north of Baquba, as the operation got underway. "The ground force returned fire, killing nine armed insurgents on the rooftop, and an additional two armed men were killed by coalition helicopter supporting fire," the statement added.

The support helicopter hit power lines and had to make an emergency landing, the military said. None of the crew was injured. After securing the helicopter, troops attacked a second building, where the suspected insurgents had fled, the military said. One man was killed by a sniper as he tried to attack the troops from a close by rooftop. The force cleared the buildings, detaining the three insurgents. The captured individuals were found hiding amidst a group of women.

Meanwhile, in Kirkuk, an Iraqi police source told KUNA that four suspected insurgents were apprehended on the charge of attacking Kirkuk's airport. The source said that two of the four suspects confessed during interrogations and that investigation with the other two is underway.
Posted by: Fred || 06/21/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The captured individuals were found hiding amidst a group of women. No doubt in burgas carefully chosen to enhance their complexions.

O! Brave, brave Lions of Islam!
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/21/2006 7:23 Comments || Top||

#2  When will the light bulb go on and the Iraqis let their womenfolk start packing?

When I read these stories, tho, who's to say those wimmin aren't part of the problem?

Just because they're wimmin doesn't mean they're innocent.
Posted by: anonymous2u || 06/21/2006 9:19 Comments || Top||

#3  quibble

baquba, which is north OF baghdad, is NOT northeastern baghdad.

This is not trivial, strategically. It looks like the current plan is to use Iraqi forces for the retaking of Baghdad itself, which is most politically sensitive, while using US forces in Baquba to the north, and the triangle of death to the south, boxing in the insurgents from either flight or reinforcement. A US raid IN baghdad would hint at a change in strategy.
Posted by: liberalhawk || 06/21/2006 9:26 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Al-Aqsa To Strike Israel 'at Any Place'
Gaza City, 21 June (AKI) - Palestinian militant group, the al-Aqsa Brigades, which is linked to PA president Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement, on Wednesday threaten to carry out attacks in Israel in retaliation for an Israeli air strike in Gaza the day before in which three Palestinian children were killed. "We'll strike at the enemy at any place," the group said in a statement. "We declare a high alert among our men, with the goal of quickly avenging the Zionists' crimes. The Palestinians must declare war on Sderot and the rest of the Zionist settlements. Now it's us against Sderot," it said referring to a southern Israeli settlement which has been repeatedly targeted by militants with Qassam rockets."

On Tuesday the Israeli airforce struck Gaza City in an apparent attempt to assassinate two Palestinian militants but instead killed a 16-year-old boy and a brother and sister aged five and six respectively. The two militants escaped with light injuries; another 14 Palestinian citizens were injured in the incident. Tuesday's attack was the third time in a month that Israeli military attacks have resulted in civilian deaths.
Posted by: Steve || 06/21/2006 08:09 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Since when has Sderot been a settlement? It is an Israeli town within Israel's pre-67 borders. And the al-Asqa Brigade is supposed to be affiliated with Fatah which supposedly recognises Israel. Any idea of negotiations or peace treaties with these people is a joke.
Posted by: Apostate || 06/21/2006 8:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Israel is too kind to them.
Posted by: 3dc || 06/21/2006 8:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Just level the Al Aksa mosque and repatriate the ex-Egyptians and ex-Jordanians to their home nations.
Posted by: ed || 06/21/2006 9:14 Comments || Top||

#4  I have a better solution for Israel to end this. A "final solution" for the palestinians.

Posted by: bigjim-ky || 06/21/2006 10:22 Comments || Top||

#5  bigjim, don't say things like this even in fun.
Posted by: gromgoru || 06/21/2006 10:36 Comments || Top||

#6  Better than #4, #3, now.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 06/21/2006 10:42 Comments || Top||

#7  can somebody explain to me in 'GEOPOLITICAL' or whatever terms why Israel does not answer properly to the assault on Sderot?
Posted by: Omomoque Jomoter1383 || 06/21/2006 11:26 Comments || Top||

#8  The proper response would be for the IDF to form a tight line and begin herding the Palestinians towards the Egyptian border. When they reach the border, they can either voluntarily emigrate to Egypt or die in place. A very Arab solution. Of course, the Israelis could adopt the Palestinian solution and drive them into the sea, but I see that as needless pollution.
Posted by: RWV || 06/21/2006 12:54 Comments || Top||

#9  I am in need of some enlightment, thus I will repeat my question:can somebody explain to me in 'GEOPOLITICAL' or whatever terms why Israel does not answer properly to the assault on Sderot?
Posted by: Omomoque Jomoter1383 || 06/21/2006 13:23 Comments || Top||

#10  What's a Palestinian?
Posted by: mcsegeek1 || 06/21/2006 16:06 Comments || Top||


Israel asks EU to put conditions on Palestinian aid
JERUSALEM - Israel has asked the European Union to make Palestinians sign a document renouncing terrorism before they can receive EU help under a new aid programme, Western officials said on Tuesday.

The proposal was one of several raised by Israeli officials in talks on Monday over an international aid mechanism meant to help Palestinians hard hit by a Western aid boycott while sidestepping the Hamas-led government. The Israeli proposal underscored the difficulties facing the European Union in crafting an aid system that does not undercut Israeli and US efforts to isolate Hamas.
The EU doesn't mind undercutting us and the Israelis; they're just trying to figure out how to do that and avoid unpleasantries with Dubya.
A European Commission source said no decision had been made on any system to vet Palestinians who would benefit under the aid mechanism, agreed at the weekend by the Quartet of Middle East mediators -- the EU, the United States, the United Nations and Russia.

European and Palestinian critics said requiring every aid recipient to sign a form renouncing violence could politicise the aid mechanism and further delay the launch of proposed allowance payments to tens of thousands of needy Palestinians. “It is not a fair demand,” said Saeb Erekat, a top aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. “They (the Israelis) should leave politics out of this. This is a humanitarian catastrophe.”
Caused by politicans, which makes it a political issue.
In addition to asking Palestinians to sign forms renouncing terrorism, Israel has proposed running the names of Palestinian aid recipients through its own national security database.
Oh I'm sure some interesting things would pop up.
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev declined to discuss details of the discussions with the EU, but said: “It must be clear that this sort of money is not going to the Widows Ammunition Fund people involved in terrorism.”
Posted by: Steve White || 06/21/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We Jews are such optimistic people.
Posted by: gromgoru || 06/21/2006 0:04 Comments || Top||

#2  You'd have too be.
Posted by: 6 || 06/21/2006 10:05 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
False Hopes for Gps Implants
Posted by: Danielle || 06/21/2006 19:20 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Heh. I kinda sorta figured people were conflating RFID and GPS.

However, are we going to let the mere fact of its non-existance stifle our demands that this technology be used to implement our goal of a perfect nanny-state utopia? Inquiring, but stupid minds want to know!
Posted by: SteveS || 06/21/2006 20:50 Comments || Top||

#2  http://www.gizmag.com/go/5352/

Hand sized global GPRS tracker. In this format it is implanted in a Jacket but a little American ingenuity and maybe a Terrorist gut cavity and mix with a fake prison break or a nice incompetent paper shuffle giving cover and sit back and see what dots are connected whalaa.

Is it an option for parole/probation Domestic issues I hope not and even if it somehow did get past the major MAJOR red flags of tagging citizens does getting caught really bother criminals anyway? Deterrence works but what good is a tag on a criminal short helping the cops rearrested quicker? Deterrence would be like a Death Sentence for all Murder, Rape, Kiddy Fuckin period.
Posted by: C-Low || 06/21/2006 21:28 Comments || Top||


G'morning...
Posted by: Fred || 06/21/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is she doin the crane pose?
Posted by: Captain America || 06/21/2006 0:22 Comments || Top||

#2  CA - Nah. Looks like the Golddigger Hook Maneuver...
Posted by: PBMcL || 06/21/2006 2:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Un holy homme...that's funny!
Posted by: Ulairong Crosh4902 || 06/21/2006 2:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Nice babe, Fred.
Posted by: Dave D. || 06/21/2006 6:22 Comments || Top||

#5  That's not Lassies' Mom is it?
Posted by: 6 || 06/21/2006 6:24 Comments || Top||

#6  June Lockhart? No.
Posted by: Bobby || 06/21/2006 6:30 Comments || Top||

#7  I've heard that Lassie's mom was a real bith.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 06/21/2006 6:36 Comments || Top||

#8  Bitch, of course, PIMF. Now the effect is ruined.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 06/21/2006 6:37 Comments || Top||

#9  You mean bith isn't bitch with a lithp?
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/21/2006 7:09 Comments || Top||

#10  don't worry. it wasn't that funny anyway
Posted by: rich || 06/21/2006 7:36 Comments || Top||

#11  Nice "post."
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/21/2006 8:26 Comments || Top||

#12  Thanks for your support, Rich.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 06/21/2006 8:42 Comments || Top||

#13  Here you go 5089, a real slice of Americana, from MAD Sept. 1970, maybe even rich will like it.

Ballad of a Boy Dawg Named Lassie

Well, it started a guy named Eric Knight
Who lost his life in an airplane flight,
But before he cashed in, he wrote many a tome.

Among them, "The Flying Yorkshireman"
And "This Above All," but I'm no fan
Of the book he went and called "Lassie Come Home!"

Well, I wasn't born when the book came out,
But the fame of the story spread about,
So naturally it was bought up quick by Hollywood.

They auditioned for the part of the female collie,
Testing rincess, Girl and Dolly.
And found out female dowgs don't train so good!

So they went for a male - my Great Grand-Dad
(Who'd hoped for the role of Torhune's "lad"
In a movie with stars like the like of Raymond Massey!

But instead he was teamed with Roddy McDowall
In a part that made Grand-Paw bark, "foul!"
When he learned his movie name'd been changed to Lassie.

Well, everyone thought the film was classy,
So they followed it up with "Son of Lassie",
Then "Courage of Lassie" from the same old recipe.

Though the dawg in the last one's name was "Bill",
The title wasn't, so people still
Believed my Great-Grandaddy was a she!

This doggy bd spread to radio
Which was followed (as if you didn't know)
By an endless stream of episodes on TV!

And whenever one "Lassie" got too old,
A new replacement came in from the fold,
Until the name was handed down to me!

What annoys me more than a pesky flea
Is the fact that Lassie has proved to be
A goldmine of products and things to make them rich!

But despite it all, I'am in a rut
Trying to prove to every mutt
That I'm not a daughter, but a dog-gone son-of-a BLEEP!

Oh, how I'd love to put the bite
On that casting clod who caused my plight!
To give a guy a girl-dog's tag is brassy!

I'd tear him to pieces for his folly,
And then I'd find me a real girl collie,
And we'd have a son and name him..... Snoppy, or Rin-Tin-Tin
or Gentle Ben,
or Flipper
Anything but Lassie!
Posted by: 6 || 06/21/2006 9:42 Comments || Top||

#14  that's not funny
Posted by: Johnny Cash || 06/21/2006 10:01 Comments || Top||

#15  But it scans well.
Posted by: Howard UK || 06/21/2006 10:19 Comments || Top||

#16  I typede it for 'ya Howard!
Posted by: 6 || 06/21/2006 15:22 Comments || Top||



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