THE Afghan government admitted overnight that about a dozen people killed in a military strike by the US-led coalition might have been "terrorists" and not police as reported by Afghan officials. President Hamid Karzai had angrily condemned the attack on Thursday, saying the casualties were Afghan policemen patrolling in eastern Paktika province. He was informed about the attack by Afghan officials, including the provincial governor, a statement said. But a high-ranking government official said that it now appeared the men were "terrorists not our police."
Afghan soldiers had seen the attackers get into a truck and drive off. Coalition surveillance followed to track the trucks that were later attacked. After the strike coalition forces found two wounded men at the scene who were wearing Afghan border police uniforms...
The coalition said Thursday its aircraft struck vehicles that were occupied by "extremists" who had just attacked an Afghan and coalition patrol, leaving one Afghan soldier dead. But a police commander in the region said that the casualties were border police. Coalition spokesman Colonel Thomas Collins said Friday that the force was certain the strike had hit the group that had earlier attacked the security forces. "There is no doubt in our mind that we attacked extremists," he said.
Afghan soldiers had seen the attackers get into a truck and drive off, he said. Coalition surveillance followed to track the trucks that were later attacked, Collins said. After the strike coalition forces found two wounded men at the scene who were wearing Afghan border police uniforms and identified themselves as police from a district that was 75 km away. However they "clearly appeared" to be headed in the opposite direction to that area and towards the border with Pakistan and were being evasive, he said. This could mean they were either rebels in police uniform or corrupt police, with corruption widespread in Afghanistan.
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Gosh, think ol' Karzai will apologize with the same vehemence and spittle volume with which he condemned?
Perhaps he should now look rather closely at those who lied to him, that provincial Gov for example, with some measure of suspicion - and perhaps ask himself why he didn't go directly to the US for information - before flapping his gums.
The amount of illegal stimulants law enforcers seized in the first six months of 2006 was only 13.1 kilograms, an 85.6 percent drop from the same period last year, the National Police Agency (NPA) said. NPA officials believe that the amount of stimulants drastically dropped because their seizure of hundreds of stimulants smuggled on a North Korean boat in May dealt a death blow to the drug smuggling route from the country.
... officials believe that the amount of stimulants drastically dropped because their seizure of hundreds of stimulants smuggled on a North Korean boat in May dealt a death blow to the drug smuggling route from the country...
Due to the reduced amounts of smuggled stimulants available, the price of them is soaring. Illegal stimulants sold for 2 to 3 million yen per kilogram on the underground market around 2003. A total of 487 kilograms of illegal stimulants were seized that year. But recently, stimulants sell for 8 to 10 million yen per kilogram. When sold to individual buyers in the streets, they sell at 60,000 to 65,000 yen per gram, NPA officials said. Because of the soaring value, dealers sometime mix stimulants with other ingredients in a bid to increase their profits.
Seven people were questioned over the smuggling of illegal stimulants during the first half of 2006. They mostly imported small amounts of drugs in bags or via international mail. For example, officers at Narita Airport seized 1.1 kilograms of stimulants contained in instant noodles imported from China. Officers questioned 6,319 people over incidents involving illegal stimulants during the first six months of the year, 102 fewer than the same period last year.
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If I recall correctly an old article I read on paper, the illegal stimulants here would be plain old amphetamines and exctasy, since the norks run the trade in Japan; they produce the stuff in gvt facilities and then smuggle it to Japan, to get some very needed cash in real money... north-korea is actually a narco-State.
Meth would be a logical upgrade, but I have no idea if this "redneck drug" has caught in Japan, it somehow clashes with my preconceived idea of japanese people.
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actually i think the " red neck " drug started out in cali with the biker gangs ans ppl. it's just hit the south as crystal meth in the last few years
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Honkey's right, but meth has been in Japan since 1919, and they love that sh*t. "Shabu". In CA, the bikers lost out to the Mexicans now
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When I 'wuz a lad earning my PHD (post hole digger) on Eye-One-Oh the redneck drug of choice at lunchtime was Michelob and 'shrooms. You can see the effect of this diet on I-10 to this day between Tallahassee and Lake City.
BERLIN - German police have taken into custody a suspect linked to last months failed plot to explode bombs on German trains, the federal prosecutors office said on Saturday. The person appears to be one of the two suspects that have been sought since yesterday with the help of video footage that was made public, the office said in a statement.
Police seized the suspect at the main train station in the northern city of Kiel.
Earlier, police had shut the station for five hours. They said the move was linked to the investigation into two bombs that were discovered in abandoned suitcases on trains in Dortmund and Koblenz last month.
Police said on Friday they were looking for two male suspects who were caught on video boarding the trains with the suitcases in Cologne. The footage of the two men was put on the Internet to help the manhunt. Police have said the bombs may have been part of a plot designed to show anger over the Middle East crisis.
The bombs were fitted with timers set to go off 10 minutes before the trains arrived in the two cities. The explosives had been ignited but failed to detonate. IIUC, police found material in arabic in the suitcases, including phone numbers.
The prosecutors office said the suspect would be brought before a federal judge investigating the bomb plot on Sunday.
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Germany Arrests Lebanese Student Over Attempted Train Bombings
German authorities on Saturday arrested a Lebanese student suspected of helping plant two bombs that failed to explode on trains last month, officials said. The 21-year-old was detained a day after investigators released surveillance camera footage from July 31, the day of the attempted bombing, showing two men with heavy luggage who were believed to have planted the devices. The man was arrested early Saturday morning at the main station in the Baltic Sea port city of Kiel, where he lived and studied. Chief prosecutor Monika Harms said he apparently had planned to flee the country, but she did not say where he wanted to go.
Prosecutors said the suspect was identified with the help of the surveillance footage, from Cologne station, and DNA traces from one of the suitcases in which the bombs were found. Joerg Ziercke, the head of Germany's Federal Crime Office, told reporters in Kiel he was confident that "we caught the right suspected bomb planter here in Kiel today."
(KUNA) -- A Turkish man was killed Thursday when a mine exploded in the Kurdish-populated south eastern province of Sirnak. Turkish Anadolu News Agency (AA) cited a security source as saying the explosion happened when a man stepped on a mine planted by the Kurdistan Workers Union (PKK). The man died affected by wounds, the source said. Several PKK members and Turkish security personnel were killed in clashes and mines explosions since the Turkish government recently announced launching an expansive military campaign against the separatist movement.
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(Xinhua) -- Two suitcases containing bombs found on German trains last month were very likely to have been part of an attempted act of terrorism, a German investigator said on Friday. The daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported Friday, quoting security experts, that the amount of explosives contained in the bombs would have had the same devastating impact as last year's London underground bombings, which killed more than 50 people. The bombs, made with gas canisters, were found on July 31 on trains in Dortmund and Koblenz, said the Chief of the German Criminal Police Office (BKA) Joerg Ziercke in a press conference in Wiesbaden. They were apparently supposed to explode 10 minutes before the trains' arrival at the stations, Ziercke said.
... two suitcases also contained a Lebanese telephone number and notes written in Arabic...
He said that investigators did not believe they were dealing with an attempt to blackmail the German train operator, Deutsche Bahn, and "it is more likely than unlikely" that there was a terrorist background to the incident. At the press conference called by the investigators to report on the development of their investigation, footage taken from video surveillance from the Cologne railway station showed that two suspects, both men, were seen to be carrying two suitcases at the station. The two suitcases also contained a Lebanese telephone number and notes written in Arabic, according to Ziercke.
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German weekly Focus sayz one of the suspects looks Indonesian an might be linked to The Netherlands. A number of Indonesian extremists seems to be living there. German authorities will expand the search to this group.
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The Netherlands did used to own Indonesia, after all. They brought back lots of cooks and such (who later brought all their friends and relations, of course) when they decolonized.
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A bomb on a train in the Rhine Gorge would probably close everything on one side of the river for hours, if not days. There are some places along the river where there's barely room for the rail line and a road. Since the bombs were found in Dortmund and Koblenz, it's more likely that segment (from Koblenz to Dortmund) was targeted, where the areas are a little flatter and the Rhine riverbed runs through rolling hills. Glad it didn't work - I've ridden the trains through that area several times.
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For all that's worth, bombs made fom gas canisters - filled up with liquid explosives, and possibly shrapnels (? The french police had a detail about nails and bolts given to the msm, along with phony sketches, so it would focus on it and let them work alone) - was what the gia used in the 1995 Paris subway bombing wave.
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Right, 6 - it's a Norfolk & Western (US) Class J 4-8-4. I believe one of them still runs today, and that might be its' picture. Very near the pinnicle of steam locomotive technology.
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ROME - A British passenger plane operated by low-cost airline Excel was diverted to the southern Italian airport of Brindisi because of a bomb scare on Friday, the Italian air force and emergency services said. An Italian air force jet fighter from Sicily was despatched to escort the plane to Brindisi were it landed at 1531 local time (1331 GMT), the air force official told Reuters.
The plane was flying from Londons Gatwick airport to Egypt when the pilot contacted air traffic controllers in Zagreb, who diverted him to Brindisi in Italy, an Italian air force official said.
I suspect we'll see the international airlines flooded with these, both as probes and as a way to exhaust security ahead of some real attack attempt.
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A former grocery store owner already facing three years in prison for aiding a terrorist group got 14 months tacked onto his sentence Friday for swindling a government social welfare program out of $1.4 million. Hatem Fariz, 33, must serve a total of 51 months in federal prison under the sentence handed down by US District Judge Milton I. Shadur.
Fariz pleaded guilty in a federal court in Tampa to conspiring to provide financial aid to Palestinian Islamic Jihad...
Fariz, who now lives in Spring Hill, Florida, also was ordered to repay the money he siphoned off by swapping cash for government food stamp vouchers. At the same time, Fariz pleaded guilty in a federal court in Tampa to conspiring to provide financial aid to Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which has been designated by the US government as a terrorist organization. Fariz received a 37-month sentence on the Florida charge.
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A million $ = one month?
Sheesh. WTF are we working for a living? Just brew a scam to steal from Dhimmi social programs, stash it somewhere, serve a little stretch, lose a little weight working out, and retire to the Carib.
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Don't blame ole Hatem, he's just expediting things up a bit. An off-shore operation if you will. "Social Welfare Programs" are already a form of terrorism, have been for many years.
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He's just doing the welfare fraud and terrorist support that Americans don't want to do.
When he's done doing his time, I hope they rocket ride his ass back to whatever Islamic republic paradise he hails from.
Food stamps.
30 years ago one could buy a gun (at 10 cents to the $) with food stamps. Of all the welfare programs, food stamps are the worst. The left admits with the food stamp program that the "poor" can NOT be trusted with cash. I.E. lack of cash is NOT the "poor's" problem; bad decision making is.
Prosecutors outlined Friday their case against two men charged with aiding the Palestinian militant group Hamas, saying they plotted to arm a terrorism campaign with guns, money and fresh recruits. Muhammad Salah, 53, of Bridgeview, Illinois, and Abdelhaleem Ashqar, 48, of Alexandria, Virginia, have pleaded not guilty to a racketeering indictment alleging they conspired to furnish cash and organizational aid to the Hamas terrorism campaign.
Salah bought airline tickets to Syria for two recruits who received bomb-making training...
As early as 1990, Salah bought airline tickets to Syria for two recruits who received bomb-making training from a "Hamas military operative who had fought in Afghanistan," the prosecutors alleged in a 54-page document. Prosecutors trace the story of Salah, from his travel to the West Bank - allegedly to deliver money to the Palestinian group's underground military organization - to his 1993 arrest and the five years he spent in an Israeli prison before returning to the Chicago area.
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Before dawn most mornings, a van loaded with pallets of goods from nan bread to muffins leaves the Rauf family bakery to deliver to supermarkets and grocers in Birmingham. Since it was established 25 years ago, the bakery in the Bordesley Green area has prospered through the hard work of its owners, meeting the demands of a diverse city by producing items from Asian sweets to iced sticky buns.
Until 2002, the delivery round would have been completed by Rashid Rauf, the eldest son of the firm's founder, Abdul Rauf, a devout Muslim who came to Britain from rural Pakistan in the early 1980s. Rashid's work was interspersed with visits to the nearby mosque, starting each day at 5am, and sessions at a gym. Like the rest of his family, he was unobtrusive and polite.
Rashid, 25, is now described with other labels among them "Mr Talibrum". He has been variously accused of being the "key player" , the "Mr Big" and the "mastermind" of the alleged plot to blow up transatlantic airliners, foiled 10 days ago by the police and security services in Britain and Pakistan.
He was arrested on 7 August, two days before the operation that led to the detention of 24 people in Britain, including his brother, Tayib, as he tried to board a bus in Bahawalpur, a dusty backwater 300 miles south-west of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.
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But with British sources playing down suggestions that Rashid was the " controlling mind" of the alleged plot
Perv needs a new cover story... MI5 isnt buying what he's selling.
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An outbuilding behind the family home, which was alleged to house an extremist mosque, has turned out to be used by their mother, Salma, to teach children the Koran.
In other words, an extremist mosque.
We cannot even imagine that the Rauf family is involved in this. They are very pious people."
And isn't it the "very pious" Muslims who are most dedicated to jihad? Wahabbists, the most pious of all Muslims would love nothing more than to take the elaborately decorated shrines in Mecca and Medina and paint them stark pure white to eliminate their idoltarous embellishments. The very pious Taleban blasted priceless megalithic Buddhas in the name of religious purity. Less pious Muslims tend to be those Mythical Moderate Muslim. In other words, these days "very pious" only tends to set off alarm bells.
(KUNA) -- In two different landmine explosions Thursday in Southwest Pakistani province of Baluchistan at least five paramilitary troopers were killed and thirteen others were wounded, said police. In the Bamboq area of Dera Bugti tribe, about 300 kilometers southwest of Quetta, the provincial capital, three soldiers were killed and 5 were wounded, police sources told KUNA. Furthermore in the Karmawatt district a landmine explosion killed two soldiers and wounded eight others, sources said.
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SRINAGAR: Suspected Islamic militants abducted and killed a former soldier in the Indian-occupied portion of Kashmir, police said Friday. Two suspected militants entered the home of Mukhtar Ahmed, a former soldier in the Indian army, in Beerwah village and took him away Thursday night, police officer Manzoor Ahmed. Hours later, residents found his bullet-riddled body on the outskirts of the village, Ahmed said. Ahmed blamed the killing on Islamic militants. Meanwhile, two policemen who were wounded by suspected militants in Srinagar on Thursday succumbed to their injuries at a local hospital, police said. The two men were injured when the suspected militants attacked a security patrol in the city's Lal Chowk neighbourhood. The militant group Jaish-e Mohammed claimed responsibility for the shooting.
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NEW DELHI: Police searched the historic Jamia Masjid soon after Friday prayers and said they entered the premises following a call that there was a bomb, but managers of the mosque said 'the incident was a conspiracy, which was unwarranted and uncalled for and aimed at defaming and desecrating the mosque'.
"They entered the premises without even informing us," said Ahmed Bukhari, imam of the mosque. He alleged that there were intelligence officials among the party that entered the mosque, but no bomb disposal squad, which nullified the police statement that they were searching for a bomb.
Following complaints, Delhi Police has ordered an enquiry into the matter. "An inquiry has been ordered and we are going through the facts," said a senior police official. The official said that a three-member police team went to the mosque at around 1400 hrs, following information that a bomb had been planted there. During the search, the imam objected to the police party entering the premises without his permission, he said, adding, "His main grievance was that he was not informed before the search."
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Wrong, they got permission from Allah the Moon God.
In yet another display of his arrogance, Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid Syed Ahmed Bukhari on Friday declared the masjid a 'no-go area' for the police and prevented officers from carrying out a search operation after they had reached there on a tip-off suggesting possibility of a paper bomb in the premises.
Bukhari and his men reportedly stopped the policemen, including the SHO of the area from carrying out the search and shouted at them.
According to some eyewitnesses, the Imam and his supporters even beat up sub inspector Abdul Kalim when he opposed him. Shahi Imam had also abused and manhandled a TV reporter Yusuf Ansari on April 18 this year.
According to police sources, Jama Masjid SHO Davender Kumar had gone to the masjid with SI Abdul Kalim and an ASI of special staff Abrar Ahmad at 1.45 pm.
He had reportedly informed the supporters of Imam before going for the check but they did not in turn inform the Imam.
When the SHO with other police officers went to the main tomb of the mosque, the Imam stopped them and asked for the reason for checking without his permission. The SHO told him that he had received information about a paper bomb in the mosque and had informed his men to call him to cooperate.
But the Imam reportedly fell in argument with the officers. According to some sources, the Imam even pushed sub-inspector Abdul Kalim.
However, the Imam alleged that cops did not inform them and entered the mosque without permission.
Strangely, Imam's brother Yahyah Bukhari said, "The SHO and two others, when asked, told us that they had come to the mosque for hanging around which is not allowed for a cop in uniform."
He alleged that the SHO met two tourists before going to the tomb and was unnecessarily bothering them. "We have doubts that the SHO and two other cops were sent by the Government following some conspiracy against us and it should be inquired into properly and action should be taken against them," alleged Khan. He also asked the police to register an FIR against the cops.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Neeraj Thakur, however said, "We have not received any complaint from anybody and we are carrying out an inquiry into the incident". According to police sources, if the SHO and two others are found guilty in the incident, there could be an inquiry against them for impropriety but they were on duty and the Imam has harassed them while performing duty.
Meanwhile, the call was declared hoax as no paper bomb was found in the mosque.
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KARACHI: Pakistani intelligence agents have arrested six suspects for a suicide car bombing outside the US consulate in March in Karachi, which killed an American diplomat and four other people, officials said. "I can confirm that six people have been arrested in connection with the US consulate suicide bombing," said a senior security official. Officials said that investigators had also identified the suicide bomber as Mohammed Tahir.
"Tahir used to work with Pakistani militant outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed and he was assigned the task by a person directly linked with Al Qaeda," he added. Tahir rammed his car laden with explosives into a diplomatic vehicle outside the consulate on March 2. The attack came less than two days before US President George W Bush was to visit Pakistan.
President Gen Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz have congratulated police and intelligence agencies for the arrests, said the Interior Ministry in a statement. "The president said that the credit for this excellent work went to the combined efforts of law enforcement and intelligence agencies," according to the statement.
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Perv is geting all kissie kissie huggy face. Too bad for him that nothing short of handing over Osama will do.
British investigators are in Islamabad working closely on the investigation with Pakistani counterparts. British and Pakistani officials have also been discussing the prospect of extraditing Rauf to Britain, an intelligence official said on Friday. But Pakistan's Interior Ministry spokesman said any imminent extradition was unlikely.
She rejected reports that Islamic charities funnelled funds to militants here for use in the plot...
"I think extradition at this point of time is not under consideration because the investigation is still ongoing," said Brig Javed Iqbal Cheema. "But we are not ruling it out."
Investigators were also looking into how the plot may have been financed and are focussing on leads outside of Pakistan, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said without elaborating. She rejected reports that Islamic charities funnelled funds to militants here for use in the plot.
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"I think extradition at this point of time is not under consideration because the investigation is still ongoing,"
Lookout for an 'encounter' that dispatches Rauf to his reward of 72 raisins. The LeT and JeM is just too valuable right now for the ISI to give them up.
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an accident? Spontaneous combustion?
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Britains MI5 has requested its counterpart in Pakistan to question Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, killer of American journalist Daniel Pearl, in connection with the abortive plot to blow up transatlantic flights bound for the United States. The British intelligence agency wants Omar Sheikh to be questioned because the London School of Economics graduate was the right hand man of Maulana Masood Azhar, founder of the Jaish-e-Mohammad.
Omar Sheikh, who was arrested in February 2002 and sentenced to death in July that year for the murder of the Wall Street Journal reporter, has been shifted from Karachi Central Jail to a more secure colonial-era jail in Hyderabad, Sindh. Despite repeated requests for his extradition to the US, Islamabad has refused to oblige, fearing that American access to the condemned man could expose the Inter-Services Intelligence. An intelligence source said MI5 wants to know whether any of the 21 British nationals of Pakistani origin arrested in England had ever met Omar Sheikh.
The query has been prompted by the fact that the 7/7 London suicide bombers, who had been influenced by two Britain-based militant groups Hizbul Tehrir and its splinter group Al Muhajiroon had visited Pakistan prior to the bombings. On their trip, they are believed to have visited two religious seminaries in Lahore and Faisalabad the Jamia Manzurul Islamia and the Jamia Raheemia both run by Jaish.
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Continuing on yesterday's theme... Britains MI5 has requested its counterpart in Pakistan to question Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh
Funny that we've got MI5/MI6 in situ to do that job. Confirms that Sheikh is ISI. He is from precisely the same area of London as the 21 currently under arrest - and is similarly middle class and educated like the plot leaders. I'm still waiting for John to source his claims for the meeting between Rauf? and Sheikh - this article intimates a Jaish link which may have alerted ISI - one presumes the scale of the impending plot was too hot for ISI to let through... unlike the tube bombs... due to the US being a target. Keep 'em coming Fred & apologies for thunking aloud.
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I'm still waiting for John to source his claims for the meeting between Rauf? and Sheikh
That was a quote from an article by the former Indian spymaster B. Raman.
10. While future evidence may prove the initial claims of the British Police to have been correct, the present evidence available from reliable police sources in Pakistan corroborate only the following facts:
* FACT 1: Four or five of those detained by the British Police had gone to Pakistan after the earthquake of October,2005, in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK) and in the Balakote area of the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) to do humanitarian relief work in camps run by the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JUD), the parent organisation of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET).
* FACT 2: The Jundullah (Army of Allah), a pro-Al Qaeda organisation, took them to its training camp in the Waziristan area, trained them in the fabrication and use of explosives and dropped them back in the JUD quake relief camps.It is not clear whether they contacted the Jundullah and sought training or whether Jundullah contacted them and motivated them to join its jihad against the West.
* FACT 3: Before returning to London, they met Omar Sheikh, who master-minded the kidnapping and beheading of Daniel Pearl, the US journalist in January-February,2002, in his jail in Sindh.Since nobody can meet him without the permission of the jail authorities, the latter must have been aware of their meeting with him and what was discussed. One does not know whether they immediately alerted the British authorities
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Many thanks John! Bingo. Will be interesting to see what comes out when they are charged. Meant to say some of the 21 arrested are from the same part of Londonistan as Sheikh.
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Has Osama bin Laden been sighted? A report with the Government of India says Al-Qaeda's top leadership was recently spotted near Darkot, a Pakistani village near the border with Afghanistan's Wakhan corridor. Sources say the report was made less than a fortnight ago. Till now, Bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri were thought to be in the rugged mountains of Pakistan, along Afghanistan's southeast border. There is now the possibility that they have shifted to the Wakhan corridor. Sticking out of northeastern Afghanistan, the corridor (a strip of land) is wedged between Tajikistan, Pakistan and the part of PoK known as Northern Areas.
The latest sighting is significant in view of the recently thwarted terror plot in the UK. Since then, the US and UK have been investigating Al-Qaeda's role in the plot, and the Pakistani link. Sources say there has been institutionalised exchange of information between western governments and India.
The main link to the UK terror plot is Rashid Rauf, recently arrested in Pakistan at the behest of Britain's MI5. Rauf is said to be linked to the Jaish-e-Mohammad, which, along with the LeT, has targeted India. New Delhi believes that he could provide substantial leads in the hunt for Al-Qaeda's core leadership. The last time a top Al-Qaeda terrorist was sighted, on January 15, the Americans had attacked. But Al-Zawahiri managed to escape the CIA's pre-dawn air strike on a village near Waziristan, Pakistan. Instead, 17 innocent people died.
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TT - Good catch. The innocence claimed at the beginning was eventually thoroughly disproven. I guess this classifies the Hinustan Times for us. Assholes.
And, appended to the story the way it is, I suspect this to be editorial slant, not the main writer.
It has only been in the past few years, reading WoT stories, that I've realized how the MSM editors, mostly islamophile, insert their stock phrases at the end of stories - repeating the big lie so that the reader internalizes it.
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Wakhan corridor. Sticking out of northeastern Afghanistan, the corridor (a strip of land) is wedged between Tajikistan, Pakistan.
(KUNA) -- Three Iraqi policemen were killed in a car bomb attack in the western suburb of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on Thursday, police said. A source at the police said in press remarks a booby-trapped car went off near a police patrol in Mansour area in western Baghdad. The attack killed three policemen and damaged the vehicle, said the source.
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(Xinhua) -- A group of Shiite pilgrims enroute to attend an major ceremony were attacked by unidentified gunmen in northern Baghdad Friday night, leaving seven people killed, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua. The attack occurred at about 9:30 p.m. in al-Adal district while the pilgrims were walking to the Imam Mousa al-Kadim shrine in Kazimiyah district for a ceremony.
Thousands of Shiite pilgrims from many parts of Baghdad and other provinces are gathering near the revered shrine in Kazimiyah district for the annual commemoration of the death of the seventh of the 12 most sacred Shiite imams. In last year's ceremony, about 1,000 Shiite pilgrims were killed in a deadly stampede on a bridge over the Tigris River, which was triggered by a fake suicide bomb alarm. The Iraqi authorities have tightened security in the capital and imposed a two-day vehicle ban in some neighborhoods starting from 9 p.m. (1700 GMT) on Friday to 6 a.m. (0200 GMT) on Monday.
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BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government announced a two-day vehicle ban in parts of Baghdad starting on Friday night as thousands of Shias converged on the capital to mark the martyrdom of a revered 8th century Imam.
Some 1,000 Shias were killed in a stampede during last years ceremony...
Some 1,000 Shias were killed in a stampede during last years ceremony after a crowd of faithful converging on the northern Kadhimiya district was panicked by rumours of a suicide bomber. It was the highest daily death toll since the end of the U.S.-led war in 2003 to oust Saddam Hussein.
The office of Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki told Reuters the ban would be enforced in about 11 districts around Kadhimiya, on both sides of the Tigris River, from 9 p.m. (1700 GMT) on Friday until 6 a.m. (0200 GMT) on Monday.
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You can always gauge how "serious" the Iraqi government is by when, and for how long, they do the obvious first step to reduce the violence: ban vehicles.
If they also shut down the cellphone network, then you'll know they actually intend to stop the violence. Without vehicles and cellphones, it would drop to a dribble.
They don't need such modern technology, anyway. They're just infidel devices to be perverted to Islamic idiocy.
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Agree re: the govt. Not sure about Iraqis as a whole.
Met a couple Univ. of Baghdad professors who were in the States this summer. They teach under the most awful conditions you could imagine, but are determined to help their country improve. Incredible people with a determination to make their country succeed
Not all of Iraq is the insurgency, nor the factional leaders that are jostling to figure out how democracy works. Even though both groups would like to claim they speak for the country as a whole.
JERUSALEM - Israeli special forces operated deep in Lebanon early Saturday, the army said, making it the broadest operation since a U.N.-brokered cease-fire took effect five days ago.
The army said its commandos entered Lebanon "to prevent and interfere with terror activity against Israel, especially the smuggling of arms from Iran and Syria to Hezbollah." The army said the force completed its mission successfully, but one soldier was reported killed and two others were wounded. Such operations would be carried out until an "effective" monitoring force is in place to prevent Hezbollah's rearmament, the army said.
The cease-fire put an end to 34 days of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah that erupted July 12 after the guerrilla group captured two Israeli soldiers and killed three others in a cross-border raid.
Mark Regev, a spokesman for Israel's Foreign Ministry, said the U.N.-brokered truce bans providing Hezbollah with arms and Israel is "entitled to act to defend the principle of the arms embargo."
"Once the Lebanese army and the international forces are active on the international frontiers to enforce the resolution then such Israeli activity will become superfluous," Regev said.
Hezbollah said its guerrillas foiled the commando raid, west of their stronghold of Baalbek deep inside Lebanon, sparking a gunbattle that left Israeli casualties. The army refused to confirm any casualties.
Lebanese security officials confirmed the Hezbollah TV report of a drop of Israeli commandos by helicopter on a hill outside the village of Boudai west of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon. Witnesses said Israeli missiles destroyed a bridge during the fighting. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to release information to the media, said the Israelis apparently were seeking a guerrilla target in a nearby school but had no other details. The officials also reported heavy Israeli overflights.
The raid marks the first time Israel launched a military operation on such a scale since the cease-fire went into effect Monday. Israeli troops have killed several Hezbollah fighters who threatened their troops in south Lebanon since the cease-fire, and warplanes have flown over the country. The cease-fire allows for self-defense.
Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV said the Israeli commando force landed before dawn and was driving into Boudai when it was intercepted by guerrillas, who forced it to retreat under the cover of warplanes, which staged mock raids. The Hezbollah report said blood-soaked bandages were found later at the landing site outside Boudai, about 10 miles west of Baalbek, indicating there were casualties among the Israelis.
Hezbollah officials on the scene said overflights from Israeli jet fighters drowned the clatter of helicopters as they flew into the foothills of the central Lebanese mountains, dropping commandos and two vehicles they used to drive into the village when the Hezbollah fighters intercepted them in a field. The commandos identified themselves as the Lebanese army, but the guerrillas grew suspicious and gunfire erupted.
Israeli helicopters fired missiles as the commandos withdrew and were flown out of the area an hour later, the Hezbollah officials said.
Baalbek is the birthplace of the Iranian and Syrian-backed Hezbollah. The area in the eastern Bekaa Valley, 60 miles north of the Israeli border, is a major guerrilla stronghold. Evidently the "fat lady" has yet to approach the microphone.
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Good. We need to see more of this "using their own tools agin 'em" type activity.
Hey, if cheat and retreat is good enuf for the Hajjis, it is good enuf for me.
Next on the to-do list: Intimidate "journaists" into a more co-operative frame of mind.
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In letters to Lebanese and Israeli leaders, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has warned the two countries against occupying additional territory and told them to refrain from responding to any attacks "except where clearly required in immediate self-defense."
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This action is ineffective and signals weakness, not strength. IDF suffered 1 killed, 1 seriously wounded, and killed, by their own accounts, only 3 Hezbollah. They accomplished, as far as can be told, little else. Olmert's incompetence is breathtaking, as is the Israeli public's continued support for him and his party. "My support's at 40%, what should I do?" "Launch a raid to show how tough you are, boss."
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What is the basis for the claims of the Lebanese/Hezzies who say that Israel is holding thousands of Lebanese prisoners? Who are these people? Were they all taken prior to the 2000 withdrawal?
I've also read about how the Christian Lebanese who were former allies of Israel are now anti-Israel because they felt they got stiffed by the Israelis. Any info on that would also be helpful.
These seem to be the 2 memes used to justify Hezz's actions. Just looking for the background on it. Thanks to all you perfessers at RBU for this continuing education opportunity!
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If Israel had put one acid hit in their orange juice every morning since these Hezb prisoners were jailed... why after all these years there would be no danger in releasing the vegies in any exchange.
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To #4 Israel only had about 4 Lebanese prisoners from pre-2000 events. The most prominent of them is in jail for breaking into a home and killing some of the Israeli family there including a 4-year-old: such a brave warrior to kill toddlers! Of course Hizbollah's recent attack has meant there are more prisoners now. But child murderering terrorists should not be included in an exchange of soldiers.
Israeli soldiers detained the Palestinian deputy prime minister early Saturday, the man's wife said, the latest step in an ongoing crackdown against Hamas. Troops burst into the home of Nasser Shaer around 4:30 a.m. and took him away, said the deputy prime minister's wife, Huda. She said her husband had been in hiding since Israel began its crackdown in late June after Hamas gunmen in the Gaza Strip infiltrated southern Israel and captured an Israeli soldier. She said he had rarely been home during that period.
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More trade bait
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Good - keep it up, IDF. Obviously, she won't miss him. Neither will anybody else.
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They need to work their way all the way up to the top. Abbas conferring a $22 million annuity upon Suha should have been the last straw for all involved.
Three Hamas members were killed by an explosion which took place Friday in the village of Dir Abu Daif, in the Jenin area. Palestinian sources say that the blast apparently took place because of a 'work accident' which took place while preparing explosives.
Don'tcha hate it when that happens? Heh heh...
The AP news agencies reported that three Hamas members were brought to hospital, with the body of one in two parts. Palestinian security sources say he was likely a Hamas member who accidentally set off an explosives belt he was wearing.
...three Hamas members were brought to hospital, with the body of one in two parts...
"Is he dead, Doc?"
"This end of him is."
On Thursday morning, two Islamic Jihad members were killed in a in the Bethlehem area, in a clash with an IDF force. Palestinians say dozens of IDF vehicles surrounded the home in which the two were staying. Exchanges of fire ensued, in which they the two gunmen were killed.
"You'll never take us [BANG! BANG!] ... Ow! Ow!... alive [BANGETY BANG!] ... [gasp]... coppers!... Rosebud!"
Palestinian witnesses say a man was injured overnight in an Air Force strike in Gaza City. According to witnesses, the attack was directed at a structure used to manufacture rockets, and the building was destroyed. The IDF said the building was used to manufacture weaponry. On Thursday, Mahmoud Abbas said Palestinian organizations agreed on a ceasefire and a calming down period. Hamas denied Abba's claims, as did Islamic Jihad.
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All together now:
Awwwwwwwww. Ain't that just too bad.
NOT!
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The AP news agencies reported that three Hamas members were brought to hospital, with the body of one in two parts. Palestinian security sources say he was likely a Hamas member who accidentally set off an explosives belt he was wearing.
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My father was never responsible for workplace safety in those parts back in the 1950s, else one half would certainly have been required to wear a hardhat, and the other steel-toed shoes. Of course, he never did institute safety regulations for the middle bit before he came to the States.
Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinian gunmen on Friday and wounded two other people in confrontations in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, medics and witnesses said. An army spokeswoman said two Islamic Jihad gunmen near the West Bank town of Bethlehem were shot and killed when they resisted arrest and shot at troops.
The Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades described the men as engineers, the term it uses for bomb-makers.
In Gaza, the spokesman said, troops shot at two Palestinians in a no-go area by a security fence. Palestinian medics said they had found the body of a gunman in Gaza from the Islamic Jihad group, north of the Karni commercial crossing between the coastal strip and Israel. Two other Palestinians were wounded, they said.
Three Palestinian militants from the armed wing of the governing Hamas Islamist group died in the West Bank city of Jenin on Friday while they were preparing a bomb, local security officials said. The Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades described the men as engineers, the term it uses for bomb-makers.
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The Good News continues.
"The Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades described the men as engineers, the term it uses for bomb-makers."
We call them dead.
/Army of Enlightenment, IDF Division
An internal Lebanese army statement, circulated among forces in the past week, has called for troops to stand "alongside your resistance and your people who astonished the world with its steadfastness and destroyed the prestige of the so-called invincible army after it was defeated".
The circular has alarmed ministers in the Lebanese cabinet who had been calling for the army to disarm Hizbullah.
It will also fuel the concerns of Israel, the US and the UN security council that the Lebanese army is incapable of securing the south of the country, adding increased urgency to the calls for a multinational force to be swiftly deployed.
According to sources close to the army command, there has been a tacit agreement between Hizbullah and the army that those fighters who hail from the south will return to their villages and all arms will be put out of sight. Publicly displayed weapons will be seized but any further attempt to disarm the group has been ruled out for the time being.
Retired general Nizar Abdel-Kader, a former deputy chief of staff for army personnel who is in close communication with the army command, told the Guardian: "The army knows there is a gun in every household, they are not going to go out and look for them ... What we are concerned about is the launchers. There is an agreement with Hizbullah that any weapons that are found will be handed over." A mutual respect and cooperation exists between the army and Hizbullah, according to Gen Kader. "They are two very separate entities but they cooperate on security issues," he said, adding that many of the army's troops were from southern Lebanon.
One defence analyst who asked not to be named said that, in the south, the army often acted as a subordinate to Hizbullah's military apparatus. "All intelligence gathered by the army is put at the disposal of Hizbullah but Hizbullah does not offer the same transparency to the army," he said. "In a sense, military intelligence in the south is operating on Hizbullah's behalf."
Another retired general, Amin Hoteit, now a professor at the Lebanese University, said: "The army sees Hizbullah as a group that is defending the country and so assists them as best it can."
Speaking last year, the Lebanese army chief of staff, General Michel Suleiman, said: "Support for the resistance is one of the fundamental national principles in Lebanon and one of the foundations on which the military doctrine is based. Protection of the resistance is the army's basic task."
The relationship had been strong for many years, Gen Kader said. "From 1996 onwards there has been a consensus in the army command that Hizbullah was a legitimate national defence force and that the government should extend its umbrella to protect the resistance." He said most army officials viewed the deployment primarily as a "counter-penetration force" working to prevent the infiltration of Israeli intelligence and military patrols.
Hizbullah's top official in south Lebanon, Sheikh Nabil Kaouk, told reporters in Tyre this week that the group welcomed the Lebanese army's additional deployment in the south. "Just like in the past, Hizbullah had no visible military presence and there will not be any visible presence now," he said. "We are helping them with our experience by advising them on the best strategic areas to deploy and the best means of protecting this land from Israeli and US violations."
The UN's expected deployment of 15,000 troops is seen as an additional force to assist in Lebanon's defence against Israel. "We are happy with such a large force to provide sufficient deterrent to Israeli aggression," said Gen Kader.
Reinforcing the fears of many in Israel that Hizbullah would continue to pose a threat, Amal Saad Ghorayeb, a Hizbullah specialist, said the arrival of the army and Hizbullah's redeployment further north was a largely superficial transformation. "The fact they have insisted on retaining their weapons in that area suggests that they intend to use them if and when the time comes."
Suggestions from Washington that the Lebanese army should forcibly disarm Hizbullah have been met with alarm by the army command. "If the mission of the army is to defend the people then the whole country will be behind it, but if it is to act against the resistance, it puts a big question mark over the future of the country," Gen Hoteit said.
Major-General Moshe Kaplinsky, Israel's deputy chief of staff, said his country intended to keep unmanned "outposts" in southern Lebanon.
Ordinary Americans are now enemies of Hizbullah, a Shia cleric said yesterday at the funerals of the 29 victims of the July 29 Qana bombing, above.
"American people, you are partners in these massacres, you are partners in this war," said Nabil Kaouk, the leading Hizbullah official in southern Lebanon. "After this no Lebanese can trust an American. You are all murderers and criminals."
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The UN forces will get there just in time for fireworks. No worries though, they will be led by the French and every French officer carries a white flage.
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"American people, you are partners in these massacres, you are partners in this war," said Nabil Kaouk, the leading Hizbullah official in southern Lebanon. "After this no Lebanese can trust an American. You are all murderers and criminals."
In the minds of your average Arab, is there anything we're not responsible for?
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In light of this, how is Israel supposed to believe that the border is being secured? Reinforced, more like. As so many others have suggested for the Palestinian Terrortories, a slowly walked artillery barrage incremented by another 100 yards each day until a fully de-militarized zone (i.e., rubble) is created. Any rocket attacks should be greeted by the clearing of a 1/4 mile perimeter centered on the launch point.
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I figured that this whole thing, from Lebanon siding with Hezb'Allah to the UN retreating from its side of the deal, would end up this way. I just didn't think it would happen this fast. In any case, if it had to go this way, I'm glad it happened quickly. GWB has all kinds of ammo now. Now all I hope is that the 50% of the public who can't seem to figure it out can actually figure it out. Am I hoping for too much? :-)
The Blow of Zolfaghar...
Iran on Saturday launched a series of large-scale military exercises aimed at introducing the country's new defensive doctrine, state-run television reported. The television report said the military exercise would occur in 14 of the country's 30 provinces and could last as long as five weeks.
The first stage of the maneuvers began with air strikes in the southeastern province of Sistan va Baluchistan, the report said.
With the insurgents there conveniently serving as the 'target' of the training mission.
The military exercises come as Iran faces heightened international scrutiny because of its contentious nuclear program and for supporting the guerrilla group Hezbollah in Lebanon. The Islamic Republic, which views the United States as an arch foe, also is concerned about the U.S. military presence in neighboring Iraq and Afghanistan and Israel's threats to destroy its nuclear facilities.
The military exercise, involving 12 infantry regiments, is called 'The Blow of Zolfaghar,' in reference to a sword that belonged to Imam Ali, one of the most revered figures of Islam for Shiite Muslims. Iran has routinely held war games over the past two decades to improve its combat readiness and test locally made equipment such as missiles, tanks and armored personnel carriers.
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IIRC, employing Soviet doctrine, the Egyptians used an exercise as the cover for their launch of the October War in '73. And 22 Aug is just after this weekend.
Good reason to destroy all those Iranian home satellite dishes, you really don't want your people to know that you just started WWIV. They might just get to you first before the End.
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Well, if Iran is going to begin an offensive war, its alternatives are ground invasion of southern Iraq or ground invasion of Saudi Arabia. No major US fleet is in missile range, and only a strike group is in the Med. This means that it would begin with a massive missile attack against the US air bases in Iraq and Bagram in Afghanistan.
However, their assumption would seem to be a ground advance from several directions, and to set up a defense-in-depth to counter it, with heavy AAA support.
Since Hezbollah has been neutered, Iran would probably not try to involve Israel at the onset, but focus on US ground forces.
Then again, they might be dispersing their forces figuring on a US air campaign.
Well, who knows what the war-gamers at the Pentagon know...
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"No major US fleet is in missile range, and only a strike group is in the Med."
Submarines. Remember our submarines. Ahmanutjob can't find those, but they can find him.
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Anonymoose...As someone with a little knowledge in that area...we could target and launch a couple of 100 TLAMs inside of 2 hours with assets in the region. Add that to fact we would could launch another 200-500 ALCMs + JDAMs with strategic assets within 12 hours. We could knock out most of the Iranian AF, Navy...and most of the armor in a day if they were on the move.
Iran is no threat. They woukd never get close to a major US installation.
Israeli drones and warplanes were crisscrossing the skies above Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley on Friday night, near the Hizbullah stronghold of Baalbek, security officials said. The reporter said military jets, helicopters and drones had circled over the area and had come under anti-aircraft fire but had not been hit and had not opened fire themselves. The officials had not reported any bomb or missile strikes although the Voice of Lebanon radio said the aircraft had opened fire.
The officials had not reported any bomb or missile strikes although the Voice of Lebanon radio said the aircraft had opened fire.
Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora phoned UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to protest "the continued violation of our Lebanese airspace by Israeli aircraft." The IDF said it had not attacked Lebanon since the ceasefire went into force. The IDF Spokesperson Unit reported that some Israeli ground forces are still inside Lebanon, but that this did not constitute a violation of the ceasefire agreement. After the ceasefire came into effect, senior officers said that the air force will continue to carry out sorties in order to ensure the safety of the forces on the ground, but that no strikes will be launched.
The army also stated that IAF warplanes did not sustain any hits in the course of these sorties. However, no comments were made on Friday's report. Israeli war planes frequently fly over Lebanese airspace and during the 34-day war with Hizbullah gunmen attacked targets across the country. The Bekaa Valley was heavily hit during the war, which ended with a UN sponsored truce on Monday, although there have been isolated incidents of violence since then.
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Just mapping the opposition. Nothing to see here, LOL.
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In light of the fact that the so-called ceasefire has been anything but that, Israel's actions can hardly be construed as anything different from those of Lebanon.
Kofi's disapproval should worry Israel about as much as toenail fungus. And treated similarly.
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanons army has begun setting up checkpoints near dozens of illegal border crossings with Syria and Israel in a bid to help prevent arms smuggling in the region, a Lebanese military official said Friday. The plan is apparently aimed primarily at preventing arms supplies from reaching Hezbollah guerrillas _ a key demand of last weeks U.N. cease-fire resolution that ended 34 days of ferocious fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.
I foresee a lot of newly-wealthy Leb border guards.
Lots of opportunity for entrepreneurs in the tunnelling business too.
Lebanese troops will set up checkpoints near roads close to illegal border crossings to keep a check on the illegal smuggling of arms as well as people and goods, said the official. The army plan covers an estimated 60 illegal border crossings with Syria in northern and eastern Lebanon. The first checkpoints were set up Friday but the official did not say how many, the official said.
The plan also covers border crossings with Israel in south and southeastern Lebanon which have been closed since the creation of Israel more than half a century ago. The official crossings with Israel, however, have been used by peacekeepers and during prisoner exchanges.
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Since they were waving through truck shipments of weapons before the ceasefire, duh
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LOL. I'm thinking this is really Scrappleface in drag disguise...
And exactly what is the West doing about jihad advocacy? We are letting more hostile Muslims in while they work to evict us from their countries, and hoping information of terror planning gets to police services.
Jihad 101 For Angry Muslims
...In 2005, a person calling himself "Ahmad, who trusts in God," gloated, in an essay published on the Internet, "Al-Qaida is a university for students of jihad." He was referring to the omnipresence of information for would-be terrorists. He continued:
Do you remember how al-Qaida got its start in the days of the Afghan jihad? It all began with the "Office of Services," the guesthouse (that housed Arab fighters) and the al-Faruq military camp -- and today al-Qaida has reached this blessed juncture! Al-Qaida ... is a university that is decentralized, respects no geographic boundaries and does not exist in any one location. And anyone who loves his religion can register. ... Praise be to God that the Al-Qaida University graduates (so many) heroes with various specializations. ... This university even has various departments: one for electronic jihad, one for jihad against oneself (in other words, to overcome one's own inner resistance), one for the technology of explosives and others. ... This university is still open, and it is saying to you: Oh you sons of Islam ... learn the art of jihad and its sciences! A student of jihad today and a mujahid on the path of God tomorrow!
"And a mujahid on the path of God tomorrow" -- these words map out the road from sympathizer to terrorist. Unfortunately, no one knows who is hiding behind the pseudonym "Ahmad, who trusts in God." But the author's enthusiastic language and the content of his writings suggest that he is probably one of the young men al-Qaida is trying to attract with its strategic choice to open up to the world.
Encyclopedia of Jihad: Instructions for using a weapon
The phenomenon of this new al-Qaida also means that we can expect to see new types of attackers in the future. One of their characteristics is that they take action quickly and without lengthy preparation.
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THE Afghan government admitted overnight that about a dozen people killed in a military strike by the US-led coalition might have been "terrorists" and not police as reported by Afghan officials. President Hamid Karzai had angrily condemned the attack on Thursday, saying the casualties were Afghan policemen patrolling in eastern Paktika province. He was informed about the attack by Afghan officials, including the provincial governor, a statement said. But a high-ranking government official said that it now appeared the men were "terrorists not our police."
The amount of illegal stimulants law enforcers seized in the first six months of 2006 was only 13.1 kilograms, an 85.6 percent drop from the same period last year, the National Police Agency (NPA) said. NPA officials believe that the amount of stimulants drastically dropped because their seizure of hundreds of stimulants smuggled on a North Korean boat in May dealt a death blow to the drug smuggling route from the country.
BERLIN - German police have taken into custody a suspect linked to last months failed plot to explode bombs on German trains, the federal prosecutors office said on Saturday. The person appears to be one of the two suspects that have been sought since yesterday with the help of video footage that was made public, the office said in a statement.
(Xinhua) -- Two suitcases containing bombs found on German trains last month were very likely to have been part of an attempted act of terrorism, a German investigator said on Friday. The daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported Friday, quoting security experts, that the amount of explosives contained in the bombs would have had the same devastating impact as last year's London underground bombings, which killed more than 50 people. The bombs, made with gas canisters, were found on July 31 on trains in Dortmund and Koblenz, said the Chief of the German Criminal Police Office (BKA) Joerg Ziercke in a press conference in Wiesbaden. They were apparently supposed to explode 10 minutes before the trains' arrival at the stations, Ziercke said. 
A former grocery store owner already facing three years in prison for aiding a terrorist group got 14 months tacked onto his sentence Friday for swindling a government social welfare program out of $1.4 million. 
(KUNA) -- In two different landmine explosions Thursday in Southwest Pakistani province of Baluchistan at least five paramilitary troopers were killed and thirteen others were wounded, said police. In the Bamboq area of Dera Bugti tribe, about 300 kilometers southwest of Quetta, the provincial capital, three soldiers were killed and 5 were wounded, police sources told KUNA. Furthermore in the Karmawatt district a landmine explosion killed two soldiers and wounded eight others, sources said.
SRINAGAR: Suspected Islamic militants abducted and killed a former soldier in the Indian-occupied portion of Kashmir, police said Friday. Two suspected militants entered the home of Mukhtar Ahmed, a former soldier in the Indian army, in Beerwah village and took him away Thursday night, police officer Manzoor Ahmed. Hours later, residents found his bullet-riddled body on the outskirts of the village, Ahmed said. Ahmed blamed the killing on Islamic militants. Meanwhile, two policemen who were wounded by suspected militants in Srinagar on Thursday succumbed to their injuries at a local hospital, police said. The two men were injured when the suspected militants attacked a security patrol in the city's Lal Chowk neighbourhood. The militant group Jaish-e Mohammed claimed responsibility for the shooting.
KARACHI: Pakistani intelligence agents have arrested six suspects for a suicide car bombing outside the US consulate in March in Karachi, which killed an American diplomat and four other people, officials said. "I can confirm that six people have been arrested in connection with the US consulate suicide bombing," said a senior security official. Officials said that investigators had also identified the suicide bomber as Mohammed Tahir. 
British investigators are in Islamabad working closely on the investigation with Pakistani counterparts. British and Pakistani officials have also been discussing the prospect of extraditing Rauf to Britain, an intelligence official said on Friday. But Pakistan's Interior Ministry spokesman said any imminent extradition was unlikely. 
Britains MI5 has requested its counterpart in Pakistan to question 
Has Osama bin Laden been sighted? A report with the Government of India says Al-Qaeda's top leadership was recently spotted near Darkot, a Pakistani village near the border with Afghanistan's Wakhan corridor. Sources say the report was made less than a fortnight ago. Till now, Bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri were thought to be in the rugged mountains of Pakistan, along Afghanistan's southeast border. There is now the possibility that they have shifted to the Wakhan corridor. Sticking out of northeastern Afghanistan, the corridor (a strip of land) is wedged between Tajikistan, Pakistan and the part of PoK known as Northern Areas.
(KUNA) -- Three Iraqi policemen were killed in a car bomb attack in the western suburb of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on Thursday, police said. A source at the police said in press remarks a booby-trapped car went off near a police patrol in Mansour area in western Baghdad. The attack killed three policemen and damaged the vehicle, said the source.
(Xinhua) -- A group of Shiite pilgrims enroute to attend an major ceremony were attacked by unidentified gunmen in northern Baghdad Friday night, leaving seven people killed, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua. The attack occurred at about 9:30 p.m. in al-Adal district while the pilgrims were walking to the Imam Mousa al-Kadim shrine in Kazimiyah district for a ceremony. 
BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government announced a two-day vehicle ban in parts of Baghdad starting on Friday night as thousands of Shias converged on the capital to mark the martyrdom of a revered 8th century Imam.
JERUSALEM - Israeli special forces operated deep in Lebanon early Saturday, the army said, making it the broadest operation since a U.N.-brokered cease-fire took effect five days ago. 
Israeli soldiers detained the Palestinian deputy prime minister early Saturday, the man's wife said, the latest step in an ongoing crackdown against Hamas. Troops burst into the home of Nasser Shaer around 4:30 a.m. and took him away, said the deputy prime minister's wife, Huda. She said her husband had been in hiding since Israel began its crackdown in late June after Hamas gunmen in the Gaza Strip infiltrated southern Israel and captured an Israeli soldier. She said he had rarely been home during that period.
Three Hamas members were killed by an explosion which took place Friday in the village of 
Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinian gunmen on Friday and wounded two other people in confrontations in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, medics and witnesses said. An army spokeswoman said two 
Israeli drones and warplanes were crisscrossing the skies above Lebanon's eastern 
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanons army has begun setting up checkpoints near dozens of illegal border crossings with Syria and Israel in a bid to help prevent arms smuggling in the region, a Lebanese military official said Friday. The plan is apparently aimed primarily at preventing arms supplies from reaching Hezbollah guerrillas _ a key demand of last weeks U.N. cease-fire resolution that ended 34 days of ferocious fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.
