NATO and Afghan forces killed more than 200 suspected Taliban guerrillas with air strikes and artillery fire in a major offensive in a volatile province in southern Afghanistan, the alliance said Sunday. Four soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force also died and seven were wounded in the fighting in Panjwayi district, about 10 miles from the city of Kandahar. "Reports indicate that more than 200 Taliban fighters have been killed since Operation Medusa began early Saturday morning," the NATO force said in a statement. More than 80 suspected Taliban fighters were captured by Afghan police and a further 180 insurgents were seen fleeing the district.
NATO said there were no reports of civilian casualties, despite the heavy weight of fire being used. An Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman, Gen. Zahir Azimi, said earlier in the day that a number of civilians were killed.
NATO said its estimate of Taliban casualties was based on information from its "surveillance and reconnaissance assets" and reports from Afghan officials and civilians living nearby. NATO spokesman, Maj. Scott Lundy, said NATO and Afghan troops had gained ground during Operation Medusa and had disrupted the militants' command and control so their fighters were moving in a confused way.
On Saturday, a reconnaissance plane supporting the offensive crashed, killing all 14 British military personnel on board. NATO said the plane was not brought down by hostile fire.
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I don't recall anywhere that it's reported that they get either pretty, or even willing virgins.
My hope is they get all the spinsters who wouldn't put out and now they're 90 plus set firmly in their ways and still think sex is filthy and sinful, in other words, no nookie and harrassed by spinsters with their pet cats for eternity.
Revenge is sweet.
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Penguin: Cub fans are not tenacious; we endure and we laugh a lot.
Somebody (can't remember if it was Ernie Pyle or Bill Mauldin) referred to the Nazis as "a square headed race with no sense of the ridiculous." The taliban are worse: they are a death cult, they have no sense of proportion, dignity, or justice.
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Actually, some months ago, due to a shortage of virgins, newly arriving muzzie terrorists were dismembered. In this way, the same 72 virgins, Helen, pictured above and 71 competitors, have been recycled without losing their virginity.
Carry on.
NATO says dozens of Afghan insurgents have been killed in an operation by Afghan and NATO forces against Taliban fighters. Officials say the goal was to clear out those fighters from an area near the main southern city of Kandahar.
An Afghan defense official cites intelligence reports as saying 89 suspected Taliban militants died during two days of fighting. He says an unknown number of civilians were also killed.
NATO says its troops reported dozens of insurgents killed during fighting yesterday, the first day of the operation. It says many more were wounded, and a significant number were arrested. NATO, contradicting the Afghan report, says there were no reports of civilian casualties. And it says it can't yet confirm reports of casualties among NATO forces. The operation continues today.
Afghan and NATO troops kicked off a major anti-Taliban offensive in southern Afghanistan, as 28 people including a British soldier were killed in a new wave of attacks. Operation Medusa was launched in Panjwayi district of southern Kandahar province -- the spiritual and symbolic heartland of the Taliban movement -- after residents had been warned for days to leave the area, officials said.
It involved "hundreds" of NATO troops and a similar number of Afghan police and army soldiers, a spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said. ISAF only deployed to southern Afghanistan a month ago and this operation is its biggest against the insurgents.
Panjwayi, about 35 kilometres (20 miles) west of Kandahar city, has seen months of intense fighting, with ISAF officials saying it has one of the biggest concentrations of Taliban in southern Afghanistan. Seasoned Taliban fighters in the area had been "hardening their defence positions and sandbagging buildings and bringing in ammunition," spokesman Major Scott Lundy said. "We have had indications that these Taliban fighters are of the hardcore variety as opposed to the soldiers-for-a-day we see sometimes," he told AFP.
Oh goodie, the 'D' team.
The area, from where the extremist Taliban emerged and took up arms in the early 1990s to eventually control most of Afghanistan by 1996, is also near a key east-west route that has seen several deadly attacks on foreign forces. "The goal is to remove the Taliban threat from Panjwayi and stabilise the situation so that much needed reconstruction and development projects can resume," Lundy said.
ISAF and Afghan officials had urged residents through the local media and meetings with area elders to leave before the offensive started, he said. "There have also been at least three leaflet drops that essentially tell Taliban fighters and their supporters to put down their arms and surrender," he said.
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"hardening their defence positions and sandbagging buildings and bringing in ammunition,"
it's Warthog Time!
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Twenty eight killed? How many of us and how many of the bad guys? (1:27 perhaps?)
Three criminals were killed in "crossfire" during separate incidents of shootouts between their accomplices and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Khulna and Rangpur early yesterday.
After a lull our boys in the RAB crank up the hot action ...
The dead were identified as Mohammad Abul Hossain, 24 and Mohammad Shamim, 23, members of outlawed Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP-Janajuddho) of South Tootpara in Khulna and Sadek Hossain alias Pancha Dakat, a police listed robber in Rangpur.
Not a jihadi in the bunch but we best not be too picky right now ...
Abul and Shamim died in an encounter between members of Rab-6 and the PBCP outlaws at about 2:50am on Saturday at Tootpara Barhokhalparh area under Khulna Sadar Police Station.
'Oh, the weather outside is nightful,
Three am's the time for rifles,
As long as we've a place to go,
Tag their toes, tag their toes, tag their toes ...'
They were arrested at Jorhakhal Bazar at around 9:00am on Friday, says a Rab press release.
Must have taken a while for Sargeant Pliers to extract a confession.
At least 31 shots were fired during the 16-minute long gunfight in which two Rab members sustained bullet injuries. The outlaws also exploded bombs, the press release said.
If you close your eyes you can almost imagine an authentic firefight.
Three cartridges and a few splinters of bombs were recovered from the scene.
No shutter gun? The press must be on to them. Instant givaway.
The slain outlaws were involved in extortions giving death threats over cellphones. People like high government and non-government officials, doctors, engineers and businessmen, became victims of their silent extortions during the last few months.
That would explain the involvement of the RAB.
Our correspondent from Rangpur reports: Sadek Hossain alias Pancha Dakat, a listed robber, was killed in "crossfire" during a shootout between Rab and a gang of robbers in Mithapukur upazila of the district.
We have no idea where that is.
Acting on secret information, ...
... quiet, it's a secret ...
...a number of Rab personnel cordoned off a house at the Krishna Mondolpara at about 4:00am, where the robbers were planning to rob a house, a Rab-5 press released said.
After dispatching the two Mohammeds they brought in a new RAB team.
Sensing the presence of the law enforcers, ...
... "Hark! My spider-sense is tingling!" ...
...the robbers opened fire on them to which the Rab responded ensuing a half an hour-long gunfight.
Not that Sadek lasted nearly that long ...
After the robbers fled the scene, Rab personnel found Sadek's body with several bullet injuries.
All in the back of the head ...
He was rushed to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) ...
... not a Level I trauma center, not that it mattered for Sadek ...
... where the on-duty doctor declared him dead.
"He's dead, Jim!"
Rab also recovered a shutter gun and five round of bullets from his possession.
Ah-ha! He was trying to make off with the shutter gun! Of course the RAB had to whack him.
A listed criminal, Sadek was released from jail two years ago after serving 10 years rigorous imprisonment (RI) for a murder.
Next time boys ask for 20 years; you'll live longer.
After that, Sadek, a resident of Nagerhat under Badarganj upazila got involved with different kinds of crimes including cattle lifting and robbery, the press release said.
Cattle lifting? Musta been a strong bugger. And just who goes around robbing cows?
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'Oh, the weather outside is nightful,
Three am's the time for rifles,
As long as we've a place to go,
Tag their toes, tag their toes, tag their toes ...
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday arrested five JMB (Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh) leaders and workers who had been regrouping in Gomostapur upazila in Chapainawabganj. They are Rajshahi regional JMB commander Abdur Rahim, 40, Abdul Quayyum Bin Ikramul Haq, 23, Ziaur Rahman, 25, Abdul Jabbar, 20, of Shahebgram and Manirul Islam of Nandalalpur Biharipara in the upazila.
The law enforcers also seized some jihadi books, audio cassettes, compact disks (CDs) and diaries from their possession. Rab members also held some 14 other people in different raids yesterday, including a PBCP outlaw, an imposter masquerading as Rab member and some Phensidyl smugglers.
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Those were not "jihadi books." They were national liberation works. Just ask CAIR and the dhimmis who detach unholy-Koran prescriptions for terror, from the cause-effect scheme.
BRITISH Pakistanis have joined Taliban insurgents fighting the army in southern Afghanistan, according to intelligence briefings given to senior military commanders.
The intelligence about their presence in Helmand province, where 13 British soldiers have died, is believed to have come from Pakistan, where the authorities have recently arrested suspects said to be involved in training Al-Qaeda and Taliban recruits.
A Pakistani official confirmed yesterday there were a number of British Pakistanis known to be fighting alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan. They come here quietly in twos and threes and then disappear. Its difficult to trace them as they [also] carry Pakistani nationality, the official said.
A source close to the Taliban claimed two British Pakistanis had gone through Waziristan on their way to fight the British Army six weeks ago. A second Pakistan official said others had since gone into Afghanistan in an individual capacity.
A second source close to the Taliban said no more than 10 of its fighters were known to be British passport holders, but added: There are a lot of Pakistanis [fighting with the Taliban] and one cannot say how many hold British passports.
News of British recruits among the Taliban suggests the war in Afghanistan, like that in Iraq, has become a magnet for extremists determined to fight western forces.
It comes as the head of Scotland Yards anti-terrorist branch told the BBC that British Muslims were also taking part in the fighting in Iraq. Commander Peter Clarke says on the Al-Qaeda: Time to Talk? programme on BBC2 tonight that the number of British Muslims suspected of being involved in supporting terrorism runs into thousands.
Asked if there was a pipeline to carry young British Muslims into Iraq, Clarke says there are individuals who, with connections, managed to facilitate peoples travel to Iraq to take part in the insurgency. He adds: We know who some of them are.
British troops estimate they have killed more than 1,200 Taliban insurgents in the past three months. But there seems to be no shortage of recruits. Chechen, Syrian, Egyptian, Pakistani and Yemeni nationals are among the foreigners fighting for the Taliban, who train recruits in the Pakistani city of Quetta.
The Pakistan border is the problem and we know it is hard to close it all off, but the Taliban seem to have a conveyor belt of new recruits, one source said.
The British fighting has been fierce around the outposts at Sangin, Musa Qala and Nowzad in Helmand over the past few days, with RAF and US aircraft mounting repeated bombing raids.
Ranger Anare Draiva, of the Royal Irish Regiment, was killed and another soldier seriously wounded in a Taliban attack on the Musa Qala base last Friday.
In another clash, a 20-man British patrol sent to root out a group of Taliban holed up in a house half a mile from the Sangin base last week found themselves outnumbered.
The British called in air support and waited while the target was demolished but there were far more Taliban than anticipated. The soldiers were overwhelmed and had to call artillery fire onto their own positions before dashing under Taliban fire back to their base.
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At least it offers the chance to simply gun them down, the way you really can't on the streets of London.
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I can sum up this entire situation in one word: flypaper
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Its difficult to trace them as they [also] carry Pakistani nationality, the official said.
All this time I had no idea that these were dual nationals. That makes things much simpler; require these people to make a choice of one or the other... then do a deep examination of the backgrounds of those who choose to be Pakistani (and of anyone who choses Britain but travels or gets money from Pakistan, which I suspect the MIs are already doing without waiting for my advice). This dual loyalty nonsense is no longer tolerable.
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why let em choose? Revoke their British citizenship. Deport em and don't let em back. Dual citizenship is a joke.
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All good comments. This shows their true loyalty. It also demonstrates the reason we have been carrying on in Iraq/Afghanistan. It is a magnet which draws these saps like bees to honey. And we can cut them down at will like ST says. Can't be done in downtown London...yet.
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Currently we can't even deport foreign nationals involved in jihadi activities because they claim they'll be tortured in their home countries and the courts rule in their favour. We need new laws to give parliament an absolute right to deport people or revoke citizenships on National Security grounds.
Anti-terror police raided what is believed to be Britain's first home-grown jihad training camp in the grounds of a former English ballet school. They rounded up a network of alleged terrorist recruiters after spying on them at the secluded country mansion.
It is understood the group, which included several recent converts to Islam, were being schooled in fundamentalist ideals associated with Al Qaeda. Last night, 14 men were being questioned, including at least one man described as a 'high-profile fundamentalist Muslim cleric'.
"Nigel, be a good chap and hand me that number seven right there."
Months of painstaking surveillance by MI5 culminated in police swooping on a group of 12 men as they sat down to a £4.99 'all-you-can-eat' halal buffet in The Bridge To China Town restaurant in Borough, South London, late on Friday night, after they returned from a trip to the Islamic school.
'All you can eat halal'? That explains the corpulent look of some of the boys. Nothing like a few slabs of goat steak to fill a man out ...
It was followed by a series of raids at addresses across the capital and a massive police and forensic operation targeting the building and grounds of the Islamic school in East Sussex where they had been staying.
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and there's probably many more of these schools. This happens to only be one that was found out.
No textbooks eh? Probably funneling the money as well.
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The Trust bought the school in 1991 for £850,000, with money raised by Muslims across the country.
That $1 million plus purchase price came from exactly where? Most likely it was zakat, largely donated by, guess who? Moderate Muslims. This is why I have largely ceased to differentiate among Muslims in general. No questions are being asked by a majority of the Islamic community as untold millions of dollars flows into the coffers of jihadist terrorists. Until Muslims actively intervene instead of relying upon the kuffar to catch every last stinking security violation, they are all one in the same. A threat to Western civilization.
Actually a threat to the entire non-islamic world. While the Western civilization has potentially the best means of dealing with this Cult of zombied vampires, self-afflicted political correctness shackles it foolishly.
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It's only the tip of the iceberg and only in the UK. What about other european countries? Good work from MI5. Now we have see how socialist forces in the UK will start their media offensive and tell that it is all discrimination.
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Praise be to allan that MI5 have plenty of experience in infiltrating terror groups because of their work against IRA. One mole for every active jihadi should keep them under wraps.
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Amen, Zenster. The bulk of the world's Muslims aren't interested in going on jihad themselves, but they'll cheerfully fulfill their obligation by handing over the cash. They know damned well where it's going, and approve.
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There are an estimated 1.2 million muslims in the world. We can't kill them all, but we CAN (and are) killing the most 'adventurous' of the lot in Afghanistan and Iraq. It'll take several more years, but eventually the 'adventurous' ones will be killed off, and only the placid ones will be left to deal with. Those can be isolated and marginalized.
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The old ballet school cover up trick hmmm.... If they had looked closer at the personal intersts of the al Qaida top dawgs, they would have noticed their peculiar fetish for not only dressing up as women, but wearing tutus, fantasizing as being ballarinas and having boy harems. A look at this would help home in on a segment of the leadership that has a lip-lock on these fetishes. What a double the pleasure it must have been for this secret training camp, and an inside joke among the leaders. If some stereotyped non-ballet types in the future inquire about purchasing such facilities in the future using a Pakistan-Afghan region-like accent, then by all means take their money and report them. Make the Queen proud and the rest of the kingdom. Tally-ho!
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gromgoru, it looks to me like this airplane hijacking plot they stopped was the end of a thread that they just keep on pulling to unravel the fabric. I suspect whole units are going to sleep each night with happy smiles on their faces, awakening full of zest to the joys of the next day's labours -- and emailing the results to share the joy with the cousins across the pond.
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia A gunman fleeing a police traffic stop in a troubled southern Russian region died after an explosive device he was carrying possibly a suicide bomber's belt detonated, a regional police official said Saturday.
... it was unclear whether gunshots from police or the man himself detonated the explosives, which may have been attached to a belt like that used by suicide bombers
Another man was shot and wounded during the Friday evening incident the latest in a series of violent events and attacks on police in Ingushetia, which neighbors war-torn Chechnya.
Ingush Interior Ministry spokesman Nazir Yevloyev said police had stopped a small sedan carrying the two men near the region's main city and were trying to search it when one of the men bolted from the car toward a nearby field. Police returned fire before an explosion killed the man. Yevloyev said it was unclear whether gunshots from police or the man himself detonated the explosives, which may have been attached to a belt like that used by suicide bombers.
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Get into a shootout with 10 kilos of Semtex strapped to your @ss. One Darwin Award, coming right up!
(Interfax) - Powerful hand-made explosives have been found in the Zavodskoi district of Chechnya, a source in Chechen law enforcement agencies told Interfax on Saturday morning. "Hand-made explosives prepared for planting were found in an investigative operation in premises in Almaznaya street of the Aldy village. Explosives were made of six metal pipes filled with TNT, with total weight of 200 kilograms," the source said.
"Thus, possible terrorist attacks were prevented," the source said, adding that six shells of the gauge of 120 millimeters, a short rifle, a hand-made Borz rifle, as well as eleven rounds for rifle-attached grenade launcher, a large quantity of various grenades, ammunition, detonators and a sleeping bag, were found in the same premises as well.
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(KUNA) -- Five Turkish soldiers died Saturday in clashes with armed men from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in mainly-Kurdish areas in southeast Turkey.
Ikhlas news agency, quoting Turkish security sources, said during an ambush operation by Kurdish rebels, three Turkish soldiers from Turkey's Special Forces unit died.
On another front, a statement issued by Hakari regional office said two Turkish soldiers died and another two were injured in armed clashes with Kurds from the PKK in the town of Tashkorjah.
In recent days, the Turkish Army has deployed troops along the borders with Iraq in preparation for a full attack on the PKK activists, who repeatedly cross the border to fight Turkish forces and attack other targets.
Ankara blames the PKK for attacks and killings of more than 37,000 people since 1984, when the Kurdish movement started a violent campaign for separation of southeastern Turkey.
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(KUNA) -- Three members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were arrested here Saturday by Turkish security forces on charges of attempting to conduct several terrorist attacks in the country.
A statement by the Turkish police headquarters said the PKK members were arrested in the districts of Baclar and Umraniye in the capital. The police confiscated an amount of money from the PKK members, said the statement which added that civil IDs and leaflets for the organization were also found in the hideout. The Turkish government accused the PKK of planning several bombing attacks that occurred lately in Turkey.
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Amsterdam is the PKK capital of Europe. The PKK has it's media office there.
The PKK also have some strong links with Dutch socialist parties.
Lebanon charged five suspects with attempted murder and arson in connection with a plot to bomb German trains in late July. Three of them, all Lebanese, were arrested in Lebanon while one Lebanese and one Syrian are being detained in Germany. They face up to 25 years in prison if convicted.
German federal police said Saturday that the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in Western and some Arab media had been the "detonator" which pushed the alleged terrorists to organize a plot to bomb German trains on July 31. The plan failed when bombs hidden on two regional trains did not explode due to faulty detonators.
One of the suspects, Yusef Mohammed al-Hajj Dib, who was arrested in Germany on August 16, "interpreted (the caricatures) as an affront to Islam by the Western world," federal police chief Jorg Ziercke told the German Focus Online magazine in an interview to be published Monday.
He and another suspect, Jihad Hamad, who was arrested on August 24 in Lebanon, are the two main suspects. Ziercke said they were influenced by the late Al-Qaeda in Iraq chief Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
According to the German newspaper Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, the investigation found that the suspected terrorists initially wanted to strike during the World Cup football chamionship from June 9 to July 9. They changed their minds due to the risks and repercussions their act could have triggered, according to the newspaper.
Lebanon's general prosecutor Said Mirza has opposed transferring Lebanese suspects to Germany. They are "Lebanese citizens, their trial needs to take place here and they must serve here any sentence they may be given," he said.
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A Cleveland grocer has been arrested in an alleged baby formula theft ring, a potential source of funding for terrorist groups abroad, officials said. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported Sunday that Hasana Abdalla allegedly planned to purchase a truckload of stolen formula, something that was apparently common for him, having previously purchased a dozen truckloads.
Abdalla had $100,000 cash and headed to Akron to close the deal, but this time it was a setup, the Plain Dealer said. Local and federal officials swooped in, seized Abdalla's money, impounded his red 2006 Mercedes and arrested him in a nationwide crackdown on the lucrative black-market trade in baby formula.
Since Sept. 11, 2001, federal officials from North Carolina to Texas have broken up theft rings dealing in large quantities of baby formula and health and beauty products, such as diabetes test strips and contact lens solution. Most of the half-dozen alleged ringleaders arrested have been of Middle Eastern descent. Federal officials have repeatedly said they worry the profits may be funding terrorism, but none of the eleven baby-formula cases reviewed by The Plain Dealer involved terror-related charges.
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"Federal officials have repeatedly said they worry the profits may be funding terrorism, but none of the eleven baby-formula cases reviewed by The Plain Dealer involved terror-related charges."
Smart move, even if the Feds are pretty sure these clowns are funding terrorists and are not just ordinary greedy criminals.
Charge them with terrorism and the media goes nuts (on the criminals' side) and CAIR and the ACLU turn each trial into a media circus.
Better off just sending them to prison as plain old ordinary felons, seizing all their assets, and watching who has contact with them in prison.
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heh heh...wait'll the IRS gets through with him. He'll need a public defender
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Now I understand why we were bombing Iraqi baby milk factories during the first gulf war. For the longest time I thought they were just fake signs to throw us off of hitting real targets.
An Army investigator has recommended that four soldiers accused of murder in an Iraqi raid face the death penalty. Lt. Col. James P. Daniel Jr. made the recommendation in report obtained Saturday by The Associated Press.
Daniel found several aggravating factors that warrant a sentence of death in the case of four soldiers accused of killing three men during a May raid in Iraq. Staff Sgt. Raymond L. Girouard, Spc. William B. Hunsaker, Pfc. Corey R. Clagett, and Spc. Juston R. Graber, all of the Fort Campbell, Ky.-based 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, were accused in the deaths.
The soldiers have claimed they were ordered to "kill all military age males" during a raid on an island on a canal in the northern Salahuddin province. According to statements from some of the soldiers, they were told the target was an al Qaeda training camp and that every military-age male should be killed.
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Yeah, but has Murtha weighed in yet?
Since he hasn't pronounced them guilty, they must be innocent.
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Why do I get the feeling this is another politically correct setup designed to demoralize our troops? F*** those guys and the horse they rode in on, too. Until I see a balanced jury find them guilty, my weight goes behind the good guys in this fight. I don't see how such orders could be a mistake on a training camp that belonged to AQ. Anybody there except prisoners should be shot between the eyes without a second thought because they're complicit just by being there.
Anybody have a quick link on the details known so far about this case?
Miran Shah (AKI)- (by Syed Saleem Shahzad) - "We will bring the Islamic revolution to Pakistan and make the country the home of Islam" - powerful lines from a Pashtu poem - rang out loud and clear in a tent packed with hundreds of people celebrating the graduation of madrassa students in Miran Shah, on the Pakistan-Afghan border. But it was far more than just a ceremony. Locals referred to Wednesday's meeting as the largest ever gathering of pro-Taliban militants, tribal elders and politicians in Waziristan's history, and for many it was a snapshot of the changing dynamics in the volatile region.
The meeting comes at a period of negotiations between the Pakistan government and the pro-Taliban militants in the tribal region, which were both engaged in intense fighting earlier this year in which dozens of tribal militants and government troops were killed.
A conditional ceasefire agreement was reached in June and was extended last Friday until December 2006 with the government agreeing to the demand for the release of 10 pro-Taliban militants and the reduction of the Pakistan Army presence in the tribal belt to just three ares.
Both North Waziristan and South Waziristan appear to have now begun to develop a new system to administer the tribal agency where politicians, tribal elders and clerics are in the forefront and pro-taliban militants, also known as Pakistani Taliban, appear to be in the backbenches, but are actually in charge of the situation.
Seated at the meeting were some of the most-wanted faces from the past - Maulana Sadiq Noor and Maulana Abdul Khaliq - religious scholars whose seminaries were demolished by Pakistani forces just a few months ago. Also at the meeting was Maulana Deendar, an ideologue for the Pakistani Taliban. All three were silently seated in the back row.
The stage was in the hands of political-cum-religious figures in the region like Maulana Abdul Rahman and a member of the provincial assembly in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP), Maulana Amanullah, who are believed to be the two main brokers of the truce agreement between the Pakistani security forces and Pakistani Taliban.
As usual, the commander of the Pakistani Taliban in North Waziristan Gul Badar did not make a public appearance and instead sent his representatives, the members of Mujahadeen Shura (council), to attend the ceremony for fresh madrassa graduates.
"We have given a great sacrifice on many counts to give this truce a chance," said Maulana Mehmoodul Hasan, the chief patron of the Jamiat-i-Talba-i-Islam, a student wing of Jamiat-i-Ulema-i-Islam led by Maulana Fazlur Rehman. Rehman is the opposition leader in Pakistan's national assembly who has joined the efforts to restore peace in the retive tribal region.
"Now Mujahadeen (Pakistani Taliban), Ulemas (clerics) and the Mishran (tribal elders) are at one forum and are aiming to develop an indigenous system to run the region without the intervention of the Pakistan Army, Mehmoodul Hasan told Adnkronos International (AKI).
"We made it clear that the political agents must be in charge of the tribal area and we, the locals, will run the affairs with their coordination like it has been in the past," Mehmood asserted. The political agent is the Pakistan government's representative in each tribal agency.
According to local sources, the gathering which has been called the largest-ever in the history of both North and South Waziristan, is part of a strategy to counter any moves by US-led coalitions forces to target the two Waziristans in fresh attacks as part of their war on terror. Last month a tripartite commission including Pakistan, Afghanistan and US and NATO forces, discussed plan to track down Taliban fighters across the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. At the meeting, it was agreed that North and South Waziristan were the main conduits of violence and suicide bombers and that it was necessary that the region be part of the front in the war on terror.
As a solution to the problem, Pakistan has proposed to fence the border in this region which is known as the Durand Line, an imaginary border that passes through the mountainous areas, porous and impossible to seal. While Afghanistan has expressed reservations about such a proposal, the Americans are also not satisfied insisting instead on a broad scale pursuit of the Taliban militants, wherever they find terror, even if it is on the Pakistani side of the Durand Line.
The most recent visit by US Centcom (Central Command) General John Abizaid was part of this same campaign.
Wednesday's gathering highlighted the position of the hardliners in the two Waziristans and made it clear that the pro-Taliban forces in tribal belt are really calling the shots. More such gatherings are expected to bring forward a real tribal council to take over control in the region.
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I think the Pak's should give them Independence, then NATO can give it back to them later, after they are done.
Three months after the RCMP began arresting 18 suspects accused of plotting terror attacks in Canada, an investigation by the National Post has uncovered a web of links to Pakistan. Today, in the first of four parts, the role of a Pakistani training camp is revealed.
BALAKOT, Pakistan - A worn footpath climbs from the Kaghan Valley highway into the lush mountains above the River Kunar, on Kashmir's western frontier. The locals all know where it leads.
An hour's walk up the steep trail there is a training camp built by Islamic militants called Madrassa Syed Ahmed Shaheed -- a long barracks building and a few guard posts to keep outsiders away. Young Muslim volunteers from Pakistan and beyond have long trekked here to Balakot to train for jihad, and one of them was allegedly a Canadian named Jahmaal James.
A National Post reporter was able to locate the Balakot training camp and hike to its periphery, where an outbuilding could be seen, possibly a guard post.
Locals cautioned against visiting the "mujahedeen" camp, saying it was guarded by armed men who detained intruders as spies. "Those people are mental," one man said.
An accused member of the Toronto extremist group that the RCMP says plotted al-Qaeda-inspired terror attacks in southern Ontario, Mr. James allegedly visited Balakot for training during a recent four-month trip to Pakistan. What the 23-year-old did during his stay in the land of jihad is the subject of an ongoing counterterrorism probe involving police and intelligence services in several countries.
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Canada? That's juz a bit north of the US, huh
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"Those people are mental,"
Money quote
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there's probably a few training camps here in the states. Scary to think about it.
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"Armed camp" becomes "armed area/enclave" becomes "Armed State-within-a-State". Canada becomes another Lebanon or North Korea, wid locals pretending to both themselves + outsiders they are not controlled by somebody else.
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The magazine includes an editorial by Mr. Saeed that condemns the Pakistani government for reforms he complains are turning the country into "a modern Western state."
Oh, the humanity! On second thought, yes, the humanity!
"Egyptians have made their country modern," he writes. "Now there [sic] country is working as the base for the advancement of Jewish interests. Its streets give a Western look and these territories are under undeclared occupation of Christian world."
Tell that to the tourists at Luxor and Sharm al-Sheikh.
Nawaz Akbar Khan Bugti, the deceased Baluch nationalist leader, was laid to rest on Friday at his ancestral graveyard in the Dera Bugti area of the trouble-stricken Baluchistan province, although the military authorities did not allow anyone to see his dead body.
According to government sources, the dead body of Akbar Bugti was retrieved late on Thursday night from the rubble of a cave in which he was hiding before being killed by the Pakistani security forces in a massive military operation on August 26. The body was taken to Dera Bugti on Friday morning and directly taken to the late tribal chiefs ancestral graveyard there. Ironically, the government had announced that not more than six of his family members would be allowed to attend his funeral. The government further announced that the body would not be handed over to the family and the burial would be taken place by the local administration. This infuriated his sons who decided not to attend the funeral.
Despite repeated demands by the journalists present on the occasion, the military authorities did not allow them to have a look at the face of the dead body. According to the Inter Services Public Relations Director General Major General Shaukat Sultan, the dead body was badly mutilated and stinking and it could not be shown to anyone. We can say in medical terms that the dead body was in an advanced stage of decay and it was examined by doctors before being taken to Dera Bugti. He said the body was identified from the watch Bugti used to wear and his glasses.
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From Yesterday
[..] So in short, we're sitting around making snarky statements about a massive victory for the guys who did 9/11 and a massive defeat for us?
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In Baluchistan, the Pakistani Army is directly subverting the traditional rule of the tribal chiefs.
In Waziristan, it is being done by their proxies - the Taliban. Talibs are killing the tribal leaders at will now.
Both are for the same reason... the tribal chiefs will be far more accommodating to American and western armed forces hunting Taliban.
By replacing the tribal chiefs with mullahs, the ISI hopes to keep control over the regions and limit American activities.
It is essential for Pakistan to keep their jihad infrastructure intact and maintain the wars they fight in Afghanistan and Indian Kashmir.
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"Now Mujahideen (Pakistani Taliban), Ulemas (clerics) and the Mishran (tribal elders) are at one forum and are aiming to develop an indigenous system to run the region without the intervention of the Pakistan Army, Mahmudul Hasan told Adnkronos International (AKI).
According to local sources, the gathering which has been called the largest-ever in the history of both North and South Waziristan, is part of a strategy to counter any moves by US-led coalitions forces to target the two Waziristans in fresh attacks as part of their war on terror.
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Just wondering since I've followed events in Pak/Wazoo/A-Stan/Baloch fairly closely the last few years..
Since the Karzai gubmint, vis-à-vis 'The Treacherous Perv and the ISI', clearly had mutual interests with Akbar Bugti and the Balouchis, have you knowledge of any contacts between Bugti & Karzai & the USA? Or was Akbar Bugti sophisticated enough work with Karzai or get him to work something out with the Americans/coalition so that all three could work for the common goal of putting down the Taliban together?
[I only hope our rotten to the core State Dept/CIA didn't help kill off another potential great Humint asset in order to please Perv.]
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Nawab Bugti (and the Marri, who comprise the majority of the fighters ) almost certainly was receiving foreign support.
Iran? Doubtful since a strong Baloch insurgency directly threatens their own Balochistan and opens the way to US forces operating freely just across that border.
India? Almost certainly. There are reports of RAW contacts.
Afghanistan? Certainly.
The Pak complaints about Indo-Afghan support are not baseless.
The US ? Possibly.
One interesting point is the release of one of the young Marri heirs by the UAE government. Pak wanted him but the UAE ignored them.
India has in the past been quite unsucessful in persuading UAE to do anything. Afghanistan has no clout. Only the USA has that sort of pull there.
India has gotten terrorist accused transferred from the UAE after a call to the Secretary of State who read the riot act to the UAE.
Why would the UAE release Marri unless it was on the behest of a powerful country?
Bugti died because he was careless, giving interviews to Western and Indian journalists on his sat phone. His bodyguards had no fire discipline, opening fire on the recon gunships sent to confirm his location and giving the game away.
It is ironic that Pak used the elint equipment and guided missiles given to them by the US to track the sat phones of Taliban and Al Qaeda to kill Bugti.
They've never used that equipment against any Al Qaeda or high level taliban.
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Bugti died because he was careless, giving interviews to Western and Indian journalists on his sat phone. His bodyguards had no fire discipline, opening fire on the recon gunships sent to confirm his location and giving the game away.
"sophisticated" was a poor choice of words on my part...perhaps pride [hubris] prevented Akbar Khan Bugti from seeking closer alliances with the Pashtuns [Karzai] or the USA? ..or maybe he considered India a more reliable/loyal ally?
lots of juicy tid-bits to chew on John, many thanks.
The Pakistan government has decided to hand over Rashid Rauf, the main suspect in the London terror plot, to the United Kingdom, interior ministry sources here say. The sources said although there was no extradition treaty between Pakistan and the UK, as a signatory of a United Nations convention and under different provision in the law of the country, the government could hand over the accused to Britain.
They said there were precedents that people wanted in different cases had been handed over to the UK. "We have handed over some people to the British government in the recent past." The UK has submitted a request to the Foreign Office seeking custody of Rauf. The accused is reported to possess dual nationality of Pakistan and the UK."Rauf is a British national, therefore he can be repatriated to the UK on special grounds," the sources said.
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Now that they've had time for him to rehearse his lines.
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Will the rehearsal stand in the face of a really bland diet stripped of a couple of critical brain chemicals, Zenster? I suspect not. (Long ago Oldspook explained why torture is no longer necessary, given all that the brain biochemists have discovered. Very comforting, (except to the bad guys, of course) to tell the truth.)
QUETTA A strike paralysed Pakistans restive Balochistan province yesterday after the controversial burial of a top rebel leader whose killing sparked days of deadly rioting.
There was also unrest as mobs set fire to a police post and shops in Panjgur district in Balochistan. Police said they arrested 70 men for inciting trouble and the situation was tense. Partial strikes also hit southern Sindh and central Punjab provinces.
In the port city of Karachi, Pakistans commercial and financial hub, police and protestors exchanged fire and angry mobs blocked roads, burnt tires and pelted moving vehicles with stones. Police lobbed tear gas shells and exchanged fire with protesters in the Lyric and Landau neighbourhood of the city. Three people, including a policeman, were wounded in the firing, officials said.
The strike was called by opposition parties following the killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti, a veteran Baloch nationalist, in a military operation last Saturday. Bugti, seen as a hero for his long-running confrontation with the central government of President Pervez Musharraf, was slain last week in his cave hideout in a military offensive.
Authorities, fearing a repeat of angry protests earlier this week that left 10 dead, quietly buried Bugtis body amid tight security before only a few dozen tribesmen, with his family, friends and supporters absent. Officials have blamed the collapse of Bugtis cave hideout on an unexplained explosion and have denied trying to kill the white-bearded octogenarian.
It took army engineers, working under tight security, until late Thursday to dig out his badly decomposed body. The body was in an advanced stage of decay, said military spokesman Major General Shaukat Sultan.
The corpse was taken to Dera Bugti in a sealed coffin and it was not shown to journalists attending the burial, private GEO television said. Maulana Malook Bugti, who led the funeral prayers, told reporters that he had seen the body and identified Bugti, the network said.
Opposition parties have demanded an inquiry into Bugtis death, who was one of more than 20 people killed in the military blitz. Army engineers were still looking for other victims.
Witnesses said all markets, banks and schools in Balochistans capital Quetta were closed.
Bugtis death prompted four days of rioting which left 10 dead as mobs torched buildings, banks and set off explosions in towns and cities throughout Balochistan.
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NDTV has learnt that investigating agencies have now got fresh leads in the Mumbai blasts case. Akmal Hashmi - alias Abu Ahmed, a divisional commander of the terror group Al-Badr - was arrested by the anti-terror squad from south Kashmir on August 23. He was then brought to Mumbai where he was being interrogated.
"Mukkerjee, the Number Seven truncheon, please!"
"Yessir!"
"And wax my moustachios!"
As per information provided by the ATS, during the interrogation, he is understood to have revealed that a group of 17 men were involved in the Mumbai serial blasts on July 11 this year.
"Aaaaiiiieeee! There wuz 15 of 'em!"
"You're sure it wasn't more?"
"Okay, 17, then! Just don't do that again!"
Hashmi, who is an ex-Hawaldar of the Pakistan Army, is also learnt to have revealed that all 17 men were trained by the Lashkar-e-Taiba in Pakistan. However, now 16 of these men have escaped and are back in Pakistan.
"Hi, Mom! I'm home!"
"Back so soon, Mahmoud?"
Yet, the revelations could prove to be key insights into the planning and execution of the Mumbai serial blasts. Hashmi has also revealed that the whereabouts of the 17th man, Abu Janar, is yet unknown. Coincidentally, of the 186 people who lost their lives in the serial blasts, the body of only one victim has not yet been identified.
I think we can guess where Abu Janar is.
The body is currently at the Sion hospital in Mumbai, and sources in the ATS say that this could very well be the body of one of the bombers.
"This body, Dr. Quincy?"
"Yes. He was found hanging from his belt loop on one of the destroyed trains."
The unclaimed body at Sion hospital was badly damaged in the blast and in an unidentifiable condition, but forensics experts have constructed a mask of his face using reconstruction techniques. However, there are conflicting reports as Jammu and Kashmir police has contradicted the ATS. Jammu and Kashmir police sources suggest that Hashmi's testimony is highly unreliable, since initial interrogations found nothing linking him with the 7/11 attacks.
Y'gotta use electricians' pliers. Those channel locks just don't have the torque.
He is to be produced at the Killa Metropolitan Magistrate's Court on Sunday.
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They need to use the special talents of Sub Inspector Daya Nayak, back from suspension and newly transferred to the ATS squad.
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Iraq's national security adviser on Sunday announced the arrest of the second most senior figure in al-Qaida in Iraq. Hamed Jumaa Farid al-Saeedi, known as Abu Humam or Abu Rana, was arrested a few days ago, Mouwaffak al-Rubaie said. "We believe that al-Qaida in Iraq suffers from a serious leadership crisis. Our troops have dealt fatal and painful blows to this organization," he said. Al-Saeedi was the second most important al-Qaida in Iraq leader after Abu Ayyub al-Masri, all-Rubaie said.
Al-Masri succeeded Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as head of al-Qaida in Iraq after al-Zarqawi was killed by a U.S. airstrike north of Baghdad on June 7. Al-Saeedi was "directly responsible" for the person who carried out the bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra in February, al-Rubaie added. The bombing inflamed tensions between Shiite and Sunni Muslims and triggered reprisal attacks that continue to this day. "Al-Saeedi carried out al-Qaida's policies in Iraq and the orders of the slain al-Zarqawi to incite sectarian violence in the country, through attempting to start a civil war between Shiites and Sunnis, but their wishes did not materialize," al-Rubaie added.
He said authorities had obtained information about al-Saeedi after al-Zarqawi was killed. The information indicated he had been operating in Salahuddin province, then moved south to northern Baghdad and had been operating outside Baqouba, the same area where al-Zarqawi was killed. Al-Saeedi had been hiding in a residential building. "He wanted to use children and women as human shields during the arrest, which is why the operation was based on a very precise military plan to preserve the lives of women and children in the building," al-Rubaie said, adding that there had been no casualties during the arrest.
He said al-Saeedi also gave up information that led to the arrest or killing of 11 top al-Qaida in Iraq figures, and nine lower-level members. The security adviser said he would not reveal the identities of the other suspects arrested, or where al-Saeedi was caught, for security reasons. "Hamed al-Saeedi supervised terrorist groups that kidnapped people for ransom, and killed policemen after they received their salaries in order to finance terrorist operations," the security adviser said. "He used to order terrorist operations using mortars and roadside bombs, which led to the killing of several troops and innocent civilians."
He said al-Saeedi also supervised the creation of death squads and ordered assassinations, bombings, kidnappings and attacks on Iraqi police and army checkpoints. "The operations were brutal and merciless," he said.
AoS note 10:27 am CDT: DanNY put this up in another post a minute or so ahead of ryuge, but all the comments are here, so I deleted Dan's. Sorry Dan! ;-)
A coalition of 300 Iraqi tribal leaders on Saturday demanded the release of Saddam Hussein so he could reclaim the presidency and also called for armed resistance against U.S.-led forces.
The clan chieftains, most of them Sunni Arabs, included the head of the 1.5 million-member al-Obeidi tribe, said they planned to hold rallies in Sunni cities throughout the country to insist that Hussein be freed and that the charges against him and his co-defendants be dropped.
Hussein is being tried on charges of genocide and other alleged crimes arising from the Iraqi government's killing and forced relocation of ethnic Kurds in 1988, and he is awaiting a verdict in a trial that concluded in late July in the mass killings of Shiites after an assassination attempt against him in 1982.
"If the demand is not carried out, we will seethe and roll our eyes lead a general, sweeping and popular uprising," said Sheik Wassfy al-Assy, brother of the chief of the Obeidi tribe, which hosted a meeting of the clan leaders on Monday in Ramal, a village 55 miles southwest of Kirkuk. "As for whether [Hussein] will be reinstated in his post as president after his release, that will be up to him."
The leaders announced their demands on Saturday, as Shiite-Sunni sectarian violence and a move asserting Kurdish independence heightened fears that the country is sliding toward full-scale civil war.
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Summon a mass gathering of these goons, step outside for a smoke and call in an airstrike. These rectal cavities are the exact people who're impeding any reconstruction of Iraq. The Obeidi tribe must be made to suffer.
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This shit is inevitable. Saddam shoulda been in Hell two years ago.
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Hey, US, NAPALM is your friend, and their enemy. Napalm a few of these "Sunni Leaders" and see how the rest of them come around. This is what we should have done in the first place. These people need to be shown who is truly mean, evil, wicked, bad, nasty, cruel and heartless, not just a jihadi wannabee. Pull out of Ramadi and napalm it until nothing's left. Screw "world opinion" - it's against you anyway. Tough on fluffy bunnies and baby duckies, but that's what the wahabbis hide behind. Kill them. Kill them all, and in horrible ways. That's all they understand, and all they'll be afraid of.
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OP, read the post four down.
Four soldiers are facing death, for what?
Killing those who were trying to kill them. How do we know the "Iraquis" were terrorists?
They had handguns, but that's not good enough.
They had AK-47's, but that's not good enough.
They had bomb making equipment, but that's not good enough.
They were hiding behind two women - bingo. Straight from the terrorist handbook.
The soldiers were investigated by their own officers, and were found innocent of any wrong doing.
Later the heavy gun investigators were brought in. They used, as they admitted themselves, lies underhanded interrogating methods and constant grilling of the soldiers until one "broke".
Here in Auz we have let go an admitted Al Qaeda member, Jihad Jack, because there was not a lawyer present when he was intervied the Australian Federal Police in Pakistan. There is no evidence that lies, underhanded interrogation techniques or constant grilling were used. So we extend all the rights of a democracy to our sworn enemies, but deny them to our armed forces. No wonder I think we should be buying burkas for our women folk now while prices are low, because pretty soon after we have committed collective suicide as a culture by extending perverse "civil rights" to our enemies the prices are likely to sky rocket.
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The only reason I can think of not to kill them all right now is that they will keep the Iranian Shiite agents in Iraq very busy for quite some time. What a hell hole.
(KUNA) -- Thirteen people were killed and 34 more were injured in separate incidents in Baghdad and Najaf on Saturday, Iraqi police reported. An Iraqi police source said in press statements today that two bombs exploded when an Iraqi patrol passed by Al-Wizariya area north of Baghdad. The explosion killed two people and wounded 20 others, the source added. The Iraqi police also found four unidentified bodies with bullet wounds in Baghdad. Yesterday, three guards of Al-Imam Ali's shrine were killed by armed men in Najaf, south of Iraq, the Iraqi police added.
Captain Muthana Abu Al-Hareth Al-Maamouri, a Babil Iraqi police spokesman, told KUNA over the phone that three Iraqi policemen were killed and 14 others were injured when a booby-trapped mini bus targeting a police station exploded south of Baghdad.
The US Army announced today that it killed three armed men when it launched air strikes against a house sheltering insurgents south of Baghdad. A statement by the US army said US jets spotted three terrorists launching mortar shells from a small truck in Al-Yousefiya town south of Baghdad.
Meanwhile, five people were killed in two separate incidents in Diyala governorate north east of Baghdad. A statement by the Diyala police station said three policemen were killed today in armed attacks near Baaqouba town. Also two other civilians were killed in armed attacks in the Sheikhi district located in Al-Miqdadiya north east of Baaqouba, the statement added.
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(KUNA) -- Pakistan Saturday confirming the reports from Iraq regarding a terrorist attack on a bus of pilgrims in Kerbala, said it has instructed its ambassador in Jordan to ascertain number of killed Pakistanis.
The foreign office immediately instructed "our ambassador in Jordan to establish contacts with the Iraqi authorities to ascertain the number of Pakistanis killed in the terrorist attack," said the office in a statement. The embassy is also establishing contacts with Pakistani survivors of the attack for their early evacuation, the statement said.
Pakistan strongly condemns this terrorist act. The President and the Prime Minister have condoled the death of Pakistani pilgrims in this terrorist attack.
Security situation in Iraq remains difficult. "We advise Pakistanis intending to travel to Iraq to postpone their visit and those who are already there to take necessary precautionary measures," the statement added.
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(KUNA) -- Iraqi police confiscated large caches of weapons and explosives hidden in a mosque and simultaneously freed a hostage and arrested gunmen and a number of elements who had been involved in kidnapping operations in Baghdad, the military said on Saturday.
"Stop! Stop! Youse can't go in there!"
"Why not, Mr. Holy Man?"
"It's... ummm... the holy of holies! The sanctum sanctorum! Off limits to infidels!"
"We ain't infidels. We're the Iraqi police!"
"Ummm... Maybe you oughta put those stogies out first, then... And... and... I'll... ummm... join you in a minute. Gotta go to the bathroom."
A statement released by the office of the general commander of the Iraqi armed forces said the weapons, that were concealed inside Ahmad Al-Mukhtar mosque, included hand-grenades, explosives and various types of arms.
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why leave the mosque standing? Blow up teh cache with the holy asshole in there
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Agreed, Frank. And since it was the Iraqi Army that found all that, they should post signs that the building is condemned and will be brought down because the "worshippers" so badly misused it. Then bring in the bulldozers with all the tv newsies watching, and all the local VIPs make public speeches about what a shame the few had to ruin it for the rest. No rebuilding on the site, either; let everybody walk a couple extra blocks on Fridays to really pound the lesson home.
(KUNA) -- Unidentified gunmen stormed a house in Al-Jihad suburb in west Baghdad and opened fire at a group of people who were invited for lunch killing two and wounding 13 others, the source told KUNA. The source added that all the victims were believed to be security guards who worked in the conferences palace in the green zone. Police rushed to scene and began an investigation.
Furthermore, eight Iraqis were wounded earlier today when a series of bombs went off in a market in Al-mahmoudia town south of here. A security source said that initial reports showed that four mortar shells fell at 7:45 p.m. on the market leaving eight shoppers seriously wounded.
Meanwhile, the Iraqi armed forces general command had earlier warned flat owners to assure identity of any suspicious persons seeking to rent their apparatus as they tend to booby-trapped them to target markets and congregations.
On the other hand, unidentified gunmen attacked today the resting places of Imams Ways, Sayyed bin Bander Al-Sumaidei and Ibrahim Al-Sameen near Al-Miqdadiyah within the framework of series of blasts in this nature. AL-Miqdadiyah security sources said in statements that unidentified gunmen detonated the resting places of the Imams by using explosives that were planted inside them.
Iraqi police in Kirkuk announced apprehension of six suspects in a Kirkuk suburb north of Baghdad. It added that the six admitted they had carried out terrorist activities in Kirkuk.
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An IAF air strike destroyed a home belonging to a Hamas operative in the northern Gaza Strip late Saturday night, wounding two bystanders, Palestinian officials and witnesses said. The officials said the occupants of the home were ordered to leave about an hour before the air strike. Two men who were walking in the area were wounded, one lightly and one moderately, medical officials said. The IDF said the air strike targeted a weapons-storage facility, and confirmed that residents of the building were warned ahead of the attack.
Earlier Saturday, three Palestinians were killed and five others wounded on Saturday during gun battles between IDF troops and gunmen in two separate incidents in the Gaza Strip. According to Palestinian hospital officials, a father and his son were killed during an IDF raid in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.
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In a joint IDF-Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) operation, policemen from the Yamam Border Police counter-terror unit arrested two leaders of the Tanzim terror group in Tulkarm - allegedly behind attempts to manufacture homemade rockets that could be fired at cities in the Sharon region.
Last week, policemen from Yamam arrested Hassan Ufi and Watar Amara in Tulkarm, it was released for publication Saturday night. The two, security officials said, received logistical and financial support from Hizbullah. During the arrest, security forces discovered a large weapons cache including several rockets in the midst of being assemble and several sacks filled with explosives.
In July, a Palestinian attempt to fire a homemade rocket from Tulkarm failed but raised concern within the defense establishment that terror groups in the West Bank were trying to copy their counterparts in the Gaza Strip - behind the almost-daily firing of homemade Kassam rockets at Israeli communities in the South.
OC Home Front Command Maj.-Gen. Gershon Yitzhak told The Jerusalem Post in May that the IDF does not plan to begin reinforcing rooftops in the Sharon region which would be in range of rockets.
'It would be very difficult to mass produce [Kassam] rockets while the IDF is in control of the territories in Judea and Samaria,' Yitzhak said.
If Israel, however, decided to withdraw from the territories, Yitzhak said that the need to reinforce Sharon-region buildings would have to be reevaluated.
'There are thoughts on this issue but currently there is no intention to [reinforce] since we have military and intelligence control over Judea and Samaria,' he said.
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Philippine troops have stepped up the hunt for two suspected Bali bombers believed to be hiding with Al Qaeda-linked extremists on a southern island, the military said yesterday. A 92-man unit from the elite Army Scout Rangers would be sent to Jolo island to augment forces tracking Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) bomb experts Umar Patek and Dulmatin, military chief General Hermogenes Esperon said.
Patek and Dulmatin, wanted for the October 2002 Bali bombings that left 202 people dead, are believed to be hiding out in Jolo's rugged jungle under the protection of Abu Sayyaf militants led by Khadaffy Janajalani, he said. The US government has offered a 10-million-dollar reward for the capture of Dulmatin and one million dollars for Patek. They have so far eluded a massive operation launched last month.
Five Marine and three army battalions, involving about 5,000 men, are involved in the hunt, which has led to deadly clashes in the past few weeks. US anti-terror forces are also on the ground helping with intelligence work, but not engaged in actual combat, officials said.
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Sri Lanka navy killed at least 80 Tamil separatists and sank 12 rebel boats off the northern coast, Sri Lanka Defence Ministry said. The boats of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were attempting to attack the port of Kankesanthurai in Jaffna peninsula, the statement said. Naval gunboats intercepted the Tiger boats starting the battle, which lasted for six hours, it said. "Twelve Sea Tiger craft, including five suicide boats, were destroyed killing over 80 separatists and injuring many others on board," the Ministry said. "The remaining craft left the area," it said.
Meanwhile the government was preparing to dispatch a second cargo ship on Sunday to Kankesanthurai with supplies of food, medicines and other essential items for people trapped by the fighting.
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Does anyone else think these naval battles aren't exactly the Battle of the Sulu Strait?
BEIRUT, Lebanon Hezbollah announced Saturday the death of a military commander from wounds he sustained in monthlong fighting with Israel, making him the highest-ranking guerrilla the group acknowledges to have died in the war. In a statement carried on Hezbollah's al-Manar TV, Hezbollah said "the commander Hajj Ali Mohammed Saleh Bilal was martyred from wounds he sustained in the confrontations."
How 'bout that: someone prayed for sepsis.
I dunnit and I'm glad!
It did not give his rank other than commander, meaning he was from the military wing. Lebanese security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Bilal was a sector military commander, but had no further details.
A drawn out, lingering death, made worse by lack of modern facilities and antibiotics. Short on pain medication, the best the docs could do was tap him on the forehead twice a day with a claw hammer. I like it.
Before the announcement, Hezbollah has acknowledge losing 68 fighters out of more than 800 Lebanese killed in the fighting. Most of the rest are claimed to be civilians. Israel had said it killed hundreds of guerrillas. Hezbollah officials have said none of the top leadership was hurt. Naim Kassem, the deputy Hezbollah leader, has said in interviews that his son was badly wounded.
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During the third week of the recent Israel-Hezbollah war a fascinating report was broadcast on Uvda (Fact), a highly respected investigative news show hosted by veteran journalist Ilana Dayan.
Itai Anghel accompanied regiment 931 of the Nahal Brigade (infantry) to a battle that took place on the night of August 6-7 in Houleh, a Hezbollah-controlled village in Lebanon that is about 2 kilometres north of the border with Israel. Anghel documents the fierce battle that took place using a camera equipped with a night vision lens.
English subtitles. You can watch it below (length, 25 minutes).
my take: The overall mission is truly something of a mystery...another unit was alluded to in the vid but it's hard understand why you would take a village or part of one [multi storied building, steep price] and then abondon it and withdraw only to quite possibly retake it the next night?
Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri urged Americans to convert to Islam in a video featuring a converted US national sought by the FBI, who spoke particularly to American soldiers. In the 48-minute video, Zawahiri presented "Azzam the American," and urged the "American people in particular and Westerners in general to listen to the extremely serious words of our brother Azzam the American concerning their fate."
"Our brother Azzam the American is trying to lead his own (people) from obscurity towards the light. Listen to him," insisted Zawahiri, who wore a white tunic and turban.
Time is running out. Choose the right path before it is too late, before you meet the sad end that thousands have already known...
In an Arabic translation of a poorly audible English statement, a man previously identified by the FBI as Adam Yahiye Gadahn said: "I call on all Americans and other infidels to embrace Islam." Gadahn, who also recited Koranic verses in fluent Arabic, was also dressed in white tunic and turban. "I call especially on those who have fought for the illusory Crusader plan of (US President George W.) Bush in Afghanistan, Iraq and everywhere else, to convert to Islam," he said. "Time is running out. Choose the right path before it is too late, before you meet the sad end that thousands have (already) known," Gadahn added. "You know very well you will not win the war and that Bush and his gang see you as cannon fodder. You know very well that they do not care about your security and that they are not looking out for your welfare."
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This video should be our nations official answer.
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Is there anybody out there whom still does NOT understand or comprehend what WAR FOR CONTROL OF THE WORLD. FIGHT OR DIE, and WILL BE GULAGGED ANDOR EXTERMINATED NO MATTER WHAT CONCESSIONS, AGREEMENTS, OR APPEASEMENTS ARE MADE, ......etc means?
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Everything about Mohammedanism is Darkness and its ideological terminology perverse, inverted and plagiarized. It's anti-life and all that's the natural aspiration of mankind. Only with absolute repression can evil dogmas thrive.
When will the West wake up to the fact that it's not a religion but a Cult concerned with attainment of mundane power and influence? That a religion is a persuasion and as such its anti-apostasy law reveals itself as a non religion pretending as one? Even its own herdish adherents are that ignorant. The infidels of the world must not be.
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Well, Zawa. I've thought about it, and I much prefer death. Yours ! Just as expeditiously as possible. It's far past time to coddle you Death Cult looney tunes. Time to put all the lights out before your bowel movement speads and causes further infection.
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Just in time for American elections. And while Some democrats hope this gets the good word (Bush is bad) out, most Democrats are rightfully cringing. Especially if this new Jhad boy's family has a political history back in the States.
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SOP35/Rat, perhaps it's necessary to return the compliment to Zawa and say, "When we get you, we'll dress your carcass in pigskin." He's obviously thickskin and don't understand nuances.
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...Just read a fascinating analysis of this tape over at www.counterterrorismblog.org and would like to urge everybody else to read it and then ask yourselves this - is al-Zawahiri 'appointing' Gahdan as the Shiekh for America the same way Zark was for Iraq? And if so, is this al-Zawahiri's way of warning us before the jihad starts in earnest here? I've got a bad feeling about this one - something just doesn't seem like the usual sour-grapes rant.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
09/03/2006 15:53 Comments ||
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"This is the sort of nonsense that preceeds an attack by those animals."
JerseyMike is correct. He's saying this because their prophet used to give infidels one last the chance to convert before attacking. They think that their failure to do this before 9-11 is the reason that America was not cowed and was able to hit back so hard. So now they are dotting the i's and crossing the t's before the next attack. Time for extra vigilence, my American friends.
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I think everyone is missing an opportunity here.
The US should convert to Islam... our own particular sect, call it the Yanqi-porker sect. Since Muslims can kill other Muslims and no one raises a stink about it, it would be very advantageous. We can have our own jihad to wipe out all those other heretic sects.
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Zenster (#14), it was my first comment of the day and I was just getting warmed up ;)
On reflection, I much prefer this response;
"Fuck you Ayman, fuck you and the mule you rode in in (yes, in). I'm not a religious guy, but I've seen enough of your 'religion' to realise it's not for me and not for anyone who thinks the human race has got a future free of psycho 'holy men'. I'm not interested in redoing the 7th century, we've been there and done that. Oh, by the way, FOAD."
Ok, that's a better response.
Posted by: Tony (UK) ||
09/03/2006 17:28 Comments ||
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Time is running out. Choose the right path before it is too late, before you meet the sad end that thousands have already known...
Translation: Man, we are getting our royal asses kicked. I have to hide in caves and move constantly. If I so much as raise my head out of my hole, It'll get shot off. If I so much as try to make a phone call, it's traced. We are desperate.
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Time is running out. Choose the right path before it is too late, before you meet the sad end that thousands have already known...
Hey, that works both ways Ayman ;)
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The proper, official response should come from the US President. It would be a clear sign that we as a nation and civilization understand who the enemy is and what makes it tick. Here it is:
"GIVE UP JIHAD, OR DIE!"
It should be broadcast on TV and mailed to all heads of Moslem states. I don't expect GWB to say it any time soon, but Ayman and friends should know this is what Kalle says. No video from me, just one sentence.
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