An 18-year-old woman was charged on Tuesday in connection with an alleged failed attempt to bomb London in July last year, two weeks after the July 7 attacks on the capital's transport network, police said.
The teenager, who was not named, is due to appear at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, the Metropolitan Police said. She is charged with "knowing or believing" one of the men alleged to have been behind the July 21 plot, Yassin Omar, had been involved, a police statement said. She is also accused of having information that may have helped in Omar's arrest but failing to tell the authorities "as soon as reasonably practicable."
Two men aged 19 and 24, who were arrested along with the woman last Wednesday, were released on Monday evening without charge, police added.
Six men are due to face trial charged with planning to kill commuters on three subway trains and bus on July 21, mimicking the suicide attacks a fortnight earlier by four British Muslims.
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Luckily for her UK judges don't use the tube and can't understand what all this bomb fuss is about - maybe a caution? Conditional discharge? Community service?
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Alot of these 21/7 scum were on the welfare state for years.
Time to go Aussie/US style give them six months on social and then they have to find work and if they dont stop their payments.These muzzies are leeches and dont add anything to the economy/community.
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My wife and her mother are heading your way in November for about a week in Paris. Any "do's" or "don't do's" you can think of, A5089?
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Frankly, you ask me too much.
My youngest sister and his companion routinely go to Paris see his family or buy stuff (never set a foot there myself), and this is not a warzone; Urban-savvy JFM or leroidavid would be more precise about which Paris districts to avoid (18th district IIRC, for example, with the Goutte d'or area, or la Défense place when gangbangers meet, or perhaps the Champs Elysées after dark).
As for the suburbs they're not exactly touristical destinations, except Versailles, I guess.
My only advice would be to stay clear of public transportations leading to/from the 'hoods, especially the evening, to be wary of people in the universal gangsta uniform (IE designer streetwear, baseball cap, etc, etc...) and to profile (groups of north african/african Youths, see how bigoted I am?).
Also, pretending you're from New Zealand or something like that might help when you feel the guy you're talking to (waiter or anything else) is an anti-american *sshole.
Anyway, I hope you'll like your stay there, and enjoy yourself. I'm always a bit uneasy with tourists, I always fear they're very disappointed with France, given the gap between the image it still has, and the preception I have of its present.
49 Pan, I've heard good things about Normandy. I'll suggest it to them as an alternative, in case they get an urge to get outta Dodge, as it were.
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The video is gone. Could this be another example of youtube bias? They have recently banned patriotic American videos which were not violent yet they will not ban terrorist propaganda videos. And now it seems that they will not allow the muzzies to be seen in an unflattering light.
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Saw the video, it reminded me of a casual Los Angeles riot. Europe is the next battlefield.
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"Best thing they can do is drive right past Paris and go to the Normandy coast. What a historic place and the locals were wonderful.
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Completely agree! The Normans love Americans and of course, the area represents a great moment of American triumph over evil. Beautiful beaches, the museums are replete with so much military history, and the towns are quaint.
Two Turks trying to deliver a message to Pope Benedict XVI protesting at his planned trip to Turkey hijacked an airliner carrying 113 people from Albania to Istanbul on Tuesday, officials said. The two gave themselves up to police about two hours after the Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-400 landed, Italian news agencies reported. An Italian civil aviation official said the passengers were also leaving the plane.
The plane, which was hijacked in Greek airspace after taking off from Albania, landed at Italy's Brindisi airport. Passenger Ergun Ozkeseoglu told Turkish NTV television by telephone from the plane that one of the hijackers waved and apologized to applauding passengers as he left the plane.
They told the pilots that they wanted to carry out an act to protest the pope and that they wanted the plane diverted to Rome and that they (the pilots) should not resist...
Ozkeseoglu said he suspected something was wrong when he saw a passenger enter the cockpit. "He was constantly opening the (cockpit's) door and giving orders to the stewards," he said. "I didn't see any weapons or anything like that."
Istanbul Deputy Gov. Vedat Muftuoglu said the hijackers stormed into the cockpit about 15-20 minutes after take off from Tirana and asked the pilots to fly to Rome, but Italian warplanes forced it to land in Brindisi. "They told the pilots that they wanted to carry out an act to protest the pope and that they wanted the plane diverted to Rome and that they (the pilots) should not resist," Muftuoglu told Turkey's CNN-Turk television.
The captain told the hijackers that the aircraft did not have sufficient fuel and the plane was diverted to Brindisi. "They seem to be not particularly hostile nor do they appear to be armed," said Salvatore Sciacchitano, deputy director of the ENAC civil aviation agency.
Turkish authorities identified one of the hijackers as Hakan Ekinci. The other's first name was Mahmut, but his family name was not known. Sadri Abazi, an Albanian lawmaker aboard the hijacked plane told Albania's private News24 TV earlier that all passengers were safe and "there is no threat."
Candan Karlitekin, chairman of Turkish Airlines' board of director confirmed Turkish news reports that the aircraft was hijacked by two Turks in protest at Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Turkey next month.
Sciacchitano said the hijackers wanted to make a statement to the pope.
Sciacchitano said the hijackers wanted to make a statement to the pope. "The hijackers appear to be two. The police are talking to them, representatives of the Interior Ministry and our director of the airport is in contact with them (the hijackers), Sciacchitano said, adding that the plane was carrying 107 passengers and six crew.
The two Turks told authorities they were prepared to turn themselves in, Karlitekin said. "The passengers are not under any threat. They will surrender, they declared that they will surrender the moment they hijacked the plane," Karlitekin said, adding that no one was hurt.
The Vatican said Tuesday it has been going ahead with plans for the trip and a Vatican official, asked about the hijacking, said he expected no changes in the pope's plans for the visit.
Benedict angered the Muslim world in a speech in Germany on Sept. 12, when he quoted a 14th century Byzantine emperor as saying: "Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."
Benedict has expressed regret for offending Muslims by his remarks and said they did not reflect his personal views, but he has not offered a complete apology as some had sought. The Vatican said Tuesday it has been going ahead with plans for the trip and a Vatican official, asked about the hijacking, said he expected no changes in the pope's plans for the visit. The official, who asked that his name not be used because of the sensitivity of the issue, said an official Vatican announcement that the trip would take place Nov. 28-Dec. 1 would be made soon.
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NPR reported this morning that one of the two hijackers was a convert to Christianity who didn't want to finish serving out his army duty in a Muslim army, and wanted the Pope's help to get him out of it. Clearly airplane hijackers are on the same level of mental acuity as bank robbers.
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For short periods of time in the car, mcsegeek1. Until they start blithering, and with the understanding that it's all slanted as much as can be. I can't handle AM talk radio; they shout so much, and there are too many idiots who need too say, "Me, too!" in a slightly different way. But sometimes I need a change from Handel and Mozart, to help keep me from crashing into other cars and mailboxes and things. *shrug*
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TW, try Albert Greig's "Peer Gent", or Sebelius' "Finlandia". It'll keep you awake and attentive. Of course, there's nothing like driving down the Interstate with the "1812 Overture" blasting at top volume to get attention...
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I played second violin doing "Finlandia" once upon a time. Page after page of open (unfingered) D-string alternating occasionally with an open G-string. Even all the beginners playing "Mary Had A Little Lamb" together was less painful.
And don't anybody even so much as snicker, Frank G.
A federal grand jury indicted a man on charges of offering to help al-Qaida blow up fuel facilities in at least three states. Michael Curtis Reynolds was charged in U.S. District Court in Scranton Tuesday with two counts of providing material support for a terrorist organization and two counts of seeking to take part in the destruction of property used in interstate or foreign commerce.
He was already awaiting trial in the case on two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm or an explosive device. The FBI arrested Reynolds in December after authorities said he tried to meet a purported al-Qaida contact in a sting operation about 25 miles from a motel in Pocatello, Idaho, where he had been staying. Authorities said he expected to receive $40,000 to finance an alleged plot to blow up pipelines and refineries. The man Reynolds met with was a Montana judge who was working for the FBI. Reynolds wanted to help al-Qaida units attack fuel facilities "to reduce energy reserves, create environmental hazards, increase anxiety, and require substantial expenditure of funds and government personnel, including the military, to protect those locations," the indictment alleges. Reynolds has been held without bail in the Lackawanna County jail since his arrest on charges of illegally possessing hand grenades.
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Hah, Hah. His mistake was stepping foot over the state lines into Idaho or Montana. He should just be glad the local boys didn't get to keep him.
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a purported al-Qaida contact in a sting operation about 25 miles from a motel in Pocatello, Idaho. Is that FBI speak for we aren't going to tell you where it happened?
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TW,
You noticed that too? My first thought is that there's some Arabic word or term that sounds like Lackawanna that in turn has some significance to these weasels...
Mike
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This is treason writ large. Too bad execution is probably off of the table. Life in a prison's general population without any possibility of parole is the least that this maggot deserves.
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I seriously doubt our legal system is up to the task of getting this guy a maxium sentence.
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What is this obsession Al Qaeda minions have with places that have Lackawanna in the name?
Hard to figure. But the area is fairly rural, economically depressed. In other words, lots of older, inexpensive large homes to buy or rent. Not that much in the way of jobs there during the blue collar crash of the 80s and 90s, but Scranton is bouncing back and there are a lot more service sector / retail jobs and business there than a decade ago. Lackawana's not too far from Scranton. FWIW
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Another interesting factoid that has nothing to do with this story other than being in eastern PA:
The US city with the fastest growth in Hispanic population over the last few years (as a %) is Allentown PA. Go figure!! My brother is married to a lovely Latina, 2nd for both of them and they make a great couple with extended family of older kids.
Anyway, there's a long tradition of PA being a gateway for immigrants. My mother's family settled there before the Revolution, from Switzerland and Wales. My father's family settled there at the turn of the 20th century from the Ukraine. After the original European settlers in the 17th century, the state attracted many Scots-Irish in the 18th and early 19th, Italians a little later in the 19th, Poles and other eastern Europeans at the turn of the 20th and now a lot of Hispanics. Other groups too, in smaller numbers.
Little town I grew up in had 5000 people when I was there, and 15 churches in 9 different denominations, plus a small synagogue not too far away. Diversity ... we had a Roman Catholic church, an Eastern Orthodox church AND a Byzantine Rite catholic church -- all within 2 blocks of each other on the same street. ;-) And a few miles away the Amish and slight less strict Mennonite Brethren lived. Had a small Assemblies of God congregation, which was REALLY different from the traditions of most people there.
Six men charged with attempting to export weapons to Indonesia and to Tamil rebels in Sri Lanka are facing additional charges, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday. Both superceding indictments involve Haji Subandi, a suspected international arms dealer from Indonesia. One adds Thirunavukarasu Varatharasa, 36, to the original indictment of Haniffa Bin Osman, Erick Wotulu and Subandi. The Sri Lankan national was originally charged in Guam last week by a criminal complaint.
The additional charges involve the transfer of $425,000 from Malaysia to Baltimore on Sept. 28 and the attempted export of machine guns, grenade launchers, sniper rifles and pistols.
The superseding indictment adds money laundering; weapons export and firearms possession charges to the original indictment. The additional charges involve the transfer of $425,000 from Malaysia to Baltimore on Sept. 28 and the attempted export of machine guns, grenade launchers, sniper rifles and pistols. The other indictment adds conspiracy to export defense articles, attempted export and money laundering charges related to night vision goggles which were checked in their luggage onto a flight headed to Indonesia.
Osman, 55, of Singapore, waived his right to an identity hearing on Guam, according to a report Monday in the Pacific Daily News. That cleared the way for U.S. Magistrate Judge Joaquin Manibusan to sign a removal order that would send Osman to Maryland. The six were arrested last week in the two separate cases. The men had met to examine 3 1/2 tons of weapons in transit through the U.S. territory, including Stinger missiles, grenade launchers, submachine guns, sniper rifles and night-vision devices.
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Why would they be shopping in the US instead of buying Russian like everybody else does? I don't like the fact that they were able to buy night vision goggles.
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SRINAGAR, India -Two police commandos were killed and seven people hurt when Islamic rebels opened fire from a hotel window in Indian Kashmirs summer capital Wednesday, sending shoppers fleeing in panic, police said. Security forces rushed to the scene as the firing erupted from the window of the small hotel near Lal Chowk, the major shopping area in Srinagar.
Police initially thought only one militant was involved but later said they believed there were two militants. They are firing from there and weve ringed the hotel, police spokesman Vishal, who goes by one name, said. Most probably there are two militants, he added. Security forces who returned fire said the gunmen appeared to be targeting a nearby police paramilitary camp.
Two police commandos were killed and three policemen and four civilians were wounded in the attack, which was still continuing late Wednesday. A group known as Al Mansurian claimed responsibility in calls to local media.
Indian security forces say Al Mansurian is a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba, an outlawed Pakistan-based group fighting New Delhis rule in Kashmir and which police allege helped stage Julys Mumbai train bombings that killed 186 people.
Four civilians, including the hotel manager, were wounded in the shooting which erupted during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. The firing sparked terror on the busy streets which quickly emptied.
Police rescued two dozen people trapped in shops just below the hotel where the guerrillas holed up. It was an ugly experience. Im thankful to the police for getting me out of the shops and giving me a new life, said Mohammed Rafiq, as the sound of gunfire mingled with the call to prayer from a nearby mosque.
The violence came hours after Indias Prime Minister Manmohan Singh warned Pakistan it had to prove it was sincere in working with New Delhi to counter terrorism. New Delhi accuses Pakistan of arming and training militants fighting its rule in Indian Kashmir, charges that Islamabad rejects. Pakistan will have to walk the talk in order for the peace process between the neighbours to move forward, Singh said Tuesday night.
The nuclear-armed nations agreed last month to put in place an India-Pakistan anti-terrorism institutional mechanism to implement counter-terrorism initiatives. Indian Kashmir has also been rocked by violent protests against the planned hanging on October 20 of an Indian Kashmiri convicted of conspiracy in a 2001 attack on parliament. Militants have warned of dire consequences if the man is executed.
In other violence, troops shot dead five militants in gunbattles late Tuesday and early Wednesday, police said, adding two of the dead rebels were senior commanders of Lashkar. One of them was involved in the killing of 50 people, including policemen and members from the Hindu community, a police spokesman said. More than 44,000 people have died during the 17-year-old revolt by official count. Separatists say the tally is more than double.
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As the Afghan border guards helplessly listened to the crackle of gunfire and the sharp, frantic voices of there brethren under attack at another distant post, American troops made a call to their base for air support.
After four bloody hours of fighting, the rebels loaded onto a truck and drove a few hundred yards over the unmarked border into the safety and sanctuary of Pakistan. In the end, two Afghan allies lay dead with two more badly wounded and an assault force of up to 100 Taliban-affiliated fighters slipped away to refit, rearm, and plan for more attacks unmolested in the lawless western border region of Pakistan.
That was back in April of 2004, near a remote border checkpoint east of the Afghan city of Khost. This volatile area--which was a primary transit point for anti-Soviet mujihadeen fighters in the mid-1980s--flanks one of the most contentious enclaves in the region. The so-called tribal areas of North and South Waziristan, just over the mountainous border with Pakistan, have been the launching points for violent attacks against U.S. and Afghan forces for years, but have remained largely "no-go" zones for American--and Pakistani--forces.
In that eastern frontier of Afghanistan, the bad guys come over the border, past seemingly oblivious Pakistani guards, ambush American forces and other Afghan or coalition troops, then run back over the border into the sanctuary of the tribal areas. Rumors of bin Laden and his chiefs' taking shelter there are commonplace, but few details
have emerged from this Pashtun enclave closed to outsiders--until now.
In the Frontline season premier airing this evening on PBS, award-winning documentary producer and journalist Martin Smith delivers an unprecedented view of a terrorist breeding ground that has apparently replaced Taliban-run Afghanistan. "Return of the Taliban" is a frightening look into the medieval madness and violence of the tribal areas--where disloyal elders are beheaded in the public square and thieves are hanged in the streets with money stuffed in their gaping mouths for all to see--should serve as a wakeup call to anyone who thinks America's enemies are in retreat.
Ask any military commander in Afghanistan where he thinks the threats are coming from and he'll tell you they're from the tribal areas of Pakistan. Though the Pakistani government issues vociferous denials that it harbors al Qaeda on its soil--with Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf recently declaring that al Qaeda's leadership is hiding in Afghanistan (which has more than 20,000 U.S. troops) not in Pakistan's tribal areas (which now has zero Pakistani troops on patrol)--the Frontline documentary provides strong evidence that powerful terrorist leaders such as Jalaluddin Haqqani and Nek Mohammed have been allowed to thrive in the tribal areas.
Incorporating vividly unsettling video footage and in-depth interviews with key players in the region, Smith paints a grim picture of a situation that seems to be slipping further from America's grasp.
"Arresting him might be something we will have to do," says one Pakistani official interviewed in the Frontline documentary of Haqqani. "But I'm not sure whether we know where he is, or whether we are capable at this time."
On at least one occasion in 2004, however, an American surveillance drone observed Haqqani enter a mosque in the tribal area, deliver a sermon, walk out with his entourage, and load into vehicles for the trip back to his compound. Despite the intelligence, U.S. forces were unable to secure permission to fire a precision missile or enter Pakistan to pursue the insurgent commander.
The combination of strong ties with Pakistan's intelligence service, the political risk of an aggressive counter-terror campaign, and a sympathetic population help the growing Taliban and al Qaeda movement to thrive in the tribal areas, the Frontline program shows.
Though it is a remarkably balanced portrayal of the situation over the Pakistan border, "Return of the Taliban" does lob a few cheap political shots.
"But, by now the administration was preoccupied with Iraq. The hunt for al Qaeda was left to Pakistan," the Frontline narrator says. Never mind that Pakistan has forbidden U.S. troops from entering its territory and protested loudly when a missile strike from an unmanned drone killed more than a dozen civilians along with four al Qaeda operatives in early 2006.
"We have a clear agreement that whatever happens on our side of the border, it is Pakistan's responsibility and our forces' responsibility," Musharraf tells Smith. "Nobody comes across the border. . . . Any action without our knowledge and without our clearance and approval and without our dictation is not acceptable to Pakistan."
The hunt for al Qaeda was left to Pakistan because Pakistan wanted it that way.
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question the Frontline episode leaves unanswered, however, is what America can or should do about a situation that seems to grow more dangerous by the day. If al Qaeda and the Taliban are safely regrouping in the border regions of Pakistan, doesn't this pose a threat to the United States? Musharraf recently concluded an agreement with elders in Waziristan who promised they would not harbor terrorists and would curtail cross-border incursions in exchange for a total exodus of Pakistani troops. America's top general in the region, Gen. John Abiziad has said he's skeptical such an agreement is realistic. But as the Frontline documentary shows, it may be all America can hope for in the near term.
"He's the only ally you have in the region who is capable of delivering on his promises. You have no other ally," Pakistan's ambassador to the U.N., Munir Akram, tells Smith of Musharraf.
"You pressurize Pakistan, you destabilize Pakistan, the most counterproductive thing you do is to press Pakistan more."
As frustrating as it may be for Americans to watch a terrorist sanctuary take root just a few miles from U.S. and Afghan forces, "Return of the Taliban" shows Akram may well be right.
Christian Lowe is a senior writer with Army Times Publishing Co. and has covered U.S. operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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"He's the only ally you have in the region who is capable of delivering on his promises. You have no other ally," Pakistan's ambassador to the U.N., Munir Akram, tells Smith of Musharraf.
Please let us all know just what we DO have, if you would Ambassador Akram. The don't have's will sort themselves out accordingly.
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Hit pakistan, dismember it, and end its existence. That'll put an end to the cannon fodder. We entered Iraq to have a secure place to operate from against other arab nations. We need to destroy pakistan to put an end to the false document trade, the poppy trade, and the endless supply of splodeydopes. Once that task is done, THEN we can collapse from both sides against Iran. With Iraq and Iran, we will control enough oil to be able to put the Saudis in a world of hurt, and start dismantling their wahabbi infrastructure around the world. We should also have enough non-saudi, non-US troops to be able to crush the magic kingdom without using US soldiers, and thus not "sully" the "holy ground" of saudiland.
We'll still have to crush Sudan and Somalia to keep the talibanazis from reforming, but it will be a lot easier. This is going to be a LONG war, with many stages. We should never forget that, nor what the main targets are, in order of importance. The donks are too stupid to figure that out, and most of the repuglycons are just as guilty.
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India should be our primary ally in the flattening of Pakistan. This has been the heart of the islamonazi movement - Suadi is the soul and lifeblood(money). But it is in Pakiliand where the talk turns to action. It has to stop. The tribal areas need to be carpet bombed in a very big, very extended way.
IRAN first. Their nuclear capability would be a complete wrench in the gears for everything else that's happening in the Middle East. Nothing even comes close to the importance of this single issue.
Then PAKISTAN. It is the principal training and indoctrination center for the vast majortiy of existing terrorists. Masharraf has outlived his usefulness and has had the temerity to thumb his nose at our need to intervene. The only delicate issue is confiscating Pakistan's nuclear arsenal in a timely and irreversible fashion when the moment arrives.
Then SAUDI ARABIA. These over-monied royal fucks are the central clearinghouse for all terrorist funding and ideological programming. They must be deposed and all Saudi imams and mosque clerics must expelled around the globe and sent back to their Islamic hellhole utopia. The property these mosques stand on must be appropriated by America's government so that they can be shut down at amoment's notice.
As always, while we're in the process of dismantling Saudi Arabia, I'll certainly suggest we consider appropriating not only their oil production but also the holy shrines at Mecca and Medina. Make all access to the haj conditional on a fourteen month absence of Islamic terrorist atrocities, world-wide. A single bombing, or even a uncovered plot to bomb, closes the shrines for a solid year.
Set up a no-man's land of automatic fire machine guns and minefields surrounding the shrines. Twenty-four hour surveillance by armed drones and night vision systems to trigger them. Let it become the ultimate flypaper. Read Islam the riot act that a NBC (Nuclear, Biological or Chemical) attack will see one of the shrines contaminated or demolished in a similar fashion.
Biometrically identify all who are allowed to enter the shrines and back-trace their activities. No more Saudi funding of the haj, so that vulernable acolytes from developing countries can come and be indoctrinated by the royals' wahabbist minions. Installation of reformist clerics to oversee all haj activities at the shrines.
I'm sure you get the picture.
Then SYRIA. Then LEBANON. Then anyone else who we see farting sideways.
Afghanistan and Balochistan should form a legal team to challenge the illegal occupation of Afghan territories and Balochistan by Pakistan in the International Court of Justice. Once the Durand Line Agreement is declared illegal, it will result in the return of Pakistan-occupied territories back to Afghanistan. Also, Balochistan will be declared a country that was forcibly invaded through use of force by the Pakistanis; and with international assistance, Balochistan can regain its independence. It is the right time to act now because the US and Allied forces in Afghanistan are positioned to facilitate the enforcement of the Courts judgment.
After Pakistan vacates territories belonging to Afghanistan and Balochistan, a new boarder should be demarked amicably to determine Baloch dominated areas to become the new Balochistan, and Pashtun dominated areas to be merged into Afghanistan. And, with the help of the US and Allied forces, the Afghans and the Baloch forces can flush out members of Al-Qaeda and Talebans from their respective countries.
A wise observer once said, Pakistan is a completely superfluous and artificially created spot on the world map that has become a breeding ground for extremism, and trouble that would be best done away with.
http://afghanland.com/history/durrand.html
QUETTA, Pakistan - Tribal militants in Pakistans southwest killed three paramilitary soldiers and wounded two others in a rocket attack on Tuesday, officials said. The incident occured in Kohlu district, 400 km (250 miles) east of Quetta, capital of the southwestern Baluchistan province.
Raziq Bugti, a provincial government spokesman, said a paramilitary vehicle came under attack when soldiers were on their way to fetch water from a well. Three soldiers died instantly, he said.
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Iraqi authorities have taken a brigade of up to 700 policemen out of service and put members under investigation for "possible complicity" with death squads following a mass kidnapping earlier this week, the U.S. military said Wednesday.
Meanwhile, a series of bombs went off in rapid succession in a shopping district in a mainly Christian neighborhood of Baghdad, killing 16 people and wounding 87, police said. The dead were among 26 people killed in attacks across Iraq. The U.S. military also announced the death of two soldiers the latest in what has been one of the bloodiest stretches of days for American troops this year. At least 17 troops have been killed in combat since Saturday, including eight U.S. soldiers who died in gunbattles and bomb blasts Monday in Baghdad the most killed in a single day in the capital since July 2005.
The Iraqi police officers were decommissioned following a kidnapping Sunday when gunmen stormed a frozen food plant in the Amil district, abducted 24 workers and shot two others. The bodies of seven of the workers were found hours later but the fate of the others remains unknown.
The action appeared aimed at signaling a new seriousness in tackling police collusion with militias at a time when the government is under increased pressure to put an end to the Shiite-Sunni violence that has killed thousands this year and threatened to tear Iraq apart. Sunni leaders blamed Shiite militias for the kidnapping and suggested security forces had turned a blind eye to the attack.
The top U.S. military spokesman in Iraq, Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell, said the Iraqi police brigade in the area had been ordered to stand down and was being retrained. "There was some possible complicity in allowing death squad elements to move freely when they should have been impeding them," he told a Baghdad news conference. "The forces in the unit have not put their full allegiance to the government of Iraq and gave their allegiance to others," he said. He said problems with the unit had emerged during a broad brigade-by-brigade assessment of police in Baghdad led by the U.S. military.
The suspended brigade has about 650-700 police, said Interior Ministry spokesman Lt. Col. Karim Mohammedawi. The Iraqi Interior Ministry said Tuesday that the commander of the unit, a lieutenant colonel, had been detained for investigation and the major general who commands the battalion that includes the brigade had been suspended temporarily and ordered transferred. Brig. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, the chief ministry spokesman, said a random selection of troops in the suspended unit were being investigated for ties to militias. ...
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Oct. 4 - More than 200 wanted suspects were arrested by the Iraqi army in a large operation against insurgents last week in Diyala province and were put on display in Baquba.
Diyala is a volatile, ethnically-mixed area northeast of the capital that has seen some of the worst violence over recent months.
Soundbite, Commander of the 5th division of the Iraqi army (Arabic):
"We have arrested 251 wanted terrorists from a number of networks including Ansar al-Sunna group, Jamaat al Tawheed wa al Jihad, the 20th Revolution Brigades and a number of Saddam's followers and militiamen,"
Sadr's Madhi Army the target of Iraqi and Coalition pressure in Diwaniyah
Muqtada al-Sadr, the Iranian backed Shiite cleric, has been a thorn in the side of the Coalition and the fledgling Iraqi government. In the spring and late summer of 2004, U.S. forces fought intense battles against Sadr for control over the Shiite South and the holy city of Najaf. While Sadr's militia, the Madhi Army, was militarily defeated, the Coalition failed to politically defeat Sadr, and he has remained a threat to this day. Sadr's political party controls 30 of the 275 seats in Parliament, and runs five ministries.
While much of the public's perceptions of the efforts against Sadr are shaped by operations in Sadr City in Baghdad, the Coalition and Iraqi government are chipping away at his power base outside of Baghdad. The series of raids and clashes, often masked as efforts against "criminals," "thugs," "death squads," and "kidnappers," are being conducted against the extreme elements of Sadr and his Mahdi Army. The goal is to remove Sadr from a position of influence, either by force or his surrender, and split his power base. Sadr's lieutenants are being systematically targeted, which will drive him to either fight or withdraw.
A window into these operations is available in the city of Diwaniyah. A joint U.S. and Iraqi operation, dubbed Constant Solidarity has been announced at the end of September. The operation is made up of elements of the 8th Iraqi Army Division, supported the soldiers of the Fires Brigade (artillery), 4th Infantry Division. The purpose is to "weed out more than 2,000 terrorists in and around the city of Diwaniyah." Diwaniyah is a Sadr stronghold, the "terrorists" being referred to here are the Madhi Army. To demonstrate the seriousness of the operation, the U.S. has deployed MLRS launchers (Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System) in the region to hit back at the Madhi Army
Iraq's Sunni Arab militant group, Ansar al-Sunnah, claimed responsibility yesterday for killing a cousin of the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in a drive-by shooting last week.
"We dunnit and we're glad!"
The killing raised worries of retaliation by Sadr's Mahdi Army, one of the most powerful Shiite militias in Iraq, blamed for slayings of Sunnis.
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With those extended families and rampant inbreeding, most of iraqis are probably cousin anyway, so that's not a big deal (expect for the guy whacked, of course).
Nice sloppy wet kiss for Tater and the Tots from The Times. They're all scary 'n' fearsome -n- brave, see? Ferocious warriors to a man, is the Mahdi Army. Anyone with brains could see they're practically invincible and it would be folly to take them on.
Abu Maha admits freely that he kills and kidnaps Sunni "terrorists". At checkpoints Iraqi soldiers greet him by name and let him pass. For Abu Maha is a leader of Hojatoleslam Moqtada al-Sadr's al-Mahdi Army in western Baghdad, a deadly force with such power that no politician dares take it on.
The thousands-strong militia and a political power base of 32 seats in Parliament have made Hojatoleslam al-Sadr's militant Shia movement the strongest in Iraq. The group is blamed for many death squad killings, but has such grassroots appeal that even the Shia premier cancelled plans to clear Sadr City, its Baghdad stronghold.
Accompanied by The Times, Abu Maha cruises past Iraqi soldiers as he plans an attack in Ghazaliyah, a mixed neighbourhood that has been a battleground for months. Ghazaliyah abuts Shula to the north, another enclave of the al-Mahdi Army, and Abu Maha is looking to extend his militia's influence. He has been watching Sunnis who fled to the neighbourhood from another part of western Baghdad, convinced that they are in league with the Sunni al-Qaeda terrorists. He says that his men will target them just business as usual for the militant who has no qualms about shedding blood in his mission to protect the Shia.
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Didn't we wipe the floor with the Al-Mahdi clowns?
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Nice sloppy wet kiss for Tater and the Tots from The Times. They're all scary 'n' fearsome -n- brave, see? Ferocious warriors to a man, is the Mahdi Army. Anyone with brains could see they're practically invincible and it would be folly to take them on.
On patrol with the al-Mahdi army
By Wet Kisser Ned Parker and Haider Azzawi
Accompanied by The Times They bring death to the streets, but feel no shame and fear no reprisal.
Accompanied by The Times, Abu Maha cruises past Iraqi soldiers as he plans an attack in Ghazaliyah, a mixed neighbourhood that has been a battleground for months. Ghazaliyah abuts Shula to the north, another enclave of the al-Mahdi Army, and Abu Maha is looking to extend his militia's influence. He has been watching Sunnis who fled to the neighbourhood from another part of western Baghdad, convinced that they are in league with the Sunni al-Qaeda terrorists. He says that his men will target them just business as usual for the militant who has no qualms about shedding blood in his mission to protect the Shia.
Journalism today. Times delegates coverage for the piece to an in house reporter who then sub-lets it to someone who can move in terrorist circles [a terrorist] who is called a Time's 'stringer'.
It sells newspapers OK, but can they ever do anything but feign outrage about anything anywhere ever again credibility?
A group calling itself Al Qaeda in Palestine posted a Web video Wednesday denouncing those who "work in the service of the Jews." The 5-minute video contains previously-aired clips of Usama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, as well as footage of a masked man sitting alongside an automatic weapon and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. "My speech is directed against... those who announce blasphemy against Islam and who are allied with enemies of God and religion, and work in the service of the Jews and the Christians," the man said. The video surfaced as U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice held a news conference with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank.
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This is truly lame. The only videos they used to feature in were post-carnage videos of terrorist attacks they had staged, and the impressive feature of these videos was that they were filmed by network journalists. Today these palookas are having to sneak videos in the back door boasting of past glories.
Three masked men shot and killed a Hamas leader as he left a mosque in the West Bank on Wednesday, witnesses said, a day after a rival Palestinian faction threatened to kill senior Hamas members.
Witnesses said the gunmen jumped out of a passing vehicle and shot Mohammed Odeh, 37, as he left the mosque after dawn prayers in Hableh, a village near the town of Qalqilya, and then sped off, the witnesses said.
Odeh, oh dear.
They said the vehicle had Israeli license plates but gave no other details. Vehicles with such plates are not uncommon in some major Palestinian cities in the occupied West Bank.
The Israeli military denied involvement in the shooting in the village, which lies northwest of the main West Bank city of Ramallah. "We were not involved in any such incident near Qalqilya," an army spokesman said.
"But we aren't too upset about the result," he added.
Odeh, described as a local leader of Hamas, died on the way to hospital, ambulance workers said.
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Meanwhile. Gunmen storm Palestinians telecom company in Gaza Masked gunmen stormed two cell phone transmitting stations in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, opening fire and disrupting cellular phone coverage in the latest outbreak of violence in the volatile area.
For a moment there I wondered why, but then I said to myself---these are Palestinians.
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However, some witnesses suggested the gunmen could have been undercover Israeli agents.
Yeah, gotta be them damn Zionists...
These friggin mooks still can't get grasp the thought that the biggest threats to their existence are the two crime syndicates that compose their alleged government.
Five people were wounded in an IAF airstrike in northern Gaza Tuesday evening, Palestinian sources said.
After the initial explosion, several additional blasts were heard due to the number of weapons and explosives carried in the car.
The army confirmed that IAF aircraft had bombed a vehicle carrying Islamic Jihad operatives in the Gaza town of Beit Hanun. After the initial explosion, several additional blasts were heard due to the number of weapons and explosives carried in the car. The IDF said the terrorists were on their way to launch rockets at Israeli communities in the western Negev. According to Palestinian sources, two cars were hit in the strike. The five wounded were Fatah and Islamic Jihad operatives, they said.
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The formation of a national unity government between the ruling Hamas party and opposition group al-Fatah occupied the agenda this weekend and prompted renewed fears of a civil war in Palestine. Conflicts between Hamas and al-Fatah forces in Gaza began on Saturday and intensified throughout Sunday. Eight people, two of them children, lost their lives in the clashes which broke out after Hamas members interfered in a protest meeting of police officials over unpaid salaries.
More than 70 Palestinians were injured in the clashes. Hundreds of public officers who have not been paid for months took their anger to the streets yesterday, where Internal Ministry forces took action to stop the protestors.
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He, he, I hope they both win
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Instead of funding the PA could we just send them cases of scotch? Alternately what if we provided them with corn as their main staple. I think Anonymouse pointed out that pellegra makes one grumpy.
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I never thought I'd say this, but send them guns. And ammo. Now. :-)
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Civil War? I thought that was defined as a war between factions of the same COUNTRY. What country is 'palestine'? Never heard of it. Does it show on a map?
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The IDF concrete wall is working. They cannot get to the Jews and cannot escape to Egypt, so now they have turned on one another. This is a good news story.
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Actually, msgeek, you can find maps that show this mythical country in place of Israel. Generally in Arab countries and radical left universities (I repeat Myself) over here.
Shiite militias give Palestinians 72 hours to leave Baghdad
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Shiite militias Have given the Palestinian families living in Baghdad 72 hours to leave "or will be subject to burning and killing."
He said a number of residents in the neighborhood of Health session of the "Quds Press" that the publication was distributed to the homes inhabited by Palestinians. Toaadthm death and burning unless they leave Baghdad within 72 hours. They confirmed that those publications distributed in times of curfew, which was imposed on Baghdad since Friday evening until Sunday morning.
He also pointed out that the residents of these militias used for the first time, loudspeakers mounted on cars governmental, the Palestinians and threatens to kill them unless they leave Baghdad. reminding them that their fate would have been the fate of their fellow citizens in the municipalities located east of Baghdad.
According to the official statistics, the number of Palestinians who have been killed in Iraq by a Shiite militia hit about 172 Palestinians, in addition to the tens of abductees and prisoners, both by the American forces or the government or at the death squads and militia elements.
Dozens of families have migrated from the Palestinian Baghdad, Following repeated targeting them by the government forces or death squads of the Shiite parties.
They've been butchering each other and their own children for ages. Only the threshold of dietary consumption has not yet been crossed. Palestinians rank among the world's premier cannibals. They consume foreign aid to build houses, use those abodes for launching terrorist attacks, get them bulldozed by outraged Israeli forces and then show up on the world's stage weeping and wailing about their homelessness. Round after round, they feed upon the globe's largess only to piss it away at a moment's notice. Their inheritance and instantaneous destruction of the Israeli greenhouses was a penultimate demonstration of this monstrous ingratitude.
The Palestinians have been drinking this world's blood for untold decades. They are engorged parasites whose access to a willing host has finally been cut off for a change. In their constant thirst for more blood, they cheerfully slaughter each other rather than, perish the thought, actually build or construct anything of lasting value that might possibly be construed in some odd way as viable economic infrastructure.
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I might pee on both only if their hearts are on fire. Otherwise, kick back and enjoy the show as extremists who got the upper hand now tear apart "Palestine."
Woman had 4 pounds of explosives at Indonesia train station
An Indonesian woman was arrested Tuesday with 4 pounds of TNT at a train station in East Java province, a senior police detective said, and authorities were trying to determine if she had links to terrorism.
The 55-year-old suspect was being questioned at police headquarters in Surabaya, the country's second largest city, after being detained at the Sidoarjo train station, said Col. Amhar Azeth. "She was behaving suspiciously so police searched her," he said. "They found 2 kilograms of TNT." It was not yet clear if the explosives were intended for terrorist activities, he said.
The al-Qaeda-linked militant group Jemaah Islamiyah has been blamed for a series of attacks in the world's most populous Muslim nation since 2002, killing more than 240 people, many of them foreign tourists. All of the attacks have occurred between August and October, a period President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono described last year as the "elk bombing season." Stump removal.
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For fishing, am told that they use black powder collected from, say, fire crackers, using a discarded electric bulb with the filament housing carefully removed from its body. Fill and seal it watertight after connecting a loop of fine wire inside, leaving two very long strand oundside - detotate it underwater by just closing the circuit with a size 'D' 1.5 volts dry cell a safe distance away.
THE Indonesian military is scrambling to distance itself from claims it is linked to terrorist networks after the arrest of a retired general in American Guam on arms smuggling and money laundering charges. Former navy general Erick Wutolo and three other Indonesians were detained at the weekend after an FBI investigation led to allegations that they conspired to sell American weapons to Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka, and sophisticated night-sight goggles to Indonesia's armed forces, or TNI.
Why does this keep happening?" asked Mr Laksono. "Is this because business is too tempting? Is this to do with terrorism or with weapons smuggling?
Mr Wutolo appeared in a court on the US-administered Pacific island yesterday, after one of his co-conspirators, Singaporean Hanifa bin Osman, agreed to stand trial in Maryland, in the US, on firearms, terrorism and money laundering charges. The other Indonesians - all civilians - are due to appear before a Guam judge today.
The head of the Indonesian parliament's lower house, Agung Laksono, has been scathing in his criticism of a military which, in the eyes of many, has not cut itself free from a reliance on illicit business practice. "Why does this keep happening?" asked Mr Laksono as he demanded that TNI chief General Djoko Suyanto pay better attention to the fast-growing scandal. "Is this because business is too tempting? Is this to do with terrorism or with weapons smuggling?"
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Oct. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Iran rules out any suspension of uranium enrichment, said the deputy to the country's top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani. The Islamic Republic refuses to ``step back'' and ``will not accept any suspension'' of its uranium enrichment work, Larijani's deputy, Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli, was quoted as saying today by the state-run Fars news agency. ``A suspension of a week or two, or even one month, will not solve any problem.''
``The Iranian population has chosen its path and will not step back one bit from its rights,'' Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying today by the official Iranian Students News Agency. Ahmadinejad, pronounced ah-ma-deen-ah- ZHAD, was refering to the country's nuclear program during a speech in the city of Nazarabad, in the Tehran province.
The U.S. and some allies accuse Iran of using its nuclear power program to disguise weapons development. Iran, which is a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, says its nuclear work is for civilian purposes only.
A suspension of enrichment is the U.S. and European Union's main demand to break the deadlock over the program. Iran ignored an Aug. 31 deadline set by the United Nations Security Council to freeze enrichment or face the possibility of sanctions. Six world powers are preparing to draft penalties against Iran should the country fail to suspend enrichment in the coming days, a senior British diplomat said yesterday.
European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana, the designated envoy to Iran on the nuclear issue, told EU countries and the U.S. this weekend that Larijani has made it clear Iran won't comply, the diplomat told reporters in London, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
The five members of the UN Security Council -- the U.S., the U.K., France, Russia and China -- plus Germany, a grouping known as the P5 plus one, are intensifying preparatory efforts for what should be in a resolution while pursuing negotiations, the diplomat said. ``This dialogue I am maintaining cannot last forever,'' Solana told a European Parliament committee in Brussels today. Talks will not be able to move to negotiations because Iran refuses to halt enrichment, Solana said, though he added that the dispute should be resolved ``through negotiation.''
So you'll keep talking about moving to negotiations which is more talking until the mushroom cloud goes up. Then you'll have something else to talk about.
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I thought this was a news site.
At least they wait a day between talking out of the other side of their mouth.
Canadian nuke plants use un-enrigherd uranium and heavy water as a moderator. More cost for the water but less for the fuel, and you can't make a bomb with it.
Surly, the Mad Mullahs have already rejected that concept? It'd give them the nuke power.....
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They could have lots of electric power fast if they bought gas-turbine generators and put their natural gas through them. They don't need nuclear for anything except terror.
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un-enrigherd = un-enriched, i.e., fresh out of the ground.
I used the highly technical term, un-enrigherd, which may have been confusing to some. But un-enriched is close enough for you lesser mortals.
signed - The Physics Professor
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Yeah, Bobby, why does the MSM keep reporting these flip flops from the no.1 lying nation and in the process sucking up to it? Just like giving endless publicity to every Baalestinian whine and boast.
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Death their way Comes. No matter what they say. The Mullahs will not survive another year.
No hurricaines this year specifically because Ahmadinejad "Prophesized" it. No Mahdi because Ahmadinejad "Prophesy" it. False prophet, and very bad leader.
A system update: if one posts without a 'nym', the post or comment will earn you a trip to the Muffler Man. That's a polite way of saying that nym-less posts and comments won't be accepted.
If you want to post, pick a nym -- ONE nym -- and stick with it. Thanks for your cooperation.
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it's not regs here, we have no problemo leaving nyms! >:)
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Regulars who occasionally spoof a famous person in a comment (e.g., signing a comment about "I served in Vietnam!" as "John Frickin' Kerry") are fine; that's just humor. We like.
Commenters who use more than one nym to pretend to be more than one person shouldn't do that. I'm not aware of any of our regulars who have more than one usual nym.
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ima gladder me neethens textudio of steevez. :)
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yep, Hupuck pick a name, pseudonym, number. If you happen to like one of the automatically produced names from Fred's name generator keep that one; several RBers have done so.
I used to be Red Dog but I changed it to RD, before that I just lurked about the 'Burg for a year or so with several nyms.. Mucky and Steve White are old timmers here btw.
hat tip, Steve White sits on the right hand side of GOD.
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One develops a history here, attached to a fixed name or nym, enabling others to judge the value of informational comments (who doesn't realize how much we can trust facts about the Indian subcontinent when posted by john? Or roads, bridges and Hawaiian shirts when posted by Frank G? Or anything he cares to comment on, when Old Spook pokes his head in?) and appreciate the true depth of a snark. Frank G. always considerately leaves his email unchanged when he uses a funny name for snark purposes, so we know it's him. But posting as one of the regulars is rude. And the moderators always know -- they were ruthless bastards even before Fred gave them copies of the keys to the kingdom, darlings though they generally are. ;-)
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I could have a lot more fun by inventing a name than hijacking the salmon moderator's, for whom I have a great deal of respect, btw.
Sometimes there is a clue in the order of the postings, too. I tend to post several comments in a short period, so if you see Bobby, Bobby, Barney Fife, and Bobby - it's a clue.
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Yes, "salmon", let'ds all pretend it's "salmon", otherwise it might be a very disturbing experience if he ever discovers that in fact it is indeed Pink.
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Dr. Steve's Mod Color is actually midway between Salmon and Pink:
This bgcolor is coded as "Salmon" (#FA8072)
Steve White's bgcolor, coded as "#FF9999"
This bgcolor is coded as "Pink" (#FFC0CB)
You might want to take this up with the proprietor, Steve... :-)
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So them humoristical names be okay?
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I changed my nym one time (one time!) to troll a comment and Dr. Steve banned me. I had to wash dishes at the O Club for a month before Fred would let me back in...
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Dr. Steve's Mod Color is actually midway between Salmon and Pink:
Hupmh. I still don't think it's healthy to encourage the doctor in his denial, in the long run. I mean, there's nothing wrong with pink, there's no need at all to use a pink made to look like "salmon". I mean, wasn't Mr. Pink the coolest "Reservoir dogs" character?
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Dr. Steve's Mod Color is actually midway between Salmon and Pink:
This bgcolor is coded as "Salmon" (#FA8072)
Steve White's bgcolor, coded as "#FF9999"
This bgcolor is coded as "Pink" (#FFC0CB)
Yeah, yeah, okay, fine, my color is 'Pacific Salmon'. There.
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Take the number off the end and voila!* Suddenly timid and anonymous Chinter Flarong9283 becomes the boldly attractive and wonderfully charming Chinter Flarong. Just look at the delightful Nimble Spemble, who once was merely an anonymity generated by Fred's little machine, one of a variety of Spembles all spawned at about the same time. He, and he alone, made the name his own, and took it to a thus-far illustrious and respected career, beloved by all who know him. ;-)
*There's an accent in that word somewhere, but I never got far enough in the language back in second grade to find out where it went or which way it leaned, so I've given up.
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For some of us end users, comments like that are helpful, Speart Flerong2904. F'r instance, I've finally wrapped my mind around nym, but I'm still struggling with the definition of nic.
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NIC Card, that like a PIN number, or APR Rate?
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Don't forget the effects of Nym Evolution!
This nym was a long movie name back before 911 at FT.com.
Its evolved to a shorter and easy to type TM at the insistance of a funds trader who liked to see the world in 3 and 4 character nym streams. I accepted his learned advice and suggested nym.
We at Rantburg have decided, for one time only, to allow everyone to be whoever they wish. So we are asking you all to join in and become someone else for a day. We are calling it "Free Nym Friday". Go on, have some fun ;-)
See you there.
Steve
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
An 18-year-old woman was charged on Tuesday in connection with an alleged failed attempt to bomb London in July last year, two weeks after the July 7 attacks on the capital's transport network, police said.
QUETTA, Pakistan - Tribal militants in Pakistans southwest killed three paramilitary soldiers and wounded two others in a rocket attack on Tuesday, officials said. The incident occured in Kohlu district, 400 km (250 miles) east of Quetta, capital of the southwestern Baluchistan province.
Oct. 4 - More than 200 wanted suspects were arrested by the Iraqi army in a large operation against insurgents last week in Diyala province and were put on display in Baquba.
A group calling itself Al Qaeda in Palestine posted a Web video Wednesday denouncing those who "work in the service of the Jews." The 5-minute video contains previously-aired clips of Usama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, as well as footage of a masked man sitting alongside an automatic weapon and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. "My speech is directed against... those who announce blasphemy against Islam and who are allied with enemies of God and religion, and work in the service of the Jews and the Christians," the man said. The video surfaced as U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice held a news conference with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank.
Three masked men shot and killed a Hamas leader as he left a mosque in the West Bank on Wednesday, witnesses said, a day after a rival Palestinian faction threatened to kill senior Hamas members.
Five people were wounded in an IAF airstrike in northern Gaza Tuesday evening, Palestinian sources said. 
The formation of a national unity government between the ruling Hamas party and opposition group al-Fatah occupied the agenda this weekend and prompted renewed fears of a civil war in Palestine. Conflicts between Hamas and al-Fatah forces in Gaza began on Saturday and intensified throughout Sunday. Eight people, two of them children, lost their lives in the clashes which broke out after Hamas members interfered in a protest meeting of police officials over unpaid salaries. 
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