Canadian Forces Ambushed in Afghanistan (July 15, 2006) 02:36
Troops from Alpha Company, 2nd Platoon, "Red Devils" from Edmonton, Canada are a Troops from Alpha Company, 2nd Platoon, "Red Devils" from Edmonton, Canada are ambushed as they conducted battle damage assessment in the village on July 15, 2006 in Sangin, Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan NB : this one was already linked here.
Canadian Forces dawn raid on a Taliban compoud (July 13,2006) 02:40
Troops from Alpha Company, 2nd Platoon, "Red Devils" from Edmonton, Canada conduct a dawn raid on a Taliban compound on July 13, 2006 in Hydarabad, Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan.
Canadian Forces Firefight in Afghanistan (July 8, 2006) 02:29
Troops from Alpha Company, 2nd Platoon, "Red Devils" from Edmonton, Canada engag Troops from Alpha Company, 2nd Platoon, "Red Devils" from Edmonton, Canada engage in a fierce firefight with Taliban insurgents on July 8, 2006 in Panjawi, Kandahar Province in southern Afghanistan.
Canadian firefight 06:29
www.militaryvideos.net - Firefight in Afghanistan with Canadian troops.
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The last line from the 7/13 video says it all:
"They're definitely going to wonder who the Canadians are from here on out. That's for sure."
No doubt correct.
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"A couple of brown plants on the edges of some of those (forests) did catch on fire. But a section of soldiers that was downwind from that had some ill effects and decided that was probably not the right course of action," Hillier said
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'In response, the crew of at least one armored car had camouflaged their vehicle with marijuana."
Last time I checked hanging Mary Jane upside down off the side of a vehicle was a good way as any to dry it out... I wonder how long their superiors will allow them to camo their armored carrier in this manner?
Hopefully for a long time... fight on boys... fight on!
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They could see over those marygeewanna plants with one of these... and have a blast at the same time.
Dunno if it can carry a camera, but they probably won't care.
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The High Times reporter must have been stoned out of his mind since Afghan hash has always been the most popular and available, except during the Soviet invasion.
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Damn! I thought we might be having a "Day of the Triffids" event...
Darnit! Back to mixing up random stuff in the PCR again...
A teenaged boy died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital in the early hours of yesterday, a day after the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) chased and caught him.
'chased and caught' him? Isn't that a job for a shutter gun?
Rab claimed the teenager, Zakir Hossain, died from chest pain he suffered while trying to evade the arrest.
[THUMP] [THUMP] [THUMPITY-THUMPITY-THUMP]
"Owwwww, my chest hurts!"
He was arrested from Shah Ali Police Station area in the city at 3:00am on Tuesday.
He caught up with the RAB as they were headed out to another 'encounter'.
However, morgue sources said the body bore marks of bruises.
"Sam, geez, look at all the bruises on this one!"
"Careful Dr. Quincy, we shouldn't include that in the autopsy report."
"Oh okay, just don't tell no one."
Zakir, 19, son of Zafar Hossain, was a resident of Mirpur.
In the first information report (FIR) filed with Shah Ali Police Station, the Rab said its members went to the Eidgah field at Rinekhola in Mirpur at 3:00am on Tuesday to arrest criminals.
JHENIDAH, Oct 12: A cadre of outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party (ML-Janajuddha) was killed in a shootout between their cohorts and policat Jashaikhali village in Sadar upazila of the district early Thursday, reports UNB.
What do the policat's have against cohorts?
The deceased was identified as Mashiur Rahman, 35, son of Abdur Rahman Mondal of Durbakundu village in Kotchandpur upazila of the district.
I'm sure he was a good boy, widely respected in the upazila
Police arrested Mashiur from a bus stand in the district town Wednesday noon. He is an accused in a dozen criminal cases, includin three murders.
You'd think someone wanted on twelve systems could afford a car
Acting on his statement,
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwww!"
the law enforcers along with Mashiur proceeded towards Jashaikhali on Wednesday night in search of hidden arms and ammunition.
Road trip!
When they reached the area at about 2:30 am Thursday, Mashiur''accomplices opened fire on the police party, forcing them to fire back.
Police are funny that way
Mashiur was critically injured in the 20-minute gunfight while trying to escape from police custody, said a police source.
The old "shot while trying to escape" gag
Injured Mashiur was taken to Jhenidah Sadar Hospital where he died at about 3:30 am.
"He's dead, Jim"
After the encounter, a shutter gun and three rounds of bullet were recovered from the scene.
To be cleaned and placed in storage for the next "encounter"
With this, 38 suspected criminals have so far been killed in shootouts with the law-enforcers in the district.
Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Oct 12: BNP and Awami League activists clashed Thursday at Ramjibanpur village of sadar upazila leaving 50 people wounded, reports UNB.
Ashraful, 32, and Sumon, 25, were rushed to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital in a bad condition while 24 others admitted to Chapainawabganj sadar hospital.
Villagers said BNP group led by Habibur Rahman and Awami League activists led by Shakil engaged in the clash to establish supremacy in their Baliadanga union.
Ah, the Teamsters would be proud
Both sides used stick, sharp and lethal weapons.
"Careful, you could put a eye out running with that"
Police rushed to the spot and dispersed the fighting groups. Tension was prevailing in the area.
Beware of veiled dacoits
Beware, the city dwellers. Borka (Veil) wearing female gangsters are active in the city. Two female dacoits wearing veil entered a house and looted cash and gold ornaments worth Tk 20,000 in the citys Mirpur area on Thursday.
Locals said that two women entered a house at 166, Sangbadik residential area under Mirpur police station pressing calling bell.
"Ding dong! Avon calling!"
Entering the house belonging to a CNG driverMizan (35), the dacoits started beating the inmates including the housewife. At one stage the female gang looted cash of Tk 5,000, two pairs of earring and two bangles at dagger point.
Girls just want to have fun
A case was filed with Mirpur police station in this connection. But none was arrested till filing this report.
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is a policat like an islamic polecat?
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The veiled dacoits report is number one in the 12 systems program. Filed under inmate beating and veiled threats. You go girls!
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Phew! they found the shutter gun, maybe this time they'll lock it up. Did you know there's only one? It's a mean bugger mind - it's extraordinarily good at getting its so-called owner killed.
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for the uninitiated freshmen here at RBU,
A Shutter Gun is a RAB inforcement tool which shutters back and fourth 'tween Wee-Hour forays in the field and then back to the police tool shed.
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You know, there are some cosmological theories that indicate that there's only *one* electron in the entire universe...I'm just saying, that's all...
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LONDON - A man admitted in a London court on Thursday that he had taken part in a plot to murder people in terrorist attacks in Britain and the United States. Dhiren Barot pleaded guilty at Woolwich Crown Court in southeast London to one count of conspiring with other people between January 1, 2000 and August 4, 2004 to commit murder.
Now let's see if the Brits will put him away forever.
The 34-year-old, wearing a khaki-coloured zip-up sweater and black shirt and sporting a short beard, was calm and showed no emotion.
Prosecutor Edmund Lawson said Mr Barot has indicated that he pleads guilty on the basis that count one concerns both the US and the UK. Lawson said Barot planned to blow up buildings in major US cities, which were designed to kill as many innocent people as possible, as well as carry out a series of synchronized attacks in Britain.
He said the cornerstone of the plot in Britain involved blowing up three limousines packed with gas cylinders and explosives in underground car parks, but also detonating a radioactive dirty bomb intended to cause injury, fear, terror and chaos.
Lawson asked the judge to recall that there were plans or proposals that were found by the police on the computer after the arrests of August 2004. Being plans for attacks on the International Monetary Fund and World Bank buildings in Washington, the New York Stock Exchange and Citigroup buildings in New York and the Prudential buildings in Newark.
These being plans ... to carry out explosions at those premises with no warning, they were basically designed to kill as many innocent people as possible, he said.
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Now let's see if the Brits will put him away forever.
I'll go ten years - which will, like all sentences, be automatically reduced to 5. When time on remand is considered - a year/18 months - he'll probably serve 3.5/4 years.
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Was this Koran-motivated violence?
The article omits the mention motive for some reason
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AFAICT the UK press have been shy about suggesting an AQ link. Lone nutters? The fact this case is being contested publically suggests there's no interdependence upon other cases/AQ figures currently being held pending trial.
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Mexican and US agents are investigating a group in Mexico that they believe is funding Lebanese Hizbollah guerrillas, two newspapers reported on Thursday. Mexico started the investigation three months ago on a request from the United States, which is helping in the probe, the daily El Universal said.
Lebanon's ambassador was critical. "This is part of a fear campaign from those who believe they are fighting against terrorism," Nouhad Mahmoud told Reuters.
The alleged cell is suspected of financing Hizbollah rather than planning attacks itself, according to the Milenio newspaper. Milenio said the attorney general's office in Mexico has compiled a list of people and companies it believes have provided funds to support Hizbollah, but no names were given.
Lebanon's ambassador was critical. "This is part of a fear campaign from those who believe they are fighting against terrorism," Nouhad Mahmoud told Reuters. He said he knew nothing about an investigation of a Hizbollah cell in Mexico: "We have no idea, we only saw this in the newspapers."
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"The alleged cell is suspected of financing Hizbollah rather than planning attacks itself"
It's estimated that Hizbollah receives about $100 million yearly from Iran alone. Other benefactors provide them their munitions and material support free of charge. (so to speak) Relatively speaking, how much dough can this Mexico cell provide? Or even the US cells for that matter? To consider these thugs simply as "fundraiser" operatives may be a huge miscalculation.
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Relatively speaking, how much dough can this Mexico cell provide?
How much can you make with credit card fraud, bank fraud, drug smuggling, cigarette smuggling, money laundering, counterfeiting, food stamp fraud, document forgery.
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Ed,
I agree with the It all adds up theory. But even if you factor in SA diamonds and Tri-Border drugs with your list of nefarious activities its still a very small fraction compared to the direct funding from Iran alone. My point is simple. When the Intel community says evidence of Hizbollah activities outside the ME points primarily to fundraising it may be underestimating the true threat Direct attack if given the green light.
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Hizb funding is supposedly $400 million/year. Iranian contributions are reportedly $100 million/year. That leaves a lot of unaccounted funding.
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I dont want to belabor the point ed but my impression was that the majority of Hizbollahs funding came through charitable donations (Khums or zakat) and most of that was raised domestically or within the greater ME. I could be wrong but I thought that all the money generated internationally (charitable and criminal) was a mere fraction of what they receive from state sponsorship. Im done.
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I noticed the Chiclet sales force in Tijuana is wearing turbans lately
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I dont want to belabor the point ed but my impression was that the majority of Hizbollahs funding came through charitable donations (Khums or zakat) and most of that was raised domestically or within the greater ME.
Maybe this part of the article will help:
Mexico has a large community of people of Lebanese descent, including prominent business leaders...
The U.S. government has determined that one scientific test, among many conducted since North Korea's announced nuclear test, was consistent with a nuclear explosion, a senior administration official said Friday night.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, cautioned that the administration has not made a definitive conclusion about the nature of the explosion.
"The betting is that this was an attempt at a nuclear test that failed," the official said. "We don't think they were trying to fake a nuclear test, but it may have been a nuclear fizzle _ an effort that failed." The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the information.
The official said the test measures a type of gas. It is one of a number of analyses conducted this week, which have not provided clarity about what North Korea detonated on Monday.
Earlier Friday, results from another test disclosed Friday _ an initial air sampling _ showed no evidence of radioactive particles that would be expected from a successful nuclear detonation, a U.S. government intelligence official said.
But those test results did not necessarily mean the North Korean blast was not a nuclear explosion, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to disclose the sampling results.
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#4 gotta be unlikely RD. I mean this bunch screwed up a whole bunch of missile launches a while ago, and that's gotta be one or two (three???) orders of magnitude easier to do than getting a nuke to work properly.
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Results from an initial air sampling after North Korea's announced nuclear test showed no evidence of radioactive particles that would be expected from a successful nuclear detonation, a U.S. government intelligence official said Friday.
The test results do not necessarily mean the North Korean blast was not a nuclear explosion, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to disclose the sampling results.
The official described the results as the State Department announced that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel to China, South Korea and Japan next week to discuss steps to be taken to pressure North Korea to drop its nuclear efforts and to assess the security situation in the region.
Rice's trip is the next step in the U.S. diplomatic offensive at the United Nations and with Pyongyang's neighbors.
Members of the U.N. Security Council agreed Friday on the wording of a resolution that would clamp sanctions on the communist country. The draft, which U.S. officials said they hoped would be approved on Saturday, would authorize non-military sanctions against the North, and says that any further action the council might want to take would require another U.N. resolution.
It also eliminates a blanket arms embargo from a tougher, previous draft, instead targeting specific equipment for sanctions including missiles, tanks, warships and combat aircraft.
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said that on Rice's trip, "she's going to be talking about the passage of that resolution certainly, but really what comes after. She's going to be talking about how to go about actually implementing that resolution."
The U.S. government remains uncertain of the nature of the underground explosion Monday trumpeted by North Korea as a nuclear test. The air sampling tends to reinforce earlier doubts about whether the test blast was entirely successful, officials said. Data from seismic sensors indicated the explosion was smaller than expected
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Drudge says that the US is now reporting positive radiation results.
Hope this thing was not the trigger for an H-bomb. Suggest we pull back from the DMZ and waste Kimmie before we find out the hard way.
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FREEREPUBLIC.com > SLASHDOT.org > technical analyses = test was a either a fizzled "normal" nuke device, or a successful one for MANY SMALL NUKE BOMBS/BOMBLETS, i.e. Mini-nukes. MANY SMALL BOMBS/BOMBLETS strongly implies proliferation resulting in either WORLD-WIDE AYMMETRIC NUCLEAR TERROR andor LIMITED TACTICAL NUCLEAR WAR [mostly concventional forces].
Recent U.S. intelligence analyses of North Korea's nuclear and missile programs were flawed and the lack of clarity on the issue hampered U.S. diplomatic efforts to avert the underground blast detected Sunday, according to Bush administration officials. with barely restrained glee.
Some recent secret reports stated that Pyongyang did not have nuclear arms and until recently was bluffing about plans for a test, according to officials who have read the classified assessments.
The analyses in question included a National Intelligence Estimate a consensus report of all U.S. spy agencies produced several months ago and at least two other classified reports on North Korea produced by senior officials within the office of the Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte. The all seeing, all knowing NIE was wrong? Whodda guessed? We all know it to be fully authoritative for Iraq when it calls for immediate withdrawal according to Pelosi.
The officials said there were as many as 10 failures related to intelligence reporting on North Korean missile tests and the suspected nuclear test that harmed administration efforts to deal with the issue. Details at the link.
Intelligence officials are hoping President Bush will make a comment supporting U.S. intelligence agencies' performance on North Korea, something he has not done to date. In other news, people in Hell were asking for ice water.
"It was an intelligence failure," said one administration official close to the issue. May I repeat myself?
Additionally, the weak assessments undermined the recent visit to China by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who did not have good enough intelligence to persuade Mr. Hu that a test was imminent and that he should use his government's influence on North Korea to stop it. Aides to Mr. Abe are said by U.S. officials to be upset that they could not help Mr. Abe better understand the nuclear test plans before the meetings. Ooh screwing up relations with Japan. That's starting to get serious.
Carl Kropf, a spokesman for Mr. Negroponte, dismissed as false claims by officials who say U.S. intelligence analysis on North Korea was flawed. "That is absolutely wrong, that we were not tracking this issue for some period of time," he said.] "We were tracking it. The Norks just didn't cooperate with the way we were spinning it. Our folks will coordinate better in the future."
"I think the community is a little bit gun shy," Mr. Hoekstra said. "They're being held to a strict standard and as a result are going to caveat everything in the aftermath of Iraq." And we never publicize their successes.
According to officials familiar with the reports, the weak analysis on North Korea is being blamed on Thomas Fingar, the most senior U.S. intelligence analyst within the office of the Director of National Intelligence. We've got a suspect. The Fickle Fingar of Fate.
Mr. Fingar, now deputy Director of National Intelligence for analysis, was the lone dissenter in a 2002 national intelligence assessment that stated Iraq had large stockpiles of chemical weapons and carried over the skeptical viewpoint to North Korea's arms programs. That's why they call him The Stopped Clock. He was a Doubting Dove on Iraq and was right. Now he's a Doubting Dove on Korea and he's wrong. Wonder how he's calling Iran. Being a Doubting Dove on that one could get him renamed the Fickle Fingar of Infamy. Also wonder who he voted for in 2004.
So, NS, I take it you're willing to store the chemical rounds in your house, neighborhood, town?
No? Let's compromise, store them on the grounds of the CIA Headquarters. Certainly, the Donks and their CIA employees won't object to something that doesn't exist.
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Take the 500 or so mustard gas and sarin shells and display them (w/o decontaminating them) in the House and Senate chambers. Then have a vote on whether they exist or not.
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You start missing calls when you spend all your time leaking to WaPo instead of minding your panel...
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Procopius, touche and thanks. It also ignores the WMD in Syria. But the public perception is that there were not enough WMD to justify pre-emptive invasion, as though that was the only reason we invaded.
If, for instance, journalists have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable. It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he attaches some importance, that he defines it as the opinion of well-informed circles.
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WMD? Weapons of Mass Deception? Yeah, Bush admin and CIA have lots of it. Bush best pay attention we know what the CIA does to Presidents (Kennedy) who stop playing nice. I suspect 9/11 was planned by CIA and Bush. Further I suspect they will orchestrate another by 11/6.
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HP5008, in our area the Price Chopper and the Safeways both have specials going on heavy-duty tin foil. Might be a good time for you to stock up -- those mind control rays are doing a number on you.
DALLAS A businessman was sentenced Thursday to nearly seven years in prison for having financial ties to a high-ranking terrorist and for making illegal computer exports to countries that support terrorism. Ghassan Elashi was convicted during two separate trials on 27 counts, including conspiracy and money laundering.
Elashi faces a third trial in February for his role in helping run the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, a Muslim charity that federal agents shut down in 2001 after the government accused it of funneling millions to Hamas. Holy Land officials have said the group aided hospitals, schools and orphans in the West Bank and Gaza.
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"US businessman"? Ah. Original source was AP. That would explain the failure to mention that Elashi was a also CAIR honcho.
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Good catch Jag. I'm going to suggest to the moderators at CAIR Watch that they superimpose a "Busted" sticker over Elashi's face.
On a more serious note, perhaps you might be able to answer a question. The artilce says Elashi just received a sentence of 7 years but is still facing a trial to come in February. If Elashi goes to trial and is convicted or if he enters a plea of guilty, can any additional jail time he might receive be stacked on top of the original 7 years he is already doing?
I suppose I'm holding out hope to see the original 7 years turn into 15-20.
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I know very little about these trials -- I don't bother following them because these scumbags are never sent to Gitmo or strung up in the town square, which is what needs to happen.
However, on the narrow question you pose, I presume the sentences will run concurrently. I.e, a pointless waste of time, effort, and taxpayer money. You'd think Texas courts could do better.
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They say "US" and "British", but they never say MUSLIM(E). It's funny as he almost certainly considers himself to be (sc)"Ummah" rather than a member of a civilised nation.
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Going into the U.S. prision system for this piece of crap will probably be all roses and high-fives considering the adoring fans and supporters of "Allen" allowed to flourish by our PC leadership.
Maybe if they restrict his diet to Pork Rinds and Chitlin's.......?
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Will the FBI also go after the many prominent mosques who knew they were sending money to HAMAS via the Holyland Foundation? Hopefully the PC mentality doesn't prevail.
Police on Thursday arrested a suspected Islamic militant who had allegedly planned to carry out terrorist attacks in the eastern Pakistan city of Lahore on the Islamic festival of Eid, an official said. The Pakistani man, identified as Mohammed Omar Abdullah Sindhi, 29, was arrested at a bus terminal after he arrived in Lahore from the tribal area town of Wana, said Masood Aziz, a senior Lahore police officer.
Sindhi was arrested following an intelligence tip, Aziz said. "We had information that he was traveling from Wana to Lahore and he had planned some terrorist activities in Lahore on Eid," Aziz said of the Islamic festival the marks the ending of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan during which Muslims observe dawn to dusk fasting. Police found grenades from a traveling bag Sindhi was carrying and he claimed to have worked for al-Qaida, Aziz said.
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I think Prince Charles and his preferred mount are due in Pakland at the end of the month S'gonna be interesting...
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A huge cache of arms, including 543 anti-personnel mines, was recovered and three arms peddlers were arrested following a joint raid by the Army Intelligence unit of the Eastern Command, the State's Criminal Investigation Department and the Intelligence Bureau here on Thursday.
The arms were probably meant to be sold to the Maoist insurgents in West Bengal, though it could have been for other terror groups as well, according to the Army. The arms were suspected to have been sneaked out of the Army Ordnance Factory at Ichhapur in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district over a period of two or three months.
One of the arms peddlers, a Lance Naik with the Indian Army, had been transferred to the Eastern Command from Jammu and Kashmir only three months ago. The two others are civilians. ``The Lance Naik's activities were questionable and the Army had kept an eye on him,'' said Wing Commander R.K. Das, Chief Public Relations Officer, Eastern Command. The recovery of landmines following a raid in his house led the Army and the police to use his leads and raid a house in Behala where the arms were kept hidden in sacks. ``Investigation is on and there is the possibility of a bigger nexus emerging,'' Wing Commander Das said. ``The possibility of an ISI link is also being probed,'' he said.
In what is being claimed by the Army as one of the largest recoveries of mines and other war-like stores from a metropolitan city in recent times, a total of 543 anti-personnel mines, 691 9 mm balls, 340 7.62 mm balls, 58 Pt 303 ammunition and three 5.56 INSAS ammunition were recovered.
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Mosul, Iraq (AINA) -- On Monday, October 9, a prominent Assyrian (also known as Chaldean and Syriac) priest, Fr. Paulos Iskander (Paul Alexander), was kidnapped by an unknown Islamic group. His ransom was posted at either $250,000 or $350,000. This group had demanded that signs be posted once again on his church apologizing for the Pope's remarks as a condition for negotiations to begin.
Father Alexander was beheaded on Wednesday.
Don't wait til the promised bloodletting orgy of Eid! Avoid the rush! Apologize now and get an official get-out-beheading free card, signed and pre-emptively good from now til we reneg and change our tiny little minds! Hurry! Don't let Eid sneak up on you from behind!
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Happy Ramadan to the Religion of Peace. If only the whole world could enjoy the blessings of your faith. How inspirational. Just lovely people.
//sarcasm off
The news of the priest's murder came as the leader of an Iraqi Christian group said that more than 35,000 Iraqi Christians have fled to Syria to escape the violence in their country. Christians are leaving because of individual threats from Muslim extremists and the general deterioration of security in Iraq, Emmanuel Khoshaba, the Syrian Orthodox head of the Assyrian and Democratic Movement, said on Thursday.
Christians are frequently attacked by Muslims in Iraq.Islamic groups have carried out several car bomb attacks on churches and Christian areas. Christian women have also been kidnapped in large numbers, and on other occasions been killed for not following Islamic social and dress codes.
Khoshaba's figure indicates an increase of 75 per cent from the 20,000 Iraqi Christians who were said to have moved to Syria in 2004, the year after US-led forces invaded Iraq and began the conflict.Christians made up around three per cent of Iraq's pre-war population 26 million people.
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#4 - I understand, but they shouldn't have to leave their own country and the only life they've known.
It would be better for all concerned if every Western country had a policy of helping to kill off these Murdering Bastards of Peace™ in very large numbers, there in Iraq.
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Ann Coulter's forced conversion idea is looking better and better.....
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As argued times before, WOT > the burden is on AMerica and only America = Amerika to BOTH SAVE/JUSTIFY SECUALAR SOCIALISM + SURRENDER TO SAME. DITTO FOR RADICAL ISLAM, etal -isms. Where Radical Iran is concerned, by this scope means America must both help Iran = North Korea become a global superpower while simul weakening itself and surrendering to Radical Islam.
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Each time something like this happens, Islam needs to lose a city. After a few dozen cities go up in flames, they MAY get the idea that the West won't tolerate this crap any more.
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A Web video posted late Thursday showed Iraqi insurgents conducting a traditional ritual to join forces with tribal chiefs under an umbrella group that includes al-Qaida. The two-minute video shows six men wearing long white robes and headdresses, sitting in a circle on the floor. They reach out and dip their hands into a bowl of liquid simultaneously. The footage was stamped with the emblem of the Mujahedeen Shura Council, an umbrella organization of insurgent groups that include al-Qaida in Iraq. All the figures in the video have their faces concealed, and they do not identify themselves or their factions.
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Either they want freedom and democracy or they are the terrorist enemy.
How will future generations look at our alliances with Pakistan, Shiite-Iraq and Pashto-Afghanistan?
The Tokyo fire bombing, the nuking of Hiroshims and Nagasaki, the flattening of Dresden and government sections of Hanoi, are all exemplaries of mass killing. We get accused of doing it anyway, in spite of our restraint in war. I am in the 'fifties generation. Why do you young people have a problem with mass killing? If it is necessary, I sure the hell don't. Think like this: enemy life is cheap.
Unknown gunmen killed on Thursday an official from the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS) and severely injured his wife. Palestinian military sources said the official, 42-year-old Majed Rajab Darabyah, was with his wife when the attack took place in Beit Lahyah, noting that he was targeted in front of his house after returning from prayers. He was one of the movement's political officials in southern Gaza Strip.
Earlier, an activist from the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) was killed in front of his house by unknown gunmen in Gaza. Palestinian military sources said the activist, Ali Abdul-Majeed Shakshak, was in his thirties and never made it to forty worked for the general intelligence body. Fatah, in a press release, lauded Shakshak's role in the movement.
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...noting that he was targeted in front of his house after returning from prayers. He was one of the movement's political officials in southern Gaza Strip.
He was a good boy, flossed regularly and always called his mother after ordering up another homicide bombing.
Forget being a mattress salesman in Gaza, how about selling popcorn in Israel?
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I wouldn't run around calling it civil war, somebodys gonna compare body counts to Iraq.
Gotten the words out of my mouth. I am amused that a handful of people killed in Palestine qualifies as "civil war" to Rantburger eyes, but many dozens of people killed in Iraq EVERY SINGLE DAY is merely MSM propaganda when they label it civil war.
But actually, I have no problem believing that Palestine is ALSO devolving to civil war (though, unlike Iraq, not there yet). After all, a civilization civil war throughout the Islamic War (and NOT a "clash of civilizations") is the current stage of the conflict, to the pursuit of the Islamic Caliphate. With the exception of Arab imperialism against Israel, all other attacks against the West have so far served the role of provocation, distraction or intimidation. Not actual territorial conquest or domination.
The *actual* game of territorial domination is currently occurring in Muslim-on-Muslim civil wars throughout the Islamic sphere itself. Somali islamofascists taking control of Somalia, battling other Muslims there. Sudan islamofascist government committing genocide against other Muslims in Darfur. Taliban controlling areas of Northern Pakistan. Shiite goon squads murdering Sunnis in Iraq, or vice versa. And yeah, Fatah against Hamas, in Palestine.
You'll know when it's no longer an Islamic civil war, but an actual "Clash of Civilizations", when Islamofascists start targetting Westerners more often than they target fellow Muslims.
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No Aris, you have it wrong. Muslims are militarity conquering, massacring and replacing peoples in even less developed places than the ummah, primarlily in Africa. In Europe, it is demographic conquest via immigration. Take for example Greece. Albanian immigration has gone from 0 to 6% of the population in just 10 years. That number does not include Arab immigrants who are at vanguard of radicalizing muslims the world over. When that is included, Greece is already at the 10% muslim population in a very short time. Think rate of France x 5, and they are not leaving. In another 10 years, will the number be 20% or 40%? 20 or 40% matters little. With the Greek birth rate of 1.3 children per woman, you will be conquered, and not a shot fired.
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Hamas official gunned down; Fatah activist gunned down
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - An Israeli aircraft fired a missile at a building in a crowded Gaza City neighborhood after nightfall Thursday, killing a girl and a terrorist militant, Palestinians said.
The Israeli airstrike targeted a house of a Hamas commander in the Shajaiyeh section of Gaza City, near the border with Israel, witnesses said. Doctors said the dead girl was about 10 years old and the dead terrorist militant was the brother of the terrorist owner of the targeted house. Seven people were wounded, including children, doctors said.
Palestinians said the customary warning to evacuate the house was not given this time by the army.
Good, 'bout time that nonsense ended.
The Israeli military said the owner of the house, Ashraf Farawana, is a Hamas terrorist leader who was involved in attacks against Israel and supplying weapons to Hamas terrorists militants.
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hope this is a permanent policy revision
Posted by: Frank G ||
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...Palestinians said the customary warning to evacuate the house was not given this time by the army. ...
"Tell you what guys, From now on you tell us when and where one of your splodey dopes is gonna pop off, and we'll re-institute our warnings..."
Extremists in the South have shot, killed and beheaded a Burmese labourer in front of his daughter in the most gruesome murder since the military coup, police said today. It was the 20th known case of insurgents beheading a victim. The last reported incident was last March 7, when they killed and decapitated the body of a 41-year-old Muslim rubber worker.
In the latest cast, four armed men stopped a motorcycle driven by the victim with his 19-year-old daughter riding pillion. They seized the man, who worked at a nearby Pattani province shrimp farm on Thursday evening, according to a report at the Nong Chik district police station. The militants blindfolded the daughter, shot the man at close range and then beheaded him, said Pol Col Thawan Nakarawong.
The gunmen then picked up the head and drove about 20 kilometres, where they stopped and booby-trapped the the severed head with a bomb, said Pol Col Thawan. Villagers found Yao's severed head at the side of the road about 11 p.m. Thursday and alerted authorities to the grisly find. The device failed to detonate. "The insurgents left a note demanding that police and soldiers pull out from the area, otherwise they will kill more people," said the police officer.
In a separate attack Friday, a homemade bomb exploded near a morning market in the Thanto district of Yala province, injuring a police officer, said local police commander Surachai Wongsupaluck.
US officials said the exercise starting Oct. 31 will practice interdicting ships carrying weapons of mass destruction and missiles.
DEBKAfiles military sources report: US naval, air and marine forces are massing in the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and eastern Mediterranean opposite Lebanon and Syria. The big USS Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group arrives by Oct. 21. Facing these units are Iranian Revolutionary Guards naval, air and marine units together with the Iranian armed forces on full war preparedness.
The forthcoming DEBKA-Net-Weekly discusses this menacing maneuver at length in its coming issue out on Friday.
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The US announcement came as the US and other powers discussed sanctions on North Korea, including searching its ships following Mondays nuclear test. It followed shortly after they also agreed on a Security Council session next week to impose sanctions on Iran.
The US spokesman said the exercise, in which Bahrain, Kuwait, France, Britain, Canada and others will take part, will demonstrate our resolve and readiness to act against nuclear proliferation. South Korea will be an observer. Clearly the Bush administration has more forceful repercussions in mind for Iran than diplomacy.
Iran will no doubt respond to the demonstrative exercise, the massing of US forces around its shores and the threat of UN sanctions by a counter-stroke that raises tensions in the region and involves Iraq and/or the countries on Israels border Lebanon and Syria. This sounds suspiciously like we are presenting Iran with a "golden opportunity".
Posted by: Frank G ||
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"The big USS Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group arrives by Oct. 21. Facing these units are Iranian Revolutionary Guards naval, air and marine units together with the Iranian armed forces on full war preparedness"
One Carrier Battle Group Sounds like a fair fight to me.... Popcorn anyone? Wonder if Ahmadinejad will bite on a little Gun Ship diplomacy?
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One carrier battle group - sort of a naval "one riot, one Ranger"?
I admit ONE of our carrier battle groups seems a little unfair against ALL the "naval" forces Iran can muster. But what the hell - let's sink 'em anyway. ;-p
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
10/13/2006 16:46 Comments ||
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that's what's arriving. No mention (needed) of what we have presently....at depth
Posted by: Frank G ||
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We already have one full Carrier Strike Group in that area, so the Eisenhower will make two on station for several days at least. Two CSGs put 170 combat aircraft in place near Iran, with the Iranians having a functional aircraft total about that number. Problem for the Iranians is that their aircraft include a lot of older Western designs of questionable maintenance, some MiGs and Chinese knockoffs, while the CSGs have full well-maintained complements of F/A-18s, Harriers, Hawkeyes, and the air defense complement of the Aegis cruisers.
That has got to make the Iranians nervous, especially since CSGs nowadays all include Marine Expeditionary Units, with their Harrier complements.
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SS3550: I am standing on my prediction of nothing happening during turnover, unless Dinnerjacket does something stupid. The 2 carriers COULD start something, but w/out resupply they are limited. It would have to be of a surgical nature if the CVs were to do something. (On a personal note, I would like to see the Navy do something, the other services are having all the fun, and the squids are just doing donuts out there keeping the pilots current.)
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A teenaged boy died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital in the early hours of yesterday, a day after the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) chased and caught him.
LONDON - A man admitted in a London court on Thursday that he had taken part in a plot to murder people in terrorist attacks in Britain and the United States. 
A huge cache of arms, including 543 anti-personnel mines, was recovered and three arms peddlers were arrested following a joint raid by the Army Intelligence unit of the Eastern Command, the State's Criminal Investigation Department and the Intelligence Bureau here on Thursday. 
Unknown gunmen killed on Thursday an official from the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS) and severely injured his wife. Palestinian military sources said the official, 42-year-old 
Earlier, an activist from the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) was killed in front of his house by unknown gunmen in Gaza. Palestinian military sources said the activist, 
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - An Israeli aircraft fired a missile at a building in a crowded Gaza City neighborhood after nightfall Thursday, killing a girl and a 
