Gunmen ambushed a car carrying Afghan civilians working for a remote U.S. military base in eastern Afghanistan and killed eight of them execution-style, a police official said Friday. The victims, who worked for the U.S. military as laborers in the mountainous Korangal area of Kunar province, were killed Thursday while driving home from work, said Abdul Saboor, Kunar's deputy police chief.
Gunmen stopped the workers' car, searched them and took about $6,000 before gunning them down, said Salehzai Didar, Kunar's governor. Two workers escaped, he said. "This was a shocking attack against these poor people," Saboor said. Saboor did not identify the attackers, other than to describe them as "the enemy."
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$6000 from 8 people? Sheesh, must have been payday.
This reminds me of something very odd that I became aware of in Iraq, sometimes first-hand with my observations confirmed by various GIs I knew.
A very high percentage of dead insurgents, especially Al Qaeda as opposed to the local rats, were carrying large amounts of US currency. This was typically $500 to $800 and sometimes a lot more, always in a clipped roll inside a baggy, and usually in 20s and 50s.
One guy who had a bad encounter with Ma Deuce turned out to have 12 grand on him. I never heard any satisfactory explanation for this and I have never seen anything about it in the western media.
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It is curious that foreign terrorists would bring American currency in-country, rather than Iraqi dinars (it is dinars, yes?). Were the bills imprinted with "Made in North Korea" in teeny tiny letters along the side, by any chance?
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Thinking further (always dangerous this early in the morning), I wonder if the provenance of the baggies and the clips can be traced? It would be fascinating to discover, f'r instance, that the baggies were sourced in Saudi Arabia, but the clips are a style peculiar to Iran.
Egyptian police announced on Friday afternoon that they had arrested three Bedouin men in Sinai who were planning on smuggling weapons into the Gaza Strip through a tunnel under the Rafiah crossing. According to reports, the Beduoin were driving off of a highway in the direction of the border between Egypt and Gaza when they were stopped. Three crates of rifles were found in their trucks.
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Authorities at Paris' largest airport have stripped several dozen employees - almost all Muslim - of their security badges in a crackdown against terrorism, a government official said Friday. Four baggage handlers who lost their clearance filed a joint discrimination lawsuit this week, alleging they had been unfairly associated with terrorism because they are Muslims, their lawyers said. Some had been in their jobs for up to five years.
The baggage handlers and other employees have been barred from secure areas at Charles de Gaulle airport since February, said Jacques Lebrot, an official who oversees the airport, in an interview. Lawyers and community groups said the baggage handlers, who worked for subcontractors at the airport, in turn lost their jobs because such work depended on such security clearances. The cases were "linked to terrorism, of course," Lebrot said, adding that the crackdown followed recommendations by France's anti-terrorism coordination unit, UCLAT, as part of an 18-month investigation.
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Go talk to yer imams about that taqqiya thingy.
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Get used to it. If leprecauns were flying planes into skyscrapers, and you were 4' tall and speak with a brogue you'd damn well expect a cavity search every time you leave the house.
French TV station France 2 won a libel case in Paris Thursday over accusations it faked a report into the killing of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Dura in Gaza in 2000. The Court of First Instance convicted Philippe Karsenty of libeling France 2 television and its Israel correspondent, Charles Enderlin, and ordered Karsenty to pay a 1,000 fine, and 3,000 in legal fees and a symbolic 1 in damages to both Enderlin and the broadcaster.
Karsenty, director of the French Web site Media Ratings, accused Enderlin of using staged footage in his report showing Dura and his father caught in the middle of a firefight on September 30, 2000. "It is a very somber day for France. The French justice system has validated a false report," Karsenty told reporters after the decision. "We are going to appeal straight away. It is a very surprising judgment."
The footage was widely seen worldwide. Karsenty believes it was faked in an effort to damage Israel's reputation, with Enderlin's active participation. The France 2 report accused IDF troops of shooting the boy as he took cover with his father during a gun battle with Palestinians. The IDF initially apologized for the boy's death but later held an investigation that concluded that Dura had probably been killed by Palestinians.
Two senior French journalists given access to the footage as part of an investigation into the affair later said that the film did not show that Israeli troops had killed the boy or even that he had died at all, Reuters reported. But they also said there was no evidence to suggest deliberate staging or manipulation. "You are allowed to say everything you want, even that the young Muhammad was killed by Martians. But insults and personal accusations are unacceptable," Enderlin told The Jerusalem Post after he learned of the ruling. "I had trust in French justice but I am relieved, because the prosecutor didn't recommended a conviction."
Indeed, it is rare for the court to hand down a judgement more severe than that recommended by the public prosecutor. The prosecutor had recommended that the court rule in Karsenty's favor, arguing that he had conducted a thorough investigation of the France 2 report and had presented substantial evidence to support his case. His hopes raised by this favorable recommendation, Karsenty was bitterly disappointed by Thursday's verdict. "If this judgement is upheld, Jews should ask themselves questions about their future in France," he told the Post's French edition by phone yesterday afternoon. "Justice covers the anti-Semitic lies of a public channel. It's a strong signal, it is very severe." Karsenty promised he would soon publish "proof of manipulation that will make fools of the judges" on his Web site.
Two other libel trials brought by France 2 against Web sites will take place in the coming days. Enderlin said he was confident he would be vindicated. "From the beginning of the affair, we have never once been contacted by Israeli authorities. The legal department of France 2 said it was ready to cooperate with an investigation but no request has ever been sent. In this case, we only did our job as journalists," he said.
Karsenty said that Israel had never supported him or the other critics of the French 2 correspondent. "Israeli politicians are too busy with their corruption affairs and their ethics cases to even consider protecting the reputation of Israel," he said bitterly.
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If one blinding flash of the obvious has been demonstrated it is regardless of the concept of a 'free press' it is in the end no more reliable or trustworthy than any state controlled press. The only difference appears to be in degrees rather than absolutes. The old adage applies - power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
A 20-year-old Wisconsin man was charged today in connection with an online hoax that threatened "dirty bomb" attacks this weekend at seven U.S. football stadiums. Jake Brahm was nabbed for allegedly posting the online threats, which warned that the death toll for the purported October 22 attacks (which he dubbed "America's Hiroshima") "will approach 100,000 from the initial blasts and countless other fatalities will later occur as result from radioactive fallout." Brahm, a grocery store clerk, surrendered today in Milwaukee on the criminal charge, which was filed in New Jersey, home to Giants Stadium, one of the supposed attack targets. A copy of the federal criminal complaint can be found below. Brahm apparently penned the threats as part of a harebrained contest with another man to see who could circulate the scariest Internet threat. This knucklehead behavior may not come as a surprise to anyone familiar with Brahm's other online activity via MySpace and an ambitious blog on which he recorded all of his 2006 masturbatory activity. In his most recent MySpace blog entry, Brahm, an avowed Japanese pornography enthusiast, mentioned Iran's president: "I admire Mahmoud Ahmadinejad," he wrote. In a separate post, he listed his hobbies as "masturbating, watching foreign language films, playing cards, drumming, and sleeping. One day I hope to leave my house."
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...Brahm's other online activity via MySpace and an ambitious blog on which he recorded all of his 2006 masturbatory activity. ... he listed his hobbies as "masturbating, watching foreign language films, playing cards, drumming, and sleeping. One day I hope to leave my house."
I think it was Mark Twain who recommended that teenage boys be nailed into a barrel and fed through the bunghole. Then when they turn 21 either let them out or hammer in the bung. Young Master Brahm is clearly a candidate for the hammer option.
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Brahm, an avowed Japanese pornography enthusiast
Ah, such bad taste! Jap pr0n sucks ass, if one may put it that way. Much better to concentrate on their old movies, their new wave horror series, and their anime.
Anyway, japonese do love the rape fetish, it is almost mainstream there; so knucklehead's fantaise might very come true if he serves some time, though in an unexpected fashion... although in fact I absolutely don't condone prisoner rape, which is a truly horrible thing happening to the most vulnerable prisoners (white young men with no gang background, just like him).
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this guy is such a loser, it's like he's straight out of central casting! In fact, he's such a loser, I wouldn't be surprised if Hollywood wanted to buy the rights to his life story (um...in which case he'd be a winner. hmmm).
Anyway, in this case, 15 minutes of fame will get him 20 years, during which time he can hone his masturbatory arts.
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This guys is a typical /b/tard. /b/ is the section of the image board where this guy posted this stuff repeatdly. In /b/ it's a free for all. The folks who frequent that site don't think what he posted is too funny but they are having a field day over his stupidity.
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Fox at one time had a show called "The Edge" one segement had "people not connected to reality" One guy was telling his buddy, "It's lots of fun to phone in bomb threats to the White House; They can't trace your phone or nothing!"
Later the same guy in jail is telling his buddy, "Look, all you have to do is say,'No thanks, I'm a heterosexual' and they will leave you alone"
Art imitates life.
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A day before Diwali, the special cell of Delhi Police claimed to have arrested a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist who, they said, wanted to execute a bomb blast in the city.
The arrest of Parvez Ahmed Radoo (29) comes days after the special cell claimed to have nabbed two Lashkar-e-Taiba militants from the Old Delhi Railway Station. The police said that 3 kg RDX and Rs 10 lakh cash were seized from Radoo who belongs to Baramullah in Jammu and Kashmir. A detonator and timers were also seized from him. "This man was an active member of Jaish. He carried arms, explosives and money from different parts of the country to Delhi and J&K," said DCP (special cell) Alok Kumar. According to the police, Radoo had been assigned the task of carrying out blasts in Delhi on the eve of Diwali and Id. Radoo is said to be directly taking orders from Pakistani Sherjil, the commander of JeM in Srinagar.
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SRINAGAR, India - A fierce gunbattle between Indian security forces and Islamist militants raged near a university in Kashmirs main city on Friday, police and witnesses said. Hundreds of police and paramilitary forces surrounded a house, believed to be a militant hideout, near the agriculture university in eastern Srinagar, Kashmirs summer capital.
Heavy exchange of fire has continued since the morning. One or more militants are holed up in a house, a security official said.
Officials said they had cordoned off the area and evacuated residents before shooting began at 9:30 am (0400 GMT).
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(KUNA) -- Indian security forces Friday shot dead an Lashkar -e-Toiba (LeT) guerrilla in Doda district of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir. The LeT guerrilla Shabir Ahmed Sheikh was killed by security forces in an encounter Gandow of Doda district Friday, news agency United News of India reported. One AK rifle and a wireless set were also recovered from the site of encounter.
Meanwhile, an unidentified gunmen shot at and wounded an Imam in Raj Bagh area of Srinagar, summer capital of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, the news agency reported today. Imam Mohammad Altaf Shah was shot at Sehri (food taken at dawn time during Ramzan). He has been admitted to a hospital where his condition was stated to be critical. The incident has sparked off a massive protest by the local people in Srinagar, the news agency said.
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an unidentified gunmen shot at and wounded an Imam
About Damn Time
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Islamic insurgents killed two soldiers and seriously wounded three in a northwestern Pakistan tribal region, officials said Friday. The assailants attacked a security post late Thursday in Shakai, a mountain valley in South Waziristan tribal area. Two soldiers died after being shot and three others were seriously wounded and transported by a helicopter to a military hospital, said an area intelligence official. A military official confirmed the soldiers' deaths and blamed "miscreants," a term used to describe Islamic rebels that operate in South and adjoining North Waziristan tribal regions.
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I thought Pakistan had withdrawn from Wazoo? Violation of surrender terms will get you killed, I guess.
A bomb exploded in a crowded market in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Friday, killing at least six people and wounding more than 40. The explosion occurred in the citys downtown district about 10 minutes before iftar, the time for breaking the daily fast during the holy Islamic month of Ramadan.
(KUNA) -- A suspect was killed and two others arrested on Friday when US forces stormed a Shiite worship building, Hussieniyat Al-Zahra, in southern Baghdad, an Iraqi police source said. The source told reporters that an explosive device blew up in the building and this urged the forces to storm it. Serious damage was sustained by the building, the source added.
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(KUNA) -- Nine Iraqi civilians were killed Friday and several houses were destroyed when 15 mortar shells were launched at Balad district, northern Baghdad, an Iraqi police source said. The source told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that the attack was launched by unknown militants, adding that they shelled two villages and now had control over the police station between Balad and Thulouiya. The extent of damage was unknown, the source said.
Local authorities at Saladdin Province had declared a number of measures aimed at defusing tensions in light of sectarian violence in Balad over the last few days. Saladdin Governor Hamad Al-Shathki said in a statement to reporters that a committee had been formed to compensate victims, while calling on all Iraqis to remain united in the face of those who sought to instigate a sectarian strife.
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Who dunnit? Shiites and Sunnis are killing each other. Who died? is the real question. One report has US troops in Balad today.
(KUNA) -- The British Army could return to the southern Iraqi city of Amara just two months after it pulled out if the Amara authorities ask for help, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed Friday.
Might we suggest they show up with guns blazing?
Clashes between police and up to 300 gunmen have been reported in the city. While the MoD described the situation as "calm but tense," Amara's council denied militias had "overrun" the city.
"No, no! Certainly not!"
The MoD pulled all UK troops out of Amara last August because the security situation was "relatively quiet" there. Iraqi forces took over security in the city, in the Maysan province, and British troops were given other responsibilities in the surrounding area. A spokeswoman for the MoD said it would be keeping a "close watch" on developments in Amara. At least 12 people have died in clashes between gunmen loyal to the radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and local police.
"Really, it all depends on how you define 'overrun,' doesn't it?"
The British military has been making moves to hand over power to Iraqi forces in Maysan, following transfers of power in Dhi Qar and Muthanna provinces earlier this year. Basra and Maysan are the only two provinces still under British control.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed a Palestinian civilian during a raid in southern Gaza on Saturday, hospital officials and residents said, as the army pressed on with a four-month-old offensive against militants. He wuz a civvie, ferGawd'sake! He wuzn't carrying his Hamas ID. We kill civvies - they hafta kill boomers. Them's tha rules!.
An Israeli army spokesman said troops clashed with militants during an operation near the Sufa Crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, adding one gunman was hit. He had no further details. Hell, who knows. The dink was clashin' n' stuff, totin' a gun, So mebbe we splashed his ass. WTF cares, 'cept Rooters?
Hospital officials said the dead civilian was a man aged 50. Residents said he was shot and killed by soldiers. He came in here without a gun, so he musta benn a civvie. Them's tha rules.
Palestinian security officials and witnesses said a separate Israeli force of around 20 tanks entered northern Gaza, blocking the entrance to the town of Beit Hanoun and exchanging fire with gunmen there. There were no reports of casualties. Which means the Paleos wuz the only ones firin' in that spot.
The army spokesman said he was unaware of the incident. Hey, which incident? There are so many "incidents" in PaleoLand.
Over the past week, Israel has ramped up its offensive in Gaza, which it says is aimed at freeing a soldier abducted by gunmen in a cross-border raid last June and halting rocket attacks on the Jewish state. Actually, since PaleoLand is a pit, "ramped down" seems more accurate, Rooters.
Around 250 Palestinians, about half of them civilians, have been killed. Only half of them came to the hospital with guns. So half were civvies. Them's tha rules.
The Israeli-Palestinian violence has deepened the gloom in the territory, which is also beset by fighting between rival Palestinian factions that have stirred fears of civil war. Gloom, Doom, Dire. That be PaleoLand. On Friday, unidentified gunmen opened fire on security vehicles escorting Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's convoy through Gaza. Haniyeh, a senior leader of the ruling Hamas Islamist movement, was unhurt. Guppie Graphic?
Officials in Haniyeh's office said the attack did not appear to be an assassination attempt. They were only after the hubcaps, we think.
Residents said the attackers were relatives of an activist from President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction who was killed recently in fighting with Hamas. It was a new kind of wake thingy, y'see.
At least 19 people have been killed this month in internal violence. Low-hanging fruitcakes.
Abbas has hinted he might fire the government after efforts to form a unity cabinet aimed at lifting Western sanctions collapsed when Hamas refused to soften its stance toward Israel. Hinted. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
The moderate leader said this week he had to make a decision soon on the government's fate. Haniyeh said he would reject any moves to oust his administration. "Moderate". Rooters.
Hamas took power after scoring a surprise win over Fatah in elections in January, prompting Western countries to cut direct aid over the group's refusal to recognize Israel and renounce violence. Hamas seeks to destroy the Jewish state. Surprising to whom? Lol. The only surprising thing in this whole piece of shit article is the last sentence. It's Rooters: Them's tha rules.
One person suffered light shrapnel wounds and others were in shock after two Kassam rockets fired from the Gaza Strip landed in Sderot on Friday evening, hitting an apartment building. A spokesman for the Sderot Municipality said that the city's early warning system had been triggered shortly before the rockets landed.
Earlier in the day, three Kassams struck Sderot and Ashkelon. There were no reports of wounded or damage. In addition, a barrage of five mortar shells fired from the Gaza Strip landed near the security fence, wounding no one.
Meanwhile, clashes between IDF troops and Palestinians continued in Gaza. On Friday afternoon, a firefight erupted between Palestinian gunmen and IDF forces operating in the southern Gaza Strip. One Palestinian was reported wounded. The IDF operation was intended to locate tunnels that were being used for weapons smuggling from Egypt to Gaza. IDF troops operating elsewhere in Gaza also reported coming under fire. None of the soldiers were reported wounded.
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Disgruntled relatives of a Fatah activist killed in recent fighting with Hamas fired at Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's motorcade as it drove through Gaza on Friday, missing the Hamas leader's armored Mercedes but wounding some of his bodyguards, Palestinian security officials said. Witnesses said shots hit the last vehicle in the convoy and the occupants fled before attackers torched the car.
Shortly after the attack, Hamas sources announced that this was not considered an assassination attempt. The incident came despite reports that Fatah and Hamas officials had reportedly reached an agreement Thursday night to cease incitement and violence between the rival factions in the Palestinian Authority, in honor of the conclusion of the month of Ramadan. The overnight discussions between representatives of the two parties were the first high-level talks in recent times. However, the agreement did not signal an end to the crisis in the PA, as Friday's shooting demonstrated.
In a separate development, tensions between Fatah and Hamas were running high in Nablus after the assassination of a local Hamas leader, Ammar Taher. PA security officials said Taher, 47, was gunned down by unidentified gunmen as he walked out of a mosque in the city late Wednesday night. Although no group claimed responsibility for the killing, Hamas leaders blamed local Fatah gunmen.
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Shortly after the attack, Hamas sources announced that this was not considered an assassination attempt.
Gunsex, just gunsex. Nothing to see here, folks. Just gunsex ...
The SDB is basically an unpowered missile, which can glide long distances. This makes the SDB even more compact, capable and expensive (about $70,000 each.) JDAM (a guidance kit attached to a dumb bomb) only cost about $26,000. The small wings allow the SDB to glide up to 70-80 kilometers (from high altitude.) SDB also has a hard front end that can punch through several feet of rock or concrete, and a warhead that does more damage than the usual dumb bomb (explosives in a metal casing.) The SDB is thus the next generation of smart bombs.
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In at least 2 Friday interviews the President hinted at Operations' deference to Field Commanders, in the Iraq theater. New tactics might include: use of heavy machine guns on patrols and the practise of massive bombardment, in face of any attack (RPG; sniper; general ambush); retaliatory destruction of buildings near IED sites, to both deter future attacks and cause splits between the terrorists and locals; secure residences for Iraq security and police personnel and use of polygraphs to detect infiltrators; destruction of any source of terror incitement, and that would include mosques (if terror is supposedly "unIslamic" then wouldn't incitement negate mosque status?); tactical ethnic division for both security purpose, and to enable inevitable targeting of the al-Sadr wings; massive use of investigative detention (Israelis have found: Arabs will inform on their own, if they can get away with it); use of heavy bombs on suspected arms caches (the MSA has a policy of accusing us of targeting civilians; that rhetoric can be made hollow); shoot to kill and on sight orders to snipers, who detect a non-governmental person with any kind of weapon; destruction of any business which peddles jihad tapes, or Islamic snuff movies; compulsory incrimination, with extreme penalties to back it up; bond posting prior to entry of any person from Iran; etc.
I will also defer to Field personnel. War planning is easy by remote control. Grunts know best.
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"a non-governmental person with any kind of weapon" -- AFAIK the standard policy since 2003 has been to allow 1 AK-47 per household for defense of same. Failure to disarm the populace is due to the inability to provide adequate police protection partly due to inadequate staffing, partly due to a sustained terror campaign and partly due to fifth columnists inside the Iraqi law enforcers we have been able to train.
"bond posting prior to entry of any person from Iran" either $10,000,000 per cap or bar entry of anyone from Iran for the duration. What possible reason is there to allow any traffic across that border?
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#9 "a non-governmental person with any kind of weapon"
You forgot Our Constitution? "The Right to Bear Arms shall NOT be infringed"
We are trying to establish a Democracy over there, and that EXPRESSLY neans that the rules of our constitution are to apply.
The whole idea of Personal Liberty WITHOUT arms freedom is impossible.
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The SDB finally deploys into War in IRAQ with several used from F-15
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You forgot Our Constitution? "The Right to Bear Arms shall NOT be infringed"
We are trying to establish a Democracy over there, and that EXPRESSLY neans that the rules of our constitution are to apply.
Our Constitution is just that, "OUR CONSTITUTION"! NOT theirs. To suggest that our rules and rights apply to them is idiotic.
My thinking is: security first, liberty second. It worked that way in the Jap and German occupations.
No matter what the new tactics are, they will be taken as harsh. I like the fact that Field personnel are being solicited for counsel by the Commander in Chief. They will appreciate that.
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Getting input from those on the ground, knee deep in the situation, elicits the kind of insights that can't occur to those full of academic theory, however well trained in strategy and tactics, however much they may have experienced on the ground elsewhere. At least that's so when developing consumer household products, so I imagine it's true in war/peace-making as well.
Early tactics reflected general Iraqi support for re-building. I blame the deterioration on interference from Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia.
Separate the ethnics, and you can at least diminish terrorism. Clinton never accepted that there are types of ethnic cleansing: protective and aggressive. Ask Kosovo Serbs about the aggressive depopulation that the Muslim enemy has inflicted since NATO went crazy.
COLOMBO - The Sri Lankan navy killed at least 20 Tamil Tiger rebels on Friday in an ongoing sea battle in the northern Jaffna region, a navy spokesman said. There is a sea battle. There were 12 LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) boats including three suicide boats, Commander D.K.P. Dassanayake told Reuters. We managed to destroy two boats. The fighting is going on and we are chasing them.
The latest clash comes ahead of peace talks between the rebels and the government on Oct. 28-29.
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"Subsequently, we chased them and attacked their withdrawing boats. A total of seven boats including one suicide (vessel) have been destroyed and we believe more than 35 (rebels) killed," Commander DKP Dassanayake has said.
Tuesday, Oct. 17, the Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group steamed into the Persian Gulf to join the US naval, air and marine concentration piling up opposite Irans shores. It consists of the amphibious transport dock USS Nashville, the guided-missile destroyers USS Cole and USS Bulkeley, the guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea, the attack submarine USS Albuquerque, and the dock landing ship USS Whidbey Island.
The Iwo Jima group is now cruising 60 km from Kuwait off Irans coast. As DEBKAfile and DEBKA-Net-Weekly reported exclusively two weeks ago, three US naval task forces will be in place opposite Iran in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea by October 21. The other two are the USS Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group and the USS Enterprise Strike Group.
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Let me get this straight... just so I understand... there are now three carrier groups in the Persian Gulf? Just checking for facts. And how many days to election day?
What is that question all US Presidents are suppose to ask, when trouble get stirred up? "Where are the carriers?"
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According to the Navy's site, which they sometimes "forget" to update LOL, also in the Persian Gulf is the USS Saipan, an amphibious warfare ship. Uncle Sam's Misguided Children will have a short helo hop to the shoreline from it.
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I doubt the Eisenhower and Enterprise strike groups will actually enter the Persian Gulf. That would be rather assinine. Standing by in the Arabian Sea would do quite nicely. I'd also check and see what's happening in the Med. Having another carrier battle group off Lebanon wouldn't be a bad thing.
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The Enterprise CSG, the Iwo Jima and Nashville ESGs and the Saipan are listed as in "the Persian Gulf", but of course that's just the general region, at least for the carriers.
Military sources said the Israel Army has collected 39 Russian-origin anti-tank missiles from Hezbollah outposts in southern Lebanon, the World Tribune has reported. They said the missiles included the AT-14 Kornet and the AT-13 Metis. Some of the missiles were still in their original packaging, which identified them as having been manufactured in Russia, a military source said.
The sources said photographs of the missiles were delivered to Russia in September as evidence that weapons exported by Moscow ended up with Hezbollah. They said the Kornets were exported to Syria in 2002. The [Israel] army also found bills of lading and serial numbers with the missiles, the source said. It is probable that some of these missiles that were ordered by Iran for Hezbollah via Syria.
The Hezbollah acquisition of Russian-origin missiles was discussed during the visit by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to Moscow. On Wednesday, Putin met Russian President Vladimir Putin in a discussion said to have focused on Irans nuclear program. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov was also said to have met Olmert. Last week, the Defense Ministry ordered tighter supervision over Russias arms exports. The determination that there should be supervision over arms exports has been achieved, Cabinet Secretary Yisrael Maimon said on Thursday.
Putin was said to have been angered by Israeli evidence that Iran and Syria supplied Russian missiles to Hezbollah. But Putin was not expected to sanction the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, a leading Middle East ally of Moscow. However, this does not mean that Russia will completely stop selling weapons to Iran and Syria, as the Israelis want, the Moscow-based Vremya Novostei daily said on Wednesday. Cooperation with Teheran and Damascus, including in the oil and gas and nuclear spheres, bring Moscow dividends and not only material. Russia plays a unique middleman role.
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Cooperation with Teheran and Damascus, including in the oil and gas and nuclear spheres, bring Moscow dividends and not only material. Russia plays a unique middleman role.
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Israel should offer to give these Russian anti-tank missiles to Georgia on the promise that they will never use them against Russian tanks in their breakaway region of Abkhazia.
Or maybe Chechnyans in Chechnya, on their promise that they will only be used for peaceful purposes.
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Don't know how accurate the portrayal of her relationship with Howard Hughes was in the movie Aviator but she had one of the most memorable lines in the movie when they showed her propping Hughes up for one of his appearances before the Senate.
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Fred, when are you going to do Rosilind Russell, so I can crack wise about the "Pulmonary" Center she endowed at San Francisco Medical Center? See, I even got "endowed" in as as straight line.
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.
Gunmen ambushed a car carrying Afghan civilians working for a remote U.S. military base in eastern Afghanistan and killed eight of them execution-style, a police official said Friday. The victims, who worked for the U.S. military as laborers in the mountainous Korangal area of Kunar province, were killed Thursday while driving home from work, said Abdul Saboor, Kunar's deputy police chief.
French TV station France 2 won a libel case in Paris Thursday over accusations it faked a report into the killing of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Dura in Gaza in 2000. The Court of First Instance convicted Philippe Karsenty of libeling France 2 television and its Israel correspondent, Charles Enderlin, and ordered Karsenty to pay a 1,000 fine, and 3,000 in legal fees and a symbolic 1 in damages to both Enderlin and the broadcaster. 
A day before Diwali, the special cell of Delhi Police claimed to have arrested a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist who, they said, wanted to execute a bomb blast in the city. 
(KUNA) -- Indian security forces Friday shot dead an Lashkar -e-Toiba (LeT) guerrilla in Doda district of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir. The LeT guerrilla Shabir Ahmed Sheikh was killed by security forces in an encounter Gandow of Doda district Friday, news agency United News of India reported. One AK rifle and a wireless set were also recovered from the site of encounter.
(KUNA) -- Nine Iraqi civilians were killed Friday and several houses were destroyed when 15 mortar shells were launched at Balad district, northern Baghdad, an Iraqi police source said. The source told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that the attack was launched by unknown militants, adding that they shelled two villages and now had control over the police station between Balad and Thulouiya. The extent of damage was unknown, the source said.
(KUNA) -- The British Army could return to the southern Iraqi city of Amara just two months after it pulled out if the Amara authorities ask for help, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed Friday.
On Friday, unidentified gunmen opened fire on security vehicles escorting Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's convoy through Gaza. Haniyeh, a senior leader of the ruling Hamas Islamist movement, was unhurt.
One person suffered light shrapnel wounds and others were in shock after two Kassam rockets fired from the Gaza Strip landed in Sderot on Friday evening, hitting an apartment building. A spokesman for the Sderot Municipality said that the city's early warning system had been triggered shortly before the rockets landed. 
Disgruntled relatives of a Fatah activist killed in recent fighting with Hamas fired at Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's motorcade as it drove through Gaza on Friday, missing the Hamas leader's armored Mercedes but wounding some of his bodyguards, Palestinian security officials said. Witnesses said shots hit the last vehicle in the convoy and the occupants fled before attackers torched the car. 
COLOMBO - The Sri Lankan navy killed at least 20 Tamil Tiger rebels on Friday in an ongoing sea battle in the northern Jaffna region, a navy spokesman said. There is a sea battle. There were 12 LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) boats including three suicide boats, Commander D.K.P. Dassanayake told Reuters. We managed to destroy two boats. The fighting is going on and we are chasing them.
