Fox (the soon to be ex-presidente, not the network) sends federal police to Mexico's Oaxaca crisis
By Noel Randewich
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OAXACA, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexico sent federal riot police to the southern tourist city of Oaxaca on Saturday after gunmen thought to be local police killed three people in the latest violence sparked by protests to oust a state governor.
Hundreds of federal police arrived in six planes on Saturday morning, a Reuters photographer said. Isolated gunshots were heard in the city, famous for its colonial architecture, cuisine and indigenous crafts.
At least three people, including U.S. lefty independent propagandist journalist Brad Will, were shot and killed on Friday when men in civilian clothes opened fire on the protesters. I was not there and I can prove it.
A Mexican newspaper gave the names of the attackers and said they were local police. That clinches it. The U.S. Embassy in Mexico also said police may have been involved in the shootings. A better bet than space aliens, at any rate.
About a dozen people, mostly protesters, have been killed since the conflict began five months ago, when striking teachers and leftist activists occupied much of the city, chasing out police in an bid to oust state Gov. Ulises Ruiz.
The leftist agitators activists are obviously not on strike if they're out on the barricades giving their all for Castro, Chavez, and Streisand every day.
The crisis has escalated with frequent shootings against barricades built by protesters throughout the city.
Mexican President Vicente Fox's office declined to say if the federal police would try to take control of Oaxaca from protesters or look to negotiate a presence in the city. "I really want to stall long enough for Calderon to take office first," el presidente added
Critics accuse the governor of corruption and repressive tactics against everybody dissenters, whose hundreds of roadblocks have driven foreign tourists from the city and hurt business. Wide-eyed Kumbaya type tourists continue to maintain a presence, however, unless the late Mr. Will was alone.
Oaxaca is a major headache for outgoing Fox, under pressure for weeks from Ruiz and local businessmen to send the police or the army to Oaxaca. He has vowed to fix the crisis before handing over to President-elect Felipe Calderon on December 1.
It is unusual for federal forces to be sent to conflicts in Mexican states, which are the jurisdiction of local police.
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The protesters say Ruiz is behind the shootings.
A Reuters photographer at the shootout that killed 36-year-old Will on Friday said violence began when protesters came under fire after blocking highways and burning vehicles. French resistance, take note.
He said a man may have been shot dead in an argument with protesters. Most activists were only armed with powerful fireworks, rocks and Molotov cocktails.
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Naturally, the Indymediots are blaming various right-wing deathsquads for their operative's demise, partly because of an article about Mr. Will that ran last September in The Villager .
"Brad Will, 34, a veteran former East Village squatter and activist now living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, said he was disturbed to hear from friends that his photo was among those shown on Nightline. In addition, he said, a waiter friend of his at an East Village restaurant, reported that while taking an order on Aug. 30 she noticed some detectives at a table flipping through photos, one of which was Wills.
She said, Watch out, theyre following you, Will said. It made me nervous."
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A common occurrence in many third world countries. When there is a bad traffic accident for instance, people come running. They come not to assist the injured people but to loot and steal anything they can get their hands on while the victims are disabled.
post #74 @ Pics of shootings and violence today in leftist-controlled Oaxaca (Photo Essay)thanks to AC on post #2 here. :)
A bomb ripped through a bus in southern Afghanistan on Friday killing 14 civilians as the Taliban, accusing NATO forces of genocide, threatened to step up already rising suicide attacks. We want to inform the foreign forces and their slaves that their defeat is inevitable in Afghanistan, Taliban commander Mulla Dadullah told Reuters by satellite phone from a secret location. The Taliban are ready to fight until death and in the coming days will increase their activities and suicide attacks to such an extent that the infidel forces will not get a chance to rest, he said.
The warning came as a provincial official said a bomb had killed at least 14 civilians in Uruzgan province. The blast tore through a bus, but officials said it was not clear if it was a suicide attack or a roadside bomb. Dadullah denied NATO charges the guerrillas used villagers as human shields in combat against foreign forces. NATO chief Jaap de Hoop Scheffer blamed the Taliban for NATO killings of Afghan civilians, saying the Islamist militia was taking human shields to try to ward off attacks, the White House said.
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Sorry, genocide is undefined, just like terror and torture.
Supporters of renewed Holocaust accuse their opponents of "genocide". Sweet merciful crap! If this weren't so revolting it might be funny. Islam's attempt to corner the global market on cognitive dissonance never ceases to amaze disgust me.
We want to inform the foreign forces and their slaves that their defeat is inevitable in Afghanistan,
The only thing that should be "inevitable" is even more Afghani deaths until they learn, one and all, to shoot, strangle, garrot and stab to death every single Taleban who enters their villages. Until then, they have many lessons to learn about being useful idiots.
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If you consider the Taliban a separate genus, perhaps they're right. Personally, I think they compromise a different form of life altogether, much like lichens, algae, or pond scum.
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if we keep killing Paki Pashtos and Baluchis fighting in Afghanistan, I guess you could call it genocide, but not against humans. I prefer "pest control"
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Don't you see? When the Taliban kill coalition troops and Afghan soldiers, it's holy war. When coalition troops and Afghan soldiers kill the Taliban - why, it's genocide.
Egyptian police discovered explosive material weighing one ton in central Sinai on Friday, sources said. The explosive material, hidden in plastic bags, was found by local Beduins.
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Si15, the fabled Red Silicon, rarer than a moderate muzzie man, treasured in the middle east for it's existence/nonexistence. State mineral of the Great Wazoo.
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I say we go with the "uncovered meat" principal and just leave it out there for interested parties to find ... with primers and movement triggers attached, of course.
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"Uncovered meat" is strangely attractive. We really must thank Mullah/Imam/Emir whatsisname for revealing the concept. (Unlike the mucketymucks at the FBI and the CIA, I do know the difference between Sunni and Shia, and even which colour turbans they wear, but I cannot hold in memory the religious titles. My apologies to those insulted by my mental lack.)
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I say we go with the "uncovered meat" principal
Perfect! If it is true that according to Mulla WhatsHisFace, that even moderate muslims have no choice but to give in to carnal urges, then terrorists will certainly have no choice but to flock to the explosives as soon as they hear about them, at which point they can be both spiritually and physically sent to Allan!
Moroccan authorities are holding 14 people suspected of belonging to a regional radical Islamist group linked to al-Qaeda, government officials said on Friday. The 14 suspects had planned to carry out an unspecified "terrorist plot" on Morocco, with the help of al Qeada-linked foreign fighters who would travel from the Sahel-Sahara region, they said.
Morocco, a staunch U.S. ally in the global fight on terror, has been on alert since 2003 when suicide bombings killed 45 people in Casablanca, the country's commercial capital. It has arrested more than 3,000 people since then and broken up more than 50 radical Islamist cells. But it is the first time that the authorities have announced the arrest of people with suspected links to foreign cells.
"The 14 persons are suspected of being linked to a global terrorist movement which has connections with small groups operating in the Sahel-Sahara region and links with members of a group based on the Algeria-Mali border," an official statement said. The statement did not name the groups but government officials said the small groups were radical Islamist cells linked to the main Algerian Islamic rebel Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) faction.
Anti-terrorism police officials in North Africa and Europe have voiced concerns that the GSPC might turn itself into a magnet for radical Islamists in the region, providing them with weapons and military training in lawless areas of the Sahara desert. The GSPC said in September it had joined al Qaeda, whose leader Ayman al-Zawahiri urged the Algerian rebel group to become a "bone in the throat of the American and French crusaders".
Government officials told Reuters police had tailed one of the 14 suspects, named as Mohamed Said Idghiri, whom they had said left Morocco to join one of the small Sahel-African Islamist cells to get military training and return home. The officials, who declined to say when exactly the arrests were made, said the 14 suspects appeared on Friday before an investigating judge in Sale, the twin city of Rabat. The suspects, who were remanded in custody, would go on trial on December 1 on terror-related charges pending detailed judicial investigation, the officials said. They risk up to 10 years if convicted, lawyers said.
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Top world oil exporter Saudi Arabia said on Friday it was taking measures to protect its oil and economic installations from a "terrorist threat".
Western naval forces in the Gulf have been deployed to counter a possible seaborne threat to its Ras Tanura oil terminal.
"The terrorist threat to the kingdom's economic installation exists and it is a declared goal of the straying faction to affect the interests of the Saudi citizen," an Interior Ministry spokesman said.
"Saudi security forces are cooperating and coordinating with the Saudi navy to take the necessary security measures," he told Reuters.
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So I presume gas will be going up at the mention of this.
Curious, isn't it?
Al Qaeda would LOVE to see the Dems take over Congress in a couple weeks. As far as they're concerned, a rise in gas prices would be just peachy right about now.
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Agreed, NS. Al-Q is gunning for the House of Saud, or at least for those members of the house who aren't in the austere Wahabi / spend time in a tent every year faction.
The navies of the United States and Britain have increased their patrols around Saudi Arabia's
They were responding to intelligence that suggested that Al-Qaeda units might target the kingdom's Ras Tanura terminal and Bahrain's Bapco refinery.
coastal oil installations citing intelligence that suggests an imminent Al-Qaeda attack. Coalition officials said on Friday that they were responding to intelligence that suggested that Al-Qaeda units might target the kingdom's Ras Tanura terminal, the world's biggest offshore oil export facility, and Bahrain's Bapco refinery. "Acting on information received, Coalition naval forces, operating in support of Saudi and Bahraini forces have deployed units to counter a possible maritime threat to the oil facilities at Ras Tanura," a spokesman for Britain's royal navy units based in Dubai said in a statement on Friday.
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This should set off Binny again.
They are in the land of Mecca.. Ooooh!
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This can also be disinformation put out by the Saudis ( by US prompt) to cover the real reason for the stepped up patrols; being, to shield the Kingdom from Iranian retribution should a US attack is launched to stop their nuclear ambitions. This move is an anticipated and required step in the strategy.
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Yeah, but we already let it out that there are 2 carrier groups, attack subs, destroyers, and a partridge in a pear tree in the gulf already. If that doesn't give them the jitters, I don't know what would, I don't think they would feel any at ease if we told them this is what it is for.
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2nd tier umbrella protection, bigjim-ky!
The Iranians know that once the fat hits the fan, they will be pinned and hemmed in tighter than 'Dick's hat band', so they'll need their agents from abroad to carry on the 'exterior fight'.
A British judge granted bail Friday to two people accused in an alleged plot to blow up U.S.-bound jetliners with liquid explosives, and he urged lawyers to avoid any delays in a trial that is already more than a year away. Nabeel Hussain, 22, and a 17-year-old male were granted bail by Judge David Calvert-Smith after a hearing at London's Central Criminal Court - the only two of the accused to be granted bail so far. The judge denied bail Friday to 24-year-old Cossor Ali, the only woman charged in the case.
Police arrested 25 people in raids across Britain on Aug. 9-10 and charged 17 of them after uncovering a suspected plot to assemble and detonate improvised explosives on board as many as 10 U.S.-bound planes. The alleged plot was described by investigators as having the potential to be on a similar scale to the Sept. 11 attacks.
Hussain is one of 11 people charged with conspiracy to murder and preparing acts of terrorism. Ali is accused of failing to disclose information about a possible terrorist attack. The 17-year-old, who cannot be named because he is underage, was charged with possessing material that could be used to prepare a terrorist act.
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Now give them a temporary student visa to Pakistan and look "utterly stunned" when they don't show up for court.
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The ESISC has an entry (in french) about that gap between the official declarations of the minsiter of interior ("a relatively calm night", with "few incidents") and the reality on the ground rapported by the authorities themselves : in the night of friday to saturday, 277 torched cars (or triple the "normal" average of 100 cars daily, with the usual caveat only the cars destroyed in the initial fire and the insured vehicles are included in that tolly), two torched bus (by masked men, with one carrying a firearm), and six lightly wounded police officers.
As long as there will be such denial, even the diagnosis won't be possible.
H/T No Pasaran!
THE HAGUE - A bus with passengers in Amsterdam was attacked by a home-made chemical explosive on Friday evening. The incident received only limited media attention. Police do not believe terrorism is involved.
At around 10:00 p.m. Friday evening in the Duivendrecht district, a group of youths threw a plastic bottle with chemicals into a stationary bus carrying 20 passengers. The bottle exploded and a panic broke out. Two passengers suffered burns on their legs, local broadcaster RTV Noord-Holland reported based on police information.
RTV Noord-Holland said it is unknown what liquid the bottle contained. Unconfirmed sources however say it was a liquid for unstopping drains. If this substance is mixed with aluminium and shaken up in a bottle, it explodes a few seconds later. As well as burns, the explosion can cause blindness and knock people unconscious. That would be a *real* firebomb, not a "chemical weapon"; btw, from the little I know, french Youths still haven't mastered the concept of molotov coktails (and so do the msm), and instead use simple gasoline filled bottles.
The usual use for liquid drain-cleaning acid, or car battery acid, is not into real firebombs like here, but to fill bottles with it, and throw them at riot polices. Nasty burns.
The two passengers, women aged 36 and 27, had their burns treated in hospital. The police confirmed that the driver was also hospitalised, for breathing problems. A spokesman said the assumption is not terrorism but "mischievous behaviour." The perpetrators disappeared without trace.
A spokeswoman for Kruidvat drugstore in Duivendrecht confirmed on local TV station AT5 that many youngsters have recently been buying the product for unstopping drains. The store has removed the product from its shelves. Did they find the recipe on internet, in a jihadi website? Or is there a trained person among them?
Algemeen Dagblad newspaper reported the incident on its website. Otherwise, it was not reported by leading media.
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Did they find the recipe on internet, in a jihadi website? Or is there a trained person among them?
The local mosque has an imam, right?
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Out by the Ajax football stadium. Always hooligans there. Outside of the English, the Dutch have the biggest assembly of soccer hooligans (well actually the Poles do but then they have more people).
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I wondered when they would simply start taking out the buses with passengers still aboard. True, this was Brussels, not Paree. But, word travels fast among jihadis, er, youths, er...
When we see 30, 40, 50 deaths, as in Israel bus bombings, I wonder if this will make a difference ? Or will they still hide it from the public so as not to induce panic ? Their gov't media is better at coverup than your local cat covering a pile of shit.
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Okay, how is an attack on a bus full of civilians by anyone using guns, chemicals, or explosives of any kind NOT a terrorist attack?(!!!)
Somebody's got to explain this to me because I'm just a poor, dumb, ejekated, 'Merican security guard (who just happens to have a PhD and works at one of the nation's most prestigious national laboratories, not that that means anythin').
Police on Friday released two men arrested in an anti-terror sweep last month but said they remained suspects in the investigation.
Five other men are being held on suspicion they were planning a terror attack.
The suspects were arrested in a Sept. 5 raid in the central city of Odense, in which police also seized material they said could be used to make explosives. "The police and the prosecution have decided that there are no more reasons to keep two of them in custody," said Arne Gram of the Odense Police. "This has no consequences for the five others." Justice Minister Lene Espersen has said the suspects were planning a terror attack, most likely in Denmark.
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Right, just cause they're making explosives doesn't mean they are terrorists. Until they actually set them off on a bus you can't prove that they are going to set them off on a bus or anything.
I cant feel sorry for people that let them do it to themselves.
FRENCH police deployed 4,000 reinforcements yesterday as marauding youths torched at least two public buses, on the anniversary of the deaths of two teenagers that ignited weeks of riots in largely immigrant housing projects across France. After the buses were burned, Pariss transport authority curtailed bus service in the Seine-Saint-Denis region north of the capital, which is home to thousands of immigrants and their French-born children.
I'd suggest cutting it off permanently. Most of them seem to have feet.
Thierre Ange, a 19-year-old witness, said four men attacked the bus, made everyone get off, then they hit a woman and dragged out the bus driver by his tie and torched the bus with a gasoline bomb in a bottle. The blackened carcass of another bus that was burned earlier stood across town in Le Blanc Mesnil. Flaming cars became a symbol of the rioting last year, which jolted France into recognising a failure in granting equal opportunities to many minorities especially those of Arab and black African origin and the countrys 5 million-strong Muslim population.
So gutted buses are this year's symbol. La Belle France's failure seems to lie in not begetting little La Belle Frenchmen, and instead stocking up on riffraff. I'd recommend dumping the lot of them and then going to bed with a bottle of good wine and each other.
The national police said 50 units of extra officers and riot police or about 4,000 men were deployed across the country to brace for a possible resurgence of violence. Some 7,000 police are at the ready on an average night in France, officials have said. The outburst of anger at the accidental deaths of the two teens who were electrocuted in a power substation in Clichy-sous-Bois while hiding from police on October 27, 2005 grew into a broader challenge of the French state.
The French state would be well advised to accept the challenge and make goddamned sure it prevails.
Several hundred people marched silently Friday through Clichy-sous-Bois, north-east of Paris, in honour of Zyed Benna and Bouna Traore. Zyed, 17, was buried in his fathers native Tunisia. Bouna, 15, was of Mauritanian descent. Adolescent boys in hooded sweat shirts made up a large part of the mixed-race crowd, their heads bent as prayers were read in Arabic and French. The pair became a symbol in the projects, said one of Zyed Traores cousins, Coulibaly. I dont see why the violence should recur. That will not solve the problems, she said.
The violence isn't meant to solve problems. It's meant to create problems.
Clichy-sous-Bois has no police station, so officers patrolling the area come from outside and have no connection to residents. There is no public transportation and few families own cars, leaving most people virtually trapped. Unemployment among its 28,000 residents is 23.5% well above the 9% national average and is 32% for those between the ages of 15 and 24, according to the newspaper La Croix.
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4000 men spread across the entire country is pretty thin coverage.
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I don't understand how rioting is going to help them find gainfull employment. Would you want to hire a french muslim now? Or would you like to throw him in your trunk, drive him out to a secluded area and hit him in the head with a shovel? They can't seem to act, or even argue like human beings. They give the impression (and I'm probably wrong) that they only understand violence.
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I don't understand any of this. I thought that France (and the others) had a huge welfare state, with too many non-workers for each worker. The "solution" was to bring in foreign workers. That's not the worst solution I've heard of, but they don't do that. What's the point of bringing in a million people and then not having jobs for them? With unemployment double that of the US, why bring in anyone at all?
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and the countrys 5 million-strong Muslim population.
A muslim gvt official, azouz begag, minister of integration and specialist of stoopid declarations in the msm and worrying ones in ethnic media (like saying the Youths had to "force" their way into society, using the metaphor of "kicking down the doors of the descendents of Vercingetorix's appartments"/the archetypal gaul leader), has just said innocently there were about 15 millions non-europeans in France.
The usual figure given by non-PC sources is 10-13 millions non-europeans, about 8-10 millions of them being muslims.
The graphic is cute, but is unfair to the Visigoths. The Visigoths were Christian (Arian rather than Catholic) when they invaded the Roman Empire. The intention of their leaders was to maintain the empire rather than destroy it. They entered initially as refugees from the Huns, and then were treated so badly that they rebelled and destroyed the Roman legions at the battle of Adrianople. This was the beginning of the end for Rome, but the Goths did help the Romans destroy Attilla and the whole Hunnish threat. . The Visigoths subseqently established a Christian Kingdom in Spain, which was home to the brightest light of the Dark Ages (Isidore of Seville). Their end came at the hands of the Muslim invaders in 711. At the risk of being thoroughly anachronistic, the Visigoths were, in other words, on our side!
Disgraced Pakistani nuclear scientist A Q Khan was admitted to a hospital for emergency medical tests after his health deteriorated.
Khan, 66, who recently underwent surgery for prostrate cancer, developed sudden pain in his femoral vein on Thursday, following which doctors were called in for an emergency medical check-up, Pakistan's Online news agency reported.
He underwent tests at Khan's Research Laboratories, the country's premier agency that controlled Pakistan's nuclear programme.
On medical advise he was taken to a hospital from his highly guarded residence. After the medical examination, the physicians advised that he needed to be shifted to intensive care for a detailed examination, it said, adding that he was later brought back home after two days.
A thorough medical examination revealed that Khan had a blood clot in his vein and it could have been dangerous and caused a heart attack or brain haemorrhage, it said.
Khan's family members said that they were worried about health. They said the antibiotics administered to him during treatment of prostate cancer had thickened his blood 'to an extent that could be characterised as dangerous', local daily Dawn reported.
Pakistan defence spokesman Major General Shaukat Sultan said the scientist was being provided constant medical care and medical checkups were conducted whenever needed.
Khan has been accused of proliferating nuclear technology to countries like North Korea.
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May A Q rapidly assume room temperature and continue his well deserved traitor to humanity disgrace.
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At the time prior to surgery, I recommended cutting his balls off just to be safe. I think they didn't follow thru and now the complications. Oh my.
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Any solid info on his supposed problem. I'd like to make sure it isn't one of those. "He's dead now (wink,wink), everybody forget about him" things.
Five tribe members were killed and five others wounded when a gunfight between rival clans broke out after Eidul Fitr prayers on Wednesday, police said. The clans in Balochistan province had been feuding since a man and woman were killed two months ago following accusations that they had been having a relationship out of wedlock. Five people were killed and five wounded when two factions of the Magsi tribe clashed, said Jamil Asghar, deputy police chief in Jaffarabad, a district on the border of Balochistan and Sindh provinces. Police arrested two suspects and seized their Kalashnikov rifles.
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Indian police said on Friday they had foiled a suspected Islamist militant plot to attack the IT Hub of Bangalore following the arrest of two men believed to be Pakistani nationals in the south of the country. The two men were held after an overnight gun battle with police in the palace city of Mysore, 140 km (90 miles) southwest of Bangalore, they said.
A plan to attack a prominent government building in Bangalore, home to India's top computer software and backoffice firms, was uncovered, they added. "Our men had to return fire after the militants opened fire," Praveen Sood, Mysore's Police Commissioner, told Reuters. "Two of our policemen have been injured."
Police had found plans of Vikas Soudha building in Bangalore -- a newly built government administration block -- on the men. "They had done a comprehensive survey of Vikas Soudha in Bangalore and were planning an attack on it."
He said an AK-47 rifle, a laptop, a satellite phone and a Pakistani passport had been seized from the men. Sood said police had found plans of Vikas Soudha building in Bangalore -- a newly built government administration block -- on the men. "They had done a comprehensive survey of Vikas Soudha in Bangalore and were planning an attack on it," he said.
"Based on initial interrogation and literature seized from the laptop, we have conclusive evidence that they belonged to Al-Badr organisation in Pakistan," said Sood. Al-Badr is a Pakistan-based Islamist militant outfit fighting against Indian rule in the disputed region of Kashmir. Indian security agencies say it is made up mostly of militants from Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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Oh, good, at least I'll get by service call answered by the Indian call center.
Don't speak English? Well, that's outsourcing for ya.
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Don't speak English? Well, that's outsourcing for ya.
They speak Hindish, similar to Spanglish, but different!
Tribal insurgents shot at a passenger train in Balochistan on Thursday, injuring two people, officials said. The rebels opened machinegun fire from surrounding mountains when the Rawalpindi-bound Quetta Express reached Mashkaf town, 100 kilometres south of the provincial capital Quetta, a railway official said. "The miscreants attacked the passenger train with light and heavy machineguns and wounded two people. According to reports one of the passengers received serious injuries," the official said on condition of anonymity. The militants also launched two rockets but they did not hit the train, the official added.
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I have this mental image of the western train crossing the prairie, the indians attack the train, and every window opens as the cowboys riding get needed target practice.
Result, much fewer indians to hit the next train.
Now simply transfer this whole scenario to India and watch the train attacks abruptly cease.
What? No Guns Allowed?
Idiots.
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this is Pakland (south of Quetta)- there's plenty of guns
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Security forces fired rockets in two clashes with tribal insurgents in Balochistan on Wednesday but there were no casualties, officials said.
In one encounter rebels blew up a well at a gasfield in Sui, near the town of Dera Bugti, security officials said. Security forces fired rockets at suspected rebel outposts but no one was killed or injured, one official said. Rebel sources also said there were no casualties. Separately, troops and insurgents exchanged at least eight rockets each plus light weapons fire at nearby Sangseela town, again with no casualties, the official said. Militants also exploded bombs attached to three legs of an electricity pylon near Quetta. Another bomb attached to the fourth leg failed to go off and the main supply line was not damaged, officials said. On Tuesday thousands of people were left without gas after a key pipeline in Balochistan was blown up, and two others were targeted on Monday.
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Iraq's Defense Ministry said Saturday that the Iraqi army captured a man thought to be the personal cameraman for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the slain leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, the country's most feared terrorist group.
Spokesman Mohammed al-Askari told al-Iraqiyah television that Khalid al-Hayani was detained in Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad.
He declined to say when the capture occurred or give al-Hayani's nationality, saying that could hinder future operations against terrorists. He said videotapes and documents were found in al-Hayani's possession but did not describe their contents.
The Jordanian-born al-Zarqawi, who was killed by a U.S. airstrike June 7 in Diyala, had appeared in several videos posted on militant Internet sites.
One clip often played on Middle Eastern TV news channels showed him clad in black and firing a machine gun. An earlier one purported to show al-Zarqawi with his face covered, speaking to the camera before he slit the throat of a Western hostage.
Don't forget the US soldier who was allegedly captured. I am quite certain we have not stopped searching for him. An announcement of this sort might be designed to flush out some al Qaida who are in hiding. Flush some out, follow them ....
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I wonder which is greater...the fear for one's nearterm personal safety (i.e. immediate, painful death), or the fear of betraying one's cause and comrades, and which can be maintained the longest.
Perhaps a movie should be made of this gentleman, squealing like a pig.
Intense house-to-house fighting between fighters and Iraqi police north of Baghdad has killed 43 people, including 24 officers, the US military said. Iraqi officials, however, said 12 Iraqi officers were killed. US soldiers later joined the fight, aiding in a counter-attack that left 18 fighters dead, the US military said on Friday.
Police fought back and US soldiers nearby were diverted from another mission, assisted by air cover. One Iraqi civilian was also killed, eight fighters wounded, and 27 others captured, the military said. The Iraqi police unit was based in Baquba, 60km northeast of Baghdad. The ambush took place at 6.30am local time (0330 GMT) on Thursday.
Also on Friday, US forces ventured into the Baghdad stronghold of Mahdi Army leader, Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, searching for a kidnapped US soldier, two days after another raid in the area stoked tensions with the Iraqi government. Iraq's interior ministry, which commands the police, gave a slightly different version of Thursday's clash in north Baghdad, and said those killed included Abbas Al-Ameri, a police chief, and his brother. Abdel-Karim Khalaf, a ministry spokesman, said forces moved into the area after learned of the presence of fighters who were behind the ambush on Monday of a convoy of buses carrying police recruits in which at least 15 were killed 25 wounded. Khalf denied police had been surprised and put the death toll among officers at 12, with 19 fighters killed and 28 captured. He described the enemy fighters as hardcore remnants of Saddam Hussein's former Baathist government joined by "Takfiri elements", a term for Islamic radicals that include groups such as al-Qaeda in Iraq. The area around Baquba has seen heavy fighting in recent weeks between armed Shia and Sunni groups carrying out brutal revenge killings.
Meanwhile, four people were killed and five wounded in an attack on a van carrying Shias returning from the funeral of a relative in the city of Najaf, said a spokesman for the police force in surrounding Diyala province.
In other news, witnesses and two officials of the Mahdi Army said there was a strong US troop presence backed by air support in the northeast part of Sadr City on Friday. They reported clashes in the area but it was not immediately clear who was involved. "It's ongoing operations specifically related to the search for the missing soldier," said US Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher Garver. The Wednesday raid also targeted a mosque in connection with the hunt for the missing US soldier, who left the safety of the fortified Green Zone on Monday to visit a relative.
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Moqtada al-Sadr has threatened rogue commanders in his Mahdi Army militia with the wrath of God, his principal mouthpiece told worshippers at prayer on Friday.
"I declare that you will be cursed. Sayid Moqtada al-Sadr is a blessing from God upon you and is your protector."
In recent weeks armed groups claiming allegiance to al-Sadr's movement have fought pitched battles with Iraqi security forces in two southern towns, Diwaniyah and Amara, despite calls from al-Sadr for restraint. "This disobedience to the leadership has divided us and earned us multiple enemies," declared Sheikh Jaber al-Khafaji, the preacher who speaks for al-Sadr at the mosque in the central Iraqi town of Kufa. "The directives of Moqtada al-Sadr in his speach during Eid prayers should not go unnoticed," he added, referring to the latest of al-Sadr's recent attempts to rein in his movement's more unruly cadres. "If you do not obey, you will regret it. Indeed, I declare that you will be cursed. Sayid Moqtada al-Sadr is a blessing from God upon you and is your protector," Khafaji told the large crowd in this Shia area.
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Oh yeah, this fit in with everything we know to be profound truth.
I didn't see "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" in there...
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Tater's mob really is a cult. Their devotion has to be seen to be believed. All other Iraqis, Sunni and Shia alike, regard him as an Iranian agent and a menace. He appears to be trying to bide his time for now, building his strength for a big showdown.
What outcome is he hoping for, given the ass-whipping his tots received in 2004? I have an out of the box idea about that. In Iraq, the relationship between al-Sadr and the Iranians is much more obvious than it is here. It is possible, imho, that Sadr, not Hizbollah, will be the recipient of Iran's first operational nuke and that our troops, rather than Israel, will be the target.
The benefit to the mullahs of such an attack would be tremendous, but what about US retaliation? Remember that the mullahs, like Saddam and Chavez, are great believers in the Vietnam syndrome. They could easily expect that pressure from the media and the peace movement would keep the US response to a level they could tolerate, especially since they could point out that the target was military. Thousands of Iraqis would perish in such an event, but the global media seem pretty well inured to Iraqi casualties, especially those inflicted by Islamic terrorists. The mullahs proved during the Iran-Iraq war that they can tolerate a lot of punishment.
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There's an old eastern European method that hasn't been tried yet:
1.Capture Sadr, but treat him well. Feed him. Get him drunk (adapted for the middle east)
2.Wait for his minions to make a huge frothing fuss about their leader being captured, let them gather, make plans for war etc.
3.Pick a battlefield and announce the time and date for the showdown.
4.Bring Sadr to the battlefield so that he has a clear and unobstructed view of the festivities, but that he is far enough from harms way (or maybe take him to HQ so he can watch everything in realtime and get a bird's eye view).
5.Start the festivities.
6.Release Sadr after his army is decimated to almost nothingness.
The point being that he should be treated well but be forced to witness the massacre of his loyal militia or whatever you wanna call them. It's bound to have quite an effect on him.
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#5 You a goof? You think he can be redeemed by humiliation? It's not like he believes his followers are in his 'care'. They are Al's minions, to do the bidding of his 'blessing'.
Show him the old Western method, a slug from a Colt.
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Show him the old Western method, a slug from a Colt.
and all that does is vacate a spot for someone else to come in and continue disturbing the same shit. You want someone there who has been taught a lesson, possibly multiple times. Sooner or later he should realize the futility of it all and give up.
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This is always such a tough decision... Do we use the scalpel and the MaGik mOdeRatE FilTer... or the 120mm smoothbore and the fire control system?
Iraqi PM Nouri Al-Maliki on Thursday said Iraq's most notorious death squad leader had escaped a major US-led raid in Sadr City which the Americans said killed 10 "enemy fighters". Wednesday's ground and air assault targeted Abu Deraa, a feared warlord held responsible for a rash of brutal sectarian killings and kidnappings of Iraqi Sunnis.
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2 questions leapeth out:
1) Maliki knows his Shia ally was there how, exactly?
2) Who in Maliki's gang dropped the dime to warn him?
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"Quick the Americans are comming!
Surround me with children and ferret me out through the sewer pipe! You charge down the machine guns while I pack up the Yankee dollars and make my escape! It will be a glorious day brothers, the infidels will lose if any one of us can manage to live! And that rat will be me!"
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If I was in charge I would claim everyone got away or was KIA. That way we cut out all the BS of authorization, protest, torture or not, blah blah blah scoop em deny it put the screws to em then 22hollow DEAD MEN DON't TALK OR PROTEST.
Unfortunatley I doubt this the case he probably just did escape.
The city is a battleground between Sunni Arabs relocated there by the Saddam government and members of the Kurdish minority native to the region.
Authorities have enforced a vehicle ban in Mosul on Friday following threats from Sunni fighters who distributed leaflets at mosques on Thursday proclaiming the mixed Sunni-Kurdish city a part of an Islamic state declared earlier this month by an insurgent umbrella group, the Mujahidin Shura Council. While the fighters declaration has been viewed primarily as a propaganda move, fighters aligned with the Shura Council have been suspected in recent deadly attacks in Mosul. The city is a battleground between Sunni Arabs relocated there by the Saddam government and members of the Kurdish minority native to the region.
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Works for me. Cut off cell service, too, and you'll actually have something going.
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#8: Nothing beats the airbrush for truthiness Bobby.
And back then there was no Scarsdale or South Beach Diet. Just good old meat and potatoes, a pack of Camels, two martinis and black and white TV. I wonder if Angelina Jolie could survive that kind of workout.
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A5089. The Onion - National Lampoon for this millenium :-)
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Girdles. Eating less, walking more. And the airbrush or its antecedent, the paintbrush, have a long and noble history of impacting pre-existing reality. Not that I'm saying it's the case here -- she is lovely -- but let's not go airbrushing the past.
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Lol. It's a presentation thingy, methinks. It's all in the presentation... I useta have a graphic to demonstrate that point, but it's gone, now... *sniff* ...and it wasn't at all SFW - or anywhere else - except mine and a5089's PCs, lol, they're specially "ruggedized" to withstand pr0n. :-)
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When I was a kid I had a pen with a picture on it, like this one. But no matter how many times I turn the computer over the black does not slide off like it did on my pen.
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Ah, the hourglass figure. After perusing what passes for beauty these days (I call it stick-girl) it's nice to see a glimpse of the real thing.
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A bomb ripped through a bus in southern Afghanistan on Friday killing 14 civilians as the Taliban, accusing NATO forces of genocide, threatened to step up already rising suicide attacks. We want to inform the foreign forces and their slaves that their defeat is inevitable in Afghanistan, Taliban commander Mulla Dadullah told Reuters by satellite phone from a secret location. The Taliban are ready to fight until death and in the coming days will increase their activities and suicide attacks to such an extent that the infidel forces will not get a chance to rest, he said.
Egyptian police discovered explosive material weighing one ton in central Sinai on Friday, sources said. The explosive material, hidden in plastic bags, was found by local Beduins.
Moroccan authorities are holding 14 people suspected of belonging to a regional radical Islamist group linked to al-Qaeda, government officials said on Friday. The 14 suspects had planned to carry out an unspecified "terrorist plot" on Morocco, with the help of al Qeada-linked foreign fighters who would travel from the Sahel-Sahara region, they said.
The navies of the United States and Britain have increased their patrols around Saudi Arabia's 
A British judge granted bail Friday to two people accused in an alleged plot to blow up U.S.-bound jetliners with liquid explosives, and he urged lawyers to avoid any delays in a trial that is already more than a year away. Nabeel Hussain, 22, and a 17-year-old male were granted bail by Judge David Calvert-Smith after a hearing at London's Central Criminal Court - the only two of the accused to be granted bail so far. The judge denied bail Friday to 24-year-old Cossor Ali, the only woman charged in the case.
Police on Friday released two men arrested in an anti-terror sweep last month but said they remained suspects in the investigation.
FRENCH police deployed 4,000 reinforcements yesterday as marauding youths torched at least two public buses, on the anniversary of the deaths of two teenagers that ignited weeks of riots in largely immigrant housing projects across France. After the buses were burned, Pariss transport authority curtailed bus service in the Seine-Saint-Denis region north of the capital, which is home to thousands of immigrants and their French-born children. 
Five tribe members were killed and five others wounded when a gunfight between rival clans broke out after Eidul Fitr prayers on Wednesday, police said. The clans in Balochistan province had been feuding since a man and woman were killed two months ago following accusations that they had been having a relationship out of wedlock. Five people were killed and five wounded when two factions of the Magsi tribe clashed, said Jamil Asghar, deputy police chief in Jaffarabad, a district on the border of Balochistan and Sindh provinces. Police arrested two suspects and seized their Kalashnikov rifles.
Indian police said on Friday they had foiled a suspected Islamist militant plot to attack the IT Hub of Bangalore following the arrest of two men believed to be Pakistani nationals in the south of the country. The two men were held after an overnight gun battle with police in the palace city of Mysore, 140 km (90 miles) southwest of Bangalore, they said.
Tribal insurgents shot at a passenger train in Balochistan on Thursday, injuring two people, officials said. The rebels opened machinegun fire from surrounding mountains when the Rawalpindi-bound Quetta Express reached Mashkaf town, 100 kilometres south of the provincial capital Quetta, a railway official said. "The miscreants attacked the passenger train with light and heavy machineguns and wounded two people. According to reports one of the passengers received serious injuries," the official said on condition of anonymity. The militants also launched two rockets but they did not hit the train, the official added.
Security forces fired rockets in two clashes with tribal insurgents in Balochistan on Wednesday but there were no casualties, officials said. 
Intense house-to-house fighting between fighters and Iraqi police north of Baghdad has killed 43 people, including 24 officers, the US military said. Iraqi officials, however, said 12 Iraqi officers were killed. US soldiers later joined the fight, aiding in a counter-attack that left 18 fighters dead, the US military said on Friday. 
