KABUL, Afghanistan — An Italian photographer kidnapped in Afghanistan last month was freed Friday in good health and reportedly said he never saw daylight and was kept in chains during his three weeks in captivity. Gabriele Torsello was kidnapped Oct. 12 while traveling by bus from Lashkar Gah, the capital of the southern Helmand province, to neighboring Kandahar, said Ettore Francesco Sequi, Italy's ambassador to Afghanistan.
Sequi said authorities at an Italian-run hospital in Helmand province received a phone call Friday telling them to go to the road between Lashkar Gah and Kandahar, where an Afghan hospital employee found Torsello, he said.
Torsello, 36, a freelance photographer, is in good health, Sequi said. Maj. Luke Knittig, a spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force, said the military was helping transport Torsello back to Kabul by air, but he didn't know when he would arrive.
In Italy, Modesto Nicoli, Torsello's family spokesman, welcomed the photographer's release. "It's an indescribable joy, it's a news we have been waiting for a long time," he told SkyTG24.
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The ransom funds should keep that band of terrorists armed and fed through the hard Afghan winter.
HERAT: Six Afghan police and a soldier were killed and eight NATO troops injured in three separate attacks by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, officials and the military said Friday. The attacks which occurred at Herat in the west and Laghman in the east also left three Afghan police and four soldiers injured, they said.
The six policemen, including a district police chief, were killed when rebels attacked a police convoy in Herat province on Thursday. Meanwhile, an Italian photographer kidnapped in Afghanistan last month has been freed and is in good health, Italian authorities said Friday. Gabriele Torsello and his Afghan translator were kidnapped Oct. 14 as they drove from Lashkar Gah, the capital of the southern Helmand province, toward neighbouring Kandahar.
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Tragic. All the more so since it seems no terrorists were killed or wounded in the three attacks.
Attacks in West Darfur have killed at least 63 people, half of them children, as rebels on Friday accused Khartoum of remobilising Arab militia after suffering two military defeats on the Sudan-Chad border. “The government have begun mobilising the Janjaweed widely, especially in West Darfur, because they want to clear the area and move north along the border and defeat us,” said Bahr Idriss Abu Garda, a leader of the National Redemption Front (NRF).
A struggling African Union force, monitoring a widely ignored peace deal, said up to 92 people might have been killed in the attack on October 29 on at least four villages in the Jabel Moun area.
Rebels from the NRF alliance said of the 63 dead, 33 were children. The United Nations said 27 of those were under 12 and urged the government to protect civilians. A struggling African Union force, monitoring a widely ignored peace deal, said up to 92 people might have been killed in the attack on October 29 on at least four villages in the Jabel Moun area, where rebel and government forces are present. AU soldiers said the government was also bombing regularly in the area around and north of Tine town on the Sudan-Chad border. The last bombardment was on October 23.
Sudanese officials deny the reports saying they have not mobilised Arab militia and the army denies using its Antonov planes, which would be a violation of a UN Security Council resolution. Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Friday indicated the toll in Darfur had been exaggerated saying only 10,000 people had died in western Sudan. At a news conference in Beijing where he was attending a summit of African leaders, he reiterated that he would not allow UN forces into Darfur, despite a UN resolution authorising 22,000 UN troops to replace AU peacekeepers. “We decided that with such an army moving into our country, the impact is going to be the same as what’s been happening in Iraq,” Bashir said.
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Hear the Lions of Islam™ roar, hear the children scream.
Do they mean "Not currently holding an AK-47, an RPG, or digging to plant a roadside Bomb"?
12 is plenty old enough for all of the above, and many more "Children's Games" in the same deadly vein.
They're only "Children" when caught and killed, before that they're "Brave Militia" and "Glorious Martyrs".
It's all part of the Propoganda Game. When they announce "Dead Children" we should Cheer, they're combatants, just like any other fighter who happens to be over 12, and will now not grow any older to be a bigger problem further down the road.
Remember, they don't fight by any rules. Just kill them where you find them and be done with it.
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(KUNA) -- Egyptian security forces seized 600 kilograms of explosives in the north of Sinai, a security source said Friday. He was quoted by state-run news agency (Mena) as saying the T.N.T explosives were found following combing operations in many areas in the desert of Sinai.
The explosives were found stuffed in bags near Ruthayyan village, said the source, and were disposed later. A ton of explosives had been found in the north of Sinai some time ago. The security authorities said last September they thwarted an attempt to smuggle weapons across the borders.
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Is this the same seizure from earlier in the week, i.e. KUNA's got the slows, or is this yet another seizure? Damned spice worms be hyperactive.
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Rpg have been used in a number of criminal attacks in France over the last few years, this is not uncommon, mostly armored cash transporters, though there was a spectacular prison break-out in which a professional bank robber was bailed out by his accomplices who blasted the doors with plastic and rpg, while hosing the watchtowers with automatic fire... this was in 2004 I think.
And assault rifles are even more common; firepower of the criminal element has vastly increased with the traffic from kososvo and ex-yugoslavia, firearms were traditionally the mark of organized crime, now they're available to street gangs funded by drug.
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"The Sunday Telegraph has been told the weapons were brought into this country at the height of a "war'' between two families of Middle Eastern background, the Darwiches and the Razzaks."
I'm shocked!
I thought it would be Aborigenies going kangaroo hunting.
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I told you "Mad Max" was a documentary.
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If they are taking orders I'll take two.
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Prosecutors urged judges Friday to convict six Muslims of conspiring to commit a terrorist attack against Dutch politicians, in the case of an alleged group with close connections to the murderer of filmmaker Theo van Gogh. Prosecutors say Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and former lawmaker Ayaan Hirsi Ali — Van Gogh's creative partner — may have been targets.
The prime suspect in the conspiracy case, Samir Azzouz, 20, was acquitted in April on similar charges of plotting to attack a politician or a national landmark, in a major embarrassment for prosecutors. His lawyers say he is innocent of any wrongdoing, and his re-arrest several months after his release is a matter of harassment by overzealous Dutch authorities.
Alexander van Dam said the April acquittal was flawed and evidence against Azzouz is much stronger this time. Evidence includes a videotape of an alleged suicide message Azzouz filmed, bomb-making manuals and radical Islamist propaganda. It also includes a tapped telephone call between Azzouz and a convicted terrorism suspect hinting that an attack was imminent. "Keep watching TV — something is about to happen," Azzouz said.
In addition, two alleged members of the group — a couple who are to be tried separately — testified directly against Azzouz and the others. "No other conclusion can be distilled out of the evidence than that this group was planning the terrorist murder of one or more politicians by means of a weapon or by detonating an explosive," Van Dam said.
Outside the courtroom, defense lawyer Michiel Pestman said the prosecution's case depended on the two witnesses, Lahbib and Hanan Bachar, who he said were themselves suspects in the case. "We think they are very unreliable," he said.
Since Azzouz's earlier acquittal, the government has enacted laws making membership in a terrorist organization a crime and outlawing "recruiting" for a terrorist network. Azzouz is charged with both. Pestman said the suspects were friends, "not an organization," and that prosecutors had failed to link several weapons introduced as evidence to any of the suspects.
Speaking in his own defense Tuesday, Azzouz said the videotaped suicide message was meant as a joke, and he would never kill somebody in the Netherlands, because under his interpretation of Islam that would be forbidden.
Prosecutors could demand sentences of up to 20 years. A verdict is scheduled for Nov. 23.
In Azzouz's earlier acquittal, judges ruled he was planning an attack. However, they found that because he had not picked a specific target yet he lacked criminal intent. In addition, bomb-making materials found in his possession were too amateurish to explode.
Azzouz attended prayer meetings in cult-like conditions at the home of Mohammed Bouyeri, who was convicted of Van Gogh's Nov. 2, 2004, killing and sentenced to life in prison. Bouyeri left an open letter stuck onto Van Gogh's chest with a knife threatening Hirsi Ali and other politicians. Later, Bouyeri was one of nine men convicted of membership in a terrorist organization known as the Hofstad network.
Azzouz was also caught with bomb-making materials in October 2003, along with four members of the Hofstad group. All were released then without prosecution because they were arrested on a tip from the secret service. As a result, parliament approved legislation allowing secret service evidence in criminal trials.
MARSEILLE, France — Police arrested five youths Tuesday, aged 15 to 17, suspected of links to the weekend firebombing of a Marseille city bus that left a young woman severely burned, police said. Police arrested five people in housing projects near the site of the Saturday night bus attack, the most vicious in a series of bus burnings around the Oct. 27 anniversary of the start of the riots.
Mama Galledou, a 26-year-old student of Senegalese origin, was burned over nearly 70 percent of her body and was fighting for her life, doctors said Monday. She has been kept in an artificial coma.
Marseille Prosecutor Jacques Beaume told reporters that the five arrested in the bus firebombing could face criminal charges.
Reeeeeeeeally? Charges? Just for burning a young infidel woman?
President Jacques Chirac, in an interview published Tuesday in the daily Le Figaro, called for "firmness in the face of violence" along with promotion of equal opportunities for residents of the poor housing projects that ring France's big cities.
I thought there wasn't any racism in France. Equal opportunity?
Police clashed Saturday night in one Clichy-Sous-Bois project with about 20 youths who had built a barricade and threw stones at police, police said. Police fired flashballs to disperse the youths, all of whom left the scene except for the 16-year-old, who had fallen to the ground, according to police and judicial sources.
A judicial official said the teen admitted to helping erect the barricade but denied throwing stones at police. The young man was hospitalized, police said. An investigation was underway. Two officers were slightly injured in the melee and police cars damaged, police said.
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I read even Liberation was calling for their heads.
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Ages 15-17. Standard Muslim M.O. - when the heat's on, make sure the suspects are juveniles, not adults. Less time, better time, names are usually withheld - for the sake of the "children", of course.
Red flags went up when a man tried to withdraw thousands of dollars from an Upper Darby bank.
Police said he had a Pakistani passport that had been tampered with, a fake driver's license and a fake Social Security card. Police said they were investigating whether the man was connected to terrorism.
The man went into a Commerce Bank Wednesday and withdrew $8,700. He returned the same day to take out another $9,700. That's when he was arrested.
The man gave identification with the name Shahid Batti. But he did not look like the man in the photo IDs.
He then told police his name was Raza Hussain and his date of birth was Jan. 1, 1962. That information came up on a terrorist watch list.
"We don't know if we're looking at a money laundering scheme, an identity theft scheme. We don't know if there's any type of terrorist activity here, but certainly this requires a good depth investigation," said Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood.
The man was being held Friday night on $100,000 bail while police tried to sort it all out.
Note the "from" in the above headline. Rough town...
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Dave, the police didn't find the weapon on the bus or by the roadside along the route? And didn't question the kids to find out who did the shooting?
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"Dave, the police didn't find the weapon on the bus or by the roadside along the route?"
A gun tossed out the window in this neighborhood (about a mile from where I work) wouldn't even hit the ground before someone made off with it.
"And didn't question the kids to find out who did the shooting?"
That'd be snitching. Philly kids don't snitch: they just "take care of bidness". Like with the poor slob who tried to expose himself to a bunch of 7th-graders from a girls' school and would have been beaten to death if the cops hadn't rescued him...
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Trust me when I say this: there is a Paleo underground criminal/terrorist network throughout the USA. A stronghold of same is located in Philly. The $$$ being w/drawn was dirty and intended to support an on-going enterprise here in the USA or earmarked to go back to the West Bank/Gaza Strip.
If people in the USA could begin to fathom the extent of "criminal" enterprises here in the USA supporting terrorist operations overseas the outcry would be deafening. I'm talking robbery, theft, receiving stolen property, car theft, fencing etc on a scale that would make the likes of Tony Soprano envious.
I get this from an excellent source and can say no more! (Except this: the authorities are only scratching the surface and don't trust anybody who seems "moderate-secular" but was born a muslim in a foreign country).
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If people in the USA could begin to fathom the extent of "criminal" enterprises here in the USA supporting terrorist operations overseas the outcry would be deafening.
Seems like a real good reason to expel all muslims from our shores then.
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don't trust anybody who seems "moderate-secular" but was born a muslim in a foreign country
Shuckey darn and golly gee whillickers! Knock me down with a feather! Now where have I ever heard thet before. I'll take all the heat anyone wants to dump on me for advocating mass deportations. Short of internment camps or outright executions, deportation may well prove to be one of the few tools we have to save our nation.
For a start, there needs to be a massive crackdown on the halawa network of informal underground funds transfer. All Arab and Muslim owned retail businesses need to be scrutinized for participation in this common form of terrorist funding.
A NEWSCHANNEL 5 investigation reveals what the feds don't want you to know. Suspected terrorists are hiding inside the U.S. and they got here by sneaking across the Mexican border. What we've been reporting for more than a year has been confirmed by a government report just released.
“ the U.S. government is well aware Al Qaeda's been working hard to get a dirty bomb into the country ”
And a brand new interview by Pakistani investigative reporter Hamid Mir is bringing in more information. Mir has interviewed some of America's most dangerous terrorist enemies. This time the Al Qaeda commander he talked to gave a grim warning that another attack on America is coming very soon.
"We can attack America anytime," says Abu Dawood during the interview. He also told the reporter that Muslims must leave America.
Mir says, "Abu Dawood told me, 'We are determined to attack America again and that attack will be bigger than 9/11."
The Al Qaeda commander says the attack will be led by Adnan El Shukrijumah. He goes by many aliases but is called Brother Adnan by his terrorist friends. Brother Adnan is wanted by the feds for possible terrorist threats against the U.S. He's considered armed and dangerous
According to the Pakistani reporter, Dawood said Brother Adnan "had smuggled some dangerous materials from the Mexican border to inside the United States of America."
"It's the kind of scenario that worries everybody," says Fred Burton, a former special agent for the U.S. State Department. Burton spent much of his federal career studying terrorists, predicting their next move. He now does the same thing at Stratfor, a private intelligence agency in Austin.
“ Smugglers have been caught 300 times in the past four years trying to sneak in radioactive material ... the IAEA told the London Times last month. ”
NEWSCHANNEL 5 asked Burton about the threat.
"I think it has to be viewed credible, until proven otherwise," he says.
The former special agent tells us the U.S. government is well aware Al Qaeda's been working hard to get a dirty bomb into the country, an explosive packed with nuclear materials small enough to carry in a suitcase.
Smugglers have been caught 300 times in the past four years trying to sneak in radioactive material, which could be used to make a dirty bomb.
That's what the International Atomic Energy Agency told the London Times last month.
“ Burton says a chemical attack is more likely ”
But Burton says, "I think if Al Qaeda has a dirty bomb, we would have seen it by now." He says a chemical attack is more likely and the Valley could be a launching ground.
Burton says there are several specific locations in Houston, which if hit, could carry out a devastating terrorist attack on U.S. soil. However Burton also says if Al Qaeda really does have a dirty bomb, border cities are much more vulnerable to attack, because he says terrorists don't want to get caught.
"You'd want to bring that in right across the border, and you'd want to detonate that as soon as you can," he explains. We asked who would be at risk. "You would look at cities such as El Paso or Brownsville," he replied.
For law enforcement, it's a very big worry, says Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez Jr. He testified to lawmakers in Washington about the dangers of terrorists and terrorist weapons getting smuggled in through South Texas.
The sheriff tells us his biggest fear is that something could go wrong with a bomb. "We're not prepared," he says.
The possible dangers are also a concern to U.S. Congressman Solomon Ortiz. He was among the first in Washington to sound the alarm about dangers at the border. Ortiz says, "The biggest threat is people coming in and we don't know who they are."
“ Al Qaeda, Hamas, and Hezbollah are active in Latin America. In fact, members of Hezbolla are already inside the U.S., coming in through the Mexican border.
Middle Easterners are changing their Islamic names to Hispanic names, buying fake documents, learning Spanish and posing as Hispanic immigrants. ”
The government does know terror groups like Al Qaeda, Hamas, and Hezbollah are active in Latin America. In fact, members of Hezbolla are already inside the U.S., coming in through the Mexican border.
We're also learning these Middle Easterners are changing their Islamic names to Hispanic names, buying fake documents, learning Spanish and posing as Hispanic immigrants.
Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo says there's even a training camp in Brazil teaching Middle Easterners how to blend in to the Mexican culture.
According to government intelligence, Middle Eastern aliens from countries known to harbor terrorists are smuggled to staging areas in places like Venezuela and the tri-border region between Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. Then they're smuggled again through Mexico and our border right into the U.S.
There's a big payoff for those who sneak them in. Mexican illegals pay smugglers an average of $2,000. Middle Easterners pay as much as thirty times that amount, up to $60,000!
"I don't think they really care who they're bringing across, as long as they get paid for it," says Texas Congressman Michael McCaul. He put out the report, which also says Islamic terrorist groups may be using Mexico as a refuge.
During our investigation, we found out a lot of people from suspicious countries are crossing right here in South Texas. Since 9/11, literally hundreds of illegal aliens have been caught here from places like Iraq, Iran, Syria, Egypt and Pakistan.
Federal law enforcement estimates only ten to thirty percent of illegals who cross are actually caught.
Governor Rick Perry says, "To think that international terrorists have not already exploited our border is naive."
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"We can attack America anytime," says Abu Dawood during the interview. He also told the reporter that "Muslims must leave America".
Adu Dawood made both statements above. I agree with him.
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Smugglers have been caught 300 times in the past four years trying to sneak in radioactive material, which could be used to make a dirty bomb.
I don't remember anything about any radioactive stuff being smuggled in, although I believe it's possible or even probable. That combined with all insanity of all 300 attempts having been successfully covered up by the Feds just smacks of BS to me. And this report is written for consumption by someone who just dropped in from the moon and doesn't know anything about what's going on here on planet earth. Maybe it's true, but the evidence seems like a fabrication.
Any ideas or more reliable sources than NewsChannel 5, whatever that is?
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Smugglers have been caught 300 times in the past four years trying to sneak in radioactive material, which could be used to make a dirty bomb.
Funny how the MSM cannot bring itself to broadcast this negative view of their little brown brothers Muslim darlings.
Once again, make a simple declaration; Any nuclear, radiological, chemical or biological attack on American soil results in several MME (Muslim Middle East) countries being obliterated. Make them scramble to halt this Islamic madness. I'm sick and tired of mopping up their shit.
If anyone figures out who the target audience was on that federal report please let us know. Like I said, it seems like it was meant for public comsumption given all the basics it included, like how long our borders were, etc. If that report was meant for use inside the government only, you wouldn't think it would need to cover stuff like that. At least one would hope so . . . .
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Zenster is right on. Since we don't know what country is behind each attack, we know it's Muslims. Start with Blowing up every Holy sight they have, and making sure it will be a century before they can go there again. Any more attacks, all Muslim countries are game.
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According to the Pakistani reporter, Dawood said Brother Adnan "had smuggled some dangerous materials from the Mexican border to inside the United States of America."
Korans. Crates of Korans. The most toxic, violence-inducing material known to man. Even the rumors of one being handled by the wrong person is enough to induce murders around the world.
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Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay will no longer face "forced" interrogation – including Khalid Sheik Mohammed, believed to be the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, the detention commander announced yesterday. The announcement by Rear Adm. Harry Harris, who commands the detention camp, applies not only to prisoners who have been held in Guantanamo for lengthy periods, but also 14 "high-value" prisoners transferred to Guantanamo in September after years in secret locations – including Mohammed.
Harris told visiting journalists this week that interrogations had been optional since midsummer because coercion was ineffective.
The need to interrogate foreign captives who may have information about terrorist activity has been one of the chief reasons given by the U.S. government for holding – without charge or the right of appeal – suspected al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners at the Guantanamo base in Cuba since 2002.
President Bush signed a law last month permitting aggressive interrogations under new rules, but they won't be used in Guantanamo because Harris says they don't work. "We don't make them talk," he said. "In fact, we don't make them go to interrogations. If you make a detainee go to interrogation, then that already is going to create an environment of potential non-cooperation."
Harris, who took command at the prison camp in March, said, "They might have done it when I first got here but we don't do it now." He said interrogators relied only on "rapport building" to elicit information from detainees, some of whom had only recently begun to talk after refusing to do so during more than four years of captivity.
Harris said the military had also posted notices in several languages throughout the camp informing the 430 Guantanamo captives that Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions protects them from inhumane and degrading treatment and "outrages on personal dignity."
Congress ordered such notices posted at detention centers "where applicable" in 2005. They were not posted previously because the Bush administration considered Guantanamo prisoners to be unlawful enemy combatants not entitled to protections granted prisoners of war under the Geneva treaties.
The Supreme Court ruled in June the basic Article 3 protections applied to all detainees and the notices were posted, to considerable interest, Harris said. "Some of the detainees have told us that it's interesting I guess or they want to see more or they want to debate it, that kind of stuff – just what it is that we're posting, what does it mean," Harris said.
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No forced interrogations until legislation allows it. Could be hard after the elections, but not impossible if some Dem centrists accept the "failed state" status of Taliban Afghanistan, and don't apply any rights regime to terrorists.
Frankly, protection from self and other incrimination should not be enjoyed by terrorists.
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I would say to Adm Harris, if you're going to be a total pussyfoot and not extract information, we don't really need Guantanamo. This thing must cost hundreds of millions per year. If we are no longer going to have ROI, shut it. We will stop taking prisoners. By far the best policy. Do whatever is needed to get them to talk, then dispose of them. No prisoners.
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My 2 cents - the prisoners at Gitmo have either been there for a couple years or are transfers from "secret prisons" where they were ineveitably milked dry of info. In either case, I doubt there is current actionable intel that any of these drones are hiding in their lil pea brains. The CIA and Mil has learned not to send recent high-profile captures to Gitmo til they're wrung out in a black op prison somewhere else (I like that). This is strictly for PR. Sad that they have to say this shit, but ineveitable in the current "please kill us - we'll prosecute you in a court of law" attitude among the MSM, Donks and assorted leftist trash. When the big attack comes, pull out that list of enemy collaboraters
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MIRANSHAH: Local Taliban in North Waziristan beheaded an Islamic cleric for allegedly spying for the United States in Afghanistan, officials said on Friday. The decapitated body of Maulvi Salahuddin, 50, was found on Friday morning in Makeen area, 75 kilometres south of Miranshah. A note attached to the body warned: “The Maulvi was an American spy and all of you will face this (fate) if you follow him.”
Meanwhile, local Taliban in Wana on Friday addressed a local jirga on new rules to punish collaborators and criminals. They informed the 300-strong congregation of tribal elders that they would first warn a collaboratorÂ’s family of the consequences of working for the Americans. But if the suspect continued spying, he would be executed. Separately, seven men convicted of banditry by the Taliban were paraded in a Wana bazaar after having had their hair torn out in fistfuls as punishment.
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Great, maybe we can paint our worst enemies as spies and let the Muzzies kill them for us
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Great, maybe we can paint our worst enemies as spies and let the Muzzies kill them for us
That would involve pushing the likes of abu Bakr Bashir or Yusuf Qaradawi out of a moving car in front of his favorite mosque while clad in a brand new hand-stitched silk suit with its pockets stuffed full of Cuban cigars and hundred dollar bills. All obligatory hand waves, blown kisses and cries of "thanks for all the help!" provided at no extra cost.
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There are always those who work both sides of the street too. When they become a liability rather than an asset then they can be loaded down with info that points them out. There must be at least three ways to play the game. Lansdale had Marchetti take care of doubles who got tiresome. On Payday you took them for a ride and when they got in the backseat you reached across with the money and dropped it in the floor just before they could take it from your hand. Ooops.
When they leaned over to pick up the money dropped on the floor you leaned over the seat, caught them on the collar to hold them there, and shot them in the back of the head and told the driver to head for the "dump".
Payday had several meanings. They are always easy to find on payday. But that's for handling Doubles.
For those who were on the other side that you wanted to "taint" you had to be subtle, but not too subtle. Their communications were deliberately "soiled". It was as good as pointing a finger. Fortunately Intell and counter-Intell are usually a small circle.
Those you cant "recruit" you smear.
The Bajaur airstrike, which occurred around dawn, as people in the camp were preparing for their morning prayers, was conducted by a US Predator and also involved the use of helicopters, according to the well-informed and generally reliable blog, Counterterrorism.org. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a contributor, writes that his information is based on a “military intelligence source” that he does not identify. He writes, “My source is sceptical of speculation that Zawahiri may have been killed in the strike, saying that Zawahiri sightings are a dime a dozen. He says it’s possible that Matiur Rehman was killed, but is also sceptical of that. The strike came just as the Bajaur accords were supposed to take place (similar to the Waziristan deal). Officials within the Pakistani government were supposedly worried when early reports surfaced that Faqir Mohammed may have been killed.
Faqir Mohammed is a Taliban leader in the region who would have been a major signatory to the accords: if he were killed, the Pakistanis wouldnÂ’t know who could enter into the accords with them (or, to put it cynically, they wouldnÂ’t know who they were supposed to surrender to).
Faqir Mohammed is a Taliban leader in the region who would have been a major signatory to the accords: if he were killed, the Pakistanis wouldn’t know who could enter into the accords with them (or, to put it cynically, with Faqir Mohammed dead they wouldn’t know who they were supposed to surrender to). However, Mohammed survived. He apparently felt so confident in his safety that he gave an interview to NBC News near the blasted school (and) also attended and spoke at the funeral for the 80 who died in the strike.”
According to the correspondent, “At this point, the Bajaur Accords are on hold. While we will probably see some payback from Al Qaeda and the Taliban, my source noted that there’s not a whole lot more they can do: these groups tried to kill Musharraf less than a month ago, and are already carrying out terrorist attacks in Pakistan. It’s worth noting that Faqir Mohammed also hosted Zarqawi when the US strike missed him back in January, and left before that strike as well. It’s unlikely that Mohammed had advance warning of either the Damadola strike or this one (too many high-value terrorists were killed at Damadola, and Mohammed almost certainly would have alerted them). Some guys are apparently just that lucky.”
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The strike came just as the Bajaur accords were supposed to take place (similar to the Waziristan deal).
Damn good timing in my book. No more surrendering of territory.
Officials within the Pakistani government were supposedly worried when early reports surfaced that Faqir Mohammed may have been killed.
Yeah, I'll be kept up during the long winter nights worrying about this one, fer sure.
Faqir Mohammed is a Taliban leader in the region who would have been a major signatory to the accords: if he were killed, the Pakistanis wouldnÂ’t know who could enter into the accords with them (or, to put it cynically, they wouldnÂ’t know who they were supposed to surrender to).
Stop! Stop! You're ripping my heart out!
However, Mohammed survived.
We'll do better next time, I promise.
He apparently felt so confident in his safety that he gave an interview to NBC News near the blasted school (and) also attended and spoke at the funeral for the 80 who died in the strike.”
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ItÂ’s worth noting that Faqir Mohammed also hosted Zarqawi when the US strike missed him back in January, and left before that strike as well. ItÂ’s unlikely that Mohammed had advance warning of either the Damadola strike or this one (too many high-value terrorists were killed at Damadola, and Mohammed almost certainly would have alerted them). Some guys are apparently just that lucky
What led to the clash between two groups of terrorists in the Naini Central Jail recently?
I dunno. Bet it's a good story, though...
Informed sources said, it was an argument over which group was holier carried out the Mumbai blast that led to the bloody clash and splattering of blood.
Red on red. I like that, especially when there's red on the floor and walls when it's all over.
Sources said, it was a fight for one-upmanship between some terrorists which led to bleeding injuries to at least three of them. With blood dripping from their wounds they were taken to the Jail hospital for treatment.
Informed sources said, nine terrorists owing allegiance to Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad and some other jehadi outfits are lodged in the Naini Jail. It was a discussion between them over the outfit which had carried out the Mumbai train blast that vitiated the atmosphere and caused frayed tempers. While some terrorists claimed it was Lashkar-e-Taiba which had carried out the blasts the other group representing Jaish-e-Mohammad claimed it was their outfit which had the credit of carrying out the terror activity.
"Yeah! We bumped off the infidels!"
"Did not! It wuz us, an' you know it!"
Sources, on condition of anonymity, said that this discussion had been going on between them since several days
and ultimately came to a boiling point which resulted in the attack on each other with sharp-edged weapons.
"That does it! Go fer yer sharp-edged weapons, Mahmoud!"
However, Jail authorities on their part had denied the use of any weapon earlier when inquiries were made about the same. A Jail official had then said that the terrorists had sharpened some spoons and hidden the same with them. The spoons sharpened like knives were used as weapon of attack.
"Look out! He's got a... ummm... spork."
"No. I think it's a spoon."
"A butter knife?"
"Definitely a spoon."
"He's gonna eat soup?"
However, this claim of the official proved to be wrong after the DM and the SSP following surprise raid recovered not only mobiles, liquor, DVD and eatables from hotels but also some sharp-edged weapons.
"Ummm... This ain't a spoon."
"Looks more like a machete."
"Danno, write them up on a 1619 subsection (q)...abuse of minibar privileges."
There were rumours that some of the Jail inmates were even keeping fire arms and the atmosphere inside was surcharged but the raiding team had not come across any fire arm.
"Here, You! Is that a firearm?"
"Oh, no, sahib! That is a bludgeon!"
However, sources claim that the inmates had come to know about the impending raid when the officials had entered the main gate and had even hidden several things which could have included fire arms. But they had no time to hide the sharp-edged weapons and two of them recovered.
"Quick! Hide these!"
"Where?"
"Put 'em with the explosives!"
To recall, HT had also come out with a story about terrorists talking to their family members in Kashmir and leaders of their outfits but some police officers had denied this claim as baseless. Even the STF had tried to rubbish the story after its publication. Meanwhile, Jail sources said after the incident security inside the Jail has further been tightened and the terrorists who had clashed have been kept in separate cells to avoid any further incident.
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The devices and explosives used in the Malegaon blasts on September 8 this year were assembled at a godown in the textile town and were made by a Mumbai-based man, sources in the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) said. The Mumbai-based man had been trained by Al Badr, a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) wing, the police said.
More than a dozen people from Malegaon, suspected to have links with the blasts, are under our radar," sources said. However, the police are yet to ascertain whether the blasts were executed by Al Badr or LeT. "We are trying to find out from where the accused got the RDX used in all the four bombs and who had smuggled it," the sources said.
Investigators also indicated at some Pakistani nationals' involvement in the blasts. An ATS officer said, "The Mumbai-based man had undergone bomb-making training in Pakistan. He reached Malegaon in the first week of September, stayed there for a couple of days and after assembling the bombs returned to Mumbai."
The ATS claimed that the suspects' motive was to create communal riots in the town. When asked why the accused bombed a Muslim cemetry, an officer said, "The planters didn't know that it was a heavy bomb. They were told that nobody would die and it would create panic among the public."
An ATS team comprising DCP Bawiskar, ACP Kisan Shengal, inspector Sanjay Khaire and sub-inspectors Sunil Mane and Dyaneshwar Ahwari — is probing the case, which killed 38 people.
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A verdict against Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants charged with crimes against humanity in connection with an anti-Shiite crackdown in the 1980s will be announced Nov. 5, a senior court official said on Monday.
Sentences for those found guilty will be issued the same day, chief investigating judge Raid Juhi told The Associated Press.
The former Iraqi leader could be hanged if convicted. However, he could appeal the sentence to a higher, nine-judge court. His co-defendants include his former deputy, Taha Yassin Ramadan, and his half-brother and former intelligence chief Barzan Ibrahim.
The trial began a year ago with the eight defendants facing charges arising from the deaths of nearly 150 Shiites from the town of Dujail after a 1982 assassination attempt against Saddam in the town north of Baghdad.
That trial adjourned July 27 to allow its five-judge panel to consider a verdict. The court was to have reconvened Monday to hear a verdict.
"The Dujail trial will resume Nov. 5 when the presiding judge will announce the verdict and the sentencing," Juhi said.
Saddam is the chief defendant in another trial, facing genocide charges in connection with a government crackdown in the 1980s against Iraqi Kurds. The prosecution alleges about 180,000 people died in that campaign.
Saddam, his cousin "Chemical" Ali al-Majid and five other co-defendants could face death by hanging if convicted.
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We've been told to expect a violent reaction to a finding of guilt and sentence of death for Saddam.
Every ounce of violence shown by the Baathists should be met with a ton of unrestrained force.
But, heh, that's just me.
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" Would hanging Saddam on Monday improve the outcome on Tuesday?"
I doubt it especially since I think a flash of violence is sure to follow. But I sure would PUT A SMILE ON MY FACE, and yeah I will be buying if nessecary the video of him swingin.
I do think his death with be the opener to Iraq's reconciliation. With his death the Shia/Kurd should finally be able to offer some level of real amensesty and the Bathist holdouts will be more inclined to accept. It will cause a flash of anger then thier will be reconciliation. Useless killing and violence by the radicals on both sides like whats been rolling for over 2yrs now can only last so long before the majority in the middle stop it. I persoanlly believe Saddam swinging will help expedite that as retribution finally served for the Shia/Kurd.
"Baghdad airport shut down for 24 hours, Iraqi capital under curfew and army leaves cancelled ahead of expected death verdict against Saddam Hussein Sunday.
The tribunal is due to hand down its verdict in the first trial of the deposed Iraqi dictator and seven co-defendants for a Shiite village massacre in 1982. His second trial for genocide against the Kurdish people is in progress. Both charges carry death sentences.
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Possibly killing him will calm things down. Many Baathists have to play neutral as long as Saddam is alive. Because we ain't killed him yet, means he may still break out.
They need him truly dead, confirmed to satisfy even a munchkin.
And remember, when Saddam dies, it's a complete celbration in Iran and Kuwait.
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I'm old enough to remember the Israelis hanging Eichman. The U.N. and "the World" condemned the planned execution, and warned of "backlashes worldwide".
The Israeli's hung the evil sumbitch...and, well, we're still waiting for the backlash!!
With Saddam the question isn't WHETHER to kill him...it's HOW to do it??? (with apologies to Margaret Hamilton)
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Burn at the stake in the public square in Baghdad, using green wood. Green wood burnings take longer and are more painful, reference 1600s witch burnings for prior examples.
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you've got nothing I want - maybe moosehead - but you'll lose
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Real easy, any rioters represent the unrepentent Baathist elements. Once they assemble, cordon off the crowd and put the entire lot of them through grueling interrogation. Identifying the bunch for later monitoring and observation. What could be more simple?
As for Saddam; He should be fed at the rate of one foot per minute feet first into an industrial shredder. I was taught to always return the favor. In spades.
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We may be jumping the gun I have been braggin on this all day and some guy just rained on my parade. Not sure if this is true but sounds like it maybe true. He said that Saddam if found guilty and given death he will get one appeal and then sometime after that their will be the actual execution. So we are looking at mutlitple years here multiple.
That pretty much shoots gaping holes in my reconciliation theory. Pretty sad Arab blood fueds wiegh everyones blood diferently a major leader like Saddam is worth alot were some poor Sunni at market aint worth but a drop or two of retribution.
Hope that guy was wrong but he usually is on the level.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3, 2006 – Iraqi police detained eight suspected insurgents from a government building in Fallujah, Iraq, today, and coalition forces killed an al Qaeda assassination team in Fallujah on Oct. 31, military officials in Iraq reported.
Iraqi police officers detained eight Iraqi local nationals, including three of the Fallujah mayorÂ’s personal security officers, for suspected insurgent activity after receiving attacks from a government building today in downtown Fallujah.
Following a rocket-propelled-grenade attack on the Joint Coordination Center in the heart of the city, Marines from Regimental Combat Team 5 were attacked with small-arms fire from a mosque. The Marines established positive identification of the target, returned fire and commenced to cordon off the area surrounding the mosque. Soon thereafter, Iraqi police officers arrived on the scene and entered the mosque.
A grenade was subsequently hurled at the Marines from a government building near the mosque, so the Iraqi police, with the Marines in support, gained entry to the structure and uncovered multiple AK-47s, ammunition and magazines.
The eight local nationals, seven of whom are employed in the government center, are not authorized by the Fallujah government to bear arms and were detained for further questioning.
In another operation, coalition forces killed an al Qaeda assassination team in Fallujah on Oct. 31. Coalition snipers heard gunshots and quickly responded to the murder of an off-duty Fallujah policeman by gunmen in civilian clothes. The Marines from 1st Battalion, 24th Marines, Regimental Combat Team 5, immediately engaged the armed gunmen and killed two of them. The third gunman was killed as he attempted to flee in a vehicle.
“We honor the service of the Fallujah policeman, Hamed Mohammed Jassim,” said coalition spokesman Marine Lt. Col. Bryan Salas. “He stood against the murder and intimidation campaign of the terrorists to help bring security and prosperity to his neighbors in Fallujah. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.”
Assault rifles and other items were recovered from the gunmen.
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Atom Con - Great video, thanks for the link. I wonder why CNN's Hyena Blitzer didn't show this one.
The Video is the 1/25 Marines in April 06. The incident above was current and was carried out by Snipers in the 1/24 Marines. Different regiment, different time, same result.
(KUNA) -- Five presidential guards were killed and another two were injured as a result of an explosion in southern Kirkuk northern Iraq, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) said Friday. The bomb was detonated when a Presidency Brigade's vehicle was passing through al-Athiem area, which resulted in the immediate killing of the guards, a source at PUK told KUNA.
Al-Athiem area, located on the Baghdad-Kirkuk main highway have been witnessing violent acts against civilians, Iraqi and multi-national forces. Violent actions have been taking place all over Iraq since the country was liberated in 2003, killing and wounding thousands of civilians and servicemen.
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(KUNA) -- Up to fifty-six unidentified dead bodies were found in Baghdad on Friday, while 103 dead bodies were buried in Karbala, said Iraqi security and medical sources. An Iraqi Police source said 56 dead bodies were found in several areas in Baghdad during the past 24 hours, noting that the bodies were shot to death except for one that was beheaded, and that all bodies were handcuffed and blindfolded.
Meanwhile, medical sources in Karbala said the Forensics Department in Al-Hussein Public Hospital received 103 bodies from the Forensics Department in Baghdad for burial. The sources added that the bodies remained three months in the refrigerators of the Forensics Department in Baghdad as they were not retrieved by any friends or relatives. The bodies had torture marks all over them, while some were beheaded and shot several times.
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the bodies were shot to death except for one that was beheaded, and that all bodies were handcuffed and blindfolded.
so the beheaded body was blindfolded too? neat trick
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Lists of dead are meaningless unless you have aditional info. Were the dead Sunnis? If you know the families to notify then you know their religious affiliation. What patterns exist for the dead individuals? Are they from the same neighborhoods? Belong to the same Mosques?
Is there a signature on the torture work, the methods, the markings.? Forensics will provide some of these things for analysis...but not all.
But dead bodies, by themselves are just a list. Useless...unless just being DEAD Moslems is all the plus necessary.
The unclaimed bodies would be the most interesting...from out of town or out of state?
103 buried in Karbala? Locals then? 56 in Baghdad...what neighborhoods? What families? What affiliations and jobs?
This reporting is only half done. The journalism is short.
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Karbala burial reveals that the dead are Shiites. Sunnis are more brutal, but Shiites - specifically al-Sadrites - are doing most of the killing. Personally, I blame the corrupting effect of Iran bribery of Iraqi police and military for escalating this violence.
I would predict that once Ayatollah power has been destroyed, then the Sunnis will turn on their own terrorists, while the al-Sadrites will dissolve without Ayatollah support. The Sunni-Card has to be played because it is the Sunni-Shiite rivalry that is raising proliferation fears. No rivalry, no proliferation.
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Nice prediction re: Ayatollah power, but that is not scheduled to go away in the near future unless you know something the rest of us don't.
With Iran pumping money and material into this fight more of our guys are going to die with no improvement in the ground situation.
I am getting pessimistic and leaning more to letting them kill one another with abandon. If we are going to remain we need to shut off the Iranian border and make it very clear to the black hats in Tehran that if we find one piece of equipment that came from Iran then their gasoline refinery is toast. Second infraction results in the loss of most of their military installations throughout the country.
(KUNA) -- Al-Nasser Salahuddin Brigades proclaimed Friday one of its leaders as a 'martyr' after being killed in an Israeli air raid northern Gaza strip. "Eyad Sabri Abuljedyan, 26, was killed in Jabalya refugee camp when an Israeli reconnaissance plane fired a missile at him while he was performing a military operation southern Beit Hanoun town," a Brigades' statement said. Al-Nasser Salahuddin Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Resistance Committees (PRC), stated on of its members was also severely injured as a result of the raid.
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Very, very good.
Make lots more "Martyrs" please.
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hmm apparently "martyr" translates to "ground beef"?
Palestinian faction proclaims martyr Ground Beef in Israeli air raid?
yep
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(KUNA) -- At least two people were killed in an Israeli air raid on Beit Lahya north of Gaza Strip on Friday night, eyewitnesses said. An Israeli reconnaissance airplane fired a missile against a group of people gathering near a school in Beit Lahya killing two of them and injuring others. This is the third raid launched by the Israeli warplanes on northern Gaza in less than an hour. The raids killed and wounded many Palestinians. In other raids, the Israeli warplanes attacked an ambulances also at Beit Lahya wounding two on board.
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(KUNA) -- Four Palestinian activists were killed Friday when Israeli warplanes raided areas in northern Gaza Strip, said eyewitnesses. In Sheikh Zayed city, an Israeli jet fighter fired two missiles at a moving car killing two activists of the Al-Aqusa Brigades, military wing for the Fatah movement. The attack also resulted in the injury of several civilians, according to the eyewitnesses.
In another Israeli air raid on Sakkah area east of Jabaliya refugee camp, two activists from Al-Nasser Salahuddin Brigades, military for the Popular resistance committees, were killed. According to Israeli sources, the army forces began an offensive against Palestinian activists in order to protect its citizens from so called terrorist attacks.
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apparently the Joooos were not amused by the female human shield riots
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Suspected Muslim insurgents in southern Thailand have burnt down three schools and shot and wounded a teacher. The attacks took place overnight on Saturday in the Muslim-dominated province of Yala. They came after Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont, installed in an October coup, apologised for the policies of the previous government.
That's Muslim for "You're welcome."
Three schools were completely gutted and a fourth badly damaged in the blazes which began almost simultaneously during the night. A police officer told Reuters news agency that four militants had shot the couple and their daughter from the back of motorcycles later on Saturday. Schools and teachers are a frequent target as symbols of the distant Bangkok-based government. Many teachers have even been issued guns to protect themselves.
On Friday, the new government ordered the release of 92 Muslims charged with taking part in an anti-government rally two years ago during which 85 protesters died while in army custody.
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New Thai rule: 1 school = 1 imam/cleric.
guarantee the violence would stop
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So, Surayud, how the apology and "dialogue" with Islamists is working out?
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I'm confident that all of us are shocked and utterly dismayed at how rapid the deterioration of this situation has been since that Muslim prime minister took over in Thailand. Shocked, I say! Not a single one of us could possibly have predicted this horrendous outcome.
I'll go with Frank on this. For each Islamist raid, kill an imam or cleric. This shit would stop overnight. Until Islam's jihadist clergy has their feet put in the fire, none of this will ever end. They'll always find goons, thugs and assorted cannon fodder to throw onto the bayonets. Once the sharp and pointy end of things ends up against their own necks, only then will the song finally change. This needs to be a global program.
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Methinks this means the future Thai Caliphate won't have to fulfill any promises of paying for SOCIALIZED CHILDCARE, etal. iff the kiddies are OOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPPSIES weirdly and mysteriously wiped out. D *** nged ROSWELLIAN ALIENS STRUCK AGAIN.
National Police chief Gen. Sutanto said Friday that authorities would continue to pursue 29 Muslim radicals allegedly involved in recent violence in Poso and Palu, Central Sulawesi, despite resistance from hardline groups. Sutanto said he was positive that the groups would eventually help police arrest the suspects. "We are not setting any time frame for the groups to bring them to us," he said. He said he believed the groups knew the whereabouts of the 29 militants and that cooperation with the police was important.
On Thursday, the police made public photos of the 29 men, whom they believe are still hiding in the province. The men are thought to be members of the Tanah Runtuh Muslim militant group based in Gebang Rejo village and the Kayamanya group in Kayamana village in Poso.
Poso Islamic Struggle Forum chairman Adnan Arsal demanded Thursday that the police clear the names of the suspects or risk the situation in the area worsening. "If the perpetrators of violence in Poso before the 2001 Malino Peace Accord have not been arrested, the 29 suspects should be treated accordingly," he told Antara. He warned that their arrests would spark anger from Muslims and trigger more unrest in the province. He added that he wanted to know why the police had failed to immediately arrest and punish the perpetrators of violence in the region.
The police recently arrested 15 people for a series of attacks since 2001 in which mainly Christians were targeted. The 15 also belonged to the Karamanya and Tanah Runtuh Muslim militant groups. Meanwhile, the police said they were yet to name any suspects in the murder of Rev. Irianto Kongkoli, who was shot dead by masked gunmen last month.
Despite assurances from the National Police that the situation in Poso is calm, there have been recent terror acts in the area. On Friday a can-bomb was placed at the exit of the province's administration office. "The bomb was placed there to terrorize Palu residents," Palu Police chief Adj. Comr. Atrial said. Hours later, a ticking black backpack was found near the mosque at Elementary School No. 1 in eastern Palu. Police recovered the bag, which contained clothes and a clock.
Southern extremists have murdered three Buddhists and a Muslim in four more apparently random drive-by shootings in the three insurgency wracked provinces of the South. In a separate development, extremists shot a teacher couple and their daughter in Yala, and set four nearby schools on fire. The family were in critical condition after surgery.
The night and morning of violence followed the apology by Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont for government pressure, and continues the escalation of violence since the military coup nearly seven weeks ago.
Suspected Islamic militants shot dead a 25-year-old Muslim man at a local school in Yala province. Also in Yala, a 22-year-old Buddhist woman was gunned down at a local health office late Friday in a drive-by shooting, while another 43-year-old Buddhist man was shot dead by suspected militants when he drove a motorcycle. His wife was also injured in the attack.
In neighbouring Pattani, a 45-year-old Muslim villager was shot dead at his house late Friday, police said, adding that two security guards at a hotel in Pattani were also shot and wounded in still another shooting.
The fresh attacks follow new efforts by Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont to bring peace to the South, where more than 1,700 people have been killed since the latest insurgency broke out in January 2004. Gen Surayud, who was installed by the military following the bloodless coup of Sept 19, apologised this week to Muslims for the government's failure to quell the long-running insurgency. He has also vowed to hold peace talks with militants, although no one has claimed so far to be a leader of the insurgents.
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Iran knows the population number of Muslim Indonesia. Faith that God is on Iran's side is bolstered up by getting numbers on its side.
Korea manipulating sanctions-reluctant Russia and China; Pakistan playing good host to terrorists in their midst; Thailand kissing Muslim butt; Indonesia welcoming in a radical Muslim psychopath; the Asian theatre is becoming very ugly.
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Indon is an oversized island nation with a particularly undersized observance of credible justice. They've got Karma ticket to ride and it ain't going to be great.
(RIA Novosti) - Iran has test-launched three new models of anti-ship missiles during an exercise in the Persian Gulf, Iranian television reported Friday.
"The range of these missiles covers the Persian Gulf, the Sea of Oman and all the Strait of Hormuz," a senior Revolutionary Guards official said on television.
"The range of these missiles covers the Persian Gulf, the Sea of Oman and all the Strait of Hormuz," a senior Revolutionary Guards official said on television.
The anti-ship C-802 Noor, TL-10 Kowsar, and TL-6 Nasr missiles have an approximate range of 120 kilometers (75 miles) to 170 kilometers (106 miles). Iran has already successfully launched several dozen long-range missiles during large-scale military exercises, codenamed Great Prophet, which are taking place November 2-12 in southern Iran, and involve ground units, the Air Force, Navy and Basij (militia) forces.
Iranian television said the first day of the exercises was notable for the successful launch of Shahab-2 and Shahab-3 long-range ballistic missiles, as well as of Scud-B, Fateh-110 and other missiles. It added that Iranian specialists had designed all of the missiles.
Iranian television said the first day of the exercises was notable for the successful launch of Shahab-2 and Shahab-3 long-range ballistic missiles, as well as of Scud-B, Fateh-110 and other missiles. It added that Iranian specialists had designed all of the missiles.
On Wednesday, Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps General Yahya Rahim-Safavi said the main aim of the maneuvers was to demonstrate the might of the Iranian people and their determination to defend the country from all threats. He added the exercises do not pose a threat to neighboring countries, but on the contrary are meant to improve security in the region. Iran is believed to possess one of the largest ballistic missile forces in the developing world, and is reportedly running an ambitious missile development program. Many countries likewise suspect it of developing nuclear weapons through its uranium enrichment program.
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How accurate are these? Are these any threat should US Warships have to defend the straights of Hormuz?
If Iran controls the straights of Hormuz, it's only a matter of time before Israel is attacked because Iran knows it can hold the world to ransom with the Straits.
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Iran knows it can hold the world to ransom with the Straits
I wonder if it would work. I suspect a few well-placed tomahawks and a mini-nuke or two and it could all be over very quickly. But the US is always into paying trillions for things that would only cost a tiny fraction if they nipped it in the bud or went at things more seriously.
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But the US is always into paying trillions for things that would only cost a tiny fraction if they nipped it in the bud or went at things more seriously.
That's funny I forgot to laugh, but it's good you laughed at your own joke so it wouldn't feel abandoned. And if you think that's the real reason we went to war, you can rest assured when you die that your effors to understand the world you and yours live in were a waste of your life.
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There are at least 16 launch positions along the crest of the ridge north of Bandar Abbas, flanking the Straits of Hormuz. Each of these are hardened launch sites with multiple resupply points. Saying Iran can't threaten US warships or Persian Gulf shipping is quite incorrect. They can be quite nasty, and will require quite a bit of work to take out of operation.
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Put an FAE on the locations. Everybody take a deep breath. Feel that? thats what it like to have all the air sucked out of your lungs and oxidized at about 1700 * degrees while the walls cave in from the suck back. You are fifty feet back in the hillside, fine. Have them pipe you air in, see how well that works. Suck harder.
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Probably one of the class acts of the movie world. I put her up there with Audrey Hepburn in style and grace. Remember when she hosted a TV show? She would come out in the evening gown onto the stage -- that entrance was worth watching whatever was coming next!
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#6: I wish we could return to the era in which there were no fake boobies, none, not a single pair.
I know a number of women who had bilateral masectomies. Their continued functioning would have been impaired if they didn't have the option of artificial breasts.
#16
I poked and poked, but got so much as a ripple from my monitor. And for the NASCAR fans, you lick the screen, they call security (re: Nextel commercial)
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KABUL, Afghanistan — An Italian photographer kidnapped in Afghanistan last month was freed Friday in good health and reportedly said he never saw daylight and was kept in chains during his three weeks in captivity. Gabriele Torsello was kidnapped Oct. 12 while traveling by bus from Lashkar Gah, the capital of the southern Helmand province, to neighboring Kandahar, said Ettore Francesco Sequi, Italy's ambassador to Afghanistan.
HERAT: Six Afghan police and a soldier were killed and eight NATO troops injured in three separate attacks by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, officials and the military said Friday. The attacks which occurred at Herat in the west and Laghman in the east also left three Afghan police and four soldiers injured, they said.
Attacks in West Darfur have killed at least 63 people, half of them children, as rebels on Friday accused Khartoum of remobilising Arab militia after suffering two military defeats on the Sudan-Chad border. “The government have begun mobilising the Janjaweed widely, especially in West Darfur, because they want to clear the area and move north along the border and defeat us,” said Bahr Idriss Abu Garda, a leader of the National Redemption Front (NRF). 
(KUNA) -- Egyptian security forces seized 600 kilograms of explosives in the north of Sinai, a security source said Friday. He was quoted by state-run news agency (Mena) as saying the T.N.T explosives were found following combing operations in many areas in the desert of Sinai.
MARSEILLE, France — Police arrested five youths Tuesday, aged 15 to 17, suspected of links to the weekend firebombing of a Marseille city bus that left a young woman severely burned, police said. Police arrested five people in housing projects near the site of the Saturday night bus attack, the most vicious in a series of bus burnings around the Oct. 27 anniversary of the start of the riots.
Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay will no longer face "forced" interrogation – including Khalid Sheik Mohammed, believed to be the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, the detention commander announced yesterday. The announcement by Rear Adm. Harry Harris, who commands the detention camp, applies not only to prisoners who have been held in Guantanamo for lengthy periods, but also 14 "high-value" prisoners transferred to Guantanamo in September after years in secret locations – including Mohammed. 
MIRANSHAH: Local Taliban in North Waziristan beheaded an Islamic cleric for allegedly spying for the United States in Afghanistan, officials said on Friday. The decapitated body of Maulvi Salahuddin, 50, was found on Friday morning in Makeen area, 75 kilometres south of Miranshah. A note attached to the body warned: “The Maulvi was an American spy and all of you will face this (fate) if you follow him.” 
The Bajaur airstrike, which occurred around dawn, as people in the camp were preparing for their morning prayers, was conducted by a US Predator and also involved the use of helicopters, according to the well-informed and generally reliable blog, Counterterrorism.org. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a contributor, writes that his information is based on a “military intelligence source” that he does not identify. He writes, “My source is sceptical of speculation that Zawahiri may have been killed in the strike, saying that Zawahiri sightings are a dime a dozen. He says it’s possible that Matiur Rehman was killed, but is also sceptical of that. The strike came just as the Bajaur accords were supposed to take place (similar to the Waziristan deal). Officials within the Pakistani government were supposedly worried when early reports surfaced that Faqir Mohammed may have been killed. 
What led to the clash between two groups of terrorists in the Naini Central Jail recently? 
In another operation, coalition forces killed an al Qaeda assassination team in Fallujah on Oct. 31. Coalition snipers heard gunshots and quickly responded to the murder of an off-duty Fallujah policeman by gunmen in civilian clothes. The Marines from 1st Battalion, 24th Marines, Regimental Combat Team 5, immediately engaged the armed gunmen and killed two of them. The third gunman was killed as he attempted to flee in a vehicle. 
The Video is the 1/25 Marines in April 06. The incident above was current and was carried out by Snipers in the 1/24 Marines. Different regiment, different time, same result. 
(KUNA) -- Five presidential guards were killed and another two were injured as a result of an explosion in southern Kirkuk northern Iraq, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) said Friday. The bomb was detonated when a Presidency Brigade's vehicle was passing through al-Athiem area, which resulted in the immediate killing of the guards, a source at PUK told KUNA.
(KUNA) -- Up to fifty-six unidentified dead bodies were found in Baghdad on Friday, while 103 dead bodies were buried in Karbala, said Iraqi security and medical sources. An Iraqi Police source said 56 dead bodies were found in several areas in Baghdad during the past 24 hours, noting that the bodies were shot to death except for one that was beheaded, and that all bodies were handcuffed and blindfolded.
(KUNA) -- Al-Nasser Salahuddin Brigades proclaimed Friday one of its leaders as a 'martyr' after being killed in an Israeli air raid northern Gaza strip. "Eyad Sabri Abuljedyan, 26, was killed in Jabalya refugee camp when an Israeli reconnaissance plane fired a missile at him while he was performing a military operation southern Beit Hanoun town," a Brigades' statement said. Al-Nasser Salahuddin Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Resistance Committees (PRC), stated on of its members was also severely injured as a result of the raid.
(KUNA) -- At least two people were killed in an Israeli air raid on Beit Lahya north of Gaza Strip on Friday night, eyewitnesses said. An Israeli reconnaissance airplane fired a missile against a group of people gathering near a school in Beit Lahya killing two of them and injuring others. This is the third raid launched by the Israeli warplanes on northern Gaza in less than an hour. The raids killed and wounded many Palestinians. In other raids, the Israeli warplanes attacked an ambulances also at Beit Lahya wounding two on board.
(KUNA) -- Four Palestinian activists were killed Friday when Israeli warplanes raided areas in northern Gaza Strip, said eyewitnesses. In Sheikh Zayed city, an Israeli jet fighter fired two missiles at a moving car killing two activists of the Al-Aqusa Brigades, military wing for the Fatah movement. The attack also resulted in the injury of several civilians, according to the eyewitnesses.
Suspected Muslim insurgents in southern Thailand have burnt down three schools and shot and wounded a teacher. The attacks took place overnight on Saturday in the Muslim-dominated province of Yala. They came after Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont, installed in an October coup, apologised for the policies of the previous government. 
(RIA Novosti) - Iran has test-launched three new models of anti-ship missiles during an exercise in the Persian Gulf, Iranian television reported Friday. 
