A prominent Taliban commander has been captured by NATO-led troops in southern Afghanistan. The militant leader, who has not yet been identified, was detained during a raid by NATO and Afghan troops on a compound in Helmand province, the alliance said on Wednesday. According to a NATO spokesman, the commander led insurgents in the volatile Panjwaii district of Kandahar province, said NATO spokesman Squadron Leader Dave Marsh. "This seizure of a Taliban commander once again shows that there is nowhere to hide for insurgent leaders," Marsh said.
Most of Canada's roughly 2,500 troops serving in Afghanistan are stationed in Kandahar province. Last summer, NATO forces staged Operation Medusa, the largest ground offensive in the alliance's history, in the region. The capture appears to be a victory for NATO forces, said CTV's Paul Workman, reporting from Kandahar. "NATO hasn't given us a name yet and details are really quite vague, but they seem to believe they've arrested a regional commander, somebody who may have been involved in directing attacks against Canadian forces, we don't know, but they believe certainly against NATO forces," Workman told CTV Newsnet.
The alliance said the commander was fleeing another NATO campaign in the region when he was captured in the Gereshk district of Helmand province.
"Curly-toed slippers don't fail me... ummm... now..."
"Stick 'em up, hoser!"
"Whut?... Say! Are those mukluks?"
"Goin' somewhere, eh?"
Marsh said alliance authorities are convinced the man is a regional commander that NATO forces have been watching for a long time. The raid came a day after Afghan agents arrested Mohammad Hanif, a purported Taliban spokesman, near the border with Pakistan. Hanif is one of two spokesmen who often contacts journalists on behalf of the militia. He was arrested at the border town of Torkham on Monday after crossing from Pakistan, said Sayed Ansari, the spokesman for Afghanistan's intelligence service. Two people traveling with Hanif also were detained, Ansari said.
Earlier accounts by Noor Agha Zooak, a spokesman for the governor of the Nangarhar province where the arrest took place, claimed that Hanif and his two companions were detained in a raid at a house further from the border crossing. It was not immediately clear what caused the discrepancy in the accounts. Zooak said Hanif was being questioned by intelligence agents in Nangarhar's capital, Jalalabad.
"Aaaaaiiiieee! I know nothing! Nothing!"
"Nothing, eh? Give him a dose of the plumber's helper, Mahmoud!"
"No, no!"
[PLUNGE!]
Weapons, cell phones and other documents, which were shown to journalists in Jalalabad on Wednesday, were also recovered.
"Really, sahib! They are not mine! Somebody left them here!"
[PLUNGE!]
"Aaaaaiiiiieeee!"
Hanif used to convey statements purportedly from Taliban leader Mullah Omar and comment on fighting in the north, center and east of the country.
"Mahmoud! My knuckle dusters!"
Another purported Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, confirmed Hanif's arrest in a phone call from Peshawar an undisclosed location, but said that the Taliban's governing body already has appointed Zadiullah Mujahid as his replacement.
"Okay, Zadiullah! Into the barrel wit' yez!"
Western and Afghan officials have claimed a number of recent successes against top Taliban officials, including a U.S.-led coalition airstrike that killed Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Osmani, a key associate of Omar and the highest-ranking Taliban leader killed by the U.S.-led coalition since the late 2001 invasion of Afghanistan. The Taliban has stepped up its attacks in the past year, and roughly 4,000 people have been killed in violence related to the insurgeny, according to a count by The Associated Press.
Most of them, of course, were Talibs. And the majority seem to have been bumped off by Canucks.
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Our Canuckian friends are acquitting themselves well on the battlefield. Should come in handy when they have to tackle Toronto's Infitada
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Sounds like that fierce Afghan winter isn't having much effect on the Canadians.
Current conditions in Kabul 23 deg. F.
Current conditions in Ottawa 2 deg. below zero F.
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This from Hanif's interrogation: Taleban leader Mullah Omar is living in Quetta, Pakistan under the protection of its ISI intelligence agency, video was distributed today by the Afghan intelligence agency to the media. Pakistan has denied it.
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This from Hanif's interrogation: Taleban leader Mullah Omar is living in Quetta, Pakistan under the protection of its ISI intelligence agency, video was distributed today by the Afghan intelligence agency to the media. Pakistan has denied it.
ISI spokesman: "Mullah Omar? No no, of course we're not hiding him! The one-eyed guy in Quetta? Uh, that's uncle Omar! Yeah! He lost the eye in, uh, a goat-sex accident! Right!"
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What i love about this site (Rantburg) is that we know the truth whilst others cover up for whatever reason.We have known for years that Omar was being protected by the ISI and living in Quetta.An undercover operation in Quetta is a must to take these cronies out!!!
I watched a documentary in the UK the other night-Undercover Mosque which for most shocked people but from reading this site for the last two years I was not shocked as i knew the truth!!!!
This site should be main mainstream as we need to spread the word to the masses-Pakistan and Saudi are Sunni enemies of the West And Iran and Syria are the Shia enemies of the West!!!!
KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Two civilians thwarted an attempted terrorist attack Tuesday when a vehicle loaded with explosives attempted to crash through the front gate of a U.S. base in the Afghan capital, according to the U.S. military.
The two men, an interpreter and a security guard, dragged the apparent suicide bomber from the vehicle before he could detonate explosives, said Col. Tom Collins, the chief spokesman for U.S. forces in Afghanistan. "I think it's a pretty amazing and heroic event," Collins said.
He said that at about 9 a.m. Tuesday (10:30 p.m. ET Monday) a driver crashed his vehicle into Camp Phoenix, the base where the Afghan National Army and police are trained. The driver reached for what appeared to be a cord to detonate a bomb, he said.
"Amazingly, a couple of Afghans who just happened to be on the scene there realized what was happening," Collins said. "Anyone's inclination would have been to run away but these guys are genuine heroes," Collins said.
The area was immediately cordoned off while authorities waited for a bomb disposal team.
During the attempt to disarm it, the device went off. It's unclear how much or what kind of explosive material was used, Collins said. No U.S. or coalition troops were injured.
"We're trying to control these attacks. We have a pretty high level of awareness. That's why [the interpreter and security guard] were able to act so quickly," Collins said, adding that the men may be honored in some fashion.
Asked if it's easy for someone to ram a car into a compound, Collins replied: "We're in a very large city here in the country of Afghanistan. There's lots of people driving around. This man just happened to get his vehicle along the entry control point."
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The interpreter and security guard should be honored by our people. Quietly. And for gawd's sake don't reveal their names to the enemy main stream media.
It's a rare day I have anything good to say about a muslim. Today I tip my hat and say thank you.
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Amazing story of how soldiers stay together and, in the end, fight for their honor and their pals.
It was an extraordinary end to a tragic operation. When Lance Corporal Matthew Ford was shot during an assault on a Taliban fortress last Monday, his comrades mounted a dramatic rescue mission that saw soldiers being strapped to the wings of helicopter gunships as they crossed a river under heavy enemy fire.
The remarkable mission, dubbed "Flight of the Phoenix" by some, did not save the life of the 30-year-old marine who, it turned out, had died instantly from gunshot wounds. But it may gain four courageous marines an honoured place in British military history books.
The drama unfolded during a British assault on Jugroom fort, a Taliban base in Garmser, a district of southern Helmand racked by violence. The riverside fort - a high walled compound ringed by watchtowers - had been under surveillance for more than two months. Military intelligence believed key Taliban leaders were hiding inside and that it was the command headquarters for insurgent activity across Garmser.
On Sunday night a 200-strong British force, led by Royal Marines, launched an operation to flush the Taliban out of the heavily fortified position. They started by launching a diversionary attack on other enemy positions to the north. Then at about 2am, they turned their sights on the real target. B1 bombers and 155mm artillery attacked as a company of marines from 45 Commando gathered on the western bank of the river, across from the fort.
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Our intention was to show the insurgents that they are not safe anywhere
Hopefully they are learning this. A sad loss but well done to the marines involved.
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Sorry, Howard but they are incapable of learning anything but Allah is great and all of us are infidels that must die. If that leads to them dieing in greater quantities than us so be it. A big hu-hah to the Marines. Saw the footage on SkyNews while in London.
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All is not lost so long as Britain produces men such as these.
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Actually, that's a pretty amazing example of field expediency.
I doubt there's many other examples around of troops strapping themselves to the weapons struts of a helicopter in order to conduct an emergency airmobiloe drop into a hostile LZ.
Afghan forces have uncovered 40 technicals pick-up truckloads of weapons, said to belong to Taliban insurgents, that were hidden in mountain caves near the border with Pakistan, a military general said on Tuesday. The cache included machine guns, rockets and explosives, and was found this week in eastern Paktika provinces Gomal district, some 40 kilometres from the border, army general Samiul Haq told AFP.
Gee that's awfully close to the border. Wonder how they got there, and from where they came?
The general said some of the weapons appeared to have been deposited recently while others may have been put there a long time ago. But there is no doubt it is a Taliban weapons cache. Taliban had control over it, the general said. Intelligence reports led the troops to the discovery, he said. He was not more precise about the quantity of weapons except to say they would fill 40 battlewagons four-by-four pick-up trucks.
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Some Saudi "prince" will have to write a new check.
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Since such caves are natural, and fairly common in Afghanistan, an interesting decision has to be made when one is discovered.
The Taliban and al-Q will sometimes put a great deal of time, effort and money into improving a cave, so if you wait until they have done so before blowing it up, then you waste their resources.
Otherwise, you may just sit back to wait and see if the Taliban re-occupy the cave before you blow it.
Finally, if it is too convenient, you will just want to blow it any way, just to make life harder on them.
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"have been put there a long time ago.
We need to make fake maps, and send them out. Have the would be Muslim Indiana Jones's show up to a cavee full of dogs or soemthing. Film it for AFV or something.
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Wire the caves with microphones and you are able to track their moves and even listen in on their conversations. But, only after obvious trip wires and mines around the entrances for cover.
A raid on a Taliban compound in southern Afghanistan in which a British soldier was killed also left 13 rebels dead and 16 others wounded, Afghan police said on Tuesday. The death of the British soldier was announced on Monday hours after the raid in Helmand province. Provincial police chief Nabi Mullahkhail told AFP on Tuesday that 13 Taliban were also killed and 16 wounded in the operation in the Garmser district. The British task force based in the Helmand capital Lashkar Gah said it could not confirm how many Taliban died. A small number of British soldiers were wounded but their lives were not in danger, a spokesman said. In a separate incident, police in Kabul detained a would-be suicide car-bomber after searching his vehicle near a NATO base.
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Thriteen is a respectable honour guard, I think. As for the rest of the Taliban, no doubt a substantial number of which really only menat to be jihad tourists, may their wounds be severe enough that they must be sent home, to suffer the rest of their lives and be an example to their neighbors pf why jihad against the Westerners is a really, really bad idea.
(SomaliNet) A total of three platoons have been deployed at border with Somalia following the outbreak of war in the horn of African nation since the year began. The Kenyan soldiers, who are being boosted by the Kenya Air Force, have been patrolling the border from Mandera in northern Kenya to Lamu, on the shores of the Indian Ocean.
Reports indicate that the soldiers drawn from the 1st, 7th and the 15th platoons of the Kenya Rifles are deployed at Amuma, Liboi and Hulugho in Garissa district. The three areas are key entry points for people fleeing from the fighting between the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) militia-men and the Somali Government troops backed by Ethiopian soldiers. The soldiers at the border have strict instructions not to allow either Somali refugees or militiamen from entering Kenya. The soldiers have been instrumental in keeping away the militiamen who have bolted from Somalia following their routing from Mogadishu and Kismayu.
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Let's see, about 250 miles of border, I'd guess 50 guys per platoon...that's one Kenyan for every mile and a half of border. Not quite the Maginot Line, but better than the U.S. southern border.
(SomaliNet) Thousands of people have rallied in Hargeisa city, the capital of the breakaway republic of Somaliland in northern Somalia on Tuesday in protest of the transitional federal government policies. Sources from Hargeisa say that tens of thousands of people took the streets and then gathered at Qeyriyada ground square chanting slogans anti Somalias president Abdulahi Yusuf Ahmed. It was peaceful demonstration in the region's capital, Hargeisa.
The officials of the three main political parties in Somaliland addressed the rally indicating their strong objection to the policies of the Transitional Federal Government. Young protestors burnt Somalia flag and showed their readiness to enter war with Somalia if it attempt to interfere Somaliland affairs and independence. In the demonstration, the people supported the region's quest for international recognition. On Sunday, the leaders of Somaliland declared to hold nationwide demonstrations against Somalia government and in support of international recognition.
Somaliland declared its independence from Somalia in 1991 and has been relatively peaceful and stable compared with the rest of Somalia. But no country recognizes it.
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I wonder what the daily wage for Somali protesters is -- no doubt significantly less than that earned by Hizb'allah fans in Lebanon.
Oh. It's in the Somaliland capital. 'Cause they don't want the central goverment to try to impose control. Based on the evidence, I shouldn't try to think this early in the morning!
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Notice - no islamist preachers, no sharia, and the area is "peaceful". It's also quite prosperous, compared to the rest of Somalia. There aren't any greater resources in Somaliland, there's just a different attitude. If the TFG really wants to see how it's done, they could do far worse than study the breakaway territory of Somaliland for suggestions.
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Anyone know the diffrence from islamic rageTM and islamic seethingTM?
Egypt has charged six senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood with money laundering - a rare accusation against the Islamist group in what appears to be a crackdown on the group's finances. Prosecutor Hisham Badawi ordered Monday that the six be placed Monday under 15-day detention orders on charges of laundering money through investments in Egyptian industrial projects, an official in the prosecutor's office said Tuesday, speaking on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to talk to the press. Police had arrested the six members in dawn raids on Sunday. They all belong to the Brotherhood's financial committee.
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An international terror suspect who had been under a controversial loose form of house arrest is on the run, said British Home Secretary John Reid on Tuesday. In a written statement to lawmakers, Reid said that the individual had absconded earlier this month. The individual, who was compelled to report daily to police and surrender travel documents, had recently been radicalised and wanted to travel abroad for terrorism-related purposes, said Reid. It was not believed that the person was a threat to the public, he added.
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Saved some progressive judge the bother of setting him free.
Russian authorities have ordered security forces on high alert after receiving information from foreign officials pointing to the threat of a terrorist attack on public transportation, officials said Tuesday. Authorities were checking information about the potential threat, they said.
A federal anti-terrorism headquarters received information "from foreign partners ... about the possibility a subversive terrorist act could be committed on ground transport and in the metro," according to a statement confirmed by a Federal Security Service official who said he was not authorized to give his name.
Federal Security Service chief Nikolai Patrushev, who also heads the anti-terror center, ordered anti-terror forces on high alert and called for stepped-up measures to prevent any attack, the statement said. It offered no details on the nature of the threat or the measures to be taken.
It was unclear what country the information about the potential threat came from; Russia cooperates against terrorism with countries around the world, including the United States.
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I wonder if that has anything to do with all the publicity the Trans-Siberian Railroad has been getting lately, especially in the former muslim Russian states of Kuzbekistan, Tadjikistan, and others.
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This article perfectly highlights my bitch about the U.S. Military allowing the names of soldiers involved in an incident like this to be known.
Letting their names out puts good troops in danger.
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Oh Mohammed on a popsicle stick, for cryin' out loud, THIS again? I'm told by a good source that the Spanish military was devastated and p***ed off when Zerotero the Clueless pulled them out of Iraq. I'd like to see some Spanish officer b**ch-slap Zerotero in public over this - yeah, especially BECAUSE of recent Spanish political history involving the army .....
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On second thought, I agree that legal action is warranted.
Anyone who shoots a Reuters beast should be fined $20 for running an unlicensed pest control operation.
I don't know what it means in Greek but in Spanish it looks like you are telling Pedraz he ie s Jew (judio= Jew).
BTW, Pedraz is a nutso far-left judge, who has tried to twist the law in ordetr to free multi-murdere and totally unrepentant Basque terrorists.
He was overruled by a higher court but the problem remains: in Europe you become a judge by passing an exam and the people has no say either directly (elections) or indirectly (appointment by elected representatives) in his nomination and has no way to impeach him. Once you pass the exam unless you accept money or have sex with minors you will end your carreer as a judge without anybody being able to do something about it.
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Sounds like Pendejo, sorry....I meant Pedraz....got his panties in a twist because we refused to grant him access to the soldiers.
If what the article says is correct (that's always a big if....journos are notorious for only getting half the story right on a good day), he's ignoring Spanish law in the last paragraph. The death was investigated, it's just that the investigation didn't provide the answer that the dead guy's family wanted.
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This incident is mentioned in the book "Shooter". It's perfectly clear that it was an accident.
The guy was a reporter in a building that was in enemy territory for God sakes. When the Hotel was fired on, the troops had no idea there was press in that building. They had never even heard of the Palestine Hotel(I believe that was the name of it)until after they fired on it.
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Spain lacks jurisdiction in Iraq, since it was investigated by the US military.
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The procecutor and members of the Spanish Supreme Court should understand we still have a CIA, such as they are, and if anything does happen to our good soldiers, the Spanish procecutor and "judges" might well wake up freshly deceased...
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Lately I'm not convinced the CIA can pull it off. We might have to subcontract that out to the Isaelis.
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There's always the quarter-brick of C4 strapped to the bottom of his car, with the detonator hooked to the accelerator. Where there's a will, there's a way. The Spaniards just aren't as inventive as the "good ol' boys" back home. A Tomahawk in his bathroom window at o-dark-thirty is a bit too obvious...
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Lately I'm not convinced the CIA can pull it off. We might have to subcontract that out to the Isaelis
The Mosaad are efficient, but messy, but you are right Mike N, at least we'd have the desired final result - that's for sure...
There's always the quarter-brick of C4 strapped to the bottom of his car, with the detonator hooked to the accelerator. Where there's a will, there's a way. The Spaniards just aren't as inventive as the "good ol' boys" back home. A Tomahawk in his bathroom window at o-dark-thirty is a bit too obvious...
Patriot, you are so Machiavellian today... I like this...
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It's really time to dump the CIA and bring back the OSS. Operate it under WWII rule as well. So that way, if a spanish judge needs to be found stapled to his ceiling, it can quietly be arranged.
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I was going to wish some harm would come to the 9th, but that would be beneath me. Then I was going to observe the 9th seems to have no limits to thge depth of its' depravity, but that'd only get a Master of the Obvious award.
So I guess I'm speachless.
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It's not beneath a toad like me, I hope they die of gonorrhea and lockjaw at the same time.
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The 9th Court needs to be sacked and totally replaced. These idiot decisions, one after the other, are like children having a tantrum. Someone has to come along and clean up their mess constantly.
SEATTLE (AP) -- A convicted Taliban collaborator who was arrested in Belize - despite orders that he not leave the U.S. - could face a new trial on charges of offering support to terrorists if he's found guilty of violating his probation, a federal prosecutor said. James Ujaama, a Muslim convert, was in federal custody without bail after a court hearing Tuesday. Authorities say he fled to Belize, where he was arrested in mid-December with a fake Mexican passport.
Must have had his fake Pakistani passport in his other pants.
Ujaama served two years in prison after pleading guilty in 2003 to conspiring to provide cash, computers and fighters to the Taliban. During three years of probation, he was to surrender his passport and needed written permission from the U.S. attorney's office in Seattle to travel internationally. "I don't know what he was thinking," Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd Greenberg said after the hearing.
I think I do.
Ujaama denied the accusations in his brief court appearance. (Mistaken identity? Racial Profiling or maybe another trumped up bunko charge?)
"Lies! All lies!"
He faces as many as two years in prison if a judge agrees he violated his probation, and more serious consequences if the government backs out of its plea agreement. In that event, the government could file new charges that he offered support to terrorists, and any statements Ujaama has made to U.S. authorities could be used against him in the new case, Greenberg said.
Peter Offenbecher, Ujaama's attorney, said only: "I'm investigating the facts to determine the appropriate course of action." U.S. Magistrate Monica J. Benton set an evidentiary hearing for Feb. 1.
Ujaama, who was born James Earnest Thompson, was charged in 2002 with trying to set up a terrorist training camp for Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri. As part of his plea agreement, he agreed to cooperate with terrorism investigations until 2013. Federal officials have said Ujaama's help was crucial in the 2004 indictment of al-Masri on charges of trying to establish the training camp in Bly, Ore., and providing aid to al-Qaida.
WASHINGTON Federal officials have arrested two Al Qaeda terror suspects in the U.S. with documents in their possession about how to poison the country's water supplies, Fox News has learned.
The first case involves James Ujaama, 36, who surrendered to the FBI last week in Denver. Sources say they found documents about water poisoning among several other terrorism-related documents in his Denver residence.
Sources say the government has additional evidence that prior to Sept. 11 James Ujaama acted as a courier delivering laptop computers to the Taliban. Federal agents seized two computers and two floppy disks from the house where James Ujaama had been staying when he was arrested as a material witness to terrorist activity, his brother said.
James Ujaama's brother is Mustafa Ujaama, the founder of the now-closed Dar-us-Salaam mosque in Seattle. The FBI has been investigating activities and officials from the former mosque for several months.
Investigators believe officials and members of the mosque were trying to establish a terrorist training camp in Bly, Ore., Fox News has confirmed. Investigators say there is evidence that Mustafa Ujaama visited Bly to check it out as a possible facility location.
--Allan is at the bar, and he won't ask for a galss of water!
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Hang him in the center of Seattle, with a big sign around his neck: "This man is an enemy of the United States". Start the rumors flying that a dozen or so "journalists" are also on the list to be hanged. Drag a huge dumpster into the center of the city and label it "For muzzies and communists". Watch the Seattle PI twist itself into pretzels. Priceless!
Most Americans just aren't mean, evil, wicked, bad, nasty, cruel, and heartless enough to fight this war as it should be fought. Thank God we've got the Marines!
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we just need to untie the Marine's hands from behind their backs
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James Ujaama, a Muslim convert
The correct term is revert, as Islam is Allah's natural state for all mankind and all children are born Muslim. Those who fall away defy the will of Allah are at war with Allah and the Muslims.
"Convert" indeed, kuffar media puppet of the Jews. You must apologize to all Muslims for this insult! Your ignorance of Islam adds to the sense of alienation felt by so many Muslims today and does nothing to bring the communities together in peace.
I think I'm getting the hang of this. I'm trying to be more prickly, wounded and vaguely threatening at the same time. It gets results for the Ummah, but they've had a lot more practice.
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ROMULUS -- A Yemeni immigrant caught with a knife hidden in a book at Detroit Metropolitan Airport was sentenced Tuesday to a year in jail and faces possible deportation. A jury convicted Mohammed S. Ghanem in Wayne Circuit Court of a felony charge of possessing a weapon in a secure area of an airport.
Wayne County Circuit Judge James Callahan agreed the small blade posed little threat as a weapon, but was troubled about why Ghanem of Hamtramck would bring it. "It didn't really have any sharp edges to it," Callahan said of the 2 1/2 -inch blade. "Why would someone do it? One of the possible reasons to do that was to see if the security system could be breached. Thank God, it was not."
Ghanem, 22, insisted he had no idea the blade was embedded in his address book before a one-way flight to Yemen on Sept. 7. "I dunno."He said he was returning to his country to find a bride.
Federal authorities determined Ghanem was not a terrorist threat, said his attorney, Nabih Ayad. Airport security found the knife embedded in an address book with a page glued over it. In the book, authorities found Arabic writing mentioning jihad and a reference to "making the local news," Ayad has said.
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I'm more worried about his going back to the old country to find a subserviant bride.
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A Yemeni without a rhinohorn dagger with an 8 inch blade is an embarassment to his parents. That blade he had in the book will get him a lifetime of kidding.
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The good news: In 2008, Mo gets to be reunited with his bride.
The bad news: In Yemen.
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Ghanem, 22, insisted he had no idea the blade was embedded in his address book... Airport security found the knife embedded in an address book with a page glued over it.
He's so clever, if he were a knife he'd cut himself.
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Hey, next door to Yemen, there is Saudi Arabia. And, the source of bountiful wisdom there, "The Religious Police", have determined that the letter "X" is blasphemy. This knife is but a side show!
They must first eradicate the letter "X", then they can deal with smuggling real knives...
A federal appeals court on Tuesday vacated the sentence of "millennium bomber" Ahmed Ressam, who was arrested near the U.S.-Canadian border and convicted of plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport at the turn of the millennium. Ressam was arrested in December 1999 In Port Angeles, Wash., when he drove off a ferry from British Columbia with a trunk full of explosives. Prosecutors said he was intent on bombing the airport on the eve of the millennium.
He was sentenced to 22 years in prison after being convicted of all nine charges. The 9th U.S. Circus Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reversed his conviction on one of the charges and sent the case back to a lower court judge to issue a new sentence and explain the rationale behind the original 22-year term.
You can always count on the 9th Circus.
The decision does not necessarily mean the defendant will get a shorter term, as federal prosecutors said the original sentence was too light and judges are given wide latitude to sentence defendants as they see fit.
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America is an illegal and unconstitutional nation as per the Ninth, ergo America can't prosecute, defend, litigate, advocate nor sentence anyone, etal. D***ng it. Thus Radical Islam is innocent no matter how many fatwas of war-violence agz America = Amerika is made. Everything = Anything = Nothing that America does = decides during this WOT is legal. SNIFF, SNIFF, DON'T YA JUST LOVE "LEGAL CERTAINTY".
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Nail Ressam's feet and hands to the side of a barn in Kansas. Nail the judges on either side of him. Anyone that survives a full year gets a pension for life. Oh, and NOBODY can come within 50 feet of them, for the entire year. God will take care of them, one way or another.
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Um...Joe...if America is illegal according to the 9th Circus, how can it be "unConstitutional" since, by definition, that document is illegal...?
I'm confused...
Regardless, the 9th Circus ought to be impeached and the membership locked up as the treasonous SOBs that they have continuously proven themselves to be.
Hundreds of angry tribesmen protested on Tuesday against an air strike on a remote town in South Waziristan, saying the dead were all innocent labourers. Some 600 people gathered in Tank, blocked traffic and chanted slogans against President Pervez Musharraf and George W Bush. The attack was unjust, it killed innocent people, tribal leader Dilawar Khan told the rally. He insisted the victims were local labourers who were cutting trees when the raid was conducted. He said local tribes were abiding by the terms of a two-year-old peace accord, but the government had violated it to appease the US.
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I can never understand why these "protests" don't attract a daisy-cutter when it represents a more target-rich environment than the air-strike which they are protesting.
A major tragedy was averted when sniffer dogs detected two powerful roadside bombs planted by suspected rebels near an Indian army headquarters in Indian-held Kashmir, an official said. The bombs were detected by our dog squad early today (Tuesday) near Sonawar and defused, army spokesman AK Mathur said.
The bombs were planted on a road close to the army headquarters in Srinagar, summer capital of Indian-held Kashmir, where a separatist revolt has been raging against New Delhis rule since 1989. The road is the major link between Srinagar and other southern towns, and had the bombs gone off they would have created havoc, Mathur said. We have averted a major tragedy.
Hundreds of civilian and military vehicles travel along the high-security road. The area also houses the regions main childrens hospital, several top banks, and government and private offices.
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Indian police arrested 39 people in an anti-terror sweep ahead of a major national holiday, detaining landlords who had failed to register tenants with authorities, an official said Tuesday. The arrests over the past 24 hours were part of intensified anti-terrorist measures because of Republic Day, which falls on Jan 26 and marks the adoption of the countrys constitution in 1950, said New Delhi Police Spokesman Rajan Bhagat. Most of the arrests were in poor parts of eastern New Delhi, although others were detained elsewhere in the capital.
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There has been a fatal attack in Baghdad on a security team operated by an Australian company. The firm - Unity Resources Group - says a number of international team members have been killed. It is not known if any Australians are among the casualties. News agencies are reporting three people have been killed.
Michael Priddin from Unity Resources has told ABC's Newsradio that details of the attack are still sketchy. "The first information we have, which is yet to be confirmed, is that two of our vehicles were attacked whilst they were on an escort detail," he said. "We know there were a number of people killed and injured by the attackers. At the moment, Unity is working closely with the authorities to ascertain the extent of the injuries to our people and arrange equipment where necessary."
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"I think we need the Americans. If they go out right now it's gonna be a disaster. And believe me, even if they get out of Fallujah, Washington itself will be a target."
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Actually, Washington (and everywhere else in the US) is already a target. We have people in this country who are eager to start the jihad against Americans. Sooner or later, one of these idiots is going to succeed. When that happens, all bets will be off concerning the survival of all muzzies - and those that support or encourage them in any way, including the President - in the US.
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BAGHDAD - Sixty-five people, including students and teachers, were killed Tuesday in the most devastating attack this year as a suicide bomber and a car bomb wreaked havoc outside a Baghdad university.
The explosions from the twin blasts at the entrance of the renowned Mustansiriyah University in east Baghdad, founded in the 13th century, ripped through dozens of students, teachers and employees of the university as they were heading home at the end of the day, killing 65 and wounding 138. The dead and wounded were rushed to city hospitals in bed sheets, blankets, stretchers and a number of pick-up trucks.
The blasts left a number of nearby cars completely burnt and many bodies charred in parked vehicles, an AFP photographer at the site said. Burnt corpses lay on the street, their mobile telephones ringing unanswered, the photographer said.
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How very muslim of them.
I'm not making the connection here, why would they bomb a university? Or is it just an opportunity thingy.
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The goal is to drive all the educated from the country because it is much easier to 'lead' dummies than those who are capable of figuring out the con (a more violent version of the 'education' system of our inner cities.)
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Sunnis bombing a high value Shia concentration.
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I thought Universities were largely Sunni. (at least under Saddam).
Al
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It's in East Baghdad. Almost all Shia. High value since they are the children of the small Shia educated classes and where the next generation of Iraqi leaders will come from.
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Knowledge is the enemy of those wanting to remain in the seventh century. I still don't understand why they don't cast off all automatic weapons.
Twin car bombs tore through a leading Baghdad university as students left classes Tuesday in the deadliest attack in Iraq in nearly two months, and the United Nations reported 34,452 civilians were slain last year, nearly three times more than the government reported. Doesn't surprise me. I wonder if they dwell on the fact that most of them were bumped off by devout Islamists?
A total of 142 Iraqis were killed or found dead Tuesday, in what appeared to be a renewed campaign of Sunni insurgent violence against Shiite targets. The sharp uptick in deadly attacks coincided with the release of U.N. figures that showed an average of 94 civilians died each day in sectarian bloodshed in 2006. The worst thing that we've done in this war was to go in and not kill large numbers of bad guyz. Had they been ruthlessly hunted down and killed in droves then the casualties would have been confined to the guys in uniform or who should have been in uniform, with fairly minimal collateral casualties.
The blasts wrecked two small buses as students at Al-Mustansiriya University were lining up for the ride home at about 3:45 p.m., according to Taqi al-Moussawi, a university dean. The attackers stationed a man wearing a suicide belt in the expected path of fleeing students to take even more lives, but he was spotted and shot by security men before he could blow himself up, the dean said. "The only guilt of our martyred students is that they pursued education. They belong to all religions, sects and ethnic groups," said an angry al-Moussawi, himself a Shiite. "The terrorists want to stop education. ...Those students had nothing to do with politics."
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FOX + CNN > WH reportedly will anounce its gener disbelief in the number of 34, 452.
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WOT > about inducing = forcing anti-US OWG + National-Global Socialism on America. America must "fail" no matter what it does, no matter even iff it actually is winning or victorious. The burden is on the USA to save and justify every -ISM before surrendering andor being destroyed by same.
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Gee, only 34,452? What about the 600,000 dead claimed by the 'study'. Why wasn't Johns-Hopkins asked to comment on the UN report?
Hey, UN! How many killed in Darfur, again?
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We tried to take the high road and we got screwed for it. I hope this will be the topic of West Point classes for years to come. Maybe they could bring in some Ethiopian instructors or something.
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...Along the same lines, CNN ran a story this AM about how Congress is mifed that there's not sufficient 'accountability' for the funds that are disbursed to Iraqi families when someone dies under circumstances that could be ascribed to US military action. The way it works is that the local US commander hears the case, comes up with a number, and authorizes disbursement of funds.
Sen. Leahy says there must be 'better record keeping' - translation: we want a civilian body count that we can beat the Administration over the head with.
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I call BULLSHIT. This would be apx. 2900/month or almost 100/day, which is most definitely NOT the average.
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One of the problems tallying the number of deaths is that there is a large overlap between "insurgents" and simple criminals (this was also true in WWII). The number of criminal murders in Iraq can easily explain the discrepency in the two estimates.
By the way, when the Lancet estimated that 600,000 Iraqis had died, Strategy Page showed that 550,000 Iraqis had died from natural causes.
This is how you get wildly inflated casualties. You just fudge on the cause of death and compare apples to oranges.
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as the Iraqi military gears up for a major security operation aimed at pacifying the Iraqi capital. Hundreds of soldiers boarded dozens of jeeps, Humvees and trucks on Monday to begin the trip to Baghdad, 260 kilometres away.
Members of the 1st Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 4th Division will undergo more specialized military training before being deployed in the capital, said Brig Gen Anwar Golani, the brigades commander. He said the training would be conducted at a base in western Baghdad under the supervision of US troops.
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Me like. A Kurdish occupation of the capital for some time might work out real fine. Only negative in all this is that this is the MOST telegraphed operation we've had - which is saying something, unfortunately - and thus the vermin will have scurried before the rocks are kicked over.
Is it too much to hope that, after so many instances of the enemy fleeing a telegraphed op, we pre-positioned and otherwise postured ourselves and the IA to harvest some of the vermin leaving B'dad to the west and north?
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It's to fuckin late for a hammer and anvil. They would hit each other. Thanks to us telling everybody that "we are going to send troops in to fight you next month".
The Kurdish operation in Bagdad could have been the goose that laid the golden egg, but nooOOoo! The U.S. had to go and make it infertile.
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I doubt that any operation involving the Iraqi government could've been kept quiet. Especially if the Prime Minister's office was involved.
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MacNails, at a very minimum it will get them away from the MSM's hotels and make the issue much harder to misrepresent in the US press. If it does that, it will be a bargain.
In a surprise move two weeks after declaring that he would remain in the army Chief of General Staff Lt.- Gen. Dan Halutz submitted his resignation late Tuesday night to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz.
Going to spend more time with your family, Coach?
"Gosh. Sorry to see you go. Do you need help packing?"
The pile of cardboard boxes outside his office door should have told him something ...
In his letter to Olmert and Peretz, Halutz said that he felt a responsibility as the military's superior officer to remain in his position until the completion of the 50 internal probes into the performance of the military during the war, and until the IDF's workplan for 2007 was completed. Once this was done, Halutz asked to leave his job immediately.
Olmert expressed his "deep sorrow" over Halutz's decision. Olmert was aware of Halutz's intention before the official announcement was made and had asked the chief of staff to reconsider. Halutz, however, was deteremined, and the prime minister had no choice but to accept halutz's resignation.
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Damn. Guess there really are consequences to losing a war. Who knew?
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Nothing personal---fly boys are perfectly OK in their place, but one shouldn't be RAMATKAL (head of joint staff).
It is perfectly Ok for an Air Force guy to be RATMAKAL... as long as he is smart. Smart enough to be undistracted by service loyalty and not try to solve a ground army problem with air for. Also, a chief of staff is less concerned with the planning of actual operations (remind it was NOT Colin Powell who designed the plan for Desert Stotm) but with defence policy, coordination between services, management of resources both between services (he must resist the temptation to strip other services and inflate his own) and between fronts so there is no reason at least in peace time that a Navy or Air Force man cannot become chief of staff. In war time I would tend to think that it is better to have a guy who know from teh inside, the neeeeeds, strenghts and weaknesses from the service who is most crucial for winning the war. 90% of time this is the ground army even if from time to time it isn't.
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Smart doesn't mean nada. Flyboys simply cannot grasp (on guts down level) how things work on ground level. Have no understanding of sustained combat. And Israeli, at least, don't understand logistics.
The Philippine military said on Wednesday that a top leader of the Abu Sayyaf group of terroristsbandidos militants was killed in a clash with troops at a rebel jungle camp.
Abu Sulaiman, one of the top five leaders of the Abu Sayyaf, was killed in a gunbattle on Tuesday on the southwestern island of Jolo, military spokesman Major Eugene Batara told reporters. The military had previously said Sulaiman might have been wounded in the clash but Batara said a body found when the fighting subsided turned out to be that of the militant leader. Two soldiers were wounded in the fighting, the military said.
Sulaiman is among five leaders of the Abu Sayyaf wanted by the United States for the kidnapping of three of its citizens and 17 Filipino tourists from the Dos Palmas resort on Palawan island in May 2001. Sulaiman is also believed to be involved in the worst terror attack in the Philippines, the bombing of a passenger ferry off Manila Bay in 2004 that killed at least 200 people.
Batara said the military was positive the dead man was Sulaiman, but previous claims by the government of successes against militants have sometimes been exaggerated or erroneous.
The U.S. Embassy said it was awaiting confirmation that the dead man was Sulaiman.
"We'd like to see the severed head."
Late last month, the military said Abu Sayyaf chief Khaddafy Janjalani might have been killed in September and sent tissue from a decomposing body found on Jolo for forensic tests. Results are still awaited.
"C'mon Dr. Quincy, we need those results!"
"I'm working on it! Rome wasn't built in a day!"
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Update: Jainal Antel Sali, popularly known as Abu Sulaiman - a top leader of the Abu Sayyaf rebel group - was fatally shot Tuesday in a fierce gunbattle with army special forces on the mountainous southern island of Jolo, military chief Gen. Hermogenes Esperon said, confirming earlier reports of the militant's death. Esperon displayed a picture of the slain militant then triumphantly stood up to scribble an 'X' across Sulaiman's face on a U.S. poster of most-wanted terror suspects.
Jolo villagers, a rebel informant and one of the wives of the slain rebel have identified his body after the clash between the army's 8th Special Forces Company and about 60 Abu Sayyaf gunmen on Jolo's Bud Daho mountain, about 950 kilometres south of Manila, Esperon said.
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Thanks Steve, this is great news. So the list goes Kaddaffi Janjalani-Killed on Jolo, Abu Sabayya-killed off Basiland, Hamjarabi Sali-killed on Basiland, Abu Soliman-killed on Basiland, Abu Soliaman-Killed on Jolo, Andang- cdr Robot-Killed in Manila prison, and Insalon Hapilon-killed in Milbuk.
I believ this is to be the "complete" list of key leaders involved in the kidnapping of Americans Martin and Gracie Burnham and Gene Sobrerro back in June 2001. Their actions resulted in the shooting death of Martin and they beheaded Gene. The US never forgets, never quits, and in this case took no prisoners! Great job!
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Feel free to pick up a marker and cross off Abu Solaiman.
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Sri Lankas military said on Tuesday it had captured a stretch of the Tamil Tigers defences along a battlefront in the islands restive east and killed around 30 fighters, but the Tigers denied it. The clash at the village of Panichchankerni in the eastern district of Batticaloa comes as the military seeks to drive the Tigers out of a coastal pocket of territory they control under the terms of a tattered 2002 truce.
An estimated 10,000-15,000 Tamil civilians are trapped slightly further north within rebel territory after 20,000 others fled to government areas in recent weeks to escape the crossfire of artillery duels. One soldier died and 15 were injured. More than 30 dead bodies of Tiger terrorists are lying in the area, a spokesman for Media Center for National Security said about the latest clash amid a new chapter of a two-decade civil war.
Air Force jets also bombed rebel targets around 10 miles further north of the defence line, but there were no immediate details of casualties. The Tigers said only seven of their fighters were injured in the fighting, that none were killed, and that they had repulsed the attack and were still in control of the border that separates their territory from government-controlled areas. Nordic truce monitors had not visited the area and it was not immediately possible to independently confirm either sides claims.
A powerful claymore mine exploded at a government office in northern Sri Lanka on Tuesday, killing two constables, police said. Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels planted the bomb on a motorcycle that was parked at the district secretariat in the town of Vavuniya, 260 kilometres north of Colombo, police said.
Torture cells: The military posted photographs on its website showing small concrete cells with kennel-like iron grills which it said were used to keep rebel deserters and informants at one of 15 rebel camps overrun this month. The military also said the commandos had found a cannabis crop and the remains of elephants which suggested they were killed for their tusks.
The Tigers laughed off the accusations, saying they didnt have any bases in the area and denied torture cells existed anywhere in areas held by them. The government is desperately in need of some successful stories ... They may have walked in to some huts and not bases, because our bases are far from there, rebel military spokesman Rasiah Ilanthiraiyan said by telephone from their northern stronghold.
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Tehran, 17 Jan. (AKI) - One of the five Iranians arrested last week by the US army in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil is wanted in Austria in connection with the assassination of Kurdish leader Andol Rahman Ghassemlu in 1989. Mahommad Jaafari Sharoudi was one of five Iranian officials detained last week in the Kurdish-controlled city on charges of being connected to a faction of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the Pasdaran, that funds and arms insurgents in Iraq.
Abdol Rahman Ghassemlu, the historic leader of Iranian Kurds, was killed in an apartment in the outskirts of the Austrian capital Vienna where he was scheduled to meet a delegation sent by then Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Raf's the "moderate, pragmatic" ayatollah
However, shortly after the start of the meeting between a delegation of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) and Tehran's delegation, a special unit of the Pasdaran is believed to have stormed the apartment and killed Ghassmlu and his aides.
Fixed his location by offering a meeting, then snuffed him.
According to the Austrian police, the killers escaped arrest by hiding in Iran's embassy in Vienna. Persians and embassies and terror - a story centuries old.
Austrian sources claim that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was at the time a Pasdaran official, was the logistics' head of the commando group responsible for the Kurdish leader's death while Jaafari Sharoudi was one of the killers. So where are the EU arrest warrants?
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perhaps after we're done with him, the Kurds might like a word? And who was the Kurdish asshole leader who was vouching for these mooks? Perhaps he needs dissection looking into
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on charges of being connected to a faction of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the Pasdaran, that funds and arms insurgents in Iraq.
This makes no sense to me: how can a named unit of the country's armed services be a "faction"? Surely they were simply following orders?
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Irbil is the largest city in Iraq's Kurdish region. That these IRG goons were operating as part of a quasi-diplomatic mission seems to indicate that Iran and the Iraqi Kurds have come to some sort of mutual understanding.
tw, AKI is an Italian-based wire service, so perhaps "faction" wasn't an accurate translation. No doubt the detainees reported to some entity in the IRG's table of organization.
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a faction of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the Pasdaran, that funds and arms insurgents in Iraq.
There are multiple factions, but the two likely ones are:
The Qods (Jerusalem) Force. Responsible for operations outside Iran, including terrorist operations and training Islamic fundamentalist terrorist groups throughout the Gulf, North African, and other Muslim countries. Also the Quods Force does intelligence gathering required for targeting and attack planning.
The other Pasadran operations are a branch consisting of Arabic speakers, especially the Hizballah, another branch concentrating on the Kurds (particularly Iraqi Kurds), and another covering the Kashmiris, the Balouchis and the Afghans.
There is also the Baseej, or volunteers. They are hired from the ranks of rural Iranians and foreigners, especially Palestinians and Afghans. These are the thugs used to enforce social-laws.
Last is the Ashura Brigades.These are made up of Baseej and some loyal Pasadran, and are used during civil unrest. Seems the military and most of the IRGC refused to put down the riots a decade or so back.
TEHRAN, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Iranian troops have shot down a U.S. pilotless spy plane recently, an Iranian lawmaker announced on Tuesday as the Islamic Republic was facing increasing military pressure from its arch rival -- the United States.
The aircraft was brought down when it was trying to cross the borders "during the last few days," Seyed Nezam Mola Hoveizeh, a member of the parliament, was quoted by the local Fars News Agency as saying.
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They shot one down? Damn! Now I've gotta do another inventory. Was it 9V296J? 8N276T? 8V154K? Couldn't have been 9C251P - that one's been out of commission for a couple of days - hangar queens, ya know. Coulda been 7V912A - that bird's gettin' old. Or it coulda been one of Charlie Wright's units, up north. Or maybe the Brits had something flying...
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or it coulda been a kite
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A prominent Taliban commander has been captured by NATO-led troops in southern Afghanistan. The militant leader, who has not yet been identified, was detained during a raid by NATO and Afghan troops on a compound in Helmand province, the alliance said on Wednesday. According to a NATO spokesman, the commander led insurgents in the volatile Panjwaii district of Kandahar province, said NATO spokesman Squadron Leader Dave Marsh. "This seizure of a Taliban commander once again shows that there is nowhere to hide for insurgent leaders," Marsh said. 
KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Two civilians thwarted an attempted terrorist attack Tuesday when a vehicle loaded with explosives attempted to crash through the front gate of a U.S. base in the Afghan capital, according to the U.S. military.
Afghan forces have uncovered 40 
A raid on a Taliban compound in southern Afghanistan in which a British soldier was killed also left 13 rebels dead and 16 others wounded, Afghan police said on Tuesday. The death of the British soldier was announced on Monday hours after the raid in Helmand province. Provincial police chief Nabi Mullahkhail told AFP on Tuesday that 13 Taliban were also killed and 16 wounded in the operation in the Garmser district. The British task force based in the Helmand capital Lashkar Gah said it could not confirm how many Taliban died. A small number of British soldiers were wounded but their lives were not in danger, a spokesman said. In a separate incident, police in Kabul detained a would-be suicide car-bomber after searching his vehicle near a NATO base.
(SomaliNet) Thousands of people have rallied in Hargeisa city, the capital of the breakaway republic of Somaliland in northern Somalia on Tuesday in protest of the transitional federal government policies. Sources from Hargeisa say that tens of thousands of people took the streets and then gathered at Qeyriyada ground square chanting slogans anti Somalias president Abdulahi Yusuf Ahmed. It was peaceful demonstration in the region's capital, Hargeisa. 
An international terror suspect who had been under a controversial loose form of house arrest is on the run, said British Home Secretary John Reid on Tuesday. In a written statement to lawmakers, Reid said that the individual had absconded earlier this month. The individual, who was compelled to report daily to police and surrender travel documents, had recently been radicalised and wanted to travel abroad for terrorism-related purposes, said Reid. It was not believed that the person was a threat to the public, he added.
SEATTLE (AP) -- A convicted Taliban collaborator who was arrested in Belize - despite orders that he not leave the U.S. - could face a new trial on charges of offering support to terrorists if he's found guilty of violating his probation, a federal prosecutor said. 
ROMULUS -- A Yemeni immigrant caught with a knife hidden in a book at Detroit Metropolitan Airport was sentenced Tuesday to a year in jail and faces possible deportation. A jury convicted 
Hundreds of angry tribesmen protested on Tuesday against an air strike on a remote town in South Waziristan, saying the dead were all innocent labourers. Some 600 people gathered in Tank, blocked traffic and chanted slogans against President Pervez Musharraf and George W Bush. The attack was unjust, it killed innocent people, tribal leader Dilawar Khan told the rally. He insisted the victims were local labourers who were cutting trees when the raid was conducted. He said local tribes were abiding by the terms of a two-year-old peace accord, but the government had violated it to appease the US.
A major tragedy was averted when sniffer dogs detected two powerful roadside bombs planted by suspected rebels near an Indian army headquarters in Indian-held Kashmir, an official said. The bombs were detected by our dog squad early today (Tuesday) near Sonawar and defused, army spokesman AK Mathur said. 
Indian police arrested 39 people in an anti-terror sweep ahead of a major national holiday, detaining landlords who had failed to register tenants with authorities, an official said Tuesday. The arrests over the past 24 hours were part of intensified anti-terrorist measures because of Republic Day, which falls on Jan 26 and marks the adoption of the countrys constitution in 1950, said New Delhi Police Spokesman Rajan Bhagat. Most of the arrests were in poor parts of eastern New Delhi, although others were detained elsewhere in the capital.
BAGHDAD - Sixty-five people, including students and teachers, were killed Tuesday in the most devastating attack this year as a suicide bomber and a car bomb wreaked havoc outside a Baghdad university.
Twin car bombs tore through a leading Baghdad university as students left classes Tuesday in the deadliest attack in Iraq in nearly two months, and the United Nations reported 34,452 civilians were slain last year, nearly three times more than the government reported. 
A predominantly Kurdish battalion based in this northern city has started the march toward Baghdad, 
In a surprise move two weeks after declaring that he would remain in the army Chief of General Staff Lt.- Gen. Dan Halutz submitted his resignation late Tuesday night to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz. 
The Philippine military said on Wednesday that a top leader of the 
Sri Lankas military said on Tuesday it had captured a stretch of the Tamil Tigers defences along a battlefront in the islands restive east and killed around 30 fighters, but the Tigers denied it. The clash at the village of Panichchankerni in the eastern district of Batticaloa comes as the military seeks to drive the Tigers out of a coastal pocket of territory they control under the terms of a tattered 2002 truce. 
TEHRAN, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Iranian troops have shot down a U.S. pilotless spy plane recently, an Iranian lawmaker announced on Tuesday as the Islamic Republic was facing increasing military pressure from its arch rival -- the United States.
