A SUICIDE attacker drove an explosives-laden vehicle into an Afghan army bus in the western city of Herat today, wounding 12 people. The suicide attacker struck the bus near the airport on the outskirts of the city, the defence ministry and Herat city police chief Mohammad Shafiq Fazli said. "Ten soldiers and two civilians were wounded in the suicide attack," the defence ministry said.
The civilians were trying to enter the airport, which the army bus was passing. Bits of body parts and the car used for the suicide attack were scattered across the area, an AFP reporter at the scene said. Afghan soldiers and police and NATO-led forces cordoned off the site.
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Unidentified gunmen have tonight attacked a military compound housing Ethiopian forces in the Somalia capital Mogadishu it is part of increasing insurgent attacks in the city. Residents told Somalinet that they could hear explosions and gunfire in Suqa-Xolaha (market of livestock) area in north of the capital. We heard the sounds of heavy explosions around 8:00 pm local time and then followed several minutes gunfire near El-Erfid where the Ethiopian forces are stationing, Maslah Mohamed, one of the local residents said. There is no immediate casualty on the latest attack.
The attackers were reported to have been riding Toyota Pickup or SUV and fired around five mortar shells at the compound. It is the fifth attack by supporters of the ousted Islamists in Mogadishu within a week as bodies of slaughtered men were seen in different locations of the capital.
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Unknown pro Islamist insurgents spread leaflets in the capital putting thousands of US dollar on the head of the interim government spokesman Abdirahmna Dinari. They said in the paper that they would pay $10,000 for the death or capture of Dinari who they described him as the enemy of Islam.
The leaflets were today circulating in the capital as everybody saw it. Earlier, extremists in Somalia warned on Tuesday they would hunt down and kill the soldiers of AU peacekeepers if they land in Somalia soil In a videotape posted on the official Web site of Somalia's routed Islamic movement (www.qaadisiya.com), a fearsome masked Islamist gunman read a statement saying that all African peacekeepers would be seen as invaders. The video warning comes as African leaders met in neighboring Ethiopia to discuss the deployment of 8,000 peacekeepers to Somalia. So far only three nations Uganda, Nigeria and Malawi have pledged around 4,000 troops.
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Shoo-in to paradise and virgins not working anymore, eh?
The town of Zemouri, in Boumerdés, was shaken yesterday morning by a car bomb blast causing great fear among the inhabitants. Al Khabar has been told that the terrorists were specifically targeting the owner of the car in which the bomb was hidden. It was in fact a handmade bomb planted under the car parked beside its owners house. The bomb has been triggered at 8:00 am by a mobile phone used as remote control. No casualties were recorded except the terror atmosphere it provoked in the area, especially as the blast occurred at a time some of the inhabitants were about to leave home, chiefly pupils who were on the way to school.
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Al Qaeda-linked Islamic militants opened fire on a military checkpoint in eastern Algeria, killing four soldiers and a municipal guard, newspapers reported on Tuesday.
The attack took place on Monday in the province of Batna, some 430 kilometres (269 miles) east of the capital Algiers, newspapers Liberte, Echourouk and El Khabar said. Around 20 members of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) took part in the attack and 10 of them were killed when security forces struck back, said Liberte. Government officials were not immediately available for comment.
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Dammit, the GSPC is now formally "Al Qaeda" by their own admission. Headline should have read Al Qaeda kills 5, loses 10
Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a brother-in-law of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a raid on his home in Madagascar, his brother said on Wednesday. Malek Khalifa told Dubai-based Al Arabiya television that the aim of the killers appeared to have been to rob his brother, Jamal Khalifa, who mined and traded precious stones in Madagascar.
Malek said a gang of 20 to 30 gunmen broke into his brother's bedroom, shot him dead ``in cold blood'' and stole his belongings. Arabiya said the businessman was staying at a precious stones mine he owns in Madagascar when he was killed early on Wednesday. ``We still don't have a complete picture of the incident,'' Malek told Arabiya by telephone from Saudi Arabia's Red Sea port of Jeddah. ``I don't think it was politically motivated,'' he added in response to a question.
The Philippine Daily Inquirer, in what it said was the last interview given by the leader of the Abu Sayyaf group before his death, on Monday quoted Khaddafy Janjalani as saying that his group had received funds from two men close to bin Laden, identifying one of them as Jamal Khalifa. But CNN reported on Tuesday that Jamal called reports he had funded the Abu Sayyaf group in return for volunteers to fight in Afghanistan ``completely false.'' ``I have never given any money to any group or persons that include the Abu Sayyaf,'' CNN quoted Jamal as writing in an e-mail.
Malek also denied his brother was involved in political activity, and said that apart from family ties, Jamal had no links to bin Laden, a Saudi national who was stripped of his citizenship long before the September 11 attacks on the United States. Khalifa said the Saudi authorities had been informed of the killing.
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``We still don't have a complete picture of the incident, .... and you never will.
The family has requested that flowers not be sent. Those wishing to donate to the memory of Mr. Khalifa are encouraged to send their checks to Yad Vashem, P.O.B. 3477, Jerusalem 91034 Israel.
Khalifa was arrested in the United States in Decmeber of 1994, and "The FBI finds and quickly translates literature in Khalifas luggage advocating training in assassination, explosives, and weapons, bombing churches, and murdering Catholic priests. Over the next weeks, they discover his ties to funding bin Ladens activities, as well as to Ramzi Yousef and other Operation Bojinka plotters." Information connecting Khalifa to Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Osama bin Laden, associates of Ramzi Yousef, and Bojinka plotter Wali Khan Amin Shah were also found. He also contacted Hambali, the former Southeast Asian commander of al-Qaeda who is now in U.S. custody. Hambali attended planning sessions in the Philippines for the 9-11 strikes.
Jamal Khalifa is perhaps the poster-child for failure in exclusively relying on the law-enforcement model for counterterrorism operations is flawed. Khalifa was detained numerous times, but each time was freed. Khalifa was released by the U.S. and deported to Jordan, where he was sentenced to death for a string of bombing in the country. The conviction was overturned after a witness recanted. "No government had enough evidence to put him behind bars," noted a CBS News report in 2003. "Khalifa was arrested in America, in Jordan, and after 9/11, in Saudi Arabia, and on each occasion was eventually released."
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Malek said a gang of 20 to 30 gunmen broke into his brother's bedroom, shot him dead ``in cold blood''
hmmm, 20 to 30 gunmen? Just for a robbery? Sounds fishy to me, but what a great whopper of a story ;)
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Mewonders if'n we have some Spec Ops in Madagascar now? 20-30 does seem like an awful lot of men for just a little burglary. Of course, it's the NY Times too, so who knows? Mr. Kahlifa could be on the editorial staff there for all we know.
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It had to be 20 or 30. Less than 20 and Jamal would have beaten them up and dis-armed them. The Arab penchant for exageration is truly amazing.
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Wonder if he still had his leather mask and dog collar on.
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It's said that wealthy individuals in Saudi Arabia are still funding jihad. I wonder just how much of that funding is coming from the bin Laden family, despite their public disavowals of bin Laden's actions.
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#12 There is an interesting article in today's Wall Street Journal regarding a Justice Department probe into IRA violations by Dar Al-Maal Al-Islami Trust and the Overland Capital Group. The funding for these organizations is rather murky and it is suspected that wealthy individuals in Saudi Arabia are linked. Where is that illusive "moderate" Muslim?
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Doesn't sound like the Israelis- I think they use 4 to 6 man 'wet-teams.'
But what about the French? Madagascar is surrounded by French colonial islands... Now granted, GIGN wouldn't need 20 guys, but maybe their Foreign Intel Service might use a reinforced unit?
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Sometimes it is what it appears to be. Let's hope the robbers got the entire inventory and another link in the Golden Chain is broken. Hey Jamal, give my regards to Osama.
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Also, never forget that local mafias can get antsy when they are not given their "proper cut" of the deals. Maybe some local boys decided that Jamal was not paying the correct tribute to them, and made an example of him.
In the alternative, the Mossad has been known to use local mobsters to erase problems in areas where they do not have the necessary teams. Usually works out that one of mob's boys got in trouble in Israel and suddenly finds himself deported and permanently banned from Israel {instead of doing 20 years in an Israeli jail first}, right after the problem is dead.
Or the Saudis decided that he was not worth the effort anymore, and had him eliminated. Never forget the one prince that kept running off at the mouth about Islam and crushing the West right after 9/11 : he was found in the desert, in a Mercedes with NO food, NO water, NO desert equipment, NO compass or GPS, NO gas in the tank, NO cellphone, and stone dead. Interestingly, he was the head of the Desert Survival Training Center there in Saudi Arabia, but he was a bigmouth and not beloved of the ruling King's faction.
A plot to kidnap and behead a British soldier on videotape was only "days away" and led to the arrests today of nine men in Birmingham, England, a Scotland Yard source tells ABC News.
Most of the nine men are described as British citizens of Pakistani descent who are being held under Britain's new anti-terror laws.
So their names aren't Nigel, Trevor, Ian, and Christian.
A British intelligence source tells ABC News that a British soldier had already been selected as the victim, based on instructions the men allegedly received by e-mail from "outside the country." My first guess would be from Karachi, though I guess it could have been from Peshawar or Quetta, or even from Lahore or Multan. Shucks, the possibilities are ... ummm... endlessly finite.
The operation began in the pre-dawn hours this morning with police raids at 12 locations in Birmingham. Police said they would not reveal the identities or the ages of those arrested.
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Is there finally a point at which we can start to deal with this with the seriousness it deserves? Is there no final atrocity to get our blood up? Or have we become so enervated, so weak, that we have as much as brought our fate upon ourselves?
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Now I think that terrorism should be treated seriously, and this is a war, but cmon, a conspiracy to kill one single British soldier? Not exactly some vast society shaking act.And it was broken up the police. Which is a good word in favor of CURRENT Brit anti-terr laws and actions (against those on the left who would weaken them), but doesnt exactly indicated theyre deficient.
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Excalibur, probably not as long as the cops are able to keep nipping little plots like this in the bud. It must be putting a lot of pressure on the cops. But when the terrorists begin to succeed too often all bets are off.
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It will take something like a Beslan-style schoole siege to people up. Only then, when people see children cowering in a school gymnasium will this seem real to people. It's very sad.
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Now I think that terrorism should be treated seriously, and this is a war, but cmon, a conspiracy to kill one single British soldier?
Yeah, grabbing someone off the street, torturing him, cutting his head off -- and getting it all on videotape -- who cares?!
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Aren't the Brit police suppose to discuss raids like this with the local Imam before they occur?
Thought I've read several things like that over the last 6 months.
"...but cmon, a conspiracy to kill one single British soldier?"
LH I respect your writings but I have to ask how many is too many? There's that guy (name escapes me) that recently said that the 3000 of 9/11 didn't compare to the Russkie losses in WWII so our reaction was way out of proportion.
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didnt say who cares, but if the point is that this is war, not just crime, I dont think this makes the case. Its disgusting, and Orcish, and all, but so are the horror stories of what pervs do to little kids and all that. Im not in anyway saying we shouldnt be disgusted at this - Im just asking how it indicates that current approaches (which broke up this plot, BTW) arent working?
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nice downplay LH. I'd bet you'd feel better if it was someone you respected, instead of a military target....say...a Democrat?
cheap shot, I know, but your mewling comment deserved nothing better, and I'm not feeling charitable
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"LH I respect your writings but I have to ask how many is too many? There's that guy (name escapes me) that recently said that the 3000 of 9/11 didn't compare to the Russkie losses in WWII so our reaction was way out of proportion.
How much is too much?"
One is too many in some level. No murder is acceptable.
An attack that takes 3000 lives, and that easily could have taken several times that, and that destroyed billions of dollars worth of property, and that disrupted the US economy, etc, etc was enough to justify what we did in afghanistan, and taking on AQ globally, etc. IE what we are already doing. Would we have done anything differently if one more individual had died at the WTC? 9/11, and the steady sequence of lesser attacks, are great enough, that I dont see why attacks at individuals would warrant more. Its like there was a ten car pile up at the local intersection, and you build a safety improvement, but not as good a one as some folks want, and then theres a fenderbender and somebody says see, we need a better safety improvement. If 9/11 didnt warrent doing anything more than we are now, why would this?
When will take things MORE seriously than we do now? When theres a second 9/11 or greater in scale, or when low level attacks become as frequent as they were in Israel during the intifadah. Not before then, Im afraid. Hell, at this point the challenge before us is to KEEP the level of concern as high as it has been, and to keep the complacency from growing. And im not talking partisanship here. I was on a subway today, and there was a bag that looked unattended (it turned out to belong to a woman sitting a row back from it) I didnt even notice it, but this more alert woman did and asked if I had noticed who it belonged to - we asked the woman sitting behind, whose bag it turned out to be, and so alls well that ends well. But the point is, this woman who noticed and asked, was APOLEGETIC, said how theyve made us paranoid. I just said, well its no cost to ask, its good we did.
What will it take to get people to again NOT BE APOLEGETIC in a situation like that? More than a foiled plot to kill one person, I fear.
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given that the chosen target was a muslim, Im willing that there probably arent that many folks here who respect him more than I do.
BTW, I really love this one person is a world crap from y'all. So do you agree that ONE muslim UK soldier makes anti-muslim shit despicable? Why is that in measuring moderate muslims, anything less than tens of thousands doesnt count, but when we're talking the reality of what it will take to change attitudes to the WOT, noting that 1 death isnt the same as 100 or 1000 suddenly makes me morally despicable?
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LH you have to look at this in the context of the global Islamofacism movement. This isn't a single case. It's one of a long stream that includes Beslan & Bali & Thai teachers & UK busses & US airplanes &...........
The question is when will the UK and Europe (and the US left ) awaken to the fact that this is a global war. It is fought with different tactics by the would be Caliphate but they are all connected by their ideology.
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Even when these plots don't succeed, the jihad still succeeds by adding a large societal burden. The primary target of the Sept. 11 attacks was the American economy. The WTC and lives lost was secondary. Jihad is a long term weakening and conquest of non-muslim civilizations and the enemy within the most cost effective weapon. The attacks are just the attention grabbing headlines.
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Videotaped beheadings, etc. are just recruiting tools rather than terrorism. The would-be jihadis in the markets of Pakistan just can't get enough of them.
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LH, their point was ALL about promoting mohammedism in their own, pious way.
It was ALL about showing the dhimmis West that they are so terribly brutal, no one will stand in their way.
It was ALL about creating fear in us and THAT is the issue. Not the number of people, but taking a muslim soldier and brutally murdering him as an example.
We need to respond in-kind. We need to go to "Chicago Rules" and beyond.
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Folks are missing the plot here, and LH is sending us off down a rabbit trail by focusing on "one soldier".
The key phrase isn't "one soldier" -- it's "Muslim soldier of Pakistani descent". This plot was intended to drive any Muslims out of the British armed forces and further segregate Muslims from mainstream British life.
The public beheading was intended as a warning to all other Muslims that joining the British military (or police etc.) will be punished.
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Why is that in measuring moderate muslims, anything less than tens of thousands doesnt count, but when we're talking the reality of what it will take to change attitudes to the WOT, noting that 1 death isnt the same as 100 or 1000 suddenly makes me morally despicable?
Because, LH, most of the examples thrown around here are "infidels" to the jihadis as much as we are. Because there's 1.2 BILLION of them, so how hard is it, really, to find several thousand to speak out against the jihadis? And, finally, because as we've said before, we value LIFE more than death. It's a lot "EASIER" to protest against the jihadis than it is to *allow* 1 more death at the hands of these barbarians. Yes, maybe 1 death won't make much difference in tactics, but it d@mn well better keep our nose to the grindstone, stiffen our spine and strengthen our resolve.
Like the President always says, "We have to be right 100% of the time. They only have to be right once."
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Rizwan Ditta, 29, and Bilal Mohammed, 26, both of Halifax, West Yorkshire, will appear before London's City of Westminster magistrates on February 6 by video link. Ditta, of Royd Terrace, faces 13 offences under the Terrorism Act while Mohammed, of Thrum Hall Close is accused of two. The charges relate to alleged extremist material possibly used to spread radical Islamist ideology.
They were arrested in dawn raids in the Pellon area of Halifax on January 23 by unarmed anti-terrorist officers from the Metropolitan Police supported by officers from West Yorkshire.
Ditta is accused of possessing several computer files including one called Hamas Bomb and instructions. It is alleged he had files in circumstances which gave rise to a reasonable suspicion that they were for a purpose connected with the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism. He is accused of having files containing information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism. Ditta's alleged offences are said to have been committed before October 26 2006.
Mohammed had video clips and a computer file, including one called The Manhattan Raid, showing potential terrorist training methods, the court was told. It is also claimed he possessed an al-Qaida training film.
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Our local mosque now has 24 hour security guards(themselves the victim of several attacks). It's started, for good or ill, but the media won't report it...
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It's started, for good or ill, but the media won't report it...
When they do, they'll be pissed as hell at the people responding to Islamic terror, not at the terrorists themselves.
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Absolutley.
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Time to face facts: The media, the arts establishment and the universities are nihilists and have made common cause with the death cult. If we are going to survive this thing the swamp needs to be drained not only in "Saudi" Arabia and Iran but through cutting off state funding to leftardism throughout the free world.
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Excal, I'ma gonna borrow that term..."leftardism", lol! Classic!
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Our local mosque now has 24 hour security guards(themselves the victim of several attacks).
Thanks for the update Howard, but I beg to differ with your terms. I can't claim "victim" status if I preach filth, hate and violence and then suffer the consequences of having done so.
Eight people have been arrested under the Terrorism Act in Birmingham after a "significant" operation involving police and security service MI5. A number of addresses in the city have been sealed off after morning raids. The raids took place at 0400 GMT on Wednesday morning.
Security sources have told the BBC the alleged plot would not have involved mass casualties but marked "a different approach to terrorism in the UK". Wonder what that means - Assasinations?
The six-month operation involved the Midlands counter terrorism unit, West Midlands Police and the Met Police. At least four addresses in Birmingham were targeted as part of the 0400 GMT raids. Two residential houses and a general store in the Alum Rock area were raided as well as a book store in the Sparkhill area.
Police have cordoned off roads around Jackson Road and Foxton Road, in Alum Rock, and Poplar Road and Stratford Road, in Sparkhill. The raided houses are now being searched by officers. Police have not confirmed any of the raided addresses.
The eight are suspected of "the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism".
The Home Office said Home Secretary John Reid had been fully briefed. "This operation is a reminder of the real and serious nature of the terrorist threat we face," a spokeswoman said.
In a statement, West Midlands Police asked for the "continued support and co-operation of the public". "Our message to people living in the West Midlands is to remain vigilant," the statement added.
AoS News Update, 10:30 CST: More from Pajamas Media here, and from WaPo here, where the count is now nine.
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Ayub Pervaz, the mosque's president, said ...
"But we also appeal for no trial by media. If any of those arrested turn out to be innocent, this should be made clear."
Apparently they were planning to kidnap a member of the UK armed forces, behead him, & post the snuff movie on the 'net, according to radio news on as I post. I trust none of them turn out to be "innocent".
Security services said today that they had foiled a suspected plot to kidnap and torture a British Muslim soldier recently returned from service abroad before beheading him live on the internet. The target, a man in his 20s who has not been named, is thought to have found out about the plot. He is now said to be in protective police custody.
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Every gangster needs a person to appeal for no trial in the media, and then a lawyer who says that it was all a simple misunderstanding. Of course, the last refuge of the gangster will be that it was all the government's fault. And, of course, the government is at fault, for teaching them proper diction, so that the microphones pick up their conversations.
A british muslim soldier. More than the Jihadis hate us, they hate moderate muslims. And are eager to murder them. No wonder moderate muslims are so reluctant to speak out.
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It would appear the hypersensitve UK prison authorites need to step up the campaign to refurbish all UK prison cells so the toilets won't face toward Mecca.
Which is a waste of UK taxpayer money on so many levels. In in the short term it accommodates the Shaira sensitive. Bad idea to encourage such nonsense.
It the long term it won't matter. In the future UK prison cells won't contain muslims. Only infidels. The problem: All the jailers will be muslims, unless the UK wakes up soon.
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If any of those arrested turn out to be innocent, this should be made clear
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More than the Jihadis hate us, they hate moderate muslims.
No. It isn't moderate muslims. They hate muslims who 'work for or with the enemy'. It's akin to the attitude that African American kids who do well in school are 'acting white'.
Eight people have been arrested in Birmingham on suspicion of planning a "spectacular" terrorist attack. They were detained under the Terrorism Act after a six-month surveillance operation involving police from two forces. Sky's Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt said officers feared the alleged plot was "coming to fruition".
"This was an alleged huge plot, some sort of spectacular attack," Brunt said. He said it "would not have resulted in a mass casualties", suggesting a "chilling new departure" in terror tactics. The suspects had been tracked in a combined police operation led by the Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit. They were supported by officers from the West Midlands police and the Metropolitan Police.
Mmmmm....
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siff upper lip.. now is not the time to paint all of islam with a broad brush.. do pass me the craxkers deary..
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These muslims will not try a stunt like this in Northern Ireland. I imagine the Catholic and Protestant paramilitaries would finally have a new project they could work on together. I say, bring that spirit of cooperation to England.
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The plot was foiled by alert police and MI5 using techniques which the Democrat Party and the NY Slimes would rail against. This plot again serves as a warning that a Sept 10th mindset will kill us all.
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Maybe it's time to call in the terminator or exterminator. Is it time for targeted assassinations of terrorists yet--or at least swift and immediate justice including executions for treason, espionage, and terrorism. Hey, we could expect the same in a mooselimb country if we did the same. I'll buy the popcorn.
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The article I read on this (Yahoo News) said the plot was against a Muslim military man from England, not some "massive" attack. Still, bravo to the police & MI5.
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Maybe not a massive attack, but it would have a massive impact on the population.
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The Hazorasp District Court (Khorezm region of Uzbekistan) sentenced one Samanar Annamuradov, 46, to 10 years imprisonment as a mercenary. Materials of the case provided by the prosecution indicate that in 1998 Annamuradov, not being a citizen of a country at war, not authorized to accomplish combat missions, and only motivated by his personal fiscal and otherwise interests joined units under field commander Hattab in Serzhen-Yurt, Chechnya, fighting the Russian army. It is an offense in the eyes of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
Annamuradov denied the intention or willingness to join gunmen and said he had been in Chechnya under coercion. According to the defendant, he had come to Grozny seeking a job, met a Chechen in the mosque, and accompanied him to Serzhen-Yurt. Once in Serzhen-Yurt, Annamuradov was turned over to some Arab. Annamuradov became his mechanic. He did other odd technical jobs as well.
The defendant said he had been invited to join gunmen. Annamuradov declined the offer and was eventually permitted to go home to Uzbekistan. Once there, he was careful not to let out the fact of his stay in Chechnya. The jury decided that the offense was deliberate. Annamuradov had been already tried and imprisoned for religious extremist literature proliferation. His guilt was proved by witness testimony and materials compiled by the prosecution.
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(KUNA) -- Turkish security authorities have been stepping up their efforts to pursue Al-Qaeda suspects in the country. According to the NTV news channel's website Tuesday, the Turkish police have arrested an alleged leader of a cell of al-Qaeda in a nationwide anti-terrorist operation in the city of Mudanya. At least 48 alleged al-Qaeda members were arrested in a series of coordinated operations Monday. According to media reports, they had been plotting attacks on Turkish cities. The channel said that the detained men were being interrogated by the police.
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(KUNA) -- Up to 92 people were either killed or wounded in tit-for-tat sectarian violence including mortar and rocket attacks in various regions of Iraq on Tuesday, police said. Police, in a fresh report on today's violence, said more than 25 mortar shells and rockets crashed into the predominantly-Sunni district of Al-A'thamiah in the northern part of the capital, killig 20 people and wounding 72 others.
The attack was preceded with a series of car bomb and suicide attacks that targetted mainly-Shiite regions and towns. A police source said the shells and rockets destroyed several houses, and hospital sources said many of the wounded were suffering from serious cuts.
The police, in another updated report, said eight people were killed and 12 others were seriously wounded in a machine-gun attack that targetted a group of Shiite Muslims marking the religious Ashoura event in Al-Bayaa' district. Police said 25 Iraqis were killed and 59 others were wounded in a suicide attack on Ali Al-Akbar Hussainiah in the region of Baldrouz. The toll in a bomb blast in the town of Khanqeen rose to 15 dead and 40 wounded -- including three women and one boy. The American Army said in a statement that 16 people died in a blast of a trash-collection truck near a police station in the city of Al-Ramadi, the provincial city of the governorate of Al-Anbar west of Baghdad.
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Hmmmp. Looks like escalated inner-city gang violence to me...Oh, in Iraq!
TWO powerful bombings killed 24 Shiite pilgrims today in Iraq, as thousands of bleeding Shiites flayed themselves with swords and chains during the Ashura mourning rite in the shrine city. Twelve Shiites died when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a mosque as they were marking Ashura in Dur Mandali, close to the town of Bala Druz in the restive Diyala province. Another 40 were wounded.
In another attack, 12 Kurdish Shiites, known as Faylis, were killed when a bomb stashed in a roadside bin exploded as they were heading to a local husseiniyah (religious hall) in the town of Khanaqin, near the Iranian border. "A woman and a child were among those killed in the blast," police Colonel Azad Issa said, adding another 39 were wounded.
Shiite Muslims, who have been observing their annual mourning ritual for the past 10 days, have become a regular target of alleged Sunni extremists during Ashura, the holiest date on Shiite Islam's calendar. In 2004, 170 people were killed in attacks in Baghdad and Karbala and another 44 died in a single incident in Karbala in 2005. Today, hundreds of thousands of Shiites performed the rite in the central Iraqi shrine city as around 10,000 security personnel stood guard. Today's ceremonies marked the climax of the mourning ceremony, which commemorates the killing of Imam Hussein in 680 by armies of the Sunni caliph Yazid in Karbala. "And they cut themselves with knives until they were covered with blood..."
To express guilt and remorse for not saving Hussein, hundreds of men were seen flaying themselves with chains or slicing the front of their scalps with swords and knives. Blood streaming from their heads and backs, men of all ages, dressed in white, walked towards the tomb of Imam Hussein since dawn. "This is the least we can do for Imam Hussein who sacrificed himself and his family to save the real religion," said Ali Mohammed, 30, who had cut his head with a sword. "We do not feel pain. In fact we feel we are one with Imam Hussein." Processions of hundreds of such men, drenched in blood, could be seen heading to the mausoleum.
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1427 years of guilt, humilliation and seething but thousands know it's still their fault. Waaay past time to put them out of their collective misery.
GAZA (Reuters) - A ceasefire between the governing Hamas movement and the once-dominant Fatah faction largely held in the Gaza Strip for a second day despite sporadic incidents of violence on Wednesday.
Hospital officials said Bashir Issa, a member of Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, was in critical condition after being shot by gunmen who opened fire from a car in Gaza City. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. Probably leprechauns. Hey, Bashir. Does it hurt more or less if your gunned down during a ceasefire?
Hamas steel-jacketed lead bullets hurt less than Israeli rubber bullets. Ev'ryone knows that.
Gunmen on a rooftop fired at the headquarters of the Preventive Security Service, most of whose members are loyal to Fatah. Residents said a four-minute clash ensued but no one was hurt. Who timed it?
The ceasefire went into effect on Tuesday after the deaths of at least 30 Palestinians in the fiercest internal Palestinian violence since Hamas, an Islamist group, defeated the long-dominant Fatah faction in an election a year ago.
Shops and schools had shut down during five days of bloodshed that preceded the agreement by the feuding factions to pull back from what many Gazans described as a rush toward civil war.
The violence had derailed unity government talks between Hamas and Fatah and prompted some families in the coastal strip to flee their homes. Derailed the talks. Can ya beat that...
The truce was initially threatened when Hamas blamed the Preventive Security Service for the killing on Tuesday of one of its commanders, Hussein Shabasi. Hospital officials said Shabasi was shot in the head in the town of Khan Younis. The security service denied any connection with his death. Leprechauns, jinns, jealous husband? Who knows. It's a mystery...
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The violence ...prompted some families in the coastal strip to flee their homes.
Interesting. A blip or a trend? Depends whether they move in with relatives in the next refugee camp or the the Territories altogether, I s'pose. Let's keep an eye out for reports of refugees.
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After the Israelis took the Gaza strip, they tried to give it back to the Egyptians as a part of the peace deal. The Egyptians laughed, said Gaza had always been a smuggler's den, out of control, and they would not take it back. Its hard to imagine opening your coffee shop before the mid-morning assassinations, taking a break for the afternoon gunfights, and closing while trying to get resupplied in the face of an Israeli shutdown. How was your day, sweetie, any bombings nearby?
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Ceasefire? Does that mean that Hamas and Fatah are too scared to shoot at each other? Little pansy chickens? Posers? Not pious enough? etc., etc., and so on and so forth . . . .
Two popular destinations for Gazans are Canada, which still offers legal immigration, and Cuba, which imposes few restrictions on Palestinian travelers. Those with tourist visas to Cuba often don't plan to go there. Instead, they get off in transit at a European airport, rip up their Palestinian travel document and seek asylum.
I thought the Europeans loved Palestinians and would welcome them with leis and welfare checks.
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No. It's like liberals. They are concerned about the underclass, but only if they stay in their own neighborhoods.
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#5 Nobody likes Palestinians---including other Palestinians. Love doesn't have anything to do with the support that they receive. Quite an opposite emonion is the key.
(KUNA) -- Al-Aqsa brigades, the military wing of Fatah movement, announced on Monday it has abducted an activist of Hamas in Nablus. Palestinian sources said that Ihab Maqboul, was abducted from Nablus by unidentified gunmen. Furthermore, the brigades released three Hamas members who it abducted yesterday near a camp east of the city in response to the continuation of the executive authority's targeting of fatah loyalists in Gaza.
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the abductions don't work if you just keep releasing them, mooks! Treat em like they wuz Jooooos
/popcorn
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Makes me appreciate a religion that assures me that I am saved by faith, not by works.
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Makes me appreciate a religion that assures me that I am saved by faith, not by works.
And a God that expersses Himself by loving His people, rather than fomenting hate and strife. Islam is a satanic death cult, and needs to be treated as such.
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Let me see if I got this straight.
Sources said gunmen from the wing of a movement abducted an activist but released three members who it abducted in response to the authority's targeting of loyalists.
My head hurts.
Suspected Muslim insurgents targeted teachers in Thailand's restive south with scattered bombings and shootings that killed one bystander and injured 13 people, including a school principal, police said Wednesday.
Gunman opened fire on a van carrying teachers and volunteer guards Wednesday morning as it neared a school in the Yarang district of Pattani province, said Maj. Gen. Korkiat Wongworachart, the Pattani police commissioner. Two people inside the van were injured. They were identified as guards who work with a volunteer group in the restive south known as the Teachers Protection Unit, said Korkiat.
A roadside bomb exploded shortly after the van drove past, missing the vehicle but killing a motorcyclist.
"From an initial investigation, we suspect that the assailants wanted to strike the teachers and the volunteers who have become a major target of the insurgency," said Korkiat. Sixty-eight teachers have been killed since the violence flared in 2004, said Boonsom Thongsriprai, head of the Pattani teachers' association.
On Tuesday, a bomb blast targeted another van carrying teachers in Narathiwat province injuring 10 volunteer guards, police said. A school principal in a separate district of Narathiwat province was injured Tuesday by a gunman's bullet, police said. Details of that attack were not immediately available.
Makassar, S Sulawesi (ANTARA News) - Score of former (former??) jihad warriors on board different small boats have reportedly left Surabaya in East Java for the religiously-divided Poso town in Central Sulawesi, and are expected to enter Makassar waters in South Sulawesi on Wednesday.
Information collected by ANTARA here in the past few days indicated that the former jihad warriors were led by Jarot alias Abu Haedar, Irfan, Zulkarnain, Yulianto, Suwondo and Iswanto from Yogyakarta and Solo in Central Java. That's an impressive list of aliases.
And a Pakistani passport for each one ...
According to the information, they boarded different fishing boats to Makassar and from there they would edge towards the Central Sulawesi`s restive town of Poso by land. Police and military intelligence continue to investigate the truth of the information.
To anticipate the entry of the former jihad warriors into Poso through Makassar and its vicinity, the security personnel continued to guard several strategic ports in South Sulawesi such as Bajoe, Waerange, Palopo, and Parepare.
Meanwhile, spokesman of Wirabuana Military Command, Let Col Inf Amsal confirmed here on Wednesday that the information was true. Except they didn't.
"There is such an information but the police and military personnel are still investigating its truth," Amsal said, adding that if the information was proven to be true, the military would support the police to take action against warriors. He pointed out that in response to Central Sulawesi Police request to maintain security in Poso, Wirabuana Military Command had sent some 200 soldiers there to prevent the disturbance group from entering the area.
But Makassar`s Naval Base VI deputy commander Col Uus Kustiwa said he had no information about the movement of the former jihad warriors towards Poso through the sea lane. "We have yet to receive intelligence report on the movement of the former jihad warriors towards Poso," Uus Kustiwa said, adding that he would gather the information and coordinate it with Wirabuana Military Command.
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Saw her in 1969 at a distance of 10 feet and my 19 year old heart was filled with lust. She had pretty skin, too! Don't know who the ugly fart with her was.
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The ugly fart represented hope for the Rest of Us.
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#8 Saw her in 1969 at a distance of 10 feet and my 19 year old heart was filled with lust. She had pretty skin, too! Don't know who the ugly fart with her was.
Posted by: Almost Anonymous5839 2007-01-31 09:42
1950 was indeed a very good year! I was "lusting" in 69' as well, whahaha.
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Our wiemaraner (Max) killed the poodle (Oliver) she got from Prince Ranier as a wedding present. We were living in Switzerland at the time and my dad rented a ski house in the mountains for mom and the kids while he was off in the Middle East. Anyway, the Grimaldis were down the street at the end of the lane. My sister played with Caroline and my brother with Albert...used to call the old man Prince Reindeer. Dad came home froma long trip to my mom screaming "Max killed Oliver! Max killed Oliver!" Dad thought the dog had killed some child in the village. Anyway, I'm told they were understanding about it. Max was put down. I was a mere babe at the time.
Referencing the above, I probably would have had a chance to meet her when she did a poetry reading at Duke my senior year, shortly before she died, but I didn't get off my ass to make it happen. One of the regrets of my life.
She certainly ranks up there as one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. Grace indeed.
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Women with the name Grace seem to have a certain aplomb and savoir faire--and are damn good looking and sexy too! Just look at the Ranger Up Grace again.
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TW: there is an old saying by that wise old sage Jerry Lee Lewis that goes something like: " The girls all get prettier at closing time..."
Not sure what he is referring to, having grown up in the conservative SW Michigan area.
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A SUICIDE attacker drove an explosives-laden vehicle into an Afghan army bus in the western city of Herat today, wounding 12 people. The suicide attacker struck the bus near the airport on the outskirts of the city, the defence ministry and Herat city police chief Mohammad Shafiq Fazli said. "Ten soldiers and two civilians were wounded in the suicide attack," the defence ministry said. 
Unidentified gunmen have tonight attacked a military compound housing Ethiopian forces in the Somalia capital Mogadishu it is part of increasing insurgent attacks in the city. Residents told Somalinet that they could hear explosions and gunfire in Suqa-Xolaha (market of livestock) area in north of the capital. We heard the sounds of heavy explosions around 8:00 pm local time and then followed several minutes gunfire near El-Erfid where the Ethiopian forces are stationing, Maslah Mohamed, one of the local residents said. There is no immediate casualty on the latest attack. 
Unknown pro Islamist insurgents spread leaflets in the capital putting thousands of US dollar on the head of the interim government spokesman Abdirahmna Dinari. They said in the paper that they would pay $10,000 for the death or capture of Dinari who they described him as the enemy of Islam. 
The town of Zemouri, in Boumerdés, was shaken yesterday morning by a car bomb blast causing great fear among the inhabitants. Al Khabar has been told that the terrorists were specifically targeting the owner of the car in which the bomb was hidden. It was in fact a handmade bomb planted under the car parked beside its owners house. The bomb has been triggered at 8:00 am by a mobile phone used as remote control. No casualties were recorded except the terror atmosphere it provoked in the area, especially as the blast occurred at a time some of the inhabitants were about to leave home, chiefly pupils who were on the way to school.
Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a brother-in-law of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a raid on his home in Madagascar, his brother said on Wednesday. 
The Philippine Daily Inquirer, in what it said was the last interview given by the leader of the 
Malek also denied his brother was involved in political activity, and said that apart from family ties, Jamal had no links to bin Laden, a Saudi national who was stripped of his citizenship long before the September 11 attacks on the United States. Khalifa said the Saudi authorities had been informed of the killing.
A plot to kidnap and behead a British soldier on videotape was only "days away" and led to the arrests today of nine men in Birmingham, England, a Scotland Yard source tells ABC News. 
Eight people have been arrested under the Terrorism Act in Birmingham after a "significant" operation involving police and security service MI5. A number of addresses in the city have been sealed off after morning raids. The raids took place at 0400 GMT on Wednesday morning.
The Hazorasp District Court (Khorezm region of Uzbekistan) sentenced one Samanar Annamuradov, 46, to 10 years imprisonment as a mercenary. Materials of the case provided by the prosecution indicate that in 1998 Annamuradov, not being a citizen of a country at war, not authorized to accomplish combat missions, and only motivated by his personal fiscal and otherwise interests joined units under field commander Hattab in Serzhen-Yurt, Chechnya, fighting the Russian army. It is an offense in the eyes of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
(KUNA) -- Up to 92 people were either killed or wounded in tit-for-tat sectarian violence including mortar and rocket attacks in various regions of Iraq on Tuesday, police said. Police, in a fresh report on today's violence, said more than 25 mortar shells and rockets crashed into the predominantly-Sunni district of Al-A'thamiah in the northern part of the capital, killig 20 people and wounding 72 others.
