HOUSTON, June 11 — Three members of the Texas National Guard helping patrol the Mexican border have been charged with human smuggling after federal agents found one of them in uniform driving a van crammed with 24 illegal immigrants north of Laredo, the Justice Department said Monday.
Guardsmen doing the job so that the coyotes won't have to. At least the Feds are doing something along the border...
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THIS is why we need a new law! The old law corrupts everybody, even our fine fighting men and women. Now I know some folks call the new law Shamnesty, but it's not. Get behind my new law, with me and Teddy.
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Lopomanets - I find your comments excessively long. Based on the content, I must wonder if you used to post under the nym of Aris?
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I was going to suggest that the BP start dealing with spammers since they don't arrest invaders, but then they'd probably lend them government computers to post their mail.
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And then there's this news from today: Ex-border guard pleads guilty to immigrant smuggling
DETROIT --A former U.S. border guard faces up to five years in prison after he pleaded guilty today to two charges of immigrant smuggling.
Others involved in the case are Hasan Saad & Hani Bazzi.
Seven policemen were killed in a gun battle with US soldiers after troops attacked their post in eastern Afghanistan following a “misunderstanding,” government officials said on Tuesday. The US-led coalition said however its soldiers had come under fire first while trying to conduct a raid against a suspected Taliban safe house in Nangarhar province.
Meanwhile, US-led troops and Afghan highway police backed by foreign war planes have killed more than two dozen “enemy fighters” in battles in southern Afghanistan, the US military said on Tuesday. The fighting erupted on Monday when the security forces were ambushed with rocket-propelled grenades and machine gun fire in Kandahar, the US-led coalition said. They returned fire and “enemy forces retreated after several of their fighters were killed in the brief firefight,” it said in a statement.
About five hours later, more than 30 rebels attempted to ambush the same patrol. The security forces “isolated the attackers and then requested close air support to destroy one enemy compound and one enemy vehicle.” “During the eight-hour battle, over two dozen enemy fighters were killed,” it said. The fighting was in the Shah Wali Kot district.
Separately, the NATO-led force that operates alongside the coalition said late on Monday that its troops had opened fire on a vehicle that did not halt at a checkpoint in eastern Kunar province, killing three Afghan men. Residents told AFP the casualties were school students aged 14 to 16. Three young men were also wounded, they said.
NATOÂ’s International Security Assistance Force announced meanwhile that one of its soldiers was killed and two wounded in an explosion in southern Afghanistan on Monday. CanadaÂ’s defence ministry said the casualties were Canadians. This takes to 81 the number of foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan this year, most of them in hostile action.
In other news, gunmen riding on a motorbike fired at girls outside a school on Tuesday, killing two and wounding six, authorities said. The attack took place in Logar province, south of the capital, Kabul, at the end of the school day. The attackers fled, they said. “Those who carried out this cowardly attack are the enemies of the country,” Education Minister Hanif Atmar told reporters.
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The US-led coalition said however its soldiers had come under fire first while trying to conduct a raid against a suspected Taliban safe house in Nangarhar province.
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The AP headline was even worse making it appear our guys used pre-emptive force. I'd like to sit down with the AP, NYT, WaPo copy editors and find out how that kind of warped anti-military attitude came about. Were they all Momma Boys or did they a big Xmas bonus from Soros? Something is really wrong with our media these days. I say this as I look at my grandfather's library that features Ernie Pyle's books which I read as a boy. No one there like him now except maybe Michael Yon but he is truly Outside the Wire like BJ.
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I picked up an old Ernie Pyle book a few weeks ago, called Brave Men, which starts with the invasion of Sicily. I'd say Yon does a pretty good imitation of Pyle - and maybe, someday, Yon will be as well-known.
I'm only about 70 pages into the Pyle book, but I'd recommend it, if you can find it.
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There are several out there like Michael Yon. InstaPundit links to them frequently. Michael Totten is his most recent. Mr. Totten has some interesting sites on his blog roll, running down the left column. ;-)
That's CentCom's headline - I decided not to modify it.
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan - Afghan National Police and Coalition forces received information from local villagers while conducting a medical engagement for 50 families, which led to the discovery of a massive munitions cache in the Chamkani district of Paktya province June 10.
Local Afghans from the village of Sultak provided information to the ANP on the whereabouts of an insurgent logistical improvised explosive device facilitator while conducting a shura. After receiving the information, the ANP quickly located and began searching the suspected compound. This is good news on several levels.
While entering the compound, the ANP received sporadic enemy machine gun and rocket propelled grenade fire. ANP immediately returned fire forcing the insurgents to flee. They need more range time. Better dead than fled.
Once securing the compound, a subsequent search led to the discovery of the entrance of two large caves hidden under two animal pens. Within the caves, ANP and Coalition forces recovered a substantial amount of munitions consisting of RPG rounds, 82mm mortar rounds, mines, grenades, blasting caps, machine gun ammunition, detonation cord, assorted fuses and charges, IED receivers and power sources, blocks of explosives, and medical supplies.
There were no injuries to any Afghan civilians or ANP members during the brief firefight.
Local elders were able to view the munitions cache and assisted ANP and Coalition forces in removing the contents of the cache. The elders also vowed to track down the IED facilitator and bring him to justice.
Afghan civilians who facilitate the recovery and turn-in of munitions caches are compensated for their efforts through the Small Rewards Program. The SRP was created to encourage and compensate Afghan civilians for their efforts to rid the country of weapons used by insurgent and foreign fighters. “Afghan elders are making a significant difference improving the security and peace within their villages,” said Army Maj. Chris Belcher, a Combined Joint Task Force-82 spokesperson. “With the support of the Afghan people, Afghan National Police and Coalition members will stop the death and destruction insurgent fighters offer and eliminate Afghanistan of its enemies.”
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hate to sound like a wank, but i just double clicked in an article and it opened an error page.
again FYI
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Rantburg has been struggling today, Abu do you love. Fred and badanov have been working their tails off to get all the bugs out of the changeover to something more robust than whatever Fred was using before.
Five Yemenite policemen were killed and seven were wounded on Monday in clashes with armed tribesmen, according to Yemenite officials. The clashes took places in Marab province, about 175 kilometers east of the capital ‘Sana. According to the local media, the policemen were opening a highway, which was blocked off a day earlier by tribesmen from the Damashqa clan. The tribesmen were demanding jobs in nearby oil fields. A gunfight broke out in which the five security personnel were killed. The highway connects Marab city and oil fields in the ‘Safir area.
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Eight suspected members of the Kurdish separatist group PKK were detained in France Tuesday in a criminal investigation into attacks on Turkish interests, judicial officials said. The eight, who are believed to be members of the PKK's youth wing, were arrested in the northern Paris suburbs, and near the cities of Bordeaux and Marseille. Police are looking into a series of firebomb attacks against Turkish businesses and associations.
As families on Canadian Forces Base Valcartier prepare for the departure beginning next month of 2,300 soldiers to Afghanistan, antiwar groups have sent letters to soldiers' homes comparing Canada's military activities to war crimes and urging them to refuse deployment.
The letters from a coalition of Quebec groups prompted angry reactions when they began arriving in mailboxes yesterday on the base outside Quebec City, home to the Royal 22nd Regiment, or Vandoos.
"I read the headlines and threw it in the trash," said Master Corporal Pierre Calve, a father of three set to deploy to Afghanistan in August. "I believe in this mission. I have family here in Canada. This is a way to protect them, like our grandfathers did in the First and Second World Wars. It's not to go and kill people but to protect the peace."
The mailing, addressed simply to the occupant of homes on and around the army base, was paid for by anti-war groups based in Quebec City, Montreal and Gatineau. "Canada's role in Afghanistan is a trap. It means on-the-ground Canadian soldiers become 'cannon fodder' for the illogical and unjust policies of generals and politicians," the letter reads.
Participating in the mission equals "complicity with the civilian deaths and other activities -- like the transfer of prisoners to potential torture and death -- that are tantamount to war crimes," it says.
Joseph Bergeron, spokesman for a group called Guerre a la Guerre (War Against War), said he is not concerned the harsh message might upset family members of personnel bound for Afghanistan.
"Our letter is not what will traumatize people, but when they are over there and they see how many civilians die and [that] there are going to be many Canadians killed or injured, that is when the trauma will occur," Mr. Bergeron said.
He said he recognizes there could be legal repercussions to the group's appeal to soldiers. The Criminal Code says that anyone who "attempts to incite or to induce a member of the Canadian Forces to commit a traitorous or mutinous act" is guilty of an indictable offence punishable by a prison term of up to 14 years.
"We know that soldiers do not have the right to desert their company, and we could be accused of encouraging them to do that," Mr. Bergeron said. "Except, we believe we have a legitimate right to offer our opinion and information to soldiers. We don't think that is a crime. If they want to use repression against us, we will continue resisting because we oppose the government's policies."
The mailing cites the example of Francisco Juarez, a Canadian Forces reservist who was fined $500 and discharged over his opposition to the Afghanistan mission. It also says U.S. soldiers "daily" resist orders to serve in Iraq.
The coalition is also offering to provide legal counsel to soldiers who take up its offer.
Major Daryl Morrell, a Forces spokesman, said Canadian soldiers can opt out of serving in Afghanistan if they have compelling family or personal circumstances.
"We've got a whole lot of people who are chomping at the bit to go," he said. "If someone asks not to go, it's not hard to fill his position."
Anne Marie Velasco, whose husband is stationed at Valcartier and whose brother-in-law is shipping out to Afghanistan this summer, was troubled to see the letter appear at her home yesterday.
"It's not their business to tell us what to do," she said. "I don't like having a letter like that come into my house." She added that it was irresponsible of the peace groups to send a mass mailing that could easily be opened by the children of service people headed for Afghanistan.
News of the letter drew a furious response on an Internet forum at army.ca. Under the heading, "Peaceniks Try Direct Mail on Vandoos Destined for AFG," one member suggested another use for the mailing. "I certainly hope the letters were written on a soft but absorbent paper, so they can be used by the soldiers for a function appropriate to the contents," a contributor named Colin P. wrote.
The groups behind the letter are also planning a protest on June 22 to coincide with a support-our-troops parade in Quebec City. In a statement yesterday, the office of Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor encouraged Quebecers to pay tribute to soldiers by attending the parade.
"Our men and women in uniform -- and their families -- are called on to make great sacrifices for Canada and they do so with honour and pride," the statement read.
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Joseph Bergeron, spokesman for a group called Guerre a la Guerre (War Against War), said he is not concerned the harsh message might upset family members of personnel bound for Afghanistan.
Right. That's because it's his war, (against the war) which is right and just, as opposed to our war, which is for the illogical and unjust policies of generals and politicians
See how simple it is? He's right, and we're too stupid to understand. I'd send him a letter, but if I burned it in my fireplace, it'd be more useful.
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I hope that at some point, the society regains sanity and these POSes will be tarred and feathered as they deserve (I also hope for other festivities involving a knowledge of knots, but this would do for beginners).
QUETTA: At least four people, including policemen, were injured in a hand grenade attack on a hotel in Golli Mar Chowk on Tuesday. An unidentified motorcyclist hurled a hand grenade at the local hotel due to which a police inspector, sub-assistant inspector and a constable sustained serious injuries. The injured were transported to Bolan Medical College for treatment.
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Heck, how many times have we ever wanted to do this at a Holiday Inn or Motel 8 for sh**ty room service?
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A suspected Lashker-e-Taiba (LeT) militant was arrested from a North Delhi area with 1.5 kg RDX. Mukhtiar Ahmed Khan, belonging to Kupwara in Jammu and Kashmir, was arrested at the Azadpur fruit market at around five pm, a senior police official said. The seizures made from the militant include 1.5 kg RDX, two detonators and a timer, the official said.
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Coalition Forces killed a senior terrorist leader during an operation Tuesday morning targeting the al-Qaeda in Iraq network in Mosul.
Kamal Jalil Bakr Uthman, also known as Said Hamza, was known to be the al-Qaeda in Iraq military Emir in Mosul. Intelligence reports indicate he planned, coordinated and facilitated suicide bombings in the Mosul area. Additionally, he facilitated the movement of more than 100 foreign fighters through safe houses in the area, and orchestrated attacks against Iraqi and Coalition Forces.
Coalition Forces targeted Uthman Tuesday as part of their operations to disrupt the al-Qaeda in Iraq senior leader network in Mosul. As they entered his residence, Uthman rushed into another room and reached under a mattress. Coalition Forces, reacting appropriately to the hostile threat, engaged Uthman, killing him. The ground force later found a suicide vest under the mattress.
Coalition Forces had detained Uthman during an operation in August 2006. He was released from the Iraqi judicial system in April 2007, and intelligence reports indicate he was planning a six-vehicle suicide bomb attack to avenge his detention. “We have taken another very dangerous terrorist off the streets of Iraq, and we will continue to deplete the senior leadership of al-Qaeda in Iraq,” said Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, MNF-I spokesperson.
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The battery in the transmitter implanted in him was about to die so he had to be re-arrested to replace it, or killed.
(I'm making that up, I think, but let's spread the rumor that all the released prisoners are now bugged or spies.)
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What was Uthman major malfunction returning home and storing explosives? Is a muslim's home is his castle, arms depot mosque? And hell yes, do a full cavity search of the Mosul legal system. Seems to infested with islamists and saddam holdovers.
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I going to play 'conspiracy theory' here: How does a group of AQ get right up to two prominent Shia minarets at a site that was already a target - and thus likely under serious protection? And how do they get time to place charges to bring down towers so completely? And do it simultaneously? Sure, AQ has motive, but do they have opportunity? Sadr has opportunity, and - quite possibly motive. How do demoagogic 'leaders' gain/regain power (always and everywhere)? Create an enemy to enable you to gather 'their' enemies behind 'you', the leader.
I suspect Sadr AT LEAST as much as Al Quada in Iraq.
Should I forward your half-assed, chickenshit little expressions of moral support to whoever's running Al Qaeda in Iraq and or Moqtada al Sadr and the Revolutionary Guards that are supporting him?
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Yeah, this one stinks. No way this is AQI. It just doesn't wash that the Sunnis could get so close. This one has Muq and Quods Force (Iran) written all over it. Iran needs a smackdown and soon.
BAGHDAD - The US military on Tuesday said its troops have seized a bomb-making factory in eastern Baghdad capable of manufacturing more than 300 roadside bombs. The factory, a cluster of small buildings, was discovered in the thick palm groves of BaghdadÂ’s eastern Rashid neighbourhood on Monday, the military said.
The soldiers have taken more than “300 improvised explosive devices off the streets,” a statement quoted US commander Colonel Ricky D. Gibbs as saying.
The find consisted of one vehicle wired and packed with explosives, dozens of mortars, one 500 pound (230 kilogram) bomb, hundreds of grenades and projectiles, and hundreds of cans of nitric acid used to make crude bombs. In a separate cache near the complex, more cans of nitric acid were found, the statement said, along with another three vehicles wired as car bombs but without explosives.
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Guess someone figured out how to use nitric acid instead of using it for a half-assed 'WMD' scare.
I hope the good guys can trace it back to source and shut them down.
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Nine Palestinians were killed in Gaza clashes between Fatah and Hamas on Wednesday. Of those killed seven were Fatah insurgents who died in a gun battle with Hamas gunmen in the home of senior Fatah spokesman Maher Miqdad, Israel Radio reported. According to Palestinian sources, Miqdad escaped the premises.
Hamas has prepared a hit list with the names of Fatah leaders it wishes to eliminate, Israel Radio reported Wednesday. The top name on the list is PA National Security Adviser Muhammad Dahlan, who is currently in Egypt. Like Dahlan, most of the personages on the list are not presently in Gaza.
They'll let the minions fight it out.
Five Palestinians were wounded in Gaza overnight Tuesday, two seriously, as fighting between Hamas and Fatah showed no sign of respite. Palestinian sources reported that Hamas members fired mortars and anti-tank missiles at Fatah security posts in Gaza City, in refugee camps in the central Gaza Strip and in Khan Yunis. The five casualties were apparently civilians.
Sincde the MSM doesn't know the difference between 'civilian', 'hard boy', 'camp follower' and 'terrorist'.
Fighting also spread to the West Bank, with gunbattles in Nablus, Israel Radio reported. On Tuesday, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas accused Hamas of staging a "bloody coup" to try and take full control of the Gaza Strip. His allegations came as thousands of Hamas militiamen launched a full-scale attack on Fatah figures and institutions in most parts of the Gaza Strip. Hamas fighters captured the headquarters of the Fatah-backed security forces in the northern part of the Strip.
But it's not a civil war, thank goodness.
It's... ummm... something else.
Twenty-one people were killed in this battle, which involved hundreds of fighters from both sides.
Someone has to work on marksmanship skills.
The EU's turned the aid pipeline back on. We expect to see some marksmanship lessons, by gum!
At least 28 Palestinians were killed in Tuesday's clashes throughout the Strip, including some senior members of Hamas and Fatah. Sources in the Gaza Strip said most of the casualties were Fatah activists and members of the Palestinian security forces.
'Senior members'? New job opportunities for number threes, apply within.
The death toll from two days of fighting reached 37.
The Fatah central committee, meeting in emergency session in Ramallah Tuesday night, decided to suspend participation in the national unity government until the fighting stopped. "The hospitals are full of bodies," said Ahraf Abu Baker, a nurse at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. "We are running short of blood and we have appealed for donations. We have wounded people arriving every minute."
You can partly solve the problem by moving the bodies to the morgue; that'll leave more room in the hospitals.
PA officials here told The Jerusalem Post that the Hamas offensive was the biggest one by the group in the Gaza Strip thus far. "Hamas has declared war on Fatah and the Palestinian Authority," said one official. "The rules of the game have changed and we will have to act in accordance with the new threat."
"We are witnessing the first signs of a cruel civil war."
Another PA official expressed deep concern over Hamas's success in taking control of several Palestinian security installations. He revealed that Hamas managed to lay its hands on large amounts of weapons belonging to the Fatah-controlled security forces in many parts of the Gaza Strip. "They have seized thousands of rifles, large amounts of ammunition and dozens of vehicles, including armored jeeps," he said. "This is really bad news for us all."
Abbas told Fatah leaders during an emergency meeting in Ramallah that "political and security" leaders of Hamas were determined to take control of the Gaza Strip by force. "Hamas is mistaken if it thinks that it can take control of the Gaza Strip through violent means," he said. "We are witnessing the first signs of a cruel civil war."
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Another PA official expressed deep concern over Hamas's success in taking control of several Palestinian security installations. He revealed that Hamas managed to lay its hands on large amounts of weapons belonging to the Fatah-controlled security forces in many parts of the Gaza Strip.
"They have seized thousands of rifles, large amounts of ammunition and dozens of vehicles, including armored jeeps," he said. "This is really bad news for all."
That's what I said yesterday. I would even posit that the *presence* of all the extra arms-n-ammo is what set off this round of the festivities.
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Brutality beyond belief against palestinians. Torture, then murder. These palestinians are suffering terribly.
Except it isn't Israel doing it. What I want to know is, how do the pali-sympathizers reconcile all of this? If pali violence is simply a response to a brutal, oppressive Israeli regime, how do they explain this carnage?
Frankly, I find all of this very revealing. All Hamas and Fatah had to do was reach an accomodation in Gaza. Here we have two Muslim groups seeking a state -- overall similar goals, with a set of political and religious differences to work through. Certainly, these differences are no where near those that separate Israel and the Arabs.
Yet they wind up killing each other instead.
I believe they do this for one or two reasons:
1. there seems to be a sort of Arab fantasy that they will get all they want, perhaps because allah wills it or because of some other culturaly malady. Al Qaeda expect a caliphate in their future. palis expect an Arab state to the Med with no Jews. Sharia in the UK.
2. Along with this fantasy is an inability to compromise. Perhaps this is because it's not acceptable in their culture. Perhaps it's simply that they just don't know how. Shiites, Kurds and Sunnis in Iraq? No way. Palis and Israel? Fuggedaboudit. And of course, insulting the Profit (sic) is a capital crime, while daily intolerance of any other religions is the norm.
And they're expected to "negotiate" with Israel? Please!
So, back to the issue of pali-sympathizers. How can they possibly explain this violence without saying something about the character of the palestinian people? I expect they'll simply say nothing.
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Dan, I'll add a third potential reason to your two: from birth Paleos are indoctrinated in a culture of hate, tribalism, religious mysticism that is strongly reminiscent of the Thuggee cult, and self-loathing. It's no wonder they'll fight anyone.
And a fourth potential reason: Gaza is over-crowded. It's like having too many rats in a cage, at some point they're going to tear each other to pieces. Gaza wasn't meant to support one and a half million people.
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And I will meet your four and raise you one. Not only are we dealing with overcrowding, but overcrowding with nothing useful and productive to do. No good role models. Death by suicide is a prized value.
It is a death cult. If Israel was dismantled tomorrow, and the Paleos got their state, factions would still be killing each other for some perceived advantage.
Why we give aid, and especially arms to such a sick society is beyond me. They still need to bottom out before they head up. Some people do and some never make it. Go over to the MEMRI site and get a feel how deeply psychotic and twisted this society is.
Unfortunately, the Paleo society is like a car with a bent frame. You can pour a fortune into it, but when it is driven around, it still acts like a car with a bent frame.
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re population density
Singapore and Hong Kong are densely populated and they don't have Gaza problems.
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You can't devalue life and promote things like martyrdom, deception, and pointless "resistance" in a society without this being the end result. It took a while to mature, but this is it folks. When they can't beat the jooos, they simply turn the guns on themselves. Look to the EUnicks to shake their heads in disbelief, but to keep the money flowing for lack of any other ideas. That is the liberal mindset, throw more money at the problem and boggle at the result.
I think that what caused the start was the fact that Hamas was starting to be outmaneuvered politically, and that Mo Dahlan, the Fatah military and political leader in Gaza, was in a Cairo hospital recovering from a leg injury.
This was the time for Hamas to strike, before the window closed. Did it make sense to give Fatah weapons? I dunno, remember when the Left fought against giving ARVN weapons in 1974-75, and then ARVN lost? We may have the same debate wrt to Iraq soon.
No one thought Fatah would be hurt this bad relative to Hamas, and I certainly havent seen anyone HERE make predictions to that effect. In any case its not clear how much has been taken, or how important it is in the overall scheme.
I can say its NOT good that Fatah is losing, or that Hamas is winning. The attrition from this phase is unlikely to hurt Hamas much, unless Fatah does turn things around, and its not clear they are capable of that.
If Hamas does takeover Gaza, what are everyones fall back positions? Israel still doesnt have to strike at Gaza as long as the Qassams do so little damage. Fatah can attempt a guerilla war against Hamas, complete with IEDs, suicide bombers, the whole nine yards. Fatah can cleanse the West Bank of Hamas.
Israel can negotiate with Abbas about short term issues - "quality of life" stuff. Probably cant do a long term deal, if he isnt seen as being able to speak for Pals as delivering an end to the conflict.
The military wing and Mashal probably make Haniyeh superflous on the Hamas side, unless they want him for window dressing for the euros et al.
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#2: "How do the pali-sympathizers reconcile all of this?"
Let me introduce you to the two Rules to Live By for the pali-wankerssympathizers, Dan:
1. It's always Isreal's fault.
2. It it doesn't appear to be Israel's fault, see Rule #1.
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No one thought Fatah would be hurt this bad relative to Hamas, and I certainly havent seen anyone HERE make predictions to that effect.
Predictions are for the very wise or the very foolish. However - it has been noted here in the past that the West Bank and Gaza are essentially two separate entities, and that the likelihood of them becoming discrete 'nations' was advanced.
In any case its not clear how much has been taken, or how important it is in the overall scheme.
Throwing out two conjectures:
1. The Iranians/Syrians are trying to establish another front at best (or distraction, at least) for when Hesb'allah starts round two with Israel.
2. The Iranians/Syrians are trying to establish a distraction for Israel for when Hesb'allah moves to take control of Lebanon.
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Let's throw out the false notion that overcrowding leads to violence. The highest density populations are Monaco (6X), Macau (4.5X), Hong Kong (1.5X, much higher in urban), Singapore (1.5X, much higher in urban), all doing very well. It's their murderous muslim religion and genocidal indoctrination that account for their failures and first resort to murder. The 2,500 remaining trapped Christians in Gaza are treated worse, by the muslims themselves, yet don't engage in this savagery.
Gaza density is 10,575/mile2 (2005 Britannica) while Manhattan is 66,940/mile2 and was as high as 120,000/mile2 a hundred years ago. Instead of Manhattan exploding like a lemming breeding colony, muslims travel there to commit mass murder in the name of allah.
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In a pitched gun battle in Gaza on Tuesday night at least 21 members of rival Arab militias were killed. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that Israel was not going to get involved in the Palestinian Authority's civil war, which he described as being "between pragmatic and extremist Palestinian forces."
PA sources said that 11 of the dead from the most recent clash were members of the Islamist Hamas terror organization, while the other 10 belonged to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's veteran Fatah terror organization. The battle broke out in Jabaliya Tuesday night as armed Hamas and Fatah members vied for control of a local building belonging to an official PA militia.
With the latest carnage in Jabaliya, the number of fatalities in the last 36 hours of PA internecine fighting rose to at least 43. Yea baby, yea!
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So long as, if it's tossed with melted butter, it isn't sprinkled with crumbled bacon, you should be all right, Spot. One mustn't mix meat and milk in the same meal, you see. ;-)
Just teasing. So long as the packaging facility is certified as meeting the cleanliness standards of kashrut (the rules of kosher), which are stricter than the FDA, and there's no chance of contamination from non-kosher things, there's no issue. I just made up a big bowl of the stuff -- would you like some? Although I don't keep kosher in my own kitchen, most Israelis don't, either.
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That sounds interesting, JFM -- I'll have to try it. Melted butter and salt is the standard American presentation, or alternatively caramel. Or that horrible orange cheesy powder, but we won't discuss that, if you don't mind.
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I grew in Spain so I tend to use olive oil for nearly everything, a tiny island of civilzation in an ocean of cooking barbarity (Northern France). You could find oilve oil's taste overpowering and prefer another oil. However I confess I hadn't even considered using a low temeprature grease like butter for popcorn.
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JFM, no one is suggesting you pop the corn in butter but rather you butter it later after it is popped. Best to use canola oil to pop it. But no one actually pops corn in oil broilers anymore - they nuke it at home.
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In a pitched gun battle in Bahgdad Gaza on Tuesday night at least 21 members of rival Sunni and Shia Arab militias were killed. President Bush Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that the United States Israel was not going to get involved in the Iraqi Palestinian Authority's civil war, which he described as being "between pragmatic and extremist Iraqi Palestinian forces."
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Olive oil is quite pricey. I confess I hadn't even considered using an expensive, exotic ingredient when a common one is readily available.
I don't know about the pricey part but exotic? The Mayflower pilgrims had several barrels olive oil as their only cooking oil. Unless that the ill fated Croatoan expedition had something else then olive oil is the first oil brought to America's soil. Far from being exotic, olive oil is more American than apple pie.
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try adding the candy "dots" to your popcorn, a nice combo of tastes ;)
Posted by: Jan ||
06/13/2007 12:59 Comments ||
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#15
JFM, well, virgin cold pressed olive oil(that is the only one worth using) is a bit pricey, but buying in =< 1l will get the price down. Else, I agree with you, and use it practically for everything where oil is used, as well. I don't mind well buttered popcorn, though. ;-)
Police have found the head of a man believed to be one of three Buddhists killed in a village known for Islamic militancy in Thailand's strife-torn south. In other violence linked to the continuing separatist insurgency in Thailand's Muslim-majority south, two separate bombs killed one soldier and wounded another nine, police said.
On Tuesday, police found the bodies of three men, including one without a head, in Samakkee village of Narathiwat province, 800 kilometers (500 miles), south of Bangkok, Police Lt. Col. Thanaphol Meechai said. Police blamed Muslim insurgents for the deaths. The head of the unidentified man was found in the same village Wednesday. The beheading was the 10th this year, and one of 25 since violence in Thailand's southernmost provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat flared anew in early 2004. "We found the head of the unidentified man this morning. We are investigating how they got into the village where Buddhists have been banned for sometime," Thanaphol said.
Samakkee is one of more than 200 villages that have been designated a red zone by the military because of high insurgent activity. Buddhists are banned from entering, Thanaphol said. The three salesmen, somehow, got around roadblocks and drove their pickup truck into the village where their bodies were found late Tuesday, Thanaphol said.
In other violence Wednesday, one soldier was killed and one wounded when suspected insurgents triggered a bomb while their unit was on patrol in Tungyangdaeng district of Pattani province, 750 kilometers (470 miles) south of Bangkok, police Lt. Kritsana Sirising said. Another roadside bomb Wednesday wounded eight soldiers in Yarang district of Pattani province, police Lt. Pipat Suwanarak said.
Two female Buddhist teachers were shot dead at a school in Thailand's Muslim-majority south today, prompting 50 institutions to close indefinitely for fear of further attacks, officials said.
Two men walked into the government school in Narathiwat, one of three provinces caught up in three years of Muslim separatist unrest in which more than 2300 people have been killed, and shot the teachers during the lunch break, police said. "They got off a motorcycle, walked into the school and killed the teachers in the library while others went out for lunch," a police investigator said from the scene.
Police found 11 bullet casings from two pistols near the victims, who were in their 20 and 40s. They had multiple gunshot wounds to the head and torso, he said.
Education officials immediately ordered 50 schools in the troubled Ruesoh and Sri Sakohn districts of Narathiwat to close. "We are afraid of more attacks on teachers," education ministry official Pairach Saengthong said. "How could there be more classes after such an audacious attack?"
Abssi, who was born in the West Bank town of Jericho but later fled with his family to Jordan, was freed from a Syrian jail last year and slipped into Lebanon where he made his base in the impoverished Nahr al-Bared camp.
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Five Yemenite policemen were killed and seven were wounded on Monday in clashes with armed tribesmen, according to Yemenite officials. The clashes took places in Marab province, about 175 kilometers east of the capital ‘Sana. According to the local media, the policemen were opening a highway, which was blocked off a day earlier by tribesmen from the Damashqa clan. The tribesmen were demanding jobs in nearby oil fields. A gunfight broke out in which the five security personnel were killed. The highway connects Marab city and oil fields in the ‘Safir area.
Eight suspected members of the Kurdish separatist group PKK were detained in France Tuesday in a criminal investigation into attacks on Turkish interests, judicial officials said. The eight, who are believed to be members of the PKK's youth wing, were arrested in the northern Paris suburbs, and near the cities of Bordeaux and Marseille. Police are looking into a series of firebomb attacks against Turkish businesses and associations.
QUETTA: At least four people, including policemen, were injured in a hand grenade attack on a hotel in Golli Mar Chowk on Tuesday. An unidentified motorcyclist hurled a hand grenade at the local hotel due to which a police inspector, sub-assistant inspector and a constable sustained serious injuries. The injured were transported to Bolan Medical College for treatment.
