This photo was taken just near the disinterred graves of Iraqi civilians murdered by al Qaeda. As this photo was made, Captain Bakers soldiers were still digging out the bodies nearby. The stench from the graves was horrific. The children had been decapitated. The term al Qaeda is used here, because Iraqi police, soldiers and civilians said al Qaeda had taken the village of al Hamira and done this. Most of al Qaeda in Iraq consists of Iraqis, not foreigners. Even the animals had been murdered. I saw these things with my own eyes, recorded them with my video and still cameras, and provided the map coordinates and names of American and Iraqi officials. Media ignored this massacre until pressure mounted from home to report it.
Video interview with Captain Baker at the link.
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More proof that AQ needs killed. Every one of them. No mercy.
And fuck the goddamn MSM and their traitor allies in congress.
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Reading the news today sickens me. When I was in high school, I saw one of those films of the jews being carted away in cattle cars, the starved piles of naked bodies and the shoes. And I could not understand why good people did not step in to stop it. It upsets me to this day. I refused to watch Shindler's List, as such naked evil poisons the soul.
And now here we are again. Only, this time we know. This time we have no excuses. We can stop it. Yet millons of Americans continue life as usual, with nary a care. It's like 911 is in progress and people in the Towers just stay at their desks calmly carrying out business as usual.
It's mind boggling that we have reached this point. The point wehre we speak of Rosie O'Donnel as if she has merit because she brings ratings to the show rather than booking her into the nearest hospital to treat her mental illnes or we allow the talk of traitors only to shrug our sholders and to say - yeah, whatever.
Look - I know I'm preaching to the choir here at rantburg. But I just can't understand how so many good American people can go on about their daily lives with not even a passing thought to what we could and should do to help those under the boot of Islamic Horror.
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Pls don't inter Rosie big bottom -- I don't want one red cent of my tax $$ going to support her for anything.
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a wanted rebel leader in Afghanistan, has reportedly declared a cease-fire in fighting against the Afghan government. In a statement reportedly signed by Hekmatyar and aired by a private television station, the rebel leader says members of his group are refraining from violence and have "assumed political activity."
Hekmatyar who still can't throw a grenade has not appeared in public to confirm the statement's authenticity.
Hekmatyar served briefly as Afghan prime minister in the mid-1990s and participated in many of Afghanistan's internecine conflicts. His faction, Hizb-e Islami, helped end the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Hekmatyar later became allied with the Taliban regime, but the Taliban chased him out of Kabul in 1996. In 2006, Hekmatyar appeared in a video aired on the Arabic language Al-Jazeera television station and declared he wanted his forces to fight alongside Al-Qaeda.
On July 15, the Afghan Defense Ministry announced that 30 fighters aligned with Hizb-e Islami had laid down their weapons and agreed to cooperate with the government.
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my Jaw just dropped, this has gotta be a weasel move...?
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US is building a fortification that just happens to overlook the vally where Hek's forces are hiding in Pakistan. Attempts to keep locals from contributing labor are failing - some are intimidated by Hek and radical leaders, others like the pay.
Hek's hiding places are growing fewer in number and lesser in security right now.
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Hasn't this guy always been kind of a phony? Always on the periphery of things but never really the main man? Never really sure whose side he's on. Strong enough to be a nuisance but nothing more? Generally untrustworthy? Correct me if I'm wrong but that's always the impression I've gotten.
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Maybe he's got bad knees. Really, sneaking around those rocky hills, day and night, running here, crouching there, takes its toll. The old guy prolly needs a good recliner, a beer, and a remote.
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During the Soviet invasion he spent more time fighting Massood than teh Soviets. And having his ass handled. Then the ISI tried to use him against Massood but after another defeat they dropped him and brought Mullah Omar.
Any Western military commander found agreeing to even the remotest kind of truce, ceasefire or other form of temporary halt to hostilities should be courtmartialed on the spot. There is no such thing when fighting Islamic terrorists and to even think so physically endangers all troops under one's command. This needs to become SOP. Islam must be subjected to continuous and unrelenting pressure until it cracks like the glass-jawed bully it is.
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Must be running low on cannon fodder and ammunition as well as hiding places.
I blame it on the dreaded Afghan Winter™ Oh wait, it's summertime? If that d@mn George Bush would've signed Kyoto, we'd no longer have to fear the dreaded Afghan Winter™
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Suspected Taliban militants ambushed two separate convoys of Afghan police officers driving through dangerous sections of countryside, killing six in each attack, while suicide bombers in the east killed three other officers, officials said. In other violence, militants fatally shot two police officers in the south, where four suspected Taliban were killed in a clash with NATO and Afghan forces.
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Insurgent attacks in Afghanistan killed at least nine police officials and two road workers on Wednesday. Also a suicide bomber targeting NATO forces injured a civilian in the capital, police said.
A suicide bomber in police uniform blew himself up at a provincial police headquarters in southeastern Afghanistan, killing three people and injuring eight others, police said. The incident involved two attackers, disguised as police officers, who approached the gates of the main police office in Khost, the capital of the province of the same name, and one of them opened fire at police guards.
Officers returned fire, killing one attacker, and the second blew himself up, a policeman at the scene said. We have received three killed and eight injured at our hospital from the suicide blast today, provincial health director Gul Mohammaddin Mohammadi told AFP, saying two of the dead were police and one was a civilian.
A suicide attack against Turkish NATO soldiers injured a civilian passer-by in the Afghan capital but caused no casualties among the foreign troops, police said. The attacker blew himself up as he approached an ISAF convoy, deputy Kabul police chief General Zalmai Oriakhail said.
Separately, a police convoy on the Kandahar-Kabul road was hit by gunfire and rocket propelled grenades from an unknown number of insurgents in the Shahr-e-Safa district of southern Zabul province, the provincial police chief said. Six police were martyred in the ambush, General Mohammad Yaqub told AFP.
The ninth policeman was killed overnight when insurgents attacked in Doaab district of eastern Nuristan province, governor Tamim Nuristani said, denying Taliban claims that the rebels had captured the Doaab and Mandol districts. Taliban rebels also attacked a private road construction company on Wednesday in the Showak district of southeastern Paktia province, killing an Afghan and a Philippines national and injuring four others, police said.
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(SomaliNet) A Kenyan maritime official said on Tuesday that a Panama-flagged cargo vessel has gone missing in Somalia's pirate-infested waters. Andrew Mwangura of the Kenyan branch of the Seafarers' Assistance Programme said the MV Infinity Marine 1 disappeared some 37 nautical miles off the northeastern village of Ras Hafun in late June. "The last time the ship made contact was on June 26. So far, we do not have any information about the crew," he told AFP.
The vessel, sailing from the United Arab Emirates, was carrying general cargo including food stuffs, iron sheet, generators, batteries, white wood and light vehicles.
Four vessels - one from Taiwan, another from Denmark and two from South Korea - are already currently in the hands of pirates off the coast of war-torn Somalia. In June, maritime officials said a North Korean vessel, MV Sea Prince, also went missing in the Horn of Africa waters after after loading cargo in Djibouti port. The International Maritime Bureau said this year had seen at least seven pirate attacks off Somalia's 3 700 kilometres of unpatrolled coastline.
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Why the HE** all seagoing vessels of any appreciable size are not required to be equipped with secure blind encoding location transponders is beyond me! The technology is at least 20-years old!
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The US Forces in Djibouti need to get a couple of Global Hawk aircraft, and have at least one patroling the coast of Somalia at all times, from Djibouti to Kenya. Maybe then we could discover if these pirates were coming from Puntland or Somalia, and pay them a surprise JDAM visit.
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The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested four Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) cadres and recovered 5kg power gel and 15 shells of high power hand grenade Tuesday night from Bajitpur of the district.
The arrestees are Deen Islam, 50, an Imam of Satura Jam-e-Masjid, Harun, 21, Abdul Hannan, 22, and Mohammod Hossain, 25. All are residents of Satura village of Bajitpur upazila. On information given by JMB cadre Rakib, arrested on Thursday night from Mymensingh, a Rab-9 team led by Lieutenant Commander Majharul Huq arrested the JMB cadres and recovered the power gel and shells of the hand grenade from Hilochia Shakua village under Bajitpur upazila, Rab ASP Ashraf said. RAB sources said they would hand over the JMB cadres to police.
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Standing by for the update detailing how they were led to the arms cache and the obligatory cross fire / red-shirted miscreants' demise....
Police in Manchester arrested three men Wednesday in connection with terrorism offenses. The arrests were carried out by the Greater Manchester Police's recently created counterterrorism unit in the Longsight area of the city, the force said in a statement. A fourth man was arrested under immigration legislation. Police said the arrests were made after they received a tip from the public about "alleged terrorist activity and of the existence of a potential threat."
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Four men in Britain were sentenced to prison on Tuesday for their role in a fiery protest against the publication of cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (may his drip clear up peace be upon him). Mizanur Rahman, 24, Umran Javed, 27, and Abdul Muhid 25, were convicted of incitement to murder and sentenced to six years each. During a February 2006 protest in front of the Danish embassy in London, they had called for the deaths of those who published the cartoons, prosecutors said. A fourth defendant, Abdul Saleem, 32, was jailed or four years for inciting racial hatred. The defendants had argued that they were venting their rage at the cartoons, which they considered an assault on Islam, and did not intend to incite murder. Judge Brian Barker called their actions the complete opposite of peaceful protest.
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The first sensible news from England in some time. Of course, the whole stinking pack should have been gunned down in the street and result broadcast as a warning to the rest. But prison will do in a pinch.
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Outside the court, demonstrators gathered around Anjem Choudary, the former leader of the outlawed militant group al-Ghurabaa and one of the organizers of the cartoon protest. Yelling into a loudspeaker, Mr. Choudary accused the British government of waging a crusade against Islam. "There is a consequence for nations when they do this type of thing," he said.
There is a consequence for nations when scumbags like this don't fall off of tall buildings...
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Well, ya know, tu, there's not that many really tall buildings in London. Maybe we could volunteer the Sears tower, although I'd hate for our own Haz Mat crews to have to clean up the resulting (toxic) mess. On 2nd thought, how's about air mail from 30,000 feet over Afghanistan/Pakistan, since these yahoos seem to "adore" that "pure" area?
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Hi, lotp, I hate to point this out, but this reminded me of an old incident (the boy drowning in the river), so I looked at the date, and it appears to be from 2004.
One person was arrested Thursday for attempting to sell nuclear secrets from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, federal law enforcement officials told FOX News. The person, who was not identified by officials, was named in a yet-to-be unsealed indictment and worked as a contractor for the Tennessee facility.
The suspect is expected to appear at a federal court in Knoxville, Tenn., at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, WATE-TV reported. The employee, a contracted lab worker described by one official as "low level," was unsuccessful in their attempt to sell the secrets, officials said.
Officials said the suspect managed to sneak information and material including tubes used in the uranium enrichment process out of the lab and into his trailer home. Another official said the employee was nabbed as the end-result of a FBI "sting operation," FOX News has learned.
Officials hinted to FOX News that debt may have led the man to attempt to smuggle the nuclear secrets.
Money, honey, ideology: those are usually the big three, aren't they?
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The report is partially erroneous,the ETTP is NOT the Oak Ridge National Lab. I work at ORNL. I don't know this guy,but it is likely he really is what you guys would call "white trash" and was likely trying to peddle some excess nickel from the old process of WWII Uranium enrichment.
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Worker pleads not guilty of scheme to sell nuke secrets to France
He worked at former K-25 uranium-enrichment site
By Frank Munger
A former maintenance worker at the East Tennessee Technology Park pleaded not guilty in federal court this afternoon to two charges of attempting to sell sensitive nuclear secrets to the French government.
Roy Lynn Oakley, 65, of Harriman, faces a two-count indictment charging that he stole pieces of metal rods from October 2006 to Jan. 26, 2007, for the purpose of selling them.
More seriously, he is charged with offering the material to France to injure the United States and secure an advantage to a foreign nation.
He is free on $25,000 bond and his attorney, Herbert S. Moncier, said his client never intended to harm the U.S.
Moncier wouldnt elaborate on Oakleys motives.
The arraignment occurred in U.S. District Court before Magistrate Judge Bruce Guyton.
Oakley works for contractor Bechtel Jacobs, which is engaged in dismantling old uranium-enrichment facilities at ETTP, including the original K-25 building that contains classified gaseous diffusion equipment.
Mr. Oakley was assigned to break up rods with his hands into small sections to be thrown away, according to a court document. The rods were not radioactive and, broken into pieces, had no apparent use except to be disposed.
The rods were associated with the former uranium-enrichment operations at the plant, and Oakley reportedly took three to five of the broken rods to his home and later decided they might be of interest to another country.
Documents indicated the material included sections of barrier, the highly complex filtering system that separated different isotopes of uranium and helped concentrate fissile U-235. It also included associated hardware used for uranium enrichment, according to the documents.
The French Embassy in Washington, D.C., reportedly turned down Oakleys offer, but at some point later Oakley got a call from someone purported to be an official at the embassy. It turned out to be an FBI agent, the document said.
During the conversation, Oakley was supposedly given a code name and they were reported to have negotiated a sale price for the rods.
After a sting operation on Jan. 26, Oakley was detained but not charged, according to the court document.
Neighbors said they were puzzled when the FBI raided Oakleys property in the Midtown community of Roane County. In addition to his work with Bechtel Jacobs, Oakley has real estate holdings.
The document said Oakley and Moncier had been working with the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and the U.S. attorneys office in Knoxville to negotiate a plea agreement.
However, those talks reportedly broke down, and the U.S. attorneys office secured an indictment in the case.
This morning, Oakley, accompanied by his wife and attorney, reported to the U.S. Probation Office in downtown Knoxville for processing.
While going to the sixth-floor FBI offices in the John J. Duncan Federal Office Building, the group was reportedly met by a television crew from Washington as they exited an elevator.
Moncier is now accusing the Justice Department in Washington of leaking the story to a national television network and is expected to argue at a hearing later this afternoon that he be allowed to speak about the case to the news media.
Current local rules prohibit him from doing so.
Oakley reportedly has a high school diploma and has worked as a maintenance worker or laborer all his life. The only reported blemish on his legal record was a reckless driving arrest in 1967, but that charge was later dismissed, according to a court document.
Dennis Hill, a spokesman for Bechtel Jacobs, said he could not comment on the case. John Shewairy of the Department of Energys Oak Ridge office said the same thing.
Billy Stair, a spokesman at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, today confirmed that the lab participated closely with the U.S. attorneys office in the investigation.
Stair said he could not confirm any details or discuss the case, but he emphasized the reported suspect is not an ORNL employee.
He was not one of our people. I know thats for sure, Stair said.
WNBC.com of New York said federal investigators are calling the theft of secrets a serious breach of security.
Oak Ridge has a long history of nuclear research, dating back to the World War II Manhattan Project. In more recent times, ORNL has collaborated with the U.S. Enrichment Corp. on development of advanced centrifuge technologies to enhance the capabilities for enriching uranium for nuclear reactor fuel.
Elizabeth Stuckle, a spokeswoman for USEC in Bethesda, Md., said, It has nothing to do with USEC at all.
Bechtel Jacobs, DOEs environmental cleanup manager, is engaged in a years-long cleanup and dismantlement of former uranium-enrichment facilities at the East Tennessee Technology Park. That includes the removal of uranium deposits in the process systems at the K-25 building, a World War II-era structure.
Even though the gaseous diffusion operations are more than 60 years old, much of the technology remains classified.
Security at U.S. Department of Energy facilities has a huge concern in recent years, dating back to the Wen Ho Lee scandal in 1999 at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Lee initially was accused of accused of stealing nuclear secrets for the Peoples Republic of China, but he was later cleared of those allegations.
There have been many other incidents, however, and last the National Nuclear Security Administration proposed a $3 million fine against the operating contractors at Los Alamos for violation of security requirements involving classified information. Investigations at that lab revealed that security weaknesses allowed a subcontractor employee to reproduce and remove classified info from the federal site.
More details as they develop online and in Fridays News Sentinel.
The widow of Daniel Pearl has sued more than a dozen reputed terrorists and Pakistan's largest bank, blaming them for the torture and murder of the Wall Street Journal reporter in 2002. A complaint filed Wednesday in Brooklyn federal court by Mariane Pearl and her husband's estate alleges Habib Bank Limited of Karachi knowingly provided financial services for al-Qaida and other terrorist groups.
Backed by the bank, terrorists "carried out the kidnapping, ransom, torture, execution and dismemberment of Daniel Pearl and broadcast those images nationwide," the lawsuit said. The suit seeks unspecified damages for acts it alleges were meant to "emotionally destroy the Pearl family and terrorize, appall and frighten American citizens." Also named as a defendant in the suit is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the imprisoned al-Qaida No. 3 leader and suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, along with an outlawed Islamic charity, the al-Rashid Trust.
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Marianne Pearl's attorney is Nathan Lewin who lives less than a mile from me.
He is a very bright fellow and a very nice person also and he and his law firm have been involved in these type of cases for a decade.
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's turmoil spread from the Afghan frontier to the south, where a suicide bomber struck a convoy carrying Chinese workersone of three suicide attacks that killed at least 51 people Thursday.
President Gen. Pervez Musharraf called for national unity against extremists enraged by the army's bloody assault on Islamabad's Red Mosque.
Suicide attacks, bombings and shootings and the siege of the mosque, which had mounted a Taliban-style anti-vice campaign challenging the government's authority, have killed about 285 people in Pakistan so far this month, raising concern about the threat posed by Islamic extremists.
In the deadliest attack Thursday, a car bomber targeting a minibus carrying about 10 Chinese technicians pulled up to their convoy as it was passing through the main bazaar in Hub, a town in Baluchistan province near the southern city of Karachi.
It blew up next to a police vehicle escorting the foreign workers, killing 29 people22 Pakistani civilians and seven police officers. Thirty other people were wounded, said Hub police chief Ghulam Mohammed Thaib.
Maj. Gen. Saleem Nawaz, a commander of the paramilitary Frontier Constabulary, considered the outcome fortunate.
"It was laden with very heavy explosives, but due to our spacing and our security measures, Allah has been very kind," Nawaz said on Dawn News television.
The police "sacrificed their lives and the Chinese friends were absolutely safe," he said.
The blast ripped off the front of several roadside shops. Several damaged cars and buses lay rammed into one another among a tangle of bricks and clothing.
Then late Thursday, a suicide attacker detonated a bomb at a mosque in an army camp in the northwestern town of Kohat, killing at least 15 people, officials said. According to a special branch police officer, about 30 people were wounded.
The blast went off as trainee soldiers held evening prayers. District chief Sedh Ghoar said the wounded included at least two children.
Earlier, a suicide car bomber detonated his explosives when guards prevented him from entering the parade ground of the police academy in another northwestern town, Hangu, 45 miles southwest of Peshawar.
The bomber killed six bystanders and one policeman, and 24 othe people were wounded, academy chief Attaullah Wazir said. Several hundred trainees were receiving instruction on the parade ground at the time, he said.
The spate of bombings, the deepest security crisis faced by Musharraf since he seized power in 1999, has also begun to weigh on Pakistan's capital markets, suggesting it could soon threaten the strong economic growth that is one of the general's proudest boasts.
The Karachi Stock Exchange's main share index fell by about 3.4 percent Thursday, extending a slide begun the previous day, with analysts saying the violence scared off investors.
"We have to take the country forward, and with extremist activities all economic achievements made over the years will go to waste," Musharraf told a gathering of students in Islamabad.
He urged the country to unite against "a few misguided elements bent upon killing their fellow Muslims," according to the official news agency Associated Press of Pakistan.
Much of the violence has been in North West Frontier Province, especially North Waziristan, where pro-Taliban militants last weekend declared the end of a 10-month-old peace deal. The government has since been trying to revive it.
On Thursday, 30 elders from several tribal regions of the northwest traveled to North Waziristan in the latest government-backed effort to persuade militants to halt the violence.
"Our urgent demand is that there should be a cease-fire so that we can find a peaceful solution to this problem in a peaceful atmosphere according to tribal traditions," said the group's leader Malik Waris Khan Afridi.
Musharraf insists the accordunder which the military scaled back its operations in the U.S.-led war on terror in return for pledges from tribal leaders to contain militancyoffers the best long-term hope of pacifying the region.
However, U.S. officials warn the pact has given al-Qaida new opportunities to strengthen their operations in Pakistan, Afghanistan and beyond.
Meanwhile, Pakistan's suspended chief justice pressed a court to overturn Musharraf's decision to suspend him, or risk casting Pakistan further toward political instability.
Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry's legal battle with Musharraf has damaged the general's standing and galvanized opposition to military rule ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections due within six months.
A verdict on his appeal against Musharraf's decision to suspend him and have a judicial tribunal investigate him for misconduct is expected on Friday.
Chaudhry's chief counsel warned the court Thursday that failure to reinstate the judge "will create more instability."
Associated Press writers Abdul Sattar in Quetta, Riaz Khan in Peshawar, and Munir Ahmad and Sadaqat Jan in Islamabad contributed to this report.
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Article: In the deadliest attack Thursday, a car bomber targeting a minibus carrying about 10 Chinese technicians pulled up to their convoy as it was passing through the main bazaar in Hub, a town in Baluchistan province near the southern city of Karachi.
Whatever the truth of the Chinese being the prime movers behind the assault on the Red Mosque, jihadis obviously believe it.
SRINAGAR, India - Indian soldiers in revolt-hit Kashmir have shot dead a top Islamic militant believed to have been coordinating attacks across the country, police said on Wednesday. Soldiers have shot dead Abu Umar, the all-India coordinator of Lashkar-e-Toiba militant group, a police spokesman said in Kashmirs summer capital of Srinagar.
Police said Umar was shot dead in a brief gunbattle late Tuesday. Abu Umar was wanted for many militancy-related incidents. His death is a big success for the security forces, the spokesman said. Police said Umar had been active in Kashmir for the past eight years and was involved in the murder of a senior police officer in May.
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"brief" as in "capture and kill"?
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You can't get much briefer than a one shot (behind the ear)gunbattle.
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The Indian Army Commader General JJ Singh has issued orders prohibiting soldiers from displaying the bodies of dead jihadis or posing with them.
Some junior officers have now begun to photograph the bodies, putting up the photos on a board during press conferences. General Singh said nothing about displaying photos of jihadis.
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An Indian army soldier carries a heavy weapon as the army proceeds towards the site of a gun battle in Saloora, 25 km (16 miles) east of Srinagar
Members of the Village Defence Committee (VDC) receive arms training from army officers in Jammu July 3, 2007. The Indian army trains and provides arms to VDC members to help fight militants
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Do my eyes decieve me, or are the members of the Village Defence Committee using .303 Lee-Enfields?
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Yep.. the Ishapore factory continued to make them until 1975.
The Army handed over most to the various Indian police forces. As the police themselves upgrade, the venerable 303s get handed to the VDFs.
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303 Lee-Enfields have likely killed more people over the years than any other weapon ever made.
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Mohammad Khalid-ur-Rahman, a Pakistani national who played a core role in organising the Lashkar-e-Taibas pan-India terror networks, was killed in a shootout with police and troops near Bhaderwah in Jammu and Kashmirs Doda district on Wednesday.
A resident of Bahawalpur in the Pakistani province of Punjab, Khalid-ur-Rahman served as divisional commander of the Lashkars operations in the mountainous Doda province. Apart from executing a near-successful attempt on the life of Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, he, it is believed, was the architect of plans to set up new Lashkar networks in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh.
Khalid-ur-Rahmans elimination marks a major success for the Jammu and Kashmir police, who lost one of their most-decorated officers in the course of a year-long hunt for the terrorist. Deputy Superintendent of Police Shaily Singh was killed near Bhaderwah in May after Lashkar spies discovered that he was engaged in a covert surveillance operation directed against their commander.
Intelligence sources say Khalid-ur-Rahman had ambitious plans to set up Lashkar cells in several States. While few details of the cells are available, at least seven Lashkar operatives are known to have been sent into Mumbai this March by a boat owned by a lieutenant of the Karachi-based mafioso Dawood Ibrahim Kaksar. Members of the group are believed to have dispersed in New Delhi, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir.
Delhi police personnel, who participated in the communications-intelligence operation which led to the Bhaderwah encounter, recently detected large-scale movement of hawala funds intended to feed the Lashkar commanders expansion plans. The Doda police last month arrested local Congress activist Mohammad Jamal on charges of acting as courier for one such hawala transfer.
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Khalid-ur-Rahman was amongst the Lashkars longest-serving Pakistani nationals. He is believed to have joined the organisations campaign in the State just after the Kargil war, and helped to coordinate a string of fidayeen (suicide squad) strikes against military targets soon after. Later, he commanded the Lashkar units operating in Srinagar, Anantnag and Baramulla.
Intelligence sources say Khalid-ur-Rahman was assigned charge of the Doda region in early 2006. He announced his arrival by organising the massacre of 19 villagers, including an eight-year-old girl, in the hamlet of Kulhand in April that year. Extortion operations targeting contractors working on the new Doda-Bharat road were also intensified to raise funds for the Lashkars expanding network.
Khalid-ur-Rahmans efforts to establish the Lashkar as the principal terror group in the Doda region were, ironically, aided by a successful police offensive on its principal competitor. In October 2006, the police shot dead top Hizb ul-Mujahideen commander Noor Mohammad, who operated under the alias Javed Burki. Left without leadership, many of his lieutenants joined the Lashkar.
With the help of these one-time Hizb operatives, Khalid-ur-Rahman mounted a number of high-profile operations. In April, he executed a near-successful attempt on Mr. Azads life. Armed with fake identification, Lashkar sympathiser Farooq Ahmed Wani and his wife Haseena Wani tried to infiltrate Pakistani fidayeen Ayaz Ahmed Malik into a rally the Chief Minister was to address in Ramban.
This article starring:
AIAZ AHMED MALIK
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad
Dawood Ibrahim Kaksar
Deputy Superintendent of Police Shaily Singh
FARUQ AHMED WANI
Lashkar-e-Taiba
HASINA WANI
Lashkar-e-Taiba
JAVED BURKI
Hizb ul-Mujahideen
MOHAMAD JAMAL
Lashkar-e-Taiba
MOHAMAD KHALID UR RAHMAN
Lashkar-e-Taiba
NUR MOHAMAD
Hizb ul-Mujahideen
Hizb ul-Mujahideen
Lashkar-e-Taiba
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An Indian judge on Wednesday handed out the first death sentences to three men convicted of planting a series of bombs that ripped through India's financial capital in 1993, killing 257 people in India's deadliest terrorist attack. Justice Pramod Kode handed the sentences to Parvez Shaikh, Mushtaq Tarani and Abdul Ghani Turk. All three were convicted of planting explosive laden suitcases and scooters in Mumbai on March 12, 1993.
More than 100 people were convicted of involvement in the plot, thought to be an act acts of revenge for the demolition of a 16th century mosque by Hindu nationalists in northern India in 1992. After the demolition, religious riots erupted, leaving more than 800 dead, most of them Muslims. However, these were the first death sentences handed down in the case, which is nearing the end of one of India's longest and most closely watched trials. As many as 13 other bombers are awaiting sentencing.
Those convicted include gangsters, smugglers, fishermen, customs officers, police officials, homemakers and a famous Bollywood actor. Many were convicted in absentia. Thirty-five suspects remain at large. Authorities say many are hiding in Pakistan, a charge Islamabad denies.
Shaikh was convicted of planting a scooter packed with explosives in a crowded Mumbai market and an explosives-filled suitcase in a city hotel. Tarani placed a bomb inside a suitcase in a city hotel that caused extensive damage and planting a scooter with explosives in a crowded downtown street that did not detonate. Turk was sentenced to death for packing a jeep with bombs near Mumbai's passport office.
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Militants continued their attacks on security forces in the countrys northwest on Wednesday, killing 17 soldiers and wounding up to 12 others in two strikes against military convoys, officials said, as the army said that paramilitary soldiers shot dead five militants in a separate incident.
A military convoy was attacked in the Ghazlami area, 40 kilometres west of Miranshah, when it was coming from Lwara Mandi. Seventeen soldiers were martyred and 12 others injured in the clash, military spokesman Maj Gen Waheed Arshad told Daily Times. He denied that the militants had ambushed the convoy. They (the militants) first attacked the convoy with rockets and then opened fire with automatic weapons, a security official, asking not to be named, told Daily Times. In this type of attack, the targeted people have little time to respond and get higher casualties, he added. Gen Arshad said that 12 to 15 militants were killed in retaliatory fire. He said that it was not known yet which militant group was attacking the security forces.
A soldier and four civilians were injured in a remote-controlled bomb attack on another military convoy, while a 12-year-old boy received bullet injuries when the soldiers opened fire in self-defence. Militants also fired five rockets on a military base in Miranshah late on Tuesday night, but there were no damages, army sources said.
Gen Arshad said that five militants were killed when paramilitary troops challenged them near Mir Ali. However, witnesses said the FC soldiers shot at a mentally-retarded man in Ptasi Adda near Mir Ali bazaar when he ignored their calls to stop.
The government will hold a meeting with a 45-member jirga that negotiated the peace deal with the militants last year. We have been invited for a meeting with NWFP Governor Ali Jan Orakzai on Thursday (today). We dont know the agenda, but the meeting will obviously focus on the peace deal, Malik Waris Khan from Khyber Agency, who is among 45 other elders from six tribal regions to attend the meeting, told Daily Times in Peshawar.
Separately a landmine exploded overnight outside the home of politician Ajmal Khan, who served as federal sports minister in the 1990s, in Miranshah. The blast destroyed his front gate but caused no casualties, a relative said. Meanwhile late on Wednesday evening, security forces fired mortar shells on suspected militant positions on hilltops surrounding Miranshah.
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G*d must love GWB, always cleans up his mistakes.
Suspected Islamic militants in a restive Pakistani tribal town beheaded a man accused of spying for US forces across the border on Wednesday, officials said. The militants dumped the body of the unidentified victim in his 20s in an isolated area near the northwestern town of Khar in the Bajaur tribal district, local administration official Fazle Rabbi said. Villagers found the beheaded body and informed us, he said. The militants, the official said, had left a note near the body, which read, Those who spy for US forces will meet this fate. It was the second killing this week of an alleged US spy in the area, after militants on Tuesday slit the throat of a 40-year-old Afghan refugee from the neighbouring Afghan province of Kunar. Hundreds of extremists fled into Pakistans mountainous border areas after the ouster of the Taliban regime in the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, where they found support from conservative Pakistani tribesmen.
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Sakhi Mohammad Kahoot, the judge of Anti-Terrorism Court, Rawalpindi, on Wednesday extended the physical remand of Umme Hassan, the wife of Lal Masjid chief cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz, and her two daughters to another three days. Aabpara police had registered a case against Umme Hassan and her two daughters, Tayyaba Dua and Asma Aziz, on July 3 for their involvement in the killing of a Rangers official. The judge directed the investigating officer (IO) to reproduce the accused in the court on July 21. The IO sought a seven-day physical remand of the accused, however, the court extended the remand to three days. The court also extended the physical remand of Mohammad Afzal, reportedly a teacher at Jamia Faridia, in the same case to another five days. The court adjourned hearing in the Chinese nationals abduction case. Hashmat Habib Advocate, the lawyer of Maulana Abdul Aziz, had filed bail applications of Tayyaba Dua and Asma Aziz. The court admitted the applications and adjourned hearing for July 21.
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Police on Wednesday defused a toy bomb, which created panic among people in the Machni police station precinct. Capital City Police Officer Abdul Majeed Marwat said that the device was planted under a vehicle near a family planning office. The bomb disposal squad was called in and they defused the device. Police have registered a case and started investigating.
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Coalition Forces positively identified a third foreign terrorist killed in an operation June 23 south of Hawija.
Ahmed Sancar, also known as Khattab al-Turki, was a known terrorist and senior leader in al-Qaeda and a key financier and facilitator for the terrorist group. Sancar was killed during the same operation that killed Mehmet Yilmaz, also known as Khalid al-Turki, and Mehmet Resit Isik, also known as Khalil al-Turki. Yilmaz was a close associate of Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, the mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Yilmaz also led a group of Turks to Afghanistan in 2001 to fight against Coalition Forces.
Intelligence reports indicate that Sancar, like Isik, performed key communication and logistic roles for al-Qaeda in Iraq and coordinated with other senior al-Qaeda facilitators. Intelligence reports also indicate that prior to Sancars death, he was aggressively pursuing a plan to attack northern Iraq, specifically focusing on the Kurdish-controlled areas to increase al-Qaeda in Iraqs operational reach in the country.
Coalition Forces killed the three foreign terrorists and senior al-Qaeda in Iraq leaders in an operation June 23. During the course of surveillance operations, Coalition Forces identified a vehicle which they assessed to contain Yilmaz and three associates traveling together. When the vehicle stopped, Coalition Forces moved to detain the four individuals. The four men exited the vehicle, which was followed during surveillance operations, with weapons in hand. As Coalition Forces moved to detain the armed men, the four armed terrorists fired on the forces. Responding in self-defense, Coalition Forces engaged the armed men, killing all four. Inside the vehicle, Coalition Forces found rocket-propelled grenades, an RPG launcher, numerous AK 47 rifle magazines, a pistol and suspected homemade explosive materials. They safely destroyed the vehicle and weapons on site.
This article starring:
AHMED SANCAR
al-Qaeda in Iraq
KHALID AL TURKI
al-Qaeda in Iraq
KHALID SHEIKH MUHAMAD
al-Qaeda
KHALIL AL TURKI
al-Qaeda in Iraq
KHATTAB AL TURKI
al-Qaeda in Iraq
KNOWN TERRORIST AND SENIOR LEADER IN AL QAEDA AND A KEY FINANCIER AND FACILITATOR FOR THE TERRORIST GRUP.
al-Qaeda in Iraq
MEHMET RESIT ISIK
al-Qaeda in Iraq
MEHMET YILMAZ
al-Qaeda in Iraq
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"Inside the vehicle, Coalition Forces found rocket-propelled grenades, an RPG launcher, numerous AK 47 rifle magazines, a pistol and suspected homemade explosive materials. "
Seven of the most important Sunni-led insurgent organisations fighting the US occupation in Iraq have agreed to form a public political alliance with the aim of preparing for negotiations in advance of an American withdrawal, their leaders have told the Guardian.
In a personal, exclusive interview, no doubt.
In their first interview with the western media since the US-British invasion of 2003, leaders of three of the insurgent groups - responsible for thousands of attacks against US and Iraqi armed forces and police - said they would continue their armed resistance until all foreign troops were withdrawn from Iraq, and denounced al-Qaida for sectarian killings and suicide bombings against civilians.
Speaking while safely hidden in Damascus, the spokesmen for the three groups - the 1920 Revolution Brigades, Ansar al-Sunna and Iraqi Hamas - said they planned to hold a congress to launch a united front and appealed to Arab governments, other governments and the UN to help them establish a permanent political presence safely outside Iraq.
Yeah, put 'em somewhere we can reach 'em.
Abu Ahmad, spokesman for Iraqi Hamas said: "Peaceful resistance will not end the occupation. The US made clear it intended to stay for many decades. Now it is a common view in the resistance that they will start to withdraw within a year. "
Thanks, Nancy and Harry.
The move represents a dramatic change of strategy for the mainstream Iraqi insurgency, whose leadership has remained shadowy and has largely restricted communication with the world to brief statements on the internet and Arabic media.
Leaders of the three groups, who were too cowardly to did not use their real names in the interview, said the new front, which brings together the main Sunni-based armed organisations except al-Qaida and the Ba'athists, had agreed the main planks of a joint political programme, including a commitment to free Iraq from foreign troops, rejection of cooperation with parties involved in political institutions set up under the occupation and a declaration that decisions and agreements made by the US occupation and Iraqi government are null and void.
The aim of the alliance - which includes a range of Islamist and nationalist-leaning groups and is planned to be called the Political Office for the Iraqi Resistance - is to link up with other anti-occupation groups in Iraq to negotiate with the Americans in anticipation of an early US withdrawal. The programme envisages a temporary technocratic government to run the country during a transition period until free elections can be held.
We can all see the 1920 Brigades and Hamas running free elections, eh? And they have plenty of 'technocrats' within their ranks, no doubt.
The insurgent groups deny support from any foreign government, including Syria, but claim they have been offered and rejected funding and arms from Iran.
Because they're too pure. E'eryone knows that.
They say they have been under pressure from Saudi Arabia and Turkey to unite. "We are the only resistance movement in modern history which has received no help or support from any other country," Abdallah Suleiman Omary, head of the political department of the 1920 Revolution Brigades, told the Guardian. "The reason is we are fighting America."
Glad to know we still strike fear into the hearts of someone.
All three Sunni-based resistance leaders say they are acutely aware of the threat posed by sectarian division to the future of Iraq and emphasised the importance of working with Shia groups - but rejected any link with the Shia militia and parties because of their participation in the political institutions set up by the Americans and their role in sectarian killings.
And because they're ucky.
Abd al-Rahman al-Zubeidy, political spokesman of Ansar al-Sunna, a salafist (purist Islamic) group with a particularly violent reputation in Iraq, said his organisation had split over relations with al-Qaida, whose members were mostly Iraqi, but its leaders largely foreigners. "Resistance isn't just about killing Americans without aims or goals. Our people have come to hate al-Qaida, which gives the impression to the outside world that the resistance in Iraq are terrorists. We are against indiscriminate killing, fighting should be concentrated only on the enemy," he said. He added: "A great gap has opened up between Sunni and Shia under the occupation and al-Qaida has contributed to that."
This article starring:
Abdallah Suleiman Omary
Abd al-Rahman al-Zubeidy
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Ansar al-Sunna
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Political Office for the Iraqi Resistance
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I wonder if Nancy got an office tour during her Damascus boondoggle.
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I don't know, maybe I just don't get it - but to me, this is just so silly on so many levels that only an Al Guardian reporter could see the "logic" in this.
Let me see if I get this straight: Pure Iraqi Sunni insurgents (no Baathists, no Al Qaeda) intend to all hold hands, sing a little Kumbaya and form a public political alliance with the aim of preparing for negotiations in Advance of an American withdrawl, to plan for... putting themselves in charge.
Sooo - they agreed the main planks of a joint political programme, including a commitment to free Iraq from foreign troops, rejection of cooperation with parties involved in political institutions set up under the occupation and a declaration that decisions and agreements made by the US occupation and Iraqi government are null and void.
sooo ...Do they think that the MAJORITY Shia, Sunni and Independent minded Kurds, currently in power are going to say, yeah, that's cool dudes. You oppressed us for years, but we'd be happy to hand over the reigns so you can set up a temporary technocratic government, with a promise of free elections. After all, making sure you Sunnis are back in power is the numero uno reason why we will be willing to slaughter you and your families negotiate these terms with you. Yep, yep, we MAJORITY Shia and Kurds are so anxious to have you back in power that we can't wait to get rid of the American occupiers so we can slaughter each and every one of you Sunnis without American interference can restore you to your rightful place as our Sunni overlords.
hmmm. Well I guess it all makes sense to the Guardian. After all, if these pure as the driven snow Sunni insurgent groups, who have been killing their countrymen for decades, are for the end of the occupation, who could be against that? Right?
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For the last month, that old phrase, "no taxation without representation" keeps coming to my mind.
It's really about, if I were an Iraqi, at the age I am (let's just put it into the early 6 decades) would I even understand what "representation" means?
And I certainly wouldn't trust anyone offering me anything other than what I currently knew. After all, I have learned to live and raise my family, suffering the repression of Saddam.
So what could have been done differently for the Iraqi's to bring them to understand this concept of representation? What of Bush's "done wrongs" should not have been done?
I think, not much. The Iraqis first have had to individually decide, who can I trust. It takes time to establish trust. They had to try out all the options they had. Some of those options included the same old same old of Saddams's regime, and some included worse experiences than they had already endured.
Trust first must be established, then, we can deal with the question of "no representation" and forget that "no taxation" stuff till we understand "representation."
Iraqi's are quickly beginning to make visible to us Americans, that that young man that is waving to those kids, taking their pictures, after all these years, really is that young man, who just wants to take pictures of my kids! And protect me, so I can understand representation in some form, and he can go home.
Our young Captains and Majors are serving not only as mayors of villages, but teaching this concept of "no taxation without representation."
And there is a long road ahead to understanding the representation thing.
A true nanny state Iraqi has been..... even to the vaccine the shepherds need to keep their herds healthy, came from Saddam. The shepherds must learn now, how is it that they now get that vaccine to keep their herds healthy? They know they need it, just how to get it is a learning experience.
In past education jargon, we called it, "learning by discovery." I think I'm beginning to understand our young military corp, that long have been telling us, the good they feel they are doing..... what they have known all along, they are giving to these people. That they don't want to come home, till their mission is finish. About how good they feel about what they are doing. Opening schools, hospitals, clearing up the sewage. Yea, they're seeing some ugly stuff, but, they know, they are making a difference. Marines letting the smuggling of sheep over the border to Syria happen, cause they know, they are there to protect these folks, so they can raise their sheep. They stand guard, in their warrior armour, so the sheep buying can happen.
I'm finding lately, my thoughts are very much as they were in my second decade --- this can't be happening..... how can this be happening?
I remember the day I saw that footage of those helicopters leaving our embassy in Saigon..... and I can't believe, I'm about to see it again.
The day I buried I husband, upon walking into my house, the local ladies keeping watch throughout the day, had the TV on. George Bush 41 had just come on. As I stopped to listen, he was announcing, the bombing of Iraqi. My late Marine husband had said, in November, "we've got to take that guy out." He also had talked about, what it might be like, to be an Iraqi and what life would be after we took Saddam out. He talked of the trust that the Iraqi people would have to find. He had been one of those "silent" Marines that had been to the shores of Vietnam, before we ever heard of Vietnam. I often wish, his/my generation that is now power, had learned what he had learned, could now see the world through his eyes.....
That was in late 1990... He had it right then.... he gave them five years.... before they would begin to find their way....
I only wish I knew the secret to knowing what to do, to keep from seeing those helicopters flying out of the Green Zone. I only wish, we give the Iraqi times to find their way.... this really should be a Democrat's dreams...... to totally manage a nanny state..... and if it had been anyone other than George Bush where he is...... why, they could have swooped in with all their nanny state protections... and been the heros of the worlds. Replacing the Saddam method of governing, providing the sheep vaccine, without Saddam's genocide of the people. But then, they do know that our leaving before it is time, the NYTimes tells us, genocide will occur.
I take it then, when the question is put to the Democrats, "what is your plan?" It is to provide in the nanny state style, the government gives to all, including the sheep vaccine until the the UN puts in peacekeepers, to abate the killings, the genocide that happens between the Saudi Sunnis and the Iranian Shites.... and then the peacekeepers come to continue the rape of the wives and the daughters.
My small town of Bauxite, Arkansas came into existence in WWII, providing all the bauxite ore and processing that ore into the fine white powder that became the aluminum that became all those planes that flew both the European and Japanese fronts. It's gone now.... except for a small community, our schools and our heritage of the values that raised us.
Will I, in the last part of my lifetime, see other towns come into existence to support some industry that is needed to fight this ideology of death, with the intentions of killing us, we now face? I think so..... I'm expecting it sooner, rather than later. I just wish it wouldn't take my once again watching thousands and probably even millions of us dying.......
If you made it this far in your reading... thanks for indulging this litl'e ole lady...... These words had long been in my typing on lots of occasions, to be deleted..... but, tonight I post them....
And say thank you... to this incredible generation of my young, next door neighbor young Marine who used to mow my grass, knowing just what they are doing, how they are doing it..... under such incredible pressure from their "leadership" knowing he and his friends smile and say, "just doing my job, mam'm."
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Sherry, thanks for a great post! I pray to God we won't see those helicopters. There is no excuse this time around. None whatsoever.
I don't know. Despite the fact that the Liberals have been working feverously overtime to assure that an Iraq defeat is snatched from the jaws of victory - I just think that it is all starting to fall apart for them in an out of control downward spiral . Maybe it is wishful thinking on my part, but it seems to me that that what we are seeing in the subversive and lemming liberals is a death rattle. Overnight Sleep overs as a publicity stunt when you know you will lose? The impotence of Harry Reid's move was staggering.
No matter how hard the papers and the pollsters and the wires and the networks and the Hollywood minions try to spin it - they've lost their grip and no amount of PR is going to help them get it back. Time is not on the jihadist or lemming liberal side. Each day in our world brings new atrocities that expose these folks for what they are - fools and/or fiends. I don't underestimate them - but it seems to me that their current grand actions are nothing more than the flailings of a drowning man.
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The real point to keep in mind about all of this is that the Democrats CANNOT force the US out of Iraq, UNLESS President Bush signs off on it. The Constitution clearly reserves the power of Commander-in-Chief to the President, and gives Congress the power to defund a war they disagree with. The Democrats have made perfectly clear that they will NOT defund the war, and unless they can come up with a 2/3 majority in both the House and the Senate, they cannot pass legislation mandating a withdrawal due to the Presidential veto.
All the Democrats have been doing is a twisted little kabuki for their nut squads, the hardcore lefties and defeatists that make up so much of their primary voters. This temper tantrum display of an all nighter in the Senate that had NO chance of success from the first moment is a prime example of that.
President Bush has made it clear that he will NOT withdraw from Iraq, and so come January 2009, the new President of whichever party will be the one who decides if we stay or if we flee. And by that time, the Surge and the subsequent cleanup operations will have reduced the terrorists enough for the Iraqis to handle themselves. Even then, we, meaning the US, will be in Iraq for another couple of decades at least. Flipping Bosnia was supposed to be a 9 month operation, and we still have people there.
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Re: Sherry's comments, I remember reading that in 2003 when we went into Iraq, over 75% of all Iraqis had spent their entire lives under Saddam's dictatorship.
It's like those who lived under the Soviets - an entire culture gets degraded and warped, it's worse characteristics get more entrenched and honor, trust and decency get stamped out.
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The insurgent groups deny support from any foreign government, including Syria, but claim they have been offered and rejected funding and arms from Iran.
Good enough reason to attack Iran?????
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I thought the insurgents already had a political front. Can't remember the name, but I think the initials were "DNC" or some such.
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But I'm in a blue state and I'm wondering if doing so wouldn't get them elected.
The one thing they do well is read the polls. If it would help them get elected, they'd do it. But they know it wouldn't. They had to get rightish candidates to take back control of the house. If they force it they lose. If they keep toying with it, they have a great fund raising and election issue.
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Very well written, Sherry dear. Moses led the Israelites round and round the desert for 40 years until the generation born in freedom was ready to take over. At least in Iraq some of the old people remember being free -- that'll give them a head start. And the training the Iraqis are receiving at the hands of our troops, as you describe, will accelerate the process.
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even IF a democrat is elected in 2009 this is still a Sunni fantasy. The idea presented in this article, that they will shake a few hands, promise to be pure from foreign influence and have future elections, is ridiculous on it's face and could only be considered viable by someone who is deluded, like this Guardian reporter.
The Iraqi Sunnis are a small minority, with a very big ego, who are bitterly hated by the majority of Iraqis. The idead that these "Seven most important Sunni-led insurgent groups" only need to pitch the idea (outlined in this article) to arrive at their goal (outlined in this article) is ludicrous!
The current powers-that-be will not step aside for this fantasy, which only a Guardian reporter could put to paper with a straight face.
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elected inaugurated in 2009
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A truly fine post, Sherry. Thank you so much for the personal insight and genuine feelings expressed in it. Despite what Oscar Wilde said about how: "The only things worth learning can't be taught", I still find that living history often teaches some of the most valuable lessons of all.
they planned to hold a congress to launch a united front and appealed to Arab governments
Great idea, guyz. Bunch up and smile for the camera target illuminator.
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These fellers might want to check back home. Some of their former friends are now on our side. The 1920's, for example, have lost a lot of guys coming over to fight beside us against AQ, then they stay on as the local police element, with our muscle to back them up.
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Sherry, thanks for a great post! I pray to God we won't see those helicopters. There is no excuse this time around. None whatsoever.
Thanks, Sherry for your post. This truly sums up the ENTIRE point! Many of us "young whipper-snappers" are truly paying attention to this nation of ours. We've had our Pearl Harbor, and are working hard to inform the public of the horrors that Islam itself holds. We are a small minority, but determined to NEVER let it happen again. And, with the newer technologies of the internet, talk radio, etc., we now get our news from other sources. I was born in 1973, yet I truly understand the EFFECT those helicopters in Saigon held! We KNOW what will come next, and heck, even most Donks admit what will happen next.
Therefore, to KNOWINGLY do it anyways (pull out) is itself a "War Crime." I would hope that the Congresscritters know that we the people will NOT allow Saigon (and thus, Cambodia) to happen again! I can't but help wonder what portion of that 60% of the nation "who feel our country is headed in the wrong direction" actually mean that they want Bush to be TOUGHER! We've seen what fighting to a cease-fire (instead of a complete surrender) can do. We're still in Germany, Japan, Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Caucasus, etc. BECAUSE (well, with the exception of Germany and Japan) we don't fight to win, anymore! I understand this, and I promise you "older generation" I will do my d@mndest to never let it happen again!
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Well said - BA. The media is not going to do this, so internet and TV radio need to start reminding everyone about the Saigon Slaughter and ask those who really aren't paying all that much attention, if they are OK with allowing it to happen again, especially in a country that is willing and able to work towards establishing a functioning "democratic" government.
Certainly thousands of pictures exist of the mounds of skulls, the desperate boat people and the mass graves full of women, children and infants. There are MILLIONS!!!! of stories from people alive today of the suffering and desperation they endured from the our betrayl. These people need to stand up (and more importantly) AND BE HEARD!
We need to have the majority of the American people (ie: the ones who are NOT committed lefty loons or subversive snakes)and understand what a troop withdrawl means and ask them, "Are you OK with this happening again?"
Look - most people don't keep up with this stuff. They watch a snippets on the news and believe the endless, never ceasing hype that "Americans are tired of the war and should go home". We need to reach these people with the magnitude of what will happen and ask them, "Are you ok with that?" I believe that once this uninfomed majority grasp what they are condoning they will stand up and say, "NO!".
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Agreed, AT! To do this KNOWING the consequences (heck, even the NYSlimes admits that an all out slaughter would occur if we left now) is farkin' criminal in my mind.
We just smacked down the Congress (and the President) over the Amnesty bill HARD! Make them hear from "We the People" again. This is what p!sses me right off about all the polling lately....it's all "The President's at his lowest approval rating ever", yet they (conveniently) fail to mention that he's still twice as popular (in their own poll) than the Democratically-controlled Congress! And, the "negative" end of the poll includes those who think the Prez is doing a "fair" job. If any of these yahoos succeed in pulling us out (especially before letting the surge truly take effect) early, I humbly implore all of my fellow 'burgians to help bring them to justice and charge them with war crimes.
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To do this KNOWING the consequences is farkin' criminal. It is hard to fathom anyone supporting this.
I heard Zogby and another pollster making the rounds of talk radio yesterday trying to spin the historically low Congressional polls as the result of Katrina. I kid you not! Yeah, right, TWO FREAKING YEARS LATER, these low polls are a DIRECT relation to Katrina. It would be laughable if so many did not suck it right through their straw.
Yeah, right. We aren't ALL disgusted with their corruption and lack of ability to work in our interests - we are disenchanted with the way GW handled Katrina that is the source of our discontent. unfricking real.
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oops - I was unclear. I meant it is hard to fathom anyone with an ounce of humanity supporting another Saigon slaughter.
I think I'm going make myself a bumper sticker with a little red NO Saigon symbol, that says, "WITHDRAWL = GENOCIDE, SUPPORT OUR TROOPS IN IRAQ
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Sherry, it's too bad we have so few in Congress who come anywhere close to understanding what you've written. I for one am grateful for men like your husband who hear the call to serve not only their country but people they don't even know in a country like Iraq and especially when it seems like the leadership often undermines their efforts. I think I understand how they love their country enough to carry on anyway and it makes me even more grateful because it would be all too easy to walk away in disgust. I don't understand it all but posts like yours help.
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You'll have been most kind and gracious in words for me. And let me first say, I'm on the very early, early side of this sixth decade! And I thank you for listening to my Rant...
BA -- I especially want to thank you.... because of your age and the attitude you have. I think AT may be right in there with you, but you really touched me with your promise of "I will do my d@mndest to never let it happen again! "
I think this is a discussion, we at Ranburg U never have had. It's your generation, your peers, that are fighting this war. Oh, we know where our warriors stand, but we rarely hear, or know that we are hearing, from their peers who aren't on the actual front lines. And it's great to hear your promise.
My woman's intuitive tells me, that most of your peer group probably will make that promise with you. So it's great, when we hear it.
On 9-11, I was off. I happened to walked to the computer, check my then, favorite site for dialogue, and it was posted about the first plane hitting the Twin Towers. I immediately turned on the TV, and for the rest of day, did what all Americans were doing, I stood, not sitting, I couldn't, in front of the TV.
At that time, I worked with about a dozen young ladies that are just a few years younger than you. All day, I pondered, "what is their reaction?" I knew we were going to war. Being in Texas, I've been a Bush observer for a long time. He would take us to war. And I heard my husband say, "we got to take this guy out." Norman was finally going to get his war that he thought would happen, in 1991.
I was so hesitate to go into work the day after. How are they going to react? Most of them were in their last year of college, making great plans for their bright futures, and I was scared for them. Scared that maybe, this wouldn't mean anything to them. I was mobbed! They grabbed me, I think each one hugging me at the same time, crying, until one took my arm, dragging me forward, stating, "we need to talk."
They got me through the next few days. They were like you, "I will do my d@mndest to never let it happen again! " Several had boyfriends in the National Guard. "Will he go tomorrow?"
But it was all brought home to me, when several days later, during one of our "talks," one of them said, "You have to understand, we don't know war. We have never seen war. But, this is our war, and we will fight it."
They mostly all graduated the next spring. I've not seen or visited with them since then. And when I read your words, I thought, "Yes, they are fighting this war. They now know what war is..... and your words brought me to that scene of watching those young Marines, in their battle rattle, standing guard, the day that the shepherds took their sheep to market, doing their d@mndest to never let it happen again!
I'll close with this from Gen Patraeus, as he closed an interview with Hugh Hewitt, "I think I mentioned to you before that when Tom Brokaw was out here with us one time, he said that surely this has to be the new greatest generation. And I very, very much agree with that. And as I mentioned earlier, I feel very privileged to be able to soldier with these great young men and women here in Iraq again."
You gave me back a confidence, that was beginning to kinda go south after that embarrassing exhibition that our Senate (my generation) put on for the entire world to observe, which was what sparked this Rant of mine.
I'm seldom around your generation much these days. Thank you for your words. And I know, this time, it won't be 50 years for some Tom Brokaw to grant you the title, "Greatest Generation." We already know you are.
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WOW! Thank you for your kind words, Sherry. Listen, it's not posted much, but I do hold out hope for my generation.
Sure, we're caught up in the hectic, microwave, fast food, "have it your way" type world we ALL live in. I'm as guilty of that as the next guy/gal. BUT, 9/11 DID happen. NONE of us will forget that day. I can't tell you how many folks my age REALLY feel the way we do, but because we've grown up in a PC world, we're not ALLOWED to say it.
But, that is changing. The blogs, the talk radio, Fox News, Hannity, Neal Boortz, the talkmeister, ALL of these are forming the "perfect storm" to right the wrongs our nation has experienced since the 60's "cultural revolution." According to stats, teen pregnancy is down (in large part b/c of the 1990's welfare reforms, thanks, Newt!), abortions in the very young brackets (18-mid 20's) is waaaay down, more and more women my age and even younger, are staying home when they have children, etc.
I almost live now in a group of married couples my age that is more like the 1950s. ALL of the wives stay home with the kids. We all attend church together, pray together, share with each other and live life. Sure, we still get caught up in this "I want it NOW" society, but for the most part, we see what life REALLY is about.
And, I think the younger generation is questioning that too. A lot of them are searching to find what it means to be American. Many of the generation just behind me "question authority," but when that authority is a nanny state, that can be a good thing. Many are searching for spiritual answers, and are finding them in the Church. Many have asked (and are still asking) WHY (about 9/11)? I've gotta believe that with this search will come REAL answers that'll give us the steel backbone our forefathers had to look evil in the eye and kick its @ss.
I'm trying to do my little part. I have coffee every morning with a group of Vietnam era vets and other Conservatives. And, we work in a very liberal Federal gov't agency, yet there we are at 6:30 in the morning solving the world's problems in 15-20 minutes. I've turned them on to Rantburg and they love it. And, as you point out, this is an all-volunteer military now, so i KNOW that there are still patriots out there than want to fight for this nation. I actually believe we are the majority, it's just the yahoos in Washington (w/ the help of the MSM) that lead the world to believe we're weak.
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more and more women my age and even younger, are staying home when they have children, etc.
That's not to insinuate that I'm a woman (I'm not). Although my wife accuses me of being one because I cry on July 4th at the Star Spangled Banner.
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A car bomb killed four Iraqis and wounded four others after detonating near the Iranian Embassy complex in the Karkh Security District in central Baghdad July 17.
At approximately 11 a.m., Coalition Forces reported a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated in a parking lot 200 meters from an entry control point into the International Zone. The vehicles were destroyed in the area; 12 others were damaged. Iraqi Security Forces responded to the scene and established a cordon around the blast site, providing additional security and aid to the injured Iraqi civilians.
All of the injured were transported to the al-Kindi Hospital. Coalition Forces responded to the scene to provide additional assistance. An Iraqi explosives ordnance disposal team responded to the site to conduct a post-blast analysis.
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Iraqi Security Forces and Coalition Forces expanded their efforts to secure Baqouba by surrounding one eastern portion of the city and beginning a deliberate, house-to-house search there for al-Qaida operatives July 17.
Elements of the 5th Iraqi Army Division, along with the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, and 1-12 Combined Arms Battalion, are searching the neighborhood known as Old Baqouba, during this next phase of Operation Arrowhead Ripper, which began June 19. Today, the Iraqi Security Forces and Task Force Arrowhead began the liberation of eastern Baqouba, said Col. Steve Townsend, commander of the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. We will drive al-Qaida out and bring security to the people and streets of Old Baqouba.
In addition to combat operations, wide scale efforts to restore services and provide necessary goods to the people in Diyala have been underway in conjunction with Operation Arrowhead Ripper.
The Iraqi government, with Iraqi Army and Coalition Forces support, coordinated the delivery of 48 trucks of fuel to Khanaqin, Diyala province July 15 as part of efforts to bring necessary provisions to the people there.
The arrival of the trucks was the first step of larger plans to distribute the fuel throughout the province. The delivery, executed by civilian contractors, comprised 21 trucks of benzene, 18 trucks of diesel and nine trucks of kerosene.
Arrowhead Ripper began when Iraqi Security Forces and Coalition Forces closed off the western half of Baqouba to begin a systematic search for al-Qaida operatives there last month. Baqouba is located in the Diyala province about 35 miles northeast of Baghdad.
Since the beginning of operation Arrowhead Ripper, Iraqi and Coalition Forces have killed at least 63 anti-Iraqi forces, detained about 240 individuals suspected of having ties to terrorist groups, and disabled more than 146 improvised explosive devices, along with 24 booby-trapped structures. About 10,000 U.S. and Iraqi military personnel have taken part in the operation.
The Diyala provincial government has delivered more than 340 tons of flour and rice, and provided other essential services such as medical care to the residents of western Baqouba.
In early June, residents of western Baqouba were afraid to leave their homes and walk down their own streets, said Townsend. People are now walking the streets and visiting the re-opened marketschildren are playing outside. This same security will return to eastern Baqouba, as well.
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This reads eerily like the news reports from Afghanistan circa 2002.
Members of the 1/6th Iraqi Army Scout Platoon, with Coalition Forces advisors, detained two suspected al-Qaeda leaders July 16 during an intelligence driven operation in western Baghdad. The operation was conducted simultaneously at three separate locations. At one location, Iraqi Forces subdued a suspect who attempted to engage the team with a screwdriver. Thirteen other suspicious individuals who were present during the operation were also detained.
The primary suspect is believed to command three cells under the al-Qaeda Iraq banner. He allegedly distributed money, weapons, and equipment among his subordinates. The second suspect is alleged to lead at least two of those cells. He allegedly constructs vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices, conducts cells meetings at his home and creates terrorist video propaganda materials.
The targeted individuals are suspected of using foreign fighters to facilitate attacks against Coalition and Iraqi Security Forces, using direct fire and improvised explosive devices. They are also accused of kidnapping and extorting local Iraqi civilians who disrupt al-Qaeda Iraq efforts in the area.
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It really is hard to keep up with this.
'Cell leaders, group leaders, section leaders, Emirs, splodydopes, suspicious persons, and persons of interest, we are gathered here today to determine sleeping arrangements.'
Ten Iraqis were killed and 20 more wounded when insurgents detonated a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device July 17 in the Rusafa District of eastern Baghdad. The wounded included four Iraqi Army Soldiers.
Following the attack, Soldiers with Company B, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, based out of Fort Bragg, N.C., and attached to the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, rushed to the scene and sealed off the area. The wounded were transported to Medical City for treatment. This marked the fourth straight day a car bomb attack has hit the Rusafa District. The incident is under investigation.
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Coalition Forces killed three terrorists and detained two suspected terrorists during two coordinated operations targeting an al-Qaeda in Iraq weapons facilitator July 17 southwest of Tarmiyah.
During the first precision operation, Coalition Forces approached a vehicle believed to contain a terrorist weapons facilitator connected to al-Qaeda in Iraq senior leaders. As Coalition Forces neared the vehicle, three men emerged from the vehicle and engaged them with small arms fire. Coalition Forces, responding in self-defense, returned fire and killed the three armed men.
Nearby, Coalition Forces conducted a second precision operation targeting associates of high-level al-Qaeda in Iraq leaders and detained two suspected terrorists. Were continuing to target al-Qaeda in Iraqs foreign leadership to bring down the terrorist network responsible for murderous attacks on Iraqi civilians, said Maj. Marc Young, an MNF-I spokesperson.
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A detainee held in Coalition custody since June 28 and alleged to be a key leader of a rogue Jaysh al-Mahdi militia element, known as a Special Group, is identified as Sheikh Ahmed Mohammad Hassan Sbahi Al Khafaji. Al Khafaji was detained during an operation in Nasiriyah.
During the operation, Iraqi Special Operations Forces, with Coalition Forces present as advisors, detained Al Khafaji without incident and also detained five other suspicious individuals during the operation.
Al Khafaji is allegedly responsible for direct attacks on Coalition Forces, rocket attacks on Coalition bases and has been implicated in the kidnappings and murders of Iraqi citizens. It is also believed he provides financial support to weapons trafficking networks which supply Iranian affiliated Special Groups in the Baghdad area. The Special Groups received training, arms and funding from Irans Quds Force.
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Mahdi Army
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This is proof that we are not torturing them. (damn)
He would have given his name in a second with a little encouragement, but I suppose we are taking the soft route.
IDF troops discovered a five-kilogram bomb and arrested five Palestinians next to Ramallah on Wednesday. IDF sappers defused the devise and the Palestinians were transferred for security interrogations.
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A soldier was wounded when terrorists insurgents detonated a bomb at a school in Pattani on Thursday morning, just a few hours before army chief Sonthi Boonyaratkalin visited the province. The blast went off at Ban Toh Teetae in Yaring district, where the soldier was part of a teacher security guard unit.
The blast occurred prior to Gen Sonthi's visit to the region. He was scheduled to meet with governors of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat to discuss security measures in the restive South, and to boost the morale of security forces. Gen Sonthi said equipment used in cutting off remote control and mobile phone signals will need to be developed in order to prevent more casualties from the unrest.
A reign of terror and savagery continued in the troubled southern island of Basilan yesterday, with unknown gunmen murdering and decapitating another Muslim preacher. The military said the same group that mutilated the corpses 10 Marine soldiers killed in a gunbattle on July 10 could also be behind the death of the imam, whose name was withheld.
The imams body was chopped into pieces and stuffed into a sack.
the imams body was chopped into pieces and stuffed into a sack. Villagers of Balagtasan in Lamitan town later found the remains. We condemn the killing and authorities are now hunting the culprits behind the gruesome murder of the tabliq, Alivio told Arab News.
He claimed that the victim had provided information to the military about the Al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group and lawless elements in Basilan. Villagers, including the tabliq, are helping us and providing intelligence about terrorists and lawless groups in Basilan, he said without further elaborating.
Last week, Abu Sayyaf militants also killed a Muslim preacher in Basilans Al-Barka town on suspicion he was passing information to military authorities about kidnapped Italian Catholic priest Giancarlo Bossi. Local officials said the imams death in the village of Ginanta in Al-Barka on July 10 happened a few hours before gunmen attacked a convoy of Marines who came to check reports that the priest was being hidden somewhere in the town.
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the largest Muslim group which is seeking an independent Islamic state in the southern Philippines, claimed its fighters were behind the attack but denied beheading the fallen soldiers. MILF leaders also suggested that the soldiers were behind the killing of the Ginanta preacher, an accusation strongly denied by the military. We are not savages, said Alivio yesterday.
The beheadings have sparked an outrage and the military yesterday said the search for Bossi was no longer its priority. Armed Forces of the Philippines chief of staff Gen. Hermogenes Esperon reiterated the militarys demand on the MILF to surrender those responsible attack, which he said was a violation of a truce between the government and the separatist group. Esperon, who was in this southern city yesterday, said troops will pursue the culprits if the MILF fails to yield those behind the beheading. This is not a time for revenge, but a time to punish those responsible in the barbaric act, he said.We have asked them to cooperate and turn over those who were behind the dastardly act of beheading our marines.
The rebels cautioned the military against taking any sweeping action on Basilan, saying it could jeopardize ongoing efforts to resume peace talks. Were reasonable people and were easy to deal with, said Mohaqher Iqbal, the rebel chief peace negotiator, told reporters by telephone from his hideout on Mindanao Island. Lets wait for the fact-finding team to finish their jobs. We understand they lost some of their comrades, but the massing of forces on Basilan will not help the peace process.
Sattar Alih, head of the MILF cease-fire monitoring team in Basilan, said rebel forces withdrew from the battle scene, leaving the bodies of soldiers behind, after military and rebels agreed to a cease-fire. Intelligence sources in Basilan have implicated unnamed politicians who allegedly supplied the Abu Sayyaf with mortar rockets, weapons and munitions during the fighting. Their private armies also reportedly fought side-by-side with the MILF and that two gunmen had died in the skirmishes. The military is now investigating the reports.
A tense cease-fire between the government and the MILF is holding in the south as the two sides allowed a team of Malaysian monitors to investigate the July 10 clash in which at least 18 people, including 14 marines, were killed and 16 wounded. The cease-fire between the military and the MILF, which has been in place since 2003, has been occasionally broken, but last weeks fighting was one of the most serious violations.
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MOHAQHER IQBAL
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Moro Islamic Liberation Front
Abu Sayyaf
Moro Islamic Liberation Front
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MILF has a Hudna going which it breaks whenever it pleases. The Sherman method appears to be the best prescription when dealing with "islamic militants" from what I can see.
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He claimed that the victim had provided information to the military about the Al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group and lawless elements in Basilan. Villagers, including the tabliq, are helping us and providing intelligence about terrorists and lawless groups in Basilan, he said without further elaborating.
Jeebus, for a Marine, this guy's not that bright! Why tell them (even if they already know) that villagers "including the tabliq" are ratting out the terrorists? That only serves to endanger the civilians, moron!
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It's still hard for me to takse seriously an outfit that calls itself "MILF" . snort snigger
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#5 We only have the colonel's word that the imam collaborated. For that matter, we only have his word that Muzzies done the imam in---to recollect, Muzzies recently killed & mutileted 10 marines near by.
The battle against Islamists in the northern Lebanon Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared was on Wednesday reportedly approaching the end with the Lebanese army now surrounding Fatah al-Islam militants in a very narrow area. The daily An Nahar said the new advances made Tuesday evening into the old sector of the camp left the terrorists encircled in an area no larger than 100 meters.
Meanwhile, Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said the bodies of 39 Fatah al-Islam militants lay in a Tripoli morgue, pending identification. The bodies were found in a mass grave of Fatah al-Islam militants. It said DNA tests were being conducted on the bodies. NNA said the militants were killed since the fighting in the Nahr al-Bared camp broke out May 20.
"Hokay, we got the DNA tests back."
"And?"
"They're human."
"Can't be."
Army troops on Tuesday were making "significant" gains in their weeks-long battle against the al-Qaida-inspired militants holding out inside Nahr al-Bared, according to security officials. Witnesses said the army was using armored bulldozers to push its way through the rubble in the devastated camp. Three armored personnel carriers could also be seen parked atop the rubble of destroyed buildings. A security camera was also seen placed on the rooftop of one of the collapsed buildings.
On Tuesday, another Lebanese soldier was killed in the fighting as the army closed in on Fatah al-Islam positions. The Nahr al-Bared battle has now cost the lives of 103 soldiers, out of a total death toll of about 200.
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Does the 203 count the mass grave?
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The mass grave of terrorists makes me think of a dead baby joke that weemed funny when I was an adolescent. I will paraphrase it to the best of my memory.
How do you find the live terrorist in the pile of corpses at the mass grave? He'll wiggle more on the pitchfork.
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The Islamist militant group battling Lebanese troops at a Palestinian refugee camp said on Wednesday it was willing to resume talks to end the fighting, a move that came after it lost ground in a two-month-old battle.
Lebanese troops have entered the battered Nahr al-Bared camp in northern Lebanon and seized further territory, cornering the al Qaeda-inspired militants and piling pressure on them to surrender. Fatah al-Islam's spokesman, Abu Salim Taha, who had not been heard from in more than a month, told Al Jazeera television by telephone that "right now, perhaps there is no objection for negotiations and political solutions to return to reality."
"The ball is in the court of the other side, the court of those behind the army," said Taha, who Palestinian sources said last month had been wounded in battles.
The call is unlikely to be taken seriously with the Lebanese army which is said to be days away from crushing the militants in a battle that has so far killed 230 people in the worst internal violence since the 1975-1990 civil war. "We don't want anything but for them to surrender. All of this is a media propaganda because the noose is tightening around them," a military source said.
At least 109 troops, 81 militants and 40 civilians have been killed in the fighting that erupted on May 20 in the camp and other areas. Several mediation efforts, mostly by Palestinian faction representatives and Palestinian religious scholars, have failed to end the crisis. Taha said most of the civilians fled Nahr al-Bared except some who remained to fight alongside them.
BOOBYTRAPPED BUILDINGS
Meanwhile, security sources said two Lebanese soldiers died overnight in a booby-trapped building at the camp while another soldier's body was pulled from under rubble on Wednesday. They said the soldier, a member of a commando unit, died last week. Witnesses said clashes erupted at the camp's main road. The army used artillery and tank shells, while the militants responded with automatic weapons and fired more than a dozen Katyusha rockets that landed nearby but caused no casualties. "The army is always advancing, and working towards controlling the camp's main road. It is gradually spreading its presence inside the camp," the military source earlier said.
Fatah al-Islam is made up of a few hundred mainly Arab fighters who admire al Qaeda but do not claim any organizational links. Some of the fighters have fought in Iraq or were on their way to take part in the conflict there.
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Good for the good guys! Stand tall, Lebanon army... you got those protest babes standing with you! Flash back on those pictures we all saw.... you make them proud.... (and ignore those guys in the shadows, that I hope we have there)
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Taha said most of the civilians fled Nahr al-Bared except some who remained to fight alongside them.
Hmmmm. Doesn't that imply that they're, umm, in fact militants? Or is there some other way of distinguishing between them say, for example, uniforms? Or is that too obvious.
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Superhose they must have added the 39 mutants to the death count since they now are reporting 230 dead. I'm hoping the Lebanese Army gets that number up a bit.
Ten illegal immigrants were arrested in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, a day after a roadside bomb targeted a UN patrol, Lebanese police said. Eight Sudanese and two Iraqis were detained in a raid by the army's intelligence service on an apartment on the outskirts of the southern port city of Tyre. According to a police source, the ten Arabs were being questioned by the army regarding their illegal presence in the area.
On Monday a roadside bomb hit a UN peacekeeping vehicle as it was driving on the Qassimiyeh bridge near Tyre, inflicting only material damage to the car. The blast came less than a month after a car bomb killed three Spanish and three Colombian peacekeepers on June 24. The deadly bombing was linked to the ongoing fighting in northern Lebanon between the army and Islamist militants who belong to Fatah al-Islam.
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If the Somalis complain about illegal immigrants, we will know, for a fact, that the problem is of universal magnitude.
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nothing moves in that area without hezbollah's aproval..........
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A suicide attack against Turkish NATO soldiers injured a civilian passer-by in the Afghan capital but caused no casualties among the foreign troops, police said. The attacker blew himself up as he approached an ISAF convoy, deputy Kabul police chief General Zalmai Oriakhail said.
(SomaliNet) A Kenyan maritime official said on Tuesday that a Panama-flagged cargo vessel has gone missing in Somalia's pirate-infested waters. Andrew Mwangura of the Kenyan branch of the Seafarers' Assistance Programme said the MV Infinity Marine 1 disappeared some 37 nautical miles off the northeastern village of Ras Hafun in late June. "The last time the ship made contact was on June 26. So far, we do not have any information about the crew," he told AFP. 
The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested four Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) cadres and recovered 5kg power gel and 15 shells of high power hand grenade Tuesday night from Bajitpur of the district.
Four men in Britain were sentenced to prison on Tuesday for their role in a fiery protest against the publication of cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (
One person was arrested Thursday for attempting to sell nuclear secrets from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, federal law enforcement officials told FOX News. The person, who was not identified by officials, was named in a yet-to-be unsealed indictment and worked as a contractor for the Tennessee facility.
The widow of Daniel Pearl has sued more than a dozen reputed terrorists and Pakistan's largest bank, blaming them for the torture and murder of the Wall Street Journal reporter in 2002. A complaint filed Wednesday in Brooklyn federal court by Mariane Pearl and her husband's estate alleges Habib Bank Limited of Karachi knowingly provided financial services for al-Qaida and other terrorist groups. 
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SRINAGAR, India - Indian soldiers in revolt-hit Kashmir have shot dead a top Islamic militant believed to have been coordinating attacks across the country, police said on Wednesday. Soldiers have shot dead 
Suspected Islamic militants in a restive Pakistani tribal town beheaded a man accused of spying for US forces across the border on Wednesday, officials said. The militants dumped the body of the unidentified victim in his 20s in an isolated area near the northwestern town of Khar in the Bajaur tribal district, local administration official Fazle Rabbi said. Villagers found the beheaded body and informed us, he said. The militants, the official said, had left a note near the body, which read, Those who spy for US forces will meet this fate. It was the second killing this week of an alleged US spy in the area, after militants on Tuesday slit the throat of a 40-year-old Afghan refugee from the neighbouring Afghan province of Kunar. Hundreds of extremists fled into Pakistans mountainous border areas after the ouster of the Taliban regime in the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, where they found support from conservative Pakistani tribesmen.
Seven of the most important Sunni-led insurgent organisations fighting the US occupation in Iraq have agreed to form a public political alliance with the aim of preparing for negotiations in advance of an American withdrawal, their leaders have told the Guardian.
A car bomb killed four Iraqis and wounded four others after detonating near the Iranian Embassy complex in the Karkh Security District in central Baghdad July 17.
Members of the 1/6th Iraqi Army Scout Platoon, with Coalition Forces advisors, detained two suspected al-Qaeda leaders July 16 during an intelligence driven operation in western Baghdad. The operation was conducted simultaneously at three separate locations. At one location, Iraqi Forces subdued a suspect who attempted to engage the team with a screwdriver. Thirteen other suspicious individuals who were present during the operation were also detained.
A detainee held in Coalition custody since June 28 and alleged to be a key leader of a rogue Jaysh al-Mahdi militia element, known as a Special Group, is identified as 
A reign of terror and savagery continued in the troubled southern island of Basilan yesterday, with unknown gunmen murdering and decapitating another Muslim preacher. The military said the same group that mutilated the corpses 10 Marine soldiers killed in a gunbattle on July 10 could also be behind the death of the imam, whose name was withheld.
The battle against Islamists in the northern Lebanon Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared was on Wednesday reportedly approaching the end with the Lebanese army now surrounding Fatah al-Islam militants in a very narrow area. The daily An Nahar said the new advances made Tuesday evening into the old sector of the camp left the terrorists encircled in an area no larger than 100 meters.
The Islamist militant group battling Lebanese troops at a Palestinian refugee camp said on Wednesday it was willing to resume talks to end the fighting, a move that came after it lost ground in a two-month-old battle.
