Afghan police and foreign forces killed around 60 suspected Taliban fighters, many in the region where the insurgents recently released a group of South Korean church workers they had been holding, authorities said Saturday.
In southern Helmand province on Friday, a combined police and U.S.-led coalition patrol came under attack with mortar, rocket-propelled grenade and small-arms fire. In the fight that ensued, "almost two dozen" insurgents were killed, the coalition said in a statement Saturday. No Afghan or coalition soldiers, or civilians, were killed, the statement said. The fighting took place in Musa Qala district, parts of which have been under the control of Taliban militants for several months.
U.S.-led troops and Afghan security forces also raided compounds late Friday in three villages in the remote Pitigal Valley border region, where intelligence showed that top militant leaders take refuge as they travel between Pakistan and Afghanistan. More than 20 insurgents were killed and 11 others were detained, while officers also discovered a bomb-making factory, the U.S.-led coalition said in a statement.
It was not possible to independently verify the death tolls in the three incidents because travel in the areas is extremely dangerous. Taliban commanders were not available for comment.
The Taliban are leading an increasingly bloody campaign against the country's Western-backed government. More than 4,200 people most of them insurgents have been killed this year alone, according to an Associated Press count.
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"travel in the areas is extremely dangerous"
Dangerous for them.
"leading an increasingly bloody campaign"
Bloody for them.
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Taliban commanders were not available for comment.
Dang, another self-snarking article!
I've kinda sorta lost track here. Is this conflict part of the Taliban's dreaded Spring Offensive or have the 'bunnies moved on to Plan B - Die In Large Groups?
Ten civilians were killed when Taliban rebels fired rockets at a US base in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, and an Afghan soldier died in a suicide bombing outside the Kabul airport.
The 10 civilians died and another five were injured when militants fired rockets at the US-led coalition base in eastern Kunar provinces Chawkai district, which hit a nearby village, police and officials said. The Taliban fired several rockets over the base but the rockets fell short and landed on civilian homes, police official Abdul Sabour Allahyar told AFP. Government officials described the attack as intense.
The coalition, which has around 12,000 troops mainly in eastern and southern Afghanistan on counter-terrorism duties, confirmed that its base came under attack but could not provide information on casualties. Theres a base up there (Chawkai) which received 10 rounds in indirect fire. We did not return any fire, coalition spokesman Sergeant Dean Welch said. Earlier in the day, a suicide attacker rammed his explosives-packed car nose-to-nose with an international military vehicle, which was leaving the heavily secured NATO military gate of the Kabul International Airport.
The vehicle did not explode immediately and the foreign car sped off before the blast, which caught a group of Afghan soldiers preparing to fly to Italy for military training, witnesses said.
One of the soldiers, aged in his late 20s, was killed and four wounded, said Sergeant Aminullah, 28, an Afghan soldier who witnessed the attack. The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said the incident injured five of its troops. It does not give the nationalities of its casualties. Blood-spattered military boots and caps littered the scene where the other soldiers, who numbered about 30 and appeared shocked, waited with their bags, an AFP reporter said.
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This, people, is what is coming to ALL of us if we refuse to either submit to Allan or kill his enforcers. I continue to be baffled by the blindness that surrounds me. Why don't people 'get' it? What does it take to pull the scales from their eyes? Even my own family is in denial.
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Frank, thank you for posting this. There is no way I could watch the video as I'd probably have an aneurysm. Beslan was the tipping point for me. This monstrous outrage confirmed everything that had been made clear during the 9-11 atrocity. Muslims have ZERO respect for human life of any age or any belief, even in that of Islam itself.
ISLAM DEVOURS ITS YOUNG.
There are few stronger condemnations that can be made of any creed. Our children are our future. Destroy that and nothing remains to be said. For all it matters, Muslims may as well be worshiping Baal and gleefully hurling their infants into the roaring furnace. It is why I now maintain that the West's sole obligation to Islam is to liberate all Muslims from it at the earliest opportunity. This obligation is totally voluntary upon our part such that if Muslims cannot find a path away from this benighted, violent and intolerant ideology by themselves then they must suffer the consequences.
The West has only one duty: To preserve itself from Islam at all costs.
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Beslan was also a tipping point for me as well. Not only did it show the depths to which the Islamists will descent to. But the depth of deceit to which our own Mainstream Media would descent to provide cover for their allies - the murdering, islamic terrorists. The media still refuses to call the perps 'terrorists' or mention the bayoneted babies or gang-raped children.
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I don't mean to beat a dead horse, but Zen and CF nail it for me too. 9/11 was enough for me, but Beslan set me over the edge against the jihadis and their fellow believers. Both need to be dealt with before this is all said and done.
Didn't help that I had my first child about the same time as Beslan. It's bad enough to pick on innocent civilian just doin' what they do for a living (like 9/11). But intentionally preying on the weakest among us (children) is completely over the line. I often find myself wondering exactly what would happen here in the U.S. if we had our own Beslan-type attack. And, the results ain't pretty for any Muslims as a result of that.
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The theft of digitally encrypted police radios has prompted security fears on the eve of the APEC summit in Sydney.
Police have been advised against using special frequencies that can be picked up by the missing radios during the APEC long weekend, News Limited reports.
Sources told the paper three radios were stolen from Newtown on July 8, Leichhardt on August 10 and Burwood on August 27.
The radios are worth $5,000 each and cannot be picked up by regular scanners.
It is also understood several digital radios have been stolen from NSW Fire Brigade stations in the city's inner west in recent weeks.
A bulletproof vest was also stolen from a locked police car in Newtown on Thursday, police said.
"Between 6pm (AEST) and 8pm on Thursday, a ballistics vest was stolen from locked car parked in Australia St, Newtown," a police spokesman said.
"Police inquiries are continuing."
The vest can block .38 round, effectively rendering police firearms useless.
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You mean you can't change the encryption keys?
This would then be the second time you got ripped off by the Radios. First, when you bought them with unchangable encryption keys and again when someone stole them from you.
Police technicians have detonated three improvised explosive devices at Toronto's Leslie Street Spit after finding the bombs in the trunk of a car. Toronto Police Service's Explosive Disposal detonated the bombs at the Leslie Street Spit on Friday, Aug. 31, 2007.
Southbound lanes of the Don Valley Parkway and all lanes of the Gardiner Expressway -- both major arteries in and out of the city's downtown core -- were reopened after police shut down traffic to transport the explosives.
At a news conference Friday afternoon, Deputy Police Chief Tony Warr said the three bombs were each about 35 centimetres long. Police say the three explosives are linked to the arrest of a 37-year-old man taken into custody Thursday night. The man is the subject of an ongoing investigation into letter bombs mailed to two residences in Toronto and one in Guelph.
The bombs were discovered in the trunk of the man's silver sedan, Warr confirmed at an earlier news conference Friday morning. The car was parked at an Esso gas station near Overlea Boulevard near Thorncliffe Park Drive.
Warr said police believe the three letter bomb incidents and the explosives found in the vehicle, are linked. The motive behind the letter bombs appears to be personal between the suspect and the recipients, Warr said.
Police have identified the man arrested on Thursday night as Adel Arnaout. Somebody's gotta stop those damn Methodists.
Arnaoult has been charged with:
Three counts of attempted murder;
Three counts of intending to cause explosion;
One count of possessing explosives for unlawful purposes.
Toronto police recently asked the public to closely scrutinize any suspicious packages they received in the mail after two letter bombs were received by city residents.
On Aug. 19, a real estate lawyer living in the city's Sheppard Avenue and Yonge Street area received an envelope that smelled of petroleum. The lawyer alerted police and the package was detonated safely. About a week earlier, a resident of the city's east end, near Victoria Park Avenue and Lawrence Avenue East, received a bubble-wrapped envelope that also contained a petroleum-like liquid. A male resident was injured when he tried to open the package and it exploded in his hands.
Both packages were 21.6 cm by 27.9 cm and each had properly addressed courier receipts attached. They were also both rigged to explode when opened. The courier company has said it did not send the packages.
A third package was mailed to a residence of Guelph.
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"Oh, that stuff in the trunk?
Just fireworks, constable.
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Allah Akhbar! Google sources say that the bomber is an immigrant to Canada from Lebanon, and that he name is of Syrian origin. If he is a Shiite, then he could be a Hizbollah supporter. Cops are pointing to a personal motivation; a likely story.
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JihadWatch links to: According to officials familiar with the case, Mohamed has been arrested previously in Egypt on terrorism-related charges. He is said to have produced an Internet video showing how to build a remote-controlled car bomb.
Guess the only criteria for entry of Arab students is cash on hand.
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Sorry. Wrong thread.
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Mr. Arnaout's landlord, Mohammad Raja, said the accused man has been living at the property for about three months.
"He told me he was going to look for a security job," Mr. Raja said.
Although Mr. Raja's first impression of Mr. Arnaout was that "he looked like a very poor person," he agreed to rent him a room because Mr. Arnaout provided the requisite first and last month's rent.
Deputy Chief Warr said Mr. Arnaout is a landed immigrant and is of Lebanese descent. He said Mr. Arnaout is known to police but would not elaborate.
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"He told me he was going to look for a security job," Mr. Raja said.
Shit, the last link in the chain, he's a boomer, terminate him with extreme prejudice.
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In the bad old days cops rushed to judgement; now they rush to exhoneration. Tunnel vision won't win the GWOT. Mohammed's phone and internet records need to be probed.
Two Egyptian students at a south Florida university were indicted Friday on federal explosives charges, but prosecutors would not say whether the men planned to carry out an attack or hurt anyone. Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed, 24, an engineering graduate student and teaching assistant at the Tampa-based University of South Florida, and engineering student Youssef Samir Megahed, 21, have been held in South Carolina since Aug. 4 when they were stopped for speeding and authorities found explosives in the trunk of their car.
They were indicted by a grand jury in Tampa on charges of carrying explosive materials across state lines. Mohammed also faces terrorism-related charges for teaching and demonstrating how to use the explosives. Steve Cole, a spokesman for federal prosecutors in Tampa, declined to talk about what the men may have been planning, if anything.
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declined to talk about what the men may have been planning, if anything.
Nothing to see here, sheeple. Move along, move along.
The worst part is the way the MSM just plays along--"no story here, it dosent fit the template for this week" attitude. Oh well. it could be worse, somehow.
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JihadWatch links to: According to officials familiar with the case, Mohamed has been arrested previously in Egypt on terrorism-related charges. He is said to have produced an Internet video showing how to build a remote-controlled car bomb.
Guess the only criteria for entry of Arab students is cash on hand.
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Guess the only criteria for entry of Arab students is cash on hand.
Bingo. Foreign students pay full freight. It's even more lucrative than federal grants.
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#2: "Aw shucks Judge, we was just goin' fishin'!"
Wouldn't work, even in Alabama, we have SOME standards.
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Police searched three madrassas in Hyderabad as part of investigations into recent bombings in the south Indian city that killed at least 43 people, prompting Muslim leaders to complain of discrimination on Friday. Investigators visited Darul Uloom Hyderabad, a prominent madrassa, in the early hours of Thursday in search of a student named Mujeeb Abdul Rahman, said police official CH Srinivas. No student of that name is enrolled there, the school's secretary Raheemuddin Ansar said, adding that the officers also asked if the madrassa had any foreign students.
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About damn time, repeat as needed.
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Peshawar Central Prison authorities on Friday released three Bangladeshi prisoners who were arrested by Khyber Agency political authorities around three years ago, along with 13 other foreigners, attempting to enter Pakistan via the Torkham border.
Disposing of an appeal filed by World Prisoners Relief Commission of Pakistan Chairman Ibrahim Paracha against the detention of the Bangladeshi prisoners, Peshawar Additional and Sessions Judge Akhtar Gul directed jail authorities to release the three Bangladeshi nationalsJalaluddin, Fidaur Rehman and Abdus Salam. About three years ago, political authorities arrested 15 foreigners, mostly Bangladeshis, attempting to enter Pakistan from Afghanistan. The authorities charged them under 40-FCR and section 14 of the Foreigners Act and shifted them to Peshawar Central Prison.
After the prisoners release, Paracha told reporters that the Frontier police had handed them over to political authorities, who would deport them to Dhaka via Peshawar and Karachi airports. He said the cases of the remaining 12 detained foreigners were in progress, and they would also be deported to their respective countries soon.
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The Federal Review Board on Friday ordered the release of two British nationals, including Rashid Rauf, the alleged mastermind of 2006 London terror plot. The other Briton, Raingzeib Ahmed, was arrested on Aug 25, 2006, from Haripur, NWFP, for his alleged link with the Al Qaeda network. Both the terror suspects are in the custody of law-enforcement agencies under the Security of Pakistan Act 1952. Justice Faqir Muhammad Khokhar of the Supreme Court headed the FRB. Justice Hamid Ali Mirza of the Supreme Court and Justice Nadir Khan of the Balochistan High Court were the board members. Besides Rauf and Ahmed, Khizar Hayat from the Interior Ministry and Col Zakria from the Inter Services Intelligence were also present at the FRB meeting at the SC. Sources told Daily Times that Ahmed would be released in the next few days. Rauf will continue to be behind bars to face a terror case against him, the sources said.
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MINGORA: At least two security personnel were killed and six others injured when militants attacked a checkpost in the Gali Bagh area of Swat early on Friday. Noor Bahadar and Wahid Nawaz died, while Fazal Nabi, Inamuddin, Zafar Ali, Ashfaq and Furqan Ali were injured. Later, a police van arriving at the scene was blown up due to a roadside blast, killing an alleged timber smuggler.
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A grand jirga of Mehsud tribes left on Friday for an undisclosed location in South Waziristan to discuss the kidnapping of more than 100 soldiers with the Taliban, as security forces launched a crackdown and arrested dozens of Mehsud tribesmen, officials said. We are leaving for a meeting with the Taliban after a briefing by government officials, key tribal negotiator Senator Saleh Shah told Daily Times moments after he and several other elders emerged from a meeting with South Waziristan Political Agent Hussainzada Khan. Military spokesman Maj Gen Waheed Arshad said the troops could not reach their base because of a standoff between two tribes. They are neither kidnapped nor missing. They are stranded, he told Daily Times by phone. Militant commander Baitullah Mehsud said he was holding the soldiers but gave no details. There are 72 FC paramilitary jawans and eight army officers among the kidnapped soldiers, security sources said.
A tribal source in Ladah said that Taliban militants had split the soldiers in small groups and were holding them at different places. Meanwhile, reports said that security forces have arrested dozens of Mehsud tribesmen from various locations.
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I'm ordering my Armada with the Grand Jirga package. Cuts down on the mileage, but I really need the room to carry the drum.
Iraqi, National Police officers and Multi-National Division - Baghdad Soldiers disbanded the Iraqi Police station in the western [Baghdad] neighborhood of Khadra Aug. 29.
Iraqi Police officers at the station were given their last pay check and told to report to the central Baghdad Police Station for reassignment. The station was disbanded after the local Iraqi Police force failed to prevent insurgent and criminal activity in the area.
Improvised explosive devices were often found no more than 100 meters from Khadra IP checkpoints on main roads throughout the neighborhood. The IP stations inability to decrease crime led National Police authorities and Coalition Forces to conclude that the policemen there were complacent with local insurgency efforts.
National Police from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Brigade, 2nd Iraqi National Police Division, with the help of Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, transformed the old Iraqi Police station into a National Police outpost. A joint security station already exists in the Khadra neighborhood, where National Police and Coalition Forces work side by side.
Civilian deaths rose slightly in August as a huge suicide attack in the north two weeks ago offset security gains elsewhere, making it the second deadliest month for Iraqis since the U.S. troop buildup began, according to figures compiled Saturday by The Associated Press. So the surge is working, but it hasn't stopped all the violence. And ...
U.S. deaths remained well below figures from last winter when the U.S began dispatching 30,000 additional troops to Iraq.
At least 1,809 civilians were killed in the month, compared to 1,760 in July, based on figures compiled by the AP from official Iraqi reports. That brings to 27,564 the number of Iraqi civilians killed since AP began collecting data on April 28, 2005.
The August total included 520 people killed in quadruple suicide bombings on Yazidi communities near the Syrian border. The horrific attacks made Aug. 14 the single deadliest day since the war began in March 2003. More at link, but I suspect it's really more "analysis".
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Why, it is almost as if the enemy attacked soft targets in order to statistically distort the outcome of the surge. And that is just AP, I am sure the insurgents are happy about the outcome too.
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The other day in a speech Bush dropped a number of AIF killed this year that was an order of magnitude higher than the tally Chuck keeps - I wonder if it was another Bush lie (mistake) or if we (& others - red on red) might actually be killing 15,000 per year rather than 1500. If 15,000 then these civilian death numbers are a bit more acceptable for now.
Furthermore, I am pretty sure some of the Mehdi Army executions of 'civilians' are specific actions against (perceived) ex-Baath criminals - maybe guys like Sayed on Lost.
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The number I read of 2004 and 2005 killed and long term prisoners was over 25,000/year. Since the US is holding over 20,000 (even after releases), 15,000 killed/year is a good working figure.
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the A/P, alReuters and the like are in absolute overdrive to support the Jihadis. Headlines like this are damn near PLEADING for more civilian deaths!!
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This is AP getting us ready for the terrorists' Tet Offensive. However, it may not happen.
From Ralph Peters (currently writing from Iraq) in a report about BACK FROM HELL: BAGHDAD'S HAIFA ST. STORY
Then the U.S. Army moved in. Commanders must've felt tempted to just level the former Saddamist stronghold. Instead, they decided to rescue what they could. Our troops cleaned out the terrorists with what Brig. Gen. Vince Brooks - one of the Army's rising stars - termed "very focused kinetic effects."
And the Cavalry charged in: the 2nd Infantry Division's 1-14 Cav, OPCON - Army-speak for "on loan" - to the 1st Cavalry Division's 2nd Brigade.
During the mounted segment of the patrol, I asked Gen. Brooks - who stood tall in a Stryker's hatch beside me - if he worried about a surge in al Qaeda incidents in the remaining weeks before Gen. David Petraeus reports to Congress.
Brooks realizes how badly the terrorists yearn to embarrass us, handing ammunition to the just-quit camp. But he told me we'd just broken a key al Qaeda network that was planning dramatic eve-of-testimony strikes. Other terrorists might still manage to stage attacks, but the organization's spinal column was broken.
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What many people do not realize about the Tet offensive is that, militarily, it was a disaster for the Viet Cong. They lost 40,000 dead. After that, the North Vietnamese Army had to take over. Of course, it was a propaganda victory, because Walter Cronkite and other traitors in the MSM saw the bodies on the grounds of the US Embassy and declared the war lost.
One of the key differences between Iraq and Vietnam is that there is no North Vietnam to step in. Iran might try, but they would be very sorry if they openly sent in troops.
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Brooks is a good General, but lacks political vision at home - IIRC, he's the one that decided to stop the blogging by troops, which was one of the best ways to get the story out past the MSM filters ...except for Beauchamp, of course...I guess I should qualify that by "true stories"
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Well AP may be getting ready for the TET-redo crap, but it sounds like Brian DePalma is already all over it with his new movie. I read on Drudge that he said he read about the soldiers who raped the girl and then killed her and her whole family and knew immediately that he had a movie.
Of course the AQI animals had done this hundreds of times, along with untold numbers of other despicable atrocities, but I guess he just couldn't envision the movie when they did it.
Oh, and the soldiers that did this will rot in jail for the rest of their lives, as they should. Wonder if the asshole DePalma sees the difference. What a f*cking asshole he is. I hope some vet who runs into him breaks his nose.
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And if you exclude the Yezidi attack, which was like shooting fish in a barrel, the August total was 27% less than the July total. But you'll never see that reported in the AP.
The office of Iraq's Vice President Tareq Al-Hashemi announced on Friday that 50 detainees would be released per day during the upcoming holy month of Ramadan.
Praise Allan and pass the ammunition.
The detainees are being held in US detention camps in Iraq.
Super.
A statement issued by Al-Hashemi's office said that this initiative was part of a campaign launched by Al-Hashemi "to release innocent detainees." Regarding detainees in Iraqi detention camps, the statement quoted Al-Hashemi's adviser for human right Omar Haikel Al-Jabouri as saying that a meeting was held to look into a number of field information following the visit by Al-Hashemi to prison number 5.
The detainees are being held in US detention camps in Iraq.
Al-Jabouri added that a work paper prepared by Al-Hashemi has been approved by the various Iraqi blocs and the US side. He pointed out that the work paper constituted three provisions. The first one deals with a mechanism to release the detainees, while the second one deals with human rights. The third one tackles conditions of the detainees. He stressed that Al-Hashemi's office was keen on following up implementation of such provisions.
"No need to worry, infidels. The paperwork is in perfect order, just as der Führer required!"
Meanwhile, Al-Hashemi's office last Wednesday announced that the number of detainees to be freed would rise to 350 weekly from Baghdad and nearby governorates.
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So basically the Iraqi gov is undoing all the captures the US is making for the next month. If they are so eager, release the prisoners form their own prisons. Those at Camp Bucca are there for a reason.
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Saudi style Catch and Release comes to Iraq. We must not cooperate.
We would be far wiser to crush Iraq under the boot heel of a military dictatorship than allow this Muslim majority nation to pursue its current course. Theocratic Islam in any way, shape or form has no place in this world. Period.
Tuantuwae-apel Nikaji, 25, a resident of Ban Tan Yong Limo, was hit five times by AK-47 fire from a group of gunmen on a pickup truck while he was walking across the road at about lunchtime yesterday. He was wanted in connection with the murder of two marines who were beaten to death while being held hostage in Ban Tan Yong Limo in 2005.
Sub-Lieutenant Noraset Suksri from Rangae district police station, who inspected the crime scene, said the terrorists militants might have attacked Tuantuwae-apel to maintain the level of violence in the South on August 31, the anniversary of the establishment of the separatist Bersatu group, though he gave no other reasons to support his assumption.
Authorities in the South tightened security as news spread from an unknown source that militants might intensify their operations to ignite the region this week to celebrate Bersatu day. Bersatu, which is the Malay word for "unity" was an umbrella organisation of separatist groups founded in 1989.
Separately, a man died as combined forces searched a village in Yala's Muang district. As officials arrived at Ban Taladae at about 5pm yesterday in search of suspected terrorists militants in the predominantly Muslim region, an unidentified man hiding in the backyard of a house fired his pistol at the officials. The officials returned fire and killed the man instantly.
One patrol soldier was killed and another wounded when terrorists insurgents clashed with them on Saturday morning in Sai Buri district of Pattani. An unknown number of terrorists insurgents ambushed the soldiers when they were patrolling around Pa Thung school Road. The clash began after soldiers fought back.
COLOMBO: Government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels traded artillery fire in the islands northwest, with each side claiming heavy casualties against the other as well as among civilians. The rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said they killed a government soldier and lost one of their own during Fridays clashes in the coastal district of Mannar and accused the army of killing eight civilians.
Military Spokesman Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe said the new operation was a humanitarian offensive to liberate about 6,000 to 7,000 people. Samarasinghe said that in a separate incident on Friday, the military killed 11 Tamil Tiger rebels and nine soldiers were wounded in the fighting. There was a threat to Forward Defence Lines from LTTE and we went and attacked them, Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe said. An estimated 5,000 people have died since last year in renewed fighting after a peace process collapsed. The civil war erupted in 1983 about 70,000 people have died and hundreds of thousands displaced.
The Tigers, who say they are fighting for an independent state for minority ethnic Tamils in the north and east, were not immediately available for comment on the new offensive, but said three civilians were killed by a Sri Lankan Deep Penetration Unit operating in the rebel held aria. A claymore was exploded targeting the fleeing civilians. Three dead bodies...have been taken to the hospital, Selvy Navaruban, Tiger spokeswomen on humanitarian issues and human rights, told Reuters by phone.
The pro-rebel Puthinam.com website said the victims were fleeing a military push into rebel-held territory in the Mannar district when they were killed in a mine attack carried out by the security forces. There was no immediate comment from the military.
After the initial confrontation, the LTTE front liners searched the area, where they found a dead body of a Sri Lanka armed force soldier and military equipment, LTTE spokesman Rasiah Ilanthiriyan said. The body would be returned to the military through the Red Cross, he said in a statement. A Tiger rebel was also killed in the confrontation, he said. However, the defence ministry said intercepts of rebel radio communications indicated that 11 guerrillas were killed.
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Lebanese army helicopters stepped up raids on al-Qaida-inspired Islamic militants barricaded in a Palestinian refugee camp in the country's north after five soldiers were killed, a senior military official said. A soldier died overnight Thursday and four other soldiers died in renewed fighting with Fatah Islam gunmen in the past two days in the besieged Nahr el-Bared camp, the official said Friday, speaking on condition of anonymity according to army regulations.
The deaths raised to 153 the number of soldiers killed since fighting began May 20, he said. "The army is making a noticeable progress in its push against the gunmen, capturing new areas in the camp," the official said.
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Ten civilians were killed when Taliban rebels fired rockets at a US base in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, and an Afghan soldier died in a suicide bombing outside the Kabul airport.
Police technicians have detonated three improvised explosive devices at Toronto's Leslie Street Spit after finding the bombs in the trunk of a car. Toronto Police Service's Explosive Disposal detonated the bombs at the Leslie Street Spit on Friday, Aug. 31, 2007. 
Police searched three madrassas in Hyderabad as part of investigations into recent bombings in the south Indian city that killed at least 43 people, prompting Muslim leaders to complain of discrimination on Friday. Investigators visited Darul Uloom Hyderabad, a prominent madrassa, in the early hours of Thursday in search of a student named Mujeeb Abdul Rahman, said police official CH Srinivas. No student of that name is enrolled there, the school's secretary Raheemuddin Ansar said, adding that the officers also asked if the madrassa had any foreign students.
The Federal Review Board on Friday ordered the release of two British nationals, including Rashid Rauf, the alleged mastermind of 2006 London terror plot. The other Briton, Raingzeib Ahmed, was arrested on Aug 25, 2006, from Haripur, NWFP, for his alleged link with the Al Qaeda network. Both the terror suspects are in the custody of law-enforcement agencies under the Security of Pakistan Act 1952. Justice Faqir Muhammad Khokhar of the Supreme Court headed the FRB. Justice Hamid Ali Mirza of the Supreme Court and Justice Nadir Khan of the Balochistan High Court were the board members. Besides Rauf and Ahmed, Khizar Hayat from the Interior Ministry and Col Zakria from the Inter Services Intelligence were also present at the FRB meeting at the SC. Sources told Daily Times that Ahmed would be released in the next few days. Rauf will continue to be behind bars to face a terror case against him, the sources said.
The office of Iraq's Vice President Tareq Al-Hashemi announced on Friday that 50 detainees would be released per day during the upcoming holy month of Ramadan.
Lebanese army helicopters stepped up raids on al-Qaida-inspired Islamic militants barricaded in a Palestinian refugee camp in the country's north after five soldiers were killed, a senior military official said. A soldier died overnight Thursday and four other soldiers died in renewed fighting with Fatah Islam gunmen in the past two days in the besieged Nahr el-Bared camp, the official said Friday, speaking on condition of anonymity according to army regulations. 
