Gunmen armed with machine guns opened fire on people praying at a mosque in central Afghanistan, killing two people and wounding 12 others, while 8 suspected Taliban were killed in southern Afghanistan and 4 police officers wounded in bomb attacks, officials said Wednesday.
The assailants, numbering more than five, starting shooting inside the mosque in the Dashte Toop area of Wardak province late Tuesday, said Provincial Police Chief Eiwaz Khan Mazllum. A local teacher was among those killed.
Police are searching for the attackers, who fled after the attack, he said.
Authorities were trying to determine the motive behind the shooting, said Muhibullah, the chief of criminal investigations in the province.
Southern Afghanistan: Meanwhile in Kandahar, NATO-led and Afghan troops clashed with Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan, leaving eight suspected militants dead and three detained, an official said Wednesday.
The clashes occurred in Zhari district of Kandahar province on Tuesday evening and Wednesday, and there were no casualties among NATO or Afghan forces in the fighting, said the provincial police chief, Sayed Agha Saqib.
A roadside bomb, meanwhile, targeted a police vehicle, in the same district on Wednesday, leaving four officers wounded, Saqib said. Taliban freed a German hostage in Afghanistan on Wednesday after more than two months in captivity, GermanyÂ’s foreign minister said.
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"opened fire on people praying at a mosque"
Must have been the Joooos. Or their evil ally, The Great Satan. Crazy Muslims wouldn't do such a thing.
Yemeni authorities have released four ex-Guantanamo inmates after more than three months in prison since they have been extradited by the US authorities in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to Yemen, an official source said.
The official website 26sep.net reported Wednesday that the Political Security have freed four returnees from Guantanamo. The source identified the released as Fawazi Noaman Hamoud, Ali Muhsen Saleh Nasser, Sadeq Mohammad Saeed Isameel and Hani Abdu Musleh Shulan. The Amnesty International has appealed to president Abdullah Saleh to release Guantanamo returnees who are being held in Yemenis prisons without charges or trial.
The official news agency Saba reported Wednesday that Yemeni authorities also released Tuesday the most prominent woman prisoner in Yemen Amina Abdullatif after ten years in jail for allegedly murdering her husband in 1998. Amina was scheduled to be executed in May 2005 but the execution was stayed pending a review to determine her age at the time of the offence. She was sentenced to death in May 1999 when she was 16 years old. In 2002 Amina was scheduled to be executed but the executioner noticed that she was pregnant and the execution was halted.
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The executioner noticed that she was pregnant. That is a very odd statement that makes me uncomforatble like if the plumber noticed that you are out of sugar.
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She'd been in jug for three years. She musta really been showing by the time the executioner got around to having a look at her.
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Heck, if the Yemenis were faithful Muslims they would have stoned her for having being an adulteress.
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Yep, Fred, it reminds me of that old comedy, wherein the Manger scene was being played by some school kids at Christmastime.
Moderator: And the Holy Spirit shown round about her, and she was sore afraid, for she was great with child.
Smart-Alick bystander: "Boy, was she ever!"
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It says somewhere in the Muslim sacred writings that Allah can cause a good Muslim wife to bear a man's child years after he's died. This must be one of those cases.
Turkey ordered its ambassador in Washington to return to Turkey for consultations over a U.S. House panel's approval of a bill describing the World War I-era mass killings of Armenians as genocide, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday.
The ambassador would stay in Turkey for about a week or 10 days for discussions about the measure, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Levent Bilman. "We are not withdrawing our ambassador. We have asked him to come to Turkey for some consultations," he said. "The ambassador was given instructions to return and will come at his earliest convenience."
State Department spokesman Tom Casey, said he was unaware of Turkey's decision, but said the United States wants to continue to have good relations with Turkey. "I'll let the Turkish government speak for itself," he said. "I think that the Turkish government has telegraphed for a long time, has been very vocal and very public about its concerns about this and has said that they did intend to act in very forceful way if this happens."
Private NTV television said Turkey's naval commander had canceled a planned trip to the United States over the bill.
Earlier, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, Ross Wilson, was invited to the Foreign Ministry, where Turkish officials conveyed their "unease" over the bill and asked that the Bush administration do all in its power to stop the bill from passing in the full House, a Foreign Ministry official said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to make press statements.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee passed the bill Wednesday despite intense lobbying by Turkish officials and opposition from President Bush. The vote was a triumph for well-organized Armenian-American interest groups who have lobbied Congress for decades to pass a resolution. The administration will now try to pressure Democratic leaders in Congress not to schedule a vote, although it is expected to pass.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates reiterated his opposition to the resolution Thursday, saying the measure could hurt relations at a time when U.S. forces in Iraq rely heavily on Turkish permission to use their airspace for U.S. air cargo flights.
Relations are already strained by accusations that the U.S. is unwilling to help Turkey fight Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq.
About 70 percent of U.S. air cargo headed for Iraq goes through Turkey, as does about one-third of the fuel used by the U.S. military in Iraq. U.S. bases also get water and other supplies by land from Turkish truckers who cross into the northern region of Iraqi Kurdistan.
Historians estimate up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I, an event widely viewed by genocide scholars as the first genocide of the 20th century. Turkey, however, denies the deaths constituted genocide, saying that the toll has been inflated and that those killed were victims of civil war and unrest. "It is not possible to accept such an accusation of a crime which was never committed by the Turkish nation," the Turkish government said Thursday. "It is blatantly obvious that the House Committee on Foreign Affairs does not have a task or function to rewrite history by distorting a matter which specifically concerns the common history of Turks and Armenians."
Armenian President Robert Kocharian welcomed the vote, saying: "We hope this process will lead to a full recognition by the United States of America ... of the genocide." Speaking to reporters Thursday after meeting European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana, Kocharian also appealed to Turkey to join talks on restoring bilateral relations.
Turkey is under no pressure from the EU to call the Armenian killings genocide. The European Commission criticized France last year when that country's lower house voted to make it a crime to deny the killings were genocide. The upper house did not take up the bill, so it never became law.
Turkey has warned that relations with the United States will suffer if the bill passes, but has not specified possible repercussions. U.S. diplomats have been quietly preparing Turkish officials for weeks for the likelihood that the resolution would pass, asking for a muted response. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said the Turks "have not been threatening anything specific" in response to the vote, and that he hopes the "disappointment can be limited to statements."
Turkey ended its military ties with France over its bill last year. But a decision to cut far more expansive military ties with the United States could have serious consequences for Turkey's standing as a reliable ally of the West.
"I don't think that Turkey will go so far as to put in doubt its whole network of allied relations with the United States," said Ruben Safrastian, director of the Institute of Eastern Studies of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences. "In the end, not only is the United States interested in Turkey, but Turkey is interested in the United States."
Adding to tensions, Turkey is considering launching a military offensive into Iraq against the Kurdish rebels — a move the United States strongly opposes because it could destabilize one of the few relatively peaceful areas in Iraq. Iraq's Kurdish region is heavily dependent on trade with Turkey, which provides the region with electricity and oil products. Annual trade at Habur gate, the main border crossing, is more than $10 billion.
In a recent letter, Turkish President Abdullah Gul warned there would be "serious troubles" if Congress adopted the measure. He reacted quickly Wednesday, saying "some politicians in the United States have once again sacrificed important matters to petty domestic politics despite all calls to common sense."
Turkish newspapers denounced the decision. "27 foolish Americans," the daily Vatan said on its front-page headline, in reference to legislators who voted for the bill.
Hurriyet called the resolution: "Bill of hatred."
The U.S. Embassy urged Americans in Turkey to be alert for violent repercussions. Wilson said he regretted the committee's decision and said he hoped it would not be passed by the House.
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I think they are a bit thin skinned over this.
If you look in their records I would not be surprised to find them accusing us of genocide on native Americans. (so many countries have done so...)
Can't say we would even notice folks calling us names... its sort of a common thing.
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...a U.S. House panel's approval of a bill describing the World War I-era mass killings of Armenians as genocide
Being that the House is under control of the Donks, I would say this is an effort to line up election support, to obstruct the war effort, and to embarass G.W. Bush.
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This is not the first time. When I was in DC doing Govt. Relations for my old firm (we had considerable business in Turkey) they tried to pass this under GWB41. I think it was Dole who was on the Armenian side. Don't remember why but we had our hands full knocking it down (back then Turkey was cool, pro-American, pro-Capitalist and very much moving westward). But you could see that they were turning Islamic more and more. When I went there to meet with the Mayor of Izmir to talk about a new light-rail system, an Army General walked into our meeting unannounced and when he saw we were Americans he couldn't have been more relaxed and warm toward us. His number one concern then as now was the PKK and Islamicism. They have gone from 90% secular to about 35% in just 8 years. Scary because I never thought the miitary would ever allow that to happen.
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The native Americans are beginning to blame the Italian Columbus for what they consider genocide, but grumbling at the government is considered patriotic, working Homeland Security.
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In a way, I can see Turkey's point. Until Kemal Attaturk crushed the last of the Ottoman Empire and set up the current secular government, the government of "Turkey" as it exists today didn't exist. The Ottomans were a mixture of Kurds, Turks, Arabs, and just about anything else that could be tossed into the blender. Their defeat in World War I caused a LOT of hard feelings, plus gave many of their subject peoples the idea of forming their own nations. Britain and France encouraged that by partitioning most of the Muddled East into "nations" in the late 1919-1925 time period. Among the nations formed by the British and French were Syria, Lebanon, "Palestine", Transjordan, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq. Borders of many states were redrawn, and plebecites were required in a dozen or more places. The Russians helped redraw the maps by conquering or absorbing more than a dozen smaller states in the Caucusus area following the Bolshevek Revolution. Places like Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and the Transcaucasian Federated Republic arose at the end of World War I and then were absorbed into the USSR. The whole landscape has more border changes than modern Africa. A lot of the fighting was genocidal, not so much by design as by happenstance, as locals refused to give up the fight as long as two people were still alive. The US Congress needs to learn the history of this area and make rational decisions, not "feel-good declarations" that distort history and anger our friends.
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Did they ever pass a resolution calling mass killings of Europeans by Ghengis Khan as genocide?
That'd be just about as relevant, wouldn't it?
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The Armenian killings were a great tregedy, among many great tragedies of the time.
Not to minimize this tragedy, WTF is the House messing with a bill like that anyway? It does absolutely nothing, and wastes the time of the Congress, when there are plenty of issues that need resolution and closure.
I see it as a way of sticking it to the President and his policies at the expense of the country. If relations sour and we are denied overfly or transit rights to Iraq, then it can seriously affect our troops health and well being. But seeing the Congress in action these past years, they are capable of this kind of stupid and harmful behavior.
We are at war. We have to deal with a$$holes in the course of our actions. It is not a perfect world. It angers me to see congress critters playing these games in their safe little cubby holes while our troops put their lives on the line to protect their worthless a$$es.
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WTF is the House messing with a bill like that anyway?
Doing what all legislators do; responding to constituent pressures. The real question is why are there people in the U. S. who want to divert the country from its best interest in wartime to pursue their old world vendettas? It makes me think a lot less of Armenian-(so called)Americans that they are willing to undermine our national security in time of war and it reduces my sympathy for what happened in 1915 substantially. Leave the people in the old world to settle their problems and start acting like Americans.
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From out of the blue, Tom Lantos spearheaded the effort to get this POS issue through the wickets to high-viz MSM status, and to piss off our Type-"A" Turk "allies". The same Lantos, who ended his Gen Petraus Iraq SITREP dem kick-off flaying with his best Bela Lugosi, "I dunt bite" (General P, "I don't buy it"). I dunt bite? This from a "survivor" who has only lived and prospered in the U.S. for 60 years?
#12
Some people simply aren't gifted with languages, Mr. Garnell. My father, though a reasonably brilliant biochemist, still sounds like he just got off the boat. He left Latvia in 1934 at the age of fifteen. The odd thing is, he has the same heavy accent in six or seven languages he speaks fluently -- including his three or four (depending on whether one counts Yiddish and High German as separate languages, or the former as a dialect) mother tongues -- and presumably in the handful of languages he doesn't speak as well.
My mother, on the other hand, not only speaks her several languages like a native, but can accurately mimic the accents and speech patterns even of those from countries whose language she does not speak. She used to drive her professors crazy sounding like a different nationality each class... but on the phone made a point of sounding exactly like her sister, who'd spent the war safely on this side of the pond.
Me? I take after Mama, without the control. It can be highly amusing after I've conversed a while with some of Mr. Wife's Indian colleagues.
#13
Having Armenian friends and having travelled to Armenia, I'll cheerfully admit to some bias in this. However, I'll ask that people consider whether there might be some wisdom in America beginning to show a consistent degree of support for and solidarity with Christian countries. As one of the oldest (~300AD)—if not the oldest—Christian nation on earth Armenia is deserving of that support.
I fully comprehend why Turkey supposedly represents a vital ally in the Middle East. In light of their treachery during our invasion of Iraq, I have grave doubts as to their overall worth. The West's long term survival may well be better served by consolidating Christian and other non-Muslim nations against Islam.
Of your own doing. And not everyone wants it. Perhaps if the majority of your citizens don't want it, you should accept it and move on.
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I fully support this resolution and would be happy if the Senate reconfirmed it every year for the next 20 years. I think the resolution should be improved by blaming not only the Turks in particular, but also the Moslems in general.
The House ought to do the same.
I would like to see Congress pass some resolutions asking the United Nations to establish a committee to study the feasibility of an independent national state for the Kurds who now are divided among Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria.
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Mike, how dare you have a different opinion!
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Ahhh...tw, with all those pedigrees, Lantos might just be the perfect fit for you. I'll spare you he grim details of how my maternal grandfather and his siblings, anti-Nazi activists all, suffered in Solingen, Germany in the early to mid 1930's. Why lash out at me? Beside your various ancestral pedigrees(Sniffle), daily bloviating and inflated sense of entitlement; just what point are you trying to make? Your antagonist is Lantos...not me
President George W. Bush's administration took action Wednesday against three Saudi Arabians suspected of raising money to bankroll terrorist acts and providing support to an al-Qaida affiliated group believed responsible for bombings and kidnappings in Southeast Asia.
The department accused the three of providing support to the Abu Sayyaf Group, an al-Qaida-linked terrorist group, and serving as "significant sources of financial and other support" to terrorists in Southeast Asia. "These three terrorist financiers were instrumental in raising money to fund terrorism outside of Saudi Arabia. In order to deter other would-be donors, it is important to hold these terrorists publicly accountable," said Stuart Levey, the department's under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence.
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Abu Sayyaf Group
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al-Qaeda
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Abu Sayyaf Group
Fahd Muhammad Abd Al-Aziz Al-Khashiban
al-Qaeda
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Abu Sayyaf Group
Muhammad Abdallah Salih Sughayr
al-Qaeda
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All Sunni terrorism funding is traced backed to Saudi.
All Shiite terrorism funding is traced backed to Iran.
These two must be stopped asap then their operation HQs Pakistan and Syria/Gaza will dey up!!!!
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Only reason these clowns are getting hammered is they apparently didn't pay the right and proper amount of baksheesh to the crooks in Washington. Only reason...
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NSA and NRO get the goods and evidence - Treasury makes the legal moves. Bush can't protect the Saudis any longer, even though he needs them on our side with the Sunni in Iraq. But they are more concerned about us taking the fight to enemy number one - Iran than they are about some guys giving money to Abu Sayyaf.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (UPI) -- Pakistani soldiers fighting pro-Taliban militants in the country's tribal areas allegedly have seen bodies mutilated by insurgents, it was reported Wednesday. The mutilations have included decapitations and burning, PakistanÂ’s English language newspaper Dawn reported Wednesday, quoting a security official.
“This is not something new. No culture allows mutilation of bodies. Only terrorists can do such a thing,” the official said.
Not 'militants'?
Fierce battles between the militants and Pakistani security forces have been raging since Sunday in tribal North Waziristan, with the death toll mounting, according to various reports. The fighting began after the military was repeatedly ambushed, taking numerous casualties in roadside bombings, Dawn reported.
Residents in the some of the tribal areas hit by the military are reportedly suspected of being supporters of the militants either by choice or by force.
“Locals should ask those who fire on security forces, carry out ambushes and roadside bombings and then hide amongst them," Dawn quoted Pakistan military spokesman Maj. Gen. Waheed Arshad as saying. "If militants fire on us from rooftops and compounds, they become legitimate targets.”
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Residents in the some of the tribal areas hit by the military are reportedly suspected of being supporters of the militants either by choice or by force.
I suspect that's probably correct, in some of the cases, either by supposition or hypothesis.
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"No culture allows mutilation" - unless it's muzz daughters' genitals. They think that's OK
A couple years back, some of out special forces guys were accused of burning bodies and the US media wanted 'em strung up. In this case, it gets tossed off as part of the colorful local culture.
Feh...
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Residents in the some of the tribal areas hit by the military are reportedly suspected of being supporters of the militants either by choice or by force.
“Locals should ask those who fire on security forces, carry out ambushes and roadside bombings and then hide amongst them," Dawn quoted Pakistan military spokesman Maj. Gen. Waheed Arshad as saying. "If militants fire on us from rooftops and compounds, they become legitimate targets.”
Of course, the rules are different for the Israelis and Americans.
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Atrocities are actually good for morale. It will help the Pak army rank and file realize that above all else, they don't want to be captured. And they also won't be too kind to any Taliban they capture either.
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Years ago in Lebanon a Soviet KGB agent was kidnapped my one of the local militias there. The KGB then picked up the militia leaders son, and "mutilated" him before slitting his throat and returning the body to the militia leader. The KGB agent was released almost immediately...
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"This is not something new. No culture allows mutilation of bodies. Only terrorists can do such a thing," the official said.
[points to ISI's neatly made bed]
Lie down, @ssholes, it's bedtime.
unless it's muzz daughters' genitals.
Le bingo, M. Murcek!
Of course, the rules are different for the Israelis and Americans.
Not a squeak about decapitations of Western hostages, of course.
Much like how the Palestinians are finally getting a chance to enjoy the ultimate fruits of innumerable splinter groups and their fascination with unchecked violence, so is Pakistan finally reaping the whirlwind of its obsession with Islamic Purity™. It will be interesting in the extreme to see how these conniving Islamists come to terms with their sudden revulsion over how their pet terrorists deal with them.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) - Suspected militants blew up six music shops in restive northwest Pakistan, while a policeman was killed in a resulting gun battle with the rebels, officials said. Militants also targeted a hair salon in a conservative district of North West Frontier Province, seriously injuring a barber in the bomb blast, a police official said.
What happened to the tattoo parlors and the tanning spas?
The tribal policeman was killed in a village after militants blew up three music shops deemed un-Islamic and traded fire with police late Wednesday, police official Mukarram Khan told AFP. Another policeman was hurt and a militant injured during the gunfight was captured, he said.
Early Thursday two blasts rocked a town damaging three more music shops and the hair salon, police official Azhar Ali told AFP. The barber, who lost both his hands in the explosion, was taken to hospital in a serious condition, the official said.
Gonna be hard to wield a razor with his feet.
Police defused a third home-made bomb fitted with a timer which was planted under an electricity transformer in the area, he said.
Salons are sometimes targeted by militants who deem shaving beards as un-Islamic. Music was banned under the former hard-line Taliban regime in neighbouring Afghanistan, while men were required to grow beards.
QUETTA: Unknown gunmen on Wednesday shot dead a prominent politician belonging to the ruling Pakistan Muslim League here, police said. Unidentified attackers on a motorbike ambushed the car of Sher Jan Marri, 32, and fled after shooting him in the provincial capital, said senior police official Qazi Abdul Wahid. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the killing. Marri was a former deputy mayor of Kohlu district where tribal rebels have been active.
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BAGHDAD (AP) - A series of rockets or mortar rounds struck Camp Victory, killing two members of the U.S.-led coalition and wounding 40 other people on the sprawling headquarters for U.S. forces in Iraq, the military said Thursday. Most troops stationed at the base are American but there are small contingents from other cuontries.
The military said those wounded in Wednesday's attack included two "third-country nationals," meaning they were not Americans or Iraqis. More details on the attack were not immediately released.
U.S. bases in Iraq frequently face so-called "indirect fire," the military's term for a rocket or mortar attack, but Camp Victory is well-entrenched on the capital's western outskirts and such heavy casualties are rare.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10, 2007 – Coalition troops in Iraq killed 14 terrorists and captured 12 others during a series of operations in the central part of the country today and yesterday.
-- Coalition forces killed 13 terrorists west of Baghdad while targeting associates of al Qaeda in Iraq linked to a local car-bombing network. A group of targeted individuals had gathered in a field near a recent attack. Coalition aircraft engaged the armed men, killing 10 terrorists. As coalition ground forces secured the area, they discovered three more armed men. Another coalition air strike was called in, killing the three terrorists, one of whom was wearing a suicide vest. "Achmed, do you hear a whistling noise?"
"YES! Run for your---" BOOM!
Coalition forces west of Balad destroyed two buildings linked to al Qaeda in Iraq operations. Reuters offices? Probably not.
Information obtained from an anti-terrorist operation in Baqouba yesterday led coalition troops to a nearby location today. When coalition forces called for the target buildingÂ’s occupants to come out, an armed man challenged the coalition troops and was killed. Nine suspects were detained. "Abdul, did you hear about Achmed and his friends?"
A cache of weapons, ammunition, grenades and military-style assault vests were found on site and destroyed.
In operations yesterday:
-- Coalition ground forces killed one terrorist and detained three suspects in Baqouba while targeting an alleged associate of al Qaeda in Iraq senior leaders. “We’re continuously pursuing al Qaeda in Iraq’s leadership, finding the places they hide and operate, and disrupting their ability to attack innocent Iraqis,” said Army Maj. Winfield Danielson, a Multinational Force Iraq spokesman.
-- U.S. soldiers destroyed two booby-trapped houses and captured 10 suspected insurgents in Adwaniyah. While looking for insurgents responsible for emplacing improvised explosive devices, the soldiers found two empty houses wired with explosives. After the area was vacated, the houses were destroyed with Hellfire missiles.
-- Terrorists killed more than a dozen people and wounded scores of others in Beiji as the result of two suicide car-bomb attacks. The separate attacks targeted the homes of the Beiji police chief and a local citizens group leader. The police chief and the citizens group leader escaped harm, but the attacks claimed 14 lives and injured 42 others.
“This cowardly act was a sign of desperation by terrorists, in an attempt to disrupt security forces and concerned local citizens who have joined together to combat terrorism throughout Salahuddin and other areas of northern Iraq,” said Army Col. Bryan Owens, commander of 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division.
“These attacks on the local community show these terrorists have a complete disregard for human life and lack of respect for Iraqi lives and property,” Owens said. “Iraqi security forces and concerned local citizens will continue to hunt these extremists to prevent senseless attacks on the people of Salahuddin province.”
In an operation a day earlier, Iraqi soldiers captured four suspected insurgents during a patrol in the New Baghdad district of the Iraqi capital Oct. 8. When soldiers searched a vehicle that contained suspicious-acting passengers, they found a rifle and three videos depicting attacks on coalition forces. "Er, no, soldier, sir. Those are just the videos of my cousin Achmed's wedding."
The four people that were in the vehicle are being held for additional questioning.
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We can start calling this Take-home Pay. Your gross is 28 but you net 12. However, I am crazy and would rather net 2 or 4 at the maximum.
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IRBIL, Oct 10 (KUNA) -- Iraqi authorities said Wednesday that it had arrested the killer of a policeman who was murdered earlier in Kirkuk. Speaking to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), a police officer said unknown gunmen had shot dead Khaz'al Nayef who was a member of the police force in Al-Huwaijah. A police force immediately surrounded the area and arrested a member of the Islamic Republic of Iraq insurgent group, Khamees Abbas who confessed committing the crime.
At least seven people were killed and 19 others were wounded in a suicide bombing on Wednesday that targeted the headquarters of one of the Kurdish parties in Mosul, northern Iraq. A police source told KUNA that a booby-trapped car exploded in frot of one of the buildings of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), killing seven people and wounding 19 others, including party members.
The IDF arrested eight Palestinian terror suspects in Kalkilya Wednesday afternoon. All the suspects were transferred to security forces for interrogation.
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IDF troops operating in Kalkilya on Wednesday night were approached by a Palestinian wielding a lit Molotov cocktail. The soldiers opened fire at the attacker and hit him.
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Fred beat me to it..
Paleo w/ bottle and rag rushes Israeli troops, period stop.
How 'bout a big.... DUMBFARTWA for every Paleo around!
yeeehawww
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Perchance he dropped IID (improvised immolation device), one can only pray no one was hurt. Well, you know what I mean.
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Just like a Paleo to bring a Molotov cocktail to a gunfight.
IDF troops and the Shin Bet arrested one of Hamas's senior leaders in Bethlehem in a joint operation Wednesday evening. The suspect, Adel Issa Muhammad Jarish, was handed over to security forces for interrogation.
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Shin Bet arrested the suspect, Adel Issa Muhammad Jarish = Hamas's senior leader.
The suspect, Adel Issa Muhammad Jarish, was handed over to security forces for interrogation.
bet that left a mark!
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The IAF on Wednesday night carried out a missile attack on a target in the northern Gaza Strip. The IDF said that the target was a Kassam launching crew that had carried out an attack on the western Negev earlier in the evening.
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Near instant counterbattery fire with a 1KM radius bracket would go a long way toward stopping this nonsense.
Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian gunman affiliated with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah Party in a raid early Wednesday, members of the armed group said. The shooting also wounded a senior operative of the Aksa Martyrs' Brigades, the group said. The wounded man, Sufian Kandeel, had recently signed a deal granting him amnesty from Israel, but had not fulfilled several conditions, as group spokesman Mahdi Abu Ghazaleh admitted.
Witnesses said the soldiers entered Nablus's Old City, known as a militant stronghold, disguised in Palestinian security forces uniforms and carrying Kalashnikov rifles typical of the forces. They spoke Arabic to passers-by, asking "how are you," and raising no suspicions as they took positions on rooftops, the witnesses said.
Security sources confirmed Wednesday that forces operating in Nablus had killed Amar el Anabusi, and wounded Kandeel. They would not confirm that the unit had disguised themselves as members of the Palestinian security force.
Israel offered the amnesty this summer to about 200 West Bank gunmen, mostly from Fatah, as part of an effort to bolster Abbas in his rivalry with Hamas. Under the deal, the militants agreed to sit in a Palestinian jail for three months and surrender their weapons. Kandeel had agreed not to harm Israelis, but did not accept the other conditions, said Abu Ghazaleh, who also signed the amnesty deal. "We signed the list but will not go along with the Israeli conditions... We will not sit in jail and not give in our weapons, because they are valuable to us,'" Abu Ghazaleh said. "We don't believe the Israeli government and all that they say."
Members of the group had said earlier that the two men were armed, but Abu Ghazaleh, who was at the scene of the shooting, said later that they were not.
In other operation Wednesday, IDF and GSS cooperated to capture a leading Hamas operative in Bethlehem, Adel Issa Muhammad Jarish, along with other suspects. The IDF was also active hunting terrorists in Kalkilya.
Also Wednesday, the army reported that it had captured two Gazan terrorists who were associated with an August attempted attack on Israeli troops at the Erez crossing which slightly wounded two soldiers. The two terrorists admitted spending an entire year planning the attack and that they had spent months scouting the border patrols in preparation.
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Israeli forces carried out an incursion into the northern outskirts of Beit Hanoun on Wednesday near the borders with Israel. Eyewitnesses said a number of Israeli tanks and bulldozers backed up by Israeli Apache helicopters entered the area this morning and destroyed weapons caches agricultural lands.
"We seen it wit' our own eyes!"
Israel last night increased the number of its forces near the northern and eastern borders of Gaza, according to eyewitnesses.
Meanwhile, Izzidine Al-Qassam brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, said it will retaliate to the Israeli forces which are currently infiltrating the northern parts of Beit Hanoun. The brigades said fighters fired a number of mortar shells and rocket-propelled grenades (RPG) at the Israeli forces. The brigades shot dead an Israeli soldier during confrontations between the two sides in Beit Hanoun this morning, the statement also added.
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Why not arm the D-9s with a couple of chain guns and (ala WWI fighter planes) synchronize the gun to fire whenever the blade is down. i think the cat operator would enjoy his new toy.....
Al-Nasser Saladin Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Popular Resistance Committees, claimed responsibility Wednesday for firing mortar shells at Erez crossing in north Gaza Strip. A brigades statement said the group launched a pair of 100 millimeter mortar shells at the crossing just before midnight, Tuesday. The statement added sirens were heard shortly after the firing of the rounds, indicating a hit. This attack is in retaliation for the Israeli crimes against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, it said.
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CONVICTED Bali nightclub bombers have feasted on kebabs with Indonesia's anti-terrorism chief at an evening party held at his house. The party, which brought together more than 20 Muslim hardliners and former terrorists who have shown "regret" for their actions, was the latest "soft" strategy in Indonesia's anti-terror campaign to try and turn former militants into informers, or advocates of religious moderation.
"We approach the terrorists with a pure heart,'' Brigadier General Surya Dharma, the head of Indonesia's anti-terror unit and host of the party, told Associated Press. "We are all Muslims. We make them our brothers, not our enemy."
I'm kinda confused by this logic thing, so try to bear with me for a bit. If A is a murderous rat bastard terrorist and B states that both A and B are similar, brothers in fact, not each other's enemy, doesn't that mean that A=B? Further if A is in fact the enemy of C and not C's brother in fact, doesn't that make B the enemy of C as well? So why is there any constraint on C from leveling B's country?
Mubarok, who is serving a life sentence for planning and carrying out the Bali bombings, was temporarily released from prison to attend the party, which was free of armed guards. He led the prayers at the celebration, timed to coincide with the breaking of the fast during the holy month of Ramadan. "We did not stop to think, what if one of our family was caught up in the blasts? Now we are aware what we did was wrong,'' Mubarok, who goes by a single name, said.
"Our only thought was that we were gonna kill lotsa infidel C's."
Financial rewards
Prisoners such as Mubarok who cooperate with Indonesian authorities look forward to shorter sentences and financial rewards. "We learn who can be turned and look after them,'' Col. Tito Karnavian, the head of intelligence at the anti-terrorism unit, told Associated Press. "And they then recruit people. We call it 'creeping de-radicalisation.' We should not treat terrorists all the same. We should learn their culture and then exploit it.''
A few prisoners work publicly with authorities - one former Jemaah Islamiah leader Nasir Abbas sometimes briefs media alongside police. Most remain behind the scenes, identifying a voice recording or meeting with fellow detainees to try and change their fundamentalist views.
Ali Imron, another former militant serving life for the Bali bombings, said an unnamed cleric had issued an edict calling for his death because of his close links with police. "Everything has a risk, but I have chosen my path,'' he told Associated Press. "I am doing what is right.''
The fifth anniversary of the Bali bombings is October 12.
Few hard-liners will admit to assisting police and many still hold views that mainstream Muslims would consider extreme. Several appear to be motivated as much by financial reward as anything else.
Co-option through corruption sounds like such a promising long-term solution, doesn't it?
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A cockroach in the employ of muzz government or military is still a cockroach...
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One side of me says maybe this'll work, the other side says maybe the general's balls will be the main course for one of his nice dinners some night...
#7
Well, this is news. When Indonesia was confronted by the ethnic Chinese insurgency back in the 60's and 70's their army showed no mercy. They removed all the ethnics they could round up (at least those that didn't have enough rupiahs to remain in Jakarta and Surabaya) and sent them packing to Kalimantan Timur (Eastern Borneo). Then to make sure they didn't just disappear into the rain forest and join forces with the Orang-Utans they stationed their top counter-insurgency forces there to keep it all under control. This is a big departure and it shows the both the Indonesian Army and the Turkish Army are facing a similar dilemma and are going soft on Islam.
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People are starving in the over-breeding capital of the world, and they provide a feast for convicted terrorists and their supporters. Makes sense to a moron.
I don't know if this news has already been published on an english site, so I translate it from the french for you, Rantburgers. The French newspaper "Le Figaro" published 4 hours ago on Internet an article saying this:
"The leader of the commando that perpetrated the bombing of the Parisian synagogue on the Copernic Street, october 3rd, 1980, killing 4 people (3 French and 1 Israeli) is currently living in Canada after having spent many years in the United States.
French antiterrorist units are collecting informations about his stay in the US, and DNA samples to confound him.
The criminal terrorist leader, from palestinian origin, [is this really a surprise?]
who was a member of the PLFP-SO (Popular Liberation Front of Palestine - Special Operations) is now aged 55 and has both Lebanese and Canadian nationalities. He personally built the bomb that killed the people in front of the Copernic synagogue. This terrorist is also suspected in the bombing of the Antwerp synagogue in 1981"
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Merci beaucoup, Leroidavid. And congratulations to France on an investigation well done. May the man soon be convicted and punished as he deserves, along with all who helped him before, during and after.
1) French antiterrorist unit has to give to the Canadian justice lot of proofs about the guilt of this terrorist leader;
2) Canada has to extradit this bloody criminal, and, in fact, the end of "Le Figaro"'s article says that this terrorist may continue to live freely in Canada for years;
3) And it took 27 years to the French investigators to find him, that's not really very fast. The article says that the French justice system was very slow in its investigation about this bombing, probably (I speaking) because this bombing was committed by "poor" Palesticriminals...
#4
Where did he live in the United States? Does he have friends, family, associates still here? Where and who are they? Lets not stop with some silly extradiction - lets round them up, Danno.
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Gunmen armed with machine guns opened fire on people praying at a mosque in central Afghanistan, killing two people and wounding 12 others, while 8 suspected Taliban were killed in southern Afghanistan and 4 police officers wounded in bomb attacks, officials said Wednesday. 
Yemeni authorities have released four ex-Guantanamo inmates after more than three months in prison since they have been extradited by the US authorities in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to Yemen, an official source said.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) - Suspected militants blew up six music shops in restive northwest Pakistan, while a policeman was killed in a resulting gun battle with the rebels, officials said. Militants also targeted a hair salon in a conservative district of North West Frontier Province, seriously injuring a barber in the bomb blast, a police official said.
QUETTA: Unknown gunmen on Wednesday shot dead a prominent politician belonging to the ruling Pakistan Muslim League here, police said. Unidentified attackers on a motorbike ambushed the car of Sher Jan Marri, 32, and fled after shooting him in the provincial capital, said senior police official Qazi Abdul Wahid. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the killing. Marri was a former deputy mayor of Kohlu district where tribal rebels have been active.
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IRBIL, Oct 10 (KUNA) -- Iraqi authorities said Wednesday that it had arrested the killer of a policeman who was murdered earlier in Kirkuk. Speaking to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), a police officer said unknown gunmen had shot dead Khaz'al Nayef who was a member of the police force in Al-Huwaijah. A police force immediately surrounded the area and arrested a member of the Islamic Republic of Iraq insurgent group, Khamees Abbas who confessed committing the crime.
IDF troops operating in Kalkilya on Wednesday night were approached by a Palestinian wielding a lit Molotov cocktail. The soldiers opened fire at the attacker and hit him.
The IAF on Wednesday night carried out a missile attack on a target in the northern Gaza Strip. The IDF said that the target was a Kassam launching crew that had carried out an attack on the western Negev earlier in the evening.
Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian gunman affiliated with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah Party in a raid early Wednesday, members of the armed group said. The shooting also wounded a senior operative of the Aksa Martyrs' Brigades, the group said. The wounded man, Sufian Kandeel, had recently signed a deal granting him amnesty from Israel, but had not fulfilled several conditions, as group spokesman Mahdi Abu Ghazaleh admitted. 
