Two months after authorities broke up a terrorist cell in Germany and seized a large amount of potentially explosive chemicals and military-grade detonators, police have arrested a fourth suspect in Turkey.
Atilla S., a 22-year-old German, was arrested by Turkish authorities on Tuesday, Nov. 6, and is accused of being an accomplice in the plot to bomb US military and other facilities in Germany. If the bombing had succeeded, the attacks could have been deadlier than the ones in London and Madrid.
As the investigation into the plot widened, Germany took out an international search warrant against Atilla S. Authorities have been pressing Turkey to arrest him and extradite him. The man's lawyer, Manfred Gnjidic, confirmed the arrest, saying he had talked to his client by telephone but did not know where he was being held. His client, the lawyer said, denied the accusations.
"He had nothing to do with it," Gnjidic told the Associated Press. Germany's Federal Prosecutors' Office could not yet confirm the arrest.
According to investigators, Atilla S. spent time in a terrorist training camp in Pakistan in 2006 and was one of the people observed conducting surveillance on a US military base in Hanau on Dec. 31, 2006.
He is allegedly part of an Islamist circle active in the towns of Ulm and New Ulm, which has been under observation by German authorities for some time.
It is believed that S. worked with the men who are now in German custody, gathering bomb making materials and, in particular, helping the men obtain detonators. They had gathered 12 vats of hydrogen peroxide, which when mixed with other chemicals, could produce a bomb with a force equal to 1,200 pounds of TNT, German officials said in September.
His suspected associates were two Germans, Fritz G and Daniel S. as well as a Turkish resident of Germany, Adem Y. All three are now in custody and officials are looking for more people linked to the plot, which a militant group calling itself the Islamic Jihad Union claimed responsibility for.
"We can assume there are 40 to 50 suspects," the head of Germany's Federal Criminal Police, Jörg Ziercke, told the daily Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. "Besides the ringleaders, there are the people who were so closely connected to those arrested that we count them as being part of the network." Four down, forty-six to go.
(KUNA) -- The Turkish Army killed three Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) members during clashes southeastern the country, army sources said on Tuesday. The clashes took place in Tunceli Province on borders with Iraq, as the rebels refused to surrender to Army troops, a Turkish TV station reported, adding that another eight PKK members were arrested in the Turkish Province of Bengol.
Starting in 1984, the PKK transformed itself into a paramilitary organization, which was largely based in Iran, Iraq and Syria, as it launched conventional attacks as well as bombings against Turkish governmental installations, military and civilian targets at the aim of establishing an independant state.
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Starting in 1984, the PKK transformed itself into a paramilitary organization, which was largely based in Iran, Iraq and Syria, as it launched conventional attacks as well as bombings against Turkish governmental installations, military and civilian targets at the aim of establishing an independant state.
The above stated, this shows that the PKK has narrow bandwidth. The goal sought is being achieved but not by them. The Pkk's private engagement of Turkey, is now completely counter productive to their stated aims, it should disband itself at once and cease its provocations lest its leaders be shown to be idiots of the first order. The greater Kurdish government of Iraq, needs to articlate to the PKK that its surperflous, and warn them that to carry on against Turkey is wrong headed. if the PKK does not listen; than the Kurdish govnmnt of Iraq should take them off their speed dial list and let the pkk dissolve by the natural attrition that is certain to follow.
A Pennsylvania man was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in federal prison for plotting to help what he believed was an al-Qaida operative blow up US oil pipelines and refineries.
Michael C. Reynolds, 49, who claimed he had been trying to root out terrorists on the Internet, was convicted in July of providing material support to terrorists and other charges. "Today's sentencing constitutes a triumph of the rule of law over those who would use terror against this nation," Acting US Attorney Martin Carlson said in a statement. Reynolds has been jailed since his December 2005 arrest and is awaiting transfer to a federal prison.
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May he enjoy every last one of those 30 years in the joint, and may he experience "pipe being laid" every day...
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The historic statue of Buddha in the Jihan Abad area of Swat district in Pakistans North West Frontier Province (NWFP) has been blown up by unidentified militants. The destruction of the historic monument took place on Saturday night, Muhammad Aqleem, Deputy Curator of Swat Museum, said. "This is second attack on the seventh century statue of Buddha. The fresh attack caused irreparable loss to its head and also damaged its shoulders," he added.
Aqleem maintained that the statue belonged to seventh century A.D, and it was the most complete and inspiring symbol of Gandahara Art. After the historic statues of Bamiyan in Afghanistan, which were destroyed by the Taliban, the Swat statue was the sole example of Buddhist cultural heritage.
Buddha has been expelled from the Land of the Pure.
"It was seven meters tall and 20 feet high from the land, showing Buddha in meditation. I don't know what they want to achieve by such actions," The News quoted Aqleem, as saying. Aqleem said he had reported the incident to the local police but he did not think that the police would be able to protect Buddhist cultural sites in Swat, as they themselves were the victims of terrorist attacks.
That's the very Best those rag head bitches can do.
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We need to understand just how significant this action is. The islamists have dedicated themselves to destroying any religious symbol that isn't muslim. If they win, they will destroy all the cathedrals of Europe, all the religious paintings of the 16th and 17th century, the Parthenon of Greece, the temples of the Egyptian pharoahs, and anything else that would remind anyone of other religions. We're currently seeing the attempt to destroy the "Wailing Wall" in Israel, and we've seen the desecration of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Such narrow-minded, bigoted, anal people should never be allowed to succeed in turning the clock back to the seventh century. Both they and their moon god need to be given a massive whack that will put an end to their pretentions of world domination. Failing to do that will result in the destruction of both Western and Eastern civilizations that are far older, far more advanced, and far more able to function in just about any situation.
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radical islam is bent on confronting the world...head on.
what each of them need is a 5.56mm bullet...applied directly to the forehead.
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We need to understand just how significant this action is. The islamists have dedicated themselves to destroying any religious symbol that isn't muslim. If they win, they will destroy all the cathedrals of Europe, all the religious paintings of the 16th and 17th century, the Parthenon of Greece, the temples of the Egyptian pharoahs, and anything else that would remind anyone of other religions. We're currently seeing the attempt to destroy the "Wailing Wall" in Israel, and we've seen the desecration of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
This one simple fact cannot be overstated. Islam seeks nothing less than Global Cultural Genocide. Few, if any, Western architectural or artistic treasures would survive Islam's withering embrace. Notre Dame's fabulous Rose Window would be nothing more than an oversized bull's eye for target practice.
Islam must be crushed. Not stopped, crushed. It is incompatible with all modern cultures and carries with it unimaginable barbarity and inhumanity. We deserve far better after so many centuries of hard-won progress.
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Also Islam has destroyed its own historical monuments (e.g., in Mecca where cemetaries holding the remains of Mohammud's comrades and family were bulldozed).
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"Also Islam has destroyed its own historical monuments (e.g., in Mecca where cemetaries holding the remains of Mohammud's comrades and family were bulldozed). "
Salafists did it. As they destroyed muslim cemetaries in Bosnia. Its also Salafists (radical violent ones at that) who are destroying this Bhudda.
In afghanistan, by contrast, the muslim govt wants to rebuild the Bamiyan buddhas.
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I'm hardly an expert, but those look to be #3 and #4 at worst.
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considering that PakLand is so packed full of Islamic murderers, this pic is illustrative of the fact there are some very good folks in Pakistan with an extraordinary amount of courage.. to be protesting Perv after that huge Bomb just went off when Butto came back proves the point...
The Good The Bad and the Ugly.. the second pic from the top on this page....
[bad] Perv's ugly female cop with the head covering and blue shirt/blouse juxtaposed behind the badgered yet noble looking [good] petitioner for civil rule and Democracy.
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*second from the bottom on this page*
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MUMBAI: Two Pakistanis who robbed a bank to allegedly finance the hijacking of the Indian Airlines flight IC-814 to Kandahar are going to walk free next month without facing a trial. The duo had submitted a guilty plea before a Mumbai sessions court and were sentenced to eight years in jail recently. Since they have been in custody through their arrest in December 1999, their sentence will be set off against the period they served as undertrials.
Mohammed Asif alias 'Babloo', a resident of Karachi and Mohammed Rafiq Haji, a resident of Multan, were picked up by the Mumbai police on December 30, 1999 for robbing a bank at Borivali along with two other Pakistani nationals on October 6, 1999.
In October 1999, the four accused first stole a Maruti van at Orlem in Malad and later used it for the bank robbery at Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank in Borivali. More than seven lakh rupees were stolen but only Rs 1.72 lakh were recovered at the time of the arrest in December 1999 the rest of the money having been already transferred to the hijackers. The accused were also found in possession of two AK-56 rifles, seven grenades and four rocket launchers. According to the crime branch, Asif, Haji, Abdul Latif and Bhopal Mal were arrested after an incriminating phone call made to Pakistan by Latif was intercepted.
The trial of the four suspects was separated. Latif and Bhopal Mal were sent to Patiala to face trial before a special anti-hijacking court as they were seen to have a direct role in the Kandahar episode; Asif and Haji remained in custody at Arthur Road jail.
In an application moved before judge S D Agrawal last month, Asif and Haji sought to benefit from the concept of plea bargaining introduced in India in 2005. The duo said that eight years after their arrest their trial was yet to commence and hence, they were willing to plead guilty to the crime provided the court sentenced them to jail for the time they had already spent in custody.
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AK 56? Poor translation?
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Militants seized a town in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday and hoisted their flags over buildings after security forces surrendered, AFP quoted police and residents as saying. The town of Madyan was the third to come under the effective control of followers of firebrand religious leader Maulana Fazlullah, who is demanding Sharia law in the erstwhile tourist resort of Swat. They seized Madyan town today, they have already overrun Matta and Khawazakhela towns in their earlier push, a police official said on condition of anonymity.
Police surrender:
Police gave up their weapons, vehicles and control of local police stations, the officer and local residents said.
Police gave up their weapons, vehicles and control of local police stations, the officer and local residents said. The militants are continuing their advance, the police official said. At least 37 police and paramilitary soldiers left the main police station without a fight after militants surrounded the town and assured them that they would not be harmed, residents said.
Helicopter gunships: A Swat police official said authorities had sent helicopter gunships to target militant positions in the area. Residents said the militants were in complete control of Madyan and were patrolling the town, AFP reported. Witnesses said Fazlullahs supporters hoisted their flags over government buildings and guarded important sites, such as banks and bazaars. The militants held negotiations with police and security forces, which agreed to withdraw, police and witnesses said. Police also retreated from two more police posts in nearby villages.
The government moved 2,500 troops into Swat last week to counter Fazlullah, who is also known as Mullah Radio for his speeches on his private radio station, in which he calls for a holy war on authorities.
NWFP Home Minister Shahzada Gustasap confirmed the militants advance against the security forces and the capture of a Frontier Constabulary camp, staff reporter Saleem Athar adds. Gustasap said that security forces were observing the militants movements in the area and were awaiting the results of the local elders peace jirga. The home minister, however, warned that the government would maintain its writ at all cost and would use force if the ongoing talks between local elders and militants remained fruitless. Meanwhile, hundreds of locals continued moving out to safer places.
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...in the erstwhile tourist resort of Swat.
Swat's a resort?
Swat. Come for the Islamic hospitality, stay for the exploding video stores. And police stations. And barber shops. And marketplaces. And...
Suspected pro-Taliban militants on Tuesday kidnapped four paramilitary soldiers in a restive tribal area bordering Afghanistan, officials said, AFP reported.
The kidnapping took place near the town of Razmak in North Waziristan, where the army has been battling militants for the last five years, they said. The four soldiers were going on holidays and were snatched from a privately hired car near Noor Alam checkpost by unidentified gunmen, a local official told AFP. A search has been launched for the kidnapped soldiers, he said. Meanwhile, a remote controlled bomb planted at a roadside hit a military convoy at Spinwam in the Mir Ali sub-division of North Waziristan around 6 pm on Tuesday. An army officer was critically injured in the blast, sources told Daily Times.
Sources said that cross firing between militants and security forces continued for an hour after the blast on the military convoy that was moving towards Spinwam from Tal, around 30 kilometres north of Mir Ali. Gunship helicopters scanned the area following the blast, residents told Daily Times.
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Fighters from Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Waziristan have joined the ranks of Maulana Fazlullahs armed supporters to fight security forces and impose the Sharia (Islamic system) in Swat, well placed sources told Daily Times on Tuesday.
Let's translate that: Mullah Radio was a probe, to see how determined the government was to hold on to Swat. The probe revealed there was no substance behind the Pak army's presence and either no spine to be found in the local administration, or the local administration is sufficiently sympathetic as to present no serious obstacle. Now it's time for the reinforcements to be sent in, after which Ayman's branch of al-Qaeda can set up shop behind only the thinnest of veneers.
Sources said that the beheading of four security forces personnel in Swat was an act of foreign militants and they would start more beheadings if the government intensified attacks on them. The regrouping of Islamic militants in Swat has implications for NATO forces in Afghanistan as well as for the wider fight against global militancy, sources added.
A displaced Abdul Rahim, a resident of Matta, currently living in Peshawar confirmed the presence of foreigners and said he had seen some armed people speaking in Arabic and other languages of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). Maulana Fazlullahs spokesman, Sirajuddin, however, denied involvement of outsiders in the ongoing battle with the security forces. We have nobody from abroad, our own men are involved in the fighting, he said.
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Hey, let these people get what they're demanding, Sharia law imposed upon all and I hope they get it good and hard. Then, maybe they'll decide like the folks of Ramadi and Fallujah that Sharia is a dead end.
MARDAN At least two CD shops were blown up at Bashami road in the area of Kuta Khut Kallay on Tuesday. Explosive materials went off in the Wisal Ahmeds shop at 1am and the shop was completely destroyed. Electronic appliances, CDs and cassettes in the shop were ruined. After about fifteen minutes, a shop in the Gul Bahar area was destroyed when explosive material rigged in the shop went off. However no loss of life has been reported.
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DERA ISMAIL KHAN: At least three police personnel sustained serious injuries when unidentified saboteurs exploded a remote-controlled bomb in a police van. Inspector Hameedullah was on his way to work when at Moryali More, the bomb exploded, seriously injuring him, his driver Abdul Latif and security guard Sajjad Hussain. They were rushed to hospital. Police officers said that the blast was caused by four kilogrammes of explosive material that was remotely detonated. Police have filed a case against unidentified persons and has started investigations.
Meanwhile, two bombs exploded in Kotal Town, Kohat. However, no loss of life was reported. Sources said that two bombs rigged to the door of a religious institution detonated loudly, damaging doors and windowpanes of the institution. Police have registered a case and started investigations.
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Rear Admiral Greg Smith, MNF-I spokesman, announced Tuesday in a joint conference with Lt. Cmdr. Dowling, Task Force Troy, that 5,000 weapon cahces were found in Iraq since the beginning of 2007.
Smith went on saying that in the first 10 months of 2007, caches found and cleared by joint forces have doubled the entire volume of 2006 with the highest concentration of caches has been found in Anbar province. This can be attributed to the increasing effectiveness of the Iraqi forces, and receiving tips from Iraqi citizens, the official indicated, adding the tips led to this increase in cache finds.
He stated that Improvised Explosives Devices (IED) attacks in October were equal to attacks in September 2004, and they have decreased by 50 percent since the start of the surge.
"We spoke of Irans malign influence in past, since they supplied EFPs and rockets into Iraq. However, the newest cache finds do not appear to have arrived in Iraq after Iran made pledges to cease this weapon exportation into Iraq," Smith said, adding "We hope to verify in the near future that Iran has honored their pledge." While the trends in cache finds were very encouraging, the MNF would continue to understand that there were innumerable challenges remaining in Iraq, he affirmed.
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With that much ordnance beneath the surface, it's a wonder Iraq didn't become one giant secondary explosion. The question is, how much is still burried ?
Iraqi Security Forces and U.S. Special Forces capture seven extremists in Baghdad raid
BAGHDAD 6th Iraqi Army Division Soldiers, advised by U.S. Special Forces, captured seven al-Qaeda in Iraq extremists during operations in Mansour Nov. 4.
Captured was the primary target for the operation, a suspected AQI leader who reportedly organizes and personally conducts kidnappings, murders, car-bombings, and improvised explosive devices attacks. He reportedly runs a criminal network thought to be behind terrorist attacks carried out in the Ahdimiyah, Al Kahdra, Al Ameriyah, Yarmouk, and Mansour districts of Baghdad. The line between Al Qaeda and ordinary criminal is rather blurry.
According to intelligence reports, the suspect is believed to have ordered the murder of a family of three and the killing of eight construction workers. He is also thought to be behind the attempted murder of a Mansour City Council Chairman and an IED attack that killed three Iraqi checkpoint guards.
During the operation, Iraqi and U.S. Forces detained eight additional suspects for questioning. Who gets to do the questioning? Being it was an Iraqi op with just our 'advice' one would suppose the questioning of prisoners would be handled similarly - too bad for the ones being questioned.
No Iraqi or U.S. Special Forces were injured during this operation. Whether any detainees turn out to have been injured may depend on how they respond to questioning.
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Good. I am glad to see good operational competence with the Iraqis. If they can get a good working democracy/republic it will prove the fact that the arabs can do it.
BAGHDAD - Iraqi and US forces are planning a military assault to take control of the central Shiite city of Diwaniyah, half of which is in the grip of militants, a top Iraqi official said on Tuesday.
A widespread security operation will be launched soon in Diwaniyah with multinational forces to restore state control over the city, said Sheikh Hussain al-Khalidi, head of the provincial council of Qadisiyah, the province of which Diwaniyah is the capital. Diwaniyah, 180 kilometres (110 miles) south of Baghdad, is witnessing a raging Shiite turf war between fighters loyal to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and powerful politician Abdel Aziz al-Hakim.
Khalidi said the assault is necessary because gunmen have controlled half of the city for the past year. The operation will be strong and fast. I appeal to the people of Diwaniyah to be patient as there could be some difficulties caused by the military operation. Our intent is to bring stability, Khalidi told AFP.
Diwaniyah has seen a series of high-level political assassinations that have spread panic among its 1.1 million people. In August, the governor of Qadisiyah and the police chief were assassinated in a roadside bomb attack on their way back to Diwaniyah. Governor Khalil Jamil Hamza was a member of Hakims Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council party that sits in Prime Minister Nuri al-Malikis ruling coalition.
The militants have also regularly clashed with security forces and last year dozens of casualties were sustained on both sides in a particularly fierce battle.
US and Iraqi forces had launched a series of military operations in the city, but have been unable to restore complete government control.
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Kill Tadar Tot and that will help things quite a bit.
But, I'll setting for slaughtering most of his followers.
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I hope the US and the Iraqi Army had time to set up some ambushes before this blabbermouth spewed his screed. We could probably catch some big fish running away from the impending attack. Or, we may be trying to follow those "leaders" to their next den, in hope of exterminating two sources of vermin at the same time.
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Iraqi Security Forces conducted a large joint operation Oct. 30 along the foothills of the Hamrin Mountains of Tikrit. The operation resulted in the detention of 39 suspected insurgents and the discovery of a torture cell, a mobile hospital, vehicle-borne bombs, rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns and a Katyusha rocket.
Acting on their own intelligence sources, provided by tribal leaders in the area, the Iraqi inter-agency force targeted terrorists within the region.
Memo to Perv: this is how an army builds itself and gains the trust of its people. You might want to take notes.
This is a first in a lot of ways, said Lt. Col. David Hsu, 1st BCT Military Transition Team chief. This is the largest operation the Iraqi Police and the Iraqi Army have ever conducted together in terms of detail, he said. The Iraqis are leading the way here.
The operation was led by the 1st Brigade, 4th Iraqi Army, commanded by Maj. Gen. Abdul Jabar Saleh Rabiyeh. The Salah ad Din Provincial Police Emergency Service Unit battalions, led by Maj. Gen. Jassem, Iraqi National Police commander, planned, coordinated and executed Operation Makua, which means to come together.
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I would bet that the torture cell was set up for more than waterboarding.
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In 1947 we convicted Japs of war crimes for waterboarding and sentenced them to 15 years imprisonment. Makes it difficult to call it legal for us to do now. Which doesn't mean it shouldn't have been used anyway, especially since it seems to have only been a few times. It does mean it should have stayed secret instead of being used as a political weapon. I know these blabbering politicians aren't naive, so they must just be hypocrites who care more for their own power than the good of the country.
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The operation resulted in the detention of 39 suspected insurgents and the discovery of a torture cell, a mobile hospital, vehicle-borne bombs, rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns and a Katyusha rocket.
way shabby torture cell.. strewn w/ lots of old copies of Newsweak.. NYT and WaPo..
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glenmore...
the difference is that in 1947 the victims of the waterboarding were UNIFORMED soldiers.
non-uniformed illegal combatants are afforded no rights or priviledges and thus no possible war crime. the real crime is that they are not given the summary executions they deserve.
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It not even real waterboarding, but simulated waterboarding. Next the CIA will subject mass murdering islamic terrorists to videogame waterboarding. Pussies.
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Extremists fired three rockets in an attempt to hit Camp Taji Nov. 3, missing their intended target and destroying two civilian homes near the city of Taji.
After hearing explosions, Soldiers from the 1st Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Ironhorse Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, operating out of a nearby outpost, responded to the scene where the rockets impacted in the village to find Iraqi civilian firefighters already at the site. The Soldiers discovered one house was destroyed and another was on fire.
In a little more than an hour, the local fire fighters had extinguished the fires. There were no civilian or Coalition casualties from the rocket attack. Coalition and Iraqi Security Forces are currently investigating to find those responsible for destroying the homes.
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Iraqi forces have uncovered a mass grave containing 22 bodies near a vast lake northwest of Baghdad, the US military said on Tuesday. It said the grave was discovered on Saturday near Thar Thar lake, which spans the central-west provinces of Anbar and Salaheddin, during an operation by US and Iraqi forces targeting Al Qaeda hideouts. The Iraqi army and provincial security forces are investigating the mass grave to determine the identities of the deceased and the causes of death for notification of their families, the military statement said. US and Iraqi forces have been cracking down in central and western regions of Iraq where militants chased out of Baghdad appear to have taken refuge in outlying towns and villages.
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How old was this mass grave? Days? Months? Decades? Doesn't seem like the bad guys have had time lately to do more than pitch bodies out of moving trucks onto the streets in most places, so either this has been an area under total bad guy control until just recently or this is an old grave.
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Good questions, Glenmore. In the old days, you might've had a future in journalism.
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lol, Bobby. Snark o' the day material there you got.
And, Glen...exact same question that popped in my head. Of course, this is Pakistani journalism, so I'm sure we'll never know. Of course, I assume that it'd be the same if it were American MSM.
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A member of Islamic Jihad named Hussein Al-Buji was killed on Wednesday after fighting erupted during a funeral procession for an Islamic Jihad leader wounded in similar clashes in the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Islamic Jihad leader Rami Salama died on Wednesday of wounds he sustained during clashes with Hamas-affiliated forces on October 21st. A fifty-year-old woman was also killed in the fighting that day.
Islamic Jihad accused police affiliated with the de facto Gaza Strip government of firing on the procession after children threw stones at the Tal Sultan police station while the mourning Palestinians were passing.
The Interior Ministry of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip government denied that their officers were involved in the shooting, asserting that Buji was shot by someone in the funeral procession. Interior Ministry officials said the police at the Tal Sultan station had strict orders to avoid confrontation with the funeral procession.
The International Middle East Media Center reported that two other people were wounded after the Islamic Jihad members traded gunfire with police.
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Barbara Skolaut seems to be a bit busy, so I'll make a batch of popcorn for y'all. Lightly buttered, per Liberalhawk's request. ;-) Here you are -- enjoy!
We sneer at the Paleos for acting out their little Lord of the Flies scenarios, but you have to admit that fighting and killing during a funeral has a certain "cut out the middle man" efficiency. Plus they have stone throwing for the kiddies. Fun for all ages!
You're right - I've been swamped since the last week of October, between my job and my business (this is my busy season). Except for Thanksgiving week - which I alway spend with family and friends in NC - I won't be able to come up for air until the first week in December. Drive-by snark will be attempted when possible.
But I am investing in popcorn futures - the better to serve the 'Burg upon my return. :-D
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People dieing at funerals has a special Palestinian sort of continuity to it.
Three Palestinians were treated for injuries after a tunnel underneath the Gaza-Egyptian border collapsed on Wednesday. Muawiya Hassanein, the director of Ambulance and Emergency Services in the Palestinian Health Ministry said the Palestinians were taken to Abu Yousef An-Najjar hospital in the city Rafah. Medical officials could not confirm reports that a fourth person is still missing underground. Israeli officials have accused Palestinian fighters of using an elaborate network of tunnels to smuggle equipment and personnel into the Gaza Strip.
Ma'an An explosion rocked the headquarters of the Hamas-affiliated Al-Qassam brigades in western Gaza City causing a number of casualties on Monday evening. Director of the Emergency and Ambulance department in the Palestinian health ministry, Mu'awiya Hassanain, said ambulances sped to the scene to evacuate the wounded. Eyewitnesses told Ma'an that the explosion took place at the headquarters in Al-Mukhabarat Street and that smoke was seen rising from the scene.
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Ma'an One police officer was killed and another injured while attempting to break up a gun battle between two families in Gaza City. The interior ministry in the deposed Gaza Strip government identified the officer who was killed as Hamada Bahlul. Muawiya Hassanein, director of ambulance and emergency services in the Palestinian Health Ministry said that eight civilians arrived at Ah-Shifa hospital with gunshot wounds.
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"he trimmed MY friggin tree!!!!"
"It was reaching onto MY property???"
"Hit the mattresses junior"
"Bam!"
"Bam!"
"We'se da cops. stop firing!"
"Bam!" "Bam!"
"Allah the mercifual, I'm hit!"
"Rosebud!"
Israeli troops picked up a political leader and an MP from the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in separate raids in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, security officials said. Troops picked up Maher al-Kharraz, a Hamas political leader, and six other wanted suspects during an operation in the northern West Bank, Palestinian security officials said. An Israeli army spokesman said six wanted operatives were detained in Nablus in the northern West Bank.
In Hebron, in the south, troops arrested Hamas lawmaker Hatem Qafisheh, Palestinian security officials said. Israel had released the MP earlier this year after holding him for six months without pressing charges. In May, the United States voiced concern over Israeli arrests of 33 Hamas leaders in the West Bank, including elected government and parliament members. Last year, Israel arrested more than 60 Hamas officials in a massive crackdown after Palestinian militants captured an Israeli soldier and killed another two in a cross-border raid from the Gaza Strip. About 30 of the officials remain in detention.
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Hamas
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The United States sent the three Jordanians from Guantanamo back to Jordan, said Katznelson, a senior counsel with the British-based rights group Reprieve. The whereabouts of the three, who had been kept in solitary confinement, was unknown but it was likely they were being held by Jordans intelligence services, the lawyer said. Jordanian rights groups and politicians have criticised the US authorities for their treatment of the inmates following allegations of torture and violation of religious rights during their detention.
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I wonder if they'll like their new accomodations better? Wasn't Jordan one of the places our 'rendition' program was supposed to have sent prisoners to encourage them to talk?
There's no doubt this oversized ray gun can deliver the heat. The question is, how soon can the weapon, which neither kills nor maims, be delivered to Iraq?
At a rain-soaked demonstration of the crowd-dispersal tool here last month, military officials said one could be deployed early next year. But others still need to be built and undergo more testing before being shipped, a slow-going process at odds with urgent demands from U.S. commanders for the device.
The Active Denial System uses energy beams instead of bullets and lets soldiers break up unruly crowds without guns.
That means fewer civilian casualties, a key ingredient to success in Iraq.
The system just completed a lengthy demonstration phase and is expected to receive a $25 million boost once Congress approves an Iraq war supplemental spending bill. The money will be used to buy five "Silent Guardians," a commercial version of the denial system built by defense contractor Raytheon.
"The systems themselves could be manufactured, more than likely, within 12 months if everything goes according to what Raytheon tells us," said Marine Corps Col. Kirk Hymes, director of the Defense Department's Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate.
To be hit by the invisible beam is to feel the intense heat of a suddenly opened furnace. The instant reaction is to move.
At Quantico, a Marine Corps base south of Washington, a test unit mounted on a Humvee stung reporters and military personnel who volunteered to enter a circle marked by orange traffic cones.
The system is a directed-energy device, although not a laser or a microwave, and can send an invisible beam of waves to a target as far away as 500 yards.
With the unit mounted on the back of a vehicle, U.S. troops can operate a safe distance from rocks, Molotov cocktails and small-arms fire.
The beam penetrates the skin slightly, just enough to cause intense pain. The beam goes through clothing as well as windows, but can be blocked by metal, wood or concrete.
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So the counteraction will be demonstrators in chain mail with periscope visors? There's a video I can't wait to see! Where's the next GATT conference?
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Ahem. If you think about it, Iraq is the last place that needs such a weapon, at least against Iraqis.
However, Iraq is also centrally located for three places where such a weapon might be the cat's pajamas: Lebanon, Syria and Iran.
Picture this scenario. What if you had advancing mech infantry, against light infantry, with several of those weapons in the front echelon? This would mean that enemy could only shoot at them from distances GREATER than 500 yards.
The AK-47 has a maximum effective range of 325-425 yards). An RPG-7 has an maximum effective range of just over 500 yards.
This means that even if the enemy hid in defilade, or behind a tree or metal plate, about the only places where the microwave radiation wouldn't get them, as soon as they tried to fire, it would feel like their skin is on fire. Try to accurately fire a weapon like that!
One of the big tactics used by both Iran and Hezbollah is to round up a large group of women and children and charge them at their enemy. This also would not work, big time.
What would make this truly great was if your mech infantry also had a weapon that could shoot down incoming mortar and artillery rounds. And we do, though I don't know if it is on a mobile system yet.
This would leave the enemy with the only option of emplacing minefields.
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Is this thing an area-effect weapon, or is it more like a firehose? Because I find it hard to picture something that could efficiently act as an area-denial weapon over any length of time (like a raygun minefield) in the way you're suggesting, Anonymouse.
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Meanwhile, ultra-heavy "dark matter" particulates are ramming thru Terra Firma from space, as iff our rocky earth was only somuch melted cheese.
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An RPG-7 has an maximum effective range of just over 500 yards.
Seriously?
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Mitch H: I think you read what I wrote incorrectly. If you look at the Sheriff system, it is a dish mounted on the roof of a Humvee. If you pan the dish back and forth, you will get a cone of microwaves over your front of advance. If you are advancing in a line, rather than a column, you can probably have overlapping "fields of fire". And since microwaves are invisible, the enemy would have to stay hidden in the few places he could, then try and pop out and fire. So it would be damn difficult to aim.
Thomas Woof: MFR of an RPG-7 is 300 meters (328 yards) for a moving target and 500 meters (546 yards) for a stationary point target. However, this probably assumes a good shot with time to aim.
For a typical Muslim fighter with little training or combat experience, even an aimed target at 100 yards is problematic. While being shot at, and with a "grab shot", it would probably have to be at just over point blank range.
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I might add that even WWII German panzerfaust experts preferred to wait in shell holes for a Russian tank to pass by and stick it in their ear. Some of those NCOs had 30 tank kills on their sleeves (sleeve ribbons).
This was made possible by the bizarre Russian tactic of attacking with just infantry against water cooled German machine guns until they were slaughtered enough to have to retreat.
Then after a pause, when the Germans would grab a bunch of panzerfausts and run out into the battlefield to jump into shell holes, the Russians would invariably send just tanks, with no infantry support. The Germans would pop out of their holes like whack-a-moles and kill tank after tank.
Then, when the Russians ordered their surviving tanks to retreat, the Germans would leave their holes and head back to their own lines. Because after a pause, the next infantry only human wave attack would commence.
In one such battle, an SS anti-tank company held off two Russian armored armies at a bottleneck for two weeks. Five Germans, including the Commanding Major, actually survived the war, after they had run out of all ammo and were down to knives and walking sticks.
This was just one amazing story from a book entitled "War on the Eastern Front".
Sixty-one schools in Narathiwat province closed indefinitely on Wednesday morning after two teachers were murdered amidst a heavy uptick in violence and casualties in the South.
Suwatchai Ekthananond, director of Prachapattana School, and Montri Jarong, a teacher of the same school, were shot dead by gunmen on motorcycle while they were leaving the school for their homes on Tuesday.
Three explosive experts died instantly when a bomb they were attempting to defuse placed on a bridge exploded in Panare district of Pattani this morning. A fourth soldier was injured in the blast.
A mine planted on a road near a village in tambon Talingchan of Yalas Bannang Sata district went off this morning after being activated by a patrol vehicle. The explosion wounded killed one soldier and wounded two other troops and three villagers passing by on a motorcycle.
One police officer was killed and two others wounded in a bomb explosion in Pattanis Panare district on Wednesday afternoon. The incident took place when the policemen were examining an object left on a bridge in tambon Ban Klang.
A bomb exploded yesterday at a busy market, wounding 28 people, seven of them seriously, while two public school teachers were shot dead in next-door Narathiwat. The homemade bomb detonated by remote control exploded at a packed food stall in Muang Yala district. Police believed a bomber placed the device under one of the stalls on Monday night and waited until customers packed the market before detonating it. Seven of those hurt were in serious condition, said Pol Lt Col Jeerasit Lomae.
In Narathiwat, two public school teachers were murdered, said Pol Lt-Col Thanapol Meechai. At least two assailants hidden in the brush stepped out onto a narrow village road in Rueso district and shot them with pistols while they were riding motorcycles home, he said. The two victims were in a group of six teachers guarded by a village defence volunteer, but they had fallen behind the others, he said. It is normal practice in the South for teachers to have security escorts to and from school.
An terrorist insurgent suspect was killed in an exchange of gunfire with 50 security officers in a longgong orchard in Yala's Yaha district. It followed a tip-off that about nine armed men had turned up at a local market to buy food and then disappeared into the orchard. The security patrol later spotted armed men in camouflage uniforms walking in the orchard. Both sides opened fire and after a brief exchange they suspects retreated into a rubber plantation nearby. One man identified later as Dorlamae Yasi, 26, was found dead at the scene. An HK-33 rifle and a 30cm PVC pipe containing a home-made bomb were found near his body.
In Narathiwat, police took a member of an active terrorist rebel cell to a crime scene to reenact a bomb attack which wounded a police officer in Tak Bai district.
Mahama Madeng, 26, of the Runda Kumpulan Kecil, and five accomplices allegedly planted the bomb which exploded under the pick-up truck of Pol Sub-Lt Seri Hayeeding, a deputy crime suppression inspector of Tak Bai district on Oct 26, 2005. The officer sustained shrapnel wounds.
Meanwhile, relatives of three men apprehended shortly after they left the military-run vocational training programme and returned home have asked the provincial courts in Yala and Pattani for their immediate release.
Mayakee Manputae, 23, was arrested by police in Yala on Saturday , while Nisae Hayeetalae, 40, and Abdulroman Dueramae, 51, were apprehended on Sunday in Pattani. The three men were among participants in the army-supervised vocational training programme for individuals with suspected links to the southern jihad insurgency. The programme, set to end later this month, is being run at army camps in Ranong, Chumphon and Surat Thani.
The courts in those provinces recently ruled the training was voluntary and participants were free to leave the programme if they wanted to. The three men left the camp and returned home only to be arrested because they were banned from entering Yala, Pattani, Narathiwat and parts of Songkhla where martial law has been imposed.
The Pattani provincial court will decide today whether to accept for hearing the relatives' request for the release of Mr Nisae and Mr Abdulroman. The Yala court has set tomorrow for the examining of documentary evidence to determine if the police arrest of Mr Mayakee was legal.
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(KUNA) -- The Turkish Army killed three Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) members during clashes southeastern the country, army sources said on Tuesday. The clashes took place in Tunceli Province on borders with Iraq, as the rebels refused to surrender to Army troops, a Turkish TV station reported, adding that another eight PKK members were arrested in the Turkish Province of Bengol.
A Pennsylvania man was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in federal prison for plotting to help what he believed was an al-Qaida operative blow up US oil pipelines and refineries. 
MUMBAI: Two Pakistanis who robbed a bank to allegedly finance the hijacking of the Indian Airlines flight IC-814 to Kandahar are going to walk free next month without facing a trial. The duo had submitted a guilty plea before a Mumbai sessions court and were sentenced to eight years in jail recently. Since they have been in custody through their arrest in December 1999, their sentence will be set off against the period they served as undertrials.
Militants seized a town in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday and hoisted their flags over buildings after security forces surrendered, AFP quoted police and residents as saying. The town of Madyan was the third to come under the effective control of followers of firebrand religious leader 
Suspected pro-Taliban militants on Tuesday kidnapped four paramilitary soldiers in a restive tribal area bordering Afghanistan, officials said, AFP reported.
MARDAN At least two CD shops were blown up at Bashami road in the area of Kuta Khut Kallay on Tuesday. Explosive materials went off in the Wisal Ahmeds shop at 1am and the shop was completely destroyed. Electronic appliances, CDs and cassettes in the shop were ruined. After about fifteen minutes, a shop in the Gul Bahar area was destroyed when explosive material rigged in the shop went off. However no loss of life has been reported.
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: At least three police personnel sustained serious injuries when unidentified saboteurs exploded a remote-controlled bomb in a police van. Inspector Hameedullah was on his way to work when at Moryali More, the bomb exploded, seriously injuring him, his driver Abdul Latif and security guard Sajjad Hussain. They were rushed to hospital. Police officers said that the blast was caused by four kilogrammes of explosive material that was remotely detonated. Police have filed a case against unidentified persons and has started investigations. 
Rear Admiral Greg Smith, MNF-I spokesman, announced Tuesday in a joint conference with Lt. Cmdr. Dowling, Task Force Troy, that 5,000 weapon cahces were found in Iraq since the beginning of 2007.
Iraqi Security Forces conducted a large joint operation Oct. 30 along the foothills of the Hamrin Mountains of Tikrit. The operation resulted in the detention of 39 suspected insurgents and the discovery of a torture cell, a mobile hospital, vehicle-borne bombs, rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns and a Katyusha rocket.
Three Palestinians were treated for injuries after a tunnel underneath the Gaza-Egyptian border collapsed on Wednesday. Muawiya Hassanein, the director of Ambulance and Emergency Services in the Palestinian Health Ministry said the Palestinians were taken to Abu Yousef An-Najjar hospital in the city Rafah. Medical officials could not confirm reports that a fourth person is still missing underground. Israeli officials have accused Palestinian fighters of using an elaborate network of tunnels to smuggle equipment and personnel into the Gaza Strip.
Ma'an An explosion rocked the headquarters of the Hamas-affiliated Al-Qassam brigades in western Gaza City causing a number of casualties on Monday evening. Director of the Emergency and Ambulance department in the Palestinian health ministry, Mu'awiya Hassanain, said ambulances sped to the scene to evacuate the wounded. Eyewitnesses told Ma'an that the explosion took place at the headquarters in Al-Mukhabarat Street and that smoke was seen rising from the scene.
Ma'an One police officer was killed and another injured while attempting to break up a gun battle between two families in Gaza City. The interior ministry in the deposed Gaza Strip government identified the officer who was killed as Hamada Bahlul. Muawiya Hassanein, director of ambulance and emergency services in the Palestinian Health Ministry said that eight civilians arrived at Ah-Shifa hospital with gunshot wounds.
Israeli troops picked up a political leader and an MP from the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in separate raids in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, security officials said. Troops picked up 
Three Jordanians returned home this week after being released from the US Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, their lawyer said on Tuesday. 
There's no doubt this oversized ray gun can deliver the heat. The question is, how soon can the weapon, which neither kills nor maims, be delivered to Iraq?
