KHOST, Afghanistan - Taleban insurgents shot dead an Afghan man for teaching English, triggering a shootout that left two militants and two policemen dead, a government official said on Thursday. The murdered man had been running English language courses in the eastern province of Paktia on the border with Pakistan, an area troubled by Taleban extremists who follow an ideology that is opposed to the West.
According to locals, he had received several warnings in the past to close down the course and to stop teaching English to people, Paktia government spokesman Din Mohammad Darwish said.
Wednesdays gun battle erupted when police came to the scene, leaving two dead on either side.
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Well, we've lost the dollar, let's hope we keep the English language.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday pressed charges against five JMB men including executed militant leaders Shaekh Abdur Rahman and his brother Abdur Rahman Sunny in a case for assaulting late litterateur Prof Humayun Azad.
CID Inspector Kazi Abdul Malek, also investigation officer (IO) of the case, submitted the charge sheet to the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court against them showing 49 people as prosecution witnesses. However, the names of Abdur Rahman and Sunny, the masterminds of the attack on Prof Azad, were dropped from the charge sheet as they had already been convicted of killing two Jhalakathi judges and put to death. The other accused are Mizanur Rahman Minhaz, Nur Mohammad Shamim and Nur Alam alias Anwar Hossain Shahid. Minhaz is now behind bars while two others are on the run. The IO prayed for issuance of arrest warrants against Shamim and Shahid and order to attach their properties.
In a confessional statement on June 3, detained JMB member Minhaz admitted to his direct involvement in the assault on Prof Azad. He said the plan was finalised at Abdur Rahman's Goran residence where Sunny was given the responsibility to execute it.
Minhaz along with Shamim and Shahid took position on Bangla Academy premises and attacked Prof Azad in front of Atomic Energy Commission at about 8:15pm on February 27, 2004. After Prof Azad's novel 'Pak Sar Zamin Saad Baad ' was published in a national daily, Abdur Rahman ordered his men to kill the writer, the IO added. Prof Azad died in Germany on August 11, 2004.
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(RIA Novosti) - Police have detained four suspected militants in the past 24 hours in the Republic of Chechnya in Russia's North Caucasus, local authorities said on Thursday.
According to the Chechen Interior Ministry, during a search operation police detained three men in Grozny suspected of being involved in illegal armed groups active in Chechnya's capital. Police also detained a gunman in the Sunzha district in western Chechnya suspected of involvement in illegal armed groups. The militant surrendered a Kalashnikov automatic rifle he kept at his home, along with an ammunition cache, the ministry said.
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Police in India's Uttar Pradesh state say they have arrested three suspected members of a banned Pakistan-based militant group. The men belonged to the Jaish-e-Mohammed group and were planning to kidnap a "very important political person", the police said. Local reports suggested the target could have been Rahul Gandhi, son of Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi.
Police said the arrested men were all Pakistanis.
The chief of Uttar Pradesh police Vikram Singh said the three men were arrested on the outskirts of the state capital, Lucknow. He said the men were travelling from Delhi in a car. Mr Singh said militants planned to kidnap a "very important person" in exchange for 42 militants lodged in various Indian prisons.
Ammunition, rifles, grenades and explosives were seized from the men, he said.
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Its about time India retaliated as Pakistan always start the trouble!!!!
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#1 Its about time India retaliated as Pakistan always start the trouble!!!!
Wait and see how the Pak army does against the Taliban. If they're thoroughly tied up fighting the Taliban, they can't defend their border with India. We also want to wait and see if they actually DO anything against the Pustuns in the Tribal Areas. If they don't, it's time for Pakistan to cease to exist.
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If they don't, it's time for Pakistan to cease to exist.
It's a wonder that Pakistan even exists as of now. Their ceaseless provocation of Indiaespecially with the Parliament terror attackshould have gotten them glassed over a long time ago. It is no coincidence that Pakistanas "The Land of the [Islamically] Pure"should exhibit, just like Islam itself, absolutely no redeeming features. One is merely a logical extension of the other.
Two soldiers were killed and four others injured in two separate roadside bomb blasts on Thursday in the Tribal Areas bordering Afghanistan, officials said. The first crudely made bomb, near Saidgi village in the North Waziristan tribal belt killed one trooper and injured another while they were fetching water from a stream, a security official told AFP. The second bomb targeting a military Bannu-bound convoy killed a soldier and seriously injured three others, officials and witnesses told Daily Times. The military convoy came under attack around 12pm in the FR Bakakhel area on the main Miranshah-Bannu road, some 50 kilometres east of Miranshah town.
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Three youngsters were reportedly gunned down and five others, including law enforcement personnel, injured in Lyari on Thursday on the third-day of rioting following the house arrest of former premier Benazir Bhutto in Lahore. Also, police baton-charged and arrested activists of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI), the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in Lahore and Peshawar.
Karachi police chief Azhar Ali Farooqui confirmed two deaths, adding that there were not killed by police firing.
It is possible that they were gunned down by protesters or by gangsters who are also rioting, he said. Riots broke out in Gulistan-e-Johar, Keamari, Safoora Goth, Pak Colony and Golimar. The police used tear gas and batons to disperse the rioters. There was also a clash between gangsters and some shopkeepers, and police opened fire to disperse them, Lyari resident Shafi Balouch said. The victims were identified as Abdul Rehman, 9, Tufail, 12, and Ahmed Maqsood, 25.
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Two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants were gunned down by security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district on Wednesday.
On a tip off, a joint police and Rashtriya Rifles team launched a search operation in Sedhi Chochana village in the border district on Tuesday night, a defence spokesperson said. The militants tried to flee but the troops chased them and in the ensuing gunfight this morning, Abu Qasim and Abu Hyder - both from Pakistan - were killed. Two AK rifles with their four magazines and 120 bullets, three grenades, one mobile phone and one wireless set were recovered from them.
In another incident, militants looted the mail from two porters of the army postal service in Poonch. The porters were carrying mail to a forward post in Surankote tehsil when militants intercepted them on Tuesday. The army informed the police, who then detained the duo for questioning.
Meanwhile, security forces arrested Shaki Mohammad, an over ground worker of a militant group, in Rajouri district.
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Alleged Maoists gunned down a congractor in Kulapathar village under Ramgarh police sation in Dumka on Thursday. The incident occurred when a group of masked offenders intercepted the victim, Balram Pal, who was on way to his village, and shot him dead, police sources said.
Superintendent of Police Sido Hembram, however, neither confirmed nor denied the involvement of the Maoists in the incident. He said a police team led by a Deputy Superintendent of Police has rushed to the spot to investigate the matter. Earlier, Pal had escaped a Maoist attack three months ago but his motorcycle was burnt in the incident.
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More on the Swat Valley 'offensive': it certainly is.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Pakistani troops have launched a counter-offensive against pro-Taleban terrorists militants in the northwest, pushing them back into forests and mountains, officials and witnesses reported on Thursday.
The fighting has left more than 50 terrorists rebels dead in two days, according to army accounts, as security forces struck back against sweeping gains made in the scenic Swat Valley by terrorists militants loyal to a terrorist radical cleric.
Chief military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad said troops Thursday killed 12 terrorists militants while clearing trenches and checkposts from a road. Another eight terrorists were killed when security forces launched an attack, Arshad told AFP, saying their mortar positions had been destroyed.
On Wednesday, 33 terrorists insurgents were reported killed when the military pounded their positions with helicopter gunships and artillery. Two soldiers and two civilians died in the unrest, officials said, and a militant leader said three more terrorists fighters died overnight.
Witnesses said that in Shangla district, terrorists militants had disappeared off the streets and moved out. Terrorists Militants have fled from streets to forests and their mountain hideouts after the military offensive, a security official told AFP.
They heard the tribal drums a-comin'!
Residents said around 700 to 800 troops had also taken up positions in the Belay Baba area, which had been a terrorist militant stronghold a day earlier.
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ASIA TIMES > SOUTH ASIA'S WWIII GAME. USA has a significant stake in strong-arm govts such as Pakistan's as against Islamist Radicalism or Extremism, ergo local pro-democracy movements [ e.g. BHUTTO/SHARIF] are actually a threat to LT US interests in local-regional stability vv the GWOT. US "quamire" in IRAQ + CHINA-INDIAN inaction in Pakistan can leave gaps in Paki governance that are sure to be exploited by dedic Radical Islamists and despotic [secular]Pol Arch-Conservatives. IOW, WHILE ITS IN IRAQ-ME, USA MUST PROMOTE AND PRESERVE ANTI-DEMOCRACY IN ASIA = SOUTH ASIA???
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Abovesame ASIA TIMES article also indics that NASH EQUILIBRIUM [game theory] applies to Pakistan and by extens South Asia. NASH > Competing Govts-Nations are [reluctantly] willing to accept defective sub-optimal outcomes BECAUSE THEY "DON'T TRUST EACH OTHER"???
COB SPEICHER, Iraq A suicide car bomb attack killed two children, injured 11 more, and damaged an Iraqi school Nov. 15 in the city of Kirkuk. Additionally, the suicide car bomb killed an Iraqi teacher, two Iraqi policemen, and an unidentified Iraqi citizen.
The wounded children, eight wounded IPs and 11 wounded Iraqi citizens were transported to the Sulymaniyah Hospital. All the child casualties were under the age of 12.
The Emergency Services Unit of the Kirkuk Police Department was the apparent target of the bombing. The commander of the unit, General Katab, was among the injured in the blast.
Our deepest condolences go out to the victims and their families of todays attack. This senseless act of violence against innocent women and children and those who protect them, highlights the vicious nature of our enemy who contribute nothing except death and destruction for Kirkuks citizens, said Col. David Paschal, commander of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division. The Soldiers of the Warrior Brigade will relentlessly hunt down those responsible for the attack and bring them to swift justice.
Coalition Forces responded to help the IPs render assistance to the casualties.
BAGHDAD, Iraq Coalition forces killed two terrorists and detained 12 suspects Friday during operations targeting terrorist networks in central and northern Iraq. Coalition forces captured a wanted individual southeast of Baghdad during operations targeting foreign terrorist facilitators in the Southern Belt. Reports also indicate the individual was involved in planning attacks on coalition aircraft. Sounds like a good catch. Hope a good roll-up follows.
The ground force approached the target building and called for the occupants to come out, but the individuals did not comply.
"Come out witcher mitts in da air or else!"
"Duuuh, youse ain't taking me alive youse infidel scum! ..."
One of the men was wearing a vest loaded with grenades. Perceiving hostile intent, ... Very perceptive perceiving, lads.
... the ground force engaged, killing two of the men. In addition to the wanted individual, Coalition forces detained three other suspects on site.
"You guys aren't going to show any 'hostile intent', are you?"
"Oh, no, no effendi!"
In other operations in Ramadi, Mosul and Kirkuk, Coalition Forces detained eight suspects while targeting associates of al-Qaeda in Iraq leaders and those believed to be involved in kidnappings, assassinations and small arms attacks against Iraqi police and Coalition forces. Ramadi is a lot better than it was, but it takes continual effort to keep it that way.
On Friday, the chairman of a key committee in Iraq's parliament said a draft law that would allow former Saddam followers to hold government jobs is unconstitutional.
The new law was submitted to parliament this week. If approved, it would relax curbs on former Baath Party membersa key demand of the U.S. and Sunni Arabs.
But the head of parliament's "de-Baathification Committee," Falah Hassan Shanshal, said Friday that language in the draft law violates the constitution. Among other things, Shanshal said the law might open government jobs to low-ranking Baath members who had still committed crimes and would trigger a backlash among Iraqisespecially Shiites.
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A top British commander in southern Iraq said attacks plunged 90 percent across the country's south after London withdrew its troops from the main city of Basra. The presence of British forces in downtown Basra, Iraq's second- largest city, was the single largest instigator of violence, Maj. Gen. Graham Binns told reporters Thursday on a visit to Baghdad's Green Zone. "We thought, 'If 90 percent of the violence is directed at us, what would happen if we stepped back?'" Binns said.
About 500 British troops moved out of a former Saddam Hussein palace at Basra's heart in early September, joining some 4,500 at a garrison at an airport on the city's edge. Since that pullback, there's been a "remarkable and dramatic drop in attacks," Binns said. Binns said the drop included attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces, which represented the bulk of overall violence there.
Last spring, British troops' daily patrols through central Basra led to "steady toe to toe battles with militias fighting some of the most tactically demanding battles of the war," Binns said. Now British forces rarely enter the city center, an area patrolled only by Iraqis.
The majority of attacks now target Iraqi forces, but even that figure has decreased since the intense battles of May and June, Binns said.
In mid-December, British forces are scheduled to return control of Basra province back to Iraqi officialsofficially ending Britain's combat role in Iraq.
With an overwhelmingly Shiite population, Basra has not seen the level of sectarian violence that has torn Iraq apart since the February 2006 bombing of a Shiite shrine north of Baghdad. But it has seen major fighting between insurgents and coalition troops, as well as between Shiite militias vying for control of the city and its security forces.
British officials expected a spike in such "intra-militia violence" after they pulled back from the city's center, and were surprised to find none, Binns said.
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wow, how brilliant do you need to be to figure out that an invading Army is pretty much always going to be a hated entity by the denizens of the invaded country. This is military "intellegence" at its finest.
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FREEREPUBLIC/POLIPUNDIT Posters > believe that the insurgency is only temporarily down while Islamists/insurgents recoup = rebuild, that the violence will recur when and iff the US-Brits, etc. withdraw or downsize, AND THAT EVEN IFF IT DECIDES TO COMPL WITHDRAW [which Dubya won't]AMER STILL NEEDS TO KEEP HITTING HARD AT THE INSURGENTS + [ATTACK?] RADICAL IRAN ANYWAY IN ORDER TO KEEP AMER SAFE IN THE AFTERMATH. IOW, any so-called US-specific "Withdrawal" from Iraq or elsewhere does NOT mean the USA should NOT attack-occupy IRAN NOR stop engaging local Govts to fight Radical Islam.
*POSTERS > HISTORY OF MODERN + POST-MODERN WARFARE/INSURGENCIES > INIDCS WEAKENED MILITANTS WILL ATTACK AGAIN WHEN STRONGER OPPONENTS REDUX OR LEAVE.
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This just means that militias now firmly control their turf, and if anybody wanders over the line, they will disappear. On one side the Badr Capone gang, and on the other the Sadr "bugs" Moran gang.
BAGHDAD (AP) - About 600 U.S. soldiers launched an air assault south of Baghdad on Friday, targeting militants believed to be involved in the May kidnapping of three American soldiers, the military said. The raids took place around 4 a.m. in the villages of Owesap and Betra, about 12 miles south of the Iraqi capital.
"These are areas where we believe al-Qaida was staging attacks, and we also believe they have ties to the May 12th attack," said Maj. Alayne Conway, spokeswoman for the Army's 3rd Infantry Division.
Three U.S. soldiers were kidnapped after their patrol was ambushed May 12 near Mahmudiyah, also south of Baghdad. Four other Americans and an Iraqi interpreter were killed in the attack, and an al-Qaida-linked group claimed responsibility. Two soldiers remain missing, and the body of the third was found in the Euphrates River nearly two weeks later.
On Friday, two Chinook helicopters and eight Black Hawks dropped 600 U.S. troops into the targeted area, Conway said. F-16 fighter jets then dropped two bombs on an island in the Euphrates, to "deny the enemy terrain to escape," she said. Some 150 Iraqi soldiers also participated in the operation, Conway said. By midday Friday, there were no casualties on either side, she added.
Iraqi police said eight al-Qaida fighters were killed in a separate incident in a Shiite village near Muqdadiyah, about 60 miles north of Baghdad. Shiite townspeople, backed by police, drove the Sunni militants out of the village and killed eight of them, police said.
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"We thought, 'If 90 percent of the violence is directed at us, what would happen if we stepped back?'" Binns said.
The majority of attacks now target Iraqi forces
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AoS note: sorry, moved that part of the post to another story, as this post had at least four separate stories in it. That was the reporter's fault.
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AoS note: sorry, moved that part of the post to another story, as this post had at least four separate stories in it.
This is why I don't know how to edit, except when there really is unnecessary stuff, because I feel separate threads in a single article may bring new infos.
A Bishop came to St Johns Church in Baghdad today, 15 November, where a crowd of locals welcomed him home. They were joined at the service by soldiers from the 2-12 infantry battalion, many of whom had fought hard to secure these neighborhood streets. Members of the hard-fighting Iraqi Army 3rd Division were also here for this special day.
LTC Stephen Michael at St Johns. LTC Michael told me today that when al Qaeda came to Dora, they began harassing Christians first, charging them rent. It was the local Muslims, according to LTC Michael, who first came to him for help to protect the Christians in his area. Thats right. LTC Michael told me more than once that the Muslims reached out to him to protect the Christians from al Qaeda. Real Muslims here are quick to say that al Qaeda members are not true Muslims. From charging rent, al Qaedas harassment escalated to killing Christians, and also Muslims. Untold thousands of Christians and Muslims fled Baghdad in the wake of the darkness of civil war. Most of the Christians are gone now; having fled to Syria, Jordan or Northern Iraq. . . .
Today, Muslims mostly filled the front pews of St Johns. Muslims who want their Christian friends and neighbors to come home. The Christians who might see these photos likely will recognize their friends here. The Muslims in this neighborhood worry that other people will take the homes of their Christian neighbors, and that the Christians will never come back. And so they came to St Johns today in force, and they showed their faces, and they said, Come back to Iraq. Come home. They wanted the cameras to catch it. They wanted to spread the word: Come home. Muslims keep telling me to get it on the news. Tell the Christians to come home to their country Iraq. . . .
Many, many photos at the link. Go read it all.
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They wanted the cameras to catch it. They wanted to spread the word: Come home. Muslims keep telling me to get it on the news.
I'm sure no cameras caught it tho. Not one Old Media guy would want to report on a good news story like this. Bastards.
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I cannot even find the words to express my disgust and increasing anger that the entire leadership of the Dem party would baldly and deliberately LIE and damage the nation as well as sell out these people. Harry Reid should be excuted for Treason if he continues to try to incite defeat and retreat from Iraq for political purposes.
I am getting to the point whre I am starting to beleive that violence may end up being the solution here in the US.
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I am nearly as pissed at some of the Repub leadership, but mainly for the tepid and wimpy defense of the troops and and acheivements.
At least the Repubs, for the msot part, have not gone so far as to sell out the troops playign budget games, discount the changes the troops gained with thier skill and sacrifice, and endanger the nation for theer own political gain or blind hatred.
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I love OS's fighting words.
For an "Old" guy OS sure does have a lot of fight in him.
A couple of weeks ago someone gave a wonderful discription of what they would like to do to fight back.
It sounds like OS's style.
I would love to hear those fighting words again.
GAZA CITY - Two Palestinian militants were killed and three wounded on Thursday when Israeli aircraft attacked the north of the Gaza Strip, medical sources and witnesses said.
Helizap!
The raid on Beit Hanun targeted militants of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a group loosely linked to the Fatah movement of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, the witnesses said.
So Mo' and Ayed went to pop off a Qassam at the evil Joooz, and now they're dead. Nice going, boys.
An Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed there had been an attack but said it had involved ground units. She said the attack targeted a cell that was about to fire rockets at Israel.
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One man was killed and one woman was wounded in an terrorist insurgent attack here on Friday morning. Two temporary workers at a local hospital here were attacked by a despicable terrorist suspected insurgent, a passenger on a motorcycle.
Nimitchai Incheun, 33 and another hospital employee, Rungruedee Molek, were shot by the gunman while they were on the way to work. Mr. Nimitchai was pronounced dead at the scene while his co-worker, shot in the chest, was severely wounded.
Meanwhile, in Narathiwat, some 30 schools in high risk zones of Rangae district temporarily closed as teachers and staff feel unsafe after a local resident was shot dead in front of a school on Thursday. The death mentioned in the last paragraph seems to have gone unreported by the three major Thai newspapers and the wire services.
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When the civilized world has the will to officially certify that Islam is a death cult ideology, things will change drastically. The Crusades was the only time the West had that will.
The Philippine government reached an agreement Thursday with the main Islamic separatist group there on carving out boundaries for a Muslim homeland in the south. For years, Philippine officials have held glacially paced talks with the separatist group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, about the extent of a territory that would fall under Muslim control in Mindanao, an impoverished region that has been the scene of an insurrection for decades. In recent years the talks have focused on the control Muslims would wield over natural resources in Mindanao's mineral-rich but economically backward areas.
The Philippine and U.S. governments hope an agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front could transform its vast rural strongholds in Mindanao into hubs of economic growth instead of conflict zones that could harbor terrorists. Military officials have often accused the front of giving sanctuary to members of two terrorist groups, the Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah, but the front has denied any links.
"Demarcation has been agreed," Rodolfo Garcia, the chief Philippine government negotiator, told reporters at the end of two days of talks with Moro Islamic Liberation Front officials in Kuala Lumpur. "It is one significant breakthrough we have achieved here."
The two sides still have to craft the exact text of the agreement next month and sign the deal, most likely in January, Garcia said. Othman Abdul Razak, the top Malaysian government facilitator, said Wednesday that another round of exploratory talks was likely in mid-December before a possible resumption of full-fledged negotiations early next year. Demarcation of land has been the biggest hurdle in efforts to forge a peace treaty that would replace a fragile 2003 cease-fire between the Philippine authorities and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in Mindanao.
The Philippines is primarily a Roman Catholic nation, and its Muslims are concentrated in Mindanao. The Moro Islamic Liberation Front, which the military says has 11,000 fighters, is the largest group battling for self-rule there.
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No one makes a Milf joke? In this crowd? Too easy I guess.
A group of 20 Tamil Tiger suicide bombers have infiltrated Sri Lanka's capital and are planning to murder the president and senior government officials, an MP warned Thursday. Mahinda Ratnatillake said the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were also plotting to strike ports and airports on the island just weeks after losing their number two in a government air raid. "We have information that 20 suicide bombers have arrived in Colombo to assassinate the president, his two brothers and 10 cabinet ministers," Ratnatillake told reporters here.
The younger brother of President Mahinda Rajapakse, Gotabhaya Rajapakse, Sri Lanka's tough-talking defence secretary, narrowly escaped assassination by a suicide bomber in December last year. Ratnatillake said the Tigers wanted to economically weaken the government. His remarks, made in the presence of senior minister Anura Yapa, who holds the media portfolio, came as the MP justified his defection from opposition ranks to the side of the government.
The government is trying to push its budget through parliament, where it has a slim majority, and failure to win a vote next Monday would prompt early elections. Ratnatillake said he wanted to ensure the government survived to continue its "war on terror."
There was no immediate comment from government officials on the MP's warnings. Many observers believe it is only a matter of time before the rebels attempt to avenge the death in an air strike on November 2 of their political chief and de facto number two S.P. Thamilselvan.
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Hope the Sri Lankans are on full alert. They have the Tigers on the ropes, and if they can keep up the momentum, they can crush this rebellion once and for all, and bring peace at last.
Sri Lankan troops killed 19 Tamil Tiger rebels in clashes in the north of the island, the military said on Thursday.
One soldier was killed in the clashes in the Jaffna peninsula and Vavuniya, the latest in an offensive launched by the military to push the rebels deeper into their northern strongholds. Troops went ahead and attacked terrorist bunker lines in Muhamalai and Nargerkovil in Jaffna Peninsula Thursday morning destroying eight bunkers and killing four terrorists, a spokesman at the Media Centre for National Security said. He said 15 rebels and a soldier were killed in clashes in Vavuniya and Jaffna Peninsula on Wednesday.
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She was a robot in a movie where a mad scientist created a bunch of female bikini bots who got men to make them beneficiaries of life insurance policies (or some such financial scam).
I wonder if Anna Nicole saw this movie when she was a very young lass.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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KHOST, Afghanistan - Taleban insurgents shot dead an Afghan man for teaching English, triggering a shootout that left two militants and two policemen dead, a government official said on Thursday. The murdered man had been running English language courses in the eastern province of Paktia on the border with Pakistan, an area troubled by Taleban extremists who follow an ideology that is opposed to the West.
(RIA Novosti) - Police have detained four suspected militants in the past 24 hours in the Republic of Chechnya in Russia's North Caucasus, local authorities said on Thursday. 
Two soldiers were killed and four others injured in two separate roadside bomb blasts on Thursday in the Tribal Areas bordering Afghanistan, officials said. The first crudely made bomb, near Saidgi village in the North Waziristan tribal belt killed one trooper and injured another while they were fetching water from a stream, a security official told AFP. The second bomb targeting a military Bannu-bound convoy killed a soldier and seriously injured three others, officials and witnesses told Daily Times. The military convoy came under attack around 12pm in the FR Bakakhel area on the main Miranshah-Bannu road, some 50 kilometres east of Miranshah town.
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Alleged Maoists gunned down a congractor in Kulapathar village under Ramgarh police sation in Dumka on Thursday. The incident occurred when a group of masked offenders intercepted the victim, Balram Pal, who was on way to his village, and shot him dead, police sources said. 
BAGHDAD (AP) - About 600 U.S. soldiers launched an air assault south of Baghdad on Friday, targeting militants believed to be involved in the May kidnapping of three American soldiers, the military said. The raids took place around 4 a.m. in the villages of Owesap and Betra, about 12 miles south of the Iraqi capital. 
GAZA CITY - Two Palestinian militants were killed and three wounded on Thursday when Israeli aircraft attacked the north of the Gaza Strip, medical sources and witnesses said. 
