(SomaliNet) Suspected Islamic militants killed two local government soldiers at the outskirt of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia on Friday, witnesses said. The two dead persons were belonging to the municipal section in the government and they were shot dead by two men armed with pistols, according to the residents.
The shooting happened near Siinka Dheer area 13km south of the capital where hundreds of displaced people live.
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(SomaliNet) An explosion of grenade bomb in the port town of Bosaso in the semi autonomous region of Puntland, northeast Somalia has left seven people wounded overnight, witnesses said on Friday. According to residents, unknown militants hurled a grenade bomb into a house where local elders had a meeting in Biyo-Kulule village in Bosaso on Thursday night. The blast caused the injuries of seven people including those were meeting. The attackers escaped unharmed as the residents grew more concern over what happened.
No group has claimed the responsibility for the latest bomb attack so far and it is not clear whether this bomb related to the recent acts of kidnappings in Puntland. Shortly after the explosion, the security forces sealed off the area and began investigation over who might be responsible for it.
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Our military and intelligence sources reported earlier that the hundreds of Hamas and other terrorist chiefs aboard the Jordanian ferry The Princess threatened to torch the craft anchored opposite Nuweiba, Sinai, and scuttle it with everyone aboard unless Egypt permitted them to land without conditions.
A 62-year old Palestinian female passenger, Shafiqa Bahisi, died under the strain. It also transpired that an Egyptian craft was involved in the standoff. Rather than surrender, the lead Hamas negotiator aboard the ferry, Kemal Neirab, aka Abu Awad, of the Popular Resistance Committees, Gaza, threatened a world-class human tragedy.
As the hours passed Saturday, Dec. 29, without a let-up, Hamas gathered tens of thousands of supporters from around the Gaza Strip to ram the Rafah gateway to Egyptian Sinai, while Cairo beefed up its security units at the terminal.
According to DEBKAfiles military sources, Hamas leaders have been trying to smuggle suitcases packed with the equivalent of $150 m in Jordanian and Egyptian currency into Gaza since the end of the Mecca pilgrimage last Friday.
To disembark, Egypt demanded that each sign a pledge to enter Gaza through the Nitzana or Kerem Shalom crossings. These border posts are under joint Egyptian-Israeli control. Israeli customs is authorized to search incoming travelers and impound smuggled and terror-related items. Our intelligence sources report that several Hamas operatives aboard The Princess are high on Israels wanted terrorist list.
Egyptian naval and commando forces massed at Nuweiba, rushed there from Sharm el-Sheikh further down the Sinai coast, where president Hosni Mubarak will be hosting French president Nicolas Sarkozy. Grimly determined not to let the hundreds of Hamas operatives transit Sinai with their war funds, Egyptian forces set up a large tent camp to take them into custody if they tried to disembark
Of the $150 m in Hamas suitcases, around $50 m was donated by Irans Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his secret rendezvous with Hamas leaders during the hajj on Wed. Dec. 19; the rest was collected by Hamas parent, the Muslim Brotherhood and handed over under cover of the pilgrimage. Our sources disclose that Brotherhood branches worldwide launched a secret fundraising drive on behalf of Hamas last September under the slogan: Contribute to save Hamas rule in Gaza.
If delivered, the money is enough to keep Hamas military operations going for another three to four months, including missile and other attacks.
Saudi authorities permitted the cash to be brought into the kingdom and handed to Hamas leaders. Egypt allowed Hamas leaders to leave the Gaza Strip for the hajj.
Cairos new resolve is the outcome of Mubaraks talks with visiting Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak last week and their decision to join forces to combat the war activities mounted from Gaza by Hamas and its allies.
DEBKAfiles sources reveal that the Gulf of Aqaba standoff began on the night of Wednesday, Dec. 26, when the Hamas delegation to Mecca arrived in Aqaba to catch the ferry to Nuweiba. Egyptian authorities warned Jordan that they would not be allowed to disembark. After giving the group 48 hours to cut a deal with Cairo, Jordan finally decided to get rid of this disruptive element. They boarded the ferry without a deal.
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The Jerusalem Post has an article on the situation, although without all the interesting details. It's all a bit odd, though, that so many Hamas-niks are returning home via Jordan, given that Jordon has cracked down on Hamas so, and has been so steadfast this last year against allowing Hamas to re-establish relations, even maintaining a heavily armed presence along the West Bank border -- likely one reason the West Bank has stayed relatively quiet. link
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If you look at the map, I suspect the Jordanian ferries were taking them from Soddistan across to Egypt. If they tried to enter via Jordan, they would have to go through Israel. They are trying to pressure Egypt to let them into Egypt with all of their cash and recently-trained terrorists.
A court in the city of Sala, located on the outskirts of the capital city of Rabat, on Friday sent a man named Muhammad al-Qaseer, accused in a case related to terrorism, to prison after Spanish authorities deported him to Morocco last October.
A judicial source said among charges directed at al-Qaseer were "financing terrorist operations and the formation of a criminal gang to carry out terrorist acts aimed at seriously disrupting public order." The source noted that Spain, which arrested al-Qaseer last June, had accused him and a companion of his named Miftah Idrisi, of belonging to a terrorist cell in Barcelona and recruiting jihadist fighters to fight in Iraq.
This article starring:
MIFTAH IDRISI
al-Qaeda in Europe
MUHAMAD AL QASIR
al-Qaeda in Europe
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AL-QAEDA linked Pakistani militant Baitullah Mehsud was not involved in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, his spokesman said.
"He had no involvement in this attack," Mehsud's spokesman Maulvi Omar said by telephone from an undisclosed location.
"This is a conspiracy of the Government, army and intelligence agencies," he said.
"I strongly deny it. Tribal people have their own customs. We don't strike women."
The Pakistan Government has claimed that Mehsud was responsible for Benazir Bhutto's killing as she left an election rally in Rawalpindi on Thursday.
Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema said the Government yesterday recorded an "intelligence intercept" in which Mehsud "congratulated his people for carrying out this cowardly act".
Mr Cheema described Mehsud as an "al-Qaeda leader" and said he was also behind the October 18 bombing against Ms Bhutto's homecoming parade through Karachi that killed more than 140 people.
Mehsud is a commander of pro-Taliban forces in the lawless Pakistani tribal region South Waziristan, where al-Qaeda fighters are also active. His forces often attack Pakistani security forces.
He was recently quoted in a Pakistani newspaper as saying he would welcome Ms Bhutto's return from exile with suicide bombers. Mehsud later denied that in statements to local television and newspaper reporters.
Mr Cheema said Mehsud was "behind most of the recent terrorist attacks that have taken place in Pakistan".
Maulvi Omar said the transcript released by the Government, allegedly of a phone call between Mehsud and a militant discussing Bhutto's death after the fact, was a "drama".
He said it would have been "impossible" for militants to get through the security cordon around the campaign rally where she was killed.
"Benazir was not only a leader of Pakistan but also a leader of international fame. We express our deep grief and shock over her death," Maulvi Omar said.
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True, FM, but as I said, AQ would handle this as a hot potatto, and denny. I think that in this case, they weren't on it, and the "intercepted phone conversation" is an ISI-made disinfo.
Unless the women are Joooooo, or Christians, or not wearing potato sacks, or working, or stating an opinion, or breathing, or ....
Wankers.
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Of course, the "We don't strike women." is a lame statemen, no one in their right mind believes that.
Question is, did they do it?
I don't think so--there is a plenty they are responsible for, but this just does not have the AQ op feel to it. All the AQ alleged statements seem to be manufactured by someone ahead of time for misdirection purposes--to point a finger squarely on AQ.
I don't think that Perv was on it either, 's not in his interest to have this mess in his hands. He could handle Bhutto with a relative ease.
Bill Roggio sez Interior Ministry spokesman Iqbal Cheema released this. No telling how authentic. But note that they know where Baitullah is in his own words and haven't done anything to zap him. Anwar Shah's "house," I'm told, is more like a medieval manor house. Or a fortress.
Maulvi Sahib (MS): Chief, how are you? Baitullah Mehsud (BM): I am fine.
MS: Congratulations, I just got back during the night.
BM: Congratulations to you, were they our men?
MS: Yes they were ours.
BM: Who were they?
MS: There was Saeed, there was Bilal from Badar and Ikramullah.
BM: The three of them did it?
MS: Ikramullah and Bilal did it.
BM: Then congratulations.
MS: Where are you? I want to meet you.
BM: I am at Makeen (town in South Waziristan tribal region), come over, I am at Anwar Shah's house.
MS: OK, I'll come.
BM: Don't inform their house for the time being.
MS: OK.
BM: It was a tremendous effort. They were really brave boys who killed her.
MS: Mashallah (Thank God). When I come I will give you all the details.
BM: I will wait for you. Congratulations, once again congratulations.
MS: Congratulations to you.
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MAULVI SAHIB
Taliban
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...I call bullsh*t. Awfully convienient that they pick up this call almost immediately.
Mike
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Does seem to suggest a certain efficiency that heretofore has been lacking in that country ...
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Boyz and Girlz, the Olde Commies still hanging on inside the [Striking] HollyWeird Writers A$$ociation are so Damn Desperate for sum Agit-Prop work, that they've Rented Out Their #2 Pencils to the ISI and sold them dressed up portions of the olde Climatic Camelot Crumble to fit poor Benazir Bhutto's recent untimely ending.
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olde Climatic Camelot Crumble
Damn, Go dawg go!
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I wonder if they also have the local fire department hose down the radio intercept tapes....
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A top aide to slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto on Friday rejected the governments explanation of her death as a pack of lies.
The Pakistan interior ministry said Ms Bhutto died when she hit her head on her vehicles sunroof as she ducked after a gun and suicide attack on a campaign rally, and that no bullets or shrapnel were found in her.
It is baseless. It is a pack of lies, Farooq Naik, Ms Bhuttos top lawyer and a senior official in her Pakistan Peoples Party, told AFP.
Two bullets hit her, one in the abdomen and one in the head, Mr Naik said. Bhuttos personal secretary Naheed Khan and party official Makhdoom Amin Fahim were in the car and they saw what happened, he said.
It is an irreparable loss and they are turning it into a joke with such claims. The country is heading towards civil war. Interior ministry spokesman Javed Cheema said earlier that the post-mortem on the populist opposition leader found her mortal wound came when she tried to duck after the bomber attacked.
The government is now claiming that Baitullah Mehsud is responsible, Mr Naik told AFP. What is the evidence?
He added: She was taken to hospital. She was bleeding. It was a serious security lapse.AFP
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top aide who helped bathe Benazir Bhutto's body after her death said it was clear that the former Pakistani prime minister suffered bullet wounds to her head, contrary to a government report that she died because she hit her head on a sunroof lever.
Pakistan People's Party information secretary Sherry Rehman, who was riding in the car behind Benazir's when it was attacked, called the government's conclusion that Benazir was not shot "the most bizarre, dangerous nonsense."
"It's beginning to look like a cover up to me," Rehman said in a CNN interview.
Rehman said Benazir was hemorrhaging on the way to the hospital and that the two cars used to get her there were blood-soaked.
"There were clear bullet injuries to her head," said Rehman. "When we bathed her we saw that."
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In a new twist to the killing of former premier Benazir Bhutto, the Taliban commander blamed by the Pakistan government for masterminding the assassination on Saturday denied any involvement in the attack.
Maulvi Muhammad Omar, a spokesman for Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud, told reporters in Peshawar on phone from an undisclosed location that the government was trying to implicate Mehsud to cover up its "failure" to provide security to Bhutto.
"We are sad over Benazir Bhutto's death. We do not have any enmity with Pakistani leaders and are only opposed to the US," Omar said and described the government's claims about Mehsud's involvement in the suicide attack as "propaganda".
Mehsud was recently chosen as chief of the Tehrik Taliban-e-Pakistan, a coalition of pro-Taliban groups from Pakistan's northwestern tribal areas.
Maulvi Omar said it was against tribal culture and traditions to attack a woman.
Omar also said a transcript released by the interior ministry of a purported conversation in which Mehsud apparently congratulated another person for the attack on Bhutto was "fabricated".
"Mehsud never congratulated anyone for the killing of Benazir Bhutto," he said
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I vote RD as most likely successor to Joseph Mendiola.
Damn. And I've tried, and failed, to imitiate Army Man's KCNA dispatces without success. Meh, some guys are unreplaceable.
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Been on travel. What happened to Joe Mendiola?
Is he in Pakistan?
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The plot thickens, talibunnies in denial, further 'evidence' of skull fracture (even after the shooter video has been released). Curiouser and curioser....
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Who knows who did it?
I'd take no chances and shoot everybody...
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Those images are like no xray I've ever seen, especially the second one.
She could have been shot in the head and whacked by the handle as she dropped, possibly assisted by the subsequent explosion. If she was shot in the abdomen, then there should be at least one bullet hole in the vehicle. Or shrapnel penetration.
The first might be a photocopy of an X-ray. The second might be a photograph (with flash reflection) of a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy of an X-ray.
But neither of those are X-rays. That simple.
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This whole thing is starting to smell like the Benino Aquino murder under Marcos.
At least 33 people, including four policemen, have been killed since former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was murdered on Thursday in a gun and bomb attack after an election rally, AFP quoted officials as saying.
Around 16,000 troops were deployed in several parts of Sindh where Rangers have been ordered to shoot rioters at sight, officials said. In Karachi, rioters continued ransacking buildings despite shoot-at-sight orders given to Rangers against violent protesters, according to staff report. Five people were killed as 120 rioters were arrested. Six police installations, a post office, ten banks, one KFC restaurant, one Pizza Hut, two union council offices, and the Muttahida Qaumi Movements election office were destroyed in Karachi. In the east of the city, more than 2,000 people attacked a police station and set it ablaze beside torching a factory in which six people were killed.
Pakistan Railways (PR) has suspended services between Lahore, Karachi and Quetta due to burning of trains, coaches and bridges, Railways sources said. Police and witnesses said the protesters had set fire to about 25 banks, 100 vehicles and foreign restaurants in Hyderabad.
Two people were killed in Lahore in the past two days. A mob set ablaze a fire brigade station. The Punjab government deployed 5,000 Rangers in 10 major cities, according to staff report. Gujranwala General Post Office was burnt after more than 1,000 people attacked it. Protesters in Rawalpindi also tried to vandalise former minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmeds Lal Haveli, but the police dispersed them. Protesters in Balochistan set fire to a railway station, several banks, government vehicles and offices of the PML-Q, police told Reuters. In Multan, seven banks and eight petrol stations were damaged.
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The KFC is routinely burned down during protests
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Reports from Benazir's funeral mention a lot of anti-Punjabi sentiment. The PPP is one of the last links the Sindhis have with Pakistan. As it disintegrates, Sindhi separatist sentiments will also grow...
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The KFC is routinely burned down during protests...
Maybe they should rename it to Osmama's Mama's Home Fried Chicken, and put a picture up of a MBO. Just sayin'.
KARACHI, Pakistan, June 3 2005- Four times since Pakistan allied itself with the United States campaign against terrorism, a KFC outlet here has been attacked. Each time, the owner, Rafiq Rangoonwala, dutifully cleaned up and reopened for business. This time, with six of his employees dead, he's not so sure.
May 2005
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TW, it wasn't my pun. That's how General Charles Napier reported his conquest of Sind to the British East India Company in 1842.
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They probably think Sanders is a colonel in the US Army.
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Or Kentucky is Dar-Ul-Islam ?
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A historic bilingual pun? How utterly wonderful! Are there any more of those?
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Eric you and the Colonel started something finger licking good! and thank you TW and EM for the delightful and extra crispy pun woid & links..
The fighting in the 1840's was at a time of British expansion in India. Nevertheless, there were those in Britain who doubted the wisdom of too rapid an advance, and in particular, the capture of the province of Sind, which was thought likely to lead to an overextension of lines of communication. Napier was therefore under express orders not to capture the territory. Once he discovered, however, how little resistance there was, he took the province with ease. ''Peccavi'' therefore meant both ''I have Sind,'' and ''I have sinned'' - perhaps a perfect pun.
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RBees know the following to be true today as well as yester year. In wars we are perpetually handcuffed by our own Liberal Ideals. Once our sons and daughters are fighting Our Nation should always be ready to use absolute brutal force in any conflict inorder to save their lives in the long run...but [I know 'the wag' will point out they are expendable to National Interest. ignore] ~:)
In WaZooStan for instance, Our Brave and Superb Warriors hump the wadis and rugged mountains, very skillfully surrounding and killing hundreds of very wily Talibs every month.
But in spite of our men and women's tremendous achievements the scale of their actions will NEVER keep up with WaZooStan's deep supply of Jihadis or be able to cut off the Talib's Cash Crop, IOW Never get her done.
General Sir Charles James Napier:
General Napier put down several insurgencies in India during his reign as Commander-in-Chief in India, and once said of his philosophy about how to do so effectively:
"The best way to quiet a country is a good thrashing, followed by great kindness afterwards. Even the wildest chaps are thus tamed"[3]
He also once said that "the human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear"[3]
An implementation of this theory would be after the Battle of Miani, where most of the Mirs surrendered. One leader held back and was told by Napier:
"Come here instantly. Come here at once and make your submission, or I will in a week tear you from the midst of your village and hang you""[3]
The reason he felt brutality was necessary for the proper conquest of rebellions may have been his opinion that "so perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another"[3] Whatever the reason for his views on fighting insurgencies, the fact remains that he was one of Great Britain's most effective generals at doing this in India, often facing well-armed fighters
Once our sons and daughters are fighting Our Nation should always be ready to use absolute brutal force in any conflict inorder to save their lives in the long run.
and in the long run of it, save the families [wives and children] of our enemies also.. [that damn liberalism again!]
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I can't see that it would make any difference, WG - except they would have been too busy to illegally steal self-defense weapons from law-abiding citizens.
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A roadside bomb killed nine people, including former PML-Q minister Asfandyar Amirzaib, who is a grandson of Wali-e-Swat, in Swat on Friday, police told APP. The attack happened near the village of Manglore, police officer Mohibullah told AP. According to NNI, at least nine people were killed and several others injured. The dead also included local nazim Bakht Mand Khan.
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KHAR: Unknown miscreants blew up a girls college in Bajaur Agency headquarters Khar late on Thursday, sources said. They said a bomb went off at around 11:00 pm and damage 11 rooms of the college. At several mosques in the agency, the militants have also left warning letters, written in Pashto, asking people to stop their mature girls from attending schools and colleges or face the consequences.
Meanwhile, hundreds of people staged a protest rally in Khar to protest the assassination of PPP leader Benazir Bhutto and held President Pervez Musharraf responsible for the tragic incident.
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Angry mobs in Sindh set fire to at least 30 railway stations, 12 coaches of various trains and nine connecting railways bridges on Friday, forcing Pakistan Railways (PR) to suspended services between Lahore, Karachi and Quetta, Railways sources told Daily Times on Friday.
After Benazir Bhuttos assassination on Thursday, rampaging mobs set two passenger trains the Shah Latif Express and Khushal Khan Express and a number of coaches of other trains on fire.
Around nine connecting bridges near Hyderabad, Kotri, Shikarpur and Tando Jam section were also set on fire.
Mobs also set ablaze more than 30 railway stations in the province, including those in Tando Jam, Kotri, Pind Eadin and Mehrabpur. The historical Jacobabad Junction was also set on fire.
10 stranded: Subsequently, as many as 10 passenger trains could not reach their destinations. After the arson incidents, PR authorities decided to suspend railways services between Lahore, Karachi and Quetta.
However, rail traffic on the Lahore-Rawalpindi, Lahore-Faisalabad, Lahore-Multan and Rawalpindi-Peshawar routes is proceeding according to schedule. PR authorities stopped more than 10 express trains at various railways stations in Sindh to avert untoward incidents, and directed the trains to return to their points of origin.
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Helps to limit movement between regions as well.
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Meanwhile....
Imran Khan chills out in Mumbai
Pakistan may be on the boil following the assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto yet cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan finds time to relax.
Imran is in Mumbai on a personal visit.
Imran, at a press conference in Mumbai, had expressed concerns that 'people have lost faith' in Musharraf and 'nobody is safe in Pakistan.'
"Who will now address a political rally? Who will come to attend the rally? A recent survey said 80 per cent of the Pakistani people want Musharraf to step down but he refuses to leave his post," he had said.
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170 banks have also been torched
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If I were Musharraf, I'd stop all rail travel, and close all banks until the pervs had been fingered/turned in, and arrested, let's see you riot and starve at the same time. (Damn hard to do)
The shoot-on-sight order is long overdue, I sincerely hope other nations follow suit.
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Take a good look, folks. This is what will happen in a Paleostain state. Scrap the da$$$$ abomination, and start over. India should also take Bangladesh. At least the Indian engineers are competent, and would be able to stop SOME of the annual flood damage.
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AL-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has accused the US of plotting to take control of Iraqi oil supplies and he urged Iraqis to reject efforts to rebuild a US-backed national unity government.
In a statement posted on the internet overnnight, bin Laden said Washington wanted to build military bases in the country and dominate the region.
The militant leader urged Iraqis to reject the envisaged plan and said those who took part in it would be turning their backs on Islam.
It is meant "to give the Americans all they wish of Iraq's oil", he said.
Sunni Arabs pulled out of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Shi'ite-led government earlier this year, accusing it of being too sectarian.
It (media) is all now Al-Amriki (Adam Ghaz...whatever) production and this proves it, cuz he is unable get a rid of that meme in his mind set. Am not sure OBL would be that stupid.
A parked car in central Baghdad exploded killing ten people and wounding 66 on Friday, police said. The victims of the blast were performing prayers at the time.
Reuters witnesses saw a cloud of smoke rising over the area at a busy traffic intersection on the east side of the Tigris River in the centre of the Iraqi capital Friday prayers. At least one woman and one child were among the dead.
The attack occurred at around 1:00 pm (1000 GMT) in the Iraqi capitals Bab al-Sharji market which is popular for trading food and clothes, security officials said.
Medics in Baghdads Al-Kindi and Ibn Nafis hospitals confirmed the toll. An AFP journalist said security forces sealed off the area, which is also close to the interior ministry and houses one of Baghdads main bus stations. The Bab al-Sharji market has been a regular target of insurgents, and on Friday it was packed with shoppers on their way home after weekly prayers.
Insurgents have attacked markets across Iraq, particularly in Baghdad, in a bid to inflict maximum casualties.
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The 20,000 AIF [Anti Iraqi Forces] terrorist was killed by our troops.
In many ways that anonymous soul typifies the war as it is now being fought. He was a Shia, a member of al-Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadrs Mahdi Army, one of the Shia militias. Number 20,000 was acting in defiance of Sadr's ceasefire order and was a member of a Special Groups cell. These cells are supplied, trained and armed by Iran.
He was killed by overwhelming firepower, in a futile battle that had no other outcome but loss.
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And we continue our "grim milestone" celebration.... :-D
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As argued long ago, WOT > TO DEFEAT OR DESTROY TERROR vv 9-11 event, only for the USA to become Communist Totalitarian in the style of the USSR + Commie Bloc.
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Happy New Year!! Oh, it's just the 30th? I think we should start early to celebrate this joyous milestone.
The 20K deaders seem to have strained the jihadi supply line quite a bit. Yet there are 27 million people in Iraq and 1.2 billion in the Muslim world. On the basis of the sacred Vietnam mantra, lefty celebrities, pundits, and other strategists assured us that all Muslims everywhere would rise against us, and that no conventional army or nation-state could defeat a determined insurgency. Muslims are just not buying the meme, at least not when it means facing JDAMs, SF snipers, and 120mm canister shot in Iraq.
The lefties will never draw the seemingly obvious conclusion and admit they were wrong about Vietnam in the first place, of course: Garbage in, garbage out. The meme is the important thing and they will cling to it even as their world crashes down around them and their 50 year reign of cultural terror comes to an end.
Eat truth and die, hippy scum.
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When I see your name, Gromomble Oppressor of the Iowans8916, for some reason it brings up images of Shillary Rotten Clinton.
I like your analysis of our homegrown anti-American leftzis that have hovered over our Republic like some kind of culturesmog. They are living a lie, and will never be able to see the truth, unless something catastrophic happens to America, and my sense is that most of these braindead leftzis will go to their graves cursing America.
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Note that this was killed by "our troops." Which explains why the number is so strongly low balled.
"Our troops" probably doesn't count SOCOM kills, IA kills, self defense and militia kills, private contractor (like Blackwater) kills (prolly a few thousand right there), and especially those who were so vaporized that they were never counted.
It is Pentagon policy to strongly undercount enemy dead. There are all sorts of reasons for doing so.
Two young Israeli settlers were killed by Palestinian gunmen on Friday while on a ramble in the south of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, emergency services said. The two men in their 20s were fired on as they were walking with a female friend to a spring west of the flashpoint city of Hebron and the settlement of Telem. The woman was in a state of shock but escaped unharmed after hiding from the gunmen, she told the emergency services. Israeli troops launched a manhunt for the killers.
Seven Palestinians killed: Seven Palestinian militants, one of them a senior commander, were killed and 16 other people wounded in the Gaza Strip on Thursday in four Israeli raids on the Hamas-run territory, medics and witnesses said.
In the first Gaza raid three men - two of them from the radical Islamic Jihad group and a third from the armed wing of Hamas - were killed around the southern town of Khan Yunis. Six people were also wounded. The Israeli army said that infantry units backed by air power carried out a routine operation targeting gunmen who were firing rockets and mortars into Israel. Units that entered several kilometres (miles) into the Gaza Strip were fired at by an anti-tank shell. They responded and hit three armed men, said a spokesman.
Shortly afterwards, two Islamic Jihad militants were killed and two wounded in an air raid in the central Gaza Strip, medics said.
The military carried out an air raid in the central Gaza Strip against a vehicle loaded with weapons and carrying terrorists that was headed to carry out an attack, an Israeli spokesman said. The vehicle was hit. A third Israeli raid, which witnesses said was carried out by either helicopters or drones, killed an Islamic Jihad militant and wounded two more south of Gaza City, medical sources said. Islamic Jihad named the dead man as Mohammed Abdullah, 40, a senior commander of its Al-Quds Brigades military wing who operated under the nom de guerre of Abu Morshild. An Israeli army spokesman confirmed an air raid had been carried out.
Last week, the Israeli military killed Islamic Jihads Gaza commander Majed al-Harazin and 12 other militants in a series of raids. In the fourth Gaza raid a Hamas member was killed near Khan Yunis. Five other people were wounded by air to surface missiles, medics said.
In a raid in the West Bank, Israeli soldiers killed a member of the security force of former Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qorei, currently the senior Palestinian peace negotiator with Israel, witnesses said. Motassem Ash-Sharif, 22, was killed while trying to flee Israeli soldiers who had arrived at his house, the witnesses said.
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They still have gas to drive cars in Gaza?
I though Israel cut off the gas?
Sri Lankas military said on Friday troops had killed 35 Tamil Tigers in a series of land clashes in the islands north in 24 hours as the death toll from renewed civil war climbs inexorably higher.
The army said troops battled the rebels in the northern district of Vavuniya on Thursday killing 25 rebels. The military said it had also killed 10 rebels on the Jaffna peninsula, in Vavuniya and in Welioya town on Friday. It said one soldier was wounded in a mine blast in Jaffna.
The rebels denied any of their fighters were killed in Jaffna. There were no independent accounts of what had happened, and analysts say both sides tend to overstate enemy losses and play down their own amid a parallel propaganda war. Later on Friday, the air force said it bombed a rebel position in the north but gave no details of casualties or damage.
Air Force jets pounded a meeting place of LTTE terrorists in Puthukudiyirippu in Mullativu, said Air Force spokesman Wing Commander Priyantha Weerasinghe.
Tigers sing another tune: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who are seeking to carve out an independent state in north and east Sri Lanka, said in an email statement they had prevented military infiltration attempts in the Jaffna peninsula on both Thursday and Friday.
One SLAF (Sri Lanka Armed Forces) personnel was killed and at least five others sustained injuries... The LTTE front liners suffered no casualties, said Tiger military spokesman Rasiah Ilanthiraiyan.
However the rebel statement made no reference to fighting in Vavuniya and were not immediately available for comment on the air raids.
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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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(SomaliNet) Suspected Islamic militants killed two local government soldiers at the outskirt of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia on Friday, witnesses said. The two dead persons were belonging to the municipal section in the government and they were shot dead by two men armed with pistols, according to the residents. 
(SomaliNet) An explosion of grenade bomb in the port town of Bosaso in the semi autonomous region of Puntland, northeast Somalia has left seven people wounded overnight, witnesses said on Friday. According to residents, unknown militants hurled a grenade bomb into a house where local elders had a meeting in Biyo-Kulule village in Bosaso on Thursday night. The blast caused the injuries of seven people including those were meeting. The attackers escaped unharmed as the residents grew more concern over what happened. 
A court in the city of Sala, located on the outskirts of the capital city of Rabat, on Friday sent a man named 
At least 33 people, including four policemen, have been killed since former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was murdered on Thursday in a gun and bomb attack after an election rally, AFP quoted officials as saying. 
KHAR: Unknown miscreants blew up a girls college in Bajaur Agency headquarters Khar late on Thursday, sources said. They said a bomb went off at around 11:00 pm and damage 11 rooms of the college. At several mosques in the agency, the militants have also left warning letters, written in Pashto, asking people to stop their mature girls from attending schools and colleges or face the consequences.
A parked car in central Baghdad exploded killing ten people and wounding 66 on Friday, police said. The victims of the blast were performing prayers at the time.
Sometime on December 27, 2007, in 
He was killed by overwhelming firepower, in a futile battle that had no other outcome but loss.
