Nine police and two civilians were killed in an air strike by U.S.-led troops in Afghanistan, a provincial doctor said on Thursday, but the coalition said Taliban fighters had been killed.
The raid, which sparked protests, happened in a village outside Ghazni town to the southwest of Kabul on Wednesday night, Dr. Ismail Ibrahimzai, the head of the local public health department said. "Nine police, including an officer, two civilians, one of them a woman, were killed in the raid," he told Reuters. Five police were wounded, he said, adding they were in a vehicle patrolling the area when it was hit in the air strike.
The U.S.-led coalition confirmed the attack but said several Taliban insurgents were killed in the raid involving small-arms and aerial-delivered conventional munitions. Coalition troops arrested nine suspected insurgents and destroyed a cache of explosives, it said in a statement.
Some 200 villagers marched toward Ghazni town to protest against the latest strike, witnesses said. They chanted slogans against Karzai's government and U.S. troops who form the bulk of the coalition force in Afghanistan.
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Nine police and two civilians were killed in an air strike by U.S.-led troops in Afghanistan, a provincial doctor said on Thursday, but the coalition said Taliban fighters had been killed.
As Israel found long ago with "Palestinian Police", the two are not mutually exclusive.
A police officer and four al Qaeda militants were killed on Thursday in southeast Turkey in raids launched by police who believed the Islamists were planning major attacks, the local governor's office said.
Special forces police backed by armoured vehicles launched raids on houses used by the Islamic militant group in and around the city of Gaziantep, in a 12-hour operation in the early hours of Thursday. Four police officers were injured, two of them seriously, in clashes which erupted and brought parts of the city to a standstill. Masked police sharpshooters surrounded the targeted houses.
The Gaziantep governor's office said 19 people were detained in the operation. Police seized 75 kg of ammonium nitrate, an explosive, along with rifles, pistols, ammunition and documents. "There was information that units linked to the al Qaeda terror group were preparing acts that would have had a dramatic impact in our province and beyond," Gaziantep Governor Suleyman Kamci said in a statement.
Police said the fighting erupted after their calls for the militants to surrender were met by gunfire. Broadcaster CNN Turk said on its Web site one militant only surrendered after a 12-hour siege of a house where two other fighters had earlier been shot dead.
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We occasionally see something along these lines from Turkey and there's seldom any follow-up.
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What happens in a Turkish prison stays in a Turkish prison.
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Yeah, it's not like men can get pregnant or anything.
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A Dutch appeal court acquitted six suspected members of an Islamist terrorist group on Wednesday, saying the prosecutor had failed to prove such an organisation existed. A seventh suspect, Jason Walters, who in 2004 injured five policemen with a hand grenade at his arrest, was given a 15-year prison sentence as before, but for attempted murder, rather than for being part of a terrorist group.
The Hofstadgroep (Hague group) has insufficient organisational substance to conclude it was an organisation, the court ruling said, adding that the prosecutor had failed to prove the suspects made up a terrorist group. The prosecutor had said the group had planned terrorist attacks and was formed around Dutch-Moroccan Mohammed Bouyeri, who was sentenced for the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh in 2004. Some of the suspects were also Dutch citizens of Moroccan descent. They had all denied the charges and had appealed a ruling by a lower court in 2006 sentencing them to up to fifteen years each for forming a terrorist group.
This article starring:
Jason Walters
Hofstadgroep
Mohammed Bouyeri
Hofstadgroep
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Cause we know Muslims are oppressed, not oppressors!
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If they want those crazy bastards running around their town that's their business. But don't spend much time looking for me, cause I won't be there.
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I thought they'd get serious after Theo van Gogh, but apparently they're not capable of being serious.
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#3 I thought they'd get serious after Theo van Gogh, but apparently they're not capable of being serious.
But Hey! Them Dutch Get To Hold Up That Silent Swish Thingy of Black Robbed Hague Justice and The International Criminal Tribunal, The Hague Tribunal Against Genocide, The Tribunal For Crimes Against Humanity, The Hague War Crimes Tribunal, The Hague Tribunal Against Crimes of Aggression, The Hague Convention Tribunal, and The Hague Academy of International Law, and all that stuff is much much much MUCH more important than survival.
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I think the Dutch have the same problem we do - a judiciary that's so insulated from reality they aren't serious about their FIRST job - supporting and defending the rule of their nation's laws within their nation.
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The suspected mastermind behind Benazir Bhutto's assassination has stolen sophisticated Nato equipment by raiding the alliance's supply lines running through Pakistani territory.
Baitullah Mehsud, the Taliban commander who American officials hold responsible for Miss Bhutto's death, has emerged as a threat to the flow of supplies for British and American forces fighting in neighbouring Afghanistan. Mehsud's increasing prominence shows how Pakistan under President Pervez Musharraf is steadily falling under the sway of Islamist militants.
Mr Musharraf, who is touring Europe, will speak in London today on "a vision for Pakistan and regional harmony". His critics believe, however, that turmoil in Pakistan is fuelling the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan and helping to destabilise South Asia as a whole.
A senior government official, based near the frontier town of Tank, told The Daily Telegraph that Mehsud's men regularly ambushed container lorries carrying hardware bound for Nato forces in Afghanistan. Their latest target was a supply convoy outside the town of Dera Ismail Khan on the Indus Highway, one of Pakistan's main arteries.
"They managed to single out the most important lorries, removed the drivers and then vanished the consignment lock stock and barrel," said the official.
"Among the booty they discovered trucks carrying cargos of pristine 4x4 military vehicles, fitted with the most modern communications and listening technology," he added.
The official added that Mehsud's gunmen lacked the expertise to operate the equipment. So they enlisted the help of Uzbek and other foreign militants who are based in Pakistan's lawless tribal areas lining the north-west frontier.
Gen Athar Abbas, Pakistan's military spokesman, declined to comment on this incident. A Nato spokesman in Kabul did not rule out that material had been stolen in transit through Pakistan, but denied that any weapons or military equipment had been lost.
"This may hinge on what people's definition of 'equipment' is," he said. "I have been assured that no military equipment has been lost."
About 40 per cent of the supplies needed for Nato's 42,000 soldiers in Afghanistan pass through Pakistan. The vital supply routes follow the Indus valley from the port city of Karachi to the border town of Peshawar. They enter Afghanistan through the Khyber Pass. Other border crossings from Pakistan's province of Baluchistan are also used.
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Among the booty they discovered trucks carrying cargos of pristine 4x4 military vehicles, fitted with the most modern communications and listening technology," he added.
You mean the ones with the GPS chip...? It worked
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All those assumptions could be true. Or the ISI could have been in on it. Which would Occam prefer? Hmmm. Hard one.
Gen Athar Abbas, Pakistan's military spokesman, declined to comment on this incident. A Nato spokesman in Kabul did not rule out that material had been stolen in transit through Pakistan, but denied that any weapons or military equipment had been lost.
"This may hinge on what people's definition of 'equipment' is," he said. "I have been assured that no military equipment has been lost."
This guy payed close attention to Bill Clinton. Perhaps he has a post-military future in politics.
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Most mafia truckjackings happened with the help of an inside man. I wouldn't be surprised if this was a similar thing. Hell the South Vietnamese robbed the US blind and they were on our side.
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""This may hinge on what people's definition of 'equipment' is," he said. "I have been assured that no military equipment has been lost.""
It makes more sense if you are trying to determine the definition of 'lost;' as in "A Nato spokesman has no clue and he would lose his ass if it weren't part of his legs"..
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This news report is a lie. There *was* a convoy that was hijacked but it was NOT a NATO convoy. NATO supplies to Afghanistan. They were Pakistani supplies headed for North Waziristan.
Police in Indian Kashmir have shot dead a militant accused of masterminding a series of explosions outside courts in three cities in Uttar Pradesh last year, officials said on Friday. Bashir Ahmad, a senior member of the Harkat-ul-Jehad Islami (HuJI), was shot dead on Thursday night in a gun battle with police in Cahtru village in south Kashmir, according to police.
He was suspected of plotting nearly simultaneous blasts near courts in Varanasi, Faizabad and Lucknow in November which killed 13 people and wounded 80 more. Many of the victims were lawyers.
The Interior Ministry has warned the provinces that 13 suicide bombers have entered Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore from the NWFP and may carry out attacks in these cities, reported a private TV channel.
According to Geo News, the ministry revealed in a letter written to the provinces and law-enforcement agencies that terrorists have formed a new organisation by the name of Al-Quds Army and that 13 of its newly trained suicide bombers have entered major cities for their subversive activities. According to the channel, the ministry has also warned law-enforcement agencies and the provinces that two extremists of Maulana Fazlullahs Tehreek-e-Nifaz Shariat-e-Muhammadi have entered Sindh and Balochistan.
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Unidentified gunmen on Thursday killed three people, including the Matta tehsil naib nazim, and injured two others. Naib nazim Zakir Khan was going to the Ashari area when unidentified assailants opened fire on his vehicle near Baghdheri Chowk, killing him and his brother.
A man was killed in Swat district as security forces pounded militant hideouts in the Puchar area of Matta tehsil. The security forces also conducted a search operation in the Chaprial, Dheran Kali and Gawalari areas and arrested several suspected militant commanders. In search operations in Khawzakhela and Alpuri areas, troops seized material used for terrorist activities, Online added.
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oh noes! not the Matta tehsil naib nazim!
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Unidentified men fled with four weapon-laden army trucks in Dara Adam Khel on Thursday, Aaj TV reported. Taliban spokesman Maulvi Umar claimed responsibility while talking to BBC Urdu from an undisclosed location. He said the trucks and the crew had been moved to a safe location. Aaj TV said the trucks were seized on their way from Peshawar to Bannu but the drivers had been released. The Dara Adam Khel political administration arrested 32 tribesmen after the incident and seized nine vehicles, the channel said. Umar denied government claims that it had reoccupied Taliban-controlled areas. He said seven Taliban militants and 15 soldiers were killed on Thursday.
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It would be too much to expect that these trucks carried the gps units seen on US 18 wheelers. nice targeting info if they did.
Seems that the only thing 'braver' than the (running away) 'Lions of Islam' is the Dreaded Pak Army.
Pakistani forces have cleared militant strongholds from three areas in the South Waziristan region on the Afghan border and 40 militants and eight soldiers have been killed in the fighting, the military said on Thursday.
The army is sending in reinforcements and tanks after a week of fighting with militants loyal to a Taliban commander the government said was behind the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto last month. The clashes, in which nearly 150 militants and more than 20 government soldiers have been killed, has raised fresh concern about the nuclear-armed country in the run-up to a Feb. 18 election that could weaken President Pervez Musharraf's power.
Security forces had carried out operations in three parts of South Waziristan, the military said. "These areas have been cleared of militant strongholds and hideouts," the military said in a statement. "Forty miscreants have been killed in the last 24 hours and 30 miscreants have been apprehended while many injured," the military said. Eight soldiers were killed and 32 wounded.
The fighting is in strongholds of militant chief Baitullah Mehsud, who the United States has also said was behind Bhutto's assassination in a gun and bomb attack in Rawalpindi on Dec. 27. Mehsud has been blamed for a string of attacks in a suicide bomb campaign that intensified after commandos stormed a radical mosque complex in Islamabad last July. On Wednesday last week, his men attacked and captured another fort in Waziristan.
Security forces have been battling al Qaeda-linked militants in South Waziristan for several years. The mountainous region, occupied by conservative, independent-minded Pashtun tribesmen, has never come under the full authority of any government. Militants in South and North Waziristan also attack U.S.- and NATO-led foreign forces and Afghan government troops across the border in Afghanistan.
"APPEASING U.S., BRITAIN"
Separately, three activists from a Pashtun party opposed to militants were gunned down in the Swat valley in North West Frontier Province, where the military launched an offensive against armed followers of a radical cleric in November.
Police in the northwstern city of Peshawar said they found explosives near a bridge shortly before former prime minister and opposition leader Nawaz Sharif was due to address anti-Musharraf lawyers at a nearby court.
The United States and other allies hope next month's election will restore political stability after months of turmoil over Musaharraf's manoeuvres to stay on as president, and refocus efforts on tackling militancy.
Admiral William Fallon, the head of the U.S. military's Central Command, visited Pakistan for talks with army chief General Ashfaq Kayani on Tuesday. Fallon told reporters in Florida last week that Pakistan was increasingly willing to fight Islamist militants and accept U.S. help, without saying what kind of support. The United States has already announced plans to step up training of Pakistan's Frontier Corps, a paramilitary force recruited from tribal lands.
In North Waziristan, which is also on the Afghan border and where militants are also active, about 2,500 tribesmen protested against the military's attacks in South Waziristan. "These operations are unjustified and are only meant to appease America and Britain," a Muslim cleric, Mehmood-ul-Hassan, told the protesters in Mir Ali town. "The government should declare a ceasefire immediately. This can't be resolved through force but only through talks," he said.
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Police defused a roadside time bomb just minutes before Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif was due to pass the spot here on Thursday, Senior Superintendent of Police (Operations) Imtiaz Shah told Daily Times on Thursday.
The former premier was travelling in a convoy to address a lawyers convention and a political rally in Peshawar in connection with the February 18 general elections. He said, The NWFP police found the time bomb weighing 400 grams around 20 minutes before Nawazs caravan was to reach Suray Pul (bridge). The bomb was placed under the bridge. The police stopped the caravan near Gulbahar Chowk for 25 minutes because of security reasons. Imtiaz Shah said the bomb was without a detonator and was only meant to harass the people.
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Baghdad, Jan 25, (VOI)- U.S. forces killed one gunmen and detained 19 suspects Thursday and Friday during operations targeting al-Qaeda networks in central and northern Iraq, the U.S. army said on Friday. "Northeast of Samarra, near the Hamrin Mountains Thursday, Coalition forces targeted a suspected al-Qaeda in Iraq associate who allegedly serves as an interrogator at a terrorist prison and training camp in the region," said the U.S. army in a statement received by Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI)...
IRAQI Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki declared "final war" on al-Qaeda after bomb attacks killed dozens of people including a police chief in the city of Mosul.
At least 35 people were killed and 217 wounded in a massive bomb attack Wednesday that obliterated a building and destroyed houses in Mosul, Iraq's third main city and capital of Nineveh province. A suicide bomber on Thursday killed provincial police chief Brigadier General Salah al-Juburi and two other officers when they went to inspect the previous day's carnage.
Mr Maliki said Iraqi forces were moving towards Mosul, 370km north of Baghdad, for a major assault that would become a decisive battle. "We have formed an operations centre in Nineveh (province) for a final war against al-Qaeda and the remnants of the former (Saddam Hussein) regime," Mr Maliki said. "Today our forces are moving towards Mosul. What we have planned in Nineveh will be final. It will be a decisive battle," he said.
"The crime committed by al-Qaeda on Wednesday in Nineveh is just the last remains of their resources. We have defeated al-Qaeda in Iraq and only Nineveh remains."
He warned that the Iraqi army was now a powerful force. "We have a real Iraqi army. I want to say that to all those people who think they can do things in front of the Iraqi security forces that those days have gone."
US intelligence experts warned that Mosul remained a dangerous "strategic centre of gravity for al-Qaeda" due to its road links to the Syrian border, which most foreign fighters used as their springboard. The jihadists can easily blend in with the local population.
Three weeks ago, US and Iraqi forces launched a fresh assault against al-Qaeda operatives, blamed for much of the violence in Iraq.
On Thursday, Mr Maliki issued an angry statement saying that those behind the Mosul attacks would be hunted down and brought to justice. "This crime exposes the moral bankruptcy of the terrorists after a string of defeats at the hands of our armed forces," he said.
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IRAN-DAILY uses the term "DECISIVE BATTLE"???
*"DECISIVE BATTLE/FINAL WAR" > again, the OSAMA I know [and aligned]desires that ISLAM = RADICAL ISLAMISM WIN "VICTORY OR DEATH", etc, vv END-TIMES APOCALYPTIC WAR AGZ US-WEST IN IRAN. It remians my opinion that AQ, etal. Islamists will wage one more broad campaign in IRAQ before shifting operational focii to defense of Iran.
AGAIN, OSAMA > NO APOCALYPTIC CONFLICT IN IRAN = ISLAMIST WAR AGZ US-WEST WILL GO ON INDEFINITELY, at minima for the duration of Osama's natural lifetime.
Again again, WOT > WAR FOR OWG/GLOBAL GOVT. = WAR FOR CONTROL OF THE WORLD, TO INCLUDE WAR FOR CONTROL OF AMERICA = DEFEAT/DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA. Also, "FASCISM" > error-prone, imperfect LIMITED/DEREGULATED COMMUNISM-TOTALITARIANISM.
A suicide bomber in police uniform killed a top police official in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday as he toured the site of an explosion that killed 40 people and wounded 220 a day earlier, officials said.
Rescuers were sifting through the rubble of Wednesday's blast for survivors when the attacker blew up beside the Nineveh province police director, Brigadier-General Salih Mohammed Hasan Atiya al-Jubouri, U.S. military and Iraqi officials said.
They said the bomber walked up to Jubouri as he toured the site of Wednesday's blast -- which left a crater as deep as a multi-storey building -- and detonated an explosive-packed vest. Jubouri died of his wounds while being rushed to hospital.
Iraqi police had earlier incorrectly identified the official killed as Brigadier-General Salih Mohammed Hasan, police chief in the Nineveh provincial capital Mosul.
The U.S. military said two Iraqi police were also killed in Thursday's blast. Police said an Iraqi journalist working for the Chinese state news agency Xinhua was among five wounded, though no more information was immediately available. The U.S. military said a U.S. soldier was also wounded.
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Arab terrorists opened fire on a vehicle near the northern entrance to the northern Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat Thursday evening, murdering one Jew and seriously wounding another. At the same time, an attack in Kfar Etzion, south of Jerusalem, ended in the death of two terrorists. Fatah's Al-Aksa Brigades terrorist group announced that it was behind both attacks.
A Border Police officer - Rami Zuari, 20, from Be'er Sheva - was mortally wounded in the first attack. Medics at a nearby checkpoint administered CPR to no avail, and he was pronounced dead. The other victim, a female Border Police officer, also 20, was evacuated to Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital in critical condition from a gunshot wound to the chest.
Around the same time, Arab terrorists also infiltrated Kibbutz Kfar Etzion in Gush Etzion in an event that ended miraculously without major casualties. The two terrorists entered Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz's Mekor Chaim yeshiva high school, entering a library room where seven of the boarding school's counselors were having a meeting. The terrorists, armed with a knife and a gun - which later turned out to be a fake - were dressed in the uniforms of a security company, and ordered the seven to line up on one side of the room. A counselor realized they were terrorists, drew his personal firearm and opened fire. Another grabbed the fake gun from one of the terrorists, wrestled him to the floor, while the first counselor shot him dead. The terrorists managed to lightly stab two of the counselors before falling dead.
At the same time, the Beit Medrash (study hall) - adjacent to the library - was packed with students taking part in the weekly Thursday night "mishmar" all-night Torah study session. Other students were scattered in rooms in the immediate vicinity.
Both of the lightly wounded counselors were taken to Hadassah Hospital for treatment and observation. Residents of the Kibbutz were told to remain in their homes for a while after the attack, for fear that other terrorists were still present in the community. A search was carried out for the exact spot in the perimeter fence through which the terrorists infiltrated.
The IDF commended the counselors, saying their bravery prevented what would have been a major terrorist attack.
Former MK Chanan Porat, a resident of Kfar Etzion, remarked afterwards on the miraculous nature of the event: "Thank G-d it ended this way - and the counselors deserve amazing credit for their courage and skill who did the work and killed the terrorists."
A month ago, on Dec. 28, armed terrorists opened fire and murdered two hikers - both former students of the same Mekor Chaim yeshiva - in Nachal Telem, west of Hevron. The two, off-duty soldiers Amikam Amichai and David Rubin, managed to return fire, killing one terrorists and seriously wounding another. A girl who was hiking with the two hid and was saved.
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If the dead terrorists were Jerusalemites, expel the entire family. Pay them double the value of the property, and keep all housekeys. As a kindness, let them choose between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Living in Israel is a privilege, now that there is a Palestinian homeland, not a right.
/wishful thinking, so long as Olmert occupies the Prime Minister's office.
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Heh ? Olmert, genius ?
Time will tell, and this looks like the beginning of the end. The tactical options left to the Jews now is truely a short list. They must either bend over and take it or react with ever increasing levels of retaliation until they force an end to the attacks. We have just seen the end of a period of paleo regrouping. Will 2008 be as 'peaceful' as 2007 ? Doubt it.
Wont happen under Bibi either. Israel as a general rule, despite what the commies would tell you, does NOT do collective punishment. Blowing up houses is done in the territories, where its an application of old British rules under the mandate. And even when houses are blown up, the right to come back and build again is not denied.
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A counselor realized they were terrorists, drew his personal firearm and opened fire. Another grabbed the fake gun from one of the terrorists, wrestled him to the floor, while the first counselor shot him dead.
Egyptian forces fired water cannons at Palestinians trying to force their way across the Gaza-Egypt border on Friday and warned over loudspeakers the border would close at 3 p.m. (1300 GMT), witnesses said.
But security sources said Egyptian forces still did not have direct orders to fully close the border at any specific time, and a similar announcement made by loudspeakers on Thursday evening to close the border had not been carried out.
"Palestinian brothers, quickly return to the border. The border will close at 3 p.m.," police announced on a loudspeaker mounted to a car at the border. Similar announcements were being made by loudspeaker in the coastal town of el-Arish.
Security sources said Egyptian security men were trying to block Palestinians from entering at all, apart from one border point in Rafah, two days after Palestinians blasted open the border in defiance of an Israeli blockade.
The sources said Egypt had closed back roads that Palestinians were using after entering at other spots along the border, and were also trying to stop Palestinians from reaching el-Arish.
Egyptian forces began placing barbed wire near the collapsed steel border wall early on Friday, and witnesses said Palestinians threw stones at Egyptian forces, who responded by beating some Palestinians with clubs and firing several shots into the air.
Security forces were allowing Palestinians to exit Egypt from any point along the border line. Witnesses said some 40 truckloads of security men had been sent to el-Arish and were awaiting orders to deploy at the border.
Israel, which says its blockade of Hamas-controlled Gaza is intended to counter rocket fire by militants, has said it wanted to cut its links with the coastal strip by handing the supply of electricity, water and medicine to others.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said it was up to Egypt to ensure the security of its border with Gaza, and Washington said it was willing to work with Egyptian authorities to restore order but did not give details.
Israel occupied Gaza in the 1967 Middle East war but pulled troops and settlers out in 2005, although it still controls the strip's northern and eastern borders, airspace and coastal waters.
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Palestinians blasted open the border in defiance ofbecause of an Israeli blockade
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And some people said Egypt wouldn't provide water services to Gazans.
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Water cannon? Hmmmm. Wonder what would happen if we tried that against the invading Meskins? Not just on the border, but if you see an illegal Meskin on the street, call the fire department, pin him down with a water cannon until the border patrol makes it way up to git him.
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The Egyptians are not using "water cannons" on the paleos.
They're using shower heads capable of expelling high speed jets of pulsating water. All very halal in conformity with the muzzie preoccupation with sharia compliant hygiene.
The "barbed wire" mentioned in the body of the article was intended to be used as makeshift clothesline for drying.
Jeesh. The MSM refuses to use competent fact checkers.
RAFAH, Gaza Strip - Palestinian thronged out of Gaza into Egypt for a second consecutive day on Thursday to stock up on supplies after militants blew open the border of the Hamas-run territory.
The area where several border walls stood in the town of Rafah less than two days ago assumed the feel of a busy bazaar, as under sunny skies crowds took advantage of a rare chance to leave the fenced-off Gaza Strip unhindered. Stands selling falafel and other fast-food sprouted up to cater to the throngs of shouting, jostling people, intent on buying goods on the Egyptian side a week after Israel imposed a blockade on the impoverished, densely populated territory.
Life sounds good. Why not stay in the Sinai?
There are no mattresses in Gaza. When people get married, they need mattresses, said a smiling Salman, 25, as he stood next to a pile of 15 brand-new mattresses that he scooped up for a good price in Egypt and was sure he could unload easily back in Gaza.
Since militants set off explosions bringing down stretches of the walls that mark the border between Gaza and Egypt in the divided town of Rafah on Tuesday night, tens of thousands of Gazans have flooded out. Shelves in numerous stores on the Egyptian side of the town of Rafah and in the North Sinai provincial capital of El-Arish further west have emptied because of the unexpected influx, witnesses said.
Amid the hustle and bustle, with shouts of people intermingling with the noise of goats and car horns, 40-year-old Fawsa Al Jisha stood out as she stood gazing around surrounded by her nine daughters. I just came here to smell the liberty, she said. I havent left Gaza for a really long time.
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A little foreshadowing there...Gaza going to the mattresses?
Two Thai Muslim suspects now in police custody for obviously allegedly murdering a Buddhist schoolteacher on Thursday morning admitted involvement in the controversial 2004 massacre at a landmark mosque in Pattani.
Gunned down at 8 am Thursday while enroute by motorcycle to his work at Ban Koh Taa School in Pattani was Buddhist 46-year-old schoolteacher Suvit Boonsanit. He rushed to Yala Hospital where he was pronounced dead. As seen here yesterday
About 100 soldiers and police officers were deployed to hunt for the terrorists suspected insurgents. A few hours later, two young men were arrested, with the authorities seizing a motorcycle and a shotgun.
According to the initial interrogation, the two men admitted killing the teacher to release themselves from an obligation to the mastermind of the murder. After the murder, the suspects said, they would be free to leave Pattani. However, they did not elaborate why the alleged author of the plot had control over them.
The suspects said they belonged to the Tareegat group which was involved in the controversial incident at Kruesae Mosque in Pattani on April 28, 2004. Some 100 young Muslim men died in the historic landmark house of worship of the Muslim-majority province after a brutal clash with law enforcement officers.
Terrorists Suspected insurgents tried to ambush soldiers in Yala Province but failed because their explosives went off prematurely.
Police said eight soldiers were on their way to visit a wounded soldier at a hospital in Yaha province on Friday morning when terrorists insurgents detonated an explosive hidden in a plant jar placed on a roadside. The blast went off before their pick-up passed by, so the soldiers were unharmed. The terrorists insurgents fled into a nearby rubber plantation, police said. Authorities sealed off the area to search for the suspects.
A car bomb ripped through eastern Beirut on Friday, killing Lebanon's top anti-terrorism investigator as he returned from a meeting on the probe into the 2005 assassination of a former prime minister, authorities said.
Damn.
Three others died in the blast. The force of the explosion in the primarily Christian neighborhoods of Hazmieh set a dozen vehicles ablaze and ripped a crater in the asphalt six feet wide and 3 feet deep.
The country's national police chief, Brig. Gen. Ashraf Rifi, confirmed that the car bomb killed Capt. Wissam Eid, who handled police intelligence investigations including "all those having to do with the terrorist bombings" in Lebanon, Rifi said. Eid had survived two previous assassination attempts, including a bomb targeting his house and a raid in the northern port city of Tripoli, Interior Minister Hassan Sabei told LBC television.
Lebanon's sports minister, Ahmed Fatfat, said the officer was on his way home from a meeting at the headquarters of the U.N. commission investigating the 2005 assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri. The commission's office is in a hilltop village about a 15-minute drive from the site of the explosion.
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hmmmm
absolutely no idea who might be behind this. nosssiirrrreee
Posted by: Frank G ||
01/25/2008 11:30 Comments ||
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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
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A police officer and four al Qaeda militants were killed on Thursday in southeast Turkey in raids launched by police who believed the Islamists were planning major attacks, the local governor's office said.
A Dutch appeal court acquitted six suspected members of an Islamist terrorist group on Wednesday, saying the prosecutor had failed to prove such an organisation existed. A seventh suspect, 
Pakistani forces have cleared militant strongholds from three areas in the South Waziristan region on the Afghan border and 40 militants and eight soldiers have been killed in the fighting, the military said on Thursday.
The fighting is in strongholds of militant chief Baitullah Mehsud, who the United States has also said was behind Bhutto's assassination in a gun and bomb attack in Rawalpindi on Dec. 27. Mehsud has been blamed for a string of attacks in a suicide bomb campaign that intensified after commandos stormed a radical mosque complex in Islamabad last July. On Wednesday last week, his men attacked and captured another fort in Waziristan.
Police defused a roadside time bomb just minutes before Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif was due to pass the spot here on Thursday, Senior Superintendent of Police (Operations) Imtiaz Shah told Daily Times on Thursday.
Baghdad, Jan 25, (VOI)- U.S. forces killed one gunmen and detained 19 suspects Thursday and Friday during operations targeting al-Qaeda networks in central and northern Iraq, the U.S. army said on Friday. "Northeast of Samarra, near the Hamrin Mountains Thursday, Coalition forces targeted a suspected al-Qaeda in Iraq associate who allegedly serves as an interrogator at a terrorist prison and training camp in the region," said the U.S. army in a statement received by Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI)...
A suicide bomber in police uniform killed a top police official in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday as he toured the site of an explosion that killed 40 people and wounded 220 a day earlier, officials said.
RAFAH, Gaza Strip - Palestinian thronged out of Gaza into Egypt for a second consecutive day on Thursday to stock up on supplies after militants blew open the border of the Hamas-run territory.
