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Nine dead as Israel strikes Gaza after suicide kaboom
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Africa North
Hundreds of civilians dead in Chad
Red Cross officials said Tuesday that hundreds of civilians have been killed in a coup attempt by rebels in Chad. The officials, who were driving around the capital N'Djamena looking for casualties, said they did not have an exact toll. But they said "hundreds of civilians" have died in fighting since rebels penetrated the capital on Saturday. Most were killed by bullets, they said.

Chad soldiers blocked two bridges crossing from the strife-torn capital to neighboring Cameroon, cutting off an escape route for hundreds of civilians trying to flee the violence. A local reporter at the scene watched frightened civilians turned back by troops on Tuesday afternoon. The U.N. refugee agency says some 20,000 residents of the capital have fled to Cameroon since Monday.
Posted by: ed || 02/05/2008 13:54 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  UIC on the move?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/05/2008 14:54 Comments || Top||

#2  well at least they won't be asking for money like the Katrina victims 10 years from now. By the the way it was just on ellen
Posted by: sinse || 02/05/2008 15:07 Comments || Top||

#3  can't actually bring myself too admit i was watching ellen
Posted by: sinse || 02/05/2008 15:07 Comments || Top||

#4  "Hundreds of civilians dead in Chad"

Obviously dictators and the UN (but I repeat myself) are involved somehow - it's what they do best (besides whining).

Since the UN has declared that self-defense is not a human right, send the UNichs to whatever hellhole is hosting the rebellion/invasion du jour and let the hypocritical assholes die live with their "conviction."

Or pass out guns to the civilians of said hellhole and watch the fun.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 02/05/2008 18:12 Comments || Top||

#5  think the shelling out of guns tends too be these african countries problems, but seems too be the quickest way too a solution too. let them kill each other off
Posted by: sinse || 02/05/2008 19:15 Comments || Top||

#6  LUCIANNE > FRANCE READY TO INTERVENE IN CHAD; + TOPIX > FRENCH FORCES PUT ON ALERT FOR CHAD CRISIS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/05/2008 22:11 Comments || Top||


Britain
Islamic preacher 'recruited terrorists for Iraq' in Britain
A radical preacher who heckled the Home Secretary tried to recruit Muslims to fight British soldiers in Iraq and raise money for terrorists, a court has been told.

Trevor Brooks, who uses the names Omar Brooks and Abu Izzadeen, and six co-defendants, claim their arrest in 2007 was "politically motivated" because Brooks once interrupted a speech made by John Reid when he was home secretary, the court heard.

In a video played to the jury, one of the accused, Abdul Rehman Saleem, praised Osama bin Laden and said Islam was a "religion of terrorism". He said: "Terrorism against the kuffar [non-believers], terrorism against those that terrorise us, terrorism against those that terrorise our women and children. Yes we have terrorised them so when they call you terrorist, be proud to have that title."

As the audience at Regents Park Mosque in central London, joined in, he chanted: "Oh Allah support Sheikh Osama, Oh Allah destroy America. Destroy the kafir wherever they are. Let their blood run in the mountains of Afghanistan, let their women become widows, may their children become orphans, let them be bombed. Let death come to them by the hands of the mujahideen [holy fighters]."

Kingston Crown Court, in south-west London, was told that the speakers referred to the September 11 hijackers as the "magnificent 19" and the audience clapped those who had "chosen to answer the call by becoming martyrs". When police arrived, after being called by mosque security staff, they were forced from the building by the angry crowd.

Along with Brooks, 32, and Saleem, 32, the other speakers included Shah Jalal Hussain, 25, Rajib Khan, 29, and Simon Keeler, 36, who called himself "Suliman".

The speeches were recorded on Nov 9, 2004, the day after US forces tried to retake control of the Iraqi city of Fallujah - attacks referred to by the speakers. The speeches were found on a DVD recovered during a raid on the home of Omar Bakri in Haringey, north London, on March 15, 2006, following the protests against the Danish cartoons of the Muslim prophet, Mohammed. Bakri is the self-styled "sheikh" and the former leader of the banned radical group al-Muhajiroun.

Brooks, Saleem, Keeler, Khan and Ibrahim Abdullah Hassan, 25, are charged with inciting terrorism overseas. Brooks is also charged with encouragement of terrorism. All of them, along with Hussain and Abdul Muhid, 25, are also charged with raising funds for terrorism. They deny the charges and the trial continues.
This article starring:
ABDUL MUHIDal-Muhajiroun
ABDUL REHMAN SALIMal-Muhajiroun
ABU IZZADINal-Muhajiroun
IBRAHIM ABDULLAH HASANal-Muhajiroun
John Reid
OMAR BAKRIal-Muhajiroun
OMAR BRUKSal-Muhajiroun
RAJIB KHANal-Muhajiroun
SHAH JALAL HUSEINal-Muhajiroun
SIMON KILERal-Muhajiroun
TREVOR BRUKSal-Muhajiroun
al-Muhajiroun
Posted by: ryuge || 02/05/2008 06:43 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Al-Muhajiroun

#1  All these scum are also unemployed foy years!!!!

Welcome to welfare state Britian the dumping ground of the world for anyone who wants free house,free education and healthcare.

No wonder the brits are leaving in droves!!!!
Posted by: Paul || 02/05/2008 11:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Shoot the black bastard and be done with his mouthy ass.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 02/05/2008 12:13 Comments || Top||

#3  (I'm feeling particularly non-PC today)

Why don't you take the rest of the day off? Y'know, before something unfortunate happens.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 02/05/2008 12:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Let's leave the race references off. Lots of ways to be non-PC without them.
Posted by: lotp || 02/05/2008 12:51 Comments || Top||

#5  "I am a terrorist. As a Muslim, of course I am a terrorist. I want to be blown to pieces with my hands in one place and my feet in another."

That should be arranged. Does the Tower have any man sized canons left? Bring enough powder for all his friends too.
Posted by: ed || 02/05/2008 12:52 Comments || Top||

#6  Islamic preacher 'recruited terrorists for Iraq' in Britain

Prince Charles secretly loves this asshole.
Posted by: RD || 02/05/2008 14:23 Comments || Top||

#7  maybe not so secrete!

Prince Andrew, critical words for U.S. on Iraq

heh Andy, go fondle goats with your kindred kind!

Italian Salute!
Posted by: RD || 02/05/2008 14:26 Comments || Top||

#8  If he lived here, he'd have a nice suit and a cute little bow tie.
Posted by: tu3031 || 02/05/2008 14:38 Comments || Top||

#9  So, there are british citizens ready to serve overseas.

dammit. I guess nothing of use came from the brave lads who infiltrated the moosques of londone.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/05/2008 14:58 Comments || Top||

#10  ION, AMERICAN THINKER > DNI: IRAN WILL HAVE NUKES BY 2009; + DRUDGEREPORT > MOSSAD-MOSSAD:IRAN MAY HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN THREE YEARS.

INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY EDITORIAL > AN EXPLOSIVE RECIPE.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/05/2008 22:16 Comments || Top||


5 convicted of helping failed London bombers
Five men were convicted on Monday of helping mount failed suicide bombings on London in 2005 two weeks after successful attacks that killed more than 50 people. A jury at Kingston Crown Court found the five — including the brothers of two of the failed July 21, 2005 bombers — guilty of providing safe houses, passports as well as clothing and food as they hid from police. Siraj Ali (33), Muhedin Ali (29), Ismail Abdurahman (25), Wahbi Muhammed (25) and Abdul Sherif (30), all from London, were convicted on 22 charges of failing to disclose information about terrorism and assisting an offender.

In a verdict handed down after a four-month trial, Ali and Mohammed were also found guilty of knowing in advance about the plot to cause explosions on London’s public transport system. All five defendants were originally from Africa, but had lived in London for some years, the trial in southwest London heard. Prosecutor Max Hill said that all five except Abdurahman knew about the planned attacks but failed to alert authorities. Sherif’s behaviour “demonstrated sympathy towards and knowledge of the planned attacks”, he said. Sherif was said to be “euphoric” and in a “buoyant mood” after the July 7 bombings and shortly afterwards showed a pub landlord a text message saying “there will be more bloodshed in London”.
This article starring:
ABDUL SHERIFal-Qaeda in Britain
ISMAIL ABDURAHMANal-Qaeda in Britain
MUHEDIN ALIal-Qaeda in Britain
SIRAJ ALIal-Qaeda in Britain
WAHBI MUHAMEDal-Qaeda in Britain
Posted by: Fred || 02/05/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Britain

#1  More unemployed scroungers who add nothing but hate to the UK!!!

I hope you dont end up with a left wing government like us!!!Churchill would turn in his grave at the shambles uk has become post Thatcher!
Posted by: Paul || 02/05/2008 11:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Al-Guardian accounts for local ROP terror, by referring to the Muslim reaction to the GWOT. The left will not criticize Muslims, because they believe ROP cultists are victims of white colonialism. They suffer the delusion that by allying with Muslims, the ROP will radicalize. Yah, the Koran promotes socialist materialism. The alliance is an invitation to be-heading.

If your library carries the "New Left Review," you can check out the left's surrenderist mentality.
Posted by: Waldemar Clatch3522 || 02/05/2008 14:09 Comments || Top||

#3  The left will not criticize Muslims, because they believe ROP cultists are victims of white colonialism.

So now you have muslim colonization of UK.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 02/05/2008 14:14 Comments || Top||


Europe
Spain: Court releases ten terrorism suspects
(AKI) - Spain's national court has granted provisional freedom to ten of the 30 terrorism suspects charged with plans to blow up the court building.
No skin off my fore. It's their country. They can be as stoopid as they want to be.
In 2004, in what was called "Operacion Nova" an Islamist cell that planned to blow up the court building using a truck laden with 500 kilogrammes of explosives was dismantled.
But that was all in the past, y'know. We're all so much older and more mature now.
The suspects, believed to be linked to al-Qaeda, face between eight and 43 years in prison. Ten of them were granted conditional freedom by the national court after being jailed for four years, half the maxium sentence that they faced. Only five of the ten will be permitted to leave prison because the others were serving sentences for other offences.
That kinda leads me to the conclusion that maybe they don't deserve leniency.
The released suspects have been ordered to report regularly to police and forbidden to leave Spain.
I think I'd have made it a requirement that they do leave. But that's just me.
On January 20 Spanish police arrested 14 suspects of Pakistani and Indian origin alleged to have been planning a terrorism attack on Barcelona, ahead of the general election in March.
They'll be sprung in a bit, too. That's because us westerners are ever so civilized and cosmopolitan. And if we're nice to them maybe they'll leave us alone and kill somebody else.
An Islamist terrorist attack on Madrid commuter trains killed 191 people in March 2004. It took place three days before the last general election.
Posted by: Fred || 02/05/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Europe

#1  Spanish police arrested 14 suspects of Pakistani and Indian origin alleged to have been planning a terrorism attack on Barcelona, ahead of the general election in March.

Be a shame if they're released in time to carry out their original plan. But then, I'm not a Spanish judge. Probly couldn't be even if I wanted to---limpieza de sangre.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/05/2008 2:13 Comments || Top||

#2  when are they gonna learn
Posted by: sinse || 02/05/2008 12:46 Comments || Top||

#3  When are they gonna learn? Soon.

What are they gonna to learn? Grief.

How are they gonna to learn? Hard.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/05/2008 13:14 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
"He's Back! - The Eveready Bunny of Al Qaeda
A key operative and chemical engineer who was reported to have been slain is alive and leading the effort, officials say.
After a U.S. airstrike leveled a small compound in Pakistan's lawless tribal regions in January 2006, President Pervez Musharraf and his intelligence officials announced that several senior Al Qaeda operatives had been killed, and that the top prize was an elusive Egyptian who was believed to be a chemical weapons expert.

But current and former U.S. intelligence officials now believe that the Egyptian, Abu Khabab Masri, is alive and well -- and in charge of resurrecting Al Qaeda's program to develop or obtain weapons of mass destruction.
Abu Khabab is also known as Midhat Mirsi (Midhat Mursi al-Sayid Umar, or Mudhat the Merciless). There's a $5 million price on his head, if you need a few bucks.
Given the problems with previous U.S. intelligence assessments of weapons of mass destruction, officials are careful not to overstate Al Qaeda's capabilities, and they emphasize that there is much they don't know because of the difficulty in getting information out of the mountainous area of northwest Pakistan where the network has reestablished itself. But they say Al Qaeda has regenerated at least some of the robust research and development effort that it lost when the U.S. military bombed its Afghanistan headquarters and training camps in late 2001, and they believe it is once again trying to develop or obtain chemical, biological, radiological and even nuclear weapons to use in attacks on the United States and other enemies.
The anthrax scare took a lot of the fright out of the concept of bioweapons -- not that they're not the kind of filthy tactic you'd expect the Master Religion to be pursuing with single-minded intensity, but because they're probably outside the ability of the trogs to weaponize. They've tried chem weapons in Iraq, with indifferent success unless their nefarious plan included pissing people off. I don't believe anybody's ever set off a dirty bomb, at least not that's been noticed. The net effect is too localized to make it a weapon of mass destruction -- just another way to get on people's poop list. Casualties would probably, if one went off and it was a real success, be in the dozens. That leaves nukes, which a subset of Paks were trying to pass on through the Ummah Tamir-e-Nau when we threw the Talibs out of Afghanistan. The best chance the Geniuses of Islam have of turning Mecca, Medina, and surrounding points into a single large Pyrex parking lot would be to nuke an American city.
For now, the intelligence officials believe, that effort is largely focused on developing and using cyanide, chlorine and other poisons that are unlikely to cause the kind of mass-casualty attack that is usually associated with weapons of mass destruction.
Chem weapons are deadly to those in the immediate vicinity, but the immediate vicinity's not large enough for Islamic egos.
Intelligence officials say they base their current assessments on anecdotal evidence gleaned from electronic intercepts, information provided by informants and captured Al Qaeda members and the tracking of money flows and militant websites. One international counter-terrorism official said there were indications that some operatives had received immunizations to protect themselves against biological agents.

Abu Khabab, whose real name is Midhat Mursi al-Sayid Umar, is believed to have set up rudimentary labs with at least a handful of aides, and to have provided a stable environment in which scientists and researchers can experiment with chemicals and other compounds, said several former intelligence officials familiar with Al Qaeda's weapons program. Recent intelligence shows that Abu Khabab, 54, is training Western recruits for chemical attacks in Europe and perhaps the United States, just as he did when he ran the "Khabab Camp" at Al Qaeda's sprawling Darunta training complex in Afghanistan's Tora Bora region before the Sept. 11 attacks, according to one senior U.S. intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the CIA's intelligence is classified.

Some experts questioned how far Al Qaeda could get in reconstituting a weapons program in the mountains of Pakistan.
Probably because they're not in the mountains of Pakistain. They're in quite comfortable quarters, thank you, clean and dry and taking the bus to work every day in Chitral and Peshawar and Quetta and Lahore and Multan and Jhang.
"They are hemmed in in a way that makes it hard to do," said John V. Parachini, a senior analyst on terrorism and weapons of mass destruction at Rand Corp. "It's hard to get the industrial infrastructure together to do these things, and it's hard to get people that have the expertise to fashion these materials into weapons of mass destruction."

Several international counter-terrorism officials concurred with the U.S. intelligence assessment of Al Qaeda's weapons' effort. Raphael Perl, who heads the Action Against Terrorism Unit of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, said it is widely assumed that Al Qaeda developed chemical weapons years ago, and that if it doesn't have biological capabilities already, "they are certainly not far from it." Given that Abu Khabab "has the technical knowledge," he said, "it's very, very clear that they are working both in the chemical and biological fields."

Pakistani Information Minister Nisar Memon refused to comment on Abu Khabab and Al Qaeda's weapons program, but security officials from three Pakistani intelligence agencies, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that he is alive.

The senior U.S. intelligence official described Al Qaeda's effort as "a very small, very compartmented program, and not nearly on the scale of what they had going on in Afghanistan, because you don't have the size, the security, you don't have the ease of movement" that the Taliban government provided.

Chris Quillen, a former CIA analyst specializing in Al Qaeda's pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, said the network's program in Pakistan could have made significant progress without authorities knowing about it by operating in small compounds, as it did in Afghanistan. "I am not saying the programs are great and ready for an attack tomorrow," said Quillen, who left the agency in August 2006 and is now a U.S. government intelligence contractor. "But whatever they lost in the 2001 invasion, they are back to that level at this point."

That is a source of major frustration at the CIA, which a few years back identified at least 40 people that it wanted to kill, capture or question about their suspected involvement in Al Qaeda's weapons program, Quillen and others said. They said at least half of those suspects remain at large.

Abu Khabab's ties to terrorism date to at least the mid-1980s, when he was a prominent member of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad organization led by Ayman Zawahiri, who merged the group with Al Qaeda. Over the years he has trained hundreds of fighters at Al Qaeda's camps on how to use explosives, poisons and rudimentary chemical weapons, according to FBI documents. Educated in Egypt as a chemical engineer, Abu Khabab has no formal training in biological or nuclear weapons, intelligence officials say. But he has ended up in charge of the weapons program at least in part because some operatives believed to be more knowledgeable about biological and nuclear weapons have been captured or killed.

Abu Khabab was described by several intelligence officials as a cranky, showboating self-promoter as well as one of its top explosives experts. He has had a stormy relationship with the two top Al Qaeda leaders, Osama bin Laden and Zawahiri, and their top command, in part because of his ego and independent streak, those current and former intelligence officials said.
This article starring:
ABU KHABAB MASRIal-Qaeda
Chris Quillen
John V. Parachini
MIDHAT MIRSIal-Qaeda
MIDHAT MURSI AL SAIID OMARal-Qaeda
Nisar Memon
Raphael Perl
Egyptian Islamic Jihad
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 02/05/2008 12:44 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Egyptian Islamic Jihad

#1  Release some bugs in Waristan and blame it on this guy....
Posted by: 3dc || 02/05/2008 15:54 Comments || Top||

#2  COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG > AL QAEDA EYEING NUCLEAR WEAPONS - ABU KHABAB MASRI was the intended target of a US airstrike which instead allegedly killed LIBI.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/05/2008 16:22 Comments || Top||

#3  FREEREPUBLIC > THREE AL QAEDA LEADERS KILLED IN LIBI RAID. FREEP Poster - possibly FOUR?

Names and death pics please.

Also from same FREEREPUBLIC thread > Poster LINK - AQ Claims that attack on Israeli embassy in MAURITANIA is start/lead of MORE ATTACKS AGZ JEWS AND CHRISTIANS [Non-Muslims?]THROUGHOUT NORTH AFRICA, AFRICA IN GENERAL [World?].
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/05/2008 18:16 Comments || Top||


A Q Kahn to be released?
Posted by: headland.blogspot.com || 02/05/2008 10:20 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Wouldn't bother me to see that asshole get dropped as soon as he gets through the gate.
I lay the blame for the coming nuclear exchange at his feet.
Posted by: JerseyMike || 02/05/2008 12:30 Comments || Top||

#2  was he really ever in jail?
Posted by: sinse || 02/05/2008 12:40 Comments || Top||

#3  I think he was under house arrest, sinse.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/05/2008 12:47 Comments || Top||

#4  He was under guard to prevent a snatch operation.
Posted by: ed || 02/05/2008 12:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Too bad that it is against the rules to waterboard him.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 02/05/2008 13:09 Comments || Top||

#6  I'd let him live - with a highly radioactive source implant....

slow, long, and painful with no meds
Posted by: Frank G || 02/05/2008 13:39 Comments || Top||

#7  Col. Al-Mustard, in the limo, with a sunroof handle...
Posted by: tu3031 || 02/05/2008 13:47 Comments || Top||

#8  MARIANAS VARIETY/TOPIX OP-ED via WAPO > THE TRUTH ABOUT PAKISTAN.

Pakistan, AQ KHAN, and the ISLAMIST BOMB. IS NORTH KOREA or MUSHARAFF TELLING THE TRUTH OR LYING - did NOKOR give AQ KHAN, wid MUSHEY = PAKISTANI COLLUSION /CONSENT, UP TO TWO DOZEN URANIUM? NUKE CENTRIFUGES, and for THE ULTIMATE INTENT OF NUCWEAPONS DEV???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/05/2008 16:47 Comments || Top||

#9  I'd like to see him released.


At 30,000ft.
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 02/05/2008 21:01 Comments || Top||


10 killed, 27 hurt as bomber strikes army bus
Ten people were killed and 27 injured on Monday when a suicide bomber crashed his bike into an armed forces bus carrying students and officials of Army Medical College, near the General Headquarters (GHQ) at around 7.25am, sources in military hospitals said.

An eyewitness said the suicide bomber hit the 30-seater bus in front of National Logistic Cell (NLC) offices close to the GHQ, blowing away the roof, windows and doors of the bus. Several other vehicles were also damaged. A van carrying schoolchildren was also partially damaged, but the children remained unhurt.

RA Bazaar police Station House Officer (SHO) Raja Basharat Abbasi told Daily Times at the crime scene that it was a suicide attack. According to him, it was yet to be established if the suicide bomber had been riding a bike.

He said three civilians and two armed forces personnel were killed and 10 military officials seriously injured, adding that an FIR had been registered and investigations started.

According to ISPR, four security forces personnel were killed in the blast. The dead included four members of the security forces, according to a military statement, reported AP. They included a colonel from the army’s medical corps, according to a military official and a police officer, both of whom spoke on condition of anonymity. A female major was among the injured, the military official said.

Troops seal: Reportedly, troops sealed off the entire area around the GHQ following the blast, and police were not allowed access to the spot. Tents were erected at the crime scene to cover the remains of the blast and newsmen were asked to vacate the place immediately.

Similarly, private and Rescue 1122 ambulances were not allowed to shift the injured and the dead to the military hospitals and only army ambulances shifted them to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) and the Military Hospital (MH).

District Headquarters Hospital (DHQ) officials told Daily Times that the body of an unknown person had been shifted to the hospital but later military personnel shifted it to the CMH. They said none of the injured persons were admitted to the hospital.

City Police Officer (CPO) Saud Aziz told Daily Times that at least five people were killed and 25 hurt in the incident. He said law-enforcement agencies had collected evidence from the scene of the attack, including the suicide’s bomber’s head. The bomber’s face was being reconstructed at the CMH, he added.

Aziz said a special investigation team led by SSP (Operations) Yasin Farooq was investigating the incident. When asked about the exact death toll of military officials and civilians, the CPO said, “It’s a sensitive issue.”

Baitullah Mehsud: Caretaker Federal Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz told reporters in Islamabad on Monday that Baitullah Mehsud may be involved in the Rawalpindi suicide attack as only he had the ability to carry out such attack, Online reported. The interior minister said that security agencies of the country were being targeted as police and army were taking effective action against the militants, NNI reported.
Posted by: Fred || 02/05/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


3 suicide attackers arrested from Jhang
Punjab Home Secretary Khusro Pervaiz Khan said on Monday that law-enforcement agencies had arrested three alleged would-be suicide bombers, and seized suicide jackets and explosives from their possession. He told a private television channel that the arrested “suicide bombers” had disclosed that four more suicide bombers had entered southern Punjab and Lahore to target politicians. He said security across the province had been tightened.
Posted by: Fred || 02/05/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Jhangvi


Blast destroys computers at Landi Kotal hospital
A bomb blast at the Khyber Agency Headquarters Hospital in Landi Kotal destroyed several computers, while Peshawar police defused a remote-controlled bomb in a village on Monday, officials said.

Tribal authorities said the bomb exploded at 3:15 pm inside the office of accountant attached to the office of the medical superintendent at the Landi Kotal hospital. However, no casualties were reported Patients at the hospital told Daily Times that offices of medical superintendent and other administration staff were closed at the time of the explosion.

Official sources revealed that the hospital staff had also been included in the investigation into the blast that destroyed the hospital records and computers. They said that sniffer dogs would also be involved in the investigations. Medical Superintendent Dr Zar Alam Shinwari, when contacted, said he had not nominated anybody in the case as, according to him, “blasts at the hospital had become a routine”.

Around six months ago, a powerful blast occurred between the offices of the MS and an NGO in the same hospital. A former tehsildar, who requested anonymity, said ‘internal differences’ among staff might be behind the blast, and that MS, along with six other employees should be included in the grilling.

Meanwhile, Peshawar police recovered a 16-kilogramme remote control device on a roadside in Badbher police station limits, officials said, adding that the bomb had been planted in a tin of ghee.
Posted by: Fred || 02/05/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  First, they came for the accountants...
Posted by: Chuck Simmins || 02/05/2008 8:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Either
A. Somebody doesn't want to pay his bill, or
B. They wnt to keep the medical facts hidden (AIDS ETC)
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 02/05/2008 12:09 Comments || Top||

#3  “blasts at the hospital had become a routine”

Boys will be boys, especially in Hatfield and McCoy country.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/05/2008 12:49 Comments || Top||


3 hurt in Balochistan landmine explosion
Three people were injured in a landmine explosion near Pat Feeder area and four electricity towers were blown up in Dera Allah Yar and Hub areas of Balochistan, BBC Urdu reported on Monday. It quoted police officials as saying that a tractor-trolley hit a landmine in RD-238 area of Pat Feeder injuring three people. In another incident, four power pylons were blown up in Dera Allah Yar and Hub, resulting in suspension of power supply to some areas of Hub. The BBC also claimed to have received reports of tension prevailing from Shah Zen to Zen Koh areas of Dera Bugti. Claiming to be a spokesman for the defunct Baloch Republican Army, one Sarbaz Baloch told BBC by telephone that security forces and miscreants had clashed in the areas. The government, not confirming the incident, said a search operation was underway in Dera Bugti and Kahan areas and some arrests had been made. The locals told BBC Urdu that security forces had arrested about 200 people and also took away their cattle.
Posted by: Fred || 02/05/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Iraq
Even the BBC sees progress in Iraq - But not the Dems
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 02/05/2008 03:12 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Iraqi Insurgency


In Iraq, Three Wars Engage U.S.
CAMP LIBERTY, Iraq-- Three separate but related wars are being waged in this country now, and the third one, against Shiite extremists, is the most worrisome, according to the commander and senior staff of the U.S. Army division patrolling Baghdad.

The first, against al-Qaeda in Iraq, a Sunni group that U.S. officials believe is foreign-led, is going well despite occasional spikes in violence, such as Friday's dual bombings of Baghdad marketplaces. Al-Qaeda in Iraq is "frustrated" but "not defeated," Maj. Gen. Jeffrey W. Hammond, commander of the 4th Infantry Division, said in an interview last week.

The second fight, against the domestic Sunni insurgency, has become dormant in many places in the past year, as about 80,000 armed men, many of them former insurgents, switched sides and came onto the U.S. payroll with groups that officers here call "Concerned Local Citizens."

The third conflict, and perhaps the most vexing for U.S. commanders, is with Shiite extremist militias. More than two-thirds of U.S. casualties are caused by roadside bombs, particularly by high-tech anti-armor devices, planted by those groups.

Overall, senior U.S. officers find the state of the wars unexpectedly good, and are allowing themselves to begin speaking optimistically. "A year ago, I didn't see any way it was going to work out to our advantage," said Col. James Rainey, the 4th Infantry Division's director of operations, who is on his third tour of duty in Iraq. The difference now, he said, is "remarkable."

A major reason for the change, he said, is the increased effectiveness of the Iraqi army and police, to which the U.S. military refers collectively as Iraqi security forces, or ISF. "The ISF, when I was over here last time, couldn't do anything," Rainey said. Now, he continued, they frequently show tactical competence. That's crucial for future security here, because as U.S. troop numbers drop by about 25,000 between now and midsummer, to roughly 130,000, Iraqi forces will be handed a greater share of the burden.

At the same time, the officers are conscious that the fighting here has morphed several times over the past five years, as adversaries have adjusted to changes in U.S. tactics. Some officers worry that various factions, taken aback by how effective U.S. operations proved in the past year after several years of frequent counterproductive effect, are lying low as they try to devise new ways to attack.

For example, as measures such as checkpoints outside marketplaces have made car bombs less effective in inflicting mass casualties, said Maj. Jeff Jones, the division's deputy chief of intelligence, al-Qaeda in Iraq has begun to turn more to suicide bombers.

Car bombs killed 206 people in the Baghdad area in January last year and 253 in February, according to Jones. The number remained high during the summer, with 186 people dying in such attacks in July. But since then the numbers have come down sharply, with just 13 killed by car bombs in November and 12 in December.

Lately, Jones said, al-Qaeda in Iraq has begun to attack local armed groups who are cooperating with U.S. forces. The majority of those groups are Sunni, and the attacks now mean that al-Qaeda in Iraq is "the single largest killer of Sunnis in Iraq," he said.

The most challenging part of the war in early 2008 appears to be roadside bombs planted by Shiite extremist groups.

The U.S. military calls those organizations "special groups," to distinguish them from other Islamic fighters under the sway of the radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. U.S. officials hope Sadr will give up violence as a political tool altogether, rather than declare a six-month cease-fire, as he did in August.

CONTINUED
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 02/05/2008 02:49 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1  Sorry, GBUSMC, but I posted this Sunday, but it was significant for the WaPo.
Posted by: Bobby || 02/05/2008 6:52 Comments || Top||

#2  I count 4 wars: The fourth is the war at home with the liberal democrats and the MSM.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/05/2008 10:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Bobby, that's ok, some of us watched the Superbowl and missed Sundays Rant.
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 02/05/2008 10:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Agreed, and WaPo acknowledging we've won two of the three was pretty cool, too.
Posted by: Bobby || 02/05/2008 11:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Bobby, that's ok, some of us watched the Superbowl and missed Sundays Rant.

yep, great game eh!! close till the end, the best kind of football!
Posted by: RD || 02/05/2008 14:21 Comments || Top||

#6  THREE? Lest we fergit, 9-11/WOT > WAR FOR OWG/OWG-NWO/SWO = WAR FOR "GLOBALISM" = WAR FOR PRO-US versus ANTI-US SOVEREIGNTY, NATIONALISM, etc. ROLE IN SAID OWG-NWO.

More popularly known as WINNING ALL THE BATTLES, BUT LOSING THE WAR - IOW, OOOOOOOPPPPSSSIES - YOUR BAD, and only Only ONLY O-N-L-Y
OOOOOONNNNLLLLLYYYYYY, D *** YOU, YOUR BAD.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/05/2008 16:40 Comments || Top||


Al-Qaeda suspects killed in raids
FIFTEEN suspected militants were killed in raids by US forces on the possible hideout of a senior al-Qaeda in Iraq leader in the restive province of Diyala overnight, the US military said. The killings occurred during an operation targeting al-Qaeda suspects near the town of Khalis, about 60km north of Baghdad, the military said.

Firefights broke out as troops moved in on an area believed to be a meeting place of al-Qaeda fighters "and possible bed down location for a senior leader of the network", they said. Three militants were killed in the initial clashes while a fourth detonated a suicide vest as US troops closed in on another building. Another militant moved between two buildings and was killed by "enemy personnel from inside the building".

Ground forces called for air support, which killed another four suspected militants while further fighting left another six dead. During the engagements, the military said, eight suspected militants were detained and five buildings were destroyed "to prevent further use for terrorist activity".
Posted by: Fred || 02/05/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq

#1  My son is in forward air support over there. I hope he had a finger in sending the scum to H*ll.
Posted by: anymouse || 02/05/2008 1:45 Comments || Top||

#2  you should be proud, Mouse
Posted by: Frank G || 02/05/2008 6:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Ditto
Posted by: Icerigger || 02/05/2008 8:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Good to see Blue on Blue works on the bad guys also. To pinpoint a bed-down spot means good intel likely from a cooperating source. That's how we'll beat thse A@&hats.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 02/05/2008 13:26 Comments || Top||

#5  #1 My son is in forward air support over there. I hope he had a finger in sending the scum to H*ll.

Forward Observer, way kool anymouse, he has a tremendous amount of power at his fingertips...responsibility too!

I'm proud and I've never met him anymouse LOL!
~:)
/gotta go to work now
Posted by: RD || 02/05/2008 14:33 Comments || Top||

#6  Congrats, Anymouse! You should feel proud of a son that's doing so much for our future security.

Someone needs to hang a "Closed" sign across that pic. Just to rattle cages...
Posted by: Old Patriot || 02/05/2008 18:30 Comments || Top||

#7  Anymouse,

My brother, the Lt. Col., will be over there soon as deputy commander of a Forward Air Controller unit. Perhaps they'll meet.
Posted by: Eric Jablow || 02/05/2008 22:55 Comments || Top||


Turkish jets bomb northern Iraq
Turkish warplanes yesterday bombarded three abandoned settlements in an area of northern Iraq known as a refuge for rebel Kurds, rebel and Iraqi military officials said. "Turkish planes bombed the unihabited hamlets of Khorakouk, Khnira and Loulan in the Qandil Mountains near the Turkish border between 3.00 and 6.00 am today," said Ahmed Dinis, a spokesman for the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). No-one was hurt, he added. Dinis would not say whether any guerrillas were in the area when the jets struck.

The Qandil Mountains lie on the three-way border between Iraq, Iran and Turkey and are known as a stronghold of the PKK, which is fighting for Kurdish self-rule in southeastern Turkey. An Iraqi military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed the report by Dinis to reporters in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah.

Turkey has carried out several air strikes in northern Iraq since December, some using intelligence supplied by the US forces in the country, and has vowed to defeat what it says are 4,000 rebels using Qandil as a rearbase. The PKK, which is regarded as a terrorist group by Ankara and much of the international community, has waged a bloody campaign for Kurdish self-rule since 1984. The conflict has claimed more than 37,000 lives.
Posted by: Fred || 02/05/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Iraqi troops kill 11 in countrywide raids
US and Iraqi forces killed 11 suspected militants and captured 64 others in two days of raids across central and northern Iraq, officials yesterday. Iraqi troops killed eight suspects and arrested 28 overnight in Salman Pak, about 25 kilometers south of Baghdad, Iraqi police said. They also seized weapons, explosives and some vehicles in the raid, including a Humvee that was apparently stolen from the Iraqi army, police said.

Meanwhile, US forces killed three suspects and detained 36 others in operations targeting Al-Qaeda in Iraq, the military said yesterday in a statement. One of those killed was an Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader involved in car bombings in western Baghdad, the military said. He was killed Saturday by US troops who were working in support of Iraqi soldiers, it said. The military did not identify him.

Near Hawijah, 240 kilometers north of Baghdad, US troops launched a raid Sunday targeting an alleged Al-Qaeda in Iraq member responsible for financing terrorist attacks in Kirkuk, the statement said. As American soldiers approached a building where the man was believed to be hiding, they came under enemy fire and responded, killing two suspects and wounding another, the military said. The wounded man was treated on site and then arrested, it said. US troops then destroyed the building. The statement did not say whether the Al-Qaeda suspect was one of those killed.

Also yesterday, US soldiers detained 24 suspects in a raid against Al-Qaeda in Iraq media and propaganda operations, the military said. Another four men were captured separately nearby, it said. Another seven suspected militants were detained during operations yesterday in Mosul, the statement added.
Posted by: Fred || 02/05/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1  Iraqi soldiers killed stuff? Must've been fluffy camels and baby goats.
Posted by: Bobby || 02/05/2008 12:14 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Nine dead as Israel strikes Gaza after suicide bombing
Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip killed nine Hamas militants on Tuesday as the Jewish state went on high alert a day after the first suicide bombing on its soil by Palestinian militants in a year.

An Israeli air raid hit a police station near the southern Gaza town of Khan Yunis hours after an early morning incursion by soldiers in the nearby border town of Rafah left two Hamas men dead. Medics said seven militants from the Islamist movement were killed in the late afternoon air strike and another two were wounded. "The men were in afternoon prayers inside the police station when the missile struck," said a security official for Hamas, which has ruled the Gaza Strip since violently seizing it in June.

An Israeli army spokesman said the attack targeted a Hamas military position "in response to the Qassam (rocket) launchings that hit (the southern Israeli town of) Sderot this morning."

Shortly after the strike, Hamas militants fired another four rockets at the town, wounding two Israelis, as the movement vowed to avenge Tuesday's strikes. "This blood will not be shed in vain; this crime will not go unanswered and the Israeli occupation will pay a heavy price," Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told AFP shortly after the air strike.

Israel was already on high alert after a suicide bombing on Monday in the southern desert town of Dimona killed a woman and wounded nearly a dozen other people, in the first such attack since January 2007. Following the air strike, Hamas's armed wing claimed full responsibility for the Dimona attack, the first time it has claimed a suicide bombing since August 2004. According to a Hamas statement, the two bombers, Mohammed al-Hirbawi and Shadi al-Zaghair, came from the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
Posted by: ed || 02/05/2008 13:50 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "The men were in afternoon prayers inside the police station when the missile struck,"

Allahu akbar! >:-}
Posted by: gorb || 02/05/2008 15:09 Comments || Top||

#2  when aren't they in prayers? This might explain as too why you haven't come up with better weapons than blowing yourself up or big bottle rockets
Posted by: sinse || 02/05/2008 15:21 Comments || Top||

#3  eat. sleep. wash. pray. kill.

It's easy to be an islamist.
Posted by: PlanetDan || 02/05/2008 18:25 Comments || Top||

#4  "Nine dead as Israel strikes Gaza after suicide bombing"

It's a start....
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 02/05/2008 19:46 Comments || Top||

#5  wash? ...not so much
Posted by: Frank G || 02/05/2008 20:12 Comments || Top||

#6  Pray? Only if you're being watched.
Posted by: gorb || 02/05/2008 21:55 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
3 alleged Abus, 2 soldiers killed in Sulu encounter
A clash that erupted between government troops and suspected Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah terrorists on a southern island Monday had resulted to the deaths of three rebels and two soldiers, an official said. "Three terrorists were killed and two of our soldiers are also slain in the fighting in Sulu. There is an ongoing operation against the terrorists," Army Major Eugene Batara, a spokesman for the Western Mindanao Command, told GMANews.TV. Batara said five soldiers were also wounded in the clash that began shortly before 3 a.m. "The soldiers were on a mission to rescue a kidnapped trader when they encountered the terrorists," he said.

It was not immediately known whether the group was holding Rosalie Lao, 45, who was kidnapped Jan. 28 outside her home in Jolo town. Lao, who buys and sells Malaysian goods in Jolo, is a Filipino Muslim with Chinese ancestry.

Last week, troops on nearby Tawi-Tawi island shot and killed an Abu Sayyaf commander, Wahab Upao, but missed the Indonesian terror suspect, Dulmatin, one of several operatives of the Indonesian-based militant group Jemaah Islamiyah believed to be hiding in the southern Philippines. Dulmatin has been implicated in the 2002 bombings that killed 202 people in Bali, Indonesia.

The Abu Sayyaf, linked to al-Qaeda, has been blamed for bombings, kidnappings and beheadings. US-backed offensives against the group have reduced its strength to about 300 guerrillas from more than 1,000 during its heyday in 2000, according to the military.
Posted by: Fred || 02/05/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Abu Sayyaf


Sri Lanka
13 killed as Sri Lanka marks Independence Day
Thirteen people were killed in two roadside bombings in Sri Lanka on Monday, as the island’s president marked independence day by insisting he was winning the war against Tamil Tiger rebels.

A bomb in the northeast of the ethnically-divided island killed 12 bus passengers and wounded 17 others, the military said, adding that a soldier was killed in a similar bomb attack against a military vehicle in the south. The attacks, both blamed on the Tamil Tigers, came hours after an annual military parade at Colombo’s seaside Galle Face promenade to mark Sri Lanka’s 60th anniversary of independence from Britain.

Rebels cornered: In an address to the nation, President Mahinda Rajapakse said the “challenge bestowed upon us by history is the defeat of terrorism,” and said government forces had cornered the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the north. “We faced this challenge squarely without avoiding it. Our security forces are today achieving victories against terrorism unprecedented in history,” he said.

“Terrorism is receiving an unprecedented defeat,” said Rajapakse, whose government last month pulled out of a tattered truce with the rebels, who are fighting for an independent ethnic homeland in the Sinhalese-majority island. According to the defence ministry, the rebels have lost at least 908 fighters since the beginning of the year, compared to just 37 government soldiers killed. At least 149 civilians have also died during the same period, according to both sides.

Two more blasts just outside the capital earlier Monday did not cause any casualties, but an electricity transformer was destroyed in one of the attacks, police said. Ringed by unprecedented security, Rajapakse also brushed off threats of foreign aid cuts due to the worsening ethnic conflict and human rights situation. He, however, appeared to brush off such warnings by asserting that Sri Lanka has “established new relations with our neighbouring states, Arab states and Buddhist states.”
Posted by: Fred || 02/05/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Good morning.
Posted by: Fred || 02/05/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  oh yeah
Posted by: Spot || 02/05/2008 7:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Another pearl necklace, I see.
Posted by: Excalibur || 02/05/2008 9:23 Comments || Top||

#3  China battles 'coldest winter in 100 years'

LOL! Our current snowpack is at 137.5% of the seasonal average for the last 30 years, and LOTS more snow predicted. "Global Warming" is an AlGore scam.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 02/05/2008 15:19 Comments || Top||



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