Norway closed its embassy in the Afghan capital Kabul Sunday because of "terror threats," a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said.
Kristin Melsom said the embassy had been closed until further notice. She would not elaborate on the nature of the threats or how long the embassy would remain closed.
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They may be protecting their people while they're getting ready to do some head-knocking back home. At least, that's what I HOPE the reason is. Aftenposten had a story a couple of days ago about Norway preparing to deport a half-dozen major muzzie headaches.
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Sudanese air strikes against three towns in West Darfur have sent thousands of refugees fleeing across the border into Chad, said UN officials Saturday. The Sudanese military confirmed it had dropped bombs on the Sirba, Sileia and Abu Suruj during a strike against rebels. "They are quite traumatized," said UN High Commissioner for Refugees spokeswoman Helen Caux, adding that they have sent a team to investigate the situation.
Darfur rebels denied any of their fighters were in the towns attacked by the government Friday and said some 200 people were killed in the attacks by helicopter gunships and fixed-wing aircraft and thousands fled.
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From SkyNews, via Instapundit:
Police have charged a 45-year-old man with murder after the headless body of a man was found behind a shopping centre. Mohamed Boudjenane, Imagine my surprise. Obviously Amish, or maybe Lutheran.
of Kingsgate Road, Kilburn, I'm not even touching that one....
north London, will appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates Court on Monday.
The headless body, wrapped in blankets, was found by shoppers in a supermarket goods cage in Kingsgate Place, Kilburn, on Wednesday. Eeeewwwwww. At least he wasn't found in a topless bar....
Police are still holding a man and a woman on suspicion of assisting an offender. "Suspicion of assisting an offender." The Brits have such cute understated terms for "accomplices."
All three were arrested in Alvaston, Derby, on Friday. For what? They're just practising their culture. The cops should respect that. I'm sure the ArchDruid can explain it all....
Officers are still searching for the head and murder weapon. Since the chief perp suspect lived in KilBurn, and he's already done the first half, have they checked the furnace?
The identity of the victim is unknown. To police, anyway. The perps suspects know exactly who it was. And they'll start crying that they're the victims in 5, 4, 3....
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"found by shoppers in a supermarket goods cage"
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Algeria or Morocco is my guess - maybe Tunisia.
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UPDATE!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7237207.stm
Police name headless corpse man
A decapitated body found behind a row of shops in north London has been identified as Lakhdar Ouyahia.
Mr Ouyahia, who was 43 and an Algerian national, was found wrapped in a blood-stained duvet in a supermarket goods cage in Kilburn.
Detectives investigating the case have also confirmed that they have found Mr Ouyahia's head in a canal nearby.
Mohamed Boudjenane, 45, of Kingsgate Road, Kilburn, is due to appear in court on Monday charged with murder.
A man and a woman arrested in Alvaston, Derby, are being questioned on suspicion of assisting an offender.
Post-mortem tests on the body have so far proved inconclusive. Police officers found the head on Sunday afternoon in the Grand Union Canal at Blomfield Road, Paddington.
Mr Ouyahia, who lived in Kilburn, was discovered by a member of the public on Wednesday.
Inderjit Singh Reyat, the only person convicted for the 1985 Air India bombing, completed his manslaughter sentence but was not released as he is awaiting a fresh trial on perjury charge. Reyat, 55, was escorted from Matsqui Institution in Abbotsford in Canada to a Lower Mainland jail on Saturday to await his perjury trial, which is now scheduled in British Columbia Supreme Court for March 7. But Reyat is hoping to be released on bail.
Roger Cutler, of the attorney general's ministry, confirmed that Reyat has applied for bail, and March 4 has been fixed to hear that application. "He was kept in a federal institution while completing his manslaughter sentence, which came to end. And then he still has to deal with the perjury matter and he is in custody while awaiting that. The (arrest) warrant would have been issued way back then," Cutler said.
Families of the Air India victims were contacted in January and told Reyat had agreed to plead guilty to perjury for lying at the trial of two others accused in the terrorism plot. But Reyat appears to be intent on going to trial on the allegations he lied repeatedly in September 2003 when he was a Crown witness against Ajaib Singh Bagri and Ripudaman Singh Malik. Both men were later acquitted.
Lisa Lapointe, of BC Corrections, also confirmed the Reyat transfer, but said she couldn't release information about which pre-trial jail - Surrey or North Fraser - is now the temporary home of the bomb maker. "We are not allowed to release that," Lapointe was quoted as saying by Vancouver Sun. "If his warrant expired with the federal government on Sunday and then there is a warrant of remand, then custody would go to provincial corrections on that date," she added.
Reyat pleaded guilty to manslaughter in February 2003 for aiding in the Air India bombing. He had also been convicted in 1991 for building a second bomb that exploded the same day at Tokyo's Narita Airport, killing two baggage handlers. Both bombs were checked in at Vancouver International Airport and tagged for Air India flights heading in opposite directions around the globe.
In the perjury indictment against Reyat, issued in February 2006, the Crown alleged Reyat lied 27 times over five days of Air India trial testimony. His alleged lies relate to his knowledge of the bombing plot, his relationship with plot mastermind Talwinder Singh Parmar and his claim he didn't know the identity of 'Mr X', the mystery terrorist who stayed with Reyat for several days in early June 1985 and to whom Reyat claimed he gave all the bomb components used to kill 331 people. The indictment suggests Reyat worked closely with Mr. X on the bombs and the pair discussed the motive for the attack - the treatment of Sikhs in India.
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US military prosecutors filed war crimes charges against two more Guantanamo prisoners on Friday, saying one was an Al Qaeda videographer and the other one a driver and bodyguard for Osama bin Laden. That brings to seven the number of captives charged in the revised system of military tribunals created to try non-US citizens held at the US Navy base in southeast Cuba as part of the Bush administrations war against terrorism.
The charges say that Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul, a 39-year-old Yemeni, was bin Ladens personal media secretary and occasional bodyguard, who created a recruiting video glorifying the bombing of the USS Cole. Seventeen US sailors were killed when Al Qaeda militants attacked the ship as it was docked in Yemen in 2000.
Prosecutors also say al Bahlul made martyrdom videotapes styled as wills for two of the Sept 11 hijackers and helped research the economic impact of the attacks they launched against the United States.
Military prosecutors say that a Sudanese prisoner, Ibrahim Mahmoud al Qosi, 47, was an armed guard and driver for bin Laden and provided logistical support for an Al Qaeda compound in Afghanistan where he lived from 1998 to 2001. He fought on the front lines as part of a mortar crew in Kabul and helped Al Qaeda forces flee into the Tora Bora mountains after US forces invaded Afghanistan in 2001, according to the charges.
The men are charged with conspiring with Al Qaeda to attack and murder civilians. Al Bahlul is also charged with solicitation to commit murder and providing material support for terrorism. Both face life in prison if convicted and both had been charged in the first Guantanamo court system. Those charges were dropped when the US Supreme Court struck down that version in 2006, before their trials started.
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Ibrahim Mahmoud al Qosi
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Srinagar: A self-styled divisional commander of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen was killed in a joint operation by the Jammu and Kashmir police and the Army in Baramulla district on Sunday, a police spokesman said.
Assisted by troops of the 22 Rashtriya Rifles, police cordoned the Shiva area of Sopore, 55 km from here. Deputy Inspector General of Police Baramulla B. Srinivas said the police personnel stormed the house where the militant was hiding and shot him dead.
The militant was identified Mohammad Usman, alias Usman Tunda. He was a resident of Manshara in Pakistan. An AK-47 rifle and a shutter gun some ammunition were recovered, the spokesman said.
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BANGALORE: Karnatakas Director-General of Police (Corps of Detectives) Ajai Kumar Singh on Sunday said the 2005 terrorist attack on the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) here was masterminded and executed by Abu Hamza, a Pakistan national.
Mohammed Sabahuddin, one of the six arrested assisted Hamza in the attack. It was Hamza who pulled the trigger, Dr. Singh said at a media conference. To investigate the case thoroughly, the Karnataka police would take Sabahuddin into their custody through body warrant.
A police team from the State has gone to Uttar Pradesh and a team from there would come to Bangalore.
Dr. Singh, who was the Police Commissioner when the attack took place, said they were yet to ascertain reports that Sabahuddin studied in a college here. Dr. Singh said they were in touch with their Uttar Pradesh counterparts following claims by Riyazuddin Nasir, an alleged Laskar operative, that he met Hamza while he was undergoing arms training in Pakistan. Nasir, arrested by the Karnataka police on January 11, reportedly gave a graphic description of the attack on the basis of what Hamza told him.
Director-General of Police K.R. Sreenivasan said they have to corroborate the information given by Sabahuddin to his interrogators in Lucknow.
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LUCKNOW/MUMBAI/BANGALORE: In a dramatic breakthrough in the investigations into the terror attack on the CRPF camp in Rampur on January 1, the UP special task force on Sunday arrested six alleged Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists.
Three of them were bound for Mumbai on Sunday morning to carry out strikes on key installations in Indias financial capital, police said. Two of the arrested terrorists have confessed that they carried out attacks on the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore in 2006, police added. A Pakistani national was among those held, and 2 AK series rifles, hand grenades, a pistol and cartridges were recovered from them.
UP DGP Vikram Singh told reporters that STF acted on a tip-off that two of the four LeT terrorists involved in the Rampur attack were planning a series of fresh strikes - this time on the Bombay Stock Exchange, Churchgate station, and a temple in south Mumbai - and were hiding somewhere in the Bareilly-Rampur area.
Cops also came to know that one Jung Bahadur, alias Baba of Milkamaru locality in Rampur, was coordinating their movements. STF picked him up on February 9. He revealed the whereabouts of two terrorists who were to meet him at the Rampur bus stand. These two were picked up as well and on Saturday night, they identified themselves as Faheem and Mohammed Shareef. Their interrogation revealed that three of their associates were to board a train from Lucknow to Mumbai on Sunday morning. The three were subsequently rounded up from Lucknows Charbagh railway station. They identified themselves as Sabauddin Ahmad of Madhubani in Bihar, Amar Singh of Gujranwala in Pakistan, and Abu Sama of Kashmir in Pakistan.
Of those arrested, Faheem is frequently based in Mumbai and was to play a key role in the attacks on the selected targets in Mumbai. Officials in Mumbai said he holds a Pakistani passport, apart from a "high security" citizen card issued to Pakistani citizens. The passport gives his name as Hammad Hassan, son of Bashir Hassan from Rawalpindi. This appears to be fake, cops said. "BSE was going to be their first target. These terrorists have multiple targets. In case, they fail in one, they quickly move on to the next," said STF SSP Amitabh Yash.
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KABUL, Feb. 9 (APP) A string of free Indian medical camps, spread along the Pak-Afghan border and allegedly operated by RAW, are becoming the hub of terrorist activities, including recruiting of suicide bombers hitting targets inside Pakistan, report intelligence sources.
Yep.. India is behind the jihadis
According to these sources RAW agents masquerading as doctors are using the cover of operating medical camps to identify and recruit agents for conducting subversive activities inside Pakistan. Twelve such agents, posing as doctors have reached Ningarhar to conduct free medical camps. Hazrat Ali, notorious warlord in the area, who has well established links with the India intelligence, is allegedly providing lodging and protection to these doctors.
blowing yourself up on behalf of Hindus will of course guarantee a Muslim a place in paradise...
Presence of medical camps operated by RAW n Pak-Afghan border is a matter of serious concern since they are providing funding, explosives and recruits for conducting subversive acts including suicide bombings inside Pakistan. Some of these RAW agents have had considerable experience in handling of suicide bombers belonging to LTTE terrorists in Sri Lanka, say the sources.
like the LTTE bomber who killed the Indian Prime Minister?
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A suicide bomber blasted a political gathering Saturday in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 25 people, wounding dozens and stoking fears about security surrounding this month's parliamentary election.
If they don't claim credit then it doesn't violate the hudna.
The blast occurred inside a hall where about 200 people had assembled for a political rally in the town of Charsadda in turbulent North West Frontier province, where Islamic extremists have been battling government forces. The rally was organized by the Awami National Party a secular organization which competes against Islamist parties for support among the ethnic Pashtun community.
Abdul Waheed, 22, who suffered burns from the blast, said the bomber struck as a member of the party was reciting verses from Islam's holy book, the Quran. "I only heard the blast and cries and then something hit me and I fell down," Waheed told The Associated Press from his hospital bed in nearby Peshawar.
Television footage from the blast site, located in the sprawling residence of a party activist, showed the meeting hall littered with bloodstained clothes, police caps and overturned chairs. Policeman Mohammed Khan said two policemen were among the dead, and several children had been killed or injured. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but suspicion fell on Islamic militants with ties to the Taliban and al-Qaida. Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz said the militants are threatening all political parties in the northwest. "They are against everyone," Nawaz told Dawn News TV.
"But we do have a ceasefire with them, so there's nothing to worry about."
Tensions have been running high across Pakistan since the charismatic Bhutto was killed in a suicide bombing in Rawalpindi. Nowhere is the tension higher than in the North West Frontier Province, a lawless region bordering Afghanistan where Islamic militants threaten government control. Candidates have shied away from large outdoor rallies in favor of small gatherings of party stalwarts inside homes or high-walled compounds. Saturday's bombing showed even those tightly controlled gatherings are unsafe.
Nevertheless, about 100,000 people gathered Saturday in a sports stadium in the southern city of Thatta as Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party resumed its election campaigning suspended for the traditional 40 days of mourning after her death. In an emotional speech, Bhutto's husband, Gomez Asif Ali Zardari asked the crowd to "give me strength so that we can serve the country." He vowed to carry on his slain wife's mission. "I have the responsibility to save Pakistan," Zardari said. "This is our country and we have to save it."
Zardari claimed his wife had been murdered by an establishment that she wanted to change. "That is why they were against us," Zardari said. "If they try to stop me, I will destroy them and I hope you people will support me."
The government has rejected allegations that intelligence agents or members of the ruling party allied to Musharraf plotted to kill Bhutto. The People's Party is widely expected to benefit from a sympathy vote. But it remains unclear whether Zardari can unite the party and dispel public doubts over allegations that he pilfered government funds and demanded kickbacks during Bhutto's two administrations in the late 1980s and 1990s.
Pir Bakhsh, a 24-year old laborer, said that Zardari's reputation was not good but that love for Bhutto "compels us to attend this rally."
"We will avenge the blood of Benazir. We don't have bombs. We are not terrorists, but we have political power and we will capitalize on this political power to avenge the death of Benazir," said Haji Jaffar, 75, a retired teacher. "The passion and love for (her party) has increased after Benazir's assassination."
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Pir Bakhsh, a 24-year old laborer, said that Zardari's reputation was not good but that love for Bhutto "compels us to attend this rally. I hear he's up to 'Mr. 30%' now. I read it on Rantburg. Infidels!"
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A senior journalist and a renowned press photographer was shot dead here on Saturday morning and a banned Baloch militant group has claimed responsibility for the murder. Dr Chishti Mujahid was on his way to Quettas Helper Hospital along with his sister when an unidentifed attacker fired two shots at him. His body was shifted to the Civil Hospital for autopsy. The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), an underground separatist group, claimed responsibility for murdering the journalist, saying that he had been supportive of government policies and indulged in anti-Baloch propaganda in his political commentary.
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A paramilitary trooper was killed and six others were injured in a remote control bomb blast here on Saturday, while gas pipelines were blown up in separate violent incidents in the province.
According to details, a remote control bomb killed a Frontier Corps (FC) trooper in Noshki district on Saturday afternoon. Sources said that a team of FC personnel were traveling near the Chagai Flour Mill when unidentified people triggered the bomb. Subsequently, Muhammad Zubair was killed and six others, one seriously, were injured.
In the second incident, unidentified persons blew up two gas pipelines in Dera Bugti district which caused suspension of gas supply to many parts of the town. One of the damaged gas pipelines, of 20-inch diameter, supplies gas from Pir Koh locality to Sui area, while the other 18-diameter gas pipeline supplies gas to Karachi from Sui township.
An underground organisation calling itself the Balochistan Republican Army (BRA) accepted responsibility for blowing up the gas pipelines as part of its struggle against the federal government to provide the Baloch people their just rights.
In Awaran district, three rockets were fired on the local office of the Election Commission of Pakistan and the telephone exchange. The rockets damaged the furniture and computers at the election commission office.
Separately, two hand grenades were hurled at a police check-post in western district of Panjgur. According to a local journalist, the police tried to stop two suspected motorcyclists at Gramkan Mode, but they ignored the warning and lobbed two handgrenades at the police to escape arrest. However, no causalities were reported.
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A military jury on Sunday convicted an Army sniper of murder and sentenced him to 10 years in prison for killing an Iraqi civilian who wandered into the hiding place where six soldiers were sleeping.
Sgt. Evan Vela, 24, was found guilty of murder without premeditation, of aiding and abetting in planting an AK-47 on the dead man's body and of lying to military investigators about the shooting. He had faced a possible life sentence.
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appeal. From all accounts I've read, this is a PC-driven lynching. W should pardon him on the way out the door, regardless
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i agree frank, you ask them too do a jpb and when it possibly saved his and his buddies lives they crucify the man
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Speeding tickets at the Indy 500 and all that. Not funny at all, though...
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The murder charge is a little much. Any reasonable person who had the ability would have shot someone walking into his friends sleeping quarters in a war zone, who he was doing watch to protect. By the time you get a clear identity your friends would be dead, what then?
He shouldn't have planted the weapon and came clean, it gave the prosecuters to much
Iraqi police has said that a local Al-Qaeda leader was killed early on Saturday. He was killed in a police raid on his home north of Baghdad.
Abu Omar al-Dori resisted police for about an hour before he was killed at around 4 am in his house in downtown Samarra, a police officer said. The officer spoke on condition of anonymity, as he was not authorised to speak to media. Samarra is mostly a Sunni Muslim town, about 95 kilometre north of the Baghdad. Al-Dori was assigned to lead al-Qaida in Iraq operations in Samarra just one week ago, said the police. It was unclear whether his predecessor was killed or captured. The US military has not given any comment on the incident.
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Iraqi police arrested 31 Shi'ite activists Saturday in early morning raids south of Baghdad, and five American soldiers were killed in two roadside bombings, officials said.
The US troops were killed Friday - four in Baghdad and one in the northern Tamim province, the military said. At least 3,958 members of the US military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
Saturday marked a third day of US and Iraqi operations in an area that includes several Shi'ite holy cities - raising tension with some Shi'ite tribesmen and fighters who have pledged to halt attacks. Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered a six-month cease-fire for his Mahdi Army militia, but some members have broken away and violated the pledge which expires later this month.
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Interesting use of the euphemism "activists".
In 1968, when left wing "agitators" seized control of the Democrat party in the US, overnight they became "activists". Just another media attempt to mainstream extremists to make them appear moderate.
Arabs on both sides of the Green Line have increased rock and firebomb attacks on Jewish motorists in recent weeks. Dozens of Jewish residents of Samaria blocked the entrance of the Arab village of Kfar Azoun Sunday morning in response to several recent attacks that have wounded local residents.
Protestors called on the IDF to act to prevent the frequent attacks. They claim the IDF does not take the threat seriously and that only due to miracles have there not already been deaths from the firebombs and large rocks hurled from the village.
A Jewish man was wounded Friday evening when a firebomb hit his car as he drove past Azoun on Samarias Route 55. Arabs, hiding behind a hill alongside the road, snuck out into the middle of the thoroughfare and hurled four firebombs at the driver. He suffered from moderate burns and is being treated in a Kfar Saba hospital.
Another rock attack took place at the very same spot over the Sabbath. A fifteen-year-old was wounded in the incident and also hospitalized in Kfar Saba.
The IDF denied Friday the charge that it did not take seriously alerts received from Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria regarding rock throwing incidents and other terror attacks. The announcement followed a complaint by Gershon Masika, the Shomron Regional Council Head. "The IDF regards settler alerts regarding hostile terror activity in a fully serious manner and encourages this kind of communication with the settlers," the IDF Spokesman announced.
The Spokesman's Unit added: "Around noon yesterday [Thursday], an Israeli citizen was lightly injured from rocks that were thrown at his vehicle near Awarta, south of Shechem. Following the settlers' call, an IDF force reached the spot quickly and gave first aid to the citizen, who was later taken to a hospital for medical care." The spokesman did not mention whether a search was conducted or perpetrators arrested.
Firefighters called to the Arab village of Daburiyah in the Galilee were attacked with rocks even as they tried to put out a blaze that had broken out in a local warehouse. After being driven away from the building several times, they finally succeeded in extinguishing the fire.
On Highway 77 Saturday night, a woman was wounded when local Arabs hurled rocks at vehicles near the Movil junction. Channel 2 reported that her wounds are serious. Several other cars were damaged and the road was closed down for a while. This is a new situation for us, said a Nazareth police spokesman. It is the first time rocks have been thrown in this area, and we are doing everything we can to catch the culprits. Four teenagers from the Arab town were later arrested.
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Any statement that the IDF is not taking it seriously, should immediately be followed by "and thus Israelis took matters into their own hands."
It is a normal and healthy response to government not doing its job, for the citizenry to perform the role of government in its place.
This forces the government to do one of two things, either to do its job; or to try and prevent its citizens from doing its job.
And this is a winning strategy for its citizens, as either they get a more effective government, or their government is forced to openly betray them, and it loses legitimacy as their government.
An eight-year-old boy and his 19-year-old brother were seriously wounded Saturday evening in a Kassam rocket attack on Sderot. The barrage sent 11 people into emotional shock in addition to the casualties. Both boys were wounded in the lower limbs and were rushed into surgery after they were evacuated by Magen David Adom paramedics to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon. The youngster reportedly lost part of his leg in the blast, according to media sources. His older brother suffered shrapnel wounds as well. The boys' 15-year-old brother and their mother were also sent to the hospital to be treated for emotional shock.
The family was running for cover when one of the enemy rockets landed about two meters from them. Another rocket landed close to a residential building.
A total of five rockets were fired, three of which exploded in the center of Sderot. The other two slammed into areas just outside the city. Terrorists from Islamic Jihads Al-Quds Brigades gang claimed responsibility for the attack.
Another rocket was fired at southern Israel about two hours later, landing in a kibbutz in the Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council area. No one was injured and no damage was reported.
Early Sabbath morning, Gaza terrorists twice attacked the western Negev. A mortar shell first slammed into an area near the Erez checkpoint; several people were treated for emotional shock following the explosion. A second attack sent two rockets into the Shaar HaNegev Regional Council area. No injuries or damage were reported.
The IDF immediately retaliated with a strike on a terrorist squad spotted near a group of ready-to-fire rocket launchers in the nearby Gaza town of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza. Soldiers confirmed several hits and Palestinian Authority sources later reported that one member of the terrorist cell was seriously injured. The IDF also attacked four more rocket launch sites at noontime and identified hits as well. A terrorist was killed in one of the attacks.
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start killing Hamas honchos - including Meshaal hiding in Syria
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I still suggest that unless the national government of Israel protects Sderot, than it should take steps to protect itself.
It should do so by purchasing a 105mm Howitzer, and when they are attacked with a rocket, they should fire a howitzer round "solely with the purpose of shooting down the incoming rocket."
And when they are confronted by those who claim that to be next to impossible, they can insist that "nevertheless, that is the intent of this defensive weapon," and point out, that it is the only defense they can afford as a small city.
Of course, in that the rounds from this 105mm gun would land in Gaza, while not intentional, that is not the fault of Sderot, but of the Gaza authorities that permit the firing of purely offensive rockets from their territory.
By international law, the citizens of the city of Sderot have the right to defend themselves with whatever weapons are at their disposal, if they are attacked in an aggressive and unprovoked manner.
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Time for disproportionate response: 100 155mm artillery shells for each rocket, 10 for each mortar round. Aim for major road intersections. When Gazans can't go anywhere except by foot, they won't cause so much trouble. Also start taking out the rest of their infrastructure - power plant, water treatment plant, ports and harbors, and anywhere in Gazan Rafah within 100 yards of the border.
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Joooooo?
Nothing to see here, move on.
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Two Israelis, one an eight-year-old boy, were seriously wounded by Palestinian rockets fired into southern Israel on Saturday, medical workers and police said.
Medical workers said the two were brothers who were injured by a rocket that landed in the centre of the Israeli town of Sderot, located about 5 km from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. "The child was walking in the street when the rocket fell," said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.
Hamas Islamists, who seized the Gaza Strip in June, claimed responsibility for the rocket fire. Gaza militants frequently fire short-range rockets and mortars at towns in southern Israel. While few cause damage or injury, the rockets spark widespread panic among residents. Nine rockets were fired at Israel from Gaza on Saturday, an Israeli army spokeswoman said. "Israel will take the necessary steps to protect its citizens and prevent these lethal rockets attacks." said Israeli government spokesman David Baker.
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It sure would be tempting to refubish those very same rockets and send them back to about from whence they came. It might give folks around the world a bit of food for thought. But that can't happen.
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Israel has been waiting for one of these crude rockets to finally cause a human injury. In November Israel tried to drum-up sympathy in the press when some Israeli cows suffered SHOCK from Kassam Rockets...
Anyways, it is always unfortunate when someone is affected by Israeli aggression. Had Israel honored the UN resolutions that it is and has been in violation of for many years, this boy perhaps would not have been injured... Unfortunatly Violence is answered with violence... Why does CNN not cover the near daily deaths of Palistinian Children at the hands of the IDF???
Below is a link to a more "Balanced" perspective on why Palistine resists Israel's BRUTAL occupation
I fixed the link formats this time - next time I'll just delete the comment if the links aren't correctly formatted. Lots of places on line to learn how to do that or you can use the buttons that Fred provices.
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marc - you'll find more sympathetic company in the sinktrap. Douche
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Yeah, marc, if you'd learn how to post links that'd be nice too. Frickin' moron.
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The day it becomes Jewish religious doctrine to genocide muslims and temples and TV is filled with screams for the blood of muslim kiddies, THEN I may feel a tiny bit of sympathy for muslims. Until then, SUCK IT UP, BITCH.
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marc dear, if you must display your ignorance to those who've spent years studying the subject, please at least bury your links so as not to break the formatting for everyone else. The site owner gives both buttons to click and HTML code to copy - right below the box where you typed your text - so it isn't as though near-genius intelligence is required.
Oh, and you might want to consider, if the Israelis are so brutal, why did Hamas force all the Gazans to return to their homes, instead of encouraging the women, children and old people to scatter to safety into Egypt when they took down the wall on that border? After all, hundreds of thousands of Gazan Palestinians ran across, and spent -- according to the Egyptian press -- something like US$220 millon in forged currency, to purchase mainly motor scooters, televisions, and potato crisps (chips for the Americans). Then too, there's this link. Go ahead and click on those last words, and read it. We'll wait until you get back, my dear, because we've already read that one, and many others. Taqqiyah is a Muslim concept originally articulated by Mohammed in the Koran; you may want to read a translation. We have. Oh, and then there is Hamas's declaration of principles (killing all the Jews is one of the first items), the Palestinian Liberation Organization's founding document (killing all the Jews is one of the first items), and the Palestinian Authority's founding document (killing all the Jews... but you know the rest by now). This compares to the Israeli declaration of independence, which makes Arabs, Christians and Muslims equal citizens in the country, a country where Arab Israelis elect their own representatives to the Israeli Parliament, just as the rest of the Israelis do.
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Dear, Trailing wife... I am sure you are not one that has spend years studying the issue, other than HTML links of course, for which I apologize as it obviously makes me moronic in this forum.
But anyways, your Hasbara leaves something to be desired... Unlike you... I will counter one of your arguments w/o resorting to peripheral bashing of your HTML skills...
YOU WROTE "This compares to the Israeli declaration of independence, which makes Arabs, Christians and Muslims equal citizens in the country, a country where Arab Israelis elect their own representatives to the Israeli Parliament, just as the rest of the Israelis do."
Did you research this, or did you just think it sounded good??? Consider the JNF refusing to sell or lease land to Arabs/Christians??? Sounds less than "equal" to me
Also if you need to know just which UN resolutions that Israel is in violation of, I can also source those for you. You seemed not to comment on those... Remember how important UN resolutions are... Oh yeah... Iraq...
Thanks for listening, get back to me after you watch the Zionist terrorists in Hebron in the second link I provided in my original post, I would love to here what you thought, or at least how bad my HTML skills are :)
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02/10/2008 20:04 Comments ||
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"hear", not "here", Mr. ESL. Your Paleo-propaganda drivel has been proven wrong by 6+ years of Paleo crimes against humanities, tool, documented ON THIS SITE. Use the search function, if you dare. Til then, I'd suggest you contribute a leg for the Israeli youth in Sderot, who lost his due to a civilian-aimed rocket by the Paleos. What's that? A war crime? No no no...just a response to the continued Zionist occupation of Gaza...er.... nevermind
"Marc", you are a tool and ass, but then, you already have a mirror, and knew that
Posted by: Frank G ||
02/10/2008 20:12 Comments ||
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Did I research for that last post, marc? No, my dear, I'm just fonder of original documents than you, I guess, including the various UN resolutions about Israel -- you've actually read the one establishing the State of Israel in 1948 in its entirety, or the 1967 one? It really is important to actually know what you're talking about when you try to argue with those who do. And apparently I'm less fond of propaganda flicks... or perhaps just more aware of the difference between propaganda and honest reporting. One of the many things I've looked into while following my husband's career around the world and back. For myself, I prefer not to make the PhD mistake of knowing more and more about less and less until one knows everything about nothing at all. A little academic joke I used to hear a lot in the ivory tower of my childhood.
Have you seen the one about that poor little Palestinian boy that the Israelis killed in front of his father a few years ago? The one that French television gave away free, along with his story? (The first and only time that's happened; the French can be terribly mercenary when there's money involved, or at least that's been Mr. Wife's experience. Technically very good, though. ) I've seen the original photo series of that, where he walks away after, past the other Palestinians working with the photographer to stage the money shot. It's in French court still, I think -- the director is fighting a rearguard action to keep the entirety of the original footage from the public. I'll let you google that yourself on the web, because finding things in Rantburg archive can be a bit challenging.
Oh, and do consider the Palestinians torturing to death anyone who sells property to a Jew... and that the Palestinian territories are Judenrein, and coming Christianrein. The Jewish National Fund, on the other hand, buys property to make into forests and parks, which they hold as a national trust. Have you checked to see whether they sell to Jewish Israelis, before throwing around accusations of religious discrimination?
And my dear, you simply must tell me where you came across the term hasbarah. So revealing as you used it, don't you think? But don't capitalize it, because it is a general noun rather than a name, and doing so reveals something I'm sure you'd rather not at this point.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
02/10/2008 21:11 Comments ||
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One continues to hope they're capable of learning, Barbara. Some have, after all, and even gone on to become valued Rantburg contributors. Too, teaching is a family tradition and a personal interest, you know, even if like so many of my interests I've never done it professionally.
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Besides, with me marc has a chance. I'm trying to protect him from the ire of the real professors and professionals of every stripe who hang out here, and who so hate shoddy thinking. That could have real-world repercussions for the poor lad.
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tw, I love your gentleness, patience and logic as you thread trollsidiots ill-informed visitors onto that barbeque spit, turn up the heat and apply the sauce.
If I ever When I grow up, I wanna be just like you. ;-p
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
02/10/2008 21:48 Comments ||
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You are such a silly, Barbara dear, which is one of the reasons I adore you.
#16
Yes Indeed, thanks to TW... I have seen the error of my ways. I will go away now... People like me are simply confused... In the case with the the photo series that you mention, there is a LOT of post rational that has gone on since that set captured world attention... At any rate I will bid you all farewell...
Posted by: marc ||
02/10/2008 22:11 Comments ||
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*points at marc and laughs ass off*
Ya got smoked, dude! You/re not the first one to get fooled by the "trailing wife" moniker, and will not be the last. We measure IQs around here by how fast one catches on to that...
I should point out that we don't have to convince you that we are right: we just have to convince everyone else visiting this site that you're a bigoted idiot.
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I'd much rather you started reading original documents, marc. What isn't needed is people who agree with me, but those who come to reasoned conclusions based on real-world evidence. I mean, if you can't persuade a little suburban housewife in the wilds of the American Midwest that you know what you're talking about, how do you expect to be able to persuade real experts?
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And tw turns up the flame and slathers on more sauce....
/barbeque commentary :-D
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
02/10/2008 22:21 Comments ||
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ONE MORE TW... Case in point and thanks... I'll let you google where this one comes from... ciao :) I think in the course of 3 posts you showed each of the 7 at least once...
Propaganda is used by those who want to communicate in ways that engage the emotions and downplay rationality, in an attempt to promote a certain message. To effectively present Israel to the public, and to counter anti-Israel messages, it is necessary to understand propaganda devices.
NAME CALLING
GLITTERING GENERALITY
TRANSFER
TESTIMONIAL
PLAIN FOLKS
FEAR
BANDWAGON
Posted by: marc ||
02/10/2008 22:25 Comments ||
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"NAME CALLING
GLITTERING GENERALITY
TRANSFER
TESTIMONIAL
PLAIN FOLKS
FEAR
BANDWAGON"
Dang, marc, you just described both the leading DemoncRat contestants candidates.... ;-p
(Though "Glittering Generality" really homes in on Obama)
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
02/10/2008 22:29 Comments ||
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Hey Barb - I have to agree on that on...
Posted by: marc ||
02/10/2008 22:30 Comments ||
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As for Ptah, you flatter me inordinately, my dear, but we certainly do not.
Does anyone know what post rational means in the sense marc used? I'm struggling to diagram that sentence.
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1. NAME CALLING TW "so it isn't as though near-genius intelligence is required." When referring to me..
2.GLITTERING GENERALITY TW" Oh, and do consider the Palestinians torturing to death anyone who sells property to a Jew" Can you confirm this is an absolute???
3.TRANSFER TW "you've actually read the one establishing the State of Israel in 1948 in its entirety, or the 1967 one?" So it Ok that Israel is in violation if Palistine did it first...
4. TESTIMONIAL TW "One of the many things I've looked into while following my husband's career around the world and back." Are you using your husband as a basis for what you know??? Does he legitimize what you say???
5.PLAIN FOLKS TW "if you can't persuade a little suburban housewife in the wilds of the American Midwest that you know what you're talking about, how do you expect to be able to persuade real experts?" this one is pretty clear.
6.FEAR TW "I'm trying to protect him from the ire of the real professors and professionals of every stripe who hang out here, and who so hate shoddy thinking. That could have real-world repercussions for the poor lad." hmmmm
7. BANDWAGON - This would apply to the notion that TW is the work horse on this blog tonight and the rest are certainly on her bandwagon for the ride ;) Does not leave much of a chance for stimulating debate when I have to dodge the nasty names. Not much learning happening here is there???
Posted by: marc ||
02/10/2008 23:07 Comments ||
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Anyways... I guess the point is if your minds are already made up than this in not really a place to exchange info or ideas. Imagine if people could have an open mind??? We might live in a better place... I really do apologise for wandering into your forum tonight... I guess I know how it would feel to be gay and wander into a redneck bar ... ha ha
Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
-philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer
Posted by: marc ||
02/10/2008 23:25 Comments ||
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Thank you, marc. In order, then.
1) I was referring to my intelligence, since the general IQ tests I've taken do not put me at near-genius. I've no idea where you score, although an expert would no doubt find indications in our posts.
2) I'm not sure what you mean by "an absolute" here, but I read the news reports at the time. My usual sources are the Jerusalem Post, the Star of Lebanon, the Arab News (Saudi Arabia), that kind of thing. I used to read the International Herald Tribune, but have lost interest since it became a next-day digest of the New York Times. Unlike Mr. Wife, I never learnt Arabic.
3) Israel is not actually in violation of any of the UN Security Council resolutions. I assume you haven't read them, since you think otherwise. Am I wrong?
4) No. That's background for the fact that I have time to read up on things that interest me, and the opportunity to meet a larger variety of people than one is customarily exposed to in Midwestern suburbs...or the university community in which I grew up.
5) Clear? I am a housewife in the suburban Midwest, I am almost 5 ft. (152 cm, in case you prefer that scale) tall, and I am not an expert, merely somewhat well read. You did not persuade me.
6) Shoddy thinking always has real-world repercussions, unless one is professionally artistic, and where money is involved even then. Do you dispute this?
7) I never claimed to speak for the Rantburg generality. Since you aren't answering any of the others -- agreed the name calling doesn't call for one -- what difference does their opinion make to either one of us?
If you wish to answer here, you'll need to post before midnight, as Fred has set his site to start fresh then. But of course you can always send me an email.
An IAF aircraft on Saturday night attacked a Hamas installation in the town of Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip. Earlier Saturday, two brothers were seriously injured in a Kassam attack on Sderot.
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02/10/2008 00:00 ||
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A village head was shot dead and his former assistant was injured inside a teashop in this southern border province[Narathiwat] Sunday morning. Witnesses told police that the two were having coffee in the shop when two assailants walked in and opened fire at them at about 8:10 am.
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There has been unrest in southern Thailand since January 4, 2004, particularly in the provinces of Narathiwat, Yala, and Pattani. These regions are home to most of the Muslim minority in Thailand, many of whom are also ethnic Malays. These have been the scene of separatist activity since the 1980s. The population is particularly disaffected by the perceived heavy-handed crackdown on these activities by the central government, which has portrayed the security problems in the region as a non-issue.
On October 26, 2004, 78 people were suffocated after being put in police trucks in Tak Bai, having been suspected of taking part in riots around the region.
On November 7, 2004, the Defence Minister of Thailand said that there were more than 700 casualties in south Thailand since the unrest began in January.
17.9 percent of the people in Narathiwat are Buddhist. The rest Muzzies.
Where there is islam...
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No....let me guess. They suspect it was muslims that did the killing. Right? Is that stereotyping? Or is it a recognition that the vast majority of the perps of gangland killings are muslim?
Sri Lankan troops have killed at least 29 Tamil Tiger rebels, taking the two-day death toll to 44 amid fresh fighting in the islands north, the military said on Saturday.
Fridays fighting along a border that separates government from rebel territory in the north was the latest violence in a 25-year civil war analysts say neither side is winning. Troops killed 29 LTTE terrorists in confrontations in Jaffna peninsula, Vavuniya and Mannar on Friday, a military spokesman said, asking not to be named in line with policy.
The government is trying to drive the rebels from their northern stronghold and bring an end to the bloody civil war. But analysts say neither side is winning as the rebels repeatedly hit back with suicide and roadside bombings and air attacks. The military said on Friday it had captured a rebel-held area in the northwestern district of Mannar, killing 12 Tamil Tiger rebels. The military also said three soldiers had died and 15 were wounded in the fighting.
The rebels, who are fighting for a separate state in the Indian Ocean islands north and east, were not immediately available for comment. There was no independent confirmation of what had happened or how many people were killed, and analysts say both sides exaggerate enemy casualty figures and play down their own. Fighting between the military and the rebels has intensified since the government scrapped a six-year ceasefire pact last month. It said the rebels were using the truce to re-arm. Thousands of people have been reported killed since last year as the truce crumbled and analysts expect the conflict to drag.
An estimated 70,000 people have died since the conflict began in 1983. Meanwhile, a minority Tamil businessman was shot dead as he came out of a church in Colombo on Friday night, police said, adding the motive for the murder had not been established.
The victim had been providing premises for minority Tamils affected by the fighting, officials said. The Sri Lankan government last month officially pulled out of a defunct truce with the rebels, who have fought for more than three decades for an independent ethnic homeland in the Sinhalese-majority island. The conflict has claimed tens of thousands of lives.
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But analysts say neither side is winning as the rebels repeatedly hit back with suicide and roadside bombings and air attacks.
Aren't armchair quarterbacks so wonderful? They just KNOW that the government can't win, so they need to give in to the LTTE terrorists. Someone needs to find these "anal-ists" and give them a healthy smack up side the head with a steel I-beam cluebat.
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These sound like the same analysts that say the Taliban are winning in Afghanistan.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Inderjit Singh Reyat, the only person convicted for the 1985 Air India bombing, completed his manslaughter sentence but was not released as he is awaiting a fresh trial on perjury charge. Reyat, 55, was escorted from Matsqui Institution in Abbotsford in Canada to a Lower Mainland jail on Saturday to await his perjury trial, which is now scheduled in British Columbia Supreme Court for March 7. But Reyat is hoping to be released on bail.
US military prosecutors filed war crimes charges against two more Guantanamo prisoners on Friday, saying one was an Al Qaeda videographer and the other one a driver and bodyguard for Osama bin Laden. That brings to seven the number of captives charged in the revised system of military tribunals created to try non-US citizens held at the US Navy base in southeast Cuba as part of the Bush administrations war against terrorism. 
BANGALORE: Karnatakas Director-General of Police (Corps of Detectives) Ajai Kumar Singh on Sunday said the 2005 terrorist attack on the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) here was masterminded and executed by 
A suicide bomber blasted a political gathering Saturday in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 25 people, wounding dozens and stoking fears about security surrounding this month's parliamentary election.
A paramilitary trooper was killed and six others were injured in a remote control bomb blast here on Saturday, while gas pipelines were blown up in separate violent incidents in the province. 
Iraqi police has said that a local Al-Qaeda leader was killed early on Saturday. He was killed in a police raid on his home north of Baghdad.
Two Israelis, one an eight-year-old boy, were seriously wounded by Palestinian rockets fired into southern Israel on Saturday, medical workers and police said.
An IAF aircraft on Saturday night attacked a Hamas installation in the town of Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip. Earlier Saturday, two brothers were seriously injured in a Kassam attack on Sderot.
Sri Lankan troops have killed at least 29 Tamil Tiger rebels, taking the two-day death toll to 44 amid fresh fighting in the islands north, the military said on Saturday. 
