Four Afghan security personnel and a civilian were killed in bomb blasts and a gunfight with Taliban on Saturday, while air strikes killed several extremist rebels, officials said.
"Police did not suffer any casualty but a civilian passerby was killed and another was injured."
The civilian died when a bomb fixed to a bicycle exploded in the troubled southern city of Kandahar as a police vehicle passed, police officer Faiz Mohammad told AFP from the site. "Police did not suffer any casualty but a civilian passerby was killed and another was injured," he said.
Hours later, another bomb blast hit Afghan soldiers on a logistics mission in the neighbouring province of Helmand, a focus of a Taliban-led insurgency, the defence ministry in Kabul said. The explosion killed two soldiers and injured four others, it said.
Meanwhile in Ghazni, two police officers were killed and four others were injured in a gunfight with Taliban insurgents, police said. A Taliban militant was also killed in the three-hour gunfight in Ghazni's Andar area, deputy border police commander Assadullah Nawrozi said.
Two other Taliban died in Andar when a mine they were trying to plant blew up.
Two other Taliban died in Andar when a mine they were trying to plant blew up, police said.
Elsewhere, the Afghan army said international forces had bombed a Taliban mountain hideout in the southwestern province of Farah on Friday, killing seven rebels. The strikes were part of a new Afghan and international military operation that began in the province Friday, said the most senior Afghan army commander in western Afghanistan, Jalandar Shah Behnam. Forces also captured two "senior" Taliban commanders from the region and freed two civilians who were held as hostages, the defence ministry said.
Farah has experienced a string of bloody attacks in recent weeks, including a suicide bombing on Thursday that killed 16 people.
Separately, the US military said "several extremists" were killed in operations in the eastern province of Khost aimed at a Taliban involved in bomb attacks on troops. Friday's operations were in a district where a suicide attack in March killed two NATO soldiers and two civilians.
Forces also said they had arrested nearly 20 suspected militants across the country, eight of them in eastern Nangarhar province bordering Pakistan.
A local police commander said however that the men captured in Nangarhar were civilians and alleged that troops had beaten people during the operation. "The men captured by Americans are not Taliban. They are innocent civilians," said Malik Zarjan, police chief of Nangarhar's Achin district. "I went to the area and I saw a 90-year-old man who was badly beaten by Americans. He was screaming," he said.
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Sounds like police chief Malik Zarjan needs to be brought in for questioning; I am a bit skeptical as to his claims that our soldiers badly beat up a 90-year-old man.
(Xinhua) -- A bomb blast rocked the Afghan capital on Saturday night, but causing no casualties, deputy Kabul police chief Alishah Paktiawal said.
Paktiawal told Xinhua two bombs exploded, giving no more information. An unnamed local police official while reached by Xinhua said the explosion occurred near a local police department in northwest part of the capital city. "There were two bombs planted by unknown persons in front of the gate of the police compound," he said, "One bomb exploded but caused no casualties while the other bomb was successfully defused by the police."
There has been no immediate responsibility claim but anti-government insurgents usually carry out such bomb attacks.
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Islamic insurgents in Somalia seized a major agricultural center overnight, sending hundreds of people fleeing, a human rights leader said Saturday. The attack underscored the government's vulnerabilities, as U.N.-sponsored peace talks stalled in neighboring Djibouti.
Ali Bashi, of Fanole rights group, said the Islamic Courts Union ousted militiamen loyal to Somalia's fragile government from Jilib overnight and were patrolling the southern town Saturday. Two militia fighters were killed and three others were wounded in the fighting, he said, citing reports from his office in Jilib.
Jilib resident Mohamed Sandhere said he saw two dead government fighters near a checkpoint and five others, including two civilians, who were badly wounded.
After the insurgents entered the town from several directions, the two sides fought with guns and rocket-propelled grenades. The Islamic militants seized some weapons and equipment from the government side, including four armored trucks, said witness Elmi Ali.
Hundreds of refugees were streaming out of the town Saturday. "These people already had fled from fighting in Mogadishu and today again were forced to flee because they fear more violence," Bashi told The Associated Press in a telephone call from the southern Kismayo town. Jilib had a population of about 5,000 before the influx of people displaced from the capital. The town is in a volatile area where two foreign U.N. contractors were abducted months ago. The Briton and Kenyan still are missing.
The head of a Somali humanitarian organization was killed by masked gunmen in Kismayo.
In a separate attack on Saturday night, the head of a Somali humanitarian organization was killed by masked gunmen in Kismayo, a relative told The Associated Press.
Ahmed Bariyow, the head of Somalia's Horn Relief organization, was killed as he was walking home in Kismayo. His cousin, Ahmed Yonis, said he was walking behind Bariyow when three masked men armed with pistols stopped him and fired repeated shots into his chest and head.
Aid workers are being targeted as the Horn of Africa nation confronts drought and a refugee crisis that will leave nearly half the population of 8 million in need of emergency food aid by the year's end, according to the United Nations. In January in Kismayo, a Kenyan surgeon, a French logistics expert and a Somali driver working for Doctors Without Borders-Holland died in a landmine blast.
Somalia's weak U.N.-backed government has been struggling to quash a re-emerging Islamist insurgency. In December 2006, neighboring Ethiopia sent troops that still are propping up the government. Thousands of civilians have been killed and hundreds of thousands forced from their homes in a burgeoning humanitarian crisis. Islamist insurgents have intensified attacks since a U.S. airstrike May 1 killed the alleged al-Qaida leader in Somalia.
The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Thursday calling for a U.N. political presence in Somalia for the first time in years and said it would consider deploying U.N. peacekeepers to replace African Union troops, if there is improved political reconciliation and security. But another round of peace talks ended in Djibouti on Friday with no more than an agreement to meet again May 31. U.N. negotiators failed to organize direct talks between the government and the biggest opposition alliance, which supports the insurgency.
The Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia said it would not be involved in direct talks until the government agrees to a timetable for Ethiopian troops to withdraw. Without Ethiopian support, it is feared the government would fall.
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This article illustrates the fallacy of "talking to insurgents". The only way a negotiated settlement can work is if both parties get at least a part of what they want. If either party believes they can get more from violence than from negotiation (I.E., Hamass, Fatalh, Hezbullies, talibunnies, AQ, et. cetera), then no amount of negotiation is going to succeed. This just proves what a dam$$$ fool BO is with his "talk, talk," philosophy.
The best way to solve the problems in Somalia is to bomb the sh$$ out of Asmara and Khartoum - repeatedly. It wouldn't hurt to nuke Riyadh and Qom, either.
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At least 12 Naga rebels were killed when two rival separatist factions clashed in India's north-eastern state of Nagaland on Friday, police say.
Police said all the dead belonged to the Khaplang faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN).
The clash with the Muivah faction took place in a village not far from Nagaland's commercial centre, Dimapur.
The NSCN is the strongest separatist group in the north-east. It split in 1988 and has seen in-fighting since.
'Heavy casualties'
Both factions blamed each other for starting the fighting early on Friday in the village of Citikhema.
Muivah faction spokesman Kraibo Chawang told the BBC: "The gun battle went on for four hours and the Khaplang faction suffered heavy casualties.
"Our fighters also snatched most of their weapons after beating back the attack."
A Khaplang faction spokesman, Kughalu Mulatonu, blamed the Muivah faction for provoking the attack.
The NSCN split when supporters of the Burmese Naga rebel leader SS Khaplang broke away from the main faction led by Thuingaleng Muivah and Issac Chisi Swu.
Both factions have been maintaining a ceasefire with the Indian security forces since 1997 but they have been fighting viciously amongst each other.
More than 400 rebels have died in factional clashes between these two groups since 1988.
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WAFF.com Thread > NYT - HEZBOLLAH'S ACTIONS IGNITE SECTARIAN STRIFES [Islamic/Shia-Sunni] IN LEBANON; + TOPIX > CHOWK BLOG: DIVIDE PAKISTAN INTO FOUR [Five?] PARTS TO STOP/PREVENT VIOLENCE AGZ HINDUS [India]???
The militancy related violence has suddenly gone up in Kashmir. Eight militants belonging to different militant groups were killed in three separate fierce gunfights with Indian army personnel in the violence-hit Kashmir.
Six militant owing allegiance to the Pakistan based militant group, Jaish-e-Mohammad were killed in a fierce gunfight with soldiers in South Kashmir on Saturday.
Giving details, police chief of Kashmir, S. M. Sahai said that a group of militants fired from automatic weapons towards a patrol party of para-military personnel at the village of Lurow Jagir, Tral, some 55 kms from the summer capital Srinagar. "The fire was returned by the troops and during the gunfight, the militants tried to escape," he said, adding, "Reinforcement were rushed and the whole village was sealed off by army, para-military and police personnel".
The police officer said that during the combing and search operation, militants opened fire towards the soldiers. "The fire was returned by the troops and in the ensuing gunfight, which lasted for more than seven hours and six Jaish militants were killed," the police chief said. He said that no collateral damage was caused in the encounter.
The police chief identified two of the slain militants as Waseem Hassan Ahanger alias Qari Asif and Mohammad Yousuf Bhat alias Prince. "Both the slain were top commanders of Jaish and were operating in South Kashmir for the past few years", he added. "The identity of other four slain militants is being ascertained," he added.
The police chief claimed that a large quantity of arms and ammunition were recovered from the encounter site. He termed the encounter as major success against the militants in recent months as a biggest group being hit. "The encounter is also an example of how the encounters have been refined with minimum collateral damage. With this encounter large number of Jaish militants and its leadership has been wiped out," he claimed.
Meanwhile, a Lashkar-e-Toiba militant commander was killed in a gunfight with police and army personnel in North Kashmir. The slain militant, who belonged to Pakistan, was identified as Tanveer Ahmad. A police officer claimed that he was active in North Kashmir from 2003.
Another militant owing allegiance to Jaish-e-Mohammad was killed in a five hour long gunfight with Indian army personnel at Tarkundi in the mountainous Poonch region of Kashmir. The identity of the slain militant is being ascertained.
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Militants launched a rocket attack on Zaida Police Station on Saturday, but no casualties have been reported, police said. Police officials said that a rocket landed inside the police station at 1.30am, damaging the wall of a room where SHO Manawar Khan was sleeping. Although Khan survived the attack the incident created panic among the police as this was the first attack of its kind in the area. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack but police sources said they suspected local Tehreek-e-Taliban were behind the incident. The incident resulted in the suspension of the power supply to the police station and the surrounding areas for several hours, as the rocket damaged the main power line. Peshawar Electric Supply Company (PESCO) spent seven hours repairing it.
District Police Officer Muhammad Rafiq along with other officials rushed to the Zaida Police Station following the attack. Former NWFP education minister Maulana Fazal Ali also visited the scene. The district council condemned the rocket-firing incident through an adopted resolution. All vowed to counter the militants operations and declared that they would extend all kind of co-operation to the police in this regard. Police officials said that they were ready to meet such challenges. Militants had earlier blown up CD shops in the area and bombs have been planted in various buildings including the Chota Lahor Police Station although these were subsequently defused.
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Two accused, allegedly belonging to the banned Harkat-ul-Mujahideen Al-Almi, were remanded to the physical custody of the police till May 21 by Judicial Magistrate West, Ghulam Yasin Kolachi on Saturday. The accused were arrested on May 16 from the Mochko area near a railway crossing by the CID police. The police alleged to have recovered hand grenades and automatic rifles from them. The men were also charged for entering into an encounter with the raiding police party.
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Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan Tariq Azizudin has been freed three months after he was abducted in the Pakistan's tribal region while traveling to the Afghan capital of Kabul, Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said. No other details were available about Azizudin's ransom release.
Azizudin was last seen a month ago when video was released of him pleading for the Pakistan government to negotiate for his release. His kidnapping apparently happened somewhere along the Kabul-Turkham highway, the only route between Kabul and the Pakistan city of Peshawar, officials said. The highway runs through Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas, also known as the Khyber Agency.
Afghan security sources at the time said Azizudin's kidnapping may be a reprisal for the capture earlier in the day of Mansoor Dadullah. Dadullah is the brother of slain Taliban leader Mullah Dadullah, who was killed last May in a military operation in southern Afghanistan.
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Shia cleric Muqtada al Sadr is present in the Iranian city of Qom, Asmaa al Mousawi, leading member of the Al Sadr political bloc in Iraq, told Asharq Al-Awsat, "We can neither confirm nor deny this information and we cannot discuss the whereabouts of Sayyed Muqtada al Sadr for security reasons."
A reliable Iraqi source based in Qom told Asharq Al-Awsat Friday, "Al Sadr is held in a house affiliated to Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. He is isolated from others; nobody is allowed to see him and he is not permitted to leave the house." The source added, "Only a very small number of people, who I can count on the fingers of one hand, are allowed to see him."
The source, a student of Islamic jurisprudence [Fiqh] at the Qom Hawza said, "Muqtada al Sadr's phone number had been given to a small number of his close associates however this number has been cut off completely."
#9
Oh Please, oh please, oh please LORD! If thou, by the hand of his hosts, do smite this pestilent dental horror dead, then I promise thee not to ask of thee a pony for SIX WHOLE MONTHS!
#8
It was an idiotic act by a knuckle-headed soldier. That is not the kind of thing you do in a counter-insurgency. You do not insult the culture and/or religion of the population you are attempting to pacify ... at least you don't do it in their town. That would be like a gaggle of Saudis here for military training being seen out in the woods shooting up a bible ... it seems to me that only Americans are dense enough to do crap like that.
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it seems to me that only Americans are dense enough to do crap like that.
Yeah, 'cause Americans are more stupid and undisciplined than anyone else. Like UN peace keepers, for example! Tsk. I was with you up until that point.
#10
Proved that he can hit a Koran with an M-16. Now he will prove that he can maintain a barracks with an Oral B.
If he wanted out of combat, he should have just sparked up a doobie at morning muster ... now that expressing appreciation for Libarace just gets you an individualized shower time.
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Would any WW2 soldier have received such treatment shooting holes in "Mein Kampf"?
NO?
It's their version of a terrorist manual, and it's just another book anyway, Demote his CO for allowing this, then replacing all target bulls with Korans would be an acceptable response.
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"Yeah, 'cause Americans are more stupid and undisciplined than anyone else."
Steve, maybe you have some trouble understanding English. I said an individual knuckle-headed soldier. Nowhere in there did I paint all Americans this way and I believe General P has managed to lead our forces into a much better place with regard to counter-insurgency operation.
My point was to say in order NOT to paint all of our people in this way, we are going to need to be very harsh on this one idiot.
Please don't add your own spring-loaded conclusions to the meaning of my comments. Thanks.
#15
Doing this a soldier is wrong because it is a breach of discipline. However, had he waited until he was a civilian and done this to a Bible, he would have had a decent chance to get NEA arts funding. Especially if he had covered it in blood while rolling around in cow patties.
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If you compare the coran with mein kampf you truly are an redneck. Suppose they would insult you and your bible in that way. But again redneck i guess you are a truly imbread
// The swede
#18
I have observed many foreigners in the US undergoing military training. They generally go out of their way to avoid insulting people.
Whenever I have been pverseas where there are large numbers of Americans, I generally see the opposite. A few idiotic troops seeming to go out of their way to intentionally insult the local people. THOSE individuals need to be made extreme examples out of. If for no other reason than to show appreciation for the vast majority of our troops who treat the local people, culture, and traditions with respect.
You americans are so uneducated. But again I guess most are inbreads. You all just keep dying in Iraq (Im trying to keep a straight face here).
So god luck with youre war and your fucking god.
:))
#23
Nowhere in there did I paint all Americans this way
Sorry for the misunderstanding, crosspatch, but in the sentence "it seems to me that only Americans are dense enough to do crap like that." both the noun 'Americans' and the accompanying verb are plural. A plural noun refers to more than one person, in this case approximately 300 million some people.
Sometimes I feel hampered by having English as a first langauge when communicating on the interwebs. Thank you for the clarification.
#24
LOL! Backup for CP arrives.
Well said young troll.
You way will be rocklike.
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While the Koran is a religious book analagous to the Bible, it is ALSO a political/social book of order, analagous to Mein Kampf. At times and places through history the Bible has effectively been both, like the Koran, but it is not now.
#26
I do find it acceptabe to use the Koran for target practice - if it is been carried in the breast pocket of your target Muslim terrorist, and if you are using a high calibre weapon (think 'Abrams main gun').
#27
I see nothing wrong in comparing Koran with Mein Kampf. Both are manuals for religious-political ideologies, pretty full of hate and radicalism. Both have made millions of people suffer and die. One of them is still going to.
And indeed, europeans seem to have their asses in trouble. Again. Because of ordinary citizens deprived of basic freedoms (carry a gun, defend yourself), and various poltiical-religious ideologies (socialists, multiculturalists) successfully exploiting that.
Here's a link with many resources where it is shown how much nazism = socialism:
http://ray-dox.blogspot.com/2006/08/this-article-is-published-on-internet.html
americans: beware of your democrates.
#28
Would any WW2 soldier have received such treatment shooting holes in "Mein Kampf"?
You're confusing a world-wide conventional war against a single nation with a regional counter-insurgency operation. The latter, by the way, has a major tenet: don't go out of your way to alienate the population you're trying to win over in order to deny your enemy a base of support.
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How's that rape thing coming in Malmo, Lampy? You Swedes still running away from your girls being made to pull trains by the Muzzy invaders? I guess you probably should, since your government has already accepted that you're well on your way to being a dhimmi country. Enjoy those high taxes, fella. I'm sure you're pleased to know they're buying you a lot more happy Muzzy rapists. Save a few kronor to buy yourself some personal lubricant. You'll need it soon.
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Post 30 is probably quite a bit over the edge.
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Post #30 is over the edge. Only warning.
OTOH our troll, who's either from Sweden or anonymizing via a Swedish RIPE server, is also way over the line. Last and only warning to him/her as well.
#34
The only thing Im need to make my day full is the see the wonderful insurgetns blowing the brain (?) out of suprised us soldiers. And Muslims yes, for your knowledge US have this:
- Niggers
- Arabs
- Asians
- Indians
- And all the above
I would not suprise me if you a mix of all that, maybe even dogs and pigs.
:)))))
#35
So - I was just going to troll out this idiot until he posted #34. The racist hate crap he spews pretty much makes it clear he's muslim culturally.
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to # 35
First of all when you write "The racist hate crap he spews" and in the same sentence "he's muslim culturally". You actually contradict yourself. I am a non-beliver and If someone think they can mock either side (muslim/christian) I take the opposite side.
And I sure was not the first one to go over the edge.
#40
I'm offended that he left out the Irish. Our contribution was criticial to the foundation of America, despite the fact that the Chinese made better railroad workers. We deserve to be mocked. Our culture of drinking was the very foundation of the trailer park culture that is critical to day time television, both as viewers and participants.
Also I demand to know which Indians he is talking about. If he has left out Native Americans, in his racist tirade I'm really gonna be ticked off.
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#41
Barbara had it correct the first time. Where is the troll from?
#42
Go visit the folks at Gates of Vienna, Lampy. Let them know what you think. I'm sure they'll be quite pleased to hear your viewpoint. They won't be quite so...circumspect...in their responses as the folks at RB so you'll get the full response you deserve.
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Koran 33:50 - "O Prophet! Lo! We have made lawful unto thee thy wives unto whom thou hast paid their dowries, and those whom thy right hand possesseth of those whom Allah hath given thee as spoils of war
Muslim Rape Wave in Sweden Swedish girls Malin and Amanda were on their way to a party on New Year's Eve when they were assaulted, raped and beaten half to death by four Somali immigrants. Sweden's largest newspaper has presented the perpetrators as "two men from Sweden, one from Finland and one from Somalia", a testimony as to how bad the informal censorship is in stories related to immigration in Sweden. Similar incidents are reported with shocking frequency, to the point where some observers fear that law and order is completely breaking down in the country. The number of rape charges in Sweden has tripled in just above twenty years. Rape cases involving children under the age of 15 are six - 6 - times as common today as they were a generation ago. Most other kinds of violent crime have rapidly increased, too. Instability is spreading to most urban and suburban areas.
According to a new study from the Crime Prevention Council, Brå, it is four times more likely that a known rapist is born abroad, compared to persons born in Sweden. Resident aliens from Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia dominate the group of rape suspects. According to these statistics, almost half of all perpetrators are immigrants. In Norway and Denmark, we know that non-Western immigrants, which frequently means Muslims, are grossly overrepresented on rape statistics. In Oslo, Norway, immigrants were involved in two out of three rape charges in 2001. The numbers in Denmark were the same, and even higher in the city of Copenhagen with three out of four rape charges. Sweden has a larger immigrant, including Muslim, population than any other country in northern Europe. The numbers there are likely to be at least as bad as with its Scandinavian neighbors. The actual number is thus probably even higher than what the authorities are reporting now, as it doesn't include second generation immigrants. Lawyer Ann Christine Hjelm, who has investigated violent crimes in Svea high court, found that 85 per cent of the convicted rapists were born on foreign soil or by foreign parents.
Population replacement at it's most basic.
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#45
Hitler wasn't a paedophile and didn't advocate sleeping with 9 year old girls, so yes the Koran is incomparably worse than Mein Kampf.
#46
our little troll seems to have some slight difficulty witha da English. His fascination with inbreeding leads me to think "project". I bet his Mom's his second cousin as well. Prolly all sort of Oedipus urgings. Leave him up for sport, lotp?
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Thanks, Ed. I've got Swedish friends and they're VERY reluctant to discuss this stuff because they believe that acknowledging unpleasant truths like this is to be racist. Get a few drinks in some of the guys though and in vino veritas is proven yet again to be true. Bottom line is that there are lots of Swedes who know they made a bad mistake by taking these Muzzies in but who don't want to look bad by throwing them and their offspring back to country of origin. Law of unintended consequences in action with a vengeance.
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or "projection"....Guess I get to join the moron crowd too, NS?
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TSP, even that article understates the magnitude of the Nordic muslim rape problem. The stats lumps all immigrants together. The vast majority of rapes are not committed by Polish plumbers or Lithuanian carpenters, but the 4-5% muslim population. On a per capita basis that means muslims are likely to rape at a 20X rate. They ARE waging jihad against the natives who are too terrified to face up to the facts.
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#50
If shredded, it can be used for cat litter. Geez, these guys have no sense of humor.
#51
First of all when you write "The racist hate crap he spews" and in the same sentence "he's muslim culturally". You actually contradict yourself.
Not at all - the giveaway is that the final insult you throw at Americans is to suggest we're part "dogs and pigs". Straight out of muslim hate speech.
The rest of it is pretty incoherent, but the racial taunts are obvious. And quite unlike anything my Scandanavian husband's family would say or think.
Of course, you might be a neo-Nazi idiot ... their rantings and those of the stupider imams have converged of late. Six of one, half a dozen of the other ....
#52
What Lamp the chicken violator dfails to understand is that the melting pot nature of the American Experience is a strength not a weakness, because the melting pot results in an unusually short cultural memory. Within 60 years of the end of WWII, Americans are driving Toyotas,eating at Olive Garden and celebrating Octoberfest. Within 50 years of Chosin Resevoir we are buying our daughters Malibu Ken made in Canton and feeding our dogs Kibbles and Bits from Hunan.
The Arab model, as played out in Yemen works like this ... run off all the Jewish silversmiths until your GDP is so badly in the toilet that not even France or Belgium is intersted in colonizing your little sand dune.
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#53
These threads become fairly interesting when chew toys like Limpedickus shows up.
#54
Today, Kuwait ingrates elected an Islamofascist majority assembly. Democracy for the Arab means: one man, one vote, one time.
Frankly, the Arabs can go to hell. Screw nation building; we need to keep them in a pre-nuclear state. And if we have to glaze a couple of cities to put a cap on jihadism, then so be it.
#56
It would be nice if we could find a way to drag people like Lampedusa Chaque7712 kicking and screaming into the 21st Century without having to "glass their cities". I think that's what Bush is trying to do in Iraq and, so, military discipline requires that the soldier who uses a Koran for target practice is punished. It's not like we're trying to defeat just one nation as we did with the Nazis because there are billions of muslims and we're understandably reluctant to just start killing all of them even when we know they want us dead. We're looking for a better way. Good Christians pray that we can find it but we don't know if we can. Keep pushing, Limpdick, and you'll end up in some museum standing next to a Neanderthal.
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#57
They better pound the dumbass that shot the Kroan. You simply do not antagonzie people you are trying to win over.
Especially when winning them over means winning the war - and fundamentally changing the nature of the region - and changing Islam itself in the process as well.
This guy and those that applaud him are grade A idiots, obvious oblivious to counter insurgency strategy and tactis, and blind as bats to how to change the regional culture.
Its almost as if they WANT to hose things up so bad that we are forced to "glass" large areas, becoming mass murderers in the process.
#58
They better pound the dumbass that shot the Kroan. You simply do not antagonzie people you are trying to win over.
I could not agree more.
Set aside your own opinions and ideas of free speech, and look at this situation from the viewpoint of military discipline. This soldier was under some order or the other to watch his behavior, and he violated that order in such a way as to be sure that he has put his fellow soldiers in harms way. Someone (probably much more than one) will die over this. And even this pea brain soldier should have been aware of this simple fact, or he recklessly disregarded the same.
The court martial better not be temperate. Unless he is certifiably insane, and his insanity caused his abhorrent behavior -- then he just needs to be committed to an insane asylum for the rest of his life.
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Cingold? really? DD isn't enough? take a breath and reconsider: yes, it was stupid, violated orders, possibly exposed his fellow soldiers to harm and hindered the mission. Life sentence? I remember a fabricated episode of Koran-flushing, "reported" by NewsWeak that led to riots and death. Dude, you're a LAWYER, so you say, don't you think dialing it back a little is appropriate? WTF? Credibility hit, big-time
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btw - I find this comment totally out-of character with my previous take on you: good, smart, and while a lawyer....one of the good guys. I'm surprised and baffled. A DD -at worst- is in order...better yet: counseling and instruction with a probation. He didn't kill civilians or cut off Jihadi heads, did he?
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Frank, Don't over react. cingold said life in an asylum if nuts, not life as a sentence if guilty.
I think this guy should get the DD and time in the slammer.The problem is not what this guy did in isolation, but what its secondary and tertiaty effects are. Look at all the damage abu Ghraib did. Over what? A handful of juvenile delinquents with a sophmoric sense of humor and a lack of adult supervision (none of whom were adequately punished). This jerk and the officer(s) to whom (s)he reports should all get put through the wringer and dealt with appropriately. Including time in stir.
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Iraq has a history that goes back to the dawn of civilization. The Mesopotamian kings controlled most of what we call the Middle East at one time or another. In ancient times, they defeated Israel and took Jerusalem.
That American conquered Mesopotamia is in and of itself a great historic event that will not be forgotten in thousands of years. What we DO with that will be an even greater event.
To take that conquest and return it to the people is an amazing act. For our soldiers to treat these people with honor and respect will go much farther in showing through deeds what America is really about than will any words we could ever say.
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Company grade article 15 is sufficient, in all likelihood.
But be very public tha the soldier is being punished, and emphasize that there is punishment, not the nature of it nor the real reasons. Let the locals draw the conclusion that it was for being disreligious and there there was swift punishment.
Let the soldiers know it was for being a dumbass and endangering the mission. Pull a stripe and give the soldier a chance to work off his dumbassery, preferrably digging latrines for Iraqis.
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Given the way Arab economies work, I doubt that most Iraqis understand what a DD means to the soldier's future, so they won't give it any weight. There will always be an appreciation gap here.
And besides, the troublemaking imams and the like are still just looking for excuses to stir things up for political gain. The fact that they are doing this can be used as an indicator that they think it will work, and they are probably right. Now if the people don't get all riled up about it despite the troublemakers' best efforts, that will be a good indicator.
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Everybody seems to be quietly dancing around he issue here, we're not fighting a nation, not even a collection of nations we're fighting a "Religion" (Used here in the loosest sense)and the Koran is THEIR "Terror manual", just exactly as the Nazis were a form of religion.
In fact we seem to be fighting the same war as WW2 with the same type of fanaticism as the Nazis, just a different name.
WW2 Nazis versus Judaism.
End goal world domination by Nazis. (Jews were a handy excuse)
Today Islam vs any other religion.
End goal world domination by Islam.(Christians are just a handy excuse)
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05/18/2008 21:11 Comments ||
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yeah, RJ, where's "the front" in the war on Islam?
Genius
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05/18/2008 21:58 Comments ||
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In Germany, not every German was a Nazi -- so the ones that were not Nazis (i.e., the ones we turned Germany back over to) had no problem with us despising Mein Kampf and Hitler. Heck, they'd jump right in there with us.
In Iraq, virtually all Iraqis revere the Koran in one fashion or another -- whether they understand what's in it or not. We are looking to turn Iraq over to Iraqis who are Muslims, but not Islamofascists, and that's a mighty fine line distinction. It can exist, though. Indonesia has a wide range of Islamic belief, even some who are going through some sort of Muslim Reformation and who want to promote textual exegesis.
Now, I'm sorry (especially as a lawyer) to lose what little credibility I might have gained here over the years, but I'm pretty concerned about this. It doesn't have the markings of some made up story (like the Korans down the toilet story). If true, it is incredibly serious. In the mindset I think exists, Abu Ghraib was just people -- insha Allah, don't you know. But this was desecration of the Koran. In places like Pakistan, that's the accusation made falsely against Christians to get them killed and their property seized. It's a very serious thing.
In treason cases, the crime really rises or falls with the seriousness of what information was compromised. I think the same holds true here.
Yeah, this was probably some juvenile dummy thinking he was having some fun, but WHAT HE DID WILL -- NOT MAYBE, BUT WILL -- GET PEOPLE KILLED. How many depends on how our government and military handle the situation. Pragmatically, I think they better make an example of this kid.
#69
A couple of posters mentioned Malmo, Sweden. For those who are not aware, within a few years that city will be the first Muslim majority city in Europe; it won't be the last.
No comparison of the koran to Mein Kampff? Mohammad's perverse concoction of angelic revelations, is the first ideological text to integrate religion - better: pseudo religion - and politics, on a post tribal scale. Seculars should look at that piece of textual sewage as the most vulgar prescription for social idiocy ever concocted. And the Muslim "prophet" should be treated as a proven fraud an pathological liar. The only thing lower than a doctrinaire Muslim is the dhimmi barbarian who indulges their inherent aggression.
Iraqi forces have detained more than 1,000 suspects in an offensive aimed at crushing al Qaeda in northern Iraq, the military commander of the operation said on Saturday. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki returned to Baghdad on Saturday after spending several days in the city of Mosul and surrounding Nineveh province to supervise the crackdown.
Many gunmen from Sunni Islamist al Qaeda have regrouped in Nineveh after being pushed out of other areas. The U.S.military says Mosul is al Qaeda's last major urban stronghold in Iraq. Lieutenant-General Riyadh Jalal Tawfiq, head of the Iraqi-led offensive that began a week ago, said 1,068 suspects had been detained so far. "This operation will last until we finish off all the terrorist remnants and outlaws," he said.
On Friday, Maliki said fighters who handed in their weapons within 10 days would be given an amnesty and unspecified cash rewards. His offer applies to gunmen who have not killed anyone. Defence Ministry spokesman Major-General Mohammed al-Askari said scores of militants had already handed over their guns. "We are committed to the amnesty and have reassured them there will be no judicial pursuit against them," he said,adding the government would soon make public the compensation available for different kinds of weapons handed in. Iraqi law states that each household may legally own one semi-automatic rifle.
BLAME
U.S. officials blame al Qaeda in Iraq for most big bombings in the country, including an attack on a Shi'ite shrine in Samarra in February 2006 that set off a wave of sectarian killings that nearly tipped Iraq into all-out civil war.
An influx of additional U.S. troops last year and a decision by Sunni Arab tribes to turn against al Qaeda has enabled U.S. and Iraqi forces to push the militants out of Baghdad and the western province of Anbar, their former strongholds. The Iraqi military wants to repeat that success in Mosul.
Police and soldiers have raided some towns on the Syrian border, where many foreign al Qaeda fighters enter Iraq, aspart of the operation and turned over some suspects to U.S.forces.
This article starring:
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Major-General Mohammed al-Askari
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Iraqi law states that each household may legally own one semi-automatic rifle.
For what ? This shit guarantees that lawlessness will continue. What is an automatic weapon for except killing people ? The US should have insisted, long ago, that AK47s be confiscated, all of them. Just another blunder from the blunderer n chief, no doubt. Confiscating weapons would be a great excuse to go door to door now and then. Not that I think such police state tactics are good, but Iraq really needs such a cleanout.
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Probably for the same reason we have the right to bear arms. It should be an individual right of the citizens of every country. You think Mugabe would be getting away with his raping of Zimbabwe if there was an armed population with one semi-automatic weapon per household?
Do you think Americans are the only ones "good enough" to bear arms as civilians? Removing weapons from the law abiding doesn't reduce crime because the law abiding don't commit crime and the people who DO commit the crimes don't care about gun bans ... because they are criminals.
Allowing the law abiding to have a weapon is of no risk. When the common folk start shooting at you, it is YOU who have screwed up, not them.
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Do you think Americans are the only ones "good enough" to bear arms as civilians?
I sense a meme. No wait, never mind, it was the chili.
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Al Jizz even admits it's quite a haul:
"The military said al-Qaeda operatives who had regrouped in the region were the target of the arrests.
Al-Askari said 530 of those being held, three of them senior al-Qaeda members, were wanted by the authorities.
He said security forces had recovered 1,400kg of explosives, 45 missiles, 263 mortar bombs and 175 assorted weapons."
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Don't forget the weddings: you can't have a wedding in the a-rab lands if'n you don't got an AK or two to shoot into the air with...
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I wonder if face-recognition technology is in use in the Iraq theater? Arabs like to celebrate terror on camera. A large number of the 1000 arrested would probably have been caught on tape.
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Iraqi law states that each household may legally own one semi-automatic rifle.
(Snip)
The US should have insisted, long ago, that AK47s be confiscated, all of them.
Ummm, AK's are NOT "Semi-Auto", theyre full auto with a select fire lever that allows semi-auto fire.
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IDF forces arrested a Palestinian, who tried to cross the security barrier, north-west of Jenin Saturday evening. He was found to be in possession of a knife with a 12 c.m. blade. The knife was confiscated, and the man transferred to security forces for questioning.
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One police officer was killed and 13 people wounded in two bombings in the deep South, reports from the region said on Sunday.
A blast outside the Pattani police station killed one officer and wounded five others Saturday night, Thai News Agency reported. The bomb was hidden in a motorcycle that was parked opposite the police station. Officers said they believed the actual target was the nearby Red Cross Fair, but it had tight security. A second blast in Narathiwat Saturday wounded eight people including one Malaysian, TNA said. It was planted in a motorcycle parked at the market in front of the Sungai Kolok police station, near the border with Malaysia.
Sri Lankan ground troops killed at least 16 Tamil Tiger rebels while airforce fighter jets bombed guerrilla targets in the islands north, the defence ministry said on Saturday.
The air sorties were carried out over the rebel-held Iranamadu area late on Friday, the ministry said in a statement. The offensive came hours after a suicide bomber rammed into a police bus in the capital of Colombo, killing 11 people and injuring more than 80. Troops advancing into rebel-held areas killed at least 16 guerrillas in Vavuniya on Friday, the statement said, without detailing the casualties suffered by government forces.
Fridays fighting brought the number of rebels killed by security forces since the start of the year to 3,716 while 276 soldiers have died in combat during the same period, according to ministry figures. Casualty numbers cannot be independently verified as Colombo bars journalists and rights groups from travelling to embattled areas.
The government said it had opened investigations into Fridays attack in Colombos heavily-guarded commercial area of Fort. The toll from the blast rose to 11 overnight. The area is home to the official residence of President Mahinda Rajapakse, the five-star Hilton and Galadari Hotels and the twin-tower World Trade Centre office complex - a previous target of the Tiger rebels.
Fridays bomb was the third suicide attack in a week. On the eve of the May 10 provincial elections, a bomb ripped through a crowded cafe in eastern Ampara town, killing 12 people and wounding at least 36. Also, hours before polling started, a Tiger suicide diver sank a navy cargo ship docked at the eastern port of Trincomalee. Tens of thousands of people have died since the Tigers launched an armed struggle in 1972 to carve out a separate homeland for minority Tamils in the Sinhalese-majority islands north and east.
Rajapakse on Friday denounced the bus attack as savagery and said it reinforced his decision in January to pull out of a truce with the Tigers and step up a military drive against the rebels mini-state in the islands north.
Colombo has poured a record 1.5 billion dollars into the war effort this year, hoping for a quick end to the bloody conflict.
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Year after year, whether in Tunisia, France, Iraq, Russia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and on and on, the Gitmo Graduates have been back at work in their chosen occupation. The latest known is Kuwaiti Abdullah Saleh Al Ajmi, who: 1) admitted that hed fought with the Taleban in Afghanistan; 2) is said to have been aggressive while in Gitmo; 3) was released to Kuwaiti authorities in November, 2005; and 4) blew himself up in a carbomb attack in Mosul, Iraq on April 26th of this year.
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A very good reason why at the onset we should have had been prepared to "reprogram" detainees around the world so that they would lead normal lives, but no longer be able to engage in aggressive acts of terrorism.
The techniques involved in drug-induced hypnosis are well known, yet are normally subject to degeneration over time, unless reinforced.
So in addition to their reprogramming, we could have implanted a very small device in their mastoid that would periodically give off a clicking sound that would remind them to reinforce their training.
We could then release them, and by all appearances they would just never want to be terrorists again. Just not interested.
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A very good reason why at the onset we should have had been prepared to "reprogram" detainees around the world so that they would lead normal lives, but no longer be able to engage in aggressive acts of terrorism.
Or, we could just kill them, ending their careers as terrorists and upholding their rights as guaranteed by the Geneva Convention. I like my way better.
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Four Afghan security personnel and a civilian were killed in bomb blasts and a gunfight with Taliban on Saturday, while air strikes killed several extremist rebels, officials said.
The militancy related violence has suddenly gone up in Kashmir. Eight militants belonging to different militant groups were killed in three separate fierce gunfights with Indian army personnel in the violence-hit Kashmir.
Iraqi forces have detained more than 1,000 suspects in an offensive aimed at crushing al Qaeda in northern Iraq, the military commander of the operation said on Saturday. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki returned to Baghdad on Saturday after spending several days in the city of Mosul and surrounding Nineveh province to supervise the crackdown.
