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google her images and you'll see a LOT more of Anita. She wasn't shy, apparently
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And there was a lot of Anita to see...
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Ahhh, Anita, there are just no hotties like the ones from my youth.
I was discussing this recently with a young co-worker who averred that Meg Ryan was hotter than Sophia Loren in her prime. I just shook my head in pity at this blasphemous ignorance. To such a level have the decades of metrosexual indoctrination brought our once virile American youth.
A fellow old-timer then argued that Gina Lollobrigida was hotter than Sophia. While certainly a more reasonable candidate than the boyish Ryan person, this, too, did not sit well with me. I simply responded that there was no such thing as hotter than Sophia Loren. She is the standard, the universal constant, the cosmic limit, something like the speed of light.
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AC - Sophia was smokin hot in her prime. As a youngster (but a fan of older film) I have always been partial to Claudia Cardinale - especially from "once upon a time in the west." Way strong. A young Ann Margaret was pretty strong to imho.
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I was discussing this recently with a young co-worker who averred that Meg Ryan was hotter than Sophia Loren in her prime.
Your friend is a weak reed. Sophia Loren has a force-field that extends to 150 ft and 500 ft. on Sunday. You may trust me on this. She winked at me once.
Srsly.
J. Woodward has the same deal going but was cursed with being non-Italian.
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And Sophia is still hot. Even at almost 74. Sadly, Anita, today, not so much.
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can't forget the original pinup girl Betty Page either....I concur - too many rail thin anorexic women running around. There's a few curvy ones (by today's hollywood standards) that come to mind, i.e. scarlet johanson, salma hayek & kate winslet. Meg Ryan's cute in a spritely kind of way but is no hottie on par w/Sophia in her heyday.
(bwt- raquel welch was smokin' hot in that B.C. movie)
#19
SPECTRE's Bulgarian assassin climbed out of Anita's (wall billboard) mouth in From Russia with Love?
Kerim Bey: She has a lovely mouth, that Anita.
Bond: Yes. I see what you mean.
Kerim Bey: Arm or no arm, I have to pull that trigger.
Bond: If you think you can.
You've got one shot, remember.
Kerim Bey: It'll have to do.
Bond: Quick, he's coming.
Quick!
Kerim Bey: That pays many debts.
Bond: She should have kept her mouth shut.
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Sophia Loren sent the epitome of savoir-faire, Cary Grant, "round the bend." Any woman who could make Cary Grant do crazy things...yeah, that's some kind of industrial-strength force field. Anita in her day was pretty spectacular also.
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hell, Shelly Winters wuz hawt in her day.... we all age
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But Shelly's day didn't last anywhere near 24 hours.
Heavily armed pirates Monday attacked and damaged a huge oil tanker off the Somali coast using machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, a Malaysian-based maritime watchdog said.
Noel Choong, head of the International Maritime Bureau's (IMB) Piracy Reporting Centre, told AFP that the attack, believed to be by Somali pirates, took place under the cover of darkness at 0230 GMT in the Gulf of Eden. "Pirates on five speed boats attacked the tanker, the size of a football field. It was a night raid. A missile-like rocket was launched at the ship. Initial reports said the ship suffered some damage," he said.
"I believe the Somali pirates could have used rocket-propelled grenades and machine gun fire on the tanker with the aim to board and possibly hijack her," Choong said. "But the tanker increased speed and managed to prevent the pirates from boarding and taking control of the oil tanker," he added.
Choong said since February there had been nine attacks in the Gulf of Eden, which has emerged as one of the most dangerous waterways for seafarers amid a non-functioning government in Somalia for almost two decades.
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Not necessarily Somali pirates. The Gulf of Eden is also within range of Yemen. Al Qaeda and other groups have called for attacks at sea.
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I like the pic: should be used whenever the thought "bringing a knife to a gun fight" is appropriate (This one, and a good shot from the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" scene where indy produces the gun in a big knife fight. (knife was big. The fight wasn't.))
As a pointless trivia bit (redundant), the fight was IIRC supposed to be big, or at least bigger, but Harrison Ford was ill (that is, diahrrea caught from drinking third world tap water), so they came up with that alternate, unexpected and rather dry quick end to that scene. Movie-making is a sort of magic.
Islamist rebels in Somalia seized control of two more towns in the central and southern parts of the country, sources said. In Somalia's central Mudug region, the town of Harardhere fell to the control of Islamist rebels Sunday morning.
Y'all just keep doing what you're doing and don't worry. We'll send groceries to feed your kids.
Locals said the rebels were driving unarmed vehicles, but each fighter carried a rifle and other weaponry.
That's a lot more important than sowing and reaping and raising livestock and stuff.
A rebel commander told Harardhere residents that the Islamists would not allow illegal militiamen to set up extortion roadblocks in or around the town. The commander, who did not identify himself, told locals that the Islamists would fight against piracy in the region. The town of Harardhere lies along Somalia's Indian Ocean coast and has been renowned in recent years as a hub for pirate activities.
The pictures we've seen of the gunnies don't look too underfed, do they?
Tension in Kismayo
Heavily-armed guerrillas entered the town of Kamsuma early Saturday morning, hours after clan militias withdrew towards the southern port of Kismayo, locals reported. Kamsuma is located approximately 90km north of Kismayo, the country's third-largest city. Kismayo has been governed by clan militias since June 2007, when Somali government troops divided along clan loyalties and dueled for control of the strategic port town. Two days earlier, Islamist gunmen seized control of the town of Jilib, which is part of Middle Jubba region.
Militias loyal to the ruling clan in Kismayo were last reported to be in Jilib and Kamsuma towns, although the militia withdrew towards their home base in Kismayo as the Islamists built up forces in the region. An unidentified woman in Kamsuma told Garowe Online that locals had "no fear...since they [Islamists] did not cause any problems."
In Kismayo, military tensions were high as clan militias were pulled out of their bases to counter any advance on the port town by the Islamists. Military sources said clan militias had set up defensive positions approximately 10km north of Kismayo, where the militias were testing weapons. Yasin Nur Gas, a Kismayo-based clan elder, told local media that clan militias will attack the Islamists in Kamsuma if they do not withdraw peacefully. Mr. Gas indicated that the Islamist fighters seized control of two towns previously administered by the Kismayo-based clan militia, but strongly stated that the clan militia "will not negotiate" with the Islamists.
Kismayo rulers have pledged questionable allegiance to Somalia's UN-recognized government, which is busy battling Islamist rebels in Mogadishu. Critics accuse the ruling clan in Kismayo of being anti-government and of continuing to reignite the destructive clan wars from the 1990s.
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So, is Ethiopia using its own brand of flypaper strategy? They can't fight the Islamists in the open, because they disappear among the civilian population. Let 'em take over a town, surround the town, and flush them hout. That may be too sophisticated for the Ethiopians, though.Guess we'll have to wait and see.
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Militants linked to al-Qaeda have set up training camps in Pakistan to teach children how to conduct suicide attacks.
The Pakistani army claimed today to have overrun one such camp in territory where the notorious Pakistani Taliban commander, Baitullah Mehsud, operates.
Militants had transformed a government-run school near the village of Spinkai in South Waziristan into what one officer described as a nursery for preparing suicide bombers.
The school was part of a large compound above the village that included a small mosque.
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Maj Gen Tariq Khan, the commander of the division that captured the area, said: It was like factory that had been recruiting nine to 12-year-old boys and turning them into suicide bombers.
He told the Dawn newspaper that at another location military investigators found film footage on a DVD that they believed depicts children at the school being taught suicide training.
The footage, which was shown to journalists, contained images of a masked teacher instructing rows of schoolchildren who wore white headbands inscribed with Quranic verses.
The teacher pointed at the blackboard while an armed guard stood alongside and discussed what to carry in a suicide attack.
Maj Gen Athar Abbas, the armys chief spokesman, said that the school and a hospital had been taken over by militants to prepare children for suicide attacks and for making IEDS [improvised explosive devices].
The general said that during operations in the area soldiers had rounded up over 50 boys who were undergoing suicide attack training.
He said that many of the boys had been kidnapped. Most of them were from the ethnic Pushtun belt of the North West Frontier Province and that some were locals from South Waziristan.
The boys were handed to an NGO [non-governmental organisation] to be looked at, said Maj Gen Abbas.
He added that in the operation in January the army found jackets and ball bearings used for use in suicide attacks.
Mehsud has emerged over the past year as Pakistans most notorious militant commander, blamed for a wave of suicide attacks across the country, and has links with al-Qaeda.
He is the head of a network dubbed the Pakistani Taliban - as opposed to the Afghan Taliban - and is accused by Pakistani officials and the CIA of masterminding Benazir Bhuttos assassination.
According to a military official the suicide training squad was organised by a notorious lieutenant of Mehsud, Qari Hussain, who was in charge of indoctrination.
Amir Rana, an expert on Pakistans jihadi groups, said that Hussain hails from a sub-section, or lesser clan, of the Mehsud tribe.
He has been held responsible for taking hostage more than 200 soldiers in the area last year.
He is also linked to Sipah-i-Sahaba, a Sunni sectarian group, and was blamed by some security sources for beheading a Shia Muslim soldier.
Since January last year Pakistan has witnessed over 80 suicide attacks that have killed more than 1,000 people. Many of the suicide attacks in neighbouring Afghanistan - some reported to have involved teenagers and even younger children - have also originated on the Pakistani side of the border.
A Taliban militant group yesterday claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed at least 11 people at the gate of an army base in Pakistans volatile northwest on Sunday.
At least four people were killed and another two injured in a bomb blast outside a mosque in the Mamond tehsil of Bajaur Agency on Monday night. The blast occurred as locals were coming out of the mosque after offering Isha prayers. Eyewitnesses said it was a remote-controlled blast and a staff report said it was not yet known who was the target of the explosion. However, Geo News said that it could not be confirmed whether the blast was a remote-controlled blast or a suicide bombing.
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Unidentified gunmen killed two factory workers and an intelligence official in two separate incidents in Balochistan, police said on Monday.
The factory workers were killed and three others were injured when gunmen ambushed a police van on the RCD Highway in Hub, but the bullets hit a passenger van instead, police sources told Daily Times. The attackers fled despite police firing. Similar attacks have occurred in the area in the past.
Separately, unidentified assailants shot dead an intelligence official late on Sunday, also in Hub, a town with a history of bombings and shootings blamed on tribal rebels. A junior official of military intelligence was shot dead by unknown gunmen late Sunday, said police official Faizullah Korejo. Civil and military authorities have launched investigations into the incident, he added.
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The military has started looking for evidence to confirm the death of Qari Hussain, the Talibans chief ideologist and principal suicide bombing trainer, after intercepting militant communications saying Hussain was killed in Operation Zalzala.
We have picked up intercepts of militants saying Qari Hussain has been killed in the operation, senior army commanders who led Operation Zalzala (Earthquake) in South Waziristan told Daily Times. If the Taliban intercepts are confirmed, it would be a major success for the army, as it would have eliminated a person who is directly responsible for indoctrinating young men to train for suicide missions.
Qari Hussain, a Mehsud tribesman affiliated with a banned militant/sectarian organisation, is known for running Baitullah Mehsud-led Taliban suicide bombing training centres. One of such training centre, which deployed young suicide bombers deep within Pakistan and perhaps Afghanistan, was discovered at a government-run school in the Kotkai area by the army.
It was a normal school meant for imparting modern education to tribal people. But we found material used in suicide bombing there, GOC-14 Division Major General Tariq Khan told reporters in Dera Ismail Khan on Sunday.
Recruitment: Brig Ali Abbas, who commands troops in Speenkay Raghzai and Kotkai, told Daily Times that the Taliban also had recruitment offices in Tank city before the army were deployed in the area last year. He was unsure of whether the Taliban could be running other suicide bombing training centres in the area.
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#1
So I don't get it; how hard is it to 'pull the pin?'
If they are that stoopid that they can't figure that out, then they probably think trainnig bras have those pesky little wheels on the sides....
Hello boss, this is Haji. I'm going to be late for work again and so is Muji. Since my car's paint job was vandalized last week I've borrowed a taxi.
As you know Muji and I are carpooling. I stopped at Muji's house to pick him up but he wasn't ready yet. He's trying out his new Al Sadr teeth browning kit.
I parked the taxi and went inside to wait for Muji's. While we were in Muji's house those sneaky Infidels scratched the paint job on the borrowed taxi and now I have to get it fixed. They used a similar instrument to the one they used on my car last week.
#6
You don't leave their equipment but you could sell the car to pay for something. I mean if you're gonna crush them then get a bunch of them together in a line and make a show of it. Charge admission to the Jihadi car smash. Let Iraqi's smash out the windshields first for a tiny fee and take out their frustrations because the Jihadi have killed a lot of Iraqi's. When that is done then the Abrams runs over the whole lot, and then again and again.
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Man! The US Military is REALLY rough on people who park illegally! Guess I'd better watch my "P"s and "Q"s the next time I go to Carson...
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The tank stopped behind the car, then accellerated over it and stopped again.
That looks to me like they wanted to make sure there wasn't an IED in the car, either it would go off under the tank, or be crushed and disabled, I doubt any Homemade IED would scratch an Abrams.
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BAGHDAD - Thousands of Iraqi troops moved unchallenged into Baghdad's Sadr City Tuesday to seize the Shiite militia stronghold, in the largest attempt yet by the government to impose control, an Iraqi military spokesman said.
The large Iraq force backed by tanks entered the sprawling district before dawn, with troops taking up positions on street corners and deploying on rooftops as Iraqi Humvees patrolled the streets, residents said.
The move is the strongest attempt yet by the government to impose control over the district, which has long been the unquestioned bastion of the Mahdi Army, the militia loyal to al-Sadr. Iraqi and U.S. troops have in the past largely stayed on the neighborhood's edges.
The district erupted into violence in early April after an Iraqi offensive against Shiite militias in the southern city of Basra, and for weeks has been the scene of skirmishes between militiamen and U.S. and Iraqi forces.
Military spokesman Brig. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi said the troops were deploying in the district as part of a fragile truce reached last week between al-Sadr and the government. So far, there has been no violence in the deployment, code-named "Operation Peace," he said.
"The government chose the approach of preventing bloodshed, and entered the city to coordinate with the representatives of the Sadr movement, to achieve stability and security, impose the rule of law and offer service," he told reporters in Baghdad.
Al-Moussawi said three brigades with about 10,000 troops were involved in the deployment. He and the U.S. military said American troops were participating, though al-Moussawi said U.S. forces were nearby in case their support was needed.
The deal signed by the Sadrists and Iraq's main Shiite political bloc took effect on May 11, calling for a cease-fire that would allow Iraqi forces to take over security in Sadr City. It prohibited any attack against residential areas, government offices and the U.S.-protected Green Zone, which had faced steady rocket and mortar fire.
But the Sadrists rejected calls by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to surrender weapons, saying Mahdi fighters have no "medium or heavy weapons."
Under the compromise, Iraqi forces promised to try to refrain from seeking American help to restore order. U.S. military officials said they would follow the Iraqis' lead.
The agreement gave a timeframe of gaining control as early as last Wednesday, but the Iraqis apparently needed more time to clear roadside bombs from the area along with other preparations.
The Iraqi forces in vehicles and on foot rolled into Sadr City down streets with burned out shops and buildings pockmarked with gunfire the signs of the years of violence and clashes with U.S.-Iraqi forces that have plagued the district of some 2 million people.
Iraqi soldiers also found a large weapons cache on the grounds of the Shaaroofi mosque Monday in the Shaab district, a Shiite militia stronghold that is adjacent to Sadr City, according to a U.S. military statement.
The find included eight armor-piercing roadside bombs known as explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, seven rocket-propelled grenades as well as other munitions and documents detailing kidnappings and murders, the military said.
The military said U.S. soldiers did not deploy around the mosque to avoid offending Islamic sensibilities.
The Sadr City operation is the latest by al-Maliki's government aimed at imposing control over areas dominated by armed groups. Besides the April sweep in Basra, Iraqi forces have been conducting a crackdown for more than a week in the northern city of Mosul, aimed at uprooting al-Qaida in Iraq fighters and other Sunni insurgents.
Insurgents, meanwhile, targeted members of U.S.-allied Sunni groups that have turned against al-Qaida in the volatile Diyala province.
Four anti-al-Qaida fighters were killed by gunmen in an ambush near Duluiyah, north of Baghdad, and a 7-year-old boy was killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up near the house of the head of the so-called awakening council in Mandali, east of the capital.
Elsewhere in Diyala, shells slammed into the center of Balad Ruz, 45 miles northeast of Baghdad, killing three civilians and wounding nine others.
A bomb also exploded inside a minibus in Baghdad, killing two passengers and wounding five others.
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pisslamic sensibilities are the main reson for all the ordnance stashed in the mosque...
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Im beginning to get optmistic again. Basra, this, and Mosul. Its beginning to look like the IA is sufficienly advanced, there will be room for announcements in late summer of further US withdrawls on a scale large enough to take the wind out of antiwar sales (and to help with US Army overstretch issues) without endangering continued security progress. Say another 5k to 10k troops (including support) by end of calendar 2008.
A prolific jihadist sympathizer has posted an explosive study on one of the main jihadist websites in which he laments the dire situation that the mujaheddin find themselves in Iraq by citing the steep drop in the number of insurgent operations conducted by the various jihadist groups, most notably Al-Qaedas 94 percent decline in operational ability over the last 12 months when only a year and half ago Al-Qaeda accounted for 60 percent of all jihadist activity!
The author, writing under the pseudonym Dira limen wehhed [A Shield for the Monotheist], posted his Brief Study on the Consequences of the Division [Among] the [Jihadist] Groups on the Cause of Jihad in Iraq on May 12 and it is being displayed by the administration of the Al-Ekhlaas websiteone of Al-Qaedas chief media outletsamong its more prominent recent posts. He's considered one of Al-Ekhlaas's "esteemed" writers.
The author tallies up and compares the numbers of operations claimed by each insurgent group under four categories: a year and half ago (November 2006), a year ago (May 2007), six months ago (November 2007) and now (May 2008). He demonstrated that while Al-Qaedas Islamic State of Iraq could claim 334 operations in Nov. 06 and 292 in May 07, their violent output dropped to 25 in Nov. 07 and 16 so far in May 08. Keep in mind that these assessments are based on Al-Qaeda's own numbers.
The author also shows that similar steep drops were exhibited by other jihadist groups, and he neatly puts it all together in these two charts
HT- weaselzippers.net
#6
as much as I like this news - if I were to play devil's ad - what's the chance this isn't our own counter-propaganda to f*ck w/their heads? Either way, works for me.
#9
Yeah, and they can't stand it either. For all the dumbass things Bush has done, he got it right in Iraq. This has to be extremely demoralizing for the jihadis and that alone makes it worthwhile. Too bad Kennedy just doesn't understand that it doesn't matter where the battle is being fought. All that matters is that jihadis are dying, unable to control their own sacred little sand box and therefore losing faith in their cause. Allan must have abandoned them.
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But, but, nancy and harry and the rest of the demdonkdhimmis are pullin for ya! Don't give up yet, you jihadi dirtbags, the new york slimes is just gettin warmed up...
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Don't worry boys! I expect Walter Chronkite, Hanoi Jane, and John Kerry to declare the surge a big disaster and call for unilaterial withdrawl any time now!
Oh... wait... they already have.... along with Obama, Ried, Nancy, Kennedy, Murtha, and the rest of the Dhimmicratic party.
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Brief Study on the Consequences of the Division [Among] the [Jihadist] Groups on the Cause of Jihad in Iraq
Going for a Grant?
And what Jarhead said.
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"Too bad Kennedy just doesn't understand"
Ted can't understand much of anything right now. The only thing he's sure of is he's got brain cancer.
Al
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It doesn't matter who wrote the study. It matches what we (and the Iraqis) know from facts on the ground, and probably matches the numbers of triumphant jihadi videos of attacks. Besides, the author is an "esteemed writer" and the study sounds awfully scientific -- which is something for them to be proud of.
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"Not only is America defeating Al-Qaeda militarily in Iraq but it is also squashing the grand jihadist vision for a caliphate that the Islamic State of Iraq stood for. This point is critical: in this ideological war, victory can only come about when the ideology of the opponent is negated and proven unworkable. The fight in Iraq is doing just that."
The quote is from Talisman's Gate. The essence of the GWOT in one paragraph.
Al
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Never forget the Tet Offensive or 68. The Viet Cong was totally wiped out as a fighting force. But, the politicians managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, with a little help from Walter.
Up until the time I left in 69, we only saw NVA regulars in formations of any size.
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The ISLAMIST JIHAD fails iff their -ism doesn't achieve PARITY [rough], andor SUPERIORITY agz their perceived enemies, i.e. NON-MUSLIM + MODERATE/DEMOCRATIC MUSLIM WORLD STATES ESPEC SO-CALLED "GREAT POWERS". The latter definition = scope is inclusive of the US-Euros, Japan, Russia-China-India, Other aligned and non-aligned. AGAIN, THIS AND OTHER PREMISES IS WHY THEY NEED TO ACQUIRE STRATEGIC WEAPS CAPABILITIES 2008-2012/13 AMAP ASAP. IOW, ITS NOT ENUFF FOR THE ISLAMISTS TO DEFEAT ONLY THE US, OR ONLY RUSSIA-CHINA + ASIA, etc.
Just as the great Islamic invasions and conquests of history took generations after Mohammed, IN ALL LIKELIHOOD SO WILL THIS ISLAMIST JIHAD. PRESUMING THAT THEIR JIHAD IS SUCCESSFULLY SAVED, IT WILL BE FOR NEW GENERATION(S) TO SEE/PRESIDE OVER ANY POTENTIAL DEFEAT OF ASIA, EURASIA, + NEW WORLD [Americas].
RIGHT NOW, THOUGH, DAD + GRANDDADDY ISLAMIST NEEDS NUKES + STRATEGIC WEAPONS FOR JIHAD, + TO KEEP THE US-WEST MIL OUT OF IRAN + CENTRAL ASIA + PERIPHERALS.
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The can't get enough nukes fast enough to match us. Only a failure of will on the West's part will grant the muzz victory...
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Again, iff there is any ISLAMIST HIDDEN IMAM-MAHDI, e.g. MOUD + OSAMA'S APOCALYPTIC BELIEFS, 2008-2012/13 is a good time frame to make His appearance or presence known. Remember, RADICAL ISLAMISM > GOD DESIRED AND WANTED ISLAMIST JIHAD.THE IMAM-MAHDI's "VALIDITY" WILL PROB COME IN THE FORM OF DE FACTO MAJOR BATTLE AGZ THE US ANDOR ISRAELI FORCES.
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As a reminder, OSAMA BIN LADEN is dedic IRAN-CENTRIC/FOCUSED as to his end-times beliefs, i.e. ISLAM'S/RADIC ISLAMISM's FINAL VICTORY = FINAL DEFEAT AGZ NON-ISLAM IS TO BE DECIDED ON THE BATTLEFIELDS OF IRAN = PERSIA.
NOT IRAQ, LEBANON, TURKEY, AFRICA, INDONESIA,
....@etc.
NO US-IRAN WAR > IMB OSAMA, etc. including ISLAMIST IRAN will use the time to dev andor acquire STRATEGIC WEAPONS CAPABILIIES.
Lebanon + Iraq, etc. are MORE "HOLDING/
DIVERSIONARY/SECOND FRONTS, IMO intended to keep the US-Allies AMAP/AFAP out of NUCLEARIZING IRAN + CENTRAL ASIA/ASIAN INTERIOR [linear distance].
Iraqi and U.S. forces have arrested about 100 suspects thought to be crucial to the operations of militant groups in al Qaeda's last haven of north Iraq, the commander of U.S. forces in the area said on Monday.
The Iraqi military launched an offensive against al Qaeda in the northern city of Mosul and surrounding Nineveh province on May 10. It has been largely Iraqi-led, with U.S. forces playing a support role.
Gunmen from Sunni Islamist al Qaeda regrouped in Nineveh after being pushed out of other parts of Iraq. The U.S. military says Mosul is its last major urban stronghold, from where its fighters still stage suicide bomb attacks and assassinations. "They have arrested upward of about 1,250 individuals, of which about 100 are critical targets," Major-General Mark Hertling told Reuters in a telephone interview from Mosul. "In the last several weeks, we have either captured or killed several AQI (al Qaeda in Iraq) emirs (commanders), some suicide cell leaders, some military cell leaders," he said, adding that some were from other groups with loose links to al Qaeda. "Some of them are very senior. I'm talking about military emirs, battalion level commanders in al Qaeda," he said.
Mohammed al-Askari, spokesman for Iraq's Defence Ministry, said Iraqi forces had captured one of the Mosul leaders of al Qaeda on Sunday. Abdul Khaleq al-Sabawi, head of al Qaeda's military organization in Mosul, was arrested near Tikrit, half-way between Mosul and Baghdad, in Salahuddin province and taken back to Mosul, he said.
This article starring:
Abdul Khaleq al-Sabawi
al-Qaeda in Iraq
Major-General Mark Hertling
Mohammed al-Askari
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The IA's job probably was made easier by SOCOM giving them a list of people to arrest, along with where they lived, and the best time to come visit.
#2
No doubt, Anonymoose dear, but how much of that information did the IA and IP originally generate through their trust-building exercises with the local population?
A local Iraqi police chief was killed on Monday when a bomb placed under his bed in the local police headquarters exploded as he slept, police said. Major Farhan al-Saeedi was head of a police unit in the southern town of Suq al-Shiyukh.
The town, 400 km (250 miles) southeast of Baghdad, was the scene of clashes last month between government forces and militiamen loyal to Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in which 22 people were killed. A week ago, a bomb hidden in an air conditioning unit at the main police station in nearby Nassiriya wounded two policemen. Several police officers have since been arrested.
Iraq's police are widely seen as being infiltrated by Shi'ite militiamen, who have sometimes used the cover of their uniforms to mount attacks.
Police carried out raids on Monday in Basra, southern Iraq's largest city, after gunmen killed two policemen in a drive-by shooting on a police patrol on Sunday. Iraqi forces wrested control of Basra from the grip of Shi'ite militias in March, but only in the face of stiff resistance from Sadr's Mehdi Army, during which around 1,000 soldiers deserted.
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Deputy Al-Fife wanted to move up?
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Aunt Bee-quba: "al Andy! al Andy!"
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Someone was targeting the MOSSAD.
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Israeli troops shot dead an apparent would-be Palestinian suicide bomber at a checkpoint near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus on Monday, the Israeli army said.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said troops ordered a man acting suspiciously at the Hawara checkpoint to stop but shot him when he lowered his hands in an apparent attempt to blow himself up. The spokeswoman said army sappers later detonated three pipe bombs in a controlled explosion at the scene of the shooting. A Palestinian security source in Nablus said the dead individual was a 16-year-old youth from the village of Beit Furik near the city. Other details were not immediately available.
Israel frequently carries out strikes and raids in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip aimed at stopping rocket fire into nearby towns and agricultural communities in southern Israel. Clashes are not as frequent in the West Bank, where Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction holds sway.
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.. occupied West Bank city of Nablus...
Occupied by the Arabs, who stole this Land, and are ready to destroy it,as long as they destroy the Jews too... In very "Solomonistic" way it shows who are the thieves here.
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The graphic reminds me of a post the other day that defined an authorised occasion when it would be OK to shoot at a koran
Palestinian forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas have arrested two Islamic Jihad leaders, a Palestinian security official said on Monday, in a U.S.-backed law-and-order campaign in the occupied West Bank. Abdel Fatah Khuzaimiah, who was detained on Sunday, was the most senior militant taken into custody in the northern West Bank since hundreds of pro-Abbas security men deployed in the city of Jenin two weeks ago. The security official said Jihad Nawadha, another Islamic Jihad commander in the area, was arrested by Palestinian forces on Friday.
Washington hopes the security campaign will show that Abbas can rein in militant groups -- Israel's main condition for Palestinian statehood. Both Khuzaimiah and Nawadha were long wanted by Israel.
In a separate incident, Israeli forces operating in Jenin early on Monday arrested Amar Saleh Abu Alon, a senior Islamic Jihad militant, an Israeli military spokesman said.
Israel says its raids in the West Bank, condemned by Palestinian officials as undermining Abbas's security efforts, help to prevent attacks on Israelis. In the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, Hamas security forces questioned Osama al-Fara, an Abbas loyalist and the governor of the southern town of Khan Younis, for four hours, sources in Abbas's Fatah movement said.
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Abdel Fatah Khuzaimiah
Islamic Jihad
Amar Saleh Abu Alon
Islamic Jihad
Jihad Nawadha
Islamic Jihad
Osama al-Fara
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Southeast Asia's most wanted terror suspect, Noordin Top, may have evaded a massive manhunt and fled Indonesia, according to police documents obtained by The Associated Press.
A militant who was arrested and extradited to Indonesia told police that an Algerian who helped him escape from the country also said that Top had managed to flee, according to the police interrogation documents.
A senior anti-terror officer said Monday that police were still "crosschecking" the information with other sources. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of the nature of his job.
Top is accused of directing the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings and three other attacks on Western targets in Indonesia that have together killed more than 240 people, most of them foreign tourists.
If confirmed, Top's escape would be a blow to Indonesia, which has been praised for its successes in the fight against terrorism. It would also raise worrying questions about Top's current location and future plans.
Top, a Malaysian national, has been on the run since 2002. Police have arrested several of his aides or couriers and often claimed to be close to catching him, but over the last 18 months the trail has apparently gone cold.
The claim that he has fled is contained in police investigation reports into two senior Indonesian members of the Jemaah Islamiyah militant network who fled the country on a mission to link up with terrorist groups in the Middle East. They were arrested en route in Malaysia and extradited to Indonesia in late March.
Abu Husna and Agus Purwantoro told investigators an Algerian contact in Jakarta helped them obtain airplane tickets, fake passports and gave them contacts in Syria, according to the investigation reports.
While discussing Abu Husna's planned journey, the Algerian is quoted as saying: "Do you know that Noordin Top has escaped?"
Husna says he did not and asks Jafar how he knew this. Jafar replies that it is a secret.
Sidney Jones, a researcher for the International Crisis Group and a leading international authority on militants in Southeast Asia, said it was "plausible" that Top had managed to escape.
"If it is true, it's a mixed blessing for Indonesia," she said. "It would mean he was no longer around to recruit young Indonesians for possible attacks, but it would also mean someone with intimate knowledge of Southeast Asia was plugged back into the international jihadi network that could bring fresh attention to the region."
Noordin Top is believed to head a breakaway faction of Jemaah Islamiyah committed to al-Qaida style attacks on Western, civilian targets. In a video seized from a safehouse in 2005, he is shown pledging allegiance to al-Qaida and vowing more attacks to avenge Muslim deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Heavily armed pirates Monday attacked and damaged a huge oil tanker off the Somali coast using machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, a Malaysian-based maritime watchdog said.
Militants linked to al-Qaeda have set up training camps in Pakistan to teach children how to conduct suicide attacks. 
BAGHDAD - Thousands of Iraqi troops moved unchallenged into Baghdad's Sadr City Tuesday to seize the Shiite militia stronghold, in the largest attempt yet by the government to impose control, an Iraqi military spokesman said. 
Iraqi and U.S. forces have arrested about 100 suspects thought to be crucial to the operations of militant groups in al Qaeda's last haven of north Iraq, the commander of U.S. forces in the area said on Monday.
Israeli troops shot dead an apparent would-be Palestinian suicide bomber at a checkpoint near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus on Monday, the Israeli army said.
Southeast Asia's most wanted terror suspect, Noordin Top, may have evaded a massive manhunt and fled Indonesia, according to police documents obtained by The Associated Press.
