Nearly three dozen insurgents were killed Thursday in southern Afghanistan after they attacked an Afghan military convoy, a police official said.
The clash occurred in the Shah Joy district of Zabul province, said deputy provincial police chief Jailani Khan. Khan said the army called for assistance from the US-led coalition and Afghan police, and that the three forces surrounded the insurgents, killing 35, at least two of whom were Arabs. Five Taliban militants were arrested. "There was no report of any casualties among the coalition and Afghan forces," Khan said.
The US-led coalition did not immediately respond to requests for comment. It was just the latest violence that has gripped the country's south, the Taliban insurgency's primary stronghold.
Afghan security forces and NATO-led forces were engaged in a joint operation on Thursday to retake a remote town southwest of Kabul, the NATO force said. Taliban militants captured the local government headquarters of the remote Ajristan district of Ghazni late on Sunday, part of a campaign of seizing remote outposts and forcing thinly spread security forces to respond in a game of cat-and-mouse.
The counter-operation began on Wednesday with an air strike on insurgents armed with AK-47 assault rifles and rocket propelled grenades inside the village of Ajristan, the NATO force said. "Several insurgents have been killed and wounded," it said in a statement.
"Afghan troops are stationed near Ajristan and are conducting surveillance operations to locate any Taliban hideouts so air strikes can be carried out," provincial Police Chief Khan Mohammad Mujahid told Rooters.
Taliban insurgents seized the remote town of Rashidan in Ghazni in May, patrolling the streets for some hours before withdrawing ahead of a government operation to retake it. Ghazni province is only a two-hour drive southwest from the capital, Kabul, and while not as unstable as southern provinces such as Kandahar or Helmand, the villages around the historic city of Ghazni have seen an upsurge of Taliban activity in the past two years.
an air strike on insurgents ... inside the village
So how's that brilliant plan working out?
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an air strike on insurgents ... inside the village
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patrolling the streets for some hours before withdrawing
What a lovely euphemism for "swaggering about town until they scurried for the hills ahead of the authorities".
I guess I should just be happy that they haven't started mixing up this particular game with the alternative of "ambush the hell out of the relief column on the road into town". I wonder why they haven't yet? Are we just not getting those reports?
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I think we should have long ago issue out very simple commo devices, just a small box with a button on it. Then hand them out everywhere with instructions to hide the device, and that if the Taliban takes their town, to push the button, then hide it again.
And if NATO catches or kills any Taliban, whoever's box it was that alerted NATO discreetly gets money. No Taliban, no money.
If the Taliban want to play cat and mouse, this is the way to do it.
Let the Afghan army guys be the ones who hand out the boxes in the first place, and give them a percentage for every successful hit.
(Xinhua) -- Seven Taliban rebels were killed by Afghan police in two separate battles in the unrest southern provinces, officials said here on Wednesday.
Mohammad Hussein Andiwal, the police chief of Helmand province, told Xinhua that police on Tuesday evening killed the Taliban militants' ambush on several checkpoints in Lashkar Gha district, the provincial capital, killing five militants. "The fighting last for two hours," Andiwal said, adding "one Afghan soldier and the other police were injured in the clash."
Meanwhile, Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, the purported Taliban spokesman told Xinhua via phone from an unknown hideout that the outfit took responsibility for the attack but he denied any casualties on Taliban side.
In the other incident, police on Tuesday night engaged and eliminated three Taliban insurgents while on patrol in Khas Uruzgan district of Uruzgan province, the provincial police chief Juma Gul Humat said. "No police were killed or injured," he added.
Afghanistan has witnessed a surge of violence and riot throughout its territory over the past months while militancy and conflict left more than 2,300 people including over 700 civilians dead so far this year.
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NATO and Afghan forces have launched an offensive against militants to regain control of a remote district in southern Afghanistan.
NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) says troops began an operation Wednesday in Ghazni province, after militants took over the Ajiristan district on Monday. ISAF says some militants in the area were killed during a coordinated airstrike.
A damaged police vehicle after it was hit by a roadside bomb in Chaparhar district of Nangarhar province east of Kabul, 23 Jul 2008 Meanwhile, a district police chief was killed when a roadside bomb struck his convoy in Nangarhar province.
In Wardak province, the U.S.-led coalition says troops killed militants during a search in the Saydabad district Tuesday.
In Washington, a Defense Department spokesman said the decision to send more U.S. troops to Afghanistan will be left to the next presidential administration.
U.S. commanders have been asking for three more combat brigades, or about 10,000 troops, to help confront rising violence in Afghanistan.
On Tuesday, the top U.S. military officer, Admiral Mike Mullen, said the U.S. does not have the man-power to send urgently needed military reinforcements to Afghanistan. He said U.S. troops are all heavily committed in Iraq.
In other news, the U.S.-led coalition said U.S. and Afghan forces killed militants Monday during clashes in the Maruf and Shah Wali Kot districts of southern Kandahar province.
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On Tuesday, the top U.S. military officer, Admiral Mike Mullen, said the U.S. does not have the man-power to send urgently needed military reinforcements to Afghanistan. He said U.S. troops are all heavily committed in Iraq.
This is one of the worst blunders GWB has made in his presidency - not restoring the military to what it was before Bill Clinton took an axe to it, following the collapse of the Soviet Union. We currently need a military 25%-45% larger than it currently is, yet we've only just begun to expand. We've been involved in this conflict for how many years - 30? 40? It took a major strike on our territory before we acknowledged we were at war, and we're only beginning to expand the military. We've lost almost seven years of recruiting, training, equipping, and using a larger military to ensure our success. I think GWB will be recognized as a good president by posterity, but this is one area where he and his administration has failed miserably.
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Old Patriot, the president can only work within the restrictions and funding voted by Congress. Look how hard President Bush has had to fight just to get both Houses of Congress to stop posturing long enough to pass the increased military and manpower budgets he did request each of the past seven years. Sadly, he cannot waive the magic wand of our desires and instantly get what's needed long term instead of enough money to continue supplying bullets the troops need instead of the over-armoured HMMVs they don't nearly as urgently.
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TW, I've got to agree with OP on this one. On 9/12/2001, the president essentially told us all to go shopping instead of boldly saying we need to immediately increase the size of our military while simultaneously cutting non-essential government spending (non-defense). The numbers of volunteers would have been very high at that point. The ability to chop frivolous spending would have been there too. He wasted the opportunity and we are all worse of because of it.
Miliksultanpur (Malda), July 23: A BSF jawan about to go on leave was shot dead by the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) in this border village at dawn today, sparking off a fierce exchange of fire throughout the day. BDR bullets also hit a villager in the leg. Miliksultanpur is located on the border in Kaliachak, around 45km from Malda town. The BDR firing is being interpreted by the BSF as retaliation to an incident near the border at Nimtita in the adjacent Murshidabad district last Thursday in which an injured Indian jawan shot and killed two Bangladesh border guards.
Sitaram Rawat, the company commandant of the BSFs 123 Battalion posted in Maldas Mahadipur, said the BDR suddenly opened fire about 5.30am today, killing K.G. Sudershan, 40, a jawan with the Indian border guards. The jawan was hit by several bullets on his chest and back and he died while being taken to the Malda district hospital, said Rawat. The injured villager, Sunil Mondol, has been admitted to the same hospital with a wound on his left leg.
Malda district magistrate Chittaranjan Das said Sudershan was supposed to go back to his home in Kerala today. He had served the paramilitary force for nearly two decades, said Das.
Rawat claimed that there was a connection between the incidents in Nimtita and Miliksultanpur. In Nimtita, the BDR had first shot and injured our jawan, who was challenging cattle smugglers. He retaliated and killed two of them. Todays incident is an instance of revenge killing. The commandant added that the firing was planned. The BDR men were hiding in a field of corn in plainclothes and suddenly started firing at our jawans, he said.
Additional BSF personnel armed with mortars, machine guns and grenades were sent to Miliksultanpur after todays incident. The entire border has been sealed and traffic along the road to the trade post of Mahadipur on the Bangladesh border has been stopped.
Local MLA Biswanath Ghosh said he had a narrow escape when he visited the spot later in the day. I was greeted by a hail of bullets and had to return quickly, Ghosh said. The commandant of the BSF camp at Kahnchantar, D. Khare, said his car was also caught in gunfire from the Bangladesh side when he arrived at Miliksultanpur. We had to drive off the road to avoid getting hit, Khare said.
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Jawans.... aren't they the little dudes in the robes that sell droids?
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Five British citizens, who had been imprisoned for life for plotting Al Qaeda-inspired bomb attacks across Britain, lost appeals against their convictions on Wednesday. Omar Khyam, Anthony Garcia, Jawad Akbar, Waheed Mahmood and Salahuddin Amin had been given life sentences in April 2007 after being found guilty of plotting attacks on targets ranging from nightclubs to trains, and a shopping centre. Prosecutors said the convicts had planned to use 600 kg (1300 lb) of ammonium nitrate fertiliser to make bombs in revenge for Britain's support for the United States after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on September 11, 2001. Three judges at London's Court of Appeal ruled that their convictions should stand.
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al_Qaeda in Britain
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al_Qaeda in Britain
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Al-Q has already sent them their new assignments - the TDY at Belmarsh has been reclassified as a PCS, and their MOS has changed from Ops to Da'wa.
More of a lateral move than a promotion, but then they *did* fail at their primary mission.
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I think they should be sentenced to ride on the front of subway cars in the London Underground. Just build a little platform, weld a metal chair to it, and secure them in place. They can be the first to detect any bombs placed on the tracks. Why support these a$$clowns for life, and not get something back?
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Srinagar, July 24 (IANS) At least five people, including four children, were killed and 22 people wounded in a grenade attack by terrorists in a busy bus yard here Thursday, police said. Most of the victims were migrant workers from other north Indian states. The police said separatist guerrillas hurled a grenade which fell near one of the ticket counters in the main bus depot at Batamaloo, barely half a kilometre from the civil secretariat in this summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir.
A large number of migrant workers and their family members were milling around.
Three children died on the spot, said a police officer. He said a critically injured woman and a child succumbed to their injuries in SMHS Hospital where all the injured were taken.
Two of the four children killed in the blast have been identified as 12-year-old Khusboo and nine-year-old Adil, daughter and son of Muhammad Afroze from Bihar, said the police officer.
Twenty labourers were among the 22 wounded in the explosion, he added.
Unconfirmed reports said seven of the injured were Hindu pilgrims who had returned from the Amarnath cave shrine in south Kashmir. However, the police denied the reports.
All the injured were migrant workers and none of them was an Amarnath pilgrim, a police press statement said.
The intercity bus depot from where buses ply to various towns and villages in the Kashmir valley was thronged by hundreds of commuters when the explosion occurred.
The blast triggered panic and confusion as the police and paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) surrounded the depot.
The area was surrounded immediately by the police and CRPF for searches. However, no one was detained.
Ambulances with wailing sirens and police vehicles were seen ferrying the injured to hospital.
I saw the injured, including children, crying for help. There was panic all around and everyone fled for safety, said Abdul Rashid, a shopkeeper.
No group has claimed responsibility for the grenade attack which came just five days after seven soldiers were killed and 20 wounded in a massive explosion on the Srinagar-Uri highway.
Terrorist activities have picked up in Jammu and Kashmir since last week and 18 people have been killed and about 60 injured in a series of attacks.
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Khalid Shahenshah, who was the former Pakistan prime minister's security chief at the time of her assassination, was killed in a drive-by shooting as he left his house in the southern port city of Karachi on Tuesday, police said.
Mr Shahenshah, 45, was riding in Mrs Bhutto's bullet-proof car when she was killed in a suicide attack in the northern city of Rawalpindi on December 27.
He was expected to be called to give evidence at a United Nations probe into her death.
"He was a key witness in the case and was also interviewed by the Scotland Yard experts who came to Pakistan to investigate her killing," said Waqar Mehdi, the junior information minister of Sindh province.
"There is a possibility that his killing could be linked to his status as a witness, although investigations are still underway."
A team of Scotland Yard detectives concluded in February that Mrs Bhutto was killed by a suicide bomb and not by gunfire, backing the previous Pakistani government's claim the attack was masterminded by Baitullah Mehsud, Pakistan's top Taliban commander.
But the UN earlier this month agreed to set up an independent panel to investigate her slaying, following a request by Pakistan's new government.
In elections held in February, a coalition led by Mrs Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) defeated allies of President Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in a military coup in 1999.
PPP officials have accused Pakistan's powerful military and intelligence services of involvement in her killing, rejecting suggestion the Taliban were responsible.
Party officials suspect that more than one attacker was involved in the murder.
Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of Mr Shahenshah, a father of three, in Karachi. He was most recently employed as a security chief at the home of Mrs Bhutto's widower, Asif Ali Zardari.
Police have recovered the car which Mr Shahenshah's assailants used in his murder and were still investigating, Iqbal Mehmood, a senior Karachi police official said.
Zulfikar Mirza, the Sindh home minister, said it was "premature to say that Khalid was killed for being a witness in Benazir Bhutto's assassination case".
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Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan released 30 hostages belonging to rival militant outfit the Shah group following talks with a 10-member tribal jirga in Mohmand Agency, a private television channel reported on Wednesday. According to Aaj TV, the Taliban had abducted 80 militants on July 18, killing Shah group chief Shah Khalid and his deputy in a bloody clash in the Khunazai area of the agency.
This was political discourse, Pakistain tribal style. Both sides were nominally a part of the same Tehreek.
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Three people including two women were killed and six others injured in shooting at Kabal tehsil of Swat district on Wednesday, police said. According to police officials, unidentified men opened fire on a car near Manja. Several members of the same family were killed and injured. Those killed were identified as Sardar Ali, Naseem Bahadar, and Zarwali. The injured have been shifted to Saidu Sharif Hospital for treatment, according to APP.
"So den Sonny an' da boyz pulls up to da toll boot', but den dere's dis car in front of dem, an' den dere's anudder car in back o' dem, so Sonny pulls his gat an' hollers 'It's a trap, boyz!', but it wuz too late. Sonny, Butch, Muggsy -- in da boneyard. Ratso, Spike, Greasy Joe, an' de udder button men, dey're off to da stitch factory for some intensive care."
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TIKRIT, Iraq -- More than 1,100 former fighters have reconciled with Iraqi Security and Coalition forces in the Salah ad Din province since May.
Musalahah, meaning reconciliation in Arabic, is a combined effort between the Qadah level Government of Iraq, the leadership of the Iraqi Police, the 4th Iraqi Army Division and the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division. By turning themselves into the Joint Coordination Centers across the province, Iraqis are seeking to clear their names. Men who are thought to have committed crimes are given a court date, so they can plead their cases before an Iraqi judge.
The city of Balad and its outlying areas, once wracked by violence, has seen nearly 700 men reconcile with the Iraqi government.
"Former fighters in the Balad Qadah have stepped forward to reconcile with their fellow countrymen, and 76 of them have been given court dates to appear before an Iraqi judge," said Lt. Col. Bob McCarthy, a 32nd Cavalry Regiment squadron commander. "This is a key step in reestablishing their ties to the communities, rejoining their families in their homes and becoming active participants in Iraq's future."
As a result of the mass reconciliation in the Balad area, McCarthy's Soldiers, along with Iraqi Army soldiers and Police, have been led to multiple weapons caches by those who have reconciled.
As in Balad, the provincial capital of Tikrit and the Sunni dominated enclave of ad Dwar, has had similar success with the reconciliation process. More than 400 men have reconciled in the area.
Over the last few days, the number of Iraqis wishing to reconcile has doubled in the restive city of Bayji. "The people of Salah ad Din have seen the worst that al-Qaeda has to offer and have rejected criminal wholesale," said Lt. Col. John King, 1st BCT deputy commander. "The provincial leadership is serious about rebuilding the province and the country."
BALAD, Iraq -- Since the beginning of July, three highly sought after suspected terrorists have surrendered to Iraqi Security and Coalition forces.
An emir of the Sinjar area Islamic State of Iraq, a front organization for al-Qaeda in Iraq, surrendered to the Iraqi Army for reconciliation in Kisik July 5, about 43 km west of Mosul. The suspect is reportedly involved in terrorist and foreign fighter facilitation and a leader of rocket and improvised explosive device cells.
In Rutbah, a suspected AQI emir of the Rutbah region turned himself in to Coalition forces. The suspect is known to facilitate foreign fighters, weapons and narcotics. He is said to be well-connected to AQI networks in various regions and finances criminal groups coming into Iraq. He is also associated with another AQI emir in the area reportedly responsible for executing members of the Iraqi government and Iraqi Security Forces, smuggling, hijacking, and carjacking.
A suspected terrorist cell leader surrendered to U.S. Special Forces July 19 in Sinjar, approximately 114 km west of Mosul, following an operation to detain him at his home two days prior. The suspect is reportedly an immediate subordinate to the ISI emir who turned himself in July 5 and related to a Syrian-based financier for ISI and AQI.
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And if the past is a pattern to be repeated, they surrender, are released in about two years for cooperating, quietly assume another name, apply for a visa and relocate with their families, where they get housing, healthcare, and other assistance to establish a new life in the West. With 25,000 Iraqis rewarded for "assisting" the US in the next 5 years, in addition to their wives and children plus the 12,000 refugees already approved by September paid for by Uncle Sam, why would anyone have to trust traffickers or stay behind to rebuild ein-hellhole?
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re #6. Not a bad resolution until you get to the PC acceptance into the US. And that one is on us to resolve. Can't blame the Iraqi's for using our own system. They aren't as stupid as some of our politicians.
This is a bit like our own Civil War in that if there is no forgiveness there is no peace (easier said than done though).
BAGHDAD During a visit to the area July 19, Brig. Gen. Jeffery Buchanan, deputy commanding general for operations for Multi-National Division Center, met with Brig. Gen. Jabbar Nama, deputy commander for the 10th Iraqi Army Division, to discuss operations and the future well-being of Maysan Province.
In the four weeks since Operation First Signs of Peace began in Maysan Province, the Iraqi Security Forces are successfully maintaining just that - peace.
During their month-long presence in al-Amarah, battalions from the 10th IA Div. have not seen a single gunfight, not one improvised explosive device attack, nor received any indirect fire. They continue searching for caches and criminals in the area with support from the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division.
The most important thing out here is to cut off or interdict the flow of munitions that flow in from Iran up to Baghdad. And for one thing, with the ISF we can do that pretty well, said Lt. Col. Edward Bohnemann, commander of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 4th BCT.
Buchanan wants to help the 10th IA Div. by improving senior leadership who can mentor, teach and support their fighting forces. He also discussed bringing Military Transition Teams down to Camp Sparrowhawk to train with Jabbars men.
Operations in al-Amarah began June 19. In a matter of days, IA and Iraqi Police detained approximately 200 criminals and collected more than 220 weapon caches. ISF found the caches in homes, businesses and public areas throughout the city of Amarah, containing 2,262 mortar rounds, 1,034 mines, 971 artillery rounds, 749 rocket-propelled grenades, 598 rockets, 259 missile launchers, 176 improvised explosive devices, 259 grenades, 43 DSHKA barrels, 141 explosively formed penetrators and 22 missiles.
All of this without a single shot fired.
The Government of Iraq offered Shiite extremists and local citizens an amnesty period prior to the operation. Citizens who turned over weapon caches to ISF would not be arrested. The Iraqi Government also gave extremist forces the option to turn themselves in peacefully. Military leaders visited with Tribal Sheikhs of the area and encouraged them to enforce tribal laws that would maintain peace.
Throughout the operation, ISF took the initiative in planning and executing the mission. Now, six battalions under the 10th IA Div. maintain stability in Maysan by manning checkpoints, performing ground reconnaissance and conducting other security measures.
AMARA, Iraq -- It wasn't yet dawn, and the Iraqi army unit was already behind schedule. It was about to launch a major operation against another cluster of towns overrun by Shiite Muslim militiamen, and this time American forces would remain at the rear of the convoy, behind their Iraqi counterparts.
The troops mustered in darkness, relying for light on the headlamps of Iraqi Humvees, refurbished U.S. vehicles now crudely painted over with the red, white and black Iraqi flag. Some Iraqi soldiers weren't wearing armor. Fewer were wearing helmets. The brigade commander was riding in an unarmored pickup. His handgun was in its holster; his walking cane by his seat.
The 40-vehicle convoy was about to leave the base when the commander, Brig. Gen. Nabil Yassin Azadi, ordered everyone to stop. "Where is the map? How could you forget the map?" he screamed at his subordinates.
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No worries!
McClatchy's agents are always there to spin any innocuous operation into an image of American imperialism or Iraqi incompetence.
As long as they are in-country we will have a steady diet of such negative drivel.
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McClatchy is as bad or worse than the AP - lying MFers on the B-team
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Azadi is Persian for freedom. Funny name for an Iraki Arab.
(VOI) -- Iraqi army forces arrested nine wanted men and seized five smuggling boats and amounts of weapons and ammunitions during a wide-scale security operation on early Wednesday in Basra, the spokesman for the Iraqi army said.
"An Iraqi army force waged a security raid in Abu al-Khasieb region's villages, southern Basra, near the borders with Iran, and in al-Zubeir region in western Basra, near the borders with Kuwait," Colonel Abbas al-Tamemi told Aswat al-Iraq -- Voices of Iraq (VOI). "The operation aimed to prevent weapons and drug smuggling and to hunt down wanted men in these areas," he also said. "Nine wanted men were arrested and five smuggling boats and amounts of weapons, including 82 Kalashnikovs and three BKC guns as well as amounts of explosives were seized during the operation," he explained. "The operation still under way," he noted.
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Wanted man in al-Kadera
Wanted man in Basra too
Wanted man in Mosul
for blowin' up a school
-- Johnny al-Kash
(VOI) -- Iraqi security forces captured four wanted persons believed to belong to al-Qaeda network in western the Iraqi capital, Baghdad's operations commander said on Wednesday. "A quick response force arrested four al-Qaeda members in al-Khadraa neighborhood during a security operation there," according to a statement released by the command and received by Aswat al-Iraq- Voices of Iraq- (VOI). "The operation was carried out following intelligence reports about the activities of those arrested," the statement said, noting that the arrests were made without damage or casualties on the forces' side.
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(VOI) -- A civilian was wounded when mortar shells fell on the headquarters of the emergency police forces in Mosul city, a local police source said on Wednesday . "Four mortar rounds targeted the emergency police headquarters in al-Wahda neighborhood, southeastern Mosul," a police source, who requested anonymity, told Aswat al-Iraq- Voices of Iraq- (VOI). "The attack caused minor damage to three police vehicles, which were inside the headquarters," the source noted, adding that the wounded was taken to the hospital for treatment.
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(VOI) - A military spokesman on Wednesday said Security forces arrested 65 wanted men and seized quantities of weapons during a fresh offensive launched in Babel. "A force from Iraqi army 8th division conducted a large-scale operation in al-Haswa district, north Babel, capturing65 wanted individuals and 300 weapons pieces along with stockpiles of weapons and ammunitions", Brig. Gen. Mohamed al-Askari, a spokesman for the Defense Ministry, told Aswat al-Iraq-Voices of Iraq(VOI).
Earlier a military source said "in coordination with the Multi-National Force (MNF), joint forces from the Iraqi army and police conducted a raid-and-search campaign in the areas of al-Haswa and al-Qarya al-Asriya, al-Iskandriya district. "Fifty wanted individuals were arrested and 300 pieces of weapons and a cache of small and medium fire arms were seized during the operation," the source noted.
Earlier today, a wide-scale security operation codenamed Knights' Leap was launched in Hilla with the aim of tracking down gunmen in the city.
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(VOI) -- A joint Iraqi-U.S. force on Wednesday arrested 24 al-Qaeda fighters in al-Muqdadiya suburb, northeastern Baaquba city, said a source from Diala province's police. "Iraqi-U.S. forces arrested 24 al-Qaeda fighters in a joint operation in the villages of al-Chaqchaq and Balor in al-Muqdadiya suburb," the source told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI) on condition of anonymity. The source did not mention any further details.
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this is in advance of the advertised Aug 1 major operation
Check pic at link, apparently, dwarves did it. Damn those dwarves!
A homemade bomb targeted a commuter bus in the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least three people and wounding up to 20 others.
Regional military spokesman Maj. Armand Rico said the bomb exploded while the bus was parked at a terminal in Digos, near the regional centre Davao. At least three people died on the bus, which was heading to Davao, the largest city on the southern island of Mindanao. "It was an improvised bomb," Rico said. He said experts were investigating its composition to help determine who was responsible for the attack.
Elsewhere in Mindanao on Thursday, a firefight erupted between government forces and alleged members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in the southern Philippine province of North Cotabato, a regional military spokesman said Thursday.
According to a report on GMA TV's website, government forces and 100 MILF rebels exchanged fire in the village of Aleosan in the province. No casualties were reported because fighting was continuing, Rico said.
On Tuesday, a 61-year-old woman was killed while another one was wounded when MILF guerrillas allegedly attacked civilians at a remote village also in Aleosan. But MILF spokesman Eid Kabalu said the civilians were actually caught in a crossfire between government troops and MILF rebels. Kabalu said the fighting broke out when a group of government militiamen opened fire at MILF rebels.
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Nearly three dozen insurgents were killed Thursday in southern Afghanistan after they attacked an Afghan military convoy, a police official said. 
NATO and Afghan forces have launched an offensive against militants to regain control of a remote district in southern Afghanistan.
Three people including two women were killed and six others injured in shooting at Kabal tehsil of Swat district on Wednesday, police said. According to police officials, unidentified men opened fire on a car near Manja. Several members of the same family were killed and injured. Those killed were identified as Sardar Ali, Naseem Bahadar, and Zarwali. The injured have been shifted to Saidu Sharif Hospital for treatment, according to APP. 
TIKRIT, Iraq -- More than 1,100 former fighters have reconciled with Iraqi Security and Coalition forces in the Salah ad Din province since May. 
BALAD, Iraq -- Since the beginning of July, three highly sought after suspected terrorists have surrendered to Iraqi Security and Coalition forces. 
BAGHDAD During a visit to the area July 19, Brig. Gen. Jeffery Buchanan, deputy commanding general for operations for Multi-National Division Center, met with Brig. Gen. Jabbar Nama, deputy commander for the 10th Iraqi Army Division, to discuss operations and the future well-being of Maysan Province.
AMARA, Iraq -- It wasn't yet dawn, and the Iraqi army unit was already behind schedule. It was about to launch a major operation against another cluster of towns overrun by Shiite Muslim militiamen, and this time American forces would remain at the rear of the convoy, behind their Iraqi counterparts. 
