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It's been a glorious week. Gloria Grahame on Thursday was especially leggy and had that amused look on her face that told us all she knew exactly what we were thinking.
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(AKI) - Seven people, including several children, were killed on Friday in a NATO airstrike in the western Afghan province of Farah on the border of Iran. It's predictable by now. Any time a NATO explosive explodes there's a granny lady or a cute little kid or a baby duck in close proximity.
According to Afghan security sources, the target of the attack was the home of a key Taliban commander in the area. There was no immediate comment from the US-led coalition.
More than 500 civilians have been killed during military operations by foreign and Afghan forces against militants so far this year.
The latest attack follows a controversial attack in neighbouring Herat province where the government says more than 90 civilians were killed in a US-led coalition air strike last month. Farah's deputy governor Mohammad Younus Rasooli confirmed the bombing but did not give details of the number of casualties.
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Don't care what you say, that darn gerbil looks dangerous.
Malaysia is sending three navy ships to the coast of Somalia to protect merchant vessels from piracy. The ships, carrying troops and helicopters, are expected to begin patrolling in the Gulf of Aden in the next few days.
Two Malaysian tankers from the shipping line MISC Berhad were seized last month by Somali pirates.
Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak said the ships being deployed would provide protection for five MISC Berhad vessels, and would not launch rescue operations.
By George, somebody gets it. Now if the Malaysian navy sinks a few pirate ships and fills a yardarm or two, it's going to be mighty embarrassing to some Western countries.
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Exactly, the Malaysian Navy is going to be protecting Malaysia-flagged ships -- you know, the reasons that navies exist in the first place. Too bad the South Koreans didn't pony up a corvette or two, considering how many of their vessels have gotten seized over there.
They intended to kill as many as possible with their attacks: The so-called Sauerland Cell planned attacks in numerous major German cities, according to the States' Attorney. Targets included Frankfurt, Dortmund , Duesseldorf, Munich , Cologne , and the US base in Ramstein.
Karlsruhe The Federal States' Attorney has revealed details of the complaint against the three accused terrorists of the Sauerland terror group. It states that bombings against American citizens and American installations were intended, which would have caused as many casualties as possible. As targets, the men were considering bars, pubs, discos, and airfields. Among others, probable targets were in Frankfurt/Main, Ramstein, Dortmund, Duesseldorf, Cologne, Stuttgart, and Munich.
The men, two Germans and one Turk, have been accused of membership in a domestic terrorist group which was planning bombings and murders. They were arrested in the Sauerland during September, 2007.
The process against the two Islamic converts Fritz Gelowicz, 29, and Daniel Schneider, 22, as well as against the Turk Adem Yilmaz, 29, will be before the State Superior Court in Duesseldorf. Schneider must also answer to charges of attempted murder of a Police Officer, since he opened fire at an Officer of the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA Federal Criminal Office).
The trio was arrested during a spectacular operation in the town of Medebach-Oberschledorn on 4 September 2007. The men are accused of having planned attacks against US installations on behalf of the Islamischen Dschihad Union (Islamic Jihad Union - IJU) using car-bombs. Shortly before the arrest, investigators covertly exchanged the twelve containers of bomb-building chemicals, in order to mitigate the danger to the population.
For membership in a terrorist association, there is a maximum penalty of ten years.
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Yowza! Great tape. Good for him - and for whoever put this together.
Eat your heart out, Bird- Barack-Brain.
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It is inappropriate to identify one political Party with the military. At least, this side of China.
The Surge? Didn't that start 8 months after the "Anbar Experiment" in which Sunni terrorists were encouraged to work with American interventionists in exchange for $300 each per month? And why did the Sunnis co-operate? Because the Shiites booted them out of most of Baghdad and they chose to preserve what they had left in the Sunni Triangle? Didn't US Field patrols actually decline during the Surge? Isn't the President currently dealing with the Iraq Army's (Shiites that is) move against the Kurds, while their Shiite leader won't let Sunnis into the army? Didn't al-Maliki bring Ahmadinejad to Baghdad in June, and promise him that Iran would not be attacked from Iraq soil? And what should we make of bringing in the Iranians, while al-Maliki is trying to dictate a humiliating withdrawl agreement (SOFA) to President Bush?
Who is afraid to answer any of the above? I am proud of my martial spirit!
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Well, John, to be fair, Reid's telling the truth in his own way. The DemocRats HAVE lost in on Iraq.
Do they realize yet that they're not running against George Bush this election?
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Dimwit the Sunnis cooperated because we finally got enoguh troops there to guarantee their protection, and we change our patrols tactics to maintain a constant presence instead of "gopher holing" back to base, and we bought enough time with our blood to adequately train the Iraqi troops to be Iraqis first, and to act like PROFESSIONAL soldiers - by way of example.
So RP, go back to Kos and reload, Your lies just got stomped.
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Frank, engaging clueless trolls is fun. Besides, he won't be back.
It is inappropriate to identify one political Party with the military.
It would be great if the Democrats could identify with the military. Unfortunately, there are way too many who won't.
Didn't that start 8 months after the "Anbar Experiment" in which Sunni terrorists were encouraged to work with American interventionists in exchange for $300 each per month?
Everyone gets paid for providing a service. What's wrong with paying men to protect their families and neighbors? And so that you know, our Americans there are known (at least to us Americans, regardless of party) as 'soldiers', not interventionists.
And why did the Sunnis co-operate?
Because 1) al-Qaeda brutalized them and their families and 2) we got smart and demonstrated to them the advantages of working with us.
Isn't the President currently dealing with the Iraq Army's (Shiites that is) move against the Kurds, while their Shiite leader won't let Sunnis into the army?
Maliki needs to trust the Sunnis more. It won't happen overnight. Doesn't mean it won't happen.
Didn't al-Maliki bring Ahmadinejad to Baghdad in June, and promise him that Iran would not be attacked from Iraq soil?
He's a politician. He can promise anything. We pro'ly won't attack Iran, from Iraqi soil or otherwise, unless Iran does something really stoopid like a) attack us or b) get ready to explode a nuclear weapon.
And what should we make of bringing in the Iranians, while al-Maliki is trying to dictate a humiliating withdrawl agreement (SOFA) to President Bush?
Humiliating? According to whom? We're working out a SOFA that lets us do pretty much what we want and allows Maliki to look tough. You obviously don't understand Arab culture.
I am proud of my martial spirit!
Oh, you're a Ruritanian. Didn't know. How's the weather there?
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Before running with the tape,
- are we sure we know the person on the tape is actually a veteran (if so, God bless him for this)
- is this person violating protocol by making a political statement
- no matter where this person served, he can only offer facts on what he has actually seen, his opinions on the larger question of whether the war was a mistake or what percent of the 2006-2008 success was due to the surge are just opinions
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SW - Fred gave me the talk a while ago. Are you saying weapons free?
Actually, either I've matured gotten more cynical and tired or the trolls just don't get me rolling any more. The same hackneyed crap. Aris with his Yul Brynner Westworld imitation, or Regional Peace with his weakass efforts or...
nevermind. I'm still pissed SDSU gave away that victory over Notre Dame today...grrrr
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09/06/2008 21:33 Comments ||
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The speaker in the tape paid for the right to support McCain. The dues were the loss of his left leg.
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09/06/2008 21:34 Comments ||
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Where did you mean to end the strike, Frank?
We're friends here - you can have a do-over (of sorts). ;-p
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
09/06/2008 21:43 Comments ||
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Knowing the UCMJ and DOD Directive, this young man is well within his rights. Also knowing the videos of this sort, the right does not resort to FAKE veterans like the left (Jesse MacBeth, etc). Additionally, the success is undeniably, and attributable to the sacrifices made by the troops to close with, engage and destroy the enemy, and to continue to stay in the field, and to do so in sufficient number -- all directly attributable to the surge (more troops, more combat, and change in tactics).
So you are wrong, wrong, wrong.
Finally, you are a piece of shit troll and therefore no need of further information to you.
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would've been after "matured"..... since that really never happened
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It is inappropriate to identify one political Party with the military. At least, this side of China.
The military doesn't forbid its members from making political statements or engaged in politcal activity. It does forbid campaigning while in uniform or while on duty, or making disparaging remarks of senior civilians whose office placed them in charge of the military.
Second, the individual is not in uniform, nor, by his appearance is currently on active duty. Which makes your statement even more ludicrous
The Surge? Didn't that start 8 months after the "Anbar Experiment" in which Sunni terrorists were encouraged to work with American interventionists in exchange for $300 each per month?
Apparently you have no experience in, or historical knowledge of, counter-insurgency tactics.
Who is afraid to answer any of the above? I am proud of my martial spirit!
Sure you do! I bet you could belt out every song of the Russian Army.
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan reserves the right to appropriately retaliate cross border strikes in future.
This was stated by Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee CJCSC General Tariq Majid while talking to visiting German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung on Friday at Joint Staff Headquarters here. They exchanged views JCSC focusing bilateral ties and regional security environment.
While discussing regional security issues reiterated that a stable Afghanistan is in interest of the region as well as Pakistan, however; Afghan leadership in order to ``cover its own failings in Afghanistan keeps slandering our sincerity with preposterous allegations time and again. Blaming Pakistan's intelligence agencies of recent killings of foreign nationals in Afghanistan is a case in point.''
General Tariq appreciated pragmatic German approach to deal with complex security situation in Afghanistan in activities that lead to Afghanistan's ability to govern itself.
Condemning callous and wanton act by NATO Forces at Angoor Adda CJCSC said such cross border strikes would further alienate locals and would be counter productive. Pakistan reserves the right to appropriately retaliate in future.
On ties between Pakistan and Germany, he called for strengthening relationship to foster enduring and meaningful partnership. Both sides expressed satisfaction over ongoing military to military interaction.
Jung appreciated pivotal role of Pakistan in fight against terrorism and its invaluable support to coalition forces operating in Afghanistan.
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"we reserve the right to retaliate but not the capability"
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we reserve the right to retaliate
Haven't they been trying to attack retaliate every few days recently, but with catastrophic results?
Intense fighting in the Bajaur tribal district in north Pakistan has forced more than 200,000 people to flee their villages, an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) official has said.
"There is a real war shaking the Bajaur region at the moment," said Pascal Cuttat, the head of the ICRC Pakistan delegation, with government forces "facing heavy opposition."
Pakistan's forces have launched a number of major military offensives in recent weeks against militants in the Bajaur district, which is thought to be an Al-Qaeda stronghold.
"In the last few weeks, we have a dramatic intensification of the armed conflict which has its flare-ups and this is the most difficult one," Cuttat said during a press briefing in Geneva.
At least 200,000 people have fled their homes in the semi-autonomous Bajaur district near the Afghanistan border in the past three weeks, according to Cuttat.
"About 80 percent of this displaced population was composed of women and children, and a few elderly," he said, while adding that the fugitives left with "literally nothing."
However, the majority of men opted to remain in their homes to protect their belongings and not leave their land during the harvest season, Cuttat said.
A large number of civilians travelled south to Marden and Peshawar, while others have headed north to the Lower Dir district.
Approximately, 14,000 travelled over the border to Afghanistan, fearing the fighting will drag on for a long time, Cuttat said.
The organisation, which fears a spread in diseases such a cholera, has provided drinking water to 50,000 people, as well as health facilities, tents and medicine.
"These displaced people urgently need vital items," Cuttat said.
Pakistani authorities declared a ceasefire during Ramadan, which began at the start of September.
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There is a real war shaking the Bajaur region at the moment
Yes, Yes. But we are facing much more pressing issues here at home such as: Did Sarah have an affair and is it true that Mccain is the father of Bristol's baby? Enquiring liberal elite minds want to know.
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I'm sure there would be quite a bit more interest in giving aid and comfort to the displaced in Pakistan if it weren't such a recurring demand, and if there were sufficient guarantees that the aid would get to those that needed it. The world remembers what happened to 2/3 of the aid sent to Kashmir after the last major earthquake. Most Americans don't have a very high opinion of Pakistan to begin with, and their behavior throughout the world isn't necessarily something that inspires confidence in the country. It's a shame, but it's not terribly unexpected.
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Unidentified militants snatched rifles from khasadar (tribal police) personnel, sources said on Friday. The incident took place early morning near a bazaar on the Pak-Afghan highway. Gunmen raided the khasadars' bunker near the Michini checkpost and seized two Kalashnikov rifles from the officials. The khasadars were identified as Shafiullah, Ayub and Arman Shinwari, and were later moved to the Landi Kotal prison. Meanwhile, a rocket hit the Khasadar checkpost at Ziarai Khyber on the Pak-Afghan highway, but caused no injuries.
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Members of the Gujar Tribe claimed on Friday to have killed six militants following the attempted kidnap of one of the tribe's spiritual leaders. "The Taliban attempted to kidnap a local fortune-teller, which sparked clashes," witnesses said. Tribesmen also set fire to the militants' explosives-laden vehicle, and clashes continued in the Mandal Dagh area in Matta tehsil, a stronghold of the militants in Swat. Four members of the tribe died during the clashes. A mortar shell killed a man and his daughter in Akhun Killi, while militants killed PPP local leader Waqar Ahmed in the village.
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Note: Never attempt to kidnap a fortune teller. You never know when they might be for real.
(AKI) - Seven people - including four children - were killed on Friday in an attack by an American spy plane in the tribal areas of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan.
According to a report by Pakistan's Geo News, a pilotless airplane launched three missiles on a home in the village of Gorovek in North Waziristan. Three women and four children were reportedly killed while several others were injured.
The attack is the second cross border raid by the US military this week and is certain to fuel the controversial debate about foreign military operations inside Pakistan. NATO helicopter gunships on Wednesday killed 20 people, including women and children, in an attack on a militant stronghold in the Angoor Adda area of South Waziristan, less than two kilometres from the Afghan border.
While the Bush administration declined to comment officially, anonymous officials confirmed that the United States was behind the attack and might conduct similar raids in future if it had "actionable intelligence" about the presence of Al-Qaeda or the Taliban.
Pakistan's Foreign Minister, Mehmood Qureshi, called Wednesday's attack shameful and the government summoned the US ambassador to lodge a strong protest.
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When will the mofos in Pakiwakiland get smart and turn over Osama, Z-Man and the one-eyed-dirt-ball.
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If they're REALLY smart, they've shot, buried, and left no headstone or marker for these two, they started a war, that they're losing badly.
(The Arabic world Thirsts for revenge)
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About 3,000 tribesmen on Friday chanted "Allahu Akbar" (God is great) and "Death to America" while protesting against a raid by Afghanistan-based United States-led troops. One of the elders reportedly warned the US authorities to prepare for assaults on their bases in Afghanistan if they do not stop attacks on Pakistan's northwest border. "If Americans do not stop launching assaults in our tribal regions, we will attack their bases in Afghanistan," tribal elder Malik Ali Muhammad told the protesters. The rally took place in Wana, the main town in South Waziristan, where local officials said at least 15 people died in Wednesday's raid.
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The Paki "tribesman" warned that they'll start attacking our bases if we don't stop our incursions into Pashtunistan. It seems to me that they've been attacking our bases for some time, and with impunity. I say it's time to take off the gloves and mount a two-pronged effort to take the war to Pashtnistan where there is only a slight Paki writ, and pressure the fledgling government of Mr. TenPercent and let him know he's only getting ten percent of last years military assistance outlay.
Pakistan stopped supplies to the United States and NATO forces in Afghanistan through its western Torkham border on Friday, citing security concerns.
A senior official said the measure followed increasing Taliban threats to trucks carrying the supplies. "All Afghanistan-bound supplies for the International Security Assistance Force have been stopped as the [Torkham] highway is vulnerable," Khyber Agency Political Agent Tariq Hayat told Daily Times, dismissing the impression that the decision is a reaction to continued United States attacks in Waziristan.
"This decision has nothing to do with the situation in Waziristan or the US attacks. This is purely a security issue and we want no untoward incident to take place as far as supplies for ISAF are concerned." The international Torkham Highway was closed for "vulnerable vehicles", he said referring to trucks carrying ISAF supplies, and the supplies would resume after the highway was cleared.
The political agent did not say how long the highway would take to be cleared, but added that other traffic would be allowed on the road.
A senior border official at Torkham, 58 kilometres west of Peshawar, said the closure of the highway would also affect the US forces, which get fuel, food and other military supplies through Torkham crossing points.
The coalition forces also get supplies through the Chaman border in Balochistan, but the bulk of the supplies goes through Torkham -- a shorter route for Kabul where the US and NATO forces are based.
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GTFO of the way and let US secure the supply routes. We'll handle all the Taliban in Pakistan while we're at it.
A former Iraqi general under Saddam Hussein turned Defense Ministry adviser was shot dead in broad daylight in central Baghdad Friday, security sources said. Gunmen assaulted Abdel-Amir Hassan Abbas as he was driving his car in the neighborhood of Zayona, pumping bullets into him with a silenced firearm, the security official with the Interior Ministry said. The incident was confirmed by Iraqi military sources. Abbas, a Shiite brigadier general in executed President Saddam Hussein's army, went to work as a civilian consultant for Iraq's Defense Ministry several months ago.
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Sounds like Iran's assassination squads are getting busy bumping off any senior people who might have a Iraqi nationalist bent and be a threat to Iranian subversion of the Shiite South.
Needs lots of salt, but might be a morsel of food here somewhere.
In a secret agreement between Israel and Georgia, two military airfields in southern Georgia had been earmarked for the use of Israeli fighter-bombers in the event of pre-emptive attacks against Iranian nuclear installations. This would sharply reduce the distance Israeli fighter-bombers would have to fly to hit targets in Iran. And to reach Georgian airstrips, the Israeli air force would fly over Turkey.
The attack ordered by Saakashvili against South Ossetia the night of Aug. 7 provided the Russians the pretext for Moscow to order Special Forces to raid these Israeli facilities where some Israeli drones were reported captured.
Details of Israel's involvement were largely ignored by Israeli media lest they be interpreted as another blow to Israel's legendary military prowess, which took a bad hit in the Lebanese war against Hezbollah two years ago. Georgia's top diplomat in Tel Aviv complained about Israel's "lackluster" response to his country's military predicament and called for "diplomatic pressure on Moscow." According to the Jerusalem Post, the Georgian was told "the address for that type of pressure is Washington." Lots more in DeBorchgrave's (!!!) article.
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Plausible but unlikely. Israel is a master of disinformation. Ask Iraq under Saddam or Eygpt under Sadat. Also, our good friend pencil-neck has yet to read anything about Israel he doesn't believe. His paranoia and uncertainty is at an all time high since they took out his reactor and the Norks. Iamanidiot is in the same mold of confusion and uncertrainty. He will never see it coming.
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I saw this a few days ago in several places ...just didn't bookmark them. Just send in Saracuda!
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Troops of the Russian Federation captured the entire scope of sophisticated Israeli equipment. Israel's interest was in securing the BTC Pipeline. Olmert has an aura of failure about him.
Israeli security forces detained 12 Palestinians near the Occupied West Bank city of Hebron overnight, an Israeli military spokeswoman said Friday. "The [Israel Army] arrested 12 wanted Palestinians in Beit Kahil," she said. "The men were taken for questioning by security forces." Palestinian security sources confirmed several people were detained overnight as Israeli forces searched houses in the village. They said some of those held were members of a charitable organization linked to Hamas. Israel blacklists Hamas as a terrorist organization and has cracked down on charities in the Occupied West Bank linked to the Islamist group.
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Sri Lankan troops killed at least 34 separatist Tamil Tiger guerrillas in the latest phase of an advance into rebel-held turf that has produced some of the bloodiest fighting in a decade, the military said on Friday.
After seizing a string of strategic points from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the last two weeks, the army is facing stiff resistance pushing toward the defacto rebel capital of Kilinochchi - a symbolic target. "Troops killed 30 LTTE terrorists and wounded 24 others in Thursday's fighting," a military spokesman who did not give his name in line with policy. He said five soldiers also died and 14 were wounded in the same fighting. The military later said it had recovered four additional rebel bodies.
The rebels were not immediately available to comment on the battlefield casualties. But the pro-rebel website www.tamilnet.com quoted unnamed Tiger officials as saying they had repulsed an army advance and killed at least one soldier. The LTTE also accused the army of firing artillery shells into a civilian area in Kilinochchi and destroying a store.
"The Sri Lanka military, it appears, is ever-ready to treat all stock belonging to Tamils as a threat and does not hesitate to destroy (it)," the LTTE statement said. The military dismissed the claim. "Our target is very clear - the forward defence line of the LTTE," military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said. "We know exactly where the civilians were kept by the LTTE. We don't fire at them."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
(AKI) - Seven people, including several children, were killed on Friday in a NATO airstrike in the western Afghan province of Farah on the border of Iran.
Malaysia is sending three navy ships to the coast of Somalia to protect merchant vessels from piracy. The ships, carrying troops and helicopters, are expected to begin patrolling in the Gulf of Aden in the next few days. 
Karlsruhe The Federal States' Attorney has revealed details of the complaint against the three accused terrorists of the Sauerland terror group. It states that bombings against American citizens and American installations were intended, which would have caused as many casualties as possible. As targets, the men were considering bars, pubs, discos, and airfields. Among others, probable targets were in Frankfurt/Main, Ramstein, Dortmund, Duesseldorf, Cologne, Stuttgart, and Munich. 
About 3,000 tribesmen on Friday chanted "Allahu Akbar" (God is great) and "Death to America" while protesting against a raid by Afghanistan-based United States-led troops. One of the elders reportedly warned the US authorities to prepare for assaults on their bases in Afghanistan if they do not stop attacks on Pakistan's northwest border. "If Americans do not stop launching assaults in our tribal regions, we will attack their bases in Afghanistan," tribal elder Malik Ali Muhammad told the protesters. The rally took place in Wana, the main town in South Waziristan, where local officials said at least 15 people died in Wednesday's raid.
