[Quqnoos] Six suicide bombers entered the city of Gardiz in eastern Afghanistan that two of them exploded themselves killing three security forces, officials say Sayed Ansari, spokesman of national securty said that the attacks happened at 11:00 am on Tuesday, killed three security forces and wounded ten others. Four other suicide bombers were killed by security forces, Sayed Ansari added.
The first blast happened at the main gate of the provincial intelligence office building. Later on, another bomber detonated his explosives near the provincial governor office in Paktia. The provincial governor is reportedly unharmed. The wounded locals have been taken to the nearest hospital in the province.
A purported Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. He warned that 15 bombers entered the province to target government institutions.
In a related incident, three suicide bombers entered in Jalalabad, capital of Nangarhar, that one of them was gunned down soon after recognized by security forces and second one exploded himself near the Jalalabad airport that killed one policeman. The third suicide bomber was arrested by security forces after thirty minutes of fighting.
This is the first such incident that suicide bombers target the governmental offices at the same time in the relatively stable province of Nangarhar.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Gunmen in conflict-torn Darfur have attacked a compound belonging to a Swiss aid group, wounding a British employee and looting his belongings. Local media identified the victim as a 40-year-old British man but the aide group, Medair, declined to confirm the report until further inquiry. He was shot in his leg and mugged in Darfur's El-Geneina town Monday, when unidentified assailants stole his laptop and money. His condition is reportedly stable but he remains hospitalized.
The latest assault on foreign aid workers in the western part of the war-ravaged region comes amid a recent surge in attacks and kidnappings. Gunmen still hold captive two staff members of an Irish aid group, an Irish and a Ugandan woman, snatched earlier this month in the North Darfur city of Kutum. Their abduction was the third such kidnapping since March.
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Sometimes humanitarian aid needs to be administered with plenty of .30 caliber assistance.
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From the air, in large numbers of iron bombs, over the center of Khartoum, Glenmore. Get the guys that are behind it, not the cannon fodder. Issue a summons Bashir can't ignore - one for the Pearly Gates.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Detained Indian national and Lashkar-e-Taiba leader Moulana Mohammad Mansur Ali is on two lists prepared by the intelligence agencies of India and the US for his involvement in militancy, sources said.
According to sources, Mansur's position is 16th on the list prepared by the US. A total of 280 names of militants who took part in the wars in Afghanistan and Kashmir are on the US list while another 77 militants on the Indian list.
DB sources said they have collected the two lists from two countries recently.
The listed militants are the citizen of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and South Africa, sources added.
Sources said some 13,000 Bangladesh nationals were Afghanistan and Kashmir war veterans.
According to the sources, hailing from Padmapukur village under Bagdah Police Station in North 24 Pargana district of West Bengal, Mansur came under Indian intelligence observation after Asif Reza Commando Force (ARCF), which works together with the Lashkar-e-Taiba, founder Asif Reza Khan and some of his close aids were arrested from Gujrat and later killed in an encounter with the Indian law-enforcers in 1994.
Asif Reza and his associates were arrested from a meeting. But Mansur, however, had managed to flee, sources said.
Deputy Commissioner Monirul Islam of DB-South told The Daily Star that Mansur had regular communications with Pakistani leaders of Lashkar-e-Taiba and ARCF.
Besides, he had close links to the senior leaders of Harkatul Jihad al Islam (Huji) in Bangladesh and also to the network of international mafia don Daud Ibrahim.
Monirul Islam also said "Mansur had also contact with Daud Ibrahim's close aid Indian national Zahid Sheikh and Daud Merchant."
Daud Merchant and Zahid Sheikh were arrested from the country about two months back.
Talking to The Daily Star yesterday, detained Indian militant Mansur admitted that he is one of the most wanted Indians and he knows a number of Huji leaders in the country as they were his fellow fighters in the two wars.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Detective Branch of police has arrested another Indian national linked to Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in the capital.
The arrestee, Moulana Mohammad Mansur Ali, was also an organiser of Asif Reza Commando Force, the terrorist outfit responsible for the attack on American Centre in Kolkata on January 22, 2002.
DB police claim they made the arrest swooping on a madrasa in Dakkhin Khan area on Monday night.
They carried out the raid following up information gleaned from Mufti Obaidullah, an Indian and LeT operative captured in Dhaka recently.
Mansur was paraded before the media at the DB headquarters yesterday.
DB Deputy Commissioner Monirul Islam said the militant leader entered Bangladesh illegally from India in 1995. Under the alias Habibullah, he worked as teacher in different Islamic seminaries.
Before joining Madrasatur Rahman at Saodagarbari of Dakkhin Khan, Mansur taught at Nurani Madrasa at Moralimore, Bagharpara Madrasa in Jessore, Porasunda Maktab in Habiganj and Tikarpur Madrasa at Nababganj in Dhaka.
Obaidullah too had been holed up in the country as a madrasa teacher.
An Afghan war veteran, Mansur was above him in the LeT hierarchy.
He told reporters he was a student when he joined the Afghan war against the then Soviet troops.
He said he had close relations with local Huji top brass including Mufti Hannan, Abdur Rouf, Abu Taher and Sheikh Abdus Salam.
He however denied having links to any attacks staged by the Harkatul Jihad al Islami operatives in Bangladesh, another banned Islamist organisation.
Trained in operation of AK-47 assault rifle, machinegun, rocket launcher and anti-aircraft weapons, Mansur returned to India in 1993.
He moved back and forth between Pakistan and Afghanistan after the war ended in 1989.
Back in India, he joined fellow Afghan war returnees in efforts to recruit youths to fight the Indian army in Jammu and Kashmir, read a DB press release.
He came under Indian intelligence watch in 1994.
After arrest, Mansur kept claiming that he is from Shriramkathi village under Jhikargachha upazila in Jessore.
DB officials took him there for crosscheck and found his claim to be false.
DC Monirul said Mansur participated in at least 25 battles in Afghanistan and Kashmir.
Daud Merchant, detained Indian underworld operative, gave police leads about the LeT leaders hiding in Bangladesh.
Merchant, a close aide to mafia don Daud Ibrahim, is one of those accused of killing music baron Gulshan Kumar in Mumbai in 1997.
He and his associate Zahid Sheikh were arrested one and a half month ago.
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That man looks strongly chinese to me.
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Nah. He's just so fat the rolls of fat on his lids are covering up the eyeballs. Which reminds me. Has anyone ever seen, even a pic of, an imam, mullah, mulana, maulavi, ayatollah or akhoond who wasn't a perfect contestant for "The Biggest Loser" and looked like the only exercise they got was buggering students in the madrassa?
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He does have chubby cheeks.
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Yup, they have a very comfortable lifestyle sitting of their fat asses telling women to shuddup and other men to die for 'em.
Pakistan is objecting to expanded American combat operations in neighboring Afghanistan, creating new fissures in the alliance with Washington at a critical juncture when thousands of new American forces are arriving in the region.
Pakistani officials have told the Obama administration that the Marines fighting the Taliban in southern Afghanistan will force militants across the border into Pakistan, with the potential to further inflame the troubled province of Baluchistan, according to Pakistani intelligence officials.
Pakistan does not have enough troops to deploy to Baluchistan to take on the Taliban without denuding its border with its archenemy, India, the officials said. Dialogue with the Taliban, not more fighting, is in Pakistan's national interest, they said.
I suspect the Marines, if consulted, would say something like, "Shit or get off the pot." I, of course, would word it differently.
The Marines, of course, do not have a periwinkle clue bat. Alas.
Now I have an overwhelming desire to see a small unit of Marines bearing tea and cluebats into the fray.
I'm sure the results would be creative.The Pakistani account made clear that even as the United States recommits troops and other resources to take on a growing Taliban threat, Pakistani officials still consider India their top priority and the Taliban militants a problem that can be negotiated. In the long term, the Taliban in Afghanistan may even remain potential allies for Pakistan, as they were in the past, once the United States leaves.
The Pakistani officials gave views starkly different from those of American officials regarding the threat presented by top Taliban commanders, some of whom the Americans say have long taken refuge on the Pakistani side of the border.
Recent Pakistani military operations against Taliban in the Swat Valley and parts of the tribal areas have done little to close the gap in perceptions.
Even as Obama administration officials praise the operations, they express frustration that Pakistan is failing to act against the full array of Islamic militants using the country as a base.
Instead, they say, Pakistani authorities have chosen to fight Pakistani Taliban who threaten their government, while ignoring Taliban and other militants fighting Americans in Afghanistan or terrorizing India.
Such tensions have mounted despite a steady rotation of American officials through the region. They were on display last weekend when, during a visit to India, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said those who had planned the Sept. 11 attacks were now sheltering in Pakistan. The Pakistani Foreign Ministry issued an immediate rebuttal.
Pakistan's critical assessment was provided as the Obama administration's special envoy for the region, Richard C. Holbrooke, arrived in Pakistan on Tuesday night.
The country's perspective was given in a nearly two-hour briefing on Friday for The New York Times by senior analysts and officials of Pakistan's main spy service, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence. They spoke on the condition of anonymity in keeping with the agency's policy. The main themes of the briefing were echoed in conversations with several military officers over the past few days.
One of the first briefing slides read, in part: "The surge in Afghanistan will further reinforce the perception of a foreign occupation of Afghanistan. It will result in more civilian casualties; further alienate local population. Thus more local resistance to foreign troops."
A major concern is that the American offensive may push Taliban militants over the border into Baluchistan, a province that borders Waziristan in the tribal areas. The Pakistani Army is already fighting a longstanding insurgency of Baluch separatists in the province.
A Taliban spillover would require Pakistan to put more troops there, a Pakistani intelligence official said, troops the country does not have now. Diverting troops from the border with India is out of the question, the official said.
A spokesman for the American and NATO commands in Afghanistan, Rear Adm. Gregory J. Smith, said in an e-mail message on Monday that there was no significant movement of insurgents out of Afghanistan, and no indication of foreign fighters moving into Afghanistan through Baluchistan or Iran, another concern of the Pakistanis.
Pakistani and American officials also cited some positive signs for the alliance. Increased sharing of information has sharpened the accuracy of strikes against militant hide-outs by Pakistani F-16 warplanes and drones operated by the Central Intelligence Agency. And Pakistani and American intelligence operatives are fighting together in dangerous missions to hunt down fighters from the Taliban and Al Qaeda in the tribal areas and in the North-West Frontier Province.
But the intelligence briefing clearly illuminated the differences between the two countries over how, in the American view, Pakistan was still picking proxies and choosing enemies among various Islamic militant groups in Pakistan.
The United States maintains that the Afghan Taliban leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, leads an inner circle of commanders who guide the war in southern Afghanistan from their base in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan.
American officials say this Taliban council, known as the Quetta shura, is sheltered by Pakistani authorities, who may yet want to employ the Taliban as future allies in Afghanistan.
In an interview last week, the new leader of American and NATO combat operations in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, paused when asked whether he was getting the cooperation he wanted from Pakistani forces in combating the Quetta shura. "What I would love is for the government of Pakistan to have the ability to completely eliminate the safe havens that the Afghan Taliban enjoy," he said.
The Pakistani intelligence officials denied that Mullah Omar was even in Pakistan, insisting that he was in Afghanistan.
The United States asked Pakistan in recent years to round up 10 Taliban leaders in Quetta, the Pakistani officials said. Of those 10, 6 were killed by the Pakistanis, 2 were probably in Afghanistan, and the remaining 2 presented no threat to the Marines in Afghanistan, the officials said.
They also said no threat was posed by Sirajuddin Haqqani, an Afghan Taliban leader who American military commanders say operates with Pakistani protection out of North Waziristan and equips and trains Taliban fighters for Afghanistan.
Last year, Washington presented evidence to Pakistani leaders that Mr. Haqqani, working with Inter-Services Intelligence, was responsible for the bombing last summer of the Indian Embassy in Kabul that killed 54 people.
Pakistani officials insisted that Mr. Haqqani spent most of his time in Afghanistan, suggesting that the American complaints about him being provided sanctuary were invalid.
Another militant group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, is also a source of deep disagreement.
India and the United States have criticized Pakistan for allowing Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, to be freed from jail last month.
The Pakistani officials said Mr. Saeed deserved to be freed because the government had failed to convince the courts that he should be kept in custody. There would be no effort to imprison Mr. Saeed again, in part because he was just an ideologue who did not have an anti-Pakistan agenda, the officials said.
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Think of it as "driving them into your ambush" if you like. If you'd shoot the bastards they'd be no trouble at all.
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Pakistani officials have told the Obama administration that the Marines fighting the Taliban in southern Afghanistan will force militants BACK across the border into Pakistan
talk to your ISI, f*ckers
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Once again, the Paks show what side they're on. Time to formalize our relationship with India and put the screws to 'em.
For how long has the ISI been giving 2 hour briefings to the NYT? The interesting thing is that the Times isn't buying their line. Obama must be pretty pissed with the Paks. Welcome to the real world Barry, where plenty are ready to whisper sweet nothings in your ear while they knife you in the back.
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This is a real problem for the Pakis, because practically speaking, their military can *either* work the Wazoo, or they can work Baluchistan, but cannot do both at the same time.
From our point of view, it's not much better, because if the Taliban and al-Qaeda are in the Wazoo, they are caught between the Paki army and the US Marines, but if they go to Baluchistan, they can get some degree of safety in Iran, and from there, reenter Afghanistan where we aren't.
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I think it's time to tell the Pakistanis it's fish or cut bait time. Either they begin clearing their house of all the unwanted trash, or we simply burn down their house. This playing both sides is getting terribly, terribly old. If it comes to that, a couple of large ARCLIGHT strikes in Islamabad/Rawalpindi will increase their attention span.
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"The country's perspective was given in a nearly two-hour briefing on Friday for The New York Times by senior analysts and officials of Pakistan's main spy service, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence"
wow, about the most formal leak of all time.
Smells to me like ISI is worried about Paki govt shift away from confrontation with India, and is in a full court press to subvert that policy.
If Paki DOES overtly stop cooperating with US on Taliban, we can overtly support India. That will NOT be good for Pakistan.
I doubt taliban will get sanctuary in Iran. Discreetly aiding one or two guys nominally in house arrest is one thing. Subverting Obamas policy in Afghanistan is not a wise course for the Iranian govt at this sensitive time.
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I say drive all the paks into Afghanistan, and give Pakland back to India.
Or if you truly want to make their heads explode, tell them any islamic country we catch supporting terrorists will be depopulated and given to Israel.
[ADN Kronos] Pakistani military forces have reportedly killed over suspected 50 Islamist militants in a two-day battle on Sunday and Monday in the Lower Dir district in northwest Pakistan. According to the military, more than 1,700 Taliban have been killed in its three-month long offensive to quash insurgents in the restive region. "During the operation, over 50 militants were killed and several wounded,' according to a statement from the paramilitary Frontier Corps.
Dozens of militants have been injured and three military personnel were also killed in the fight againts the militants, said to be Taliban who were fleeing to Lower Dir from a miliary offensive in the neighbouring the Swat district, said a military spokesman.
Pakistani forces claim to have almost concluded their military offensive against militants that began in late April in the troubled Swat valley. According to the military, more than 1,700 Taliban have been killed in their three-month long offensive.
On Monday, at least 17 other militants were killed in clashes with security forces in the Swat valley. One solider was killed in action and two suffered injuries.
Meanwhile, over 300 of the families that were forced to flee the troubled region earlier this year have began their journey back home. Half way there, they were stopped by their military escort because of a search operation in their area.
The northwest area of Pakistan has been a battlefield between the Pakistani government forces and Islamic militants, including the Taliban, for the last several months.
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I think they should build pyramids of the skulls of their enemies in a prominent place in the district. Oh, there are no skulls?
[Geo News] Security forces continued search and clearance operation in Swat and Malakand during last 24 hours.
According to ISPR, security forces conducted rescue operation near Dardial, Swat and successfully rescued Dr Shamsher Khan, brother of MPA M Ali, who was abducted for ransom by terrorists 2 months back. A number of weapons alongwith ammunition were also seized from the hideout.
During search operation at Damgarh and Mamderai, security forces killed five terrorists and apprehended as many others along with SMGs.
During exchange of fire with terrorists, 3 soldiers including a Junior Commissioned Officer embraced Shahadat.
Security forces discovered a cave and 10 dead bodies of terrorists inside cave during search operation at Kalagai Banda. Local terrorist commander Sardar Ali and Qalagai Banda Nazim who was facilitator of terrorists were apprehended alongwith 3 vehicles.
Security forces conducted search operation in area around Piochar and recovered 216 boxes of ammunition of various calibers from the hideouts of terrorists.
Security forces carried out search operation at Ganjir near Topsin resultantly 1 terrorist was killed and 1 was apprehended.
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[The News (Pak) Top Stories] Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Tuesday said around 500 hardcore militants had been arrested so far from Swat, 90 per cent of whom were Afghan nationals.
Talking to a private television channel, he said Swat had almost been cleared of the militants and the same approach would be adopted to pursue them in North and South Waziristan. The armed forces will stay in the militancy-affected areas until complete restoration of political and social infrastructure, he said, adding that efforts would be made to achieve these goals in minimum possible time.
To a question, he said a sizable amount of foreign-made heavy and sophisticated ammunition had also been captured in the militancy-hit areas, which can be traded between the states only.
"We have lodged our complaints with the quarters concerned in this regard at various levels," he said. He expressed his firm hope that Baitullah Mehsud would be captured or killed during the operation, adding the operation was focused against Baitullah and the likes and it was not focused against any tribe.
To a question about delay in tracing the main leadership of militants, the minister said the terrain in militancy-hit areas was very vast and complicated and it was not easy to reach the target instantly.
"We have asked the Afghan government and other stakeholders that anti-Pakistan activities of Brahamdagh Bugti should be checked and he should be handed over to Pakistan's authorities."
The minister said Pakistan has extended full cooperation to India with regard to investigation into the Mumbai attacks but the Indians never did so in case of Samjhota express incident that claimed the lives of so many Pakistani citizens. The minister said the military operation in Swat was succeeded because it had the backing of the entire nation.
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I assume the ISI will be issuing them bus tickets to Kandahar
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[The News (Pak)] Denying involvement in terrorism, a Mehsud grand tribal Jirga on Tuesday denounced the crackdown on peaceful Mehsud people by the political administration of South Waziristan.
Over 100 tribal elders of Dre Mahsud or three Mehsud tribes held a grand Jirga at Sheen Masjid in Tank and later formed a 35-memebr committee that separately met District Coordination Officer (DCO) of Tank Amir Latif and Political Agent of South Waziristan Syed Shahab Ali Shah.
The Mehsud tribal elders vehemently denied the impression that all the Mehsud people were involved in terrorism and militancy in the region. Another Jirga of the Dre Mehsud tribesmen flayed certain armed groups that were victimising the Mehsud people. Sources said the Jirga was held at the Minar mosque here and was attended by tribal elders.
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A bullet ridden body of a terrorist of Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) outfit was recovered from Shahdar Dessa area of Doda district.
An official spokesman said that troops of Rashtriya Rifles recovered body of HM militant namely Ghulam Hassan alias Gulzar, son of Ghulam Mohd of Bata Dessa from Shahdar Dessa.
He was reportedly active since 1997 and might have been killed by his own associates on July 17, the spokesman said.
The body was, later, handed over to police.
Meanwhile, a tragedy was averted when Border Security Force (BSF) recovered a landmine from an agricultural land in village Regal near the International Border in Samba district.
The landmine was recovered from the fields of farmer Avtar Singh, the spokesman said, adding BSF personnel immediately defused the device.
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A police officer was killed and three security forces personnel injured as militants today attacked a camp of anti-militancy Special Operations Group (SOG) in Shopian district in South Kashmir today, official sources said here.
Militants fired a rifle grenade at the SOG camp at Imam Sahib in Shopian district in the afternoon. The grenade landed and exploded in the compound of the security camp, the sources said.
Four security force personnel including an officer were seriously injured in the blast which created a crater at the landing place in the compound, the sources said.
The injured - Sub Inspector Sethi Ram, Special Police Officer (SPO) Mohammad Shafi, constable Abdul Hamid and constable H Hota of 14 battalion CRPF - were rushed to nearby hospital, they said.
The sources said the officer succumbed to injuries at Shopian hospital while the other three were referred to SMHS hospital in Srinagar for specialized treatment. Doctors attending on the injured security force personnel described their condition as 'stable' and said they were now out of 'danger'.
This is the first grenade attack in Kashmir in the past few months in which a police officer has been killed.
No militant outfit has claimed responsibility for the attack so far but police officials said Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) was suspected to be behind the attack.
Soon after the grenade attack, security forces cordoned off the nearby area and launched a massive manhunt for the assailants. Searches were carried out as the security forces looked for some clues but found nothing till last reports came in from the area.
Although militancy-related incidents in Kashmir valley this year were fewer compared to previous years, there has been a spurt in grenade attacks on security forces over the past few months.
Grenade attacks have taken place at Sopore, Magam, Baramulla, Dalgate and Maisuma and in all these attacks, security forces were the prime targets of the militants.
The number of grenade throwing incidents has especially gone up after reports of large scale infiltration of militants from across the Line of Control earlier this year. Intelligence agencies said more than 150 militants had sneaked into the Valley much before the snow started melting on the passes along the LoC.
However, Army has maintained that most of the militants, who had infiltrated this year, have been eliminated.
Meanwhile, a recruit constable of Border Security Force (BSF) committed suicide inside the Subsidiary Training Centre (STC) at Humhama in Budgam district, a police spokesman said here.
Recruit constable Param Jeet Singh (No. 09809064) committed suicide by hanging himself inside the premises of the STC. Police has initiated proceedings under Section 174 CrPC to ascertain the cause of death of the constable, the spokesman said.
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[Khaleej Times] MOSUL, Iraq - Iraqi soldiers arrested a group of armed Syrian men north of Mosul, Iraqi police told the German Press Agency dpa on Tuesday. Police in Mosul, some 400 kilometres north of Baghdad, said the Iraqi army's 3rd Brigade had arrested four men carrying weapons and Syrian passports near the village of al-Sada Baawiza.
*shrug* Shoot them as the spies/saboteurs they so clearly are.
First wring them dry ...
The arrests came as Syria hosted firebrand Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Damascus for the first time since February 2006. According to an official statement from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's office, al-Assad and al-Sadr were nearly unanimous in their support for unity among the Iraqi people and the national reconciliation process.
During al-Sadr's last visit to Damascus, which came amid rising tensions between former US president George W Bush's administration and the Syrian government, al-Sadr vowed to stand by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad if Syria were attacked.
That would certainly keep the Israeli air force from another bombing run to destroy another Syrian nuclear bomb factory, should they deem it necessary.
Hey! A two-fer!
The arrests also came amid continued, near-daily deadly attacks in the area. On Monday, police told dpa that "unknown gunmen" shot a young girl near her home in the eastern Mosul district of Palestine. They would not elaborate except to say that the attackers then ran away, and that they were investigating the incident.
In a separate incident on Monday, in the Mosul district of al- Thaqafiya, one policeman was killed and a second wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near their patrol. In two other attacks in the city, gunmen shot and killed a traffic police officer on duty in a northern district of Mosul, and fatally shot a second as he was on his way to work in the New Mosul district.
The attacks followed a pre-dawn raid on suspected militants that resulted in the arrest of six people suspected of taking part in attacks on police and civilians in al-Quds neighborhood of eastern Mosul, police said.
Were they Syrian, too? Or paid by Syrians? Or having a Syrian grandmother?
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That would certainly keep the Israeli air force from another bombing run to destroy another Syrian nuclear bomb factory, should they deem it necessary.
Yeah, for about two seconds. Al-Sadr's time is running out, fast. If the US doesn't cap him, the Iraqi people will.
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[Straits Times] MALAYSIAN authorities revealed on Tuesday that they are questioning supporters of Noordin Mohammad Top, a wanted terrorist believed to be the mastermind of last week's Jakarta bombings.
Three of his associates detained in Malaysia before the July 17 attacks are being interviewed and Malaysian intelligence officials are in Jakarta helping in the probe, Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein told reporters on Tuesday.
He said that Malaysian-born Noordin was not in the country, but police were watching his supporters.
'We are monitoring them. In fact, we detained three of them just before the bombing in Jakarta. They are helping us in the investigation,' he was quoted as saying by the Associated Press.
Datuk Seri Hishammuddin said the three detained men were Malaysians suspected of belonging to the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) regional terror group.
Asked if their detentions were linked to the Jakarta bombings, he responded: 'I'm not in the position to tell you that they are directly related to the bombings, but they are terrorists.'
Earlier this month, police said they detained three alleged JI members in Johor on June 25. They are being held under the Internal Security Act (ISA), which allows for detention without trial.
The three were identified as Sulaiman Bukhari, Latif Omar and Samsudin, according to the Abolish ISA Movement, a non-governmental organisation. Reports said they were aged between 43 and 53, and were ordinary JI members trying to revive the group's operations in Malaysia.
They were said to have met Mas Selamat Kastari, the JI leader who escaped from detention in Singapore last year and was recaptured in Johor on April 1. Mas Selamat is also being detained under the ISA in Malaysia.
Mr Hishammuddin said on Tuesday that last Friday's attacks on the Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriott hotels in Jakarta were more likely to be the work of an international terror network.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Iranian riot police clashed with hundreds of pro-reform protesters in central Tehran's Haft-e Tir square on Tuesday, a witness said, adding dozens of people were detained. "There are hundreds of riot police and plainclothes, beating people who gathered to support (opposition leader Mirhossein) Mousavi," the witness said. "There are hundreds of protesters at Haft-e Tir square."
The witness said the protesters were chanting slogans against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the government, including: "Ahmadinejad -- resign, resign" and "Death to the dictator."
The witness added: "Riot police are taking dozens of protesters into their cars and they are taking them away."
The Mashaie controversies
" Certain Internet sites published a report about Mr. Mashaie's resignation as first vice president in a coordinated action aimed at tarnishing the government "
VP Mashaie's personal website
The clashes came a day after Ahmadinejad's controversial choice for vice president, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, denied media reports he had quit as a group of reformist clerics called for a referendum over the country's election process. "Certain Internet sites published a report about Mr. Mashaie's resignation as first vice president in a coordinated action aimed at tarnishing the government," said a statement on his personal website. "This is a lie, and these rumors have been spread by the enemies... of the government," it said.
On Sunday, state-owned English-language channel Press TV reported that Mashaie, a close aide to Ahmadinejad, had resigned three days after his appointment, which was strongly opposed by hardliners among the newly-re-elected president's own support base.
Mashaie, whose daughter is married to Ahmadinejad's son, is an outspoken figure who last year earned the wrath of hardliners, including supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, for saying Iran is a "friend of the Israeli people."
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[Al Arabiya Latest] The Lebanese army said on Tuesday it had uncovered a militant Islamist network that had been plotting to carry out attacks against United Nations peacekeepers in southern Lebanon and the army itself.
The army, in a statement, said it had detained the cell's 10 members. A security source said the men belonged to the al-Qaeda-inspired Fatah al-Islam group which fought a 15-week battle with the army in 2007.
" Our investigation has shown that this network was planning to smuggle wanted terrorists out of Ain al-Helweh "
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The network, made up of members of different Arab origins and most of whom came from outside Lebanon, also planned to help "wanted terrorists" get out of the Ain al-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp where many of them are holed up. "Our investigation has shown that this network was planning to smuggle wanted terrorists out of Ain el-Helweh (refugee camp) ... smuggle Fatah al-Islam fighters into Ain al-Helweh, to carry out attacks from Lebanon on targets abroad and create terrorist cells to monitor UNIFIL and the army in order to carry out terrorist attacks on them," the army statement said.
The security source told Reuters the ringleader of the arrested group, a Syrian national, had been found with six forged passports. "He travelled to six Arab countries in 15 days. His group was planning several attacks against a wide range of targets," the source said. Many of the men had taken up residence in Christian areas east of Beirut, he said.
The army statement said the network was also plotting attacks outside Lebanon.
Ain el-Helweh, located near the southern coastal town of Sidon, is the largest and most violent of Lebanon's 12 Palestinian refugee camps. At least 430 people were killed in the fighting between Fatah al-Islam and the army. More than half of those killed were fighters from the group and 170 were soldiers.
In December, the group said it feared its leader Shaker al-Absi had been killed in Syria and named another member to lead the group. Last year, Syrian state television showed 12 alleged members of the group confessing that they had helped plan a suicide car bombing in Damascus that killed 17 people in September 2008.
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Fatah al-Islam: i.e. the Syrian expeditionary corp. Looks like Bashir took Obama's kowtowing to heart.
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[Quqnoos] Six suicide bombers entered the city of Gardiz in eastern Afghanistan that two of them exploded themselves killing three security forces, officials say Sayed Ansari, spokesman of national securty said that the attacks happened at 11:00 am on Tuesday, killed three security forces and wounded ten others. Four other suicide bombers were killed by security forces, Sayed Ansari added. 
[Bangla Daily Star] Detective Branch of police has arrested another Indian national linked to Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in the capital. 
[Khaleej Times] MOSUL, Iraq - Iraqi soldiers arrested a group of armed Syrian men north of Mosul, Iraqi police told the German Press Agency dpa on Tuesday. Police in Mosul, some 400 kilometres north of Baghdad, said the Iraqi army's 3rd Brigade had arrested four men carrying weapons and Syrian passports near the village of al-Sada Baawiza. 
[Al Arabiya Latest] Iranian riot police clashed with hundreds of pro-reform protesters in central Tehran's Haft-e Tir square on Tuesday, a witness said, adding dozens of people were detained. "There are hundreds of riot police and plainclothes, beating people who gathered to support (opposition leader Mirhossein) Mousavi," the witness said. "There are hundreds of protesters at Haft-e Tir square."
