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Ah relief from the grind of the news. I would never have thought of entitling Spearhead Spearhead. That was not my thought when checking Spearhead out.
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Known fact NYT writers are enamored with Pashtun sexual practices.
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Bolder, yes. Better at warfare, don't think so. Being "bolder" in warfare makes you a much easier target to hit. You just have to make sure you hit the target the first time, because second chances are slim.
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"Bolder" as in "willing to dress up in a burqa"
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Considering rotations, I imagine most Iraq veterans are from the second half of the Iraq occupation (after the "Anbar awakening"). Six years is more than the average military career. This means only a fraction went toe to toe with the bad guyz, though many experienced IEDs and indirect crap.
So by the time most of them went to Iraq, the "bold" Iraqis were pushing up daisies.
[Quqnoos] Seven suicide bombers were detained by Afghan intelligence forces in the western Herat province, according to officials. Two men, who wanted to attack ISAF and Afghan forces on the highway leading to Herat airport, were arrested before blowing themselves up, Herat Police Chief Gen Esmatullah Ali Zai said.
^holds gun to man's head^ "Take off that suicide vest or I'll kill you right here!"
"The two suicide bombers were from Kabul and Herat and they are under investigation," the police official further said.
In a separate incident, three suicide bombers and two Taliban militants were arrested in Nimroz, southwestern Afghanistan, the provincial governor Ghulam Dastgir Azad said.
Police and security forces detained five other suicide bombers in a house some 15 km from Zarange, the capitol of Nimroz province Tuesday at 11:00am, said Quqnoos' correspondent in Herat. Three of the bombers were armed with RPGs that were Iranian-made, Ghulam Dastgir added.
According to the provincial governor of Nemroz yesterday, a Taliban commander and a Mullah of a mosque were also arrested in the Khashrod district of the northeastern Nimroz province.
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Sounds like that US intel database is coming up to speed.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Shiite rebels killed seven soldiers in attacks in north Yemen, a military source said on Friday, as al-Qaeda militants and separatists mount a growing challenge to the U.S.-backed government. An unspecified number of soldiers were also wounded and captured in the violence which erupted on Thursday and spilled over into Friday in the mountainous rebel stronghold of Saada.
"Clashes broke out after Huthi rebels attacked army bases in the Saada province, during which seven soldiers were killed, while a number of others were wounded or captured," the source said.
On Tuesday, an army officer was killed and two soldiers were wounded in an ambush on the Saada-Sanaa road, the defense ministry said.
The rebels want to restore the Zaidi imamate which was overthrown in a republican coup in 1962. Thousands of people have been killed since 2004 in clashes between government forces and rebels.
Kidnapping foreigners
" Clashes broke out after Huthi rebels attacked army bases in the Saada province, during which seven soldiers were killed, while a number of others were wounded or captured "
Yemeni military source
The insurgents are known as Huthis after their late commander, Hussein Badr Eddin al-Huthi, who was killed by the army in September 2004. Hussein was succeeded as field commander by his brother, Abdul Malak.
An offshoot of Shiite Islam, Zaidis are a minority in mainly Sunni Yemen but form the majority in the north.
The government has accused the Zaidi rebels of kidnapping nine foreigners and killing three of them -- two Germans and a South Korean -- last month, a charge vehemently denied by the group. Mystery surrounds the fate of the other six hostages -- five Germans and a Briton -- while the authorities say they may still be alive and that an intense search is underway for them.
One of the poorest countries in the world, Yemen is also battling unrest in the south, where separatist sentiment runs deep almost two decades after unification with the north.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested four people Thursday night from Savar on charges of the gun attack on Swadhin Bangla Super Market in the city's Mirpur area that left one person dead and eight others injured.
The arrestees are Rafiqul Islam Rony, 25, and Monir Hossain Mollah, 27, of Monipuripara, Shahin Khan, 30, and Nazrul Islam, 25, of Shah Ali in city's Mirpur area.
Rab-4 sources said on information they intercepted a Dhaka-bound bus of Hanif Paribahan from Satkhira at Savar and arrested them for their alleged involvement in the gun attack.
Rab sources said the four accused along with two other hired gunmen killed Abdur Rahim alias Mintu, 32, and injured eight others at the market on July 13.
Mintu, a bodyguard of Anwar Hossain Litu, general secretary of the shop owners association of Swadhin Bangla Super Market, died on the spot.
A feud over establishing supremacy in the area led to the shooting at the market near Sony Cinema Hall at Mirpur Section-1.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Police arrested three Rab personnel Thursday night on charge of snatching Tk 10.86 lakh from a man threatening to kill him in crossfire. After the arrest police recovered around Tk 7 lakh from the arrestees.
The victim was Tajul Islam Hiron, 30, marketing manager of Fair Advertising at RK Mission Road in the capital. The arrestees were assistant superintendent of police Shoeb Ahmed and sepoys Sagar Chandra and Shahidul Alam of Rab-3.
The authorities concerned have suspended the three Rab personnel. They were produced before a Dhaka court, which sent them to jail yesterday.
Sub-inspector of Motijheel Police Station Tajul Islam who is also the investigation officer of the snatching case said, on his way to Rampura on a bus Hiron was intercepted by the Rab personnel at Kamalapur around 8:15pm Wednesday. They picked him on their jeep and took him to Doyel Square on Dhaka University Campus, he added.
The Rab men then snatched Tk 10.86 lakh from Hiron saying they had saved him from crossfire at which he would have been killed, the IO said, adding that thereafter the Rab personnel took the victim to different places of the city and at one stage they released him.
He said at the time of occurrence one of the Rab men was in uniform while the other two were in casual outfit.
Hiron filed a case in this connection with Motijheel Police Station the next day. He was asked to come to Rab-3 headquarters to identify the Rab personnel following the filing of the case. On his identification the Rab authorities handed the elite force men over to police.
Police yesterday produced the arrestees to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court, which directed to send them to jail.
Contacted, Maj Khairul Amin of Rab-3 said in preliminary investigation they found their involvement in the snatching and suspended the three personnel.
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ok, how much is that in American money?
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Turkish police detained nearly 200 people suspected of being members of the outlawed Islamic organization Hizb ut-Tahrir, Party of Liberation, in a series of raids across the country, the state-run news agency Anatolian said on Friday.
Simultaneous crackdowns in 23 provinces across Turkey took place early Friday and police reportedly confiscated a number of documents linking the suspects to the Islamist group.
Founded in 1953, Hizb ut-Tahrir has sought to unite Muslims into a pan-Islamic state but has claimed its means are peaceful. Uzbekistan blames the group for bombings in the capital in 2004, an accusation the London-based group denies.
Turkey has in the past raided Hizb ut-Tahrir and other Islamist groups, including al-Qaeda, believed to operate in predominantly Muslim Turkey. The group is banned in many countries across the world.
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Actually, the target was: Wahabis. Turks hate Saudi clerics more than they hate kafirs. And Wahabis despise anything connected with the Ottomans.
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that might explain why there are so few Turkish jihadists causing trouble across the globe.
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Even most muslim nations have the sense to outlaw this muslim supremacist and terrorist feeder organization. But our leadership, surrounded by tax paid bodyguards and luxury, don't have the survival sense of a damn lemming. Anti-Semitic, Anti-Christian Propaganda on Display at Caliphate Conference While Hizb ut-Tahrir, a pro-jihadist group which met openly near Chicago last weekend, is surprisingly candid about its desire to re-establish an Islamic Caliphate, literature available at its conference shows the group also views Christians and Jews as untrustworthy enemies of God.
Via JihadWatch.
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Iqbal Town Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) officials have arrested a member of the banned terrorist organisation 'Lashkar-e-Islam' on charges of recruiting for terrorists.
Investigation Officer Rana Haseeb Akhtar said the accused, Arif alias Ghora, has confessed to taking innocent men to Peshawar and handing them over to terrorists for training. He said the accused had admitted that he took Naveed Akhtar and his two friends Mudassir and Faisal to Peshawar on a visit and later handed over Akhtar to Taliban. Police arrested Arif on a complaint by Naveed's relatives who nominated Arif in an FIR in February.
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[Geo News] Five terrorists were killed in search and clearance operations carried out in different areas of Swat and Malakand during the last 24 hours. According to ISPR, security forces conducted search operation at Surgulai and Syed Piranda Baba Ziarat and killed 2 terrorists. Two houses of terrorists were also demolished at Akhun Kalle and Garoh while one terrorist was apprehended. One more terrorist was killed in an operation at Sambat near Khawzakhela. During search operation, security forces apprehended 4 suspected terrorists from a house at Kankaro near Gulijabba. One soldier was martyred at Allah Dand near Thana while 2 terrorists were killed and 1 was apprehended.
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[Geo News] Sixteen militants have been killed in an carried out by the security forces in Lower Dir. Military sources said, the security forces launched the action on a tip-off about militants' presence in Kotobandai area of Tehsil Maidan in Lower Dir, killing 15 militants. The second operation was conducted in Kambar Bazar, Tehsil Maidan in which one terrorist was killed. Arms were also recovered in the operation.
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[ADN Kronos] Iraqi security forces on Thursday imposed a vehicle ban in the centre of the city of Baquba after a bomb injured three civilians, according to security sources quoted by the Voices of Iraq news agency. Baquba located 57 kilometres m from Baghdad, is the capital of Iraq's volatile eastern Diyala province.
Deadly attacks increased in Iraq as the United States completed its pullback of troops from urban areas at the end of June. The overall level of violence has fallen sharply in recent months, however.
As recently as Wednesday, armed gunmen shot dead five Iranian pilgrims in Diyala close to the border with Iran, as they travelled aboard a bus.
VOI quoted an unnamed police source as claiming that Al-Qaeda was behind the attack. At least 35 pilgrims were injured in the attack.
Also on Wednesday, authorities in Iraq's western al-Anbar province have arrested more than 300 suspected insurgents, following a series of recent attacks in the area.
In Ramadi, the capital of al-Anbar, where Wednesday's arrests were made, three people were killed in a bomb blast outside a restaurant the previous day, reports said. A vehicle ban remains in place in the city.
Also on Wednesday, the US military said two assailants and one bystander had been killed in Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad, when a US convoy came under fire.
In April dozens of Iranian pilgrims were killed in a series of blasts in Baghdad and Baquba.
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[Geo News] Five terrorists were killed in search and clearance operations carried out in different areas of Swat and Malakand during the last 24 hours. According to ISPR, security forces conducted search operation at Surgulai and Syed Piranda Baba Ziarat and killed 2 terrorists. Two houses of terrorists were also demolished at Akhun Kalle and Garoh while one terrorist was apprehended. One more terrorist was killed in an operation at Sambat near Khawzakhela. During search operation, security forces apprehended 4 suspected terrorists from a house at Kankaro near Gulijabba. One soldier was martyred at Allah Dand near Thana while 2 terrorists were killed and 1 was apprehended.
[Geo News] Sixteen militants have been killed in an carried out by the security forces in Lower Dir. Military sources said, the security forces launched the action on a tip-off about militants' presence in Kotobandai area of Tehsil Maidan in Lower Dir, killing 15 militants. The second operation was conducted in Kambar Bazar, Tehsil Maidan in which one terrorist was killed. Arms were also recovered in the operation.
