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Rantburg has been advocating that solution for a while. Pashtunistan. Wall. Moat. Crocodiles. Big crocodiles. With frickin' lasers on their heads ...
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At this point, the US military strategy should be to "Kill as many al-Qaeda and Taliban as possible and GTFO."
This is because the US military's real enemy is in Washington. The most far left liberals are now demanding that Afghan forces be doubled or tripled, yet cut back on support so that they can't fight, only suffer.
I fear that they want a draft, and want a stalemate, so they can relive the glory days of their worthless Vietnam-era youth. And they don't care how many soldiers have to die for them to get it.
It is that pathetic. So the sooner they are out of that a-hole of the world, the better.
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The most far left liberals are now demanding that Afghan forces be doubled or tripled, yet cut back on support so that they can't fight, only suffer.
The solution for Pashtunistan, dare I say it is Ethnic Cleansing. The solution for the Mad Liberals® is ideological cleansing. And I think it is going to come to that.
[Quqnoos] A roadside bomb hit a civilian vehicle in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar on Wednesday, killing six men, officials said The bomb hit the vehicle as they were travelling to meet government officials in the Pacheragam district of Nangarhar province, a spokesman for the local government, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai said. "Two of the killed are tribal elders and four of them are employees of a private Afghan construction company in the province," the spokesman further said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack but Afghanistan has suffered a surge in violence ahead of presidential and provincial council elections on August 20.
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Meanwhile, tens of locals in a protest rally in southern Kandahar province claim that an air strike, likely carried out overnight by foreign forces, has killed six civilians in the restive Arghandab district on Tuesday. A provincial police official, Mohammad Shah Farooqi, confirmed the air strike that according to him, it has killed four civilians, including two kids, and wounding one more.
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[Maghrebia] A Mauritanian court on Tuesday (August 4th) arraigned three alleged terrorists for the murder of American NGO worker Christopher Leggett, Journal Tahalil reported. Mohamed Abdallahi Ould Hmedna, Didi Ould Bezeid and Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Khouna face the death penalty if convicted. Two days after Leggett was shot outside his Nouakchott IT school on June 23rd, al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for the killing.
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[ADN Kronos] Three more men have been charged in Australia with plotting a suicide attack on a Sydney army base. One of the men, Wissam Fattal, had an angry outburst when he appeared in a court in the southern city of Melbourne on Wednesday.
Fattal was charged with preparing to carry out a terrorist act, and was already in custody on other matters. Thirty-three year-old Fattal told the court he was not a terrorist and accused Australian troops of killing innocent people abroad. "You call me a terrorist but I've never killed anyone in my life," Fattal told the judge. "You send troops to Iraq to kill innocent people."
Fattal is one of five men, mostly from Melbourne's northern suburbs, held in custody in overnight and questioned about an alleged plot to launch a suicide mission on the Holsworthy Army barracks.
Yacqub Khayre, 22, is also charged with preparing for a terrorist act, while Saney Aweys, 26, and Abdirahman Ahmed, 25, are charged with aiding and abetting a man to engage in hostile acts abroad, including the civil war in Somalia. The men were arrested in massive police raids in Melbourne on Tuesday. The suspects are Australian nationals of Somali and Lebanese descent and are believed to have links with the Islamist Al-Shabab group in Somalia.
Another suspect, 25-year-old Nayaf El Sayed, was charged with the same offence. He did not enter a plea or apply for bail, and refused to stand for the magistrate in court. A fifth man was expected to be charged later on Wednesday.
Earlier, a police statement said that "police believe members of a Melbourne-based group have been undertaking planning to carry out a terrorist attack in Australia and [are] allegedly involved in hostilities in Somalia".
"The men's intention was to actually go into the army barracks and to kill as many soldiers as they could before they themselves were killed," said Tony Negus, acting chief commissioner of the Australian federal police.
The attack would have been the most serious terrorist attack on Australian soil, Negus added. "Members of the group have been actively seeking a fatwa or religious ruling to justify a terror attack on Australia," he said.
Prosecutors told the court they had evidence some of the men had taken part in training and fighting in Somalia.
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[ADN Kronos] Turkish police are reported to have fired water cannon and tear gas to foil a protest by Kurds in support of jailed Kurdish guerrilla leader Abdullah Ocalan, witnesses said Wednesday. Media reports said police had detained 11 people after protesters threw Molotov cocktails and stones in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir late Tuesday, security sources said.
One police officer was injured in the conflict.
The demonstrators chanted pro-Ocalan slogans and had been on a march in support of a "road map" to solve the Kurdish problem which Ocalan is to announce in mid-August.
The clashes took place ahead of a meeting between Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan and the leader of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party Ahmet Turk, in a bid to solve the Kurdish issue.
Turkey holds Ocalan responsible for the deaths of more than 40,000 people since 1984 when his militant group, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) began an armed struggle for a Kurdish homeland in southeastern Turkey.
The conflict has also reportedly worsened the poverty in the predominantly Kurdish southeast.
The government has not made clear what measures it will propose to end the conflict with the PKK other than cultural reforms such as Kurdish-language broadcasting, intended to address complaints of discrimination among the 12 million Kurds in Turkey.
Ankara has ruled out negotiation or amnesty for the PKK, which Turkey, like the United States and the European Union, regards as a terrorist organisation.
Ocalan was charged with treason and sentenced to hang by a Turkish court in 1999. The sentence was reduced to life imprisonment in October 2002 after Turkey abolished the death penalty under pressure from the EU, which Ankara wants to join.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] France's Elysee presidential palace has received another death threat letter containing a large caliber bullet addressed to President Nicolas Sarkozy.
According to an AFP report, the author warns what he called the "old guard" in Sarkozy's governing UMP party that an 'accident' might befall them. The threat marks the latest in a string of such warnings issued against senior members of center-right ruling party along with three cabinet ministers.
Justice Minister Rachida Dati, former Prime Minister Alain Juppe, Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie and Culture Minister Christine Albanel were among those who received death threats.
French police in March arrested a man suspected of sending death threats along with bullets to President Nicolas Sarkozy and other politicians. The man -- a military reservist in his 40s -- was detained at his home in the southern city of Montpellier. He was later released after someone proclaimed himself to be the true author of the letters and sent details of the bullets used in previous threats to his lawyer.
The writer or writers have lashed out at France's expulsion of illegal immigrants and demanded an end to matter. He has also called for the immediate release of the leader of the armed leftist group Action Directe, Jean-Marc Rouillan, from jail.
The mysterious, identical 20-line typed letters were full of spelling mistakes and abusive language. Anti-terrorist police have been relentlessly investigating the letters.
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just on Fox Special Report - pinch of salt - no link yet - supposedly capped in the hellfire that nailed the wife. They are doing DNA tests on the scattered limbs and pie hat, but mostly the scattered limbs
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tipper beat me, and with an actual link (I couldn't find)- delete, please, and spare me the humiliation :-)
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I've been kinda wondering lately... what's with the hair on this guy?
Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud was not killed in yesterday's airstrike in South Waziristan, US intelligence officials told The Long War Journal.
"Baitullah is alive," one official old The Long War Journal. "We're aware of the reports that he might have been killed and we are looking into it, but we don't believe he was killed."
Two suspected Hizbul Mujahideen militants, who were allegedly planning terror strikes here ahead of Independence Day, were arrested tonight, a senior Delhi police official said.
Javed Ahmed and Ashiq Ali were apprehended by Delhi Police' special cell from central Delhi's Daryaganj area when they were travelling in a white Santro car.
"We caught them from Mahavir parking area," Joint Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) P N Agarwal said.
The arrest came nine days ahead of the Independence Day celebrations in the national capital.
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Interpol has issued a global alert for 13 suspects wanted by police in Pakistan in connection with the investigation into the Mumbai terrorist attacks in India.
The alert asks Interpol member countries to assist in locating the individuals and immediately notify their bureau in Islamabad, Pakistan and headquarters in Lyon, France with any investigative leads.
A statement by Interpol said: “If the fugitives are located, Pakistani authorities will then formally request provisional arrest with a view towards extradition, in accordance with any applicable extradition treaty.”
The request suggests a new level of co-operation on the investigation between the two long-running enemies, although India has asked for suspects to be extradited to stand trial there.
Pakistan has arrested five people suspected of involvement in the assault, including the alleged mastermind, Zaki ur-Rehman Lakhvi, and their trial is expected to begin in the next week.
In India, Ajmal Kasab, the only one of the terrorists to be captured alive, changed his plea to guilty last month, although his trial is continuing.
Yousuf Raza Gilani, the Pakistani Prime Minister, pledged earlier this month to do everything in his power to bring those behind the attack to justice following a meeting with his Indian counterpart, Manmohan Singh, in Egypt.
A total of 166 people died and more than 300 were injured in the attacks between November 26 and 29 last year, which saw 10 gunmen target two luxury hotels, the main railway station, a popular restaurant and a Jewish centre.
The attacks have been blamed on the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) based in Pakistan but the founder of the group Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, was released from house arrest by the countryÂ’s courts in June.
The Interpol alert, known as a “diffusion,” was sent via Interpol’s I-24/7 secure police communications network to all 186 member countries.
It includes the fugitives’ names and other “nominal data” - which have not been released but is registered by the organisation’s Command and Co-ordination Centre in Interpol’s databases of wanted persons.
The statement added: “The diffusion will ensure that all Interpol’s member countries will be alerted to the wanted status of the 13 individuals and that their movements are recorded.”
Ronald Noble, InterpolÂ’s Secretary General, travelled to India and Pakistan in the wake of the attacks to offer investigative support and enhance co-operation.
He praised PakistanÂ’s co-operation with the international police community and added: "Unless terrorist-related information is registered on InterpolÂ’s global databases and shared among its global network, no international terrorist investigation can ever be considered complete and all countries which do not have this vital information are at risk.
"The authorities in Pakistan are to be commended for making full use of InterpolÂ’s global network and tools. This demonstrates their commitment to allowing all of Interpol's 187 member countries to benefit from and help with the investigation into the Mumbai terrorist attacks."
“Pakistan’s actions in this case will help set new international standards for terrorism investigations, especially those involving non-nationals.”
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Jail authorities on Thursday complained to a special court that prime accused in 26/11 terror attack case Mohammed Ajmal Kasab [ Images ] has refused to eat food and thrown away utensils in his cell, saying that he wants to have 'mutton biriyani'.
Judge M L Tahaliyani reprimanded Kasab for his rude behaviour and warned him to behave himself or else face stringent action.
This is not for the first time that Kasab has thrown tantrums. Even earlier, he threw away the utensils in which he was served food, the jail authorities complained.
Kasab's behaviour was brought to the notice of the court after he refused to eat food yesterday and banged the utensil against the wall.
The jail authorities informed the court that Kasab was served same food which was given to other prisoners.
When Judge M L Tahaliyani asked Kasab whether he had behaved rudely with jail staff, he stood up and said, "Yes sir".
Kasab is lodged in the high security central prison at Arthur Road. The court is also housed in the same compound.
Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam condemned Kasab's behaviour saying he was throwing tantrums every now and then.
Nikam said he had read reports in a section of the media that on Raksha Bandhan day, Kasab had asked his lawyer after the court proceedings whether anyone would tie Rakhi to him.
This, he said, was deliberately leaked to the media and the ploy of Kasab was to gain sympathy of the people. Kasab is very clever and should not be allowed to throw tantrums, Nikam said.
Meanwhile, jail sources said they would keep a strict watch on Kasab. There are CCTV cameras installed in his cell and his movements are being monitored, they said.
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I've heard mutton biriyani marinated in goat piss is delicious.
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One word: axehandle. Applied to the knees, buttocks, back, or head, it does wonders for correcting incorrigables. The amount of force used should be equal to the level of intrangicence or improper behavior.
"Kasab refuses food, says he wants mutton biriyani". Make him eat stewed goat brains, like everyone else.
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A special Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) court has awarded the death sentence to all three accused in the 2003 twin Mumbai blasts at Gateway.
Mohammad Hanif Syed, his wife Fehmida and third conspirator Ashrat Ansari were convicted for planting the bombs on August 25, 2003 that left 54 dead and 244 injured. They had also planted a bomb on July 28, 2003 in a municipal bus in suburban Ghatkopar which killed two persons.
The judge P R Puranik hearing the case observed that it had been proved beyond reasonable doubt they had committed heinous acts resulting in numerous deaths, PTI reported.
Syed and Fehmida have been found guilty of planting the bomb in taxis at Gateway of India. Ansari delivered the bomb at Zaveri Bazaar. Special prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam has called it a ''rarest of rare'' case in which the trio had ''enjoyed their act of killing''. Nikam said they had been unhappy with smaller blasts that resulted in low death tolls and hence used RDX for the twin blasts.
This is for the first time that a married couple is being convicted by a POTA court for their involvement in carrying out blasts.
After the sentencing, Fahmida broke down outside the court while her husband did not react and stood calm by her side. Ashrat said "Is andhe kanoon se kya insaaf milega (what justice can you get when the law is blind).
Clearly Mr. Ansari missed that lesson in his high school civics course. We want Justice, or the Law as he prefers to phrase it, to be blind to persons, that all are equal before it. Thus he praised what he sought to condemn.
Commenting on the verdict, Nikam said, "We are happy that justice has been delivered. This would send a strong message to terrorists that they would get such punishment if they indulged in barbarous acts".
"Initially they had planted a bomb in a bus but since few people were killed, they decided to use powerful bombs on the instructions of Laskhar-e-Taiba," Nikam said.
Nikam said Fehmida had played a major role in these bomb blasts. She not only planted a bomb in a bus on July 28, 2003, along with her husband's friend Ashrat but also on August 25, 2003, she and her husband Hanif planted bombs in taxis at the Gateway of India. "Fehmida had actively participated in the process of selection and approval of location of targets. Though Fehmida was a woman she was equally cruel as other accused in the execution of conspiracy," Nikam said.
Everyone knows women are the crueler as well as kinder sex. No doubt she cooed over puppies or something to make up for it.
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The Pakistan government has banned 25 religious and other organisations, including the Jamaat-ud-Dawah, Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashker-e-Taiba, the interior ministry said on Wednesday.
The ministry presented a list of the banned organisations in the National Assembly or lower house of parliament. It also said the Sunni Tehrik had been put on a watch list.
Among the organisations included in the list of outlawed groups are JuD, LeT, JeM, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariah Muahammadi, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Al-Akhtar Trust, Al-Rasheed Trust, Tehreek-e-Islami, Islamic Students Movement, Khair-un-Nisa International Trust, Islami Tehreek-e-Pakistan, Lashkar-e-Islam, Balochistan Liberation Army, Jamiat-un-Nisar, Khadam Islam and Millat-e-Islamia Pakistan.
A majority of the groups have been linked to terrorist attacks and suicide bombings in Pakistan. India has blamed the JuD, LeT and JeM for several attacks on its soil, including the Mumbai attacks and the 2001 assault on the Indian parliament.
Pakistan banned the JuD after the UN Security Council declared it a front for the LeT in December last year. The LeT and JeM were banned by the country in 2002.
Responding to a question in the National Assembly, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said the federal government had banned the 25 organisations and entities under the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997.
Three of the banned organizations -- JuD, Al-Akhtar Trust and Al-Rasheed Trust -- had been included in the UN Security Council resolution no 1267, he said.
Law enforcement agencies closely monitor the activities of these groups and "stern action is taken against those which indulge in objectionable activities," Malik said.
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Hundreds of Pakistani Christians staged a protest Wednesday over the killing of eight of their community members by a Muslim mob, with some demonstrators smashing the windows of public buses.
Television footage showed dozens of protesters in the eastern city of Lahore climbing onto the vehicles and breaking their windows.
Ijaz Sindhu, chairman of the organizing group, the Pakistan Christian Labour Party, said some young people attacked four buses but caused no injuries to fleeing passengers.
Police officer Rana Ayaz Salim said about 1,000 people took part in Wednesday's demonstration.
Hundreds of Muslims attacked a Christian neighborhood in Gojra city on Saturday after reports that a Quran had been desecrated. Eight Christians were killed.
Authorities say an initial probe debunked the claims that the Muslim holy book was defiled, and government officials have said members of the banned Sunni group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan and its al-Qaida-linked offshoot Lashkar-e-Jhangvi were arrested as suspects in the attacks.
The independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said its fact-finding team has determined that the rioting had been planned and was not spontaneous. It said hard-line clerics made incendiary speeches.
The assault, in which dozens of homes were also burned, underscored the precarious status of religious minorities in the Muslim-majority nation where extremist Islam is on the rise.
Punjab Minister for Minority Affairs Kamran Michael said Wednesday that a judge had been appointed to conduct a judicial inquiry into the Gojra riots, and that the judge had visited the site.
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I really don't understand why, when India and Pakistan became independent, some Christians chose to go with Muslim Pakistan instead of a secular India. One of life's great mysteries. Was it really that hard of a decision?
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When you've lived in the same place as your parents and grandparents for eight or nine generations, it's very difficult to cut those ties, even under the oppression of Islam. Eventually Islam will have to be hammered into a box and the top nailed shut. Cede them the territory from Morocco to Afghanistan/Pakistan, from the Bosporus and the Med to about 10 degrees North, and REQUIRE EVERY MUSLIM to live within that area.
The rest of the world could trade or interact as much or as little as they choose, but no Muslim could ever leave that geographic area. Let them fight among themselves, and leave US out of it.
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I really don't understand why, when India and Pakistan became independent, some Christians chose to go with Muslim Pakistan instead of a secular India. One of life's great mysteries. Was it really that hard of a decision?
Under the rule of the British Raj, the specific demography of a given area made no difference - British law (with a bit of local flavor) applied to all. The propaganda of the Indian independence movement was that all of the India's ills came from oppression and exploitation by whitey. According to this worldview, once India became independent, Indians would become rich as Croesus. When that failed to materialize, South Asians began to blame their poverty on the aftereffects of and a global economic system based on whitey oppression and exploitation.
[Geo News] A sixty-year-old aged woman has been arrested here on charges in relation to blasphemy to Holy Quran on Wednesday, Geo news said while angry mob has cordoned off the police station. According to sources, the furious mob has started to pelt police station with stones and is setting tires on fire on roads. People are raising slogans against the women and are demanding police of woman, sources added.
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People are raising slogans against the women and are demanding police of woman
[Geo News] Police has arrested four people allegedly involved in the ransacking of the leather factory and then killing its owner in Shaikhupura on Tuesday. Raids are also being carried out for the arrest others including the Imam of a Mosque. Muridke Road appeared deserted after the yesterday's incident while police kept surrounding the factory premises. Some of the factory officers reached there to assess the damage caused to the factory yesterday.
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[Dawn] Eleven militants were killed when a tribal Lashkar attacked their hideouts in Doog Darra area in Upper Dir on Wednesday.
Sources said the Qaumi Lashkar volunteers had attacked the bunkers of militants in Shatkas and Ghazigai villages. One militant, identified as Zakirullah, was arrested and four houses of suspected militants were set on fire in Shatkas. Lashkar sources said five of the men killed were Afghans, two were from Swat and four, including Taliban commander Shakoor, were local militants. Four Lashkar volunteers suffered injuries.
The Taliban claimed that only four of their men had been killed in the attack. However, Lashkar sources said they would present the bodies of the 11 militants before the media on Thursday. The sources said the volunteers had besieged another 20 to 40 militants in Ghazigai, but there was no report of their surrender or arrest till late night. The Lashkar claimed that they would soon be able to eliminate militants from the region.
The 'Lashkarkashi' (operation) against militants was launched in Doog Darra on June 6 after a suicide bomber had killed 40 people in a mosque in Shatkas. Security forces were helping the tribal people with arms, ammunitions and ration. Troops also pounded suspected militant hideouts in Shatkas and Ghazigai from Panakot and Doog Darra with artillery and mortars.
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[The News (Pak) Top Stories] Fourteen people, 10 of them women and children and four paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) soldiers, were killed and several others sustained injuries in clashes between security forces and the militants in North Waziristan Agency on Monday night.
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General, Maj-Gen Athar Abbas, confirmed the killing of four FC men in the fighting. He said terrorists attacked security posts in the night and the troops repulsed the attack by targeting their positions. However, he said the military had no details about the losses suffered by the militants.
The latest fighting between security forces and the militants erupted when the latter launched a series of attacks on various posts of security forces in Miramshah on Monday night. The attacks were well-organised as the militants first attacked security posts and then started firing mortar shells at the FC camp and the Pakistan Army base in Miramshah.
Tribal sources said the town echoed with heavy explosions. The attacks on Amin picket, Sarbanki and Banda posts on hilltops and on Miramshah prompted security forces to begin heavy artillery and mortar shelling from the FC camp towards the direction from where they were being fired at. The entire tribal region plunged into darkness as power supply was suspended due to the explosions.
According to official sources, Miramshah turned into a battlefield as firing was heard everywhere in the town and its suburbs. Figures collected by The News from official and tribal sources showed that only civilians, mostly women and children, became the victims of indiscriminate firing.
Madad Khan, a retired assistant director of Livestock Department, was the first victim of the fighting. His house in Chashma village near Miramshah was hit by several stray shells, causing heavy damage to the structure. Madad Khan remained safe but his 12-year-old son Hamid and his sister-in-law were killed on the spot while four family members, including his wife, two daughters and a niece, were seriously injured.
The injured could not be taken to the nearby Agency Headquarters Hospital in Miramshah due to curfew. Villagers in Chashma village said their pleas to the FC men at the nearby post for taking the wounded to the hospital were turned down.
According to sources, four soldiers deployed at the Amin picket were killed and two others seriously injured in an attack on the post. In another incident, seven people, four of them women and three children, were killed and a few others injured when several shells hit a house of a tribesman, Mir Shah Jehan, in Khadarkhel village in the militants-controlled Dattakhel town, 45 kilometres west of Miramshah.
The injured were brought to the distant Miramshah hospital where doctors said an injured child was in critical condition. Tribal sources told The News by telephone that heavy firing started in the border town after an attack by the militants on the Dattakhel FC Fort. The troops stationed in the British-era fort repulsed the attack and fired at suspected positions of the militants.
Naseebullah, the 15-year-old son of Izzat Khan, died when a stray mortar shell fell on his house in Machas Colony in Miramshah. His aggrieved father said the deceased was asking his younger brothers and sisters to be careful when the heavy firing started in the town.
In Sarbanki village near Miramshah, two children of tribesman Fazlur Rahman were critically injured and his house damaged in mortar shelling. Also, an electric transformer caught fire when hit by a stray shell.
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[ADN Kronos] An Iraqi insurgent group calling itself The Arrows of Truth Brigades has posted to jihadist websites a 90 second video entitled 'The Decapitation of a Spy'. The video, which shows in graphic detail a hooded executioner slitting the throat of a captive 'police informer', is believed to be the first Iraqi beheading to surface on the Internet in over a year.
The hostage, whose gruesome execution is shown in the video, is accused of having told Iraqi police the exact location of roadside bombs the group has placed along the northern city of Mosul's streets to target military vehicles. In the video, the executioner, wearing a black hood and a white tunic, is seen placing the hostage on his side on a patch of grass, the position in which animals are ritually slaughtered under Islam.
The hostage, whose hands are bound, struggles, but his throat is quickly slit by the executioner and his assistants and is beheaded. "O apostates, this is the fate that will befall you," the executioner warns.
Al-Qaeda's late leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, gained notoriety for his grisly beheadings of hostages, which were videoed and posted to the Internet. He was killed in a US airstrike in June 2006 near Baquba, in eastern Diyala province.
The little known Arrows of Truth Brigades are reported to be active in northern Iraq but are a smaller group than the Islamic State of Iraq, an umbrella organisation including Al-Qaeda in Iraq and other Sunni insurgent formations.
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Arrows of Truth Brigades
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I wonder if Iraqi authorities will let them off if they recant.
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Catch the executioner, tie him to a pole in the middle of the city, and give every person who walks by the opportunity to hit him with a bamboo rod an inch in diameter. Broadcast the blows live across the city. Be sure to have plenty of police on hand to handle the mob that will descend upon this piece of unregurgitated fecal matter.
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[ADN Kronos] Five police officers were killed and three others were wounded in a roadside bomb attack in southern Baghdad on Wednesday, a police source told the Voices of Iraq news agency. "An explosive charge, planted on a road in al-Athouriyeen neighborhood in al-Doura, southern Baghdad, exploded targeting a police vehicle patrol, killing five and injuring three people," the source said. "The explosion caused material damage to one of the patrol's vehicles," he added.
"Security forces cordoned off the region and rushed the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment," he said.
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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
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[Quqnoos] A roadside bomb hit a civilian vehicle in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar on Wednesday, killing six men, officials said The bomb hit the vehicle as they were travelling to meet government officials in the Pacheragam district of Nangarhar province, a spokesman for the local government, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai said. "Two of the killed are tribal elders and four of them are employees of a private Afghan construction company in the province," the spokesman further said. 
[ADN Kronos] Three more men have been charged in Australia with plotting a suicide attack on a Sydney army base. One of the men, Wissam Fattal, had an angry outburst when he appeared in a court in the southern city of Melbourne on Wednesday.
[ADN Kronos] An Iraqi insurgent group calling itself The 
[ADN Kronos] Five police officers were killed and three others were wounded in a roadside bomb attack in southern Baghdad on Wednesday, a police source told the Voices of Iraq news agency. "An explosive charge, planted on a road in al-Athouriyeen neighborhood in al-Doura, southern Baghdad, exploded targeting a police vehicle patrol, killing five and injuring three people," the source said. "The explosion caused material damage to one of the patrol's vehicles," he added.
