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Suspected Taliban militants have launched an attack in the Afghan capital Kabul, setting off explosions and sparking a gun battle. A statement on a Taliban website said the raid had targeted government buildings and the hotel. Turbans rampaging and exploding through downtown Kabul and they're "suspected Taliban." Maybe that's accurate. They could be al-Qaeda Arabs and Paks, or Hek's Hizbies, who aren't technically "Taliban."
On the other hand, the BBC journalist is reporting an announcement on a Taliban website. That could be an indicator of... something.
The fighting erupted near the Serena Hotel and presidential palace, although Afghan President Hamid Karzai says security has now been restored. "All is well! We'll be investigating anybody we think was bumped off by foreigners!"
The Taliban said 20 of its fighters were involved. Two civilians and three security personnel have been killed plus 71 others wounded, officials say. Seven attackers had also been killed, Interior Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar said. How about the other 13?
It is the latest in a series of increasingly brazen attacks on Kabul.
'Under control'
A spokesman for the interior ministry told the BBC it believed seven suicide attackers were involved. And there are seven enemy deaders. Wotta coincidence.
Four attacked a shopping centre near the Serena Hotel and presidential palace. All were now dead and fighting there had ceased, the spokesman said. Meaning the other 13 got away...
Three militants attacked a cinema about 400m away and two were killed there. At least two explosions were reported earlier. Sounds like a fiasco...
A statement from the president's office said: "The Afghan president wants to assure the inhabitants of Kabul that the security situation is under control and order has once again been restored." "Until the next bus arrives from North Wazoo, anyway..."
It added: "The president condemns these terrorist attacks and has instructed the security entities to intensify security in the city and take action to arrest those responsible for these brutal and unpatriotic attacks." "Condemns" them, does he? Guess that's better than praising them or ignoring them...
Because the security entities wouldn't think of arresting or increasing security had the president not barked such orders at them. Straight out of the leadership manual.
The BBC's Mark Dummett, who had been in the basement of the Serena Hotel during the attack, said the city was in lockdown, with hundreds of security officers patrolling the streets and a helicopter flying overhead. Sure hope there are lots of paddy wagons whizzing by, full of wailing turbans...
He said although the city appeared quiet, the discrepancy between the number of insurgents the Taliban said had taken part and the number given by officials suggested there could still be militants at large, and everyone remained on guard. In other words they missed the 13 spares, who could detonate at any moment...
Speaking to BBC News from inside the ministry of finance, civil servant Emal Masood said he could see the Feroshgah-e-Afghan shopping centre was burned out. He said: "One of my friends has a shop there. He told me two men entered - insurgents, yes - and were yelling at people to get out of the building.
Isn't that a bit unusual? I thought suicide bombers preferred to kill as many innocent bystanders as possible. Or is that only in Israel and Iraq?
He said he left his shop open and ran away. Police were coming in as he ran out."
'Deplorable'
The US condemned the attack. Special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke said: "It's not surprising that the Taliban do this sort of thing. They are desperate people, they are ruthless." "Desperate" and "ruthless" are two different things. They've always been ruthless -- it's part of Pashtun culture. It's easy to be ruthless when human life is dirt cheap. "Desperate" is another matter. The repeated boomer attacks on Kabul look like a coherent campaign, not acts of "desperation."
The US embassy in Kabul said the Taliban's disregard for Afghan lives was "deplorable". ... since we don't regard human life as cheaply. It's a cultural thing, so we actually don't understand it.
Taliban militants have launched a number of recent attacks on Kabul. Coherently coordinated attacks, I might add...
Our correspondent, Mark Dummett, says there will be huge concern that the militants have again broken through to the most protected part of the city, although security forces say they do prevent many other attacks. Another example of us having to be lucky all the time and them only having to be lucky now and then...
Nato spokesman US Navy Lt Nico Melendez told the BBC innocent civilians had been the target of Monday's attack. "We don't see a lot of attacks like this in Kabul. We do know that there are forces throughout the city providing protection for the innocent Afghan citizens and we're doing everything we can to help the Afghan police and the Afghan army. You can't protect all the people, all the time, all the places." If you concentrate on destroying the enemy the populace eventually ends up getting protected...
Monday's attack comes amid continuing political uncertainty in Afghanistan. Mr Karzai was swearing in new members of his cabinet at the time of the raid. Quite a coincidence, huh? Probably made the ruthless enemy so desperate they exploded...
Afghan MP Daoud Sultanzoy told the BBC it was not a coincidence that the attack started at 1000 local time, "almost exactly the same time that part of the cabinet would have been sworn in only 100m away". I'm guessing the closest they could get was 100 yards...
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sometimes suicide bombers get cold feet - this is more true when you are sending them in mass
sending 20 boomers and getting 7 booms is to be expected
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I saw a little of this on Fox. After one of the booms, an ambulance rushed to the scene and it boomed. It was a hijacked ambulance. Only one person, other than whoever was in it, died.
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But Marica said there were no terrorists in Afghanistan?!
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Isn't that a bit unusual? I thought suicide bombers preferred to kill as many innocent bystanders as possible. Or is that only in Israel and Iraq?
Indicating this was a professionally-run operation with the intent of both taking out A'stan government and Western personnel, and giving Karzai's government a black eye (thus boosting the Taliban's stock with the populace).
KUNDUZ/KABUL/HERAT: Taliban have kidnapped two Chinese engineers and four Afghans accompanying them in Qaysar district of Faryab province, a local official said on Sunday.
“Unknown people kidnapped yesterday (Saturday) two Chinese engineers along with their two local drivers and two guards,' said local government spokesman Jawaed Bidar. Bidar said the engineers were working to build a road, when the kidnapping took place. Taliban spokesman Yusuf Ahmadi also confirmed the kidnapping.
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muslim civility *snort* yeah right...
So rude that I poop-listed it and dumped its comment.
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I don't think I've ever heard of a Chinese revenge for this sort of think. Both the US and Russia would be inclined, but no mention of Chinese vengeance.
[Maghrebia] The emir of al-Qaeda's "Al-Arqam" cell, Abou Amin, was among five terrorists killed last week by Algerian security forces in Bejaia, Tout sur l'Algerie reported on Saturday (January 16th). During the same operation near Tazmalt, a suicide bomber killed the Algerian army's regional commander and an intelligence officer.
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[Maghrebia] Spanish authorities received an al-Qaeda video of the three humanitarian aid workers kidnapped on November 29th in Mauritania, Spanish daily El Mundo reported on Friday (January 15th). Hostage Albert Vilalta, thought to have been wounded during the terrorist ambush of the Spanish aid convoy, appears in the video with his leg in a cast, Journal Tahalil reported. A total of six European hostages have been kidnapped in Mauritania and Mali since November. The three Spaniards, a French man and an Italian couple are reportedly being held by three different al-Qaeda groups in the northern Mali desert.
In related news, senior Mauritanian government officials from the Interior, Justice and Islamic Guidance ministries visited a prison in Nouakchott to meet with representatives of some seventy Salafists currently held at the facility. The prisoners include several men convicted for murdering a French tourist family in December of 2007. The meeting came as part of the effort to prevent future terrorist attacks.
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JOS: Clashes erupted between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria's central city of Jos on Sunday, leaving at least 12 people dead. The city was placed under a night-time curfew between 6pm and 6am to ease tensions that began early on Sunday after an argument arose on the rebuilding of homes destroyed in the November 2008 clashes, residents said. A Reuters correspondent counted 12 bodies at Jos University Teaching Hospital and at the city's main mosque.
"I cannot give casualty figures now until my men complete their full investigation," he said.
Thirty-five people were arrested," said Gregory Anyating, police commissioner for Plateau state -- of which Jos is the capital.
Several houses and vehicles were also burnt in the fighting between Muslims and Christians in the city's Nassarawa Gwom area, said journalist and resident Musa Habibu, AFP reported.
Plateau state police spokesman Mohammed Lerema said the situation had been brought under control and several people had been detained, some of them found with guns and ammunition.
Jos has been a hotbed of religious violence in central Nigeria. In November 2008 hundreds of people were killed in two days of violence triggered by a rumour that the majority-Muslim All Nigeria People's Party had lost a local election to the mainly Christian Peoples Democratic Party. Soldiers and policemen were brought in to restore order.
State officials put the death toll at about 200 but other sources gave the death toll at twice that figure.
Religious violence has also erupted in nearby northern Nigeria. Last month at least 70 people were killed in violent clashes between security forces and members of a radical sect in the country's northern Bauchi State.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Yemen has boosted security at energy installations to guard against militant attacks, a government official said on Sunday, as Sanaa escalated its war against al-Qaeda. "The security measures have been strengthened for some time. But we took additional measures around oil institutions and the gas project in Shabwa," the official told Reuters, speaking on customary condition of anonymity.
He said the measures were put in place "in case of any terrorist attacks". Other security officials said the heightened security had been put in place on Saturday, a day after an air strike in northern Yemen killed six al-Qaeda militants.
Yemen declared open war on al-Qaeda on Thursday and warned citizens against aiding the global militant group. Troops were sent last week to join a drive against al-Qaeda in three provinces.
On Friday, an air strike killed six al-Qaeda militants in northern Yemen in an attack one analyst has said would be a significant blow to al-Qaeda's Yemen-based wing.
The local headquarters of several large Western oil companies are clustered in the capital and the residential area housing Western oil workers in Sanaa has been attacked before.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-il recently watched an exercise by the North Korean Army, Navy and Air Force, the [North] Korean Central Broadcasting Station reported on Sunday.
The drill is seen as a show of force after the National Defense Commission, the top leadership body chaired by Kim, last week complained about a South Korean contingency plan for any drastic change in the North, which is being updated, and called for "a sacred retaliatory battle to blow up Cheong Wa Dae."
It was the first time the North Korean media have reported on Kim watching a joint armed forces drill or even mentioned an exercise by the armed forces on this scale.
Great chance to look at all that antique equipment. For you older ex-mil folks on the Burg, it's like old-home day ...
Some fear that this goes beyond mere saber-rattling. "We aren't ruling out that the North will follow up" with another round of limited provocations, a senior South Korean government official said.
According to an informed source, the North Korean armed forces prepared for the joint drill in the West Sea on Jan. 14 and carried it out the following day. The threat to blow up the South Korean presidential office came immediately after the drill had finished on Jan. 15.
In a special program, the [North] Korean Central Television Station also reported Kim's attendance at the drill accompanied by four photos of him. One showed about 10 240-mm multiple rocket launchers with raised gun barrels. With a range of 60 km, the rocket launchers pose a direct threat to Seoul and vicinity.
But a Defense Ministry official dismissed the fears, saying the North Korean military has been carrying out the annual winter drills since December and their scale is not much bigger than in previous years.
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A top Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) terrorist was arrested by security agencies here on Monday, TV reports said. The arrested militant has been identified as Amjad alias Shaikh Abdul Khwaj of the Bangladesh based HuJI.
Amjad is wanted in the 2005 Hyderabad task force office blast and is also believed to be behind the Hyderabad twin blasts in 2007 which claimed 42 lives.
[Dawn] The police arrested a tribal elder along with his three sons involved in terrorism while recovering a huge cache of arms and five suspicious vehicles from their hideout in Khwasi Banda on Sunday.
The district police officer, Dilawar Khan Bangash said that they had received reports about the involvement of Khan Akbar's family in terrorist activities.
The police elite force arrested them during a raid at the house of the tribal elder in Khwasi Banda in Jarma area of Kohat while seizing Kalashnikovs, pistols, repeaters and five suspicious vehicles parked at a secret place. The main accused Khan Akbar and his three sons Inamullah, Eid Akbar and Amanullah were brought to Kohat in tight security.
Preliminary investigations revealed that they had relations with the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan and had registered themselves as internally displaced people to sneak into Kohat from Orakzai Agency last month.
Officials confided that a case had been registered against the man and his three sons in Sadder police station and a joint investigation would be constituted soon to interrogate them.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] A U.S. drone aircraft fired missiles in Pakistan's South Waziristan region on the Afghan border, killing at least 15 militants on Sunday, Pakistani security officials said.
"Now the death toll is 20. It could rise further. People are still busy removing rubble," a senior security official told Reuters. Most of the casualties were foreign fighters, he added.
The pilotless drone strikes are a source of friction between the United States and Pakistan, which says they are a violation of its sovereignty. U.S. officials say the missile strikes are carried out under an agreement with Islamabad that allows Pakistani leaders to decry the attacks in public. Islamabad denies this.
Washington says they are an effective weapon in tribal areas in northwest Pakistan along the Afghan border seen as a global hub for militants, including senior al-Qaeda and Taliban figures.
Sunday's attack was the tenth missile strike by an unmanned U.S. spy plane so far this year, as the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama puts Pakistan at the heart of its fight against al-Qaeda and Islamist extremists.
The latest attack also brought to 41 the number of militants reported to have been killed in three attacks since Thursday.
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Credit where due, Play4Keeps. This part of the war on terror is going quite well. As Mr. Pruitt writes elsewhere, "How about: al-Qaeda is in both Pakistain and Afghanistan, primarily in the Pashtun areas. Operations of the Pak and the Afghan "Taliban," along with Hekmatyar's Hizb-e-Islami and the Haqqani Group, are coodinated by al-Qaeda. Pak terror orgs such as Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Pak HuJI have either been subsumed into al-Q or, if they retain independence -- like Lashkar-e-Taiba -- are acting within the same harness as the "Talibs." "
[Al Arabiya Latest] Iraqi doctors would be allowed to carry weapons under a law approved by the cabinet on Sunday to help protect physicians subjected to kidnapping, murder and tribal demands for blood money from relatives of dead patients. "First, do no harm. Second, take no guff!"
The law, which must still be passed by parliament, could help prevent doctors from fleeing war-shattered Iraq and encourage those abroad to come back.
Many doctors, particularly in the south, complain about a tribal tradition where the family of a patient who dies while in a doctor's care demands payment.
The draft law foresees a possible prison sentence of three years or a fine of no less than 10 million Iraqi dinars (around $8,000) against anyone who demands a tribal settlement from a doctor.
"The draft law is a gesture from the Iraqi government for doctors and specialists ... to protect them from attacks and the tribal demands resulting from their medical work," government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said in a statement.
Doctors fled Iraq by the thousands during the explosion of violence between majority Shiites and minority Sunni Arabs in the years following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
Considered among the elite of Iraqi society, medical specialists became a target for insurgents, militias and kidnappers in search of rich ransoms. Hundreds have been killed since 2003.
The law would also allow the government to lift Iraq's usual retirement age of 63 and let doctors work until 70 if they are needed, and to build residential compounds for physicians near hospitals and other health institutions.
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to help protect physicians subjected to kidnapping, murder and tribal demands for blood money
[Ma'an] Israeli forces detained seven Palestinian from the Al-Ein Refugee Camp and Al-Sikkah Street in Nablus on Sunday, following an incursion.
More than 15 Israeli military vehicles entered the city, raided a number of homes and detained Muntaser Hamdi, Samer As-Salhi, Raed Al-Khatib and Mu'tasim Saleh, witnesses said.
Three brothers were detained in Al-Sikkah Street before Israeli troops withdrew from at 8am, witnesses say, identifying those detained as Shadi, Muhannad and Maher Shalabi.
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Ah, looks like there was a spike in West Bank activity.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Israeli warships intercepted three fishing boats off the coast of the Gaza Strip and abducted nine Palestinian fishermen on Saturday, Hamas sources say.
The Israeli military confirmed it had stopped three fishing boats and arrested those on board but did not specify how many people were detained, according to the AFP.
"Last night an IDF (Israeli military) naval force arrested three fishing boats that had illegally crossed from the permitted Gaza fishing zone towards Egyptian waters," said a military spokesman.
The Israeli Navy maintains a close surveillance on the Gaza strip as part of a general blockade imposed on the territory since Hamas took control of the region in June 2007.
Under the blockade, Israel prevents fishermen from venturing more than five kilometers (three miles) offshore, even though a 2002 agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority set the boundary at 22 kilometers (13.5 miles).
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I suppose that they wanted to check those fishing boats for what "ballast" the fishermen were using.
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Oh, puh-leeze. Why would the Israelis want more paleos?
Hint to paleos: There a reason nobody wants you.
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Why would the Israelis want more paleos?
Perhaps the perfidious Juice intend to use them to prepare pizzas, or ramen or matzahs or whatever that indigenous dish is they prepare with the precious bodily fluids of their victims. Don't know why they would use fishermen, though. Seems like they would taste...well, fishy.
Terrorists Suspected insurgents have killed three people including two Muslims in separate incidents in Thailand's violent south, police said on Monday.
In Pattani province on Sunday night, four gunmen opened fire with M-16 rifles on a 31-year-old male Muslim villager outside his home, where he died. Soon afterwards a 36-year-old dessert vendor was killed in a drive-by shooting while he was travelling home from a tea shop in the same province.
Also on Sunday evening a Buddhist woman, aged 42, was killed when two suspects travelling by motorcycle threw a hand-made bomb into the karaoke bar where she worked in Pattani, police said.
[Asharq al-Aswat] Iran has sentenced senior reformist and former MP Mohsen Safai Farahani, arrested after the disputed June presidential election, to six years in jail, opposition websites reported on Sunday.
"Last night (Saturday), he was informed of the verdict after spending more than 200 days in custody. He was sentenced to six years in prison," Kaleme and Parlemannews websites said.
They did not say what charges Safai Farahani was convicted of.
He was rounded up along with scores of prominent reformists and journalists shortly after the June 12 poll which gave hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a second term amid widespread fraud allegations.
The government accused its reformist opponents of seeking to undermine the regime by instigating mass street protests against Ahmadinejad.
Several have been sentenced to hefty prison terms. Some have been released on bail pending possible appeals.
A veteran industrialist, Safai Farahani, 61, is one of the leaders of Iran's largest reformist party, the Islamic Iran Participation Front, which strongly backed Ahmadinejad's leading challenger in the vote, former prime minister Mir Hossein Mousavi.
Safai Farahani also served as an MP between 2000 and 2004, and as deputy economy minister and head of Iran's football federation under the reformist presidency of Mohammad Khatami between 1997 and 2005.
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Suspected Taliban militants have launched an attack in the Afghan capital Kabul, setting off explosions and sparking a gun battle. A statement on a Taliban website said the raid had targeted government buildings and the hotel. 
[Maghrebia] The emir of al-Qaeda's "Al-Arqam" cell, 
JOS: Clashes erupted between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria's central city of Jos on Sunday, leaving at least 12 people dead. The city was placed under a night-time curfew between 6pm and 6am to ease tensions that began early on Sunday after an argument arose on the rebuilding of homes destroyed in the November 2008 clashes, residents said. A Reuters correspondent counted 12 bodies at Jos University Teaching Hospital and at the city's main mosque. 
[Al Arabiya Latest] Yemen has boosted security at energy installations to guard against militant attacks, a government official said on Sunday, as Sanaa escalated its war against al-Qaeda. "The security measures have been strengthened for some time. But we took additional measures around oil institutions and the gas project in Shabwa," the official told Reuters, speaking on customary condition of anonymity. 
[Al Arabiya Latest] A U.S. drone aircraft fired missiles in Pakistan's South Waziristan region on the Afghan border, killing at least 15 militants on Sunday, Pakistani security officials said.
[Ma'an] Israeli forces detained seven Palestinian from the Al-Ein Refugee Camp and Al-Sikkah Street in Nablus on Sunday, following an incursion. 
