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Militants report 15 dead in missile strike
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Afghanistan
Marine IED Sweep
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 01/23/2010 05:02 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When I try to play the video I get the following message:

"This video contains content from National Geographic, who has decided to block it from your country."

Grammatical errors aside . . . isn't this . . interesting?

Canadians are taking a pasting in the Stan from IEDs yet we can't see a video about sweeping for them because National Geographic (the "who") has decided so.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 01/23/2010 12:22 Comments || Top||

#2  good point CS. It's a short, but good, vid. No idea what idiot blocked it...
Posted by: Frank G || 01/23/2010 12:57 Comments || Top||

#3  It works for me, but then again Hughesnet is not so border specific.
Posted by: Skunky Glins**** || 01/23/2010 16:48 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Ethnic clashes leave 24 dead in south Sudan
[Iran Press TV Latest] The ethnic clashes that broke out last week in south Sudan's troubled Jonglei state has killed at least 24 people, a military spokesman said.

Fighting erupted on Monday between rival tribes after a quarrel between two men in the Nuer settlement of Koul-Anyang in the state of Jonglei escalated, killing nine people, Major General Kuol Diem Kuol said Friday.

Kuol, a General with the southern Sudan Peoples' Liberation Army (SPLA), added that the fighting climaxed on Thursday, "and this time it was more bloody."

While the clashes were originally between people from the Nuer ethnic group, the fighting later drew in the Dinka into action. As per information received, clashes on Thursday killed 15 Nuer , wounded 16 and another five have gone missing, Kuol said.

The death toll, however, is expected to rise further, the SPLA General said.

Ethnic clashes are frequent in southern Sudan. They are often sparked by cattle rustling and disputes over natural resources.

However, a string of recent raids, especially attacks on women and children, is threatening stability in the region ahead of general elections due in April.
Posted by: Fred || 01/23/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan

#1  SPLA..... Hmmm.

Killing Black Christians before the great separation.
Posted by: newc || 01/23/2010 1:12 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Algeria expands police presence in Kabylie
[Maghrebia] Algeria will deploy 29 new gendarme brigades to the Kabylie region before the end of 2010, Tout sur l'Algerie quoted the Tizi Ouzou regional commander as saying on Thursday (January 21st). According to Colonel Salim Benazouz, a police brigade will be installed in each of the 67 communes of the wilaya. Security coverage in Tizi Ouzou is currently estimated to be about 45%. For his part, Colonel Abderrahmane Ayoub said the new brigades would bolster efforts to fight terrorism and criminal activities.
Posted by: Fred || 01/23/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa

#1  Kabyles: nobody supports their right to self determination---of course they don't have any petro relatives.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/23/2010 7:14 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
'150 bodies found in wells' after Nigerian massacre
At least 150 bodies were recovered from wells following deadly Muslim-Christian clashes in central Nigeria in which the estimated death toll already stood at about 300.

"So far we have picked 150 bodies from the wells. But 60 more people are still missing, said Umar Baza, head of Kuru Karama village near the city of Jos told AFP on telephone.

"We took an inventory of the displaced people from this village, sheltering in three camps and we realise that 60 people can still not be accounted for," he added.
Posted by: ed || 01/23/2010 11:40 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Red Indians used to put bodies of animals or people in dug wells to poison them. and drive the EEEVIL WHITIES out.

Sounds like history is once again repeating itself.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 01/23/2010 11:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Christian bodies or Muslim bodies? I seem to remember the Quran forbids poisoning wells... of course, jihadis are known for how well they follow the details of the rules for killing unbelievers, beyond the general admonition to do so.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/23/2010 13:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Muslim bodies. The muslims are getting the worse of this latest tribal war.
Posted by: ed || 01/23/2010 13:28 Comments || Top||

#4  The muslims are getting the worse of this latest tribal war

I've wondered why we got to hear about it.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/23/2010 14:03 Comments || Top||

#5  They're always in the last place you look.
Posted by: gromky || 01/23/2010 14:51 Comments || Top||

#6  Global rights watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Saturday urged Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to order "an immediate criminal investigation into credible reports of a massacre of at least 150 Muslim residents of a town in central Nigeria."

No complaints by HRW if it had been the other way round.
Posted by: gromky || 01/23/2010 15:14 Comments || Top||

#7  "They're always in the last place you look."

Of course, gromky.

'Cause then you stop looking. ;-p
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 01/23/2010 16:08 Comments || Top||

#8  Redneck Jim, maybe not. After Gettysburg Union soldiers were throwing dead Confederates down wells so they wouldn't have to bury them. When it was found out they did have to go back and take the bodies out. Understand, it was July, very hot and the Confederates were attended to last. Wells were convenient.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 01/23/2010 16:42 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Saudis find bodies of 20 soldiers on Yemen border
Saudi forces have recovered the bodies of 20 soldiers who had been reported missing in fierce battles with Yemeni rebels on the border, the assistant defense minister said Saturday, raising the Saudi death toll in the conflict to 133.

Prince Khaled bin Sultan told reporters the bodies were found after troops cleared the rebels out of areas around Dokhan mountain, a strategic high point in the rugged border region. He said six soldiers are still missing.
Posted by: ed || 01/23/2010 11:21 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
Bomb threat forces Turkish jet to land in Greece
[Al Arabiya Latest] A passenger plane travelling from Germany to Turkey made a safe emergency landing in the Greek city of Thessaloniki on Friday after a crew member found a piece of paper with a bomb warning in the toilet, the airliner said.

The plane, a Turkish SunExpress aircraft with 62 passengers and six crew on board, landed at 1558 GMT and Greek security officials were searching the aircraft before allowing it to resume its journey to Izmir from Stuttgart, Germany.

SunExpress, a subsidiary of state-owned Turkish Airlines, said in a statement the captain followed security procedures and redirected the plane to the closest airport.

Greek officials had earlier said the pilot had received a bomb threat on his mobile phone and said the incident was most likely a hoax.
Posted by: Fred || 01/23/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  More likely a dry run to check out the security and what the pilot will do.

Now they know, seems to me this could be used for getting people into a Country, or area where they were normaly unable, say a far inland city, Diverting a plane in transit and instantly. your man is on the ground,

Sounds a bit James Bondish, but it would work.
Have somebody standing by, say in a restroom, a quick change of papers and travel documents and you've got A hostile in-country unknown.

Good sub- plot in a movie somewhere.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 01/23/2010 11:50 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Alert: Female Suicide Bombers May Be Heading Here From Yemen
U.S. Agents Told Women Believed Connected to Al Qaeda May Have Western Appearance and Passports
Posted by: tipper || 01/23/2010 00:27 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So be sure to conduct intense pat down and cavity searches of blond haired, blue eyed attractive Scandinavian women, as they may be Yemenese in disguise.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 01/23/2010 6:23 Comments || Top||

#2  in disguise: they may have shaved off their luxurious moustaches
Posted by: Frank G || 01/23/2010 8:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Rosie O'Donnell and Sandra Bernhardt are trying to resurrect their careers?
Posted by: Albert Ebbager8936 || 01/23/2010 9:34 Comments || Top||

#4  I predict that it will be a VERY UGLY day for U.S. Muslims if one of these BitchBoomers is successful....

Posted by: Uncle Phester || 01/23/2010 10:16 Comments || Top||

#5  in a 48-hour period between Saturday and Monday this week...

On Saturday, an Egyptian man on the no-fly list was stopped from flying on American Airlines flight 113 from London to Miami.

The next day, Sunday, a Saudi Arabian passenger was stopped from boarding United Airlines flight 929 to Chicago. Officials said the man was sent back to Saudi Arabia by the British.

In two other overseas cases involving people on the no-fly list, a man in Nairobi, Kenya was kept off a flight Sunday that would have connected in Amsterdam to Dallas, and a passenger attempting to fly on American Airlines to Los Angeles was stopped in Saint Maarten before he could board a connecting flight to San Juan, Puerto Rico, according to officials.

American officials say there were two additional incidents, in Minneapolis and in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in which people on the no-fly list were denied boarding, questioned and then allowed to leave the airport without being detained.

Posted by: Chereting Snetch4156 || 01/23/2010 10:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Was in the Ft Lauderdale airport Friday and the TSA was hectoring a five year old Latino who didn't know enough to empty his pockets.

(Oddly enough his name was Hector -- badaboom) TSA was also yelling at a a couple of wheelchair bound oldsters who didn't understand when they were asked about having cell phones.

I was fuming at the time, but, hey they are keeping us safe.
Posted by: regular joe || 01/23/2010 13:41 Comments || Top||

#7  in a 48-hour period between Saturday and Monday this week...

That's actually comforting -- the system is working to minimize the risk to some extent. Do you have a link to that information, Chereting Snetch4156, or is this something you happened to notice?
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/23/2010 13:52 Comments || Top||

#8  Female death squad training video
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 01/23/2010 17:25 Comments || Top||


US transfers two Gitmo detainees to Algeria
[Al Arabiya Latest] Two Algerian men held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba have been transferred to the control of the Algerian government, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday.

The announcement named the two men as Hasan Zemiri and Adil Hadi al-Jazairi Bin Hamlili and came on the eve of what was once President Barack Obama's target date to close the notorious facility.

But a political firestorm at home over the Obama administration's plans to house some of the terror suspects on U.S. soil and the reluctance of foreign allies in released detainees have dealt a blow to his landmark promise.

The Washington Post in Friday's editions reported that a task force led by the Justice Department has concluded that nearly 50 detainees at Guantanamo Bay should be held indefinitely without trial under the laws of war.

The findings represent the first time the Obama administration has clarified how many detainees were considered too dangerous to release but not prosecutable, the newspaper reported, citing unnamed Obama administration officials.

Obama had promised to shut the military prison by Friday but has fallen far short of that goal amid political and diplomatic hurdles.

"The United States coordinated with the government of Algeria to ensure the transfers took place under appropriate security measures," the Justice Department said in a statement.

The transfer is also a sign the Obama administration is moving ahead with its effort to close the prison despite criticism by Republican lawmakers who worry that some former detainees released from the Guantanamo facility may be returning to the battlefield.
Posted by: Fred || 01/23/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


India-Pakistan
Militants report 15 dead in missile strike
Originally reported as 6 killed in Tuesday's strike in Datta Khel, North Waziristan
I think we can live with that.
A rounding error ...
A U.S. group that monitors Islamic extremist Web sites says an extremist organization is reporting 15 of its members were killed in a U.S. missile strike in Afghanistan.

The SITE Intelligence Group says the report was posted Friday on a Web site by the Turkistan Islamic Party. SITE quotes the group as saying 13 Uighers and two Turks were killed Tuesday by a missile fired by a U.S. unmanned aircraft in Afghanistan but did not say where.

Pakistani officials reported two missile attacks along the border Tuesday.
Posted by: ed || 01/23/2010 11:48 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "13 Wiggers and two Turks were killed Tuesday by a missile fired by a U.S. unmanned aircraft in Afghanistan but did not say where.

Doctor said it kill me , but he didn't say where

(spoken in negro dialect)
Posted by: Mike Hunt || 01/23/2010 15:38 Comments || Top||


29 killed in clashes, suicide attack in Pakistan
Militants ambushed Pakistani security forces at checkpoints in two regions close to the Afghan border Saturday, sparking gunbattles that left 22 insurgents and two troops dead, officials said.

Elsewhere in the northwest, a suicide bomber killed a police officer and three passers-by, part of a relentless wave of violence by al-Qaida and Taliban insurgents also blamed for attacks on U.S. and NATO troops across the frontier in Afghanistan.

Government officials Mohammad Yasin and Mohammad Naseem said two troops were wounded in the clashes at checkpoints in the Orakzai and Kurram tribal regions. They said a search and clearance operation launched afterward also seized 25 suspected insurgents.

The force commander in Kurram, Col. Tausif Akhtar, said troops had cleared six villages of Taliban fighters.
Posted by: ed || 01/23/2010 11:23 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


C.I.A. Deaths Prompt Surge in U.S. Drone Strikes
WASHINGTON -- Since the suicide bombing that took the lives of seven Americans in Afghanistan on Dec. 30, the Central Intelligence Agency has struck back against militants in Pakistan with the most intensive series of missile strikes from drone aircraft since the covert program began.
Exactly what we should be doing, without all the talking about it.
Beginning the day after the attack on a C.I.A. base in Khost, Afghanistan, the agency has carried out 11 strikes that have killed about 90 people suspected of being militants, according to Pakistani news reports, which make almost no mention of civilian casualties. The assault has included strikes on a mud fortress in North Waziristan on Jan. 6 that killed 17 people and a volley of missiles on a compound in South Waziristan last Sunday that killed at least 20.

"For the C.I.A., there is certainly an element of wanting to show that they can hit back," said Bill Roggio, editor of The Long War Journal, an online publication that tracks the C.I.A.'s drone campaign.
Woo hoo! The New York Times recognizes a blogger as an authority!
Mr. Roggio, as well Pakistani and American intelligence officials, said many of the recent strikes had focused on the Pakistani Taliban and its leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, who claimed responsibility for the Khost bombing.

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Posted by: Steve White || 01/23/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Cause, meet effect.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 01/23/2010 0:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Payback's a biatch. However, I would hope that the CIA would be doing things a lot more personally, on the ground, and likely with a machete, to some of the more upper tier bad boys who got the bright idea.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 01/23/2010 6:26 Comments || Top||

#3  the price of a jackal’s meal
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/23/2010 7:09 Comments || Top||

#4  They should be operating with this kind of conviction as long as someone wants to kill Americans.
Posted by: gorb || 01/23/2010 10:13 Comments || Top||

#5  They've been acquiring more drones to shoot missiles from, so we can expect an accelerating pace of this kind of thing. Carry on, O CIA operatives, with our thanks!
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/23/2010 14:01 Comments || Top||

#6  Too bad we aren't using BUFFs. The impact of a cluster of dumb bombs taking out an area and denying them infrastructure would send the message that there is a very high price to pay for their activities. Much more so than surgical strikes.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 01/23/2010 14:33 Comments || Top||

#7  Careful, AP, that's pretty close to an ARCLIGHT, and you know what that means ...
Posted by: Steve White || 01/23/2010 16:08 Comments || Top||

#8  close enuf! Drinks!
Posted by: Frank G || 01/23/2010 16:27 Comments || Top||

#9  If you are a mooselimb and you get a drone dropped on your head, do you get 72 virgins?
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/23/2010 18:56 Comments || Top||

#10  Cause, meet effect.


(too good not to post twice)
Posted by: Mike Hunt || 01/23/2010 21:20 Comments || Top||

#11  I'm disappointed that they weren't doing this before now anyway.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/23/2010 21:38 Comments || Top||


Pak troops kill 3 militants in N Waziristan
[Bangla Daily Star] Pakistani security forces killed three militants in North Waziristan yesterday, their first reported foray for months in a region where America is calling for action against al-Qaeda and the Taliban, intelligence officials said.

North Waziristan is home to hundreds of fighters that U.S. officials say are fueling much of the insurgency in neighbouring Afghanistan. They say Pakistani military action to clear the area is essential if the American-led war in Afghanistan is to succeed.The army said in a statement three militants were killed and two wounded in a search-and-clearance operation close to Miran Shah, the major town in North Waziristan. It gave no more details, and there was nothing to suggest it was the start of a major offensive.

Earlier, intelligence officials said army helicopter gunships killed one person in a car close to Miran Shah. It was not immediately clear whether they were referring to the same operation.

On Thursday, the Pakistani army ruled out launching any new offensives in the border area for at least six months. It said it wanted to consolidate gains it has made in other parts of the region over the last year, including in South Waziristan where a major offensive is now winding down.

The Pakistani army has several bases in North Waziristan, but residents say soldiers rarely leave them and the region is in control of the militants. Faced with Pakistani inaction, the United States has launched scores of missiles strikes against militant targets there over the last 18 months.
Posted by: Fred || 01/23/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan


Indian airports on alert after hijack warning: officials
[Dawn] India has increased security at its airports and warned its domestic airlines about a possible hijack attempt by militant groups following Western intelligence reports, officials said Friday. The alert to India's civil aviation ministry warned that flights of state-run Air India and other private carriers could be targeted by groups aligned to al Qaeda or the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba rebel group.

The warning came from Western intelligence agencies on the basis of intercepts, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.

"We have intelligence inputs that there could be a hijack attempt of Indian planes," U.K Bansal, senior home ministry official in charge of internal security, said. "So we have alerted the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Bureau of Civil Aviation Security and tightened security in all airports in the country."

The alert warns of flights from India or originating in countries neighbouring India - Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal or Sri Lanka - being specific targets. A civil aviation ministry spokeswoman Moushumi Chakravarty confirmed the alert had been received.

"The information has been passed on to airport authorities and airline offices," she told AFP.

In December 1999, Islamic militants hijacked an Air India flight from Kathmandu to Kandahar in southern Afghanistan. It ended when New Delhi released four militants in exchange for 167 passengers and crew.
Posted by: Fred || 01/23/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


Three injured as rocket explodes in police station
[Dawn] Three people including a policeman were injured as a rocket exploded in Basima police station in Washuk district on Friday.

According to Basima police, the rocket placed in the police station, had been seized after it was fired at a Frontier Corps checkpoint in the area. However, it had not exploded then.
Police officials were trying to defuse the rocket in Basima police station when it exploded, injuring two civilians and a police constable. The injured were rushed to Civil Hospital Basima for first aid from where they were referred to Quetta for medical treatment.
Posted by: Fred || 01/23/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: TTP

#1  "Chief! Look what we found! I...
*stumble*
Aiigghhheeeee!"
Posted by: Frank G || 01/23/2010 8:19 Comments || Top||

#2  I attribute this to a lack of parental guidance. When we were little, Ma always kicked our asses for playing with rockets indoors. Same with crew-served weapons.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/23/2010 12:04 Comments || Top||

#3  *giggle*
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/23/2010 14:02 Comments || Top||

#4  You had crew served weapons?

When we were little all we had was an AK-47 held together with duct tape and a box of old potato-mashers.

And we were grateful for that!
Posted by: Pappy || 01/23/2010 18:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Yes, but did you get to play with them indoors, Pappy? And -- potato mashers???
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/23/2010 18:24 Comments || Top||

#6  potato mashers???

Old-skool German hand grenades. Looked like a tin can on a stick or a well, potato masher.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/23/2010 18:34 Comments || Top||

#7  but did you get to play with them indoors, Pappy?

Of course we did - what with the railroad tracks in our back yard and the state highway in the front.

Of course, with a cardboard box, it was just a matter of slapping some tape over the holes - tho we had to steal the tape from the steel mill. And we were damned grateful for it.

Oh, for an irrigation ditch to swim in our underwear in. That i s- if we'd had underwear...
Posted by: Pappy || 01/23/2010 21:24 Comments || Top||


Nine militants arrested in Bara Tehsil
[Dawn] A military operation against the militants was underway in various parts of Bara Tehsil in the Khyber Agency on Friday.

According to Frontier Corps officials, security forces arrested nine militants and recovered heavy weapons from the Dogra area of Bara Tehsil.

FC sources said that security forces have cordoned off various areas in the region and taken up positions against the militants. Meanwhile, the forces also defused a remote-controlled bomb, which was planted to target a security convoy in Bara Tehsil.

FC officials said that over 100 local and foreign militants have been killed and more than 200 of them have been arrested during the last two months. Security forces have also destroyed dozens of homes belonging to militants in various parts of the agency.

Official soures said that a curfew continues in Bara Tehsil as security forces pound militant hideouts in different parts of the area.
Posted by: Fred || 01/23/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Iraq
US Marines end role in Iraq
The U.S. Marine Corps wrapped nearly seven years in Iraq on Saturday, handing over duties to the Army and signaling the beginning of an accelerated withdrawal of American troops as the U.S. turns its focus away from the waning Iraqi war to a growing one in Afghanistan.

The Marines formally handed over control of Sunni-dominated Anbar, Iraq's largest province, to the Army during a ceremony at a base in Ramadi - where some of the fiercest fighting of the war took place.

If all goes as planned, the last remaining Marines will be followed out by tens of thousands of soldiers in the coming months. President Barack Obama has ordered all but 50,000 troops out of the country by Aug. 31, 2010, with most to depart after the March 7 parliamentary election.

The remaining troops will leave by the end of 2011 under a U.S.-Iraqi security pact.

But concerns about the success of the election - and perhaps the loss of hard won security gains that the Marines helped cement - are on the rise because of a growing political dispute that could see more than 500 candidates blacklisted because of suspected ties to previous regime.

The changeover at Ramadi, west of Baghdad, leaves the U.S. Army's 1st Armored Division with responsibility over both Baghdad and Anbar, the vast desert province that stretches from western Baghdad to the borders of Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

The province was once the heart of the deadly Sunni insurgency that erupted after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. In the battles for control of the cities of Fallujah and Ramadi, the Marines saw some of the most brutal and deadliest fighting of the war.

Violence began dropping off in the province in late 2006 when Sunni fighters - known as Awakening Councils - turned against al-Qaida and sided with the Marines to fight the insurgency.

As many as 25,000 Marines were in Iraq at the peak, mostly in Anbar province. The few thousand who remain - except for U.S. Embassy guards and advisers in Baghdad - are expected to ship out in a matter of weeks.
Posted by: Beavis || 01/23/2010 08:41 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So long, and thanks for all the dead jihadis!
Posted by: SteveS || 01/23/2010 12:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Since Obama is blaming Bush for everything, How about giving him credit for something he did right?

Is that possible?
Posted by: Frozen Al || 01/23/2010 12:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Mission Accomplished!

Ticker tape parade?

Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 01/23/2010 12:34 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Islamic Jihad claims failed bid to capture Israeli soldier
Sources in the al-Quds Brigades, the Islamic Jihad's military wing, told Ynet Saturday that the recent week's stormy weather foiled their plans to abduct an Israeli soldier. According to sources in the organization, a recent attempt to kidnap an Israeli soldier in central Gaza failed due to unfavorable weather conditions.
Allah demonstrates yet again his preference for Jews rather than jihadis.
The soldier who was allegedly spared is an Israel Air Force paratrooper who accidently landed in the al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. Jihad operatives en route to the landing site were unable to reach it due to floods caused by the absence of a dam which use to stand in the area, and was destroyed in a past IAF strike. The Islamic Jihad claims to have video footage of the attempted abduction, "Which will be aired in due time."
"See what failures we are!"
The botched kidnapping, added a Jihad source, "Is part of our efforts to kidnap Israeli soldiers and exchange them for our imprisoned heroes."
Posted by: ryuge || 01/23/2010 06:14 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It is pretty pathetic when the best thing you have to boast about is your failures.
Posted by: Odysseus || 01/23/2010 9:15 Comments || Top||

#2  One Israeli paratrooper somehow landed in Hamastan and somehow they still can't get him because of a flood? And ya brag about complete failure in a nonexistent event? Man, that is some good Mohammedean resistance! LOL.

They need them some good juche.
Posted by: A_Rovian_Disciple || 01/23/2010 22:23 Comments || Top||


Sri Lanka
Bomb attack in Sri Lanka capital ahead of vote
[Dawn] A key opposition activist in Sri Lanka was targeted at home by a bomb early Friday, police said, despite tighter security ahead of next week's presidential election.

The blast destroyed a car and severely damaged the home of Tiran Alles, a key ally of presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka, police said, adding that he and his family had escaped unhurt.

"The attackers are believed to have come in a van and carried out the attack and fled," a police official at the scene said, adding that no arrests had been made in connection with the pre-dawn bombing.

An opposition spokesman alleged Alles had been targeted by the ruling party after Fonseka's campaign released a photograph of President Mahinda Rajapakse's eldest son Namal with a Tamil rebel leader at a London nightclub.

Rajapakse's reputation as a war-hero president is staked on his victory over the Tamil Tiger rebels last year, who were wiped out in a huge government offensive after 37 years of fighting.

"Since the photograph showed some sort of a link between the president's family and the Tamil Tigers, Alles had been receiving death threats," the spokesman said. "Even yesterday, we complained that he could be targeted."International concern over escalating election-related violence has mounted, with United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Thursday expressing alarm over the increasing number of violent incidents and killings.

Ban urged all Sri Lanka parties and their supporters "to show restraint and refrain from violence, to adhere to the electoral laws and rules, and to avoid provocative acts throughout the election period and its aftermath."The independent Election Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayake was quoted as saying Wednesday that he had stopped giving directives to the police and public officials who disregarded his orders aimed at ensuring a free and fair vote.

Rajapakse called next Tuesday's vote two years ahead of schedule in a bid to cash in on the government's defeat of the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels after decades of ethnic warfare on the island.

But he faces a surprise rival to power in Fonseka, the former general who led the troops to victory in May.
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