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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  One doesn't see too many of these autos anymore.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/25/2010 11:02 Comments || Top||

#2  One doesn't see too many well-dressed young ladies these days, either.

My daughter would have had the wheel off, the spokes polished, the hub lubed, and everything ready to be reassembled. She pissed off all the boys in her auto shop class by finishing first in the class. Her hubby likes the fact they can both work on their cars together.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 02/25/2010 11:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Happy Birthday

Gone to the Big Gam Locker in the Sky

Betty Graftina Leabo aka Brenda Joyce aka Jane


Caution – Open Daily Gam Shots at your own risk.


Diane Baker aka Sheila "Mirage" (72)



Karen Grassle aka Laura Ingalls Wilder "Little House on the Prairie" (68)



Veronica Webb, model, actress, writer, journalist (45)


Daily Gam Shot



Elizabeth Téa Pantaleoni aka Téa Leoni aka Jenny Lerner "Deep Impact" (44)


Daily Gam Shot

Nekkid as an Egg



Sam Phillips aka Officer Phillips in "Cheerleader Massacre" (44)


Daily Ogama Shot NSFC



Chelsea Handler, Chelsea Lately Show (35)


Nekkid as an Egg Gam Shot



Rashida Jones aka Louisa Fenn "Boston Public" aka Karen Filippelli "The Office" (34)

Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 02/25/2010 12:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Those "Nekkid as an Egg" shots are subliminal messages about global warming??? These women are most likely going to get cold.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/25/2010 12:41 Comments || Top||

#5  I doubt it, floodlights are HOT.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 02/25/2010 18:09 Comments || Top||

#6  As long as I'm around I would do the job of keeping them warm for free.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 02/25/2010 18:52 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
US Soldiers, Taliban trash talk over 2-way radios during firefights
Posted by: Frozen Al || 02/25/2010 17:56 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Who does America support in Pakistan and why? Why doesn't America, with all its power, just kill all the "terrorists" in Pakistan?

Those are the Talibunnies asking those questions. Good questions.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 02/25/2010 19:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Afghans are all for America when it comes to the surge, defeating the insurgency and building its government.

The MSM making stuff up, or extrapolating from interviewing a few likely Uzbeck/Tadjik soldiers.

It's still taboo to mention that Afghanistan is an ethnic civil, and its hardly surprising the Uzbecks and Tadjiks from the north are delighted the Americans are kicking the sh!t out of their tradition Pushtun enemy, especially after the numerous atrocities committed by Pushtuns under Taliban rule (in the north).
Posted by: phil_b || 02/25/2010 19:25 Comments || Top||

#3  That sould read, ethnic civil war.
Posted by: phil_b || 02/25/2010 19:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Miguel's interpreter, is f**kin* with him.
Posted by: Last Breath Farm Resident || 02/25/2010 19:34 Comments || Top||

#5  Talkin trash in the trenches. Who ever heard of that before? And at war!
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 02/25/2010 20:18 Comments || Top||

#6  --Our soldiers had better watch out, the lawyers will be 'all over them' for harassment.
Posted by: Tom- Pa || 02/25/2010 20:55 Comments || Top||


Afghan government claims Taliban stronghold
The Afghan government took official control of the southern Taliban stronghold of Marjah on Thursday, installing an administrator and raising the national flag while U.S.-led troops worked to root out final pockets of militants.

The ceremony was held in a central market as U.S. Marines and Afghan troops slogged through bomb-laden fields in the north of the town. The Marines and their Afghan partners are trying to secure a 28-square mile (45-square kilometer) area believed to be the last significant pocket of Taliban insurgents in Marjah.

Militants and allied troops are still getting caught up in gunfights in some areas, NATO said.

But the number of residents returning has increased in recent days, shops have opened to sell telephones and computers alongside fresh fruits and vegetables, and officials hailed the installation of Abdul Zahir Aryan as the town's administrator as a key sign of progress.
Posted by: ed || 02/25/2010 08:14 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There is of course no prospect of securing the thousands of Sq K of mountains that surround Marjah.
Posted by: phil_b || 02/25/2010 8:45 Comments || Top||

#2  ..of course, the same applies to the other side as well.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/25/2010 9:36 Comments || Top||

#3  A little napalm on those ridges when the talibunnies are marching along would put a stop to a lot of things. We're trying to fight a war with both feet in the same bucket, and one arm tied behind our backs. Our enemies laugh at us for that, and even our friends think it's a bit strange.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 02/25/2010 11:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Uh, "telephones"?! and key sign of progress in the same breath? Scary. ;~)
Posted by: Last Breath Farm Resident || 02/25/2010 11:58 Comments || Top||


Top Afghan Provincial Official Gunned Down
[Quqnoos] A senior Afghan official in Kandahar was shot dead Wednesday by gunmen on a motorbike, the govt said.

Abdul Majeed Babai, the Kandahar provincial director for culture and information, had just left his home to go to his office when the incident happened, the Afghan Interior Ministry said in a statement.

The gunmen have fled the scene in the fortified Kandahar city, the provincial capital of southern Kandahar province, the birthplace of Taliban.

Kandahar is a hotbed of activity for Taliban insurgents fighting against Afghan and NATO forces.

In the neighbouring Helmand, some 15,000 US, NATO and Afghan troops are currently battling in Taliban strongholds, in an assault that aims to clear the way for Afghan control of the areas.

Military leaders, including US General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of foreign troops in Afghanistan, have said Kandahar is included in the new counter-insurgency plan to speed an end to the war.

No groups, including the Taliban, have made an immediate claim of responsibility for the assassination of the top Afghan official.

Taliban militants have attacked a number of senior provincial officials in southern Afghanistan over the past few years.
Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
Sudan president declares Darfur war over
[Al Arabiya Latest] Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir told supporters the Darfur conflict was over as he announced the release of 57 Darfur rebels a day after inking a ceasefire and initial peace deal with some insurgents.

"Now the crisis has finished in Darfur. Now the war is finished in Darfur ... We must start fighting the war for development," Bashir said at a rally in the capital of North Darfur in a recording of the speech heard by Reuters.

Speaking in El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, Bashir made the announcement a day after his government and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) signed a ceasefire and agreed to work towards a full peace agreement.

"The combat of arms is over, and the one of development now begins," added Bashir, the subject of an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes in Darfur.

"We need to make more efforts to develop Sudan and Darfur," he said.
Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan

#1  Eh. It'll start up again three weeks after the election.
Posted by: Pappy || 02/25/2010 8:43 Comments || Top||

#2  This must be good news to all the black refugees, who can now return to their lands occupied by genocidal Arabs, once the Arabs leave.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 02/25/2010 9:24 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Al-Qaeda frees French hostage; Algeria recalls ambassador to Mali
[Maghrebia] Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) on Tuesday (February 23rd) released French hostage Pierre Camatte after three months' captivity in Mali, Journal Tahalil reported. Two Algerians, a Burkinabé and a Mauritanian jailed in Mali were freed last week-end in response to an AQIM threat to execute the French hostage. The terrorist group still holds five European citizens in the northern Mali desert region.

In response to Mali's release of the prisoners, Algeria on Tuesday followed Mauritania's action in recalling its ambassador in Bamako "for consultation". In a statement, the Algerian Foreign Affairs Ministry said that the release of the prisoners constitutes "a dangerous development for the security and stability in the Sahel-Saharan Africa, one that serves the interests of the terrorist group active in the region under the al-Qaeda banner".
Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Arabia
Dubai identifies 15 new suspects in Hamas killing
Police in Dubai have identified 15 more suspects in last month's killing of a senior member of Palestinian militant group Hamas, taking the total to 26.

Six of the new suspects involved in the death of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh had UK passports, while the rest had Irish, Australian and French documents.

Many had allegedly used credit cards issued by a small US-based bank.

On Tuesday, Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni applauded the killing, which Dubai believes Israel was behind.

Israel has repeatedly refused to confirm or deny its involvement.

One of the founders of Hamas's military wing, the Izz al-Din Qassam Brigades, Mr Mabhouh was found dead in a hotel room in the Gulf emirate on 20 January.

A post-mortem examination report said he had been electrocuted and then suffocated.

Travel chart
Earlier this month, the Dubai authorities released the names and passport photographs of 11 "agents with European passports" - six from the UK, three Irish, one French and one German.

All four countries have since said the documents were fraudulent.

On Wednesday, the police released a new list of suspects who allegedly offered "logistical support" in the months before the January killing.

They include 10 men and five women travelling on British, French, Irish and - for the first time - Australian passports.

The police also produced a chart tracing the travel routes of both the new and old suspects before and after Mr Mabhouh's death.

"The suspects gathered in Dubai and dispersed to various locations before pairing up again in different teams and heading off to other destinations," they said.

In a new development, the police said two of the Australian passport holders had allegedly travelled by boat to Iran during a reconnaissance mission last August.

Investigators have also discovered that 14 of the suspects had used credit cards issued by MetaBank - a small bank based in the US state of Iowa - to book hotel rooms and pay for air travel.

A MetaBank spokeswoman told AP news agency that the bank was trying to confirm the reports.

New list
The six newly identified suspects who used UK passports were listed as Daniel Marc Schnur, Gabriella Barney, Roy Allan Cannon, Stephen Keith Drake, Mark Sklur and Philip Carr.

Those on Irish passports were Ivy Brinton, Anna Shuana Clasby and Chester Halvey; on French passports David Bernard LaPierre, Melenie Heard and Eric Rassineux; and on Australian passports Bruce Joshua Daniel, Nicole Sandra Mccabe and Adam Korman, according to the statement.

British officials said they were trying to contact the people whose names and passport details had been used.

"We can confirm that six more UK passports have been identified," the Foreign Office in London said. "We will seek to make contact with these individuals and offer consular assistance as we have the previous individuals."

"The foreign secretary and others have made clear we expect full Israeli co-operation," it added.

The Dubai police statement said the investigation was ongoing and that they were "not ruling out the possibility" of more suspects.
Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Is this 15 new guys or the same 15 guys from yesterday?
Posted by: tu3031 || 02/25/2010 0:09 Comments || Top||

#2  --11 original + 15 new guys(same as yesterdays) =
26 to date.
They need to get the guy from 221B Baker street to solve this one. :)
Posted by: Tom- Pa || 02/25/2010 0:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Pretty soon this list will include all outbound airline passengers.
Posted by: ed || 02/25/2010 0:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Googling Metabank pops up a savings bank with HQ's in Sioux Falls, SD and a main branch in Des Moines. Someone else mentioned the small town of Storm Lake as connected. These areas also have a large immigrant population that sends remittances home and needs prepaid credit cards to function in the real world. Other than a now defunct kosher meat processing plant, I can't think of any Iowa connection to Israel, let alone Mossad. However, the largest halal exporter is also in Cedar Rapids. I'm guessing there are more Muslims than Jews in the state, with an occasional black and white kaffiyeh seen hanging out at the casino/race track. Come to think of it, a horse named Dubai has even run and there is simulcasting available. This case just keeps getting curiouser and curiouser.False flag op?
Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 || 02/25/2010 2:12 Comments || Top||

#5  An interesting tack. Flood them with too many leads!
Posted by: gromky || 02/25/2010 3:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Photos of all 15.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/25/2010 7:31 Comments || Top||

#7  The next batch of murder suspects will include:
CHICHOLINA
Kathrine Hephborn
Salman Rushdi
Suha Arafat
Sandy Bar
Beth Middler
Sami Davis
Sinbad the saylor
and
my half-breed Canaanite dog

Posted by: Elder of Zion || 02/25/2010 7:54 Comments || Top||

#8 
Dubai identifies 15 new suspects...

No they haven't. They haven't identified a single suspect yet.
Posted by: Parabellum || 02/25/2010 7:59 Comments || Top||

#9  26 people? It sounds like it wasn't so much an assassination as it was an Israeli jobs program. Then again, Mahbhouh was a "shovel ready" project.
Posted by: penguin || 02/25/2010 9:53 Comments || Top||

#10  No worries. Captain Renault will sort this out.

"Round up every Westerner in the county!"
Posted by: Gabby || 02/25/2010 11:58 Comments || Top||

#11  Quite frankly, as bad as the Hamas guy was, I am disappointed and embarrassed that I am not on the list of suspects. It seems to me that every decent man would at least like to be suspected to doing away with the evil in a Hamas uniform.
Posted by: whatadeal || 02/25/2010 14:53 Comments || Top||

#12  A sure sign they have NO idea, name everybody near and tell your boss "I'm working on it as hard as I can".

Or to put it in more familiar words
"Round up the usual Subjects".
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 02/25/2010 15:57 Comments || Top||

#13  Has there been a crack in the case? No but folks at the mall are... jumping the shark!
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/25/2010 16:45 Comments || Top||

#14  26? Whew! That could have gone Charlie Foxtrot South in a hurry.

What did they use to electrocute this guy? The in room coffee maker? Scented Plug In? Night light?
Posted by: Last Breath Farm Resident || 02/25/2010 20:13 Comments || Top||

#15  From the BBC (link)

Why did Hamas chief Mahmoud al-Mabhouh go to Dubai?
...
It has been established that Mr Mabhouh went to Dubai without his usual security team.

He was relaxed enough about the trip to continue with his plans when his bodyguards couldn't get tickets on the same plane.

Dubai police have suggested the hit team was based in Austria, a fact they arrived at from telephone records.

But they were waiting in Dubai for Mr Mabhouh, even at such short notice.

They apparently had enough time to plan and execute a complex operation involving as many as 17 (26 now) operatives, disguises and radio communications, as reported in the media.

...
Posted by: Willy || 02/25/2010 22:07 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
2 robbers killed in shootout
[Bangla Daily Star] Two alleged robbers were killed during a "shootout" between Rapid Action Battalion personnel and their cohorts at Rustompur Beribadh in city's Pallabi last night.

The dead, however, could not be identified, Rab sources said, adding the bodies were taken to Pallabi Police Station.

Additional Superintendent of Police Mohammad Mizanur Rahman of Rab-1 said the gunfight took place at a field of Rustompur around 11:00pm when the "robbers" opened fire on Rab in their bid to escape arrest.

He said a Rab patrol team tried to halt a taxi when they saw people tussling over its steering wheel. The team chased the taxi near the field as it tried to get away, he said, adding that at one stage the criminals got down and tried to flee on foot firing shots at Rab personnel.

A gunfight erupted with the Rab team retaliating with gunshots. After the gunfight the team found two bullet-hit bodies left lying on the spot.

Mizanur said they recovered the taxi and rescued its driver Bahadur Gazi.

Bahadur told Rab that a gang of five people hired him at Ashulia and tried to take his taxi away.
Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Man, if I saw that guy coming at me, he wouldn't need the gun. I'd probably die of a heart attack...
Posted by: tu3031 || 02/25/2010 0:05 Comments || Top||

#2  You mean you have your own shutter gun and round of bullet?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 02/25/2010 1:11 Comments || Top||

#3  He looks like he's been on a job too long.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/25/2010 1:25 Comments || Top||

#4  The dead, however, could not be identified
Too many bullet holes, apparently.
Posted by: Spot || 02/25/2010 8:01 Comments || Top||

#5  You mean you have your own shutter gun and round of bullet?

Ummm, more like hundreds of "Rounds of Bullets) Many different calibers to fit the different Shudder (To think about) Guns.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 02/25/2010 15:53 Comments || Top||

#6  It wasn't the RAB, it was the bullets, the running.

I demand to know what happened to that illegal alien, angry white American cab driver these two dead, could not be identified's, were jackin', tusslin' over the wheel with! He could have sustained an ouweeee. Get a call into SecSt.
Posted by: Last Breath Farm Resident || 02/25/2010 19:51 Comments || Top||


Unknown Islamist group flexes its muscles in Ctg
[Bangla Daily Star] Around 19 people including six policemen were injured, one critically, in a violent clash between madrasa students and law enforcers in the port city yesterday.

The clash erupted after police barred members of recently formed Islamist group Hefazate Islam Bangladesh from erecting podium for a rally at Laldighi Maidan in the morning and intercepted the rally-bound madrasa students in Baluchchhara around 2:15pm, sources say.

Several thousand students on around 40 vehicles were heading towards the rally from different Kawmi madrasas in Hathazari and Fatikchhari. They used bricks and blasted several cocktails during the clash.

Police fired blank shots and charged baton to disperse the students and picked up around 40 from the spot, the sources add.

Of the 13 injured students, seven were admitted to Chittagong Medical College Hospital and the rest at Hathazari Health Complex. One of them was hit by cocktail splinters and his condition was stated to be critical.

The sources say Hefazate Islam announced to hold the rally in the afternoon in protest against the government's move to slap ban on religion-based politics, cancellation of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution and proposed education policy.

The organisation claims they obtained permission from Muslim High School authorities for erecting the podium as the ground belongs to the school.

Assistant Commissioner (DB) Jahangir Alam however said they did not allow erection of the podium or holding the rally as the organisation did not have required permission from the Chittagong Metropolitan Police.

A tense situation was prevailing since morning as the police barred the organisation from erecting the podium.

Meanwhile, the madrasa students went on the rampage again in the evening and injured a police constable in Hathazari and vandalised the vehicle of Superintendent of Police (SP) Md ZA Morshed.

Morshed came under attack near Chittagong University gate No 2 around 6:00pm. He was going to talk to Hathazari Moinul Islam Madrasa Director Ahmad Shafi, also ameer of Hefazate Islam.

Over 1,500 students put up a barricade near Hathazari Bus Stand and clashed with the police, leaving one policeman injured, said Additional SP Amena Begum.

The students were face to face with police as of 8:30 last night.

HISTORY OF HEFAJATE ISLAM
Director of Hathazari Boro Madrasa Ahmad Shafi, popularly known as Boro Huzur, and Chairman of a faction of Islami Oikya Jote (IOJ) Mufti Izharul Islam are its main founders.

The platform was formed a month ago in Chittagong comprising teachers of several hundred Kawmi madrasas in order to forge a greater movement against the government's different steps.

Yesterday's rally was the first showdown of Hefajate Islam. The organisation had planned to make a huge gathering of students from over 100 Kawmi madrasas from Hathazari, Fatikchhari and Patiya, and Cox's Bazar.

Contacted, Mufti Izharul Islam of Jameyatul Ulum Madrasa in Lalkhan Bazar claimed himself as Nayebe Ameer of Hefajate Islam. Izhar is the founder of the hilltop madrasa where over one thousand students reside.

He said Ahmad Shafi is the Ameer of Hefazate Islam. He blamed the government and law-enforcement agencies for foiling the pre-scheduled rally and attacking the madrasa students. He announced to raise a greater movement in protest against the police attack.

He also termed the move "stupidity" of the government.

Izhar said they formed the platform to raise a movement against the government's "anti-Islam activities" like attempt to ban religion-based politics, formulating secular education draft policy and cancelling the Fifth Amendment.

He also warned of tougher movement against "foreign conspiracy" to separate Chittagong Hill Tracts from Bangladesh.

"It is foreign conspiracy to make a separate Christian state there," he said.

He vowed to form a greater platform in cooperation with different political parties to protest against the government's "anti-Islam" activities.

Asked about joining a movement with Jamaat-e-Islami, Izharul said they have no relation with Jamaat.
Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Asked about joining a movement with Jamaat-e-Islami, Izharul said they have no relation with Jamaat.

"Honest. Only three dozen of us overlap in membership."
Posted by: Pstanley || 02/25/2010 10:07 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Qari Mohammad Zafar (F-I commander) thought killed in US airstrike
A top terrorist leader wanted by the US for attacking the consulate in Karachi in 2002 is thought to have been killed during an airstrike in North Waziristan.

Qari Mohammad Zafar, the operational commander of the Fedayeen-i-Islam, is reported to have been killed in a US airstrike in the village of Danda Darpa Khel, Pakistani officials told Dawn. The US last hit the village on Feb. 18, and killed Mohammed Haqqani, a military commander in the Haqqani Network.

US intelligence officials contacted by The Long War Journal would not confirm his death but said it was “possible' he was killed.

Zafar is wanted by the US government for his involvement in the Karachi Consulate bombing in 2002, which resulted in the death of three Pakistanis and a consular official. "Zafar is suspected of being a key figure involved with this attack," according to the Rewards for Justice website page. A $5 million reward has been offered for information leading the capture of Zafar.
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/25/2010 12:57 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I keep seeing 'F-I commander' and thinking Bernie Ecclestone must have a new b*tch.
Posted by: Skunky Glins**** || 02/25/2010 14:02 Comments || Top||

#2  The US last hit the village on Feb. 18, and killed Mohammed Haqqani

You'd think these guys would wanna change their habbits and stop hanging around the bullseye. (at least until the bodies grow cold and the craters stop smoking)

Al
Posted by: Frozen Al || 02/25/2010 15:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Use your own product? Somethin' gonna make you dead sooner than later.
Posted by: Last Breath Farm Resident || 02/25/2010 19:39 Comments || Top||


Taliban commander held in Karachi
Police have held a Taliban commander, Abdul Aziz, and foiled a terrorists activity in the city, SAMAA reported Thursday.

Police sources said that Abdul Aziz linked with Pakistan Tehreek-e Taliban. Abdul Aziz has been apprehended from Sohrab Goth. He is aide of TTP commander, Qari Hussain.

Security forces seized around 10 kilogram explosive materials, 30 meters detonators wires and TT pistol from his possession. The accused is involved in supporting suicide bombers in various areas of the country. Police sources also said that Abdul Aziz was involved in kidnapping famous film artist, Satish Anand, and local businessman, Haji Aqeel. He sent money to Waziristan after kidnapping people from the city.
Posted by: tipper || 02/25/2010 12:20 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Taliban behead three US spies in North Waziristan
[Dawn] Taliban militants have beheaded three men including two Afghans in Pakistan's lawless northwest tribal belt, accusing them of spying for the United States, officials said Wednesday.

The headless bodies were found dumped by the roadside in the Mir Ali area of the tribal North Waziristan district, which borders Afghanistan, local police officer Muneer Zaman said.

"Their throats were cut last night and the bodies were dumped early Wednesday," he told AFP from the region's main town Miramshah.

A note placed near the bodies said the men were beheaded because "they were US spies - anybody found engaged in espionage will meet the same fate".

A security official confirmed the killings, saying the beheaded Afghans were refugees while the local man was an ordinary Pakistani tribesman.

Militants frequently kidnap and kill tribesmen, accusing them of spying for the Pakistani government or US forces in Afghanistan, where Taliban fighters are leading an insurgency.

The latest killings come as the United States intensifies missile attacks by unmanned aircraft targeting mostly North Waziristan, a bastion of the Taliban and fighters linked to the Al-Qaeda network.

Washington says the tribal regions, where Pakistani security forces are also battling militants, have become a safe haven for extremists.
Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: TTP

#1  hmmm. my list showed 9 spies,including several in senior management.

guess we better not tell ;)
Posted by: abu do you love || 02/25/2010 2:31 Comments || Top||

#2  ..need to really change those ring tones to something like calls to prayer.
Posted by: Proocpius2k || 02/25/2010 7:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Plastic mosque clocks....wish I could find mine.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/25/2010 7:46 Comments || Top||

#4  A note? Hey Muneer, you seem to be quite the pathologist/CSI. Were these refugees, ordinary tribesman, forced to write their own note? Extremist insurgents, where's your humanity?
Posted by: Last Breath Farm Resident || 02/25/2010 20:04 Comments || Top||


Fresh fighting breaks out in Kashmir
Fresh clashes in the Indian-Administered Kashmir left at least eight people dead and several others injured on Wednesday amid escalating conflict there.

The Indian army says two soldiers and an officer are among those killed in the gun battle in Sopore town, south of the capital Srinagar.

The clashes erupted on Tuesday after Indian troops surrounded two houses they allege an armed group was holed up in.

"Five militants, including a top Lashkar-e Taiba commander, are believed to have been killed in the gunfight. But this would be only confirmed after the debris clearing operation is completed," the Hindustan Times quoted a regional security official as saying.

Three other troops and a civilian were injured in the fierce exchange of fire that raged for several hours.

Police are still searching for bodies of more gunmen in the ruins of the building, which was destroyed in the battle.

Indian troops are in constant fights with militants seeking independence in the area.
Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Taiba

#1  Indian troops are in constant fights with militants seeking independence in the area.

How about changing that to "Indian troops are in constant fights with Pakistanis sent across the Line of Control to stir up trouble in Kashmir." Much closer to the truth.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 02/25/2010 11:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Or,

"Indian troops are in constant fights with Pakistanis sent across the Line of Control because Pakistan wants to annex Kashmir."
Posted by: phil_b || 02/25/2010 19:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Sweaters?
Posted by: Last Breath Farm Resident || 02/25/2010 20:06 Comments || Top||


US drone strike kills five in North Waziristan
[Dawn] A US drone attacked a compound in the Dandy Derpakhel area of North Waziristan on Wednesday, killing eight suspected militants and injuring six others.

According to sources, the unmanned plane fired three missiles, one of which hit a parked vehicle. The compound and the car were completely destroyed.

An official said that militants surrounded the place after the attack and took away the bodies and the injured. He said that some people from Punjab were among the dead.

According to Reuters, the strike targeted a stronghold of the Haqqani network, a major Taliban faction attacking western forces across the border in Afghanistan. A similar strike last week in the same area killed a son of Jalaluddin Haqqani, the leader of the group.

Meanwhile, three bodies were found near Khaisur village of Mirali tehsil. It is learnt that the Taliban slaughtered the three men, two Afghan nationals and a local tribesman, after accusing them of spying for US forces.

More, from The News (Pak)
Nine suspected militants from Punjab were killed in a US drone attack on a house in Peerano Killay near Miramshah, the headquarters of North Waziristan, on Wednesday, official and tribal sources said.

The sources said the drone fired two missiles at a house, where the Punjabi Taliban were residing. The house was razed to the ground and two cars parked there were also damaged after being buried under the debris of the building.

Peerano Killay of Darga Mandi is located six kilometres west of Miramshah, on the main Miramshah-Ghulam Khan road near the Afghan border. Some reports suggested that the drone fired a missile at a car that was about to enter the house. Another missile later also hit the house.

The sources close to the militants said five people died on the spot while four others sustained serious injuries. Militants and villagers rushed to the spot when the drones disappeared. They pulled out the badly mutilated bodies and four injured from the rubble of the collapsed building.

The local administration clamped curfew for an indefinite period in North Waziristan on Wednesday that delayed the shifting of the injured people to hospitals in Miramshah. However, militants later ignored the curfew and brought the injured to the Agency Headquarters Hospital in Miramshah.

One of the injured died of wounds on his way to the hospital while the other three succumbed to their injuries at the hospital, the sources said. Tribesmen in Miramshah said they later saw militants buying nine caskets at a market in the town. They were seen taking the caskets towards the Darga Mandi area in pick-up trucks.

The US spy aircraft are frequently seen flying in North Waziristan. The drones have carried out 18 airstrikes in the area this year. Meanwhile, the bullet-riddled bodies of two men found in Mirali were said to be of Afghan nationals.

A piece of paper found on their bodies accused them of spying for the US forces in neighbouring Afghanistan on the “Mujahideen' and warned that anyone found spying for America would meet the same fate.
Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan

#1  I wonder if the chief of police of Waziristan is now going to demand Obama and the US chief of staff and chief of CIA to be summoned to an international trial at Hague......

Oh I forgot, this is a treatment reserved for the Joooooos....

Anyhow, congratulations to the Drone Operators !
Posted by: Elder of Zion || 02/25/2010 8:09 Comments || Top||

#2  An official said that militants surrounded the place after the attack and took away the bodies and the injured.

Missed opportunity? >:-}
Posted by: gorb || 02/25/2010 9:30 Comments || Top||

#3  We can only hope none of the hundre .... thousands of US spies in the area were killed or injured.
Posted by: Last Breath Farm Resident || 02/25/2010 20:17 Comments || Top||

#4  The millions of US spies, whose covers are that of refugees, ordinary tribesman.
Posted by: Last Breath Farm Resident || 02/25/2010 20:19 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
4 held in Aceh terror camp raid
[Straits Times] Indonesian police said yesterday they had arrested four people after a major raid on a terrorist training camp in a remote region of Aceh province and were pursuing dozens who escaped.

Aceh police chief Aditya Warman said some 50 militants were using the camp and 'strongly suspected' of being part of regional terror group Jemaah Islamiah (JI), blamed for multiple attacks across Indonesia.

More than 100 heavily armed police took part in the raid just before midnight on Monday in a forested part of Aceh Besar district, about 70km east of the provincial capital Banda Aceh, he said.

Police found rifles, Malaysian military uniforms and terrorist propaganda material, including videos of the 2002 bombings on the Indonesian resort island of Bali which killed more than 200 people, mainly Western tourists.

JI, the regional terror group linked to Al-Qaeda, is blamed for that attack and others over the past decade.

'We received information that there were training activities comprising 50 people from a group suspected to be related to Jemaah Islamiah,' Mr Aditya said. 'The group keeps moving around to avoid police detection. They have moved over four districts.
Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Jemaah Islamiyah



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