Two US troops and at least 11 civilians died in violence across southern Afghanistan on Friday, including one attack in which a suicide bomber wearing a burqa blew himself up in a bazaar.
Violence has spiked recently in Afghanistan's volatile south as Taliban insurgents step up attacks ahead of a planned major operation by NATO forces to secure the main city of Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban. General Stanley McChrystal, the US and NATO commander in Afghanistan, said in Brussels on Friday that insurgents have killed 59 Afghans during the past seven days, 54 of them in Kandahar. He told NATO ministers that insurgents also injured 116 people, including 94 in Kandahar. In Kandahar province, nine civilians, including four women and three children, were killed and eight other people were injured when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Maiwand district, said Zalmai Ayoubi, a spokesman for the provincial governor.
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Taliban has confirmed to kill even in their camps.which they prove by attacking JARGA of gov.leaving This land is in the entrust of NATO
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once again, please. This time with coherence? No speaka da troll
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I think wazdan is saying the taliban even kill their own and supporters (some of whom were at the jirga) and that NATO is Afghanistan's protector.
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Poor wazdan. Did you not notice that only 20pc of the dead were Americans? The remaining 80pc were Pakhton Muslims, killed by other Muslim men who got pleasure from hiding in women's clothing. This attack followed ignoble Talib tradition; most of the dead and injured were Muslim women and children, which is why it doesn't matter that you outbreed the West. You kill off your own children almost as fast as you give birth to them, and six million of the remainder leave Islam every year...that you know of.
This is what your vaunted Taliban do, wazdan: they hide among the Muslim women in order to murder Muslim women because they are not men enough to fight NATO soldiers. They will lose this war as Pakistan has lost every war it has ever fought... or do you now rule over Bangladesh and Kashmir?
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Did I completely misread wazdan's intent? Pakistani? Previous trollery?
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previous trollery
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Poor wazdan is occasionally inspired after coming out of the mosque in Islamabad, and posts something that reveals his ignorance and inability to think clearly... not to mention his poor command of English.
NATO has opened an alternate supply route to Afghanistan via Russia and Central Asia - a critical development that gives it the ability to bypass the previous ambush-prone main routes through Pakistan, the alliance said on Friday.
All those jihadis are going to have to find something else to burn, poor darlings.
Until now, most supplies destined for the 140,000-strong international force in Afghanistan were shipped to Karachi, and then trucked to the landlocked nation. But with the Taliban and their sympathisers targeting the convoys, military planners sought other alternatives. "We will take advantage of all transport routes available as soon as possible," NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said. The development is important because it signals Russian willingness to indirectly support the NATO-led mission. Moscow has been warmer to the mission's success in recent years, fearing that a NATO defeat in Afghanistan could destabilise central Asia and endanger Russia's security. Although Russia offered to open its territory to NATO as a whole two years ago, the alliance did not immediately take them up on the offer.
Individual alliance members, such as Germany and the US, were allowed to use the so-called northern route for non-lethal materials - but it was closed to alliance forces as a whole. About 14,000 maritime containers full of supplies had arrived via the northern route before it was opened to the whole alliance, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said. There are two other possible access routes to Afghanistan, through Iran and China.
But the alliance cannot use the one through Iran's south-eastern port of Chahar Bahar because of the political dispute over Tehran's nuclear weapons. Separately, a dirt road from China through the Wakhan Corridor, leads through some of the world's most mountainous terrain.
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ION TOPIX/NEWS KERALA > [Persian Gulf = Gulf of Arabia, Bombay, etc.]GULF MARITIME REGION A TARGET FOR TERROR ATTACK.
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The best way to have dealt with the supply situation would have been to use the US military to "take and hold" a supply corridor from the Persian Gulf, up through Pakistan to Afghanistan. Do it through Quetta and solve two problems at once. Failing to secure supply lines is the worst kind of tactical logistics error you can make. Pakistan is NOT an "ally", but a duplicitous part of the problem. Crushing Pakistan would go a long way toward solving most of the problems in that part of South Asia, including Bangladesh.
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Crushing Pakistan would go a long way toward solving most of the problems...OP
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The best way to have dealt with the supply situation would have been to use the US military to "take and hold" a supply corridor from the Persian Gulf, up through Pakistan to Afghanistan.
We didn't have the assets.
Crushing Pakistan would go a long way toward solving most of the problems in that part of South Asia, including Bangladesh.
But it will come from a nuke exchange with India, not at our hands, and in a total jihadi meltdown by the Paki "leadership". Just my "Magic 8-ball" prediction
/Low-budget Nostradamus
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Notice no mention of what central Asian country it passes through.
Four men sentenced to death for killing a U.S. diplomat two years ago in the Sudanese capital escaped from the national prison through an old sewage pipe, the country's police chief said Friday. I'm just surprised it wasn't when they were allowed to go unsupervised to pray at local mosque.
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"in an old sewage pipe"
is that what we're calling "being chauffeured n a Gov't-owned SUV" now?
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One of the four is the son of a leader of pacifist Islamist group Ansar al-Sunna, which is linked to Wahhabism a hard-line form of Sunni Islam practiced mainly in Saudi Arabia but is not involved in politics.
An Australian woman arrested in Yemen for suspected links with al Qaeda was released on Friday and deported from the country together with her two young children, a security source said.
"The Australian woman has been freed and taken to the airport in a police car. She was reunited with her two children at the airport, and the three of them left the country headed for Dubai," he said, on condition of anonymity. Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said earlier this week that the two countries had agreed on Shylogh Giddens, a convert to Islam who was in Yemen to learn Arabic, being deported together with her two children. Giddens was arrested on May 15 by intelligence services.
It must be pretty bad when a person -- a woman! -- is too extreme for Yemen to tolerate.
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Three pirates were killed and two Rapid Action Battalion members injured
... a hernia and a bruised ego ...
Hey! Bruised egos are very painful!
in a "shootout" between the law enforcers and pirates in the river Baleshwar near Chardoani in Patharghata upazila early yesterday.
I don't think that's on the hydrographical survey...
You're using the 10x jeweler's loupe. Clearly you need to put the map under the electron microscope instead.
Acting on a tip-off,
tip o' the hat to Mahmoud the Weasel ...
a joint team of Rab and Coast Guard
B'desh has a Coast Guard?
Well, they do have a coast. It makes sense they'd want to guard against it being stolen.
conducted a drive in the area at about 2:00 am and challenged a trawler carrying 15-20 pirates of Raju Bahini.
"Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum
The pirates of Chardoani are we-e-e-e
We take what we want and steal what we will --
Oh Cheez it's the RAB-B-B-B!!!
You are planning to keep your day job, right?
The pirates were heading towards deep-sea area to commit piracy.
Because, you see, they're pirates ...
Sensing the presence of the law enforcers,
Spider Sense works on the open water?
Apparently Mahmoud the Weasel does, too. Wonders never cease when Bangladesh is involved.
the pirates opened fire on them, prompting the elite force to fire back.
Good luck finding any rounds of bullet out there ...
Three pirates--Kuddus Mollah, the leader of the gang, Aroj Ali and Idris Ali died on the spot during the exchange of fire
Got tossed off the RAB barge and into the water ...
while their cohorts managed to escape.
How, exactly ...
"Escape" means they weren't killed by crossfire or captured. Do pirates swim faster than sharks?
Flight Lt Shamim and Nayek Faruk Hossain of Rab were injured during the gunfight. They were rushed to Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital in critical condition.
That must be the one on the coast.
The joint force recovered 10 firearms, including five guns, four LGs, one air gun, 47 rounds of bullet and some sharp weapons from the spot.
I guess it's too risky to take the shutter gun out on a boat ...
Lt Hasanuzzaman, station commander of Patharghata Coast Guard, confirmed the incident and said the deceased pirates hailed from Bagerhat and Khulna districts.
Were they loved by their mothers?
Of course! How else could they be made to weep when reminded of them while in their cups?
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What type of weapons are "LG's"? Are air guns dangerous?
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Ok, TW, that's it. I laughed so hard I split a herringbone. BTW, the Baleshwar is one of the 47 rivers that make up the Ganges/Bramaputra river mouth. You can actually find Patharghata with the naked eye on a decent, 1:250,000 map. Chardoani, on the other hand...
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"Flight Lieutenant Shamim, on detachment from the Air Wing of the RAB Navy..."
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You can actually find Patharghata with the naked eye on a decent, 1:250,000 map.
Yes, but how big is that map, Old Patriot? Could I tuck it into my purse, or do we need to find you another football field to open it up on? Not that I object, mind you, but remember what happened to the last one?
Bad Guys or Vigilantes?
Elements of an unidentified Mexican Army patrol intercepted and pursued a vehicle they think was a fake Mexican Federal patrol vehicle in Matamoros, Coahuila, according to Mexican news sources.
The military patrol spotted a vehicle with Mexican Federal markings which did not correspond to any existing patrol vehicle and attempted to intercept the occupants. The ensuing chase ended up near the intersection of de Lerdo and Allende in the Andalucía district of Matamoros, when the occupants abandoned their vehicle and escaped into a warehouse building.
Near the warehouse building the patrol found two more similarly marked vehicles, which Federal forces said were not theirs.
Authorities have no explanation for the incident. The vehicles were turned over to state authorities.
Bablefish and hat tip to Nota Roja for additional information
Armed suspects aboard four vehicles shot up the front of a hotel and threw a hand grenade in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, where Mexican Federal agents were staying, according to Mexican news reports.
The suspects attacked about two hours before dawn the Plaza del Arco hotel near the intersection of Avenida Francisco Madero between calles Juan Méndez and Jiménez in the metropolitan zone of the city. No one was injured in the shooting and the hand grenade did not detonate.
Mexican Federal and military forces are deployed to Monterrey after a massive disruption campaign by the criminal gang Los Zetas tied up rush hour traffic in 41 separate instances Wednesday.
The campaign was intended to slow or stop Mexican national police forces from operations in the city.
The campaign was an apparent reaction to the capture of Los Zetas leader Raul Luna Luna by Mexican Federal and military forces Wednesday morning. Luna Luna was known as the Monterrey "garrison commander" for Los Zetas.
49 people died in drug and gang related violence in northern Mexico that included a massacre near Madero, Tamaulipas and a massacre in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, as well as four murdered Juarez municipal police officers Thursday night.
An Juarez municipal police official was shot to death Thursday evening in Juarez, according to Mexican news accounts.
Julian Armando Medina Villagran was shot near the intersection of calles Cordillera de los Andes and Juan Gabriel in his official vehicle while on his way home after ending his shift.
Three Juarez municipal police officers were murdered in two separate crimes Thursday evening, according to Mexican news reports.
Two police officers were shot to death near the intersection of calles Guadalupe Chagolla y Posada Pompa in the San Angel district, while riding their official vehicle. Witnesses say the officers attempted to dismount their vehicle to escape the attack, but the failed to reach safety in time. The officers were shot with AK-47s.
A Juarez police officer was shot to death near the intersection of Eje Vial and Ponciano Arriaga. No other details on this murder were available.
More than 20 armed hooded suspects burst into a disciplinary center in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Thursday night and shot 19 people to death, say Mexican new accounts.
Investigators at the scene say two people survived the massacre which was executed by armed suspects using AR-15 assault rifles. The scene was described as drenched in blood. Investigators at the scene found 206 .223 spent cartridge casings and 22 .308 casings.
The 19 victims were inmates at the Christian Center Faith and Life near the intersection of Tarahumaras y Belisario Dominguez in northern Chihuahua, Chihuahua.
The suspects left four messages written on cardboard.
The messages read: Brave, noble People, do not be deceived by anybody. They died because they deserved it, by their actions... this happens to pigs, rats, assassins, kidnappers, rapists. Poor assholes, deceive anyone.
Once outside, the armed suspects boarded the convoy of pickup trucks and fled the area.
An unidentified man was found beheaded in Juarez, according to Mexican news reports.
Reports say the victim had been dumped between Valentin Fuentes and Casas Grandes in the Che Guevara district. The victim's hands were bound and was barefoot. Witnesses say the body was dumped from a dark colored pickup truck.
A Mexican journalist working the story at the Christian Center Faith and Life massacre died of a massive heart attack, according to the Mexican news daily, La Polaka.
Andres Fernandez, 54, correspondent of Notimex, died of a heart attack immediately following the attack. According to the notice, Fernandez was an independent writer and was known to be critical of the government oftentimes.
Two unidentified people were shot to death in two separate crimes near the border in Juarez, according to Mexican news reports.
The first murder took place after armed suspects burst into a residence near the intersection of calles Santa Barbara and Jimenez in the Ex Hipódromo district.
The second took place near calle Avelina Gallego in the México 68 district. No further information was available for either killing.
An unidentified man was found shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, say Mexican news accounts.
The murder took place at the Equipos y Avios Integrales para la Construcción near calles Vialidad Los Nogales and Tecnológico. Investigators say an AK-47 was used in the execution. The victim was hit inside the business. The suspects escaped the crime scene aboard a Ford pickup truck.
Mexican police and military authorities seized 26 kilograms of methamphetymine Wednesday near Punto de Revisión Carretero de Querobabi, Sonora according to Mexican news accounts.
Elements of the Mexican 4th Military Zone stopped a Toyota pickup truck marked with the business name, Autotransportes Tufesa. Investigators determined the vehicle came from Hermosillo, Sonora and was headed to Caborca, Sonora when it was stopped. The truck had four boxes containing sports equipment and inside was found the packages of methamphetymine.
No weapons were found. The driver and vehicle were turned over to Mexican Federal authorities.
A Mexican business executive on his way home from the airport in Torreon, Coahuila, was attacked by armed suspects, say Mexican news accounts.
Juan Marcos Villarreal, a garment maker and exporter was riding in a security convoy returning from a business trip when heavily armed suspects aboard two vehicles opened fire. Villarreal was riding aboard an armored vehicle when the attack took place near the intersection of Calle Juambelz and Avenida Juarez.
According to reports, three of the security team were wounded in the exchange of gunfire, one critically. The attackers then went after a tailing vehicle a Dodge 3/4 ton with smoked windows firing repeatedly at the driver, with at least one of the passengers of the vehicle returning fire. The maneuver enabled Villarreal's escape.
Twenty unidentified people were executed in Madero and Tampico, Tamaulipas Friday morning, according to Mexican news sources.
Elements of the Mexican navy received a call about 1000 hrs of six corpses found about seven kilometers from Playa Miramar. Shortly after another call came in about four more corpses in Francisco I. Madero district of Madero. Still later, two more calls came in about three bodies found each in the Talleres and Hidalgo districts of Madero. Still later four more bodies were found in the Lucio Blanco barrio near Tampico, Tamaulipas.
Many of the killings were apparently ignored because of Mexican interest in the World Cup soccer games which began today. The Mexican national team played an initial game today and tied South Africa, 1-1.
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more on the rehab clinic attack:
More than 60 people have died in mass shootings at rehab clinics in a little less than two years. Police have said two of Mexico's six major drug cartels are exploiting the centers to recruit hit men and drug smugglers, often threatening to kill those who don't cooperate. Others are killed for failing to pay for drugs or betraying a dealer.
The men at the Faith and Life center were roused out of bed shortly before 11 p.m. and placed face-down along a hallway, the center's director, Cristian Rey Ramirez, told The Associated Press.
Ramirez was alerted to the attack by a telephone call from the center's pastor.
"He tells me, 'You know what, come here because they just killed everyone,'" Rey said. "There was no warning."
The attackers left messages accusing the victims of being criminals, Banuelos said.
Four other people were hospitalized, two in critical condition and two in serious condition, officials said.
Most of the victims ranged in age from 30 to 40, with some older, and included a blind man, said the Rev. Rene Castillo, a minister who gives weekly sermons at the center, which opened 11 years ago.
"Everyone is so scared now," he said. Violence is "all everyone talks about, especially with all the threats that have been made," he said.
It was the first such attack on the center, although two men and a woman were kidnapped there in April 2008 while attending a memorial service, Banuelos said.
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Kyrgyzstan's interim government declared a state of emergency and slapped a curfew on southern parts of the country on Friday as ethnic clashes left at least 45 people dead and more than 630 injured.
Interim President Roza Otunbayeva, whose government has struggled to assert its rule over the ex-Soviet Central Asian state since taking power amid unrest in April, acknowledged the authorities had not yet contained the violence.
"The situation remains tense. Similar conflicts occurred in the month of May. Then we were able to bring the situation under control by imposing a state of emergency," she said in a statement.
"Now again we are forced to impose a curfew."
Thousands of protesters gathered in central Bishkek demanding to travel to Osh to take part in the fighting, witnesses said.
Police: Protesters seized cars and minibuses and commandeered them to travel to Osh, while police threw stones and used dogs to break up protests, the Kabar news agency reported.
"We need the means and manpower to stop the stream of people trying to reach Osh," Otunbayeva said.
Protesters briefly entered the television centre and interrupted a broadcast of the football World Cup, a television centre worker told AFP.
Around 1,000 police and volunteers patrolled the city and situation was "under complete control", the acting police chief said.
Otunbayeva warned the situation in Osh was likely to deteriorate overnight as government forces attempted to regain control.
Witnesses in Osh described chaotic scenes, with gunfire ringing out throughout the day and heavily armed helicopters swooping low over the centre of Osh.
Brawls had broken out overnight on Thursday between ethnic Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbek groups in Osh, once the stronghold of former president Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who was overthrown in April, witnesses said.
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The threat to the United States posed by Iranian-backed Hizbullah terrorists is growing and U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies have failed to adequately address the problem, according to U.S. intelligence officials.
Hizbullah is continuing to build up its terrorist infrastructure within the United States through infiltration operations across the Mexican border and through other U.S. entry points.
However, little of the activity has been detected by the FBI, which has not been able to identify the networks, other than through some of its semi-covert fundraising operatives who have been caught.
Isn't the CIA s'posed to know everything happening right up to the U.S. border? What do they know?
U.S. officials fear that if the U.S. or Israel take military or covert action against Iran's nuclear program preemptively, that Iran will unleash clandestine Hizbullah operatives in the United States to conduct major terrorist attacks.
Is that why President Obama is so willing to allow Iran to have nuclear weapons?
The office of the National Counterintelligence Executive, a part of the director of national intelligence, launched a counterintelligence initiative several years ago to try and identify U.S.-based Hizbullah networks but the effort has been largely unsuccessful, U.S. officials said.
Y'know, if we sealed the border, the problem would be smaller...
Michael Braun, former assistant administrator and chief of operations at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) told The Washington Times last year that Hizbullah is using the same southern narcotics trafficking routes as Mexican drug networks.
So then let's seal the border, to cut off both.
Hizbullah relies on "the same criminal weapons smugglers, document traffickers and transportation experts as the drug cartels," Braun said.
Oddly enough, we've known about that here at Rantburg for years.
Concerns about Hizbullah in the United States followed a recent Pentagon report on Iran that stated that "we assess with high confidence that over the last three decades Iran has methodically cultivated a network of sponsored terrorist surrogates capable of conducting effective, plausibly deniable attacks against Israel and the United States."
I'm not going to say a single, blessed word. Not one.
Through Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Qods Force, Iran has maintained terrorist surrogate capabilities around the world including the Middle East and North Africa, the report said, noting that "recent years have witnessed an increased presence in Latin America, particularly Venezuela."
"If U.S. involvement in conflicts in these regions deepens, contact with the IRGC-QF, directly or through extremist groups it supports, will be more frequent and consequential," the report said.
FREEREPUBLIC > [Pinal County]SHERIFF: MEXICO DRUG CARTELS CONTROL LARGE PARTS OF ARIZONA. Needs Feds help, intervention to regain local control of same.
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Now where in America would it be easy to setup these terror networks? Hmmmm.
Me think our rules regarding state vs religion are being used against us.
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However, little of the activity has been detected by the FBI, which has not been able to identify the networks
I simply don't understand (but I actually do). Believe me, we have very little problem in the identification of networks in Iraq or Afghanistan. It's the killing we seem to have difficulty with there.
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Yes B, but its our military doing it in Iraq and Afghanistan not the FBI. The same people who ignored the warning about those taking flight training before 9/11. Could there be an institutional pattern of behavior here? Part of the price of not purging the Bureau after 9/11 for failures.
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Well when the suicidal Jehadi's coordinate small arms attacks against elementary schools or packed shopping malls and hundreds are slain, perhaps the US Government will finally awaken. My suspecion or hunch is the cells are already in place here in the States and awaiting the Israli attack on Iran, or some other trigger event. Hence Barry's distancing himself from the military option against Iran. He knows blame for such attacks will be placed directly at his feet.
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Well when the suicidal Jehadi's coordinate small arms attacks against elementary schools or packed shopping malls and hundreds are slain, perhaps the US Government will finally awaken.
If not the Government, then certainly the people. Well, those that aren't already awake.
I have taken to carrying whenever and wherever I can. That and I have elevated my vigilance. Those places I cannot carry, I have to weigh the risk/reward of going there.
Needless to say, I order as much stuff online as I can and pick the places I patronize carefully.
Ready as I can be.
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The Crime Investigation Department (CID) of the Sindh Police has arrested two suspected commanders of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) during a raid, the department's Anti-Extremist Cell (AEC) officials said on Friday.
The two TTP commanders, Inamullah Mehsud and Sajjadullah Mehsud, were arrested from an area near the Lyari Expressway, the AEC officials said, adding that more than two-kilogramme explosives, 20-metre detonating wire and two TT pistols were recovered from their possession. During the preliminary interrogation, the TTP commanders revealed they had kidnapped and later released an Afghan NGO activist in North Waziristan after receiving Rs four million in ransom.
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killed 15 Taliban in North Waziristan on Friday, the second such strike in less than 12 hours, officials said.
"Welcome to Hell, gentlemen. Do make yourselves at home. I think you will appreciate our version of virgins."
Six missiles were fired on a house in a village close to the border, two intelligence officers said.
Six? Someone important inside the house or was someone a little bored while sipping a drink in their lawn chair at the AFB outside Las Vegas?
Yousaf Khan, a government administrator in Miranshah, said 15 Taliban were killed. He said officers were still gathering information about the identities of the victims.
Late on Thursday, two people were killed in another strike in North Waziristan. Officials did not say whether they were believed to be Taliban.
Possibly they were Al Qaeda, instead. It is time for a new Number Three.
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From a comment on The Long War Journal:
"According to Waziristan sources, an Arab al-Qaeda commander by the name of Ihsanullah was killed in latest CIA drone attacks along with Turkish jihadi commander."
Investigators from India have conducted lengthy interviews with David Coleman Headley, an American national linked to the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, in which 166 people were killed, the US Justice Department announced on Thursday.
Headley answered the questions of Indian investigators over the course of seven days. In March, he pleaded guilty to a dozen federal terrorism charges related to the Mumbai attacks as well as to a plot to attack a Danish newspaper that had published blasphemous caricatures in 2005. "There were no restrictions on questions posed by investigators," the Justice Department said in a statement.
"To protect the confidentiality of the investigations being conducted by both India and the US, both countries have agreed not to disclose contents of the interviews which started on June 3 and lasted until Wednesday," according to US officials. Headley had agreed to help investigators and give testimony against others in exchange for a promise that he would not be extradited.
Indian officials said that they had pressed for access to Headley, the US-born son of a former Pakistani diplomat and an American woman. He was arrested in October before leaving for Pakistan.
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Now why wouldn't the Daily Time Pak want to use the perp's real name?
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WASSIT / Aswat al-Iraq: Wassit's Quick Response Department personnel arrested three wanted men in the northern part of the province on charges of attempting to murder a cleric and his two sons, a local security source said on Friday.
What exactly does a Quick Response Dept. do, besides arrest wannabe murderers?
"The interior ministry's QRD personnel arrested three wanted men in the district of al-Suwayra, (135 km) north of al-Kut, on suspected involvement in shooting Adnan al-Shujairi, the assistant chief of the Sunni Endowment, and his two sons while they were stepping out of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Mosque in Suwayra last week," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
"The warranted apprehensions took place upon intelligence tip-offs. Initial investigations with the three arrested persons proved their involvement in the armed operation on Sheikh Shujairi," the source added.
Wassit province lies 180 km southeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
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BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Five persons were injured in a blast from an improvised explosive device (IED) attack in southeastern Baghdad on Friday, according to a local police source.
"An IED went off as an Iraqi army patrol was driving by in the area of al-Mada'in, southeastern Baghdad, leaving five persons -- two patrolmen and three civilians -- wounded," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
"The explosion also left a patrol vehicle severely damaged," he added.
It will be nice when the last of those idiots is taken off the streets.
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DIALA / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi security forces arrested on Friday four al-Qaeda leaders during an air drop in Diala, according to a security source.
"A force of the Quick Response Department (QRD) in Diala waged on Friday (June 11) a joint air drop with U.S. troops, targeting al-Qaeda stronghold in Hamrien region in Khanaqin, where two al-Qaeda leaders were arrested in accordance with Article IV Terrorism Law," the source, who asked to remain anonymous, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
"The forces launched another air drop in al-Mafraq neighborhood in central Baaquba, where they arrested two leaders," he added. Baaquba, the capital of Diala, lies 57 km northeast of Baghdad.
Those Quick Response guys are awfully busy all of a sudden. It's sounds like they're having fun, though, air drops and arrests and all.
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A volunteer ranger has been shot dead in Pattani's Mayo district. Madaree Sa-ao, 29, who was a member of the 44th Ranger Regiment's peace building unit, left the outpost for his home in another district on a motorcycle about 1am yesterday, police said.
He stopped at a motorcycle repair shop on Mayo-Palas road to pump up his tyres and was shot in the head, dying instantly. Police found a spent shell casing from a 9mm pistol at the scene.
In Narathiwat's Chanae district, Rusadee Jehteh, 37, was shot and injured outside his house by an unidentified assailant about 10pm on Thursday. Mr Rusadee told police he was walking to the toilet outside his house and he was shot in the leg by someone who had hidden behind a bush. An investigation into the attack is under way.
Meanwhile, police said they are making progress with their investigation into a grenade attack in the old market area of Yala municipality on Tuesday that left 23 people injured. The attack had reportedly targeted a military truck driving past the market.
There had earlier been conflicting reports on the grenade's point of origin. Sugree Wangha, a witness to the attack, yesterday said that shortly after the blast he heard a teenager shout to the crowd that someone had hurled a grenade at the military truck. He told bystanders to help people who were injured, Mr Sugree said.
Mr Sugree said most people who were at the scene saw a teenager hurl the grenade, but did not tell the police for fear of reprisals.
A five-year-old girl, one of the victims of the blast, was reportedly unconscious yesterday after undergoing brain surgery at Yala Hospital. The girl sustained serious shrapnel wounds to her head.
An aide to Iranian Nobel peace winner Shirin Ebadi has been arrested before the anniversary of Iran's disputed presidential election, Ebadi's rights groups said on Friday. "Narges Mohammadi was arrested at her home last night," the Defenders of Human Rights Centre said. Mohammadi, a mother of two, is a close aide to Ebadi and is the spokeswoman of the rights group, which is a vocal critic of the Iranian regime's treatment of dissidents and regularly reports on rights 'abuses.' Ebadi left Iran on the eve of the June 12, 2009 poll, which gave President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a second term amid widespread allegations by his opponents of fraud. That sparked street protests, which rocked the Islamic republic last summer and winter. Security forces cracked down heavily, with dozens of protesters killed, hundreds arrested and scores of prominent reformists, journalists and rights campaigners put on trial -- with many receiving stiff jail sentences.
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