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KABUL, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead five campaign workers for a candidate in Afghanistan's parliamentary election next month, officials said on Sunday, another sign of rising insecurity as Washington prepares to review its war strategy. They were working for a female candidate. IOW- they were EVIL!
The deaths of the five -- from a group of 10 kidnapped in western Herat province -- were confirmed only hours after a candidate in the Sept. 18 poll from the same area, Haji Abdul Manan, was shot dead as he walked to a mosque to pray. 2 gunmen on a motorcycle trick.
Manan was the fourth candidate to be killed. The rising toll drew a sharp condemnation from the U.N. mission (UNAMA) in Afghanistan, which is assisting with the election. Stop! Or we will sharply condemn you!
Afghan and international forces captured a senior Taliban commander in Logar provice, NATO's International Security Assistance Force announced Sunday.
Zia Ul-Haq is accused of helping foreign fighters and suicide bombers get into the capital, Kabul.
He was captured along with a sub-commander and another insurgent on Wednesday, ISAF said in a statement. The military surrounded a series of compounds in Pul-e 'Alam district and ordered everyone to come out, they said. They identified the three Taliban fighters by questioning everyone at the scene, they said.
They did not fire a shot during the operation, they said.
Through nighttime attacks and drone strikes, special forces led by the United States have massively ratcheted up their hunt for Taliban. In the past three months alone, the highly secretive forces have eliminated 365 insurgent commanders.
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Oh yeah! This is the low-cost way to get it done. Kill the troublemakers who organize the resistance. Kill their bagmen, bomb makers and suppliers. Sow suspicion amongst the leadership and confusion amongst the foot soldiers.
Often I like what Obama does regarding fighting when it comes to special ops and drones. Were it me, I would prefer to take it to Pakistan way more. Yeah, they have nukes, but they don't dare use them, and I think if the government were protected, they would be OK with it. The folks at the ISI would be high on the list of people who don't need to be in a position to cause any more problems for anybody. Even higher than the Taliban in many cases.
Diplomats are concerned that the elimination of the Taliban hierarchy could conflict with the declared goal of reintegrating some members of these groups.
Lawyers and diplomats have no place in this war. Nobody is playing fair on their side, so I'd say it's time to take off the handcuffs and gloves.
1) Beat all the Taliban they can find and their supporters to a bloody lifeless pulp. Play only as nice as they are willing to play. No nicer.
2) Demoralize them until the rest want to commit suicide or walk away from their effed up cause. Citizens should be willing to drop their belongings and scatter when the Taliban roll into town, and not have their kids wandering the streets amongst them to be used as human shields. Blind any known Talib seen to be carrying a gun with lasers. When they go running to momma, find out who momma is and make sure they can't support more Taliban.
3) Accept nothing less than an unconditional surrender. Then tell them what they need to do and what changes they will have to make so we won't have to go back at them tomorrow. Be fair but firm. They change or die. Find out who the dead-enders are and have their necks in a noose ASAP.
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There really is only one strategy. A. You employ the Khan option and slay everyone. Or B. you inflict unending pain by conducting network targeting. Negociation is folly. They will simply wait you out. I personally lean towards a combination of both A+B, but that is just me.
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Terrorist have to eat. Kill the money guys backing them.
BTW, I think that nighttime attacks and drone strikes by SO has been ratcheted up for quite a while. No terrorist now wants to take a middle management job and the leadership fears that the guy standing next to them is a rat.
What a great strategy.
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The only thing I would add to gorb's list is to carry the fight into Pakistan if it is not being done already.
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Thy did it in Vietnam with the Phoenix program. Very effective. But then, of course, the Post got ahold of it, the hand wringers got all weepy, and that was the end of that.
As far as the Caped Crusader, he's lucky he's not on the list....
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Weren't Obama and his ilk the ones complaining that killing Jihadis was like hacking heads off a hydra just a few years ago? No wonder they're keeping so quiet about the total volte face.
[Pak Daily Times] A night of clashes in south Mogadishu killed at least 11 civilians as forces of Evil continued whittling away the areas controlled by government forces, sources said on Saturday.
Fighting erupted late on Friday and continued overnight around Hodan and Holwadag districts where witnesses reported Somali government forces and their allies lost key positions. "Pro-government Sufi fighters have moved back from their positions in Sigale (part of Hodan) late yesterday but we have reinforced the positions with heavily armed military units so that the situation is under control now," Mohamed Adan, a government security official told AFP on Saturday.
"The fighting sporadically continued overnight and the turbans are trying hard to reach Maka Al-Mukarama road but I can assure you they will never succeed," he added. Paulus once said something very similar...
There were still sporadic firefights and shelling late morning on Saturday, residents said.
Maka Al-Mukarama is the only direct supply route linking the presidential palace and the airport. "We have advanced onto the enemy lines and taken control of their barracks near Maka Al-Mukarama road, I tell you today that this war is aimed to finish the apostate regime and their African invaders," Sheik Ali Mohamoud Rage, front man for the al Qaeda-inspired Shebab, told reporters. "We have diluted their powers and forced them to retreat with the only road they were controlling becoming our front line. It was cut off and the mujahedeen will continue advancing if Allah says," he added.
"Many people died yesterday in our neighbourhood, six non-combatants were killed in a mortar blast and three others were caught in the crossfire," Muktar Hasan Nur, a witness, said on Saturday. "No one is left around Sigale area this morning with all families who lived there fleeing."
Another witness, Abshir Muse, said two other civilians were also killed in Bakara neighbourhood where artillery fire struck.
"We did not sleep last night because of the heavy artillery, every family took cover under concrete buildings and I saw two civilians who were killed by shrapnel," Muse said.
The latest toll brings to more than 80 the corpse count since the fighting erupted on Monday.
Shebab fighters have stepped up their attacks against Somali government forces and their African Union backers in the past week. The government forces and their African peacekeeper allies -- some 6,000 Ugandan and Burundian troops -- are the last barrier between the group and the embattled government of President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed. The government now has only partial control of a few districts of the capital.
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Security sources said that the Algerian army killed 10 gunmen suspected of belonging to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, during a special operation near Tizi Ouzou in the Kabylie region, east of Algiers. Al Watan newspaper said in its Sunday's edition that the operation was launched at dawn on Saturday after the Algerian security authorities got information about the existence of an armed group in the region. AaPee adds that this was part of a sweep involving helicopter bombardment and 'Patriots' (armed civilian popular forces.)
(Xinhua) -- Armed tribesmen released two foreign workers on Saturday, a day after they kidnapped them in southern Yemen to press for the release of one of their fellows detained, the Interior Ministry said.
"Governor of southern province of Abyan, Ahmed al-Maisery, assigned the councilman of al-Mahfad district to convince the tribal kidnappers to release the foreign pair -- a Turkish and a Syrian, who worked with a foreign investment company," the ministry said in a statement posted on its website.
It said the councilman succeeded in helping the release and the two foreign workers have later arrived at the home of the governor safely.
Earlier, a provincial security official told Xinhua that Yemeni armed tribesmen in Abyan kidnapped two foreign workers late on Friday to press for the release of one of their fellows detained on charges of having ties with al-Qaida.
"The kidnapped pair, a Turkish and a Syrian, were taken by the kidnappers to a nearby region in al-Mahfad district of Abyan," the official said on condition of anonymity, adding that "a tribal and security mediation has been launched to seek the release of the abducted."
In Yemen, kidnapping foreigners became a common practice as tribesmen in the lawless areas often resort to abducting tourists or foreign workers in a bid to pressure the government to meet their demands.
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(Xinhua) -- At least seven security soldiers were banged and several others were maimed on Saturday in an al-Qaida attack in Yemen's southern troubled province of Abyan, a provincial official told Xinhua.
A number of al-Qaida Pirates of Boskone raided a security checkpoint at the al-Maisery tribe in Modia district in Abyan and rubbed out seven soldiers and maimed around five others while the soldiers were gathering for their evening meal to break their fast during the holy Mohammedan fasting month of Ramadan, said the official.
The attackers managed to run away after their attack.
Another local official told Xinhua that the al-Qaida bad guyz belonged to the al-Maisery tribe and their attack came as Dire Revenge™ for the soldiers who were killed last week.
Earlier Saturday, Yemeni Interior Ministry issued a highest state of alert following intelligence's warnings of possible al- Qaida attacks, the ministry's website said.
Abyan province is believed to be a stronghold of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) that has witnessed a string of deadly attacks allegedly carried out by the group since earlier this year.
The Yemeni government has intensified security operations and air raids against terrorist groups after the Yemen-based al-Qaida grabbed credit for an attempted attack on a U.S. passenger plane bound for Detroit last year.
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Hat tip to El Blog del terror for filling in the gaps with additional information.
UPDATE at 0300 hrs. Wounded count updated to 23, including six children. See the link for a list of the wounded and photos.
Milenio.com reports one unidentified person is dead.
At least three hand grenade attacks were launched against civilians shopping in downtown Reynosa, Tamaulipas Saturday killing one, wounding 22, two critically, according to Mexican press accounts.
The Mexican daily Milenio reported Saturday afternoon on a Reynosa city Twitter feed warned residents against going downtown, then two hours later reported the area was clear.
The Spanish language narco blog El Blog del Terror originally reported one bomb exploded at La Quebradita bar near the intersection of calles Colon and Juarez in the downtown area, while a second explosive device detonated near the intersection of calles Morelos and Canales.
Both attacks were less than a mile from the US border.
The first explosion on calles Colon and Juarez was apparently two hand grenades thrown by suspects from a van at about 1300 hrs, who were then pursued by local police. A military detachment intercepted the van on Bulevar Luis Donaldo Colosio, initiating a brief firefight. Despite the intervention by the military, the suspects managed to escape the cordon.
Police also found a Chevrolet Trailblazer with Texas plates left abandoned near the intersection of calles Matamoros and JB Chapa with its doors open and the engine running, although reports do not say how the vehicle may have been involved.
Eleven unidentified individuals were wounded in the first attack, including a child of three. Two adults are said to be gravely wounded. Twelve individuals were hurt in the second attack, including five children.
Intense gunfights and roadblocks between Mexican drug gangs, and the Mexican army and local police ended Thursday when the Mexican Army took over police checkpoints in an effort to control traffic in and out of Reynosa.
Reports from Reynosa now say the military abandoned those checkpoints only a day before the latest attacks.
[Iran Press] Seven rebels of the National Liberation Army (ELN) have been killed in a military attack in the northwestern Colombian town of Taraza.
In a joint operation, Colombian police intelligence forces, the army and the air force bombarded an ELN camp before dawn on Wednesday, Herald Tribune reported.
ELN is Colombia's second largest rebel group with about 2000 fighters.
The Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is the oldest and largest guerrilla group in the country with about 8000 guerrillas.
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A Monterrey, Nuevo Leon police station was attacked with a hand grenade Friday, meanwhile a female police officer was beaten at a police sub station, according to Mexican press reports.
Two unidentified individuals threw a hand grenade at a police station on Avenida Francisco Beltran at about 2230 hrs. Reports say an undetermined number of individuals were hurt in the attack and two private vehicles were damaged as well.
Reports say police do not think the police station was the target of the attack.
Meanwhile, a police substation on Avenida Condominios Constitucion was where a pair of unidentified armed suspects, dismounting from a Chevrolet Suburban, attacked a female police officer, beating her in the stomach.
The grenade attack is the third grenade attack against Monterrey police in as many days. On Wednesday four state police agents from two different agencies were attacked and wounded with a hand grenade, while a police station in eastern Monterrey was attacked with a hand grenade.
Fourteen individuals were murdered in drug and gang related violence in the Mexican state of Chihuahua which included three men shot to death while in a stolen car in Camargo, Chihuahua.
An unidentified man was found tortured and immolated in the streets of Juarez Friday night, according to Mexican press accounts. The victim was found on calle Camargo in the 9 de Septiembre district. Investigators think gasoline was used to burn the victim.
Three individuals were shot to death and a fourth individual was wounded in Camargo, Chihuahua, say Mexican press reports. The attack took place on calle Pompeyo Valles where the four were sitting in a parked stolen car when armed suspects opened fired on them using AK-47 assault rifles. Edgar Gutierrez Manuel Morales ,18, and Cesar Jauregui RodrÃÂguez were shot in the car, while Abundis Hernandez, 22, died a short distance away. An unidentified women in her 20s was wounded in the arm in the attack. Investigators at the scene found 53 spent cartridge casings. The car was reported stolen August 8th in Delicias.
One unidentified man was shot to death while a companion was seriously wounded in Juarez Saturday, say Mexican press accounts. The attack took place near the intersection of calles Panama and Malecon near an Oasis store where the two were using cocaine when the attack took place.
Two unidentified men were shot to death at a residence in Juarez Saturday afternoon, according to Mexican press accounts. The attack took place in the courtyard of a residence near the intersection of calles Huaxtepec and Carlos Amaya in the Industrial district where armed suspects broke into the area to kill the two victims.
From the Renting-is-just-such-a-hassle Department
An unidentified Juarez police officer was robbed of his equipment at a restaurant Saturday morning, according to Mexican press reports. The mugging took place at the Santiago Troncoso restaurant where a single armed suspect ordered the officer at gunpoint to relinquish his weapon and his bulletproof vest. The attacker then left with the stolen swag without firing a shot, much to the relief of the officer and nearby patrons.
(Itar-Tass) -- Five militants were neutralized in an apartment of the residential building at the corner of Shogentsukov Avenue and Zakharov Street in downtown Nalchik, ITAR-TASS learnt at the Russian Federal Security Service Department for Kabardino-Balkaria told on Friday.
"Upon the conclusion of combat actions, five bodies were found in the apartment of on the fifth floor of the residential building. All of them were local residents, their identity is being established," a FSB representative said.
A special operation to neutralize a group of militants began in Nalchik at about 18.00 Moscow time on Friday, a state of the counter-terrorist operation was imposed on the city. The militants sealed off in the apartment offered severe resistance. There no victims among civilians.
Investigation is underway at the site of the incident.
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(Itar-Tass) -- The Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia was tipped about a series of subversive and terrorist acts being prepared by criminal ringleaders in Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia's constituent republic in the North Caucasus, in order to destabilise the social and political situation in the region, the FSB public relations centre said on Saturday, August 28.
"Considering the special danger of the criminal ring leaders and their criminal ties, the resulting security threat, a set of active measures were taken in order to upset the terrorists' criminal plans," it said.
As a result, "trustworthy information was obtained that members of the gang led by Arsen Khazhbiyev, who has been the chieftain of the gang in the Volny Aul District in Nalchik since last year, would be the organisers perpetrators of the terrorist acts being planned."
Khazhbiyev was directly subordinated to the republic criminal ringleaders and was responsible for "combat operations" and kaboom training.
Khazhbiyev's men were blocked in a seedy rented flat in Nalchik on Saturday. The FSB staged an operation to detain the bad turbans, during which they put up armed resistance.
"During the operation, group leader Arsen Khazhbiyev and members of his group Albert Adisov, Ali Guziyev, Aslan Lupezhev, and Anzor Tatarov received wounds incompatible with life," the FSB press service said.
It said no one was maimed or killed among the FSB commandoes or civilians.
Two of the five Boskonians killed in Nalchik, capital of the North Caucasian republic of Dagestan, were wanted by Interpol for involvement in the bombing at the quiet city's hippodrome on May 1, 2010, Investigation Committee under the Prosecutor General's Office (SKP) front man Vladimir Markin said earlier in the day.
"During a special operation in Nalchik, five Pirates of Boskone involved in grave crimes were killed. They have been identified," Markin said.
Two of the killed Boskonians -- Arsen Khazhbiyev and Albert Adisov were earlier put on the international wanted list by the Main Investigation Department of the SKP in the North Caucasian and Southern Federal Districts. The investigation had established their involvement in the kaboom at the hippodrome in Nalchik on May 1, 2010, as a result of which a war veteran was killed," Markin said.
"In addition, they were also charged, in absentia, with the killing of two entrepreneurs -- the Khodzhaliyev father and son, who were killed by the bad guyz out of Dire Revenge™ after the son had showed an arms cache, prepared for an attack on Nalchik law enforcers, to federal authorities in 2005," the front man said.
The other three bad turbans were identified as Guziyev, Lupezhev and Tatarov and were also members of the so-called "Nalchik gang" that carried out a number of crimes against law enforcers.
During the preliminary examination of the crime scene, law enforcers found a Kalashnikov assault rifle, two Stechkin automatic pistols, two Makarov pistols, a large number of grenades, ammunition and components for homemade explosive devices, as well as mass media articles with photographs of Kabardino-Balkarian senior law enforcement officers.
"According to operational information, members of the Khazhbiyev group prepared and carried out a subversive and terrorist act on May 1 of this year at the republic's hippodrome in Nalchik during an equestrian sport holiday, as a result of which one person was killed and 43 were maimed," the FSB press service said.
In addition, the gang attacked two local FSB officers in Nalchik earlier this year, wounding them, killed two republican Interior Ministry officers and two civilians, and organised around nine attacks on law enforcement personnel with shooting and kabooms.
Security forces obtained reliable information proving that the bad boyz were preparing attacks on senior Interior Ministry and local Federal Penitentiary Service officials, and on FSB officers.
More than 30 turbans were killed in special operation in the North Caucasus in August.
President Dmitry Medvedev said the special operations in the North Caucasus in August produced good results and caused heavy damage to criminal underworld.
"This is a good result. Rather heavy damage was caused to bandits," Medvedev said. "Naturally, this work should continue," the president said.
As for the criminal groups destroyed during the special operations, this is a natural result of their criminal activities, he added.
"This is why when a terrorist act in the Moscow subway occurred, I said that all of them should be punished and all of them should be destroyed. This is they way to act. No need to be ceremonious with them," Medvedev said.
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[Al Arabiya] Spanish police have arrested a Moroccan man suspected of recruiting Islamic extremists over the Internet and raising funds for terror groups, the interior ministry said Saturday.
Faical Errai, 26, was detained on Friday in the town of Poble Nou de Benitatxell, near the eastern coastal city of Alicante, it said in a statement.
He is suspected of running a website aimed at the "indoctrination and recruitment of supporters with the ultimate aim of encouraging the most extremist and violent interpretation of jihad." He is also alleged to have helped raise money for terror groups and helped send Islamic extremists to conflict zones such as Afghanistan and Chechnya.
After his arrest, police searched three houses and seized computers.
In its investigation leading to the arrest, Spain's Civil Guard paramilitary police force received cooperation from the police forces of Belgium, the United States, France, Jordan and Morocco, the ministry said.
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US unmanned drone aircraft carried out a series of missile attacks in Pakistan's tribal region along Afghan border, killing at least six militants, intelligence officials said Saturday.
Three attacks within five minutes at midnight Friday targeted the vehicles and compounds of the suspected Islamist insurgents in three villages, separated by few kilometres in Kurram tribal district, a known hotbed of Taliban and al-Qaeda militants.
An intelligence official who spoke on condition of anonymity said that two missiles hit two vehicles at 11:30 pm in Shaheedanoon Dand village.
"The vehicles were on patrolling duty. Three militants died in the attack," the official said.
Two minutes later, a missile struck a compound in Badshah Kot, demolishing the parts of the building. Casualty information in that bombing was not yet available.
At 11:35 pm, another drone attack damaged a compound and nearby mosque in Taaloo Ganj area and killed three people.
A second intelligence official confirmed the attacks and said that all those killed were the members of the Haqqani network, a militant group lead by Afghan Taliban leader Sirajuddin Haqqani.
The group is mainly based in neighboring North Waziristan district but has hideouts in Kurram agency, which borders Afghanistan's Khost province. The Haqqani network is believed to be responsible for deadly attacks on NATO-led international forces in Afghanistan.
(Xinhua) -- At least eight militants were killed and many others injured on Saturday afternoon when two militant groups of Punjabi Taliban opened fire at each other in North Wazirsitan, a tribal area in northwest Pakistan which borders Afghanistan, reported local media.
According to the reports, the clashes started between the two groups over some dispute regarding work distribution in the areas. Two militants killed in the clashes belonged to Usman Punjabi Groups while the identities of the six other dead militants are yet to be confirmed.
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What kind of local media is there in NW Pakistan's tribal areas?
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Only the Pak ISI are allowed in North Waziristan protecting their assets.
(Xinhua) -- Indian police Saturday arrested a woman separatist leader in India-controlled Kashmir who was on wanted list of police for agitating protests, reported the Indo- Asian News Service.
Asiya Andrabi was arrested from a house in Zakura area of summer capital Srinagar, said the report quoting police sources.
Andrabi's group, the Dukhtaran-e-Millat, is a constituent of the hardline Hurriyat group headed by Syed Ali Geelani.
The group has been issuing shutdown and protest schedules in India-controlled Kashmir over the past two months which have seen violent conflicts between local Muslim youth and Indian paramilitary forces.
At least 64 civilians have been killed by paramilitary forces over the past two months in India-controlled Kashmir.
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(KUNA) -- At least three people including two brothers were killed and seven others were wounded in a bomb blast Saturday evening in a Pakistani village along the Afghan border, said officials. The incident took place in Angoradda village, located close to Afghan border. Security officials told KUNA that a bomb ripped through a shop. The explosion killed at least three persons including two brothers and wounded seven others, said officials, adding, the shop was completely damaged.
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Bomb makers or victims?
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[Pak Daily Times] A foreign terrorist was killed in a clash with security forces in Jamrud tehsil of Khyber Agency on Saturday. Political administration officials told Daily Times that terrorists attacked security forces during a search operation at Shakas area in Jamrud. "Terrorists opened fire at security forces when they entered the house of Kashmalo Zakhakhel during the search operation," the officials said. The security forces retaliated and an Uzbek fighter was killed. They also arrested four local terrorists, who were present in the house at the time. The officials said that security forces had shifted the body and the arrested people to Peshawar. Meanwhile, the bullet-riddled body of an FC solider, Baitullah, was found in Bara area. He had been kidnapped a few days ago. Local residents said that a note found on the body stated that he was executed by the Taliban for spying on the terrorists.
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(PTI) A 10-hour long hostage crisis in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar ended today when at least three militants surrendered to authorities after setting free two military personnel they had captured, officials said.
The militants, who were detained in a military building, overpowered their guards this morning and captured two sentries. They also shot and injured one of the guards, said Peshawar police chief Liaquat Ali Khan.
"The militants have surrendered with the weapons and the two sentries taken hostage by them have been freed," Khan told reporters.
He said three to four militants were involved in the incident. There were no reports of loss of life during the incident, which created tension in Peshawar.
"These are hardened militants and they are difficult to deal with," Khan said.
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(Xinhua) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki Saturday warned of a new wave of attacks across the country to be carried out by militant groups led by al-Qaida days ahead of the U.S. forces end combat mission in the country.
"The government has information that al-Qaida in Iraq and members of the outlawed Baath party are planning to wage attacks," Maliki said in a statement without elaborating.
He said that the attacks are planned to hit "selected provinces from the south to the north" of the country.
Maliki called on the "Iraqi security forces and local governments to take necessary measures to prevent any security breach."
Maliki's comments came days before the Aug. 31 deadline for the U.S. military to formally announce the end of its combat operations in the country as planned by U.S. President Barack Obama.
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Maliki & Ubama are probably wishing that a new government would have been formed by now. But it'll have to wait till Eid.
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[Aswat al-Iraq] The director of the Falluja national security on Saturday survived an assassination attempt with a sticky bomb that was attached to his car. "The security official discovered the bomb," a local police source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. He explained that experts of bomb squad defused the bomb.
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[Aswat al-Iraq] An Iraqi army force seized eight explosive belts south of al-Amara city on Saturday, a military information source in the army's 10th Division said.
"A force from the 10th Division seized eight explosive belts in the district of Bani Hashim, (45 km) southeast of al-Amara, based on intelligence tip-offs," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
"The division's explosive experts defused the belts that were ready for using in terrorist operations in the province," the source added.
He did not elaborate where or how these explosive belts were seized.
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Exactly how expensive is an explosive vest to procure? I am glad that the vests were found rather than used but nabbing the people behind the belts is much more important than the belts themselves. People can just make more belts.
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[Aswat al-Iraq] A gunman and two policemen were killed in an attack south of Mosul, the third of its kind in Ninewa province on Saturday, according to a local police source.
"Gunmen clashed today (Aug. 28) with policemen in a checkpoint near the railway line linking Baghdad to Mosul in the village of al-Djawaana, al-Qiyara district, (60 km) south of Mosul, leaving a gunman and two policemen killed and another policeman wounded," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
"The bodies were removed to a morgue in the city," he said.
The source added that policemen, after clashes ended, conducted a search raid in the area and arrested five persons believed to have been involved in the attack.
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[Aswat al-Iraq] The so-called armed group, Islamic State of Iraq, on Saturday claimed responsibility for attacks on eight police stations in Baghdad and other provinces. In a statement posted online, the group claimed responsibility for attacks on two police stations in Baghdad, and one police station in each of the provinces of Salah al-Din, Basra, Wassit, Karbala, Kirkuk, and Anbar. The Islamic State of Iraq also claimed responsibility for targeting civil servants, provincial officials, Iraqi army forces, and U.S. patrols.
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[Aswat al-Iraq] A gunman was killed while attempting to emplace an improvised explosive device (IED) in scenic northwestern Mosul city on Saturday, an official security source in Ninewa said.
"A gunman was trying to plant a roadside IED in al-Mahlabiya, east of Talafar district, (60 km) northwest of Mosul, when it went off, killing him instantly," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. "A force from the Iraqi army's 3rd Division, 10th Brigade, arrived at the scene and scraped him up cordoned it off," he said.
The source added that the force launched a probe into the incident to detect the network behind the attempt.
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Another fine instant detonator from your friendly CIA parts supplier.
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If the missles are coming from Syria then the bill is being paid in Iran.
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It's likely, given Iran's rhetoric and involvement with Syria.
But frankly, there's a lot of players who could be responsible. Russia has assets in Syria; North Korea has supplied technical expertise and could be a source for the missiles.
The weapons could have been shipped through Sudan as well (The IAF wiped out an arms convoy transiting Sudan bound for Gaza not that long ago).
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ION SYYRUH ISRAEL NN > {Kuwaiti] REPORT: ISRAEL PLANS TO STRIKE IN SYRIA [Hizbullah weapons Plexes].
ARTIC = POSSIBLE IDF MILOP BEING PLANNED? as Israel was repor observed sending UAV Drones oer Syria + Lebanon, + also put up Recce BALLOONS to survey + gather Intel
* HAARETZ < DESPITE ISRAELI PROTESTS, RUSSIA WON'T STOP ARMS SALE TO SYRIA. Russ 300-KM ranged, 200-Kg Warhead capable P-800 "YAKHONT" SSCMS for ANTI-NAVAL PURPOSES AGZ ISRAEL WARSHIPS [ + also agz Navbases, Trade Ports].
(Ma'an) -- Two Palestinians were injured by Israeli fire near the border fence separating Gaza from Israel, medics said.
Director of ambulance and emergency services in Gaza Muawiya Hassanein said Sharif Sa'id Ghubn, 25, and Rami Ibrahim Ghubn, 18, were transferred to hospital with bullet wounds, which he described as moderate.
The men were collecting rubble north of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza to make cement, Hassanein said.
An Israeli army spokeswoman said forces saw a number of people close to the border, and asked them to identify themselves. When the men failed to do so, Israeli soldiers opened fire, she said, adding that she was only aware of one injury. The spokeswoman noted that Israel considers the area a combat zone.
Under Israel's siege policy, the entry of construction materials into the Strip is heavily restricted. A report by UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in May said restrictions on the import of cement have made it "impossible" to reconstruct the 12,000 homes in Gaza damaged or destroyed by the Israeli military, or to build a further 20,000 homes needed to accommodate natural population growth in the Strip.
Several incidents of Israeli fire at the border have resulted in injuries over the last month. On 16 August, Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian man during clashes along the southern border.
Two weeks previously, Bilal Ibrahim Obeid, 22, was injured by live fire at the border and in a separate incident three men sustained gun shot wounds close to the fence. Reports suggested the men were collecting cement aggregates from the area.
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Rule 1. Don't enter a combat zone unless you are looking for combat.
Rule 2. Be polite to the solders in uniform who ask you to identify yourself.
Posted by: Mike Ramsey ||
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Reports suggested the men were collecting cement aggregates from the area
all out of rubble? Ask the IDF, they'll gladly create more for you
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Might as well go to the Mexican border near Ciudad Juarez and wave an American Flag for similar effect.
(Ma'an) -- Egyptian police raided arms depots in the Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, which held weapons ready to be smuggled into Gaza, Egyptian security sources said.
Sources said three weapons depots were discovered in central Sinai. One cache containing 100 anti-aircraft shells was uncovered in Al-Hasana, and another, containing 90 of the shells, was discovered in Ad-Daqqaq. A third cache, holding 1,500 bullets of various sizes, was found in Nakhl.
Several weapons caches were discovered in cities bordering the southern Gaza Strip. Ten anti-tank landmines were found three kilometers from the border in Rafah, and two stores of machine guns and explosives were discovered in Sheikh Zwayyid.
Egyptian police also seized 50 kilograms of hashish in forests in Rafah, and detained several drug dealers in El-Arish, sources added.
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Three people have been killed and two injured over the past two days in southern Thailand
And this is just the first story.
Wong Kaewtheabthong, 62, and his wife Jung, 51, were shot dead on Friday, while driving on a motorcycle to their home. Police suspect that the couple was shot by two suspected terrorists insurgents who followed them on a motorcycle and then fired at them as they passed a school.
Makata Muhamad, 46 a village leader, and Sumsuding Muhamad, his nephew, were shot on Friday night by unidentified gunmen. Sumsuding was killed in the attack. The two were returning from a security duties at a local school. The gunmen waited on the roadside and fired AK-47 rifles at the two when the vehicle passed a mosque. The two exchanged gunfire with the attackers, and both sustained serious injuries.
Meanwhile, Pvt Kathawut Srisurus was slightly injured yesterday by a bomb that went off in Yala's Raman district. The bomb was detonated by remote control as a patrol unit passed, with the terrorists suspected insurgents hiding by the side of the road.
A defense volunteer was gunned down in an ambush early Sunday morning. Rormuelee Abu, 41, was attacked at around 2 AM by a number of unknown gunmen while returning home. He was shot several times and died at the scene. Police found 41 M16 shells , 15 AK47 shells and 4 shotgun shells at the scene. Police blamed terrorists separatist militants.
Another married couple was killed in a drive-by shooting on a local road on Sunday morning. Police inspected the incident scene and found dead bodies of Khum Sahaman, 50, and his wife, Lim, 50, inside their pickup truck which crashed on a tree on the roadside. The two victims were shot by 9mm handguns and died at the scene. Police blamed terrorists separatist militants.
A married couple was also murdered in a drive-by shooting in front of a village school late Friday afternoon. The victims, identified as Wong Kaewthiabthong, 62, and his wife Jang, 51, were attacked while they were on their way back home by two men on a motorcycle, and died at the scene. Police also blamed terrorists separatist militants.
A two year old boy was gunned down and his father, a ranger at a national park, seriously injured by gunmen in a pickup truck on Sunday afternoon. Mahadee Sama-air, the forest ranger, was attacked while driving a car with his wife, a two years old son and his mother-in-law at the park. Mahadee was shot in the head and chest, while his son took one bullet in his head. His wife and his mother-in-law were unharmed. Police blamed terrorists separatist militants.
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Iran paying for it is interesting. Iran couldn't really want another country so close to have nuclear weapons. There is always the possibility of a future parting of the ways.
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Iran paying for it is interesting.
Distributed development, Mike R. Iran was being watched by the IAEA, Syria wasn't. So Syria provided the site, Iran provided the funds, and North Korea provided raw materials, turn-key equipment, and experts.
Same as not being watched at all, tw. Or, more likely, being helped. >:-(
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"GANGLAND" TV Show > had a segment describing how a powerful AFRO-AMER CHICAGO GANG LEGALLY CORRECTLY [Black Power Stone] turned to Islam as a broad cover to avoid Govt-Police Surveillance of its criminal or underworld activities, + how years before 9-11 [1980's] one of its top-rank Founging Leaders tried to make $$$ for the Group by covertly colluding wid LIBYA'S GHADDAFI TO ENGAGE IN LOCAL TERRORISM + ATTACK = BLOW UP TARGET BUILDINGS INSIDE HIS OWN CITY OF CHICAGO + ELSEWHERE IN THE US, + TO INCLUDE POTENS AIRLINER SHOOTDOWNS???
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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[Pak Daily Times] A night of clashes in south Mogadishu killed at least 11 civilians as 
(Xinhua) -- At least seven security soldiers were 
(Itar-Tass) -- The Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia was tipped about a series of subversive and terrorist acts being prepared by criminal ringleaders in Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia's constituent republic in the North Caucasus, in order to destabilise the social and political situation in the region, the FSB public relations centre said on Saturday, August 28.
[Aswat al-Iraq] A gunman was killed while attempting to emplace an improvised explosive device (IED) in 
(Ma'an) -- Egyptian police raided arms depots in the Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, which held weapons ready to be smuggled into Gaza, Egyptian security sources said.
Three people have been killed and two injured over the past two days in southern Thailand
