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Republicans are for:
☑Big Oil
☑Endless wars
☑ Too Big to Fail corporations
☑Tax breaks for the rich
☑Indoctrination through religion
☑Free markets
☑Deregulation of private industry/banks
☑Guns
☑Torture
☑Witches
☑N@zis
Republicans are against:
☑Heathcare for American citizens
☑Unemployment benefits for the jobless
☑Aiding the middle class, the poor, and the disabled
☑Improving education
☑Improving the environment
☑Separation of church and state
☑Ab0rtion
☑The Constitution
☑A womans right to choose
☑Personal responsibility
☑Climate change
☑Regulation of private industry/banks
☑Equal rights
☑Immigration reform
☑Common Decency
☑Common Sense
☑Masturb@tion
☑America
☑Barack Hussein Obama
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Kid, you have to try harder than that. We are used to a higher grade of troll here. Cut-n-paste morons like you don't last long.
(KUNA) -- A United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society office has been attacked by unknown assailants in western Afghanistan, said officials.
Citing Afghan officials, local media reported here that at least one boomer struck the UN compound in Guzara district of Herat province and entered the building.
The entrance to the office has been destroyed, they said, adding, several assailants were present inside the building. The security forces surrounded the building and were conducting the operation. However, The infamous However... there were no immediate reports of causalities.
UN front man Dan McNorton said that the UN is working closely with the local authorities to deal with the situation.
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Another 'friendly fire' incident; they happen in war, no matter how hard you try to avoid them.
[Al Jazeera] At least 27 people have been killed in a failed offensive by Somalia's al-Shabaab group near the Kenyan border, according to government forces.
Clashes broke out in the town of Balad Hawa on Thursday as residents headed to evening prayers.
Mortar fire reverberated through the streets until after midnight when al-Shabaab fighters retreated.
"Al-Shabaab attacked our defensive positions ... but we later defeated them and kicked them out of the town and surrounding areas," Sharif Abdiwahid, a front man for the joint force of government troops and Ahlu Sunna Waljamaca militia, said on Friday.
Witnesses said some of those killed were civilians.
"We are collecting the dead bodies this morning, five members from one family who were killed after artillery fire hit their house are among the casualties," Yahya Mohamed, a local resident, said.
Hundreds fleeing Others said the fighting had triggered an exodus from the town, with hundreds fleeing towards Kenya and nearby Ethiopia.
"The town is empty now. We can say 90 per cent of the people have decamped either to Mandera in Kenya or Dollow in Ethiopia," Barre Adan Shire, a Somali legislator and commander of a local pro-government militia, said.
Somali government forces took over the Balad Hawa last Sunday in an offensive launched to take back areas held by the group. Al-Shabaab took control of the area in January 2009 after Ethiopian troops, who had entered to support Somalia's transitional government, withdrew from Somalia.
The UN-backed government has been promising a major offensive to stamp out al-Shabaab for more than a year but the fighters still control three quarters of the country.
In reaction to the clashes in Balad Hawa, a Kenyan security officer at the border said scores of Kenyan troops had been deployed along the frontier.
Kenya has long been concerned about the situation in Somalia, where first warlords and now different bands of Islamic bandidos have reduced government to haplessness.
Those living in Kenya's remote northeastern provinces have reported increasing cross-border raids by al-Shabaab.
Twice hit by al-Qaeda-linked attacks, Kenya has trained thousands of Somali recruits to boost troops loyal to Sharif Ahmed, the Somali president.
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(KUNA) -- Unknown gunnies bumped off a Yemeni officer in the southern city of Al-Mukalla, Hadramaut Governorate, Friday evening.
Col. Abdulaziz Mubarak Bu-Abes was killed while shopping in the city, a police source told KUNA.
The assailants, purportedly belonging to the terrorist Al-Qaeda organization, managed to flee the scene, the source said.
This is the third hit-and-run attack against the Yemeni security officers in the restive governorate in October. Early this month Abdulaziz Ba-Shrahil - a local police officer - was killed while Col. Riyadh Al-Khatabi sustained a life-threatening wound in a similar attack a fortnight ago.
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(KUNA) - The security services in Aden Governorate, southwest Yemen, have dismantled a terrorist cell, the Yemeni Ministry of Interior said Saturday.
The nine-member group was planned for sabotage and terror acts to destabilize the governorate, according to a statement issued by the ministry here.
A member of the cell, identified as Saleh A. A. Al-Breiki, 30-year old, was caught red-handed while trying to plant a bomb at a key facility in the governorate.
The improvised bomb contained 1,800 grams of the dynamite, a detonator, a timer and a flammable robe, wrapped in a plastic bag, the statement said.
Six other members of the cell have been nabbed while the remaining two members are still on the lam, it added.
In the last few weeks Aden has been the scene of carnage which targeted civilian facilities such as sports and transport utilities, murdering four people and maiming eight others.
Governor of Aden said all perpetrators of the bombings had been jugged and referred to the judiciary.
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13 Die in Northern Mexico A fourteenth individual died overnight in the Friday night Juarez massacre in Horizontes Sur district.
Thirteen individuals were murdered in ongoing drug and gang related violence that included a Juarez, Chihuahua police captain shot to death Thursday and a ten year old boy shot to death in Torreon, Coahuila Friday night. For a map, click here
A Chihuahua, Chihuahua attorney was abducted from his office Wednesday afternoon, say Mexican press accounts. Mario Gonzalez, brother of former Chihuahua attorney general Patricia Gonzalez was taken from his office near the corner of calles 23rd and Bustamante in the Altavista district by four unidentified men at 1330 hrs, and then driven away aboard a Jeep patriot.
An unidentified man was found shot to death in Juarez Wednesday evening. The victim was found in a vacant lot on calle Rio Nilo with 20 9mm spent shell casings at the scene. The victim was wearing a police uniform, but police at the scene said he was not an officer. The victim had apparently been previously kidnapped.
One unidentified man was shot to death and another was wounded in a shooting in Juarez Wednesday night, say Mexican press reports. The attack took place near the intersection of Calle Rio Elva and Avenida López Mateos in the Los Nogales district where armed suspects dismounted from a Chrysler sedan and shot the pair.
A Juarez municipal police captain was shot to death Thursday afternoon in Juarez, say Mexican press sources. Captain Rubio was aboard his Ford Lobo pickup truck when several armed suspects blocked his way and shot him near the intersection of avenidas Manuel J. Cloutier and Las Torres.. Rubio was assigned to Babicora station.
An unidentified woman was found shot to death in Juarez Thursday night, say Mexican press accounts. The victim was found dead in a vacant lot near the intersection of calles Camilo Cienfuegos and Batalla de Santa Clara in the Che Guevara district shot several times.
Three men were found shot to death near an ejido near Navajoa, Sonora, Friday evening, according to Mexican news reports. Javier Alberto Godinez Montijo, 25, and two other unidentified men were found near the village of Benito Juarez on an access road to a pig farm shot using AR-15 assault rifles and 9mm weapons. A burned out Mercedes 300 sedan was found nearby.
A ten year old boy was shot to death late Friday night in Coahuila, say Mexican news accounts. Daniel Alejandro Garcia Contreras was playing soccer outside at around 2230 hrs when armed suspects riding in a two vehicle convoy started shooting indiscriminately in the La Constancia district.
The leader of a leftist Indian group left disabled by a previous assassination attempt was shot to death Saturday by gunmen riding on a motorcycle in the southern Mexico state of Oaxaca.
Pazos' movement is one of three groups that have been locked in a violent years-long struggle for control of the Oaxaca town of San Juan Copala.
(QNA) -- At least six people were killed and 10 others injured in new violence in the Caucusus region on Saturday, including a suicide car boom attack, reports in Moscow said.
The Dagestan Interior Ministry said a suicide kaboomer in the city of Khassavyurt blew himself up in his car at the entrance to a cop shoppe, killing at least one officer and wounding 10 others, Interfax reported.
Beforehand, security forces carrying out anti-terrorism operations in Dagestan and Ingushetia each killed two suspected Islamic turbans.
The latest violence underscores the increasing security instability in the North Caucasus region, analysts said, amid a sharp rise in new terror attacks.
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[Pak Daily Times] The leader of a nationalist party in Kyrgyzstan says he was maimed in an liquidation attempt outside his home.
Kamchibek Tashiyev, head of the Ata-Zhurt party, made the claim at a news conference where he appeared with a bandage over one hand and several fingers covered in dried blood. Deputy Prosecutor Aibek Turgunbayev said Tashiyev may have been hurt in a "scuffle" involving his bodyguards on Saturday. But the official could not confirm that shots were fired or that Tashiyev was targeted.
Police were not immediately available for comment. Kyrgyzstan hosts a US air base vital to the Afghan war effort, and Tashiyev has spoken out against it. On Oct. 11, his Ata-Zhurt party finished first in a parliamentary election.
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[Pak Daily Times] Four suspects were jugged for their involvement in assassinations of police personnel and muscle affiliated with political parties in the Sindh coalition government, the Crime Investigation Department (CID) claimed on Saturday.
The jugged men were identified as Bilal Zafar, Babar Mumtaz, and brothers Muhammad Hanif and Muhammad Asad; and this is the first arrest made public amid the fresh spate of assassinations.
CID (Operations) Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Fayyaz Khan said the detainees were involved in assassinations in Bloody Karachi during the past few years.
"We believe they are involved in other crimes as well, as the police had been searching for them for quite sometime," the SSP added.
CID officials said the jugged men were captured from a house on Services Road near the Aqsa mosque in Liaquatabad's Burhani Colony by a CID team, which was led by Deputy Superintendent of Police Chaudhry Safdar and supervised by SSP Khan.
A Kalashnikov, a rifle, a pistol, a knife, 65 rounds of bullets and two motorcycles were also recovered from their possession at the time of the arrest, the officials added.
The detainees had admitted that they were involved in murders and robberies, while Zafar also revealed that he was a former policeman.
The two motorcycles, used in incidents of killings, were snatched from Clifton and Zaman Town.
The detainees admitted to killing Mahir Khan in front of his house in Allah Walla Town, while Zafar also confessed to killing political activist Kashif Abdul Rasheed near the Ghausia mosque in Liaquatabad.
Zafar, Asad and Hanif Babar alias Farrukh had killed Liaquatabad cop shoppe's muharrar assistant sub-inspector (ASI) Javed in the Garden area because the ASI had come to know of his crimes.
Zafar, Asad and Babar (Farrukh) had also killed Mansoor Asim in the Liaquatabad police precincts, while the detained men and their gang had killed political activist Kaleem Ahmed in the same police jurisdiction as well, using a Kalashnikov they had snatched from a policeman.
Zafar was the leader of a gang, which is not only involved in assassinations, but robberies, kidnappings for ransom and extortions as well.
SSP Khan said the CID was determined to put an end to assassinations in the city and would leave no stone unturned to arrest the criminals.
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[Pak Daily Times] As many as 23 faceless myrmidons have entered Islamabad and Lahore to attack senior coppers, bureaucrats and important buildings while Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) has also planned attacks on religious leaders and muscle of two particular sects and their business interests.
According to intelligence reports, 23 faceless myrmidons (Taliban) had been dispatched from the Tribal Areas, and report suggested they could have reached the federal and picturesque provincial capitals.
Another intelligence report revealed that the TTP cut-throats had planned attacks on the holy mans of Sunni (Brelvi) and Shia sects, their markets and business centres across the province.
After receiving the reports, the National Crisis Management Cell has issued a circular to the inspector general of Islamabad police, the chief commissioner, the provincial coppers and the heads of other law enforcement agencies with directions to immediately put security on high alert, especially in the federal and picturesque provincial capitals.
The Punjab Home Department has also issued two circulars to the Punjab IG, the capital city police officer, all regional coppers, the city coppers and the district coppers to immediately put security on high alert across the province. They are also directed to adopt all necessary measures to foil the nefarious designs of faceless myrmidons and avert any untoward incident.
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[Pak Daily Times] Unidentified myrmidons blew up the Government College Kohe Sher Haider in Malik Deen Khel Bara on Friday night. The college is situated on a vast area due to which only a portion of it had been destroyed. A government high school is also situated next to the college, but it remained safe. According to locals, there was a security check post near the college, but no one stays there at night due to fear of thugs. They said beturbanned goons had dynamited all the government installations, including dozens of schools in Bara sub-division of the Khyber Agency during the ongoing military offensive. The locals said it was strange that the government schools and public property were safe in the area before the military operation began. They see it as a conspiracy against tribal people to deprive their children of education and destroy their economy.
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(KUNA) -- As many as six security personnel were killed in a landmine kaboom by Naxals in Indias northern state of Bihar at a time the state is witnessing elections, reported the New Delhi Television (NDTV).
Naxals, also called Maoists, are a group of gunnies who mainly target state establishments and coppers for raising their demand for better infrastructural facilities to the landless labourers in some of the Indian states like Bihar, Maharashtra , Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Orissa.
The incident occurred in the states Sheohar district. The dead security personnel included four belonging to the Special Auxiliary Police (SAP) and two state police personnel.
According to the TV report, the attack could have been a result of the intensive combing operations against the Naxalites by the Special Task Force of Bihar police and the CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force). The attack also assumes significance even as it came a day after the countrys Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh made some strong remarks against Naxals violence. He had said India will not allow its authority to be challenged.
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(KUNA) -- More than a dozen snuffies were killed and several others maimed in gunship helicopter shelling in a Pak tribal agency on Saturday, said officials.
Military gunship helicopters bomber suspected krazed killer hideouts in about three districts of Upper Orakzai tribal agency, security officials told KUNA. They said the shelling left more than a dozen snuffies killed and maimed several others. Tribal sources said that at least five suspects were also jugged. The operation has been launched after six soldiers were killed and two were maimed in a remote-controlled blast in the agency on Friday.
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It was good to read Bob Woodward's book to realise the White House has finally sussed out that the REAL problem is Pakistan not Afghanistan!
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[Dawn] Three men killed in a shootout in Indian-held Kashmir were on a suicide mission to attack Indian military bases, a bad boy group said on Friday, adding that three other guerrillas beat feet.
Two of the bully boyz from the Jaish-i-Mohammad were killed during a fierce gunbattle on the outskirts of Srinagar on Thursday. The body of a third bad boy was pulled from the rubble of two houses destroyed during fighting on Friday, a police officer said.
"The three bully boyz were among six fidayeen (bully boyz on suicide mission) assigned to carry out attacks on the Badami Bagh cantonment and Haft Chinar army camp in Srinagar," Jaish's operational chief Sajjad Afghani said.
Jaish said the trio were part of a six-member group told to stage the suicide kabooms but they were intercepted by troops before they could reach their targets.
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So Wikileaks wants to discredit the US by leaking documents. This particular document (recorded by the noted patriotic newspaper, the New York Times) will make clear just who's playing games in Iraq. Hint: it isn't the US.
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INTEL REPORT: INVESTIGATION INTO DBE FIND ON 10 NOV 05 NEAR IRANIAN BORDER (LTIO
SERIAL NUMBER: HQ MND(SE) 202.1.2
After an interview with the 2ic DBE region 4 ( ) COMD DBE border police Basra ( ) it is clear that the movement of explosives and bomb-making equipment was taking place from Iran into Iraq on the night of 9/10 Nov 05 in northern Basra province. An anti-smuggling operation mounted by the DBE border police in Basra disrupted the movement and recovered a quantity of bomb-making equipment, including explosively formed projectiles (EFPS). Further details of the circumstances surrounding this event appear below.
Brig was alerted by a source at hrs on Nov 05 that insurgent smuggling activities were likely in the area of the Iranian border (grid ) just south of the Basra/ Maysaan province boundary that night. The source reported that the smugglers would move explosives from Iran into Iraq by boat and that there were likely to be 30 to 35 men involved. had no information from his source about individuals involved or locations within Iran that the explosives may have come from. reported this information directly to ( ) who authorised an operation to disrupt the smugglers. border police and civilians from 's own tribe, SA id , and himself were deployed to the area arriving at hrs on Nov 05. reported that he used his own tribe in order to increase the size of his force and that his tribe could also deploy RPGS and PKCS. During this deployment there was a small blue on blue incident with the FPS where the DBE opened fire believing the vehicles ahead to be insurgents, no casualties were reported and the incident was closed, the FPS reported this incident to their HQ.
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So Wikileaks wants to discredit the US by leaking documents. This particular document (recorded by the noted patriotic newspaper, the New York Times) will make clear just who's playing games in Iraq. Hint: it isn't the US.
ATTACK THREAT REP BY IRANIAN-INFLUENCED IVO (ZONE 36): 0 INJ/DAM
1 IRANIAN INTELLIGENCE AGENTS WITHIN THE BADR CORPS AND JAYSH AL-MAHDI, HAVE RECENTLY BEEN INFLUENCING ATTACKS ON MINISTRY OFFICIALS IN IRAQ. THE NEXT TARGET MARKED FOR ATTACK IS THE ASSISTANT TO THE MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY.
2. A MAN NAMED (LNU), ALSO KNOWN AS , IS HEADING UP THE PLANNING AND EXECUTION OF THE ATTACK AGAINST THE MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY.
A. IS A MEMBER OF JAYSH AL-MAHDI AND RESIDES IN HOUSE (), STREET ,
, HAY AL-JIHAD, BAGHDAD, IRAQ (IZ).
B. HAS BEEN ATTACKING THE MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY AND SYSTEMATICALLY MURDERING THE BODYGUARDS FOR THE PEOPLE BELONGING TO THE MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY AS WELL AS THE PEOPLE WHO GUARD THE MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY BUILDING. SO FAR, HAS KILLED THREE OF
THE BODY GUARDS AND WOUNDED TWO. TOOK THE CELLULAR PHONE FROM THE LAST GUARD HE MURDERED AND IS USING IT FOR HIS VARIOUS OPERATIONS. THE CELL PHONE NUMBER IS --.
C. WHEN THE MAIN ATTACK AGAINST THE MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY'S OFFICIALS TAKES PLACE, AND THE PEOPLE WHO HE IS IN COMMAND OF, WILL BE WEARING IRAQI ARMY COMMANDO UNIFORMS, USING WEAPONS THEY GOT FROM AN UNIDENTIFIED INDIVIDUAL KNOWS INSIDE THE
AL-JIHAD, IRAQI POLICE. THE UNIFORMS AND WEAPONS THAT WILL BE USED IN THE ATTACK ARE BEING KEPT IN THE STORE //CNA// ON //CNA//, , BAGHDAD, IZ.
3. THE DESIRED EFFECT OF THESE ATTACKS IS NOT TO SIMPLY KILL THE MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY OFFICIALS, BUT AS A MEDIA CAMPAIGN DESIGNED BY IRANIAN INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS, TO SHOW THE WORLD, AND ESPECIALLY THE ARAB WORLD, THAT THE BAGHDAD SECURITY PLAN HAS FAILED TO BRING STABILITY TO BAGHDAD.
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Sniff,sniff, their use of CAPSLOCK just makes me sooo porud. They grow up so fast, don't they?
YOU HOO, USDOD, DO I SAY "I TOLD YOU SO" NOW, AGAIN, OR WILL I BE GETTING MY PIZZA(S) HAND-DELIVERED TO GUAM FROM WASHINGTON???
So Wikileaks wants to discredit the US by leaking documents. This particular document (recorded by the noted patriotic newspaper, the New York Times) will make clear just who's playing games in Iraq. Hint: it isn't the US.
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Cross Border Complex Attk On 5-73 Cav Ivo Balad Ruz: 1 Iranian Army Kia, 1 Civ
at 1047d, TF 5-73 reports a direct attack in the Diyala province, e of Balad Ruz, at grid 38snc 8296 2128.
summary of incident along Iraq-Iran border on 7 sep 06
this morning, a PLT/c/5-73cav participated in a partnership route recon, led by DBE ---- ----------, and an IA SQD from 3rd co, 2-1/5ia (IA SQD leader and 5 soldiers). CF LT ******** is the platoon leader. the recon was along a known route which LT ---------- had traveled frequently and established checkpoints along this route. PLTs task and purpose was to conduct a zone/route recon as joint operation with IA and DBE in order to identify key infiltration routes into Iraq and to assess the c2 capability and cooperation between the IA & DBE. ---- ---------- rode in the lead IA truck with the IA squad, while ---- --------, the IA SQD leader, road in a PLT vehicle.
Special instructions given to CF LT ********* were as follows: use main roads to get to castle access roads; the DBE castles along the border. No cross country movement from castle to castle was authorized due to minefield dangers. They were also to not to come within 1km of border. Patrol used BFT and GPS to confirm their location at all times. Focus was not the Iranians themselves but infiltration routes and the movement of accelerants. All acknowledged special sensitivities around the border due to UN sanctions and Iranian concern that us was attempting to mount an invasion. They also noted a previous article about British who also moved forces towards southern Iranian border.
As the patrol approached the Iraqi border, ---- ----------, in the lead vehicle, stopped the patrol. He and the IA squad were 200m ahead of patrol main body. ---- ---------- identified this point as a frequent crossing point. ---- ---------- identified 2 Iranians run from the vicinity of this location back to Iranian side of the border.
The patrol scanned the area with their LRAS. While moving forward to the IA vehicle ahead, an armed Iranian soldier riding a motorcycle approached the IA vehicle. That this point the Iraqi lead vehicle was 75m ahead of us main body. The IA soldiers stopped the motorcycle, and dismounted their truck and walked approx 100m to the front of their vehicle to talk to Iranian soldier.
With their LRAS, the patrol scanned the Iranian border castle approx 2200-2500m away and identified a fighting position west of the castle containing 2 x t62s and a DSKA. Within approx. 2 minutes of the IA stopping the motorcycle, two Iranian trucks moved south down the winding road from the castle and 8 soldiers dismounted each truck (16 total). The Iranians started to talk to the IA patrol, drawing the squad away from their vehicle, apparently to separate the two in order to deny their ability to leave expeditiously. An Iranian border captain linked up with the IA element at the lead of the column, claiming to want to discuss border crossing problems. The 2 groups of 8 Iranian soldiers imt d and took up tactical positions north of the column on the east and west sides of the road. The Iranian soldiers were armed with small arms weapons.
CF LT *********** called his lead truck (100m to his front) telling the squad leader to motion to the IA that they (the IA) needed to go. When that didn't work he sent his interpreter, ---------- (a titan local national hired from FOB Caldwell) to go forward to tell the IA that they all needed to depart. The interpreter did so, but returned to CF LT ********* to say that everything was ok and the Iranians wanted to have a meeting to talk about the border. CF LT ************ moved forward far enough to see the IA all off their truck, gun unmanned, with their gear off, showing pictures to Iranian soldiers and having tea with the Iranians.
CF LT ********* had the interpreter once again tell the IA that they must load up and go. Two more Iranian trucks appeared and 8 soldiers each (16 total) dismounted and tactically maneuvered into tactical positions further south on the direct east and west sides of CF LT ************** platoon column. Weapons carried were ak47s, RPKS and RPGS. The Iranians were clearly intent upon encircling the patrol.
CF LT *********** had his PLT start to slowly back their trucks up (south). At this point, ---------- (interpreter) went running back from the lead position telling CF LT ******* not to move or the Iranians would engage the column. CF LT *********** held his guys and then moved forward to try and motion the IA to get in their truck and go. He then had ---------- go all the way forward to tell the IA that he was low on gas and must return. ---------- returned and said that everything was ok - the Iranians said they would give them gas and wanted to continue the meeting. CF LT ********** then told his guys they were leaving.
The Iranians to the northwest of the column started to engage the patrol before CF LT ********** trucks moved. CF LT ********* gave the command to return fire and retrograde back to the check point 14 (vic nc 627243). The entire column was under fire and returned fire as they conducted u-turns to leave the area. An RPG gunner who had moved to the southern end of the column and was on the road trying to engage CF LT *********** PLT was engaged and killed by a .50 cal gunner. While breaking contact and returning to cp14, the PLT received RPG and indirect fire all the way back to cp 14 - well inside Iraqi territory and west of the border castle. The entire engagement lasted 1:30 to 2:00 minutes. As the PLT broke contact - Iranian indirect fire landed around them for approx 5:00 minutes. Total number of Iranian casualties is unknown, minus the RPG gunner who was killed in the .50 cal engagement.
Upon arrival at cp14, it was obvious that the IA soldiers had not followed. We are not sure if the IA attempted to remount their vehicle or not. Probably not though, as the Iranians appear to have deliberately separated them from their vehicle. Throughout the day we continued to try to reestablish observation of the IA soldiers, via ground surveillance, shadow uav and global hawk, to no avail.
Col ********** CDR 3/4id, received word this evening from the MANDALI POE JCC that the Iranians have informed them they have 4 IA soldiers and a DBE LT in detention. They did not mention the interpreter, nor a fifth IA soldier. We have submitted an rtq to the corps PAO, and recommend releasing to try getting out ahead of any Iranian claims of crossing the border (exasperated by us killing one of their soldiers).
As of 081800d: MNC-I still considers the 7 personnel DUSTWUN until we have proof of their status. There were 19 us soldiers (1 officer and 18 enlisted) present in the patrol in 4 uah's. All were from 5-73 cav. Closed 171916jsept06
Update: 041200c2006∞ 5 IA and 1 BP released from Iranian custody, interpreter to be released with in next 48 hours.
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KIDNAPPING THREAT REP BY JAM IVO BAGHDAD (ZONE 15) (ROUTE UNKNOWN): 0 INJ/DAM
REF:BAGSTAT
DOI:22 DEC 06
TITLE: ALLEGED JAYSH AL-MAHDI PLANS TO KIDNAP U.S. SOLDIERS IN BAGHDAD, IRAQ
As of early December 2006, Jaysh al-Mahdi allegely planned to attack U. S. Humvees traveling in two to three car convoys with the intent to kidnap U.S. soldiers in Baghdad, Iraq. Jaysh al-Mahdi allegedly planned to conduct the kidnappings sometime around the new year, 30 December 2006 to early January 2007. A senior Jaysh al-Mahdi commander, hasan ((salim)), ordered a subordinate, Shaykh Azhar al- ((Dulaymi)), to plan and execute the attack. Dulaymi planned to target U.S. Convoys consisting of two to three Humvees as they traveled into underground tunnels in al-Qanat area of Baghdad. Dulaymi specifically planned to use the following areas to stage his attacks including al-Baladiyat and Zayuna streets, Sadr City and Palestine street, the area of al-Sha'ab which was located north east of Sadr City and al-Sulaykh. Dulaymi planned to use fake road blocks in the tunnels to stop the Humvees and then attack them with improvised explosive devices (IEDS) and small arms fire to render the vehicles immobile. Once the vehicles were incapacitated, Dulaymi reportedly planned to try to kill as few u.s. Soldiers as possible in an effort to take a greater number of hostages. Dulaymi was ordered to take any captives to Sadr city. Dulaymi was previously a Sunni but converted to Shi'a while studying in an Najaf, Iraq in 1995.
Salim chose Dulaymi because he allegedly trained in Iran on how to conduct precision, military style kidnappings (nfi). Dulaymi reportedly obtained his training from Hizballah operatives near Qum, Iran, who were under the supervision of Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds force (IRGC-QF) officers in July 2006. Salim reportedly wanted to kidnap U.S. soldiers in an effort to send a message to the United States that they should not encroach upon Sadr city.
Dulaymi was allegedly responsible for the kidnapping of the ministry of higher education in late November 2006. Salim reportedly ordered Dulaymi to conduct mass high profile kidnappings in Baghdad to promote instability. The alleged purpose behind the kidnappings was to prevent Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-((Maliki)) from implementing his reconciliation plan.
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[Dawn] Al-Qaeda's American front man, Adam Gadahn, has urged fellow Mohammedans in the West to carry out attacks in the "Zio-Crusader coalition" states, SITE Intelligence Group said on Saturday.
"To my Mohammedan brothers residing in the states of the Zio-Crusader coalition ... know that Jihad (holy war) is your duty as well," Gadahn said in a video, excerpts of which were provided by the US monitoring group.
We monitor your websites, we follow your signal home. What, you thought that select group of top independent White Hat hackers couldn't look beyond at the border? Be comforted that Wikileaks will never find the documentation.
He addressed Mohammedans in "emigrant communities like those which live on the margins of society in the miserable suburbs of Gay Paree, London and Detroit, or are from those arriving in America or Europe to study in its universities or seek their daily bread in the streets of its cities," SITE said.
"You have an opportunity to strike the leaders of unbelief and retaliate against them on their own soil, as long as there is no covenant between you and them," he added in the 48 minute, 20 second video, produced by Al-Qaeda media arm As-Sahab.
He urged Arabs to launch "heroic operations similar to the invasion of the American consulate in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar and the bombing of the Danish embassy in Islamabad," in their cities and capitals.
However, The infamous However... "it is obligatory to avoid harming Mohammedans and destroying their properties" when carrying out such attacks, he said in Arabic, with the video providing English subtitles.
Ah, but he spoke in Arabic, so the West wouldn't understand the secret message. MEMRI must be enjoying the fact that for once they can just check to see if the translation is correct.
Six Paks were killed in an April attack on the US consulate in the northwestern Pak city of Peshawar.
In June 2008, a car bomb went kaboom! outside the Danish embassy in Islamabad killing at least eight people, including a Dane, and wounding about 27 others.
Gadahn also called on Mohammedans to attack "American military bases spread across the (Arabian) Peninsula, the Gulf, the Levant countries and elsewhere...like the one carried out by Major Nidal Hasan," the US Army psychiatrist accused of opening fire on colleagues at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 13.
Gadahn, also known as Azzam the American, was born in 1978. He is a native of southern Caliphornia and has appeared in several videotapes for Al-Qaeda since 2004.
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HHHMMM, HHHMMM, IOW IIUC GADAHN is saying that the US + UK + WEST is too ECON TROUBLED TO DEFEAT ANY NEW JIHAD LAUNCHED AGZ THEM. The US-ALLIES may stop SOME, but are not econ strong enough anymore to stop ALL. The US-ALLIED POLS will electroally too focused on resolving domestic econ issue + preserving pol power to prioritize any absolute or total defeat of a DEDIC JIHAD.
ITS HOW THE CRUSADES WERE DEFEATED BACK IN THE MIDDLE AGES, i.e. ECONOMIC HENCE POL DISUNITY which affected the EURO, CHRISTIAN AGENDAS [includ Military] IN THE ME.
* NET > ADM. MULLEN = repor indic that there was NO WAY [realistic] THE US CAN WIN A NON-NUCLEAR WAR AGZ IRAN AS DUE TO THE VARIOUS HIGH RISKS INVOLVED IN SUCH A VENTURE. The US = US-ALLIES can certainly attack Iran, but NOT INVADE NOR OCCUPY IRAN IN LT.
Also, A-MOUD = claimed that the ANTI-IRAN WORLD/NUCLEAR POWERS HAVE NO CHOICE SAVE TO TALK + NEGOTIATE WID IRAN OER ITS NUCPROGS.
By the above, ANALYSTS = IRAN has essentially already ALL BUT DEFEATED = "PRE-DEFEATED"? ANY US-ISRAEL, etal. MILSTRIKE ON ITS NUCPROGS + NUCFACS. IOW, Iran is highly confident it will ultimately dev + prossess NUCWEAPONS IN TIME.
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Then comes NOSTRADAMUS QUATRAIN = "NONE SHALL SEE THE POWERS OF ASIA DESTROYED UNTIL THE SEVEN/SEVENTH HOLDS THE LINE". 1960's = 1980's Oliver Stone's PLATOON ["Tropic Lightning" ARDIV] = CUSTER + SEVENTH CAVALRY???
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CHARLIE SHEEN as "Taylor" > "There were other Battalions in the Valley [Iran] - we weren't the only One, but somewhere out there was an entire Islamist Army".
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