A former soldier received five consecutive life sentences Friday for his role in the rape and murder of an Iraqi teenager and the slaying of three of her family members.
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If anybody deserves the death penalty, this guy does. I would like to see this guy turned over to the girl's village and give them 24 hours immunity to do whatever they want.
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Frozen Al, vengance is not an option here, though it is very tempting. Justice will have to serve.
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Notice that without the imposition or interference of international tribunals, the American military cleans its own house.
Suicide bomber Abdullah Asiri had shoved inserted around half a kilogram of explosives up his butt into his own body to carry out his failed assassination attempt of Prince Muhammad Bin Naif, Assistant Minister of Interior for Security Affairs, last week.
As more details emerged of the events surrounding the attack that took place at the Prince's home in Obhur, sources told Okaz newspaper Friday that Asiri's mobile telephone was equipped with two SIM cards, one of which was used to speak to call members of the terrorist organization in Yemen, and the other to detonate the device located inside Asiri's ass rectum via a call from the group.
It was also revealed that the explosive material was placed in small hardened packs of a non-metal substance, resulting in a scenario far less devastating than it might otherwise have been. Investigators are currently trying to identify the type of explosives used in the act.
According to the sources, Asiri told palace officials while waiting for Prince Muhammad to arrive that he would have to "have a lie down" due to fatigue if the Prince was late, something which analysts say could have been due to the presence of the explosives in his body.
Asiri had reportedly not eaten nor consumed any liquid for 40 hours, fearing he might poop the bomb that they might disturb the effect of the explosives. Asiri reportedly waited less than an hour until the arrival of Prince Muhammad and the Prince sat next to him in an uncustomary position in a corner of the room to hear him better, only an arm-rest separating them.
Investigators are reportedly working on the theory that the telephone call made by Prince Muhammad to Asiri's fellow terrorists to assure them that Asiri had arrived safely at the Prince's house was a signal for them to detonate the device hidden in Asiri's body.
Officer Thamer
It is believed that "Thamer", a name mentioned in the telephone call between Asiri and Prince Muhammad is the officer assigned to accompany Asiri from Najran to Jeddah after the suicide bomber had illegally crossed the border from Yemen into the Kingdom on his own initiative.
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Shoes were bad enough, but airport screeners now
have something new to search.
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Might have been better had they given him the plunger and told him to go and hug the prince. Instead, some guy got his rocks off by calling the phone to detonate it.
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That's a very Dignified martyrdom.
Do as you wish, do whatever you might want to do, but you'll never be as cool as that asiri guy, whispering "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds", bent over, his pants around the ankles, while an accomplice fills up his butt with suppositories-shaped high explosives lubed with vaseline.
Stuff of legend.
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The bombs used to blow up two Russian airliners by Chechen Black Widows were suspected to have been smuggled that way.
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SHE BOMBER Jan 2004 A BA flight to Washington was cancelled at the last minute yesterday after an intelligence tip-off that a woman suicide bomber planned to blow up the plane over the US capital.
It was the third day running that a major security scare had hit the afternoon Flight 223 service from Heathrow to Washington.
US security services told Scotland Yard the woman - almost certainly linked to al-Qaeda - intended to hide eight to 12 ounces of plastic explosive in her vagina. She would then go to the toilet during the Boeing 747 flight, remove the material and detonate a blast that would down the aircraft.
A senior Yard source told the Daily Mirror: "Smuggling a bomb on to a plane by this method is one of our worst nightmares.
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The father of Saeed Al-Shehri, the second man in the ranks of Al-Qaeda Organization in the Arabian Peninsula and whose wife, Umm Yousef, was part of plans organized with Prince Muhammad Bin Naif to bring back Abdullah Asiri to the Kingdom, has spoken of his son's flight to Yemen to join up with the terrorist organization. "My son accused me of being an infidel before he left for Yemen. He breached agreements with the state which paid for his marriage and secured his future, which he has now thrown away by following the path of the deviant groups," Ali Bin Jaber Al-Shehri said.
Al-Shehri's fourth son Saeed was brought back by the Kingdom's government from Guantanamo in Cuba after he was arrested in Afghanistan. At 15 years old, he was the youngest prisoner at the US detention center.
Al-Shehri's fourth son Saeed was brought back by the Kingdom's government from Guantanamo in Cuba after he was arrested in Afghanistan. At 15 years old, he was the youngest prisoner at the US detention center. Following his return, Saeed lived a "happy and stable life in Al-Namas", according to his father, but suddenly, a month before the Ministry of Interior made public the names of 85 persons wanted in connection with acts of terrorism, he disappeared.
"About a week after his wife had given birth to a girl we lost contact with them, but shortly after his wife called to say she was in Riyadh and that Saeed had gone to Yemen," Ali said. That shock was compounded two months later by the news that Umm Yousef and her three children had also left to join up with Saeed.
Saeed's brother Yousef, who was 16 when he was detained in Afghanistan in November 2001 and was taken to Guantanamo two months later, is leading a new life after his marriage in prison.
According to his father, Saeed's brother Yousef, who was 16 when he was detained in Afghanistan in November 2001 and was taken to Guantanamo two months later, is leading a new life after his marriage in prison and is completing his secondary school education which was disrupted by his trip to Afghanistan. "Yousef is a bit of an introvert and prefers to only have contact with the limited members of the family," Ali said.
My daughter was 'kidnapped'
The father of Saeed Al-Shehri's wife Wafa, or "Umm Yousef" after her first son, meanwhile, has said his daughter was forced into going to Yemen, describing her departure as resembling a kidnapping. In a confused narration of events chronologically at odds with Ali Al-Shehri's version in which Wafa left for Yemen after her husband Saeed, Mohammed Al-Jubeiri told Okaz newspaper: "She called me the day after she disappeared saying her husband Saeed had gone to Riyadh on his own, and she was all alone in the house with her two-week-old baby, as her mother and grandmother had gone to hospital, while her husband was waiting for the house to be empty."
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"Her husband told her to get a car and the children, and then they left with him and went to Yemen. He let her call me and her mother and she was crying, saying that they were in a very remote area a long way away from anybody," Al-Jubeiri said. "She told me she had had to walk 10km across mountains from where Saeed and his companions were to make the telephone call." According to her father, Wafa said: "I want to come home, but I'm at a remote place and it's difficult, given that the children are with me."
Al-Qaeda 'games'
Reports that she worked for Al-Qaeda under the alias "Umm Hajir Al-Azdi", he said, were "part of the games that Al-Qaeda played to exploit the media, to make people think she'd gone to help and follow the deviant group. It's all falsehood and trickery."
Renewed interest in Saeed Al-Shehri and his wife and the three children has been provoked by their appearance as subject matter in the telephone conversation Prince Muhammad Bin Naif held with his would-be killer Abdullah Asiri published following last Thursday's failed suicide attack. "First you will see your family. Second, the woman and her children will return safely. It is because women, for us, come first in everything," Prince Muhammad told Asiri, in reference to Wafa and her children. "If I had to choose between you and the woman, I would tell you all to stay there and let her come," the Prince said, to which Asiri replied: "It is true. If you could see his little daughter and how Yousef is... I hope all goes well."
That part of the conversation, published in its entirety in Saudi Gazette Wednesday, touched a chord with members of the families involved, Al-Jubeiri among them. "Unbelievable efforts are being made by officials to get Wafa back, the clearest evidence being Prince Muhammad's conversation with the suicide bomber which showed how much attention he is dedicating to Wafa and her children," he said.
Al-Jubeiri said he was persuaded to marry his daughter to Saeed Al-Shehri by his son Yousef who said he was an "upright man" but that he "needed containing through marriage" to make sure he didn't return to his former ideas. "In the end I agreed to the marriage, hoping that he would change," Al-Jubeiri said.
Al-Jubeiri believes his son Yousef also wants a return to the Kingdom. "He called me last month saying he wants to come back and hand himself in, but it's obvious there are forces preventing him," he said. Al-Jubeiri's grandson, Abdullah, is also on the list of wanted terrorists.
It sounds like there were some ongoing issues in that family.
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my kids have called me worse...
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A rally against Islamic extremism in the ethnically mixed English city of Birmingham turned violent Saturday as protesters clashed with counter-demonstrators. Police reported more than 30 arrests.
Trouble broke out when protesters from the English Defense League, a group which says it is opposed to militant Islam in Britain, were met in Birmingham's downtown area by anti-fascist activists and counter-demonstrators.
Sky News television footage showed police confining members of the English Defense League inside pubs as counter demonstrators held up placards and shouted slogans nearby. The broadcaster said many of the protesters were loaded onto buses and subsequently arrested.
It also showed footage of counter-demonstrators of South Asian descent throwing objects, running down streets and clashing with police. One clip showed passers-by screaming and running for cover as they overran a downtown street.
Police were able to quell "pockets of disorder by several groups of 20 to 30 men," West Midlands Police spokeswoman Det. Chief Inspector Sue Southern said. About 200 people were involved in the clashes, she said in a statement.
Television footage showed lines of officers separating groups of shouting demonstrators. Sky News said riot police from across the area had been mobilized in anticipation of violence.
Birmingham, a city of about 1 million where nearly a third of the population is nonwhite, had seen similar scenes last month when a demonstration by the English Defense League turned ugly. The group blames counter-demonstrators for inciting violence at its rallies. It has promised protest marches in other cities, including one next month in Manchester.
Jack Straw has reignited the row over the release of the Lockerbie bomber by admitting for the first time that trade and oil were an essential part of the Governments decision to include him in a prisoner transfer deal with Libya. n London and Tripoli.
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It appears that their only qualm was the welcome home celebration disturbed their delicate sensibilities. It's only a matter of time: UK will reap what it has sown.
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Hey, Bulldog! Haven't see you in a while.
Do you have your escape to America or Australia plan in place for when it's needed? I wish y'all could take back your country, but it's not looking good from this side of the pond....
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I wonder what it was that caused Mr. Straw to say such a thing? It can't be because it's the truth, Jack Straw is a politican. What advantage might it give him in the months ahead?
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Hey Jacko good luck on your new "special relationship" partner, Libya. I'm sure you can trust them as much as they can trust you.
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[Kyodo: Korea] Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone on Friday called on North Korea to ""refrain from behavior that raises tension"" in the region in response to a report by the official Korean Central News Agency that the North"s uranium enrichment experiment has progressed to the final phase. The latest development also drew reaction from Katsuya Okada, a senior Democratic Party of Japan member expected to get a key Cabinet post in the incoming DPJ-led administration, who stressed the need to take a ""tough"" stance against the North.
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[Kyodo: Korea] North Korea"s parliament appointed Pak Myong Son as a vice premier on Friday, according to the official Korean Central News Agency. It is not immediately known Pak"s background, including his professional career.
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U.S. special representative for North Korea policy Stephen Bosworth will arrive in Seoul on Friday as part of a six-day visit to three East Asian countries.
U.S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said Wednesday that the focus of this trip is to hold discussions with China, Japan and South Korea regarding ways to denuclearize Pyongyang under the six-party framework. Kelly said Bosworth will "discuss the role of bilateral talks with North Korea within the context of the six-party process." However he added that there are currently no plans for U.S. officials to visit the communist state.
Bosworth visited Beijing on Thursday and will finish his trip in Tokyo on Tuesday.
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[Dawn] Police investigators are looking at all possible links to Wednesday's gun attack on Religious Affairs Minister Hamid Saeed Kazmi in which he was injured and his driver killed.
So far four prime suspects have been taken into custody and the investigators are trying to trace the facilitator who, they believe, was in Islamabad at the time of the attack.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik said that there was someone in the religious affairs ministry who was providing information about the movement of the minister to the attackers.
Talking to reporters after visiting Mr Kazmi in the Federal Government Services Hospital, he said the minister's security guards and some officials of the ministry were also being interrogated.
He said the facts so far available with the investigation team showed the minister was the target. He said two pistols and one Kalashnikov had been recovered from the scene.
Mr Malik said the government would provide bullet-proof vehicles to federal ministers in future. 'There are a few official bullet-proof vehicles that have been given to ministers. I am also using my own private vehicle.'
Deputy Inspector General Banni Amin, who is leading the investigation, said that police were working on all possibilities and would soon solve the case.
Other members of the investigation team are: Kamran Adil of CID, SP City Circle Sajid Kiani, SP Investigation Saqib Sultan, ASP City Circle Muntazir Madhi, CIA DSP Bashir Ahmad Noon and Abapara police station SHO Inspector Abdul Majeed.
Mohammad Ashraf Sialvi, the only head constable deployed with the minister, was also badly injured in the attack.
He was being treated in the Federal Government Services Hospital and is stated to be in critical condition. He was kept in the ICU ward.
The investigators visited the crime scene late on Wednesday night and collected evidence. They believe that there were three attackers.
The two riding a bike opened fire on the minister's car while the third kept watching them from across the road.
He was seen roaming the premises of the religious affairs ministry and asking something of its staff before the attack.
A contingent of police was deployed in and around the FGSH where the minister was getting medical treatment.
Orthopaedic Surgeon Dr Altaf Hussain Shah said the minister was brought with fractures of the shin bone in three different places and it was smashed.
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Yes, yes, Yousuf dear. You just sit down here next to me and have a nice cup of chamomile tea and a biscuit. You'll feel calmer in no time.
[Dawn] Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani says Pakistan 'is not a failed state as it has a strong democratic government, independent judiciary, free media and has defeated extremism and terrorism by successfully carrying out military operation in Malakand with full support of the people.'
The prime minister said that 'the terrorists are on the run after the Army operation in Malakand in which personnel of armed forces and law enforcing agencies gave immense sacrifices.'
'Nato forces are fighting in Afghanistan for last five and a half years but Pakistan's armed forces sucessfully carried out the operation against extremists and terrorists in Malakand in eight weeks,' he said.
The prime minister made these remarks while speaking at an iftar dinner hosted by Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan on Friday evening at Governor House.
Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Federal Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira, Provincial Ministers, Senators, MNAs, MPA also attended.
Prime Minister Gilani vowed that the PPP government, which came into power after the February 2008 elections, will complete its five year constitutional term and anti-democratic forces would never succeed in weakening the government.
'We will never compromise on principles, pursuing policy of reconciliation, coalition governments in the centre and provinces are working satisfactorily. After assuming power we made the Charter of Democracy, signed by Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, as the basis and had talks with Nawaz Sharif for reconciliation. We are strengthenng all institutions for good governance and giving all power to the people,' he stressed.
He said a committeee formed through a unanimous resolution in the National Assembly was studying amendments to restore the 1973 Constitution. 'We accepted recommedations of the commitee on Balochistan and are workng to implement it. Frontier Crimes Regulation FCR was amended and allowed political parties to extend their activities in the tribal areas of the country.'
'We gave internal autonomy, sovereignty to Gilgit Baltistan which was a long standing demand of its people but this does not mean that we have forgotten the Kashmir issue. We will continue to give moral and diplomatic suport to the Kashmiri people,' he said
Gilani stated that load shedding was occuring because no new power project was executed in the last nine years. He recalled Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto in her tenure in 1994 invited Independent Power Producers IPPs to overcome power shortage. He said that nearly 50 per cent of power generation capacity now in the country is due to IPPs set up in 1994-96.
'We have accepted the challenge of load shedding and implementing short, medium and long term policies. Short term policies will achieve results in six months to one year, medium in two to three years. In long term Basha dam and Thar coal fired stations will help. There is no magic lamp to overcome power shortage,' he said.
The prime minister also said that Local Government is a provincial subject and a summary was sent to President Asif Ali Zardari in this regard who sent it to the Ministry of Law & Justice for further legal opinion.
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"We're past 'failed state'. Send us money"
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'Nato forces are fighting in Afghanistan for last five and a half years but Pakistan's armed forces sucessfully carried out the operation against extremists and terrorists in Malakand in eight weeks,'
It's always easier when you have the address where you've been sending the support-checks.
Hundreds of Sunni Arabs opposed to the presence of Kurdish troops in disputed areas of northern Iraq demonstrated Saturday against a U.S. proposal to deploy a mixed force of American, Kurdish and Iraqi soldiers in the area. More than 300 people in the Sunni-dominated town of Hawija, once an insurgent stronghold, gathered in a stadium to protest the inclusion of Kurdish troops in these patrols.
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once an insurgent stronghold
Get the protesters' faces, names, and numbers
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Hamas authorities in Gaza should suspend all orders that violate personal freedoms, including imposition of an Islamic dress code for female students, Human Rights Watch said today.
I've no doubt that now Human Rights Watch has spoken firmly, Hamas will do as they're told.
Human Rights Watch has received reports from Gaza residents that since the school year opened in late August, schools have been turning away female students for not wearing a headscarf or traditional gown, on the basis of new unofficial orders to schools from Hamas authorities. They are being told they must wear a jilbab, a long traditional gown, and a headscarf. Previously, the uniform typically required for female public school students was a long denim skirt and shirt. The new orders appear to have been issued without any legal basis.
"No one should be forced to wear religious clothing, including the headscarf, to receive an education" said Nadya Khalife, the women's rights researcher for the Middle East and North Africa at Human Rights Watch. "These new orders are simply arbitrary."
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How about some perspective? What about Hamas denying Isreal's right to exist or just down right jew killing?
From a Silicon Valley office strewn with bean-bag chairs, a group of twenty-something software engineers is building an unlikely following of terrorist hunters at U.S. spy agencies.
Palantir Technologies has designed what many intelligence analysts say is the most effective tool to date to investigate terrorist networks. The software's main advance is a user-friendly search tool that can scan multiple data sources at once, something previous search tools couldn't do. That means an analyst who is following a tip about a planned terror attack, for example, can more quickly and easily unearth connections among suspects, money transfers, phone calls and previous attacks around the globe.
Palantir's software has helped root out terrorist financing networks, revealed new trends in roadside bomb attacks, and uncovered details of Syrian suicide bombing networks in Iraq, according to current and former U.S. officials familiar with the events. It has also foiled a Pakistani suicide bombing plot on Western targets and discovered a spy infiltration of an allied government. It is now being used by the Central Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Yet Palantir -- which takes its name from the "seeing stones" in the "Lord of the Rings" series -- remains an outlier among government security contractors. It rejected advice to hire retired generals to curry favor with the agencies and hired young government analysts frustrated by working with slow-footed technology. The company's founders knew little about intelligence gathering when they started out. Instead, they went on a fact-finding mission, working with analysts to build the product from scratch.
"We were very naive. We just thought this was a cool idea," says Palantir's 41-year-old chief executive Alexander Karp, whose usual dress is a track-suit jacket, blue jeans, and red leather sneakers.
Technology like Palantir's is increasingly important to spies confronting an information explosion, where terrorists can hide communications in vast data streams on the Internet. Intelligence agencies are struggling to identify and monitor such information -- and quickly send relevant data to the analysts who need it. U.S. officials say the software is also crucial as the country steps up its offensive in difficult theaters like Afghanistan. There, Palantir's software is now being used to analyze constantly shifting tribal dynamics and distinguish potential allies from enemies, according to current and former counterterrorism officials familiar with the work.
Palantir's roots date back to 2000, when Mr. Karp returned to the U.S. after living for years in Frankfurt, where he earned his doctorate in German social philosophy and discovered a talent for investing. He reconnected with a buddy from Stanford Law School, Peter Thiel, the billionaire founder of online payment company PayPal.
In 2003, Mr. Thiel pitched an idea to Mr. Karp: Could they build software that would uncover terror networks using the approach PayPal had devised to fight Russian cybercriminals?
PayPal's software could make connections between fraudulent payments that on the surface seemed unrelated. By following such leads, PayPal was able to identify suspect customers and uncover cybercrime networks. The company saw a tenfold decrease in fraud losses after it launched the software, while many competitors struggled to beat back cheaters.
Analysts at West Point recently used Palantir's software to map evidence of Syrian suicide-bombing networks buried within nearly 700 al Qaeda documents, including hundreds of personnel records that the military recovered in Iraq. The analysts did an initial sweep of the data without the Palantir tool and assembled a report on foreign fighters in Iraq who were paying Syrian middlemen to send over suicide bombers.
A second analysis with Palantir uncovered more details of the Syrian networks, including profiles of their top coordinators, which led analysts to conclude there wasn't one Syrian network, but many. Analysts identified key facilitators, how much they charged people who wanted to become suicide bombers, and where many of the fighters came from. Fighters from Saudi Arabia, for example, paid the most -- $1,088 -- for the opportunity to become suicide bombers.
The company expects to turn a profit on its government work this year -- it recently started working with financial companies, but says it is too early to see any profits from that yet -- and for revenues to reach $100 million within the next two years. Palantir also maintains a pro-bono roster. It examined the cyber attacks on the central Asian country of Georgia last year, and earlier this year helped Canadian researchers uncover a cyberspying operation on the Dalai Lama. The company is now working with a nonprofit investigative group in Washington to resolve open questions in the 2002 murder of The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
In 2007, Mr. Karp hired his first intelligence-agency alum, David Worn, to open a Washington office. Mr. Worn says he was among the younger agency analysts who felt trapped in an outdated system.
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Wow!!! Besides the WoT, the cartels and organized crime can be rolled up in short order. They might even catch the political crooks and trace the contributions and track the stimulus. The potential is incredible--no wonder he has met with a stony reception from the competitors and those maintaining "a wall of separation" between databases--there will be no where to hide anymore.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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