TALIBAN fighters are burying dirty needles with their bombs in a bid to infect British troops with HIV, The Sun can reveal.
Hypodermic syringes are hidden below the surface pointing upwards to prick bomb squad experts as they hunt for devices.
The heroin needles are feared to be contaminated with hepatitis and HIV. And if the bomb goes off, the needles become deadly flying shrapnel.
Deadly ... needles become flying shrapnelThe tactic, used in the Afghan badlands of Helmand, was exposed by Tory MP and ex-Army officer Patrick Mercer.
Senior backbencher Mr Mercer said yesterday: "Are there no depths to which these people will stoop? This is the definition of a dirty war."
Razor blades are also being used. All Royal Engineer and Royal Logistic Corps bomb search teams have been issued with protective Kevlar gloves.
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Hey Obama, et al: if we can't safely fight talibanimals by means of conventional war, then i say we go to step 3.
What do you say, Hussein O?
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Human Rights Watch outcry and U.N./World condemnation in 3...2...1...Oh yeah I forgot. Haven't the Paleos used a similar tactic with suicide bombers being infected w/ Hep C and HIV/AIDS?
That's the only danger. Let me guess, those islamic scholars never cracked open a biology book.
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Haven't the Paleos used a similar tactic with suicide bombers being infected w/ Hep C and HIV/AIDS?
I did a bit of a google, Lowspark. It seems in 2001/2002 there was a suicide bomber who was found afterward to be suffering from a Hepatitis infection, and several suicide bombs were laced with rat poison. However, it seems the cognoscenti do not believe standard issue rat poison would survive the heat and pressure of the explosion.
It would make sense that HiV, which cannot survive for long outside the human body, would also not survive the heat and pressure of a bomb explosion. However, the needles would do very nicely as flechettes, about as nasty as the ball bearings the Palestinian bomb makers are so fond of.
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While I can see that would apply to contaminated shrapnel, TW, I would argue that an infected, living human body would resist the sterilizing effects produced by the explosion. While the blast pressure would certainly vaporize many of the viral bodies, lots of body parts, blood, and bone fragments remain intact to act as contaminated shrapnel (esp. bone fragments). In addition the water in blood plasma and tissue is an extremely effective insulator especially in the millisecond time frame of a blast. For reference think about being shocked by an electrical outlet (120 or 240V). It hurts, and it sucks, but it rarely burns the skin unless you get stuck to it. In contrast, I've had dime sized chunks instantly vaporized out of pliers, clippers, screwdrivers, etc. made of steel from the same outlets. Keep in mind this is only my speculation. I've no empirical data to back my position.
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An effective argument, Lowspark. I just don't recall any stories of infected suicide bombers since that first one almost a decade ago. Which doesn't mean there weren't any...
For the rest, I still await my first outlet shock, let alone tool damage. My life hasn't been nearly as exciting as yours, I'm afraid.
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th3e aids avirus doesnb't lieb otuside the human body what 1.5 seconds? It's time too nuke these bastards and who gives a two flying fuck what the pakis think or the chinese
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ION NEWS KERALA > [Africa = Somalia] PAK, AFGHAN MILITANTS TAKING/GAINING CONTROL OF AL-SHABAAB MOVEMENT. Import PRO-AL QAEDA IDEO, TECHS, + TACTICS.
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Paleo suicide bombers in Israel that had Hepatitis 3 were used, as their bone shards and all would make shrapnel wounds that would infect the victims of the bombing. Israeli medical facilities developed techniques to treat this heinous method of warfare. Read a paper on this during that time, but I cannot find it now.
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Four Nato soldiers have been killed when their helicopter was shot down in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan.
Nato said the aircraft was hit by "hostile fire".
The troops were Americans, the US military spokesman in Kabul, Lt Col Joseph T Breasseale, said.
The Taliban claimed its fighters had shot down the aircraft with a rocket-propelled grenade.
The helicopter crashed in the Sangin district, said provincial government spokesman Dawood Ahmadi.
Taliban spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi said it had been brought down in the Sangin district bazaar on Wednesday morning. "We brought it down with a rocket," he told AFP news agency.
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Four American servicemen were killed when their helicopter was shot down in southern Afghanistan today during a daring operation to evacuate wounded British soldiers from a firefight in Sangin.
Their deaths bring to 29 the number Nato troops killed during an especially violent nine days.
Afghan officials said the US helicopter was hit by a rocket propelled grenade. Nato confirmed that it was brought down by hostile fire.
The US Air Force support helicopter was circling low over Sangin to protect a dedicated air ambulance also known as a Medevac helicopter which had landed in the vicinity of Britains Forward Operating Base Jackson to rescue several wounded soldiers.
Officials said the wounded troops - some of whom were in a critical condition - were successfully airlifted to a military hospital but all four pilots and crew on board the support aircraft were killed.
[Quqnoos] At least, 23 Taliban fighters were killed and 21 others were wounded Monday by Afghan and foreign forces in a firefight in western Afghanistan
An Afghan Commander of Commando forces in Western Afghanistan, Zainuddin Sharifi said that they together with NATO troops launched an offensive targeting the Taliban's strongholds in Bala Murghab, a western Afghan district, which lasted for 12 hours.
"We received some reports about the presence of Taliban in the area planning to attack government locations, and yesterday night we launched a joint operation with the NATO forces which was a success," said Zainuddin Sharifi told Quqnoos.
Three Taliban local commanders, including Mullah Sulaiman have been indentified among the 23 corpses left in the battle site, he said.
Nearly, seven Taliban insurgents have been arrested in the firefight, he added.
No comment has been made about the Afghan forces casualties, but a provincial official who asked for anonymity said that four Afghan soldiers have also been killed in the firefight.
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Interesting. They seem to have left behind corpses, including identifiable leader corpses; that makes this Afghan battle report a bit more plausible than, for instance, the typical Pak report. Assuming most of the corpses don't turn out to be a wedding party, it would seem the Taliban was sending the JV on this raid.
[Dawn] Yemen authorities have 12 Americans in custody, and the arrests may be linked to a joint US-Yemeni anti-terror campaign, a State Department spokesman said Monday.
The spokesman, P.J. Crowley, would provide no details about the case except to say the State Department is aware of the arrests and is seeking more information about the individuals being held.
The revelations come as the US government continued to encourage Yemen to move against Al-Qaeda-linked militants in the country who officials fear may be involved in plots to attack the United States or other Western interests.
US officials worry that Yemen is becoming the next significant terror staging ground and say insurgents, including some individuals from the United States, are training in camps in Yemen's vast under-governed spaces.
Last Wednesday, Yemeni security officials said authorities had detained several foreigners, including Americans, Britons and an Australian woman, in connection with an investigation into Al-Qaeda's increased activity in the country.
The arrests reported last week were made after foreign intelligence agencies provided lists of names of people they wanted to have detained or put under surveillance, according to two Yemeni security officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not permitted to brief journalists.
It was not immediately clear whether the 12 Americans cited by Crowley were among those reported to have been rounded up last week, but Crowley suggested there may have been an anti-terror connection.
Asked whether he could confirm a report that the Americans had been picked up in Yemen at the request of the US government, Crowley replied, "We have great cooperation with the government of Yemen. Together, we are doing our best to help Yemen reduce the threat posed by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. That's a threat to Yemen. It's a threat to the United States. But beyond that, I'm not going to talk about specifics."
Al-Qaeda's offshoot in Yemen has steadily increased in strength since key leaders escaped from a Yemeni jail in 2006. In January 2009 it got another boost by merging with Saudi Al-Qaeda militants to form Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
The two Yemeni security officials who said last week that authorities had detained several foreigners on suspicion of connections to Al-Qaeda said some of them are believed to have been linked to the Nigerian man suspected of attempting to blow up a US-bound airliner last December.
US investigators say the Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, has told them he was trained and instructed in the plot by Al-Qaeda in Yemen.
Some of the detainees also are thought to be connected to radical American-Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is believed to have inspired attacks on the United States and is hiding in Yemen, the Yemeni security officials said.
The Defense Department in recent months approved spending $155 million to help Yemen in its fight, including the purchase of four helicopters to support counter-terror operations there. The money also includes $34.5 million to train and equip the Yemeni special forces and another $38 million for aircraft to allow those forces quicker access to hotspots in the country.
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I say shoot them. What else would they be in Yemen for?
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Typical third world playing the US. "Send money and we will capture terrorists". They will capture drivers, couriers, and a million #3 terrorists. But never the ones we want. If Yemen is honest about this they will capture Al-Awlacki. Until then its just another muzzie nation playing America. I say get the preditor out and send in the Hellfires.
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Anyone who achieved US citizenship by fraudulent misrepresentation - ie, false declaration of loyalty to America - can be stripped of citizenship.
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who cares about their citizenship? Istill say shoot them
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Fourteen people have lost their lives in ongoing gang and drug related violence in northern Mexico, including a find of 10 dead in Juarez in less than an hour last night.
Ten unidentified people were found executed within an hour at about 2200 hrs in Juarez last night according to the Mexican news daily La Polaka. Three were found inside a car on calle Aguirre Laredo in the San Angel district, while a fourth was found in a car in an automotive sound shop nearby in the same district.
Two men were found in the Cuernavaca district of Juarez tortured with gunshot wounds to the head. They had been dumped on the sidewalk on Calle Mecatepec. Another dead man was found nearby.
One man was found dead in the Infonavit Casas Grandes district of Juarez, while two more were found on Calle Ramocoy, in the Los Portales district of southern Juarez.
A disc salesman was shot to death at close range by two armed suspects today in Juarez, according to Mexican news reports. Javier Martinez of 31 was shot near the intersection of Avenida Juarez and Calle 25th this afternoon by armed suspects who then escaped aboard a white Subaru. Martinez's brother was also in the area but was unharmed.
Two men were murdered in separate crimes in small businesses in Juarez, say Mexican news accounts. The unidentified client of a barber was shot to death as he was getting a haircut at La Cherie barbershop near the intersection of Avenida Los Aztecas and Calle Cantera in the Independence II district of Juarez. The barber was also wounded in the attack, but is expected to survive.
Ismael Gomez, 40, an employee of the Homie grocery store near the intersection of calles 27th and Belisario DomÃnguez in the Chaveña district was shot dead in the store by an armed suspect.
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Unarmed Predator drones now flying along border
Watching. And beaming back really nifty high-res images of Mexicans hopping over our high-security fence before disappearing into the landscape while sipping on a Slurpee and cracking jokes with the the rest of the latest Illegal Aliens class of that particular day.
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Texas lawmakers have also asked that the FAA to create a faster way of processing applications for new flights.
Long past the time to designate the first five miles along the border outside of incorporated metro areas [100,000+] as a military march. Let the writ of the administrator take precedent over that of the beltway bureaucrat.
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No hellfires. FASCAM-ADAM(AP). It will give the National Guard Artillery crews something to do for summer drill.
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Badanov: you are doing a great job and can't cover all of Mexico. Sinaloa, however, has long been the fatherland of the narcos. Hundreds of narco-corridos have been written/sang about its capital, Culiacan. ("Los Tres Gallos de Sinaloa", por ejemplo.)
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Badanov: you are doing a great job and can't cover all of Mexico.
Thanks for the compliment,.
I'd like to raise a few points, however.
To compose a news roundup with ten crimes and between 500 and 650 words takes me about 3 hours; just about every last bit of spare time I have. I won't bore you with the details, but it just isn't enough to dump the babelfish translation into an article; we are trying to accurately chronicle the insanity that has become Mexican society in recent months because of gangs, drugs and greed.
Secondly, the Mexican federal government is apparently comfortable enough with the crime situation in Sinaloa and Baja California, that they just transferred last week 500 Mexican Federal agents to Sonora from those two states, Sinaloa and Baja California.
Why?
Because the Mexican Army had three armed confrontations with drug gangs in the span of two days not to mention the gun battles between elements of Sonoran state police against the bad guys, as well a a number of mass murders centered around Nogales.
I cover five of the six most northern states: all but Baja California, perusing per night about a dozen Spanish language newspapers, often several times an evening.
I said all that to say this: If someone wants to cover Sinaloa and Baja California, that would be helpful. I am stretched as far as I can be in what I am doing.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Fifteen people were injured in a bomb attack Tuesday in Turkey's biggest city Istanbul targeting a police minibus, the Anatolia news agency reported, as Turkey was preparing to use a regional summit to ramp up pressure on Israel over the attack on the Gaza-bound flotilla.
The road-side bomb exploded in front of a hospital in the Kucukcekmece district, on the European side of the city straddling the Bosphorus Strait, as the vehicle carrying officers on their way to work was passing.
The injured included both officers and passers-by, the report said.
Tuesday's bomb blast came as Turkey was hosting several leaders for the summit of an Asian security grouping in the city, among them Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
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One of the accused Jersey Jihadists went berserk when his brother refused to convert to Islam last year, smashing a glass picture frame over his head in a wild melee that also left his mother badly bruised, cops say. "I guess he looked at anyone who isn't a Muslim as an enemy, including his own family," Elmwood Park Police Chief Don Ingrasselino said of Carlos Almonte, 24. "It's crazy." The shocking revelation emerged a day after Almonte and his wanna-be jihadist pal, Mohamed Alessa, were denied bail on charges they were plotting to kill U.S. troops in Africa.
On May 23, 2009, Almonte began "preaching to [18-year-old Elvin] about the Islamic religion" in the living room of their Elmwood Park home, police reports say. When Elvin told Carlos he would not follow Islam, his 220-pound older brother allegedly flew into a rage. "Carlos became angry and they both began fighting," the report says.
Their mom, Sabrina, tried to intervene, but Elvin mistook her left arm for Carlos' and viciously bit into it, the report says. Moments later, Carlos grabbed the frame and slammed it into the back of his brother's head, the report says. Carlos, who by then had changed his name to Omar, fled after the incident - and his brother and mom called the cops.
He was collared eight days later after a car he was riding in with Alessa was stopped by Port Authority cops on its way into the Lincoln Tunnel. The cops were tipped off by the FBI that the pair was heading into the city to "disrupt the Israeli Day Parade," a source told the Daily News. "They did not have weapons or anything like that," the source added. "They were probably just going to be jerks, which is what they are."
Cops had been alerted that there was a warrant out for Almonte's arrest. They held him for Elmwood Park officers. Alessa, who had no ID on him, was detained and then released, the source said. Almonte, the son of Dominican immigrants, told cops he worked at the apparently fictitious Yeshiva Service Center in Fair Lawn, N.J. "I can see him [saying] that as a sick joke," Ingrasselino said. Almonte was charged with assault and possession of an unlawful weapon - and was released after posting $500 bail.
Almonte's sister defended her brother yesterday, saying Alessa led him to terror. "He never showed any signs," Ingrid Almonte said minutes after their mother was escorted out of the home crying hysterically and placed into a waiting ambulance. "This guy Mohamed brought a lot of trouble....My father didn't want him in the house. He brainwashed [Carlos] and tried to convert us too."
The 20-year-old son of Palestinian parents, Alessa also had a dark past. He was radicalized in his early teens and boasted about wanting to mutilate gays, subjugate women and blow up his school. Alessa's endless threats prompted North Bergen school officials to bar him from classes - and report him to the feds. "He was exhibiting this crazy, radicalized behavior," a source told the Daily News. "He was threatening classmates, threatening staff - all as part of this radicalized terroristic behavior."
Within months of enrolling at North Bergen High School in 2004, Alessa was deemed so dangerous he was barred from attending classes. School officials placed Alessa on "home instruction," forcing him to be taught alone at the North Bergen Public Library under the watchful eye of a school security guard. He transferred in the fall of 2005 to KAS Prep, an alternative school for troubled teens in North Bergen, but his vile threats only intensified. "Everyone tried to help this kid. He's just an angry, young man," a school official told The Bergen Record.
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while watching Star Wars all those years ago for the first time, I loved it when Obi Wan and Luke got through the guards with the mind game, but didn't think that people could be that stupid.
I stand corrected. Very sad.
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The 20-year-old son of Palestinian parents, Alessa also had a dark past. He was radicalized in his early teens and boasted about wanting to mutilate gays, subjugate women and blow up his school. Alessa's endless threats prompted North Bergen school officials to bar him from classes - and report him to the feds. "He was exhibiting this crazy, radicalized behavior," a source told the Daily News. "He was threatening classmates, threatening staff - all as part of this radicalized terroristic behavior."
Gee, I wonder where he learned that stuff? After spending his freshman year and part of his sophomore year at the Islamic-affiliated Al-Huda School in Paterson, Alessa, who is charged as a terror suspect, transferred to North Bergen High School in December 2004, school officials said.
Just two months later, Alessa, now 20, was placed on home instruction by the district "because of concern for the safety and well-being of other students and staff members," said Paul Swibinski, a spokesman for North Bergen.
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ION ISRAEL NN > [FBI]AMERICAN JIHADISTS USE NEW WEAPON: RESPONSE FATIGUE, via pre-designed carrying out of pervasive "false alarms" in major US Cities, e.g. NYC + Wash DC, in order to wear out + frustrate area First-Responders [Feds, Local Fire-Police-medical, etc.].
Kashmiri separatists have turned down Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's offer of talks. The prime minister arrived in Srinagar, the capital of Indian-administered Kashmir on a two day visit on Monday. He renewed the offer of talks to the separatists, but laced it with the condition that "they shun violence."
On Tuesday, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference said it will forgo the talks, adding that "a favorable situation had to precede for the talks to takeoff." The group said it wanted a repeal of the law that gave "unbridled" power to Indian security forces, the release of prisoners and withdrawal of troops.
"The dialogue has to be trilateral involving India, Pakistan and Kashmiri leadership and the solution has to address the wishes of the people of Kashmir for lasting peace and stability in the region," said the chairman of the party's moderate faction, Mirwaiz Moulvi Umar Farooq.
The United Jihad Council (UJC), a coalition of various militant groups based in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, dismissed the prime minister's offer as "old wine in new bottles" and said that "India was suppressing by force the just struggle of Kashmiris for their right to self determination."
[Dawn] After several incidents of unrest and violence in Peshawar central jail, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has started building special cells for terrorists and extremists.
Construction of underground cells in Dera Ismail Khan and Haripur was also on the cards. Close circuit cameras and other gadgets would be installed at 12 different places in three central jails, said official sources
Terrorists were not allowed to meet any one and it was decided that visitors should not be allowed in jails without identity cards.
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i bet identity cards are hard too come by in Peshawar. That's not far from where they make every imaginable weapon by hand is it?
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Khokhrapar police claimed to have arrested two youngsters for allegedly sending threatening letter to the Sindh Government Hospital Medical Superintendent (MS) Salma Gauhar.
Police said they traced the number used to fax the letter, which was registered in the name of Zahoor, and raided the house from where the fax was sent. Two youngsters, Saleem and Mansoor, were arrested, while some of their friends might also be involved, they added. Police also said Saleem was the son of Zahoor who had died a few years ago.
Station House Officer Arbab Magsi said the case had been forwarded to the investigation department for further inquiry. From initial investigation, it looks like the accused sent the fax to tease the hospital staff, he added.
Police has registered first information report No 255/10 under Section 506-D of the Telegraphic Act on the complaint of the MS. The letter, signed by 'Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Karachi Wing', was received by Gauhar through ordinary post and had sparked mild panic at the hospital.
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The Taliban staged a public execution on Tuesday in front of hundreds of tribesmen in Miranshah in North Waziristan after a Taliban court convicted the man of killing two brothers, intelligence officials and a local resident said.
Waheed, the man who was executed, had shot dead two brothers, Amar Zeb and Alam Zeb, in a football ground in Miranshah two weeks ago and had tried to flee the scene. He was caught by the Taliban minutes after he killed the brothers. As the Taliban watched, a brother of the slain brothers shot the convicted murderer six times in a soccer field around 10:30am, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity. After the ruling, the Taliban paraded the man onto the soccer field surrounded by hundreds of tribesmen, said a local resident.
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Compare wid NEWS KERALA > TALIBAN EXECUTE SEVEN-YEAR OLD BOY ACCUSED OF SPYING.
Unidentified militants attacked and set fire to a convoy of about 50 tankers and containers of the NATO forces heading towards Peshawar on the Motorway, in the Sangjani area of Ternol near Islamabad, a private TV channel reported on Tuesday. According to the television channel, four people were killed in the attack while another three were injured. Police sources said the convoy was heading towards Peshawar carrying oil and food supplies for the NATO forces. The vehicles and the supply items were completely burnt in the attack, the sources said. The Capital Development Authority has sent five fire-brigade vehicles to extinguish the fire, the channel reported. Rehman Malik, the federal minister for Interior, has asked security agencies to probe into the incident and present a report. No militant organisation has as yet claimed responsibility for the incident, the channel said. Law enforcement agencies have arrested some 26 people in Islamabad and recovered weapons from them, the channel said.
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ION TOPIX > WORRIED ABOUT AFGHAN WAR, US SEEKS TO SOOTHE AZERBAIJAN, to help secure + keep open AFPAK logistical land routes + central hubs despite Militant convoy attacks.
* SAME > AZERI POLITICIAN: US PLANS TO DEPLOY [UN-disguised] MILITARY FORCES ON ARMENIAN BORDER WID IRAN, ostensibly under the guise/cover label of "UN Peacekeeping Forces".
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"Unidentified" militants? I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say they're Muslim. Whichever Lashkar-e-Taiba, Taliban, Al Qaeda group they happen to align themselves with is immaterial.
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ISI involvement most likely.
Pak Army and Iran Govt our biggest foes in the region!
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@#3 uh....NO!
The biggest problem in that region is Iran and the Mad Mullahs.
Yes, the ISI does play both sides of the fence in certain areas, but on the whole, their interests(and most Pakis) and the Americans, are intertwined.
In the last few years the ISI has rid itself of many though not to be loyal to the government.So in my view they are more reliable today than at times in the past.
The Pakistan military has had an interesting role in Paki society and the formation of Pakistan itself.
Read up on it.
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June 6th, you asked me if Pegasus Bridghe is still there. Unfortunately it was weel past midnight here and I didn't see it in time.
So the answer is no. The bridge was replaced when the canal was widened. However the original is in a D-Day museum.
On other news: "Les Ailes de l'espoir" a monument in Omaha Beach funded by French citizens from their own pockets that the Chirac government tried to demolish is still standing.
I have also learned of a French association http://www.asp82airborne.org/
whose goal is supporting the members of the 82d airborne and is headed by former French members of the Jedburg (like the SAS but tougher) units.
Finally there is "Les fleurs de la mémoire" http://fleursdelamemoire.free.fr/ (Flowers of memory) an association whose members flower or fund the flowering of the graves of American soldiers fallen in Normandy.
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Not likely. Attacks in the past have been done by gangs who usually 'ask' for insurance-money, as in 'dat's a nice lorry - shame if'n sumptin happened to it.
It'd also be nice if once in a while you'd post a comment other than your usual mindless boiler-plate (kudos for not using exclamation points this time, tho).
Six soldiers were killed on Tuesday when Taliban militants stormed a checkpoint in Orakzai Agency, prompting a retaliatory strike by the army that left 35 militants dead and another 17 injured, officials said. According to the sources, the clash took place after militants attacked a security forces camp in the Korozkay area adjacent to Ghaljo, the agency headquarters of Upper Orakzai Agency. Eight soldiers were wounded in addition to the six dead, a spokesman for the Frontier Corps said. He said the militants were armed with heavy weapons and that troops responded with heavy artillery, as a result of which at least 30 militants were killed. Local administration official Sajjad Ahmed confirmed the casualties and said dozens of armed militants were involved in the attack. Independent confirmation of the casualty figures was not possible, however, because the area is a closed military zone inaccessible to aid workers and journalists.
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NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: Security forces found on Tuesday a stockpile of explosives in west of Mosul, according to a source from the Ninewa Operations Command.
A force from the Ninewa intelligence command found on Tuesday morning (June 8) a stockpile of explosives in Sad Badoush region, west of Mosul,' the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The operation was launched in light of intelligence information,' he added.
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Tell everyone abou it then detonate in place, Blame the Taliban for piling it there.
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Taliban? Wrong country. Blame AQ-Iraq ...
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I;m just glad the Iraqis seem too be able too do these things on their own with a little bit of supervision. Unlike the afghans who couldn't wpie their own ass if not coming from a tribal leader or cleric/pedophile
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That's one of the reasons why I keep posting these short articles from Aswat Al-Iraq. The Iraqi security apparatus, very quietly, is assuming a degree of competence in handling (my guess) 90% of the missions it needs to handle. We're providing training, intel and support.
As long as Iraq doesn't revert to strongman rule this whole adventure is going to be a success.
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#1 son was shifted from a COP on the Syrian border back to a FOB in Mosul, apparently due to a refocus there
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I hear from anecdotal and unconfirmed sources that Iran continues to meddle and that the situation remains quite tenuous. Hope that is not the case.
Source also said that our troops light up security contractors who put their mission at risk (the contractors are much more likely to kill locals, risking their support, etc.) but that this is never reported. Also said that drug use among our troops in Iraq is high because there is little for them to do.
A five-year-old girl was killed and 23 people were wounded in a grenade attack by suspected Islamic terrorists militants in Thailand's troubled south, police said Wednesday.
Two men on a motorbike hurled the grenade at an army truck near Yala central mosque as people gathered for an evening market, but missed the target, killing the girl and leaving two of the injured in critical condition.
Maj Somkid Kongkheng, Deputy Commissioner of the Yala police special unit 11 on Wednesday led soldiers to meet people near the attack site following a rumour that Tuesday's bombing was the work of government officials. After explaining to local residents, he said that most of them understood the situation.
A married couple have been shot and seriously wounded and a female vendor stabbed in separate attacks in Pattani's Thung Yang Daeng district.
The couple were ambushed yesterday morning as they were on their way to tap rubber in a plantation at Ban Saraphi. Anan Salae, 39, was shot in the head and critically injured while his wife Sunisa Pudpor, 41, received a serious gunshot wound to her right leg.
Vendor Jaruwan Sarit, 32, was attacked while she was riding her motorcycle to sell yoghurt in Ban Paseputeh. Two men on a motorcycle followed her before the pillion rider stabbed her in the neck with a knife.
In Yala, local authorities plan to train villagers' dogs to sniff out explosives following a recent booby-trap bomb attack in Than To district which left two rubber tappers seriously wounded. Than To district chief Surachai Wongsupaluck said local officials told him that dogs raised by local residents could be trained to detect explosives.
The Southern Border Provinces Administration Centre yesterday called a meeting of Islamic religious leaders in 13 districts of Narathiwat. Kitti Surakhamhaeng, director of the centre's justice administration office, called the meeting with 77 Islamic leaders at a hotel in Narathiwat.
The meeting pointed to the May 19 dispersal of anti-government red shirt protesters as a lesson illustrating the repercussions of the lack of mediation between the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship and the government.
[Straits Times] THAI police said on Tuesday they had arrested a 'Red Shirt' guard in connection with an arson attack on the country's biggest shopping mall in May, which followed two months of anti-government protests.
Saichon Paebua, 28, from the central province of Chainat, was arrested in Bangkok late on Monday for his alleged involvement in the fire at the capital's Central World mall, which was left gutted by the blaze and partly collapsed.
A Bangkok district court issued his arrest warrant on June 1 after he was seen in photographs breaking glass windows and walking inside the mall on the afternoon of May 19, the day of the blaze.
Saichon, who was employed by the 'Red Shirts' as a guard during the rally, confirmed he was the person in the footage but denied arson charges.
'He can deny but police will send him to the court as we have clear evidence against him,' King Kwangwisetchaicharn, commander of Chanasongkram Police station in Bangkok, told AFP.
Police have issued three other warrants for suspected arsonists.
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[Quqnoos] At least, 23 Taliban fighters were killed and 21 others were wounded Monday by Afghan and foreign forces in a firefight in western Afghanistan
[Dawn] Yemen authorities have 12 Americans in custody, and the arrests may be linked to a joint US-Yemeni anti-terror campaign, a State Department spokesman said Monday.
Fourteen people have lost their lives in ongoing gang and drug related violence in northern Mexico, including a find of 10 dead in Juarez in less than an hour last night.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Fifteen people were injured in a bomb attack Tuesday in Turkey's biggest city Istanbul targeting a police minibus, the Anatolia news agency reported, as Turkey was preparing to use a regional summit to ramp up pressure on Israel over the attack on the Gaza-bound flotilla.
One of the accused Jersey Jihadists went berserk when his brother refused to convert to Islam last year, smashing a glass picture frame over his head in a wild melee that also left his mother badly bruised, cops say. "I guess he looked at anyone who isn't a Muslim as an enemy, including his own family," Elmwood Park Police Chief Don Ingrasselino said of Carlos Almonte, 24. "It's crazy." The shocking revelation emerged a day after Almonte and his wanna-be jihadist pal, Mohamed Alessa, were denied bail on charges they were plotting to kill U.S. troops in Africa.
[Dawn] After several incidents of unrest and violence in Peshawar central jail, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has started building special cells for terrorists and extremists.
The Taliban staged a public execution on Tuesday in front of hundreds of tribesmen in Miranshah in North Waziristan after a Taliban court convicted the man of killing two brothers, intelligence officials and a local resident said.
Six soldiers were killed on Tuesday when Taliban militants stormed a checkpoint in Orakzai Agency, prompting a retaliatory strike by the army that left 35 militants dead and another 17 injured, officials said. According to the sources, the clash took place after militants attacked a security forces camp in the Korozkay area adjacent to Ghaljo, the agency headquarters of Upper Orakzai Agency. Eight soldiers were wounded in addition to the six dead, a spokesman for the Frontier Corps said. He said the militants were armed with heavy weapons and that troops responded with heavy artillery, as a result of which at least 30 militants were killed. Local administration official Sajjad Ahmed confirmed the casualties and said dozens of armed militants were involved in the attack. Independent confirmation of the casualty figures was not possible, however, because the area is a closed military zone inaccessible to aid workers and journalists.
A five-year-old girl was killed and 23 people were wounded in a grenade attack by suspected Islamic 
[Straits Times] THAI police said on Tuesday they had arrested a 'Red Shirt' guard in connection with an arson attack on the country's biggest shopping mall in May, which followed two months of anti-government protests.
