[The News (Pak) Top Stories] US troops burst into a Swedish charity-run hospital in Afghanistan and tied up patients' relatives and staff, the charity said on Sunday, in what it called a breach of deals between the military and aid groups.
In a statement issued on Sunday, the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA) said soldiers had entered its hospital in Wardak, south of Kabul, on Wednesday evening without explanation and conducted a search, including of female wards and toilets.
"Upon entering the hospital they tied up four employees and two family members of patients at the hospital. The SCA staff as well as patients (even those in beds) were forced out of rooms/wards throughout the search," SCA said in a statement.
"This is simply not acceptable," said SCA Country Director Anders Fange told Reuters. A press officer for the Nato-led force, Lieutenant-Commander Christine Sidenstricker, said she was aware of an incident but did not have enough information to comment.
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"burst" did they? Let me guess how high the squeal-factor would be if we let the Taliabn have their way? Let's run a trial experiment, assholes
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"SCA provides runs health, education and agricultural development programmes in about half of the country's provinces. It has been based in Afghanistan since the early 1980s.
When the soldiers left, hospital staff were told to report any potential insurgents they treated to the NATO forces, the Swedish group said. Fange said the SCA did not have to do so.
"There is the Hippocratic oath. If anyone is wounded, sick or in need of treatment ... if they are a human being, then they are received and treated as they should be by international law."
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...then they are received and treated as they should be by international law."
Must be that international law they repeatedly and consistently violate.
Someone misses the key element that compliance with those laws is a prerequisite to enjoying the benefit of those laws who's main objective is to protect civilians. By ignoring that key element, it results in more not less civilian casualties, pain and suffering.
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Nobody said they had to violate their Hippocratic oath and not treat ill or injuried terrorists - just that they had to violate their hypocritical oath and report those treated to NATO.
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Idiots, they want the troops to call ahead and announce the raid a day(Or So)in advance?
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Just post a soldier at the hospital for security, easy, done. Talibs wont show up. When the Sweeds leave with meds to help the talibs they can be followed arrested for supporting terrorism...
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[Maghrebia] Algeria deployed seven elite anti-terror police units to the Kabylie regions of Yakouren, Tadmait, Mizrana and Tizi Ouzou, Tout sur l'Algerie reported on Saturday (September 5th). According to a regional security source, the special gendarmes aim to address the "deteriorating" security situation in Kabylie.
In related news, several suspected terrorists arrested last week in Algiers include the alleged al-Qaeda co-ordinator between armed groups in the capital city and the "Al Sunna" brigade in Tlemcen. Abou Ishak was reportedly a student at the El Kharouba University of Islamic Sciences.
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Fawwaz Al-Otaibi, the wanted terrorist whose return to the Kingdom was announced in an Interior Ministry statement last Wednesday, has said that Al-Qaeda is in "financial crisis" and that increased vigilance of charity activities coupled with state rehabilitation programs had convinced many individuals to "return and repent."
Jihad is no fun when the pay packet is empty, it seems.
Speaking to Al-Watan newspaper Sunday, Al-Otaibi said that the lack of funds reaching leaders in Afghanistan had resulted in a reduction in the numbers of fighters being brought in from abroad, and that the recruitment of Arabs and Saudis was focusing on the execution of terrorist operations in their home countries.
That's an interesting development.
"All the leaders said they had enough fighters and didn't want to take on any more," Al-Otaibi said. "They kept passing people on to the other leaders who might want to take them."
"The return and repentance of a lot of young men, following the success of state programs convincing them to do so, particularly the excellent Saudi enlightenment program, was serving as a wake-up call to the organization," he said.
Al-Otaibi, who first entered Waziristan last Ramadan (Sept. 11, 2008), said that the Al-Qaeda camp there was "full of Arabs, particularly Saudis, Egyptians, Libyans and Yemenis," and that many were frustrated by the situation and were returning to their home countries.
New recruits, according to Al-Otaibi, were not allowed to go to battle fronts in Afghanistan, but instead were enlisted in groups dedicated to suicide bombings targeting the security of Saudi Arabia, Gulf countries and a number of other nations.
Has the House of Saud started rethinking the thrust of their education program yet?
Al-Otaibi, who handed himself in at the Saudi embassy in Pakistan, said of his return in an Al-Watan interview last week that he "didn't find the jihad he had hoped for", after entering Afghanistan via the United Arab Emirates, Iran and Pakistan, and Waziristan on his way to Afghanistan. "We asked members of the organization why they wouldn't let us fight as that's what we'd come for, and they said they had a policy of basically hiding and planning to prolong the war as that was what would hurt the Americans the most," Al-Otaibi told Al-Watan. Since his return to the Kingdom, the precise date of which has not been revealed by the authorities, 36-year-old Al-Otaibi has been held at Riyadh's Al-Hayer Prison. He was permitted last Tuesday to perform Umrah pilgrimage to Makkah.
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Too bad the NY Times blew the cover on the SWIFT program.
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If we can limi them to their Fathers Antique Sabers let them kill each other to their God's content from Camelback by HAND.
Nothing more modern than the twelfth century and have at it.
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Heavy clashes erupted Sunday between Yemeni troops and Zaidi rebels in the rugged mountainous north, military officials and witnesses said, as humanitarian conditions worsened further in the impoverished country. Army tanks fired salvos as armored cars blocked the entrances to the narrow alleys of the old city in Saada, stronghold of the Zaidi rebels seeking to end the current form of government, the officials said.
The rebels returned fire on the army from a hide-out in a fortress overlooking the old town. Shops were closed and residents stayed indoors. "They (the army and the rebels) clashed and the police halted all traffic. I was not able to get to work," Abdel-Qader, a clerk, told AFP by telephone.
The fighting intensified on Saturday, leaving dozens of people dead or injured in the north of Yemen, according to military officials.
After waging its "Scorched Earth" operation for three weeks, the government said Friday it would observe a ceasefire in response to requests from aid agencies. But fighting resumed only four hours after the truce was declared.
The Zaidi rebels, also known as Huthis, accused the government Sunday of preventing civilians displaced by the fighting from returning to their homes and of using them in the battle. "The government is not looking to apply a ceasefire but is trying to mislead and trick in order to use the issue of the displaced and those harmed (by the fighting) to get military assistance to the (army's) besieged positions in Saada and Amran," the rebels said in a statement. They said the government had bombarded Amran province with rockets and fired artillery on areas there.
Four rebel leaders died in clashes that lasted for nine hours on Saada on Saturday until the insurgents took flight from government forces, who destroyed rebel havens in the city, a military official was quoted by the official Saba news agency as saying.
A local official told Saba that rebels had murdered six women and ten children in a "horrendous manner". "The rebel and terrorist elements attacked (a) village and killed women and children by shooting them in the head and neck, accusing them of cooperating with the government," the official said.
Also Saturday, the army uncovered the bodies of 15 young men in Harf Sufyan in Amran province believed to have been killed by the rebels, a military official told AFP.
There is no official toll of casualties incurred since the government began its operation Aug. 11 against the rebels, who are loyal to leader Abdul-Malek Al-Huthi and who the government alleges are supported by Iran.
UNHCR said Friday that civilians, including some 35,000 internally displaced people (IDPs), in and around Saada remain trapped by the fighting and are unable to reach safer parts of the country.
"The situation is most critical in the city of Saada which has been cut off from the rest of the world for more than two weeks," Andrej Mahecic, a spokesman for the UNHCR, which has evacuated its staff from Saada.
"There has been no water or electricity in Sa'ada city since August 12. Food reserves are running low and the situation is becoming untenable for families, many of who are hosting friends, relatives or neighbors displaced by the street battles."
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Heads up, the proxy war between Iran and Saudi arabia is hitting a new rung.
[Bangla Daily Star] Two criminals, including a leader of outlawed Gono Bahini, were shot dead in "crossfire" in Kushtia and Faridpur yesterday.
Hurrah! A hearty welcome home to the term crossfire, which we haven't seen in a while.
The criminals are Abdul Hannan alias Hanu, 36, of Ambaria village in Mirpur upazila in Kushtia, and Tofazzal Hossain alias Topu Khan, 40, of Jatra Bari village of Krishnapur union in Faridpur.
These are not fictional places, no matter how it sounds. Really, you just have to look on a map of Bangladesh using a 20x jeweler's loupe.
Acting on a tip-off,
Mahmoud the Weasel strikes again! The man must be seriously rich by now.
a team of police raided a brickfield
a good, proletarian location...
at Anandapur in Mirpur at about 4:00am.
When all good citizens sleep snug in their beds, leaving the criminals, the Rab, and the police trainees to encounter one another in peace... so to speak.
The operatives of the outlawed party were holding a meeting there.
No doubt discussing the finer points of the latest fatwa out of Saudi Arabia, whether or not to discontinue praying for Allah to destroy all unbelievers...
The party members opened fire on police when they were asked to surrender, police said.
What, no Spidey Senses tingling upon the police's approach? Slackers!
As the police retaliated,
What else could they do? They were helpless in the face of events.
a gunfight ensued that left Hanu dead.
Double tapped behind the right ear by stray bullets. Statistically improbable is not the same as impossible, as we learn in Statistics 101 back when we were studying at good old University U.
His accomplices, however, managed to flee the scene.
Leaving no evidence of their presence. Amazing, that.
Police recovered a gun and five bullets from the spot.
Ok, no evidence except the gun and bullets, which were carefully cleaned by the junior police trainee, then returned to their velvet cases at the Rab.
Hanu was accused in twelve systems several cases including three for murder filed in Kushtia and Chuadanga police stations.
Wanted in at least three systems, then. I assume his sweet, silver haired mother is dead, since she didn't come to collect his body.
And here come the pros:
In Faridpur, a detective team of Rab came across a gang of robbers at Haat Krishnapur at about 3:30am.
While the good people of Bangladesh sleep, the Rab roam the fields and brickyards, trolling for criminal gangs plotting their next caper.
Sensing the presence of law enforcers, the gang took shelter in Krishnapur Primary School
In response to the Spidey tingling running up their legs, the miscreants ran to a primary school? For shame!
and opened fire on Rab personnel prompting them to retaliate.
Extra retaliation, please. Primary school, indeed.
After the incident, Topu's body was sent to Faridpur Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy.
"Dr. Quincy, based on the evidence I would say this man is dead."
"Excellent Sam! We'll make a coroner of you yet!"
He was convicted in 13 cases including a murder case.
Clearly a badman, wanted in thirteen systems. Once again our thanks to the good men of the Rab.
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These are not fictional places, no matter how it sounds. Really, you just have to look on a map of Bangladesh using a 20x jeweler's loupe.
Actually, TW, they show up on a good 1:15,000 scale map. A map at that scale covering all of Bangladesh would "only" cover about four football fields. I'm low on pocket-change this month, so I don't plan to buy them...
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How's that toaster feeling, Gordo? About ready to pop out yet?
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"How do yer expect one of our lads to pull 'is boot-knife and gut one o' them 'eathen savages, if he ain't got no boot-knife? It's a bleedin' shame, it is!"
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By the way, DV, "Queen Mum" was the name given to Elizabeth II's mother. After the death of King George VI, thought she was Queen, she could not succeed him as Queen, because of the rules of succession, but her daughter, QE II could.
So she was given the honorary name of "Queen mother" to avoid confusion.
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When we were in England in 1986-87, there was a fire that destroyed a stable and killed about 40 horses. The Queen showed up and personally consoled the owners, even though she had no horse in that stable. The Queen knows what's going on, and does what she can to provide aid and comfort to her people. The one thing she doesn't like to hear is that Britain can't keep up with the rest of Western Europe or the US in military matters, especially when British troops are in mortal danger. Her reaction to the Falklands mess was a case in point. Unfortunately, Labour has been shorting whatever improvements the Queen would like to see. Heads WILL roll, if only figuratively. Prince Philip will have a hand in whatever changes take place.
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...One thing Gordo and his Labour buddies may have forgotten is that Her Majesty knows what it's like to be under fire - she rode out the Blitz and was a truck driver with the women's army auxilary (don't know the proper term for it). Prince Philip was in the RN during WWII and came under fire on several occasions. On top of that, Prince Andrew did sterling service in the Falklands War (I have read from more than one source that his actions there would have gotten him at least consideration for a VC had he not been a Royal) and Prince Harry did his time too. We may sniff at the actions of the Heir Apparent, but more than a few Windsors know the risks of combat, and they aren't appreciating what Gordo's doing.
Mike
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agreed - Charles is a tool, but the family has others that have done Britain proud
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her father was the greatest king to grace the British, ever.
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With the final stages of devolution ongoing, (see Scotland), and the EU regime pushing the limits, she's a babe, has a clue and is the last Queen of ENGLAND, forget Britain.
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"F" this old hag. Shes a relic from a time past. If she gave two shits, she would have spoken up sooner. Shame on her grandsons who are closer to it for not speaking up. England, wake up and finally overthrow this Beeotch and her family and get on with things. Your country is dying before your eyes!
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Overthrow the BEEOTCH, Tommy Knocker? You have an agenda?
You really think any politician gives a rats arse about what she thinks?
She and I both know they don't, and the reason for that. Go learn some, come back when you got a grip.
Three policemen were shot dead in Hasan Abdal in apparent act of targeted killing, a senior police officer said on Sunday. The bodies were discovered early on Sunday at a site where the policemen were deployed to guard a railway bridge, police officer Arshad Mahmood said. "The police officials were sleeping in the guardroom after taking the pre-dawn meal when they were shot dead," he told AFP. "All had a single bullet wound to their forehead. It appears to be a targeted killing." The deceased were identified as constables Muhammad Yaseen, Bashrat Shah and Muhammad Naeem of Hassan Abdal police station.
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Intelligence agencies claim to have arrested two men for allegedly planning to attack the PAF airbase at Tarbela. According to a private TV channel, the two men were carrying suicide jackets, a handgun and three hand grenades. The men, identified as Hafiz Abdul Razzaq and Abdul Majid, were residents of Karak in the NWFP. The suspects told investigators that 21-year-old Abdul Majid was to carry out a suicide attack, while 28-year-old Abdul Razzaq would provide cover fire. They said they had travelled from Bannu to Tarbela Ghazi on a motorcycle, where they were stopped at the Jharyan checkpost.
When d'you suppose the Pakistani Department of Education will consider thinking about possibly reducing emphasis on jihad in the primary and secondary curricula?
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Tarbela is one of five airbases in Pakistan that are suspected of hosting Pakistan's nuclear weapons. Security is a bit tighter at Tarbela than at other places. A successful penetration and suicide attack would have been an extreme black eye for Pakistan.
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Police on Sunday claimed to have arrested 14 suspects during the ongoing search operation in Kohat district. According to police, the suspects were arrested during an operation in the Dhoda, Ublan, Sheikhan, Muhammad Zai and Ghamkole villages of Kohat. Two Kalashnikovs, five handguns, four rifles, 10 pistols, 454 cartridges, 16 chargers and 1,200 grammes of cannabis were seized from their accused.
That's all? This is reported out of Peshawar -- surely the average twelve year old carries more in his school bag.
Separately, the body of a proclaimed offender, Amjid Ali Shah, was found on the Indus Highway. He was killed by unidentified gunmen, who later dumped his body on the Indus Highway near Lachi Payan.
In Bangladesh they have the Rab. In Pakistan, dead bodies just appear. I'm sure there are broader applications for the progress of the two countries.
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[Dawn] Police on Sunday arrested 10 suspects in the attempted assassination case of Religious Affairs Minister Hamid Saeed Kazmi.
While investigations are underway in the incident, which occurred on September 2, police officials apprehended the suspects with help from intelligence agencies.
The assailants attacked the minister's car when he was leaving his ministry at G-6/3, along with his driver Mohammad Younus and guard Mohammad Ashraf.
Minister Kazmi and his bodyguard sustained injuries while his driver succumbed to the wounds.
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Security forces on Sunday killed three Taliban and arrested 12 others from various parts of Swat. "On a tip off, security forces conducted a search and cordon operation in Liluani near Alpurai. In an exchange of fire, three Taliban were killed and two were apprehended," an ISPR statement said. It said five Taliban surrendered at Gat near Peochar and Bar Shaur, and two others surrendered to forces at Bilogram and Odigram. A ten-year-old boy, under Taliban training, surrendered to security forces at Nagwa. Separately, two Taliban surrendered to security forces at Hazara and Guljaba. Also, bodies of two Taliban, identified as Anwar Shah and Zahir Shah, were found from Nawagai.
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At least 33 militants were killed when security forces targeted two militant centres -- Tarkhokas Camp and Narai Baba Markaz -- on the sixth day of 'Operation Bia Daghalam' in Khyber Agency on Sunday, said security sources.
The sources said that both the centres had been destroyed in the offensive. "Security forces ... targeted Tarkhokas Camp [and] Narai Baba Markaz," said the Frontier Corps in a statement. "Both centres and six vehicles ... [were] destroyed. Thirty-three militants ... [were] killed."
The AFP news agency quoted Frontier Corps spokesman Major Fazl Rehman as saying that helicopter gunships and fighter jets strafed the militant boltholes, with the strikes targeting the Lashkar-e-Islam.
Meanwhile, a militant was killed and nine arrested and two hideouts destroyed in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency, said security officials.
The officials said that houses and centres had also been destroyed in Narahaybaba and Darkho areas.
Also, two kidnapped people were recovered from Jamrud tehsil of the agency.
Separately, sources said the political authorities of Jamrud had offered conditional talks to militants through tribal elders.
The sources told Daily Times that the authorities had put down two conditions along with their offer for talks: the surrender of all those challenging the writ of the state and a ban on the display and sale of arms in Bara Bazaar.
Although LI spokesman Haji Zar could not be contacted for comments, the sources said the group would not accept the offer.
The sources also told Daily Times that helicopter gunships pounded LI hideouts in Tirah valley. A curfew imposed in the area was eased until 4pm.
Troops also destroyed militant hideouts in Sipah and Shalobar areas of Bara. Thousands of civilians are fleeing the latest military operation against militants in Khyber Agency.
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Ma'an -- Israeli special forces backed aircraft raided the northern Gaza Strip and abducted two residents, minutes before the end of Sunday's Ramadan fast, witnesses and the Israeli military told Ma'an.
The incursion took place in the Bedouin village in the town of Beit Lahiya. The witnesses said the two residents appeared to be in their twenties. While in an open area near the town, they were grabbed by Israeli operatives, who took them to an undisclosed location.
Israeli aircraft participated in the raid, firing at least one missile in what appeared to be an attempt to cover for the operation, witnesses said.
The An-Nasser Salah Ad-Din Brigades, the armed wing of the Poplar Resistance Committees said that they detonated two explosive charges near Israeli undercover unit. It was unclear if there were any injuries among the Israelis.
Asked about the incident, a military spokesperson said that Israeli forces identified Palestinians they suspected were planting an explosive devise and arrested them. The incident took place at the northernmost border of the Gaza Strip.
The military spokesperson confirmed that aircraft had backed the Israeli ground forces.
The spokesperson added that the Israeli soldiers heard a "large explosion" as they were leaving the area.
The detainees, the military spokesperson said, were being "questioned by security forces," and would not release further details.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Fawwaz Al-Otaibi, the wanted terrorist whose return to the Kingdom was announced in an Interior Ministry statement last Wednesday, has said that Al-Qaeda is in "financial crisis" and that increased vigilance of charity activities coupled with state rehabilitation programs had convinced many individuals to "return and repent."
Heavy clashes erupted Sunday between Yemeni troops and Zaidi rebels in the rugged mountainous north, military officials and witnesses said, as humanitarian conditions worsened further in the impoverished country. Army tanks fired salvos as armored cars blocked the entrances to the narrow alleys of the old city in Saada, stronghold of the Zaidi rebels seeking to end the current form of government, the officials said.
[Bangla Daily Star] Two criminals, including a leader of outlawed Gono Bahini, were shot dead in "crossfire" in Kushtia and Faridpur yesterday. 
At least 33 militants were killed when security forces targeted two militant centres -- Tarkhokas Camp and Narai Baba Markaz -- on the sixth day of 'Operation Bia Daghalam' in Khyber Agency on Sunday, said security sources. 
