However, press secretary Robert Gibbs said the United States was not taking part in any such talks. ''This is about Afghanistan,'' he said. ''It has to be done by the Afghans.''
Anyone require further evidence that the talks are actually taking place? I thought not. When Rectal Robert speaks, the world listens.
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Am I the only one who might only check out what this guy has to say in order to see what excuses he will use for the abject failure of this administration, and how he frames the subject with them?
[Dawn] Two kabooms killed nine people and maimed two dozen others in quiet Kandahar, the second day of deadly blasts in the southern Afghan city where Taliban Orcs and similar vermin are fighting back against US and Afghan forces pushing into areas long held by hard boys.
A car bomb and a second, smaller blast killed nine people Tuesday, including one Afghan policeman, quiet Kandahar provincial health director Qayum Pokhla said. Police officers were also among the 26 people maimed.
Three kabooms just minutes apart killed three Afghan police officers in the city Monday night. When police gathered to tend to the maimed after the first blast, two more kabooms occurred, said Zelmai Ayubi, front man for the provincial governor of quiet Kandahar.
Noor Ahman, deputy mayor in quiet Kandahar, was killed in an hard boy attack Monday and later in the day Habibullah Aghonzada, a former district chief in Arghistan, was bumped off by assailants as he prayed at a packed mosque.
Nato described the two as ''dedicated public servants who sought to improve the lives of their fellow countrymen.''
The military alliance announced Tuesday an hard boy involved in the kidnapping of a New York Times news hound was captured in northern Afghanistan. The unidentified bad boy was apprehended by Afghan and coalition security forces in Takhar province overnight Monday, a statement said.
The hard boy was linked to senior Taliban and Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leaders in northern Afghanistan and Pakistain, Nato said. He ''terrorized the local populace,'' and targeted police and local officials in attacks, it said.
Journalist Stephen Farrell and his translator were taken hostage in September 2009 when they went to cover a Nato air strike of two hijacked fuel tankers that killed scores of Afghan civilians. British commandos rescued Farrell in a raid, but the translator and a British commando were killed in the operation.
Separately, Nato reported Tuesday a service member died in a homemade bomb kaboom in the south. The coalition did not disclose the nationality or provide additional details of the death.
Control of quiet Kandahar, the Taliban movement's birthplace, is seen as key to reversing Taliban momentum in the war. Afghan and Nato forces are engaged in a major operation to improve security in and around quiet Kandahar to keep Orcs and similar vermin from staging attacks inside the city. Early Tuesday in Arghandab district outside quiet Kandahar, Nato said it captured a Taliban leader suspected of coordinating attacks and arming Taliban fighters.
Another spot needing a trained replacement who probably isn't ready for the promotion.
Trying to keep their grip on their stronghold, the Taliban are fighting with both weapons and rhetoric.
''America is operating in the districts of quiet Kandahar, but the result will be that they will walk out with blood-filled, empty hands,'' Taliban front man Qari Yousef said. ''They could not achieve victory in nearly a decade. This shows they never will.''
Nah. It shows they weren't trying, a very different thing.
The Nato coalition is fighting an uphill battle to win the allegiance of people in quiet Kandahar.
''When only the Taliban were ruling our land there was peace and tranquility. Since the Americans have set foot on our land, we don't have work and our health is no better,'' said Naseebullah Ghamjam, a 38-year-old laborer. ''All we have seen is that Americans have constructed exceptionally massive compounds for themselves.''
Before, your daughters could not go to school and your sons were taken to the playthings of the Taliban. Not my idea of heaven on earth, but I've led a sheltered life.
Azizullah Saiyal, 29, who drives heavy vehicles in Zhari district outside of quiet Kandahar, said citizens have little trust in the international community or Afghan government officials. ''We hear that millions and billions of dollars are coming in our country, but where does all of the money go?'' he asked. ''I believe these years of war and loss of innocent lives makes it obvious that war can never bring in peace. We should start looking for alternatives now.''
Clever of those Pakistani journalists to interview only those who prefer the rule of the ISI-supported Taliban. Really amazing how that worked out.
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[Al Jazeera] A DR Congo rebel commander has been arrested on suspicion of leading raids on villages in the country's east where 500 people were raped in late July and early August, the UN has said.
UN headquarters in New York circulated an announcement by the UN peacekeeping force in Congo of the arrest of commander of a tribal Mai-Mai militia, known as Lieutenant Colonel Mayele, for alleged mass rapes. Mai-Mai, huh? Wonder if there is any relation to Mau-Mau?
The UN said Mayele was arrested on Tuesday in a military operation carried out by the UN Mission for the Stabilisation of the DR Congo (Monusco) and the Congolese military.
A mean for intimidation
Rape has been increasingly used by various groups of fighters in eastern Congo to intimidate, punish and control the population, especially in the mining areas.
According to the UN announcement, the mass rapes and human rights violations are said to have been committed by about 200 Congolese Mai-Mai rebels, fighters from the Rwanda-led Democratic Front for the Liberation of Rwanda or FDLR, and elements loyal to former Congolese army Colonel Emmanuel Nsengiyumva who was also a rebel in the former Tutsi-led People's National Congress or CNDP.
The UN force said a preliminary report from UN human rights officials identified 303 civilian victims, 235 women, 13 men, 52 girls and 3 boys.
Margot Wallstrom, who is responsible for UN efforts to combat sexual violence in conflict, told to Al Jazeera that Mayele's arrest "should send out a signal that sexual violence will not go unpunished."
"This is the first strong signal that says we are determined to end impunity, this is an important step forward. and the first of I hope an arrest for the ones responsible for the rape.
"This sends a strong signal in the military chain of command and to the rebel group that we keep you under our watch, and we will do everything we can to apprehend the perpetrator," she said.
Monusco said Mayele had been handed over to military judicial authorities who have opened a judicial inquiry.
Monusco said it will continue to pursue those responsible for the mass rapes so they can be brought to justice.
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Just look for men too exhausted to walk, arrest them.
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Back in the '60s, the cry of the Simba rebels was 'Mai, mai!' - 'water, water'. The belief being that this would turn govt troops' bullets to water. Given Congolese conscript marksmanship, they may as well have been shooting water, but later mercs and UN troops
probably cured them...
[Dawn] Three people were maimed on Wednesday by a rocket-propelled grenade which targeted a British diplomatic vehicle in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, witnesses said.
It was not clear if any Britons were among the maimed in the attack which took place on Khawlan Street, about three kilometres from the British embassy.
On April 26, a boomer hurled himself at the British ambassador's two-car convoy in a Sanaa street as it neared the British embassy compound.
The boomer, whose body was torn into pieces, maimed three bystanders and damaged a police escort car as he threw himself at the convoy and detonated his boom belt.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the group's local branch, later claimed the attack, which saw the embassy closed for two weeks.
Yemen, Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's ancestral homeland, faces a growing threat from AQAP.
Sanaa has intensified its operations against AQAP amid mounting pressure from Washington after the Islamic myrmidon group grabbed credit for a botched attack on US-bound airliner on Christmas Day last year.
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[Al Arabiya] Al-Qaeda faceless myrmidons said Tuesday that they had narrowly missed Deputy Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz in an attack last year as he flew into the Yemeni capital Sanaa on a visit.
In a video message posted on the Internet, the group said it had attempted to target the visiting Saudi delegation with a surface-to-air missile and had also planned to shell the welcoming ceremony at the airport.
Attempted and planned.
Al-Qaeda threatened to launch fresh attacks on Saudi royal family members in the video, which was released in the occasion of commemorating a 2009 failed bombing that targeted the deputy interior minister.
Commemorating a failure? How... bold.
"We can get you in your offices, we can get you in your bedrooms," said Qassem al-Rimi, a commander of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
Actually, you don't seem very good at that getting thingy. And most of your suicide tools aren't exactly successful, either. I seem to remember a pantibomber who ended up smeared on floor and ceiling while waiting for his Saudi prince to arrive...
"I advise you to check before going to bed that there's no bomb planted and no boomer in the room," Rimi added.
The modern version of the boogyman under the bed.
An al-Qaeda boomer attacked Saudi Arabia's counterterrorism chief, Deputy Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdul Aziz, on Aug. 27 last year as he was receiving members of the public.
That was the one. A case of premature explodulation. Not the kind of thing I would boast about, but there it is.
"You attacked our houses and destroyed our homes, so we have attacked yours and destroyed your palaces," the al-Qaeda branch's assistant commander, Said al-Shihri, said in the video posting.
Saudi prominent writer Yehia al-Amir commented on the release of al-Qaeda video at this specific time saying that al-Qaeda faceless myrmidons were trying to make propaganda for themselves. "It was the first operation to target a Saudi leader, individually, inside the kingdom. It is a kind of show-off on the part of al-Qaeda, to show their potentials and capabilities," he told Al Arabiya.
Not their actual accomplishments. Noted.
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Britains deputy ambassador to Yemen has survived a rocket attack in the capital Sanaa, local security officials say. It was the second major assassination attempt on a British diplomatic target in the country this year. The ambassador, Timothy Torlot, survived a suicide bombing also aimed at his car in April.
Four men, including one German national, are currently on trial for that attack. Few details have so far been released on the latest attempt.
According to officials, the rocket landed near an armoured car carrying the deputy head of mission at the British embassy, Fiona Gibb, at around 8.15 on Wednesday morning. It missed, though the car was struck by shrapnel.
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Can You Pick The Future Politician?
Is that Barack in the middle?
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There are a great many oblivious people in the world. And even more who assume that being American protects them from their own stupidity.
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A Texas college student was shot and killed in Mexico after the bus he was riding on was hijacked by suspected members of a Mexican drug cartel, The Brownsville Herald reports.
Jonathan William Torres, an 18-year-old college freshman at the University of Texas at Brownsville, was killed Sept. 30 in Matamoros -- just outside Ciudad Mante in the southern part of Tamaulipas -- a university spokeswoman told the newspaper.
Torres was reportedly on his way to visit family when his bus was allegedly ambushed by members of Mexican organized crime. At least two people were killed in the attack, according to a U.S. official who spoke to the newspaper on condition of anonymity.
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TW,
Please come up with another excuse so America can feel better about this senseless murder as well.
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TW,
Please come up with another excuse so America can feel better about this senseless murder as well.
American-reared college kid -- possibly an American citizen, possibly a legal resident -- rides a bus through known Mexican drug gang territory and gets killed. Unfortunately Darwin wins. I'm not sure what the issue is, wr.
Buried well down in this news article is: Tiffany and her mother, Cynthia Young, spent more than three hours in a meeting with both U.S. and Mexican consular officials Tuesday, filling out what they were told was the paperwork to get things rolling.
The forms included a privacy act waiver and a criminal report for the Mexican Consulate that had to be filed before they got both sides talking, Young told the San Antonio Express-News Wednesday.
AND The wife and family of 30-year-old Hartley meanwhile said they had hopes their media blitz Tuesday would bring results in a matter they felt otherwise would have been swept under an international rug.So far the whole affair has been a media blitz. Normally the sequence (IMHO) of events after an allegation like Tiffany's would be to file a complaint with the local law enforcement (missing person, if nothing else), and then a complaint with Mexican authorities, which can be (and finally was done) at a Mexican consulate in Texas.
A detachment of the Mexican Army rescued 14 unidentified kidnap victims near Torreon, Coahuila Monday, say Mexican news accounts.
The patrol rode up on a Ford Expedition stopped on the San Pedro-La Cuchilla road near the San Miguel ejido when soldiers heard the cries of the occupants inside.
Nine men and five women, all handcuffed and blindfolded and bound with tape with visible wounds from beatings, were released following medical treatment.
The victims were from various municipalities (counties) in Coahuila.
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Re: Los Comics: Don Rickles (very un-pc even for the time) yells at a lady in the Las Vegas nightclub audience: "I see you have a Mexican boyfriend...no problem...after nine minths a taco will fall out."
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I always wished I could go one-on-one with Don Rickles. He would have prevailed in the end, of course, but it would have been a hoot while it lasted. :-D
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Mexican Marines acting on intelligence arrested 17 presumed members of the Gulf Cartel in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, according to Mexican news accounts.
Military forces also seized a significant haul of drugs, weapons, vehicles and other contraband.
Munitions seized include 49 rifle, two pistols, 101,533 rounds of ammunition, 1,200 magazines and six grenades. Military contraband seized include 125 military uniforms, 10 ballistic helmets, ballistic vests, 31 cell phones and 20 radios. Vehicles seized incldue vintage cars, SUVs and ATVs.
Drugs seized include eight packages of cocaine and 16 packages of marijuana.
Mexican Marines have been involved in numerous counternarcotic operations in recent days in and around Matamoros, which are likely to have contributed to this most recent bust.
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Several shootings including an intergang firefight, and a gun battle between presumed drug gangs and a detachment of the Mexican Army took place since Monday morning, according to Mexican news reports.
A shootout between armed gangs in southern Monterrey took place Monday afternoon near a technical school that left one unidentified individual hurt. Mexican Federal agents engaged in the pursuit of apparent armed suspects in various areas in Monterrey including in Las Retamas district near Cerro de La Campana on Avenida Luis Elizondo, and near the Tecnológico de Monterrey school. At the intersection of Avenidas Octava and Leopoldo Guzman, agents found a sedan riddled with bullets. Military forces and Mexican federal police forces conducted searches in the area following the gun battle, but reported no results.
A confrontation between a detachment of the Mexican Army and armed suspects took place Monday morning near the intersection of calles Cacomite and Cenizo de Barrio Mirasol in the Solidaridad district, where two unidentified armed suspects were shot and killed and an American citizen, Mario Alberto Martinez Chapa, 37, was rescued after he was abducted by the armed group. The gun battle began after the army patrol stopped a truck, and the vehicle occupants opened fired, and a hand grenade was detonated against the soldiers. Two soldiers were wounded in the exchange, and two armed suspects died. Inside the truck, soldiers found several weapons, munitions and communications equipment. Another undamaged vehicle was seized by the army as well.
An unidentified man was shot to death by armed suspects in downtown Monterrey Wednesday evening. The attack took place at about 1900 hrs near the intersection of Avenidas Juarez and Morelos, where a single armed suspect dismounted from an SUV and shot the victim using a rifle. Six others were hit by bullets in the attack.
Two unidentified men were shot to death in Monterrey Tuesday evening. The victim were shot by armed suspects on Avenida Medero on the Diego de Montemayor district while the victims were riding in a Dodge Durango.
One unidentified female shopping at a farmers market in Guadalupe, weas shot to death early Tuesday morning. The shooting took place when an armed suspect using an AR-15 assault rifle fired into a crowd of shoppers hitting three people, two women and a man. Reports suggest the victims were not the intended victims, and that an unidentified man was abducted from the scene.
A total of 23 individuals were killed in northern Mexico in drug and gang related violence including a police academy assistent director killed in Gomez Palacio, Durango, and a Juarez, Chihuahua, police station commander shto to death Tuesday. For a map, click here
Two unidentified individuals were shot to death Tuesday evening in Juarez, say Mexican news reports. The victims, two men, were travelling aboard a Honda Accord with a pregnant female when they were attacked on calle Paseo del Noga in the Circuito Olivo district. Reports say 17 spent shell casings were found at the scene.
Six individuals were murdered in four separate crimes in Juarez Tuesday night, according to the Mexican daily La Polaka. The first crime took place on the Juárez-Porvenir road where the driver of an Oldsmobile Envoy was shot to death more than 100 times in the Guadalupe district. In the second murder took place when armed suspects shot to death an adult male and wounded a teenaged male while they were riding in a Volkswagen Jetta near the intersection of calle Aeronautica and Miguel de la Madrid near a snack foods warehouse. In the third crime, an unidentified man was shot to death in his pickup truck near the intersection of calles Ecuador and Ignacio Mejia as he was leaving his residence. In the fourth crime, two men riding in a Ford Focus were shot to death near the intersection of calles Rio de la Plata and Lopez Mateos Uno.
An unidentified man was found shot to death in Juarez Tuesday night, say Mexican news accounts. The victim was found near the intersection of calles Gomez Veleta and Juan Herrera in the Partido Doblado district tortured, gagged with duct tape and shot several times. Reports say the victim was dumped at the location.
A father and his adult daughter were shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Wednesday, according to Mexican news accounts. Ramona Ãlvarez, 25, and Jesus de Nazareno Alvarez, 45 were shot at their residence near the intersection of calles 106th and 24th de Julio in the Martin Lopez district where armed suspects broke into the home and executed the pair, then fled aboard several darkened vehicles. The unidentified wife and mother of the two murdered today was executed near the intersection of calles 108the and Prieto Lujan last August 9th while travelling aboard a vehicle.
An unidentified young man was found shot to death near a mine near Hermosillo, Sonora Tuesday, say Mexican news accounts. The victim was found wrapped in a plaid blanket near the intersection of Carretera Internacional and Bulevar Solidaridad, corresponding to the 5.5 Kilometer maker on the road to the NYCO mine. The victim had a single gunshot wound to the head.
Two brothers were shot to death in Gomez Palacio, Durango Tuesday, according to Mexican news reports. Ruben, 24, and Ricardo Ochoa Balbanedas 20, were shot while they were travelling aboard a taxi between calles Morelos and Escocia in the Nueva los Ãlamos district. Reports say two spent shell casings for an AR-15 assault rifle were found at the scene.
The deputy director of the police academy in Lerdo, Durango, was found shot to death Tuesday, say Mexican news accounts. Olegario Antonio Sanchez Perez was found along the Santa Rosa Tlahualilo canal road in the San Juan district aboard his personal Ford Ranger pickup truck. Spent shell casings for AK-47 assault rifles and .45 caliber weapons were found at the scene.
An unidentified man was found shot to death on a farm near Torreon, Coahuila, say Mexican news accounts. The victim was found with several wounds from gunshots in Ejido San Luis, and had a miltary style haircut and numerous tattoos.
Two inmates at a prison in Durango, Durango, were killed in a brawl Tuesday morning, say Mexican press accounts. Eusebio Perez Frayre, 42 , and Juan Astorga Nuñez, 23, were killed when several inmates started fighting at the Centro de Reinsercion Social No. 1 (CERESO). Two sharp weapons were found at the scene of the brawl.
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Mexican federal agents rode to the rescue of a thief neighbors of a Juarez district were about to immolate, according to Mexican news accounts.
Antonio Giner de 26, was forcibly seized by several residents of the Villas de Santiago district, bound and beaten and kicked, and then taken to a children's playground where he was tied to a post with a noose.
Residents doused Giner in gasoline and were about the ignite the fuel when Mexican federal agents arrived on the scene and took the victim into custody.
No arrests were made, and apparently neighbors warned agents that a similar fate will befall other thieves in their neighborhood.
This near lynching is the third such event in the last three weeks. In the other two lynchings, citizens killed three.
(Xinhua) -- The military chopper crash in Tajikistan on Wednesday has killed at least 27 people, reported Russia's RIA Novosti news agency.
According to an unnamed source, among those fatalities were some 20 fighters from special units "Alpha" of the State Committee of National Security, in addition to seven National Guard servicemen.
Earlier reports reaching here said four people died and another three were maimed during the crash of the Mi-8 helicopter that belonged to the Tajik National Guard.
The chopper crashed in the Rasht region, 180 km east of the capital Dushanbe, on Wednesday morning.
Preliminary reports from the Tajik Khovar news agency said technical failures may have caused the accident.
A special commission has been set up to probe into the reasons behind the crash.
Those on board the helicopter were reportedly searching for gunnies who killed 28 Tajik National Guard servicemen in a military convoy attack in the region on Sept. 19.
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Eight worshippers including two children were killed in twin bomb blasts Thursday at a packed Sufi shrine in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, officials told AFP.
Senior police official Hamid Parhial gave the toll, adding that 65 people were also injured, and said it was a suspected suicide attack.
The bombs exploded Thursday at the entrance of the shrine to Sufi saint Abdullah Shah Ghazi as devotees packed it for a weekly gathering in Karachi's seaside Clifton district.
Provincial home minister Zulfikar Mirza said an investigation into the attack was already underway and the government had decided to seal all shrines in the city immediately over security fears.
"It was a terrorist attack," he said.
The shrine's floor was spattered in blood, said witnesses. Slippers, sandals and flowers brought by devotees to lay at the tomb littered the area.
Witness Gul Mohammad said he was outside the shrine when two huge blasts were heard in quick succession.
"I rushed inside and saw blood and human flesh," he said.
"Some bodies were lying on the ground and several people wounded in the blasts were crying in pain. Then ambulances started arriving and moving the injured to hospitals."
Ambulances with sirens blaring were seen ferrying casualties to hospitals as police and paramilitary soldiers cordoned off the shrine.
Doctor Seemin Jamali of Civil Hospital Karachi said 10 women and seven children with serious injuries were among those admitted.
There was no claim of responsibility for the latest attack but the Pakistani Taliban has been blamed for similar bombings in the past.
More than 3,700 people have been killed in a series of suicide attacks and bomb explosions, many of them carried out by the Taliban and other Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist extremists, in Pakistan during the last three years.
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I think Obean is a snap risk. He is angry that voters are defying him, and now Pakistan? The Nerve of them. I could honestly see Obama bombing something big time in a fit of anger. His big rookie ego seems primed to crack a whip.
(Xinhua) -- Two hard boyz of Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) beturbanned goon outfit including a top commander were killed Tuesday in a fierce shootout with India' s Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and police in Indian- controlled Kashmir, police said Wednesday.
The shootout broke out Tuesday evening at village Deedan Gali- Mahore of Reasi district, 170 km north of Jammu, the winter capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir.
"On specific information about presence of hard boyz in Deedan Gali of Mahore, a joint party of police and CRPF were dispatched to the area to take on beturbanned goons. Militants present there fired on the joint column, thereby triggering a shootout. In the standoff two hard boyz have been killed. One of them was a divisional commander of the group active in the area for more than a decade," said police front man based in Jammu.
The slain hard boyz were identified as the local carders of the HM outfit. The HM is region's leading indigenous beturbanned goon group.
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[Dawn] One person was killed and two others were injured when an kaboom took place in the Azmat Khel Area of Bannu on Wednesday.
A bomb exploded inside a home in the northwestern town, killing one person and wounding two others, local police chief Hameed Ullah said. Authorities are investigating the motive for the attack, he said.
Bannu is near the North Wazoo tribal region.
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[Dawn] A British man killed by an air strike in Pakistain had ties with the would-be Times Square bomber, a Pak intelligence official said on Wednesday.
The official, who declined to be identified, told Rooters the Briton, Abdul Jabbar, had also been in the process of setting up a branch for the Taliban in Britain.
"He had some links to Faisal Shahzad but the nature of the ties are not clear," the official said, referring to the Pak-born US citizen who tried to set off a car bomb in New York's busy Times Square in May.
Shahzad was sentenced on Tuesday in a New York court to life in prison.
The official said Jabbar came to Pakistain in 2009 and received hard boy training in North Wazoo.
Jabbar had earlier survived a drone strike on a hard boy training camp run by Hafiz Gul Bahadur, a commander allied to the Haqqani network, an Afghan Taliban faction seen as one of the most effective forces battling Western troops in Afghanistan.
"He was eventually killed in a drone strike near Miramshah on September 8," the official said, referring to the main town of North Wazoo.
The United States has stepped up attacks by its death droid aircraft over northwest Pakistain since late 2008. Most of the attacks have been in North Wazoo.
News of Jabbar's death came after an alleged al-Qaeda plot to attack European targets put Pakistain's performance against bully boyz under scrutiny again.
European and US counter-terrorism officials have said that concerns about a group of about 100 German bully boyz who had travelled between Germany and northwest Pakistain contributed to the latest security alert in Europe.
A new White House assessment concludes that Pakistain has been unwilling to aggressively pursue al-Qaeda and Afghan Taliban bully boyz in the Pak tribal lands.
The White House assessment, first reported by the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday and confirmed by Rooters, faults the Pak government and military for lacking the will to take action against the bully boyz in North Wazoo.
Analysts say Pakistain sees the Afghan Taliban as tools for influencing events in Afghanistan where the growing role of old rival India has alarmed Pakistain.
Pakistain is likely to be even more reluctant to attack the Afghan Taliban as speculation grows that the United States and its allies, including the Afghan government, will eventually have to negotiate with the bully boyz to end the war, analysts say.
A senior Pakistani security source told BBC's Newsnight programme that Abdul Jabbar was a British citizen who has a British wife and was living in Punjab, Pakistan. According to the source, Jabbar was living in Punjab, and was chosen as the leader of a new group, to be called The Islamic Army of Great Britain.
The decision was apparently made during a meeting in the North Waziristan region of Pakistan three months ago, attended by 300 militants and monitored by intelligence agencies.
The source said the new group was set up to organise synchronised terrorist attacks in the UK, France and Germany. It was this intelligence that led to the missile strike by a US unmanned aerial drone on September 8 which killed Jabbar and three others. The suspects, who are also said to have included a number of German nationals, had been hiding in the tribal areas of North Waziristan at the time.
An intelligence official told the Associated Press news agency that Jabbar's brother was conspiring with him to commit the Europe terrorist atrocity.
The reports about Jabbar follow disclosure that intelligence agencies in Europe, Pakistan and the US intercepted a credible Islamic plot to launch raids on European cities, in a similar style to the attacks in Mumbai, India, two years ago.
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How many of these "fake" citizens do we have around also?
[Dawn] Three gunnies were killed in a US dronezap on Wednesday near Miramshah in North Wazoo. Two missiles were fired on a house in the town of Mir Ali.
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The same attack reported yesterday with four dead (one got better) and two wounded. Or another attack down the path?
[Dawn] Gunmen in Pakistain attacked and set fire to trucks used for transporting supplies to Nato troops in Afghanistan, police and officials said on Wednesday.
News of the attack came after the United States apologised to Pakistain for a Nato cross-border incursion in which US helicopters killed two Pak soldiers, an incident the American ambassador to Islamabad called a terrible accident.
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* PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM/TOPIX > MORE NATO SUPPLY TRUCKS SET AFIRE IN PAKISTAN.
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* SAME > [Atlantic Council] REPORT: SUSPENDED [Pakistan] SUPPLY ROUTE MAY CAUSE SURGE IN TALIBAN ATTACKS.
* DAILY TIMES.PK > ITS "GO FOR BROKE" TIME [US-NATO, Islamabad Govts agz Taliban] ON NINTH ANNIVERSARY OF AFGHANISTAN WAR.
ARTIC = President Karzai has begun prepping local Afghanistan "stand alone" andor lateral options as related to UNCERTAINTIES OVER POST-WTHDRAWAL OBAMA = US INTENTIONS.
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NEWS KERALA > [US CENTCOM] US MAY DUMP PAKISTAN [mulls] FOR "SAFER" RUSSIA ROUTE FOR NATO SUPPLIES INTO AFGHANISTAN.
VARIOUS NETTERS = gener opine that any new alterate land Route for US-NATO will be MORE POL, $$$ COSTLY due to need to achieve STate-to-State diplomatic consent vee RUSSIA + CENTRAL ASIAN -STANS.
IOW, US HAS TO GIVE RUSS + CASTANS BIG $$$, OR ELSE SUFFER SETBACK(S) IFF NOT DEFEAT IN AFPAK.
* PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM/TOPIX > US EMBASSY: KYRGYZ CITY OF BISHEK CAPABLE OF SOVEREIGN DECISIONS [independent of main Kyrgyztsan Govt].
* SAME > BNAGALDESH ASKS CHINA'S HELP TO BUILD NEW DEEPWATER SEAPORT [long-delayed SANADIA PORT DevProject] | [Bangladesh Today]EVERYTHING WILL BE DONE TO PREVENT [Islamist = M-Jul-Islam/MJI] USURPATION OF STATE POWER: SHAFIQUE.
* SAME > [Bangladesh]DHAKA, CHINA TO INTENSIFY MILITARY COOPERATION.
Again, unless ISLAMABAD = PAKISTAN relents + reopens the closed land routes, + Russia + CA Stans agree to provide NATO wid alternate routes, THE SCENARIO EXISTS THAT US MAY HAVE TO INVADE IRAN JUST TO MAINTAIN CURR OR MINIMAL GROUND COMBAT OPERS IN AFPAK.
The UV Drone + TacAir strikes are nice to have, but in way substitute for Ground MilOps.
[Dawn] The US apologized Wednesday for a recent helizap that waxed two Pak soldiers at an outpost near the Afghan border, saying American pilots mistook the soldiers for bully boyz they were pursuing.
The apology, which came after the conclusion of a joint investigation, could pave the way for Pakistain to reopen a key border crossing that Nato uses to ship goods into landlocked Afghanistan. Pakistain closed the crossing in apparent reaction to the Sept. 30 incident.
''We extend our deepest apology to Pakistain and the families of the Frontier Scouts who were killed and injured,'' said the US ambassador to Pakistain, Anne Patterson.
Pakistain initially reported that three soldiers were killed and three injured in the attack, but one of the soldiers who was critically injured and initially reported dead ended up surviving, said Maj. Fazlur Rehman, the front man for the Frontier Corps.
Pak soldiers fired at the two US helicopters prior to the attack, a move the investigation team said was likely meant to notify the aircraft of their presence after they passed into Pak airspace several times.
''We believe the Pak border guard was simply firing warning shots after hearing the nearby engagement and hearing the helicopters flying nearby,'' said US Air Force Brig. Gen. Tim Zadalis, who led the investigation.
''This tragic event could have been avoided with better coalition force coordination with the Pakistain military.''
The head of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus, also expressed his condolences ''to the families of those killed and maimed, to the Pakistain military, and the people of Pakistain.''
''We deeply regret this tragic loss of life and will continue to work with the Pakistain military and government to ensure this doesn't happen again,'' he said.
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Firing warning shots at Apaches in pursuit? Good luck!
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'We believe the Pak border guard was simply firing warning shots after hearing the nearby engagement and hearing the helicopters flying nearby,'' said US Air Force Brig. Gen. Tim Zadalis, who led the investigation.
I believe the Infantry School might refer to that as...'covering fire' General Zadalis.
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"We deeply regret the fact that your illiterate and ignorant 'soldiers' were stupid enough to fire on our aircraft, leading to their rather messy explosive dis-assembly."
Pakistan has strengthened its air defense with a view to preventing NATO forces from intruding into its territory from Afghanistan.
The strong US ally has installed anti-aircraft missiles in its tribal regions bordering Afghanistan, well-placed sources told Arab News here on Monday.
Now no helicopter will be able to escape after entering into Pakistani territory, the official sources said.
Meanwhile, NATOs chief expressed regret on Monday for the deaths of Pakistani soldiers last week and said he hoped Pakistans border would reopen for NATO supplies to Afghanistan as soon as possible.
Angered by repeated attacks by NATO helicopters on militant targets within its borders, Pakistan blocked one of the supply routes for NATO troops in Afghanistan after a strike killed three Pakistani soldiers in the western Kurram region.
Analysts and Western officials said Pakistans closure of the border for a few days would not seriously impact the war effort in Afghanistan, but it would create political tension that Pakistan could exploit.
Pakistan has officially said the border has been closed for security reasons and the Taleban threat of more attacks will likely prolong the closure of the vital supply route now in its fifth day and further strain ties with ally Washington, which has long demanded Pakistan crack down on militants.
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Hence WMF > US SHOCKED: CHINESE PLAAF ARMED SU-27C'S CAN REACH ALL THE WAY TO IRAN. CPLA AIR SECURITY AGZ US [Nato], ISRAEL ATTACK FOR IRAN OIL FIELDS. {Chin Oil-Energy-Econ investments].
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as Jim Lahey says on Th trailor park boys "they about too stir up a shit storm"
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I seem to remember something about the Palestinians using stinger missles during the recent Gaza unpleasantness. The missles had firmware that wouldn't let it lock on American built aircraft.
Instead the missles flew around until they aquired a hot target. Which happened to be Palestinian antiaircraft guns firing at Israeli gunships.
/Karma in action.
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Not
Wise
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[Iran Press TV] Israeli warplanes have violated the Gazoo Strip's airspace, staging a mock raid over the besieged Paleostinian territory, reports say.
The fighter jets broke the sound barrier over Gazoo and caused sonic booms as they flew over the tiny coastal silver, a Press TV correspondent reported on Wednesday.
Israeli warplanes frequently violate Gazoo's airspace and bomb the coastal strip. The attacks mostly target Gazoo's cross-border tunnels -- also known as Gazoo's feeding tubes -- along Rafah, used to import vital supplies into the besieged enclave from Egypt.
Many Paleostinians have been killed and maimed in Israeli air strikes.
The crippling land, sea, and air blockade of the Gazoo Strip imposed by Israel and Egypt since June 2007, when Paleostinian resistance movement Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, took control of the enclave, has made the Gazoo's 1.5 million inhabitants to heavily rely on the perilous tunnels as the sole means of obtaining essential supplies such as food and medicines.
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[Al Arabiya] Israeli police said on Wednesday they had jugged the leader of a Nazareth mosque and another Arab citizen of Israel on suspicion of ties with snuffy groups.
Spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP that Nazem Abu Slim and Mohammed Naarani, both from Nazareth, were "suspected of being involved in supporting terrorism," adding that the investigation was ongoing.
"All the rest of the details of the case are under a (court) gag order," he added.
Abu Slim is the outspoken imam of the Shihab al-Din mosque in Nazareth, Israel's biggest Arab city, and is known for preaching a radical version of Islam hostile to Israel's Jewish majority as well as Christians and moderate Mohammedans.
In June, police and the Shin Bet security agency jugged seven Israeli Arabs from the Nazareth area on suspicion of planning attacks against Jews and Christians.
The suspects, who were arraigned on charges including murder, kidnapping, assault and weapons offences, said they were inspired by the speeches of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Local media said the men attended the Shihab al-Din mosque.
The setting up of the mosque, a makeshift structure of tents, next to the Christian Basilica of the Annunciation in 2000 led to frictions between Islamic and Roman Catholic leaders.
During a 2009 visit to the city by Pope Benedict XVI Abu Slim and others from his Ansar Allah movement hung a banner saying "He is not welcome here."
They also issued statements attacking the pope for comments he made in 2006 depicting Islam as a violent religion.
Israel's Arab citizens, who make up nearly 20% of the population, are Paleostinians who remained in the Jewish state following the 1948 war that attended its creation as well as their descendants.
Also a number who were allowed to move in from the West Bank and Gaza as a confidence-building measure during one of the rounds of negotiation a number of years ago. They tend to get caught plotting trouble, or influencing others to do so, as I recall.
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Abu "Slim"? Really?
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