Saudi security forces captured two wanted militants, injured one and killed another man who was with them, early yesterday morning in a gunbattle in a residential district of Jeddah. A woman passerby was caught in the cross-fire and was also killed in the shootout. According to Brig. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki, a spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior, "a man wanted for security-related matters was captured after being wounded...Two of his companions were arrested. A man who was accompanying the wanted militant was killed in the shootout."
The security forces had received information that a group of wanted men was in an apartment in Al-Rabwah District. At six o'clock in the morning, Saudi forces surrounded the two-story building, closed off streets and nearby schools. According to eyewitnesses, the security forces ordered the men in the apartment to surrender. The men refused and the gunbattle began which, again according to witnesses, continued for half an hour. The battle ended with the death of Saad Al-Youbi, the injury of Ibrahim Al-Youbi and the surrender of two of their companions. Saad Al-Youbi, who is said to be a member of the security forces, was at home in his apartment when the other men came to him asking for shelter from the police.
As a result of the gunbattle, five policemen were wounded and taken to Erfan Hospital. Two of them were said to be in critical condition. In addition, twelve other people policemen and bystanders were injured and taken to King Fahd Hospital. The policemen were taken to Erfan Hospital by Saleh Al-Zahrani, a local resident, who transported the five injured policemen in his own vehicle. Among the 12 injured people taken to hospital were Yousef Al-Fazi and his four-year-old son. As Al-Fazi and his family were attempting to leave the apartment building, a bullet killed his wife though he and his son escaped with minor injuries.
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IBRAHIM AL YUBI
al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
SAAD AL YUBI
al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
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Crossfire Gazette, Soddy-style:
1) security forces had received information that a group of wanted men was in an apartment
2) Saudi forces surrounded the two-story building
3) gunbattle began which, again according to witnesses, continued for half an hour
4) woman passerby was caught in the cross-fire and was also killed
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Just an observation, I really don't know the difference. But if you follow Soddy news releases, if you just catch "deviants" in the piece, you don't need to read further to know that they escaped and some heavy surrounding was certainly going on. Miscreants simply = dead.
Assailants fired grenades at a military commandant's office in the Chechen capital Grozny on Monday, wounding eight employees, the Emergency Situations Ministry said. Two of those injured in the grenade attack in Grozny's Leninsky district were women, said Sergei Kozhemyaka, a duty officer at the ministry's southern branch office. All eight were hospitalized.
Meanwhile, Russian Interior Ministry troops killed one militant and captured two others who had holed up in a house in the restive southern region of Dagestan on Monday, said Khabib Magomedov of the ministry's press service. Two other militants who skirmished with the troops in the village of Nuradilovo in the Khasavyurt region, close to the Chechen border, got away, and two servicemen were wounded. Khabib said the dead militant was an Arab.
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The head of rebel forces in the Chechen capital of Grozny was killed during a special operation by pro-Russian forces, a spokesman for Chechnya's Interior Ministry said on Sunday. The rebel leader Khanpach Mavsarov was killed while trying to resist his arrest, said the ministry spokesman interviewed by telephone from North Ossetia, a bordering Caucasian republic to Chechnya. His killing comes less than a week after Russian forces killed Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov, after which rebels vowed they would step up their resistance. The operation was carried out by the militias of Chechen Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov, and one of his men was wounded, the spokesman said. The Interior Ministry said Mavsarov was in charge of all rebel operations in Grozny since January, following the killing of his predecessor.
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Chechnya
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Chechnya
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I just saw in my crystal ball long lines of people in paradise waiting for their quota of white raisins.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's eldest son escaped an assassination attempt in China last year, according to a news report Monday. Chinese authorities may have been aware of the attempt to kill Kim Jong Nam, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said, citing an unnamed South Korean intelligence official. The report gave no other details. South Korea's National Intelligence Service declined to immediately comment on the report. Austrian officials denied a report about an alleged assassination attempt in November against Kim Jong Nam while he was visiting there. Kim Jong Nam was once believed to be favored to replace Kim Jong Il in the country's hereditary succession of power. However, he is believed to have lost his chance after he embarrassed his father in 2001 by being detained while trying to enter Japan on a false passport to visit Tokyo's Disneyland. He was later released and had been reportedly staying in China.
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However, he is believed to have lost his chance after he embarrassed his father in 2001 by being detained while trying to enter Japan on a false passport to visit Tokyoâs Disneyland.
Kim Jong Nam! You've just thwarted an attempt on your life! What are you going to do now????
Gunmen armed with rocket launchers stormed a chemical tanker in the Strait of Malacca at the weekend in an unusually daring attack, raising initial fears of a terrorist attack, an anti-piracy centre said on Monday.
Cutlass, rocket launcher...either way, run up the Jolly Roger! Arrrrgggh!
Thirty-five pirates boarded the MT Tri Samudra, laden with an unknown flammable chemical, on Saturday, briefly taking control of the ship before making off with the captain and chief engineer who were being held for ransom, the centre said.
"Y'r coming with us!"
At the time of the attack, the Indonesian-owned ship was sailing for the Indonesian port of Belawan in the strait, one of the world's busiest sea lanes. More than a quarter of global trade and almost all of Japan and China's oil imports pass through the strait. "It's the first time they have taken control of a ship like this for a long time... a couple of years maybe," said Noel Choong, regional manager of the International Maritime Bureau's piracy reporting centre in Kuala Lumpur. "The initial fear was of a pirate or terrorist attack."
Or severe indigestion. Chow's terrible on those chemical tankers.
He pointed out that pirates in the strait usually only seize softer targets like tug-boats that were slower and lower in the water, making them easy to board, Choong said. After the pirates left with the captain and chief engineer, the ship sailed for the nearer Indonesian port of Dumai, southeast of Belawan along the coast of Sumatra island, he said. No one was injured in the attack. "The (ransom) negotiations are underway," Choong said. He declined to give any details of the ransom demand. One of the nightmare scenarios envisioned by security experts is where militants seize a tanker carrying highly flammable liquid, such as the Tri Samudra, and ram it into a port.
Happy Monday, all.
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35? Flammable chemicals?
Maybe they'll get serious about protecting the sea lanes. Prolly not. I don't think the Indos and Malays are capable of it. In fact, there are times, very recent times, when I figure they don't differ all that much from the pirates, when you clear away the pretenses.
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Oh how I tire of these so-called journalists. "Chemical tanker"? Well, sort of. The cargo is methane. Little environmental risk (aside from the dreaded "global warming"). Wind-dispersion, compartmentalization, and the sheer volume of it all would make it difficult to get it all to explode at once. Just a big, big fire risk.
My source:
http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1274&storyid=2808394
Excerpts:
"Malaysia said on Friday that it would boost security in the Malacca Strait with a 24-hour radar system to guard against attacks by terrorists and pirates."
"Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak said a Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency would be operational by the end of the year to improve security in the strait."
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"...usually only seize softer targets like tug-boats ..."
Tug-boats??? What the hell do you steal from a tug-boat?
Sir Francis Drake was a pirate and scoundrel and an esteemed member of the "sea dogs". To his benefit SFD preyed on the Spanish Galleys in the Carribean. He was conscripted by the crown to help fight against the Spanish Navy as well. he was heroic in battle and was therefore granted his Knighthood as a defender of the crown.
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And here I thought he'd been apprenticed as a pilot.
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If ye go back to past weekly piracy reports, you will find that whole tugs and barges have disappeared.
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need to make an example. Find out where they are and negotiate with artillery. Sorry, cap'n
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"...Thirty-five pirates boarded the MT Tri Samudra, laden with an unknown flammable chemical, on Saturday, briefly taking control of the ship before making off with the captain and chief engineer who were being held for ransom, the centre said..."
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This looks like the sort of reasonably cheap solution the shipping companies should be all over. I mean geez, losing a ship of any size vs something as simple and cheap as this?
Hell, you can put one on your freaking dog, now, heh.
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If they were smart, they'd do what shippers do here in the US with their tractor-trailer rigs. The truck and the trailer both have units. Not only do they track everything to make sure it's on schedule, but they know if it has varied from its route, stopped at some point it shouldn't, etc. To top it off, the unit on the tractor is wired into the electrical system and the tracking company can send a "kill" signal which shuts the tractor down, then and there. The trailer can be moved, but before you could jack it up, switch rigs, and recouple you'd have Highway Patrol units, prolly even a chopper, no matter what state, bearing down on you - and the trailer's still transmitting.
Super Lo-Jack.
For these ships, tugs - anything worth 10x a unit's cost, you'd think they'd want this. A Panic! button could be part of the system, too, so authorities would know there's something up immediately. But hey, that's here in the Real World. Out there, in the Third World, I guess it's too expensive or they're too proud to use our systems. Instead, we get the entertaining Piracy Report which generates the universal head shake at the obvious stupidity of it all, today.
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Ms. D & Rightwing,
Sir Francis was also an 'accidental explorer'... While avoiding Spanish patrols he discovered the 'Drake Passage', (between the Straits of Magellen & Antarctica), explored/mapped the coast of Northern California up thru Alaska, and was the first ship's *captain* to circumnavigate the globe, (Magellen died in the Philippines)...
He was Knighted by Liz I, not so much for his bravery, but more for bringing in so much Spanish gold to Royal Treasury... (Liz I was an investor)...
At one point during his cruise around the world, while raiding Spainish shipping in the Pacific, they had so much gold, they had to throw the silver overboard to make room... ;)
Up to six people were killed Monday in a bloody jailbreak attempt by a number of Filipino Muslim militants from Al Qaeda-linked groups, police said. Gunfire rang out at the Camp Bagong Diwa prison as police special weapons and tactics units, some inside an armored personnel carrier, surrounded one building in the compound where the armed Abu Sayyaf prisoners were holed up on the second floor. The inmates had overpowered their guards and grabbed two assault rifles and a handgun in an early morning melee, said Metropolitan Manila police chief Avelino Razon. Police spokesman Jun Cruz said "more or less eight to 10 inmates" may have been involved in the escape attempt. Some 100 other prisoners were held on the other floors of the building, Superintendent Cruz said. "They (gunmen) are confined in one building. They cannot go out," he added. "We are trying to defuse the situation. We have deployed snipers and a negotiating team," Razon said. Cruz told reporters three jail guards and one prisoner had been killed two hours into the standoff.
Shooting subsided by mid-morning as the authorities used bullhorns to try to convince the gunmen to surrender. Other police sources however put the death toll at six including four Abu Sayyaf inmates and two prison guards. The sources said a prisoner and a jail guard were wounded. An AFP photographer at the scene saw two casualties, both wearing the uniforms of prison guards, being taken out on stretchers and loaded onto ambulances.
Other inmates at the prison called up a local radio station in a bid to open negotiations with the authorities. They claimed the gunmen were holding about 100 inmates hostage, including Chinese held on drugs charges. But police dismissed the hostage report, saying the armed prisoners have been isolated in one section of the compound and the other prisoners were secured. "We are negotiating with the suspects inside," Cruz said, adding that the gunmen wanted to hold talks with two prominent Muslim personalities, including movie actor and Muslim convert Robin Padilla and southern Philippines Muslim legislator Mujib Hataman. Padilla was abroad and efforts were being made to reach Hataman, Cruz said. The legislator said on local radio earlier Monday that he did not know the gunmen.
The shooting was the latest in a series of jailbreak attempts involving detained Muslim militants in the Philippines capital. The prison, located in the headquarters of the Metropolitan Manila police, holds suspects arrested for terrorism-related cases including Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah militants.
UPDATE: MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A group of Muslim-extremist inmates at a maximum-security jail in Manila agreed to surrender Monday, a day after they snatched weapons from guards in an escape attempt that left at least five people dead, police said. Police surrounded the facility at Manila's Camp Bagong Diwa, where 425 suspects are detained, including 129 suspected members and leaders of the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf group. "There was some delay because they feared for their safety," said Avelino Razon, police chief for the Manila area. "But they changed their minds and they've agreed to come out."
Mujib Hataman, a Muslim congressman who was negotiating with the inmates by telephone, said the prisoners demanded assurances they wouldn't be harmed, speedy trials and the right to air their grievances to authorities, he said Police spokesman Leopoldo Bataoil, who warned of a major assault if the inmates didn't surrender their weapons, said about 10 men were involved in the uprising, led by Abu Sayyaf members Alhamzer Manatad Limbong and Kair Abdul Gapar.
The jailbreak came on the day the new national police chief took office. "We are fast becoming the world's laughingstock because of what has been happening in our jails," said Sen. Manny Villar, chairman of the Senate Committee on Public Order and Illegal Drugs.
Still More: March 14, 2005 11:26 PM - The stand off in Camp Bagong Diwa that left three jailguards and two prisoners dead continues Monday evening as the Abu Sayyaf inmates changed plans of surrendering to the negotiating team. Deputy Director General Avelino Razon of the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) said the Abu Sayyaf inmates instead asked for food as precondition for surrendering the three .45 pistols that they took from three jailguards. But Razon said they will give the inmates led by Alhamser Limbang known as Commander Kosovo their dinner only after their surrender. He also said they are now becoming doubtful of the inmates' sincerity to surrender saying that the suspects could only be prolonging the negotiation.
Among the negotiating team for the police are Reps. Mujiv Hataman, Allan Cayetano, ARMM Governor Farouk Hussin, and Local Government Secretary Angelo Reyes. Razon said that all media entities are on stand by for the inmates' surrender. The suspects initially demanded that they be given media exposure after their surrender to air their side and defend themselves from the charges. They also want the police to assure their safety after their surrender and they also want a pony speedy trial of their cases.
Razon nevertheless said he believed inmates will surrender before the day ends because the government have been sincere in granting the demands. He did not mention any plans to effect an assault to end the stand off. But reports reaching abs-cbnNEWS.com said the government negotiators have already left the BJMP building, which should indicate that the authorities are preparing for an assault as of posting time.
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Allan Cayetano
ARMM Governor Farouk Hussin
COMANDER KOSOVO
Abu Sayyaf
Government Secretary Angelo Reyes
KAIR ABDUL GAPAR
Abu Sayyaf
Manila police chief Avelino Razon
Mujib Hataman
Police spokesman Jun Cruz
Police spokesman Leopoldo Bataoil
police Superintendent Agrimero Cruz Jr
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Police Special Action Forces have entered the Camp Bagong Diwa prison compound where several Abu Sayyaf bandits are holed up in a building after attempting a jailbreak earlier Monday. Police had earlier given the Abu Sayyaf bandits until 2 p.m. to surrender. Police officials on local television stressed that negotiations were still being conducted.
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After seeing his pic above, when I saw this headline, I thought "special Action Figures" like Cody;-)
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When I met Connie the Short Bus Lady she was living in a short bus converted into motor camper, and she's quite an special action figure. Now she's my housekeeper at the Deacon Blues Pork Palace and Potables Parlour.
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Government agents captured an Afghan-trained terrorist said to be the financier of the Abu Sayyaf bandits in Davao. Lt. Colonel Buenaventura Pascual, chief of the Armed Forces public information office, identified the Abu Sayyaf financier as Masil Ahalul. Pascual said that Ahalul was collared by a team of police and military intelligence agents at around 10 a.m. on Saturday in Davao City by virtue of a warrant of arrest in connection with a criminal case filed against him six-years ago.
Pascual said that Ahalul is a terrorist trained in Afghanistan or "Tablight" and is said to be spreading the word on the al-Qaeda terrorist network in other countries. Ahalul was flown to Manila and is being held at the Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces in Camp Aguinaldo, where is undergoing tactical interrogation. Officials did not say what Ahalul was doing in Davao City when intelligence agents arrested him.
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Ahalul was flown to Manila and is being held at the Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces in Camp Aguinaldo, where is undergoing tactical interrogation. (now stop it, that really hurt!)
Seems like the Filipinos are rolling up more of these critters lately..must be improved intel..kudos
A suspected Islamic militant grabbed a guard's rifle Sunday while being led to a court hearing, shot dead three other guards and holed up in the building with armed detainees who joined him, police said. Police surrounded the building in Manila, and negotiators were trying to end the standoff, police Superintendent Agrimero Cruz said. It wasn't clear if hostages were being held, he said. But a detainee delegated to speak for the prisoners told DZBB radio that the suspects were holding around 100 hostages. It wasn't clear if they were detainees, guards or both. Cruz said the prisoners demanded to talk to movie action star Robin Padilla, a Muslim convert, and Partylist Representative Mujib Hataman. The attacker, a suspected Abu Sayyaf militant, was being escorted from a maximum security detention center that houses mostly Muslim extremists when he overpowered the guard. He then took his rifle and shot the prison officers around him, police officials said. At least three guards were killed, Cruz said. Another police officer said at least three other prison officials were wounded and rushed to a hospital.
Developing...
Still more info:
National Capital Region Director Avelino Razon in a television interview said the Abu Sayyaf inmates are now restricted in one area inside the jail facility while the rest of the inmates were transferred to a safer section in the detention center. The group is led by Alhanser Manatad Limbong alias Commander Kosovo, Commander Robot and Commander Global, all known Abu Sayyaf leaders. [Former hostage] Gracia Burnham visited Camp Bagong Diwa last year for the hearing of suspected Abu Sayyaf bandits accused of kidnapping for ransom. She identified six of eight men, all suspected of being members of the Islamic Abu Sayyaf group, as among her kidnappers. They are Abu Umbran alias Abdul Assan Djamla , Kosovo, Abu Kair Mokhtar alias Khayr Moktar, Alsen Jandul alias Balintong Djandul, a certain Abu Daud and Bas Ismael. Marksmen and Special Forces are deployed in the area to cordon off the section where the Abu Sayyaf inmates are holed out.
Up to six people have been killed in a bloody escape attempt by Muslim militants linked to Al-Qaeda at a maximum security prison in the Philippines capital, police said. Gunfire rang out at the Camp Bagong Diwa prison in the early morning as police special weapons and tactics units surrounded one building in the compound where an estimated 10 armed Abu Sayyaf prisoners were holed up on the second floor. Negotiations were ongoing at 11.15am local time (0315 GMT) as police snipers took up positions around the building while the shooting subsided. The inmates had overpowered their guards and grabbed three guns as the guards conducted a daily headcount of the 435 prisoners including 129 Abu Sayyaf members, said Superintendent Agerino Cruz, the Manila police spokesman. Police sources put the death toll at six including four Abu Sayyaf inmates and two prison guards. The sources said a prisoner and a jail guard were wounded.
An AFP photographer at the scene saw two casualties, both wearing the uniforms of prison guards, being dragged out of the building by colleagues and loaded onto ambulances. National police spokesman Senior Superintendent Leopoldo Bataoil told reporters those involved in the escape attempt are believed led by Alhamser Limbong and Tahir Abdul Gafar. Both are on trial for the kidnapping of a group of tourists including three Americans in the western Philippines in 2001. Several of the captives, including two Americans, were killed and beheaded in the year-long hostage drama that ended with the rescue of the third American, Christian missionary Gracia Burnham.
Since then the Abu Sayyaf group, set up in the 1990s allegedly with money from Al-Qaeda, has made it to the US State Department's "foreign terrorist organization" blacklist. The gunmen are "hardened criminals, terrorists," national police chief Arturo Lomibao told reporters outside the prison gates. "We are not going to think twice if necessary to launch the final option," he said, referring to a prison assault.
Then why are you standing there talking to reporters? Shouldn't you be planning?
On the upper floors of the prison, some of the inmates, many of them naked from the waist up, peered out from behind bars. In late morning, Parouk Hussin, the governor of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, a Muslim self-rule area in the south, and Mujib Hataman, a legislator from the area, entered the prison compound to help the prison authorities negotiate with the gunmen. The prison holds many of the top detained leaders of the Abu Sayyaf as well as some of the suspects in the worst terrorist attacks in the Philippines, Bataoil said.
This would be an excellent excuse for "unfortunate" accidents to occur to said terrorists; fog of war and all that.
They include the suspects in the 2000 bombing of a Manila overhead rail system that claimed more than 20 lives and the firebombing of a ferry on Manila Bay last year that left more than 100 people dead, he told reporters. The shooting was the latest in a series of jailbreak attempts involving detained Muslim militants in the Philippines. About 11 months ago eight escapees were killed after at least 53 prisoners including about 20 Abu Sayyaf suspects broke out of a jail on the Abu Sayyaf stronghold of Basilan island in the south.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Security forces in Saddam Hussein's hometown captured two of the ousted dictator's relatives, who allegedly were helping insurgents launch attacks in Iraq, the government said Monday. The two were identified as one-time Saddam bodyguard Marwan Taher Abdul Rashid and his cousin, Abdullah Maher Abdul Rashid - who also was the brother-in-law of Saddam's son, Qusai, state-run Iraqiya television reported. The two were captured March 8 in Tikrit, Saddam's hometown north of Baghdad, the government said in a statement.
Abdullah Maher Abdul Rashid was strongly believed to have "used big amounts of money that he received from Qusai ... to finance terrorism in Iraq," the statement said. Marwan Taher Abdul Rashid "was once a bodyguard for Saddam Hussein and has been involved in number of attacks against the security forces," the statement said, giving no other details. The two are not listed on any of the American most-wanted lists.
Qusai Hussein and his brother, Odai, were killed July 22, 2003, by U.S. troops during a shootout in the northern city of Mosul.
Last month, Saddam Hussein's half brother, Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan, a most-wanted leader in the Sunni-based insurgency, was detained. Al-Hassan was believed to have been financing insurgents from exile in neighboring Syria. His arrest was announced Feb. 27.
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MARWAN TAHER ABDUL RASHID
Iraqi Insurgency
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Iraqi Insurgency
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This one needs the "implements of interrogation" picture. I think these guys are going to have a close encounter with a car battery soon. (Hmm, maybe the picture needs a car battery too.)
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Don't forget an "old favorite" when questioning the collected refuse.
#5
Same old guy, isn't it? He has to come by and poop now and then. If you've got no ideas, drop a turb and your betters will notice you.
Briefly.
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#1 Jonathan, becouse scum bastard like you. america is a shity place to live!
#2 I love to do that same you are proposing to your wife you coward piece of shit
4 outlaws killed, 5 cops hurt in Rajbari gunfight
Mar 13: Four suspected outlaws were killed and six policemen injured in a fierce "gunfight" at Laskardia village of Bhawanipur Krishnanagar Char under Pangsha upazila this (Sunday) afternoon.
If you only wack one, it's a "crossfire". More than that falls under the classification of "gunfight".
Official sources said the clash erupted at about 2 pm when a police team of Pangsha thana raided the area on a tip-off that members of an outlawed party gathered there.
"The Purba Banglar Sarbohara party members opened fire on the police team, led by Pangsha OC Fazlur Rahman, as they reached the spot. The police team returned fire which left four outlaws dead on the spot," said a police officer. Two of them were identified as Abdul Quddus, 40, and Mohammad Alam, 45. Police sent all the four bodies to morgue.
Rajbari Police Super Matiur Rahman Sheikh claimed that six policemen were injured in the clash. UNB district correspondent said three injured policemen were admitted to Pansha Upazila Health Complex. Police said they recovered two guns, two cut rifles, 17 bullets and two big daggers from the scene. The law-enforcers also found some leaflets, pads and slips of the underground party.
The police team fired 86 shots during the one-and-a-half-hour-long firefight.
One chopped to death in Natore
Mar 13: A village leader was chopped to death by unknown assailants at Galgalia in Singra upazila Saturday night. Shafir Uddin, 45, was returning home from Galgalia bazaar at about 10pm when the assailants chopped him to death.
Police suspect that Shafir was murdered as a sequel to enmity. Anwar Hossain was arrested in connection with the murder.
So, did Shafir have enmity against Anwar in the prequel, or is it the other way around?
In another incident, Gurudaspur upazila Jubo League president Alam Sheikh was chopped and badly wounded by unknown assailants on way home Saturday night. Locals rescued him and admitted to the hospital.
Bomb hoax delays Kuwait Airways flight
A bomb hoax delayed a flight of Kuwait Airways for three hours on Sunday. The Kuwait-bound flight, which was scheduled to take off at 6:30 am, left Zia International Airport at 9:30am after a massive search.. Police, meanwhile, arrested a person from capital's Mirpur in connection with the bomb hoax. He was identified as Mahmud Hasan Chishti, an employee of Emirates airlines. Sources said that the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) detected the telephone number through caller ID system and informed police who caught Chishti.
"He was being grilled by different intelligence agencies," said a source.
Using real grills
A security official of Civil Aviation informed that they received an anonymous telephone call in the early morning before had started boarding passengers for the flight. "The caller claimed that a bomb had been planted on the Kuwait Airways aircraft." Following the claim, he said, departure of the flight was postponed. "It took off from ZIA after a security team thoroughly checked the aircraft," the official told the news agency.
poor mother is in jail-for no fault of her own
Get your hankies out, this is Movie-of-the-week material
Sherpur, Mar 13: A poor mother is in jail for the last eight years for no fault of her own, reports UNB. Kamala Begum, aged about 35, was implicated in a fabricated case that she murdered her 7-year-old son Farooq in connivance with her second husband and concealed the body. Her first husband Zulhash had filed the case shortly after she had divorced him and married Mizanur Rahman of the same village, Srirampur, in Sadar upazila in 1995. The court awarded them life imprisonment.
With me so far? Ok, now it gets deep....
Farooq, alive and now 17, has revealed to a Magistrate and the Jail Super the startling facts as to how his father Zulhash hid him in a house far away in Chandpur before filing the cooked-up case against her mother.
Recently Farooq returned home from Chandpur to the wonder of the neighbours who knew that his mother killed him. Neighbours informed him of the fate of his mother. Secretly he met with his mother in the jail. They wept and the tears of Farooq gave a cold comfort to her mother in the prison. The incident caught the eyes of jailers. Kamala and her son narrated their tragic story to the jail super and a magistrate.
They told them that Zulhash, a vagabond and addict, used to inflict mental and physical torture on Kamala. Failing to endure the repression she secured divorce from Zulhash and left behind three minor children. Feeling insecure Kamala married Mizanur Rahman, which angered Zulhash. He quietly sent Farooq to Chandpur and filed a case accusing Kamala and her second husband of murder of Farooq and concealing his body.
Additional district magistrate and jail super Mohammad Ali recorded the statement of Farooq, which along with a report was sent to the district and session''s judge. On information, the police super took Farooq to protective custody lest he should be murdered by Zulhash to save his skin. The district magistrate and jail super said they have ascertained that Kamala and Mizanur were undergoing life imprisonment for murder and concealing the body of Farooq.
But will they be set free soon?
The magistrate said it now depends on the High Court when appealed to overturn the verdict of life imprisonment. "A decision on the appeal in usual course may take more than a year," he added. But who will move the appeal in the High Court? Kamala Begum or Mizan has no relative to take the venture.
Poor Kamala, her husband Mizanur Rahman are likely to suffer in jail and son Farooq in protective custody unless and until a human rights body or a generous jurist take up the case with the High Court.
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March 14, 2005: The U.S. Army has struck gold with a four pound reconnaissance aircraft. Ordered twenty months ago, and entering service in late 2003, the Raven (RQ-11A) first went to Afghanistan, where infantry and Special Forces troops found the aircraft very useful and soon wanted more of these "micro UAVs" (ultralight unmanned aerial vehicles). The feedback was very enthusiastic, and the army ordered more, and sent them to Iraq as well. At 4.2 pounds, and costing $25,000 each, the Raven can stay in the air for 80 minutes at a time. It is battery powered, and carries a color day vidcam, or a two color infrared night camera. Both cameras broadcast real time video back to the operator, who controls the Raven via a laptop computer. The Raven can go as fast as 90 kilometers an hour, but usually cruises between 40 and 50. It can go as far as 15 kilometers from its controller on the ground, and usually flies a preprogrammed route, using GPS for navigation. Each Raven "unit" consists of three UAVs and one ground control station. It's launched by turning on the motor, and throwing it into the air. It lands by coming back to ground at a designated GPS location (and bouncing around a bit.) The Raven is made of Kevlar, the same material used in helmets and protective vests. On average, Raven can survive about 200 landings before it breaks something.
The Raven is basically a scaled down version of an earlier, nine pound UAV, the Pointer (FQM-151). This one was also popular with the Special Forces. But they wanted something even smaller and lighter, as they often had to travel very light. The size of the micro UAVs has largely been dictated by the weight of available video cameras. In the last few years, even lighter (under half a pound) vidcams have been developed, and that made it possible to use even smaller UAVs. While the larger Pointer could stay in the air for two hours, it's 8.9 foot wingspan, and six foot length, made it more difficult to haul around (even though it was broken down for travel). The Raven has a wingspan of 4.3 feet and is 3.6 feet long.
While some Ravens have been shot down, the most common cause of loss is losing the communications link (as the aircraft flies out of range) or a software/hardware failure on the aircraft. Troops have taken to putting a label on each aircraft, saying, in the local language, that if the aircraft is returned to the nearest American military unit, there will be a reward. Several lost Ravens have been recovered this way.
The army has over 200 Ravens in use, and the manufacturer is turning them out as fast as they can. The Special Forces are one of the most enthusiastic users, as the battery powered Raven is silent, and so small that most people on the ground don't notice it. At night, it's almost impossible to spot. The army wants every combat battalion, and eventually every company to have a Raven system. Commanders find the real time video of the area they are operating in to be invaluable when there's a battle going on, and equally useful when preparing for combat. Pictures here.
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Cool. I was wondering how the micro's were working out. If the troops want 'em, that's good enough for me.
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Kick ass! 80 minutes on a charge, too--not bad at all. Sounds like they need to improve the landing/recovery bit somehow though--like get the troops a big butterfly net or a volleyball net to snag it!
$25,000 / 200 avg uses = $125 per use, which isn't really so bad I guess--and the good parts can be cannibalized. But they can do better!
I expect in a few years we'll be having hunter/killer versions of these gunning down other UAVs as they get lighter and cheaper! Maybe I could be a 'virtual ace' by developing the algorithm to perform Immelmans, barrel rolls, etc. that generates the most kills. ;-)
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Heh - Each morning, Odin, the father of the Gods, sends his two ravens: Hugin and Mugin out into the world to watch over the land.
That's how it started in WW I. I see no reason why the cycle would not start over.
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You're about 5 years too late to make a killing with those algorithms, Dar. A whole lot of work has gone into this field and continues to reach serious prototype / initial deployment capability.
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An important point, Unagum Elmang5856. I think Willie and Joe would be thrilled -- ever more pounding, but of the bad guyz, not of their own unhappy feet. And ever fewer are able to deal with ever more.
Snug, where does Bush fit into your cosmology? ;-)
The Iraqi army announced it had prevented a suicide bombing on a base near the northern oil centre of Kirkuk Sunday and arrested a Saudi national who had been preparing to carry it out. "Our forces succeeded in thwarting a suicide attack against our K1 base, one of the main Iraqi army bases, eight kilometres north of Kirkuk," regional commander General Anwar Hamad Amin told AFP. "The soldiers intercepted the car at 11.30am (4.30pm Brunei Time) at a traffic control point as it headed to the base." The driver swiftly confessed that he was a Saudi national loyal to Iraq's al-Qaeda frontman Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Amin added.
The Iraqi government said Thursday that it had killed or captured all of al-Zarqawi's top lieutenants except one, whom it identified as Abu Talha, based in the main northern city of Mosul.
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The driver swiftly confessed..."
Shaheed Abu turned out to be regular Chatty Cathy.
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I knew 4 at Aramco - and they would never dream of even getting dirt under their fingernails, much less being a bomber. The Sudanese branch, apparently, has lost its way - the true Saudi way is to delegate or farm out unpleasantries.
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Well, they were in Sudan under Binny's gentle ministrations. In actuality, Osama never was a very good fit as a Soddy...he is kind of a "can-do" guy. 'Course I havn't noticed him strapping on a bomb vest of late.
I guess "capturing" Cody Adam wasn't much help to Zarko the Psycho. He's gotten a plastic response to all the questioning, and all his associates are with virgins, or with rats in a prison cell...
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I'd agree he's a different breed in having the stones to defy authority - the tribe/clan way usually prevents this. I'd guess his isolation due to family connections and money kept him out of the normal indoctrination channels.
The uber-Wahhabist. Recall the interviews with his Sister-in-Law? He freaked when she answered the door, in Switzerland IIRC, with her face uncovered. The devil's bargain the House of Saud made with the Wahhabists will destroy them both. Ironically by a true believer's actions, heh.
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I heard the All-Arab Marine detachment captured him after the 'Mother of All Shootouts' at a safe house. The Perp was then handed over to Kurdish bandits who in turn staged the arrest (with the full cooperation of the Saudis). One of the Arab-Marines was slightly wounded when he spilled hot MRE gravy on his leg. Since it was the 'Pork Compote' variety the Arab-Marine had to amputate his leg. Afterwards the unit burned the Israeli flag, which is a tradition in the unit.
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Sea - I just got off the phone with a friend who came back from SaoodiLand last August. He told me that there were 1 MILLION people in the Al Ghamdi clan - not just in Saudi, but across the M.E. Floored me -- and explains why they pop up with such amazing frequency. Just thought you would like to know. :-0
Two policemen and two armed extremists were killed in recent clashes in Algeria, press reports said yesterday. The policemen died Thursday in a machine-gun attack on a roadblock in the Bouira region, 120 kilometers southeast of Algiers, in which two of their colleagues were also wounded. The previous evening two gunmen were shot dead by security forces during a search operation in Boumerdes region, 50 kilometers east of the capital. Weapons and ammunition were captured in the operation against the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC).
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Security forces arrested 10 suspected militants in an operation against Al Qaeda elements in North Waziristan Agency on Sunday, the Inter-Services Public Relations director general told Daily Times. Maj Gen Shaukat Sultan said the 10 suspects were arrested with heavy weapons. "I can't say whether they are foreigners or locals as they are being interrogated at the moment," he added. Two security personnel were injured by a "smoke grenade", he said, adding that no exchange of fire took place between the security forces and suspected militants.
The search operation was conducted in Mana village of the Shawal area, west of Miranshah, after the presence of foreigners at the village was reported, the ISPR director general said. Witnesses said military helicopters hovered over the area but they did not hear any gunshots. Sunday's operation against Al Qaeda-linked militants believed to have fled to North Waziristan Agency after being flushed from South Waziristan Agency last year was the second since March 5. "There will be more such operations to flush out militants from the region," Brig (r) Mehmood Shah, security chief of the tribal agencies, said.
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At least two Pakistani soldiers were injured today when army with the support of helicopter gunships launched an offensive against militants in Pakistan's Waziristan tribal area, where a large number of al-Qaeda militants were holed up.
The search operation was launched in Shawal area, some 150 km west of Miran Shah, a small town that is the headquarters of North Waziristan tribal region, local officials said.
The soldiers were hurt when a grenade exploded during the operation. They were shifted to a military hospital and the officials say they are in stable condition. Officials said the operation was launched on a tip that some militants were hiding in the area, close to Afghan border.
There was no report about the casualty or arrest of the militants. The fresh offensive came two day after a top military commander in the northern city of Peshawar warned tribesmen to help the security forces to expel foreign terror suspects otherwise the military will go for use of force.
Lt. Gen. Safdar Hussain told tribal leaders that the presence of foreign fighters pose threats to peace and security of the country.
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Former Guantanamo Bay detainee and Taleban commander of Pakistani origin Abdullah Mehsud who was involved in kidnapping and killing Chinese engineers is dead, tribal sources in North Waziristan told Arab News. The sources said that Mehsud had sustained severe injuries on March 5 at Deogar Saidgi, North Waziristan in a shootout between security forces and fighters loyal to him. After the incident security forces arrested 11 renegade fighters including four Arabs, two tribesmen and five others who hail from different Pakistani cities. However, Mehsud's death could not be confirmed independently, with officials declining comment.
Tribal sources asserted that after sustaining severe injuries, Mehsud was removed to Shawal Valley, North Waziristan where he succumbed to his injuries on Friday night. He was quietly buried in an unknown place. Yesterday, about 700 Pakistani troops conducted a house-to-house search in Mana, Shawal. North Waziristan's valley of Shawal is reckoned as one of the most difficult terrain in the region.
This article starring:
ABDULLAH MEHSUD
Wazir Taliban
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He followed the exaomply of Nek Mohammad quite well, unfortunately the form of his exit was less impreesive than Nek's
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Anyone have a photo of this long haired hippie Jihadi, please post or link to it
This hippie was just emulating Muhammad's example. The most perfect man who ever lived and a worthy life for all mankind to copy. (So says the Muhammad cult)
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Saudi security forces captured two wanted militants, injured one and killed another man who was with them, early yesterday morning in a gunbattle in a residential district of Jeddah. A woman passerby was caught in the cross-fire and was also killed in the shootout. According to Brig. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki, a spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior, "a man wanted for security-related matters was captured after being wounded...Two of his companions were arrested. A man who was accompanying the wanted militant was killed in the shootout." 
Assailants fired grenades at a military commandant's office in the Chechen capital Grozny on Monday, wounding eight employees, the Emergency Situations Ministry said. Two of those injured in the grenade attack in Grozny's Leninsky district were women, said Sergei Kozhemyaka, a duty officer at the ministry's southern branch office. All eight were hospitalized.
The head of rebel forces in the Chechen capital of Grozny was killed during a special operation by pro-Russian forces, a spokesman for Chechnya's Interior Ministry said on Sunday. The rebel leader 
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's eldest son escaped an assassination attempt in China last year, according to a news report Monday. Chinese authorities may have been aware of the attempt to kill Kim Jong Nam, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said, citing an unnamed South Korean intelligence official. The report gave no other details. South Korea's National Intelligence Service declined to immediately comment on the report. Austrian officials denied a report about an alleged assassination attempt in November against Kim Jong Nam while he was visiting there. Kim Jong Nam was once believed to be favored to replace Kim Jong Il in the country's hereditary succession of power. However, he is believed to have lost his chance after he embarrassed his father in 2001 by being detained while trying to enter Japan on a false passport to visit Tokyo's Disneyland. He was later released and had been reportedly staying in China.
Gunmen armed with rocket launchers stormed a chemical tanker in the Strait of Malacca at the weekend in an unusually daring attack, raising initial fears of a terrorist attack, an anti-piracy centre said on Monday.
Police Special Action Forces have entered the Camp Bagong Diwa prison compound where several Abu Sayyaf bandits are holed up in a building after attempting a jailbreak earlier Monday. Police had earlier given the Abu Sayyaf bandits until 2 p.m. to surrender. Police officials on local television stressed that negotiations were still being conducted.
Government agents captured an Afghan-trained terrorist said to be the financier of the 
Up to six people have been killed in a bloody escape attempt by Muslim militants linked to Al-Qaeda at a maximum security prison in the Philippines capital, police said. Gunfire rang out at the 
The Iraqi army announced it had prevented a suicide bombing on a base near the northern oil centre of Kirkuk Sunday and arrested a Saudi national who had been preparing to carry it out. "Our forces succeeded in thwarting a suicide attack against our K1 base, one of the main Iraqi army bases, eight kilometres north of Kirkuk," regional commander General Anwar Hamad Amin told AFP. "The soldiers intercepted the car at 11.30am (4.30pm Brunei Time) at a traffic control point as it headed to the base." The driver swiftly confessed that he was a Saudi national loyal to Iraq's al-Qaeda frontman Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Amin added.
Two policemen and two armed extremists were killed in recent clashes in Algeria, press reports said yesterday. The policemen died Thursday in a machine-gun attack on a roadblock in the Bouira region, 120 kilometers southeast of Algiers, in which two of their colleagues were also wounded. The previous evening two gunmen were shot dead by security forces during a search operation in Boumerdes region, 50 kilometers east of the capital. Weapons and ammunition were captured in the operation against the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC).
Security forces arrested 10 suspected militants in an operation against Al Qaeda elements in North Waziristan Agency on Sunday, the Inter-Services Public Relations director general told Daily Times. Maj Gen Shaukat Sultan said the 10 suspects were arrested with heavy weapons. "I can't say whether they are foreigners or locals as they are being interrogated at the moment," he added. Two security personnel were injured by a "smoke grenade", he said, adding that no exchange of fire took place between the security forces and suspected militants.
Former Guantanamo Bay detainee and Taleban commander of Pakistani origin 
