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The last picture of Mariana Yolanda Ochoa Reyes could be the inspiration for a new subtitle: "Women who don't wear underwear." Also in the "Women who Bathe" picture of Katja Schuurman--what is that stuff in the tub with her--looks like mud or some kind of gunk?
[Iran Press TV Latest] A US military plane has mistakenly bombed an Afghan police vehicle in Kunduz province, killing at least seven officers and injuring several others.
According to Afghan officials, the incident took place in the Emam Saheb district of the northern province of Kunduz on Thursday morning.
The officials say the policemen were killed during a joint Afghan and NATO-led forces operation against Taliban militants in the region.
"During the operation a NATO jet hit a police ranger and killed seven policemen," district police chief Abdul Qayoum said.
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The 'errant' air strike the other day turns out to have hit what it was aiming at, but there were unseen 'civilians' mixed in with the Taliban shooters. And a large stash of Afghan police/Army uniforms was also recently uncovered. And more than once we have been attacked by Afghan uniformed men - both actual and imposter. So I don't yet know that this was a mistaken bombing.
Taliban bomb-makers have reportedly slowed down the US-led coalition's progress in military operations in the southern Afghan city of Marjah.
Lt. Col. Cal Worth, who commands one of two Marine battalions leading the offensive against the Taliban, revealed on Wednesday that bomb-makers have not been cowed by the presence of US Marines and a large contingent of Afghan soldiers in the city.
While, Afghan troops raised their flag over a badly damaged market place in Marjah, the military is not in the full control the agricultural area.
Surveillance drones have shown Taliban fighters operating freely in some parts of the city, added the report.
The town's residents are also skeptical about NATO promises of new schools, clinics and good governance, saying that "promises have gone unfulfilled before."
However, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs on Wednesday hailed the capture of Taliban senior commander Mullah Baradar as a "big success," adding that the coalition offensive was "going well."
Gibbs' comments came after US President Barack Obama was briefed by his top commander General Stanley McChrystal in Afghanistan.
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irantv is probably reporting accurately, and the only 'spin' is that they want to make it sound like it is something newsworthy or unexpected (pretty much normal news organization behavior since Abel's slaying was reported.)
[Al Arabiya Latest] Yemeni Houthi rebels handed over two of the four remaining captive Saudi soldiers to the Yemen government, Al Arabiya television reported on Thursday, just shortly after reporting that the rebels were starting the handover.
The rebels gave no information on when the two remaining soldiers might also be freed.
"The two were handed over to the Yemeni government and are in the hands of the truce committee. They will be handed over to the Saudi side shortly," a government official told Reuters.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Interpol should issue a warrant to help locate and arrest the head of Israel's spy agency Mossad if the organization was responsible for the killing of a Hamas chief in Dubai, the emirate's police chief said on Thursday, as the Interpol issued arrest notices for 11 suspects wanted by Dubai for the killing.
In comments to be aired later on Dubai TV, police chief Dahi Khalfan Tamim called for Interpol to issue "a red notice against the head of Mossad ... as a killer in case Mossad if proved to be behind the crime, which is likely now".
The Interpol meanwhile issued arrest notices for 11 suspects wanted by Dubai for the killing of Hamas leader Mahmud al-Mabhuh there.
The 11 have been charged by authorities in the United Arab Emirates with coordinating and committing the murder of Mabhouh, it said in a statement.
Mabhouh, a commander of the Palestinian armed group Hamas which rules the Gaza Strip, was killed in a hotel room in Dubai on Jan. 19.
Officials have said suspects in the killing used fake passports from Britain, France and Ireland.
Announcing the issue of the so-called Red Notices Interpol said it "has reason to believe that the suspects linked to this murder have stolen the identities of real people."
Red Notices are "to seek the arrest or provisional arrest of wanted persons with a view to extradition," according to the Interpol website.
Tamim said he was 99 percent sure the Israeli spy agency Mossad was behind the murder, Emirati newspaper The National reported earlier.
"Our investigations reveal that Mossad is involved in the murder of Mabhouh. It is 99 percent, if not 100 percent, that Mossad is standing behind the murder,"Tamim told The National newspaper.
Britain, France and Ireland summoned Israeli ambassadors on Thursday over the question of fake passports.
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Yeah, Inspector Legume, will be bringing them in any day now.
Israel's ambassador to Ireland, Zion Evrony, said he had nothing useful to tell Ireland because he knew nothing confidential about the Dubai assassination.
Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin has said the three Irish passports did have valid numbers but were issued to people with different names than those made public by Dubai.
He said the Foreign Ministry had contacted two people with the same passport numbers and found they had not lost their passports or had any stolen. The assassins apparently had access to pre-2005 passports that lacked biometric information, Martin said.
Also linked to the slaying are two Palestinians in Dubai custody and five others, including one woman who was caught on video surveillance at the luxury hotel where al-Mabhouh's body was found Jan. 20, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with standing policies.
The official gave no further details on the Palestinians or the five other suspects.
But the official said that some of the suspects used the false passports to open credit card accounts at U.S. banks, but also gave no additional information.
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only took em 30 years too get roman polanski though
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But in the case of Mr. Polanski, they were quite sure it was he they knew the location of, chris. Had they been unsure of identity and location, who knows how long it might have taken?
Three men ''intoxicated by the evil of terrorism'' engaged in training in a park to join or carry out violent jihad, a court heard.
Styling themselves as ''The Blackburn Resistance'', the trio were said to have gathered a stockpile of weapons as they studied guerilla warfare ahead of a possible mission to Iraq or Afghanistan.
Clear demonstration of sub-optimal IQ right there. How did the young gentlemen think they were going to get their little weapons stockpile out of the country, across Europe, and across the border into Iraq or Afghanistan? One can't put such things into checked luggage anymore, guys.
Abbas Iqbal, 24, his brother Ilyas Iqbal, 23, and Muhammed Ali Ahmad, 26, - a white Muslim - even filmed their training programme in a park in Blackburn, Lancashire, a jury at Manchester Crown was told.
The Crown Prosecution Service said at first glance the film appeared to show them ''larking about'' in a comical manner but their overall purpose was ''less funny''. Edward Brown QC said: ''The prosecution does not suggest that this group is a highly sophisticated, well trained or well funded terrorist cell. We do suggest however these three young men from Blackburn had become intoxicated by the evil of terrorism and had started to train themselves to join or carry out violent jihad. At the stage when they were stopped by police, they had not got very far.''
The park video and images of the three defendants firing weapons into the air in the back garden of the Iqbal family home were contained in a mobile phone storage card belonging to Abbas Iqbal, it was alleged. Mr Brown said the card was found in the suitcase of Abbas Iqbal when he was arrested at Manchester Airport in August 2008 en route to northern Europe with another alleged extremist, who cannot be named for legal reasons. The pair intended to ''spread their creed'' by taking material which they intended to encourage others to commit, prepare or instigate acts of terrorism, he added.
The arrests led to the detention of Ilyas Iqbal and Ahmad - who together with Abbas Iqbal were stopped as they allegedly prepared for terrorist activity. Mr Brown told the jury: ''Consistent with their interest in jihadi activity, all three defendants had developed a keen interest in weaponry and had filmed themselves engaged in military-type activity connected with their preparations for acts in pursuit of their extreme cause. They were also in possession of material that would help themselves and, or, others to commit terrorist acts.''
He added: ''They had gathered together the collection of weapons and other equipment for training and they had set about educating themselves about guerilla warfare. They had made a film about their training programme which was designed to imitate the more professional propaganda of al Qaida made and published.''
All three defendants deny preparing for acts of terrorism between April 30 2006 and August 14 2008. Abbas Iqbal also denies disseminating terrorist publications and possessing documents likely to be useful to a terrorist. Ilyas Iqbal pleaded not guilty to two counts of possessing documents likely to be useful to a terrorist.
Mr Brown said: "It became clear that these three had formed a group which styled itself "The Blackburn Resistance" and which supported jihadi terrorism. Some of the material may at first blush seem almost comical in its amateurishness but when you recall their purpose, you may think it is less funny.
"The prosecution say, calling themselves the Blackburn Resistance, the three defendants were acting together with their armoury of training equipment and with the information they had gathered, readying themselves for active participation in violent jihad or training for jihad, probably abroad."
The armoury stockpile was found in a weapons cabinet at the Iqbal brothers' home in Percival Street along with terror-related documents on a desktop computer, the Crown alleges. The computer was said to have contained video clips of beheadings and executions, with much of the footage focussed on information from Iraq. There were songs about jihad and the conflict in Chechnya, and various speeches including one which stated: "I have received so many emails from ladies, they want to be the bombs themselves and do jihad."
When police searched Ahmad's home in Whalley Range they discovered extreme material he had written, extremist speeches, martyrdom videos and mobile phone images of executions with people being slit by their throats. The jury was told Ahmad's birth name was Paul Andrew Cryer but he had changed his name in 2004 and described himself as a "revert" to the Muslim faith.
CBN News has learned exclusively that five Muslim soldiers at Fort Jackson in South Carolina were arrested just before Christmas. It is unclear whether the men are still in custody. The five were part of the Arabic Translation program at the base.
Patrick Jones, the Deputy Public Affairs Officer for Fort Jackson, confirmed for CBN News yesterday afternoon that an investigation was ongoing .
Prior to this posting, CBN News learned that these details were also confirmed by a government official with knowlegde of the investigation.
The men are suspected of trying to poison the food supply at Fort Jackson.
A source with intimate knowledge of the investigation, which is ongoing, told CBN News investigators suspect the "Fort Jackson Five" may have been in contact with the group of five Washington, DC area Muslims that traveled to Pakistan to wage jihad against U.S. troops in December. That group was arrested by Pakistani authorities, also just before Christmas.
Coming as it does on the heels of November's Fort Hood jihadist massacre, this news could have major implications.
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Difficult to say what is taking place at Jackson. A drill sergeant in a training brigade would probably be the one to ask to get the straight skinny. Definately appears to be some smoke in the Teepee.
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As an aside, post commanders can be much like enraged grizzly bears when they feel their post is threatened, and a previous assignment for the current post commander was as commander, 2 ACR.
Cav types can get right testy when teased or annoyed.
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I keep wondering how long it would have taken to train non-Muslim, native-born translators of Arabic that wouldn't be such security risks. Apparently the USA is bent upon the insecure route.
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I keep wondering how long it would have taken to train non-Muslim, native-born translators of Arabic that wouldn't be such security risks.
There are plenty of Arab Christians who can teach good Arabic and wouldn't be security risks. They cannot teach the dos and dont's in company of Muslims but there are retired diplomats or CIA people who can. So no need to hire Muslims like having Nazis teach German during WWII hanging around.
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JFM, I see your point but the Nazi connection is overdone. Its not as if we are using known Al Queda folks. It is more like getting Austrians to teach German. No idea if they are Nazi's or not. No idea if they support their fellow Austrian in his World Domination plans or not.
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IIUC one issue with training Arabic translators is that the language is fundamentally poetic in nature compared to most European langauges. It evokes rather than denotes and to evoke meaning requires that the hearer have a substantial shared frame of reference.
There are a relatively small number of 3 consonant word stems from which the vocabulary is built up. Word meanings build on one another through a lot of metaphor and indirect reference. This includes indirect evocation of books, famous speeches and themes from music etc.
So to get at what a Friday preacher is really communicating, say, or a jihadi website, requires more than the ability to literally translate words and grammar in a linear fashion. It requires a fair degree of cultural immersion.
There's also the problem of many dialects, some of which are mutually unintelligible, vs. standard arabic which most educated speakers can use - but don't need to use if they want their meaning to be harder to discern by outsiders.
Much bigger problem than training, say, Russian translators even though Russian grammar and word forms are very complex compared to English.
I recently did some work on automated Arabic to English translation using NLP techniques and Markov chains. I'm not sure if the program was working or not because everything came out as "Kill the Jews!"
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the language is fundamentally poetic in nature compared to most European langauges. It evokes rather than denotes and to evoke meaning requires that the hearer have a substantial shared frame of reference
That sounds like a Star Trek TNG episode -- the one where the aliens only spoke in metaphors that referred to their epic poems. (Always wondered how in the heck such folks could could be specific enough to build a spacecraft and travel the galaxy. Kind of explains the Arabs, though...)
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Its not as if we are using known Al Queda folks. It is more like getting Austrians to teach German.
Nope. Eisenhower and the main designer of the Mustang were of German ascent. In WWI a soldier who had been approved for the Medal of Honor revealed his real name: not Smith but Schmidt.
But here we are talking of peole who share at least part of Al Quaida's ideology. Say that it was like admitting Moderate Nazis in the Armed Forces.
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"The Jackson Five". Gosh how I long for the old days...
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the language is fundamentally poetic in nature compared to most European langauges. It evokes rather than denotes and to evoke meaning requires that the hearer have a substantial shared frame of reference
That sounds like a Star Trek TNG episode -- the one where the aliens only spoke in metaphors that referred to their epic poems. (Always wondered how in the heck such folks could could be specific enough to build a spacecraft and travel the galaxy. Kind of explains the Arabs, though...)
Darmok And Jalad At Tanagra.
Mafia, at Rantburg. The things I learn when the walls fell.
The U.S. Army is investigating allegations that soldiers were attempting to poison the food supply at Fort Jackson in South Carolina.
The ongoing probe began two months ago, Chris Grey, a spokesman for the Army's Criminal Investigation Division, told Fox News.
The Army is taking the allegations "extremely seriously," Grey said, but so far, "there is no credible information to support the allegations."
The suspects were part of a Arabic translation program called "09 Lima" and use Arabic as their first language, two sources told Fox News. Another military source said they were Muslim.
Grey would not confirm or deny the sources' information.
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#4 Re diversity---please click on the link in my earlier post, Besoeker. Posted by: g(r)omgoru
I have come to expect nothing less from Mueller's bureau and the DOJ g(r)om.
"There's already tension between the Hebrew and Arabic desks," an FBI source said. "If they hired Arab Jews to translate Arabic, there would be bloodshed. Arabs would never accept it." Glick notes that Mueller has pandered to Muslim groups, even ones that support Hamas and other terrorist groups. He's also mandated Muslim-sensitivity training for agents.
I met Sensing a couple years ago. He's a straight up guy. Until there's something a lot more concrete than the vague 'somebody told me privately' allegation I'm going to take this one with a tablespoon of salt ....
Doesn't mean we don't have huge problems in the translater program. Just that this one is a rumor about unspecific allegations made by unnamed sources.
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Yup - that's the problem here. It's beginning to look like the Muslim translator program is maintained as a deliberate security gap, not just a result of nonfeasance. "If they hired Arab Jews to translate Arabic, there would be bloodshed. Arabs would never accept it." Who the hell cares what the Arabs think about translation programs? Who's in charge up there anyway?
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ooh, I'm worried. Anywhere I'm banned from, I'll go. Rantburg is a useful read. But not so useful I need permission to read it. Must have struck a nerve...
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sigh.
No, not a threat to ban you. As Fred has stated, we don't like to ban people. Redact comments, yes - but very seldom ban.
And no, your kneepad comment didn't struck a nerve, at least with me. I did find it gratuitously coarse.
On the other hand TW's very polite request for some basic civility in and around rigorous debate shouldn't be quite such an imposition as you seem to take it. And yes, such a request is extended to whomever you're carrying a grudge about, as well.
Every so often things spin coarser and coarser, or more and more personal, or closer and closer to overtly breaking the few rules that exist here.
When that happens the mods' job is to nudge things a tad bit back on course. The mods have published several such requests and reminders in the last few weeks.
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Glad to read, not so sure I add value when I comment, but thanks. Peace...
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I've learnt things from you, M. Murcek, if that helps you calibrate. :-) And mods can get testy, too -- I myself been known to use strong language around here on occasion. So take the impugning as a moment that has passed, but we remain in this foxhole together, committed to the same goal, okay?
Islamic extremists killed at least 36 people Friday, including senior army officers and their children, as they gathered for prayers at a mosque for soldiers in Rawalpindi, the home of Pakistan's military headquarters.
Five active-duty officers died in the small-arms, grenade and suicide bomb attack -- Maj. Gen. Bilal Umar, the director general of the army's armored corps; a brigadier; two lieutenant colonels; and a major -- the military said in a statement. Gen. Mohammad Yusuf, a former vice chief of the military, was among the 75 people who were wounded.
At least 11 of the 17 children who died were the sons of army officers, including the son of a major general and the sons of two brigadiers. The fathers of three senior officers, including the father of a major general, also were killed.
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I'd like to see an ISI vs Reg Army slugout in Pakland. I know they're partially one and the same, but I can dream, can't I? Hardly a sovereign stable country when the ISI-aided-and-abetted (if not indirectly controlled) terrorists are killing more of your own citizens than abroad
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It was barbaric attacks like this that finally swung the Iraqis against Zarqawi. We'll see if it does the same with the Pakistanis, or whether the 'senior US official' is right. Even though this was done in the heart of 'secure' territory, I regard it as an act of weakness, not strength. I'd send a message right back at them and round up another dozen high-ranking Taliban, and execute a couple.
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Might explain some recent actions against the Taliban leadership. ?? Come to think of it, the Paki Taliban have been getting whacked a lot since December.
Pakistani authorities, aided by U.S. intelligence, have apprehended more Afghan Taliban chiefs following the capture of the movement's No. 2 figure — arrests that together represent the biggest blow to the insurgents since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001.
The arrests of more than a dozen Taliban leaders, including known associates of Osama bin Laden, came as militants fought to keep a grip on their southern stronghold of Marjah. Hundreds of militants were holding out against a six-day-old assault by 15,000 U.S., NATO and Afghan troops.
Among those arrested were Ameer Muawiya, a bin Laden associate who was in charge of foreign al-Qaida militants in Pakistan's border areas, and Akhunzada Popalzai, also known as Mohammad Younis, a one-time Taliban shadow governor in Zabul province and former police chief in Kabul, according to Mullah Mamamood, a tribal leader in Ghazni province.
Others captured in Karachi included Hamza, a former Afghan army commander in Helmand province during Taliban rule, and Abu Riyad al Zarqawi, a liaison with Chechen and Tajik militants in Pakistan's border area, Pakistani officials said.
Taliban shadow governors — Mullah Abdul Salam of Kunduz province and Mullah Mohammad in Baghlan province — were arrested separately in Pakistan about 10 to 12 days ago, according to the Kunduz governor, Mohammad Omar.
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Looks like the Quetta Hilton might wanna settle up with Blinky...
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I bet somewhere in the shadows AQ has bit the hand that feeds it and now even ISI is getting the willies over how goofy nuts and perverse these nutjobs are.
Has there been a epiphany? "gee I really don't want my wife and kids living in that kind of world?"
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Hope this is all good stuff, I just remember what happened after Mumbai with the arrest/protective custody technique.
[Dawn] At least 11 villagers were killed and a dozen abducted by Maoist insurgents in eastern India's Bihar state on Thursday in a latest attack highlighting poor security in insurgency-hit states.
Thursday's raid comes three days after the militants killed 24 police in the neighbouring state of West Bengal.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called the militants the biggest threat to India's internal security.
Police said the raid by the Maoists in south Bihar's Jamui district, about 175 km south of state capital Patna, took the locals and police by surprise.
"So far we have recovered 11 bodies," Uday Shankar Dutta, a senior police officer, told Reuters on Thursday.
At least 20 villagers were wounded. The militants also set fire to 35 houses and some villagers could have burned alive, Dutta said. "We are looking for more bodies."
"The Maoists probably wanted to avenge the deaths of eight cadres who were lynched by the villagers recently," another local police officer said.
The Maoist revolt started in May 1967 as a peasant-based uprising in West Bengal's Naxalbari town, but has now spread to large swathes of countryside in more than 20 out of 28 states, especially around mineral-rich eastern and central India.
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NEWS KERALA : CHIDAMBARAN: GOVT. NEEDS TO REGAIN CONTROL OF MAOIST AREAS FIRST [before proceeding wid any local development plans-schemas] | CPI-MAOISTS/MAOISTS CANNOT BE TRUSTED [among other, espec as per their Manifesto strongly suppor ARMED STRUGGLE].
* SAME > INDIAN DEFENCE MINISTER ANTONY: PAKISTAN NOT DISMANTLING TERROR BASES [claims MilTerr infiltration on the rise in J-n-K despite PAK mil offensives].
* SAME > TOP OFFICIALS: INDIA'S YOUTHS TO OUTNUMBER CHINIA'S IN SIX YEARS [5-6 Years = 2015-2016.INDJUH's youth popul forecasted to number 800MILYUHN to CHINA'S 600MILYUHN, wid AVG AGE of 29 Years].
[Dawn] A bomb blast killed at least 11 people and wounded another 50 Wednesday in Pakistan's Orakzai tribal region where many Taliban militants are believed to have gathered after fleeing an army offensive, officials said.
The explosion occurred at a cattle market in the tribal region.
Local government official Liaquat Khan said at least 50 people also were wounded in the Darmela area of Orakzai. Officials were still investigating whether the explosion was caused by a suicide bomber or a planted device.
Pakistan has suffered numerous bombings over the last few months, many of them apparently in retaliation for the army operation in the South Waziristan tribal region.
Though militants tend to target security forces, many of the recent attacks have been at civilian-heavy sites, including markets catering to women and children.
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explosion was caused by a suicide bomber or a planted device
Or a work accident - poor inventory handling in the bomb sales stall.
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Moslems poppin' Moslems. With a song in your heart....
They will do it for us. Sort of as easy as a pointed stick in a crowded badger hole. Drive 'em into a frenzy of teeth and flying fur. You can hear them snarling down there.....poke it again...
Moslems are just about as perfect a genetic enemy as you can get....Goose one and they all go into their rabid knee jerk on one another. Throw the meat to 'em...and then You have to hose the place down to cut down on the adrenaline smell.
What IS there about their religion that makes them like sweat and snarl so much? No matter, just crowd them together and get the pointed stick going ....give them a conspiracy theory and cartoon or two and watch them go.
[Dawn] A bomb attack near a mosque and a militant base in northwest Pakistan's Khyber tribal region killed over 25 people on Thursday in what security officials said could be a feud between rival militant factions.
The blast struck in the district that straddles the Nato supply line into Afghanistan and is a hotbed of both Taliban fighters and other smaller home-grown militant groups.
An insurgent commander was among those killed outside the mosque in the Dars village of Upper Tirah valley. The attack also hit near a base of Lashkar-i-Islam, a militant outfit with some ideological ties to the Taliban.
Rahat Khan, a local administrative official, confirmed to AFP that a militant commander was among the dead, but there was no immediate information on whether the bomb was planted or caused by a suicide attacker.
Lashkar-i-Islam -- which means Army of Islam -- have staged bombings in the past and are the target of a Pakistani military operation to oust them from Khyber, but intelligence officials blamed warring extremist factions.
"There are two militant groups fighting with each other in Tirah valley. Both of them are attacking each other. There is a possibility that the rival group attacked the Lashkar-i-Islam base," an intelligence official said.
"There is no communication system in the area. This is an inaccessible area for us," the official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Another official suggested the bombing could be a revival of a feud between Lashkar-i-Islam and rivals Ansarul Islam, which means Companions of Islam.
On January 8, a suicide bomber targeting Ansarul Islam killed five militants and wounded 12 others in Tirah Valley, about 120 kilometres southwest of Peshawar.
Lashkar-i-Islam is the most active militant group in Khyber and is led by feared warlord Mangal Bagh. It has loose ideological ties to the Taliban, but operates independently.
Khyber is part of Pakistan's tribal belt on the Afghan border where Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants have carved out strongholds.
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Moslems capping other Moslems? yeah, get some.
Is there funding to keep this rolling? Find out who needs a few extra dinero and put him on the payroll, give his timers and fuzes and a pat on the back.
Offer to do his laundry and make him dinner, he's somebody you should encourage.
[Dawn] Missiles fired from a US drone aircraft slammed into a militant compound in the northwest tribal belt on Thursday, killing at least four militants, officials said.
The attack was the fourth US bombing raid since Sunday in North Waziristan district, and hit a stronghold of the Al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani network, known for staging attacks on US and Nato troops fighting in Afghanistan. "The US drone fired two missiles; one hit a compound and another, a vehicle. Four militants were killed in these attacks," a senior security official told AFP from the northwest city of Peshawar.
An intelligence official in Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan, confirmed that four militants were killed, adding: "Three of the militants were Afghan militants attached with the Haqqani network." The strike hit the Dandey Darpa Khel area about five kilometres from Miranshah, which is close to the border with Afghanistan.
On Wednesday, a US missile strike killed four insurgents just a few kilometres from the border with the Afghan province of Khost.
UPDATE: They bagged some big game.
ISLAMABAD—A brother of Sirajuddin Haqqani, a militant leader linked to both the Taliban and al Qaeda, was killed in the latest U.S. drone-launched missile strike in northwestern Pakistan, dealing another blow to insurgents fighting U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan.
Mohammed Haqqani and three associates were killed when missiles fired from a pilotless aircraft Thursday evening struck a compound in Dande Darpa Khel village in the North Waziristan tribal region, a Pakistani security official said. The strike was apparently aimed at Sirajuddin who is the head of the Haqqani network, which has been responsible for some recent attacks in the Afghan capital of Kabul. He wasn't in the area at the time of the attack, security officials said.
The death of Mohammed Haqqani, who was also actively involved in the Afghan insurgency, comes as a blow to the insurgent group and reinforces the effectiveness of U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan's lawless tribal region along the border with Afghanistan.
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Mohammed Haqqani and three associates lovers
Haqqani's brother? sweeeeet. Rot in hell Talibastard
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and reinforces the effectiveness of U.S. drone strikes
Indeed. Well done, O Effective Drone Strikers! I hope y'all have a cool patch, maybe with a motto like "Unseen death from above!" embroidered on it.
[Dawn] Three men closely linked to Al-Qaeda were arrested during raids in Karachi's Gulshan-i-Iqbal area. Intelligence officials arrested the three from Gulshan-i-Iqbal's Block 17.
Abu Musa is a known associate of Osama Bin Laden and was notorious for firing down US drones in Waziristan. He was also the commander of foreign combatants in Pakistan and prior to 9/11 travelled with Osama Bin Laden to Sudan. The three were in Karachi to purchase mechanical parts from Sher Shah. Among other items purchased were washing machine timers -- important components in time bombs.
This article starring:
Abu Reyan Al Zarkazi also known as Abu Musa
al-Qaeda in Pakistan
Kifayatullah
al-Qaeda in Pakistan
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And how would YOU like to be in a PAK Security Prison for an indefinite stay? No lawyer. And they take you down to the basement for fun in the barrel with the knothole twice a day. And the Pork is delicious.
But wait, there's more... the matinee' at Nine...where you get to meet Mustapha the Ballbuster and his merry crew.
yeah, it aint Guantanamo.
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It seems the five American lads who wandered over there to commit jihad aren't too fond of Pakistani jails, either, BlackBart. I haven't a link, but there was an article here at Rantburg not too long ago.
[Al Arabiya Latest] A suicide bomber killed at least 13 people and wounded 21 others on Thursday in Iraq's increasingly turbulent western Anbar province, a senior Iraqi army official and police said.
The blast was the third major attack against the governorate building in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, since October and comes just weeks ahead of a March 7 nationwide poll.
A restaurant worker said that bodies littered the scene. "A suicide bomber...attacked the checkpoint of the police and army close to our restaurant. Some of them were killed. I saw around five or six bodies, and helped carry them to cars going to hospital," said restaurant worker Hamid Ali.
Once a safe-haven for Sunni Islamist insurgent groups such as al-Qaeda, the mainly Sunni province had been relatively calm after tribal leaders turned on militants there in 2007. However, a series of blasts in the desert province, Iraq's largest, in recent months has shattered the calm in the run up to a national vote next month. Sunni Muslims largely boycotted a parliamentary election in 2005, which helped fuel an insurgency, but many Sunni candidates plan to participate in the March vote.
Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq last week said it would use military means to derail the election because Iraq's majority Shiites, whom they consider heretics, are likely to lead Iraq's next government.
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Just a whole SERIES of articles this morning about Moslems NEEDING to kill other Moslems. WE pulled out long ago and they are STILL going gore and spit on one another even after we are gone.
Hey, turn up the music! Its a basic principle in Islam, doesnt it seem so to you? Love and Compassion and inspiring Values....and Lo Allah is Beneficient and Merciful.
[Ma'an] A Palestinian operative affiliated with Fatah's Al-Aqsa Brigades died in Berlin on Thursday, sources said. Dia Faeq Salawda, 23, was seriously injured during an attack on the illegal Elon Moreh settlement south of Nablus in 2002. Salawda was treated at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, before being transferred to Jordan, and finally Germany, where he died. It's taken him eight years to peg out?
Eight years and the medical institutions of three countries, including the renowned Haddassah Center in Israel. I hope that particular batch of settlers has improved their defence techniques since then.
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Maybe it took that long for the Germans to figure out they weren't going to get paid.
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Was the fatal injury being smothered by a pillow...fade to evil Mossad agent washing hands and pouring a shot of brandy....
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Two policemen and two soldiers were wounded in two bombings in Yala, and 12 local residents were injured in a roadside bomb blast in Pattani, according to the authorities, but the motive is still unclear.
In Bannang Sata district, two border patrol police officers were slightly wounded by a bomb explosion while they were on duty. After that another bomb exploded as Bannang Sata police superintendent Pol Col Sompien Aeksomya [led] his team to inspect the site where the explosion occurred earlier.
An estimated five kilogramme bomb was planted at a motorcycle parked at the roadside and was detonated when the team of policemen passed by. However, no one was wounded as the bomb failed to function properly. The police vehicle was slightly damaged. According to initial investigation, the motorcycle's registered owner was gunned down on June 13, 2007.
In another related incident, a bomb was detonated at the entrance of a village, two soldiers from the Yala special unit were wounded in the incident.
Meanwhile, twelve people were wounded in a roadside bomb in Pattani. Among the injured, two people were managers of a food factory. The victims were travelling in a pick-up truck in the provincial seat when it passed a tricycle which had a bomb attached. After the incident responding police found a three-kilogramme bomb nearby and defused it.
[Straits Times] A NINE-YEAR-OLD boy and a young couple were killed when a discarded grenade went off in a rebel-infested area of the volatile southern Philippines, police said on Thursday. "Honey, have you seen my grenade?"
"Junior's just showing it to the new neighbors!"
The three were burning woodland in a village on Mindanao island on Wednesday, igniting the rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) that is suspected to have been left behind by Islamist insurgents, provincial police chief Senior Superintendent Alex Lineses said.
'The RPG may have been left there by the MILF (Moro Islamic Liberation Front) and exploded when it was heated by the fire. They died on the spot,' Mr Lineses told reporters.
He said the dead man was only 18 and his wife aged just 16. The boy was the husband's brother. They were burning the trees at Kabingi village in Maguindanao province to later gather the wood for use as coal. The blast happened as President Gloria Arroyo was touring Mindanao, raising security concerns, Lineses said.
The 12,000-strong MILF has been waging a separatist rebellion on Mindanao since 1978. On Wednesday, the group rejected government's offer for an expanded autonomy in the south, dashing hopes of a final peace deal before Arroyo steps down as president on June 30.
Police say unexploded ordnance remains in the rebel held areas from when the MILF were locked in battles with government forces in late 2008. About 400 people were killed in the fighting, and 200,000 remain displaced.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has confirmed that Iran has produced its first batch of 20 percent enriched uranium at the Natanz enrichment plant.
IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano said in his first report on Iran that Iranian experts carried out the enrichment for producing nuclear fuel for the Tehran research reactor between February 9 and 11.
"Iran provided the agency with mass spectrometry results which indicate that enrichment levels of up to 19.8 percent (uranium) were obtained," the report says.
Iran announced on February 9 that it had started enriching uranium to the level of less than 20 percent to meet the country's fuel requirements for the reactor producing medical radioisotopes, after the potential suppliers failed to provide the fuel under a UN deal.
Two days later, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad formally declared that Iran had successfully produced the first stock of the 20-percent enriched uranium, a declaration which was met with cynicism in the West.
The report noted that Iran started enriching uranium to a higher level in the presence of IAEA inspectors.
"On February 10, when the agency inspectors arrived at the PFEP (Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant), they were informed that Iran had already begun to feed the UF6 (uranium hexafluoride) into one cascade the previous evening," Amano said in his report to the IAEA Board of Governors.
The report also verified the non-diversion of declared nuclear material in Iran.
"The information available to the agency is extensive... broadly consistent and credible in terms of the technical detail, the time frame in which the activities were conducted and the people, and organizations involved," the report said.
However, the IAEA called on Iran to further discuss and cooperate on alleged issues.
"Iran has not provided the necessary cooperation to permit the agency to confirm that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities," it added.
"Altogether this raises concerns about the possible existence in Iran of past or current undisclosed activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile," Amano said.
Iran has repeatedly denied it is working on sensitive nuclear materials and insists its uranium enrichment plants and other facilities are only geared toward civilian nuclear energy applications.
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Is this the uranium enrichment the Obama Whitehouse said couldn't be done? Gee, it almost seems like the Iranians had a secret stash ready to go.
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Just a hop, skip, and a jump now to weapons-grade material!
Any further word on their alleged "contamination" issue? Is it for real or for show?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Three men ''intoxicated by the evil of terrorism'' engaged in training in a park to join or carry out violent jihad, a court heard. 
The U.S. Army is investigating allegations that soldiers were attempting to poison the food supply at Fort Jackson in South Carolina.
[Dawn] Missiles fired from a US drone aircraft slammed into a militant compound in the northwest tribal belt on Thursday, killing at least four militants, officials said.
[Dawn] Three men closely linked to Al-Qaeda were arrested during raids in Karachi's Gulshan-i-Iqbal area. Intelligence officials arrested the three from Gulshan-i-Iqbal's Block 17. 
[Al Arabiya Latest] A suicide bomber killed at least 13 people and wounded 21 others on Thursday in Iraq's increasingly turbulent western Anbar province, a senior Iraqi army official and police said.
[Ma'an] A Palestinian operative affiliated with Fatah's Al-Aqsa Brigades died in Berlin on Thursday, sources said. Dia Faeq Salawda, 23, was seriously injured during an attack on the illegal Elon Moreh settlement south of Nablus in 2002. Salawda was treated at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, before being transferred to Jordan, and finally Germany, where he died. 
