A suicide car bomb targeting a NATO convoy in Afghanistan killed two civilians Thursday, while elsewhere a district chief and a senior policemen were killed by Taliban gunmen. The bomber struck as NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) military vehicles drove through the southern city of Kandahar, the scene of a rash of recent suicide attacks.
ISAF headquarters in Kabul confirmed there had been an attack against its troops, but said there had been no military casualties.
ISAF headquarters in Kabul confirmed there had been an attack against its troops, but said there had been no military casualties. The innocent bystanders don't have the advantage of armored vehicles.
Two dead bodies and seven injured men were taken to the Mirwais hospital in restive Kandahar after the blast, Doctor Najibullah told AFP. The interior ministry in Kabul confirmed there had been a suicide bombing but said only one civilian had been killed, while putting the number of injured people at 11.
Pieces of the bombers body were scattered around the blast site in the Chawk Madat area of the city, which was sealed off by Afghan security forces, an AFP correspondent at the scene said. "Careful there, Mahmoud! Don't step on that nose! It could be evidence!"
Police were also trying to dismantle an unexploded hand grenade, which they said was left over from the car bomb, the reporter said. No one claimed responsibility for the attack. The bombing was the third suicide attack in Kandahar in as many days and the 10th since November 25 across Afghanistan.
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Associated Press Ghost-Writer, literally.
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Fighting broke out Friday in the southern Somali town taken by the Islamic militias that control much of the country, but the government denied claims that Ethiopian troops had led an attack.
A top Islamic official said militiamen fought Ethiopian troops in the southern town of Dinsor, and he called on Somalis to defeat "the enemies who have invaded our land." "Jihad! More Jihad! That's what we need! Listen up, all, we're gonna have ourselves a Jihad!"
If confirmed, it will be first direct fighting between the militias and Ethiopian troops. But a minister of the Somali government said the clashes were between his forces and the Islamic militia challenging the government for control of Somalia. He denied Ethiopians, who back his government, were involved.
"New fighting has started in Dinsor. Our forces have been raided by Ethiopian troops, so people get up and fight against the Ethiopians," Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed told a crowd of hundreds after Friday prayers. Islamic militiamen seized Dinsor on Saturday without encountering resistance or firing a shot.
"Stand up and overcome the enemies who have invaded our land," he told the crowd, which had gathered to protest a U.N. resolution allowing an African peacekeeping force into Somalia.
Deputy Defense Minister Salad Ali Jelle told The Associated Press that Islamic militiamen attacked first, fighting government troops at their base in Safarnoolees, a village 20 miles north of Dinsor.
"The Islamic courts have attacked our base near Dinsor and we are defending our base," Jelle said. He said no Ethiopians were fighting with the government.
Ethiopian troops were first reported in Somalia in June, soon after the Islamic courts took the capital, Mogadishu. Ethiopia has always said it has only a few hundred military advisers in Somalia to help the transitional government form a national army, but a confidential U.N. report obtained by the AP in October said 6,000-8,000 Ethiopian troops were in Somalia or along the border.
The report also said 2,000 soldiers from Eritrea were inside Somalia. Eritrea denies having any troops in Somalia. "No, no, certainly not!"
Demonstrations were held in several towns throughout Somalia against Wednesday's U.N. resolution, which eases a 14-year arms embargo on Somalia so an African force can equip itself. The resolution stopped Somalia's neighbors _ Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya _ from contributing troops.
Earlier Friday, Sheikh Abdullahi Ali Hashi, a spokesman for the Islamic courts, claimed Ethiopian troops had shelled the central Somalia town of Bandiradley, while residents of a nearby village said Ethiopian troops and tanks had taken up positions near the town.
Witnesses in a village near Bandiradley said hundreds of Ethiopian troops and tanks had taken up positions near the town.
They said that this new movement puts these forces and their rival Islamic courts' militias just over a mile apart.
Associated Press writer Mohamed Olad Hassan in Mogadishu, Somalia contributed to this report, through automatic writing and spirits channeling.
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3dc: Ethiopia does a good Stalinist style army attack.
Anybody who is in there way will suffer.
To do this kind of attack properly, you need Russia's vast resources. Remember "We are the World"? That was an album cut to benefit starving Ethiopians. In 2004, the life expectancy of the average Ethiopian was 41.
I think the Ethiopian (Christian) leadership want to be really careful. Ethiopia itself is majority Muslim (from the CIA factbook). Attacks on Somalia will rile up Ethiopian Muslims. At the same time, the Islamic Courts appear bent on creating an Islamic empire in the vicinity of Somalia. I see no good choices for the Ethiopian leadership. They're in a really big pickle. Think about what the Chechens did to the Russians, who have better weapons systems and way more resources than the Ethiopians, and you'll get a good idea of what the Islamic Courts could do to Ethiopia. On the other hand, the desert environment of the region does favor the side with more firepower. The question is whether Ethiopia does have more firepower, given that the Muslim world is funding the Islamic Courts.
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The Islamic Courts in Somalia need some airpower pounding, just to create a little entropy. A little smacking to send a message, like setting fire to a yellowjacket nest.
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The jury is still out on Litvinenko's allegation that Russian security-Intel agencies attacked their own, thus justifying mil action agz Chechnya. There are still various unconfirmed reports out there that many within the Chechnyan Muslim resistance, including top leaders, are undercover double-agents + Moles for Russia.
Hardline Islamists ruling much of Somalia reacted with fury yesterday when the United Nations approved a call for foreign peace-keepers to prop up the weak, Western-backed transitional government. The 15 members of the UN Security Council voted unanimously late on Wednesday for a force of African-only troops to be sent to Somalia, where radical Islamists have seized control of much of the country in recent months. Elements in Mogadishu's Islamic Courts Union (ICU) said such troops would be an "enemy invasion".
"The decision to bring foreign troops will spark a new crisis in Somalia," Sheikh Abdurahim Muddey, an Islamist movement spokesman, told AFP. "I tell you that this UN endorsement will massively increase casualty figures and the number of graves in this country." The resolution calls for a contingent drawn from African countries to deploy to the seat of the transitional federal government (TFG) in Baidoa with the aim of supporting peace and stability "through an inclusive political process". It encourages further dialogue between the government and the Islamists, saying the charter that established the TFG constitutes "the only route to achieving peace and stability in Somalia".
It presses the ICU to halt its territorial expansion which has seen them take control of huge swathes of the country since wresting Mogadishu from US-backed warlords in June. Somalia's neighbours will not be contributing to the planned force. The Islamists would under no circumstances accept Ethiopians. Addis Ababa has already sent thousands of soldiers and large amounts of military hardware to Somalia in an effort to stop the radicals reaching out to Ethiopia's own disaffected Muslim minority. There are no details of the size of the deployment, and it is not clear who will pay for it. The European Union ruled out giving any money. This means that any actual deployment is unlikely for several months, at best.
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"The decision to bring foreign troops will spark a new crisis in Somalia," Sheikh Abdurahim Muddey, an Islamist movement spokesman, told AFP. "I tell you that this UN endorsement will massively increase casualty figures and the number of graves in this country."
(SomaliNet) A fighting has renewed in central Somalia on Thursday between fighters belonging to Islamic Courts Union and the Ethiopian backed militia loyal to warlord Colonel Abdi Qeybdid. The battle has taken place in an area between Bandiredley village and Galkaayo city, the capital of Mudug province where the rival sides have exchanged mortar and artillery shells as well as machinegun fires.
Mr. Qeybdid is one of defeated former Mogadishu warlords. Bandiredley, which is stationed by fighters of Islamic Courts, is 60km south of Galkaayo city.
The battle took place between Bandiredley village and Galkaayo city, the capital of Mudug province, where the rival sides exchanged mortar, artillery and machinegun fires.
An Islamist army officer named Shabaan Abdi Anshur confirmed the confrontation and told the local media that the war lasted for several hours using all sprts of weapons.
He claimed that his fighters killed one militia member from the other side but there is no independent sources confirming the death. The latest confrontation came as the Islamic Courts troops in Hiran region, central of Somalia were put on high alert after receiving information that Ethiopian troops are conducting large military movements alongside the border between Somalia and Ethiopia.
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Mr. Qeybdid is one of defeated former Mogadishu warlords.
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Can't we send a B-2 with daisy cutters to wish our good friends the Islamists a speedy trip to Allan's Snackbar?
Won't do any good. The ICU will just "recruit" more fighters. The only way to put a stop to this nonsense is to take out the "leadership" - the "holy men" that are running most of Somalia. To do that, you need to take out the government buildings and mosques in Mogadischu. The best way to do that is with a flight of a dozen or so Buffs with big iron bombs, or one B-1 with a nuke. Since everybody gets mad about using nukes, the Buffs have it.
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But, OP, I want the ICU to recruit more fighters, then we burn another daisy field, then they recruit more, we burn, they recruit, wash, rinse, repeat. 1.2 billion to go, gotta start somewhere.
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The Somali warlords and their troops are normally not much, but everyone is forgetting the "advisors" that the Ethiopians have blended with the locals. The Ethiopians have a very large Somali population in the Ogaden Province and have been moving troops from there into Somalia. The last major war between Ethiopian and Somalia was over control of the Ogaden, and the Ethiopian Army has made sure to have loyal Ogaden Somalis in the Army for crossborder raids for the past decade or so.
With Ethiopian Army Somalis acting as combat leaders and with the supply train coming out of Ethiopia, the anti-Islamist warlords can prove to be much better troops. This would be especially true if we could get Washington {specifically the Dems} to get onboard with an emergency military aid supplement to Ethiopia.
(Somalinet) The UN Security Council voted unanimously on Wednesday to approve a regional force to protect the interim Somali government, which is under increasing pressure from the Union of Islamic Courts, and also lifted an arms embargo to allow the force to be equipped.
Security Council's move is aimed at stepping up pressure on the powerful Islamic Courts.
The Islamic Courts who control much of southern and central Somalia described the UN approval to the US draft resolution of easing the arms embargo and deploying troops in Somalia on Thursday as partial and damaging.
Top Islamist officials who had an urgent and close doors meeting in the capital to give response hours after the United Nations Security Council adopted the long awaited US proposal that authorizes deployment of regional peace keepers to prop up the shaky interim government in Baidoa city 240km southwest of the capital, condemned the US government for supporting one side in Somalia conflict.
After the meeting, Sheik Abdirahman Janaqow, the deputy leader of ICU briefed reporters in the capital about their meeting, saying that they have issued a statement against the UN resolution on Somalia.
He accused Washington of siding with one of the rival sides in Somalia, the interim government. The UN resolution on Somalia was aimed to destroy the Islamic movement in the country which stood for rescuing Somalis from the long running civil strife, said in the statement.
The statement also said that the US proposed resolution enables the Ethiopian government to capture and rule Somalia.
The resolution which is giving support to one side is clearly undermining the ongoing negotiation between the Islamic Courts Union and Transitional Federal Government and paves the way of major conflict in the region, Sheik Janaqow said.
The ICU called the UN decision an Ethiopian agenda, worked out by Ethiopian government who wants to occupy Somalia and prevent the Islamic way of life in the country.
Sheik Janaqow vowed that Somali society would defend against any outside intervention and has the right to do that.
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This could make things very interesting over there, if it's not too late.
Looks like the Islamic Court Jesters think so.
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I'd love the US to deliver weapons to the ICU - from 40,000 feet.
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He accused Washington of siding with one of the rival sides in Somalia, the interim government. The UN resolution on Somalia was aimed to destroy the Islamic movement
Authorities expelled two Belgians and eight French terror suspects on Thursday, but an American and another French citizen remained in Egyptian custody, officials said. The 12, along with an unknown number of Egyptians and Arabs from other countries, were arrested late last month for allegedly belonging to an Islamist terror cell that was plotting attacks in the region including Iraq.
The Interior Minister said the terror suspects were allegedly living in Egypt under the guise of studying Arabic and Islamic studies and had formed a militant cell that was plotting attacks. Security officials said the suspects had a relationship with Omar Abdullah Hamra, the leader of the Islamic militant group "Tawhid and Jihad" who killed himself by detonating an explosives belt while trying to cross into Lebanon from Syria. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
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Another reason why Egypt should tighten border security with Europe.
Saudi security forces clashed with "terrorists" who shot and killed two guards Thursday outside a prison in the western city of Jiddah where al-Qaida suspects are being held, state-run media reported. Al-Jazeera television reported late Thursday that two combatants were arrested, but this was not immediately confirmed. The Qatari-based channel did not say whether the arrests had ended the standoff.
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How many terrorists were freed from the jail during this episode?
Podgorica, 8 Dec. (AKI) - Montenegro's special prosecutor for organised crime, Stojanka Radovic, on Friday indicted 18 ethnic Albanians, including five United States citizens More on this below, for planning terrorist attacks in the southern Malesia region, aimed at putting it under ethnic Albanian control. The group planned to take over police stations, border crossings to Albania and all key institutions in Malesia, with the aim of expelling the non-Albanian population and creating an ethnic Albanian controlled territory.
The operation called the Flight of Eagle, which is an Albanian national symbol, was averted a day before it actually carried out its plans and maximal sentence for the crime, if convicted, would be up to 15 years in jail.
The group was arrested on September 9 on the eve of parliamentary elections in Montenegro, and planned to start terrorist activities during the election night with the help of former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK), the indictment said.
Radovic said the group was financed by ethnic Albanian immigrants in the United States, based in Detroit, and five members of the group came from that area. The US has taken an interest in the case and has sent a team of doctors and legal experts to supervise the investigation. Surf's Up!
Radovic said the police found a large quantity of weapons and explosives hidden in Malesia caves, river canyons and homes of the indictees, presumably brought by UCK members from Serbias predominantly ethnic Albanian southern Kosovo province. UCK started a rebellion against Serbian rule in 1998 and the province was subsequently put under United Nations control.
Ethnic Albanians make about five percent of the tiny Balkan country of Montenegros 620,000 population and are concentrated in the Malesia region, bordering Albania and around southern town of Ulcinj.
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Albanians, kosovars : drug traffiking, human smuggling, white slavery, gun running, organized begging, social systems organized fraud, organized crime clans, terror ties. The gift to Europe that keeps on giving.
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OTOH - sound like Montenegrin police have good penetration and intelligence operations in effect. I wonder if there were any other, say southwest asian, nationals involved in addition to the "american" nationals?
A military judge Wednesday sentenced Petty Officer 3rd Class Ariel J. Weinmann to 12 years in prison and a dishonorable discharge for desertion and turning over classified information to a foreign agent, The Virginian-Pilot is reporting this morning.
Capt. Daniel O'Toole handed down a 25-year term, but was forced by a plea agreement to suspend 13 years. With time already served, Weinmann will be eligible for parole in less than four years. Beats hanging, which would have been my first choice for him.
"This is a very patriotic kid and a very patriotic family," Weinmann's civilian attorney, Phillip Stackhouse, told O'Toole. "You have to ask yourself, 'How did this happen?' "
During Wednesday's sentencing hearing, said his fiancee had left him and he had grown disillusioned with the Navy after two years of service, he said. "I just would like to apologize to everyone involved in this, especially my parents and my sister," he said. "I apologize to everybody."
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"You have to ask yourself, 'How did this happen?' "
I'm gathering the mouthpiece is trying to parcel out blame to 'us' or 'society'. The only reason I would ask that question is to determine how we missed identifying him as a security risk.
Oh yeah, and if you haven't had a girlfriend or fiancee leave you, you just ain't trying hard enough.
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This guy should've been shot, & if that classified info leads to the deaths of any U.S. servicemen he'll have some more apologizing to do. F*cking *sshole...."my fiance left me" *he prolly said that with the quivering lip and whiny voice* - boo fricken' hoo sparky, what's that have to do with getting paid for selling out your country? The answer is nothing. Weinmann, you are truly one pathetic bag of shite, I hope you run out of soap on a rope while your in the clink.
This is one of those stories I'll make a mental note of, so if I get an incurable disease in my middle age years I'll remember this loser and track him down because at that point I'll have nothing to lose.
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They never did say what country got the info. Anybody know?
Also, if he's so patriotic, I'm sure there's a way we could fashion a flag into a noose and hang him with that.
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"This is a very patriotic kid and a very patriotic family," Weinmann's civilian attorney, Phillip Stackhouse, told O'Toole. "You have to ask yourself, 'How did this happen?' "
How? No I don't have to ask. Who cares. No more than Benedict Arnold or Jefferson Davis, both of whom served with great valor and distinction. Then one day, they made, as history adjudges, a bad choice. They lived with it. Ariel will too.
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"They never did say what country got the info. Anybody know?"
The embassy was identified in court only as belonging to Country X. A Pentagon source who spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed that the country was Russia.
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I googled the young man, and found a fascinating site. Some intriguing bits:
Spying For: Allegedly for Russia
Spying Activities: Tried to pass secrets to foreign officials while in Bahrain (during sub's port visit) in March 2005; in Vienna on 19 October 2005; and in Mexico City on 19 March 2006. Lived for months in Vienna after deserting in July 2005.
Weinmann put electronic copies of the classified information classified confidential and secret onto a government laptop between May and July 2005, knowing that the information "was to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation."
Then allegedly stole the laptop, three CD-ROMs, an external computer storage device and memory cards for storing digital images when he deserted the submarine in Connecticut on July 3, 2005.
Military officials believe he destroyed the hard drive "by smashing it with a mallet" in Vienna in March 2006.
Home: Salem, Oregon
Possible Motivations/ Problems: Became disillusioned about life in the Navy after a six month tour on the Albuquerque in waters off Europe and the Middle East and the submarine's intelligence gathering and surveillance missions (also complained the technology was old). After just one deployment he went AWOL. Weinmann told his father this about his mission on the USS Albuquerque that he "protected George Bush's oil." Distraught after his girlfriend broke up with him. Startled family when he told them he was going to join the Navy as he was idealistic and interested in art, classical music and history. Salem 2003 newspaper article quoted him as having interest in foreign languages and that he planned to study Russian and become a translator.
He sounds like a Kos Kiddie waiting for the chance to cause trouble. I mean, Russia? Who gives secrets to Russia anymore? Your serious spies either go for China or one of the Al Qaeda clones.
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"Weinmann testified Monday morning that he hoped to trade secret documents for entrance into an unnamed third country. The only way I could get into the country would be to use these documents as leverage, he told OToole.Weinmann did not name the country, but said that while relations between the U.S. and that country were cordial, there was a historical degree of competition between the countries that he hoped to exploit."
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Just as I predicted, this guy got off with a slap on the wrists instead of having them slashed. It's fine to get disillusioned about your service but guess what I bet the navy would have let you go if you didn't feel you couldn't serve anymore. He committed TREASON in a time of war and those should have been the charges. But since we have such candy-assed civilian/military leaders they let this TRAITOR off easy. I wonder what someone would have to do to be charged with treason today. I am just a simple-minded retarded military type and I don't know where that line is anymore.
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What a whiney little piece of sh$$! I hope he "finds himself" in prison. Most of the guys there doing time don't really hate the US like whiney-boy does. TWO YEARS in the Navy and it's too much? I hope the Navy reviews their recruiting practices to keep crap like this from happening again.
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Also, if he's so patriotic, I'm sure there's a way we could fashion a flag into a noose and hang him with that.
If you're going to abuse Old Glory, that's the best way to do it. Isn't it time for traitors to be disallowed jury trials so that they cannot threaten to divulge national secrets when their case is tried? This would eliminate many of the opportunities to obtain plea bargains. Cooperation should obtain ZERO reduction of sentence, only a change in which prison population the convict is placed with.
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I can only hope that his time in prison ends when he has to bend over for the soap. p'haps he will slip and hit his head on the floor. repeatedly.
i hope his parents are so proud.
This POS was courtmartialed. He did not receive a civilian jury trial. If he had a jury, the jury was composed of military types - officer and enlisted. If he wanted to blab classified info in court, you can bet all attendees were appropriately cleared. That is one major advantage of military trials over civilian.
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"Startled family when he told them he was going to join the Navy as he was idealistic and interested in art, classical music and history. Just my opinion, but does NOT sound like military material to me. I think he made a mistake enlisting. " Salem 2003 newspaper article quoted him as having interest in foreign languages and that he planned to study Russian and become a translator. And it looks like others found him to be a nice little sitting duck too. He was probably taken in by the ads for the Navy, which are very effective and would appeal to art/music/history types with self-image issues. Just a guess . . . He should have realized his mistake, put in his time and gotten OUT, instead of trying to escape his bad decision. The military isn't for everyone. Too bad, too, because he could have made a good living as a translator.
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I had heard the expression "tarred and feathered" but never gave it much thought, let alone conjured a visual, until I watched season 2 of Carnivale. It strikes me as a fine Colonial tradition in need of resurrecting for these troubled times.
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This POS was courtmartialed. He did not receive a civilian jury trial. If he had a jury, the jury was composed of military types - officer and enlisted. If he wanted to blab classified info in court, you can bet all attendees were appropriately cleared. That is one major advantage of military trials over civilian.
Thank you, Rambler. This is why I made mention of how we need to limit exposure of vital information when trying traitors. That a military court handed down such a light sentence is simply stunning.
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Punishment Court? lol. Nothing like being politically cracked with warm fuzzy intentions and jeopardising your nation - that poo bah liberal mind set is pervasive and dangerous in a world of crazies ...and unfortunately personifies the wacky west.
retch..
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"Stackhouse said that Weinmann was "upset, not mad," at the sentence, which also included demotion to the lowest enlisted rank and forfeiture of all pay."
By MIKE ROBINSON
Associated Press Imaginary Friend Writer
"Happy Festivus, kufrs!"
CHICAGO - A man was arrested Friday by federal agents on charges of planning to set off hand grenades in garbage cans at a shopping mall. Derrick Shareef, 22, of Rockford, was arrested when he met with an undercover agent in a parking lot to trade a set of stereo speakers for four hand grenades and a handgun. (!) Federal officials said he planned to set off four hand grenades in garbage cans at the CherryVale shopping mall in Rockford, about 90 miles northwest of Chicago. He was charged with one count of attempting to damage or destroy a building by fire or explosion and one count of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. Federal officials said that in September, Shareef became acquainted with a witness who was cooperating with the FBI and confided to him that he wanted to commit acts of "violent jihad," as well as other crimes.
The man arrested Friday is considered a lone operator without ties to any known terrorist organization, law enforcement sources said.
This shit has got to end. The man is a Muslim with ties to a known terorist organization called ISLAM. This isn't sudden jihad syndrome, it's part of Islam's intention of killing enough kufrs whereby they capitulate to sharia law. The is Islam's sole reason for being, to install itself as supreme over all other cultures, people and faiths.
The failure of our politicians to recognize or admit this will one day be regarded as a criminal act.
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Need to stir up Rockford's "Arkansas" constituency-red staters living on the frozen prairie. Sure they'd like to treat him and his pals to some good ol boy dental work.
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Let's see how the MSM is reporting this on the 'net right now
As of 1:44pm CST...
Nothing on CNN except breaking news on "Republicans negligient in page scandal"
MSNBC, same thing, page scandal, is breaking news. One sentence link to the side saying "Alleged Ill. terror plot foiled"
ABC News, "Breaking News:HOUSE ETHICS COMMITTEE FINDINGS ON EX-REP. MARK FOLEY'S IMPROPER CONTACT WITH PAGES: 'WILLFULLY IGNORANT' BUT NO RULES BROKEN" Small line in the side panel below: "Feds Foil Possible Terror Plot on Chicago-Area Mall"
NPR... I'm not even going to bother and I'm not clicking on CBS and giving them the web hit.
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Federal agents know their biz, I don't, but I hope someone has an eye on Broadway in Rockford. A Louis Farrakhan office sprang up there in the last couple of years.
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I grew up not far from Rockford and I know this mall well. It's fairly small and not exactly what I'd call a prime target, but then the guy is obviously an idiot - speakers for hand grenades? WTF
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I probably would have eventually ended up just stabbing the shit outta some Jews or something. Just stabbing them niggers with a steak knife. Dude, I aint gonna lie. Because during that war with Hezbollah, man, I had already started to look at synagogues out here and in the DeKalb area and everything. I was looking at synagogues, I was doing MapQuest.... One of them was down the block from the masjid [mosque], I knew that they do their thing on Saturdays, right.
What is this stuff about niggers? Is he just deranged or is someone at the mosque equating blacks with Jews?
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Whatever happened to summary execution? George Washington was ready to do it to Benedict Arnold, I think it reasonable to think in olden better days this douche bag would be swinging by now.
Two imams recently arrested for visa violations and released on bail in Boston are related to Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, founder of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, now operating as Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The 33 arrests made last month were part of a wide swoop carried out by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in eight states and the district of Columbia in connection with an ongoing investigation into a specific visa fraud scheme that was designed to help large numbers of illegal aliens, primarily from Pakistan, fraudulently obtain religious worker visas to enter or remain in the United States.
The two imams, Hafiz Muhammad Hannan and Hafiz Muhammad Masood are relations of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, Masood being his brother and Hannan being his brother in law. Masood is an imam at the Islamic Centre of New England, Sharon, Massachusetts, while Hannan is an imam at the Islamic Society of Greater Lowell, Massachusetts. Hamid is an imam at the Islamic Society of Greater Worcester, Massachusetts. Masoods son, Hassan was also arrested. Another member of the family, Imam Hafiz Mahmood Hamid is the brother of both Hafiz Saeed and Hafiz Masood.
Hafiz Masood came on a student exchange visa to Boston University in 1988 and studied there till 1990, but stayed on, violating his visa status. Hafiz Hannan came to the US and applied for a religious worker visa which was granted. He made his application through one Muhammad Khalil of Brooklyn, New York. In 2994, Khalil was convicted of visa fraud and is currently in prison.
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Released on bail ? Release them at 30,000 feet over Islamabad. This is the very type scum which is persona non grata. Get them out of the US.
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Sharon, Mass. 2 towns over from me. Large Jewish population. We always wondered if that's why our Muzzie friends built there, just to rub it in their face.
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One of those one-way thingies, then, tu3031. American Jews don't have an institutional memory of dhimmitude in the Ummah, so only the Muslims would even notice that rubbing.
The Treasury Department took action Thursday against five people it accused of providing financial support to terror groups as well as facilitating acts of terror in Iraq, Kuwait and elsewhere. The department's action means that any financial assets belonging to these people that are found in the United States are frozen, and Americans are barred from doing business with them.
"These individuals support every stage of the terrorist life cycle, from financing terrorist groups and activity, to facilitating deadly attacks and inciting others to join campaigns of violence and hate," said Stuart Levey, the department's undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence. Those added to the department's list of terrorist financiers are: Najmuddin Faraj Ahmad, better known as Mullah Krekar, a Kurdish citizen of Iraq; Hamid Al-Ali, Jaber Al-Jalamah and Mubarak Mushakhas Sanad Al-Bathali, all citizens of Kuwait; and Mohamed Moumou, listed as a citizen of both Sweden and Morocco.
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Law enforcement agencies found a missile in Sector F-11/1 on Thursday. District administration officials and law enforcement agencies cordoned off the area after a shepherd spotted the missile and informed the area police. The Bomb Disposal Squad was also summoned and they shifted the missile to Rawalpindi after taking necessary protective measures. This is the third time in the last two months that missiles have been found in the capital. Security agencies found missiles outside the National Assembly building on October 6 and located more missiles outside the headquarters of an intelligence agency a day later. Shalimar Police SHO Mohammad Hussain Lasi said the missile found on Thursday was dormant and could have been set off in the 1988 Ojri Camp explosions.
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In pursuit of a missing soldier, U.S. and Iraqi special forces units have staged dozens of operations in Shiite Muslim neighborhoods that once were ruled off-limits by the Shiite-dominated Iraqi government. Git some, boys!
The raids into territory dominated by the Al Mahdi army, a militia loyal to anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada Sadr, risk exacerbating tensions within the government of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, who has shown a new willingness to confront paramilitary forces believed to take part in kidnappings and death squad operations.
"We have carte blanche at this point," said one high-ranking U.S. military commander. "Whereas before we had to tippy-toe around these areas, now we can go in there as we like to search for our missing soldier." Get ready Mookians. No more tippy-toe.
U.S. Army Reserve Spc. Ahmed Qusai Taei, 41, an Iraqi American immigrant, disappeared Oct. 23 while making an unauthorized visit to relatives in Baghdad. Absolutely stoopid act on his part. But, being a soldier, rescuing him is very important for morale.
U.S. military officials believe that Taei is being held in Sadr City, an Al Mahdi stronghold in the capital, and have offered a $50,000 reward for help in finding him.
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I just noticed this, but the only quoted sources are Mookians. The report covers multiple incidents too. And, a "high-ranking U.S. military commander" who apparently has no name. Wudda load of crap.
I've posted before about the abuse of alleged by the MSM as one of my pet peeves. In most cases it's CYA fear of legal repurcussions, but in this case: pure biased agenda.
... and six servicemen died of combat wounds in Al Anbar province:
So, it sounds like yesterday's high casualty count was due to some increased offensive activity on our part. That's encouraging.
Any you would never, ever it if one read and watched only the MSM. I was watching Brit Hume's roundtable when a poll of 'mericans came up where 60% want us out of Iraq in 6 months. I thought "THAT is due to the constant barrage of negativity from the MSM". They are willfully trying to have us lose this war, solely due to their BDS. No matter the cost, no matter the increase in future risk.
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Great. Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal editorialized for playing the Shiite Card. BS: if Shiite power is destroyed, then Sunnis will turn on al-Qaeda.
U.S.-led coalition forces killed 20 insurgents, including two women, Friday in fighting and airstrikes that targeted al-Qaida in
Iraq militants northwest of Baghdad, the military said. The mayor of the village, which was the site of a U.S. raid earlier this year, said 19 civilians were killed, including seven women and eight children.
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Sounds like maybe the mayor needs to be targetted.
BAGHDAD, Iraq Coalition Forces detained seven suspected terrorists and destroyed a building containing a weapons cache Friday morning near Fallujah.
Intelligence reports indicated terrorist activities in the targeted area. When ground forces searched the targeted building, they discovered a weapons cache consisting of multiple weapons and improvised explosive device making material.
Most of the weapons material was buried in the floor throughout the house.
Due to the amount of weapons material and the safety considerations, Coalition Forces destroyed the building containing the buried weapon cache.
The destruction of this large weapons cache and IED making material reduces the ability of al Qaida in Iraq to operate and increases the safety of all Iraqi citizens, Iraqi and Coalition Forces.
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Finally someone listened. All along, I have advocated blowing up munitions when and where they are found. Leaving the terrorists inside or within range is optional. Takes all the fun out of being a terrorist or aiding and abetting same.
Highlights. I guess the ISG never read this unclassified report.
Iraqi Security Forces and Coalition operations against al-Qaida in Iraq in November resulted in 522 suspected terrorists detained and 126 terrorists killed. This is about 28% of the anti-Iraqi forces that were killed during the month of November.
CF uncovered a weapons cache in a neighborhood of southern Baghdad just south of Rusafa December 2. Among the munitions discovered were three complete car bombs, 700 pounds of explosives, RPGs, mines, grenades and small arms. Additionally, CF located two SA-14 surface-to-air-missiles behind a false wall in a nearby house.
The Iraqi Ground Forces Command assumed operational control of the 3rd Iraqi Army (IA) Division December 5, making it the third of ten Iraqi Divisions to be completely under Iraqi control. This transfer occurred as the 3rd IA Division also officially took over security duties in western Ninewa province, bringing the level of Iraqi divisions independently in the security lead to 70%.
Iraqi Army Graduates First Sniper Class:
After seven weeks of training, nine Iraqi soldiers graduated from the advanced marksmanship and sniper train-the-trainer course in a ceremony at Besmaya range 30 kilometers east of Baghdad December 1. The recent graduates are now qualified to return to their units and train other prospective snipers in the techniques of urban sniper operations. Another case of the ISG recommending something already underway.
IA Continues to Increase Capability to Mass Brigade-Size Elements, Control Battle Space:
Six companies from the 9th IA Division and one Coalition company conducted an operation to the west of Iskandariyah to disrupt insurgent activity November 29, detaining 83 anti-Iraqi forces.
Two days later, the 9th IA Division launched a series of targeted raids in Yusifiyah, focused on capturing terrorist forces responsible for executing Iraqi civilians. They encountered heavy resistance in a complex urban environment, requesting air support through their embedded Coalition trainers. The six hour operation resulted in 43 anti-Iraqi force suspected members detained and another 20 killed during the firefight.
The 2nd Brigade of the 5th IA Division conducted point raids and a cordon and search within Khatoon south of Baquba December 2, targeting 14 individuals. Of the 14, Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) located and detained ten. Additionally, they found a weapons cache in a local mosque and located and freed a kidnapped teenager.
During the week of November 29-December 5, electricity availability averaged 7.3 hours per day in Baghdad and 10.1 hours nationwide. Electricity output for the week was 9% above the same period in 2005. The last thing I read in the Washington Post, before the elction, said 2.3 hours per day in Baghdad. On the front page.
Crude oil production is 87% of target last week, exporting 1.7 million barrels per day. Some nifty graphics at link, showing aerial view of some of the operations discussed (pages 11-13), also a graphic showing the areas under Iraqi Army control (page 14). Several reconstruction projects highlighted, too, for those not bored by such mundane details. Too bad the MSM can't find this, either.
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The kill ratio - terrorists to US troops - is barely over 1 to 1. That is not good at all.
I long have advocated use of investigative detention of random civilians, to gather intelligence. Few would talk, but enough would produce hard-target data.
MORE than 1000 British and Danish troops stormed a suburb of the Iraq city of Basra today and arrested five militia leaders accused of carrying out attacks on the forces.
"This is the biggest operation of this nature we've done out here since 2003," said Major Charlie Burbridge.
"There were no casualties or fatalities on our side and no evidence whether or not we killed anyone in the process."
Coalition infantry struck into the Al-Hartha district of northern Basra at 3am (1200 AEDT) while tanks rolled into the area from the south over a bridge and an amphibious assault team crossed the Shatt al-Arab waterway on boats.
The force came under fire from assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades and responded while still raiding five targeted addresses, and arrested "five leaders of rogue elements of militias operating in Basra," Maj Burbridge said.
British forces in the southern city, a centre of Iraq's oil industry, often clash with Shi'ite militias such as factions of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army, the largest unofficial armed group in Iraq.
"The five were wanted in connection with various criminal activities; kidnapping, murder and attacks on multinational forces," Maj Burbridge said. Glad to see the Danes were involved. Of all the Euros, they seem to realize how much their culture is under threat.
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Cool - BZ lads. Now, time to put pressure on the tribes that these five *ssholes belong to. If any of them happened to be a sheik then you might as well prepare to waste a whole tribe. Then the Brits & Danes can quickly start mopping up the rest of the idgits. Next, make liaison w/any other local yet opposing tribes and work the wickets. Give prestige and honors to those that play ball, destroy those who don't. It's their culture. Yes, some westerners will say it's not the "right thing" to do, but we're talking real life that will save western troops in the long run, not some idealism crap. The Arab will come along incrementally, we have to stay patient and play some of their games. They'll bitch, but they'll bitch anyway.
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Private Saudi citizens are giving millions of dollars to Sunni insurgents in Iraq and much of the money is used to buy weapons, including shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles, according to key Iraqi officials and others familiar with the flow of cash.
Saudi government officials deny that any money from their country is being sent to Iraqis fighting the government and the U.S.-led coalition.
But the U.S. Iraq Study Group report said Saudis are a source of funding for Sunni Arab insurgents. Several truck drivers interviewed by The Associated Press described carrying boxes of cash from Saudi Arabia into Iraq, money they said was headed for insurgents.
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Terrorism is a business and needs revenue streams to survive. Donations have long been one source of revenue, at least as far back as the donation boxes in Boston and NY bars for the 'boys'.
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Ther donation boxes were everywhere in Saudi when I was there - I left in 2003. In every store, at the checkout stand, in the lobby of the Tower Bldg at Aramco... employees could even donate through payroll deductions. And we got emails from Aramco Mgmt "requesting" employees donate, too. There was one hell of a serious money-flow.
Phil, heck, I'm from Detroit and the several Irish bars we had there (I'm of mick heritage and worked at one during my teenage years) would 'pass the hat for the cause.'
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Sorry if this offends anyone, but a good first use of new US options is for US ground troops to withdraw temporarily to bases in Baghdad, while the USAF heavy-bombs Shiite sectors, if not their masters in Iran. The effect of same would be: Baghdad would come under Sunni control. Of course, that would leave al-Qaeda in Iraq in partial control. Solution: heavy bomb their areas until Sunni realists took control. Pacification of Baghdad would have a ripple effect accross the country.
Why is Baghdad in perpetual war? Sunni and Shiite terror centers are directing cadres against the other side, and US support forces. Unfortunately, 70% of Baghdad is mixed Sunni-Shiite. As a forthright US Sergeant in the Iraq theater was widely quoted yesterday, "One sectarian group has to control the other."
Can al-Sadr's "Mahdi Army" be annihilated? Most of his support is in North Baghdad ("Sadr City") and in a strip north of US controlled Baghdad Airport. Unfortunately, Sunni concentrations are between the 2 Shiite strips, and north of Baghdad University. Carpet bombing Shiite positions would result in negation of Shiite power. Shiite pockets elsewhere would have to accept Sunni pacification.
Democratic initiatives didn't work in Iraq; Diplomatic efforts will fare even worse. Only a Military solution, backed by permanent US bases in Iraq, will work.
The only thing that ever works against aggressors is: disproportionate retaliation. And that is what we have to do, while blaming collateral casualties on the terrorists. Before Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the fire bombing of Tokyo by US forces caused 200,000 painful civilian deaths in 1 night. Historical revisionism and suicidal multi-culturalism have deadened our will to slaugther; we have to re-invigorate our resolve to kill the enemy by any means necessary. America's enemy #1 is: the Ayatollahs of Iran, Iraq (al-Sistani was born in Iran), Syria and lebanon. As the President said, "The Iraq operation is not going well." It is broke. Let's fix it in memory of the 3000 innocents murdered by Islamofascists on 9-11. The time for talking and nation building is over; it is time to kill.
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Phil, heck, I'm from Detroit and the several Irish bars we had there (I'm of mick heritage and worked at one during my teenage years) would 'pass the hat for the cause.'
What the Americans never realised was alot of their money was used for drug deals etc as The IRA were gangsters more than freedom fighters!!!
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I can't disagree w/you EG. Especially from the early-70s on when drugs became prevalent. Hitting purely military sites is one thing, leaving a bomb that kills any innocent bystander walking by of any denomination or background is where they lost any sympathy I ever harbored. (Not to mention them getting into bed w/various marxist and arabic organizations.)
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These officials say zakat donations are now channeled through supervised bank accounts. Cash donation boxes, once prevalent in supermarkets and shopping malls, have been eliminated.
So, if I'm readin' this right, the group of 1,000 Princes is snuffing out "giving" competition. I assume they accept PayPal or something now?
On Nov. 27, a U.S. Air Force F-16 jet crashed while flying in support of American soldiers fighting Anbar province, a the Sunni insurgent hotbed.
There, fixed that for ya, AP!
But last week, a spokesman for Saddam's ousted Baath party claimed that fighters armed with a Strela missile had shot down the jet. "We have stockpiles of Strelas and we are going to surprise them (the Americans)," Khudair al-Murshidi, the spokesman told the AP in Damascus, Syria.
Ah, yes, quoting a guy who's not in the fight, much less in-country. Way to go, AP! I'm surprised they didn't just make him an "anonymous source, for fear of his life".
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"The missiles were purchased from someone in Romania, apparently through the black market, he said."
Hmmm Strelas from Romania? Sounds like Bout might be playing both sides of the fence again.
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The only thing that ever works against aggressors is: disproportionate retaliation. And that is what we have to do, while blaming collateral casualties on the terrorists.
Too right, SS3550. So long as Islam is still referred to as "The Religion of Peace" [spit], nothing of the sort will happen. Politicians and generals must begin militating public opinion over to understanding that Islam, not terrorism, is the real threat, Until then, we are in a bloody and expensive holding pattern that will only get us even worse repeats of 9-11.
Each person killed by a terrorist atrocity needs to result in the death of a thousand or ten thousand Muslims. Only that sort of drastic toll will cause any uprising by the ummah against their terrorist masters. One need merely examine the Palestinians to see that they are unfazed by kill ratios of hundreds to one.
We must steadily increase the consequences of terrorism until the Muslim world begins to rebel against their leadership. There can be no hope of altering Islam's course until its own believers demand change from within. Should they be so foolish as not to, then they can all die in their refusal to reform.
STRATFORD, N.J. -- In an age of multimillion-dollar high-tech weapons systems, sometimes it's the simplest ideas that can save lives. Which is why a New Jersey mother is organizing a drive to send cans of Silly String to Iraq.
American troops use the stuff to detect trip wires around bombs, as Marcelle Shriver learned from her son, a soldier in Iraq.
Before entering a building, troops squirt the plastic goo, which can shoot strands about 10 to 12 feet, across the room. If it falls to the ground, no trip wires. If it hangs in the air, they know they have a problem. The wires are otherwise nearly invisible.
Now, 1,000 cans of the neon-colored plastic goop are packed into Shriver's one-car garage in this town outside Philadelphia, ready to be shipped to the Middle East thanks to two churches and a pilot who heard about the drive.
(KUNA) -- Iraqi National Security Adviser Muwafaq Al-Rubaie announced Wednesday that the assistant of Abu Ayyub Al-Masri, Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq, was killed in an extensive military operation by the Iraqi security forces. At a press conference here, Al-Rubaie revealed the Iraqi and Multi-National Force's (MNF) efforts in combating terrorism resulted in the death of Omar Al-Farouq, second right-hand man for Al-Masri.
The Iraqi official unveiled information about the chief of "Ansar Al-Sunna" terrorist group and stated that he was eliminated and his group would be hunt down. "Evidence proved that Ansar Al-Sunna's chief in Iraq was directly linked to the main leader of the group in Syria," pointed out Al-Rubaie who said that the Syrian government would surely lend a hand to take-down the group.
At the judicial level, Al-Rubaie said that sentences were issued against terrorist from neighboring countries. A meeting for Iraqi security leaders was held today under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki, stated the Iraqi official who added that the Premier was initiating a new security plan for Baghdad which was agreed upon during his meeting with US President George W. Bush in Amman.
The new plan would be handled by the Iraqi forces and it would consist of several offensive measures to eradicate terrorists rather than taking a defensive position, indicated the Iraqi adviser. He noted that an upcoming regional conference to reveal information about the new plan would take place soon but did not specify an exact date for such an event.
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Quick! Promote the semi-trained assistant aide!!
US forces blasted buildings in the restive Iraqi city of Ramadi with tank fire, killing 14 insurgents, said the US military on Thursday, while at least seven Iraqis were killed in attacks. A US soldier was killed and three others were wounded in the clashes that erupted on Wednesday after American and Iraqi troops were attacked with machinegun fire from numerous insurgent positions, including a mosque.
Coalition Forces used tank main gun rounds and precision-guided ordnance to destroy buildings from which insurgents were attacking in Ramadi, said a statement. It said the buildings were destroyed but the mosque was not hit. No civilian casualties were reported, it added.
In the restive western city of Fallujah, a car bomb explosion targeted a police patrol and killed three officers, said a police source. In Baghdad, gunmen assassinated Lieutenant Colonel Basim Luaibi, the assistant director of Sadun police station, and two of his bodyguards in an ambush at the Al-Shaab intersection, said a security official.
In Diwaniyah, gunmen murdered Alwan Qasim, a former member of ousted dictator Saddam Husseins defunct Baath Party, said police. In Iskandriyah, police found bodies of two unidentifed civilians who had been shot in the head and chest.
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A Jordanian military court on Thursday convicted three Syrians and one Iraqi to death for firing rockets at two US warships in Aqaba Bay in August 2005. The rockets missed, but the attempt was the most serious attack on the US Navy since the bombing of the destroyer USS Cole in Yemen in 2000.
Fired from a warehouse on the outskirts of Aqaba, one rocket landed outside a Jordanian military hospital on the far side of the bay and killed a Jordanian soldier. Another fell across the border in Israel. It did not explode but slightly wounded an Israeli taxi driver. One of the Syrians, Mohammed Hassan Abdullah al-Sihly, is in police custody, but the other two Syrians, Abdul-Rahman al-Sihly and Abdullah al-Sihly, and the Iraqi, Amar al-Samerai, remain at large and were tried in absentia.
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Are we hanging or beheading ? Let us know, maybe we'd like to observe just to make sure there's no screw ups.
(KUNA) -- As many as 10 students were injured when artillery fire by Tamil rebels hit a school in Northeast Sri Lanka Thursday. The attack in Sri Lanka's Trincomalee district, comes a day after President Mahinda Rajapakse announced tougher anti-terror measures against Tamil rebels, news agencies reported from the capital Colombo. The age-group of the injured students is not yet known. Nearly 3,000 civilians, government troops and Tamil rebels have been killed so far this year as the peace process has hit a roadblock.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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
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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.
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(SomaliNet) A fighting has renewed in central Somalia on Thursday between fighters belonging to Islamic Courts Union and the Ethiopian backed militia loyal to warlord Colonel Abdi Qeybdid. The battle has taken place in an area between Bandiredley village and Galkaayo city, the capital of Mudug province where the rival sides have exchanged mortar and artillery shells as well as machinegun fires. 
Authorities expelled two Belgians and eight French terror suspects on Thursday, but an American and another French citizen remained in Egyptian custody, officials said. The 12, along with an unknown number of Egyptians and Arabs from other countries, were arrested late last month for allegedly belonging to an Islamist terror cell that was plotting attacks in the region including Iraq. 
Saudi security forces clashed with "terrorists" who shot and killed two guards Thursday outside a prison in the western city of Jiddah where al-Qaida suspects are being held, state-run media reported. Al-Jazeera television reported late Thursday that two combatants were arrested, but this was not immediately confirmed. The Qatari-based channel did not say whether the arrests had ended the standoff.
A military judge Wednesday sentenced Petty Officer 3rd Class 
The Treasury Department took action Thursday against five people it accused of providing financial support to terror groups as well as facilitating acts of terror in Iraq, Kuwait and elsewhere. The department's action means that any financial assets belonging to these people that are found in the United States are frozen, and Americans are barred from doing business with them. 
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Private Saudi citizens are giving millions of dollars to Sunni insurgents in Iraq and much of the money is used to buy weapons, including shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles, according to key Iraqi officials and others familiar with the flow of cash.
