U.S. forces sealed off a northern Afghanistan prison so they could transfer detainees to a staging area for suspected al-Qaida and Taliban members. "We're taking them out of here, and taking them down to Kandahar as quickly as we can," said Maj. Joseph Fenty. "We're primarily looking at detainees that we can use for collecting intelligence." Military officials on the scene gave few details about the operation. Dozens of American troops -- wearing bulletproof vests and armed with assault rifles -- were involved in the operation. A convoy of about six vehicles, including two large closed trucks, emerged from the prison and headed toward the nearby airport. It was unclear how many prisoners were being transported.
They let them stew until they were happy to see the Hated Americans.
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Bin Laden is reported to have escaped from Tora Bora as early as on November 19 and is hiding in the Bajaur area of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan, according to information received from interrogation of Al-Qaeda functionaries by US intelligence agencies. Taliban ex-Emir Mulla Mohammad Omar crossed into Pakistan on December 6 and is stated to be in Gilgit area. Bin Laden was being given shelter in Bajaur by the men of one Sufi Mohammad, chief of 'Tariq-e-Nifaz Shariat Mohammadi'. Mohammad, who had fought alongside Taliban in Kunduz area, was arrested on November 22 by Pakistan when he tried to sneak in through mountain passes.
"They're everywhere! They're everywhere!"
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SUFI MOHAMAD
Tariq-e-Nifaz Shariat Mohammadi
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KedsBoy was described as a "lost soul" by his aunt in an interview. "He's no terrorist -- he's a lost soul. His life was so empty. He was so lonely he found solace with his Muslim brothers," Richard Reid's aunt Madeline, 50. No doubt he's kind to puppies and kittens and baby ducks. It's only men, women, children and little babies he wants to kill. Wonder where he got all that money to fly around the world?
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India rejected Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's offer to meet Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Kathmandu early next month on the sidelines of the SAARC Summit, saying the outlook for a dialogue was not promising. ''India has always advocated dialogue with Pakistan. But under the circumstances until Pakistan creates a conducive climate by acting resolutely and meaningfully against terrorism, the outlook for such dialogue cannot be promising,'' official sources said.
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Pakistan has requested India for air passage to President Pervez Musharraf to attend the SAARC summit next week. India on Friday said it would allow Pakistan President to overfly India to reach Kathmandu.
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At least nine people have been killed and dozens wounded in clashes between police and armed men in the Somali capital. Fighting erupted late Friday in the Huriwa district of southern Mogadishu and continued throughout the night. Four of the dead were said to be policemen employed by Somalia's Transitional National Government. Two of the gunmen and three civilians also died in the shootout, whose cause could not be immediately established. The fighting died down at dawn, but the area was tense. In another incident earlier on Friday, three people died when rival gunmen fought over the ownership of a stall in Bakara market, Mogadishu's main commercial centre.
Y'all just give us a holler when you're done, okay? Take your time, now. Do it right.
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Palestinian police arrested two suspected Islamic Jihadis, a move that came a day after a member of the radical group was killed during an attack against Israeli troops. The two were detained and their weapons confiscated in Gaza City.
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Israeli soldiers confronted about 100 demonstrators, including Palestinians and British, French and Italian citizens, who set ablaze an empty army post near Ramallah to protest against Israeli "harassment and intimidation." Organizers of the protest said the outside agitators joined in under the umbrella of an "international solidarity movement," trying to escort Palestinian students to nearby Bir Zeit university. The foreigners had been taking "non-violent action" for the past 10 days and planned to return home in the New Year. Demonstrators also tried to topple concrete slabs serving as a checkpoint close to Ramallah. "If you want real peace, the occupation must end. You are strangers here," a protester called through a loudspeaker in the direction of the tanks.
Uh, guys? You're the "strangers." And setting fire to things isn't non-violent, or at least it didn't used to be.
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A man set off a homemade bomb hidden on his body, killing himself and a policeman in the city of Zhongxiang, central China's Hubei province. The man exploded the bomb shortly after he was detained and put inside a police car by two police officers dispatched to a gas station to investigate a report of theft there. One of the police officers, an 18-year-old cadet, was killed along with the bomber. The other officer suffered injuries leading to deafness and was still in hospital. "We don't know the motive. We're still investigating the case," a police official said. Betcha the Chinese are becoming a little less bland about terrorism about now.
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A fresh batch of Pakistani mercenaries belonging to the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen and Jaish-e-Mohammad groups captured in Tora Bora mountains claimed they had been directed by their "controllers" in Islamabad to sneak into Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) for new operations. Members of the group of 30 Pakistani militants said here they were among a 400-strong group, directed by their leaders in Islamabad to mass in Palandri in PoK, facing Poonch region of Jammu and Kashmir for deployment for "special operations in Kashmir". The mercenaries had fought alongside Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda fighters before being captured. Jamil Ibrahim, who hails from Bhawalpur in Sindh, said that prior to October 2001 there were about six to seven thousand Pakistani militants, including some Pakistani Army regulars bolstering the Taliban forces in northern Afghanistan.
Could be that's why Vajpayee doesn't want to bother talking to Musharraf. Who pays and supplies these guys?
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Tora Bora
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Jaish-e-Mohammad
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The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine issued a statement charging the Palestinian Authority with the "kidnapping" and "political detention" of four of its members in Ramallah. "They wuz just standin' on the corner, doin' nothin', y'know? An' then these cops come up, y'know?..."
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Ten villagers and one gunman were killed when armed men, believed linked to Moro Islamic Liberation Front rebels, raided a town in the southern Philippines.
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Pakistan is confident Osama Bin Laden will be apprehended if he turns up in the tribal border region where some Afghan officials have said he is hiding. "Tribal people and elders have actually apprehended a lot of non-Afghan fighters and handed them over to Pakistan. If at all he turns up, they will hand him over to us," said Major General Rashid Qureshi.
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Bahrain became the second Arab country after Jordan to contribute troops for Afghanistan, when its only frigate joined the international naval coalition in the Arabian Sea. "We are totally prepared for taking part in the international humanitarian effort and the task aiming at strengthening the stability and reconstruction of Afghanistan," Maj. Gen. Rashid bin Abdullah Al-Khalifa, chief of staff of the Bahrain Defense Force, told reporters aboard the frigate Bans Sabha.
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Yemen has detained 80 foreign students and teachers from a fundamentalist Islamic institute during a crackdown on illegal residents. Authorities were investigating whether the foreigners were in the country legally. The foreigners, mostly from Arab and South Asian countries, were studying and teaching at the private Dar Al-Hadith institute in the Abida tribal region -- the same area where Yemeni special forces have been searching for members of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network in recent weeks.
When you get used to being Good Guys you're gonna enjoy it. Really.
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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
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.
