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Afghanistan
Binny's probably still alive
  • Fresh U.S. intelligence shows "high probabilities" that Osama bin Laden is still alive, and fears are growing in Afghanistan that Taliban militants are regrouping. The double dose of bad news came as a new search for Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar began in mountains in western Afghanistan.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 12/31/2001 11:15 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Fifth Column
    Stuart Reid sez we lost in Afghanistan and he can't quite make out the difference between amputations and lap-dancing (Whoa! There's one... Nope, that's not it)
  • A war to save civilisation - or carry on lap-dancing?
    Stuart Reid
    The Americans have so far failed in their stated war aim: to bring Osama bin Laden and other leaders of al-Qa'eda to justice. Bin Laden has not been captured, dead or alive. (I gather, however, there have been reported sightings in Cleveland, Ohio). The al-Qa'eda network has not been destroyed (though, according to the FBI, it is active in the United States).

    All that has happened is that the Taliban have been defeated and replaced with a broad-based coalition of Hampstead-style thinkers and Nazi-style warlords. Women continue to wear burqas in Kabul, and to be whipped...

    The September criminals must be brought to justice, and their networks destroyed, but it is impossible to view an unending war against terrorism - Orwellian, unwinnable - as a crusade for true Western civilisation. What we have here is a clash between post-Christian liberal humanism and mad and murderous theocracy; between lap-dancing and limb-cropping.
    Oh. Well, in that case we should stop. George! Don't go after any more Bad Guys! We can't win anyway. Just "bring them to justice." Whatever the hell that means. I confess, though: Until women are forced to engage in lap-dancing, I'll continue to think we're morally superior. And even if the lap-dancing was mandatory, I'd go with that over the amputations.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 12/31/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Home Front
    Showtime at the Chicago airport
  • A former Chicago Board of Education member faces disorderly conduct charges after she was accused of commenting about a bomb in her purse while her luggage was being checked Friday at O'Hare International Airport. Anna Mustafa, 53, of Tinley Park, was at an International Terminal ticket counter preparing to board a Swissair flight to Tel Aviv when her baggage was randomly selected to pass through a bomb-detection machine.
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    India-Pakistan
    Pak: Just cool down
  • Pakistan wants to defuse tension and resolve all issues with India through talks, said Foreign Office Spokesman Aziz Ahmad Khan. "We want to cool down the situation and resolve all issues with India through talks." Pakistan is capable of thwarting every kind of aggression, he said. "Unfortunately, India has been escalating the situation from the very beginning," he added. "We want that all the troops and aircraft that are now at the forward positions be withdrawn to the peacetime position. We want the atmosphere to be made conducive so that the issues could be resolved through dialogue."
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    Pak "Most Wanted" jugged
  • Riaz Basra, one of Pakistan’s most wanted men, has been detained after returning from Afghanistan. Basra is implicated in several cases of sectarian violence, and heads his own Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. He was arrested from North Waziristan with a bevy of henchmen some time last week.
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    Indians, Paks trade mortar fire
  • Indian and Pakistani troops exchanged heavy mortar fire over their border in southern Kashmir in which two Indian soldier were killed and five wounded. The heaviest shelling was in the Pallanwalla sector, 80 kilometers west of Jammu.
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    Foreigners give Kashmir thugs a bad name
  • Hurriyat Conference leader Abdul Gani Lone lashed out at foreign militants active in Kashmir. "The ongoing struggle in Kashmir is indigenous in every respect. Distortion as a result of participation of non-Kashmiri elements cannot change the indigenous chracter of the struggle," Lone said, addressing the general council of his Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Conference, a constituent of the Hurriyat Conference.
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    International
    Gulf States: Let the inspectors back, before something dreadful happens
  • A Saudi-led Gulf Arab alliance urged Iraq to allow U.N. weapons inspectors back into the country or risk more tension in the Middle East. Jameel al-Hujailan, secretary-general of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), also criticized Baghdad for continuing antagonism toward its pro-Western neighbors Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. "We hope Iraq's obstinacy toward some Security Council resolutions will not lead to more tension in the region and cause more sufferings to the brotherly Iraqi people," he said in a report to a GCC summit.
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    Middle East
    Serve some time for the cause
  • A senior PA security official reportedly recently tried to convince Fatah military wing Tanzim operatives in Nablus to give themselves up and enter PA jails in order to bluff US and European observers. The PA official reportedly offered $3,000 to anyone willing to spend a month in PA detention in lieu of Hamas of Islamic Jihad terrorists.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 12/31/2001 11:15 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Six more cold ones in Palestine, predictable cries for revenge
  • Israeli troops killed six Palestinians in two separate confrontations near the border with the Gaza Strip. The shootings came only hours after senior Israeli security officials said that attacks by Palestinian militants had dropped significantly since Arafat's speech two weeks ago calling for a cessation of violence. "We will pursue the attacks and painful blows against the Zionist enemy occupying our land," activists of the Popular Resistance Committee chanted at the funeral of one of its leaders who was among the six killed. The committee, which includes members of Arafat's Fatah and the Hamas and Islamic Jihad organizations, said Ismael Abu al-Qumsan, its leader in the northern Gaza Strip, and two other gunmen were killed in a shootout with Israeli soldiers. Guess Zinni can unpack. How does Palestine manage to accrue a surplus of young men between 18 and 30 whose primary accomplishments in life appear to be armed and dangerous? Wouldn't it make more sense to have more McDonalds' and Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants, for all the fears of globalization, so there would be more jobs these people are qualified to fill? Then they'd be off the streets.
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    PA coppers pick up a couple small fry
  • PA security officers arrested four men allegedly involved in the murder of tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi. The two killers, who Israel says are hiding in Ramallah, were not among them.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 12/31/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Terror Networks
    Dynamite Man's Dad: My Boy was Framed!
  • The father of Hadi Yousef Ghoul, the 35-year-old Jordanian arrested in the Philippines on suspicion of belonging to Al Qaeda (and possessing 281 sticks of dynamite), denied the accusations against his son. “He is religious but he has no connection with any organisation,” Yousef Ghoul said. The father accused the Philippine authorities of fabricating the evidence.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 12/31/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Chechen corpse count
  • Russian forces killed 73 Chechen rebels and took 20 prisoners in a major operation in the separatist republic. Two Russian servicemen held by rebels were freed. A top rebel leader, Ruslan Chilayev, was among those killed. A report said "mercenaries" were among the dead.
    Wonder who the "mercenaries" were. Arabs? Afghans? Paks?
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 12/31/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    MI5 dropped the ball on SneakerBoy and Moussaoui
  • According to The Observer, British intelligence monitored telephone conversations between sneaker bomber Maxwell Smart "Richard C. Reid" and Zacarias Moussaoui late last year but failed to identify Reid as a potential terrorist. The calls between Reid and Moussaoui stopped in December 2000 after Moussaoui left the United Kingdon for Pakistan. Reid went to Pakistan a short time later, and both men then trained together at a camp in Afghanistan run by al-Qaeda.
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    India cops bump off eight Jaish gunnies
  • Security forces shot dead eight militants in a nightlong encounter in southern Kashmir. An army major was injured in the shootout, which took place at Dora village some 50 kms south of Srinagar. A news agency reported that the eight militants were members of the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad. Seven security personnel and two civilians were injured when militants targeted a Border Security Force picket and a police post with grenades in Kashmir valley.
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    Lashkar small fry wanted to blow up the New Year
  • Delhi police arrested a militant of Lashkar-e-Toiba. Police recovered an IED, 5.5 kg of explosive materials, ABCD timer and some detonaters from him. It is believed he had come to create blasts in the capital on the eve of New Year.
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    Lashkar bigwig jugged in Pakland
  • Hafiz Saeed, until last week the leader of the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, was arrested in Islamabad while attending a meeting. He was charged with making inflammatory speeches and inciting people to violence. Another 22 followers of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba and Jaish-e-Mohammed were arrested in southern Pakistan overnight.
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