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Arabia
Al-Qaida Cells Discovered In Several Gulf State Militaries
Source: World Tribune
Kuwait has captured an Al Qaida cell within its military, and authorities said the terrorist organization is attempting to infiltrate the militaries in other Gulf states as well.
And this comes as a surprise because...?
Officials said Kuwaiti authorities have arrested at least three members of the cell. They said the cell planned a sabotage campaign throughout the sheikdom and was linked to Mohsen Fadli, a senior Al Qaida operative. They said Fadli had close ties to Islamic clerics in both Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and planned a major attack on Americans in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa.
In Arabia, only the most devout are allowed to handle explosives...
The Al Qaida cell was said to have been led by Fadli, who received help from three Kuwaiti military personnel, Middle East Newsline reported. Officials said two of them worked in the Interior Ministry and the other in the Defense Ministry. One of the arrested officers was identified as Adel Bouhmeid, who was discharged two years ago from the military. Officials said Bouhmeid had visited Afghanistan several times and transferred money to Islamic insurgents linked to Al Qaida.
Afghanistan was just the absolute favorite place in the whole wide world for these guys to go...
An Interior Ministry source said the ring was connected to Al Qaida and planned to attack key installations in Kuwait. The source said authorities believe there are other members of the Al Qaida ring still on the loose and suggested that the investigation of the episode would take a long time.
The more serious they take it, the less time it'll take...
Al Qaida has infiltrated the militaries of several other Gulf Cooperation Council states. On Oct. 12, Qatari security forces arrested scores of soldiers, officers and clerics linked to Al Qaida who alleged to have plotted to torpedo the pro-U.S. policies of Emir Hamad. On Monday, Saudi authorities acknowledged an attack on a security installation near Riyad by at least one gunman. The suspect, identified as Mohammed Al Salim, was wanted by Saudi authorities and was captured in a shootout on Saturday. Islamic sources said he was one of 50 Al Qaida members meeting in a home south of Riyad.
'Course, they said when they nabbed him that he wasn't an al-Qaeda...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/20/2002 11:40 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  OK, new rule #1. If you went to Afghanistan, you're a terrorist, unless you can demonstrate otherwise.

Who knew the freakin' tourist industry was so big?
Posted by: Chuck || 11/20/2002 11:39 Comments || Top||

#2  I think we should put a Disneyland in Kabul to piss them off.
Posted by: PJ || 11/20/2002 14:25 Comments || Top||

#3  I hear that there is a Hooter's opening up in Kabul.
Posted by: johnboy || 11/20/2002 17:51 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm looking for the start up capital for the beer brewing facility. Best beer north of Islamabad. . .
Posted by: Brian || 11/20/2002 23:48 Comments || Top||


Hunt For a 2nd Most Wanted Al-Qaida Suspect Underway In Yemen
Source: Jihad Unspun
Tribal sources have confirmed on Friday that an intensive military buildup and operations were underway in various areas of Mareb and Jawf. They claim that those operations are aimed at hunting down remaining al-Qaida elements still at large. Among those wanted men is Mohammed Hamdi Al-Ahdal, also known as Abu Assim. "The Americans were able to get one of the two al-Qaida suspects (Qaed Salim Sunian al-Harethi), now the other needs to look above his head for any approaching planes," a tribal figure said on condition of anonymity.
Kinda seems appropriate to use planes to take the bastards out, doesn't it? I guess Predators are too expensive to just crash into them. Guess we need a combination Predator and Tomahawk...
It was also mentioned that President Bush has given broad authority to "a variety of people" in his administration to launch attacks like the missile strike that killed al-Harethi, his national security adviser said last week. "The president has given broad authority to a variety of people to do what they have to do to protect this country," national security adviser Condoleezza Rice told the television show Fox News Sunday. "It's a new kind of war. We're fighting on a lot of different fronts." An attack similar to the one on Al-Harethi and targeting Al-Ahdal could not be ruled out.
"Hello, CENTCOM? This is the President's dry cleaner. Lookee here, I want to order Predator attack on someone..."
In accordance with these developments, several military patrols had been stopping vehicles at checkpoints for inspections of weapons and identification. One tribal leader said that Americans had been seen working along with Yemeni military special forces, especially in Marib province. An Interior Ministry official told AP that the military operations were part of "new security arrangements" which the government had approved at a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday. The official added that the Cabinet decided to establish five new "security outposts" in the Jawf governorate, but he would not elaborate.
"You got a license for that rocket launcher, Mahmoud?"
"Yeah."
"What's yer business in Jawf?"
"We're going elk hunting..."

Sheikh al-Okaimi, the Sheikh of Jawf denied reports in the local press that said military units belonging to the special forces started the hunt for al-Ahdal. Sources have ruled out that he might be hiding in al-Jawf. In a statement to Yemen Times, Sheikh al-Okaimi strongly denied any presence to Abu Assim in al-Jawf and the deployment of military forces. "Abu Assim has never been seen or found in the al-Jawf," he said.
"Certainly not. There's nobody living who's claiming to have seen them, anyway..."
Al-Okaimi refuted the allegations by Shiekh Al-Shaef, who said that members of al-Qaeda network were behind the attack on his house. "The attackers are a group of tribesmen belonging to his own tribe named Aal Asha'abi," he said.
"They just happen to hang around at the club with the al-Qaeda guys..."
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/20/2002 10:58 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Do you think the other people in this guy's carpool will come down with "Hellfire Flu" all of the sudden?

"Yeah, my car's in the shop... my wife's sick... dog's got worms... ran out of baby formula... um... can't drive today, Mohammed... sorry..."
Posted by: Laurence Simon || 11/20/2002 13:05 Comments || Top||

#2  I think he's used up his quota of luck: Yemen said yesterday its security forces were looking for a suspected al Qaeda member who narrowly escaped a missile attack by an unmanned CIA plane that killed six of his comrades earlier this month. In the first apparent admission that Yemen consented to the strike, Interior Minister Rshad Alimi said: "This operation was carried out as part of security coordination and cooperation between Yemen and the United States."

Mr. Alimi also said in a statement carried by the state news agency, Saba. that the seventh al Qaeda member left the car moments before it was hit by a missile in the Marib province on Nov. 3.

"See you guys later, hey, what's that?"...KABOOM
Posted by: Steve || 11/20/2002 13:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Fred and Steve, what's the reason why Yemen is cooperating with us? I remember that not so long ago these guys hated our guts. News reports after the Cole attack said that the FBI was frustrated at how Yemeni authorities obstructed the investigation. Now we're flying Predators in their airspace and helping their military run proper checkpoints. Somebody over there suddenly got religion-at-gunpoint or what?
Posted by: Steve White || 11/20/2002 14:06 Comments || Top||

#4  It's the old "Arabs support the man on the strong horse" theory Bin Ledan talked about. The Yemanis looked around and saw the biggest freeking horse in the world riding their way. And the Texan riding it was pissed.
Posted by: Steve || 11/20/2002 14:29 Comments || Top||

#5  I imagine he wet his pants when the Hellfire struck...
Posted by: Ptah || 11/20/2002 15:01 Comments || Top||

#6  Not just a big freeking horse, Steve, a big freeking flying horse...
Too bad we already named a booster "Pegasus".
Posted by: Kathy K || 11/20/2002 19:25 Comments || Top||

#7  They were smart. They cut a nice deal with us where we train their soldiers and hand over intel, and Pres. Sana hammers on people he and we don't like. Conveniently, these are often the same people. Or something like that, with lots of gray areas and daily variations.
Posted by: Dan Hartung || 11/21/2002 7:14 Comments || Top||


Some 100 Saudis suspected of ties to al Qaeda arrested
Saudi Arabia holds more than 100 Saudi nationals suspected of ties to al Qaeda, Interior Minister Prince Nayef was quoted Wednesday as saying.
There are al Qaeda in Saudi?
"Prince Nayef unveiled the arrest of more than 100 Saudis who returned from Afghanistan on suspicion of having links to the al Qaeda organization," al-Eqtisadiah newspaper reported.
These would be low ranking cannon fodder types.
"The number of those questioned on this issue was around 700 Saudis," said Prince Nayef, rejecting reports that the number was much higher. According to Reuters, the minister was speaking after a meeting of the consultative Shoura council late Tuesday.
Who would never allow al Qaeda in their country. They want them, ah, in some other country.
Posted by: Steve || 11/20/2002 05:17 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "There are al Qaeda in Saudi?"
Wow. Who 'a thunk it?
Posted by: Kathy K || 11/20/2002 19:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Looks like you need more than a Madison Avenue "good guy" campaign and more of the good old American tradition of suing your sorry posterior to get these guys motivated. Next thing you know we'll be running Air Ops out of there!
Posted by: Jack || 11/21/2002 5:36 Comments || Top||


Axis of Evil
Iraq prepares missiles, aircraft, near Soddy border...
Iraq has prepared medium-range missiles and aircraft in underground shelters near the Saudi border in what could mark preparations to launch a strike against Israel. U.S. intelligence sources said Iraq has moved several dozen military aircraft to the southwest near the Saudi border. They include the French-built Mirage F-1 fighter-jets and the Czech-origin L-29 light combat aircraft. The Iraqis have deployed the aircraft in underground shelters over a large area in the desert near Jal Al Batan, the sources said. They said several of the L-29s have been converted into unmanned air vehicles that could deliver weapons of mass destruction.
I don't imagine the Israelis will let any of them get through — if called upon to do so. The U.S. and Brits should be well able to take care of them before it's necessary for the IDF to scramble.
The sources said the Iraqis began moving their aircraft at the end of October. The newly-deployed military assets could be used against U.S. targets in the Gulf and Israel, they said.
I'd guess that the area's getting a lot of satellite time right now, so somebody probably noticed and the facilities are just another database entry — something like "TARGET: 125A PRIORITY: HIGH ASSIGNED TO..."
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/20/2002 11:02 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I am suspicious of Israel's counter-intel and pre-emptive guerilla abilities these days. They are tied up all over - Gaza, West Bank, the coast, border areas up north - plus they can't seem to control the Paleos that well. I think it is asking a lot that we rely on them to somehow keep the scuds at bay.
Posted by: Jack || 11/21/2002 5:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Jack, this would fall under a different area of intel. Their AF has little to do with hunting guerillas incountry, they keep a eye on exterior threats. I have read that Isreali special ops have been all over western Iraq hunting Scud sites and other targets. I'm sure that we share satellite photos as well. Hard to hide a airstrip and those underground shelters didn't help them in the last war. I expect the F-117s and B-2s will take these fixed positions out in the first minutes of the war. The IDF AF will handle anything that heads their way over Jordan.
Posted by: Steve || 11/21/2002 7:45 Comments || Top||

#3  I dont want to be a complete skeptic here,but isnt the saudi border well within the southern 'no fly zone'? How do you move aircraft next to the border if you can fly in that area?

I thought the Iraqi Air Froce flew east to Iran, during the last big dust up? I can see them getting ahold of l-29 on the open market, but where did they come up with Mirage F-1's
Posted by: Frank Martin || 11/21/2002 10:41 Comments || Top||


Saddam pounces on son’s newspaper
The Iraqi Government has suspended a newspaper run by Saddam Hussein's eldest son Uday. No reason was given for the one-month ban which was reported to foreign media by Iraqi Government and media sources after Babel failed to appear on news stands on Wednesday. Babel is known for carrying Western reports on Iraq's conflict with the United States and is said to be the most influential newspaper in the country. But it appears that attacks made on pro-American Arab leaders in recent issues may have landed the paper in trouble.
Sucks to be the editor of this paper right now.
The French news agency AFP said the government had warned against criticising other Arab states in the wake of a Beirut summit in March when Baghdad's relations with other states in the region began to thaw. However, recent Babel issues featured:

A piece about Jordan's crackdown on Islamic militancy headlined "Jordan's Tyrant Wreaks Havoc"

A report on Egyptian politics entitled "[President Hosni] Mubarak and his clique".
Saddam doesn't want to say bad things about his neighbors, he still hopes they can stop Bush from invading.
In addition, this Sunday saw Babel carrying a Western report that Saddam Hussein had tried to secure a "bolt-hole" for his family in Libya in the event of his ouster by the US.
Bet that didn't go over well at the breakfast table.
The BBC's Paul Reynolds says the Iraqi leader's eldest son is a flamboyant character who does not necessarily reflect his father's views.
Except the part about killing people.
By contrast, his younger brother Qusay is generally thought to be made more in Saddam Hussein's image and to be his political heir apparent.
Saddam is Don Vito, Uday is Sonny, Qusay is Michael. We all remember what happened to Sonny.
Posted by: Steve || 11/20/2002 05:25 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah, fine. But who is Fredo? That's the question.
Posted by: mojo || 11/20/2002 13:18 Comments || Top||

#2  The part of Fredo was played by two of Saddam's sons-in-law who fled Iraq with their wives. They sought sanctuary in Jordan. Saddam sent agents to coax them to return to Baghdad, promising that all would be forgiven if they came home. The sons-in-law took the bait and returned to Iraq. They were filmed bowing their heads and kissing Saddam's feet. The next day, in Saddam's presence, they were executed.

Nobody but Fredo is that dumb.
Posted by: Steve || 11/20/2002 13:54 Comments || Top||


Coalition aircraft hit military targets...
Coalition aircraft patrolling the southern no-fly zone over Iraq struck three military targets Wednesday in response to attacks by Iraqi forces, according to U.S Central Command officials. The warplanes targeted Iraqi military communications sites, said U.S. officials, who described the sites as unmanned air defense facilities. The sites were located between the towns of Al Kut, about 100 miles south of Baghdad, and Al Basrah, some 245 miles southeast of Baghdad. The coalition strikes happened after Iraqi forces fired surface-to-air-missiles and anti-aircraft artillery at the planes, the Central Command said.
Is there some reason they're hitting "unmanned" sites instead of taking out the launchers and the C3 facilities? Or did CNN miss something?
In the seven days since Baghdad agreed to the terms of a U.N. disarmament resolution, the Iraqis have fired on coalition aircraft six times. U.N. resolution 1441 states in part that "Iraq shall not take or threaten hostile acts directed against any representative or personnel of the United Nations ... (or) any member state taking action to uphold any Council resolution."
But Kofi says this sort of thing isn't a violation...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/20/2002 11:39 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You set your radar at a distance from your control facility and manage it by wire. Then when we bomb the radar, there are no personnel there.

Part of the whole maskirovka thing. Which batteries are controlled by which radar and which radars are controlled by which facilities?
Posted by: Chuck || 11/20/2002 11:42 Comments || Top||

#2  The Chinese wired Saddam's air defense radars together with a fiber optic network. Feeds back to Air Defence HQ for better control. We've been hitting nodes of this for some time in order to degrade the network. That's what this reads like.
Posted by: Steve || 11/20/2002 11:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Yes. The Chicoms supposedly used Alcatel optronics and Sumitomo fiber shipped from 2 allies in the war on terror -- France and Japan.
Posted by: John B. || 11/20/2002 12:41 Comments || Top||


Ex-Iraq army chief faces Danish court
The former head of Iraq's army has been placed under house arrest in Denmark on charges of using chemical weapons against Kurds. Nizar al-Khazraji, who now lives in Denmark after fleeing Iraq, was detained after a Kurdish refugee apparently recognised him in the street and informed police.
Hey, don't I know you?
Mr Khazraji, who has been named as a possible successor to Saddam Hussein, is accused over Operation Anfal, a military clampdown on Kurdish areas in the late 1980s. The worst single incident was a chemical weapon air attack on the Kurdish town of Halabjah in 1988. An estimated 5,000 people died.
Hand him over to the Kurds, bet they'd like to get their hands on him.
The former general, who was head of the armed forces when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, was placed under house arrest by the court, and must report regularly to police. Mr Khazraji, 64, who lives in Soroe, applied for political asylum in Denmark, but his request was rejected. However, the authorities granted him leave to remain in the country, on the grounds that he could face execution in Iraq.
Should face it pretty much anywhere if you ask me.
The move against Mr Khazraji appears to have been triggered by an application to travel to Saudi Arabia. Mr Khazraji had recently asked for permission to go there, and the Saudi authorities had agreed to receive him, local news agency Ritzau reports.
Had a room booked next door to Idi Amin.
But the Danish authorities, who had been investigating the former general for some months, feared that he might leave the country and fail to return.
You think?
Posted by: Steve || 11/20/2002 05:24 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Iraqi Vows Some Limits on U.N. Probe
Iraq's vice president said Wednesday there would be limits on the U.N. weapons investigation, though the top inspector says Baghdad has agreed to unannounced checks even on Saddam Hussein's ``special'' sites.
Boy, am I suprised.
The question of unannounced checks on sites like Saddam's palaces, an issue that helped derail inspections in the 1990s, ``is settled by the resolution. It wasn't even discussed,'' chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said Wednesday after departing Baghdad at the end of a two-day visit inaugurating a new U.N. oversight program, four years after the last inspections.
Get ready, boys and girls..
Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan said Wednesday that Iraq would fully cooperate with weapons inspectors, but he vowed to prevent them from gathering ``intelligence.''
Here it comes..
``Any demand or question or a manner of work that conforms with the objective of the inspectors who want to verify that Iraq is free of weapons of mass destruction will be met with full cooperation,'' Ramadan said in an interview from Baghdad with the private Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation.
Wait for it..
``But for demands which are clearly (meant) for intelligence or for other objectives that have nothing to do with the weapons of mass destruction, we will act in such a way so as to safeguard the country's sovereignty and security,'' he said.
SOVEREIGNTY!!!! Which means in Iraqi, "You can't look here!"
Iraq had raised sovereignty in barring inspectors from Saddam's palaces and other sites in the 1990s.
And we are counting on your doing it again.
Posted by: Steve || 11/20/2002 05:22 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "And we are counting on your doing it again."

Looks like they are really cooperating with our wishes, doesn't it?
Posted by: Kathy K || 11/20/2002 19:33 Comments || Top||

#2  "OK, you can look all you want in and around our mosque. But in your search, if you happen to run upon any trap doors that lead you to anything resembling a 200,000 sq ft underground storage facility.... well, we will need to exercise our right to defend our country's soverignity."

Right.
Posted by: Lexicon || 11/21/2002 0:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Someone really needs to point out that these conditions are because the LOST THE FRIGGIN WAR! They dont get sovereignty until they comply.
Posted by: flash91 || 11/21/2002 10:00 Comments || Top||


Caucasus
Religious Leader Killed In Chechnya
Source: Interfax
Well-known Chechen religious and public figure Sayid-Pasha Salikhov was killed in the village of Stariye Atagi last night. A preliminary investigation revealed that unidentified armed assailants asked Salikhov's son to leave the house last night. Minutes later, Sayid-Pasha walked out to the courtyard to see where his son was. At that moment, both of them were shot down, a source in the Chechen police told Interfax. Policemen arrived at the scene in the morning. The criminals have not been found yet.
Terrible when that happens. Just terrible...
Chechnya's Muslim Board told Interfax that Sayid-Pasha and his son are members of the clan of the Kureishites. Their ancestors are believed to be descendants of Prophet Mohammed, who arrived in Chechnya from Mecca in the early 20th century to profess Islam. Descendants of this clan are highly respected all over Chechnya. Even in the Soviet era, they were asked to settle complicated internal Chechen conflicts.
"Volodya, these people are all crazy!"
"Yes, Comrade Commissar."
"Get that holy man, the one who rolls his eyes and spews spittle..."
"Sayid-Pasha?"
"Yes, him. Let him try and unravel it and don't bother me with it again."

The murder caused a major public response in Chechnya. Hundreds of people from all parts of the republic are streaming into Stariye Atagi to attend the funeral. Chechen leader Akhmad Kadyrov has sharply condemned the criminals.
Must... fight... to control... strong feelings of apathy...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/20/2002 11:18 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Tap..tap..tap, still broke. Fred, you need to send this meter into PMEL.
Posted by: Steve || 11/20/2002 15:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Tap..tap..tap...
Hmmm. I just got a new graphic meter, but it seems stuck on an icon picturing a shot of vodka with 'cheers' above it...
Posted by: Kathy K || 11/20/2002 19:42 Comments || Top||


East/Subsaharan Africa
Nigerian Islamists riot over Miss World report
Islamic militants burned down the regional office of a leading Nigerian newspaper on Wednesday after it referred to the Prophet Mohammad in a report on the Miss World pageant in Nigeria. The fundamentalist Nigerian Muslim Umma, declaring a "serious religious emergency", immediately issued a statement calling on the government to stop the December 7 pageant, already dogged by controversy.
Good idea. I have a feeling most of the babes would rather go to Atlantic City than to Lagos, anyway...
The incident in the northern city of Kaduna triggered tension in other parts of the predominantly Islamic region where thousands have been killed in sectarian riots in the past three years.
"Hey! We're Muslims! This is what Muslims do, y'know?"
Residents said police had been placed on the alert in the nearby city of Kano, another hotbed of ignorance sectarian violence. Witnesses said hundreds of irate Islamists chanting "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest) were involved in the attack on the Kaduna office of This Day, a Lagos-based independent daily, housed in a converted villa in an exclusive part of the city. "They said they were protesting against a story in This Day newspaper of last Saturday which said Mohammad would have married one of the beauty queens," a witness said.
Yeah. I remember when Ray Stevens sang, "Would Jesus wear a Rolex?" The riots that followed are the reason Texarkana looks the way it does today...
This Day has retracted the report and published an apology. "They burnt down the whole building. The correspondent was lucky not to have been in the office at the time they attacked," the witness added. This Day's correspondent in Kaduna is a Christian woman, but was not the author of the report.
They probably thought she was in there. Wouldn't have made any difference, though.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/20/2002 12:39 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, when you can't read, you can't cancel your subscription.

(And you should see what happened when they canceled Apartment 3G!)
Posted by: Anonymous || 11/20/2002 16:24 Comments || Top||


South African police find arms cache
South African police investigating an alleged plot by white extremists to topple the government have found a cache of 26 bombs. The devices were found in the farming area of Keimoes in Northern Cape province, along with other unnamed military material, the police have said. A shadowy right-wing group has claimed responsibility for last month's series of bombings in the black township of Soweto, which killed one woman and injured her husband.
The "Warriors of the Boer Nation", which may be linked to the Boeremag (Afrikaner Force), said the Soweto bombings "are the beginning of the end for the African National Congress (ANC) government". South African Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota has said he suspects those behind the Soweto bombings are former members of the army and police attempting to start a "race war".
Posted by: Steve || 11/20/2002 05:26 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
Protest on 'frozen' charity
A hospital psychiatrist who donates money to Sudan protested his innocence yesterday after becoming the target of a government clampdown on terrorist funding. Dr Abdul Salih, a senior psychiatrist at the West Middlesex Hospital, claimed there had been a mix-up after the assets of his charity Benevolence International UK were frozen by the Chancellor because of alleged links with al-Qaeda. Dr Salih said it was purely by chance that his charity bore an almost identical name to a disgraced American organisation.
Maybe he should change the name of the group? How about "Doctor Abdul's Charity, Inc."?
The Twickenham doctor was cleared by the Charity Commission this year of having any links with the American group. A spokesman said that his accounts had been frozen as a “temporary protective measure”.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/20/2002 11:22 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  OK, so he's only supporting an Islamic regime that promotes slavery and is actively trying to wipe out the Christian majority in the southern Sudan. But no links to al-Qaeda.

Screw 'em.
Posted by: Chuck || 11/20/2002 11:45 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Kashmir Korpse Kount
A securityman and a civilian were killed and seven others, including five policemen, were injured in a blast at Bandipore today. Elsewhere, 17 people, including an army capitain and 13 militants, were killed while 15 others were injured in separate incidents across the state since yesterday.
Just another day in beautiful Kashmir...
  • A BSF sub-inspector and a civilian were killed while seven others were seriously injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) explosion triggered by militants at Bandipore in Varmul district today. The explosion took place when a bomb disposal squad was defusing an IED detected by security personnel. The injured included two members of the bomb disposal squad, two civilians and three policemen. Militant group, Al-Badr, claimed responsibility for the explosion adding three securitymen and a captain were killed in it. Reports quoted the Bandipore spokesman of the group, Sa’adullah Hizbi, as saying its militants had triggered the blast.
  • Five infiltrators trying to cross the international border in Nanga area of Samba sector under cover of firing by Pakistani Rangers, were shot dead by army today.
    "Huh huh! This is gonna be so-o-o-o-o neat! We've gonna kill infidels an' we're gonna... Ow! Ow! Hey! Ow!"
  • Six Hizbul Mujahideen militants and an army captain were killed and four soldiers were injured in an encounter at Lanjote village in Balakote (Mendhar) area of Poonch district today, a police spokesman said.
  • Another militant of the outfit identified as Shahbaz Ahmad was killed in a gunfight with security forces at Shahnagri forest of Kupwara district.
  • Security forces also killed a district commander of Al-Badr outfit in Udhampur district in Jammu region today.
  • Unidentified gunmen shot dead a woman inside her house at Barsoo-Ganderbal on the outskirts of the city. Two unidentified bodies were recovered by police from Pulwama district and Kupwara district.
  • Seven civilians were injured when unidentified gunmen exploded a grenade near a security picket in Islamabad district of south Kashmir.
  • Unidentified persons exploded two more IEDs, one each near Lalpora in Kupwara district and Darhal in Rajouri district, injuring a jawan and a special police officer.
  • Two more persons, Muhammad Yousuf Lone and his daughter Niza, were injured when they accidently set off a grenade inside their house at Zainapora village of Pulwama district, sources said, adding, Yousuf had found the grenade in a field and taken it home and tried to fiddle with it causing the blast.
    Actually, it sounds like the gene pool would be better off without Muhammad...
  • Security forces seized 80 kg RDX and arms and ammunition during search operations in forests of Pulwama district today. The haul included 70 kg of gun-powder, 67 rounds of ammunition, eight under-barrel grenade launchers and six hand grenades. The search was launched in the forests of Rajpora belt on a tip off that some militants were hiding in the area and the explosives were found dumped there, the sources said.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/20/2002 12:29 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  FIDDLE with a grenade? This guy gets my vote for an "Honorable Mention" with the Darwin Awards.

This guy probably learned to throw 'em at the same school at which he learned to "fiddle" with 'em.
Posted by: Steve White || 11/20/2002 14:14 Comments || Top||


Freed Pakistani militant defiant
The founder of the outlawed Lashkar-e-Toiba militant group has said he will continue to support anti-Indian insurgents in Kashmir. Hafiz Mohammad Saeed was speaking in the Pakistani city of Lahore, a day after being freed from six months detention on the orders of the High Court.
Nice to see you, how you been?
In remarks unlikely to find favour with the Pakistani authorities, he said every Muslim was obliged to wage holy war in Kashmir, territory which both India and Pakistan dispute.
Gee, he sounds just like a Pak authority to me."Jihad [holy war] is an article of faith for Muslims," he told reporters, hours after an armed guard had been removed from outside his house.
It's like he was never gone.
"How can we remain quiet when the Americans are leading an international campaign of violence against the Muslims?"
Which is why those Indians have to go!
Posted by: Steve || 11/20/2002 05:29 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The FBI helps Pakistani authorities arrest them. Mushareff releases them. Save the handcuffs, and deploy the cluster bombs.
Posted by: Anonymous || 11/20/2002 20:51 Comments || Top||


Middle East
Jordan wants to expland security cooperation with Kuwait...
Jordan seeks to expand security cooperation and launch joint defense projects with Kuwait. Jordanian officials said the two countries have agreed to formalize defense and security ties discussed over the last six months. They said this could include the sale of Jordanian defense systems and expertise to the sheikdom. The two countries will reestablish a joint committee to explore bilateral cooperation. The panel had not met since 1990 when Iraq invaded Kuwait. During most of the 1990s, the sheikdom boycotted Jordan, accusing the kingdom of supporting the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
That's because King Hussein bet on the wrong horse in the Gulf War. Bad move. Took awhile to clean up that mess, even though memories in the Middle East aren't very long...
Officials said Kuwait agreed to reconsider its policy in 1999, following the death of King Hussein and the succession by his son, Abdullah. Since then, they said, the two countries have engaged in a security and defense dialogue that culminated in the visit of a Jordanian intelligence delegation to Kuwait in September. The delegation discussed Iraqi military capabilities and the prospect of a Saddam-ordered sabotage campaign in the sheikdom.
King Hussein cheesed off the al-Sabahs so bad, the Jordanians had to wait until he died to snuggle back up with Kuwait. That's really rather un-Arab of the al-Sabahs. Normally, yesterday's enemy is perfectly acceptable as today's friend. They're not real big on long-range strategy, except, apparently, in Soddy Arabia...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/20/2002 11:07 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


U.S. Asks Syria To Close Down Islamic Jihad
The United States has asked Syria to close the Islamic Jihad offices in Damascus. U.S. Ambassador Dan Kurtzer informed Foreign Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of such today, after Netanyahu just yesterday asked foreign ambassadors with whom he met to demand that Syria do exactly that. "Take the case, for example, of the attack in Hebron, of the Islamic Jihad," Netanyahu told them. "That organization is based in Damascus. Ramadan Shallah, its leader, in fact enjoys the patronage and the protection of the Syrian government. And therefore, I urge all of you to include in your policies the clear-cut demand that Syria be told to stop this action, be told to close down the offices of the Islamic Jihad and the other terrorist organizations; the clear-cut demand that Hizbullah be declared a terrorist organization." He also said that Iran must also be similarly pressured.
Seems that if Syria is the hand behind Islamic Jihad, then Syria should be held responsible for its actions...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/20/2002 11:28 am || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Would-Be Bomber Nabbed
IDF troops this morning arrested an Arab in the Bethlehem district village of El Khader, who was on his way to carry out a suicide bombing in pre-1967 Israel. The man was a member of Yasser Arafat's Fatah Tanzim terror organization. In addition, five other Arabs wanted for terror activity were arrested throughout Yesha (Judea, Samaria, and Gaza).
"Uh, yup, yup! I'm goin' to blow myself up and kill Zionists, huh huh!... Uh... Hullo, officer. Nice day, ain't it?..."
In northern Gaza soldiers fired tanks shells at members of a Fatah terror cell on their way to carry out an attack. Three Arabs were wounded in the incident. In addition, Arabs shot and hurled grenades at soldiers in the Gush Katif bloc. No injuries were reported.
"It's a beautiful day in the Islamic neighborhood,
Won't you be my neighbor?"
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/20/2002 11:32 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Jordan Frees Seven Men From Raid
Police sent 66 men to a military prosecutor Wednesday to be questioned about possible links to a banned group of smugglers allegedly led by an anti-American, militant Muslim preacher, security officials said. Seven others in detention were freed after authorities determined they had no connection to the banned group in the southern city of Maan, officials said on condition of anonymity.

This week police freed about 25 men — including one Indian, seven Iraqis and three Egyptians — for lack of evidence linking them to al-Chalabi's group, security officials said. They said 35 others rounded up last week for minor offenses were to be freed on bail soon. The remaining 66 men will be interrogated by the military prosecutor over suspected links to al-Chalabi's group or instigating sedition and rioting, the officials said. If there is enough evidence, they will be tried in the State Security Court.

Officials said al-Chalabi is on the run after he fled with two assistants, identified as Majdi Kreishan and Omar Bazay'ah. He is believed to be hiding in the mountains of southern Jordan, but there have been reports he may have escaped to neighboring Saudi Arabia. Al-Chalabi, also known as Abu-Sayyaf, is suspected of ties to a banned militant group, called Takfir wal Hijra, or Repentance and Flight, that advocates isolation from the "sinful" world.
No sinning around here, no sir! And if anyone disagrees, we'll kill them, cause that's what us holy men do.
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Southeast Asia
Indonesian police extend Ba'asyir detention
The police extended the detention period for Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir for another 40 days, officials said on Wednesday. Police spokesman Comr. Prasetyo told The Jakarta Post that they had decided to detain the cleric for further questioning. The police said previously that they would send Bashir's dossiers to prosecutors before Nov. 21, as police could only detain a suspect for a maximum 20 days according to the Criminal Code Procedure. However, the police apparently failed to materialize their plan, and instead have decided to seek a 40-day extension of the detention period. The extension "is allowed by law," said Prasetyo.
Indonesia's POTO allows them to keep him indefinitely...
M. Mahendradatta, the cleric's lawyer, said that the request for extension was within the legal authority of the police. "We'd never fuss about it. We know that the police have the authority to detain a suspect for a maximum 60 days," he said.
"We're biding our time and hope they don't notice they can keep him forever under the new law..."
Bashir is currently being treated at a hospital in East Jakarta for hypochondria. He refused to answer questions from the police.
Maybe that'll give them some incentive to gather some real evidence on their own...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/20/2002 10:58 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I understand those Turkish truncheons we talked about the other day are on sale, cheap, but the purchase order has to be on official Indonesian police stationary.
Posted by: Chuck || 11/20/2002 11:50 Comments || Top||

#2  "A second truncheon, of equal or lesser value, free..."
Posted by: Tripartite || 11/20/2002 12:49 Comments || Top||

#3  "See our new line of electric cattle prods with detachable testicle clips."
Posted by: Steve || 11/20/2002 15:59 Comments || Top||


British-Born Muslim Denies Bomb Plots In Australia
A British-born Muslim convert denies plotting to bomb Israeli diplomatic buildings in Australia. Australian citizen Jack Roche denied the charges when he appeared in court amid tight security in Perth.
"No, no! Certainly not!"
Roche's lawyer Robert Mazza says his client will plead not guilty to two charges of conspiracy to bomb diplomatic premises. Roche, 49, says he trained with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terror network in Afghanistan. But he denies planning bomb attacks on the Israeli Embassy in Canberra and the Israeli Consulate in Sydney. "He disavows violence," Mr Mazza said.
"Just think of him as a hippy with a turban..."
Roche was not required to enter a plea. He was remanded in custody until November 27 when he is due to make an application for bail. Prosecutor Martyn Plummer said Roche was charged with conspiring while in Malaysia, Pakistan and Afghanistan between February 15 and May 26, 2000, to damage, by fire or explosives, diplomatic property in Australia, and to harm diplomatic personnel. He would face a maximum sentence of 45 years' imprisonment if convicted.
Being nothing but cannon fodder, he doesn't even have much to bargain with...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/20/2002 10:58 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Was there a spelling error? Isn't his name spelled "roach"?

How come they don't use his Muslim name?

Hey, look, another tourist who visited Afghanistan. Golly, think of the air miles!
Posted by: Chuck || 11/20/2002 11:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Roche is french for "rock", as in head-of-stone...
Posted by: mojo || 11/20/2002 13:27 Comments || Top||


Abu Leader’s Offer To Yield Rejected
The military rejected yesterday the surrender offer of top Abu Sayyaf leader Hamsiraji Sali, who said he would give himself up if the military stopped operations against them.
Well, there went that idea.
"If he wants to surrender it should be unconditional. I will not stop any operation against the Abu Sayyaf," said Lt. Gen. Narciso Abaya, chief of the Armed Forces Southern Command, whose troops have been hunting down the Abu Sayyaf. "If he wants to surrender he should not make any demands." Sali called a television station in Mindanao on Monday and said he wanted to surrender and cooperate with the government. Abaya said he can do that after he faces justice. "There is a warrant for his arrest," he said.At Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City, Brig. Gen. Pedro Cabuay said the government does not negotiate with terrorists.
Me thinks they have had enough.
"I think the government has been consistent on this, not to entertain terrorists," said Cabuay, Armed Forces deputy chief for civil military operations. "I think that would not stop the military from continuing its operations. That offer is not acceptable."
Amen.
Sali warned he might change his mind and launch brutal attacks if the military continues operations against them. Cabuay said the military is ready for them. "What could they do that would be harsher and more cruel? They have practically done everything. They have bombed. They have kidnapped," he said.
I think I like this guy.
Posted by: Steve || 11/20/2002 01:10 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Finally, someone with brains acutally at the front lines of the War on Terror. THAT'S the way to treat terrorists: kick 'em til they're down, and when they cry for you to stop or else, keep on kickin' them!

Hurry up and polish them off... Any chance of booking these guys for a Gig to Baghdad?
Posted by: Ptah || 11/20/2002 21:26 Comments || Top||


Al-Qaida Group Said Formed in Asia
Muslim militants linked to al-Qaida have established a "league of holy warriors" to unite all Islamic extremists in Southeast Asia and launch strikes against governments in the region, according to confidential Philippine intelligence documents obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.
It's just like the dot-com boom, every time you turn around, another terror group announces its IPO.
The group was formed in 1999 in Malaysia and headed by the Jemaah Islamiyah, the organization suspected in the Bali bombings last month. But it was only recently uncovered through disclosures by suspected terrorists arrested in Singapore and Manila.

"It's like an umbrella group, but no matter the extent of their network, we can monitor them. We know the personalities," said Superintendent Robert Delfin, who heads the Philippine national police intelligence. Delfin said Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines are cooperating and exchanging information on Rabitatul Mujahideen, which means League of Holy Warriors, and discussing how to thwart its plans and arrest members.

Aiming to transform the region into an Islamic stronghold by force, representatives from militant groups in Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and Egypt - including Jemaah Islamiyah - attended at least three covert meetings in Malaysia to establish the group in 1999-2000, according to the confidential documents. Militants from as far away as Bangladesh also are involved.

Rabitatul Mujahedeen aims "to facilitate cooperation and share resources in terms of training, procurement of arms, financial assistance and terrorist operations," the documents said.
OK, this does read like the mission statement of a dot-com.
It said the group formed a policy-making central committee and finished a logo featuring two swords, a Quran and a flag with Arabic markings reading "There is no God but Allah."
Next, Rabitatul.org, the website!
Abu Bakar Bashir, the spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiyah who is now under arrest in Indonesia, was allegedly chosen to head the group, according to the documents. Fellow Indonesian Riduan Isamuddin, considered a key link between Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida and Jemaah Islamiyah, was designated as secretary-general. Also known as Hambali, he has been linked to the planning of Sept. 11 and remains at large.
The CEO and his secretary.
Faiz Abu Bakar Bafana, a suspected Malaysian terrorist in custody in Singapore, allegedly provided officials with information on the umbrella group during an interrogation at the end of October.
Soon to be in the witness protection program.
Posted by: Steve || 11/20/2002 02:08 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Uhh...yes: Mohammed and Lashkar, I'd like to short the IPO of the Jihad, Inc. Get me out of my Goat Futures as well.

Allah hu akbar, 12 000 000 Afghanis a trade. What a low, low rate (fires AK-47 into ceiling)...
Posted by: Brian || 11/21/2002 0:02 Comments || Top||


Bali bomber’s nephew a suspect in illegal arms case
Indonesian police on Wednesday named a nephew of self-confessed Bali bomber Amrozi as a suspect for illegal arms possession, a crime that can carry the death penalty. The nephew, Sumarno, went to police on Monday to offer information about a small cache of weapons stashed in six PVC pipes found last week near their family home village in East Java province. He is being held by police in Surabaya.
Day late and a dollar short. If you had told them about the guns before the cops had found them, you'd be OK.
"Sumarno is a suspect now (over the weapons). His case is linked to the anti-terror regulation because he possessed illegal arms," deputy national police spokesman Edward Aritonang told reporters.
Sucks to be you, don't it?
Several of Amrozi's family members have been drawn into the bombing investigation, including his brother Ali Imron, who police say was a courier for various people and items related to the attack. Some of his other brothers have also been questioned as witnesses in the Bali probe.
Everyone in these plots is related. In the good old days, that meant no one would rat out family. Times change, don't they.
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Indons bitch about Aussie ''rights abuses''...
Indonesia’s House of Representatives on Tuesday urged the government to protest against “human rights violations” that took place during the raids on the houses of Indonesians in Australia. "We demand that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs lodge a protest against the treatment of Indonesians by Australian authorities," Amris Hasan, deputy chairman of House Commission I on defense and foreign affairs, was quoted as saying by The Jakarta Post.
"It was dreadful. Simply dreadful. Nothing like the treatment they'd get here at home..."
Hasan was among a group of 10 legislators that visited Australia from Friday to Monday to interview those targeted in the raids. Commission I chairman Ibrahim Ambong on Monday said Australia had violated the human rights of a number of Indonesian Muslims by depriving them of their right to fair treatment and confiscating some of their belongings.
"You can't take my grenade launcher! It's a family heirloom!"
He said members of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) rammed cars against the fences of some of the Indonesians’ residences and tapped their phones. Those targeted in the raids are now afraid to do even the most simple things in their daily lives, he said.
"Cheese. Every time we get together to plot the downfall of the infidels, there they are, right on our tails. It just ain't fair..."
The harsh crackdowns have revealed Australia’s true face as an authoritarian nation, he added.
The horror! The horror! (Have a beer, mate!)
In a hearing with Foreign Affairs Minister Hassan Wirajuda on Wednesday, Commission I presented a video tape of interviews with some of the Indonesians and urged the government to take action to ensure that such raids do not recur. Australia has defended the raids and proposed controversial new legislation that would allow ASIO to detain people for up to a week without charge if the agency thinks they might have useful information. The legislation would also allow ASIO to detain people for up to 48 hours without access to a lawyer.
Terrible. Simply terrible. Maybe they should pack their turbans and leave?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/20/2002 05:50 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This wouldn't be as funny if Australia weren't THE most laid back country in the entire world.

BTW, boys, doesn't Australia have deportation laws? Perhaps they ought to ship all your sorry butts home.
Posted by: Chuck || 11/21/2002 9:27 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
Studies Say Elites Spurred To Terror
Many Western leaders have suggested that poverty and illiteracy might be the root causes of terrorism, including World Bank President James Wolfensohn, who shortly after the September 11, 2001, attacks said terrorism will not end until poverty is eliminated. But a study for the National Bureau of Economic Research by economists Alan Kreuger and Jitka Maleckova found the opposite to be true: Most terrorists are relatively well off and educated, and are reacting to political conditions such as corruption that they abhor within their societies.

"Instead of viewing terrorism as a direct response to low market opportunities or ignorance, we suggest it is more accurately viewed as a response to political conditions and long-standing feelings of indignity and frustration," the economists said. "More educated people from privileged backgrounds are more likely to participate in politics," they noted, while terrorist organizations prefer to use highly educated individuals as operatives to carry out acts of international terrorism.
The educated ones are the leaders, they use the poor masses as cannon fodder.
A second study by Kenan Institute analysts Jennifer Bremer and John D. Kasarda goes even further to say that terrorists are more likely to surface and thrive in Third World countries where the political regime is corrupt, repressive and holding back economic progress.
Let's see, and those countries would be..
The Kenan economists, writing in the Milken Institute Review, said several key U.S. allies in its "war on terrorism" are in actuality the prime breeding grounds for terrorism because of their backward political states: Egypt, Nigeria, Pakistan, Kenya and Saudi Arabia.
Sounds about right.
"The origins of this new terror have been dangerously misread. Neither Afghan poverty nor Islam is the problem," they said. "Afghanistan's weak state and rugged terrain simply make it the perfect cave of convenience for a movement whose origins lie in the stalled transitions of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
Cave of convenience, what a great line.
"As in the previous century, bomb-throwing anarchists are led by charismatic, educated men drawn from largely middle and upper-class backgrounds," they said. Instead of taking inspiration from Karl Marx, "the new anarchists have drawn on a perverted reading of the Koran."
Posted by: Steve || 11/20/2002 05:15 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Huh! "perverted reading of the Koran"? How else could Muslims read this: "Fighting is prescribed to you.." (Quran 2:216)
Posted by: Anonymous || 11/20/2002 20:55 Comments || Top||


Moussaoui tied to 9/11 plot
An al Qaeda leader in U.S. custody told investigators that accused September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui met with a man believed to have been one of the masterminds of the attacks, sources said Wednesday.

The information came from Ramzi Binalshibh, who has said he helped coordinate the September 11, 2001, attacks. Binalshibh told investigators that Moussaoui met with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a senior al Qaeda operative, in the winter of 2000 and that Mohammed provided Moussaoui with contacts in the United States, sources said. Binalshibh has told interrogators he sent money to Moussaoui on at least two occasions, as prosecutors alleged in the Moussaoui indictment.

The sources said Binalshibh told interrogators Mohammed was not confident about using Moussaoui in the September 11 plot and that Moussaoui drew too much attention to himself while taking flight lessons in the United States in 2001. Binalshibh told investigators Mohammed decided not to use Moussaoui in the attacks unless he considered it absolutely necessary.
He was too unstable for even them.
Binalshibh was captured in a September raid in Karachi, Pakistan, and has since been in U.S. custody, undergoing interrogation at a secret location.
Singing like a bird.
Posted by: Steve || 11/20/2002 06:49 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "More giggle juice, Ramzi?"
"Yes, thank you! I'd love some..."
Posted by: Fred || 11/20/2002 18:50 Comments || Top||



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